#Labour party

[cosm1cmicr0wave]

I’m Ed

[destiel-news-network]

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[probablyasocialecologist]

[ayeforscotland]

A “Summer Blitz” of illegal immigration raids.

Just checking as I’ve heard it before, is it still too early in the Labour Government for me to criticise them?

They can’t scrap the two-child cap because there’s “no money” but they can ramp up deportations?

[swaggy666llamas]

I have a crazy fucking idea

[deepermadness]

I can't believe that Futurama predicted 2024 UK politics

[septictankie]

[all-the-fun-of-the-cirkus]

generally i save my politics posting for twitter, but i'm really hopeless and fairly drunk so fuck it; i hate that i can't celebrate the tories being bantered, but labour have adopted all their policies, happily supported genocide in palestine, don't give a fuck about poor people or climate change, are getting fucking j k rowling in to consult on their policies towards trans people, and i'm supposed to celebrate them winning a landslide? nah, fuck the lot of them. scumbags, every one, and they can rot in hell

[destiel-news-channel]

[Image ID: The Destiel confession meme edited so that Dean answers 'The exit poll indicates a huge win for the Labour party in the UK elections with an estimated 410 seats while the Conservatives are estimated to only get 131 seats' to Cas' 'I love you'. /End ID]

This is not the final result, these are just estimates!

[fuckyeahmarxismleninism]

Today the British Supreme Court upheld the "Labour" government's ban on puberty blockers for transgender children. (There is no ban for cisgender children, who also get prescribed puberty blockers for various conditions.)

Trans lives are under attack in the United States and Britain. All science and experience is being shunted aside to accommodate far-right ideology. The same anti-trans, anti-queer bigotry underlies the campaign of faux "outrage" over drag artists performing at the Olympics opening ceremonies.

Now is the time to take a stand. That means YOU, cis progressives, radicals and communists.

We will never stop fighting for trans kids and trans lives!

-redguard

[reasonsforhope]

Paywall-Free Article

"In one of its first big decisions, Britain’s new Labour government on Friday [July 12, 2024] announced the early release of thousands of prisoners, blaming the need to do so on a legacy of neglect and underinvestment under the Conservative Party, which lost last week’s general election after 14 years in power.

With the system nearly at capacity and some of the country’s aged prison buildings crumbling, the plan aims to avoid an overcrowding crisis that some had feared might soon explode.

But with crime a significant political issue, the decision is a sensitive one and the prime minister, Keir Starmer, a former chief prosecutor, lost no time in pointing to his predecessors to explain the need for early releases.

“We knew it was going to be a problem, but the scale of the problem was worse than we thought, and the nature of the problem is pretty unforgivable in my book,” Mr. Starmer said, speaking ahead of the decision while attending a NATO summit in Washington...

Under the new government’s plan, those serving some sentences in England and Wales would be released after serving 40 percent of their sentence, rather than at the midway point at which many are freed “on license,” a kind of parole.

The even earlier releases will not apply to those convicted of more serious crimes, including sexual offenses, serious violence and terrorism. But Mark Icke, vice president of the Prison Governors’ Association, told the BBC that the plan could remove from the system “between 8,000 and 10,000 people,” providing “some breathing space.”

[Note: And more importantly - breathing space for thousands of people who have been unjustly imprisoned for minor offenses, as well as their families.]

Despite some early releases under the previous government, the strain on the prison system has been relentless. In England and Wales, the prison population stands at 87,505 — very close to the maximum capacity of 88,956 — according to the latest official data...

In its first week in power, Labour has said that it is grappling with a difficult inheritance after years of restraint in spending on public services under the Conservatives. In one of her first acts in government, the new chancellor of the Exchequer, Rachel Reeves, has ordered a review of Britain’s public finances.

Before Labour had won the election, it identified the strain on Britain’s prisons as a potentially major problem. The issue was cited on an internal list of key concerns; others included the strain on the overburdened health care system and financial pressure on municipalities and universities.

The prison population of England and Wales has doubled over the last 30 years, despite a decline in crime rates, and it has increased by 13 percent in the past three years...

Rory Stewart, a former Conservative prisons minister, said that Britain had incarcerated too many people, including for minor crimes such as repeated failure to pay council tax, which is levied by local authorities for municipal services.

According to Mr. Stewart in remarks to the BBC, imprisoning people for minor crimes “doesn’t protect the public. It doesn’t help these people get away from offending. And it creates these violent, filthy, shameful places which our prisons have become today.” The Conservative and Labour parties, he added, had “competed with each other on being more and more ferocious in demanding longer and longer sentences.”

Mr. Starmer has raised hopes among those who want to change that policy by appointing a prominent advocate of overhauling the prison system, James Timpson, as prisons minister. Mr. Timpson, a businessman, has a record of employing former prisoners in an effort to give them a second chance."

-via The New York Times, July 12, 2024

[quasi-normalcy]

Just throwing out there that if I were "severely mentally ill" and the government sent some "career coach" motherfucker to "help" me, the first thing I would do is take a huge bite out of their fucking jugular vein as a matter of principle.

[ayeforscotland]

After announcing that they experiment with weight-loss drugs on people who are unemployed to get them back to work, Labour have said they will send job coaches into mental health wards to speak to ‘seriously ill patients’.

Just unfathomably bleak. A country in absolute decline which refuses to do the one thing to get the economy back on track - investing in public services.

[sayruq]

[toruandmidori]

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[amorphousblobqueen]

Something that I wish more people understood is that this election is no longer about who forms a government. That is a forgone conclusion at this point unless shit really hits the fan. This election is about who leads the opposition.

If the conservatives are allowed to get away with second place, they will still have the platform to poison our politics and rebuild to come back down the line.

If the lib dems get to finish second instead, they will get to set the narrative, the media will be forced to platform them more and the conservatives less, and we actually stand a chance at having the labour government held to account. Polls show that this is on the cards.

We are so close to a seismic shift in politics in this country.

But to do it, we need to vote tactically. We need to the number of lib dem seats where possible, but realistically they have a ceiling of support at around 70-75 seats. So the other half of the equation is to reduce the number of conservative seats as far below 70 as we can. There is no such thing as a safe tory seat this election, with enough tactical voting they can all be wiped out.

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