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Majority of Labour-Linked Trade Unions Now Back Electoral Reform After Shop Workers Call for PR

26 April 2023

Two-thirds of trade unions that support the Labour Party now back a major change to Westminster’s voting system, after shop workers’ union USDAW became the latest to throw its weight behind the campaign.

Delegates at the union’s Annual Delegate Meeting yesterday backed a motion calling on USDAW to “support the introduction of proportional representation for general elections, to protect and improve democracy in the UK”.

The move marks a big boost for the Labour campaign for electoral reform, after a sweep of general elections in which progressive parties won the most votes but a minority of seats in the House of Commons.

Nearly 23 million votes did not count towards electing people’s MP in 2019, according to Electoral Reform Society analysis, a result that was branded “disenfranchisement on an industrial scale”.

Labour delegates overwhelmingly backed PR at last year’s party conference – after mega-unions Unison and Unite supported the shift. But Labour Leader Keir Starmer has refused to commit to changing the system, despite noting during his leadership campaign that many people felt their votes didn’t count under the one-party-takes-all voting system currently in place.

https://bylinetimes.com/2023/04/26/majo ... ll-for-pr/

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Coronation: Public invited to swear allegiance to King Charles

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People watching the Coronation will be invited to join a "chorus of millions" to swear allegiance to the King and his heirs, organisers say.

The public pledge is one of several striking changes to the ancient ceremony revealed on Saturday.

In a coronation full of firsts, female clergy will play a prominent role, and the King himself will pray out loud.

The Christian service will also see religious leaders from other faiths have an active part for the first time.

The Coronation on Saturday will be the first to incorporate other languages spoken in Britain, with a hymn set to be sung in Welsh, Scottish Gaelic and Irish Gaelic.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-65435426

Would you swear allegiance to King Charles or are they really outdated?

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As the UK local elections are happening in some places around the country. Here is a TLDR youtube video about voter IDs.

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Local elections 2023 – live: Tory backlash over ‘terrible’ results as PM urged to ‘do better’

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Rishi Sunak is facing pressure from senior Tories MPs to “deliver” on key issues if the party wants to avoid defeat at the next general election.

The prime minister had to show voters his party had made improvements in areas including the economy and the NHS before they go to the polls again, they said.

One former cabinet minister, who supported Mr Sunak’s bid to become Tory leader, told The Independent he now had to “deliver on his five priorities”, which included lowering waiting lists and inflation.

Lord Barwell, a Tory peer who served as Theresa May’s chief of staff in No 10, told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme that Mr Sunak now had a “hell of a job” to undo the “damage Boris Johnson and Liz Truss have done to the Conservative brand.”

The Tories have suffered heavy losses across England, with Labour and the Liberal Democrats both making gains in what another Conservative MP described as a “terrible” night for his party.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/p ... 32946.html

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I 100% agree, there needs to be a conversation on both side of the monarchy spectrum. The monarchy is rather out of date with todays society and needs to be improved or got rid off, so we'll end up with a President like in the US, France etc.

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I think day by day, Labour is turning into the red Tories.

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I think day by day, Labour is turning into the red Tories.

I'm not British but I remember years ago being upset over the coup that Starmarites pulled in the party. Now it's not just Corbyn's faction that's been ousted but in effect any other faction of the labor party at all. The party line that's left is just bog standard liberalism at this point. Starmer initially promised social democratic policies in order to deceive people to garner support and I'm convinced his administration won't deliver on most of them.

The argument that "The British public wasn't ready for a labor as far left as Corbyn's platform" never made sense to me. The British electorate is bombarded with conservative propaganda constantly and it wouldn't have mattered if the most professional centrist were running in the last elections or not. Labour would have still lost due to the brexit momentum the Tories were carrying at the time. And now that people have so fervently supported Starmer, who leftists within the party were sounding alarms about from the beginning, what Labour has left to offer the UK when it is elected by landslide is at best a middling platform that only delays major problems and doesn't work to fix them. And a Corbyn platform would win by similar landslide too due to how awfully the Tories have managed.

I can only hope that as economic conditions worsen and confidence is gradually lost in Labour the British people will turn to the Green party instead of whatever right-wing party may replace the Tories.

Agreed Erowind, lets hope so indeed but at the next election, the Greens have alot of work to do to gain 1,600 councils over night though. (Based on Labour's local election winnings that is)

[lechwall]

I've said for a long time Starmer will be a one term prime minister. He really is not very good at this. The only reason Labour are ahead in the polls now is because of voter fatigue with the Conservatives, as opposed to anything he's actually done.

[weatheriscool]

I wish Mr.Fox would run for office in the UK and become prime Minister. He then could pass a bill to fund futuretimeline!!!
But then pass bills funding the healthcare system, safetynet, science, and clean energy development. He would probably be very pro-LGBT and human rights. The UK would be far better off.

Please run mr.fox.