Talk of replacing Prime Minister Keir Starmer as leader of the Labour Party has spilled into the open, but the lack of a plausible replacement may keep the rebels at bay for now. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/09/16/world/politics/labour-successor-starmer-safe/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #politics #uk #keirstarmer #labour
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“Why you should leave X”
by Sam Bright on Substack
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“A rallying cry to progressives everywhere...”
https://open.substack.com/pub/writesbright/p/why-you-should-leave-x
#Press#X#FuckX#FuckMusk#FuckTrump#FarRight#RaceWar#Robinson#Starmer#Labour#Islamophobia #Racism#Mysoginy#Extremism#LeaveX
“Why you should leave X”
by Sam Bright on Substack
@span BBC5Live
@span BBCRadio4
@span BBCNews
@span guardian @span Independent @span thetimes @span newyorktimes @span miamiherald
“A rallying cry to progressives everywhere...”
https://open.substack.com/pub/writesbright/p/why-you-should-leave-x
#Press#X#FuckX#FuckMusk#FuckTrump#FarRight#RaceWar#Robinson#Starmer#Labour#Islamophobia #Racism#Mysoginy#Extremism#LeaveX
The Green Party England & Wales is looking for their next generation of MP candidates. If you have ever considered being an MP - you don’t need to even be a member yet - they're offering training, mentoring and support.
https://greenparty.org.uk/path-to-parliament/
#GreenPartyUK #GreenParty #GreenPolitics #UKpol #UKpolitics #UnitedKingdom #Politics #ZackPolanski
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer has reshuffled his government with personnel changes and new directives as he seeks to fend off the rise of Nigel Farage’s insurgent Reform U.K. Party. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/09/08/world/politics/starmer-cabinet-change-farage/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #politics #keirstarmer #nigelfarage #uk #labour#johnhealey
So Angela #Rayner has resigned.
She’s being cast as a tax evader on stamp duty due to not seeking the right level of advice into the complex arrangements around having a property in trust for a disabled son.
I assume fishing trips into the financial affairs of all MPs regardless of party affiliation or gender will now become standard. Or will they?
Not a good day for Labour, female politicians, working class or those who care for their disabled adult children.
Having just read #Rayner’s heartfelt resignation letter, it’s clear what a loss to the #Labour Party, trade union movement, workers and renters her departure really is.
And was a scalp she was to the bitter misogynistic rightwing media.
So who will replace her?
A centrist or someone from the Left?
I guess the party decides.
Aral Balkan
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"If there is a defining mark of Keir #Starmer’s administration, it is immediate capitulation to powerful lobby groups, especially corporations and billionaires. This is what explains the otherwise inexplicable: its planning policy, tax policy, competition policy, deregulation policy, AI policy, food policy, its plans to reboot private partnerships in the #NHS, its banning of #PalestineAction."
"If there is a defining mark of Keir #Starmer’s administration, it is immediate capitulation to powerful lobby groups, especially corporations and billionaires. This is what explains the otherwise inexplicable: its planning policy, tax policy, competition policy, deregulation policy, AI policy, food policy, its plans to reboot private partnerships in the #NHS, its banning of #PalestineAction."
"Voters are ready to start building constituency movements that decide collectively which anti-establishment candidate to back. This opens vast territories for all those – whether they be the #Greens, #YourParty, the more radical #LibDems, or dissident #Labour candidates – who are prepared to pull the strings the Labour leadership will not and cannot pull: the heartstrings of a country that retains a sense of justice, of dignity and of fury towards the predations of an economic elite."
"If there is a defining mark of Keir #Starmer’s administration, it is immediate capitulation to powerful lobby groups, especially corporations and billionaires. This is what explains the otherwise inexplicable: its planning policy, tax policy, competition policy, deregulation policy, AI policy, food policy, its plans to reboot private partnerships in the #NHS, its banning of #PalestineAction."
Jonathan Schofield
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What you have to remember about #Starmer's #Labour party is that it grew out of the project to smash #Corbyn's #Labour party. Which means its central characters and strategists are those who would rather have had May as PM then Corbyn in 2017, and those who would rather have had Johnson than Corbyn in 2019.
What you have to remember about #Starmer's #Labour party is that it grew out of the project to smash #Corbyn's #Labour party. Which means its central characters and strategists are those who would rather have had May as PM then Corbyn in 2017, and those who would rather have had Johnson than Corbyn in 2019.
Michael Bacon
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I’m still on the fence about Corbyn and Sultana’s #YourParty.
There is so much baggage with Corbyn and Sultana seemed to jump the gun on announcing the party, which got it off to a very bad start in many people’s eyes,
But that doesn’t take away from the fact #Labour under #Starmer is a far cry from what people thought they voted for.
The points Corbyn makes here are entirely right and will resonate with many.
https://tribunemag.co.uk/2025/09/labour-is-paving-the-path-to-fascism/
“Scapegoating vulnerable people has always been a deliberate ploy by the government to distract from its own domestic failures.
Today, it might be #asylum seekers.
Tomorrow, it could be #disabled people.
The next day, #trans people.
Whatever the minority, we are witnessing the demonisation of vulnerable people, to the grave detriment of us all.”
#Starmer’s #Labour government has laid itself wide open to these criticisms by #Corbyn.
Because it has turned against each of these groups.
If #Starmer thinks he can demonise the same minorities that #Reform and the #Tories have been kicking for over a decade and get away with it, he’s deluded.
Those who enjoy bashing minorities will continue to vote for the full fat version of rightwing parties.
Those that don’t, will no longer vote #Labour.
“Scapegoating vulnerable people has always been a deliberate ploy by the government to distract from its own domestic failures.
Today, it might be #asylum seekers.
Tomorrow, it could be #disabled people.
The next day, #trans people.
Whatever the minority, we are witnessing the demonisation of vulnerable people, to the grave detriment of us all.”
#Starmer’s #Labour government has laid itself wide open to these criticisms by #Corbyn.
Because it has turned against each of these groups.
I’m still on the fence about Corbyn and Sultana’s #YourParty.
There is so much baggage with Corbyn and Sultana seemed to jump the gun on announcing the party, which got it off to a very bad start in many people’s eyes,
But that doesn’t take away from the fact #Labour under #Starmer is a far cry from what people thought they voted for.
The points Corbyn makes here are entirely right and will resonate with many.
https://tribunemag.co.uk/2025/09/labour-is-paving-the-path-to-fascism/
Marvin
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A protest in the US - but now very relevant in the UK
#uk #ukpol #ukpolitics #freespeech #politics #police #policestate #metpolice #london #demonetisation #protest #protesters #war #palestine #palestineaction #gaza #israel #middleeast #europe #labourparty #labour #starmer #keirstarmer #westminster #britain #british #parliament #tories #tory #conservative #conservatives #conservativeparty #us #usa #uspol #genocide #news #media
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“Terrorist pots and pans banned from Gaza protest”
by Skwawkbox @skwawkbox @palestine @israel
@UKLabour
“Proscription of kitchen implements soon to follow?”
https://skwawkbox.org/2025/08/23/terrorist-pots-and-pans-banned-from-gaza-protest/
#Press #Israel#Genocide#Gaza#Protest#Proscription#Pots#Pans#MetPolice#Labour#Starmer#Dictatorship#PalAction
“Terrorist pots and pans banned from Gaza protest”
by Skwawkbox @skwawkbox @palestine @israel
@UKLabour
“Proscription of kitchen implements soon to follow?”
https://skwawkbox.org/2025/08/23/terrorist-pots-and-pans-banned-from-gaza-protest/
#Press #Israel#Genocide#Gaza#Protest#Proscription#Pots#Pans#MetPolice#Labour#Starmer#Dictatorship#PalAction