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Williamson had more than one incident though, pushing places to give platforms to Gilad Atzmon for instance. Coyle has no business being in the Labour party. Even if he was just suspended initially there's absolutely no way it should have ever been lifted. As I said, welcoming him back in says to me that Starmer is endorsing sinophobic assault, which has been rising post-covid.

We're all in this together: https://www.theguardian.com/business/2024/feb/15/british-gas-profits-energy-bills-centrica

I mean personally, I consider the fact that Neil Coyle has been welcomed back into the party, to be Starmer endorsing all of the sinophobic abuse and assault that I and others have suffered post-covid. I think it's a toxic pile of crap and that he's more interested in factionalism over protecting minorities. I had the same criticism of Corbyn and his defense of Chris Williamson just to be clear.

I think it's literally just they're realised they're throwing money away and seeing if they can find a different way to do it.

The transphobia row is probably less damaging to Sunak than the £1k bet would've been with more headlines. Sadly.

I mean, it's a changed constituency. But the shift to me doesn't actually read as "Labour to Green" it's the the posh bits just west of Clifton Suspension Bridge that would've voted Tory have gone from the old Bristol West constituency, and its added in more flats with ppl aged 18-35 in, that'll vote either Labour or Green.

That doesn't surprise me. I don't think it'll be that vote split, but Starmer is very unpopular here, and Labour have been f**king a lot up (more the mayor's fault than MPs)

How about call it climate Kardashian to get people interested?

A number of places have started using the phrases "climate crisis" or "climate emergency" instead of "climate change" because of how catastrophic it will reach unless something changes.

The Tories will fling mud at each other soon enough. I don't think this stuff matters much. "Same old Labour" and "Same old Tories" views will stay static.

Cameron being reasonable and talking sense is something that deeply unnerves me.

It might actually be a cool thing to have not in the forums, but further down the homepage as a "we've got active forums" hint, although I don't know if that's possible.

Yeah, it's nowhere near enough pressure yet, and isn't going to stop the genocide, but at least the West are actually calling things war crimes and trying to stop Israel continuing to escalate.

From https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2024/feb/13/middle-east-crisis-live-updates-israel-gaza-ceasefire-deal-truce-agreement-joe-biden-prevent-rafah-offensive-latest-update-news UN would not cooperate with any forced Rafah evacuation The UN humanitarian office has not received any communication from Israel of a plan to evacuate Gaza's Rafah area either alone or jointly and would not participate in any forced evacuation even if it did, a spokesperson told Reuters on Tuesday. "We have not received any official communication from Israeli officials," Jens Laerke, spokesperson for OCHA said in response to Reuters questions about Rafah plans. "Regardless, the UN does not participate in forced, non-voluntary evacuations. There is no plan at this time to facilitate the evacuation of civilians," he said.

If it's his biggest crisis he's done very well! I don't think it is, I think there's been much bigger issues than this, and that's just media hyperbole.

lmao. I don't in the slightest bit believe that, but that's legit hilarious.

I get all this. I generally support by-elections, and I don't begrudge anyone the right to a MP, it's more that I think there just should be a GE pretty ASAP now. And also, there's people like those in Dorries' constituency who were effectively without a MP for ages.

Just because they're not going to impact parliament's status, or any votes, or even many politicians' careers.

These by-elections have to happen because of proper procedure, but frankly, I think they're so utterly meaningless.

There's still a lot of Corbynistas who think that "winning the argument" and "being on the right side of history" matters more than shaping history/the country. I'm no fan of Starmer but I think holding onto sh*t like this to damage him is idiotic BS.

If that's the case then it's the right action. We'll see I guess.

It's a good point tbf. It's prob someone anti-Starmer loving the chance to throw this at him.

Sunak neither though.

They've got to suspend campaigning for him I reckon.

You can take the boy out of Tottenham