A 3-minute Masterclass on how to dismantle Israeli lies.

chapeau James O'Brien

Mile Cross (Norwich) council election result:

GRN: 42.7% (+26.1)
LAB: 39.9% (-11.7)
REF: 6.4% (+6.4)
CON: 6.1% (-21.1)
LDEM: 3.1% (-1.5)
IND: 1.8% (+1.8)

Green GAIN from Labour.

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Greens gaining early on

Zero Green spokespeople, however, on BBC election coverage.

Standard.

You are going to see plenty of vilification and some blatant racism today from those in the media and other politicians

Here is one such who is both - a media hack and a politician.

Which Party does he belong to?

The American government has genuinely lost its mind

This is racist.

Muslim voters, indeed voters of any faith and none, who rejected Labour because of the crisis in the Middle East should not be compared to Hamas.

This source needs to be disciplined. The party must not continue to tolerate this kind of anti-Muslim bigotry.

65 Indie Councillors elected, most from a standing start. No funding from oligarchs, no support from MSM, no local party back-up, discredited and often lied about.

This is the beginning of a grassroots revolution!

Hatch Warren and Beggarwood (Basingstoke and Deane) council election result:

WEP: 61.6% (+61.6)
CON: 25.9% (-16.0)
LAB: 12.5% (-9.4)

Women's Equality Party GAIN from Conservative.

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Meanwhile, back in the real world. IPCC 2023 reports renewables 10 times more efficient than nuclear at CO2 mitigation.

🚨 Greens GAIN Biddick and All Saints ward in South Tyneside.

🟢 GRN 70% (+59)
🔴 LAB 30% (-20)

Green GAIN from Labour (39% swing)

Govt spokesperson cheerily telling us that voter ID works, saying that at last year’s elections ‘99.75% of people were able to cast their vote successfully.’ That means 0.25% weren’t, which may sound small, but in an average general election that’s 200,000 voters.

Ravensthorpe (Peterborough) council election result:

GRN: 39.3% (+33.9)
CON: 35.5% (-21.7)
LAB: 22.5% (-10.2)
LDEM: 2.8% (-2.1)

Green GAIN from Conservative.

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My husband, Prof. Steve Tamari, is out of the hospital. He will need surgery on his hand, and he is in pain from nine broken ribs. We are asking for time to rest and heal. We will not be taking media interviews at this time. Here is Steve's statement and ways you can support.

Statement of the #ICC Office of the Prosecutor

Labour activist in #Manchester tries to run over Workers' Party campaigners and drives off.

The driver, cousin of the local #Labour candidate, has been arrested. One of the #GBWP campaigners is in hospital.

Culmination of a week of Labour intimidation of rivals across the city.

A White sword stabbing murderer gets ‘humanised’ on Metro front page. Plus not ‘murderer’ ‘killer’ or ‘terrorist’ - he’s ‘mystic samurai’ ’man in court’ over ‘sword murder’. You wouldn’t think he slaughtered a 14yr old Black child who The Sun called ‘sword lad’ implying at…

Adnan al-Bursh, a Palestinian surgeon and professor of orthopaedic medicine, was killed by torture while in Israeli detention, according to a statement from the Palestinian Prisoners' Society.
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Blackpool South By-Election Result:

🌹 LAB: 58.9% (+20.6)
🌳 CON: 17.5% (-32.1)
➡️ RFM: 16.9% (+10.7)
🔶 LDM: 2.1% (-1.0)
🌍 GRN: 2.0% (+0.3)
🙋 IND: 0.9% (New)
👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 ADF: 0.8% (New)
🎩 MRLP: 0.7% (New)
✉️ NONPOL: 0.2% (New)

Labour GAIN from Conservative.
Changes w/ GE2019.

Fascism

Plymouth votes Labour, 27k votes to 15k for the Conservatives.

Cons were defending 14 seats. Finished up winning just one.
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