Cllr Tom Laing

Please can we normalise putting in headphones to listen to music on the train thank you. I love music on the train as much as the next person but I don’t need to hear your favourite songs

📅 Happy International Credit Union Day!

Today we celebrate the power of community finance: people coming together to support one another, build resilience, and invest in a fairer future.

the Leader of a political party endorsed shoplifting This is proof the Greens are no friend to working people

working people, our retail workers up against the rise in shop lifting which puts them in danger & lowers morale.

I’m proud to be a member of USDAW & Co-op who have led the charge on this

It is nice to see MPs thinking about the academics as always 😜😂. I’m sure one or two PhD candidates will be helped out by this haha

Thank you to everyone who voted in the Co-op Party NEC By-election I’m delighted to have been elected

This is exciting news!

Our Party continues to prove its worth! But we still need to go further. I hope members will support my election onto the NEC so we can keep punching above our weight and deliver for our movement

While everyone is getting hyped for the Labour Deputy Leadership

The Co-op Party is holding a by-election for its NEC in England North (NW, NE, Y&H)

I’m delighted to announce I’m standing as someone active our movement I know that Co-op values are only way Labour can defeat reform

The night the lights were lit: 180 years of UK co-operation David J. Thompson on the birthplace of the co-op in 1844

Happy 180th Birthday to the co-operative movement!! 🥳

Our Co-op can trace its roots back to the first store opening in Rochdale on 21 December 1844. Co-operatives are a different way of doing business as the excellent article below by Co-op News describes👇💙

www.thenews.coop/the-night-th...

It’s really exciting news I must say I did begin to lose faith we would ever see the bank return to mutual ownership but I’ve been proven wrong

There is definitely a ‘block’ the moment I’m challenged culture on Bluesky. absolutely everyone’s right to block & not engage but as a whole progressives will struggle to beat the right if we can’t handle criticisms from other progressives but I guess English & Welsh Greens don’t like talking Co-ops

Or Carla could champion co-operative and mutual solutions like Labour is just like Thangam would of done giving greater consumer ownership

They are looking at mutual and co-operative models that will run them as not for profits and will deliver greater consumer rights and ownership

the commission will consider the use of co-operative and mutual models that will deliver better consumer rights of their water giving us real ownership- this is something the Green Party used to support sad to see them turning away from realistic solutions to grow the co-operative & mutual sector

Where did you get them! They are awesome

Although i think it makes an interesting point on the confusion over hostility. Plays into a point on ‘culture war’, a term I hate, some of the conservative culture war warriors seem to confuse public disinterest and lack of understanding of postmaterialism concerns with outright opposition.

Happy to help! Although lots of annoying features like verification would actually be extremely helpful on this site!

Then @mattuthompson.bsky.social once you click share you should have option to send the link just hit copy and then when you past that into your next post it should appear

On the app assuming your using mobile click the 3 dots next to the post you’ll see something like this then click share…

What like this? bsky.app/profile/toml... - if you copy a link and post it should appear

In the GOPs defence they are effectively already calling for quicker counting it’s just they would prefer to just cut off after the day after the election even if only 10% has been counted and just declare the winner assuming the GOP wins otherwise yes it’s keep counting 😂

I note Co-op aren’t on
that list - while the rise will absolutely have impacts on us, we have frozen our meal deal at 3.50 for Members, while Tesco has increased its’ prices.

Shows how a business serves its consumers instead of profit maximisation can deliver better for our communities

Me too please

Morning sketch

Come on Alaska it’s sad enough you voted out Mary Peltola but do us one thing and don’t go back to First Past the Post it’s just a terrible voting system. See GOP you can win under Ranked Choice Voting you just proved it. You don’t have to abolish Ranked Choice Voting as well

I’ve made a starter pack of lobby (ish) journos - those reporting on UK politics

Give me a nudge if you think you should be on it and I missed you!

go.bsky.app/H3jDVJb

Why on a Saturday morning my goodness. I still think Friday Nights are best.

But same can’t even give apologies being the chair!

I’ve been called many things on the Internet but fascist is a new one I can tick off the bingo card.

See I believe the word fascist has a meaning outside of ‘person I disagree with’ I strongly disagree with Seb Payne, but neither me or him are fascists. Curious what your definition of fascist is?

Well welcome! We want a range of views here! I have no interest in a centre left echo chamber

I can imagine the Lib Dem leaflets right now. I assumed local factors at play.