General election 2024 was a milestone
During the last general election, I was homeless. On Thursday night, the Canary sent me to cover the general election results live from Durham North. Never in a million years…
more reactions to the general election
The Canary has been catching up with some of the Canary Candidates we interviewed during the 2024 general election campaign. There’s a sense that a movement has begun to build,…
The shock of the general election the media is downplaying
Five pro-Palestine independents won seats in the general election. That’s the same number of seats as Nigel Farage’s Reform won. They include Jeremy Corbyn in Islington North and Shockat Adam…
Streeting delivers the Partridge moment of the general election
The only humourous thing about the general election has been observing what are essentially the dregs of each main political party tie themselves in knots attempting to look like competent…
DWP Universal Credit news for 1.6m people BURIED by election
With all eyes trained on the final sprint to general election day, a local news site quietly dropped news on the Department for Work and Pensions’ (DWP) so-called ‘managed migration’…
Palestine Action continue business as usual despite the election
While many of us were watching the Labour Party romp to the most uninspiring and unsupported general election victory in modern times, Palestine Action was doing something worthwhile: shutting down…
Foodbank shuts up shop for the election; the perfect metaphor
A single post on X is the most fitting metaphor for this absolute clown show of a general election. In the North London district of Hornsey, a member of the…
Labour gets nearly £600k from Israel lobby prior to election
Ahead of the general election, pro-Israel businessman Stuart Roden has handed Keir Starmer’s Labour Party over half a million pounds. It’s thanks to Declassified UK we know this. Another pro-Israel…
Labour not winning the election, the Tories are losing it; YouGov
Whilst the Labour Party are pre-emptively celebrating a landslide general election win, a poll by YouGov has pointed out that many people are not pro-Labour, just anti-Tory. A whopping 48%…
Long Covid not even on the general election agenda is very 2024
It doesn’t really matter who gets elected during this years general election for the 1.9 million people living with long Covid or the hundreds of thousands living with myalgic encephalomyelitis…
General election time to vote against ALL establishment candidates
The following article is a comment piece from TUSC The Tories are heading for an historic general election defeat on Thursday 4 July, and no trade unionist, anti-war on Gaza…
Labour, Tories, Lib Dems, under fire over NHS election pledges
Under general election manifesto commitments, the Labour Party, the Tories, and the Lib Dems are committed to “the tightest and most sustained NHS funding squeeze in recorded history”, according to…