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With Tory comments on Muslims, BLM & their policies on Immigration they lost support from some POC months ago. But many wouldn’t have seen Labour doing the same to candidates close to their communities. Minorities are told to integrate but put a foot “wrong” and you’re done.

Friend just said to me ‘I think we should send Keir Starmer on a Gaza and Diane Abbott MP awareness course’ 🙏🏾

Hear, hear!

'Too many young people live in a kind of a bubble within their own communities,' James Cleverly

I remember this sketch well. However, the tories can’t “reframe” their way out of this one…

Try:

“Do you think the tories have made a complete mess of the last 14 years?”

“Yes.”

“Do you think it’s time for a change of government?”

“Yes.”

Easy…

The national service we need from our young people is to vote for change on 4th July. 🗳️

Both feted and gilded, Keir Starmer and Rishi Sunak are two sides of the same rotten politics | Aditya Chakrabortty | The Guardian theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

One for every Tory MP stepping down

Over The Top Under The Radar - Sign Up ⁦Carys Afoko⁩ ⁦Gary Younge⁩ If you’re already bored of the circular , homogeneous journalism we’re in for, fir the next six weeks, this is sparkling. overunderpod.com

“Most people’s lived experience just isn’t something the people who write about politics or aspire to run the country know much about. So we’re going to have 6 weeks of a small group of people talking a lot” ⁦⁦Carys Afoko⁩ looks wearily ahead to the election coverage.

We never did get to find out what Andrea Leadsom could do for the country 'As a mother'

The timing of the election might cause problems for some, esp students coming to the end of term or those who have holidays booked (whoever they intend to vote for). The solution is to apply for a postal vote. Here’s the link to do so. Please share.

gov.uk/apply-postal-v…

OK, British students, start researching how to get a postal vote NOW, and figure out where best to use it. You are PERFECTLY ENTITLED to be registered at both a term-time and permanent address, and to vote from whichever suits you, as long as you only cast one vote!

Forget the General Election just for a few moments! Booking has opened for the public for my new play A TUPPERWARE OF ASHES! Directed by Pooja Ghai National Theatre

This is so key for well intended political commentators to understand. Stop using Muslim and Gaza is the same sentence without recognising other issues Muslims are concerned with in relation to their Britishness, or lack of recognition for it

RISHI SUNAK HAS CALLED A GENERAL ELECTION FOR 4 JULY.

It's the end of the Tories (and I feel fine).

This is where you can register for voter ID.

Don't assume you can just walk up and vote. The Tories have made it as difficult as possible, and it might take time for your ID to be processed.

Start now. Don't let somebody else rob you of your voice.

gov.uk/apply-for-phot…