A Conservative councillor on Gloucestershire County Council has defected to the Green Party.
The Conservatives no longer have a majority.
Cllr Williams said her decision had been prompted by having lost faith in the Conservative Party nationally. “Over the past months I have grown increasingly disillusioned and angry and I cannot - morally or ethically - ignore my conflicting views as an individual and as a Conservative Party member.
Oh look SIR Kier Starmer is doubling down on the Xenophobia with his new buddy Natalie
He can do this because he feels entitled to all our votes because, lol, "he's not the Tories!" #Ukpol#Ukpolitics#Starmer#NatalieElphicke#SmallBoats
David Cameron says the UK will not withhold arm sales to Israel
Cameron’s claim that UK arms sales are not the same as those from the US to Israel could be challenged on the basis that the scale or supplier of the arms is immaterial, and the issue is whether the arms are being used in a way that could conflict with UK legal criteria about a risk of a serious breach of international humanitarian law
Perhaps, but... our Labor Party came to power in Australia as a deliberately dull small target, and is thus now struggling to deal with big issues that need bold action. It's a dilemma.
Starmer may be bland – but that passes the taste test in a country sick of spicy politics
The British Labour Party bragging to the papers how they can "work with Trump" and giving him advice on getting elected and I have Yanks calling me crazy for saying Biden has fucked it.
The World can see it for what it is. 😔
Those people who thought Labour would heed warnings they are verging too far right need to get a look at Natalie "Stop The Boats" Elphicke and David Lammy courting the Republicans today.
so, what my latest impression from the UK is that Keir Starmer is really not the kind of guy who should be representing working class people; what with that "Sir" in front of his name and such. in other words: he's an upper,class twit fucking it up for the Labour Party. or am i off the mark on this one?
Labour could win Natalie Elphicke's seat in a General Election, yet they've chosen to accept her as a representative.
Let's remind ourselves what sort of person Natalie Elphicke is, the sort of person who would pressure a judge to make her husbands sexual assault convictions go away.
The sort of person Starmer has no problem with at all, unlike the Left of the Party.
Natalie Elphicke, who turned a blind eye to her husbands sexual assaults is one of those British Lawmakers OBSESSED with xenophobia, her brand being "Small boats! Small boats! Brown People In Small Boats, Coming for your Daughters!"
I bet Labour will have NO problem with her rhetoric, no problem at all.
Possible new defections to Starmer's Labour Party include Satan, Laurence Fox, anyone who wants to drown migrants in the sea, that batty Headteacher woman, Nigel Farage, the child catcher from Chitty Chitty Bang Bang and Zippy from Rainbow.
A tory who covered for her abusive husband and then took over his seat on a platform of Xenophobia is still a tory who covered for her abusive husband and then took over his seat on a platform of Xenophobia
"The Green Party is becoming a dustbin, a repository not only for climate activists but for disgruntled hard leftists leaving the Labour Party, and some fairly unpleasant Free Palestine activists as well."
Peter Mandelson to Matt Chorley on Times Radio, yesterday
@fkamiah17 I work in a market town in rural Gloucestershire. A Tory heartland in the shires. I'm engaged with the local community and a small business owner. Like many other Green Party members in our district we stood for election and won 22 seats. We are now the largest group at Stroud District Council.
So, for Mandelson to say that “The Green Party is becoming a dustbin, a repository not only for climate activists, but for disgruntled hard leftists." makes me think that he is so far out of touch with the ethos of the Green Party and the concerns of the electorate that his opinion is completely irrelevant. Maybe it is Mr Mandelson who should be consigned to the dustbin of history?