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In fairness, I think that particular target always looked insanely difficult to reach at best, if not impossible.
No, this is a good policy (if they stick to it) but they need to take the rolling stock back into public ownership too.
View: https://twitter.com/LeftieStats/status/1783181689461596266?t=VgCO6seY7fS2vHzhFfJBpA&s=19
Nice glass of water you're drinking there. Shame if it were full of shit particles...
Few things give me genuine hope, but the British public's steadfast support for nationalisation of utilities and key industries (in the face of ~5 decades of constant propaganda from successive governments of all stripes, and almost the entirety of the printed press and mass media) is one of them:
View: https://twitter.com/Survation/status/1783423253614047272
Of course the perennial disappointment is that, even with these polling figures showing broad and consistent support, actually getting a mainstream political party to commit to renationalising all of these is like pulling teeth.
View: https://twitter.com/Survation/status/1783423253614047272
Of course the perennial disappointment is that, even with these polling figures showing broad and consistent support, actually getting a mainstream political party to commit to renationalising all of these is like pulling teeth.
People almost always support essentials being public owned, including my tory and ukip voting dad.
They never vote for parties who will actually do it.
They never vote for parties who will actually do it.
Tories going to force a no-confidence vote on the Scottish First Minister.
I'm not sure how the Bute House Agreement being scrapped impacts this - I'd be surprised if the SNP would have done so without having a clear sense of whether the government could survive a no-confidence vote.
I've not looked at Holyrood polling for a while but I'm not sure the Tories would even keep their current seat number in an election.
Yousaf faces Holyrood questions after he scraps power-sharing deal with Greens
The Scottish Greens who played a role in Scotland's government for more than two years says the SNP has "sold out future generations".
www.bbc.co.uk
I'm not sure how the Bute House Agreement being scrapped impacts this - I'd be surprised if the SNP would have done so without having a clear sense of whether the government could survive a no-confidence vote.
I've not looked at Holyrood polling for a while but I'm not sure the Tories would even keep their current seat number in an election.
Tee hee.
www.theguardian.com
Laurence Fox ordered to pay £180,000 to two people he called ‘paedophiles’
High court judge orders actor turned politician to pay £90,000 damages to each individual for social media libel
www.theguardian.com
is that just the first setTee hee.
Laurence Fox ordered to pay £180,000 to two people he called ‘paedophiles’
High court judge orders actor turned politician to pay £90,000 damages to each individual for social media libel
didnt he come immediately out of the start of the trial and double then triple down on twitter?
Elections to the Scottish Parliament are completely decoupled from any UK General Election.
It's a devolved and wholly independent institution.
View: https://twitter.com/atRachelGilmore/status/1783514061285491135?t=EUFufmabFcAlLkXiOIXkkw&s=19
What a ridiculous time we live in. Satire is dead and we live in a political cartoon strip.
Tory voters, I think we'd all agree, like gigantic piles of shit.
Labour's only plan is to appeal to Tory voters.
ergo, more shit is good.
Wouldn't bet on it. Not until the first planes take off.
Its believed by some civil servants a leadership election will follow May 2nd.
It won't if parliament is dissolved.
You couldn't make The Thick of It today because if there were a scene like this, we'd all say "that is so unrealistic".
On the one hand, I can appreciate not being immediately aware of Goma being a city on the border with Rwanda, and the particulars on the genocide therein
On the other hand, dude clearly says they're 'warring with' Rwanda as an external party (which is not... strictly correct, but then the M23 Militia is very much understood to be backed by them), so how one wouldn't pick up from context that Goma must not be in Rwanda to be subject to such attacks, is... bewildering
On the other hand, dude clearly says they're 'warring with' Rwanda as an external party (which is not... strictly correct, but then the M23 Militia is very much understood to be backed by them), so how one wouldn't pick up from context that Goma must not be in Rwanda to be subject to such attacks, is... bewildering
Somehow I don't think even Tory voters are happy with the way water companies have been acting.
that full QT clip is even worse
the audience member is even more explicit about being from congo, a different country than rwanda, which was cut out of the clip above
he could not have been more clear, even somebody that had never heard of those two countries before would know they are different without having to ask for confirmation rhetorically
View: https://x.com/dawnbutlerbrent/status/1783769047726723140
the audience member is even more explicit about being from congo, a different country than rwanda, which was cut out of the clip above
he could not have been more clear, even somebody that had never heard of those two countries before would know they are different without having to ask for confirmation rhetorically
View: https://x.com/dawnbutlerbrent/status/1783769047726723140
Do we know how much money would be wasted if they did a general election six weeks after the May elections rather than bundling them together?
Having just done a bit of research it appears that the tweet is massively misleading as you might expect from that twitter account.
The amendment that was voted on was to add the Gas and Electricity Markets Authority, the Office of Communications and the Water Services Regulation Authority to the authorities listed under the pre-existing Economic Growth (Regulatory Functions) Order 2017. You can find the extensive list of authorities this already covered here. By my count 44 authorities already fell under this Order.
The long and short of it is that amending the existing order now means that the following applies to those three authorities:
If you read the initial Guardian article it contains a quote from Tim Farron, probably because it was the Lib Dems who forced a vote on this, and the CEO of an environment organisation who also just happens to be a Lib Dem as the only opposition to this vote. I'd also say the tweet was clearly trying to imply that this was a specific vote on water pollution which wasn't at all the case.
It seems to me that this doesn't materially weaken the regulator's ability to fine water companies for pollution nor have I seen a particular outrage from people I would expect if this was true beyond that one Guardian article and the misleading tweet from that account. For example, Caroline Lucas voted against the amendment but hasn't even mentioned it from what I can see. She was far more focused on the Renters Reform Bill that day.
Personally, I'm not a fan of deregulation and I don't see why any authority should require a regard for economic growth but the amendment wasn't about what the tweet suggested and while I disagree with the original legislation needing to exist in the first place I would say including the scope of it to more authorities isn't particularly controversial.
It probably says something that there wasn't a single Labour rebellion on this, even Diane Abbott voted in favour as an independent MP, while most of the Labour front bench (inc. Starmer) appear to have abstained.
If the water becomes unsafe to drink, maybe we'll just go back to drinking beer all the time.
It's actually exactly what Theresa May did in 2017. Dissolved it two weeks before locals.
If the locals are the disaster that the polls predict Sunak will likely call an election because the Tories will try to oust him anyway.
If the locals are better for the Tories than they expect then they will call an election hoping they have some momentum and to stem any losses further in the year.
That's my thinking. In both generous the locals would lead to sizeable chunks of the tories pushing for an election, be it a leadership one or a Westminster one.
If the locals are better for the Tories than they expect then they will call an election hoping they have some momentum and to stem any losses further in the year.
That's my thinking. In both generous the locals would lead to sizeable chunks of the tories pushing for an election, be it a leadership one or a Westminster one.
I'm still on Team January 2025 as I think indecision will take over and they'll just pray that the economy improves massively and something disastrous happens with Labour (which even then might not save them IMO).
It sounds like it only adds another hurdle for those authorities to take regulatory action, ergo it makes it harder for them to do so and therefore that tweet from LeftieStats is fair? (Although I agree it's a uselessly dishonest account in general)
Maybe it's too minor a point for anyone to get up in arms about, especially as it sounds like quite a difficult line for any politician to take, but it doesn't sound like a good thing for Labour to be voting for.
That said, I do wonder why folks like Abbott are voting for it
Rats and sinking ships
www.theguardian.com
Top Tory MP defects to Labour in fury at NHS crisis
Ex-health minister Dan Poulter who also works as a hospital doctor, says Conservatives have become ‘nationalist party of the right’
www.theguardian.com
Rats and sinking ships
Top Tory MP defects to Labour in fury at NHS crisis
Ex-health minister Dan Poulter who also works as a hospital doctor, says Conservatives have become ‘nationalist party of the right’
He probably should look up Wes Streeting's views on privatisation.
(Yes I know he's quite simply lying)
Still a Tory.Rats and sinking ships
Top Tory MP defects to Labour in fury at NHS crisis
Ex-health minister Dan Poulter who also works as a hospital doctor, says Conservatives have become ‘nationalist party of the right’
Tory staff running network of anti-Ulez Facebook groups riddled with racism and abuse
Investigation finds groups hosting Islamophobic attacks on London mayor Sadiq Khan, white supremacist slogans and antisemitic conspiracy theories
www.theguardian.com
Tory staff running network of anti-Ulez Facebook groups riddled with racism and abuse
Investigation finds groups hosting Islamophobic attacks on London mayor Sadiq Khan, white supremacist slogans and antisemitic conspiracy theories
Not surprised at all.
How utterly appalling and cynical before the local elections:
This surely won't drive people underground who can easily dissapear into UK's Grey/Black Economy, let's punish people who engaged honestly with the Aslyum system!
This surely won't drive people underground who can easily dissapear into UK's Grey/Black Economy, let's punish people who engaged honestly with the Aslyum system!