The Respect Party was established by Salma Yaqoob and George Monbiot in 2004, in the aftermath of the 2003 invasion of Iraq, uniting a range of leftist and anti-war groups, the Muslim Association of Britain (MAB) and Socialist Party GB. In 2005, Respect's candidate George Galloway was elected MP...
I hadn't heard about him before. It's getting really hard to find transgender Labour people who are still in it - none of the people I used last time are still in the party that I could see. These days I feel like Labour people are either appalling people are very focused on doing good work in a...
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Since the last election the system for registering to vote for Britain's Third House has shifted - transgender voters who registered as trans at the census are now compelled to vote in the transgender parliament. This was done to avoid the situation at the last election where...
The traditional trans response to this would be to talk about Hijras and traditional trans feminine identities in South East Asia but honestly this approach kinda pisses me off because as far as I can see the Pakistani trans community isn't some alien separate identity with its own history...
Thanks, I was trying to hit that sense that for someone in whatever the original timeline is, the three Conservative factions are set in stone and ideologically immovable in a way that the author simply cannot imagine being different.
From the SLP Discord Server, 2034
h-s2 posted:
Background to this. I woke up this morning wanting to write something where Rishi Sunak stayed in power and ended up fighting the General Election against Starmer. This is just notes so forgive me if this is weird.
Looking on metapedia I saw that...
1997-2009: Tony Blair (Labour)
2001 saw New Labour lose some of its sheen, especially over the fuel protests. On 11th September 2001, Iain Duncan Smith was elected Conservative leader an the party's rightward turn proved to be disastrous but difficult to mitigate against. In 2004, following an...