This is not Andy Burnham's call to make. No British Prime Minister has any right to rule out a unity referendum.
The Good Friday Agreement is clear: the people of the island of Ireland alone must determine their own future.
@jakonian Always irks me how Americans call socialist/hard left candidates “hard liberals” or say they’re “really liberal” the idea of liberalism being a scale for all left wing politics is factually incorrect.
@Rik_w2010 Presuming Burnham maintains the 2024 mandate and doesnt call a GE too early, how exactly does he mirror callaghan given he has a 165+ majority when callaghan didnt even have one by 1979? Even before that it was basically only a working majority of one
@owenAFC_@PolitlcsUK Zia Yusuf and Rupert lowe genuinely despise eachother. Zia is the one who hounded Lowe out of the party. Zia will fade into his deserved irrelevance when farage finally gives him the boot.
Exposing lies and fraud should carry no guilt, no matter how anyone reacts to the truth, no less when they were happy to twist it. It’s tragic and sad, but the media didn’t hound him to this. Believing that might feel better in the moment, for you, but isn’t healthy.
In the final months of his life, Jason Arday was subject to a relentless onslaught of attacks and abuse.
Jason was a human being with friends and family - but he was turned into a pawn for vicious culture wars by a cruel media industry motivated by racism and clicks.
The lessons are never learned. When will the British media face accountability for its behaviour?
Jason was much loved by those around him. May he rest in peace.
@CJLewisJD@spectator Declaring someone a traitor to the nation when they’ve served several years in the British military and ran the DoD as a minister is… absurd? Especially doing it not because Ben Wallace actually did anything treasonous, but because he disagreed with Yusuf’s immigration plan.
@PurpleXxed@Vanessa_ABee She should literally just endorse the democratic candidate for US senate instead of dancing around the question. Why won’t she? Thats the point, drawing a direct comparison between the honourable behavior of Hayley stevens and the pathetic reaction of Crockett to her loss.
@VoteGreenNorth I think you’re partially right, but you’re not factoring in the fact this was a by-election. Labour lost a lot of votes yes, but so did the tories, libdems and independents, and much of that will be because of the fact the previous election was a national election day.
@saltysarge106@EdMarkey Unions and private corporations are fundamentally different things and have wildly different interests and motivations in making donations to politicians.