Christopher McCabe

Farage’s mind-boggling call in today’s Daily Mail to disenfranchise a large chunk of our brown and black population even if they’ve been living here decades, should be the wake up call that Starmer needs to stop equating the Greens & Reform as somehow comparable or in any way similar threats.

Thousands of pollution incidents in England downgraded without site visit, data suggests Exclusive: Whistleblower figures show large rise in ‘serious’ to ‘minor’ downgrades based on water company evidence

Re Environment Agency budget being 80% funded by orgs it regulates, worth noting that Care Quality Commission receives similar proportion from public and private healthcare providers that it regulates. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

So presumably this Daily Mail campaign against "foreign-born" voters will quickly be applied to their foreign-born star columnist, Boris Johnson, and their own France-based for tax purposes non-dom owner?

Donald Fucking Trump and Nigel Fucking Farage with their dirty thumbs up and grinning

stick your thumbs up if you make baseless and racist claims of voter fraud & want to restrict postal voting

Pep Guardiola didn't back down about the boos at Elland Road as play paused to allow Muslim players to break their fast for Ramadan.

“It’s a modern, modern world, right? You all [saw] what happened in the world again today, right? Respect the religions, respect the diversity, that is the point.”

Black and white photo of Marjane Satrapi with the quote: "The world is not divided between East and West. You are American. I am Iranian, we don't know each other, but we talk and we understand each other perfectly. The difference between you and your government is much bigger than the difference between you and me. And the difference between me and my government is much bigger than the difference between me and you. And our governments are very much the same."

Once again.

🔥 Might be a good time to drive this over 100,000.

Link —> petition.parliament.uk/petitions/75...

Oh good - private sector access to ministers always ends well.
sigh……

I fear there is no post McSweeny. He’s just working from home.

"Dark PR" by Grant Ennis I'm not going to beat about the bush. This book is about evil.

“I’m not going to beat around the bush. This book is about evil.”

“It’s about the mundane, humdrum, self-assured, self-justifying, pocket-lining, smug & arrogant lies & disinformation that communications ‘professionals’ spread daily.”

Read #DarkPR by @grantennis.bsky.social. #UrbanismBookClub

Many privileged people who think they are smart, discovering that actually they are just privileged.…

Congratulations on holding people in power accountable. You give me hope for the fourth estate.

The real threat to democracy doesn't come from 'family voting'. It comes from the losing side refusing go accept they've lost

> @covie93.bsky.social

Of course they did move right….so is he saying they shouldn’t have?

The world could be such a nice place if we allowed it. It's all so goddamn unnecessary. There's no need for any of it. It's so beautiful here. It should be so cool to be alive

This is amazing.

www.getyourfuckingmoneyback.com

Don't let the PROM and PREM communities see this quote....

Ireland
- Nobody is armed or gets shot
- No medical debt
- Work ~40 hour weeks, 6 weeks holiday
- I can walk places
- I have neighbors and speak to them regularly
- People by-and-large mind their own business (few "karens")
- Anti-imperial culture and a general compassion for the downtrodden

Congressman Thomas Massie

COURAGEOUS.

LEADERSHIP.

This. So much.

Which tells us everything we need to know about the PMs judgement.

Starmer needs to go and quickly. Hanging on for the decimation of the local elections just delays the inevitable.

His successor needs to approach the labour machine like Hercales approached the Augean Stables.

It’s a running joke in academia that Matt Goodwin is bad at maths.

This sort of thing is why: the combined Labour/Green vote could have split in any way possible and Goodwin would have finished 2nd or 3rd. He did not lose because progressives coordinated. He lost *in spite of them not doing so*.

The noise of the awful things - genocide, racist-adjacent immigration policies, spineless on Trump, appointing a friend of Epstein to high office - inevitably drowns out the good things. Do you think they have heard of lexicographic preferences?

Do you think that this also played into the Gorton-Denton result - telling many people who work live in that area that they aren't valued by the British Government?

The same incisive intellect that he brought to ministerial office.

This is a massive scandal.

Labour has invented a made-up tactical vote organisation to trick Gorton and Denton into voting for them.

How can this even be legal?

Home Office denies ‘absurd’ criticism over rule change that may leave dual nationals stranded MPs raise cases of honeymooners and other Britons caught out by new passport requirements as minister rejects calls for grace period

They just don't get it. The Home Office clearly has not engaged with dual nationals affected by this move on passports. If they had, they would never have imposed a £589 fee simply to make an electronic linkage to your other passport.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

GREEN VS REFORM VOTE GREEN! Green Party Promoted by Chris Williams on behalf of The Green Party, both at PO Box 78066, London SE16 9GQ

Today is the day.

Hope vs hate.

Green vs Reform.

Vote Green in Gorton & Denton.

Those of us who have tried to research public-private partnerships will, I suspect, read these words by @davidallengreen.bsky.social and say Amen