Next week: "Shabana Mahmood is the new Labour leader"
knowone
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Obviously shouldn't count on this being the actual result. But this is more than a bit worrying
As the article says, it's yet another of many reviews over the years that has shown that racism, and other forms of bigotry, are systemic in the Met. Which have been basically ignored every time. I'm sure in this time of increased general bigotry in the UK something will absolutely be done, after this one
I'm glad in the article they say that Khan is part of the centrist Labour establishment. For any US people that aren't aware, Mamdani's win is a way bigger jump to the left for New York than Khan was/is for London, even though Johnson came before him. I wish Khan was like Mamdani in this aspect, London could really use someone like that too
Also decarb them and you've got nature's gabapentin
I want them to get it together, but mostly cos there's certain seats that Your Party will win or have a good chance of winning that the Greens won't. We need a united front but so far it's not looking great. Really needs to happen in good time before next year's local elections
Thank you for linking this. I've looked at every instance of "transport" in the document and it's almost all about maintaining and renewing current infrastructure. Which is good, of course, but nowhere does it seem to talk about affordability. In the part where it talks about how they're going to decarbonise the UK in regards to transport, again it just seems to talk about pushing for electric cars.
Correct me if I'm wrong and have missed things though. I'd be pleased to see that they're actually going to make public transport affordable. It's good to make what's there better and expand it. But if most people still aren't able to use it and having a car is cheaper, it's not going to have nearly the outcome it should
As expected, basically nothing on making public transport better and affordable. Just the usual focus on making having electric cars easier. Really going "all in" here Ed, sure
Refreshing to see this attitude, rather than the pre-election "you're an idiot if you don't vote for me" followed by the post-election ”wow you didn't vote for me, you idiots" rhetoric you get from most Dems
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They wouldn't do this when the better option for them is to make Mamdani's ambitions for New York as hard as possible to bring to fruition. Even if they only hinder him a bit, any inability at all from Mamdani to do every single thing he wants to do (and things they claim he wants to do) will see relentless coverage in the right wing media (and likely also some from liberal media) in order to paint it as a "failed project" and how "unrealistic socialism is." That serves them far better than just disappearing the guy
I see your point about how they will try and make Mamdani look as bad as possible in the meeting but he could withstand it far better than Zelenskyy, I reckon. Nothing wrong with Zelenskyy on that front, just it's obvious Mamdani would do better