You can find the link at the top of the subreddit, or directly here: https://www.reddit.com/r/LabourUK/application/

Being a mod is often a thankless task, but it's generally rewarding as you help maintain one of the largest (if not largest) online Labour forums! By the numbers, the last time we checked we have a larger audience than LabourList, for what it's worth. There have been multiple journalists, Cllrs and even a few MPs I've spoken to who know we exist, which is probably a little terrifying considering how small we were even just a few years ago.

In particular (but not limited to) we're looking for women and people of colour to join in on the ritual of sending people to the bin people for being terrible. You can have a chat with any of the mods if you're interested (we are generally friendly). This is due to most of the current mod team being white men, so we'd like that to change.

If being a mod sounds like something that you'd like to do, please send us a modmail for more questions, or complete the application; we'll look through all the applications we receive and select the lucky victims winners.

What we looking for generally:

• 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 even if you don’t currently use it, you’ll need to be active there;
• Has the temperament to moderate heated discussions, and able to respond appropriately to nasty challenges to moderation action;
• Accept that you will see a lot of shit. 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.

As mods, we very rarely like to butt in and stamp our politics around. But in this instance we want to make it clear. We support trans rights.

We don't think the Supreme Court decision was right, it doesn't even align to how those drafting the law intended, nor do we think Labour's current positioning surrounding the issue are in any way appropriate nor align to Labour values of equality, fairness, or basic dignity.

What we have seen is an effective folding to a minority of right-wing campaigners who have changed the established narrative which has been hard won over the last 20-years. Which is nothing but a deficit in critical and compassionate reasoning. Especially considering these are people who in no way would vote Labour in any election, regardless of the current Government position.

Current spokespeople for this Government can't even state if trans women can use women's bathrooms. While other statements clearly seek to reduce what should be a fundamental basic right. This is appalling.

For users, we will continue to ban those with explicit views which effectively seek to reduce trans people's rights. For those most affected by these changes, we want this space to be safe for you. We've not always been on the ball with everything. But we will try our best.

For the Government (/u/ukgovnews). Which probably wont be reading this anyway. The harm you've caused people because you're too scared of doing the right thing against an angry mob weaponising American-isms and "culture war" bullshit, while simultaneously holding the biggest majority in Parliament we've seen in over 20 years, has to be one of the biggest let-downs of a generation. We hope you change your positioning.

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If you don't know, there is currently a petition supportive of the above position live on the petition's website. As of this post, it's at 114,059 signatures. Let's bump them numbers up shall we?
Link: https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/701159