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Reform are not on your side. A message from the Durham Miners Association to our coalfield communities as we prepare to go to the polls in the council elections on May 1: durhamminers.org/council_electi…

Pretty sure all of us are on less than minimum wage, once we’ve spent the money we’ve earned

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According to Professor John Curtice Labour was defending just 300 local council seats on May 1st because it did so badly in 2021. Yet of those 300 it managed to lose half of them. This is in addition to losing a 35% majority in Runcorn. A disastrous night. bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

"While the Starmer era is a total write-off, Labour can only persist in its current state of ideological unbeing for so long." Tribune editor Alex Niven on the Reform takeover in Durham. tribunemag.co.uk/2025/05/reform…

"Both main parties have become so atrophied by internal ruction and managerial resistance to ideological renewal that neither any longer has anything meaningful to say to their core voters." Wrote about Reform, Labour & Durham. tribunemag.co.uk/2025/05/reform…

“The Reform breakthrough in Durham and other (previously-known-as) Red Wall areas is a sign of how voters across the periphery are now tending towards the populist right – as the saying goes – just to feel something.” tribunemag.co.uk/2025/05/reform…

After yesterday’s results, the idea that people want “further and faster” implementation of whatever “plan” leadership is following is miles off the mark. The arrogance & ignorance that Labour members or the wider electorate want more of the last 10 months is seriously misguided.

Spot on by Alex Niven. The example cited in Durham will be repeated up and down the country: decent, well-known, hard working Labour councillors losing their seats on the back of a wave of right-wing populism and a national Labour Party saying nothing to counter it.

‘We are now approaching a point of mainstream breakthrough for the populist right in Britain that should, in a sane world, force the Labour Party to rediscover some kind of soulfulness or at least substance as far as its basic political identity goes.’ tribunemag.co.uk/2025/05/reform…

‘The new Reform councillors are such an eccentric lot, they seem highly unlikely to be able to navigate the mundanities of council work with anything like competence (Darren Grimes at an environment and sustainability committee meeting anyone?)’ tribunemag.co.uk/2025/05/reform…

Well?

Not a fan of either of these two but this is a fairly clear sign that Starmer’s response to local election failure and record unpopularity will be to tack right until the Faragism he is enabling buries him completely. One of history’s most pathetic figures

There was more working-class representation in the arts in the 70s because of social democracy, not because they had a magazine/podcast viewing class purely in terms of identitarian careerism

In January, workers at Tower Hamlets' primary independent domestic violence service were threatened with redundancies. By unionising, they not only saved their jobs — they also defended the survivors who rely on their support. tribunemag.co.uk/2025/05/findin…

'"If there aren’t enough people to process referrals and ensure survivors have support, fewer people are going to get support," Kischa, a Solace worker who took part in the strike, says. "That’s just a fact. We were devasted for the community."' tribunemag.co.uk/2025/05/findin…