Ian McCulloch

It’s actually FEWER Misérables

So Powell has gone from denying that Labour did lie and smear the Green Party during the by-election over drug policy to saying now that she didn't approve of it.
Its like they cant stop lying whilst producing receipts in real time.

Keir Starmer's 10 pledges from his leader leadership campaign It's clear Keir Starmer never believed in much of what was contained in these pledges. They were written for him so he would appeal to Labou...

Keir Starmer didn't believe in his own pledges, but then he gives the impression that he doesn't believe in much at all.

The blatant Islamophobia that Keir Starmer is demonstrating through smearing Mothin Ali would be shocking - but it's becoming a pattern.

Smearing a caring man of principle for standing up for peace.

I see some people asking whether Scotland can act, because aviation & defence are reserved.

Yes, but I'm talking specifically about infrastructure owned by the Scottish Government.

They are not MOD assets; they operate commercially, and we simply don't need to accept Trump's forces as customers.

Yvette Cooper (who backed the Iraq War) is asked what lessons we've learnt from Iraq

Cooper: ".. this threat from Iranian nuclear weapons"

Among other things Chilcot found the govt deliberately exaggerated the threat as a pretext for war

The govt are doing it all over again

The fact our economy can still be rocked by oil prices is the results of decades of policy failure. Policy failure that Starmer (and John Swinney in Scotland) has doubled down on.

All working people are worse off for it.

Six years ago, his principles were entirely different.

Remember when the Blitz inspired British people to rise up, overthrow Churchill and let Hitler choose his replacement?

GILIL is such a great idea, I really miss it since moving away from Lancaster in 2012. I saw some great bands in the library there.

Oh look, a PM looking to drag us into a catastrophic illegal war in the Middle East under spurious talk of a secret nuclear weapons programme, in order to demonstrate unflinching fealty to a US President widely regarded by the entire world as a bufoon and a moron? Must be a Labour government

It is genuinely incredible how we unthinkingly rebuilt our entire society to accommodate everyone having a private car, realised that was an absolutely astronomically destructive approach, but now anytime we try to fix it a wee bit some of the comfiest people in human history throw an unholy tantrum

So did the $1 Billion Board of Peace membership fee come with a money-back guarantee?

Asking for several Gulf monarchies.

@zackpolanski.bsky.social : The US & Israel attack is illegal and unprovoked, the defence secretary & the govt won't condemn it, we have a PM who is incapable of standing up to Trump, and the worry is that we'll be pulled into another illegal war.

Spot on.

Looks like the Strait of Hormuz is now closed, buggering up the global economy for a bit. I really don't understand why people of all parties don't get that cutting our dependence on fossil fuels is A Good Thing for so many reasons.

Confused about Green Party drug policy? Here's a good overview.

Asusual, Greens are leading on the way, having the difficult conversations and proposing serious policies that will save people's lives and reduce crime.

A man who called us extremists yesterday for wanting to bring down people bills is helping bomb schools today.

After Green victory, the establishment will be out for blood After a stunning victory in the Gorton and Denton byelection, Green activists are preparing for a major establishment backlash

We've only just begun. SEE: www.opendemocracy.net/en/the-green...

Just watching the local news and a chef is serving 'deconstructed Manchester tart' which sounds like an insult one of the Gallagher brothers would shout at the other.

Keir Starmer's attempt to paint the Greens as extremists yet again reveals his intolerance of political difference. His instincts are illiberal and authoritarian.

an account called Lorraine driver says 'It's a vote to split the Labour majority and hand it to frog face' Chris Boyd replies with 'hi lorraine I'm here as a representative of 'things that age really well or really badly' company and, well, how do you feel about the latter Lorraine: please fuck off Chris: I'll put a tick next to I've felt better'

Hahahahahahaha

cc @paperghost.bsky.social

This is absolutely what will happen; the full power of the establishment will be turned on the Green Party. Every newspaper, every TV channel, every social media algorithm. The whole lot will be focused on discrediting the Green Party.

The Greens didn’t just surge, they won.

Voters chose real change over lesser-of-two-evils politics.

Britain is multi-party, but our voting system still isn’t.

Under FPTP, outcomes can swing wildly.

More choice is good.

Our system should reflect it.

It’s time for Proportional Representation.

After winning narrowly in Runcorn last year, this time around Reform tasted the bitter wine of narrow defeat.

Greens got 41% of the vote #BBC, Reform got 29%. I wouldn’t call that a narrow defeat.

HMRC collects extra £16bn from big business with more ‘hands-on’ approach Extra tax obtained from the 2,000 largest businesses doubles in three years

Investing in tax and financial crime enforcement is one of the highest ROI uses of public money. Who knew?!? www.ft.com/content/c96d...

All I’ve seen since this Green win is the BBC going on about their ‘divisive’ leaflets.

I really can’t imagine Reform would be getting such a post-victory grilling for their messages of hate

Can't wait for Hannah Spencer to arrive at the House of Commons, shake her head and say, "Who's done this then? It's a right cowboy job" and offer to fix it "for a drink."

Apologies, that should be Health & Wellbeing Board, not Cabinet.