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mahermi1 said:
Awful truly awful, but the whole World is doing the same, which is even worse. I would hope if not done sooner, Starmer has a change of heart and calls for a total ceasefire, when in power.
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The direction of travel has always been this way. It sucks, I don't like it, and a stance ought to have been taken much sooner. An example.
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Bush, Blair's Mideast chat caught on open microphone

US President George W Bush, caught on an open microphone at a summit in St Petersburg, has suggested that US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice would travel to the Middle East "pretty soon".
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Bush didn't even stop eating when blair raised this issue, if that doesn't explain the disdain the us has for the uk then...
 
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I grew up in Ammanford in a Welsh-speaking home, and joined Carmarthen East and Dinefwr CLP as a teenager. I served as Vice-Chair of Welsh Young Labour, before being awarded a scholarship to study Politics at the University of Cambridge. During my time at university, I specialised in the history of the Welsh Labour Party, writing my dissertation on the life and impact of Jim Griffiths MP.

After graduating, I undertook work in public affairs and policy working on a range of areas including violence against women and girls and county-lines drugs. I also have experience in broadcasting and television. In 2021 I then joined the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (later the Department for Science, Innovation, and Technology) as a Senior Policy Adviser with a focus on the UK's Digital Strategy and the Tech Sector. I have since worked as a Senior Public Affairs Officer at the Dogs Trust and care deeply about animal welfare.


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Intrigue as Labour selects candidate for Carmarthen but fails to make public announcement​


Mystery surrounds why Welsh Labour has not announced publicly why a former UK Government policy adviser has been selected as its Westminster candidate for the new seat of Caerfyrddin / Carmarthen.

Some local party members are saying they have heard that Martha O’Neil’s nomination has not been welcomed by her employer, an unspecified animal welfare charity.

Ms O’Neil was selected by postal ballot after a controversial late decision by party officials to exclude Rob James, the Labour opposition group leader on Carmarthenshire County Council from the candidates’ shortlist.

Before his exclusion, Cllr James was seen as the favourite to win the selection contest. Postal ballot papers had already been sent out with his name included when party officials insisted that he was excluded.

It is understood that the councillor was told by Welsh Labour officials that he was disqualified from the process because of a text message he supposedly sent that he has no recollection of.
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It is understood that Welsh Labour has said it can’t prove that Cllr James sent the message, but that allowing him to continue in the selection process would have risked reputational damage for the party.

When a hustings meeting was held days after the councillor’s removal from the contest, it had to be abandoned after descending into chaos with members complaining about what they saw as the undemocratic exclusion of Cllr James. A number of party members were subsequently suspended.

A postal ballot held more than two weeks ago resulted in victory for Ms O’Neil, and local party members received an email from Welsh Labour headquarters in Cardiff informing them of the result and telling them the party appreciated their “spirit of solidarity and comradery” in “a difficult selection”.

Kinell
 
mahermi1 said:
Awful truly awful, but the whole World is doing the same, which is even worse. I would hope if not done sooner, Starmer has a change of heart and calls for a total ceasefire, when in power.
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That is the important bit. Let us hope that in that situation he can push a narrative and global action regarding the absolute catastrophe in Sudan.
 
Stop the press! I’ve just been asked on social media by some scruff if I knew Labour had sold off the gold reserves 😂

I politely reminded him it was some of the remaining gold reserves as the tories sold some off in the 70’s, but I’m sure he was well aware of that.

Bet he couldn’t sleep at night after the country losing some of the gold.
 
orchard said:
3545053

I grew up in Ammanford in a Welsh-speaking home, and joined Carmarthen East and Dinefwr CLP as a teenager. I served as Vice-Chair of Welsh Young Labour, before being awarded a scholarship to study Politics at the University of Cambridge. During my time at university, I specialised in the history of the Welsh Labour Party, writing my dissertation on the life and impact of Jim Griffiths MP.

After graduating, I undertook work in public affairs and policy working on a range of areas including violence against women and girls and county-lines drugs. I also have experience in broadcasting and television. In 2021 I then joined the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (later the Department for Science, Innovation, and Technology) as a Senior Policy Adviser with a focus on the UK's Digital Strategy and the Tech Sector. I have since worked as a Senior Public Affairs Officer at the Dogs Trust and care deeply about animal welfare.


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Intrigue as Labour selects candidate for Carmarthen but fails to make public announcement​


Mystery surrounds why Welsh Labour has not announced publicly why a former UK Government policy adviser has been selected as its Westminster candidate for the new seat of Caerfyrddin / Carmarthen.

Some local party members are saying they have heard that Martha O’Neil’s nomination has not been welcomed by her employer, an unspecified animal welfare charity.

Ms O’Neil was selected by postal ballot after a controversial late decision by party officials to exclude Rob James, the Labour opposition group leader on Carmarthenshire County Council from the candidates’ shortlist.

Before his exclusion, Cllr James was seen as the favourite to win the selection contest. Postal ballot papers had already been sent out with his name included when party officials insisted that he was excluded.

It is understood that the councillor was told by Welsh Labour officials that he was disqualified from the process because of a text message he supposedly sent that he has no recollection of.
[...]
It is understood that Welsh Labour has said it can’t prove that Cllr James sent the message, but that allowing him to continue in the selection process would have risked reputational damage for the party.

When a hustings meeting was held days after the councillor’s removal from the contest, it had to be abandoned after descending into chaos with members complaining about what they saw as the undemocratic exclusion of Cllr James. A number of party members were subsequently suspended.

A postal ballot held more than two weeks ago resulted in victory for Ms O’Neil, and local party members received an email from Welsh Labour headquarters in Cardiff informing them of the result and telling them the party appreciated their “spirit of solidarity and comradery” in “a difficult selection”.

Kinell
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Moe Red Tory democracy in action.
 
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