In Britain, former Conservative Member of Parliament Julian Knight, who was suspended from the party over allegations of sexual assault, has announced he will run in the election as an independent. Seems to me he could start and run for the Sexual Assault Party.
“A claim that nearly half of private school pupils would leave the sector if a Labour government levied 20 per cent VAT on their fees is “too high” and “not statistically representative”, the consultants behind the study it was based on have said”
It's important to add ALT text to images in social media posts, otherwise you're excluding 1 in 5 people from your messages. It's super important in election time for politician's to add ALT text to social media, and it's so easy.
Our comrade #FionaLali just launched a campaign for the coming #ukelection as MP for Stratford and Bow.
As communists we should have no illusions that the problems of the working class can be resolved by parliamentary means. This campaign will be used at every turn to expose the #tory and #labourparty alike as war criminals complicit in British #imperialism.
For healthcare, not warfare!
For books, not bombs!
Kick out the war criminals!
“Labour has said there will be no rises in income tax or National Insurance if it wins the general election - but some spending cuts have not been ruled out”
…The UK has be ransacked, looted & vandalised by the tories for the last 14 years
“Under Ofcom rules, Conservative MPs Jacob Rees-Mogg and Esther McVey, as well as former Tory deputy chairman-turned Reform MP Lee Anderson, are unable to continue in their presenting roles while they seek re-election”
"Rishi Sunak has vowed to bring back national service for 18-year-olds to create a “renewed sense of pride in our country” in his first major policy announcement of the election campaign."
It's not often I laugh out loud at news headlines these days. So well done to the UK Tories for that.
It was an inauspicious start to the U.K. Conservative Party's election campaign as Prime Minister Rishi Sunak announced that Britain will head to the polls on July 4. Heavy rain fell as he spoke, and D:Ream's "Things Can Only Get Better," best remembered as the Labour Party's theme song for its 1997 election victory, blared from a member of the public's speakers at the gates of Downing Street. Deadline has this writeup on what it calls the "farcical scenes."
Over the weekend #KeirStarmer abandoned plans to abolish the House of Lords, and now will merely seek some 'reforms' in the first Parliament of a Labour administration.
I assume that the increasingly narrow, substance-free #election manifesto is part of the remnants of any #green policy.
Its thinness is going to saving them a fortune in printing & paper!
Starmer may be adhering to the maxim "Never Interfere With an Enemy While He’s in the Process of Destroying Himself".
Just as many would support abolishing the House of Lords, many other folks would like a House of Lords bursting with erudite experts, motivated solely by the best interests of the UK populace, who they trust more than politicians to write the laws that will govern future generations.
To be sure Johnson's abominable decision to put Lebedev in the Lords ought to put the kibosh on anyone who so believes voting conservative, but the background around Lebedev's wealth received precious little media attention.
Nevertheless; from Starmer's view, courting controversy when he is not required to do so would be a strategically poor choice.