UK Politics

Mainly sharing for Sadiq Khan’s I think correct take:

Reform’s plan to “prioritise” the siting of migrant detention centres in Green-voting areas would be illegal, experts have told Big Issue.

A Merseyside Reform UK election candidate who called the Holocaust a “hoax” and “propaganda” has been elected in the local elections. Jay Leslie Cooper has taken one of three available seats for the Bootle West ward on Sefton Council.

People were quick to pick up on the evident error, with one replying to the video which now has more than 300,000 views: “Fascists are fascists – only the branding changes!”.

Byline Times do loads of good work exposing Reform. I strongly recommend giving them some money and exposure!

Since it’s election day, this is a special thread for talking about voting, campaigning or whatever else you’re doing today.

Caspar Thomas, who Nigel Farage’s party says has now been expelled following inquiries by Byline Times and HOPE not hate, shared posts including grossly offensive racist slurs

Last Friday, the Local Democracy Reporting Service (LDRS) confirmed the national Green Party had suspended Mr Hakimi following an investigation into his social media activity, which included sharing allegations that “Zionists” were behind 9/11.

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With Morgan McSweeney summoned for questioning before the foreign affairs select committee, the Peter Mandelson scandal continues to decimate the ailing Starmer administration. There are now calls for a public inquiry into Labour Together, the think tank used by McSweeney to propel his favoured candidate into power. On Monday, current director Allison Phillips declared that the organisation would be changing their name and no longer donating to individual MPs.

Reform UK repeatedly cold-called journalist Lucy Gape asking if she would stand as a local candidate. When she looked into it, it revealed a world of poor vetting and murky data practices

Pot, meet kettle.

Archive link for those of us without privileged access to the single market.

An account linked to Camden candidate Aziz Rahman Hakimi also reposted allegations that ‘Zionists’ were responsible for 9/11

As I’ve said before, it means that the Corbyn strategy - uniting the left - is now the only workable strategy for Labour.

Christopher Harborne, 63, gave £9m to Nigel Farage’s party in August last year – the largest single political donation ever made in the UK by a living person – and has provided two-thirds of all funds Reform has received

You might be thinking that hating Israel is not the same as hating Jews, and in theory, you are right. In practice, it often does not divide that neatly. When incitement against “Zionists” reaches a certain point, attacks on Jews follow.

Full letter here and here.

The UK’s independent reviewer of terrorism legislation, Jonathan Hall, has called for a “moratorium” on pro-Palestine marches because of recent antisemitic attacks in London.

Ben Delo has called his US conviction a “non-crime”. Prosecutors said the Farage-backing crypto billionaire was a “leader of a criminal enterprise”.

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The Green Party has been urged to drop a candidate in Lambeth after she posted an image on social media claiming that Donald Trump is “owned by Jews”.

Archive link for those of us without a special relationship with the US.

Bromley councillor Simon Fawthrop criticised a judge who had convicted four anti-ULEZ activists for harassing Mayor of London Sir Sadiq Khan