🇬🇧 A Tory social media campaign suggests the party fears a #Labour landslide in the upcoming general election, as minister #GrantShapps says they are fighting to avoid a #Labour "supermajority"
The Conservatives' latest advertising campaign appears to target potential #Reform voters, warning them that the Tories could be reduced to just 57 seats in the next parliament, even if #Reform picked up no seats ⏩
Well I do not think you can blame #Labour if the #OrangeMenace gets in this Autumn, nor for what he might do. FWIW I think he has shot his bolt.... assuming #Biden does not keel over meantime
I am not sure #Left & #Right are adequate - I do think the new govt will be better, and will do good in terms of regulation and organisation but not waste time on stuff that costs money & is hard to finish - unlike #sunak with his #rwanda idiocy
Yup #Sunak is toast…there is no return from these depths of political ineptitude. Whoever is advising him is going to struggle to work in politics again.
Today is the 80th anniversary of the D-Day landing at #Normandy, #France, where ~160k #Allied troops pulled off the largest invasion by sea in history. From that point on #America was in charge of #AlliedForces & it was the beginning of the end of #WWII
When you travel to that battlefield & visit other #WWII memorials & cemeteries in #Europe you will see what great care is taken to ensure the memories of those #sacrifices are honored w/daily maintenance & #respect. This is likely the last big #DDay celebration featuring WWII #veterans who are almost all centenarians…. Some are traveling to the ceremonies & will be honored by all the dignitaries like #POTUS Joe #Biden, British PM Rishi #Sunak, Canadian PM #Trudeau & #KingCharlesII of Britain.
The Israeli regime army issued a statement this evening (Wednesday) claiming that it has gained operational control over the axis known as "Philadelphia" on the border lines of occupied Palestine and #Egypt.
Remember the BS talks by Al-Sisi, #Biden, #Sunak, #Macron and other assholes about the red lines in Rafah?
None of them lifting a finger about the slaughter of the innocent Palestinians who are stuck in #Rafah with no where to go.
GMP said it came to the decision after a "thorough, carefully considered & proportionate investigation".
"The investigation originated from complaints made by #Tory MP James Daly. Matters involving council & personal tax do not fall into the jurisdiction of policing."
Opinion: This being the case, why waste public money & police time on a spurious, political complaint
Keir Starmer appears to think this is a get out of jail free card, on accusations of backtracking on previous promises:
'with the damage that’s been done to the economy, particularly by Liz Truss, it is not possible to do that'!
While he may well be right that things have been made so much worse in the last three years that earlier promises have been undermined.... for many, its a series of shifts that have suggested he wasn't serious in the first place.
#Starmer & #Labour deserve their opportunity to succeed or fail. Rebuilding the party from the rubble #Corbyn left behind wasn't an easy task, ESPECIALLY as his most vehement opponents have come from the Far Left.
Many of them are sworn enemies of Starmer, & would rather another 5 years of #Sunak, than see Sir Keir in No 10. When politics gets this bitter & self destructive, you know those who're willing to bite their noses off to spite their faces have lost the plot
The ERG have been bleeding influence since the demise of Doris. They did a deal to support him as PM if he became the face of #Brexit, & they undermined May & delivered on their promise. Without Doris, there was no potential leader who owed them.
You could see how weakened they were after first supporting the disastrous Liz Truss, leaving no one listening to them as #Sunak walked to his coronation.
They're yesterday's people just like the #Corbynistas.
There are voters out there switching from #Tories to Green Party…we’ve seen that happen at a county level in Norfolk.
#Sunak has taken his rural, nature loving older core vote for granted and they are disgusted at the state of our rivers and fearful of what may come for their children with #ClimateBreakdown.
The writing is on the wall for Tories and they won’t vote Labour.
#ICC / Prosecutor asks for arrest warrants for three leading Hamas leaders, as well ass Netanyahu and Galant
[...] The office of the prosecutor of the International Criminal Court on Monday said it was seeking arrest warrants against three leading Hamas militants for their alleged roles in the Oct. 7 attacks in Israel, for war crimes and crimes against humanity.
Watch: ICC Prosecutor Karim Khan explains the charges against top Hamas and Israeli leadership in detail in this excerpt from his interview with @amanpour this morning at The Hague
#UK / Defying PM, British Lawmakers From 11 Parties Want Solid Backing for ICC
A cross-party group of 105 MPs and peers (members of the House of Lords) in the UK sent a letter to the Foreign Secretary, urging the government to support the International Criminal Court (ICC). This comes after the British Prime Minister Rishi #Sunak criticized the #ICC's decision to seek arrest warrants for Israeli and #Hamas leaders as "deeply unhelpful."
In their letter, the MPs and peers from 11 different parties called on the government to clearly oppose any attempts to intimidate or undermine the independent and impartial ICC. They want the UK government to firmly back the ICC, despite the Prime Minister's criticism of its recent actions regarding Israeli and Hamas figures.
📊 Here's two observations about the local #elections results:
The results have been pretty dismal for the Conservatives, with some limited exceptions, pointing the way to a #Labour victory at the general #election
Speaking to #Conservative MPs, advisers and officials, any threat to #RishiSunak's leadership appears to be fading fast
To some, that's a paradox. The results so far indicate that the #Tories are heading for defeat under Mr #Sunak's leadership
The Rwanda Bill (UK) "is a shameful and performatively cruel law that will risk people's lives and betray who we are as a society."
We've signed an open letter alongside 250 other civil society organisations to oppose this attack on human rights and the rule of law by an increasingly dangerous, authoritarian government in the UK.