There is no death penalty in Britain. I think there was some kind of exception for treason after it’s use was discontinued for everything else but it was never used and even that theoretical possibility has been dispensed with now.
Apparently the last time someone was executed for high treason was in 1946, so yeah you basically have to go back to WWII to find an example of it.
All part of the human rights legislation they bought in under Blair (knowing full well what they have been doing) !?
No noise about the bill prioritisation of British medical graduates from labour.
This is a really good policy and they are undoing Boris’s complete idiocy.
They are literally closing the immigration loophole Boris’s Tories created and yet nothing on mainstream news.
They need to shout about their good policies more!
Lib Dems of course covering themselves in poo with terrible uninformed views and emotional arguments amounting to BS.
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Just done a double take as this appears to be a positive post about something Labour is doing?…am I right in thinking this?
I agree. But there is little to no noise because Labour are terribly bad at PR.
The Boriswave has had catastrophic effects on this country, glad to see the process ending.
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I think it’s likely Sultana defects to the Greens, especially if they win today’s byelection in Gorton and Denton. Greens have the gaza vote locked down.
I have to say it is refreshing seeing the public turn its back on the traditional two parties.
I can see huge gains for the likes of Reform, Green, Lib Dem’s and I imagine Restore will take a couple seats too.
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Restore will win about 5-10% of the vote I reckon but it won’t translate to any seats.
Reform will take the majority. Will be odd to see the Greens on 70-something seats but they are extrodinarily well run.
Labour/tories need a wakeup call in 2029.
By-election result soon to be announced.
Reports say Greens expected the break the glass ceiling and win with Reform 2nd and Labour to dropping to 3rd.
This interview from the BBC with a green party member is nasty work. Indirectly accusing of Greens weaponising the Muslim vote.
I mean, they are. But when they were voting for Labour I heard none of these questions?
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Result: Green Victory, massive dominating swing. Reform improvement and Labour collapse in another safe seat.
Greens: 14980 40.7% (+27.5)
Reform: 10578 28.7% (+14.7)
Labour: 9364 25.4% (-25.3)
Tories: 706 1.9% (-6.0)
Lib Dem: 653 1.8% (-2.1)
2024 Results:
Labour: 18,555
Reform: 5,142
Greens: 4810
Galloway’s Party: 3766
Tories: 2888
Lib Dems: 1399
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An interesting and satisfying result.
Humiliation for Labour and Starmer is obviously fantastic. Pretty much halving their vote in less than two years is impressive incompetence and a thoroughly deserved outcome.
I see Reform are doing some Donald Trump style crying about cheating, that’s also a very satisfying dimension of this. Obviously great if they’re not automatically the ones to benefit from the failure of the mainstream parties.
Curious to see if the Greens can replicate this elsewhere. Obviously I won’t vote for them unless they rule out working with Labour, but it certainly makes the electoral picture interesting if they become actual players.
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It’s important not to read too much into byelection voting but given the wider context, its a big blow for Starmer.
I’m reading the greens ground campaign was particularly devastatingly effective. Alot of Labour MPs in London, Birmingham and Lancashire will be sweating it out now.
The greens voter and potential voter base seems very consistent ideologically speaking, I honestly don’t know how you win those people back by the next GE.
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Don’t worry my friend, Labour infighting in 3…2…1
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Prepare for pSyChOdRaMa 
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That’ll be a lot less indirect over the next few days, I suspect, with some acting like its not a real win cos they leaned into “sectarian politics” blah blah blah
Absolutely crushing defeat for Labour, I fucking LOVE to see it
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It really makes British Muslims feel welcome and a part of society, rhetoric like this.
‘why won’t they integrate?!’
I mean it’s hard not to argue that there’s a huge issue with assimilation and integration when the Greens are literally having to campaign in Urdu to win lol
We both agree there is an integration issue but you can’t say it is only on one side when this is the kind of reaction to a particular community contributing their voice to national politics.
It’s not like Labour don’t campaign in Urdu or visit mosques either, sounds like they haven’t been campaigning hard on the ground here compared to the greens who really seem to have developed a good ground game speaking to voters
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