At this stage of Burnham's PM stint you've got to ask what was the point of Ed Milliband.
EXCL: Ministers are expected to make steep cuts to the government’s electric vehicle targets this week, in a move that will relieve carmakers but alarm many Labour MPs who are worried about the government’s commitment to the green agenda - @kiranstacey reports
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Obama dropped a bomb every 8 minutes for 8 years straight. In his final year alone, he bombed 7 countries and dropped 26,171 bombs.
He was the first and only Nobel Prize winner who bombed another Nobel Prize winner.
He bombed a Doctors Without Borders hospital, mass murdering at least 43 people, and burning patients alive in their hospital beds.
He destroyed Libya as a nation and people, bringing back slave markets to it and destroying the lives of millions.
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Republican Michelle Ziolowski charged with VOTER FRAUD.
Not an immigrant, not a liberal.
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UNFORGIVEABLE: A Minnesota doctor just revealed Renée Good still had a pulse 8 minutes after she was shot by an ICE agent.
A physician on scene offered to administer aid and was denied.
In any courtroom, preventing medical aid after using deadly force isn’t just cruel, it’s an aggravating factor.
At this stage if you class yourself as a socialist then you MUST support the greens. No ifs and no buts.
The labour government and a large majority on the opposite benches voted to criminalise people who oppose this.
It's started.
CNN: Hakeem Jeffries responds to DSA supporters who chanted "You're next!" at victory party
"It was very interesting to me, as observed by others, that there was almost zero diversity in that crowd."
Link: edition.cnn.com/2026/11/08/p…
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“I would love if both of them were ousted 100%.”
@mehdirhasan and The Majority Report’s @EmmaVigeland discuss if progressives and Democrats have a chance of stopping Chuck Schumer as Senate Majority Leader and Hakeem Jeffries as Speaker of the House.
Here's hoping they regret it more in 29.
Labour MPs regret voting for Palestine Action ban that led to 4,000 arrests in a year
Backbenchers say the right to protest has been harmed since they were ‘pressured’ into proscribing the organisation as a terror group
observer.co.uk/news/politics…
Says the ex Tory.
No you are not. You are not even an ‘anti Zionist’. You are simply a fraud.
Only a few years ago when you were a Lib Dem you solemnly promised voters that a vote for you was “a support for Israel”.
You were a 34-year old man, not a child. You left the Lib Dems a year later purely and simply because they didn’t select you for a parliamentary seat.
If they had, you’d still be promising that a vote for you is a vote for Israel. You are a despicable, malignant fraud who would toss your own mum under a bus for a few extra moments of political relevance.
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Some important context for US readers.
The Greens were condemned in this vote by reps from 4 parties: Labour, Conservative (Tories), Lib Dems and Reform. It's ridiculous these parties believe they can lecture anyone on racism and prejudice.
Reform are basically British Trumpians. They repeatedly demonise migrants and asylum seekers. Their sweet-spot is Islamophobia and using immigration to distract from the failures of neo-liberalism. Their councillors are often caught online or in undercover stings saying flamboyantly racist things about re-migration. Nigel Farage, the Reform leader, is an ally and friend of Trump.
The Tories were, during their time in government, responsible for the "hostile environment" policies that led to the Windrush scandal, when life-long residents in the UK who were immigrants from the Caribbean (or their descendants) who arrived legally in the 1960s, but were then deported for a lack of documents.
The leader of the Tory group on the London Assembly is Susan Hall, who ran unsuccesfully for Mayor. In 2023 polling showed that two-thirds of Londoners thought she was the wrong choice for Mayor because she had shared material considered racist and Islamophobic online.
The Labour Party still refuses to recognise a genocide in Gaza. Of all UK parties they are arguably the most complicit in Israel's genocide under Sir Keir Starmer's leadership. The Labour Party is responsible for massive crackdowns on Gaza protests, proscribing Palestine Action as a terrorist group and recently banning Hasan Piker from entering the UK. Approximately 4,000 people have been arrested for holding signs expressing support for Palestine Action and the famous author Sally Rooney now cannot sell her novels in the UK because she has expressed support for PA.
The Labour Party has just introduced the most draconian anti-immigrant and asylum reforms in a generation. The Labour Party has systematically expelled anti-Zionist Jews as members. In the recent local elections, they colluded with the press to accuse Green candidates as antisemitic for, among other things, expressing support for a High Court decision overturning the proscription of Palestine Action on free speech grounds.
The Lib Dems are, to be fair, somewhat better than that shower, but they were participants in the 2010-2015 Coalition government that introduced austerity that has destroyed living standards and the public realm, much of which disproportionately impacted marginalised and minority groups. It's currently leader, Ed Davies, served in the Coalition government.
The Greens were the fastest, loudest and most uncompromising Party calling out Israel's genocide in Gaza. They call for total arms embargo on Israel. They oppose harsh immigration reforms and neo-liberalism, which marginalises minority groups, and routinely speak out avarice demonising asylum seekers. It's leadership team is made up of Polanski (an anti-Zionist Jew), Moithin Ali (a Muslim councillor from Leeds) and Rachel Millward.
The "Zionism is Racism" motion is obviously worthy of debate. But being condemned by this lot for racism is absurd.
Meanwhile over here we put people in prison for holding signs opposing a genocide. Life under a @andyburnham led government.
🇫🇷 French presidential candidate Jean-Luc Mélenchon pledged Saturday that, if elected, French navy ships would escort citizen flotillas trying to break Israel's blockade of Gaza “if necessary."
"We will act head-on to help the Palestinians, against both the genocide in Gaza and the gradual annexation of the West Bank," Mélenchon, the leader of the left-wing party La France Insoumise, said at a rally at Le Bourget, near Paris, where he presented his program for the 2027 election.
He said France would not accept Israel's "gradual annexation" of the West Bank, southern Lebanon or the Golan Heights.