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Fairer to those who can't financially or temporally afford to attend in person, but I'm not completely convinced it's good for getting people to engage with arguments (not that in-person attendees necessarily do either).

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Josiah Mortimer @josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 11h

The Iran anti-sanctions motion wasn't debated in the end at Green Party conference (ran out of time as I understand it) 5 of the 12 named proposers of 'Zionism is Racism' motion were also proposers of the anti-sanctions Iran motion (and 2 more backed it in the internal party discussion thread)

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Paul Kindling @paulkindling.bsky.social · 16h

With a membership greater than 230,000, less than 1% of the party membership voted on this. A little over 0.4% voted for it and a little under 0.4% voted against it. The effect of the vote on the whole party will be huge. I have questions. So many questions.

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🏳️‍⚧️ Siobhan @siobhansarelle.bsky.social · 16h

Greens For Palestine have fomented division and polarisation with not just the Green Party, but the left in the UK in general. They have effectively hijacked *the* environmentalist party, for the purposes of expanding a serious conflict. These people are not anti war, and they are not green.

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mikeinsdevon.bsky.social @mikeinsdevon.bsky.social · 16h

Good to hear, but I fear the damage has already been done.

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mikeinsdevon.bsky.social @mikeinsdevon.bsky.social · 18h

Then they get bored and split off into a bunch of splinter parties with barely an elected councillor between them.

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mikeinsdevon.bsky.social @mikeinsdevon.bsky.social · 18h

It would be pretty much sacrificing all the seats except maybe Bristol Central. But do the kind of activists pushing the motion really care about that?

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mikeinsdevon.bsky.social @mikeinsdevon.bsky.social · 18h

I think the only amendment that passed was one making it even more radical/extreme. But could be wrong there.

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mikeinsdevon.bsky.social @mikeinsdevon.bsky.social · 18h

What are the chances of all the MPs being deselected by the entryists for opposing it?

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mikeinsdevon.bsky.social @mikeinsdevon.bsky.social · 18h

Also fear it'll give Labour an excuse to ditch progressive stuff and tack right again in pursuit of "hero voters" and the right-wing papers - "losing progressive votes to Greens" neutralised as an issue + Lib Dems irrelevant outside 100 or so seats.

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mikeinsdevon.bsky.social @mikeinsdevon.bsky.social · 18h

Had thought Holborn & St Pancras would be a narrow Labour hold, could be quite comfortable now. I fear the motion could erase 20 years' worth of hard work and gains for the party.

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mikeinsdevon.bsky.social @mikeinsdevon.bsky.social · 19h

Sadly I fear you could be right there.

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mikeinsdevon.bsky.social @mikeinsdevon.bsky.social · 19h

You thinking it could be challenged in the courts?

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mikeinsdevon.bsky.social @mikeinsdevon.bsky.social · 19h

How badly have the amendments gone?

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McDaragh @mcdaragh.bsky.social · 23h

I think the lesson of Lula, and Sanders and Melenchon is that the left needs to stop romantically sticking to ageing leaders with varying degrees of crankery in their systems to see off the fascists

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mikeinsdevon.bsky.social @mikeinsdevon.bsky.social · 22h

Small counterpoint, we are arguably indirectly arming China in Tibet + Xinjiang or at least giving them money to arm through our addiction to cheap Chinese-made stuff.

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Nathan @nwylabour.bsky.social · 23h

I'm not sure many people on here will be aware that quite a few of the key figures in Labour Women's Declaration are ex-Corbynites! The Labour right should never have tolerated their new form of crankery, but did so because it seemed politically expedient to do so.

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mikeinsdevon.bsky.social @mikeinsdevon.bsky.social · 22h

Fair point. Would add you never seem to hear anything about Tibet these days.

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Carla Denyer @carladenyer.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

My thoughts on tomorrow's conference motion 'Zionism is Racism’

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Philip Cowley @philipjcowley.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I see speculation that John Curtice may get chosen to lead Labour's electoral reform commission. And I see speculation that Labour want to end up with SV. I doubt both these things can be true. Because I would be very surprised if any commission led by Curtice ended up recommending SV.

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mikeinsdevon.bsky.social @mikeinsdevon.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I'm pretty sure Bingley Town Council is a parish council, but I could be wrong.

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mikeinsdevon.bsky.social @mikeinsdevon.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I don't think this account covers town/parish council elections?

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mikeinsdevon.bsky.social @mikeinsdevon.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I'd have thought the Workers' Party was the "left" (loose definition of "left" admittedly) version of Restore?

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mikeinsdevon.bsky.social @mikeinsdevon.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Stick him on a spaceship and exile him to Mars. It's where he really wants to be after all.

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Robin Wilde @robinwilde.me · 03/10/2026

I can hear the screeching U-turn that happened during the naming of this business

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mikeinsdevon.bsky.social @mikeinsdevon.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

If there aren't rules about that sort of thing there should be.

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Dylan Difford @dylandifford.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The ultimate example of how SV is crap is that in London mayoral elections, even after two decades of experience and with what were clearly two-horse races, half of second votes (which, of course, primarily came from LD or Grn first choices) were being wasted.

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

Braverman - twice Conservative Home Secretary - in a period that saw record migration figures. They really do think people are dumb.

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Codfather #FBPE 🇫🇷🇪🇺 @codfather.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I'm with Carl Sagan on this:

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mikeinsdevon.bsky.social @mikeinsdevon.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Restore on 37 seats using single transferable vote - going to stick my neck on the line here and say they'd struggle to get more than one or two. They're too toxic for transfers.

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mikeinsdevon.bsky.social @mikeinsdevon.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Hopefully that makes it more likely Netanyahu's voted out.

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mikeinsdevon.bsky.social @mikeinsdevon.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Considering Restore are a party of white supremacists and conspiracy weirdos I sure hope they've got a much lower ceiling.

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mikeinsdevon.bsky.social @mikeinsdevon.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Just hoping it does mean proportional representation and not something like supplementary vote (Temu AV).

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Kernow 〓〓 @kernow.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Council adopts bilingual signage policy. Councillors and officers are also encouraged to use key Kernewek phrases as part of their roles and in their day-to-day lives www.voicenewspapers.co.uk//news/counci...

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Council adopts bilingual signage policy

Councillors and officers are also encouraged to use key Kernewek phrases as part of their roles and in their day-to-day lives

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mikeinsdevon.bsky.social @mikeinsdevon.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Genuinely surprised (pleasantly so I should add) at that one - had thought Reform would take it.

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mikeinsdevon.bsky.social @mikeinsdevon.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

And lots would be unhappy. Not enough for pro-PR voices in the party, any change is unacceptable for others. Agreed on one thing though. There's no legal requirement for a referendum, though suspect AV 2011 set the precedent for one.

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mikeinsdevon.bsky.social @mikeinsdevon.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The more I'm thinking about it, the more likely I'm thinking it is that it ends up like Canada. Government already decided on its preference (SV by the sounds of it), commission recommends something else (probably MMP) + an unholy alliance of anti-reform MPs and STV purists sink the whole thing.

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mikeinsdevon.bsky.social @mikeinsdevon.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Er, under SV the second round would've been between the Tories and Reform. So they'd have almost certainly still got a Tory mayor.

Screenshot from Wikipedia showing results of the 2025 Cambridgeshire mayoral election

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mikeinsdevon.bsky.social @mikeinsdevon.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

But they would share the big problem that hardly anyone actually wants them. Like AV SV isn't proportional but still too far for FPTP purists. And people have said SV is "unfair". There was a fair amount of gammon outrage at its reintroduction for Manchester mayor this year.

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mikeinsdevon.bsky.social @mikeinsdevon.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

It's starting to sound like Labour's campaign in Gorton & Denton.

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