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So far, the #Burnham bounce is nowhere near big enough for the #LabourParty.

That predicted 27% voteshare is way ahead of #Starmer's low points. But the seat projections put Labour on only 224, and unable to formally majority even with #LibDem and Green support.

Burnham would also need #SNP support. It would be very hard to build a 4-way deal with both LibDems and SNP. Only some major constitutional change could swing it.

screenshots from https://x.com/LeftieStats/status/2071680326552957210

#ukpol

So far, the #Burnham bounce is nowhere near big enough for the #LabourParty.

That predicted 27% voteshare is way ahead of #Starmer's low points. But the seat projections put Labour on only 224, and unable to formally majority even with #LibDem and Green support.

Burnham would also need #SNP support. It would be very hard to build a 4-way deal with both LibDems and SNP. Only some major constitutional change could swing it.

screenshots from https://x.com/LeftieStats/status/2071680326552957210

#ukpol

UK #LiberalDemocrats have shockingly underperformed in the rogues gallery. They have brilliant buffoons, with Ed-the-wetsuit Davey and his absurd predecessor Jo Swinson.

But since Jeremy Thorpe's 1979 murder trial, #FibDems had no proper bad guy. Huhne was small fry. Smith outed only when dead. But now, after 47 years, #ClarenceThomas MP may fill that gap.

Innocent until proven guilty, obviously. Not even charged yet. But maybe young Clarence will enter the gallery of #LibDem rogues.

#ukpol

UK #LiberalDemocrats have shockingly underperformed in the rogues gallery. They have brilliant buffoons, with Ed-the-wetsuit Davey and his absurd predecessor Jo Swinson.

But since Jeremy Thorpe's 1979 murder trial, #FibDems had no proper bad guy. Huhne was small fry. Smith outed only when dead. But now, after 47 years, #ClarenceThomas MP may fill that gap.

Innocent until proven guilty, obviously. Not even charged yet. But maybe young Clarence will enter the gallery of #LibDem rogues.

#ukpol

Oioioi, @Mickft. Go easy, Mick.

Nothing I wrote is "untrue", let alone "simply untrue".

I didn't say #LibDem policy had changed. I said they seemed uninterested in STV. I stand by that. Big difference between manifesto mention and campaign headline.

In the 1980s theAlliance / #LibDems campaigned heavily on electoral reform. They had #JohnCleese do a good video on #STV: https://youtu.be/0qWDPauV_p4.

Nothing like that in the 2020s. Little mention since the #FibDem #AV defeat in 2011.

@ChrisMayLA6

Oioioi, @Mickft. Go easy, Mick.

Nothing I wrote is "untrue", let alone "simply untrue".

I didn't say #LibDem policy had changed. I said they seemed uninterested in STV. I stand by that. Big difference between manifesto mention and campaign headline.

In the 1980s theAlliance / #LibDems campaigned heavily on electoral reform. They had #JohnCleese do a good video on #STV: https://youtu.be/0qWDPauV_p4.

Nothing like that in the 2020s. Little mention since the #FibDem #AV defeat in 2011.

@ChrisMayLA6

A third #LibDem MP has withdrawn their signature from #EDM240, in support of trans rights. #MonicaHarding MP (Esher & Walton) has joined #AndrewGeorge and #TimFarron in a reverse ferret. See https://edm.parliament.uk/early-day-motion/65938

The #Torygraph has been trying to stoke a big fight among the LibDems. See https://archive.is/s1gkC

Does anyone know if there's any substance to this? Or is it just the usual game of a lone shouty #astroTERF being megaplatformed?

#trans #ukpol #transgender #LGBT

A third #LibDem MP has withdrawn their signature from #EDM240, in support of trans rights. #MonicaHarding MP (Esher & Walton) has joined #AndrewGeorge and #TimFarron in a reverse ferret. See https://edm.parliament.uk/early-day-motion/65938

The #Torygraph has been trying to stoke a big fight among the LibDems. See https://archive.is/s1gkC

Does anyone know if there's any substance to this? Or is it just the usual game of a lone shouty #astroTERF being megaplatformed?

#trans #ukpol #transgender #LGBT

@gjm @Tupp_ed I'm really unconvinced that #UKLabour (or the #SNP, the other party with left wing members and right wing MPs that I'm more interested in) has ever lost many voters to, or gained many voters from, the #Tories. If you want Tory, you vote Tory. You might vote #LibDem if you're too ashamed to admit being a Tory, but you don't vote Labour.

@gjm @Tupp_ed I'm really unconvinced that #UKLabour (or the #SNP, the other party with left wing members and right wing MPs that I'm more interested in) has ever lost many voters to, or gained many voters from, the #Tories. If you want Tory, you vote Tory. You might vote #LibDem if you're too ashamed to admit being a Tory, but you don't vote Labour.

@pwaring while #Labour deserve a good slap in the face for being red Tories, but voting for #Reform will only make things worse not better.

I see the #GreenParty have picked up lots of votes but virtually no new seats because the voting system punishes anyone not No 1 or 2 in the seat. Coming a good third doesn't help you.

The #LibDem have picked up more seats than the Green party so far.

My old county has swapped Tories for Reform, so no real change there.

#UKPol

@pwaring while #Labour deserve a good slap in the face for being red Tories, but voting for #Reform will only make things worse not better.

I see the #GreenParty have picked up lots of votes but virtually no new seats because the voting system punishes anyone not No 1 or 2 in the seat. Coming a good third doesn't help you.

The #LibDem have picked up more seats than the Green party so far.

My old county has swapped Tories for Reform, so no real change there.

#UKPol

Finally an election graphic that is more confusing than the #LibDem dodgy bar charts. I think this is implying that if you don't vote Green then Reform will pick up the last of the proportionally distributed seats for the #Senedd. I don't think PR works that way.

Finally an election graphic that is more confusing than the #LibDem dodgy bar charts. I think this is implying that if you don't vote Green then Reform will pick up the last of the proportionally distributed seats for the #Senedd. I don't think PR works that way.

"#Labour and #LibDem MPs led the calls for #Palantir, which also works for Donald Trump’s ICE immigration crackdown and the Israeli military, to be removed as a supplier to the #NHS federated data platform."

#UKPol

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/apr/16/labour-and-lib-dem-mps-demand-shameful-palantir-nhs-contract-be-scrapped

"#Labour and #LibDem MPs led the calls for #Palantir, which also works for Donald Trump’s ICE immigration crackdown and the Israeli military, to be removed as a supplier to the #NHS federated data platform."

#UKPol

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/apr/16/labour-and-lib-dem-mps-demand-shameful-palantir-nhs-contract-be-scrapped

#Trump #DonaldTrump #Iran #IranWar #Gaza #GazaWar #War #USA #America #Maga #NATO #EU #UnitedStates #Israel #USPol #Politics #Men #Women #Europe #UK #President #PrimeMinister #Rule #leadership #Republican #Republicans #Democrats #Democrat #Tory #Labour #LibDem #Conservative #Politica I’m totally sick of seeing wars caused by aggressive macho posturing bullsh*t. It’s time to put more women in charge…

#Trump #DonaldTrump #Iran #IranWar #Gaza #GazaWar #War #USA #America #Maga #NATO #EU #UnitedStates #Israel #USPol #Politics #Men #Women #Europe #UK #President #PrimeMinister #Rule #leadership #Republican #Republicans #Democrats #Democrat #Tory #Labour #LibDem #Conservative #Politica I’m totally sick of seeing wars caused by aggressive macho posturing bullsh*t. It’s time to put more women in charge…

@JackTheCat @HarriettMB There is absolutely NO question that the #LibDems are a #unionist #Party. If they're pretending to be anything else, they ought to be ashamed of themselves. As for being in bed with #Scottish #Labour, it would make me very cross indeed if I were a #LibDem #voter, north or south of the #Border!

@JackTheCat @HarriettMB There is absolutely NO question that the #LibDems are a #unionist #Party. If they're pretending to be anything else, they ought to be ashamed of themselves. As for being in bed with #Scottish #Labour, it would make me very cross indeed if I were a #LibDem #voter, north or south of the #Border!

RE: https://mastodon.social/@KatCopseyGreens/116168097051605581

Liberal and Labor are the same entity.

Discuss.

#AusPol #Australia #Politics #LibDem #Liberal #Labor #AusLabor #AusLiberal #Victoria #Melbourne #Greens #VicPol #VicGreens

By 49% to 28%, Britons oppose the #USA's military action against #Iran.

Net support by 2024 vote
Reform: +33
Con: +14
Lab: -45
Lib Dem: -49
Green: -59

Note that #Starmer's weak support for #Trump aligns with the views of #Conservative voters, but clashes with the overwhelming opposition of #LabourParty, #LibDem and #GreenParty #GPEW voters.

If Starmer is trying to make Labour even less popular, he is absolutely on target. Who is he working for?

screenshot from https://x.com/YouGov/status/2028519860716622204

By 49% to 28%, Britons oppose the #USA's military action against #Iran.

Net support by 2024 vote
Reform: +33
Con: +14
Lab: -45
Lib Dem: -49
Green: -59

Note that #Starmer's weak support for #Trump aligns with the views of #Conservative voters, but clashes with the overwhelming opposition of #LabourParty, #LibDem and #GreenParty #GPEW voters.

If Starmer is trying to make Labour even less popular, he is absolutely on target. Who is he working for?

screenshot from https://x.com/YouGov/status/2028519860716622204

@AndyDearden @eco-g they'd rather have a ReformUK government than share power with the Lib Dems and Greens.
#UKPOL #UKPOLITICS #Labour #ReformUK #LibDem #GreenParty

@AndyDearden @eco-g they'd rather have a ReformUK government than share power with the Lib Dems and Greens.
#UKPOL #UKPOLITICS #Labour #ReformUK #LibDem #GreenParty

If you live in the #GortonAndDenton constituency and are thinking of voting #Labour (or #LibDem), please consider voting for the #GreenParty instead. It is very unlikely that Labour will win, and either way #KeirStarmer will be deemed to have failed.

The big risk, as always, is that the progressive parties (in which I generously include Labour) will split their vote, allowing the right-wing parties to win with a minority. Any centrist or left-winger shouldn't want #ReformUK to win with their parachuted-in proto-fascist.

Even if you don't care that much about politics, please use your vote and vote for the local #Green candidate #HannahSpencer, a plumber and an experienced councillor, who will properly represent the people of your constituency. It's safe to say she's not the kind of person who will be heading off to the Chagos Islands for a publicity stunt.

#UKPol #UKPolitics #GortonAndDentonByElection

If you live in the #GortonAndDenton constituency and are thinking of voting #Labour (or #LibDem), please consider voting for the #GreenParty instead. It is very unlikely that Labour will win, and either way #KeirStarmer will be deemed to have failed.

The big risk, as always, is that the progressive parties (in which I generously include Labour) will split their vote, allowing the right-wing parties to win with a minority. Any centrist or left-winger shouldn't want #ReformUK to win with their parachuted-in proto-fascist.

Even if you don't care that much about politics, please use your vote and vote for the local #Green candidate #HannahSpencer, a plumber and an experienced councillor, who will properly represent the people of your constituency. It's safe to say she's not the kind of person who will be heading off to the Chagos Islands for a publicity stunt.

#UKPol #UKPolitics #GortonAndDentonByElection

What the actual fuck UK?

If a general #election were held in UK tomorrow, #Reform Ltd company would win 355 seats, with #Tories as opposition with 92.

We are watching fascists in charge in the U.S. right now, and that's what people want, randomness people being gunned down by police, healthcare removed, books burned, major institutions closed down. Everyone getting even poorer.

How do we get the message out?

https://www.electoralcalculus.co.uk/blogs/ec_vipoll_20260113.html
#UKPol #NHS #LibDem #Green #SNP #Plaid #YourParty #Labour

What the actual fuck UK?

If a general #election were held in UK tomorrow, #Reform Ltd company would win 355 seats, with #Tories as opposition with 92.

We are watching fascists in charge in the U.S. right now, and that's what people want, randomness people being gunned down by police, healthcare removed, books burned, major institutions closed down. Everyone getting even poorer.

How do we get the message out?

https://www.electoralcalculus.co.uk/blogs/ec_vipoll_20260113.html
#UKPol #NHS #LibDem #Green #SNP #Plaid #YourParty #Labour

Banning children from online games, and spying on every device: Why we must oppose Baroness Benjamin’s attack on liberty | LibDem Voice

Finally the Liberal Democrats are hearing the other side of the “safety” issue:

[If] one Liberal Democrat peer has her way, no one under the age of 16 would be able to play an online game that allows them to talk or interact with another player. Baroness Benjamin is backing a series of illiberal amendments to the Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill.

https://www.libdemvoice.org/banning-children-from-online-games-and-spying-on-every-device-why-we-must-oppose-baroness-benjamins-attack-on-liberty-78846.html

#anonymity #censorship #floellaBenjamin #libDem #onlineSafety #onlineSafetyAct #surveillance #vpns

Europeans know exactly where this rhetoric is going which makes the few who are following it even more reprehensible, as they wave flags and harass minorities in nations still showing the scars of WWII

Traitors. The lot of them, that frog faced fuck and that fake Working class street thug....traitors!

#Fascism #WWII #WWIII #UKPOL #UKPOLITICS #FarRight #Trump #WhiteNationalism #EUPOL #LibDem

time for coffee...☕ 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 ☮️ :yes_scotland:

#westminster is becoming a bigger cesspit by the day...

#Reform
#Labour
#Tory
#Libdem's

#youyesyet...