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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c30209ezq47o

"Lib Dem Roger Harmer new Birmingham City Council leader"

In coalition with Greens and Independents. Such moderation.

I guess you could argue that Starmer taking the knee was where his PMship started to unravel (about four years before it began). I remember @isam being particularly scathing about it at the time, and so it possibly prepared the ground that made the accusation of "two-tier Keir" one that resonated among a significant minority after the Southport attacks. Which seemed to set the tone for Starmer's time as PM to go off the tracks from the very beginning.

The Nowak case wouldn’t have had nearly as much traction without the reaction to the Floyd murder. That’s what gets people angry. They know how different Starmer would be behaving had Nowak been black.

US Congresswoman calls for sanctions to be placed on the officers involved in arresting Henry Nowak

https://x.com/realannapaulina/status/2062943462215856351

We should sanction the officers who did this. Don’t need them coming on vacation to the US. An absolute travesty.

I wonder if she realises that many Britons are avoiding/cancelling US vacations due to the current regime in the US.

Do the stats actually show that?

FWIW, I thought at the time that Obama's interference in the Brexit vote was wrong -- and may have been counter-productive, having the opposite effect he intended.

(What should he have done? Stayed silent unless asked, and then said he hoped that the EU and Britain would work through this to be better friends, however the vote went. And then changed the subject.)

I wasn't bothered by Obama's intervention because I'm a global free speech advocate, but the interesting point is how the left in the UK is fine with interventions from abroad as long as they agree with them, but they don't like it when they don't agree with them. So hypocrisy, in other words.

FWIW, I thought at the time that Obama's interference in the Brexit vote was wrong -- and may have been counter-productive, having the opposite effect he intended.

(What should he have done? Stayed silent unless asked, and then said he hoped that the EU and Britain would work through this to be better friends, however the vote went. And then changed the subject.)

An extreme drop in Ireland’s GDP in Q1 pulled the entire Eurozone into a contraction.

https://x.com/danobrien20/status/2062849045861720230

Obama famously interefered in the Brexit vote a few days or perhaps weeks beforehand (I don't recall exactly) by calling for a Yes vote to staying in the EU.

He was not great at foreign policy.
While there's far more of a case for the US givikng its opinion on Brexit than the current Trump administration intervention, he would have done far better to have kept quiet.

It looks hypocritical for the government to complain about interference in this case given that they all weighed in on the George Floyd case.

https://x.com/PippaCrerar/status/2062977528415789526

EXCL: Thames Water should be nationalised, Andy Burnham has said, revealing public ownership of water companies would “absolutely be an option” under his potential leadership of Labour party

Is anyone going to cost all of these promises he’s making?

https://x.com/bbcnewsnight/status/2062929587860816250

"I'm not going to go through... an exam on the fiscal rules."

Andy Burnham, Labour candidate in the Makerfield by-election, refuses two times to tell @vicderbyshire what the fiscal rules are, but confirms he'd stick to them if he became prime minister.