How can a politician, of any party, promise new GP Practices? GPs are on independent contracts and many GP Practices are owned by private companies and are being bought up by corporations (US Corporations).
When the election is between a Labour party trying to unseat a Conservative one after what it considers to be its own failed leftwing experiment, that tendency to strip politics of all values ...becomes even more pronounced. The result is that by hewing as close as possible to established economic and cultural norms as set by the Tories in order to win back voters, Labour disfranchises others and makes a calculation that they don’t matter"
Nesrine Malik
"In a system without proportional representation, politics is indeed often the choice of the lesser of two evils. But as the space between the two shrinks, people might begin to feel that – as Ralph Nader once said – “if you always vote for the lesser of two evils, you will always have evil, and you will always have less”.
Nesrine Malik
The fact that the Tories think the first week of #Pride is a good time to launch a Transphobic (& Homophobic, as it will impact many cis women whose gender expression is not classically feminine) policy shows exactly why #PrideIsAProtest
Wait, now the Tories work out that you don't win elections by pandering to your own extreme wing? Reform are doing well not because anybody likes them but because the Tories have demonstrated themselves to be so fundamentally unserious about governing that those Tory voters who can't stand Labour have nowhere else to go.
Faiza Shaheen, blocked from running in the next GE by Labour essentially for being left wing. The various reasons included "liking pro-Palestine posts on social media, including a tweet about the difficulties of speaking about Israel-Palestine." If you listen to her story, it sounds like a real witch hunt ...
How come #NigelFarage gets to turn up out of nowhere and decree that this is now “the immigration election”‽
Ordinary voter here, and I don’t give a tinker’s toss about #immigration. I’d much prefer this to be “the climate change election”, please. If you agree, give this a RT. ♻️
@PhilipCJames There is a further point. How does Farage really win here? Not by becoming an MP. How Farage really gets what he wants is by making everybody else dance to the Reform agenda. In the Tories he has done that a lot. He has even affected Labour. The whole agenda is shifted right.
Farage could lose every war but still win the battle if the UK ends up politically as Reform.
Your regular reminder: inflation falling doesn’t mean prices are going down, they’re just rising by less.
We’re all still paying increasingly more for basics like food, energy and travel than we were pre-Truss, and that won’t change until / unless we have DEflation.
This point isn’t being made enough or sufficiently loudly in the media.
Victoria the Milkshaker is probably young enough to have never voted on Brexit, yet she's been told she has to suffer it for at least 10 more years and there will be no discussion on that this election.
Then Mr Brexit strolls into her town, feeling entitled to be an MP despite his big idea destroying the nation.
When you are denied a voice, direct action is your only option.