#scottish labour

[luaminesce]

It's funny that Alex Salmond, JKR, and other transphobes are blaming SNP losses on the GRC reform bill when the Scottish Labour Party supported self-id and supported the bill.

[pashankylr]

You need a Pain in the Arse...

BLOG: You need a Pain in the Arse... My name is Paul Cruikshank and I am a Rules Lawyering, question asking, "Umm Actually"ing, Pain in the Arse... ...but I think you'll find that's a good thing, actually.

I was, for one reason or another, in the Scottish Labour HQ last week for a meeting, and before the meeting started a member of party staff (who is a friend of mine and knows exactly what kind of person I am) offered me a coffee. It came in a newly branded Scottish Labour mug. The first thing I did was not thank him (sorry dad), but spin the mug around, look at him, and say “There’s no imprint1…

[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?

[neiljohnsonphotography]

Edinburgh, May/June 2024.

[david-tennant-in-chairs]

No offense to my local chickadees, titmice, and painted buntings, but what kind of feed do I have to put out to attract this kind of beautiful bird to my feeder?

[dadsinsuits]

Paul Sweeney

[justinspoliticalcorner]

Brian Melley and Jill Lawless at Associated Press, via ABC News:

LONDON -- Britain’s Labour Party swept to power Friday after more than a decade in opposition, as a jaded electorate handed the party a landslide victory — but also a mammoth task of reinvigorating a stagnant economy and dispirited nation.

Labour leader Keir Starmer will officially become prime minister later in the day, leading his party back to government less than five years after it suffered its worst defeat in almost a century. In the merciless choreography of British politics, he will take charge in 10 Downing St. hours after Thursday's votes are counted — as Conservative leader Rishi Sunak is hustled out. “A mandate like this comes with a great responsibility,” Starmer acknowledged in a speech to supporters, saying that the fight to regain people’s trust after years of disillusionment “is the battle that defines our age." Speaking as drawn broke in London, he said Labour would offer “the sunlight of hope, pale at first but getting stronger through the day.” Sunak conceded defeat, saying the voters had delivered a “sobering verdict.” For Starmer, it's a massive triumph that will bring huge challenges, as he faces a weary electorate impatient for change against a gloomy backdrop of economic malaise, mounting distrust in institutions and a fraying social fabric. [...]

Britain has experienced a run of turbulent years — some of it of the Conservatives’ own making and some of it not — that has left many voters pessimistic about their country’s future. The U.K.’s exit from the European Union followed by the COVID-19 pandemic and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine battered the economy, while lockdown-breaching parties held by then-Prime Minister Boris Johnson and his staff caused widespread anger. Johnson’s successor, Liz Truss, rocked the economy further with a package of drastic tax cuts and lasted just 49 days in office. Rising poverty, crumbling infrastructure and overstretched National Health Service have led to gripes about “Broken Britain.” While the result appears to buck recent rightward electoral shifts in Europe, including in France and Italy, many of those same populist undercurrents flow in Britain. Reform UK leader Nigel Farage has roiled the race with his party’s anti-immigrant “take our country back” sentiment and undercut support for the Conservatives and even grabbed some voters from Labour. The exit poll suggested Labour was on course to win about 410 seats in the 650-seat House of Commons and the Conservatives 131. With a majority of results in, the broad picture of a Labour landslide was borne out, though estimates of the final tally varied.

[...] The Liberal Democrats won more than 60 seats, on a slightly lower share of the vote than Reform because its votes were more efficiently distributed. In Britain's first-past-the-post system, the candidate with the most votes in each constituency wins. The Green Party have won four seats, up from just one before the election. One of the biggest losers was the Scottish National Party, which held most of Scotland's 57 seats before the election but looked set to lose all but handful, mostly to Labour.

In the United Kingdom, the Rishi Sunak-led disaster class Tories have been sent packing at the ballot box and fall down to Official Opposition Status at around 120 seats, as Keir Starmer’s Labour is set to make mammoth gains. The Lib Dems have recovered to become the 3rd largest party in Westminster.

[lucky-joyous]

WE’RE FINALLY FREE OF THE TORIES

[du-hjarta-skulblaka]

Welp I can't say I'm pleased with the results so far but I sure am enjoying watching all the Torry cunts dropping like flies!

[double-gs]

I need to know something if you're from the UK

[neproxrezi]

man i really hope the english government is so desperate to be transphobic it tears the united kingdom apart. let that be what this tory govt is remembered for

[rainingincale]

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[themistressofdolls]

CW: Transphobia.

This is just outright bragging and being proud of open corruption. Actively admitting they put idealogue hacks into medical and human rights positions instead of experts.

Also Scotland should be furious too they are proudly admitting about overturning our democratic will.

Fuck these people.

[ayeforscotland]

Labour austerity in action.

I fucking said Labour would continue austerity, and guess what? Labour are continuing austerity.

Cutting winter fuel payment for pensioners will lead to deaths.

[wild-at-mind]

USians you will be distressed to know that in the UK far right people use Trump flags, MAGA hats and even confederate flags to signify their allegiances to each other.

[dadsinsuits]

Paul Sweeney