Garrie Coleman

Getting away with far too much shirt pulling and shoving nowadays. Doesn’t get blown as a foul anymore. A few penalties for it and it soon stops.

Just catching up with today’s news. I’m clear as day that:

It’s OK for govts of western liberal democracies to break international law

Regime change in Iran will be done & dusted by this time tomorrow

The sad news that British people who chose Dubai for a holiday may have their holiday disturbed

Watch this video: what he’s saying could easily apply to Labour’s parachuted in, ‘understand people’s concerns’, genocide-ignorant own election candidates, past and future.

Yep. Thanks again. Yours is go-to pod for me. Queued.

Post On Twitter from Nigel Farage MP @Nigel_Farage Reform has today reported the many cases of ‘family voting’ to the Electoral Commission and Greater Manchester Police. What was witnessed yesterday is deeply concerning and raises serious questions about the integrity of the democratic process in predominantly Muslim areas.

This is how you sow the seeds of the idea the voting system is corrupted against you, especially when you lose, in order to eventually control it in your favour. Straight out of the fascist’s handbook.

We’ve been witnessing the slowly, painful demise and death knells of the Tories for years. Starting with Johnson’s Brexit purge of any mildly sensible Tory minister/MP back in 2019.

Just as it never was and never will be ‘sectarian’ to appeal to the needs and values of Irish-Catholic voters in Liverpool, Jewish voters in north London, Presbyterian voters in west Glasgow, Sikh voters in Birmingham, CofE voters in Sussex villages, etc etc etc.

See it coming. Opposing counter-productive preemptive strikes on Iran will equal ‘support the heinous Iranian regime’ because that’s how they do it.

10 and 6 year-old listeners requesting Want Somebody to Love by Jefferson Airplane. I hope they’ve both got guitars. #thekidsarealright #soundsofthe60s

Shabana Mahmood vows to stick with hardline migration policies after byelection defeat Home secretary will defy ‘plain wrong’ calls from unions and leftwing MPs that she is alienating Muslim voters

Reform voters will never vote Labour. Policies bound to have minimal impact without safer, legal routes. Labour will bleed more voters to Green. Expect lots more Gorton and Dentons totally of Labour leadership’s own doing.

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

Reacting to Labour's devastating loss to the Green Party in Gorton and Denton, Keir Starmer claims that only Labour can unite communities. I agree. He convinced Muslims to vote for a white working class woman representing a party led by a gay Jewish man.

Labour MPs blaming Brexit voters for bringing the UK the utter catastrophe that is Brexit: totally out of bounds.

Labour MPs blaming 5k people for voting for stuff that was Labour philosophy for the best part of a century: totally fair game.

It takes some doing to lose voters to both the left and right…

An ordinary person, with an ordinary job, with an ordinary background, who does ordinary things who happens to care about other ordinary people was voted in as an MP. Sad state of affairs when that’s so out of the ordinary.

Left-Labour MPs are waiting for Starmer to be kicked out, to see who comes next

But given rule changes, Labour Friends of Israel power, millionaire donations, it won't be anyone
- vaguely left
- anti-genocide
- anti-privatisation

Which leaves left-Labour MPs with a dilemma ...

meme via Kay Meades

I dunno for sure but I reckon NATO or Britain’s role in it wasn’t at the forefront of the majority of voters’ minds yesterday. Spencer’s victory speech sort of nailed what her voters voted for. That’s how to do it.

Ouch

Drop in overseas workers is ‘car crash’ for UK hospitals and care homes, say experts Care roles hit particularly hard by UK’s lurch to the right on migration, according to analysis of Home Office data

Labour Govt’s narrative on immigration basically failed them in a by-election they had no choice but to win. Ironic it culminated for them on the very day this assessment was published: www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

Combining those who would engage in close combat and those who don’t is a great way to sustain the military industrial complex.

If out-Reforming Reform didn’t work for a Labour Party getting their ideas from the Labour Together/Blue Labour fringe, we now know trying to out-Green the Green Party isn’t gonna work either. All self-inflicted, all predicted by ex-Labour people now busy footslogging for the Greens.

The idea that the topic of NATO and Britain’s role in it was at the forefront of a significant number of voters’ minds when they voted for either Labour, Reform or Greens yesterday is for the fairies.

15k voters in Manchester wouldn’t agree with Keir Starmer’s implication that they voted in an extreme-left, Green Party candidate yesterday. Yeah, that’s how ridiculous he sounds. No wonder he doesn’t seem to recognise Labour’s electoral demise.

Spot on.

Instead of listening, those at the top of our party chose to carry on with their attempts to out reform reform on Immigration, plans to cut welfare and putting their factionalism ahead of the country and party.

The negative campaigning is a problem and I think always backfires. We should be talking about what we can do and our priorities.

Some of us were pointing out the polling more than a year ago that showed we were losing more voters to the Greens than to Reform.

Ultimately it is his Labour's policies and campaigning that lost us this seat, from his policies on pensions, winter fuel, welfare cuts to immigration - nationally we are not getting it right and we are letting the country down.

Blame for Labour’s defeat in Gorton and Denton sits with Keir Starmer and those running our party.

Starmer personally leading the intervention at the NEC officers meeting to block Burnham was not only obviously a huge error but also showed just how weak he is.

The Green victory in Denton is the result which will have the biggest effect on Labour, far more so than a Reform win.

The blithe assumption progressives have nowhere else to go has been proved catastrophically wrong.

Can’t help thinking of this quote from a Labour minister, a year ago…

Very good assessment of Labour’s woes here.