Now that we know the electorate isn’t actually gender critical and being a transphobe isn’t an election winner, can we PLEASE go back to ACTUAL women’s issues that need urgent attention? Let’s stop letting the GC’s suck all the oxygen out of our fight for women’s liberation.

It doesn't feel like it, but Reform barely improve on UKIP's 2015 election. 14.3% of the vote vs 12.6%. 4 or 5 seats vs 1 seat. 98 2nd places vs 120. Not exactly a sea change. Yet seen as very significant given how close they pushed the Tories nationally in the polls.

I see all your hot takes but if we had PR voter behaviour would have been different. Voter behaviour adapts to the system you have, hence tactical voting. We very much need PR but the takes explaining what the landscape would be under PR cannot reliably use data from these polls.

unless labour pick up 620,000 votes in the remaining 5 seats still to declare, labour have actually lost hundreds of thousands of votes than their 2019(!) result and won a landslide this time lol

@jburnmurdoch agree in part, but I think it's dangerous to extrapolate votes between electoral systems like voters do not adapt to it. I'm pretty sure the end-result would have been quite different in a proportional system, where you can't really vote tactically for example.

With the Greens now having the same number of seats as Reform, the UK media should provide them the same platform and level of coverage as Farage’s ilk. Will it happen though? #GE24

Reposting this meme as we've signed up for another 5 years If there's hope it's that Reform and the far right are really only "popular" thanks to the mainstream elite enabling it Problem is the mainstream elite needs the hype to hide its failure to address various crises

*important since I have a complaint out about one of their staff members and absolutely DO NOT want to be put in a position where I am treated by her again. Phoning. About the hearing aid clinic and then getting annoyed I was struggling to hear. Like... I... 🤡

Shout out to @LG_NHS staff member for phoning me from a noisy room about my audiology / hearing aid appointment, refusing to give me the name of the person my appointment is with* and then hanging up when I was struggling to understand what she was trying to call for. Wtf.

If you are in the UK, when did you get the test emergency alert?

The UK Government: ThERe wILL bE an EmErgeNcY alert TeSt At 3PM ALL OF THE UK at 2.59pm #CanYouDoNothingRight

I don't frequent the bird app much any more - but I am newly over here doing my thing. Follows, links and comments very much appreciated 🙏🏼

Ah fuck it, THREAD, I guess. I’ve tried to hold my tongue re: the lack of female guitar acts/female headliners/the “pipeline problem” at Glastonbury. But perhaps my experience is relevant. I am a female guitar act. I write big, singalong chorus songs that go great at festivals.1/

Is using "desperately needing a wee and yet not going because you've not finished your email/document yet" a common motivational tool, just me, or another subset. Asking for reasons..

Someone once described knowing this as intrinsically and automatically as knowing 'up from down' and I... ..... ..... ..... 🤯

One of my partners described the current political situation as a WhatsApp group that goes bad and everyone leaves, then the last person in it becomes the group admin by default and yeah... I know no better way to describe how @RishiSunak is now the prime minister

https://t.co/Vw4QF00aI4

I bloody picked my moment didn't I. Ffs.

Okay. I have a toddler asleep in my arms. Can I open a news website or not? How bad is it? Has even the illusion of democracy now also collapsed? Would it genuinely be more calming to continue rewatching *The Fall?*...

Which specific part of - jumper - blue - penguins excludes girls please? Me and my penguin obsessed but 'not a boy' toddler will wait... @welovefrugi