UK Politics

The campaign, titled Reboot, begins by offering the general public the opportunity to add their names to an updated ethics complaint against the FIFA President, Gianni Infantino, for repeated and serious breaches of FIFA rules. 

The campaign is being launched one week before the start of the 2026 men’s World Cup. A tournament which has once again exposed FIFA’s dysfunction and the consequences of its deeply flawed governance model. FairSquare has long argued that FIFA’s structural problems cannot be fixed from within and that external reform is critical.

Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s government is not really a Labour government; it came to power on the back of a secret project to wrest control of the Labour Party back from an ascendant left wing. This secret project was resourced by illegally undeclared money from wealthy donors, funneled through a seemingly anodyne think tank called Labour Together. It involved covertly seeding promiscuous claims of antisemitism against political opponents, attempting to silence independent media that threatened to expose its project, and—ultimately—developing the dishonest leadership pitch that allowed Keir Starmer to trick a left-wing membership to elect him leader.

Shabana Mahmood, the Home Secretary responsible for the ban on Piker and Uygur, was one of a ‘brave band’ of eight MPs that guided the Labour Together project during the leadership of Starmer’s left-wing predecessor, Jeremy Corbyn.

The MP who has most loudly demanded Piker and Uygur’s banning is David Taylor. Elected in 2024 as part of the Labour’s landslide, Taylor was closely vetted and approved by a Labour Party bureaucracy reporting directly to Labour Together’s long-time former managing director. And the single largest donor to Taylor’s election campaign was Labour Together.

https://www.electoralcommission.org.uk/media-centre/monthly-update-concluded-investigations-september-2021

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/48330323

4 June 2026

Green Party leader Zack Polanski and Your Party leader Jeremy Corbyn have joined calls for the British government to investigate British citizens who have served in the Israeli military.

Polanski signed an open letter organised by Declassified UK and the International Centre of Justice for Palestinians (ICJP) to Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood and Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper urging them to "track the movements of Brits who have served in the IDF" and "subject them to secondary screening where necessary at ports of entry".

The letter called for "robust war crimes investigations in line with domestic and international law".

cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/61310474

Visiting London for a few days, and noticed a lot of half-mast flags: red cross on a white background (reminiscent of some crusaders, Templars?) any symbolism behind them being shredded? Its a lot of them, must have cost a ton of money…

A Labour MP who was “humiliated” after an AI tool generated fake images of her in a bikini is suing Elon Musk’s tech company.

Jess Asato was targeted earlier this year after criticising the chatbot Grok, which was being used to create fake sexualised images of women and children.

Online users manipulated photos of her using the tool, which is operated by xAI, making a deepfake image of her in a bikini and a video showing her being drugged and prepared for a sexual assault.

The MP for Lowestoft - who has long worked on tackling violence against women and girls - also highlighted other horrific cases including some women’s images being used to make deepfake pornography or a photo of a Jewish woman being manipulated to put her in a bikini in Auschwitz.

Essex libraries have been banned from promoting LGBTQ and Pride events by the county council’s new Reform UK leadership.

The diktat comes at the start of Pride Month: a four-week celebration of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ+) communities.