Story of the election seems to be Labour doing very well vs Tories in places it needs to gain in a General Election, eg Hartlepool, Milton Keynes, Thurrock, Redditch, E.Midlands, even Rushmoor!

But in seats where Greens/Independents are organised, Labour is haemorrhaging votes.

We are deeply concerned to learn that one of Gaza's most senior orthopedic surgeons, Dr Adnan Al Bursh, has died while detained in an Israeli prison.

His death must be urgently investigated, amid reports of torture, ill treatment and medical neglect of Palestinian detainees.

Whilst being killed, arrested and undermined doing their jobs, Palestinian journalists covering Gaza are awarded 2024 UNESCO World Press Freedom Prize ‘As humanity, we have a huge debt to their courage and commitment to freedom of expression’ unesco.org/en/articles/pa…

35% vote share projection. No Parliamentary majority on this basis.

5% worse than Jeremy Corbyn 2017.

Interesting times ahead.

Two eye-catching bits of evidence from the Post Office inquiry today.

1) Criminal lawyer Jarnail Singh said investigation report in Jo Hamilton's case should not be disclosed because “this would give the applicant every opportunity to ask why Hamilton was prosecuted”.

Today's results have a very clear lesson.

The Tories are finished.

There is more chance of my cat turning into a velociraptor named Steve and becoming Emperor of the Universe than the Tories winning.

So you should vote Green or independent, without risking a Tory win.

We’re forever indebted to Gaza journalists for their courage and dedication in showing us what’s going on. Every journalist being targeted, killed and arrested is a shameful political failure and each deserves rigorous investigation IMS

Post Office lawyers had secret meeting with a judge to prevent disclosure to defence solicitors in a criminal trial.

Judge agreed that the defence solicitors should not be made aware of a report documenting flaws in the IT system

Whole edifice is corrupt
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Two days ago South Wales Police violently detain an asylum seeker who they claimed was having a medical episode. Why then did they need 10s of police officers to take him to the ambulance?

Home Office in Cardiff: People 'disappeared' with no warning, no access to a solicitor, without being allowed to contact their family to tell them they are being taken.

Daily week day picket of Home Office on Newport Rd between 10 am - 4 pm as deportations to Rwanda begin

ICO responds to complaint from Save Maindy Velodrome! over Cardiff Council failing to respond to FoIs

Council given 10 working days to respond to one FoI request submitted on 1 March and chased several times

Time for Council to drop the opacity in its stewardship of the Trust

John Curtice: “One of the lessons tonight [is] there is also potentially a battle between labour and the greens, for those who we might broadly regard as being in the progressive or left end of the spectrum”

Important chart based on election results so far.

Stunning graph: the plummeting tax rates of the richest Americans. For the first time in history, billionaires have a lower effective tax rate than working-class Americans.

Steve Howell According to Wikipedia Blackpool South is almost 7,000 votes down on 2017 (Corbyn):
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackpool…

Fresh disclosures about the mismanagement of a hospital maternity unit have led to criticism of Cabinet Secretary for Health Eluned Morgan for not shutting it down ✍️Martin Shipton
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BREAKING: Weapons manufacturer L3 Harris will leave Brighton as the landlord refuses to renew the lease

The 20yr campaign against the Israel-supplying weapons firm involved breaking inside & destroying weapons, blockades, camps and community mobilisation theargus.co.uk/news/24295714.…

We’re not a two-party country but a diverse country

We need an electoral system that reflects this

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📺 'People are realising that if they want Green policies they can vote Green and they'll get Green councillors.'

Carla Denyer speaks to Sky News following promising early results including a breakthrough onto Newcastle City Council.

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