Josh Russell → @MVTFWD

My personal view re the Gorton and Denton by-election on Thursday 26th,

The vote is 💚 Green.

#GortonandDenton

Obvious by now, I know.

But as soon as Labour blocked Burnham, the signs were there.

🚨 Remember your voter ID

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if it isn't true, then why didn't Trump release them all?

we could do this all day.

Streeting still ready to challenge Starmer despite show of unity, allies say Health secretary poised to make leadership bid after May local elections to pre-empt a potential challenge from rival Rayner, MPs close to him say

Is this the same Streeting that almost lost his seat in 2024? Winning by around 500 votes.

He’s (mistakingly) confident.

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

None of them are prepared for 2029.

They could start by acknowledging what the power of millions of voters did in 2024.

Trump is in the unredacted Epstein files "more than a million times," Raskin alleges One document recounts that Trump said he "never" asked Epstein to leave Mar-a-Lago.

They’re not just the Epstein Files.

They’re the Epstein/Trump Files.

www.axios.com/2026/02/10/t...

Trump mentioned in unredacted files more than a million times.

Who’s surprised about any of this, really.

It’s what we’ve all been saying for decades. The rich behaving like they’re untouchable.

not a straightforward question under FPTP really

Labour's strategy has been shit.

→ Strategy lead, Morgan Mcsweeney, has resigned.

Labour's comms have been shit.

→ Director of communications, Tim Allan, has resigned.

Now is Labour's opportunity to actually do what they were elected to do, not to mimic Reform, which isn't working in any way.

Morgan McSweeney resigns as Keir Starmer’s chief of staff Longtime aide has said he takes ‘full responsibility’ for advising PM to appoint Peter Mandelson as US ambassador

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

HUGE.

But does this mean his influence is gone too? Time will tell, keep your ears open.

Morgan McSweeney resigns. Good riddance!

Trump is a billionaire for the first time. He just wants to be a real member of the club rather than a fake.

But the negative i never forget: Reform only 'need' around 30% under FPTP to have 100% of the power. this is an easy thing for the current government to solve of course.

A positive i like to remember: with all the decades of free media platforming and millions spent, Reform 'only' have around 30% support, which is a pathetic ROI, but a good indicator of who Britain really is, i.e. the country isn't buying it, even after a huge effort and cost to convince them.

The idea that Andy Street, Amber Rudd, David Gauke and Ruth Davidson are 'middle ground' or 'centre-right' is absurd.

What's this really for?

1. own the news cycle
2. rehabilitation
3. make country-ruining right wing ideas acceptable

But i guess it could help divide the right

archive.ph/3JsIp

you have to wonder, what are they actually terrified of happening though, that's the thing.

Stop the Tories and Reform Your vote is your power. Use it tactically to get the Tories and Reform out, then influence your new MP and the next government.

StopReformUK.Vote maybe?

Each ward or constituency has specifics shown on the page (click ‘more info’ or scroll down), and our general methodology is linked to from our ‘About’ page.

Jenrick, how it started:
Conservative Association, ‘political mastermind of everything’

How it’s going:
“Tories broke Britain” (and he was a big part of that)

Reform = Tories, the worst of them

Want change? They’re not your team

StopReformUK.Vote

At this rate we should just rename StopReformUK.Vote back to StopTheTories.Vote

Thanks for the reposts! Following everyone back 😊

Stop the Tories and Reform Your vote is your power. Use it tactically to get the Tories and Reform out, then influence your new MP and the next government.

If you’ve shared StopReformUK.Vote

Thank you 🙌

It’s one of many important tools we have at our hands to keep out fascism in the UK,

But so many people haven’t seen it before.

It simply helps you know which candidate to vote for in your area who has the best chance against the Reform candidate.

The countries we need to lobby actually need democracy before anything real will happen.

World's Richest Man Says Don't Bother Saving for Retirement

That link again, from Gizmodo of all places.

You really know things are bad when tech blogs that exist to cheerlead technology are calling out billionaires.

gizmodo.com/worlds-riche...

They’re selling AI as if it’ll be the ultimate saviour to humanity.

But:

1. They have no intention of doing that, it’s about them owning and controlling everything

2. The only possibly way is through public collective ownership, let’s do Star Trek

3. They’re morons

gizmodo.com/worlds-riche...

Looking forward to catching up and going through the old lessons together :)

And if we just imagine that telling each other to:

Just join this particular party!

Or

We have to all signup to this campaign!

Well, historically, they have a tendency to let you down, disappear, or end up tearing themselves apart over a single issue.

We need to think longer term resilience.

And maybe most importantly:

In a post-internet world, where the platforms are controlled, or the internet doesn’t exist as we know it..

None of us are prepared.

We can’t WhatsApp the group.

We can’t create a Facebook event for a protest.

We can’t use our email lists.

We can’t make a video.

So,

Movements built around an individual:
Agile, focused, but risky, single point of failure.

Reach reliant on social media:
Scales, but billionaires can turn you off.

Achieving big single definitive action in collaboration:
Powerful, but organisationally time consuming and bureaucratic

Brittle, but agile. That’s the paradox

And relying on cells and visible figures can also mean efforts collapse if they disappear, as you haven’t been building in-house alternatives and redundancy.

And then I’m thinking to the future.

How we might need to be planning for French resistance style fighting.

How we can do that without the internet and the tools we’ve got so reliant on.

They become dangerous places to share thoughts and make plans.

I keep coming back to how risky it is to put all our energy in one basket.

Backing a party doesn’t make sense really, especially if FPTP means the party you’ve chosen isn’t likely to win in your constituency.

So many campaigns we’ve signed up to have died, all that energy and it just ends one day