Labour has decided to start their campaign with a bang, pruning women of colour and left wingers from the ballot due to reasons such as liking tweets sharing Jon Stewart videos. At the end of the day it boils down to support for Palestine....
I was making my own post about this, but I’ll just post what I was going to write here instead of having two posts about the same thing.
Labour deselects left-wing candidates
Two Corbynist have been barred from standing by Labour party, with a third suspected to be also soon be barred.
Lloyd Russell-Moyle, MP for Brighton Kemptown, has had what he described as a ‘politically motivated’ complaint made about his behaviour eight years ago. He notes that the complaint being made so close to the election that there isn’t time for him to clear his name before then.
Meanwhile, Faiza Shaheen, candidate for Chingford and Woodford Green, announced on https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-politics-69075181 that she had been deselected over a collection posts and likes she made on Twitter. She says one of the tweets brought up is one describing her experiences of Islamophobia within the Labour Party.
One that she apologised directly for is this tweet of a John Steward sketch captioned with “every time you say something even mildly critical of Israel, you’re immediately assailed by scores of hysterical people”.
Leaked Whatsapp messages have revealed that Poplar and Limehouse MP Apsana Begum has had a complaint made to the NEC about her by her CLP calling for a selection vote, supposedly from friends of her abusive ex-husband.
These announcements come on that back of Starmer allies being parachuted into seats, including director of think tank Labour Together Josh Simons, and NEC member and director of Labour First and We Believe in Israel Luke Akehurst.
The government has stated it won’t use the powers granted in the Online Safety Bill to scan end-to-end encrypted messages until it’s ‘technically feasible’ to do so.
Video footage shows Jon Benjamin sitting in the front seat of a car and directing the weapon towards a person sitting in the back in what appears to be a joke....
The bellend unfortunately has a point. Labour has declared a number of ultra-safe seats battlegrounds due to how much they’ve fucked up on Gaza. We’re probably stuck hearing from this raging bigot for some years to come.
It’s amazing how this comment didn’t break the ‘be civil and nice’ rule (also weird that hexbear doesn’t block non-admins viewing removed posts, imo Lemmy should do this by default).
I don’t know what we can really do about this, other than warn new users about ml’s campism and tendency to remove criticism of anti-Western governments.
When Britain’s prime minister, Rishi Sunak, stood in the pouring rain last week to announce a general election, there could hardly have been a less auspicious beginning to the Conservative Party’s campaign. In the space of a few days, it has gone downhill from there....
“HMRC, I can assure you the OnlyFans subscription is a business expense. Yes I had to get the 36 month package, who knows what this mad woman will take off, er, I-I mean pull off next!”
Labour deselecting left-wing candidates and women of colour in first week of campaign (mastodon.green)
Labour has decided to start their campaign with a bang, pruning women of colour and left wingers from the ballot due to reasons such as liking tweets sharing Jon Stewart videos. At the end of the day it boils down to support for Palestine....
New standard just dropped (feddit.uk)
Link to toot
scar(ule)y (feddit.uk)
Government admits Spy Clause can't be used safely (www.openrightsgroup.org)
The government has stated it won’t use the powers granted in the Online Safety Bill to scan end-to-end encrypted messages until it’s ‘technically feasible’ to do so.
You call that a rule (feddit.uk)
Government tells Britons to stockpile as part of emergency planning (www.ft.com)
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Well done f.ukers, I hope you are proud of yourselves! (a.l3n.co)
Because I kinda am. Keep up the good work. 👍
Daily Fail brings news from 6 years in the future (a.l3n.co)
Still the least fascist thing on their website.
fittest bloke in preston (feddit.uk)
British ambassador to Mexico 'sacked for pointing assault rifle at staff' (metro.co.uk)
Video footage shows Jon Benjamin sitting in the front seat of a car and directing the weapon towards a person sitting in the back in what appears to be a joke....
George Galloway launches Workers Party campaign with attack on Labour (www.bbc.co.uk)
It’s the hat, isn’t it? 🤣
sanist royalist (files.catbox.moe)
The thick of this twit (files.catbox.moe)
Bonecarver -- Walking the Wire (ft. Kris Xenopoulos of Vulvodynia) (youtu.be)
"britain has no culture" explain this then (files.catbox.moe)
Nigel Farage has milkshake thrown over him after launching general election campaign (www.independent.co.uk)
Crosspost: Lemmy.ml tankie censorship problem
I felt this might be worth the community discussing....
Britain’s Conservative Party Is Facing a Historic Defeat (jacobin.com)
When Britain’s prime minister, Rishi Sunak, stood in the pouring rain last week to announce a general election, there could hardly have been a less auspicious beginning to the Conservative Party’s campaign. In the space of a few days, it has gone downhill from there....
Unite union refuses to endorse Labour's election manifesto (www.bbc.com)
The Mail having a normal one (files.catbox.moe)