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Death, displacement, disruption. www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

The richest people vote Labour, the poorest Reform and then Green

Interesting, subtle difference between these attacks Mahmood put out today. Against Reform it's "unless we address these concerns, people will vote for them" but against the Greens it's just "their policies are bad". People who support Green policies are not a group that needs to be appeased.

A special military operation, if you will.

Shame they didn't paint a school the IDF could have unloaded it's entire arsenal

There's a lot of games here id like to finish

hopenothate.org.uk/state-of-hat... the annual state of hate is always worth a browse

Hope Not Hate research finds: '54% of Reform members thought non-white British citizens born abroad should be forcibly removed or encouraged to leave, while one in five (22%) also supported it for non-white citizens whose parents were born in the UK.' Rank racism.

"Religious freedom group says 200 troops sent complaints of superiors using extremist Christian rhetoric to justify war." www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

Three interesting things about that yougov poll. While they've polled higher than Lab before, this is the first time they have with yougov, and it's the first time they've polled over 20% with any polling company. Final interesting thing, the combined right vote is a record low

Woaaahhhhh! An early GOTY contender in a POKÉMON GAME?!

Strong against the weak, weak against the strong, etc

We're being asked to defend the tax havens of Dubai and the UAE, which effectively deprive the treasury of tax receipts, with British taxpayers money and possibly lives.

I think a key reason for labours constant shitting on their voter base is because they've never truly forgiven millennials, minorities and the left broadly for electing Corbyn in 2015 and sustaining him that entire time. They will tank the party to punish if needs be

I fucking hate Starmer so much, but also him applying his Midas Touch to this might result in some very funny things happening.

Think this is the best position to take on Iran

I just can't see Starmer writing a letter like that if Reform won, there would be some degree of contrition, that they must listen, and not "eh, happens mid term all the time, what about those Muslims, eh?"

there are so many of these types. it is to a large extent the problem because it isn’t just unpleasant it’s also thick

On the tram to and from town, and on each journey I overheard people talking about the by-election slagging off Labour

Labour MP Ian Byrne: "The lines from the PM and Cabinet today essentially labelling the Green Party as extremist is appalling, desperate and frankly embarrassing. "It also makes very clear that the leadership has zero understanding of where it has been going wrong."

💯. In my direct experience labour cannot *stand* it when greens stray away from wind turbines & start talking about poor people, because as far as they are concerned, poor people are *theirs*. Theirs to ignore, often, but still theirs.

ambivalence is what i expected

This is importantly incorrect - Labour did a whole bunch of evil culture war shit whilst raising government spending and improving worker rights. The take-out is that riding those horses at the same time doesn't work, working class right wingers are too far down the rabbit hole to win with policy!

The relevant part of the study linked in the article, which was commissioned by the Henry Jackson Society (I really wish there were polls on this that weren’t commissioned by ghouls). Hard to look at this and conclude these are vote-deciding issues for the average British Muslim

I lived in Bradford West when Galloway won in 2012, and to Ed Miliband's credit, he immediately visited and said we need to listen to the result and make amends with the people who left us. Starmer couldn't be more different

This language will only further alienate people who've recently left Labour imo. Usually politicians say we need to listen to the result and what the electorate has said. Here Starmer is calling them all extremists.

Got 9 laugh emojis on the group chat

Just caught a clip of Newsnight where Paddy O'Connell straight-up asks Polanski "why did you produce a leaflet in Urdu in Manchester?" as if that's something that needs defending in a multicultural democracy.

If you built a campaign on attracting voters who think Muslims are some sort of sub-British enemy within, it seems a bit rich to complain about sectarianism.

Worth noting the combined Green/Labour vote was more than double Reform. Didn't even need tactical voting to beat them in the end. Maybe if they hadn't picked such a useless candidate they would have done better.

Polling was way off in the end, and in the right direction

A Green win must mean that "left behind" voters forgotten by Westminster want open borders and legalised class A drugs. That's how it works right?

What strikes me about that result is just how far ahead the Greens were compared to Reform. Again an anti-Reform coalition manifests and it's not actually close

Gorton and Denton by-election result: GRN: 40.7% (+27.5) REF: 28.7% (+14.7) LAB: 25.4% (-25.3) CON: 1.9% (-6.0) LDEM: 1.8% (-2.1) Green GAIN from Labour.

Sky News political editor comparing the Greens alleged dirty tactics to that of Galloway like in Bradford 2012. As someone who was there, my man, no.

Sky news is insane. Asking Natalie Bennett whether raising Gaza as an issue at all was inviting sectarianism?

A fascinating bit of convergent evolution that the McSweeney-Starmer project has basically ended up leaving Labour in the same position as its Western European peers…as a result of deliberate, wholly avoidable choices.

bsky.app/profile/leoc... Yep and it's been rebutted by Manchester Council already

Sounds like high turnout in the by election. If it beats turnout from the last general (46.8%) it will be the first time that's happened in 40 years.

Found this from a few years ago. You can see the little cat's tongue come all the way out

The UK parliament now has an MP who is openly racist and far right. This is, for the current era, new ground, and it will be interesting to see how - if at all – other MPs respond.

A reminder, one day ahead of a by-election in which the Greens are favourites to defeat Reform, that the Daily Mail owner's wife recently donated £50,000 to Nigel Farage's party

I'm 3 and a half DLCs behind on Age of Empires 2 rn, and I'm so excited by it. That's around 60 or so campaign scenarios 🥵

would love to know the polling on political parties having a role in “undoing the sexual revolution”

youtu.be/bmbGc0hg5yQ?... Starmer gets so much more passionate when he's talking about hating the greens and their drug decriminalisation policy than he does about Reform, he's almost bored talking about them. So important that both labour and reform lose.

Incredible. The Labour government's best policies, scarcely talked about by the media... and Reform want to tell everyone and draw everyone's attention: "Look everyone, look, look what Labour did here!" As well as being vile little fascists, these people are also really, really, really dumb.

They were on to something when they started talking about steel nationalisation. Now they're advocating for policies that most people would despise