Its genuinely mad that we are, arguably, the most successful multicultural state on earth and instead of celebrating that we...
...keep trying to copy nations who have very evidently done worse at it than us
Its genuinely mad that we are, arguably, the most successful multicultural state on earth and instead of celebrating that we...
...keep trying to copy nations who have very evidently done worse at it than us
The acts of defiance can be big or small. Painting over a bigoted piece of graffiti. Running a youth club for refugees in an area that mostly loathes them. Wearing a rainbow flag in an anti-queer neighbourhood.
These acts all accumulate towards something better, I have seen that in action.
'The best-laid schemes and all that. At the outset of the contest for Gorton and Denton, one cabinet member offered me this description of Labour’s strategy for hanging on to the seat: “This is about killing the Greens and then slugging it out with Reform.”''
Ouch! c/o @andrewrawnsley.bsky.social
"Reputational Damage" as Labour Together supports 100 Lab MPs with undeclared cash. Labour Together still exists and these days claims to be a Think Tank, Ha!
01.03.2026 08:20 — 👍 10 🔁 4 💬 2 📌 1
A white female plumber, a Jewish gay man and a Muslim wan walked into a hall....and united a community.
Join.greenparty.org.uk
28.02.2026 18:35 — 👍 2689 🔁 533 💬 50 📌 27
Ma Jun: ‘No business interest’ in Chinese coal power due to cheaper renewables www.carbonbrief.org/ma-jun-no-bu...
01.03.2026 06:47 — 👍 9 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
#OtD 1 Mar 1954 a group of students at Indiana University started the Green Feather Movement to protest against a McCarthyist attempt to ban Robin Hood from school books for promoting communism stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8111...
01.03.2026 06:55 — 👍 139 🔁 54 💬 0 📌 6
“The vast majority of those who are thinking of voting Green are not extreme. Many share our values and hopes for the country but are disappointed with the government. Calling them extreme will only turn more people away.” @london.gov.uk
01.03.2026 06:26 — 👍 21 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0I’m seeing a lot of ‘Israeli officials confirm’ on my timeline, and well, I think I’ll wait until someone else confirms before concluding anything
28.02.2026 20:37 — 👍 13 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0Even the evidence point is superfluous. This is such an obviously stupid conflation that I cannot understand why senior people keep making it with a straight face. They aren’t the same. They just aren’t. This isn’t hard.
28.02.2026 19:15 — 👍 148 🔁 12 💬 9 📌 0Well, no, they’re not just as wrong. The bigger error is not seeing that “trying to win over voters from a party on the opposite end of the spectrum, whose values your core voters oppose” is not same as “chasing voters from party on same side ideologically whose values your core voters like.”
28.02.2026 19:00 — 👍 746 🔁 180 💬 47 📌 1
Remind me, when you slaughter 85 young school children, are you the Good Guys?
28.02.2026 16:07 — 👍 481 🔁 217 💬 18 📌 11“It’s the kind of speech we would once have hoped to hear from a Labour candidate, but not these days. Too confrontational, too threatening to the status quo and to the inertia which grips the party. To choose her as their candidate was a masterstroke”
28.02.2026 19:17 — 👍 8 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
“Mahmood will argue next week that migration policies – including forcing people to wait 20 years before being able to claim leave to remain – were entirely consistent with Labour values”
I just despair
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
The real threat to democracy doesn't come from 'family voting'. It comes from the losing side refusing go accept they've lost
28.02.2026 11:03 — 👍 3276 🔁 820 💬 281 📌 129
lan Byrne MP Liverpool West Derby 27.02.2026 Statement re: Gorton and Denton By-election It takes some doing to turn a 13,000+ majority in 2024 into a catastrophic loss today. This is not an isolated trend - Labour MPs across the country are told every week by lifelong Labour voters that they won't be voting for the party again under the current leadership & direction. I have been urging the leadership to change direction since the General Election as a series of dreadful political choices & a monumental effort to chase the Reform vote has led to this. The leadership has taken its base for granted, despite constant warnings from backbenchers & unions not to. The lines from PM and Cabinet today essentially labelling the Green Party as extremist is appalling, desperate and frankly embarrassing. It also makes very clear that the leadership has zero understanding of where it has been going wrong. The party is being destroyed & an urgent change of direction is needed.
When your own MPs are openly calling your response to the Green win an embarrassment then you've got problems
28.02.2026 08:39 — 👍 227 🔁 47 💬 9 📌 7
Netanyahu Calls Iran Strikes Necessary To Prevent War He Just Started
Netanyahu Calls Iran Strikes Necessary To Prevent War He Just Started
28.02.2026 07:19 — 👍 22932 🔁 6908 💬 678 📌 392This is terrible from Starmer. Just absolute trash. And any normal voter looking at the new MP and then reading this description will think him mad.
27.02.2026 21:15 — 👍 1480 🔁 270 💬 122 📌 13Labour MP Clive Lewis doesn’t hold back on the Gorton and Denton result in this interview with ITV
27.02.2026 15:31 — 👍 2270 🔁 735 💬 196 📌 295
They were going to pass rules to phase out gas stoves, until they received 20,000 public comments against the regulations. Except, oops, it turns out the comments were generated by AI.
27.02.2026 20:32 — 👍 952 🔁 405 💬 24 📌 36This is not a reasoned political response. Labour has spent two years making all the voting groups who backed the Greens feel unwelcome and unheard, and now attacks them for daring to back someone else. They believe Labour isn’t listening and Starmer seems determined to prove them right
27.02.2026 16:16 — 👍 1150 🔁 320 💬 46 📌 28His party did weirdly well there in 2024
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27.02.2026 15:54 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
British politics: where the politicians in the Labour and Conservative parties behave as if it is still a two party system...
... and meanwhile everyone else has moved on.
If Starmer had not banned Burnham,the Greens would not have gained this amazing momentum which will feed through to the local elections
27.02.2026 14:09 — 👍 6 🔁 2 💬 4 📌 1100% agree with this. It really was a self-serving but obviously ultimately self-defeating manouvre to deny the local Labour party democracy to protect Starmer’s position of power. All terribly unedifying
27.02.2026 14:18 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
"Let's be blunt. Let's be brutally honest with ourselves. When you lose an election in a democracy, you deserve to. You don't look at the electorate and ask them, what were you thinking? You look at yourself and ask, what were we doing?"
Keir?
But fundamentally, this shows why first past the post isn’t fit for purpose. If the government doesn’t introduce proportional voting, a far right party could win the next general election outright on a minority of the vote.
27.02.2026 07:38 — 👍 694 🔁 104 💬 27 📌 15
Our party has just come third in Gorton and Denton, a previously safe Labour seat - an area where we haven't lost an election since 1931.
It is those running our party who are to blame. We need change at the top and serious lessons need to be learnt:
