Captain Swing

Country Standard - The Progressive Journal for Rural Communities since 1935 - Sharpen the sickle! The fields are white; 'Tis the time of the harvest at last.'

[CALL TO ACTIVISM @CalltoActivism]

Wow. The moment Jake Tapper called the Mississippi Senate race is something to see.

Mississippi was ground zero for civil rights. The most dangerous state for Black people. They kept saying go slow, go slow.

Tonight, Mississippi sends a Black man to the Senate.

Scott Colom

[LabourStart @labourstart]

SPAIN: General strike: how 50 years of industrial action shaped Spain’s post-Franco democracy https://t.co/igMxd4olQ7

[L'Humanité @humanite_fr]

« Clara Zetkin, féministe sans frontières » de Gilbert Badia : une militante farouchement révolutionnaire à (re) découvrir

Carte Blanche à Youlie Yamamoto ➡️ https://t.co/UpLpE8WNfB

[The Tennessee Holler @TheTNHoller]

CNN: COLOM WINS 🎉

[Simon Harris @SimonHarrisMBD]

The driver who got his train to make an unscheduled stop at Huntingdon that allowed police to stop the knife attacker and others to escape had just ten seconds to contact a signaller and switch tracks. Don’t you dare say train drivers ‘just push buttons.’ https://t.co/ME7t4wUpqE

[Sen. Bernie Sanders @SenSanders]

The Democratic Party needs a new and bold direction. I will not support Chuck Schumer’s reelection as Democratic leader.

[Graham Smith @GrahamSmithCR]

Homes Cornwall and Cornwall’s publicly-owned farms: first sites will be on the market by March, says Peter La Broy https://t.co/0gbpypdeEy

[Captain Swing @CountryStandard]

@WillHayCardiff Spot on

[Will Hayward @WillHayCardiff]

I suspect a defection from Reform to Restore by Senedd Member Joe Martin will be coming soon.

Mr Martin gave a speech about "white people" being "replaced".

The Llywydd (speaker) said that his language "detracted from the dignity of the Senedd" and said he wouldn't be called to speak again until he apologised.

Almost as though it was choreographed, Restore leader Rupert Lowe offered Martin his "full backing" and criticised Reform.

Mr Martin has been making kissy faces at Restore for a while.

The leader of Reform in the Senedd Helen Jenner has tried to keep him in the tent by giving him the...err... "prestigious" position of "shadow minister without portfolio".

Reform sources within that group tell me the party are deeply concerned at Restore eating into their vote and potential defections.

I strongly suspect that the only reason that Mr Martin hasn't defected is because he wants four other MSs to come with him. That way they would be able to form an official group in the Senedd which give them substantial resources and Mr Martin (if he was leader) a big bump in salary.

Full analysis in my pinned tweet.

[Captain Swing @CountryStandard]

@WillHayCardiff Follow the money - Musk
Happy to fund

[Stop Sizewell C @StopSizewellC]

Fitch changes #SizewellC outlook to "negative" from "stable" thanks to #EDF and its subsidiary #Framatome, on which the project relies very heavily (so much for domestic companies doing the heavy lifting)
#StopSizewellC
https://t.co/YKBBG1zTbX

[Graham Smith @GrahamSmithCR]

Lambs to the slaughter? Cornwall Council pushes through its “public farms for housing estates” project https://t.co/cghzEcaFxM

[John McTernan @Johnmcternan]

As Suds Terkel said: This being a book about work, is, by its very nature, about violence - to the spirit as well as to the body.

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

CNN PROJECTS THAT SCOTT COLOM WINS THE SENATE RACE IN MISSISSIPPI!

[Angela Eagle DBE @angelaeagle]

Today we remember the brave men and women who have served in our armed forces and died for the causes of freedom and democracy the world over.

I was honoured to lay my personal tribute on behalf of Wallasey at Parliament's Remembrance Garden.

We will remember them.

[Graham Smith @GrahamSmithCR]

Cornwall’s publicly-owned farms are the strongest cards in County Hall’s quest for “Fifth Nation” status – but only as part of a devolved agriculture policy https://t.co/yE8EZvx7ku

[Reform UK Exposed 🇬🇧 @reformexposed]

The Reform UK Warwickshire Leader’s opposition to enhanced DBS checks and drug tests for elected officials doesn’t pass the sniff test…

[Captain Swing @CountryStandard]

@EdwdPrice Tax funded farming
Or free markets

Farmers do have a choice

Vote for free market political parties and Brexit inevitable ends in Aus style farming

Then again Johnson and Frost such a great Aus deal

[Reform UK Exposed 🇬🇧 @reformexposed]

Incredible confession by Reform UK Councillor in Sunderland Glenn Gibbins:

'He explained he was not particularly political and when he was approached by Reform UK about becoming a councillor in March this year, he considered it would be a source of income “to tide me over” when business was quieter in the summer.'

He just sees being a Councillor as a source of income.

How many more you got like that @CllrChrisEynon?

https://t.co/nmoWS1jaIP