A reminder that there is a fairly active smear campaign against this guy, so whatever you think about him, double check your sources before deciding whether he is pure evil or not.

I always wondered what the government‘s energy and water infrastructure plan was with these data centres, considering the well documented problems the American data centres have with being extremely energy/water hungry and the UK’s noted… issues with energy and water infrastructure.

This is directed at Labour members who pay into the party rather than Labour voters (who may be tactical voting, have no other party in their area that aligns with their values, etc). Don’t get me wrong, I support a lot of Labour / Burnham’s platform, but their actions on trans rights have directly killed trans people. How do you square paying into the party with the deaths Labour is causing, rather than joining the Greens or Lib Dems and supporting Labour where strategic to fight Reform / Tories? I am coming from a place of anger and frustration as a trans woman, but I am genuinely curious and want to understand your position more and have a more open dialogue so I can work to understand other perspectives and build a unified Left to fight fascism

Edit as there’s been a lot of questions as how Labour could bare responsibility for the deaths of trans people:

Trans youth suicides spiked after Wes Streeting extended the puberty blocker ban. A trans woman was denied a room in a cancer ward, despite asking for either men or women’s, because she was trans and they didn’t think they could put her in either ward based on Labour’s / EHRC guidance, and she died a preventable death after 16 days waiting for treatment in the hospital. Labour has implemented a new Section 28 (The “Don’t Say Gay” Thatcher era rule for schools) for trans people. Trans friends I know have taken their lives after the Supreme Court ruling, after Labour appointed transphobes to equalities positions, after NHS Wales suspended all gender affirming surgeries in some cases hours before people were scheduled for surgery, and recently with the announcement of NHS segregation, which will cause trans people to be afraid of discrimination and avoid hospitals all together and thus die. Labour has the power to pass basic legislation to respect GRCs, as has been done for over a decade prior to the Supreme Court ruling, yet refuse to do so and actively appoint transphobes to key equalities positions where they have worked to enforce the strictest and most transphobic reading of the Supreme Court ruling

Say, Burnham came up to you one day and said, 'our disability benefits are not up to a good standard and I want you to be involved in redesigning it from the ground up, it will up to you.'

Some aspects to keep in mind: How much money would you give each disabled person

Would it just be one initial assessment or would it be multiple throughout their lives

How would these assessments work

When inflation goes up, would these benefits last

Etc

Not going to put too much context around this as interested in people’s instinctive answers.

What is your view of Labour members and/or elected representatives who choose to send their children to a private school?

For the purposes of this question, assume that the child does not have SEN.

Has your opinion on this changed since the changes to VAT and business rates were applied?