How - realistically - could a different Labour PM in summer 2026, or other actors in the political system, explore proposing + introducing any significant electoral changes *before* 2029 or for the election after next?
Blocked is good I suppose… I’d prefer arrested, put in the dock, left to rot in a cell.
Fucking Clacton Cunt, fucking traitor.
Honestly the contempt I feel for Dubai 'ex-pats' isn't based on class so much as their willingness to embrace a life of luxury and excess in a society propped up by slavery, exploitation and human rights abuse as though they were living in a JG Ballard novel they refuse to understand
Isn’t it that so many have been slagging off the UK and slagging off immigrants that now the boot is on the other foot the exposure of their hypocrisy and that of their media mates is to the fore ?
They can't leave ATM or v expensive to
If Dubai was a Greek island it would be called Cuntorini
Some of it is just Isabel Oakeshott tho
🇮🇸🇪🇺 A new entrant in the race to be the EU's 28th member? Iceland referendum on restarting negotiations will be on 29 August
Followed by another referendum on the final terms
www.reuters.com/world/icelan...
Well Germans running the football team more efficiently. Why not our media also? They could change the electoral system too & maybe also introduce some decent bread to our supermarkets while they're at it
This is not only incredibly weak, its false equivalence between Farage and Polanski is dangerous. One of them is a threat to liberal democracy, the other one is not. The text is a prime example of how radical centrism and the profound arrogance of self-declared liberals legitimize the far right
Somewhat lost under the hideousness of Shabana Mahmood’s plans is the fact that immigration is a bloody good thing. We need more of it, not less.
Wonder if he will do this
Are you telling me Spanish ppl don't just take siestas all day & actually work sometimes?
English people struggle to take Italy seriously in all areas of human activity other than food and nice holiday locations. So not just rugby
Telegraph reporters will now be able to pin down German ministers for comment
Deputy PM & Leader of the Opposition made basic errors on BBC Breakfast.
Lammy: Cyprus is in NATO. (It isn’t).
Badenoch: need for HMS Dragon to deploy to the region because we “need to take out the archer, not shoot down arrows”. (It’s a Type 45 destroyer: anti-missile (“arrows”)).
Worrying.
The right-wing used to go bonkers about the UK negotiating common EU consumer protection rules.
Now they believe Britain shld join any US military operation “regardless of our own interests, our own views or our own democratic processes”.
They want “total subservience to American decision-making”
Feel like he's got the short end of the stick a little (the article is broadly him reckoning with being baffled by the output of a study that concludes this) but beyond that I am quite skeptical of this phenomena? I feel like it's a narrative the media wants to be true, and then they all vote Green.
EU still struggling to find solution to Hungary’s veto of Ukraine’s €90B lifeline
Deluded. Labour lost about ten points during the course of the 2024 campaign. A strategic triumph it was not.
and got fewer votes overall than Corbyn in 2019!
I just wants Utd to down for the s*TS & giggles
The "hero" voter is an IT service manager in Milton Keynes, struggling with a mortgage and childcare costs. They are broadly progressive on immigration (but not small boats), the EU, the environment. They are irritated at getting ripped off when they go out for a meal or want to buy concert tickets.
Demographically, most progressive defectors are frustrated lower middle class Millennials - not affluent urbanites or a PMC ‘lanyard class'. Though they have liberal social values, many are frustrated graduates; Millennials with a mortgage or rent they are struggling to afford - primary school teachers, IT support or clerical workers. In short, the face of the modern social democratic voter.
Labour is losing voters to progressive parties disproportionately.
And they are not mainly "lanyard" professional or working classes, the oppositional forces of Blue Labour and right discourse.
It's squeezed millennials in service careers. Which our politics ignores.
It's like it was New Labour policy to improve education, get 50% of people going to university, and create an enduring voter base for liberal and social democratic values. And then Brexit happened and they just completely forgot that those people who grew up under New Labour might be their new base.
This is another staging post in what @benansell.bsky.social has termed the 'Zombie Liberal Fightback'.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
We now turn to the Electoral Calculus current prediction model for the seat of Birmingham Ladywood in the next GE.
Well, Darth Mahmood's outlook is - erm - not so good right now.
The FT calls Sánchez a pacifist (he’s doubled defence spending) and hints Trump should hit back at him. As @tallantyre.bsky.social notes, this drivel comes from Madrid’s upper-middle-class bubble, where people think Sánchez is a chavista dictator. 🙄
www.ft.com/content/987b...
It's on purpose surely? She's getting into character
