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@simon_brooke@mastodon.scot
2026-01-12 09:04:56

"If our national security rests on US technology, we have no national security." -- @…
#UKPol
#Palantir

@simon_brooke@mastodon.scot
2026-01-12 10:49:04

One very important point made by Maia Sandu, President of Moldova, in this interview: if you have dark money corrupting your elections, you cannot wait until after the elections to investigate, arrest, and debar candidates: once the corrupt are elected, you're stuck with them.
#UKPol
#Corruption

@jonquark@mastodon.org.uk
2025-11-11 07:46:18

Which UK politicians (or candidates) and which UK journalists are in the Fediverse? (Partial points for accounts visible from here on BlueSky or Threads etc).
#ukpol #ukfedi #ukjournalism

@simon_brooke@mastodon.scot
2025-11-13 06:10:40

The petition to the #UK parliament 'Urgently fulfil humanitarian obligations to #Gaza' is to be debated in parliament on 24th November (Monday after next). Please write to your MP urging them to take part, and give them lines you'd like them to say.

@davej@dice.camp
2025-12-02 09:36:28
Content warning: CW: ukpol, prisons.

262 prisoners were released in error in the 2024/25 year—on average, five per week. Blame the Tories’ staff cuts or outdated systems all you like, but that degree of permeability looks awfully like corruption. #ukpol #prisons

@markhburton@mstdn.social
2025-12-01 15:35:15

I'm no fan of ecocidal, economically illiterate Reeves, but this current """news""" story about misleading statements on the black hole is pure theatre, pure distraction.
Move on.
#UKLabour #UKPol

@davej@dice.camp
2025-11-25 12:19:37
Content warning: CW: ukpol, Brexit.

I’ll just park this right here. #ukpol #brexit mastodon.scot/@tompearce49/115

The Vote Leave bus, a large, red motor coach with the following emblazoned on its side in white:

“We send the EU £350 million a week. Let’s fund our NHS instead. Vote Leave. Let’s take back control.”
@pre@boing.world
2025-12-01 18:42:40
Content warning: #yourParty #ukpol

So the temporary placeholder name "Your Party" is made permanent.
None of the options on the shortlist were good. Most of them just as grammatically inconvenient as the dumb placeholder name.
The people who decide on the short-list, who can be a member, whose votes counts and what the options are, have quite a lot of power.
Zara Sultana boycotted day one over who sets the rules and who can be involved. If Your Party have a governing body with power to override conference they end up like the Labour party and just are easily taken over and usurped by a cabal of thatcherite neoliberal capitalists.
They did allow the dual membership system and a wider governance, so Zara won on who gets to be a member and who gets to be in charge. Which is probably good.
Coz as the terrible name shows, if you put the idiots in charge you'll get idiocy not good collective decision making.
For now the membership appear to have won, and I hear are they are all very excited and fierce and canny and not likely to let the old guard just set up another dictatorship from the top.
They currently have half the membership count of the greens, less than a quarter that claimed by Reform. Lets hope they can get some attention towards something other than how billionaires think the country should be run and focus on the people.
Here's hoping they can inflate that number by draining the Labour party and Reform members who just want change really rather than actually liking anything said by Farage.
#yourParty #ukpol

@markhburton@mstdn.social
2025-12-17 14:21:27

Left-wing candidate Andrea Egan beats Starmer ally to lead Unison - BBC News
#UKPol

@simon_brooke@mastodon.scot
2025-10-22 21:03:25

Why is the UK #Labour party in trouble?
Because it stole all the #Tories clothes just at the time when the Tories were at their most unpopular.
#UKPol

@markhburton@mstdn.social
2025-10-15 07:56:33

Starmer’s coup by fraud is now laid bare | Morning Star
#UKPol

@markhburton@mstdn.social
2025-10-16 07:21:59

The China spy saga – a concocted controversy to shackle us to Trump | Morning Star
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