Jo Rothery

This is the way.

Wales becomes the first UK nation to remove profit from children's homes, fostering, and secure accommodation In less than a month, new providers of children’s homes, fostering services and secure accommodation will no longer be able to make a profit in Wales — making it the first nation in the UK to take thi...

In less than a month, new providers of children's homes, fostering services and secure accommodation will no longer be able to make a profit in Wales — making it the first nation in the UK to take this landmark step

“Never once did Reform promise to cut council tax” insists an angry Nigel Farage to Sky News.

Here's some of the leaflets Reform have been putting out ahead of the local elections

The Guardian view on EV charging: China took the right lessons from Britain’s past | Editorial Editorial: Megawatt fast EV charging reflects a coordinated grid strategy the UK once used. Privatisation and fragmentation now make that infrastructure far harder to build

The “privatisation premium” sees almost a quarter of the average household energy bill – roughly £450 – flow today into corporate profits. Other services are hit. Nearly 30% of a water bill in the privatised system goes to shareholder returns and paying debt. 😠
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While people feel the foundations of their lives are shaking, this deep crisis will continue | Clive Lewis The partisan debate since the Gorton and Denton byelection risks blinding us to the truth. People are rejecting wholesale the way our politics has developed, says Labour MP Clive Lewis

“The electoral system must change. First past the post manufactures artificial majorities and entrenches safe seats. PR would not eliminate distrust overnight, but it would reflect the pluralism that already exists” @labourlewis.bsky.social 👍
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Do they think people have literally no memory of past events at all?

It’s a definition of ‘won’ I’m not familiar with

Good question

A monochrome ‘spot the mistake’ scene featuring a postman cycling along a lane besides a half timbered thatched cottage

An observation test for your inner 8-year-old.
Can you spot 12 deliberate mistakes?

From Treasure magazine, 1965
Official answers coming soon

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Those proud bastions of free speech Reform UK banned @willhaycardiff.bsky.social from their manifesto launch because they are scared of the scrutiny he would provide. Imagine what these cowards will do in power.

Yep. My dad got into grammar school as his parents were determined he wouldn’t go down the mines as the family always had done. My mum from a middle class family didn’t pass the 11 plus as had exam anxiety. But both became teachers and ended up getting their Masters in Education later in life.

New grammar schools set to return if Farage becomes PM The creation of new selective schools was outlawed by New Labour in 1998

Crushingly predictable. Utterly unjustified by decades of research. A shibboleth in place of a policy.

We live in Kent and have the grammar system and it is gamed by wealthier parents. Some kids are tutored to get in from age 6.

Your regular reminder that the UK is in fact a high trust society and anyone who implies it isn’t is either selling you a pup or has bought one.

This one specific outcome would bring about a case for the nationwide Progressive Alliance that exists in Britain.

Green-Lib-Lab-SNP-Plaid majority.

The ideas are separate but there can be a common goal and it needs to be found in our fragmented era of multi-party politics.

👀 Watch APPG member Simon Opher, Labour MP for Stroud, call for a National Commission on Electoral Reform to address Westminster’s flawed voting system

🚨 "Large groups of permanently unrepresented voters create fertile ground for anger and extremism."

🗯️ Powerful speech by @rozsavage.bsky.social about the dangers of sticking with FPTP in our current, fragmented and polarised reality.

👉 The Representation of the People Bill needs to address this.

Farage is today calling "for a change of the law to ensure millions of people never can have their vote taken away again" (the local elections)

And ALSO for a change in the law to take away the votes of almost a million current voters (Commonwealth nationals; migrants who are mostly not white)

Having considered for 48 hours the best way to protect the autonomy, the equal voice and the equal right to cast a secret ballot of south Asian women at the polling station, Nigel Farage has concluded it is important to "go further" and to disenfranchise as many Asian women [+ men] as possible

Michael Sheen backs Plaid as he describes Wales as being at a political crossroads Welsh icon Michael Sheen has declared his support for Plaid Cymru ahead of May’s Senedd election, saying the country is undergoing “huge transformation”. Speaking to Times Radio’s Adam Boulton, the Po...

Welsh icon Michael Sheen has declared his support for Plaid Cymru ahead of May's Senedd election, saying the country is undergoing a ‘huge transformation’

From September last year...

It's about ethos, as Henry Drucker explained in 1979.

This 'correction' from @lewisgoodall.com regarding accusations from Reform and the Conservatives that the Greens engaged in sectarianism, deserves to be widely read.

#c4news

Further proof of the end of two-party politics. We need an electoral system that recognises this.

Trump - A friend of far-right groups across Europe.

UK far-right activist Tommy Robinson visits US state department Trump administration is cultivating links with conservative groups across Europe

Truly shocking, if not entirely surprising. This isn't flirting with the extreme right, it's legitimizing and normalizing it.

The Gorton and Denton By-Election Shows Clearly What's Wrong with FPTP - Make Votes Matter By Livvy Gibbs, Young Make Votes Matter Coordinator.

The Gorton and Denton By-Election Shows Clearly What’s Wrong with FPTP
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Stonehaven MRP shows Scottish Parliamentary election could cause Sir Keir Starmer a headache

Fascinating new sophisticated polling by Stonehaven signals a possibly additional problem for Labour - in Scotland www.stonehavenglobal.com/stonehaven_m...

"And the next election under first past the post, if it stays anything like that, is just going to be chaotic... So we've got to bring in proportional representation."

Compass Director Neal Lawson on the need for PR on Sunday Morning with Trevor Phillips on @skynewsrss.bsky.social.

"If [the Education Secretary] was someone from Reform, if I was a parent of a young child I'd be worried now."

Compass Director Neal Lawson on Labour's SEND reforms on Sunday Morning with Trevor Phillips on @skynewsrss.bsky.social.

Chart showing Reform voters are far more obsessed with immigration than supporters of far right parties in mainland Europe.

Fascinating. Reform UK voters are way more obsessed with immigration that those who support their populist radical right and extreme right counterparts in continental Europe.
(Source: news.gallup.com/poll/701990/...)