One month to go till the County Council elections. For the counties that haven't cancelled them because they want to fast track the conversion to Unitary councils and mayors.
1) #GTTO Get the Tory Out. Too bad for too long
2) #KRO Keep Reform Out. Solution to Blue Tories is not even more extreme Pale-Blue Tories
3) #GLO Get Labour Out. Punish Red Tories for being the same as Blue Tories
Vote LibDem, Green to do the right thing.
#GTTO out though huh, am I right guys, huh, AM I RIGHT
You can hate the Red Tories just as much as the Blue Tories. The solution isn't the even more extreme Pale Blue Tories.
#ATAC All Tories are Hunts #GTTO Get The Tory Out
#ARAB All Reform are illegitimate. #KRO Keep Reform Out
#GLO Get Labour Out. Punish the Red Tories for being the same as the Blue Tories.
If you don't vote at all, you will just get more of the same. Or worse.
@Gaudy I vote green locally. I voted Labour to #GTTO which worked. But they didn't finish the job. And now I hate them (and myself!) for them turning into Red Tories. I was briefly a Labour member until disgust with their Brexit views forced me to cancel.
I desperately want PR so I don't have to keep making these choices. But PR has it's own problems. In the UK, it would probably fuel the extreme right as much as bring back a real Centre-Left.
The MSM stories about the Rise of Reform UK Ltd are terrifying. We need to #GTTO but also #KRF (Keep Reform Out).
> The breakdown of Reform voters found that they were a coalition of newer, more moderate voters and “radical young men” inspired by the likes of Elon Musk, as well as older groups of Conservative and working-class voters opposed to immigration.
Oh my daze. “radical young men inspired by Musk" !?!? And Russian bots.
#UKPolitics is moving away from populism and going back to listening to communities
I'm feeling optimistic with the massive win by the #GreenParty alongside all fellow country people who #GTTO
#Labour face many challenges, but will be so much less damaging than the Tories who destroyed our country
We will not be divided by hate and injustice.
We will stand together to reunite and tackle the global #ClimateEmergency with all people of the world.
The UK no longer looks in, but outward
It would seem there are a lot of people indulging in the lifestyle choice of getting their food from foodbanks.....
More evidence of the impoverishment of our country....
Amy Pattison (a student at Sheffield Hallam university) sums up a lot of what has been said here in recent weeks/months:
'It feels like the lesser of two evils – it’s definitely better than going back to what we’ve got.... All I know is I won’t be voting Tory. And whatever I do vote will be tactical'!
I cannot imagine Labour using the lesser of two evils as a slogan, but for many that's what UK democracy looks like right now!
#GTTO #democracy #Election2024
[quoted in the Guardian]
More data on the continuing #Tory engineered #NHScrisis.... this time on the proportion of people waiting for more that four hours in A&E (and that is once they've actually got there, of course).
The last decade has seen A&E capacity stretched to breaking point.... even if the #Tories are successful at pushing people towards private #healthcare, much of the A&E 'traffic' would be refused by cherry picking private hospitals, leaving anyone who has an emergency in a vulnerable position.
Also, such reforms will make it harder for abuse victims to flee.
...and why on earth shouldn't people be allowed to move to another part of the country just because they want to.
Just another example of #CruelTories
I'd be interested in your thoughts on how many waivering #Labour voters might go #Green instead:
- Greens more left wing
- Greens called early for an end to #GazaGenocide
- There's a #ClimateEmergency that's starting to get into people's vision
It will bring an interesting dynamic as well as some additional independent candidates.
I'm catching a train today, with a service not affected by strikes.
The announcements at the station about cancelled trains don't mention #TrainStrikes instead saying "too many trains are needing repairs"
What is this, a authoritarian state with Orwellian #NewsSpeak announcements?
Next they'll be serving us #SoylentGreen
#GeneralElectionNow
#GTTO
#Strike
#ClimateCrisis
#ClimateEmergency
#ASLEF
What is the point of regulators if they're in bed with the industry they're supposed to police?
This government is soooooo corrupt.
#GeneralElectionNow
#GTTO
#SurfersAgainstSewage
#ToryCorruption
#SewageScandal
Last week the UK House of Commons set in motion a law to disregard international law when sending people to Rwanda. It still has to pass the House of Lords.
It gives ministers the right to disregard the UN #Refugee convention and the #ECHR
If this bill passes the UK is a step closer towards #Nazi goals, but the British aren't on the streets in their millions, as in Germany, but accepting these #Facists that call themselves #Conservatives
We need a #GeneralElectionNow
#GTTO
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Jeremy Wright, Tory MP, former Attorney General
“Surely, if international law means anything, it must mean it does not lie in the hands of any individual nation state, even this one, to determine its own compliance with international law,”
#ECHR
#Tory
#GTTO
#RefugeesWelcome
#RefugeesLivesMatter
#UKNeeedsMigrants
More evidence that over a decade of #Tory rule has been bad for our #health, as life expectancy after rising (through a momentum effect) at the start of the current Tory period has now fallen back to levels at the start, reversing the (momentum) gain & now falling.
Of course this reflects #austerity linked health issues, the engineered #NHScrisis as well as health problems resulting from #inequality, #poverty & economic insecurity.
#GTTO - our lives depend on it!
People who come to us for #asylum who have escaped awful terror and torture deserve the very best care and support, not this degrading torture the #UKgovt currently subject them to
I am yet again disgusted with the UK inhumane treatment of our fellow people.
#RefugeesLivesMatter
#RefugeesWelcome
#AsylumSeekersWelcome
#GTTO
#GeneralElectionNow
#SocialJustice
#ClimateEmergency
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