Nadia Whittome MP @nadiawhittomemp.bsky.social · 27/02/2026But fundamentally, this shows why first past the post isn’t fit for purpose. If the government doesn’t introduce proportional voting, a far right party could win the next general election outright on a minority of the vote. 27703105
Nadia Whittome MP @nadiawhittomemp.bsky.social · 27/02/2026This possibility inevitably makes tactical voting essential in some seats, and Labour is playing with fire. 2434112
Squeezy John @johnspiers.co.uk · 27/02/2026Have you considered the fact that those who voted for historic Labour values might have realised that the Labour Party have let them down too many times? If you also believe in those values then you should defect to the Greens. How privileged to believe only Labour can give us the change we need. 0262
ultrawideo @ultrawideo.eurosky.social · 27/02/2026Every single arm of the state should be working to ensure that reform are exposed for being the huckster putin-funded traitors that you know them to be. HMRC, the MET, the security services. Absolutely obliterate them. Get GB News in the bin. Jail Robinson and his ilk. It is time for sanity. 061
lazytitan258.bsky.social @lazytitan258.bsky.social · 27/02/2026If you hate what Labour are and are doing, why not step down and stand as a Green MP? Then you can make up all the fantasy policies you like! 031
Pete Marchetto @petemarchetto.bsky.social · 27/02/2026All well said... but the response to G&D the PM has already circulated shows that, even now, such pleas will fall on deaf ears. It's time for true Labour Party MPs to organise a revolution, or a defection. 000
Cersei Trannister 🏳️⚧️🏴☠️🦋 @qadishtujessica.inanna.app · 27/02/2026Have an idea: Labour voters support trans rights. Maybe reverse course on that and stop sucking rowling’s strap on? 070
Alan Pennie @telston.bsky.social · 27/02/2026These are good points, and I hope the leadership will learn something. 010
MJ Spooky 🕷 | BASTARD FOREVER 🖤 @wrassletrash.bsky.social · 27/02/2026You're correct, but you're in the wrong party to be honest. They've enshrined transphobia as law, pandered to the worst of us, there's no coming back from that. 040
Leftback @leftback.bsky.social · 27/02/2026Sorry that your replies are going to be multiple varieties of 'This you?' and 'sucks to be you' nonsense but this thread is really important and needs to be more than just one Labour MP saying it. Labour as a whole needs to Do Better if it wants to remain a viable electoral presence. 71543
Jak @jaksays.bsky.social · 27/02/2026All true Mahmood and Streeting have to go, they are toxic to Labour voters 020
Spooky Snigdha @snig.bsky.social · 27/02/2026Nadia, this is a solid thread, but don't forget: 5) Don't make life harder for disabled people, trans people, and migrants. It was missing from your list, and matters. 61058
Jonathan Davies @profjsdavies.bsky.social · 27/02/2026I think Deform wants, or used to want, PR. PR might be the right thing to do as a matter of principle. However, it cannot plausibly be presented as a panacea or prophylactic against the far right. They could still win. There is no substitute for a credible system-transforming politics of hope. 000
18thcenturyboy.bsky.social @18thcenturyboy.bsky.social · 27/02/2026First time I‘ve see someone from Labour make sense in a while. He may have lost his Rasputin, but Starmer still has the touch of death. He and his other frontbench incompetents need to go. Asap. 010
Hobbits Wife @hobbitswife.eurosky.social · 27/02/2026Whole thread is spot on, thank you. And yes, we need some version of PR implementing. I’m tired of always using my vote for the party most likely to keep Reform / UKIP / BNP our rather than voting for the person who more accurately reflects my views. 011
Rae | Free PaIestine @sigilynk.bsky.social · 27/02/2026maybe show some proud solidarity with trans people too instead of treating them like a dirty subject to be ashamed of and avoid mentioning 0120
rabbit2025.bsky.social @rabbit2025.bsky.social · 27/02/2026Exactly. We hope the top listens to you and other same minded MPs& gives up their power damaging policies:the violation of human rights: protest rights, genocide in Gaza, anti-immigration policies, trans rights, disable benefits, low pension All minority&powerless people's rights have been eroded 0120
Gaby @gs2u.bsky.social · 27/02/2026I hope greens and libdems will throw labour, Tories and reform out everywhere. Your utter failure across the board on both policy and ethics should result in your wipeout from politics, not yet another theatrical "reset". 020
Pete M @fastcarspete.bsky.social · 27/02/2026Lots of us will be tactically voting to keep Reform and Labour out wherever possible. Labour don't listen. Millions of us despise Brexit and Labour do not listen to us, at all. Greens and Lib Dems do listen and they want to rejoin, so they'll get our votes. Tory / Labour / Reform = wasted votes 2245
Linda Henderson @lintrinsic.bsky.social · 27/02/2026~sigh~ You may think you're staying to enable change, and right the course, but this is a delusion. What you're signalling to Labour leadership is all the things you've listed here (and more) aren't a deal-breaker for you. So they have no incentive to change course. Get out while you still can. 0111
Ghoulish Gerwyn 👻 @gerwyn.uk · 28/02/2026Also, any defections by an elected MP should result in an automatic by-election in their constituency. 000
Peter Adamson @nsr2.bsky.social · 27/02/2026As a floating labour voter everything you just said is correct. If you were my candidate at the next GE, you would get my first preference! 010
Koningwoning @koningwoning.bsky.social · 27/02/2026All of this - but even more: you need to have an actual (strategic) vision and work towards making that a reality. Labour has an incrementalist change that doesn't really amount to much in the policy sphere tactic You might be getting somewhere, but no one sees it. You are your own worst enemy. 010
Ben casper @beldaz78.bsky.social · 27/02/2026Thank you for this. It is clear and refreshing to have this insight. 000
