Mandela may have famously said "I am prepared to die" for the cause, but totally 100% drew the line at causing any sort of inconvenience for people.
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lmao, the fuck?
www.theguardian.com
Labour should be ‘less tribal’, says Keir Starmer after Elphicke defection
Party leader welcomes MP in Dover speech as he announces plan to replace Rwanda scheme with new border-security unit
www.theguardian.com
A reminder at this point that while the I likes you to think it's related to the Independent it's actually now owned by the Daily Mail.
What could go wrong for Keir Starmer? A lot actually
Kuenssberg's mask is slipping more than usual today.
Kuenssberg's mask is slipping more than usual today.
View: https://twitter.com/netpol/status/1789566444117619110?t=58yNkRRin1oJA1deX895Bw&s=19
Former Labour MP who quit before he could be investigated for being a sex pest still having plum government job is nuts.
View: https://twitter.com/Taj_Ali1/status/1789419170934739433?t=8FiQ4Bg0Icn2rj2v8ux1rQ&s=19
Streeting explains why Labour disagrees with Braverman on ending child benefit cap
Rightwing Tory MP Suella Braverman has surprised many by demanding an end to the two child benefit cap to tackle poverty - but despite internal party pressure it is not a policy Labour will pursue
www.independent.co.uk
lol, what the actual fuck
You have to wonder at this point if Labour are deliberately trying to sabotage their election hopes. They have been questionable with their policies for ages now, but why on earth would you voluntarily accept a rape apologist into your party? Inheriting problems for no gain.
They know a lot of people will vote with them anyway because they aren't the Tories
I just want to know how Starmer is keeping a lid on it so far. It's not like he got rid of every slightly leftwing MP who may be worried about this trajectory. Doesn't look like it's anything more than "trust me bro, Tories are fucked, we can do what we like and gravy train from now on".
I imagine at this point any left of centre right Labour MP is just shutting the hell up for the most part knowing that if they stand down or get themselves kicked out all it does is allow Labour to select someone right wing for their constituency.
And these are the people who actually live and come from the area they represent other than most Tories.
(And to be briefly fair to my local Tory MP, he's a twat of course but he IS a local).
And these are the people who actually live and come from the area they represent other than most Tories.
(And to be briefly fair to my local Tory MP, he's a twat of course but he IS a local).
View: https://twitter.com/pressgazette/status/1790088252130525370?t=gCRSytkzRfAWT_u6jGgEdA&s=19
Not political in the electoral sense but very odd!
The New Yorker article is a pretty in depth investigation into how her arrest and trial were incredibly poorly handled, how the failings of a hospital were pinned on one woman. And this article doesn't mention it at all? Just goes "yeah people in the U.K. can't read this article about this monster who murdered tons of kids." I know it's because it's inexplicably tacked onto an existing article, but a bizarre choice nonetheless.
Anyway you can read the New Yorker article here, it's a good read. https://archive.ph/2024.05.13-11201...-guilty-of-killing-seven-babies-did-she-do-it (she definitely did it though, to be clear.)
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Time to add Harold Shipman and Lucy Letby's numbers to the Black Book of Communism's death count
I think there's still a lot of worth in it from the view of the failing around it all that let her get away with it for so long, although I agree the framing of the article itself is bad as it's trying to inject some possibility she didn't do it into it.
The Americans on Twitter are universally deciding it means she didn't, not least because the article omits all the evidence against her.
Yeah, that's not surprising. That's Americans for you.
Or I guess more accurately, that's twitter users for you. At this point the only thing surprising about that for me is that the people still using twitter are declaring she didn't do it rather than trying to claim it was good she did it actually.
Or I guess more accurately, that's twitter users for you. At this point the only thing surprising about that for me is that the people still using twitter are declaring she didn't do it rather than trying to claim it was good she did it actually.
Odd reporting restrictions seem to be commonplace now. I've posted about a local case a couple times here; last year when two girls were killed by a car crashing into their school; and their parent's fight for justice. Given the severity of it, they've struggled to maintain national attention, and even local journo's tread lightly. Police stonewall with the "lack of forensic investigators", court dates keep being delayed, near zero communication with the victim's parents etc
The police know who did it, and she's been to hospital, arrested and re-released multiple times, but somehow managed to avoid being named or reported on in anyway. It stinks of an injunction by someone rich or powerful.
Yes! I keep thinking of this case because I just can't understand how the Land Rover driver has remained anonymous for so long.
Like you say, I suspect it's someone rich/powerful but you would think it would be an open and shut case by now.
View: https://twitter.com/IndiaWilloughby/status/1790417364401488199
Utterly reprehensible.
If you care a single jot about the lives of trans people, or the lives of LGBT people more broadly, I am begging you not to vote for Labour.
Transphobia, and all the bigotry that is invariably associated with it, thrives at the very heart of the party's leadership. Until that leadership changes Labour are rotten to the core.
View: https://twitter.com/NatashaC/status/1790406351136453112?t=HkBGkYvzysIQagBSZAC-Zg&s=19
View: https://twitter.com/NatashaC/status/1790410491589701651?t=WTY3jYEqB2VdUNN_3HmSQQ&s=19
View: https://twitter.com/DaveWardGS/status/1790411559337893967?t=QmbKJ_KUT5CqziTH0aUzLQ&s=19
View: https://twitter.com/johnmcdonnellMP/status/1790425428315734492
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Teachers must tell pupils gender ideology is a ‘contested belief’
Gillian Keegan, the Education Secretary, to issue guidance after PM ordered a review into relationships, sex and health education lessons
www.telegraph.co.uk
Children under nine will not be taught sex education
Government also wants to stop schools suggesting biological sex can change, under plans to be announced this week
www.telegraph.co.uk
Yep, this shit is simply Section 28 for the 21st century
It does make me think Sunak will try and draw things out then, so that these guidelines are established and in effect for whenever a new government takes over. An election in July would too readily allow someone to go 'So we'll not be doing that' (not that I'd trust Labour to oppose, because that would mean taking a stance)
Those who wants to outlaw Sex Ed in schools are nonce enablers, fitting for the Tories.
Sex Ed is crucial in teaching safety and boundaries; children can recognise the signs of abuse and speak up about their experience. Girls or children born as female can also start puberty early at age 7, it's woefully fucked up to deny them knowledge. Not many children are even lucky to have parents that can teach them sexual health.
Honestly, this ban and the removal of the 50% cap in faith school is breeding ground for nonce enabling, queerphobia, misogyny, and anti-abortion rhetoric.
Sex Ed is crucial in teaching safety and boundaries; children can recognise the signs of abuse and speak up about their experience. Girls or children born as female can also start puberty early at age 7, it's woefully fucked up to deny them knowledge. Not many children are even lucky to have parents that can teach them sexual health.
Honestly, this ban and the removal of the 50% cap in faith school is breeding ground for nonce enabling, queerphobia, misogyny, and anti-abortion rhetoric.
Poverty is hilarious, good shout
Yup, how do you know if you're being abused if you don't know what consent is? All in the name of the Nonce and Future King, Andrew, no doubt.
are they banning sex ed, or are they posturing? They're banning - where before it was at the school's choice. I'd be curious to know how many schools chose to teach at that age. If they didn't anyway, then its a ban with no real substance other than pandering to headlines
Fantastic news, I had been nervous about this, but seems Raynor's vision will be realised
No, its because Paul Mason is trying to be a Labour candidate for the fourth time and will probably fail, again.