Bolsonaro-friendly mayors appear to be sabotaging public transport on Election Day. Buses aren’t running in Lula-friendly areas, flights and ferries mysteriously canceled. Traffic lights have gone out and people’s power cut in Salvador, indigenous people’s travel restricted
Rafa Sales Ross@rafiews.com · 13h agoWe are watching a coup d’état attempt unfold in real time in Brazil. I’m consumed by desperation.
I still don’t think Burnham will go early, not after his quite definitive answer. Would be against the brand? But the temptation must be very strong right now. December the 10th is apparently the rumour.
I believe TX Hispanic turnout is up *a lot* since it exists in GA and NC, states that ask race/ethnicity on voter registration applications. I caution TX doesn't. This is data from an algorithmic surname match that works okay but has known limitations, particularly in mixed neighborhoods
Tom Bonier@tbonier.bsky.social · 2d agoAs turnout in Texas nears 3 million votes, Hispanic turnout is now exceeding presidential levels. More Hispanics have voted than did at this point in the 2024 presidential election. What's driving this huge increase? Young voters.
The hollowing out a priceless national asset, under a techbro vandal. As with higher education, this type of move might be tolerable if there was *any government policy at all* on what the ultimate plan is. But there isn't.
Michael Savage@michaelsavage.bsky.social · 6d agoBBC News is a good example of big cuts still to come. Today, it has told staff of 100 more job losses, saving £5.5m. That's on top of previous cuts of £25m and £1.8m. But it has to get to a total of £51m in cuts - so still plenty to come next year.
And he could do just the same here in the UK - unless the Representation of the People Bill is both strengthened and passed.
David Roberts@volts.wtf · last wk.One widely loathed, ketamine-addicted, white-supremacist billionaire can single-handedly keep a failing political party afloat, through the brute force of money. Excellent system we've set up here.
I realise i talk about this a lot, but I find it genuinely staggering that basically nobody outside of this website talks about how Brexit and the Lib Dems have broken the pipeline of middle class liberals voting Tory. It's totally destroyed the Tory vote under 40! And nobody seems to care!
Nathan@nwylabour.bsky.social · last wk.Also 'the Tories usually win' is a) only true from the 1920s until the 1990s, b) contingent on the Tories being a welcoming home for middle class liberals
An estimated 97% of households use the BBC's services each week. "Many, however, take the BBC for granted – until they’re deprived of it. A study in 2022 found that after nine days without it, 70% of those who’d said it was poor value changed their minds."
What’s behind the BBC’s funding crisis? An expert explains
It means more programmes will face the axe as cost-cutting continues.
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If Putin stops fighting, the war ends. If Zelensky stops fighting then his country will be occupied, leaders murdered, language banned, businesses stolen, children kidnapped. That's what happens in Russian-occupied Ukraine.
Given Russia is tonight striking power plants in Ukraine, and Zelensky though welcoming of the idea said it was ‘news to me’, perhaps now the media will stop pushing breathless breaking news alerts of whatever Trump says as fact.
So much potential disposable income chomped up to mortgages. Huge personal savings and spending problem which no doubt holds back growth.
Ben Zaranko@benzaranko.bsky.social · 2w agoFor first-time buyers, 6% mortgages are the new 12%. observer.co.uk/news/busines...
I don’t think it’s a good result for them. By-elections are weird and very unique opportunities. If this was one of the few seats where the Lib Dems could establish themselves as challengers, I think LDs would have had a better candidate and also would have won it.
Chaminda Jayanetti@cjayanetti.bsky.social · 2w agothey *weren't* going to win - that's the point. they weren't going to win that seat with national polling where it is and, more to the point, Burnham's own ratings where they are. it's the Burnham honeymoon! you're not winning a safeish Labour seat during a Labour PM's honeymoon!
GPs are drowning in patients’ online requests for advice, after last year’s commitment by the health secretary that all online queries would receive a same day response. Hospitals now face the equivalent, as specialists are being overwhelmed with advice requests. www.bmj.com/content/395/...
Helen Salisbury: The snarl-up at the single point of access
helen.salisbury{at}phc.ox.ac.uk Follow Helen on Bluesky{at}helensalisbury.bsky.social From 1 October this year, all hospitals are meant to have a single point of access set up for their 10 busiest s...
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Sensible propositions on social care involve some form of inheritance/retrieval of funds after death or selling of home in life. Exempting homes, which are a primary source of wealth and income, from any tax is clearly irresponsible and encourages poor decisions around care.
The Tories only got 49 seats more than the Lib Dems at the last election. Over half of them are reasonable targets on a decent day to go orange. Not seeing much which addresses any of this predicament for the Tories by Badenoch.
I was pretty cynical about Man City’s financial doping and didn’t like the idea of stripping titles etc, but seeing their utterly shameless response and desperate threats makes me want the book thrown at them.
Premier League News@plnews.bsky.social · 3w agoUAE warns Andy Burnham it may pull billions in investment for the UK's proposed Oxford-Cambridge tech hub—dubbed the UK's Silicon Valley—in retaliation over Manchester City's guilty verdict, per The Telegraph.
Which is why there has to be a 2 stage referendum or a referendum on a deal only - when and if the time comes.
Britain Elects@britainelects.com · 4w agoOn rejoining the EU Support: 55% Oppose: 34% ... but on the conditions of single currency and Schengen membership Support: 35% Oppose: 43% via YouGov, Jun 2026 britainelects.substack.com/p/is-rejoin-...
Burnham gave a good speech yesterday that set some things Lib Dems also believe in and highly value. Davey will have to be careful not to be outflanked on European policy, PR and care. Labour remain regressive on immigration and too sluggish on the far-right threat.
Kevin Schofield@kevinschofied.bsky.social · 4w agoBritain Could Rejoin European Union On My Watch, Says Andy Burnham www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/britai...
In three seasons Manchester City won the Premier League, 2011-12, 2013-14 and 2017-18, they recorded £360million in commercial income from Abu Dhabi-based sponsors The independent commission found that just £43m of that was actually paid to City by those sponsors
It will never not be wild to me that the Russians attacked Keir Starmer's home, successfully spread falsehoods about Starmer's love life, and this didn't changed British politics and British political elite behaviour *at all*.
Sven-Erik Volberg@volberg.bsky.social · 4w ago7-year sentence handed down to Oleg Bessedin for anti-Estonia activities. Work for russian SVR, pay the price. His handler Sergei Nalobin is, among other things, releted to Brexit campaign and arson of the home of British PM K.Starmer. news.err.ee/1610150341/7...
“The only system in which Nigel Farage can win a Commons majority is First Past the Post.” John Curtice
And change needs to come this parliament, not next. There will need to be a tax solution to this also. The strain on local councils is huge and allowing their services to be stretched further only helps political opponents.
Ed Davey@eddavey.libdems.org.uk · 4w agoI really hope the PM is serious about fixing care, and he can show it by getting on with the cross-party talks we started in July. This can’t just be a series of No10 headlines with no real action. I’ll do everything I can to put family carers at the heart of any solution.
I think most of my political camp are quite happy for small broad tax based rises, but that has to accompanied by a very clear plan, and messaging of that plan, of exactly what it is funding. People then need to feel the specific improvements related to that plan over a promised period of time.
Nick Garland@npjgarland.bsky.social · last mo.Kind of grimly fascinating as always, coming from the former director of strategy to a Labour PM. There just isn't a future for a centre-left politics that is this hostile to pretty basic progressive values.
Westminster Voting Intention: LAB: 27% (-1) RFM: 24% (+1) CON: 21% (=) LDM: 11% (+1) GRN: 7% (-1) SNP: 3% (+1) RES: 2% (=) Via @survation.bsky.social, 22-23 Sep. Changes w/ 9-10 Sep.
Please excuse me while I scream into a cushion at the thought of ALL the articles I had to write on the "UK productivity puzzle" in the 2010s www.ft.com/content/c819...
Amazing how big those majorities are projected to be in (I assume) our Tory facing seats. Suggests that people (any lab tactical) are happy with their Lib Dem MPs and Badenoch’s strategy is failing to change things otherwise.
YouGov@yougov.co.uk · last mo.37% of constituencies are decided by margins of five points or less in our new MRP's central estimates, with this rising to 67% of seats projected to be won by Reform UK, leaving the party particularly vulnerable to tactical voting in a future election campaign yougov.com/en-gb/articl...
It is both really obvious and seemingly often forgotten that an awful load of pressing economic problems would be an order of magnitude easier if the Strait of Hormuz was open.
I am the local LD councillor and I have not supported this campaign. No one asked me to, presumably because they knew what I'd say. This just absolutely, categorically untrue.
Will Jennings📉🗳️@drjennings.bsky.social · last mo.Missed this from various reporting of Piddlington. Lib Dems eh?
