Shouldnt #NHS ID count as ID for voting, if we're going down this line??!

You have to jump through more police checks etc than a bloody over 60s bus pass for fuck sake.

#UK #UKpolitics #GeneralElection #GeneralElectionNow #ToryScum

The school bubbly concrete situation that is starting to dominate the airwaves is absolutely shocking. Considering #Gove & @Sunak appear to be responsible for the unfolding 💩 show. Once again it is the kids that are going to suffer.

However, you get the feeling that this will probably finish whatever chances the #Tories had a winning the #generalelection

It is further evidence that #England is falling apart. #think32 is looking ever more attractive!

In their book “Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt”, @ChrisLynnHedges (#ChrisHedges) & Joe #Saco portray “inverted totalitarianism” as a system where corporations have corrupted & subverted democracy and where economics bests politics. Every natural resource and living being is commodified and exploited by large corporations to the point of collapse as excess consumerism and sensationalism lull and manipulate the citizenry into surrendering their liberties and their participation in government.

In #Britain, inverted totalitarianism is being played out before our eyes as never before because the elites don’t care any more if we, the poles, know what they are doing to us!

The utterly corrupt @conservatives (#Tories) are bought and paid for by #Putin’s #Russia, #Xi’s #China, #binSalman & other assorted oligarchs & despots.

The @UKLabour (#Labour) Party under #KeirStarmer is ‘in hoc’ to the #TrilateralCommission. Also, #Starmer has deliberately lost/ ejected so many of its former ~600k members (and their membership subs) that they’ve had to go, cap in hand, seeking donations from assorted corporate interests who will obviously want their ‘pound of flesh’ should #Labour come to power!

Our first-past-the-post electoral system is designed to entrench the inverted totalitarian system that is our so-called democracy! Nothing will change if #Labour replaces the Tories in the 2024 #GeneralElection - as is currently predicted to happen by a landslide!

Imo, at #UK #Election24:

1. #Tories *must* be destroyed electorally! This looks like a distinct possibility as they have do royally f#cked up pretty much everything! Nothing works in Britain anymore!
2. #Labour u/ ‘Sir’ Keir #KidStarver *cannot* be allowed to gain a #Blair-style landslide majority! #Starmer would use this almost unbridled power to unleash a torrent of illiberal policies on the country
3. Hence we must somehow elect a powerful #Left presence in Parliament to oppose his #NeoLiberal & authoritarian instincts
4. Well-informed, we’ll-organised tactical voting will be key - not just to wipe out the Tories but, crucially, to #StopStarmer

https://skwawkbox.org/2023/08/13/new-grassroots-stop-starmer-group-launches-with-video/

In their book “Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt”, @ChrisLynnHedges (#ChrisHedges) & Joe #Saco portray “inverted totalitarianism” as a system where corporations have corrupted & subverted democracy and where economics bests politics. Every natural resource and living being is commodified and exploited by large corporations to the point of collapse as excess consumerism and sensationalism lull and manipulate the citizenry into surrendering their liberties and their participation in government.

In #Britain, inverted totalitarianism is being played out before our eyes as never before because the elites don’t care any more if we, the poles, know what they are doing to us!

The utterly corrupt @conservatives (#Tories) are bought and paid for by #Putin’s #Russia, #Xi’s #China, #binSalman & other assorted oligarchs & despots.

The @UKLabour (#Labour) Party under #KeirStarmer is ‘in hoc’ to the #TrilateralCommission. Also, #Starmer has deliberately lost/ ejected so many of its former ~600k members (and their membership subs) that they’ve had to go, cap in hand, seeking donations from assorted corporate interests who will obviously want their ‘pound of flesh’ should #Labour come to power!

Our first-past-the-post electoral system is designed to entrench the inverted totalitarian system that is our so-called democracy! Nothing will change if #Labour replaces the Tories in the 2024 #GeneralElection - as is currently predicted to happen by a landslide!

Imo, at #UK #Election24:

1. #Tories *must* be destroyed electorally! This looks like a distinct possibility as they have do royally f#cked up pretty much everything! Nothing works in Britain anymore!
2. #Labour u/ ‘Sir’ Keir #KidStarver *cannot* be allowed to gain a #Blair-style landslide majority! #Starmer would use this almost unbridled power to unleash a torrent of illiberal policies on the country
3. Hence we must somehow elect a powerful #Left presence in Parliament to oppose his #NeoLiberal & authoritarian instincts
4. Well-informed, we’ll-organised tactical voting will be key

https://tactical.vote/all/

(19 Aug) - Polling roundup: Trump has no realistic path to win a general election https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/polling-roundup-trump-has-no-realistic-path-to-win-a-general-election #TrumpPath #GeneralElection #PollingRoundup #RealisticPath #WinningElection #WashingtonExaminer #Politics #News https://mastodon.sdf.org/@uspolitics/110915010606379266

Polling roundup: Trump has no realistic path to win a general election

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/polling-roundup-trump-has-no-realistic-path-to-win-a-general-election

#TrumpPath #GeneralElection #PollingRoundup #RealisticPath #WinningElection #WashingtonExaminer #Politics #News

The people saying we should all vote #Labour at the next #GeneralElection to get the #Tories out are also saying they are OK with being lied to from a party that has expelled all traces of left wing politics, is racist, misogynist, against workers' rights, starves children, and is tolerant of in-party bullying.

They are also OK with a party taking advantage of FPTP to move politics rightwards and further disenfranchise the electorate.

Because that's what a vote for Labour will say.

#Starmer

#VoxPolitical | "There are alternatives [to #Labour] but it seems too many people are buying into that hoary old #LiberalDemocrat #propaganda that voting for anybody other than the party that came second last time will let the #Tories back in."

https://voxpoliticalonline.com/2023/08/12/do-voters-really-want-labour-or-not/

#LabourParty #Starmer #GeneralElection

@JimmyB Come the next #GeneralElection if anyone says they're voting for Starmer, I'm going to reply with "So you'll be voting for Sir Kid Starver?" and see how they justify themselves.

🚨 UK Politicians: turn the tide for nature 🚨

With a #GeneralElection on the horizon, ALL political parties must commit to taking action for nature - before it’s too late.

Agree? Sign the #Nature2030 open letter 👇 https://action.wildlifetrusts.org/page/130179/petition/1?locale=en-GB&en_chan=tw&en_ref=178594356

@helenczerski need #generalelection now and the environmental group and opposition party to mobilise

So that’s what all this ‘I’m on the side of the motorist’ nonsense was all about.
Getting as much damage done before the #GeneralElection
🤔 I wonder who is getting those licences…

https://news.sky.com/story/rishi-sunak-heads-to-scotland-for-net-zero-energy-policy-push-12930459

💚 Brighton Pavilion needs a Green MP in Parliament representing all the people across this wonderful constituency

🗳️ @FeministGreens know Sian will work hard between now and the #GeneralElection to win their trust and support

So is it we're-coming-up-to-another-general-election time again, when the government starts promising things it could have done ten years ago?

#GeneralElection #Tories #ToryParty

Of course, the #byelection post-mortems are under way in earnest this weekend....

The key take-away as far as I can see, is don't be misled by the % swings quoted, what we may really have seen was a collapse of the #Tory vote (i.e. abstaining, rather than vote-shifting).

How this plays out in a #generalelection is difficult to predict... will some #Tories 'lend' their vote to opposition parties to teach their (normal) party a lesson?

A new Govt. may find its support weak & be led rightwards?

🚨 Politicians: turn the tide for nature 🚨

With a #GeneralElection on the horizon, ALL political parties must commit to taking action for nature - before it’s too late.

Agree? Sign the #Nature2030 open letter 👇 https://action.wildlifetrusts.org/page/131895/petition/1?locale=en-GB&en_chan=tw&en_ref=156384699

"To be truly radical is to make hope possible, rather than despair convincing.” If Starmer and his team fail that test, they will only deserve all the noise and disruption that will thereby be let loose. So far, it has to be said, the signs are not good."

Keir Starmer is threatening to leave our crises unchanged. So what social forces will he unleash? | John Harris | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/jul/16/labour-changes-little-power-social-forces-councillors-climate

#LabourParty #SocialReform #KeirStarmer #GeneralElection #UKGovernment #TaxTheRich

Britons living abroad and unable to vote because they have been out of the UK for more than 15 years might want to read this. The Elections Act 2022 gives the right to vote to such people. #UnitedKingdom #voting #generalelection #expatriate #britain

https://researchbriefings.files.parliament.uk/documents/SN05923/SN05923.pdf

#VoxPolitical: "Why should we vote either Labour or the Tories into government, knowing that neither party is fit for the job?"

Me: "Well, better late than never you worked that out, I guess."

https://voxpoliticalonline.com/2023/07/08/if-keir-starmers-labour-isnt-worthy-of-governmental-office-why-support-it/

#Starmer #Labour #GeneralElection

#ArrestedKleptocracy: In Brazil, the Superior Electoral Court bars former president Jair Bolsonaro (pictured) from running for political office until 2030 for #abuseofpower before the 2022 #generalelection

#lockhimup

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