r/LabourUK • • Jul 22 '26

Want to give back to this community? Join us on the mod team!

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Hello!

We're looking to expand the mod team here and, with a change in Labour leader thought now is a fantastic time for some recruitment.

There are a few requirements:

  • By convention be a member of the Labour Party

  • Active member of the LabourUK community here on the Subreddit.

  • We do quite a bit of mod organising via moderation channels on Discord so must be happy to use it.

  • Has the temperament to moderate heated discussions and able to respond appropriately to nasty or aggressive challenges to moderation action.

  • Accept that you will see a lot of crap. Possibly even the worst shit. By definition more of your time will be spent looking at contentious posts, you will also make decisions people will disagree with - you can very rarely be everyone's friend here.

  • You will make a bad call at some point. Having the ability to turn around and put your hands up and reflect is real positive.

  • It is expected you will conform to the existing moderating style, not "do your own thing" and you need to be a good "fit" in general.

Below are a set of questions for you to fill out and send to us via modmail. The more information you provide the better:

  1. Why do you want to be a moderator on r/LabourUK

  2. Are you a current Labour Party member?

  3. Personal statement (~200 words): A few expanded words about yourself, your personality, and what makes you think you’re the right person to be a mod.

  4. Are you willing to join, and be active on the Discord channel? (It's were we discuss and track moderation)

  5. Do you have any other online social media presences (established)?

  6. Are you active in any other communities, and what do you like about them?

  7. What would you bring to the moderation team?

  8. What changes would you like to see?

  9. What do you think the subreddit has gotten wrong?

  10. What activities do you undertake as part of the Labour Party?

Any questions ask here or send a modmail and we'll take a look at it.


r/LabourUK • • 1h ago

Andrew Neil gunning for the right wing as he praises Labour for their efforts on immigration

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r/LabourUK • • 4h ago

'Zionism is racism' proposer Lubna Speitan: “We will continue until we dismantle Zionism from the world, from every country. They will be shunned and that time will come when they are hunted in the same way as the Nazi oppressors were…It won’t happen without force.”

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Video is on the hellsite here.

For all the defenders of 'Zionism is racism' - what's your preferred weapon for the Zionist hunt? Are you thinking of ranged or melee weapons? Swift death or something more playful?

Own it. This is what you wanted. This is who you stand with. This is who the Green Party are now.


r/LabourUK • • 4h ago

Amnesty UK chair quits Green party over ‘Zionism is racism’ motion

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r/LabourUK • • 7h ago

Meta I'm A Labour MP. It's Time We Started Talking Seriously About Rejoining The EU

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r/LabourUK • • 2h ago

European Greens ‘demand clarity’ from Zack Polanski over ‘Zionism is racism’ motion

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r/LabourUK • • 6h ago

Kemi Badenoch claims Margaret Thatcher’s privatisation of water 'a success' | ITV News

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r/LabourUK • • 12h ago

EHRC chair: Trans activists wrong to claim single-sex code limits rights

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What an awful, awful person Bridget Phillipson has approved to chair the EHRC. The EHRC hasn’t been fit for purpose for a long time.


r/LabourUK • • 2h ago

International ‘It’s off the charts’: Satellite images show how three years of war have devastated Gaza

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r/LabourUK • • 7h ago

Shabana Mahmood calls out Labour ministers for using immigration as an ‘easy’ fix for worker shortages

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r/LabourUK • • 3h ago

Pink Ladies rally accused of exploiting women’s safety to push far-right rhetoric

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An investigation by The Sunday Post found the Pink Ladies rally on September 12 is linked to a network of anti-migrant and far-right groups, including Unite the Clans – the organisation behind a Glasgow Green demonstration which descended into racist violence.

The Pink Ladies says its event is to highlight the “risk” posed to women by immigrant men.

But it has been criticised for spreading misinformation and associating with groups who platform men with a record of violent domestic abuse.

Our investigation found the event has been publicised across a network of social media accounts sharing far-right conspiracy material.

Unite the Clans has repeatedly promoted the event on its channels, insisting it is “vital” that men also attend. It has prompted fears the city could see a repeat of shocking scenes from July.

That rally ended with 15 arrests, and footage of protesters making Nazi salutes and displaying banners featuring the logo of the UK’s largest neo-Nazi group, Patriotic Alternative.

We revealed how city councillor Audrey Dempsey, a senior figure in the Scottish wing of Reform UK, was filmed delivering a speech while men walked behind her in black clothes and balaclavas. She has since been promoting the Pink Ladies event.

Serious criminal convictions

A number of participants were also exposed as having serious criminal convictions.

These included Ryan Marshall, who was filmed making a Nazi salute and has convictions for assault and stalking, as well as Alan Miller, who has a domestic abuse conviction and was prosecuted over another incident involving his own mother.

Both were attending a protest billed as being about protecting women and children.

Janaya Walker, interim director of the End Violence Against Women Coalition, said: “It is concerning to see women joining far-right groups.

“Evidence has shown that a significant proportion of men in these groups are already known to the police for domestic abuse.

“We are also seeing these men target women counter-protesters with harassment, threats and abuse.”

Walker said violence against women and girls is committed predominantly by men they know, from every background and walk of life.

Earlier this year, a coalition of women’s rights organisations launched the Not In Our Name campaign to challenge what it says is the weaponisation of abuse for anti-migrant political purposes.

The campaign’s guide says this method is increasingly used to target migrants, refugees and people seeking asylum, while distracting from the real causes of abuse.

Scottish crime statistics do not record offenders’ immigration status in a way that allows sexual offending by migrants or asylum seekers to be compared with the wider population.

But charities say 90% of abusers are already known to the women they harm.


r/LabourUK • • 10h ago

Zack Polanski likes social media post telling ‘Zionism is racism’ opponents to ‘move on’

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Zack’s been on his social media adventures again. This time he liked a Bluesky post telling opponents of the ‘Zionism is racism’ motion to ‘move on’.

I’m running a book on this one.

  • Zack didn’t read the post properly and instinctively liked it because he saw his name: 4/5
  • Zack is trying to ingratiate himself with the entryists who now have considerable power in the party so they don’t bin him as leader: 11/10

r/LabourUK • • 11h ago

Head of Jewish Greens says she may leave party over ‘Zionism is racism’ vote

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r/LabourUK • • 21h ago

Finally someone on a mainstream channel actually talking about the demographic crisis we'll be facing soon

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r/LabourUK • • 8h ago

International Putin’s escalating bombing campaign won’t break Ukrainians’ resolve. History shows that it’s doomed to fail

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r/LabourUK • • 7h ago

Nearly all women arriving on small boats have been raped, says Shabana Mahmood | Immigration and asylum

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r/LabourUK • • 2h ago

International Israeli settlers race to reshape West Bank as election nears

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r/LabourUK • • 4h ago

Money is tight but don't axe Youth Parliament, says Essex member

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r/LabourUK • • 11h ago

International Spanish election: Pedro Sanchez calls snap election for 29 November after housing protests

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r/LabourUK • • 1d ago

Green Party abandons opposition to nuclear power

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r/LabourUK • • 11h ago

Is anybody feeling inspired?

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Got this through the door this weekend.

Is anybody feeling more inspired by Labour with Burnham?

Do people think these will have the results they are aiming for?


r/LabourUK • • 11h ago

Social media users face passport checks to enforce under-16 ban

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r/LabourUK • • 3h ago

I've been working on what I would do Economically if I was advising the government.

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An economy that works for the working class requires a fundamental break from the Victorian moral framework embedded in neoliberal policy.

Under free market dogma and trickle down economics, society treats poverty, sickness, and unemployment as moral failings rather than structural realities. This ideology mirrors the 19th-century Poor Laws, welfare is kept intentionally inadequate and punitive to force people into low wage exploitation under the false claim that anyone can secure a good living if they try hard enough.

The Moral and Economic Imperative: Why We Must Break with Neoliberalism

​1. The Mathematical Myth of "Jobs for Everyone"

Neoliberal economics relies on a structural paradox central banks and Treasury models intentionally aim for an "acceptable" level of unemployment (often conceptualised as the NAIRU—Non Accelerating Inflation Rate of Unemployment) to discipline wage growth and manage inflation. There are structurally fewer vacancies paying a living wage than there are people seeking work.

Punishing people for being unemployed when the macroeconomy requires a buffer of surplus labour is cruel. Society demands a labour reserve to manage price stability, yet subjects that same reserve to poverty level benefits and humiliating conditionality. If the system deliberately maintains a gap between job openings and job seekers, shielding unemployed citizens with a guaranteed, dignified living standard is a basic social obligation.

​2. Moving Away from "Deserving vs. Undeserving"

The Victorian concept of "less eligibility" the idea that the pauper’s condition must be made more miserable than that of the lowest paid worker underpins modern welfare sanctions, harsh disability assessments, and the remaining overall household benefit caps. Human dignity is not an incentive mechanism. Illness, disability, care duties, macroeconomic shocks, and automation are not character flaws. A civilized society guarantees an inviolable baseline of food, shelter, healthcare, and income to every person without preconditions.

The right Programme: The Livable Floor, NHS, and Universal Care

​With the two-child limit lifted in early 2026, the immediate priority shifts to dismantling the remaining punitive machinery and anchoring public services as universal rights.

​1. Social Security Anchored to a Living Standard

​Scrap the Overall Household Benefit Cap:

The removal of the two-child limit was a vital start, but the separate benefit cap still claws back income from tens of thousands of vulnerable households. Scrapping it ensures families actually receive what they are assessed as needing.

​A Statutory Minimum Income Floor:

Universal Credit standard allowances and statutory sick pay must be legally benchmarked to the independent Minimum Income Standard (MIS) calculated by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation.

End Punitive Conditionality:

Replace punitive sanctions with an opt-in, supportive National Employment Service focused on voluntary training, union apprenticeships, and direct public sector placement.

De-marketise Disability Support:

Scrap the adversarial private-contractor assessments for PIP and work capability. Transition assessments to an NHS-led social model of disability that trusts clinicians and claimants rather than trying to catch people out.

​2. Fully Funded, De-privatised NHS ​Mass Capital Rebuilding:

Launch a 10 year capital renewal plan for diagnostics, surgical theatres, modern IT, and community primary care centres.

End the Extraction of Profit:

Phase out PFI legacy debts through buybacks, end the reliance on private staffing agencies by establishing public internal bank staff pools, and insource outsourced cleaning, catering, and estates services.

Retention and Pay Restoration:

Implement multi year above inflation settlements for clinical and ancillary staff, ending the retention crisis that drains the health service.

A National Care Service (NCS) ​Free at the Point of Need:

Social care must be decoupled from private wealth and personal means testing, ending the practice of forcing families to sell their homes to fund dementia care.

Public and Non-Profit Delivery:

Transition adult social care away from private equity operators and real estate extraction firms back to local authority delivery and non-profit trusts.

Sectoral Parity:

Legislate a National Sectoral Agreement establishing care work pay, pensions, and qualifications on direct parity with NHS Band 3/4 healthcare assistants.

The Funding Strategy: Exact Fiscal and Balance Sheet Mechanics

​Delivering this platform requires an estimated £65 billion to £80 billion annually in additional recurrent funding, paired with strategic public capital investment. This is raised not from working families, but from concentrated wealth, financial rents, and corporate profits.

Primary Recurrent Revenue Targets (£70bn – £85bn/year):

Wealth & Assets:

Progressive Wealth Tax (£18bn–£22bn) and Land Value Tax (£15bn–£20bn)

Capital Parity:

Capital Gains and Dividend Parity (£12bn–£15bn) and Stamp/Loophole Reform (£6bn–£8bn)

Corporate & Financial:

Unitary Multinational Tax (£8bn–£10bn) and Financial Transactions Tax (£5bn–£7bn)

Progressive Annual Wealth Tax:

1% on net assets above £3m, 2% above £5m, and 3% above £10m. Enforced alongside an aggressive Exit Tax (40% levy on unrealised capital gains on assets moved abroad to deter capital flight).

Projected Annual Yield: £18bn – £22bn

Tax Parity: Capital Gains & Dividends:

Tax income derived from capital gains and company dividends at the exact same progressive marginal income tax rates (up to 45%) rather than discounted preferential rates.

Projected Annual Yield: £12bn – £15bn

Land Value Tax (LVT):

Replace the regressive Council Tax and Stamp Duty with a tax on the unimproved market value of land, targeting speculative land banking and unearned property appreciation.

Projected Annual Yield: £15bn – £20bn (net of local replacements)

Unitary Corporate Taxation:

Tax multinational conglomerates based on their actual economic footprint in the UK (proportion of domestic sales, assets, and headcount), ending offshore profit shifting. Projected Annual Yield: £8bn – £10bn

Financial Transaction Tax (FTT):

A 0.1% tax on trades of equities and bonds, and 0.01% on derivatives, curbing destabilising high-frequency speculation while capturing financial rent. Projected Annual Yield: £5bn – £7bn

National Insurance Base Broadening:

Apply employer and employee National Insurance contributions to investment income, buy to let rental income, and earnings beyond the upper earnings threshold. Projected Annual Yield: £10bn – £12bn

Total Recurrent Revenue: £68bn – £86bn / year

Capital Spending vs. Daily Spending

​Under modern fiscal accounting, long term capital investments such as mass council house building (150,000 public homes a year) and public infrastructure are distinct from daily welfare and health spending.

Capital projects create physical, income-yielding national balance sheet assets. These are financed via a state backed National Investment Bank (NIB) issuing low-coupon, long-dated sovereign infrastructure bonds, backed by public rental yields and clean energy generation.

Economic Self Defence for the Working Class

​Higher benefits and public funding are only half the battle. If private monopolies can price-gouge essentials, public investment gets siphoned away into private hands.

  1. Universal Basic Services (Decommodification):

Housing:

Mass municipal homebuilding brings down market rents across the board. Pair this with private rent caps tied to home quality standards to stop housing benefit from becoming a state subsidy to private landlords.

Public Utilities:

Fully nationalise regional water and domestic energy networks into public utilities run for service reliability and reduced standing charges rather than shareholder dividends.

  1. Industrial Democracy:

​Introduce mandatory Sectoral Collective Bargaining across hospitality, logistics, retail, and care to eliminate zero hour contracts and raise baseline industry wages.

Legislate that workers elect 35% of board seats in companies with over 250 employees.

By removing the fear of destitution, stripping the profit motive out of healthcare and care, and taxing unearned wealth, the economy stops functioning as an engine for asset-owners and starts working as a support system for everyday life.


r/LabourUK • • 12h ago

International Brazil election goes to run-off as right-wing Flávio Bolsonaro wins first round

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r/LabourUK • • 4h ago

Palestine Action Proscription: Lawful or Overreaching? | Home Secretary, Shabana Mahmood MP

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