Kier Starmer - who has suspended party members merely for liking Green Party tweets - is saying his Labour Party should be less tribal...

Kier Starmer who has overseen a purge of anyone even vaguely left wing from the party...

Starmer, who is still keeping Diane Abbott suspended?

Less tribal?

#UKPol #Labour #Starmer

Well the Patriarchal UK Media may be ignoring it but Mastodon is a buzz with Sandi Toksvig's "Women's Equality Party" taking their first councillor in Basingstoke, on more than 60% of the vote!
Congratulations to Stacy Hart

https://www.itv.com/news/meridian/2024-05-03/local-elections-2024-results-in-the-south-east-south-and-thames-valley

#UKPOL #UKpolitics #WEP #LocalElections2024

London Mayor #news : Count Binface beats 'Britain First' immigration candidate.

Count Binface, the satirical political candidate, has beaten Britain First’s (anti) immigration candidate Nick Scanlon in the London Mayoral election.

Binface notched up 24,260 votes, against Scanlon’s 20,519.
#ukpol
Well done @CountBinface

https://www.cityam.com/london-mayoral-election-count-binface-ahead-of-britain-first-immigration-candidate/

London Mayor: Count Binface beats 'Britain First' immigration candidate

Count Binface trumped Britain First's anti-immigration candidate Nick Scanlon in the London Mayoral election.

^{Guy Taylor (CityAM)}

One of the few openly Anti-Fascist voices in uk politics, and he has to wear a bin on his head for the Media to pay him attention.

#London #LondonMayoralElection #CountBinface #Ukpolitics #UKpol

The Tories will just write a new law saying 'climate change is safe, actually', just like they did with Rwanda, despite also there being told, internally, the opposite.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-68947242

#ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #Tories #ukpol

Government defeated in High Court over climate plans

Activists argued that the plan for cutting emissions would not meet the UK's climate targets.

^{By Esme Stallard (BBC News)}

For people concerned about the proposed #asylumSeeker roundup in preparation for deportation to #Rwanda there's a list of local #AntiRaids groups here:

https://antiraids.net/local-groups/

#UKpol

They're truly the pits. A cynical, cruel, pitiless party who will happily drag desperate people into detention and then force them out of the country (at great expense, for those concerned about such things) for nothing more than political advantage.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/apr/28/home-office-to-detain-asylum-seekers-across-uk-in-shock-rwanda-operation?CMP=share_btn_url

#BlackMastodon #UKPol #asylum #Rwanda

Home Office to detain asylum seekers across UK in shock Rwanda operation

Exclusive: Operation comes weeks earlier than expected and is thought to have been timed to coincide with local elections

^{Severin Carrell (The Guardian)}

Experts ignoring the elephant in the room, younger generations are sick and tired of CAPITALISM, it's not 'smartphones' or whatever bullshit excuse the Media comes up with, it's the very toxic society you've forced on us which is making us ill.

#MentalHealth #Capitalism #UKPOL #Ukpolitics

Nationalise it, nationalise them all, the thieving fucks
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2024/apr/18/whitehall-blueprint-for-thames-water-nationalisation-could-see-state-take-on-bulk-of-15bn-debt

#Sewage #ThamesWater #UKPOL #Ukpolitics

Whitehall blueprint for Thames Water nationalisation could see state take on bulk of £15bn debt

Exclusive: Project Timber could see some lenders lose up to 40% of their money under the plans

^{Anna Isaac (The Guardian)}