Manchester mayoral results, first round Bev Craig - Labour 47% (+24 vs local elections) Reform 21% (-10) Green 12% (-7) Restore 9% (new) Conservative 8% (-3) Lib Dem 3% (-7)

Rowling looming over a progressive Irish cultural festival with her menacing insinuations & a phalanx of expensive lawyers dashing off legal letters. And all because the organisers don’t want transphobes peddling hate at their event. A nauseating spectacle of spite.

Police investigate donations by Tice company to Reform UK

Police investigate donations by Richard Tice company to Reform UK

Britain Means Business, owned by the party’s deputy leader Richard Tice, made two donations of £250,000 in the run-up to the 2024 general election.

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It's fascinating to watch commentators who sat completely silently for a decade as the Conservative Government changed its leader four times in a row mid-term, now suddenly discover such a keen interest in the concepts of 'mandates' and 'legitimacy'

Sex Matters is a charity that loves to hate trans people. And your tax money is paying for it. The stuff they spin isn’t just false, it’s dangerous. So we reported them to the Charity Commission with a dossier of evidence on their staff & trustees. ✊Help us fight back: https://goodlaw.social/anrx

Stop Sex Matters spreading transphobic hate @goodlawproject.org have identified 46 examples, including harassment and discrimination, which they think break charity law. Email the Charity Commission and the culture minister now, and make sure they stop charities spreading hate.

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The anti-trans pressure group Sex Matters are running a campaign of hate, spewing abuse online and in the media – and putting trans people in danger. Sex Matters say they work to “protect everybody’s ...

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Wes Streeting in Defence is certainly a choice, in his role as Health Secretary he worked tirelessly to harm disabled and vulnerable people, and he took on a personal crusade to block access to life saving treatment for LGBTQ+ patients. Burnham failing to impress so far.

"My message to the people of the UK is that I'll train the new guy but you're going to have to stick with one of them eventually."

Andy Burnham has a very short window to turn this government around, end the chaos and build trust with communities the whole length and breadth of the UK.

We need you 🏳️‍⚧️ The new Code of Practice comes into force on 5 August. It is harmful. It encourages discrimination. And it will make life so much harder for the trans people in our community. We’re fighting back. But we can’t do it without your support. Will you join us? 👇 goodlaw.social/qmhp

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Champions! Congratulations, Spain! Today, Europe celebrates with you 🇪🇸🇪🇺

Donald Trump will be delighted to hand the World Cup trophy to his favourite European ally, I'm sure.

So that just happened. When we told them that we couldn't accept any financial donations for our blocklist, a very dear subscriber went and commissioned this fantastic custom artwork for us, of our favourite iconic Brexit image from @smolrobots. Introducing Braybot! @snb19692

4) Drinkbot. Reminds you to drink a glass of water now and then. #SmallRobotsRemastered

512) Arguebot. Is someone in your life insisting on arguing about something that you don't have the time or energy to care about? Let this robot step in for you and keep them occupied with its tireless dedication to whatever contrary position you choose. Don't buy two. #SmallRobotsRemastered

Under a Binface government, anyone who doesn’t accept human-made climate change as fact will be sent back to school, from Year 1 right the way to A Levels, to see if anything goes in the second time round. #VoteBinface

It tells you everything you need to know about the state of British society when the Anne Frank Trust has to step in because of the dehumanising attacks on the LGBT community. What a disgrace we’ve become

Was pro Brexit, was a Tory, then Brexit party, finally Reform. A journey so many bitter, older voters made. I’ll never understand peope like her, who seem to take joy in spite and putting the country in reverse gear, making everything insular, meaner and smaller.

Former Tory minister Ann Widdecombe dies at 78

Ann Widdecombe became a dominant pro-Brexit voice later in her career.

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Hahaha! “Drop everything in a genuine, competitive and important mayoral election in Manchester and come and help me argue with a bin in Clacton!” screams Farage as he once again prioritises his own monstrous ego over being a serious party that can cope under pressure. Nasty clowncar falls apart.

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Scoop from @joshhalliday.bsky.social Reform activists urged to divert from GM mayoral by-election to help Farage in Clacton. Leaked WhatsApp: “The message could not be more clear. We now need all of our fantastic activists to come and help us in Clacton.” www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

The prospect of Nigel Farage fighting a people vs the establishment by-election in which the only other candidate is Count Binface - is too hilarious for words.

Have we missed some kind of serious tectonic event which has caused Clacton-On-Sea to shift southwards? @samcoatessky.bsky.social has been telling the Sky News audience that Clacton is in Kent for some reason.

So Farage got a free 30-minute advert on the BBC. No journalist will do any checking of any of his claims, and it doesn't matter, anyway, because he's already used all broadcast media to get his message out.

Farage resigns his seat in Clacton forcing a by election which he ... er plans to stand in. Huge performative cost to the taxpayers to feather his ego. I hope it backfires spectacularly

Calling a by-election over the sovereign right of every MP to take secret gifts from a convicted criminal. What a time to be alive.

Two MPs have been murderered in the last 10 years but Nigel Farage claims AGAIN to be the most attacked politician in modern times

Saying you're the "most physically attacked" MP when two MPs have been killed in the last decade is just horribly self-absorbed.

A British teacher has been banned from the profession after telling pupils that gay and trans people are "mentally ill" during a classroom discussion, with a disciplinary panel finding the comments amounted to discriminatory behaviour.

Teacher struck off after telling pupils gay and trans people are ‘mentally ill’

A teacher has been banned from the profession after telling pupils that gay and trans people are "mentally ill" during a classroom discussion, with a disciplinary panel finding the comments amounted t...

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Don't let him resign and avoid accountability for his corruption and greed, the man needs to be jailed.

Once again I am at a Kemi Badenoch speech, this time in London Bridge, on defence. Once again it’s packed with the faithful. Once again - I imagine - it will be received with rapture. Once again, my guess is, it will create almost no news and have virtually zero impact on the poll ratings.