Here's some data to inform the discussion of Corbyn's vs. Starmer's leadership in terms of votes gained...
In 2019, Labour's vote was more concentrated, this time wider spread, likely indicating tactical voters 'lending' their votes to Labour to get the Tories out & the split on the right.
However, this has been at the cost of lower majorities in 'safe' Labour seats.
How Starmer's Govt. performs will be crucial to how these trends play out in 2029.
@RolloTreadway@ChrisMayLA6 I wonder if the timing of the election meant a lot of students didn't vote where they study, voted elsewhere or didn't vote at all. Student voting can be hugely significant. Sheffield Hallam and Nick Clegg obviously spring to mind. If some cities had thousands of students away wonder if that affected the turnout in some wards. Realise some may have voted wherever 'home' is or done postal votes..but.. could be a factor.
#WaPo publishes a story about a house Democrat saying on a call that #Biden should step down, but that Democrat wasn't even on that call. The #Media is making this shit up
“It should seem odd that media calls to step down were not first directed to Trump. If we are calling for Biden to step aside because someone must stop Trump from bringing down the republic, then surely it would have made more sense to first call for Trump to step aside.”
Read Timothy Snyder’s essay on fascism in America today.
For context: why might news organizations be piling on Biden?
And because he’s one of the world’s leading WWII researchers.
This line from NPR tells it all: “French voters turned out in numbers not seen in decades to stop the far-right National Rally from taking power in the French National Assembly.”
Not only does #Project2025 go back a quarter century to Dubya, but many of the goals are straight up Reaganism. Meet the new fascists, same as the old fascists. The threat is neither unique nor unprecedented. #GOP#Republicans#uspol#uspolitics#politics
cant decalre victory until the results are in, but, relief in France as the far-right seems ot be blocked from leadership
The first projections in the 2024 French legislative election say leftists have won most seats. The surprise projections put President Emmanuel Macron’s centrist alliance in second and the far right in third.
https://www.europesays.com/1329613/ Supreme Court ethics remain at center stage after hard-right rulings | Much of the public sees the Supreme Court as political, not impartial, even as the court’s defenders say its critics simply oppose the conservative majority #Politics#U.S.Politics #UnitedStates
Trump calls Biden a ‘pile of c**p’ in golf cart rant
Imagine for a moment (suspend disbelief) that President Joe Biden was playing golf, riding in a cart. Inexplicably, he starts asking strangers about the debate and launches into a profanity-filled rant directed at Donald Trump.
And someone films it.
Do ya think it would be on the front pages and lead cable news outage?