Tory flatmate looks at Twitter:
“F**k me, look how they are speaking about Jess Philips ... and they are supposed to be on the same side.
I could never vote Labour again, all the time they behave like that”.
And I think most of the country agree.
“It’s not as simple as just writing a massive cheque for free school meals.”
Nadhim Zahawi, business minister, tells Times Radio the free school meal scheme will come to an end before half term.
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@AasmahMir
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@StigAbell
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@nadhimzahawi
My vote for Leader & Deputy are for candidates who will end
@UKLabour
’s culture of crank conspiracy, bullying and abuse.
Then maybe I can go to branch meetings and not have to put up with this shit.
Public school educated Caroline Lucas came from Oxford, had no connection with Brighton when she stood. Sian Berry also comes from a privileged background and is a Councillor in Highgate.
I am so sick of the Green’s sense of entitlement. This was a Labour seat until 2010.
WTF? ! Standing against
@sianberry
in
@CarolineLucas
's seat, the Greens' one constituency, why the hell would you do that? Choose any one of the other 649 seats
@eddieizzard
, FFS 🤬
No10 being dazzled by the guy who bought Twitter for $41bn (now worth $19bn) and is currently tweeting someone firing arrows at his ugly brick of a car is so on brand.
Shortly arriving at AI summit where Elon Musk will be one of the stars of the show.
No10 hopes his involvement will draw international attention - despite admitting he's a "maverick".
But one ex-official says it's "idiotic".
Read more
@theipaper
:
The best way to deal with conspiracy theorists who promote violence like Piers Corbyn, is for social media companies to take their platform away.
It works.
@sussex_police
@Weatherwax6655
@SussexPCC
This is a disgraceful response. I will be contacting the Sussex PCC.
Expecting perpetrators of sexual offences against children to be recorded by sex is not a hate crime.
@lara_hogan
I’m sure there were Aussies and Kiwis needing therapy as the result of your micro-aggressions. Have you any idea how triggering it is when you refer to spring and erase our lived experience of autumn.
@nytimes
You are talking about County Lines which had brought a huge rise in violence in London, and drugs to run-down seaside towns were they pray on the poor, vulnerable & disabled.
Not a holiday to Hastings.
So uncomfortable watching this. The contempt OJ has when he looks at Margaret Hodge, the disdain he treats her and so many other women. He is repulsive.
Who ever leaked this non-story, in full knowledge Keir’s mother in-law had just passed away, is lower than vermin and shoujd never be allowed near the Labour Party again. Disgusting.
The Spectator Politician of the Year Award.
2017: Corbyn wins - but you won’t hear about it on the MSN.
2022: Starmer wins -
@OwenJones84
does not take it well.
Why I’m a member of
@UKLabour
Labour vs Green Party
🔴 Pro NATO 🟢 Leave NATO
🔴 Pro Nuclear 🟢 Anti Nuclear
🔴 Increased recycling 🟢 Can’t keep the streets clean
🔴 Credible Economic policies 🟢 😂
🔴 Ending charity status for public schools 🟢 Only MP went to public school
Why I'm a member of
@TheGreenParty
Labour v Green Party
🔴Austerity🟢Wealth Tax
🔴Tuition Fees🟢Free Tuition
🔴Private in NHS 🟢Nationalise NHS
🔴£10 p/h🟢£15 p/h
🔴Pro-Trident🟢Anti-Trident
🔴Privatised Energy🟢Public Energy
🔴No UBI 🟢 Pro UBI
ht
@ToryFibs
This is who Katherine Ryan called an abuser to his face … and wanted to out but wasn’t able to because of legal restraints.
How many people knew and *could* have stopped him?
It’s interesting that the people arguing for Britain to continue its war on Afghanistan “to protect women’s rights” are the same people who justify Britain selling arms to the Saudi regime.
The relish with which Harry Cole has been going after a presenter which a mental illness, who has done nothing to break the law, has been one of the most grotesque things we’ve seen in tabloid journalism for a while.
@AyoCaesar
What, so something he did 30 years ago, and repeatedly apologised for, means Baddiel can never speak about AntiSemitism.
How is the “Derby North Bad Man”?
In a crisis, chose your Leader:
Tony Blair: We need to test everyone
Gordon Brown: We need global leadership
Jeremy Corbyn: We need to make this all about me
Dreyfus: a man who was imprisoned in Devils Island after being falsely convicted of treason - because he was Jewish.
Assange: a bloke who hid in a cupboard to avoid a rape trial and couldn’t even look after his cat.
Quite repulsive how the tabloids have gone after Megan for years for “damaging the monarchy” yet seem to have nothing to say about what a disgusting, vile leech Prince Andrew is.
@CCriadoPerez
I follow a lot of conspiracy Twitter, & have seen loads of wild claims about periods, fertility & the vaccine.
If we deny women’s valid experiences, no wonder there’s a breakdown in trust, which anti-vaxxers exploit to the max.
It appears I’ve upset a lot of people by asking the only Green MP and the woman who wishes to replace her - why the Greens have selected a woman expelled from Labour for AntiSemitism as a Parliamentary Candidate.
An under appreciated component … is the lack of understanding how systems and organisations work.
There is no way an unaccompanied young bear from Peru would have got through UK border control, even if he did speak English.
An underappreciated component of JK Rowling's badness as a writer is her utter lack of understanding of how systems and organizations work. That's not how schools work. That's not how government ministries work. That's not how newspapers work. That's not how sports work. That's…
No
@skwawkbox
, what I got was a pile-on by a bunch of tedious has-been losers.
Rinsed is that
@annaturley
’s lawyers did to you ... have you paid up yet?
So actually Labour are looking at reforming Universal Credit with a view to more targeted help for families in poverty.
And there’s a National Policy Forum meeting to discuss it this weekend.
Sounds like another Twitter storm in a teacup.
Top Tip for Corbyn fans - if your explanation for why Labour lost was “the media”, you are part of the problem.
Telling voters they are stupid, gullible fools isn’t a way to win back power.
Nor is telling anyone marginally less left wing then you to “f-off & join the Tories”
I see once again calling out Antisemitism has left my timeline an absolute mess.
I didn’t stop when I got blogged about, caricatured in Antisemitic memes and repeatedly doxxed. I’m certainly not going to stop now.
Over a period of 2 years Tony Greenstein relentless sent me vile misogynist abuse
It took two court cases to remove him from the Labour Party. I was named in both
At points I was too anxious to leave the house. So he used my mental health against me
I am speechless
@UKLabour
Hi
@EddieIzzardLab
,
Labour have had two trans Parliamentary Candidates - one of whom stood in a neighbouring constituency in 2017.
You will not be the first!
That the Deputy Leader of the Greens
A: switched from the Lib Dem’s because he wasn’t selected to be Parliamentary candidate
B: claimed to be able make a Sun journalist’s breasts bigger through hypnotherapy
Says everything about the Greens.
🗣️ "There's a sense amongst most people that the country just isn't quite working."
@ZackPolanski
speaks to
@OwenJones84
about the state of politics in the UK and the solutions offered by the Green Party 👇
Brighton Quakers are tonight hosting Asa Winstanley at the Friends Meeting House, a man expelled from Labour for AntiSemitism.
I don’t think they understand what solidarity means.
Brighton Quakers have issued the following statement after learning about the alleged attack on the Synagogue in Holland Road:
Brighton Quakers stand beside our Brighton and Hove Jewish friends in loving solidarity in the face of any violent threats against their communities.
@PublicBenjamin
@rickburin
@S1dTR0tt3r147
Which is funny cos at the time, people never stopped moaning about the heat, queuing for stand pipes and raging forest fires.
(I hate you for making me feel really old).
It seems extraordinary that while activists from Bury North were crying out for help,
@RLong_Bailey
and Momentum decided they had other priorities.
A seat lost by 105 votes & hard working Labour staff made redundant a week before Christmas.
Frankly a disgrace.
Twitter: why aren’t Labour doing anything?
Labour: we are announcing a raft of measures, the first of which will cut the cost for 4 million people …
Twitter: not good enough. *goes back to arguing about trans issues*
One of the most striking things about the 2017 GE was how angry Conservatives voters were on the doorstep about relaxing rules on fox hunting.
77% of us oppose it, so why are we still expected to doth our caps at these people?
Tony Greenstein is now banned from Twitter.
His favourite targets were female Jewish MPs.
But he was more then willing to making racist and homophobic comments towards BAME MPs and gay journalists.
No
@UKLabour
MPs should have anything to do with him. Ever. What a disgrace.
Bad. It is completely undemocratic, over 200 MPs are unable to attend & so can't vote. That means their constituents are not being represented during this unprecedented time. All for a circus.
Labour staff who have been seconded from across the country and worked stupid hours over the last few weeks - have a working lunch.
There is nothing the hard left won’t turn into a conspiracy.
Want to know how things are in Labour for the Uxbridge by-election? Labour staffers have provided zero food or drink for activists in the main campaign room.
They then ordered a massive Dominos *just for staffers* and went into a different room.
Zero respect for activists.
Oh for godsake. I was relentlessly harassed by Tony Greenstein, depicted as a dancing Rabbi in an Antisemtic meme, and it took nearly two weeks for Labour to act when a member wanted to “march on the (Hove) synagogue”.
Absolutely sick of these tedious denials now.
People's lives were damaged, losing jobs, friends, our health. A left journalist noticing one mistake in Panorama nearly 4 yrs after broadcast while still smearing witch hunt victims as 'denialists' feels utterly inadequate.
Try saying: Sorry. I should've done better. I will now.
Football history was made today earlier at Ravenscraig. It is almost 50 years since the first woman’s full international between Scotland and England was played at the stadium.
Alex,
I am proud I stood up to constant bullying for calling out Antisemitism in my party.
I am proud Labour have changed and voters were willing to put their faith in us again.
Perhaps you may wish to reflect on your own behaviour, and how it reflects on the Green Party.
Hi Simon,
You may not remember but we were in the same Labour Party branch. You left because *under Corbyn* you received a warning about your behaviour.
You were a crank then and you are still a crank now.
Genuinely never read so much bullshit in my life. Even the most basic details are wrong.
No one silenced anyone.
If you don’t want to be expelled from the Labour Party, don’t spend 5 years tweeting AntiSemitic crap or hang round with Tony Greenstein.
The Green Party must decide whether to tolerate or kick out the cranks they absorbed from the Labour Party.
Right now it’s looking like they’re happy to continue to promote these people and create a home for them.
Shameful.
Sussex Police now having to turn tourists away from Brighton to enforce lockdown.
This is what happens if you have a incoherence, incompetent buffoon running the country, and an equally irresponsible tabloid press.
@LawBlaBlanchard
I don’t want to shock Americans, but not everything is about you.
You may be even more shocked to learn what is happening to women around the world right now.
@DavidHirsh
@Frances_Coppola
@acailler
@abparchitects
Absolutely appalled by this conversation.
Frances - it’s fine to have strong views on things, but lecturing Jewish academics on AntiSemitism? Your ego has run away with you.
A bit of humility and listening wouldn’t go a miss.
Brighton is not an extension of London. Pavilion isn’t a seat for careerists to hedge their bets.
If you want to be MP here, be fully committed or waste everyone’s time. Certainly don’t restand for your London AM seat next May.
@sianberry
@Gaylussite
People who retired at 60 on a full pension, and as a cohort own half the assets in the country … lecturing those who can’t afford to get on the housing ladder and will have to work until they are nearly 70 😡
“In 2007 the avg UK household was 8% worse off then north west Europe .. it is now at 20% … Slovenian households will be better off by 2024”.
Redistribution lol
If you want a more prosperous country, let workers earn more money. If you want more redistribution, let workers earn more money. It is not a question of Left ideology vs. Right ideology, but rather a question of being pro-growth or anti-growth.
The candidates I know spent 6 weeks on the doorstep. Out in all weathers. Every. Single Day.
Some lost their seats by a tiny margin as Murphy sent activists elsewhere.
Dedicated Labour staff lost their jobs. Murphy gets nominated for a peerage.
@NicKeaney
Hi Nic,
They aren’t stolen by parents, they are stolen by addicts as they have a high resale value and are easy to sell.
It’s still driven by poverty, but a far more complex issue that people have in general less sympathy for.
In 2017, Sophie Cook stood as Parliamentary Candidate for East Worthing & Shoreham.
Emily Brothers stood in 2015 in Sutton & Cheam.
Actually shocked someone would erase this, or at least be unaware.
@EddieIzzardLab
Is this a joke
@UKLabour
?
The guy who bullies, harasses & smears councillors, officers and members of the public who challenged him.
The guy thought AntiSemitism was “funny” and refused to apologise.
The guy who has been suspended since December 2017.
Either: you know who Sam Tarry is and why he’s facing reselection.
Or you don’t, and don’t care.
@rowenamason
doesn’t seem to know, but wrote about it anyway.
Journalism at the Guardian is so poor, it’s really sad what it’s become.
Momentum’s achievements in Brighton
- deselected decent Councillors
- disastrous local election campaign
- lost 6 safe council seats
- lost control of council when 3 Momentum councillors were suspended/expelled for AntiSemitism
Corbyn’s team and Momentum used to talk about reaching one million Labour members. No such target is being discussed now. The view of the new leadership: “Making our own echo chamber larger is no substitute for knocking its walls down.”
I can’t be the only one keep hitting refresh in the hope there is some good news about Cabbage & the other dogs.
Every dog owners worst nightmare. Fingers crossed.
@ruskin147
How on Earth was this ridiculous public school Stalinist allowed anywhere near the Labour Party?
I’m glad he’s back to cos-playing revolution among the hard left and crank fringes where he belongs.
"
@GMBGarySmith
and the
@GMB_union
are looking to push Congress into support for open-ended war against Russia...The TUC should not follow the GMB down this dangerous road. "
@STWuk
's Andrew Murray responds to a recent LabourList op-ed on Ukraine:
Cllr Nichole Brennan protested against the council’s adoption of the IHRA and was sacked from her role after posting comments about “white supremacy”.
The decision to use her in tweets by
@bhlabour
is disgraceful, and feels like another slap in the face to the Jewish community
Have your say on the temporary changes to transport and public spaces across the city says Councillor
@BrennanNichole
We want to hear from you.
Fill out the council survey here:
@OzKaterji
He was in my local Labour Party branch. He did one ridiculous motion on Tom Watson I didn’t vote for, so he “reported” me to Skwawkbox.
He nearly bankrupted both branch & CLP with his “fund raising” efforts.
The behaviour of some of the Liverpool Independents shows exactly why they were kicked out of Labour.
For starters, who in this day and age refers to a woman as a “bird”.
Entirely anecdotal of course. But as politics has got increasingly tribal, I know a few angry ex Labour turned Tory voters who really rate
@wesstreeting
The kind of voters Labour needs to win back.
'The petrol pump issues are just the start'.
Shadow child poverty sec Wes Streeting says businesses are feeling the "damaging consequences" of a govt that is failing to "plan and prepare", and warns of "other skills shortages" in the future.
#KayBurley
:
@jbarro
Yes, but I have access to abortion, free contraception, free health care, 26+ days holiday AND a dishwasher. Also no one has shot a kid in school in 25 years.
Live footage of everyone with sash windows.
Because being in a conservation area means hypothermia and crippling energy bills are fine as long as the windows look “authentic”.
Billy Bragg is one of those old men on the Left who think they are right on, but dominate everything, continuously shout women down, judge and police them.
Exactly why organisations like the Labour Party needed women only spaces in the first place.
24 hours since Laurence Fox made his misogynist outburst on GBNews, yet no word of condemnation of his unacceptable behaviour from women's rights campaigners Maya Forstater, Kathleen Stock or Julie Bindel. What could be preventing them from speaking up in support of Ava Evans?
I think you’ll find it was the Tories who defunded the police. It was called austerity.
Still, at least someone on the Right is prepared to admit the impact Tory cuts have had, and who is to blame.
Just like the libs here want to do now, the UK libs actually DID defund the police - and removed officers & they paid the price.
London was a complete wreck - no-go zones, stabbing sprees, robberies every 10 minutes.
And now they’re desperately adding more police.
#QueensSpeech