@simon_brooke@mastodon.scot2026-02-28 21:56:23
The #UKLabour party have become a deeply sleazy and unethical organisation. No wonder #Mandelson felt so at home there.
#Labour
@simon_brooke@mastodon.scot2026-02-28 21:56:23
@LaChasseuse@mastodon.scot2026-02-25 09:47:30
NO DEMOCRACY IN THIS ACCURSED, INVOLUNTARY, UNEQUAL "UNION"
"Chancellor Rachel Reeves has said the UK government would not allow a second referendum, and the Supreme Court confirmed that Westminster has the power to refuse the request, however, Swinney has said a rejection in the face of an SNP majority would be politically untenable"
#LABOUR_AGAINST_DEMOCRACY
@simon_brooke@mastodon.scot2026-02-06 10:21:36
“Everybody is so fed up with #Labour’s only strategy being ‘vote Labour to keep the Tories out’, and now it’s ‘vote Labour to keep Reform out’,” Spencer tells me. “It’s like: how about you actually just do something to make people vote for you?” -- #Green party candidate Hannah Spencer in the Gorton and De…
@simon_brooke@mastodon.scot2026-02-06 10:32:56
This is a really good analysis of how #Labour became a right wing party.
I was aware of their courting of rich donors, but I'd missed the revolving door between Labour governments and the defence and private healthcare industries, and the point about Labour directing anger towards immigrants in order to divert it from the
@simon_brooke@mastodon.scot2026-02-05 10:05:47
@chris@mstdn.chrisalemany.ca2026-02-24 21:37:54
@simon_brooke@mastodon.scot2026-02-10 09:32:52
"The #Labour party won one third of the votes (34%) in an election in which under two thirds (60%) of the electorate voted. Only one in five (20.4%) registered electors in Britain support this government. It has no mandate to do anything. If it tries to do anything radical, then, as Thatcher did with the poll tax, it will find the difference between Westminster games and real politics.
T…
@pre@boing.world2026-02-12 20:41:22
She's entirely charming, and not some representative of billionaires bought and paid for.
Hard to imagine how anyone could watch her talking to Zack for an hour here and then vote for someone else, out of what? Loyalty to Labour that have shown no loyalty to you? Hate with reform who run an our of town GBeebies lunatic?
Will Farage interview his mad candidate for an hour? Will Starmer? Would doing so do anything other than expose those candidates and turn everyone off?
[Some context: Her dogs are greyhounds, rescued from mistreatment in the gambling and racing industry.]
#gortonAndDenton #labour #green #reform #hannahSpencer