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Jim Proudfoot
3 months
Remember folks, Corbyn Labour having a detailed, fully costed manifesto is 'making impossible promises' but Starmer Labour promising to 'deliver economic stability' with absolutely zero detail is grown-up politics.
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Jim Proudfoot
3 years
There’s no such thing as the establishment it’s just that Allegra Stratton went to public school then Oxbridge, and without once changing her politics went from the Guardian to the BBC, to the Tory government and when she resigned was eulogised by Peston and Ruth Davidson.
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2 years
Bless all you dear people who thought that Fiona Bruce would let Mick Lynch speak and that an invitation to Question Time was a gesture of good faith by the BBC. Have you learnt nothing since 2008?
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2 years
@chrismarshll @PoliceScotland I like to report an assault - the perpetrators are clearly visible in the above video.
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Jim Proudfoot
7 months
The ICJ ‘takes note’ of the ‘dehumanising’ language of the Israeli Defence minister about cutting off electricity and water - dehumanising language which Keir Starmer publically defended and said was right.
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Jim Proudfoot
2 years
I gather Keir Starmwr, who failed to disclose the donors to his leadership campaign, is now attacking Liz Truss for failing to disclose the donors to her leadership campaign.
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2 years
@margarethodge So, you are saying the criticism has been dramatically overstated for political reasons?
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1 year
@RebekahLove27 I am a big, burly skinhead, rough shaven cishet man with lots of facial piercings & tattoos (& female friends do tell me I am scary at first glance) and I regularly paint my nails just because I like having painted nails 🤷
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2 years
@margarethodge So to clarify - CAA attacks left-wing Labour - all good, you’re on board. CAA attacks right-wing Labour - the CAA are making disingenuous politically-motivated attacks -got you
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Jim Proudfoot
7 months
Genuine question - does Starmer have Dissociative Identity Disorder ? He says one thing and 48 hours later says the precise opposite, seemingly unaware of what he has previously said
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7 months
'Palestinian statehood is not in the gift of a neighbour, it's the inalienable right of the Palestinian people' Labour leader @Keir_Starmer hits out at Israeli Prime Minister @netanyahu
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Jim Proudfoot
2 years
‘Doesn’t adequately support Ukraine’ is the new smear against the left, taking over from anti-semitism
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1 year
Starmer issues new list of proscribed orgs. Labour members can no longer be a member of: Republic Labour Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament Palestine Solidarity Campaign CAMRA The Women’s Institute The Tufty Club The AA AA (Members of Conservative Party always welcome)
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Jim Proudfoot
2 years
Labour’s purge of ‘anti-semites’ (left wing Jews mostly) has now moved onto its Muslim MP’s - I mean who could have seen THAT coming ???
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Jim Proudfoot
1 year
Haaretz is reporting explosive stuff from declassified Israeli government docs. An Israeli newspaper saying things that if you were a UK Labour politician/member & even hinted at would see you hounded as an antisemite, expelled & put on trial by media. This is where we’re at.
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Jim Proudfoot
2 years
Starmer’s Labour thinks it is unacceptable for shadow cabinet members to stand on picket lines (unless of course those shadow cabinet members are trying to get elected as party leader)
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Jim Proudfoot
7 months
Did you know? The US military owns the world’s largest aircraft carrier. It’s called the United Kingdom.
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Jim Proudfoot
2 years
@papasombra Imagine how different and infinitely better our nation would be if the Bullingdon Club has been treated like this
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Jim Proudfoot
10 months
Just blatant anti-semitism here, right out in the open @OctopusEnergy
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2 years
@paulmasonnews How could he acknowledge the Bucha massacre before it had happened?
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Jim Proudfoot
2 years
A couple of days ago I tweeted the ‘you just know Paul Mason is compiling lists of leftists to give to MI5’ - yesterday his actual list actually got leaked. Mason proposes law fare, PR stunts, stings, shadow bans, denial of PayPal usage & more to silence these which includes MPs
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Jim Proudfoot
11 months
He clearly didn’t like being reminded that he supported Boris Johnson
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2 years
@LBC @AndrewMarr9 I think Peter Mandelson should explain his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein
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Jim Proudfoot
3 years
Has Starmer ever said anything that wasn’t a brazen lie?
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Jim Proudfoot
1 year
Let me just update the list of people who hated & attacked Jeremy Corbyn: Philip Schofield Nick Cohen Geraint Davies Peter Mandelson Boris Johnson
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2 years
Why does Gordon Brown get a free pass over the Iraq War?
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2 years
@LBC @AndrewMarr9 @Keir_Starmer ‘We’ didn’t draft a green paper on employment rights at all, did ‘we’ Keir. Andy McDonald drafted it and then resigned from the Shadow Cabinet when you whipped him to argue against higher pay and better conditions for workers.
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Jim Proudfoot
2 years
@ashleyljames The idea that any of the others on this list have the same politics as Mick Lynch is 🤯
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2 years
@MarkAPaine1970 I think you have misunderstood. I will vote for many, many people who aren’t Jeremy Corbyn. It’s just that Keir Starmer isn’t one of them.
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Jim Proudfoot
9 months
Remember folks, killing 7000 children in a few weeks is fine but raising your voice at a politician is beyond the pale. Those are just the rules.
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Jim Proudfoot
3 years
@TheBazGaz @thetimes Which is a fairly obvious point when you think about it (which brexiteers don’t) A pint at the pub or a pint of milk has never changed throughout our EU membership
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Jim Proudfoot
10 months
🚨BREAKING Laura Kuenssberg reports that one of Jeremy Corbyn’s aides has punched Michael Gove
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2 years
@margarethodge What were you fighting when you and your family were making a mint trading with apartheid South Africa ?
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@jennyeclair Won’t someone think of the parasitic landlords !
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@PaulBrandITV I thought ‘British Jews were more fearful than at any time since WW2’ during the 2019 election because someone who believes Palestinians are human beings might be elected - that’s what he said then.
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2 years
@Keir_Starmer As Jeremy Corbyn proposed. Unfortunately you and your faction were working to stop him being elected.
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2 years
@Keir_Starmer Lee’s family have also asked a thousand times for politicians to stop using his death to further their own agenda, yet here we are again
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Jim Proudfoot
2 years
Now that Paul Mason’s hitlist is increasingly looking verified, it is highly interesting that Owen Jones isn’t on it - he’s far too useful as a gatekeeper of respectable ‘left’ opinion.
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2 years
@Women4Wes What telegraphs this as an empty threat is that it involves the premise that the Labour party is able to competently handle someone’s personal data
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Jim Proudfoot
3 years
And she is married to the politics editor of the right-wing Spectator (former editor Boris Johnson, former chair Andrew Neal (former BBC political frontman). Peston was the BBC’s economics editor and also writes for the Spectator. The Spectator is owned by the Barclay brothers
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2 years
@guardian 🚨 BREAKING Child of millionaires becomes millionaire - nation shocked. Onlookers comment ‘how could this have happened?’
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2 years
@LordIanAustin So she is in agreement with Martin Forde QC
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3 years
@Keir_Starmer Keir says ‘pride in hard work’ -fine, but he also says ‘trade unions are not in the public interest’. That is pretty much the definition of an exploitative capitalist.
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Jim Proudfoot
1 year
The National Executive Commitee of my extended family has voted 6-0 to never vote Labour ever again and to dedicate themselves to campaigning against them at every opportunity.
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1 year
Look I would love to share these chocolate bars but my fiscal rules won’t allow it and anyway, if I do, it will just encourage dependency. #SirKidStarver
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@GeorgeMonbiot @BootstrapCook ‘We're stuck between Ukip-lite Tories & Jeremy Corbyn. How is that a choice?’I like Jack but like many ppl, yourself included George, she didn’t take the chance 2 actually support a government that would tackle poverty through the power of the state rather than through cook books
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@broseph_stalin @caponatacommie Been pondering how to do this - how to destroy the goods so they can’t be put back on the shelf
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1 year
@debbiesimone123 13 million people in the UK hate Israel and live in big houses ? Huge if true
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2 years
@mishtal David thinks the Native Americans and Indigenous peoples of South America have no rights to land. He is a racist.
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@JohnRentoul One of the many unreported things about Kuenssberg is that her Dad was a notorious union busting boss in a Peruvian garment business at the same time a Jeremy Corbyn was working with Peruvian trade unions. Sure her Dad never mentioned it.
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Jim Proudfoot
3 years
Who own the Telegraph which has employed Boris Johnson for decades
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Jim Proudfoot
2 years
Current Affairs editor Nathan J Robinson got sacked by the Guardian for a single tweet in which he mentioned military aid to Israel being tacked onto a Congressional Bill. Does anyone think Owen Jones has the balls to risk his only regular gig by doing a show on #ItWasAScam ?
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How British media works - discuss at length & give credence to claims that Jamie Driscoll should be deselected b/c of a brief meeting with Ken Loach Don’t mention at any point that Keir Starmer personally appeared, at length, in a Loach film - McLibel
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1 year
Lots of reporting about politicians’ compromising relationships with Lebedev - but strangely the media didn’t talk about the one man who has had a relationship with every Russian oligarch around - Petie Mandelson
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Jim Proudfoot
2 years
@BrookesTimes @thetimes The Times advocating a general strike !? Good on you, yes indeed - WE ARE THE WORKERS !
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2 years
@ayeshahazarika All so predictable when the likes of you worked overtime to prevent a socialist Labour government.
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Jim Proudfoot
5 months
If you are one of the 13 million people who voted for Labour under Jeremy Corbyn, Starmer’s Labour hates you and does not want your vote
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Abdi Duale
5 months
For some electing a Labour Government was never their ambition, because to protest and shout from the sidelines is all too easy & comfortable for them. If they can’t accept the Labour Party is a party of government and not of protest, then their membership will not be missed 👋🏾.
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Jim Proudfoot
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@LabourWomensNet @AngelaRayner @BethRigby Unacceptable ? She supports a genocide. That is unacceptable
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2 years
@LBC @AndrewMarr9 I think Peter Mandelson should explain his relationship with Evgeny Lebedev.
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Jim Proudfoot
2 years
lots of revisionism from Starmer supporters in response to @OwenJones84 column. I would therefore draw attention to John McTernan’s (who was involved in Starmer’s leadership campaign) response when asked if Starmer's campaign was deliberately dishonest - he said :
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2 years
@TanyaGold1 So, you are saying the criticism has been dramatically overstated for political reasons?
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@LBC @AndrewMarr9 I think Peter Mandelson should explain his relationship with Russian defence firms.
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@jonlansman @UKLabour Let us hope that the derisory 1.6% of the votes won by Labour’s candidate Natasha Pantelic in the Chesham and Amersham by-election, will persuade Unite to sever its ties to the ‘Labour’ party.
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Jim Proudfoot
2 years
For someone who claims to be on the left George Monbiot spends an awful lot of time having a go at the left
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1 year
No comment from Tanskii on the Roger Waters controversy?
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@guardian Is it true you have been cast to play Luke Akehurst in the Labour Files motion picture?
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1 year
It’s back!
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1 year
'I don't think 35% is affordable' Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer agrees that the pay demand from junior doctors is too much, but says the government must 'get round the table'
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@JonnyMao England and Wales only - maybe NI - Scottish Water is publicly owned
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@day_one_noob Who, South Asians ? Yes they did. They formed the largest volunteer army ever assembled up to that point in history.
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@SkyNews Tony at it again
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@GoodwinMJ Yes, Intelligent people are left-wing ? This is not news, it’s always been the case.
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@ElunedAnderson We’re all desperate for such a government - the point is that Starmer’s Labour will not be that government
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@AmmarKazmi_ Which happened during an election - a fact that gets more and more dodgy-looking to me every day
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5 months
What is it about Starmer’s Labour that makes life-long Labour members leave the party and life-long Tories join the party ? 🤔
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2 years
@margarethodge You put this government in Margaret - own it
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@youngsocialistz ‘Young Socialist’ Catfish
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@ShelaghFogarty Your pretence of being a journalist is beneath contempt
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@ldmrbsn Is the harassing of domestic abuse victims by their abusers official Piss Diamond policy ?
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@Vernon_Coaker @AngelaRayner Jo Cox would have despised Angela Rayner’s support for genocide n Gaza
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@SpitfireVC My ancestors literally invaded Britain. In 1066. My wife invaded Britain 15 years ago as a medical student and has spent every year since then working in the NHS treating people. Bloody immigrants.
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@KateOsamor Kate you are denying that Roma, disabled people, LGBTGI people, autistic people, people with mental health problems, communists and Jehovah’s witnesses were also victims of the holocaust. You are a holocaust denier
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2 years
Always worth saying again - if you voted for Labour under Jeremy Corbyn, Labour today despises you and doesn’t want your time, money or vote.
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Shadow Health Secretary Wes Streeting speaking at a lunch with reporters: “In the Labour Party, the cranks have been kicked out or left. In the Conservative party, the cranks are sat around the Cabinet table.”
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@BethRigby Labour upset because it can no longer support genocide while trying to appear to not support genocide
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@ladyjacq66 Maybe they think values and policies are more important than a brand name.
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@JuliaHB1 It’s the political choice you have spent your entire career promoting
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@VictoriaCoren He didn’t write it
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@driandunce It’s true - I was at an RSPB hide recently and heard a birdwatcher say ‘where’s that bird come from’ - it’s clear they were asking if it was from Israel. Antisemites all of them
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@adamlangleben You are saying that the criticism of Starmer has been dramatically overstated for political reasons. I disagree - he must acknowledge the pain he has caused.
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@TwitDinosaur @OctopusEnergy Starmer must apologise
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If you are one of the 13 million people who voted Labour under the leadership of Corbyn - Starmer is telling you to fuck off he doesn’t want your votes.
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@Bearcub52 @ashleyljames Rory Stewart, the opium-smoking spy who was a part of the UK’s debacle in Afghanistan. Am and whose voting record as an MP is horrific - he’s a dyed in the wool Tory who attacked the poor every chance he got.
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