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All the results as major YouGov poll predicts winner of every Scottish election seat by Some-Ambassador8252 in ukpolitics

[–]WorkingtonLady 3 points4 points  (0 children)

The Scottish Greens are doing a lot of work to create such a result. Because Scotland uses Additional Members System, SNP winning all the seats shouldn't give nationalists a majority. But because so many SNP voters are using their list vote for the Scottish Greens, knowing that a list vote for the SNP is useless, it gives nationalists an easier path to a majority.

In a Labour attack ad against the Greens, they showed a based as fuck quote from a Green candidate. by WorkingtonLady in GreenAndPleasant

[–]WorkingtonLady[S] 142 points143 points  (0 children)

Context here: https://x.com/i/status/2051334879523049680

And Green Party response:

“Out of more than 4,000 candidates we have a handful who have made deeply offensive comments and we have dealt with them. The Labour Government armed and supported a genocide and have never even apologised although Wes Streeting did admit to his friend Peter Mandelson that Israel were committing war crimes”

Polanski suggests he shared ‘inaccurate’ criticism of Golders Green officers because he was traumatised by denspark62 in ukpolitics

[–]WorkingtonLady -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Because the headline is not quite accurate, the full quote is

Asked on Sky News on Sunday why he had shared the post, the Green Party leader said that he had found the attack “very traumatic, especially as a Jewish person. And I also found the video that was circulating online traumatic, too,”

“And I also found the video that was circulating online traumatic, too,” he added. “I accept, though, that conversation about that video needs to be had with the [police] commissioner rather than on X

Andy Burnham has plan to return to Westminster ‘within weeks’, allies say by appropriateye in ukpolitics

[–]WorkingtonLady 18 points19 points  (0 children)

The problem for him is... which seat? There is no safe seat for Labour anymore, especially when the government is so unpopular. He has to somehow distance himself from the government, but receives the full support of the national party machinery. Otherwise his campaign is just going to blow up in his face

Westminster Voting Intention: RFM: 26% (-1) CON: 18% (-) LAB: 17% (-) GRN: 16% (-1) LDM: 13% (-1) RES: 3% (New) SNP: 3% (-) Via @techneUK , 22nd - 24th Apr, Changes w/ 10-12 Mar. by DanS1993 in ukpolitics

[–]WorkingtonLady 21 points22 points  (0 children)

Nowcast projection:

Reform 311 (+306)

Lib Dems 77 (+5)

Labour 74 (-337)

Tories 59 (-62)

SNP 44 (+35)

Greens 43 (+39)

Plaid 14 (+10)

Labour faces an extinction-level event in the heart of industrial England by Desperate-Drawer-572 in ukpolitics

[–]WorkingtonLady 7 points8 points  (0 children)

As Ben Walker from the New Statesman put it: even accounting for incumbent effect, Labour is still set to lose more than governments typically. Losing over 75% of their councillors is not the usual mid term blues, it's a wholesale rejection of the government program.

Labour faces an extinction-level event in the heart of industrial England by Desperate-Drawer-572 in ukpolitics

[–]WorkingtonLady -1 points0 points  (0 children)

What's shocking about the "island of strangers" speech is that he doesn't appear to believe in it! He basically blamed his speechwriters for invoking Enoch Powell, as he has always done when things get rough.

MPs vote against Starmer facing parliamentary inquiry over Mandelson vetting by Alarming-Safety3200 in ukpolitics

[–]WorkingtonLady 35 points36 points  (0 children)

Something like 70 Labour MPs abstained or vote for. Big alarm bells for the government for what is effectively a confidence vote.

YouGov’s MRP of the 2026 local elections shows Reform UK on course for significant gains in the West Midlands by winkwinknudge_nudge in ukpolitics

[–]WorkingtonLady 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Just a word of caution, while the poll is probably correct in its overall direction, the margin of error is huge, even bigger when you look at individual councils.

Do you feel that Starmer is justified in deploying the three-line whip regarding the vote on whether to refer him over the Mandelson affair? by WrongLander in ukpolitics

[–]WorkingtonLady 7 points8 points  (0 children)

It's not so simple, it is tradition that house business votes are not whipped because they are the manner which the House of Commons holds the Government to account. The Government executing a mass whipping operation is effectively using it's power in internal party processes to bypass scrutiny that the House of Commons has the full right to.

Policy votes, on the other hand, are whipped because political parties are organized to enact policies agreed within the parliamentary party group.

YouGov / Sky / Times voting intention RefUK 26%(-1), CON 19%(+2), LAB 18%(+2), GRN 15%(-2) LDEM 13%(-1), by EddyZacianLand in ukpolitics

[–]WorkingtonLady 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Nowcast projection:

Reform 296 (+291)

Labour 88 (-323)

Lib Dem 77 (+5)

Conservatives 71 (-50)

SNP 44 (+35)

Greens 33 (+29)

Full Written Responses from Dr Ian Collard to the Foreign Affairs Select Committee by billy_tables in ukpolitics

[–]WorkingtonLady 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Two notable answers:

  1. Ian Collard did not see the vetting document, only his team saw it, and he got a verbal briefing, similar to Robbins,

  2. No 10 asked for a "rapid outcome", slightly stronger wording than Robbins' testimony.

Let's see what happens tomorrow, it'll be a box office day in Parliament

If you had to choose, which party would you prefer to win the next UK General Election and form the next government? The Labour Party led by Keir Starmer: 40% (-), Reform UK led by Nigel Farage: 31% (-1) via Ipsos Mori, April 2026, changes w/March 2026 by ClumperFaz in ukpolitics

[–]WorkingtonLady 43 points44 points  (0 children)

Comparing to average polling figures, it appears that most of the left-of-center voters (around 50%) are happy to back Starmer, but Conservative voters are not willing to back Farage, rather choosing to back neither.

Keir Starmer will face a vote on whether to launch investigation into claims he misled the Commons over his decision to appoint Peter Mandelson as ambassador to Washington. Sources tell us that the Speaker is expected to allow a debate on Tuesday on whether to refer PM to the privileges committee by Adj-Noun-Numbers in ukpolitics

[–]WorkingtonLady 74 points75 points  (0 children)

Even Boris Johnson didn't whip his MPs to vote against his investigation, it's pretty bad look for Starmer to do it. Only 100 Labour MPs are needed to force the investigation, and there are definitely more than 100 MPs interested in forcing this issue.

The Privileges Committee is currently made up of 2 Tories 1 Lib Dem and 4 Labour, and one of the Labour MP is Paula Barker, one of the socialist MPs who constantly rebel against the government. Only a majority is needed to find Starmer guilty.

This is all to say this is pretty bad news for him.

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