Alastair Warner

Yeah very specifically.

Have been asked to share this response with you. The reasons are myriad but:
- Scenes of direct starvation have caused a shift in the political class (incl. Lib Dems)
- Fears of a New Left Party
- Some higher ups "getting ahead" to avoid future issues
- Welfare rebellion emboldening backbenchers.

their background. "The Northern Industrial working class english phenotype" is a phrased that is unironically used behind closed doors. Her issue is that she doesn't realise it sounds utterly bizarre even to explicit english racists; it is legitimately "out of touch racism". 2/2

If you want to make sense of the Kemi Badenoch "rural kashmiri peasants" stuff you have to realise that this kind of language is relatively common in right wing tory circles, it's an elite form of racism-classism-prejudice based on being able to categorise everyone's actions by... 1/2

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Israel’s Far-Right Government Is Suffocating Domestic Dissent In Israel, the crackdown against Palestinian solidarity is reaching grim new heights. Activists and ordinary citizens alike are getting fired and arrested for daring to say a word in support of Palest...

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I knew a guy who used to make this "argument" all the time. He was very openly homophobic.

I was such a cocky shit at uni lmao

The link the Fianna Fail political party on Wikipedia, with the Flag of Israel shown as their logo.

Some funky stuff going on on Irish Wikipedia

"Why does this matter?" you might ask.
It is responsible for:
- English Fascism
- Ramsay MacDonald leaving the Labour Party
- The NHS - Basically anything the Attlee government did
- The Power-war Economic Consensus in general really

Cannot overstate its importance, and nobody digitised it...

I have it on good authority that the 1930 Labour Party Mosley Memorandum (signed by Nye Bevan, Keynes, Crossman among others) is about to be digitised for the first time by the end of next month. Will post the PDF when I get hold of it here.

Literally no copy exists online.

Finally got round to doing this

Here's the relative 'strong seats' for each major party in the 2023 Greater Manchester local elections

- Lighter shade is for a vote share higher than their region-wide average

- Darker shade is for results in the 0.8 percentile

(Data sourced from Britain Elects)

I think a lot of polling atm is based on tactical voting that might collapse come an actual campaign. If it is so obvious the tories are gonna implode within an election media cycle why vote Labour when you wanna vote Green? Especially without overt messaging to tactically vote from Lab.

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The Palestinian National Authority passes gay marriage call that ruling the Woke Bank

Lepa sela lepo gore (Pretty Village, Pretty Flame) is an absolute must see I cannot explain how good that film is.

is that, Lib Dem Hartlepool???

Did you know that the US helped deliver #Barbie dolls to poor Bolivian children at christmas in the 50s?

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Germany, INSA poll:

Scenario: Liste Wagenknecht (*) runs

CDU/CSU-EPP: 23% (-1)
SPD-S&D: 17% (-9)
AfD-ID: 16% (+6)
Liste Wagenknecht-*: 15 (n.a.)
GRÜNE-G/EFA: 14% (-1)
...

+/- vs. 2021 election

Fieldwork: 28-31 July 2023
Sample size: 2,003
➤ europeelects.eu/germany

EU27, Europe Elects popular vote projection:

EPP: 20.6% (-0.7)
S&D: 19.5 (+0.8)
ECR: 11.5% (-0.2)
ID: 10.6% (+0.1)
RE: 10.5% (+0.1)
G/EFA: 6,9% (-0.1)
LEFT: 7.2% (+0.3)
NI: 6.4% (+0.1)
Unaffiliated: 6.7% (-0.4)

+/- vs. June 2023

More details at: https://europeelects.eu/2023/07/31/july-2023/

EU27, Europe Elects seat projection:

EPP: 157 (-4)
S&D: 143 (+1)
RE: 90 (+3)
ECR: 82 (-1)
ID: 72 (+3)
NI: 55 (+2)
G/EFA: 49 (+1)
LEFT: 45 (-5)
Unaffiliated: 12

+/- vs. June 2023
More details at: https://europeelects.eu/2023/07/31/july-2023/

Poland, IBRiS poll:

ZP-ECR: 35% (+1)
KO-EPP|RE|G/EFA: 27% (-5)
Kon~NI: 13%
TD PL2050/PSL-RE|EPP: 11%
Lewica-S&D: 11% (+2)
BS-*: 2% (n.a.)

+/- vs. 23-24 June 2023

Fieldwork: 28-29 July 2023
Sample size: 1,100
➤ https://europeelects.eu/poland

Russophobia is now the secret weapon of corporate hypocrites Until yesterday, you’d have been forgiven for thinking the outcome of the Coutts-Nigel Farage debacle was a lecture on customer service. City minister Andrew Griffith summoned our banks for a little...

The level of self-pity an аппаратчикич oligarch has to have to write this with a straight face. Your папа, who built your media empire, is literally under sanction for supporting the war effort.
https://www.standard.co.uk/comment/comment/evgeny-lebedev-russophobia-coutts-row-b1097126.html

Map of coup attempts on Africa

Following the overthrow of President Mohamed Bazoum (PNDS, centre-left), Niger has become the 7th country in Northern Africa to undergo a successful coup attempt since January 2020.

Two were described as democracies in the RoW classification before their coups.

🇷🇴 Romania, Geeks for Democracy poll:

PSD-S&D: 31% (+2)
PNL-EPP: 19% (-6)
AUR→ECR: 18% (+9)
USR-RE: 11% (-4)
UDMR-EPP: 5% (-1)
PMP-EPP: 4% (-1)
PRO-S&D: 3% (-1)
...

+/- vs. 2020 election result

Fieldwork: May-June 2023
Sample size: 806

➤ europeelects.eu/romania/

Niger: a presidential statement has confirmed that a coup attempt is taking place right now.

The presidency claims this coup is conducted by members of the presidential guard and is not supported by the army and the national guard.

➤ https://africaelects.com/niger/

Something you give to chickens.

Why does American power administration operate on the same logic as the HRE???