It's honestly frustrating how weirdly fucking tribal Labour are when it comes from agreeing with other parties. Just call for a ceasefire??? They're so fucking concerned about 'giving ground' to the SNP than actually doing the right thing.
really really cool and great that it only took four or five months, 30000 dead palestinians, countless war crimes and human rights violations - starmer was a human rights lawyer by the way - a provisional ruling at the ICJ, the suspension of several labour MPs and candidates for voicing pro-palestinian sentiments, the threat of rebellion within the PLP, and losing potential voters just before a general election for him to come to this conclusion! (source)
I unusually just share tweets, but given the amount of reblogs I'll edit this one:
INFO Update #1 from @misinfohunter
This is mostly misinformation.
UK law does not require transgender people to have a Gender Recognition Certificate in order to include their correct name and gender on a Death Certificate. However, this is subject to discretion and having a GRC does make the process less complicated.
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There is no English government. England is controlled by the UK government.
Why does England not have its own parliament?
Jack Sheldon, University of Cambridge, provide 'The Basics' on English devolution (or the lack of), explaining why England does not have a p
CENTRE ON CONSTITUTIONAL CHANGE
Sir Keir Starmer did voice the opinion that ‘16 is too young to decide legal gender’ during an interview on January 15th, 2023. This statement was made in reference to Scottish reforms to the Gender Recognition Act.
Starmer: '16 is too young to change legal gender' - BBC News
The UK Labour leader voices "concerns" about the Scottish government's reforms to the process.
BBC NEWS
INFO Update #2 from @momagainstcatboys
this is not true. i understand people are upset and the legislation is legit nightmarish but there is no legal requirement for your gender on your death certificate to match that on your birth certificate, nor do you need a gender recognition certificate. it merely requires that those registering the death note the correct gender with the registrar. obviously this legislation can be applied unevenly and families are bs but it’s important that people know their rights on this, and spreading misinformation helps no-one.
Another video from today's March for Palestine in London
Do not let politicians and the media fool you, the people of the United Kingdom stand with the people of Palestine and continue to fight against Israeli apartheid. We will not be silenced.
Just saw an advert for Labour in which Starmer came so close to unironically saying 'make Britain great again' it was insane. He's such a fucking conservative. His pitch to get us to vote Labour is literally 'more police' (because it's not as if any British cops have abducted and/or murdered anyone in recent years) and 'teach your kids what businesses want' (because we all miss industrial Britain's glory days of child labour) and 'indefinite growth' (because nothing says environmental sustainability like unfettered capitalist expansion). Like these are actual quotes. Tory plant, fuck.
So did you think Rishi Sunak making a £1000 bet with Piers Morgan over sending asylum seekers to Rwanda was the lowest he could possibly sink? Think again.
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This wretched excuse for a man decided to pull his ‘what is a woman’ gotcha during PMQs WHEN BRIANNA GHEY’S MOTHER WAS IN THE PUBLIC GALLERY!
Very rarely do you see Keir Starmer lost for words. Even he was shocked by this disgusting outburst.
Rishi Sunak is a vile, sociopathic, narcissistic piece of shit. The sooner we get a general election, the better.
Cathy had voted Labour all her life. Then she heard an LBC interview with Keir Starmer. In it, he was asked if it was “appropriate” that Israel should besiege Gaza, cutting off power and water. “I think Israel does have that right,” Starmer replied. Cathy immediately resigned from the party, which she joined three years ago when Starmer was elected leader. “This has been the last straw,” she tells me. Previous straws, she says, include a raft of policies that Labour had watered down, and Tory policies that Labour would not repeal. But Labour’s position on the siege of Gaza has killed off the little faith she had left.
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The consistency in the position of several Labour voters I spoke to over the past few days is striking. The main assertion: they will not be voting for this Labour party. The reason: the party crossed a line by effectively endorsing Israel’s killing and besieging of civilians. The language of a final reckoning came up a lot: “a red line”, “a line in the sand”, “the straw that broke the camel’s back”, a “mask has slipped”. And the anger is by no means sectarian. “It’s easier to frame it as a Muslim issue,” says Calum, a member who has left the party. “It’s not a Muslim issue. It’s a human one.”
Labour’s damage limitation response did little but entrench this view of an untrustworthy, cynical leadership. It took Starmer days to address his LBC comments, and then, bizarrely, he claimed that he never said them at all. Then there was his visit to a mosque and Islamic centre in south Wales, a sanitation exercise that backfired epically. On social media, Starmer posted images of smiling congregants, saying he had “repeated our calls for hostages to be released, more humanitarian aid to enter Gaza, for water and power to be switched back on, and a renewed focus on the two-state solution”. A statement issued by South Wales Islamic Centre via the Muslim Council of Wales rejected Starmer’s version of how the meeting went, stressing that his “social media post and images gravely misrepresented our congregants and the nature of the visit”.
When the UK has to choose between a hard right government that puts party before country, that demonizes nurses and refuses to negotiate with striking doctors and is led by a transphobe, and a guy whose favourite hobby is U-turning on literally everything, and the third parties get screwed over by first past the post, a voting system that the two main parties have no incentive to change