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Everyone on here condemning Starmer and the UK for putting our defences on alert for retaliatory attacks from Iran, their proxies etc, to try and intercept attacksI have a simple question:

Would you rather UK service personel were killed without any attempt to save their lives?

Print in black and white looking up to a gap in the canopy of bare trees in a wood where two birds in silhouette fly

'More breathing space' by contemporary UK printmaker Janis Goodman #WomensArt

This is because they can't say "increase taxes on median and above earners and use it to pay for public services".

It's sad to see people who had never heard of Democracy Volunteers yesterday all over social media trashing them.

They've been around for a decade & are partly funded by the (left-leaning) Joseph Rowntree Foundation.

We protest when the right trashes these groups. The left shouldn't do it either.

These small boat crossings are getting out of hand now

Applying the Gorton & Denton swing nationwide - which of course is not at all what would happen in a general election - then in Cambridgeshire the Greens still only gain Cambridge; the Lib Dems hold South Cambs; and Reform UK take the other six.

Clinics forced to share data of children who took puberty blockers Wes Streeting, the health secretary, will change the law so that the long-term impact of puberty blockers given to children can be studied

NEWS: The UK is going to force the adult gender clinics that refused to share data on former pediatric gender patients with the Cass Review to hand over the data so investigators can study what became of the 9,000 people seen by that clinic.
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Tbf I think the Labour and Lib Dem candidates would have both made great MPs too

Had 3 mutuals in my mentions wondering whether this might be the time to watch Ghosts and honestly
a, I'm so jealous of anyone getting to watch it new from the start
b, I'd rec it to pretty much anyone, it's a gorgeous thing. A big, laugh out loud ensemble comedy, but it's about love & grief.

REMINDER. The only real factionalism is on the right of the Labour Party. Being an SCG member with a long history of links to Trotskyite groupuscules is merely "sparkling progressivism".

Building anything - most green to hate it..

Also concerning because the greens climate policy... isn't great and could do with strengthening, frankly.

Very much this. Polanski's argument that the Greens pro-environment stance is baked into the name may work electorally, but when UK climate action is under threat like never before from Reform and the Tories it would be helpful to see all the other parties mounting a more robust defence.

Labour minister SACKED for vile jibe about pensioners and the election MAIL ON SUNDAY EXCLUSIVE: Andrew Gwynne also made anti-Semitic slights and 'jokes' about a constituent being 'mown down' by a truck on a WhatsApp group.

Potentially underplayed: Andrew Gwynne

As well as the dim public response to its national policies, Labour’s chances were hurt by the a scandal over WhatsApp messages where the former local Labour MP had mocked local voters

Several people brought it up with me and were visibly angry

Potentially overplayed: Gaza

In the many conversations I had yesterday, even with people who identified themselves as Muslims, no one mentioned Gaza or Israel. I did not notice any Palestinian flags or other symbols referencing the conflict in the areas I went to or from bus journeys between them

Labour risk being wiped out by Reform in the 'red wall' type metros - Barnsley, Calderdale, Wakefield, Sunderlands tec - and being wiped out by the Greens in what we may now need to start calling the 'Green wall' - diverse, student & grad heavy Lab areas where Reform are no threat

Agree clearly had no interest in ara Honestly think she would have been rubbish wherever

Hmm Greens in Germany and indeed France always has a more centrist/wider base I think - and more experience of governing I think

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If you hate history’s greatest anti-Nazi because he helped the Jews to have a safe homeland, what might you be? 🤔 🤔 🤔

I voted for her for leader but she has been so awful (also possibly not well) Liz has worked hard on v difficult briefs and was shafted by the Treasury on her benefit reforms

Maybe NOT Lisa Nandy though

Oh yes - of course!!!

I mean it’s getting to the point which it did with Corbyn that pretty much any Labour MP could do better

Oh yes forgot about that - lots of people don’t get how terrible that one is

Oh for sure - I mean leaving NATO has to be up there right

Goodness mad on so many levels

But things like leaving NATO, being against green infrastructure, against C-sections and from 2024 manifesto abolish banking all come from that ideology - it’s deeply ingrained

The new Green MP seems very likeable and I am all for more people from normal backgrounds becoming MPs.

But… her party has bad policy ideas premised on a destructive ideology.

No I missed that one! WTF