I don’t see this as upholding free speech. It’s being painted in the media so far that this is simply about single sex toilets and “making women feel safe”. Notice how they never say “cis women”. Their choice of words speaks for itself. Should councillors have to listen to overt fascists give their views too? Seeing as they don’t “feel safe” around non white people? We know full well these people wouldn’t stop at single sex toilets, they just go on about that more than anything cos it’s the only thing they can twist into making themselves seem the victim. They’d happily take free speech away from trans people. Underneath, most of them are similar to Graham Linehan

They wouldn’t do this when the better option for them is to make Mamdani’s ambitions for New York as hard as possible to bring to fruition. Even if they only hinder him a bit, any inability at all from Mamdani to do every single thing he wants to do (and things they claim he wants to do) will see relentless coverage in the right wing media (and likely also some from liberal media) in order to paint it as a “failed project” and how “unrealistic socialism is.” That serves them far better than just disappearing the guy

I see your point about how they will try and make Mamdani look as bad as possible in the meeting but he could withstand it far better than Zelenskyy, I reckon. Nothing wrong with Zelenskyy on that front, just it’s obvious Mamdani would do better

Next week: “Shabana Mahmood is the new Labour leader”

Obviously shouldn’t count on this being the actual result. But this is more than a bit worrying

Why do some people keep repeating the thing about the name and acting like they can’t decide? I also think it’s been going very badly and there’s so much to criticise. But they made it clear from the very beginning that they’d allow the members to vote on the name at their first conference, which is happening this month

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As the article says, it’s yet another of many reviews over the years that has shown that racism, and other forms of bigotry, are systemic in the Met. Which have been basically ignored every time. I’m sure in this time of increased general bigotry in the UK something will absolutely be done, after this one

I’m glad in the article they say that Khan is part of the centrist Labour establishment. For any US people that aren’t aware, Mamdani’s win is a way bigger jump to the left for New York than Khan was/is for London, even though Johnson came before him. I wish Khan was like Mamdani in this aspect, London could really use someone like that too

I want them to get it together, but mostly cos there’s certain seats that Your Party will win or have a good chance of winning that the Greens won’t. We need a united front but so far it’s not looking great. Really needs to happen in good time before next year’s local elections

Thank you for linking this. I’ve looked at every instance of “transport” in the document and it’s almost all about maintaining and renewing current infrastructure. Which is good, of course, but nowhere does it seem to talk about affordability. In the part where it talks about how they’re going to decarbonise the UK in regards to transport, again it just seems to talk about pushing for electric cars.

Correct me if I’m wrong and have missed things though. I’d be pleased to see that they’re actually going to make public transport affordable. It’s good to make what’s there better and expand it. But if most people still aren’t able to use it and having a car is cheaper, it’s not going to have nearly the outcome it should

As expected, basically nothing on making public transport better and affordable. Just the usual focus on making having electric cars easier. Really going “all in” here Ed, sure

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Refreshing to see this attitude, rather than the pre-election “you’re an idiot if you don’t vote for me” followed by the post-election ”wow you didn’t vote for me, you idiots" rhetoric you get from most Dems

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Between 5-7. My body likes choosing the 5 when I have important stuff to do the next day or I need to be up early

Not actually far. Only far when compared to the “social democratic” but actually right wing neoliberal parties in Europe

Ahh so you did know some other chants. Yes it’s no secret there’s animosity between some Middle Easterners and the US and Israel. What’s your point with all this?

Here’s one

I mean, that’s pretty damn queer-centric don’t you think? The actual and potential victims of fascism go way beyond just queer people. And there’s plenty flags, both now and historically, that are linked to antifascism. Most of them aren’t red, white and black

Plus I’ve always found the progress pride flag kinda ugly, but that’s just personal. As a queer person who’s into vexillology, a fair few of our flags have that problem. It’s also been used by so many capitalists to falsely give themselves the appearance of being egalitarian

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