"The only punishment the voter can enact is to not vote Conservative under any circumstances, but more specifically to vote tactically to ensure the Conservatives have the worst possible result in terms of seats won."
@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.
there's nothing more bereft than the #ukpolitics election campaign – no vision, goals or ideas on either of the winnable sides, only anti-migration platitudinal nastiness on offer.
Ross, though, was the evening’s greatest loser. Swinney and Sarwar each stuffed the Tory leader into a woodchipper, offering Ross an impossible choice: defend Boris Johnson and Liz Truss and risk looking a fool or disavow their records and appear weak, directionless, and of use to neither man nor beast.
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. ♻️
"...#NigelFarage has announced he will run as Reform UK's candidate in Clacton, after previously saying he would not stand in July’s #GeneralElection...
"...Mr Farage also revealed he was taking over from #RichardTice as Reform's leader for the next five years..."
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 ...
"Starmer's Labour Party are front runners in opinion polls heading into the 4 July vote, but the leadership has faced fierce criticism for largely backing Israel's devastating offensive against Palestinians in Gaza"
"Last month, a YouGov survey found that more than two-thirds of British people want a ceasefire in Gaza...researchers also found that a majority of people in the country support a ban on the sale of weapons to Israel"
The business secretary and leader-in-waiting told media that managing almost a fortnight of campaigning before announcing discriminatory measures against an embattled minority to win support from wavering bigots shows the Tories are a party of ideas.
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
@andrewducker@MadeyeTheCarnaptious Well it would be a start for Scotland anyway. How trh hell Labour think we can carry on trading our animal and plant products with the EU without coming under their regulations beats me.
More delusions and untruths from Laboour if they seek to sell that as a proposition.
@yunod ‘To sum up, Starmer’s Labour Party has been captured by a small, highly determined right-wing clique, one that is as insouciant of Labour’s magnificent history and democratic tradition as it is contemptuous of ethnic minorities. ‘
I think that captures it well, and he amplifies his evidence in the article.
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
Of course Sunak and his mates were prepared manipulate markets to make ‘money’ , BUT I want a full account of BOTH parties sponsors. Overseas funds have been playing a large part in British Politics for far too long. So Starmer, why are private health care companies paying you and Streeting so much?