Vivek Thuppil
@vthuppil.bsky.social
A vote for Labour is a wasted vote.
A vote for Labour gets you Reform.
A vote for Labour gets you Reform.
Westminster Voting Intention:
RFM: 31% (=)
CON: 20% (+2)
GRN: 18% (+1)
LAB: 14% (-1)
LDM: 11% (-1)
SNP: 3% (=)
Via @findoutnow.bsky.social, 3 Dec.
Changes w/ 26 Nov.
RFM: 31% (=)
CON: 20% (+2)
GRN: 18% (+1)
LAB: 14% (-1)
LDM: 11% (-1)
SNP: 3% (=)
Via @findoutnow.bsky.social, 3 Dec.
Changes w/ 26 Nov.
December 4, 2025 at 3:54 PM
A vote for Labour is a wasted vote.
A vote for Labour gets you Reform.
A vote for Labour gets you Reform.
UCU Left + six other HEC members who travel with UCU Left left their common sense at home on the day voted for a ballot that they were warned was doomed to fail
They and they alone own this failure
We literally warned them and they did not care
They and they alone own this failure
We literally warned them and they did not care
Hearing about alarming, defamatory all-branch emails being sent blaming the GS (who does not sit on HEC) for the failure of the #UKHE ballot.
HEC called the ballot. The GS does not sit on HEC. She did her job and acted on HEC's instruction, no matter her personal view. This isn't on her.
HEC called the ballot. The GS does not sit on HEC. She did her job and acted on HEC's instruction, no matter her personal view. This isn't on her.
December 3, 2025 at 10:49 PM
UCU Left + six other HEC members who travel with UCU Left left their common sense at home on the day voted for a ballot that they were warned was doomed to fail
They and they alone own this failure
We literally warned them and they did not care
They and they alone own this failure
We literally warned them and they did not care
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There seems to be a lot of mutual desire for UCU to be a stronger union capable of meeting the moment, but less desire (or know how?) to do the slow and less heroic work of listening to people and organising from those mundane realities.
ucucommons.org/industrial-b...
ucucommons.org/industrial-b...
Industrial Action Ballot Result Statement
UCU Commons members are disappointed in the outcome of the ballot; a failed ballot is not a result that any of us wanted. However, we know that many members have lost faith in our union’s elected comm...
ucucommons.org
December 3, 2025 at 6:53 PM
There seems to be a lot of mutual desire for UCU to be a stronger union capable of meeting the moment, but less desire (or know how?) to do the slow and less heroic work of listening to people and organising from those mundane realities.
ucucommons.org/industrial-b...
ucucommons.org/industrial-b...
December 3, 2025 at 9:47 AM
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Yup >> @ucucommons.org: "We need to be campaigning to win, not dedicating our union’s resources to unwinnable ballots." ucucommons.org/industrial-b...
Industrial Action Ballot Result Statement
UCU Commons members are disappointed in the outcome of the ballot; a failed ballot is not a result that any of us wanted. However, we know that many members have lost faith in our union’s elected comm...
ucucommons.org
December 2, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Yup >> @ucucommons.org: "We need to be campaigning to win, not dedicating our union’s resources to unwinnable ballots." ucucommons.org/industrial-b...
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Our statement on yesterday’s #UKHE ballot result is now on our website. #UCU
ucucommons.org/industrial-b...
ucucommons.org/industrial-b...
Industrial Action Ballot Result Statement
UCU Commons members are disappointed in the outcome of the ballot; a failed ballot is not a result that any of us wanted. However, we know that many members have lost faith in our union’s elected comm...
ucucommons.org
December 3, 2025 at 9:09 AM
Our statement on yesterday’s #UKHE ballot result is now on our website. #UCU
ucucommons.org/industrial-b...
ucucommons.org/industrial-b...
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As I argued at the time, HEC should not have called a formal ballot when it did. Our @ucucommons.org statement on this predictable (and predicted) failure is out now. It is well past time for UCU’s elected reps to get serious about confronting the crises in UKHE: ucucommons.org/industrial-b...
Industrial Action Ballot Result Statement
UCU Commons members are disappointed in the outcome of the ballot; a failed ballot is not a result that any of us wanted. However, we know that many members have lost faith in our union’s elected comm...
ucucommons.org
December 3, 2025 at 9:13 AM
As I argued at the time, HEC should not have called a formal ballot when it did. Our @ucucommons.org statement on this predictable (and predicted) failure is out now. It is well past time for UCU’s elected reps to get serious about confronting the crises in UKHE: ucucommons.org/industrial-b...
Building the union is critical. There is no shortcut to success without organising.
I + 18 others pleaded at HEC to give us the time & space to organise to have a successful ballot in the spring.
20 members of HEC led by UCU Left bounced us into a costly ballot that did not have lay member support
I + 18 others pleaded at HEC to give us the time & space to organise to have a successful ballot in the spring.
20 members of HEC led by UCU Left bounced us into a costly ballot that did not have lay member support
Unfortunately the HE 2025 ballot failed at 39% turnout. I have written about why and about what desperately needs to change in UCU's national structures off the back of this result. Some HEC members need to chi up and understand their role in all this, and how disconnected they are from members.
The HE Ballot failed, now what?
If you’re reading this it is because today the UCU’s 2025 national ballot over pay and conditions in universities has failed. The last time…
hitchcockian.medium.com
December 2, 2025 at 12:51 PM
Building the union is critical. There is no shortcut to success without organising.
I + 18 others pleaded at HEC to give us the time & space to organise to have a successful ballot in the spring.
20 members of HEC led by UCU Left bounced us into a costly ballot that did not have lay member support
I + 18 others pleaded at HEC to give us the time & space to organise to have a successful ballot in the spring.
20 members of HEC led by UCU Left bounced us into a costly ballot that did not have lay member support
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Exciting news! We have transitioned off Substack and Wordpress and onto Ghost for both our website and newsletter. We're delighted to be on an open platform for our newsletter, which comes out every other Wednesday. You can check out our shiny new site via the same URL: ucucommons.org
UCU Commons
Thoughts, stories and ideas.
ucucommons.org
November 28, 2025 at 1:08 PM
Exciting news! We have transitioned off Substack and Wordpress and onto Ghost for both our website and newsletter. We're delighted to be on an open platform for our newsletter, which comes out every other Wednesday. You can check out our shiny new site via the same URL: ucucommons.org
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Very glad not to be on Substack any more! And having both the website and the newsletter in Ghost will make life so much easier.
Exciting news! We have transitioned off Substack and Wordpress and onto Ghost for both our website and newsletter. We're delighted to be on an open platform for our newsletter, which comes out every other Wednesday. You can check out our shiny new site via the same URL: ucucommons.org
UCU Commons
Thoughts, stories and ideas.
ucucommons.org
November 28, 2025 at 1:17 PM
Very glad not to be on Substack any more! And having both the website and the newsletter in Ghost will make life so much easier.
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We have a shiny new handle!
😍
😍
November 26, 2025 at 6:20 PM
We have a shiny new handle!
😍
😍
Rachel Reeves and Keir Starmer decided to fund their budget on the backs of working people earning as little as £12,570 a year instead of the centimillionaires and billionaires, and the big banks who were spared a windfall tax
This was a regressive budget further squeezing already squeezed people
This was a regressive budget further squeezing already squeezed people
Jo Grady on Sky Politics Hub tonight:
“This budget won’t deliver the real improvements working people need.”
“This budget won’t deliver the real improvements working people need.”
November 26, 2025 at 8:35 PM
Rachel Reeves and Keir Starmer decided to fund their budget on the backs of working people earning as little as £12,570 a year instead of the centimillionaires and billionaires, and the big banks who were spared a windfall tax
This was a regressive budget further squeezing already squeezed people
This was a regressive budget further squeezing already squeezed people
Sign away, folks. Let's find out how many Russian assets there are within the РЕФОРМА SK party.
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...
Petition: Call a public inquiry into Russian influence on UK politics & democracy
We are concerned about reported efforts from Russia to influence democracy in the US, UK, Europe and elsewhere. We believe we must establish the depth and breadth of possible Russian influence campaig...
petition.parliament.uk
November 26, 2025 at 11:18 AM
Sign away, folks. Let's find out how many Russian assets there are within the РЕФОРМА SK party.
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...
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I read “It is hard to imagine that taking place in Britain” initially as “thank goodness”. Then I realised that Phillips *wants* this for Britain! He wants a Britain where visible minorities live in fear of abduction and deportation? WTAF?
Just a jaw-dropping paragraph in Trevor Phillips's column for The Times.
This is a policy that, by his own account, has left parents of a particular race too frightened to walk their children to school.
And that's the example he chooses of the "vigour" we "need".
www.thetimes.com/comment/colu...
This is a policy that, by his own account, has left parents of a particular race too frightened to walk their children to school.
And that's the example he chooses of the "vigour" we "need".
www.thetimes.com/comment/colu...
November 24, 2025 at 11:40 PM
I read “It is hard to imagine that taking place in Britain” initially as “thank goodness”. Then I realised that Phillips *wants* this for Britain! He wants a Britain where visible minorities live in fear of abduction and deportation? WTAF?
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Labour budget process illustrated
November 24, 2025 at 7:21 PM
Labour budget process illustrated
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Labour MP says only way to unite UK over immigration is by leaning into Reform narrative.
November 20, 2025 at 12:58 PM
Labour MP says only way to unite UK over immigration is by leaning into Reform narrative.
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After 3 successful days of strike action, @sheffielducu.bsky.social members are back at work for a day before we go out again. We may be working today but are not mitigating our own actions! We have already brought management back to the negotiating table. Stay strong and we win! 💪
November 20, 2025 at 8:05 AM
After 3 successful days of strike action, @sheffielducu.bsky.social members are back at work for a day before we go out again. We may be working today but are not mitigating our own actions! We have already brought management back to the negotiating table. Stay strong and we win! 💪
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Dear Labour Party members and voters in Wales
Do you want to support a party that isn't cheered on by *checks notes* Tommy Robinson?
There's a home for you in @plaidcymru.bsky.social
Join us! Vote for a tolerant, progressive nation, and send a message to Starmer, Mahmood, Farage, & the far right
Do you want to support a party that isn't cheered on by *checks notes* Tommy Robinson?
There's a home for you in @plaidcymru.bsky.social
Join us! Vote for a tolerant, progressive nation, and send a message to Starmer, Mahmood, Farage, & the far right
November 18, 2025 at 9:45 AM
Dear Labour Party members and voters in Wales
Do you want to support a party that isn't cheered on by *checks notes* Tommy Robinson?
There's a home for you in @plaidcymru.bsky.social
Join us! Vote for a tolerant, progressive nation, and send a message to Starmer, Mahmood, Farage, & the far right
Do you want to support a party that isn't cheered on by *checks notes* Tommy Robinson?
There's a home for you in @plaidcymru.bsky.social
Join us! Vote for a tolerant, progressive nation, and send a message to Starmer, Mahmood, Farage, & the far right
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This statement not acceptable and I suspect not sustainable. Large majority of public support principle of asylum, support letting people stay permanently. Majority for that among Labour and other progressive parties’ voters is overwhelming. The Reform voters this is aimed at will never vote Labour
"The era of permanent protection is over"
Is this Labour government really saying it was wrong in principle to let these refugees of the last 75 years to stay, settle and become British - and they believe that should NEVER happen again in principle or practice?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=TiuR...
Is this Labour government really saying it was wrong in principle to let these refugees of the last 75 years to stay, settle and become British - and they believe that should NEVER happen again in principle or practice?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=TiuR...
Refugees from 7 decades gather to commemorate 70 years of refugee in protection in the UK
YouTube video by Refugee Council
www.youtube.com
November 15, 2025 at 12:49 PM
This statement not acceptable and I suspect not sustainable. Large majority of public support principle of asylum, support letting people stay permanently. Majority for that among Labour and other progressive parties’ voters is overwhelming. The Reform voters this is aimed at will never vote Labour
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www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/softwar...
Kudos to the Python Software Foundation for refusing a $1.5m NSF grant which would have forced it to compromise on its DEI commitments #wellintended #wellindented
Kudos to the Python Software Foundation for refusing a $1.5m NSF grant which would have forced it to compromise on its DEI commitments #wellintended #wellindented
Python rejects $1.5M grant from U.S. govt. fearing ethical compromise
The Python Software Foundation (PSF) has withdrawn its $1.5 million grant proposal to the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) due to funding terms forcing a compromise on its commitment to diversit...
www.bleepingcomputer.com
November 12, 2025 at 12:37 PM
www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/softwar...
Kudos to the Python Software Foundation for refusing a $1.5m NSF grant which would have forced it to compromise on its DEI commitments #wellintended #wellindented
Kudos to the Python Software Foundation for refusing a $1.5m NSF grant which would have forced it to compromise on its DEI commitments #wellintended #wellindented
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China’s CO₂ emissions have been flat or falling for 18 months — a stunning milestone as solar & wind power surge.
With 240 GW of new solar added this year alone, the world’s largest emitter may have already peaked — years ahead of 2030.
#EnergyTransition #BESS #Solar #Lithium #LFP #EV #Disruption
With 240 GW of new solar added this year alone, the world’s largest emitter may have already peaked — years ahead of 2030.
#EnergyTransition #BESS #Solar #Lithium #LFP #EV #Disruption
China’s CO2 emissions have been flat or falling for past 18 months, analysis finds
World’s biggest polluter on track to hit peak emissions target early but miss goal for cutting carbon intensity
www.theguardian.com
November 11, 2025 at 10:01 AM
China’s CO₂ emissions have been flat or falling for 18 months — a stunning milestone as solar & wind power surge.
With 240 GW of new solar added this year alone, the world’s largest emitter may have already peaked — years ahead of 2030.
#EnergyTransition #BESS #Solar #Lithium #LFP #EV #Disruption
With 240 GW of new solar added this year alone, the world’s largest emitter may have already peaked — years ahead of 2030.
#EnergyTransition #BESS #Solar #Lithium #LFP #EV #Disruption
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Bore da pawb, if you’ve not done so already please consider signing. We are so close to the 250 target to get it considered by the Senedd petitions committee.
Still yet to hear on my UK petition 🤔
Anyway, please sign and share.
None of that fascist shite here!
Still yet to hear on my UK petition 🤔
Anyway, please sign and share.
None of that fascist shite here!
My fellow Cymru, please sign.
Na i ffasgyddion yng Nhgymru 🖕🏼
Na i ffasgyddion yng Nhgymru 🖕🏼
Petition: Condemn and investigate far-right group ‘White Vanguard’ in Wales
We call on the Welsh Government to condemn and take action against White Vanguard, whose members have joined weekly demonstrations outside the Holiday Inn Express in Rhoose, which is housing Afghan families who are here legally under a Government resettlement scheme. The group displays antisemitic slogans, performs Nazi salutes, and spreads racist conspiracy theories, threatening community safety and cohesion.
petitions.senedd.wales
November 10, 2025 at 10:35 AM
Bore da pawb, if you’ve not done so already please consider signing. We are so close to the 250 target to get it considered by the Senedd petitions committee.
Still yet to hear on my UK petition 🤔
Anyway, please sign and share.
None of that fascist shite here!
Still yet to hear on my UK petition 🤔
Anyway, please sign and share.
None of that fascist shite here!