Book cover of The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
💙📚 The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
“Love you...
Always...
World enough...
And time...”
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"Insufficient serious work was done to prepare for government... Mainstream offers a space for the exploratory thinking that the party has squeezed out."
Our National Coordinator Luke Hurst and Interim Council Member Sue Goss make the case for a new intellectual base for Labour.
"Ultimately voting systems should exist to reflect the will of the people. If they do not, is it rule of the people or rule by the system?"
Great letter in the Guardian by Hugo, a campaigner with Young Make Votes Matter 👏👏👏
"Many people vote all their lives without electing anyone."
Great to see this in the Islington Tribune!
They've either allowed the use of their bases, or spoken in favour of the intervention, or cast it in traditional military terms. This approach encourages further recklessness. Going softly on Trump doesn't work. Only international ostracisation has any chance of success. Sanchez gets it.
“Now Labour is in government it’s time to change the system at home and ensure that every vote counts so that no woman will ever say again, ‘my vote doesn’t make any difference’.”
@julie4north.bsky.social
#IWD #InternationalWomensDay #Democracy 💜💚
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I'll be honest, I thought Brent Crude was a right-wing podcaster.
Absolutely, but that is what FPTP does. It drives MPs into siloes, which is not where most voters are.
Happy International Women's Day! ✊💃
Studies consistently show that countries with proportional voting systems tend to have more women's representation in their parliaments.
We spoke to three brilliant campaigners, representing three generations of women, about why they support PR 👇
Trump dodged the draft.
He’s disparaged men and women in the armed forces.
He casually says “people will die”.
He refused to remove his baseball hat at a ceremony honouring six members of the military who lost their lives in Iran.
He doesn’t care about anyone but himself.
The gulf between what people think of Tony Blair commenting on war in the Middle East & what Tony Blair thinks people think of Tony Blair commenting on war in the Middle East is positively Badenochian.
Those saying ‘has Farage even considered war with Iran will result in more asylum seekers arriving by small boat?’. Of course he has. He doesn’t really want to stop the boats. He needs them for his grievance politics and to persuade the population to support policies which will harm them.
To be fair, he is a vocal supporter of electoral reform/PR.
Professor Vernon Bogdanor writes for @financialtimes.com
"An electoral system should do two things: ensure that the majority rules and that significant minorities are adequately represented.
First Past the Post achieves neither."
Time to scrap FPTP!
www.ft.com/content/38d8...
there's so much bad in the world but there's also people who lift up and carry an elderly bat around every day so he can pretend he's flying again, and that's the part of the world I think is worth fighting for
This from the Daily Mail is quite something
The one tabloid that has done more damage to cultural cohesion, attacked diversity, migration, Islam, than any other, yet here they are praising the diversity of Dubai
It’s the psychology that makes a difference 🙄
💥 Professor Vernon Bogdanor writes for @financialtimes.com:
"An electoral system should do two things: ensure that the majority rules and that significant minorities are adequately represented.
First Past the Post achieves neither."
Readers discuss the pros and cons of FPTP, with 2 of 3 in favour of #ProportionalRepresentation
#MakeVotesMatter
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Mayor Mamdani and a child play with Legos while looking very serious and concentrated. The child is impossibly adorable and wearing tiny blue glasses.
No interruptions, please. We’re building universal child care.
Ok, so why are they disaffected with Labour?
Some of it is similar to other groups - the slow pace of change.
But left defection is more distinctly values based than right. Rather than just one issue, there's a sense that Labour has been more right wing than they expected.
Pretty difficult to refute a single thing in this perfect assessment of where the f**k we are, from @iandunt.bsky.social:
Excellent response. The clip was captured perfectly here.
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7. The first step is simply being honest about the problem.
Visas and short-stay waivers are not the same thing as freedom. They are permission systems.
Freedom of Movement is different: it allows people to build their lives across borders, subject to certain conditions.
1. Thread 🧵
Freedom of Movement wasn’t just a policy.
It was a simple freedom: the ability to say yes.
• Yes to a job.
• Yes to love.
• Yes to a new life in another country.
When that freedom disappeared, something subtle but important changed.
During the Second Reading of the Representation of the People Bill, MP after MP got up to point out what's missing from it: fixing the voting system.
The problems with FPTP can no longer be ignored - and neither can the growing calls for PR. 📣
Here are just a few highlights:
“In Monday’s debate, Labour MPs were among many calling for a national commission on electoral reform…
The PM is pulled from pillar to post and his in-tray is no doubt full; still, this should be near the top of it.”
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@theguardian.com
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Yeah but, there's always the book of the movie.
The groundswell of anger against Katie Hopkins touring Britain like she's just some normal celebrity grows.
Well done to local people in Dorset who aren't taking it lying down.
www.change.org/p/katie-hopk...
Reform fury as someone else wins by Our By-election Editor Tim Shipsink The losing candidate in the Gorton and Denton by-election, Matt Goodwhinge, has demanded an immediate re-run of the election on the grounds that he lost comprehensively to someone else. "It's totally unfair and rigged," said Goodwhinge. "I shouldn't be required to sit there and suck it up, just because I lost." Mr Goodwhine continued, *I can't believe that all those voters I demonised failed to back me. Especially after I was endorsed by Tommy Robinson and ten million Russian bots on X. "We have clear evidence of family voting, where people voted in order for me to stop deporting their families." Mr Badloser concluded. "I'm the victim of colour prejudice. They didn't vote for me simply because I'm not green." Reform leader Mr Farage, speaking from a sun lounger on a rock near the Chagos Islands said, "It's a tragedy that the people of Manchester won't see Matt in Westminster, but my constituents don't see me in Clacton either." PLUMBER DEFEATS MATT GOODWIN Photo of Hannah Spencer with speech bubble saying… I've stopped the cock
Beautiful from Private Eye on the massive toddler-tantrum that Matt Goodwin and Reform are having, because they got whooped in Gorton and Denton.
FPTP is dangerous:
'the system has become “dangerous” when people are forced to vote tactically, but can’t know where best to place that X. This denial of democracy' ... 'may “undermine the legitimacy of the future governments it delivers”'
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