Didn’t they just rule that transphobia was a protected belief? That makes them an “interesting” organisation for me.
Be interesting to see what the ECHR makes of it.,*
*If you can get in before Britain withdraws, human rights has become something of a bete noir for the far right, despite the mechanisms being very deliberately right wing liberal.
Well, if the EHRC is soft on hate groups they should love the JVL .
Well they are soft on some hate speech…
It looks like independent has become a dogwhistle for fascism in local elections.
Anarchists were warning people a few years ago, but we were ignored, as we usually are.
http://solfed.org.uk/bristol/far-right-active-for-plymouth-exposed
Same here. I stop my preferences quite early these years. Independent are almost always the fash. If they are left wing they will have explicit alliances up front.
Journalist: People think your vision for the Labour party is unclear, could you explain it for us
Keir: I’ll paint it in primary colours, once I get rid of the ten campaign pledges that I had previously made.
Journalist: That was, um, “helpful”.
I think his new vision involves purges and show trials.
I think this will fit here
It looks like the British left have managed to dodge the bullet of “We got 66% of the vote and still managed to lose”. I’m just glad that Gerard Coyne and the S*n lost.
ETA, one day later:
Coyne in third place is a fuck you to the Murdoch media empire and it’s interference.
More of that great Brexit dividend.
UK politics is seriously weird and frankly more than a little scary.
It’s even more scary when you are stuck in it, all the bad things that you predicted would happen with Brexit are happening*, and all the people who told you that you were wrong are still in denial.
Then there is the TERF island thing going on as well, and I am left hoping that I will survive this.
*Britain hasn’t Balkanised yet, but my prediction for British Balkanisation is worse than what some pundits are talking about. Forget about the breakup of Britain, I expect the breakup of England into several rival nations as the north-south divide and regional rivalries flare up.
Spellcheck is suggesting that I should replace Balkanisation with cannibalisation. I don’t think things will get that bad.
You know I can see a certain Tory constituency tolerating the final loss of all empire to be rid of all the non-wealthy parts of Britain. United Kingdom of the Home Counties and Overseas Tax Havens. Really has a lot to be said for a certain class, shall we say, of person.
You’re too generous, giving those slime molds the veneer of humanity.
Was going to put this in Fucking NYT as it’s classic both sides liberalism, but to be fair it is the UK that “classic” liberals are thoroughly misrepresenting here, so here it goes. From the Economist on why lefties hate Tory Bliar “What remains of Corbynite Labour looks more sympathetically on Assad and Putin than it does upon the architect of the 1997 landslide. That view, as much as any turn of ideology or demography, is the source of Labour’s crisis.”
No. The problem is the liberal/centrist/right wing/far right/fascist lockstep consensus that any left critical anti racist is a crazy loon to be opposed by precisely that alliance.
If calling for a leadership challenge is grounds for being expelled from the Labour party, then Keir Starmer and most of the shadow cabinet should also be expelled.
FFS
As advertised!
Now, about that NHS money…
