BREAKING: Just Stop Oil protesters left with injuries after altercation at refinery

[PUBLISHED 16:56 SATURDAY 12TH OCTOBER 2024] Just Stop Oil protesters blockading a main road heading to the Fawley oil refinery near Southampton have sustained injuries, with one taken to hospital, after a physical altercation broke out. A dozen protesters had glued themselves to the roads serving the refinery, forcing

BREAKING: Just Stop Oil begin blockade of England’s largest oil refinery

Just Stop Oil has begun a blockade of the Fawley oil refinery, the largest oil refinery in England. The Fawley oil refinery is located in Fawley, Hampshire, a village which is located on the coast of Southampton Water and is located around 20 kilometres away from Southampton by road. It

New independent MP: 'Just Stop Oil are terrorists'

AdSea260, who was recently elected as the independent MP for Rugby in the October 2nd by-elections to replace a Tory MP who was expelled due to non-attendance in parliamentary votes, has introduced a motion in Parliament calling on the government to declare that the controversial environmental protest group Just Stop

October byelections: Independents score victories as government increases majority

Independent candidates won most seats up for grabs in the by-elections held on the 2nd of October, with victories in the East of England, Redditch and Rugby. The government won the rest of the seats up for grabs, with Labour winning a North East and Yorkshire seat and Plaid Cymru

BREAKING: model-willem wins Labour deputy leader race

The former head of the Electoral Commission model-willem has won the race to replace Frost_Walker2017 as Labour’s deputy leader, defeating Energy Secretary LightningMinion and LGBT+ rights campaigner jamie_strudwick. The Labour Party uses the alternative vote for its internal elections, meaning that instead of giving just one candidate

Leadership Shift in Lib Dems: Trustworthy Figures Set to Guide Future

With Model-Ceasar as Leader and Leafy_Emerald as Deputy, the Liberal Democrats Seek Renewed Strength At 9pm last night, the election of the new deputy leader of the Liberal Democrats was announced internally to the Party, and the future of the Party somewhat assured.  After the upheaval of the departure

Calamity in the Conservative Party

With two frontbench departures in the space of a week, what’s next for the Conservatives? The Conservative and Unionist Party has now been struck by a further resignation and departure from the Party.  AdSea260, also known as Oracle in private circles, today resigned his position as shadow secretary of

A new era for devolution?

The country has finally gotten a new government after all of the events that happened before the last general election. It means a big shift in the way this country is governed and a very different way forward. The country went from a one-party Conservative Government to a six-party coalition

Shadow Justice Secretary quits Tories over policing plans in blow to Blue-EG’s leadership

Shadow Justice Secretary SuperGrassIsNotMad, who also served as chair of the Conservative Party, Shadow Home Secretary, Shadow First Secretary of State, Shadow Lord Chancellor and Shadow Attorney General, and was elected as the Conservative MP for the North Yorkshire seat of Richmond and Northallerton in the North East England, Yorkshire

#GEI: Maps, Charts and Statistics

Following successful and failed coalition talks between parties, defections, drama and chaos, the UK has a new government, with Labour re-entering Number 10 for the first time in 14 years. But how did the views of voters lead to the formation of this government? Overall result The Conservatives lost the

Liberal Democrats Featured

'We ran on that': how the Lib Dems fell apart

Coalition talks have fallen apart at the eleventh hour as tensions between Lib Dem leadership and their backbenchers reached a breaking point.

[Green Flag Revisited] Opinion Column: Britain Deserves a Progressive Majority Government

ChainChompsky1 is a Green Party Politician and Activist This general election was a watershed moment for British politics. Facing new leadership in all of the parties, and a new electoral system, the British public took advantage of these changes by electing one of the widest ranges of politicians in our

GEI Results: Murky Coalitioning Ahead, No Winner in Election

Britons woke up to inconclusive election results Friday morning. After a seismic shift in the electoral system of the nation, no clear path to forming government has been drawn. Labour placed first, winning 11 seats; the Conservatives came close behind, winning 9; and the Liberal Democrats rounded out the major

The 3 main parties are in a dead heat: the Independent's prediction of #GEI

According to the Independent’s analysis of the election campaign, the Conservatives, Liberal Democrats and Labour are projected to be effectively tied on seat numbers in the first general election since the Mass Resignation Event. Prediction Party Seats won Seat change Conservative 11 -8 Liberal Democrat 10 +9 Labour 10

Polling

Britain says: we want Inadorable

The Labour leader tops a preferred prime minister poll of plenty of political people.

Liberal Democrats

'Broad right' pact in motion as Lib Dems seek to downplay Reform UK links

The Liberal Democrats have a good chance at entering No 10. They would do so with the backing of the Conservatives.

Labour projected to narrowly win election in three horse race

As a result of independent polling commissioned from "Crackpipe Sophology Ltd", the Independent can today reveal our projection of the results of the upcoming election if held today. The projection sees Labour narrowly secure the position of largest party with 12 seats to the Lib Dems 11. The

What would the 2019 general election look like on the new electoral system?

Following the Great Resignation Event, the United Kingdom ditched the First-Past-The-Post electoral system it had used previously, where 650 MPs are elected in 650 single-member constituencies with the winner being the MP who comes first in the number of votes in the constituency. Now, 36 MPs are elected in 11

Broad Right to form large scale electoral pact

As the election draws closer, a number of parties have been engaged in confidential discussions with ideological allies to form so called “electoral pacts”, where parties stand down and endorse each other reciprocally. It is understood that the most developed of these agreements has been carried out discussions of the

Liberal Democrats

Lib Dems sought to treble 2010s austerity spending cuts

In leaked coalition negotiations, the Liberal Democrats sought spending cuts of more than 10% of the government's annual budget.

Solidarity

Solidarity weigh an exit from government

A senior cabinet official tells the Independent that there are two options on the table in Solidarity HQ: a coalition with Labour, or walking out of No 10.

Liberal Democrats

Right-wing Lib Dems on brink of walkout

Frustrated by what they see as a left-wing majority unwilling to compromise, Liberal Democrats on the right of the party are openly discussing defecting to the Conservatives.

Liberal Democrats Featured

Liberal Democrats threaten to split

A group of senior shadow cabinet ministers have been weighing a split from the Liberal Democrats over a 'rightwards trend' in party policy, the Independent has learned.

Op-Ed

Opinion: the Home Secretary probably shouldn't resign over the inquiry debacle

On the 2nd of April, the Home Secretary DavidSwifty announced that the Government will be holding an inquiry into discrimination in law enforcement: in particular, racism, sexism, homophobia, and transphobia. This concept has been almost universally well received, given the undeniable racism, sexism, homophobia, and transphobia that exists within police

An aggregation of predictions for GEXXI

One important rule in statistics is that if you take multiple samples and average them, the average is more likely to be accurate than any one sample is. With this in mind, I have decided to average all the predictions and exit polls for this election; maybe it will give