‘Simply not true’ we’re being dragged into an Iraq-style conflict says the Labour Foreign Secretary. Ah, OK. So that must because the school blown to pieces in Tehran yesterday by a US bomb was different from the school blown to pieces by a US bomb in, for example, Al Fallujah, Iraq in 2004.

Tbf to Crabair though, they used to do a great northern soul night at RAF Akrotiri every month in the mid-noughties. They may still do.

the poster lmao

Went for my annual+ dose of Ocean Colour Scene in Liverpool at weekend. This one’s always a standard OCS singalong but can’t think of an occasion when it was as so poignant and timely as it was on Saturday night. youtu.be/ythCSNqa3gA

Hats off to Keir Starmer for changing with the situation of a having a fucking psychopath as the President of the United States - he metamorphosed from a Harold Wilson/Vietnam moment to a Tony Blair/Iraq moment in the space of only 12 hours.

The word ‘defensive’ used by Yvette Cooper is a throwback to the days Brits and Yanks were dropping 500-pounders on market squares and farmsteads in Helmand armed also with the line ‘I’m here to ‘defend’ the people of Afghanistan’. And then look how that turned out.

This time yesterday, according to the British Govt, the legality of bombing Iran was ‘a matter for the United States government’. Only 24 hours later, yeah, it’s legal. Apparently.

Given the recent by-election, it’s a real head-scratcher trying to work out why the voters who delivered the Govt’s landslide majority might be inclined to desert Labour in their droves. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

If only there was a recent and still ongoing precedent to give us some idea of what Starmer’s attitude is to international law in regards to armed conflict.

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.

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.

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

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

Ouch

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...

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.

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.

Matt Goodwin getting Reform’s excuses in early and basing them on racist conspiracy theory. Ofc he is. And ofc our press and his party’s leadership gonna lap it up like the fucking fiends that they are.

The Labour Govt weren’t offering hope and unity going into that by election. On the face of it, quite the opposite. So thought 15k Green Party voters.

Tbf to the Greens, not even sure Andy Burnham could’ve held that seat.

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Crossed start line 35 years ago today. Where tf did that time go? #oafaaf. #OpGranby

Defence in that second half was probs the best I’ve seen away from home this season. #pusb

Get tf in Rudy!. #pusb

Could see that goal coming a mile off tbh. #pusb

That bench tho. ✅ x 9. #pusb

Boro dropping 4 points in last 2 games. Need a win tonight to make the most of that. Cmon! #pusb

A fantastic result for healthcare workers in Durham and Darlington, and for @unisonnorthern.bsky.social . I was proud to support staff and their union in their fight to get the pay they deserved, and a huge congratulations to everyone who has fought for this result ✊ www.facebook.com/share/1EAQBs...

There is so, so little that this party would need to do to win my vote - like absolutely laughably little - and they’re not even close at the moment.

Unfortunately for the Govt, announcements like markedly improving access to primary care are being overshadowed by sleaze coming back to bite them on the arse. Fortunately for voters, they can get a proper measure of the party leadership they voted for in good faith only a year & a half ago. #c4news

So the latest grift, I suspect largely unbeknownst to ordinary members: seconded office staff provided to Labour Shadow Ministers from companies with vested interests in which party forms the next Government. Salaries paid, influence ensconced, MPs interests further detached from ordinary folk.

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