Eliot

Sorry, it is absolutely absurd for Momentum to be actively championing the leadership of a non-SCG leader who has made zero overtures to the left, appointed zero socialists to cabinet and largely retained the Starmerite machinery. Am I missing something?

Burnham seems to have come out of the triple lock thing completely unscathed. Remarkable given how the winter fuel allowance debacle managed to nuke Starmer’s premiership entirely.

Rue de la République, Paris

This is really ideal for Labour — the Green Party and Lib Dem vote has come crashing down, giving Burnham a dominant electoral position, while the right is disastrously evenly split between Reform and Tory. There may be no better opportunity than this to go to an election.

Everyone thinks it's Article V allowing the Constitution to be amended, but in reality it's Article III. Theoretically, nothing stops a party with a majority in Congress and the White House from abolishing all lower courts, establishing new courts in their place, doubling the size of the Supreme Court, and, in doing so, gaining absolute control over the Judiciary at all levels of government and thus eliminating any opposition to whatever policies they'd like to impose. You want to sue Congress when it grants sweeping powers to the President? The lower courts don't even stay the law. You appeal to the packed Supreme Court? They refuse to hear the case. You complain that the President and Congress have overstayed their term in office? The courts rule that the Constitution does not mandate Federal elections every two years during a state of emergency. You take to the streets and protest? The President declares a state of rebellion and Congress suspends habeas corpus. Any political party sufficiently united in its desire to completely destroy the political system, and having obtained even the slimmest majorities in both the legislative and executive branches, can essentially overthrow any republican system of government. All of this is procedurally allowed. There is no constitutional order, including our own, that can ultimately guarantee its own continuation through constitutional procedures alone.

Britishers really flirted with the idea of having interesting politics for about half a year before deciding that the 1000 year two party reich must continue.

Mirad la casa de un currela de la obra medio en el medio oeste americano. Hay españoles ganando 1500 euros que de verdad piensan que viven mejor que el estadounidense medio.

radicalising

“No war is inevitable, no life is worth less than another.” “When some were betting on bombs, we said no to war.” “When it was demanded we raised military spending to 5%, we said no to cutting the welfare state.” We need these principles from MP’s in Westminster.

‘Can’t be bothered.’ She’s in Aberdeen, with people it’ll impact and not politicians who just want to get their own message across.

Digne d'estudi lo del Partit Laborista britànic.

1958 election: very fair!!!!!