People around me in their 20s and 30s are sharing bedrooms with mates, living with exes, getting evicted every year, sleeping in hostels and on friends’ sofas, and the right still be like: why are millennial women not having children, must be avocado toast or something
The same people who fuel a moral panic about a free speech crisis whenever some students decide to cancel an event have now passed a law that you can be thrown in jail for protesting too annoyingly, I actually feel sick.
It’s always “do people in their 20s have enough life experience to be MPs” and never “do people born into massive generational wealth who never had to worry about rent, bills, shit jobs or tuition fees have enough life experience to be MPs”.
I can imagine there will be lots of Blue Labour bullshit going around soon so let's please not give in to it.
Either we stand for all of the working class, which includes people of colour, LGBT+ people and migrants, or we don't stand for the working class.
Today lots of young girls, and indeed adult women, will hear a lecture from their parents about not walking alone. I wonder how many young boys will hear about misogyny.
Women like compliments. You know what else women like? Having access to safe and legal abortion.
Donate here to help Poles who need an abortion access one in Germany 👇
Not to be all “why isn’t anyone talking about this” but the story about dozens of asylum-seeking children being kidnapped from Home Office hotels should be huge front-page news, and it really says something about the dehumanisation of migrants that it isn’t.
Type "I'm bisexual which means I'm attracted to" and let predictive text finish the sentence.
I'm bisexual which means I'm attracted to the European party manifestos.
So the LibDems:
Don't have a problem with Sarah Wollaston, who supported a ban on HIV positive migrants entering the UK, becoming their MP.
Do have a problem with Jeremy Corbyn being a temporary PM just to extend A50 and call an election.
Get in the bin with such priorities 🚮
Both major parties calling for a *police investigation* because some students organised a pro-Palestine protest on their campus is really, really chilling.
Why is it always about protecting the free speech of the famous and powerful but denying it to everyone else?
Jo Swinson: I don't just want to stop Brexit. I want to destroy it, smash it into pieces and burn it in a bonfire while wrapped in an EU flag and singing Ode to Joy and bury the ashes under Schuman's body.
Corbyn: will you do this one thing to help me stop No Deal?
Swinson: no.
There's a Polish tradition where we leave a spare plate on the Christmas Eve table for an unexpected stranger.
I wonder if there's a spare plate tonight on the tables of those who are forcing refugees to spend Christmas freezing in a forest.
I mean the Owen Jones article is just correct, isn't it? I didn't vote for Starmer but I know plenty of people who did based on his campaign and they kinda deserve an apology
No one expected Keir Starmer to say ACAB, it's not really his vibe. But to pretend that
#BlackLivesMatter
is just an emotional reaction to one incident across the Atlantic, and refuse to engage with demands around racism in justice and policing in the UK, is seriously bad.
I don’t know how London will survive if it doesn’t solve the housing crisis. You can’t have a city populated only by rich people. Someone will still need to do all those jobs that can’t be done remotely. But there will be nowhere for most people to live, unless inherited. How
The scenes in Knowsley and elsewhere didn’t emerge out of nowhere. Every politician who talks of an “invasion”, every newspaper that portrays refugees as dangerous criminals, every local paper that publishes where asylum seekers are staying, must know it could lead to violence.
I'm not scared of Dickhead69 with 110 followers. I'm much more scared of BlueTickMan with 500K followers quote tweeting me and that ending up in the media and being googleable forever
...which is exactly why many people don't like using their full names.
One of the worst things the last election has done to the ~left is convincing a substantial section that every human right or act of basic decency needs to be measured against the prejudices of an imaginary and patronising idea of a Red Wall voter.
Hello Comrade
@jeremycorbyn
, 🌹
This is getting tiring but, on behalf of all us foreigners who have spent many mornings waking up at 6am and travelling to marginal constituencies to campaign for Labour:
can you not.
I really hope that we all conclude that "no one should starve or be made homeless during a pandemic" and that this then becomes a gateway drug to "no one should starve or be made homeless." That would be nice.
The UK: it would be too extreme to ban landlords from randomly evicting you for no reason, uprooting your entire life because they think you’re a bit annoying.
Also the UK:
Lobbying by landlords on renters reform has worked. Govt will:
-Extend period by which a tenant can end a tenancy from 2 months to 6 months, giving landlords more protection
-Delay abolishing Section 21 while Lord Chancellor writes an assessment of the 'readiness of the courts'
The Tories are declaring a second wave and still going ahead with ending the evictions ban and scraping the furlough scheme.
They know people will be homeless as a result, they know poverty will skyrocket, and they're doing it anyway. Can't get over how fucked up this is.
2019: next year we could have Corbyn and Bernie! The real fight starts here, onwards to socialism 💪🌹
2020: I hope the less scary rightwing sex offender wins, and that my family and friends are all safe during the plague.
absolutely great that the government was saying these things to people who hadn't seen their partners and families for months on end, while they were having party after party after party after party
The Polish border force is posting disgusting memes supposedly showing the difference between "migrants" and "refugees," after for months leaving adults and children freezing in the forest.
Unconditional solidarity with all asylum seekers. Fuck this racist bullshit.
Guys I think there is a middle ground between "full loyalty to the glorious leader" and "wrecking for the sake of it." You don't have to pick one or the other you know.
Labour
really
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needs to stop making concessions to the right on immigration.
Impressive how Darren Grimes thinks he's oppressed because he's got the same political views as the governing party and a successful media career at 26 because of that.
Turns out the testing centre at the Warsaw airport just shouts people's names and results out loud.
We might be in the EU but the spirit of GDPR has not reached these shores.
Ben Bradley doesn't want a minister for black men, trans men, disabled men, homeless men.
Ben Bradley wants a minister for himself and himself specifically.
Scenes from
#Lab19
floor when the
@labfreemvmt
motion passed.
Labour now has possibly the most radical, socialist policy on immigration it has ever had. We're making history.
Well done to all the legends who campaigned with us. Especially when saying these things was unpopular.
“My generation wants a future. We want a planet we can live on, wages we can live on, and we want opportunities that make life worth living.
And let me tell you something: if you don’t let us dream, we won’t let you sleep.”🔥🔥
@NadiaWhittomeMP
Tomorrow Polish parliament will debate:
2.15 - should children be allowed to hunt
3.30 - should Jewish Holocaust survivors be banned from demanding compensation
4.45 - should sex education be banned and teachers put in prison
6 - should abortion be banned
The state of this 😶
This seems like a good time to reshare this report on the policing of BLM protests last summer.
Today's events are enraging but it's not the first time.
Today we launch "Britain Is Not Innocent", our 60-page report on the policing of this summer's
#BlackLivesMatter
protests in Britain. Here's the key conclusions. Read and download the report at
#BritainIsNotInnocent
A reminder that in Scotland in Wales all residents, including migrants and refugees, can vote today which makes perfect sense and should be the case everywhere.
Some people get drunk and text their ex, some people order fried chicken at 1am, some people accidentally use an official party account to send threatening emails to the Chair of Young Labour. Completely normal behaviour, haven't we all been there
English friends, be careful. Today many of you will be tempted to wave the flag or even say you're English in public. Please remember that normal laws still apply and the police will be particularly vigilant.
My leadership preferences are still up for grabs but my main hope is that, after Corbynism, we can try to build a serious, pluralist Labour left based less on loyalty and more on ideas.
Instead of reopening nightclubs they should keep all parks open at night so that people can safely hang out.
(Also, DJs in parks. Rooftop parties that aren't silly expensive. All forms of outdoor dancing should be encouraged.)
The threat is real, just as real as it was five years ago.
If Corbynistas look at this and decide we need to meet the far right somewhere in the middle, we become exactly what we denounced in 2014.
The only socialist response is a consequently anti-racist and anti-fascist one.
Peterborough rally for the Brexit Party.
When was the last time British politics saw something like this??
Astonishing. They’re doing three rallies a week!
The self-described leftwing feminists who obsessively talk about individual cases of trans offenders are no different from the racists who endlessly go on about "foreign rapists and murderers." You sound exactly the same.
I'm hearing that a lot of the A-levels protests are organised by teenagers involved in the climate movement. That's what I call transferable skills 💪 Solidarity!
GUYS. Paul Embery, regularly retweeted and endorsed by prominent figures on the Lexit Labour Left is speaking at a Nigel Farage rally.
When we talk about Blue Corbynism leading to red-brown alliances and helping the radical right... This is what we mean.
I'm disgusted.
Mate, Chumbawamba were anarcho-punks who supported the miners' strike, played on picket lines and threw a bucket of ice cold water at John Prescott. Keep their name out of your Tory mouth.
~60 protests organised within two days.
Many just started with one person picking a time and a place and setting up a Facebook event. Within hours, hundreds click attending.
Tens if not hundreds of thousands will be out on the streets today. Let's bring Boris down!
#StopTheCoup
Students who count exactly how much every lecture is worth in pounds and how much money they're losing due to strikes are a perfect example of how marketisation erodes solidarity.
The turnout in Poland was actually wild.
73% in a CEE country with a history of low turnout - over 10% more than even in 1989.
Turnout among under-30s up from 46.6% in 2019 to 71.9% (!)
For I believe the first time, higher turnout among women than men.
Well done everyone! 💪
Hell, the constant bunker mentality was one of the worst, most exhausting features of Corbynism but today's report reminds us why it developed.
The left didn't delude itself that some of the party right was out to get us, they really were out to get us at all cost.
I was never a Green but I've worked with the Greens in various capacities and respect them.
When they're standing against leftwing, anti-Brexit, Green New Deal backing candidates in Tory-Labour marginals, they should really ask themselves what on Earth they're trying to achieve.
Migrant-basher Ian Austin goes on an anti-Labour rant on the day that Corbyn endorses freedom of movement.
Can't pretend we don't love to see it. Migrants in, Austin out.
Tweets like this are making me feel like I'm not at fault or making this up lmao. Renting in London now is completely impossible and it's nowhere in the media.
My friend just told me their nephew went to view a 2 bed property in Brixton that was put up this morning. £2250 per month. 29 other people booked a viewing too. The Landlord has said everyone can now bid against each other. The highest bidder will be able to rent the property😳
2-year degrees:
- Impossible for those who work alongside studies
- Contact hours are one thing but research takes time
- Less time = more pressure
- Removes the wider experience: making friends, joining societies, getting involved in politics, staying up late drinking Lambrini
Around 50 people were arrested in Warsaw last night following a protest in solidarity with LGBT+ activists charged for putting rainbow flags on monuments.
Solidarity action at 6:30pm in front of the Polish embassy in London:
EU migrants have been able to “treat the UK as if it’s part of their own country” for too long, Boris Johnson said yesterday as he reprised the core message of Vote Leave’s 2016 EU referendum campaign.
For a lot of Gen Z-ers the climate strikes will probably be what the 2010 student movement was for millennials.
We have teens who are getting not only radicalised but immediately trained in press, comms, direct action, legal observing, running meetings etc. And that's very cool.
There sure are reasons to be frustrated with Corbyn but at this stage placards like this are complete nonsense.
Corbyn is whipping for a referendum and against the deal. Most of the Labour MPs who want to vote for the deal are on the right of the party. How is Corbyn to blame?
Once again for the people at the back.
Migration is a class issue. The rich can live where they like anyway.
Free movement is not just about who migrates but people's rights when already here.
It's easier to exploit migrant workers if their visa depends on their employer.