Starmer has opted not to do all the obvious and popular things that would improve people's lives and is instead doing all the things that were too right wing, authoritarian and unpopular for the Tories and New Labour to do
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🚨 No More First Past the Post Elections.
5 parties polling strongly, chaotic results, millions left unrepresented.
We need Proportional Representation — NOW.
✍️ Sign the petition:
actionnetwork.org/petitions/20...
Why all local councils should be elected with proportional representation www.electoral-reform.org.uk/why-all-loca... Electoral Reform Society – ERS
Billions paid out for wars and death, but nothing for those that are struggling to live - going to work isn't just about earning money. It is being social with colleagues and keeping your mind positive. Being ill is often painful, isolating, always expensive and very depressing.
Gaza: Israeli forces used 80-year-old Palestinian as human shield before killing him - www.middleeasteye.net/news/gaza-israeli-forces...
ALERT EVERYONE JEREMY CORBYN IS ON PESTON TONIGHT.
Just horrendous - so if you are a really desperate refugee without safe options, you are to be penalised for life.
Labour's #HostileEnvironment
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
from today's post —
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💥 I’ve just signed the petition calling for a “National Commission on Electoral Reform” - Will YOU sign too? actionstorm.org/petitions/nc...
Donald Trump's threat to Gaza is genocidal.
But the Western media has helped normalise it - just like they've normalised the depravity from day one.
New post 👇
www.owenjones.news/p/trump-prop...
So much evil in one photo it is actually staggering
via @jvp.bsky.social
"Anyone who didn’t do their duty for the labour market – say, people too disabled or ill to work, family carers and jobseekers – should expect very little from Labour."
Just brilliant quote from @francesryan.bsky.social on labour and it's increasingly narrow minded thinking of people.
Fascism doesn’t arrive in uniform overnight. It arrives with suited politicians, one piece of legislation — or executive order — at a time.
My piece for @tribunemagazine.bsky.social to mark Holocaust Memorial Day.
tribunemag.co.uk/2025/01/jere...
📚 Join Jeremy Corbyn, Vijay Prashad and Claudia Webbe in conversation on the global arms trade, the struggle for peace and our book ‘Monstrous Anger of the Guns’ — hosted at the Marx Memorial Library in London on Sunday 9 February.
🎟️ Tickets: bit.ly/MAGMarx
But it obviously doesn't as its happening in Gaza right now!
Photo of a newspaper spread, with a picture of Carla Denyer and the headline 'Parliament's a toxic environment... but I've had some successes'
I spoke to @tristancorkpost.bsky.social at the Bristol Post about finding my feet as an MP, not getting drawn into Westminster's weirdness, fighting for renters' rights - and plenty more! Have a read ⬇️ www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol...
EU medicines agency quits X & moves to Bluesky
"EMA will no longer post updates and content on X. We believe the X platform no longer suits our communication needs” the agency said in a statement
www.reuters.com/world/europe...
This is what genocide looks like.
It's a nazi salute.
Can we just say it.
Elon Musk did a nazi salute in front of a wildly applauding crowd.
Because he's a fucking nazi.
And so are they.