At Paddington about to head west to my homeland and a brass band is playing warlike marches which tracks

So the Greens have the opportunity to make PR happen by not standing in a by-election? This is really the best you've got? Jesus christ

Actually the Greens are under no obligation to help out any party that slags them off in the press and just spent three weeks calling their Jewish leader an antisemite. The entitlement is breathtaking. If your new great hope for leader can't even win an election, just close down the party already.

Too right. I want to see the Greens have faith in their own politics and their ability to win. What's the point of being a progressive party if you stand aside for a less progressive one?

Honestly finding all this "Greens should stand aside for Burnham" stuff pretty distasteful

I don't think Greens should be doing anything to help facilitate Burnham's return, but I do think they should be offering everyone a progressive choice. If it splits the vote, whatever

Yknow what with the Burnham by election it actually would be greens splitting the vote letting Reform win and im totally cool with that. Thats what you get for trying to game democracy and expect support. Never vote Labour again if you care about, well, anyone

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Hedging my bets whether I'll need to use the train toilet. Fire up the odds tracker

Off for a day out, in the heaviest hailstorm I've ever seen

This is not about policing the actual, physical, marches themselves. It is about policing public perception by making them equivalent so far right racism & violence becomes the same in the public's mind as pro-peace anti-violence & anti-racism

"The ruling class is shit at it so it must be impossible"

Found this in my archives

Why are Lib Dem councillors propping up a Reform administration in Leicestershire? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

On that day, the fash 'peacefully expressed' themselves by doing sig heils and throwing full beer bottles and cans, fireworks and trash at us while we were kettled outside a Trafalgar tourist shop for several hours. This has, for some strange reason, never been mentioned in the papers

Maybe I'll soft launch my plan to pave the way for a potential leadership bid. Or maybe I won't. Not sure yet, you crack on with your day though

Several years after Starmer & Labour Together purged opposing voices, hand-picked a bunch of vapid loyalists for the '24 intake and made clear they had no compunction about using the press to destroy the lives of soft-left challengers, I see we're now wondering why the party's sole output is dreck.

Keep seeing the phrase "first openly gay prime minister" and sadly it is not bringing me joy

Remembering this one today

Already bored of this

Taking our elderly neighbour to the garden centre this morning so I can "carry the heavy shit" for her

Anecdotally - I was in meetings with DPP Starmer about phone hacking back in the day, and the man was disinterested, at best

Keep going lads. Every update means another front bencher will lose their seat at the next GE

Fun fact: I was in TV Centre once when Gatiss came in and his pass didn't work so he screamed at the person on the desk, like properly vein bulging apopleptic, just because they asked him to sign in

okay, now is the last chance

Jess Phillips has gotten caught up in viral campaigns before, she's repeated the lie that domestic violence shelter killer Gareeca Gordon was actually a trans woman after it was viral on Mumsnet, helping fan the flames. She's outright careless on issues around safety that matter.

Rosie Duffield calibrating her political career on main

Artist’s impression:

Wouldn't it be funny if they're all waiting for Burnham who finally gets a by-election and then loses

This is what happens when you let Labour Brain anywhere near power. All that petty, authoritarian, factionalism plays out at a national level and keeps us in the shit. They have no morals

As Miliband's name gets raised, I can't help thinking about the time he accepted an Pink News award, literally dedicating it specifically to my trans daughter, her rights & happiness & then shut his mouth completely for the next 7 years as her rights were removed & her chances of happiness squashed.

What a deeply depressing list of people

Would be incredible to get the first gay PM in Wes Streeting if he wins the inevitable leadership election only for the Labour Party to be decimated in the following general election because the LGBTQ+ community refused to vote for him

Having a martini because

The British Right is clearly trying to discursively distance Zack Polanski from his own Jewish and gay identities. They are painting the Greens as both ultrawoke and somehow Islamist, while somehow having this grand Islamist conspiracy led by a gay Jewish man.

This story is about British Muslims supporting the Green party. That’s it. You wouldn’t know it from the headline though. It’s all about a grand conspiracy. The paper that once glorified Hitler is now recycling antisemitic conspiracy theories for the 2020s era.

to trigger a leadership contest. In the meantime, an historically unpopular leader is going to grind the Labour Party as we know it out of existence. Those fiefdoms in local politics are breaking down, MPs are making panicky appeals via social media because their majorities are about to evaporate.

Hi, as a small business owner I can tell you that our biggest challenges are: rent, business rates, energy costs, national insurance costs, VAT, inflation and the fact people are skint. These are all political.

The documentary that the BBC refused to air - Gaza: Doctors Under Attack - won a Bafta last night. The documentary shows the targeting, detainment and torture of medics in Gaza by Israeli authorities. #Bafta #Baftas

Mike Tapp is not ok

Well if Starmer had bust out that speech before the local elections it would have been a whole different story. Hoo boy!

Imagine clapping and wooping that

Went straight from therapy to Starmer's speech because I know how to start my week right

Saverio, a 19 year-old Italian tuxedo cat, is living a happy life in the medieval streets of Poppi (Italy). He has become the official mascot of the village.

This is section 28 again btw. Not teaching that trans people exist as fact, when it is a fact, is a ban on teaching about us.

A few minutes back two young Jewish women appear to be repeatedly booed and removed from the rally by police for carrying a sign that reads ‘Jews are not safe until all minorities are safe’

Oh I think she knows. I think they all know because we tell them repeatedly, and they ignore us

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Sharing again as would have been missed last night