The Trouble With Politics

Welcome to the FINAL episode of the podcast. I’m your host Marverine Cole and this has been the series which has looked at politics from the POV of those who feel left out. And the election results are finally in: Sir Keir Starmer – leader of the Labour Party  - is the UK’s New PM! We hear voter reaction, a business view from the CEO of Greater Birmingham Chambers of Commerce and analysis from editor and critic, K Biswas. It's a lively one! SHOW NOTESLabour's biggest majority in 25yrs: https://www.theguardian.com/politics/ng-interactive/2024/jul/05/eleven-charts-that-show-how-labour-won-by-a-landslide LABOUR LEADER VOWS TO SERVE WHOLE TERMhttps://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/crge8g9qxj3o  Follow K Biswas: https://x.com/bizk1?lang=en Read his recent work: https://x.com/BizK1/status/1224605720836001793https://x.com/BizK1/status/1805960664420073702   GREATER BIRMINGHAM CHAMBERS OF COMMERCEhttps://x.com/GrBhamChambers/status/1809147490882470263 

Campaigners on women’s issues have highlighted that there’s scant mention of the rights for women and girls in any of the political party manifestos for 2024 General Election.  They want the public to act NOW. To vote and to push newly elected MPs to go much futher than those election pledgesThis episode of TTWP we speak to Professor Helen Pankhurst CBE. As you will guessed by her surname – Helen is the great-granddaughter of Emmeline Pankhurst and granddaughter of Sylvia Pankhurst, who were both leaders in the suffragette movement.She has over 30yrs experience as an activist, a writer, a scholar as well as currently being CARE International's senior advisor working in the UK and Ethiopia. In 2018 Helen convened and remains the head of Centenary Action, one of the UK’s largest coalitions of women’s rights activists and organisations  - a group of 127 organisations no less. The group is campaigning on a vast range of urgent and pressing issues, affecting over half the population of the UK – the 51% MORE READINGCentenary Action: https://centenaryaction.org.uk/? Professor Helen Pankhurst:https://www.mmu.ac.uk/staff/profile/professor-helen-pankhurst#SHEVOTES24 Open Letter: https://centenaryaction.org.uk/blog/shevotes24-open-letter/ End Violence against women and girls SNAPSHOT report - Feb 2024: https://www.endviolenceagainstwomen.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/Snapshot-4.0-160224-clean-LARGE-PRINT.pdf IMKAAN: https://www.imkaan.org.uk/manifesto-addressing-systemic-inequality-and-violence-against-black-and-minoritised-women-and-girls  RATES OF FEMICIDE among Black women in London - June 2024 FOI data reported: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/london-met-police-southall-black-sisters-sadiq-khan-freedom-of-information-b2552275.html  Racism against female MPs: https://www.qmul.ac.uk/media/news/2024/hss/the-abuse-of-diane-abbott-by-a-top-tory-donor-should-have-us-all-thinking-about-how-we-normalise-racism-against-women-mps.html Abuse of female MPs: https://www.politicshome.com/news/article/social-media-attacks-main-challenge-facing-female-mp-candidatesElectHer campaign - a multi-partisan organisation working to motivate, support and equip women in all their diversity to stand for political office in Britain.https://www.elect-her.org.uk/ 

This long overdue episode is laser-focused on the housing crisis in the UK. Lock in. It makes for shocking listening.TTWP talks to three people from unique perspectives:  Time stamp: 1'19 - 15'361. Giles Grover is someone who, along with hundreds of thousands of other people in Britain, is stuck living in a high-rise block covered in dangerous, life-threatening cladding, and who's being asked to stump up thousands of pounds to pay for remedial works;  Time stamp: 15'36 - 31:142. Jasmine Basran is a policy manger at the national homelessness charity, Crisis   Time stamp: 31:14  - 59'403. Kwajo Tweneboa who's a well-known campaigner in social housing.  For more on these issues, here are the show notes END CLADDING SCANDAL:https://endourcladdingscandal.org/ https://todaysconveyancer.co.uk/organisations-demand-labour-party-make-industry-pay-cladding-crisis/ HOMELESSNESS: https://www.crisis.org.uk/about-us/https://www.amnesty.org.uk/blogs/campaigns-blog/can-we-expect-next-government-make-homelessness-history?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=awareness_education&utm_content=news£10bn to end homelessness - 2018 polan by Crisis: https://www.crisis.org.uk/ending-homelessness/homelessness-knowledge-hub/international-plans-to-end-homelessness/everybody-in-how-to-end-homelessness-in-great-britain-2018/ https://www.bigissue.com/news/housing/criminal-justice-bill-rough-sleepers-homeless-people-smell/https://www.crisis.org.uk/about-us/media-centre/crisis-responds-to-the-conservative-manifesto-1/https://www.crisis.org.uk/about-us/media-centre/crisis-responds-to-the-labour-party-manifesto/#:~:text=It%20includes%20a%20central%20pledge,social%20housing%20in%20a%20generation. KWAJO TWENEBOAChannel 4 UNTOLD Documentaryhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wVhFmTCp8ho&list=PLiC_gpE7y052N7fKqqI--hgoqi375K614&index=25 Follow Kwajo on X:https://twitter.com/Kwajotweneboa?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5EauthorFollow Kwajo on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/kwajotweneboa/?hl=enKwajo's new book comes out this month - Our Country in Crisis: Britain's Housing Emergency and How We RebuildPre order it here: https://geni.us/OurCountryInCrisis     

This episode is POWER-PACKED with a compelling range of voices about WHY Black British voters are saying they will Not give Labour their vote on the 4th July Polling day for the General Election. You’ll hear from a range of Black British voters, and a former aspiring Labour parliamentary candidate who was blocked from standing in 2019 for apparently being ‘far left’) – all of whom are disgusted with the few weeks’ events. Also I went on the road to a Black Voter registration event and spoke to a co-founder of Operation Black Vote, and the chairman of the Windrush National Organisation.Black British voters usually vote Labour in their droves, right? Well NOT for this Election it might seem. How does TTWP know that? Because the treatment of Diane Abbott has caused many to turn their back on the party. Leading Black authors, celebrities and influencers wrote a letter to the party calling her treatment 'disgraceful'). The impact of the way Sir Keir Starmer and the party on Black voters' allegiances has warranted little or no investigation by many mainstream news outlets.  So we decided to do the work for them. HUGE THANKS TO ALL THE VOTERS WHO SENT IN VOICE NOTES WHICH ARE INCLUDED IN THIS EPISODETTWP POD APPRECIATES YOU! FURTHER READINGOperation Black Vote: https://www.obv.org.uk/Black Equity Organisation : https://blackequityorg.com/Windrush National Organisation:  https://windrushnationalorganisation.com/Bishop Des Jadoo: https://www.desjaddoo.org.uk/Open letter to Labour signed by 100 Black : https://www.theguardian.com/politics/article/2024/may/30/leading-black-figures-criticise-labour-diane-abbott   Maurice McLeod's November 2022 comment piece in the Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/nov/01/blocked-standing-labour-mp-party-candidates-left Who is Al Carns, Labour candidate for Birmingham Selly Oak constituency: https://www.forces.net/politics/former-royal-marines-colonel-quits-military-stand-labour-candidate-general-election  ELECTORAL COMMISSION DATA ON ETHNIC MINORITY VOTE in 2019 GENERAL ELECTIONhttps://commonslibrary.parliament.uk/ge2019-how-did-demographics-affect-the-result/ DIANE ABBOTThttps://twitter.com/HackneyAbbott FAIZA SHAHEENhttps://twitter.com/faizashaheen REGISTER TO VOTEhttps://www.gov.uk/register-to-vote Do your research on all the party manifestos which are being released soon https://www.conservatives.com/https://labour.org.uk/https://www.libdems.org.uk/https://greenparty.org.uk/https://workerspartybritain.org/ https://www.reformparty.uk/https://www.trueandfairparty.uk/ LOWER INCOME VOTE:https://www.turn2us.org.uk/about-us/news-and-media/latest-news/who-do-the-working-classes-vote-for Lower income votershttps://www.johnsmithcentre.com/research/briefing-low-income-voters-the-2019-general-election-and-the-future-of-british-politics/

This episode featured special Guest:  https://twitter.com/esherukwakuDonate to the TTWP Crowdfunder!!!!!!  REGISTER TO VOTEhttps://www.gov.uk/register-to-vote Do your research and watch out for the party manifestos https://www.conservatives.com/https://labour.org.uk/https://www.libdems.org.uk/https://greenparty.org.uk/https://workerspartybritain.org/https://www.reformparty.uk/https://www.trueandfairparty.uk/ WHAT IS TACTICAL VOTING?Listen to Episode 4 with Josh Russell  which Esheru mentionedSPOTIFYhttps://open.spotify.com/episode/729mvZA1jrghl4N0WfRSeR?go=1&sp_cid=689c3d2a840004132d079a54e303d93c&utm_source=embed_player_p&utm_medium=desktop&nd=1&dlsi=064cd6d7627e4487APPLEhttps://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/4-tactical-voting-whats-it-all-about/id1736397883?i=1000654153609  ETHNICITY GAP CAMPAIGNhttps://ethnicitypaygapcampaign.com/   CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRYhttps://www.fmb.org.uk/resource/financial-struggles-projected-by-almost-half-of-construction-firms-warns-fmb-uk.html  https://constructioncoach.co.uk/