FUCK ICE NOW AND FOREVER

Texted the manager of my football team to say he's supposed to make me and the other trans guys change separately to the cis guys for our tournament tonight and he's replied with "fuck the ehrc and fuck the fa" so good luck to the government on getting people to enforce this

@labouruk.bsky.social now throw them out of our NHS

Listening to PMQs yesterday I was appalled to hear how Karl Turner MP was treated by the Labour whipping machine. Turning mental health into a stick to beat its MPs with when they refuse to follow orders is not OK.

This, from Amnesty International, tells you all you need to know about transphobic bias in UK mainstream media.

Here in Exeter, six new 💚 councillors were elected. The labour party no longer has a majority so they have decided to run as a minority labour council. Every year there are more examples of labour refusing to compromise with 💚. Just shortsighted and unnecessary.

It’s the same in Scotland. They’ll do almost anything to keep the SNP out. Deals with Tories and Sarwar even approached 6-hoose Offord to work with Reform… And they wonder why we see them as just one more right wing party…

"Barnet Labour blamed 'significant policy differences' preventing negotiations with the Greens." This tells you it all really. "Significant policy differences" with the Greens but not, apparently, with the Tories.

Labour needed 1 vote for control, but rather than work with the 1 Green councillor they ceded half their power to the Tories.

Just to be clear how little I’m exaggerating, in 2016, the UK Government actually advised trans people against travelling to certain US states due to the implementation of bathroom bans. @bphillipsonmp.bsky.social is now implementing those same bans across the UK. www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-u...

Israeli far-right minister Ben-Gvir degrading activists from the Global Sumud Flotilla is completely unacceptable. The UK govt must act to ensure the safety of the activists & delivery of vital aid to Gaza, and sanction all those responsible for the genocide.

oh golly gee i wonder if that's coz the previous government, Reform, and the current government all push the idea that we're being invaded by swarms of our fellow human beings

The big question - when indeed will the Environment Agency do what it exists to do and, you know, er, enforce the law? Great work by @nicolacutcher.bsky.social and @friendsriverwye.bsky.social

Labour lost nearly four times as many voters to the Greens as Reform. Yet all you hear about is Reform's threat to Labour. Why? Because a) the left aren't treated as legitimate political actors b) Labour's masters prefer bashing migrants to challenging wealth and power

There wasn't a problem with trans people in sports at any level. Trans women have never dominated any sport. If trans people were proportionately represented in women's Olympic gold medals (just to take an easy example) we'd see a few trans women take gold every year, instead of zero ever.

It's also the refusal to make any compromise & strike a deal. Burnham could easily say "if you stand down I'll organise a citizens assembly on PR" or "I'll commit to XYZ environmental policies" There's nothing. Classic labour right "my way or the highway" shit. Doesn't give me hope.

OpenAI Announces Construction Of New Data Center On Top Of Sick Child

An evil monster.

The question is quite vague , and doesn't mention either Mahmood or her plans , so id take this interpretation with a big pinch of salt , especially when you look at the answers to other qs (like the EU one or 'more left' one ) ygo-assets-websites-editorial-emea.yougov.net/documents/In...

Pretty shocked by these figures as I’d assumed it was still the case that Labour members are more liberal than the leadership. But here we are, and this is the party, still described by some as a party of the left, which the Greens are supposed to be making common cause with

As we said: the leader isn't the problem. The party is fully captured by a faction of right wing shitheads who want this kind of flag fucking, immigrant bashing stuff, and they'll blow the whole thing up if you try to take it from them.

In 2019 MPs voted on including a Customs Union in the withdrawal agreement. It was defeated 276-273. If 2 MPs had voted the other way it would have passed Among those who voted against were 5 LibDems, including Ed Davey. Why? They didnt want to do anything that helped Corbyn

If Labour wanted the Greens to stand down in Makerfield, then Labour should have stood down in Gorton and Denton. They didn't. They did this instead. They were happy to risk a Reform victory there. www.thenational.scot/news/2589179...

A billionaire Trump mega-donor is set to make millions from Thames Water’s takeover bid. Overseas hedge fund lenders are demanding more power to pollute our waters, dodge fines and hike bills to service debt. Privatised water is a scam. Bring it back into public hands.

No COBRA meeting No breaking news alerts No discussions about stopping islamophobia by Starmer No meeting community leaders Nothing

Marching against genocide is a hate march. Marching to "stop Islam", kick out Muslims and prepare for civil war isn't a hate march. The world has been turned on its head.

EXCLUSIVE: ICC prosecutor requests warrants for Smotrich, Ben-Gvir "The [ICC prosecutor's] charges against Smotrich include forced displacement as a crime against humanity and war crime, transfer of Israel’s own population as a war crime, and persecution and apartheid as crimes against humanity.”

Please stop calling the current far-right Labour party a “progressive vote”. Supporting genocide and taking healthcare from trans people and cutting benefits for the disabled is not in any way “progressive”.

It was a pleasure to meet Mohammed, a Palestinian student whose case I took to the Home Office after the devastation in Gaza made taking up his @bristoluni.bsky.social scholarship incredibly difficult. It should not take an MP intervention to do this. We must do better for the next cohort.

Baby otters are adorable.🥰

The man who ran a secret campaign to target and smear journalists says anonymous accounts on social media are polluting our public conversation.

the overwhelming message the AI industry has sent to young people is “this will ruin any chance you have at a stable career”, of course college grads are booing it regardless of the reality of the claims, the way this technology has been sold is one of the greatest self-inflicted PR disasters ever

“Fiscal Rules” “Reducing Debt” “Uncertain Markets” Meet the new ‘hope’. The one that sounds exactly like the last ‘hope’

Sooo...a drop beginning somewhere around 2008? I wonder what else might have become fundamentally different around then, with repercussions that continue to the present day?

🚨BREAKING | Andy Burnham confirms he will NOT scrap first-past-the-post before #GE2029 Burnham said electoral reform must be "in a manifesto", and revealed he does NOT back proportional representation, instead praising the non-proportional Supplementary Vote (SV). Via @itvnews

Fearing a change in Labour leadership, Thames Water creditors rush a takeover plan. Want regulator to go easy on abuses. Still want dividends. Customers will be fleeced. There can be no market-based solution. No competition Captive customers No substitute goods Must nationalise. archive.ph/eJoHP

"Tell us one specific thing [Burnham] will do" Simons: ".. one of the things he's really committed to.. energy, water, social housing.. have gotten so expensive.. & one of the reasons why.. is that we've privatised a lot of them" "So with Burnham, nationalise water?" "No" lol

Nigel Farage tells The Sun's Harry Cole that Elon Musk offered to give Reform loads of money "if we said certain things" and he refused. "I can't be bought." Two things: 1. This is an allegation of attempted bribery. Very serious. 2. It shows the obvious: donors expect something for their money.

Despite it being obvious that the time of two-party politics is over, the govt laid out no plans to introduce a fairer voting system in the King's Speech. That's why Green MPs tabled an amendment on the need to bring in proportional representation and make every voice heard.

Families are struggling, workers are exploited, and our climate is in crisis. All this pomp and grandeur for an unelected billionaire won't help the people of Scotland. It's time to #AbolishTheMonarchy

wow we should really elect a human rights lawyer so they can stop this! oh wait

Labour MPs showed much boredom at the amount I talked about the Govt’s outrageous attack on jury equity while I was on the committee for the Courts and Tribunals Bill. This principle, established firmly since 1670 (!) must remain in place, and any new leader absolutely must leave juries alone.

the reason it's an insult is because you folks have literally gotten everything you wanted politically for 47 years apart from Brexit, and you torpedoed the politics that young people were desperate for because of that fact. And your hubris delivered Boris fucking Johnson

Q: Why have we had one third of our post-war prime ministers in the last decade? A: The 2008 financial crash - and the political response - ended sustained improvements to living standards, public services and security. This bakes in permanently high levels of disillusionment.

Wes Streeting is already facing growing calls to stand down as PM

lmfao

The perfect visual representation of the UK

Government majority of 156 seats. And yet total instability at the top. Six PMs in the space of a decade. The "strong and stable" arguments for First Past the Post were always pretty weak but I don't think anyone makes them with a straight face anymore.