Green party-controlled councils have joined a high court legal challenge led by the Aspire party to stop London mayor Sadiq Khan slashing affordable housing in the city.
Hackney and Lewisham councils, which Zack Polanski’s party took control of following the 7 May elections, have joined the Aspire-run Tower Hamlets council in its bid to stop Khan from cutting the city’s affordable housing quota from 35% to 20%.
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Khan said in 2016 that more than 50% of new homes in London should be affordable, but later the same year allowed private developers to limit affordable housing in new developments to 35%.
His plan to further reduce the quota comes amid an escalating housing crisis in the city, where the cost of rent is a major driver of poverty and child homelessness.
Nigel Farage has called for a general election after Keir Starmer stood down as Labour leader. Photograph: Victoria Jones/Shutterstock
Nigel Farage has said his £5m gift from a crypto billionaire is “not any of your business” as it was given unconditionally to be spent on anything from Ferraris to gambling on horses.
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Challenged over why he initially said it was for his personal security, and then that it was a reward for Brexit, Farage said: “Because it was given as an unconditional gift, right? The understanding is, and you know very well, you know very well I’ve been physically more attacked over many years than any other politician.”
Pressed again on whether he had been giving different accounts about the purpose of the money, he said: “Look, there are not two stories. One is I was given the money unconditionally.
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The gift is under investigation by parliament’s standards commissioner, as it was handed over in the months before Farage returned as an MP in 2024 – leading to accusations that it should have been declared.
In an earlier interview with BBC Radio 4’s Today programme, Farage said it was not hypocritical of him to have attacked Keir Starmer for receiving donations of glasses and suits, because the Labour politician had been “the leader of the opposition and I was a presenter on GB News”.
Reform 2025 Ltd’s Director Nigel Farage discusses his five million pounds gift from Crypto billionaire Christopher Harborne. He tells nosey parkers to mind their own business and suggests that you don’t entertain the notion that even some of it could be dirty money from international money launderingKeir Starmer explains that he feels no shame or guilt benefitting personally from gifts from the rich and powerful while insisting on policies of severe austerity causing suffering and death.
The original Fascists Mussolini and Hitler salute the UK’s Fascist Labour government
That my Android phone secretly reboots at 1.50am. I say secretly because it doesn’t ask for it’s password and does it every day at 1.50a.m. when I’m supposed to be asleep and not notice.
That it also provides location data to the local police. It provides elevation as well as ground location. Think that it’s AI, I try to confuse it sometimes.
That police cars sound an alarm when I get close to them. It’s an alarm to tell them that I’m nearby.
That digital devices act strangely around me e.g. other peoples’ phones refuse to ring because they’re recording the conversation instead. Many digital devices behave strangely – POS tills, etc. It’s almost as if there’s fuzzy logic probing them and very often disabling them.
Anyway the point of this is that it has to be authorised by Fascist Labour Party Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood who wants a panopticon to know how often and indeed where you shit and who is attending to your private parts.
But it actually goes far beyond watching & the New Labour Fascist Fascists interfere in my attempts to make friends and meet people. I think that is a basic human right that the New Labour Fascist Fascists are interfering with in addition to their strange, overwhelming interest in when and where I poo.
And of course, I’m a Democratice Socialist opposed to the Fascist, Genocidal New Labour government engaging in the democratic process as people are entitled to.
GCHQ as civil servants should be politically impartial and not engage in activities that support a particular political party or perspective. I am clearly promoting opposition to the Labour Party and that should be permitted and even protected in a democratic society. I particularly object to state agents interfering in my private affairs.
ed: 40 second delay to BBC radio stations. I’m uncertain what that’s supposed to achieve. Is it that everything is routed via Langley, Virginia? ed:ed: The Langley comment is not meant seriously.
ed:ed:ed: I consider that it’s a deliberate attempt to isolate me which I regard as being particularly evil. I intend to respond better to defend myself.
24/6/26 3.55pm Prevent sending photos. There’s paranoia here that there might be hidden messages in the photos when the reality is that they’re photos of kittens, the Severn Bridge, bicycles – stuff people send photos of. It’s strange since they’re controlling the phone so see that there is no post-processing so it’s real paranoia about time and date stamp, etc to people I hardly know.
28/6/26 8.40am There was a nasty tacky ink on the entrance to my block of flats when I returned early this morning. OIt had been wiped away by the time I had cleaned my hand. I’ve been switching my phone off, why should I help them harass me, interfere in my life? I regard the ink as harassment, there is no need to use a nasty highly-visible ink. Someone is taking the piss.
Your Party MP Zarah Sultana speaks at a demonstration organised by CND, Stop the War, Palestine Solidarity Campaign, Muslim Association of Britain, Palestinian Forum in Britain and Friends of Al-Aqsa, in London to call for an end to Iran war, March 2026
YOUR Party MP Zarah Sultana said “good riddance” to the departing Keir Starmer today.
The Coventry South MP, suspended from Labour by Sir Keir for challenging the two-child benefit cap, said that “history will judge Keir Starmer as a man who lied his way to the top of the Labour Party.”
She accused him of using that power to evoke Enoch Powell with his “island of strangers” speech, keeping children in poverty, attacking disabled people, scapegoating refugees, stripping back civil liberties, and handing our public services to Palantir.
“A man who gave the top diplomatic job to the ‘best pal’ of a convicted paedophile, said Israel has the right to cut off water and electricity to Gaza, rolled out the red carpet for Israeli war criminals, and kept the weapons flowing to the Israeli military as it committed genocide. Good riddance,” she added.
Green Party leader Zack Polanski called for “a bold change of direction” after Sir Keir’s departure.
He said: “Starmer lost the confidence of the country because of his abject failure to challenge the power and wealth of an Establishment which has taken for themselves while leaving the vast majority in a cost-of-living crisis.
“We are still waiting to see which version of Andy Burnham is going to show up in Downing Street. While he has talked about a change of course, the early indications are not encouraging and suggest more of the same with better communication skills.
“The time for half measures and sticking plasters is long gone — Burnham must be bold or he will be bust.”
I hope that the Morning Star will excuse me republishing the full article.
Keir Starmer objects to criticism of the IDF. He asks how could anyone object to them starving people to death, forced marches like the Nazis did, bombing Gaza’s hospitals and universities, mass-murdering journalists, healthworkers and starving people queuing for food, killing and raping prisoners and murdering children. He calls for people to stop obstructing his genocide for Israel.Keir Starmer explains that UK is actively supporting Israel’s genocidal expansion and repeats his previous quotation that he supports Zionism “without qualification”. Keir Starmer said “I said it loud and clear – and meant it – that I support Zionism without qualification.” here: https://www.jewishnews.co.uk/keir-starmer-interview-i-will-work-to-eradicate-antisemitism-from-day-one/Keir Starmer says that the Labour Party under his leadership is intensely relaxed about assaulting those least able to defend themselves – the very poorest and most vulnerable.
Your Party MP Zarah Sultana speaks at a demonstration organised by CND, Stop the War, Palestine Solidarity Campaign, Muslim Association of Britain, Palestinian Forum in Britain and Friends of Al-Aqsa, in London to call for an end to Iran war, March 2026
