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Russia about to be thrown out of the World Cup by FIFA. The same FIFA that has repeatedly advised Palestinians its hands are tied on Israel as "sport and politics don't mix".
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Remembering when Leicester players Fofana and Choudhury flew the Palestine flag at the end of the FA Cup final. They were pilloried for this by the same figures who now demand Ukraine flags be flown at every conceivable public event.
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My kids' school has announced a "Ukraine day", with students to come in blue and yellow. Which is interesting, because I don't recall a "Palestine day" or a "Yemen day". Some lives really do matter more than others, don't they?
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The BBC says it can't presently verify who carried out the airstrike on the WCK aid workers. Which is fair enough, as it could have been the Palestinian Air Force.
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"Bombing innocent civilians is a war crime" says Boris Johnson, as UK-supplied bombs dropped by UK-supported Saudi forces rain down on innocent civilians in Yemen.
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Israel could be lining Palestinians up at gas chambers and the BBC would still include that fucking paragraph about how "Hamas started the war on 7th October..."
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Starmer's been PM for two minutes and I already loathe him more than I did previously. I didn't know that was possible.
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Eurovision organisers, explaining their decision not to exclude Israel:
"We firmly believe that the Eurovision Song Contest is a platform that should always transcend politics..."
These are the same people who excluded Russia for its invasion of Ukraine.
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Children are being massacred in Gaza, yet the BBC remains obsessed with that fucking yacht. Sure, it's sad that six people died, and a news report seems reasonable, but daily fucking coverage? During a literal genocide? This is not journalism.
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An Israeli soldier just gave me this. He found it in Gaza, in a random house.
An Israeli soldier just gave me this. He found it in Gaza, in a random house.
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The fearless BBC has finally stopped leading with the billionaire's yacht.
It's now leading with Jermaine Jenas.
While children are slaughtered in Gaza.
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I see that
@AngelaRayner
, the alleged trade union stalwart, has refused to back striking rail workers. Seriously, what is the point in the Labour Party?
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a) The Houthis are not "attacking ships from around the world" - they're targeting ships owned by or bound for Israel.
b) Gaza isn't a "conflict", it's a *genocide*.
c) Of course this action is linked to Israel's genocide in Gaza. See (a).
d) Starmer - total cunt.
"I totally reject the Houthis claims that attacking ships from around the world is somehow linked to the conflict in Gaza. These attacks do absolutely nothing for the Palestinian people", says Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer.
📺 Sky 501, Virgin 602
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Know what I love? The fact Corbyn hasn't stepped down yet. That he's still putting out tweets. That he's clearly keen to ensure transition to another left leader. This must be driving the centrists absolutely mad! 😂
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If Starmer is serious about reaching out to the Left, let him apologise unreservedly to Corbyn, then reinstate him.
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Wait, what? I work with international students at a university. Is Sunak saying they don't have the right to protest? What kind of fascist shit is this?
The British Prime Minister just said he would deport anyone who protests
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Pip Schofield currently on my telly. The bloke who angrily demanded Corbyn apologise for a non-existent Labour antisemitism crisis, before posing starry-eyed for a selfie with the ragingly Islamophobic Boris Johnson. What a twat.
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The scale of Labour's antisemitism problem was dramatically overstated for political reasons by Corbyn's opponents inside and outside the party, as well as by much of the media.
Pass it on.
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One thing that freaks me out is the Tory nurse. I mean, how does that even happen?
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Jess Phillips thinks that
#PalestineLives
is an antisemitic trope.
Jess Phillips obviously has trouble differentiating between Israel and Jews.
Jess Phillips urgently needs some antisemitism training.
Don't be like Jess Phillips.
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Baddiel on Gaza -
"it's not a conflict that can be described in letters. It should only really be described in quite long books."
This is a classic anti-Palestinian trope. The idea that Israel's decades-long colonisation & oppression of Palestine is so terribly complex...
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The "I voted for Corbyn twice but we must now get behind Starmer" crew do make me chuckle.
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Memo for Labour loyalists: "Any Labour govt is better than a Tory govt" just doesn't do it for me, I'm afraid. I need to be contributing to something more meaningful than just a slightly less shit version of the Tories.
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UNISON's newly constituted NEC, now with a left majority, has this week changed the union's strike pay rules. The amount payable will now be £50 (previously £25), from day 1 (previously day 4). This could be a game changer. Hats off to the NEC reps who voted this through. 👏👏👏
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My God there are some horrible people out there. And one of them is Rachel Riley.
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The US, UK and Israel are, objectively, an axis of evil.
#BREAKING
United States vetoes Security Council draft resolution that would have demanded an immediate humanitarian ceasefire in Gaza, and immediate and unconditional release of all hostages
VOTE
In Favour: 13
Against: 1 (US)
Abstain: 1 (UK)
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Except no-one is celebrating "the departure of another female Jewish MP", David. They're cheering the political demise of a longstanding, warmongering, anti-Palestinian racist. Downplaying anti-Palestinian racism is not a good look, mate.
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Wow, this is beyond appalling. It is simply unconscionable for a UK university to continue to employ or teach anyone who has participated in Israel's genocide in Gaza. There are no grey areas here. IDF off campus! 🇵🇸
IDF SOLDIER RETURNS TO THE UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS AS A CHAPLAIN!
Can
@UniversityLeeds
explain why they have allowed a serving IDF soldier who has returned from Gaza to resume his services as a chaplain?
Have any safeguarding checks and measures been carried out to ensure the
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I love Corbyn, but I don't want him back in the Labour Party. I want him doing his thing outside this hideous, reactionary, credibility-destroying monster.
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Just watched the horrendous clip of Keir Starmer responding to a perfectly legitimate question about him employing a private healthcare lobbyist. "I won't tolerate questions about my staff!" he bellows, like a total twat. This whole situation is even worse than I'd imagined.
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A little reminder that proven fabricator Ben Westerman received 180K in compensation from the Labour Party. That's one helluva grift.
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Uncanny how so many of those who "just want a Labour government" were actively working against that outcome from approximately 2015 to 2019.
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Labour should just suspend the entire membership. It's the only way to be sure.
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Dear Tory Party. If you force schools to re-open in 3 weeks' time, please note I will not be complying. Schools should only re-open once there's a clear scientific consensus that it's safe to do so, and not because your rich chums want us back to business as usual asap. Thx
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I'm in a strange mood this evening. I think it's probably because the world has gone to shit, and there's no Corbyn at the end of the tunnel. 🙁
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The non-reporting of all those CLPs voting no confidence in Starmer and Evans is actually pretty stunning. I mean, totally predictable, but stunning nonetheless. A textbook example of the mainstream media's establishment bias.
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Solidarity with Jackie Walker, Marc Wadsworth, Chris Williamson, and all other victims of the constructed antisemitism crisis that was designed to hobble the emergence of a socialist, Palestine-supporting Labour Party. There, said it.
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Finding it difficult to get behind the "it's coming home" vibe on account of Baddiel being such a monumental prick
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Lol to the EU having an arms embargo on Belarus, but not on Israel.
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Israel is on the eve of formally annexing the West Bank, so naturally we're seeing a spike in nonsense claims of antisemitism.
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"Corbyn should not have given an interview to the Canary. I'm not going to explain my position and I absolutely refuse to be taken to task on it. Now if you'll all excuse me, I have some pretentious, impenetrable, ultimately quite useless, niche critical theory to attend to."
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Once more for those at the back: Re antisemitism, no-one has ever argued it doesn't exist on the left/in Labour. The argument, nay the reality, is that the narrative of "crisis" is a construction, designed to hobble the emergence of a socialist, Palestine-supporting Labour Party.
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After saying fuck all about Israel's genocide in Gaza, after ignoring the ICJ judgement completely, our fearless archbishop has finally spoken... about Ukraine.
Almost two years have passed since the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine. I have come here to stand with our Ukrainian sisters and brothers; to pray with and for them, to learn from them and to say loud and clear that, amid all that is going on in other places, the world
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Apologies all, it seems I'm a bit late to the "James O'Brien is a complete bellend" party.
But, seriously, what a total bellend.
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I work in a student-facing capacity in Higher Ed. Until such time as David Miller is reinstated, I will be actively discouraging students from going on to further study at
@bristoluni
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Climate crisis? Nope.
Housing crisis? Nope.
NHS crisis? Nope.
Phoney antisemitism crisis? All over it.
Sorry, but this is just not normal behaviour at all.
What’s your number one priority were you Labour leader?
@RLong_Bailey
: Tackling anti-Semitism
@Keir_Starmer
: dealing with anti-Semitism
@lisanandy
: tackling anti-Semitism
@EmilyThornberry
: uniting party
#VictoriaLIVE
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Socialists still in Labour. Remind me what the plan is again to reclaim control of this titanic, reactionary shitshow of a party?
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Left MPs have gone very quiet on Corbyn's suspension. Have they forgotten this is a monumental fucking outrage?
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Is there a more pointless individual than Andrew Adonis?
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Gove: "We can't have a PM (Corbyn) who engages in antisemitism. I think that's something we all agree on."
Maitlis: "Yes, I think that is something you all agree on."
Utterly. Fucking. Ridiculous.
#BBCOurNextPM
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Anyone else finding the images, videos, stories coming out of Gaza completely overwhelming? And I say that as someone who is completely safe and secure, in a leafy suburb in the UK. The horror being inflicted on these people is unimaginable, unbearable, and 100% unforgivable.
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Hi
@bbc5live
. Just been listening as I drive home after my swim. Heard *lots* about Tim Walz and the billionaire's yacht, but nothing about Israel blowing children's heads off in Gaza. Is that not newsworthy? What if it was Israeli children - would that make it newsworthy?
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Self-described "Corbynites" who voted Starmer might wish to consider the possibility that they were never really "Corbynites".
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How glorious would it be if Feinstein unseated Starmer?
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Let's face it. Under Starmer's tenure, we've effectively been living in a one party state.
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Bizarre to observe Starmer and Rayner carrying on as though they're not leading a party that's dead in the water.
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"Corbyn doesn't have much support within the corporate media, therefore I conclude he doesn't have much support more generally". That's "leftist" Mark Steel's take. Mark Steel who writes for and makes a living from... the corporate media.
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Ben Westerman wilfully changed "Which branch are you from?" to "Are you from Israel?", pretended to be upset about this fake instance of antisemitism, then took many thousands in compensation from the Labour Party. That is one helluva grift. What's he doing now, I wonder?
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Absolutely wild that Keir Starmer tacking right has come as a surprise to some people. I mean, you literally had to just apply your critical faculties for a nanosecond to see this coming.
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Corbyn winning the Labour leadership was the best feeling in the world. Ok, the movers and shakers who subsequently coalesced around him did totally squander this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, but it was a wonderful moment nonetheless. Those were better times, weren't they? 😕
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Pro-tip. When a socialist and lifelong anti-racist is under attack, the moral response is total and unconditional solidarity. There is no middle way. The middle way (or what you perceive to be the middle way) is actually just an assist to our opponents.
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Hi
@DavePrentis
. I'll be preparing a newsletter tomorrow for members. What should I be saying about the involvement of two of our officials in a plot to sabotage Labour's chances at the 2017 election? An election Labour narrowly lost, with colossal ramifications for our members?
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Chris Leslie: Labour has massively underestimated the level of public support for a new, centrist party.
Journo: I see. So you'll be calling a by-election then?
Leslie: Erm, no.
Journo: But why not, if support out there is so strong?
Leslie: Ooh look at that, a squirrel!
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@angelaeagle
This is literally what you did, Angela. And I think the reason you're lashing out is because, deep down, you know this to be the case.
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I'm so bored of "Labour must unite" vibes. I mean, in what realm is it reasonable to expect socialists to partner with neoliberals? Anti-imperialists with imperial warmongers? Palestine solidarity activists with Israel apologists? 🤔
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Angela Rayner quietly going about her business of not supporting Jeremy Corbyn.
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Loads of new faces at our nominations meeting tonight.
Lots of speeches in support of Sir Keir of Starmer.
Lots of Jaws on the floor when we nominated RLB.
Worth it.
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It's a crowded field, but Eylon Levy will no doubt go down in history as one of the most deranged, yet also one of the most preposterous, apologists for Israel's genocide in Gaza. Quite simply an awful human being.
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I'm just off to research home-made bomb-making with a view to volunteering for Palestinian defence forces. That's allowed now, right?
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Still hilarious that centrist Berger was able to stroll back into Labour having defected to Change UK then Lib Dems, while socialists are still being purged for liking tweets by the Green Party.
Very unexpected and generous welcome from
@LabourStudents
, I struggled to start my speech and had to keep the 😭 in check. It was a privilege to join your conference and respond to all the important questions 🙏🏼
#NLS2023
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I see Luke Akehurst is whining about Ben & Jerry's. Cry me a fuckin river, mate.
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Satisfying as it is to hear that Oldknow lost her court case and owes 120K, she remains Assistant Gen Sec of my union. And that fucks me off.
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Nice to see that Emilie Oldknow is still Assistant Gen Sec of my union. What a wonderful message this sends to our activists and members.
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I can't help but notice Labour hasn't actually taken a position on whether schools should close. Wes Streeting and Kate Green calling for "clarity", an end to "dither and delay", etc., but no actual position articulated.
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"The Israeli regime is pathologically deceitful."
"So Jews are dishonest, are they?"
"No, no. The *Israeli* regime."
"Why are you singling out the one Jewish state, you disgusting antisemite?"
Every "argument" with a Zionist is a version of this. It's so fucking tedious.
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Interesting take from David Baddiel. Here's mine: I don't give a fuck about Press TV getting hold of the footage. I *do* give a fuck about MPs who routinely apologise for Israel's crimes against the Palestinians. Bravo, Enfield North CLP! 😎
Still not heard much from the Labour members who voted a no-confidence motion against Joan Ryan as to why Iranian TV was in the room. I feel we might have heard a little bit from them if Israeli TV had been in the room.
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Ok, so I've decided to hold on to my Labour membership a wee bit longer. Not cos anything fundamental has changed (it hasn't - Starmer remains a disaster of epic proportions), but cos: (a) comrades in my CLP are solid; & (b) my staying will seriously piss off the right people.
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Said the bloke who worked relentlessly to sabotage his own party circa 2015-2019 when it actually had policies that would end poverty.
It’s not better food parcels we need. It’s an end to the poverty that drives the need for food parcels at all.
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Owen Jones is "glad" that one of the most fearless defenders of Palestinian rights has left the Labour Party.
Owen Jones... is a colossal twat.
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Is it possible to be vaccinated against Tony Blair? Asking for the mass of humanity..
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I don't know the precise reasons for GnasherJew calling it a day, but what I do know is that they've outlived their "usefulness", the primary objective of the phoney AS campaign (to hobble the emergence of a left, Palestine-supporting Labour party) having been achieved.
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The fact that the Lib Dems - the Lib fucking Dems! - perceive it to be possible to move left of Labour tells you everything you need to know about Labour under Starmer.
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I do find it fucking hilarious that Wes Streeting is now the "main man". I mean, if ever there was a symbol of Labour's demise
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Thank fuck I am no longer a member of this frankly awful party.
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I know it's trifling, but I take pleasure in the fact Corbyn has 2.4 million followers while Starmer can't quite seem to break the million mark.
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Just catching up with the news that Starmer had actually had the GLU dossier for a week. What had he planned to do about it? Answer: Fuck all. That's why it was leaked. And expecting his "investigation" to be anything other than a whitewash is, frankly speaking, wishful thinking.
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Imagine the panic in Starmer's bunker right now. They might actually have to come off that fence.
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People saying Starmer can't call for Cummings' resignation as he'd also have to call for Stephen Kinnock's resignation. I'm not sure I understand the dilemma. I mean it's win-win, isn't it?
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The thing with Starmer is that, bad as he is (and obviously he's an abomination), he's ultimately just a manifestation of the rotten, imperial edifice that is the Labour Party. Remove him and 150+ other grim reactionaries stand ready to take his place. This war has to be total.
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Jackie Walker... a Jew.. but not part of the BoD's "Jewish community". If only there was a word for this kind of discrimination against Jews? 🤔
Here's a complaint to put on
@tom_watson
's list.
@DerbyChrisW
is hosting a film by Jackie Walker (currently suspended over antisemitism) at Parliament. How much longer will Williamson get away with trolling the Jewish community?
@JewishNewsUK
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Can there really be any doubt that Emilie Oldknow has brought UNISON into disrepute? It is objectively absurd that she remains in post.
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Caroline Lucas joining the witch hunt against David Miller shouldn't come as any great surprise. She's a liberal with some concern for the environment, nothing more.
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I have a better plan. Let's NOT do this.
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BREAKING:
@socialistcam
group of MPs to collectively resign the whip and sit as independents alongside Jeremy Corbyn...
[😉]
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There's not one part of me that feels sorry for Starmer. He was largely responsible for Labour's disastrous pivot to remain in 2019, and has been mendacious and cowardly as Leader. He deserves the wipeout coming to him on 6th May.
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I still find it completely wild that leftists were looking anywhere other than Richard Burgon for Deputy.
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