#independent mp

[secretagentsagainstwhatever]

Your least favourite mp's least favourite mp

[nando161mando]

Ladies and gentlemen, the Independent MP for Islington North!

[mybodyfails]

[borealing]

if yall dont know whats happening in British politics right now, the guy who is like 90% likely to become the next pm, who is the leader of the (previously) more left wing party labour has been systematically removing all the left-wing MPs (members of parliament) who are likely to get re-elected and telling them they cannot stand as a labour MP at the election in july. he has been replacing them with people who are more right wing, for example one of them has a day job as a ceo of a privatised healthcare company, and another is literally an israel lobbyist. labour is becoming a right wing, racist, and blatantly pro-israel party. if labour gets in, it will no longer be "ohhh we totally cant take a stand on israel :///" they are likely to become explicitly pro-israel. they have abandoned all their left wing policies. they will be the tories 2.0, but worse in many areas. it feels like this country is copying americas lead with one more """left wing""" party whos campaign line seems to be "we're not as bad as the other guys!" whos policies suck ass as they can freely become more right wing and not what the public wants because "there's no better option". it SUCKS. and its NOT TRUE.

if you're in the uk, please look at your constituency and try to vote green, or independent, or whoever isnt labour or tory. party politics are failing us, we are NOT a two party country, we can do better than labour.

[thatscarletflycatcher]

I should remake my Austen OST opinions because they have changed a bit with time. Someday.

[grace-the-ninth]

rosie duffield is an absolutely vile, transphobic shitstain and it is absolutely no loss to labour that she has left the party. it is however extremely funny to see some of my least favourite people ripping each other to shreds

[rpfisfine]

got accused of cheating on the C2 seminar test bc I copied One answer from my dumb as fuck neighbor that then turned out to be wrong so that’s what im dealing with currently

[bloodurged]

he’s not “the laugh police”, he’s a faggot ! jesus christ. 

[vordemtodgefeit]

my constituency is officially a labour hold, green second majority

[daughterofsarenrae]

Hate the dance i have to do to get one of my family members in georgia willing to vote blue instead of independent. Figuring out the correct amount of pushing to keep them from immediately shutting down and getting defensive is exhausting

[pumpumdemsugah]

For £10k a month you too can hire a Tory MP for 6 meetings a year. The extended video here

[artemis-dawn8]

Not an ad or anything, just me. But I was reading an article from the Guardian just now as research for a school essay and this was shown at the bottom. Like I said, this isn’t an ad or anything, so don’t feel pressured to do something because I highlighted the question about supporting them and don’t feel guilty if you decide not to. I’m not asking for anyone to support them one way or another, I just found this really super cool and wanted to share in order to put it on people’s radars in case they do. Anyways, I’ll get off my soapbox now.

[sszeemedia]

Jeremy Corbyn re-elected as Islington North MP as independent candidate

Jeremy Corbyn has been re-elected as the Member of Parliament for Islington North. He was running as an independent candidate. The former Labour leader secured victory with over 24,000 votes, surpassing Labour candidate Praful Nargund, who garnered more than 16,000 votes. This win marks a significant relief for Mr. Corbyn, who has represented the north London constituency for 40 years. At the…

[insidecroydon]

How the 'lifestyle choices' of Tory millionaires is taking the PIP

Is there no vulnerable section of society that this Conservative Government won’t try to undermine? In his latest column, ANDREW FISHER, right, looks into the latest attacks on disabled people Whenever Conservative governments are in trouble they reach not for solutions, but for scapegoats. For weeks, in the run-up to this month’s local elections, the Conservatives spoke of little else other than…

[mayasaura]

did you see te pati maori declared independence??

I DID NOT! Holy shit! Thanks for the news!

Okay, now reporting back from one research deep-dive, the recent context as I understand it is this:

Last November, a conservative right-wing Prime Minister, Christopher Luxon, assumed office. He's got a lot of less than stellar right-wing policies, and that includes making cuts to the Ministry of Social Development and opposing co-governance with the Waitangi Tribunal and other Māori leadership organisations over the administering of public services such as education, health, and infrastructure. He's been openly critical of Māori seats in Parliament, though he hasn't (yet) opposed them. Over the course of his administration, there's been an initiative to omit or cut mentions of the Treaty of Waitangi, the foundational document of New Zealand that forms the basis of arguments for Māori protections, from official language.

Which brings us to yesterday, May 30th. Budget Day. The day the new administration would announce their first budget and a day of mass action for supporters of te Pāti Māori protesting the treatment of Māori under the new government. I don't have any concrete numbers, but RNZ reports thousands of protestors, while the NZ Herald estimates "tens of thousands" turning out nation-wide, and a walking protest that delayed rush-hour traffic in Auckland for hours.

You may have already guessed that the budget was Bad. As I understand it, the budget effectively cut any kind of targeted funding for Māori health or education, and decreased funding for Māori cultural festivals and celebrations. And again, I cannot stress enough how much I am not an expert on this topic, so there's probably a lot more in there I don't know about.

In response to the new budget, Māori Party MP Rawiri Waititi issued a Declaration of Independence to the New Zealand Parliament, (video of his speech in link) with the support of his fellow te Pāti Māori co-leader Debbie Ngarewa-Packer.

There doesn't seem to be any concrete plan in place yet for the organisation of the new Māori parliament, but MPs Waititi and Ngarewa-Packer met with protestors to collect signatures for the Declaration, which they plan to bring to a hui taumata (meeting of congress) today, Friday, May 31st. The text of the Declaration can be found on te Pāti Māori website, in the form of a petition. You do not have to be Māori to sign, but I believe you do have to be kiwi.

[spidermartini]

Millenials and Gen Z, you guys have heart and drive and power. Use it.

Activate, band together and make sure Tr$mp doesn't come close to winning. Vote Blue

This is a strategic election. This isn't the moment for an independent candidate (I'm saying this as an Independent). This is a time for a massive blue wave to tale out the tyranny and racism and homophobia like a tsunami.