Honestly this makes me proud. People won't forgive Vance's disgraceful remarks to Zelensky, threats to the EU & all-round brutality. Even a small town in rural Oxfordshire yielded a 100-strong protest against his visit, with signs telling him to "GO AWAY" and baby Vance meme vans. Best of British !

UK to bear transport costs of ‘one in, one out’ asylum seeker deal with France Treaty can be ended by either side at a month’s notice and France can refuse returns on certain grounds

Uk can swap one migrant for another and pay for both?

Surely this is political suicide for starmer, farage will take 10 pts off him in the polls over this

On the bright side: it's a comfort and relief that US colleagues are seeing Farage's true colours now - something which many in the UK have yet to see.

Farage "unhinged and like a giant manbaby."

His outburst was one of a "British politician who obviously didn’t want any challenge to his view that he’s a free speech victim,” said Raskin who responded, “This is why we had a revolution against you guys.” 😳 It's really game over at that point IMO.

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1. Starmer says the UK will recognise Palestine unless “Israel agrees to a ceasefire and a two-state solution”.

That’s not Recognition - it’s *Ransom*:

It treats Palestinian statehood not as a right, but as leverage.

This framing is truly flawed: starmer’s logic implies Palestinians can …

YouTube video by Sky News UK government plans to evacuate some children from Gaza

🚨 UK approves Project Pure Hope medical evacuation of children from Gaza

The Government has approved medical evacuation of 30 children. Garden Ct barrister Raza Halim is a founding member of Project Pure Hope (PPH) & acts as a legal advisor.

Watch the Sky News interview 🔽
youtu.be/xIneOtRnMgA?...

While not all declines are due to boycotts, every hit counts! Take that, Pepsi! #nothanks #bds #freepalestine #gazagenocide

UK: Palestine Action ban ‘disturbing’ misuse of UK counter-terrorism legislation, Türk warns GENEVA  – The UK Government’s decision to proscribe the ‘Palestine Action’ protest group under terrorism legislation raises serious concerns that counter-terrorism laws are being applied to conduct th...

UN Office of Human Rights has strongly criticised Labour's ban on #PalestineAction

“The decision also conflates protected expression & other conduct with acts of terrorism and so could readily lead to further chilling effect on the lawful exercise of these rights by many people,”
shorturl.at/PcaGq

what in the fuck has keir starmer done to this country?

The government is "understood to be considering, is restricting access to – or even abolishing – EHCPs that more than 600,000 children and young people rely on for individual support."

What are EHCPs and why is Labour bracing for a backlash over its overhaul plans? Special educational needs or disabilities system in England is in crisis but many fear changes could make things worse

First they came for PIP and the UC Health element. Next up is Education Health and Care Plans (ECHPs) for people with special educational needs & disabilities.
#notmygoverment
#takingthepip #ehcp #autism #send #education #sendparenting #specialneeds #ehcplan #adhd

We're excited to be featured in The National, the scottish news outlet of Newsquest (the second largest news publisher in the UK)

Our interview and article will be available on July 20th. Link coming soon!
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Read the People's Plan for Water here 🌊💦

@labourslewis.bsky.social has a people-first, evidence-based alternative to represent the 82% of the public who support bringing water back into public hands.
Add your name to the People’s Plan for Water! #WeOwnIt #PublicOwnership #PeoplesPlanForWater
#WaterJustice #plopplop

Privatisation broke our water system. Bills are soaring. Rivers are full of 💩 Water companies are drowning in debt-yet still funnelling billions to shareholders. 🤑 Not 1 new reservoir has been built since privatisation, & the system is unprepared for climate change. But there's another way...

Creavin compares the party's appeal with a world-conquering American brand. "Reform has an over-simplistic, vague, emotional appeal like Coca-Cola," she says. "But in the end, a place like this needs real solutions."

"With polling predicting Nigel Farage's party could win 377 seats at the next election, there is a lesson in Clacton for voters hearing Reform’s siren call.

The govt wants to force through an £1.8bn in public subsidies to Drax until at least 2031. 🤯📛

"Burning wood creates 18% more CO2 emissions than coal...
Every pound spent subsidising tree burning is a pound not invested in technologies that could actually deliver net zero."
#stopburningtrees

MP Zarah Sultana says she will ‘co-lead’ new party as she quits Labour for Corbyn group Coventry South MP, who lost whip last year, surprises some in Corbyn’s Independent Alliance with news of formal plans

Hesitation to announce formal structure and leadership is understandable but @zarahsultana.bsky.social's claim that the 2 main parties offer “nothing but managed decline and broken promises” is dead on. Progressives are crying out for a new political home - and hope.

Gaza aid contractor tells BBC he saw colleagues fire on hungry Palestinians The Israel- and US-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation has strongly denied the allegation.

One team leader: "if you feel threatened, shoot – shoot to kill and ask questions later".

The ex-contractor said that each site had CCTV monitoring the activity in the area, & GHF insistence that no one there had been hurt or shot at was "an absolute bare-faced lie."

Release the CCTV footage now!

Adding that proscribing Palestine Action as a terrorist organisation is designed to “chill dissent, criminalize solidarity & suppress the truth ...blood-soaked ties between this government and the genocidal Israeli apartheid state and its war machine.”
#palestineaction #stopthegenocide

“To equate a spray can of paint with a suicide bomb isn’t just absurd, it is grotesque,” said Independent MP @zarahsultana.bsky.social

Yes, please @jeremycorbyn.bsky.social take the Independent Alliance to the next level - be the voice of compassionate reason and speak for the millions of us who are devastated, dumbfounded and damn angry about what Labour is doing in our name 📛

In conclusion, Disability Labour "will continue to oppose all cuts to disability benefits, and we call for a just, inclusive welfare system that supports everyone who needs it."
#takingthepip

"Under this two-tier system, people remain at serious risk of being left in poverty simply because of when they apply...
[dividing] Disabled people into those the state deems "deserving" of dignity and those it does not."

⚠️ Reductions in UC support for those deemed unable to work

⚠️ Unexplained and unaddressed proposals to change the 'severe conditions criteria', which determine long-term entitlement to support

TLDR: Future applicants will face significantly greater barriers to essential support.

The proposed legislation is far from addressing concerns of people with disabilities - it still includes:

⚠️ Raised eligibility thresholds for PIP, disproportionately affecting those w mental health conditions, neurodivergence & fluctuating/invisible conditions

Ask your MP to put reproductive rights into law The right to make decisions about our families and bodies is not protected by law. The 1967 Abortion Act allows people to seek abortion under certain circumstances but abortion otherwise remains a cri...

The right is coming for reproductive rights! Take 2 mins to write to your MP TODAY to demand that abortion is decriminalised action.goodlawproject.org/decriminalis...

Ask your MP to show their support for a people-first future for our water! We can make our water work for people - not shareholders - but water lobbyists are working hard to shut this solution down. Will you make sure your MP hears about it?

Swimming in sh*t. Our privatised water system is broken - and water lobbyists have worked hard to shut down alternatives. In July the People’s Commission is launching a people-first vision for our water in Parliament. Your MP needs to hear about it: t.ly/Wxhev

"The idea that the people at the top believe in “the dignity of the individual”, in other words, is looking more threadbare by the day."