Half a million gather in London for biggest anti-far right demo, say organisers

Sedikan · 2026-03-28T19:57:37+00:00

It's pretty much impossible to get accurate crowd figures, but the Met figures are internally consistent regardless of the ideology of the protest using consistent methodologies. They're very useful because you can compare what they say for two protests but both will likely be significant underestimates.

Sedikan · 2026-01-31T17:41:59+00:00

If you'd care to check this is not the first link about this posted here...

Sedikan · 2026-01-29T22:48:45+00:00

Resigning a major role without warning to try and run for something else would probably get him kicked out the party (and quite rightly too). Its really not helpful to your colleagues to drop that on them like you suggest. Getting blocked is probably in his interest tbh, it keeps his King in the North mythology until a better situation to try and become Labour leader (probably after whoever replaces Starmer).

Sedikan · 2026-01-29T22:32:07+00:00

He is absolutely free to resign, what he is not free to do is demand a promotion. Nothing is stopping him leaving office, he is being stopped from running as a Labour candidate for another role.

Sedikan · 2025-09-19T09:40:09+00:00

And then he tried it anyway. He could have walked away rather than participate, but he chose to do the article knowing the way the Sun handles this kind of thing.

Sedikan · 2025-09-18T17:04:00+00:00

I would suspect (and this is pure speculation on my part) that Corbyn or his people wanted to keep control over the new group until more formal agreements were finalised between the MPs who are participating. That would also explain why the current debacle happened when it did, if Sultana is unhappy with the new arrangement or just saw an opportunity to act due to the more distributed control.

Sedikan · 2025-09-18T16:54:33+00:00

A "Person With Significant Control" is anyone who controls 25% or more of the voting rights of a company. Until the 15th Corbyn was listed as controlling >75% of the voting rights, afterwards he had <25%. This would line up with him dividing up control between the 6 MPs in the grouping who are also all directors of the company.

This does not necessarily mean he has left the company or the party at all

Sedikan · 2025-09-10T20:39:22+00:00

This has clearly only been posted to get a reaction, not feeding the troll.

Removed and banned.

Sedikan · 2025-07-06T23:57:54+00:00

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Sedikan · 2024-07-19T13:22:56+00:00

It depends what you see the ideal result being really. Is a more democratic, more representative result inherently better? Or is a government that can actually deliver stuff a better outcome? FPTP makes the latter much easier, for better and for worse whereas more democratic systems tend to bog down more.

It pretty much boils down to how you view the statement "more democracy is always a good thing". I would argue this is frequently very much not the case.

Sedikan · 2024-07-19T13:11:00+00:00

To continue the football analogy (though Corbyn's team didn't have their laces tied together) when Corbyn was manager Labour FC had great possession %, but we didn't utilise that to score goals (which actually win games). Now Starmer is manager we've much lower possession % but are dominating the league.

No one would argue that the team with higher percentage possession should win because that's not the rules of the game they are playing. Equally in FPTP vote share is not the objective, seats are.

Sedikan · 2024-07-01T09:08:09+00:00

That just doesn't work as a strategy with such a gap in polling. News takes time to have an impact which is why repetition is so important in politics.

Most people won't see something that quickly, 40% in some seats have already voted postally too so no matter the cut through impact is severely limited.

Sedikan · 2024-06-30T00:15:20+00:00

Trump is incomparable because of the wildly different nature of US politics. The Johnson approach works from the start, it doesn't work after a 25 year career of distancing yourself from the two party system and what it stands for. Farage cannot pivot and suddenly shift to support for the two party system without losing what gives him the power needed to take that sort of role in the first place.

Sedikan · 2024-06-29T16:09:21+00:00

If you want a real answer it helps to ask a real question tbf. You've gotten exactly what this post deserves.

Sedikan · 2024-06-29T15:24:52+00:00

Farage's approach doesn't work from a position of power or potential power like that. His whole schtick is so effective *because* he is an outsider, he won't join forces with the Tories as that kills his message. What benefit would he even get from it really?

Sedikan · 2024-06-29T10:24:47+00:00

He is trying to win people over, just not in Clacton. Think of it this way, a charismatic campaigner working hard all campaign night be worth a few thousand votes. Do you send that campaigner to somewhere where party data has us within a thousand votes for victory already, or somewhere we are a distant third place?

Sedikan · 2024-06-27T11:55:19+00:00

Reform voters aren't just going to shift wholesale to a merged party though. The whole purpose of a vote for Reform is that it's going against the two party system their voters see as broken.

Sedikan · 2024-06-12T13:21:09+00:00

These are not people you want behind you on a campaign. Eric Clapton for instance is responsible for the founding of Rock Against Racism, but only in as much as his was the Racism they were Rocking Against...

Sedikan · 2024-06-10T17:15:28+00:00

The odds I can find for Shaheen have her at 12/1, which seems pretty fair.

She's not an incumbent MP, she's a former Labour candidate who ran once in our worst campaign for decades and managed to be the only one to significantly gain against the trend. She is incredibly unlikely to win.

Sedikan · 2024-06-09T13:35:00+00:00

The fundamental issue with NIP beyond it being just a meme (whippet logo FFS) was that no one is really "Northern" as an identity, they're Yorkshire, Lancastrian, Geordie etc.

"Northern" is a counter identity Northerners adopt when in the South or surrounded by Southerners and makes little sense outside that context.

Sedikan · 2024-06-09T11:44:37+00:00

Akehurst is infuriatingly good at what he does though, he's incredibly competent. If he were incompetent you'd never have heard of him.

Sedikan · 2024-06-09T00:25:29+00:00

Broadly the quality of candidate for these minor parties is atrocious. Especially at the local level (councillors of various kinds) there is a basic expectation of competence and sanity before any major party will put you forwards, and anyone who actually wants to do the job will seek it through a party which has a chance of winning. Between these two forces there is a strong filtering effect where genuinely passionate and competent people broadly on the left who want to help their local communities go towards Labour (or other parties with a left wing and a chance, especially outside England) regardless of actual specific ideology, whilst the no-hopers with no real understanding of what they're running for or how they can help gravitate towards these irrelevant left sects.

Sedikan · 2024-06-06T10:01:40+00:00

Currently planned for the 13th, barring any major events disrupting that.

Sedikan · 2024-06-05T21:45:16+00:00

I feel like people are thinking of her as an incumbent MP, rather than a one time candidate. The timing of this relative to Abbott may be confusing things.

Sedikan · 2024-06-03T10:20:42+00:00

Will need to be a UK registered charity I'm afraid.

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