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Capt'n G.
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Labour, European, architecture/design/engineering, sustainability, just stop burning things! Richmond Yorkshire. Known to be unpleasant.
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BREAKING: Lucy Powell is elected Labour’s deputy leader
Agreed, and when new partnerships bed-in the parties rarely return to the old set-up.
This will be economically painful for the USA.
This is exactly the position that EVERY democratic world leader should adopt.

There is no viable way of dealing with Trump. The only method (outright bribery, and ever-increasing displays of submission) is not suitable for any democracy.

Only alternative: "Develop new partnerships."
Carney: "We can't control the trade policy of the US. We recognize it has fundamentally changed from the policy in the 1980s, 1990s, 2000s, & it's a situation where US has tariffs against every trading partner... what we we can control is developing new partnerships, including w/econ giants of Asia"
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"There is no great outcry in the right-wing press or from conservative politicians against mass deportation.
The days when they stood up to the injustice of retrospective legislation are long gone."

Another good and valuable read on how fast things seem to shift in Britain atm. Deeply worrying.
The Conservatives plans to deport hundreds of thousands of legal residents of the UK are far more extreme than anything Donald Trump is proposing
Piece from me on the horror show of the right morphing into the far right

open.substack.com/pub/nickcohe...
"Respectable" racism and the mass deportation of our neighbours
How the British right out-Trumps Trump
open.substack.com
Plain as the nose on your face, as granny used to say.
Plaid Cymru won the Caerphilly by-election overnight, with Reform pushing Labour into a distant third.

Plaid got 47% of the vote on a record turnout, suggesting to me that there was some tactical voting to keep Reform out, which won 36%.

A factor that could be underpriced in a general election.
I can only imagine the most ardent Nazis using such language in the 1930s/40s
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He says he’s not a king or a dictator.
But he’s rebuilding the White House in his own image,
running it like a court,
and selling “Trump 2028” hats from the throne room.
All the signs he’s never planning to leave → www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...
All the signs Donald Trump has no intention of ever leaving the White House
It looks increasingly like Donald Trump wants to cling on to power beyond his legal term. It
www.mirror.co.uk
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The SNP is bad for Great Britain.
Take GB down, Scotia goes down with it.
Not where I live. We love him.
She got mine and my clp vote
I fear the British idiocy epidemic.
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Labour still falling in the national polling average towards parity with the Conservatives.

The question is how much centre / left support can Labour win back in a general election against Reform.

I suspect quite a lot, but Labour will actually need to start doing something for those voters first
0.000001 voters will read this.
The EUs more intelligent politicians know that closer ties with the UK eventually end in membership, they also know it'll take a long time and that the populist right threat has to be expunged before that happens. A new one nation Tory party could help that happen... never say never.
Not sure they can be voted out of office unless they stand down, and then reform would stand another set of despicables, and win, it's Kent.
Ref councillors without the party whip will always vote against common sense policies proposed by labour.
So looks to me like reform would still retain (power)
Yep, there's quite a few who don't know how politics works in the UK.
Have you ever spent time with the evangelicals?
They ran my children's academy, I had to fight hard against the daily MAGA type propaganda.
CoE schools were a little more chilled though.