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Stats for Lefties 🍉🏳️‍⚧️ @leftiestats.bsky.social · 1d

My thoughts today. Free Palestine

Two years ago today, the animal state of “Israel” began undertaking the latest blood-soaked atrocity in its genocidal 80-year campaign to exterminate the Palestinian people. Since October 2023, hundreds of thousands of Palestinians have been slaughtered by the Zionist state, armed and supported by Britain, the USA and its client states. British society at all levels is soaked in Palestinian blood, from food outlets to arms firms and universities. The legacy of Starmer and his party will be a mountain of Palestinian corpses.

As for his supposed actions – “recognition” of a Palestinian state is meaningless. Labour is a supporter of the genocide, as demonstrated by their continued commitment to funding and arming “Israel”. Britain should immediately suspend all weapons sales to “Israel”, place sanctions on the Zionist state, call for the expulsion of “Israel” from all international bodies and organisations, demand that “Israel” immediately cease its genocidal acts against the Palestinian people, and provide safe refuge for Palestinians. There is so much Britain could do to stop the genocide – this is not exhaustive. It is disgusting for Labour fans to say there’s nothing they can do.

In the long term, the only way to ensure peace in the region is the dissolution of the terrorist state of “Israel”, and its replacement with a single secular state where Palestinians have equal rights – including a right of return, and a right to reclaim the land that was stolen from them by Zionists.

Free Palestine, now and forever.

Stats for Lefties 🍉🏳️‍⚧️ @leftiestats.bsky.social · 1d

🚨 POLL | Reform lead by 7%

➡️ REF – 27% (-2)
🔴 LAB – 20% (-2)
🟠 LD – 17% (+2)
🔵 CON – 17% (+1)
🟢 GRN – 12% (+1)

Via @YouGov, 5-6 Oct (+/- vs 28-29 Sep)

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Stats for Lefties 🍉🏳️‍⚧️ @leftiestats.bsky.social · 3d

🚨 POLL | 80% of Green members support trans people being allowed to change their legal gender.

✅ Support – 80%
❌ Oppose – 8%

86% of Zack Polanski voters support trans rights.

Via @YouGov, 2 October

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Stats for Lefties 🍉🏳️‍⚧️ @leftiestats.bsky.social · 5d

The Greens just demonstrated that this excuse is absolute bullshit and that the Libs are just cowards

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Stats for Lefties 🍉🏳️‍⚧️ @leftiestats.bsky.social · 5d

exactly. They faced a hard test - when threatened with a lawsuit, they refused to back down and stood by trans people. Plaid and the LDs were also threatened with lawsuits and instantly caved. Organisations need to stop being so fucked chickenshit in the face of legal threats

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Stats for Lefties 🍉🏳️‍⚧️ @leftiestats.bsky.social · 5d

🚨 NEW | Anti-trans hate group "Green Women's Declaration" have been formally barred from Green Party conference.

The group sought a stall at conference, but their bid was denied by the party. Green leader Zack Polanski recently affirmed the party's support for trans rights.

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Stats for Lefties 🍉🏳️‍⚧️ @leftiestats.bsky.social · 6d

🚨 POLL | Reform lead by 16%

➡️ REF – 35% (+2)
🔴 LAB – 19% (+2)
🔵 CON – 14% (-)
🟠 LD – 12% (-4)
🟢 GRN – 11% (-1)

Via @findoutnowUK, 1 Oct (+/- vs 24 Sep)

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Stats for Lefties 🍉🏳️‍⚧️ @leftiestats.bsky.social · 7d

Link to the register here: search.electoralcommission.org.uk/English/Regi...

Three people are named on the registration papers:

🟣 Jeremy Corbyn MP (Leader)
🟣 Adnan Hussain MP (Nominating Officer)
🟣 Marion Roberts (Treasurer)

View registration - The Electoral Commission

search.electoralcommission.org.uk

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Stats for Lefties 🍉🏳️‍⚧️ @leftiestats.bsky.social · 7d

🚨 NEW | "Your Party" has officially been registered with Electoral Commission, with Corbyn appointed as sole leader of the party without a members' ballot.

Adnan Hussain is nominating officer (responsible for candidate selection). Party reports £855,000 in assets.

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Stats for Lefties 🍉🏳️‍⚧️ @leftiestats.bsky.social · 7d

🚨 POLL | Reform lead by 12%

➡️ REF – 34% (+4)
🔴 LAB – 22% (-2)
🔵 CON – 17% (-2)
🟠 LD – 11% (-)
🟢 GRN – 8% (-)

Via @Survation, 24-25 Sep (+/- vs 2 Sep)

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Stats for Lefties 🍉🏳️‍⚧️ @leftiestats.bsky.social · 9d

🚨 BREAKING | Starmer would LOSE leadership election if Andy Burnham challenged him for the leadership.

🔴 Andy Burnham – 68%
🔴 Keir Starmer – 32%

(Source: @YouGov)

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Stats for Lefties 🍉🏳️‍⚧️ @leftiestats.bsky.social · 10d

🚨 BREAKING | Greens now have 80,000 members.

This is an increase of 10,000 since @zackpolanski.bsky.social won the leadership in a landslide victory (85-15).

(Source: @greenparty.org.uk)

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Stats for Lefties 🍉🏳️‍⚧️ @leftiestats.bsky.social · 10d

🗳️ BREAKING | Starmer is now the most unpopular Prime Minister in history - WORSE than Truss

🔴 Starmer – 13% satisfied, 79% dissatisfied

🔵 Liz Truss – 16% satisfied, 67% dissatisfied

Via @Ipsos_in_the_UK, 11-17 Sep

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Stats for Lefties 🍉🏳️‍⚧️ @leftiestats.bsky.social · 12d

🚨 BREAKING | Brits OPPOSE Labour's ID card plan

✅ Support – 42%
❌ Oppose – 45%

Via @YouGov, 26 Sep

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Stats for Lefties 🍉🏳️‍⚧️ @leftiestats.bsky.social · 12d

I'm terrified of our government and I'm desperately trying to make cis people aware of what's happening to us because the MSM hides it all from them

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Stats for Lefties 🍉🏳️‍⚧️ @leftiestats.bsky.social · 12d

they just don't want to believe it. But pretending that this stuff isn't happening just gives Labour a free pass

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Stats for Lefties 🍉🏳️‍⚧️ @leftiestats.bsky.social · 12d

We will not save ourselves from Labour's assault on our rights by roaring at trans women to keep their mouths shut about how Labour is trying to exterminate them.

We will only defeat them by knowing the reality of our situation, so that we can fight it.

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Stats for Lefties 🍉🏳️‍⚧️ @leftiestats.bsky.social · 12d

I am a trans woman who has been warning people about Labour's transphobia since 2021, and at every stage I have been called a liar and a grifter who is trying to scare people.

But I'm always correct - whether on new Section 28, trans healthcare, EHRC, etc. I'm not lying. This is the truth.

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Stats for Lefties 🍉🏳️‍⚧️ @leftiestats.bsky.social · 12d

Some people on BlueSky are very upset at me for posting this. They're claiming it's all sensationalist lies, and that I'm trying to make trans people scared. That's really upsetting because everything I said below is true. Labour is trying to ban us from all single-sex spaces, this is a fact.

Stats for Lefties 🍉🏳️‍⚧️ @leftiestats.bsky.social · 14d

🚨 BREAKING | Wes Streeting confirms Labour is actively working to BAN trans women AND trans men from female spaces, describing their presence as "unpleasant".

Streeting confirmed to MumsNet that Labour aims to exclude ALL trans people from single-sex spaces.

(Via MumsNet)

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Stats for Lefties 🍉🏳️‍⚧️ @leftiestats.bsky.social · 12d

🚨 MRP estimate | Reform to win decisive plurality

➡️ REF – 27% / 311 seats (+306)
🔴 LAB – 21% / 144 seats (-267)
🔵 CON – 17% / 45 seats (-76)
🟠 LD – 15% / 78 seats (+6)
🟢 GRN – 11% / 7 seats (+3)
🟡 SNP – 3% / 37 seats (+28)

Via @YouGov, 31 Aug - 24 Sep

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Stats for Lefties 🍉🏳️‍⚧️ @leftiestats.bsky.social · 12d

🚨 NEW | Reform lead by 16pts

➡️ REF – 33% (-1)
🔴 LAB – 17% (+1)
🟠 LD – 16% (+3)
🔵 CON – 14% (-2)
🟢 GRN – 12% (-)

Via @FindoutnowUK, 24 Sep (+/- vs 17-18 Sep)

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Stats for Lefties 🍉🏳️‍⚧️ @leftiestats.bsky.social · 13d

🚨 #GE2029 | SNP lead by **16pts**

🟡 SNP – 35% (+3)
➡️ REF – 19% (-2)
🔴 LAB – 19% (-)
🔵 CON – 12% (+1)
🟠 LD – 8% (-3)
🟢 GRN – 4% (-1)

Via @Survation, 4-16 Sep (+/- vs 2-5 May)

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Stats for Lefties 🍉🏳️‍⚧️ @leftiestats.bsky.social · 14d

Streeting confirmed that he will push trans women into "third spaces", saying that his plans for segregation are based on "respect" and "empathy".

WS: I think, I think for trans women, yes, I think that is where we're looking. And I know there will be lots of people, probably some Mumsnet users, and there'll be lots of people in the LGBT community and allies who would say that that's outrageous, I can't believe you're even saying that, and you're a gay health secretary, how could you countenance this? I'm trying to find a way through on this that maybe not everyone loves, but everyone can live with and treats people with dignity and respect. And I think where this conversation went so badly wrong was a lack of understanding of why, in a women's rights context, the majority of our population who fought for generations for those rights, voices and spaces feel strongly about protecting them. And I think the, you know, I understand obviously, you know, being a gay man the context of LGBT equality and the struggles that our community has been through. But I don't think there's been nearly enough dialogue, empathy and understanding for different perspectives. I think we're getting to a better place as a country now, and if we can do that in a way that's level headed, rational and considerate and compassionate, I think we'll be in a better place and will arrive at common sense.

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Stats for Lefties 🍉🏳️‍⚧️ @leftiestats.bsky.social · 14d

Speaking to MumsNet, Streeting said he did not think trans women should use female spaces and his team "is all over this".

He confirmed Labour will bar trans men from female spaces, calling their presence "unpleasant" and said trans women "impact on women's sex based rights".

WS: So I don't think it should be happening, and we’re still waiting for the EHRC guidance, but on single sex spaces, before we get to the gender identity issues, on single sex spaces, more generally, are seeing far too many breaches. I mean, Karin Smyth, the Minister for Secondary Care, is all over this, because even if put to one side the gender identity issues, there are far too many cases of men and women being on the same ward, and it's not appropriate, dignified or safe. So we've got to deal with that. That is often about capacity constraints, resources. So I've got to be honest with people watching, it's going to take time to eliminate that, but the objective is to eliminate it. Then we get onto the gender identity issues. Now I think this is primarily an issue about women's rights, voices and spaces, that's where the real tension and conflict has arisen, and so we've got to make sure that the guidance has real world application. I don't think anyone, for example, would think it desirable for a trans man, so someone who's born female, but to all intents and purposes, you know, hairy arms, beard, voice, identity, then wanders into women's toilets or goes to a women's ward or another women's space. I think that would be undignified and unpleasant for everyone concerned, this is really about women's rights, voices and spaces. That's where I think we've got to try and find a way to make sure that trans women are a space that is dignified and safe and inclusive for them, that doesn't impact on women's sex based rights and spaces…

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Stats for Lefties 🍉🏳️‍⚧️ @leftiestats.bsky.social · 14d

🚨 BREAKING | Wes Streeting confirms Labour is actively working to BAN trans women AND trans men from female spaces, describing their presence as "unpleasant".

Streeting confirmed to MumsNet that Labour aims to exclude ALL trans people from single-sex spaces.

(Via MumsNet)

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