Jade Azim
@JadeFrancesAzim
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Politico type occasionally offering solid takes on telly. Formerly around Parliament. Contact for words and broadcast stuff: [email protected].
London, England
Joined May 2010
Okay, they got to me. Am on here for when the alt right finally take this over for good:
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My absolutely favourite thing is young people whose dream it is to buy what was once an ordinary working class terrace but is now £1.3 mil probably. I say this as that person.
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It’s Sunday morning, England won on pens and there’s a Labour government.
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Any other young people feel they have no secure future in the UK? Unless your sole & unattainable aspiration is to become a City trader or a landlord, there is nothing here for us. The pie can keep growing but no young person not born into wealth has any way of owning a piece.
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Policies that force teachers to go back to work, crowd out beaches, push shift workers into the central line, tell shielding people everything is fine = 🤫 . A protest for a black man murdered = 😤.
Hope these people don’t blame the government if there’s a 2nd spike
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doctor: what triggers your anxiety?.me: the distance between victoria train station and victoria coach station.
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Something that won’t get enough attention in a winter lockdown: women will not have the freedom to follow encouragement of outdoor activities if they can only do it after a workday. It is now dark and unsafe. A rather rancid gender gap will be very obvious - to women, anyway.
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We know what a woman is. Keir Starmer doesn’t.
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Trying to find food or drink after 12am in London is *absurd* by the way. Going theatre then trying to do anything sociable in one of the world’s busiest cities should not be this difficult. So many questions to be asked.
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The discussion about whether young people should forego really basic fun things like access to TV shows they like and a cheap holiday a year just to gain secure shelter really is such an indictment on the basic quality of life we expect in 2022.
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A bit obsessed with this because young people don’t actually have front rooms - the landlord chucked a divan in there and rented it out for £900 a month.
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IMAGINE A Labour government presenting a £150bn package with no costings and no online ministerial statement. Politics on easy mode, this.
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Genuinely astounded at how many punishments these people have in their heads for a generation that has only ever known crises and austerity, had homeownership taken from them, have little access to functional public services, and as he himself points out are heavily indebted.
"You could say to young people: 'Right we'll knock a bit off your student loan debt if you come and take part.'". Sir David Lidington expresses the need for both 'a stick' and 'a carrot' to draw young people into conscription, and makes some suggestions himself.
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Utterly heartbroken thinking about the women of Afghanistan and reports of female students saying goodbye to their teachers for the last time. I cannot even comprehend hard won freedoms vanishing overnight. The UK has a duty to provide refugee and student visa support.
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The sexism and disdain for young people (after two years of compliance for the elderly population!) in the replies is incredibly tedious and boring. Hope they had a great night doing something that is also definitely legal.
. Why have you come to Carlisle from Glasgow?. Because there are no restrictions and all of our friends have covid. #bbcnews #ToryCovidCatastrophe
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I actually feel like this reflects a lot about the politics of the Tory alt-right. They’re trying - and failing - extremely hard to Americanise British politics, to the bafflement of everyone normal.
I see Liz Truss thinks there’s such a thing as ‘tenure’ in UK higher education. Never let knowledge get in the way of your opinions Liz.
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Couldn’t even let women mourn peacefully. The shame of it.
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@tomhfh i cant believe she has the AUDACITY to have a singer as a mum and not want the ice caps to melt.
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if anyone is arguing that the right response is for a return to microwave-selling, scratch at the surface centrism they haven’t actually knocked on a single door in red wall seats. The collapse of our support there stretches back decades, and you’re a fool if you think otherwise.
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Being a woman is just a continuous lack of surprise and complete numbness to the feeling that news notifications like the Noel Clarke story just won’t ever stop.
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This is the most Facebook tweet I’ve ever seen.
As an XL bully owner, it’s horrible to see these attacks going on because I know what lovely peaceful dogs I own! It’s just mad to see all these MPs rallying together to get them banned… yet don’t give paedos the same energy?!.
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Now would be a banterous time for Prince Harry to publicly invite Obama to the wedding.
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@jessphillips Good on you for adding Brianna, Jess. Sod all of these grotesquely inhumane replies.
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I want to know what’s in the head of very wealthy famous white men when they think they’re being silenced and get a book contract to talk about it.
BREAKING: I’m delighted to announce my new book: "WAKE UP - Why the ‘liberal’ war on free speech is even more dangerous than Covid–19.".Out on October 15th in hardback, ebook & audiobook read by me. Pre-order here: #WakeUp
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Swinson’s stubbornness is constitutionally absurd, and her fantasising about shoving a backbencher into the role is going to land us with no deal, making her entire party’s modern contribution to British politics a decade of austerity and economic catastrophe. Congrats.
“When a government collapses, the leader of the main opposition party is called upon to form a government.”. Jeremy Corbyn says he is “disappointed” with Lib Dem leader Jo Swinson for refusing to back him as an emergency prime minister to prevent a no-deal Brexit.
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Men sharing stats that they’re more likely to get attacked is not just grim, but proves their blissful ignorance. Stats that will never reflect the times we are followed home, called a bitch, catcalled, groped, intimidated - all the near-misses that make our lives terrifying.
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It’s actually incredible how the national guidelines that have kept us all locked down for 8 weeks have in a single day been torn down, now even by our Health Secretary, to protect one man.
I know how ill coronavirus makes you. It was entirely right for Dom Cummings to find childcare for his toddler, when both he and his wife were getting ill.
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My landlord gets free cash from me and a break from the mortgage I’m paying for him. Cool.
Rishi Sunak announces three month mortgage holiday so 'people will not have to pay a penny' in mortgage costs while they get back on their feet.
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The Daily Mail, a day after it demonised anyone with whom it disagrees
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have i dreamt 2018.
FYI- I have to say, I saw Jeremy Corbin call the Prime Minister a “stupid woman” with my own eyes watching on @SkyNewsPolitics.
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Genuinely nothing more hilariously on the nose about how miserable and nasty we’ve become as an island than changing our welcome signs to warnings
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HIGNFY yesterday a perfect example of why you should have MORE WOMEN ON YOUR GOD DAMN PANEL SHOWS.
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Wishing death on someone is not good, progressive or clever. Hope that helps.
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My initial reaction to the royal engagement is please don't cancel Suits.
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Being a middling millennial active in Young Labour circa mid 2010s seeing new Labour MPs entering Parliament
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The bf told the little kid in the flat that if he was good he could say hi to our cats. Lad came knocking today saying he got a gold star at school and could he pet the cat 🥺.
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"Stop talking down [country]" has been, without fail, the tag line for every populist, economically inept movement in my lifetime.
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This blew up enough to start my new Campaign for Free London Deckchairs, which will actually be a front for the wider anti-capitalist revolution.
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I’ll have over 50k of debt because I received a full maintenance loan and needed fee loans, whilst my rich Durham pals needed no such loans and come out debt-free. I earn a good amount now. I was still given more debt because my parents were poor.
Your regular reminder that, whatever its merits as a policy, abolishing tuition fees is of no help to the half of young people who don't attend university, is of no help to low earning graduates, and is a big giveaway to the highest earnings graduates.
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Louise Haigh’s camera pan with that private jet announcement
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You can’t be pro-levelling up and aggressively anti-WFH. You want young professionals to have opportunities in their home town? You can’t be an obsessive Luddite.
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“Please hold on, the bus is about to move” ?? binch, I’ve survived this long.
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the rebirth of milifandom via the uk internal market bill isn't something I thought 2020 would deliver.
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It took a global pandemic and vaccinology for me to become a hardcore eurosceptic but there we are.
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When you step on a leaf that looks crunchy and it isn't crunchy
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I couldn’t think of a more terrifying person to owe a substantial debt to than my landlord. Landlords by and large evidently do not act with compassion nor are legally obliged to. They possess manifold the power of their tenant and are granted every possible benefit of the doubt.
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A reminder that *that* particularly vocal corner of Twitter is out of touch.
71% of Britons would be supportive if a family member said they were transgender or non-binary. 🇪🇸 87% would be supportive.🇮🇹 78%.🇸🇪 73% .🇬🇧 71%.🇩🇰 68%.🇩🇪 66%.🇺🇸 57% .🇫🇷 47%.
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It's obviously common knowledge but I just helped with a Universal Credit application and words don't do justice to how long, complex, and incredibly difficult it is - and I'm computer literate.
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@OwenJones84 I was, up to this point, of the assumption I was more than walking genitalia. Glad to see the real feminists have corrected me and I am indeed the sum of my ability to have babies.
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It’s worth pointing out that a generation of us were told student finance was not bad debt and would not affect credit decisions. It does - by taking a LOT from your take home and spending potential, not only does it harm saving, but lenders DO view you with real scepticism.
We did an affordability check as a professional couple and didn’t pass for a *FTB scheme new build flat in Debden* due to the sheer lack of FTB lenders on the market. The broker asked “if there’s anything you can do about your student loan repayments”. Smacked right in the teeth.
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There is something very British about expecting so little. The core of the argument against the strikers’ conditions, beyond inconvenience, is ‘I’m getting paid below the standard I need to live, so they should too’. It’s I’m alright Jack, except, Jack, babe, you’re not alright.
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Having a free vote with incredible speakers on both sides when the House is legitimately divided, not by Party but by morals. is fine.
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men like this have been allowed to walk the corridors of parliament for too long. no more.
WATCH: Conservative MP Mark Field shoves a protestor against a pillar then grabs her by her neck and shoves her out of the Mansion House dinner after climate change protestors interrupted the banquet.
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How’s your workday? I just stood in silence with Theresa May in a lift.
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Millionaire residents of Soho quietly destroying an important part of a city economy that serves predominantly young people and provided jobs to young people now decimated post-COVID and there are some spicy takes on this from people thinking they’re actually progressive.
Trying to find food or drink after 12am in London is *absurd* by the way. Going theatre then trying to do anything sociable in one of the world’s busiest cities should not be this difficult. So many questions to be asked.
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Look at this mansplaining. I should be grateful cos Corbyn fought for ME. We should put up with abuse. Wow.
@JadeFrancesAzim Abuse always falls on women. No all the time. Abuse falls on Corbyn a man who has had more crap fighting for your rights.
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literally all your kids want is a good wage and not to have their landlord take three quarters of that wage.
Voting intention among 18-24 year olds.Lab - 38%.Lib Dem - 18%.Con - 16%.Green - 15%.Brexit Party - 5%. Voting intention among 70+ year olds.Con - 58%.Brexit Party - 14%.Lib Dem - 14%.Lab - 9%.Green - 2%. (Fieldwork 17-28 Oct).
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The thrilling part is the functional train network.
The BBC announces new thriller Nightsleeper, set on a high-speed train between Glasgow and London, for @BBCOne and @BBCiPlayer.More info ➡️
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Something pretty amazing seeing the St George’s flag adorned with anti-racist messages on the Rashford mural. Somewhere, the EDL are crying, and that’s beautiful.
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if the goal was to salt bae the leader into a yassification so intense it’s strangely boosted his likability, it’s succeeded - and I can’t believe I just wrote that sentence.
10/10/2023: A protester invades the stage and pours glitter over Keir Starmer at the start of the Leader's Speech at the Labour Party Conference in Liverpool.
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"Lab gain from SNP' IM CRYING I NEVER THOUGHT I'D HEAR THAT AGAIN.
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Regardless of whether you agree with triple lock or not, waking up to the government ripping up leasehold reform and then committing to protecting pensions at all costs is so laughably on the nose that, as a young voter, if you don’t laugh you’d have a breakdown instead.
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See those Tories gleefully shout 'yeaaaaaaaaah!' at continuing to cap nurses' wages. Show that to the country. Again and again.
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Remember not to trust conservatives pointing at protests and 'worrying' about a second wave when they were cheering for working class people to stop being work-shy and get themselves back on the tube. This isn't about caring for your health.
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I feel like ‘stopping a nuclear bomb’ doesn’t come under the mayor’s powers, idk.
◾️ @SadiqKhan you said that "London is well prepared for a nuclear attack.". This is what would happen if one of Russia's 5,000 nuclear bombs lands on London. "London, Slough, Watford, & Essex a would be destroyed. Estimated fatalities are 2,792,630 & injuries is 2,756,780."
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Middle class motorway protestors are their own (and worst of all, the fight against climate change’s) worst enemy.
“How can you be so selfish?” . Desperate pleas from a woman on the A12 this morning, as she tries to make it to see her 81-year-old mother in Canterbury, who has been rushed to hospital in an ambulance. Via @rachaelvenables
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Actually getting progressively more nauseous at the 'magic money tree' response to *workers using foodbanks*. Sickening. #bbcqt.
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3% conviction rate for rapists. Accused men going through the judicial system really do not need your cheerleading. Women, meanwhile, need to apparently move in packs of 20 to get anywhere near said conviction.
We can have “We must always believe the accuser.” Or we can have “Innocent until proven guilty.” We can’t have both. I know which I prefer.
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It’s over is it? [grabs microphone] the Labour Party has a HUGE god damn problem with sexism.
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Christian Wakeford having to find out how CLPs operate is just objectively extremely funny.
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idk man if crank twitter don’t wannabe called cranks they should probably stop being cranks.
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of all the hot takes, the idea that Corbyn is too frail is probably the most hilarious. that man doesn’t drink, smoke and eats food from an allotment. I’m 24 and he will 100% outlive me.
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I like how nobody in any uk government seemed to predict that freshers would party.
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It really hurts as an FSM kid, knowing how hard your parent/s worked, repeatedly seeing the ‘parents are responsible for feeding their kids’ trope. The endemic ignorance of the causes of poverty & in-work poverty amongst those with colossal power makes me feel deeply hopeless.
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This woman has more courage and love for her country than any of these far right, beer-wielding opportunist thugs could ever hope to have.
Amidst the chaos, this woman held up a sign saying: 'Hope not hate. Racism not welcome here'.
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This is actually a really important and under-explored point about the cost of living crisis. Being told to cut back (or entirely cut out) not just on necessities but on very basic socialising is a really horrible and unhealthy vision for a modern society.
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What the actual Christ is this.
We are looking for 12 wanted suspects across London. Can you help us find them?.
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IMAGINE still using phrases like work-shy even now, 40,000 deaths later.
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Legit did not believe it would happen but British people actually did something in unison and entirely without irony.
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20,000 students should have been able to vote in Labour Students’ most recent election. Just 500 people got to. We had to climb over at least 5 technocratic hurdles to get a vote. It is not controversial or radical to say that is absurd & it is right our student wing is reformed.
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it kinda sucks that, today, being a woman in pro-democratic / left politics feels slightly sacrificial. basically, screw abusive men, screw assange, and screw the fact he's being prosecuted for exposing the US and Sweden hasn't even been *kept in the loop*. take women seriously.
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Why don’t you want more for the next generation? It’s just such a depressing lack of aspiration for society.
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We're pretty used to losing. We lost a decent housing market, decent wages and probs a non-flooded earth. I'd say we're quite patient.
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Exhausted by our country’s obsession with Osbornomic framing. Universal childcare comes with a price tag and feeds back into the economy so eventually that price tag is paid by growth. No universal childcare comes with an even bigger price tag and just adds to individual debt.
Labour's unfunded spending pledges add up to more than £20bn a year, @theipaper analysis suggests - equivalent of a 3p rise in income tax. And IFS's Paul Johnson casts doubt on the party's ability to meet capital spending promises without pushing up debt.
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idk man. I feel like today’s events have made the article feel very. correct? Just a feeling. Idk.
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Sounds like he should change his tone.
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