@LaChasseuse@mastodon.scot2025-09-08 19:05:09
@LaChasseuse@mastodon.scot2025-09-08 19:05:09
@markhburton@mstdn.social2025-09-08 13:56:54
Louise Haigh, Dawn Butler, Richard Burgon and Nadia Whittom would all be OK but Labour seems pretty much finished.
Labour MPs must gain 80 nominations by Thursday to stand for deputy leader | Labour | The Guardian
https://www.theguar…
@metacurity@infosec.exchange2025-10-08 10:44:07
This is hard for me to understand. I mean, why not label China as a security threat?
I understand that China is a powerful economic partner, but I'm missing something here.
China spy case collapse due to Labour government, prosecutors say
https://www.
@simon_brooke@mastodon.scot2025-09-08 19:53:07
"But maybe the more complex reasoning for why #Starmer is such a vacant leader is that only such a man could have been elected as prime minister. Only a man characterised by the ability to identify who he must ingratiate himself with could have won the electoral race, placated powerful business interests and fended off the rightwing press"
Insightful from Nesrine Malik
@arXiv_csLG_bot@mastoxiv.page2025-09-08 09:58:00
Ontology-Aligned Embeddings for Data-Driven Labour Market Analytics
Heinke Hihn, Dennis A. V. Dittrich, Carl Jeske, Cayo Costa Sobral, Helio Pais, Timm Lochmann
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.04942
@simon_brooke@mastodon.scot2025-10-10 07:38:21
"Labour has also won every time the Senedd has been contested, as it will be again in May. Yet, if the most recent Wales-wide poll holds good, that is set to change. Plaid will instead be the largest party, just ahead of Reform UK, with Labour third. Though still a minority, Plaid would be in government. In Welsh terms, that would be a political earthquake. Perhaps in Britain-wide terms too"
#UKPol
@markhburton@mstdn.social2025-09-09 13:49:46
Norway Labour now dependent on Left-Green bloc.
Norway’s Election Opens Door to More Restrictive Oil and Gas Policies - Oil Change International
https://oilchange.org/news/norways-election-opens-door-to-more-restrictive-oil-and-gas-polici…
@rachel@norfolk.social2025-08-07 16:02:38
UK Gov to review taxes on gambling.
I know what to do - charge a completely random amount between 0 and 100% on winnings. Ask yourself, are you feeling lucky??
#ukpolitics #gambling
@arXiv_physicssocph_bot@mastoxiv.page2025-09-09 08:31:22
A note on the mechanism of substitution of labour with capital in the production processes
Vladimir Pokrovskii
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.05386 https://arx…
@mgorny@social.treehouse.systems2025-10-02 19:43:19
"""
[…] Paradoxically, the more a population grew, the more precious it became, as it offered a supply of cheap labour, and by lowering costs allowed a greater expansion of production and trade. In this infinitely open labour market, the ‘fundamental price’, which for Turgot meant a subsistence level for workers, and the price determined by supply and demand ended up as the same thing. A country was all the more commercially competitive for having at its disposal the virtual wealth that a large population represented.
Confinement was therefore a clumsy error, and an economic one at that: there was no sense in trying to suppress poverty by taking it out of the economic circuit and providing for a poor population by charitable means. To do that was merely to hide poverty, and suppress an important section of the population, which was always a given wealth. Rather than helping the poor escape their provisionally indigent situation, charity condemned them to it, and dangerously so, by putting a brake on the labour market in a period of crisis. What was required was to palliate the high cost of products with cheaper labour, and to make up for their scarcity by a new industrial and agricultural effort. The only reasonable remedy was to reinsert the population in the circuit of production, being sure to place labour in areas where manpower was most scarce. The use of paupers, vagabonds, exiles and émigrés of any description was one of the secrets of wealth in the competition between nations. […]
Confinement was to be criticised because of the effects it had on the labour market, but also because like all other traditional forms of charity, it constituted a dangerous form of finance. As had been the case in the Middle Ages, the classical era had constantly attempted to look after the needs of the poor by a system of foundations. This implied that a section of the land capital and revenues were out of circulation. In a definitive manner too, as the concern was to avoid the commercialisation of assistance to the poor, so judicial measures had been taken to ensure that this wealth never went back into circulation. But as time passed, their usefulness diminished: the economic situation changed, and so did the nature of poverty.
«Society does not always have the same needs. The nature and distribution of property, the divisions between the different orders of the people, opinions, customs, the occupations of the majority of the population, the climate itself, diseases and all the other accidents of human life are in constant change. New needs come into being, and old ones disappear.» [Turgot, Encyclopédie]
The definitive character of a foundation was in contradiction with the variable and changing nature of the accidental needs to which it was designed to respond. The wealth that it immobilised was never put back into circulation, but more wealth was to be created as new needs appeared. The result was that the proportion of funds and revenues removed from circulation constantly increased, while that of production fell in consequence. The only possible result was increased poverty, and a need for more foundations. The process could continue indefinitely, and the fear was that one day ‘the ever increasing number of foundations might absorb all private funds and all private property’. When closely examined, classical forms of assistance were a cause of poverty, bringing a progressive immobilisation that was like the slow death of productive wealth:
«If all the men who have ever lived had been given a tomb, sooner or later some of those sterile monuments would have been dug up in order to find land to cultivate, and it would have become necessary to stir the ashes of the dead in order to feed the living.» [Turgot, Lettre Š Trudaine sur le Limousin]
"""
(Michel Foucault, History of Madness)
@only_ohm@mas.to2025-08-06 12:14:35
Why we still don’t understand what happens to women’s bodies during labour
<https://theconversation.com/why-we-still-dont-understand-what-happens-to-womens-bodies-during-labo…
@elduvelle@neuromatch.social2025-09-29 23:38:06
"Labour must fight rightwing billionaires undermining net zero, says Ed Miliband"
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/sep/29/labour-must-fight-right-wing-billionaires-undermining-net-zero-ed-miliband
@fremandolasse@mastodon.social2025-09-04 20:48:52
This is a disaster unfolding in plain sight. Each day Keir Starmer is smoothing Nigel Farage’s path to No 10
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/sep/04/keir-starmer-smoothing-nigel-farage-path-no-10-labour-reform…
@markhburton@mstdn.social2025-09-05 19:19:23
"At his party conference in Birmingham, 5 Houses* said Rayner’s actions “scream of entitlement”.
Crisis engulfs Labour as Angela Rayner is forced to step down as deputy PM | Labour | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/…
@grifferz@social.bitfolk.com2025-10-07 15:50:17
Content warning: ukpol
I think Gary is correct, although I think maybe he has underestimated how likely it is that Reform fall apart due to some incompetence and scandal. To be fair he does say, "unless there is some scandal".
But basically yes, collapsing living standards mean that Labour will be out by 2029, a further right party (Reform or its successor) will be dominant and the best we can hope for is a hung parliament with a coalition of everyone-but-Reform.
@primonatura@mstdn.social2025-09-07 17:00:35
"Labour could end badger cull but only with Covid-style testing and vaccines – report"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #Badgers #Animals
@simon_brooke@mastodon.scot2025-10-10 07:40:33
"An SNP victory in May’s Holyrood contest would hardly be an earthquake, after 18 continuous years of nationalist government. It would, though, signal a remarkable comeback from a period of eclipse, and from an often dismal record on public services. For Labour, which did so well in Scotland in the 2024 general election, it would signal a crisis moment, imperilling Sir Keir Starmer’s leadership"
#UKPol
@samvarma@fosstodon.org2025-10-04 18:38:29
THIS
I just said the same thing to a friend yesterday @… https://social.vivaldi.net/@brucelawson/115315064320447429
@gwire@mastodon.social2025-09-29 14:05:15
Checking in on the politics of civility.
https://www.politics.co.uk/news/2025/09/29/labour-labelled-nasty-party-after-minister-calls-ed-davey-fat-bloke-in-wetsuit/
@StephenRees@mas.to2025-09-06 17:16:50
@LillyHerself@Mastodon.social2025-09-20 17:12:50
Arms manufacturer Pearson Engineering is chaired by Labour peer Lord Hutton and owned by Israel’s finance ministry, which is run by a far-right politician who is under UK sanctions. Makes sense??
https://www.declassifieduk.org/top-labour-official-…
@arXiv_csSE_bot@mastoxiv.page2025-08-08 07:38:32
Automated Bug Frame Retrieval from Gameplay Videos Using Vision-Language Models
Wentao Lu, Alexander Senchenko, Abram Hindle, Cor-Paul Bezemer
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.04895 h…
@marekmcgann@sciences.social2025-09-07 11:18:25
Five principles to protect the human knowledge ecosystem 5/5
@mapto@qoto.org2025-10-04 05:45:30
Can't disagree:
"He also defended migrants and refugees to loud applause from the audience and accused Labour of being "handmaidens" of Reform UK adding: "When Farage says jump, Labour asks 'how high'."
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c708y9nq174o…
@drgeraint@glasgow.social2025-07-29 09:31:16
On Starmer
tl;dr: hypocrisy and expediency
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/jul/29/keir-starmer-labour-party-human-rights-mixed-record-international-law
@markhburton@mstdn.social2025-10-04 11:30:29
Greens ‘on track’ to supplant Labour as favourite party in London
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/oct/04/greens-on-track-to-supplant-labour-as-favourite-party-in-london-says-zack-polanski
@PaulWermer@sfba.social2025-07-23 13:31:22
@paulwermer@sfba.social2025-07-23 13:31:22
@david_colquhoun@mstdn.social2025-07-17 20:43:24
Why is #Labour blind to the urgent need for PR?
When there are more than 2 parties, FPTP allows parties to get an overwhelming majority of seats on a smallish vote. Labour just did it. Next time, it could be Farage. Is Labour too arrogant to recognise that possibility?
@tezoatlipoca@mas.to2025-08-29 16:12:07
Just signed off a meeting and someone said `Have a good long weekend everybody`. Checked the calendar. Hurh. Labour Day.
HOW IS IT LABOUR DAY ALREADY!? Didn't we just have.. Christmas?
@UP8@mastodon.social2025-08-13 23:52:12
👷🏾♀️ Labour must create green jobs or lose voters to parties who oppose net zero, unions warn
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/jul/23/labour-unions-green-jobs-net-zero-energy
@simon_brooke@mastodon.scot2025-09-06 17:07:15
"Sir Keir’s reshuffle looks less like renewal than a coup by Labour’s “modernising” clique. Ian Murray’s sacking severs a bridge to Anas Sarwar’s Scottish Labour, which had been tacking leftwards, just as the Holyrood election looms, while Lucy Powell’s removal sidelines one of the few cabinet allies of Ed Miliband, the soft left’s champion" -- in other words, Labour is tacking even more violently towards the dark side.
@aardrian@toot.cafe2025-09-02 15:57:14
“On labor and AI”
https://buttondown.com/practicaltips/archive/on-labor-and-ai/
“[M]aybe large numbers of us should come to a common conclusion that these bubble-boy charlatans shouldn’t just get to decide that the world’s economy (not to mention its ecology) sh…
@theodric@social.linux.pizza2025-08-05 11:28:02
A 'digital stamp', for which no paper, printing cost, or paid human labour is involved, costs 1.35x the price of a paper stamp, because fuck logic
@marekmcgann@sciences.social2025-09-07 11:18:23
Five principles to protect the human knowledge ecosystem 5/5
@elduvelle@neuromatch.social2025-09-02 11:53:27
"‘We’re here to replace you,’ new Green leader Polanski tells Labour as he terms Starmer’s politics ‘despicable’ – UK politics live"
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/live/2025/sep/02/cooper-reeves-starmer-gree…
@markhburton@mstdn.social2025-09-07 09:13:20
Corrected headline.
"The xenophobe Nigel Garage realises his Trumpian promise is empty but then promises concentration camps."
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/live/
@arXiv_econGN_bot@mastoxiv.page2025-09-30 09:25:21
Labour unions under neoliberal authoritarianism in the Global South: the cases of Turkey and Egypt
Mehmet Erman Erol, Cagatay Edgucan Sahin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.25152 http…
@brian_gettler@mas.to2025-09-02 00:30:45
#3GoodThings
Celebrating labour (today was the workers' holiday in North America).
Swimming (or rather dunking myself ever so briefly) in a very cold (oh so cold) Lake Ontario along with Kid2 on the last day of summer vacation.
Watching the Women's Rugby World Cup with the family (Go Canada Go! Allez les Bleues!).
@ErikUden@mastodon.de2025-07-17 09:04:48
The new party The Left by Jeremy Corbyn and Zarah Sultana, despite not even having an official name yet, is currently polling at 15%, and hence even with Labour.
This is an incredible feat and I wish best of luck to the party and its success!
@Billybobbell@twit.social2025-07-20 10:21:37
Get the Labour Party to reinstate the only 4 MPs brave enough to oppose their unfair and unwise welfare cuts. #stoppoverty #labourparty #keirstarmer
@primonatura@mstdn.social2025-07-26 10:00:50
"Labour must create green jobs or lose voters to parties who oppose net zero, unions warn"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #NetZero
@metacurity@infosec.exchange2025-09-30 13:22:39
Things are about to get woolly in cybersecurity, so don't miss today's Metacurity for the most critical infosec developments you should know, including
--The UK is a European hotspot for cyberattacks,
--Hackers stole employee data from FEMA,
--DoD and DHS prep for government shutdown,
--CISA kills CIS and MS-ISAC contract,
--WestJet says hackers stole data in a breach,
--Newsom signs nation's toughest AI safety law,
--Labour Party to stud…
@Sustainable2050@mastodon.energy2025-09-27 20:33:58
Immigration into the Netherlands (there's also emigration, btw).
Yellow = asylum seekers
Grey = other motives (labour, study, etc.)
@degrowthuk@mstdn.social2025-09-22 07:36:42
As UK politics turns both right and left, how do we get degrowth onto the agenda?
By Mark H Burton In the series, Prospects for Degrowth The last few weeks have seen two opposing developments in British politics, both in the context of the Starmer Labour government and its failure to address the real issues facing people and planet. On the one hand we have seen the continuing rise of the far right Reform UK party…
@markhburton@mstdn.social2025-09-29 19:14:21
Labour Party also says what so many of us have been long saying: Israel is committing genocide. Sanctions now!
'Maryam Eslamdoust, general secretary of the Transport Salaried Union (TSSA), said: "Today the Labour movement stood on the right side of history and in solidarity with the Palestinian people, sending a clear message to the Labour leadership: we will not remain silent on the crime of genocide."'
@LillyHerself@Mastodon.social2025-10-05 01:47:27
RE: https://mastodon.social/@TCatInReality/115317306795824403
How did ordinary people become so stupid that they started voting for the rich?
We used to see rich people as parasitic bloodsuckers who lived off of exploiting the labour of others.…
@villavelius@mastodon.online2025-08-24 12:37:18
Societies usually known as 'civilised' don't seem to keep their civilisations going without an ample supply of very cheap labour. Slavery, indentured servitude, outsourcing to low-wage countries, (undocumented) immigration, and lately robots, provided that throughout the course of history, and those are now complemented by robotic 'intelligence' – a.k.a. AI – for non-physical labour. I wonder where it will end. If it ever will.
@elduvelle@neuromatch.social2025-10-01 16:41:19
Looks like #Labour is fighting back! "Farage boats" 😂
"Starmer to rethink human rights law to tackle ‘Farage boats’"
https://www.theguardian.com/law/2025/oc…
@whitequark@mastodon.social2025-07-25 07:49:30
any labour government after 1980 can't into worker's wellbeing, all they know is austerity, capitulating to terfs, eat hot chip and lie
@arXiv_csCY_bot@mastoxiv.page2025-09-04 11:59:55
Replaced article(s) found for cs.CY. https://arxiv.org/list/cs.CY/new
[1/1]:
- The Human Labour of Data Work: Capturing Cultural Diversity through World Wide Dishes
Hall, Dalal, Sefala, Yuehgoh, Alaagib, Hamzaoui, Ishida, Magomere, Crais, Salama, Afonja
@aral@mastodon.ar.al2025-07-24 06:16:12
Since Microsoft is organising a European Sovereign Tech Fund, we should ask Lockheed Martin to put together a European Sovereign Defense Fund. There’s probably also opportunity here to bring Amazon in to advise on EU labour standards and have McDonald’s take the lead on food safety policy in the EU.
CC @…
@cai@mastodon.social2025-09-01 07:46:42
I am perpetually disgusted with Labour. Being rightwing and xenophobic because of some kind of sick attempt at triangulation still leaves you as a rightwing, xenophobic party. And I don’t vote for those.
@Techpizzamondays@social.linux.pizza2025-08-31 19:01:19
@saraislet@infosec.exchange2025-09-14 21:51:55
Every company that has ever been involved with fascism, slavery, or exploitation of labor should have open statements like this on their website
But I'm impressed that BMW is this blunt about it — and has actual pictures of Dachau
https://www.bmwgroup.com/en/company/histo…
@arXiv_csRO_bot@mastoxiv.page2025-10-03 10:32:11
ARMADA: Autonomous Online Failure Detection and Human Shared Control Empower Scalable Real-world Deployment and Adaptation
Wenye Yu, Jun Lv, Zixi Ying, Yang Jin, Chuan Wen, Cewu Lu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.02298
@only_ohm@mas.to2025-09-05 12:07:55
If I've understood the Labour Party rulebook correctly, there are 12 days left until the deadline for submitting leadership challenges for an election at this year's party conference. If the content of Angela Rayner's legal advice does exonerate her, that's long enough for her to publish it and get it digested by the press corps, no?
@primonatura@mstdn.social2025-08-27 10:00:56
"Cut electricity bills by scrapping green levies, say Labour MPs"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #Energy
@arXiv_qbioPE_bot@mastoxiv.page2025-08-07 08:57:44
Generalising the Central Dogma as a cross-hierarchical principle of biology
Nobuto Takeuchi, Kunihiko Kaneko
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.04085 https://arxiv…
@Dragofix@veganism.social2025-07-11 23:17:11
Labour housing plans could destroy 215,000 hectares of nature in England, analysis shows https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/jul/10/building-regulations-nature-biodiversity-analysis-england
@arXiv_csSE_bot@mastoxiv.page2025-10-06 09:38:19
Refactoring Towards Microservices: Preparing the Ground for Service Extraction
Rita Peixoto, Filipe F. Correia, Thatiane Rosa, Eduardo Guerra, Alfredo Goldman
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.03050
@markhburton@mstdn.social2025-07-30 17:49:38
What kind of people go on a visit to show solidarity with the perpetrator of genocide?
#Labour politicians under investigation for ‘Friends of Israel’ trip
https://www.declas…
@memeorandum@universeodon.com2025-09-13 19:46:23
Bottles thrown at police as 100 officers clash with 'unite the kingdom' marchers - UK politics live (The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/live/2025/sep/13/uk-politics-latest-news-unite-the-kingdom-march-far-right-rally-london-labour-keir-starmer
http://www.memeorandum.com/250913/p43#a250913p43
@pdmckone@mstdn.ca2025-08-29 11:41:09
Last days of summer:
Weekend of boisterous fun,
Labour Day, then school.
#dailyhaikuprompt - boisterous
#haiku
#poem
@brian_gettler@mas.to2025-09-01 12:51:45
@dwf@social.linux.pizza2025-09-03 08:29:12
Content warning: UK politics
How did this country end up with both major parties led by such feckless lightweights?
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/sep/01/politicians-urge-badenoch-to-come-clean-after-doubts-cast-on-us-medical…
@marjolica@social.linux.pizza2025-09-14 10:01:11
@gwire@mastodon.social2025-08-04 11:21:45
It's my opinion that Labour's current stated position that "everyone who disagrees with us is a paedo" might be effective with some Reform voters, but probably risks alienating others in the longer term, and will not improve the quality of discourse in the short term.
@david_colquhoun@mstdn.social2025-09-30 14:51:02
Good grief. @Sarah_Montague on @BBCWorldatOne just accused Labour of engaging in Trump-like politics because they criticize Farage. That is grotesque! Farage is a huge admirer of Trump - a gross example of biased interviewing IMO.
@simon_brooke@mastodon.scot2025-07-25 05:21:11
"“Look, I’m not trying to get the world’s tiniest violin out to say, ‘poor MPs’,” [Chris Hinchliff MP] said. “But I will say there seems to be a certain set of people who behave in here more like a private schoolboy drinking club than serious professional people thinking about how to improve the country.”
Yes, this is the #Labour party he's talking about. Meet the new government, jus…
@drgeraint@glasgow.social2025-10-02 00:40:20
Panorama: misogyny and racism in the metropolitan police.
I'm waiting for the panorama report that highlights excessive bias for promoting Nick Griffin/BNP, Nigel Farage/UKIP, Reform; Boris Johnson/Tory and suppressing the comments of anyone to the left of Labour.
@markhburton@mstdn.social2025-10-02 15:43:22
"Whether through the People’s Assembly, “Your Party,” the Greens or union organisations like trades councils, we need mobilising vehicles that will take the fight to both Labour and Reform. How to do that should be the focus of every socialist organisation and activist."
The Morning Star take on Labour conference 2025 | Morning Star
@Sustainable2050@mastodon.energy2025-08-26 17:16:25
In the UK, you can now get arrested under the Terrorist Act for wearing a T-shirt against Israel's ongoing genocide in Gaza.
Paul Laverty is to be charged under section 13 of the Terrorist Act for wearing a T-shirt with the words: “Genocide in Palestine, time to take Action”, thought to show support for activist group Palestine Action, proscribed as a terrorist organisation by the UK Labour government for painting fighter jets in a protest.
@elduvelle@neuromatch.social2025-07-12 00:35:37
#UkPol Good question!!
"Why is Labour so afraid to admit that we must tax the rich?"
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/
@markhburton@mstdn.social2025-08-04 08:55:44
This is welcome from #Burnham.
(Warning 15 cookies)
'Greater Manchester mayor Andy Burnham hit out, saying the decision would help “overheat” the economy. He warned: “It’s a model for an ever-overheating UK economy rather than a more balanced, levelled-up economy, which is what we would argue for. Manchester Airport has two runways and it doesn’t operate at full capacity.”'
@rachel@norfolk.social2025-09-13 19:24:19
@aral@mastodon.ar.al2025-07-20 08:50:01
Netanyahu: “Palestine is ours, regardless of what the people there want.”
Yes, these enemies of democracy must all be defeated.
#israel #genocide #ethnicCleansing
@villavelius@mastodon.online2025-09-13 14:25:07
The kirk of messianic (or is it manic?) charlatanism seems to have a lot of support in the UK as well.
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/live/2025/sep/13/uk-politics-latest-news-unite-the-king…
@drgeraint@glasgow.social2025-09-29 21:20:07
An excellent analysis by David Howarth, former MP for Cambridge, on Labour's obsession with ID cards.
#NO2ID
@markhburton@mstdn.social2025-10-03 09:02:07
Guardian:
"Greens struggle for coverage at the best of times, and these aren’t the best of times. The news today will be dominated by the repurcussions from the Manchester synagogue attack."
https://www.theguardian.com/politic…
@markhburton@mstdn.social2025-10-07 08:13:48
Sleepwalking into a fascist hell.
UK now.
#UKPol
@primonatura@mstdn.social2025-07-13 17:00:32
"Labour housing plans could destroy 215,000 hectares of nature in England, analysis shows"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #Nature
@drgeraint@glasgow.social2025-09-28 23:15:19
"A group of about two hundred protestors, waving the union jack and St George's flags and carrying placards opposing the government's digital ID plans, had to be separated from the pro-Palestinian demonstrators by police."
That is a sentence that I never expected to read!
https://www.bb…
@elduvelle@neuromatch.social2025-09-17 16:50:41
"Thousands of anti-Trump protesters march in London as king and senior royals host US president in Windsor"
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/live/2025/sep/17/donald-trump-uk-state-visit-k…
@markhburton@mstdn.social2025-08-05 14:06:34
What is missing, at least from the article, is the need to have productive land near where we live. Essential as systems-collapse looms.
Jeremy Corbyn attacks Angela Rayner for selling off allotments - BBC News
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c3dpkvkkjjno
@simon_brooke@mastodon.scot2025-09-02 07:10:28
@primonatura@mstdn.social2025-09-28 17:00:40
"Ed Miliband looking into more North Sea drilling despite Labour pledge"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #Energy #FossilFuels
@markhburton@mstdn.social2025-09-28 10:48:06
Manchester, Woodhouse Park ward by-election (Thursday 25/9)
Greens held the seat on a very low turnout in this predominantly white 'working class 'ward. Reform POX (who didn't campaign) pushed Labour into 3rd place.
The Green Party – 826 (43.8% -5.7)
Reform UK – 556 (29.5% New)
Labour – 386 (20.5% -23.2%)
Conservative – 72 (3.8% -1.6%)
Liberal Democrat – 47 ( (2.5% 1.2)
Turnout 16.29%
@primonatura@mstdn.social2025-07-22 13:00:52
"Labour will eliminate unauthorised sewage spillages in a decade, environment secretary says"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #Sewage
@markhburton@mstdn.social2025-09-24 16:11:52
So now the Labour Party is a democracy that money can buy.
"Powell, who has cast herself as the "independent choice" in the contest, has also been boosted by a £15,000 donation from green energy industrialist Dale Vince."
Phillipson: I've been the victim of sexist briefings - BBC News
https://www.
@markhburton@mstdn.social2025-09-14 16:06:23
Peter Kyle said he was not ‘disturbed’ by huge Tommy Robinson-organised far-right swarm.
That's Starmer's pathetic 'Labour'.
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/live/
@markhburton@mstdn.social2025-07-16 12:55:37
"Labour’s economic strategy, if it can be called a strategy, is based upon growth delivering the tax income needed to fund our public services, with limited tax increases and the hope of ‘trickle down’ from wide-ranging deregulation of finance and planning."
John McDonnell still hanging in there it seems. A forlorn hope? Or a careful programmatic tactic?
Wasting a glorious political opportunity – 1 year of Labour in Government. John McDonnell exclusive
@markhburton@mstdn.social2025-09-18 08:18:11
"Labour could easily counter some of the wild extremism. Ministers might point out that “English patriot” Robinson is an Irish passport-holder (up until last summer, anyway) who hunkers down in Spain and has a list of criminal convictions long enough for a tattoo sleeve. Starmer might observe how much of the UK would simply fall apart without migrants and their children.... He might even point out – imagine! – that migrants are human too...."
Aditya Chakrabortty
@markhburton@mstdn.social2025-07-17 08:09:17
I suggest a corrected headline:
"Starmer shows his fragility as he vindictively stamps his foot."
Original:
"Starmer stamps authority with MP suspensions, but risks appearing vindictive."
Labour sackings: exuding authority or petty and vindictive? - BBC News
https://www.bbc.co.uk/…
@markhburton@mstdn.social2025-08-29 08:21:49
"But articulating a left alternative is just the start. Success means winning mass working-class support for socialist politics, possible only through readiness to learn from past mistakes, free and open debate — a call-out culture based on denouncing heretical views breeds a bubble mentality — and an outward, alliance-building approach to local labour movements and grassroots campaigns."
To defeat the far right, build a class-conscious left | MS
@markhburton@mstdn.social2025-08-26 17:17:27
Yes, with a lot of complicity from the BBC.
Has Reform changed the immigration debate? - BBC News
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c707g9rj9wqo
@markhburton@mstdn.social2025-08-28 07:47:14
I know, let's do fracking ('Reform')
I know, let's slow down the inadequate plans for next zero (Tories)
I know, let's pour millions of tonnes of concrete and fail to properly prioritise energy demand reduction (Labour)
I know let's pretend green growth will deliver (LibDems)
I know, let's focus on identity politics and forget we once backed degrowth (some Greens).
Summer 2025 will ‘almost certainly’ be UK’s warmest on record, Met Office …
@markhburton@mstdn.social2025-08-11 08:01:52
Received a response fro our front bench #Labour MP in response to our reply to his reply to our letter condemning ban on #PalestineAction.
Predictable, but at least, to our surprise he did use the word #genocide
@markhburton@mstdn.social2025-09-24 18:22:29
'Your Party later said in a post on [!!!??] X: "For those who joined under the previous system last week, please be assured your data and membership is secure and will be migrated across. There is nothing more for you to do at this stage."'
Which, together with Corbyn's ref to the roadmap, which Zarah was following is as close as she'll get to being vindicated.
Let's hope that's an end to it.
Jeremy Corbyn sorry for 'confusion' as new…
@markhburton@mstdn.social2025-09-12 07:46:13