UK folks, the general election is set for the 4th of July 2024!

get registered to vote NOW!

check your constituency, as the lines have been redrawn.

look into tactical voting.

check you have a valid photo ID- if you don't, get a Voter Authority Certificate.

register for a postal vote if you don't want to physically go the polls.

also, people are blaring "things can only get better" and chanting "tories out!" in the background of the BBC broadcast, i love this country of hecklers.

The UK has also recently made agreements with Poland, Spain, Portugal, Denmark, and Luxembourg to allow citizens of those countries resident in the UK to vote (and vice versa). And not so recently with Ireland.

You can also vote if you are a citizen of a Commonwealth country resident in the UK - this is a very long list that includes India, Canada, Australia, Nigeria, South Africa, Malaysia, and many many more.

JK Rowling has used her billionaire legal team to silence a Jewish woman for telling the truth about her contempt for trans victims of the Holocaust.

Scotland’s network of “freedom of speech” organisations, as per usual, have nothing to say about the use of wealth to gag critics of the wealthy.

However fast they race to condemn the LGBT+ community for saying the names of those who harm us. Statements at the ready to insist that transphobes no one wants to work with anymore must be given every possible opportunity to gain from their bigotry.

But it's not the billionaires who are being silenced, as our media breathlessly echo their every hateful proclamation.

It's journalists and activists forced to publicly humiliate themselves under the weight and the threat of billionaire legal teams or be driven into destitution.

We deserve better. Freedom of speech needs to mean something

Incredible recent British unionist bit:

“Scots language is xenophobic and is specifically spoken to make foreigners feel unwelcome when visiting Scotland.”

Imagine visiting Japan and going “Too much Japanese language here, clearly this is a hate crime.”

That does very much sound like something an English speaker would say