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https://amp.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/jul/08/labour-lifts-ban-onshore-windfarms-planning-policy Still have strong doubts about the new government, but they’ve at least quickly overturned the previous Tory government’s nine year ban on building windfarms. Anything that helps...

Under a parliamentary republic or semi-presidential republic, the speaker and president would still be separate individuals. You’d just have a prime minister – or whatever you decided to call the position – as well. (Come to think of it, isn’t the House Speaker in the US system a bit like the...

Exit polls for the French parliamentary election have the left-wing New Popular Front first, Macron’s centre-right Ensemble bloc second, and the far-right National Rally third place. The Fash didn’t win!

He got in again in the end. Guess name recognition and local popularity helped.

The seat where I live. Went non-Tory for the first time ever since 1922. A few years ago I’d never have believed we would have any Labour MPs in this part of England.

Results with 2 seats to go. Labour won, the Tories were crushed (but not near-extinct, as some polling estimated), the SNP lost most of their seats, the Greens got more than one seat for the first time, and the LibDems got the highest Liberal seat count since 1923. Unfortunately, the far-right...

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/article/2024/jul/05/former-tory-prime-minister-liz-truss-loses-her-seat-to-labour Good riddance!

BBC exit poll. Labour underperforming compared to opinion polls, Tories getting 3-figures, the Fash actually getting ******* seats, the SNP losing most of their MPs.

Oh, I absolutely support funding it from general taxation. As long as it is kept fully independent, both officially and in practice. No big party seems to want to promote that policy, though. The door to door inspection thing isn’t something that happens these days (at least bot like that), and...

I’ve watched American broadcast television. The licence fee is better than the alternative. Do remember that the commercial media absolutely guns for the BBC constantly due to its public broadcaster status. And the cuts to the BBC over the last 14 years have sapped its popularity –...

128 days left until Trump declares himself dictator for life on 6th November.

https://m.jpost.com/breaking-news/article-808400 This isn’t directly connected to the conflict, but Israel’s Labour Party is dissolving to be replaced by a new party. Pretty momentous – the party ruled Israel for its first three decades as its earlier incarnation Mapai, and was still a big...

LOL, Frogface Farage is going in a strop and won’t appear on BBC television because they didn’t give him preferential enough treatment for his tastes. Someone who owes his entire career to the BBC’s politics department giving his fringe party more coverage than by rights they ever deserved.

Ideally Trump would be banged up on several life sentences for trying to overthrow the government, and illegible for running for office again.

The Supreme Court, I’ve rabidly come to the conclusion is like the worse part of our House of Lords (being a load of unelected-for-life lawmakers) but with its powers greatly magnified to almost dictatorial levels. It seems to be a terrifying system to live under.

If America had a political system like ours (parliamentary), the Democratic Party would be scrabbling quickly for a new lead candidate, I imagine.

https://bsky.app/profile/chadbourn.bsky.social/post/3kvvovamdtg2q I see that Russia have got one of their proxies to interfere in the general election campaign…

https://www.euronews.com/my-europe/2024/06/25/ukraine-and-moldova-enter-formal-membership-talks-with-the-european-union Ukraine and Moldova formally begin membership negotiation talks with the EU!

If by “started”, you mean back to before your great grandfather’s time. Antisemitic conspiracy theories are just as much an established part of the far-left as they are far-right ideology.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cndd65k06x8o Wizarding Karen has stuck her oar into the general election campaign, accusing the TERF-adjacent Labour leader of not being transphobic enough.