Looking good for Greens in London, incl Lewisham my old patch.
Says Greens might struggle to find enough candidates - I dont think so..Not my experience in my local party. Affording to campaign may be an issue so pleeeese donate to local crowdfunders!
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Surely you need to defect to Greens Nadia. You know its the moral choice. And take a few with you?
The Greens are offering a different kind of politics – one that offers a sense of solidarity, camaraderie, and agency in an age of individualism.
Contests like this don’t just give us hope. They make us feel we’re part of something bigger than ourselves.
graceblakeley.substack.com/p/the-ground...
But own party didn't know how to do it...
Just 🤔 about how many seats across UK Greens would target for 29 GE if Hannah got Gorton and Denton. London here we come, Manchester here we come, Bristol... what other cities?
So have I got this right? National Labour interferes with internal elections of Labour council groups? !!!
I'd forgotten it was when CL speaking. Shame she didn't sprawl in NN studio to make a point!
His arrogance! And Zia Yusuf and Jacob Rees Mogg on same programme?
Well done Caroline
Our country and our mission? What century is he stuck in?
WOW! And FB gave her a good stretch of uninterrupted time.
The Lab guy's irritating facial expressions say a lot.
Conveniently forget the more widely understood meaning of colonialism in our nations History. Also it was a by product of this colonialism that we could easily tap into migrant labour when it suited us, continuing to other and exploit these newcomers.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Like the bit that says women mps calling for woman deputy doesn't go far enough - Labour needs a woman PM!
( PS I am Green so on one hand shouldn't care. But my sense of where the left still is in 2026 runs deep...)
Didn't he know what he was signing up for when he joined Reform? Couldn't make it up.
IMO this article downplays his unpopularity cos of disappointment. Can't underestimate how people wanted radical change re affordability of housing and better living standards. People didn't vote for Tory lite.
Hope it is plastered over the local papers!
This is so powerful.
But in this topsy survey world Johnson had more support from party and public than Starmer?
It probably won't happen, but not beyond possibility that Mandelson could join Reform? In many ways a good fit 👌
We like to think that politics is complex but in fact it is usually run by a megalomaniac, a few cronies, couple of interconnected business barons and a weak prime minister 🤔
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Starter looking stupid. The continued contact with Epstein after conviction should have been enough. Toast.
How ironical if Starmer forced to resign (sooner or ) later when he blocked Burnham.
Did anyone really trust he had?
Remember most new PMs including Starmer pledge to restore faith in politics... then a few months down the line...
www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-...
This expresses so well the increduluty that so many have felt over the years.
And in Times interview with Katy Ball Mandelson is again talking about returning to public life in some capacity. A narcissist & megalomaniac.
He is pathologically corrupt and a liar. In same stable as Boris,Trump et al. How did someone so avaricious and aligned with privelige become embedded in the Labour party?Like one of their nobility.
Starmer is hiding under admonishing Mandelson and not taking responsobility for appointing him US ambassador.
Ordinary members of public have mistrusted M for many years but as usual establishment politicians thought they knew better. Trust in politicians at very low ebb.
Amazing Starmer not asked to resign over appointment of Mandelson when he probably knew about Epstein association. Government ministers have resigned for less
I wonder if, like my mum, the lizard has a folder of statements going back more than 20 years?
BBC News - Gorton and Denton by-election: Charlotte Cadden chosen as Tory candidate - BBC News
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Increasingly diff to tell diff between Tory and Reform!
(& another thing, bearing in mind she is member of Sex Matters, with that look, bet she gets challenged in loos)
Their candidate might be great altho probably a Starmer loyalist. But agree that the fact that they haven't parachuted in a big name probably suggests they don't think they can win. Be interesting to see who in government visits the constituency. GP has more of a culture of promoting locals.
