“Another Reform councillor jumps ship – are the Farage fascists falling apart?”

by Skwawkbox with The Canary @thecanaryuk @UKLabour @uk_politics

“Dartford Borough Reform ‘party‘ councillor James Buchan has defected to the Tories, just three months after winning election in Stone House ward as a Reform candidate”

https://www.thecanary.co/skwawkbox/2025/10/31/reform-councillor-quits-to-join-tories/

#Press #UK #UKPol #Reform #Councillor #Defection #Dartford #Labour #Implosion

Today is a Halloween, and it falls neatly on a Friday so that we can enjoy our spooky night out then head into the weekend!

So I remind you that you have unions to thank for the weekends. Union members shed their blood and tears to give you 5 day workweeks, and 7 union members died for 8-hour days.

#Solidarity #union #unionstrong #LabourMovement #Labour

This episode of The Hatchet, from @arshyxv.bsky.social is a great explanation of how bullshit the Canada Post management's claims are about the strike. Listen to even just the first 15 minutes. It's damning.

https://hatchetmedia.substack.com/p/killing-canada-post

#CanPoli #CanadaPost #union #labour #labor

Digesting Food Studies (the CFS podcast)—Episode 109: Food Waste

Repurposing leftover Hallowe’en candy as farm animal fodder? It may sound wild, but as you’ll hear in this #podcast, it’s just one odd recommendation within the complex hierarchies of dealing with food waste…

https://rss.com/podcasts/digesting-food-studies/2296101/

This episode tackles food waste, an issue as old as #domestication. Food scholar Tammara Soma shares perspectives from “Critical food guidance for tackling food waste in Canada” (Vol. 9 No. 1 of Canadian Food Studies), and PhD student Dante Gbejewoh offers his response to the piece, encouraging listeners to leverage the article’s diagram about #closed-loop #foodsystems. Alexia Moyer sneaks us back to a long-titled #historical #cookbook on household management, including its implications for #gendered labour.

#DigestingFoodStudies
#FoodWaste
#Upcycling
#Recycling
#Trash
#Cookbooks
#HouseholdManagement
#HomeEconomics
#Gender
#Labour
#WomensWork
#CanadianHistory
#FoodPodcast
#FoodSystems

image: David Szanto

The #GreenParty are now ahead of both #Labour and #Tories! 😀

#VoteGreen #ZackPolanski

https://www.thecanary.co/uk/analysis/2025/10/31/greens-polling-latest/

The problem is we are building homes for profit, not for housing people. It's the elephant in the room, that and the fact we need immigration to build these homes but the Oligarchs and the Far Right don't want that...

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/oct/31/stalled-newbuilds-labour-social-housing-target-out-of-reach-uk

#Housing #UKPOL #UKPOLITICS #LateStageCapitalism #Labour #SadiqKhan #SteveReed #London #SocialHousing

And what about Households? I can't seem to find anything about OUR energy bills in this?

This is going to data centres, isn't it?

#UKPOL #UKPOLITICS #EnergyBills #GBEnergy #Labour #PeterKyle

We do not live for the system ✊

https://anonsys.net/display/bf69967c-2269-04c4-b942-fce786542378