Politics Chat.

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No local elections round by me but will be voting for a police commissioner, I'm hoping for a candidate with the surname Gordon.

Failing that it's a labour vote.

This is a good interview talking about the Preston model:
https://renewal.org.uk/the-road-to-municipal-socialism-the-present-and-future-of-the-preston-model/

It covers community wealth building, insourcing, public contracts to local firms, building up a network of co-operatives, starting a regional co-operative bank, Italy's 'Marcora Law' which allows workers to buy out their firms if they're being sold, and a few other bits and bobs.

Interesting to see the linked article of Labour's promise to double the size of the co-operative economy too. It was a few years ago though, so hopefully that's still the case.

I really hope the Tories respond to this disappointing set of results by tacking harder to the right and focusing on the things that people care deeply about, like ULEZ and gender identity.

And that this time Keir Starmer is brave enough not to go with them.

This is well worth a watch on the state of the energy market:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nDOZwI4LqfI

French Elections.. what was Macron thinking, absolute disaster..