Prime Minister Keir Starmer speaks as he hosts a VJ Day commemorative reception in the garden of 10 Downing Street, London, August 14, 2025
THE Labour Party’s membership has fallen by almost 200,000 in five years, its annual accounts showed today.
Figures showed the party lost 37,215 members in 2024, around 10 per cent of its total membership at the start of the year.
The losses bring Labour’s membership to 333,235 at the end of 2024, down on its peak of 532,046 during Jeremy Corbyn’s leadership at the end of 2019.
Reform did not include a membership figure in its own accounts, published by the Electoral Commission, but Reform’s website claimed it had 234,460 members.
The Greens gained 5,000 new members, and the Liberal Democrats suffered a slight dip from 86,599 to 83,174. The Conservative Party does not routinely publish its membership figures.
Keir Starmer says that the Labour Party under his leadership all feel a small part of Scunthorpe.Genocide denier and Current UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer is quoted that he supports Zionism without qualification. He also confirms that UK air force support has been essential in Israel’s mass-murdering genocide. Includes URLs https://www.declassifieduk.org/keir-starmers-100-spy-flights-over-gaza-in-support-of-israel/ and https://youtu.be/O74hZCKKdpAUK Labour Party government ministers Keir Starmer, Angela Rayner and Rachel Reeves explain that they are partners complicit in Israel’s Gaza genocide. The UK has provided Israel with arms, military and air force support. They explain that they don’t do gas chambers but do do forced marches, starvation, destroy hospitals, mass-murders of journalists and healthcare workers.
Protesters outside the former Bell Hotel in Epping, July 31, 2025
AT LEAST 20 far-right protests are planned outside hotels on Friday as fascists seek to repeat last summer’s race riots, anti-racist campaigners have warned.
Stand Up to Racism warned that members and former members of the nazi terror group Combat 18 and the neonazi party Homeland have been organising or attending many of the protests.
Counter-demonstrations are being staged across the country as Labour-run councils joined Tory and Reform authorities looking to block hotels from housing asylum-seekers.
Reform leader Nigel Farage called for the protests after the High Court ordered the closure of the Bell Hotel in Epping, Essex, following a series of anti-migrant demonstrations.
Stand Up to Racism co-convener Weyman Bennett said: “This is a dangerous moment. The Epping ruling and the so-called protests are a licence for racism and racist attacks.
“Nigel Farage and Robert Jenrick are competing for the racist vote, and in the process are openly encouraging fascists on the ground to employ violence to get hotels closed. This will cost lives.
“They want a repeat of the violent riots last summer. We won’t let them and will oppose the far right and racists every time they take to the streets.”
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Counter-demonstrations will be held in Bournemouth, Cardiff, Chichester, Leeds, Leicester, Orpington and Portsmouth on Friday, and in Bristol, Cannock, Horley, Leicester, Liverpool, Long Eaton, Newcastle, and Wakefield on Saturday.
Climate science denier Nigel Farage explains that it’s simple to blame asylum-seekers or Muslims for everything.Keir Starmer refuses to be outcnuted by Nigel Farage’s chasing the racist bigot vote.
Shut the System activists engaged in an action of sabotage in London, August 2025. Photo: Shut the System
‘Open organising is impossible.’
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By 6am, while the workers that clean and service the City are hopping off buses and as security staff are performing their night shift patrols, Shut the System activists have sliced the electricity cables that control the gas supply at JP Morgan’s London office and superglued the cabinet that houses them shut – making a quick repair impossible.
In short, an act of sabotage against the single largest fossil fuel funder in the world. Researchers say that over the last four years, JP Morgan has pumped an eye-watering $192 billion into the industry.
Simultaneously, another group cut the earthing cable in the electricity box outside the Allianz office in near Liverpool Street. Shut the System sent Allianz an email warning them of the risk of electrical damage they face without earthing. An Allianz spokesperson told Novara Media that despite activists’ efforts, the action did not cause any disruption at the site.
Despite Günther Thallinger, a top figure at the insurer, warning recently that climate change is on track to destroy capitalism, Allianz still insures $26 billion of fossil fuel projects, according to Investing in Climate Chaos’ reporting.
Shut the System argues that Allianz is also complicit in the Gaza genocide, as it is an insurer for Israeli weapons manufacturer Elbit Systems.
In these heady days, it’s not unreasonable to worry about Shut the System being proscribed, like Palestine Action recently was. It’s a way for the government to go after a group even if, like me, it has no idea who the members are.
Shut the System doesn’t seem too concerned. Not having targeted military bases, its activists think that’s a long way off for them. And it didn’t seem too fazed about public support for its actions either. Unlike many other groups, it isn’t actively looking for it.
Instead, it’s focused on its targets. And, it told me, those targets “should bear in mind that the longer they support genocide and climate collapse, the more people’s rage will build up against them.”
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Donald Trump urges you to be a Climate Science denier like him. He says that he makes millions and millions for destroying the planet, Burn, Baby, Burn and Flood, Baby, Flood.Nigel Farage urges you to ignore facts and reality and be a climate science denier like him. He says that Reform UK has received millions and millions from the fossil fuel industry to promote climate denial and destroy the planet.
Green party deputy leader Zack Polanski speaks at a protest in London, September 2023. Vuk Valcic/Reuters
No more Mr Nice Guy.
The Green party leadership contest, which began in May with deputy leader Zack Polanski announcing he was contesting the top job, is rumbling to an end. Most observers agree that Polanski will win on 2 September. Whatever happens, he will have transformed his party in the process, turning a slow-moving, conflict-avoidant political vehicle into a battleground of ideas.
This has unquestionably been a bruising leadership campaign. Things got off to a testy start, with Polanski’s rivals Ellie Chowns and the incumbent Adrian Ramsay insinuating that Polanski’s leadership bid was an ambush (responding to this, Polanski told Novara Media: “I think people need to be careful that there’s not an entitlement that they deserve to always hand the leadership to the next person waiting”). One anonymous senior party member accused Polanski of launching a “hostile takeover” – quite an allegation against the current deputy leader. Ramsay suggested that Polanski didn’t know how to win elections, an accusation Polanski described as “rude and disrespectful”. Pressed by LBC’s Iain Dale on whether or not he liked Polanski (with Polanski sitting right in front of him), Ramsay struggled to answer. In the Guardian, Chowns criticised Polanski for being “polarising”. Though generally avoiding bad-mouthing his rivals, Polanski has offered occasional barbs of his own, implicitly accusing his rivals of “briefcase politics”.
Some in the party see all of this as embarrassing or even divisive and damaging. But this squeamishness about internal conflict is a mistake. In fact, having a barney has been great for the Greens.
Firstly, for shallow reasons: it has generated a hell of a lot of media attention. In fact I’m not sure the Green Party has ever had so much coverage, particularly from the mainstream media. The Greens’ obsessive niceness has historically made the party boring to journalists. Polanski – the charismatic outsider running against the party establishment – is TV gold, and clips of his broadcast appearances do not infrequently go viral. Unsurprisingly, multiple broadcasters have held leadership hustings. The Today Programme aired a debate between Ramsay and Polanski in a slot usually reserved for grilling government ministers. National newspapers like the FT, the Times and the Telegraph have been forced to stop ignoring the party.
This media coverage has ratcheted up interest in the party among the wider public. July 2025 saw more Google searches for “the Green party” from UK users than any month in the previous 20 years. Meanwhile, the party’s membership has surged: while we won’t know exactly how much until the end of the contest, my educated guess based on information leaked to me from regional officers is that it’s passed 70,000. For a party that’s heavily reliant on member subs for its income (unlike the Tories and Labour, who have big donors and unions to fall back on), membership growth is likely to significantly increase the party’s resources and therefore its activities, likely leading directly to electoral gains.
Prime Minister Keir Starmer speaks as he hosts a VJ Day commemorative reception in the garden of 10 Downing Street, London, August 14, 2025
