Global politics hasn't lurched to the right. The bigots and fascists of the far right always been there, it's just that Trump and his client Tory party in the UK have enabled them. We've stopped naming and shaming them because Trump and Boris validated them. Since WWII they had been suppressed by common decency - now they are lauded by the leaders. Our politicians have failed us. #gtto
“Lib Dems ‘on course to topple leading Tories’ in general election
(…) the results put them on course to challenge the chancellor Jeremy Hunt and the housing and communities secretary Michael Gove in Surrey, and the justice secretary Alex Chalk in Cheltenham”
…Don’t stop there
There’s much good work to be done removing rees-mogg, braverman & sunak.
There was a Tory MP on the (radio) news saying it was too early to write the Tories off. He used a football analogy - that you wouldn't call the result of a football match when there was still thirty minutes left on the clock.
He's clearly never been at a football match and seen the home team fans streaming out of the park thirty minutes before time - when they're 10-0 down, including three own goals...
So the Tories spin that they might have a close finish or even win London mayor proved to be stuff and nonsense. Sadiq Khan increased his vote share to 43.8%; the Tories meanwhile lost vote share, to 32.7%.
Why is Reform UK, aka The Farage Fascist Party, getting so much air time? The screenshot of the total number of councillors elected (from the BBC) shows them a distant last. #UKPolitics#GeneralElectionNow#GTTO
“A Tory MP has begged local members in his constituency for help after he was caught short without voter ID ahead of local elections
Tom Hunt, MP for Ipswich asked local members to act as his “emergency proxy” after he found that he had no appropriate ID to vote in the local council elections”
Voted! The Conservatives have done everything they can to disenfranchise people at this election and have raised the stakes by taking us back to FPTP for the mayoralty. This is an attack, particularly, on young and minority voters. Don’t lose your voice. Dig out your ID and vote!
“Tory council splashed £54,000 on Mayoral chauffeur in same month it declared bankruptcy
Thurrock Council, which has hiked bills for local taxpayers after running into financial trouble, faces questions about its use of money over the lucrative chauffeur contract”
…I guess they think if rich! sunak & cameron can private jet around then a chauffeur is quite in order