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Another Europe Is Possible
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If the Scottish Labour leader will say it, what's stopping the PM? Write to your MP before the EU-UK summit: www.anothereurope.org/tell-your-mp...
Tell your MP: Full EU membership now
Use our tool to write to your MP about the need to rejoin the EU
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Mirror Politics@politics.mirror.co.uk · 3d agoThe Scottish Labour leader has called for the UK to rejoin the European Union - piling pressure on Andy Burnham ahead of crunch talks with the bloc.
EXCLUSIVE: Chief Brexit advocate Nigel Farage has been blasted for 'moaning about the inevitable consequences of his actions' after he hit out at soaring food prices
Nigel Farage moans about 'insane' food price spike – despite £400 Brexit damage
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Our water system is in crisis. And this government is… planning a review of failed regulation??? 🤯 ENOUGH. Trying to regulate our way out of a fundamentally broken system is farcical. Public ownership of our water NOW vist.ly/5smvs
Water bosses must not be rewarded for failure by another name, says Environment Secretary
Environment Secretary warns against the use of loopholes that undermines the spirit of the bonus ban
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They do. There's no if. Labour has increased the removal of unaccompanied children, denied more women the ability to seek asylum, especially by cancelling the family reunification route, made it harder for women and children to be with husbands and fathers etc 1/ www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
Mahmood’s migration changes may harm women and children, Labour MP warns
Olivia Bailey calls on home secretary to exclude children from tougher trafficking tests, and to make allowances for domestic abuse victims
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Doroteja Antić and her fellow activists are thought to be the first Serbians given a form of protected status since the Balkan Wars. She told me about the joy and love on the streets of Zagreb as news of Serbia’s democratic spring broke and the new dawn it might heralds for the whole region 👇👇👇👇👇
Another Europe Is Possible@anothereurope.bsky.social · last wk.Serbia rises against autocracy! In this pod @lukecooper100.bsky.social talks to a young Serbian activist, who was exiled from her own country and declared a terrorist by the Vucic regime. Now she hopes to go home to build a free and democratic Serbia. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/c...
The proposed changes to ILR could make some refugees wait 30 years before they can apply for settlement. That means people who have fled war and persecution would have their status reviewed every 2.5 years for decades, living in constant precarity when they should be settling into their new home.
A 30-year wait to officially settle in the UK? This is what the government is proposing for refugees who arrive via irregular routes. This controversial policy will punish asylum seekers escaping war and atrocities, such as women and children fleeing Afghanistan and Sudan.
Serbia rises against autocracy! In this pod @lukecooper100.bsky.social talks to a young Serbian activist, who was exiled from her own country and declared a terrorist by the Vucic regime. Now she hopes to go home to build a free and democratic Serbia. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/c...
Serbia's Democratic Revolution
Podcast Episode · COUNTER•POWER · 3 November · 40min
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It's ON! Andy Burnham says the UK could go 'all the way' and we agree. Our NC member @seemasyeda.bsky.social spoke to Nick Campbell on BBC5 this morning. It makes sense - for the climate, for peace, for our rights, for the economy, let's get back in:
For years, people seeking sanctuary have paid the price as our leaders repeat the same mistakes: more hostility, more cruelty, and more waste. And one thing should be very clear to everyone: it isn’t working. We're proud to join 200+ refugee orgs in showing our new PM a better way is possible:
200 refugee charities call for end of asylum 'gimmicks' in letter to Burnham
EXCLUSIVE: More than 200 charities have called on Andy Burnham to tear up large parts of Shabana Mahmood's asylum plans - including a £10,000 'refugee tax' and the use of military sites
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10 years ago, people went to cast their votes in a referendum that would define the next decade. Our broken democracy, our divided society, our corrupt state - not caused by Brexit, but emboldened by it. Brexit is a dead end. It's time to change course. www.anothereurope.org/10-years-on-...
10 years on, Brexit is spent
Today marks the 10th anniversary of the Brexit Referendum in the UK. The push to leave the European Union became a useful vehicle for growing division, spreading hate against migrants...
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A human rights lawyer who facilitated genocide. Good riddance.
Is there any precedent for a by-election explicitly designed to overthrow the sitting prime minister? This is a massive roll of the dice by Burnham in a Reform-friendly seat, setting up a what is surely the most consequential by-election ever mafiapoliticsglobaldisorder.substack.com/p/the-most-c...
I hope this isn’t true. There are times when it’s more important to put country before party. This is one of them. Burnham’s longstanding commitment to a fairer voting system could transform our democracy & counter the dire threat of a Reform UK government elected on a minority of the vote
Greens suggest they will properly contest byelection in blow to Burnham
Statement follows speculation party would not field candidate in Makerfield or barely fight seat
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Over the weekend an exchange of memos once again failed to end the Iran-cum-US blockade of the Strait. So who is going to blink first? My money is on Trump doing a TACO. My post on Substack: open.substack.com/pub/mafiapol...
The people "credible" on migration are the experts, people who provide services for migrants, economists who understand labour markets and migrants themselves. All ignored regularly by politicians/media, 0 funding, 0 resource, death threats and hostility. Gee whizz if only there was a solution.
Luke Tryl@luketryl.bsky.social · 6mo agoThe glue that can unite both wings is economics, Mamdanism even. But you have to be properly credible enough on immigration both legal and crossings, but of course won’t out bid Reform, but that credibility gets you a hearing then to do the economic/climate piece that unites your coalition.
“You cannot plausibly claim to be at the heart of Europe if you are structurally outside it. You make a fool of yourself if you claim the exceptionalist position of being at the centre when you’re at the outskirts asking for information about what was said in EU meetings.”
Mike Galsworthy@mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 6mo agoI wrote a Substack on it too. “Heart of Europe” means something to pro-Europeans, because it’s *our* phrase. Starmer had better not be nicking our rejoin line in order to keep us outside the EU… …in doing so he’d be aggravating the very base he’s trying to appeal to in order to save himself.
The number of Germans prepared to vote AfD is certainly alarming, but clicking through to the polling data there doesn't seem much to support this "surge" narrative. INSA, for example, has AfD at 28% but was clocking them at 27% last December.
Germany’s far-right AfD sees surge in support after it criticises Donald Trump’s Iran war
Party tops opinion polls after tapping into voter anger at soaring fuel prices
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I've signed up to Substack, I'm going to use to flesh out ideas on the bad guys taking over the world and what we might do about it. This first post is about why we shouldn't rationalise the actions of the mad king as a grand strategic effort to uphold American hegemony substack.com/home/post/p-...
Policy and power in the court of king Trump
The starting point for analysing Trump has to be that there is little strategic logic to his actions in the genuine geoeconomic challenges facing American power
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Six years ago, his principles were entirely different.
Kemi Badenoch has accused Keir Starmer of not supporting the initial strikes in Iran for fear of upsetting Muslim voters “whose political loyalties are swayed by conflicts in the Middle East, not the British national interest.” That’s quite the claim, and pretty inflammatory.
No one I know is mourning Khamenei because he was a mass murderer. We’re worried because we also know what the Americans and Israelis are: mass murderers.
There was a general strike here last month. There’s genuine support for a change of regime here and all over Iran but you don’t get that with air strikes, all that brings is death.
Fared Al Mahlool | فريد المحلول@faredalmahlool.bsky.social · 9mo agoBREAKING: Massive U.S. airstrikes in Kermanshah in western Iran
Look it's very simple, Britain faces an existential threat of socially conservative Muslim voters bringing in Sharia law by voting as a bloc for woke progressives who will turn all our children trans.
"if a party is offering to tackle the cost of living crisis and is showing moral consistency in international human law, that's probably a party worth voting for" 💚
Farrukh@implausibleblog.bsky.social · 9mo agoCharlie Stayt, "A lot of people think those leaflets are the nasty side of politics" Zack Polanski, "Genocide is quite nasty"
The anti-Reform vote is 25k to Goodwin's 10k. It's PR or fascism. Starmer out. Good days ahead 💚✊
"The forgotten majority" being the 71% who didn't vote for you.
