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🚀 Public support for electoral reform is the highest it's been since records began 💥 60% now want to change to a fair, proportional voting system... including a majority of supporters of every party 🌹 Chair of @appgfairelections.bsky.social, Labour MP @alexsobel.co.uk, welcomes the news 🧵 1/3

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British decline in one story. Any state which finds itself incapable of managing a project as basic as rolling out a 20th century tech between its biggest cities needs to ask itself some profound questions about what hope it has of managing the technologies of the 21st.

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As the government didn't make a 'broad shoulders' arguments and purely a technocratic 'there's no money' - this has become an unnecessary PR disaster, from a government that HAS to succeed (as a committed, active Labour member).

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RIP Sly Stone. Another legend (I use the word seriously) who shaped music history, gone.

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Sometimes BBC..you can seriously do one.. They did not win

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Wonderful news. The doom-loop narrative that some of the media would have loved did not play out. Well done @scottishlabour.bsky.social ✊🏼

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First fundraiser in a what feels like a while. Popped up to Croydon to see old Labour friends and help raise funds for 2026. So good to meet the wonderful @dawnbutlerbrent.bsky.social - one of the party’s best MP’s! Thanks to Wes Streeting for making it down too.

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Jonathan Hinder is basically saying we should only cater to one portion of the potential labour voting audience (white, socially conservative and from The North). Also let it be known that he was educated at Oxford yet he’s talking down the values of a university education.

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www.theguardian.com/business/202... Face it - sliced bread is industrially produced food, a sort of edible, thicker blotting paper. It has its place in the old fry-up (amongst tastier food) but is it a surprise that many people buy better, tangibly enjoyable bread, less often?

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Trump has shaken chess board in the air but I'm not sure leaving with the vague notion of making 'new alliances' will cut it with the UK public, who firmly support NATO. Green Party Deputy Leader Zack Polanski Says UK Must Leave NATO Because of Trump – Byline Times bylinetimes.com/2025/05/08/g...

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If one reads about Churchill objectively, or takes a listen to @originstorypodcast.bsky.social's episodes from '23, you'll know the history of the war leader is complex. It does make Starmer's sentiments look rather facile, & Mr. Dunt exposes the flaws and fallacies of 1-dimensional hero worship.

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Haigh was v unfairly dismissed, which isn't to say her replacement, Heidi Alexander isn't a very good fit for the job (she's brilliant). But the culture that led to her resignation is lamentable, and we can be sure the unthinking philistine hand of McSweeney probably had something to do with this.

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If you're looking for podcast recommendations, this 1st ep is really great. @rostaylor.bsky.social has real intellectual curiosity and passion, and finds really interesting interviewees (incl Malcom Rifkind - a real gentleman. compare and contrast with today's Tories!) morejamtomorrow.com -

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I have a grudging respect for Zack's decision to stand. The Greens should be cutting through when my own party is being so timid in certain ways. Albeit Zack is a gob on a stick, terminally online, a former critic of Corbyn's antisemitism and europhobia, now the ultimate Novara bro.

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This is very 'Chapman Baxter' in @aiannucci.bsky.social /Chris Morris' Day Today mixed with their 'Vanessa Feltz' 'I'm Marvin Gaye SHOT by my own Father' in Brass eye. Again their work eerily predicts the future.

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As essentially a supporter of the winter fuel cut (it's a benefit for the most well-off demographic, those less well off can apply for pension credit etc) has it not become a bit like ULEZ did for that ridic moment - 'I'm not affected by it but I'm against the principle of it'- the politics of vibes

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Kemi Badenoch is barely worth speaking about as the Tories slide into irrelevance but it is notable that she has the energy of someone that doesn’t want to be liked or ‘isn’t in the job to make friends’, but in the end has no redeeming qualities or any humanity. Cold but utterly ineffective.

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Really good intervention from @louisehaighmp.bsky.social on #newsnight - not attacking, just helpful. Economic policy has backfired and taken the space of the good the government is doing on workers rights, breakfast clubs etc

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🚨 Thursday’s elections prove it: First Past the Post is broken. 5 parties, chaotic results, millions left unrepresented. We need Proportional Representation — NOW. ✍️ Sign the petition: actionnetwork.org/petitions/20...

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This is why mooting 'ditching net-zero' as the solution to Labour's woes is so silly. It's a policy that is popular with their core voters, critical to progressive voters they need to woo back, and Reform voters are sceptical but it's way down their priority list.

submitted 56 days ago • 28 comments

Barnard Castle (Durham) council election result: LAB: 31.0% REF: 29.6% CON: 28.6% GRN: 6.6% LDEM: 4.3% Labour GAIN from Conservative. www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-...

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Lessons for Labour: - Do continue controls on immigration, only minority want untrammelled movement - Read polls on attitudes to Europe, we're not frozen in 2016 tinyurl.com/4s9n5amm - Economically left policies are popular among REFUK voters, be bolder, but still keep that lid on identity politics

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I supported winter fuel cut as the benefit seemed to be a bribe for most well-off age grp, but in real terms policy has backfired, whether it's because Pension Credit messaging failed, or simply the axe fell on too many ppl (I'm not expert enough to know), anyway the controversy festered all summer.

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I rarely agree with Richard Burgon, but he's got a point about policies that are pushing voters to reform. Targeting the worse-off conversely pushes economically left (but more socially right) voters to a right-of-tories party like reform that can promise (as populists do) all your problems solved

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The EU wasn’t formed to screw anyone. Quite the opposite. It was formed to maintain peace, to build respect among our nations, to create free and fair trade, and to strengthen our transatlantic friendship. As simple as that. 🇪🇺🇺🇸

submitted 120 days ago • 101 comments

Tragic, gone too soon. Thoughts are with the family.

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@mrjamesob.bsky.social @lbc.co.uk Big time fan of the show and your books, but sorry, Jeremy Corbyn just as bad as Farage regarding wish for 'peace'. He has twisted the line on Nato aggression repeatedly. Don't feel you have to give him any undue credit.

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🚨 Nigel Farage says First Past the Post is becoming his "friend" ❌ No party should be able get a majority in Parliament with 30% of the vote 💣 Why risk it with First Past the Post?

submitted 128 days ago • 34 comments

The same respect Trump accords everyone else.* *I know I know we have to play the game, realpolitik etc

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I remain opposed to a new runway at Heathrow airport because of the severe impact it will have on noise, air pollution and meeting our climate change targets.

submitted 149 days ago • 63 comments

Never again. 6 million Jews. Murdered, as well as millions of other persecuted groups. We’re too often within spitting distance of the hate factory. Dialogue and understanding, even when it is extremely difficult, is the only way to combat hate.

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RIP David Lynch. There really is no director that can go near him for pure peculiarity, complexity and artistic genius. If you're new to his work, really recommend watching Twin Peaks first.

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When Justin Trudeau resigned, he said he regretted leaving the First Past the Post voting system in place. I just signed a @makevotesmatter.bsky.social open letter warning Keir Starmer not to make the same mistake as Trudeau. Sign here: actionnetwork.org/forms/warn-s...

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I feel really bad for this 18 year old. 100% the law is the law in different jurisdictions, but this + other cases like this should serve as a wake up call that the UAE may have the mirage of freedom, as an 'influencers paradise', but is a nasty little absolute monarchy with a brutal justice system.

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RIP Jimmy Carter

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