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"Voters appear to be in a restless mood as Labour faces its first electoral test since its landslide general election victory. #ReformUK is surging in the polls and the #LibDems and #Greens are also seeking to capitalise on voters' apparent disenchantment with #Labour and the #Tories in English local elections."

#UKPol #Bristol #WECA #Hull #HEYCA

bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c4g2d6

A wide shot looking from the street level down towards people sitting along Bristol Harborside on a sunny day. People are seen milling around as bats bob on the water up ahead
BBC NewsLocal elections: Reform and Greens aim high in volatile mayoral contestsSmaller parties are looking to cause an upset in mayoral contests in Hull and the West of England.

Analysis: "Israel is carrying out ‘destruction of humanity’ in Gaza"

"Legal efforts against those involved in Israel's genocide remain important, even as critical rulings are ignored by those in power & mass killings continue unabated".

~Top UK barrister Michael Mansfield

aljazeera.com/news/2025/4/16/t

#GazaGenocideNotWar #israelicrimesagainsthumanity #uspol #ukpol #internationallaw #bds .

Al Jazeera · Top UK barrister: Israel is carrying out ‘destruction of humanity’ in GazaBy Anealla Safdar

US told UK to repeal hate-speech laws in order to get a trade deal.

Equal rights are the problem for autocracy. In the form of LGBTQ+ rights, in the form of Ukraine to defend itself, and more.

”Free Speech” has been turned into yet another Orwellian tool of oppression

This is nothing but a concerted effort between USA & Russia to end liberal democracy, everywhere.

MAGA & Russia, they are two sides of the same coin

independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli
#ukpol #uspol #tradewar #lgbtq #ukraine #maga #russia

The Independent · Starmer told to accept Trump ‘free speech’ agenda to win trade dealBy David Maddox
So, yet again my small high street cookshop in a rural English town has paid more tax than Starbucks entire UK operation.

Cynically, Starbucks is more than profitable enough to pay £40m of royalties to its US parent company, thereby incuring a loss of £35m.

Global revenue for 2024 was $36billion.

As a Green Party district councillor it makes my blood boil.

#ukpol #GreenParty

Analysis: "Israel is carrying out ‘destruction of humanity’ in Gaza"

"Legal efforts against those involved in Israel's genocide remain important, even as critical rulings are ignored by those in power & mass killings continue unabated".

~Top UK barrister Michael Mansfield

aljazeera.com/news/2025/4/16/t

#GazaGenocideNotWar #israelicrimesagainsthumanity #uspol #ukpol #internationallaw #bds .

Al Jazeera · Top UK barrister: Israel is carrying out ‘destruction of humanity’ in GazaBy Anealla Safdar

I usually tend towards the cock-up rather than conspiracy theory of history, but the handling of the case and perverse rewriting of EA smack of collusion. Also very convenient for Labour who can now administratively dismantle the last shreds of our rights and merely claim to be following the law.

Time to go.