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Responses from 🥀Tom Watson, John Rentoul, JLM🥀 etc are very heartening. I hope they keep it up - we need the political chasm between rotten Labour and the new left alliance to be so evident that it's visible from space ✊ #Polanski #YourParty #GreenParty #Corbyn #Sultana
Agree 💯
That's happening in the NHS and education too. The money being siphoned off, people would be scandalised if they knew.
There was a plan once about 2017 time. Members and the public liked it, but the Labour grandees didn't. And then Starmer came along with an empty slate and kept it that way.
Yep a good, possibly better option. Clive Lewis is thinking along those lines.
Thames Water creditors pledge more investment to try to seal rescue deal. This can't dissolve the crisis. TW would be run for profit & dividend extraction, the very reason for the crisis. Capital would be raised from customers, but shareholders would keep resulting assets/income. archive.ph/4yA01
English water companies spent £16.6m fighting legal action against regulators and campaigners over environmental breaches. Abuse of bill payers. Companies pay lawyers instead of investing in infrastructure to prevent sewage dumping.
The MP who had to resign for beating up a constituent said he took full responsibility for causing the by election, but Labour must take responsibility for losing the seat. They won't or can't admit it.
Or taken back under government control? Just thinking out loud.
I did, I know Labour members who did too.
This will turn into a national scandal
A fair amount of switchers too I think and the ones that stayed at home.
Fewer votes than Corbyn in 2019, but FPTP delivered a landslide. Electoral reform is badly needed.
"After discovering a Union flag put outside overnight, a mosque in Birkenhead chose to turn the act into a show of pride. Members of the Mosque decided to hang the flag from their own window to challenge the stereotype that Muslims 'hate the UK and its national flags.'" via Jessennia Sandler
They said Brexit was taking back control, now they say leaving the ECHR is taking back control How about we really take back control, of the Energy, of the Water, of the Public Transport, of the Housing, of the Banks They would be terrified of that, actually taking back control
Yes, we live in interesting times.
Me too. Friends think I'm paranoid buI don't trust Zuckerberg
Trump's use of National Guard in Los Angeles was illegal, judge rules. Now watch Trump's tantrums. Will his nominees to the Supreme Court let him have his way? What of the rule of law, democracy, US reputation? US Congress missing in action.
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Then the algorithms send this to my feed. Oh happy Days. 😂
The leadership bun fight should be fun. 🤣🤣
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About as much as you can trust Starmer.
I'm not sure they do recognise how loathed they are. Like the Dems in the US, still think they right.
😂😂 good aren't they?
I've also followed politics since the 1970s, I was an active Labour member, voted for said leader twice. He wanted to change the system and take people out of poverty. He was equally as passionate as Polanski.
There's no other issues that need sorting out then? Energy bills going up again Shit in the rivers Inflation on the up NHS in crises No, just Farage and his racist agenda to prioritise
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Starmer's toast either way.
The Guardian even does Polanski the favour of providing a quote from him on NATO in May, in which he articulates a position that closely aligns with what European leaders like Germany's Merz were saying earlier this year and is, in my opinion, must more realistic than Labour's dead-end Atlanticism.
It'll be interesting to see who wins this one. Starmer has just drafted in some Treasury people to help him out. McSweeny's days numbered do you think?
We all are. There's a lot at stake.
That's been their strategy all along, the McSweeney mantra the left have nowhere else to go. Well, we really do.
A contrast to Labour's churlish, immature response. A bigger man, than Starmer.
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Nobody in the Labour Party thought that the Labour party would actually sabotage it's own side. That they would prefer Tories to a Labour party. We've all learned from that.
🤣🤣 Your cup will runneth over.
Exactly what they said about Corbyn. That's the grown ups for you, if they can't play the ball, they take down the man. Won't work a second time.
Well, I suppose as Labour are the (alleged) government.....
They're all in the big tent together, aren't they?
Nobody works with Starmer, they work for him or they get destroyed. My way or the highway man has just met his Nemesis.
I think Labour are scared. 🤣🤣
That's the sound of the Labour party having a collective brown hemorrhage. 😂
Excellent, Zack Polanski has parked his tanks on Starmer's front lawn. An opposition at last.
Yes and the centrists. I feel almost positive.
I'll go with whoever wins the leadership. An outside bet could be Andrew Feinstein. Who knows who will stand.
I met him back in April, thought he was exactly what the Green Party needed. A kick arse politician.
Death throws are always painful.
I could be wrong but I don't think Corbyn will stand. I'd prefer Zara Sultana now, plus she seems to work well with Polanski.
I'd like to bet there's a few in the higher Labour echelons having a brown hemorrhage right now. 😂😂
I'm a Your Party sign up, hoping that between the left groups and parties we can change the political narrative.
It doesn't win elections either. A very strange headline, is it a warning?
It was an overwhelming win too. He's got a solid mandate from the party to fight for real change. I feel almost positive.
Concentration camps coming!
...kinell.
It's great news. Hope he can take his enthusiasm and vision for real change to the country.
Zack smashed it. 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
You smashed it, showing the appetite for real change is there. You all ran a great positive campaign, a well deserved win. 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
Bringing the chancellor’s deputy and a former Bank of England chief into Downing St won't fix Starmer's problems. That's just more technocracy. What Starmer lacks is ideology. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
The UK government’s enthusiasm to sign post-Brexit trade agreements should not come at the expense of human rights standards.For decades, rights groups have documented systematic human rights violations against migrant workers in all six Gulf countries. www.hrw.org/news/2025/09...
Secretly diverting money to a shadow camaign, diverting funds to seats with big majorities. Unite asked the questions and submitted it to the Forde inquiry, those questions were never answered.
She will know where the bodies are buried, euphemistically speaking.
It used to be called corruption.
They were so disappointed in 2017 when the results started to come in. Not the wipe out they had worked for (they did), Corbyn almost wiped out May's majority so she had to bung the DUP. There's a video somewhere with their disappointment on show.
"Those who fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it" - Winston Churchill
is it only asylum seekers our Labour Prime Minister would object to living next to or would the sentiment apply to black and brown people in general? if merely the former, would he like to explain how he knows people he sees, say, in the street, actually are asylum seekers and not citizens?
Labour ‘dithering’ on child poverty as Education Secretary admits to being ashamed. Govt finds money for corporate bailouts, subsidies, foreign wars and tax perks for corporations and the rich. Child poverty is an unacceptable political choice. Blights lives.
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A sentiment I think a lot of us can agree with. 💯
👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 fantastic response.
Starmer is and has always been an asset of the British state. They love a good flag shagg.
They're so deluded, but she's in the Lords so the gravy train never ends
Help restore the authority that won Labour power. What does that mean?
There's one keeps popping up on my feed, I'm sure she won't disappoint.
🤦♀️wealth.
We won't until Labour realises that neoliberalism isn't working for most of us and focuses on redistribution of weath - in a downward direction this time. They're so wrong on everything.
Just rejoice at that news. 😂😂
It's Blue Labour, socially conservative, economically left. They want to reconnect with working class voters. The only thing wrong with it is, it's complete bllocks.
Badge of honour that. Well done ✊️
Thanks.
The Treasury has a board of directors? Whtever happened to civil servants?
Since when did the Treasury have a board of directors? It's part of the government, not a private company.
CORRUPTION #Renationalise water
An 81-year-old woman is among 47 more people charged for allegedly showing support for the proscribed group Palestine Action during protests this summer. More than half of those charged today are over 60. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025... Sign up: wedonotcomply.org
Interesting. I've been blocked, but I'm intrigued.
Jonathan Hall KC, independent reviewer of terrorism legislation, discussing how law applies to everyone equally: “Whether you look like a sort of - if you like, I use the phrase a hairy foreigner, or you're some nice white old lady sitting in the road.” www.thenationalnews.com/news/uk/2025...
Labour MP Jonathan Pearce 🥀💰 - Co-Chair of LFI - Meetings with unashamedly genocidal Tzipi Hotovely - Opposes even the ineffective arms embargo enacted by Lammy, and says the ICC case against Netanyahu and Gallant is 'morally suspect' - Voted for cuts labourrightwatch.wordpress.com/2025/06/11/t...
Starmer reputedly said he was not comfortable with public speaking, not a great admission for the leader of a political party. Add to that, he's unable to think on his feet and you get his bumbling from one stupid remark to another. When will Labour just admit he's a disaster?
The degrowth movement is a global socio-economic and ecological philosophy and activist framework that advocates for a deliberate reduction in economic growth, particularly in wealthy nations, as a means to achieve sustainability, social equity, and human well-being.
Jason Hickel is fantastic, great @novaramedia.com interviewed him. The richest countries in the world cannot guarantee food security for their own citizens; something is seriously wrong with the 'economic growth' policies of the centrist right. Degrowth is the answer www.youtube.com/watch?v=bjlq...
Starmer is artificial but there's no intelligence.
My local food bank website lists the items they are short of. I always check it before doing a shop.
And just as useless.
'Miep Gies, one of the Dutch people who hid and sustained Anne Frank and her family, commented: “We did our duty as human beings; helping people in need.” Is this a duty that, only two generations later, we have completely forgotten?'