I’m stunned. I really mean that.
Rishi Sunak has, since his loss, transformed into an eloquent, measured, witty, gracious, sombre statesman who is truly interesting to listen to… attentively.
Where was this man before? I’m asking in all seriousness.
Here's Cooper in 2018 honouring the Suffragettes in the Commons. The Suffragettes who used bombs, arson, property destruction and even attempted assassination to achieve their goals.
Appalling act of vandalism on one of the UK's most treasured heritage sites. Protest must always be lawful - criminal damage of this kind can never be tolerated.
Don’t be asking me to pick sides for something I ain’t got any real idea about, at a gig. I’m a singer. My job is music. The only real thing I know about War is that I’m sick and tired of premature death like we all are. Of the murder of anyone, under whatever fucking belief grid
A great bit in Cass. "Most young people who take puberty blockers turn out to be trans. This means they aren't properly thinking about if they are trans."
Hahaha Alistair Campbell was just banging on about Boris Johnson being a liar and Nadine Dorries responded "weren't you responsible for the sexed up dossier that led to Iraq"?
Absolutely incredible. This profoundly stupid man has been elevated to one of the UK's foremost anti-racist intellectuals when he knows ABSOLUTELY NOTHING about the issue.
More than 1 in 6 children in Nottingham East are affected by the two-child benefit cap.
@CPAGUK
found that 93% of impacted parents say the policy makes them less able to afford food.
It's not too late for the King's Speech to commit to scrapping it.
A whole thread entirely ignoring that the anti-migrant, British nationalist rhetoric that directly lead to Cox's death is now embedded across the political spectrum and instead making it about "civility".
Eight years ago today, on 16 June 2016, Jo Cox was tragically murdered while on her way to a constituency surgery in Batley and Spen.
In the days that followed, the global wave of grief and solidarity demonstrated that her values were widely shared.
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Remember when
@LGBTLabour
heckled Corbyn at Pride? Or tried to make a big thing out of Starmer being the first Lab leader to March with them? And now they offer pathetic nothings while Starmer embraces transphobia and Corbyn is doing this.
An absolutely bizarre spectacle on BBC Politics where non-Jewish people, including
@Siobhain_Mc
who agreed that to be anticapitalist is to be antisemitic, sitting berating a Jewish man over antisemitism.
Being the candidate for the area I grew up in and call home is the honour of my life
Promoted by Robert Gosling on behalf of Jade Botterill both at 18a Westmorland street, Wakefield, WF1 1PJ
Being on the left in the UK honestly feels like this with regards to the full-blown propaganda effort that's going on to convince us that Labour is progressive, while actual Labour keeps loudly honking "WE'RE THE NEW TORIES GUYS!" to anyone who'll listen.
Always worth noting that if there was the slightest inkling Labour's vote declined in a ward with a high Jewish population under Corbyn this was cause for screaming denunciations of Labour but Asians and Muslims voting for other parties is always suspect, illegitimate.
Keir Starmer is asked what his red lines are re: the genocide, with white phosphorous and bombing of "safe routes" mentioned. His weasel reply focuses entirely on Hamas and makes clear there are zero red lines for Israel. Absolutely sickening.
Literally EVERY TIME I've seen BBC Politics covering immigration in recent years it's been the main parties barking at each other abt who'll cut immigration more and the presenter saying "but will you REALLY cut immigration enough?"
Has this fuelled Reform? No. It must be bots.
Bot or Not? I’ve tracked down people posting about Reform branded ‘bots’. Lots genuine voters, others failed to prove they’re authentic. Reform UK says lots of support is real but is in touch with sites about fakes. Next Undercover Voters investigation.
I’ve called Wakefield home for nearly all of my life, I’m honoured to be putting myself forward for the new seat of Ossett and Denby Dale
I’m local, I’m a campaigner and I’ve got what it takes to win
You can find out more about my campaign here
@alexhallhall
I think you're missing that many, many vote switchers will have views like hers, and Labour does want them, and wants them to know it wants them. "Go away, we hate you, keep voting Tory" is the vibe Labour gave off when it was losing badly. And the two things were connected.
It's insane how the entire history of the Corbyn years has been rewritten by our political & media class. Thornberry, seen as one of Corbyn's foremost allies & who regularly defended the party from accusations, claims she was "at the forefront" of fighting "Labour antisemitism".
Zero mention of the far-right or the racist, nationalist discourse that led to Cox's murder. Perhaps because Labour has adopted much of it, which is quite inconvenient.
This is astonishing. In justification of his u-turn on trans rights, Starmer invokes "safe spaces" (which have nothing to do with self-ID). Campbell challenges this, Starmer is evasive and then wheels out the Isla Bryson case...which had nothing to do with Scottish GRA reform.
Here's Hinsliff demanding Corbyn change his position in Brexit, in a context where there were regular protests outside Parliament which singled out his non-attendance, and it's illustrated by a photo of Corbyn coming out his front door.
This conversation on
#R4Today
about MPs' security/rise of intimidation at home is chilling. It's hard for MPs to talk about - they fear making themselves targets or people thinking they're whingeing - but campaigners of all types need to stop & think here
Everyone rightly mentioning Luke Akehurst but there's also folk like Jade Botterill, openly using her status as a Labour candidate to drum up business for lobbying company Portland which she's a Director at. This is magnitudes more consequential than placing bets.
"If it was one of my candidates, they'd be gone and their feet would not have touched the floor"
Labour leader Keir Starmer reacts to news a Conservative candidate is being looked into over a general election bet
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My God, Lammy's response to this being to totally ignore what's said and start bleating about how "ugly and nasty" Corbyn's Labour was is astonishing. What an absolute husk of a human being.
To think you may have invented the term "hierarchy of racism" says you haven't done even the bare minimum of reading and research into this subject before deigning to write a book on it. It's just absolutely crazy.