@jongaunt
I'm suggesting there are gangs of far right thugs roaming the country beating up random Black and Asian people and I don't know where they will target next.
One of the reasons so many people are on benefits is because wages are so low that full time workers still need support. We should stop subsiding low pay and put up the minimum wage.
@Elainebks
I'm not going to tell the internet where I'll be, after having dozens of far right trolls in my mentions saying all sorts.
We'll work something out.
I notice it takes Cooper over a minute to address the question but she isn't interrupted once by Balls, who shouted furiously over
@zarahsultana
earlier in the show when she was trying to answer his question.
Home Secretary Yvette Cooper is asked why the govt hasn't used the term 'Islamophobic". In her answer Cooper (finally) uses the word.
As for husband interviewing wife, how does
#GMB
think this is tenable?
Does
@GMB
realise just how utterly ridiculous it looks by continuing to invite
@edballs
on as a presenter whilst he defends the actions of the Home Secretary Yvette Cooper, his wife!?
Why are supporters of the government so unhappy? Enjoy it. You won.
We were clearly all still going to have our issues and still raise them. Why are you here defending ancient lobby voting or complaining about Corbyn?
Go enjoy victory. Get all that stuff done you wanted to.
Everytime ordinary people get involved in the democratic process we're demonised as thugs and bullies.
This isn't because of anything we've done.
It's because the powerful always feel threatened when ordinary people start acting in their own interests.
One of the reasons so many people are on benefits is because wages are so low that full time workers still need support. We should stop subsiding low pay and put up the minimum wage.
It doesn't matter how much they bow down for Starmer now, left wing Labour MPs are still going to find themselves deselected at a few weeks notice before the next election. Especially if they have a following.
They need to build their own databases. I suggest an MPs newsletter.
@CowboyPhilosph1
Yeah, and if I had a little girl going to some sort of class, I would be checking their security if I even let her go at all. Fortunately, that perpetrator has been arrested. Unfortunately, hundreds of racists thugs are still roaming the streets.
@per_incuriam2
I think he is saying fish and chips is Jewish but I don't think anyone has ever claimed that the consumption of a culture's goods is cultural appropriation. I think it's just being a customer.
Also weird and creepy.
Race riots all over the country with Black and Asian people being attacked by mobs of racists thugs in the street, so the Prime Minister is going on holiday.
I missed this on election night. Great stuff again from
@ZackPolanski
As a socialist I find difficult not to agree with everything here. He even says "class analysis"!
More austerity from Labour plays into the hands of Reform.
Taxing billionaires wealth & investing in our public services is the approach that
@TheGreenParty
are calling for.
Labour are doing absolutely the opposite. They're making inequality worse. 👇🏼
Is YIMBY when council bulldozes loads of council homes and replaces them with loads of luxury flats for Russian oligarchs to sink their money into and rent out and extortionate rates or just leave empty while they go up in value?
@SaulStaniforth
The government can issue currency as it does with quantitive easing, it can borrow through issuing bonds and it can tax the super rich.
It has money whenever it wants. It chooses to let children go hungry because that appeases it's donors.
We talk about immigration all the time.
So what do people mean when they say, "You can't talk about immigration"?
It seems to be that they want to say something about the people who are immigrating here, but they can't say what.
I wonder what it could be.
The political class won't talk about Islamophobia and anti Black racism because they help justify exploitation, extraction and colonialism over seas and provide scapegoats to divide and distract us from privatisation and austerity at home, as they asset strip our communites.
It's worth remembering that the people who make up most of the Parliamentary Labour Party came up through local councils who sold social housing and replaced it with overpriced flats but no extra GPs or schools.
They're driven by property development at all costs.
The disease: politicians thinking their job is just to block anything getting built
The cure: winning the argument that it’s time to build our future again, not just live off our past. Labour MPs know what their job is 👇
@TIKhistory
There is no reason massive profits should be subsidised by the treasury. Raise in minimum wage do no increase unemployment.
If anything the increase in wages across the economy will also generate increased demand and create jobs.
Like smears used against Corbyn, smears against the Greens are based on misrepresentation and fiction.
But similarly denying them won't work because most of those parroting the line are bad faith actors not interested what's true.
The Greens need to counter.
Absolutely sickening scenes in US Congress as a genocidal mass murderer is celebrated.
Congress, when they ask what you were doing as innocents were slaughtered, now we know. You were applauding.
Utterly shameful.
Everywhere we look we see the proof that privatisation, outsourcing and internal markets has failed. Time to renationalise water, power, schools, the NHS, trains, buses and all our public services.
#Panorama
's investigation into Mike Dwan’s Academy Schools group is quite something....
One school repair was allegedly charged at over £1/2 million but was estimated to have cost only £60,000
@edwinhayward
Labour made an utterly shameful political choice not to prioritize hungry children. Spin it how you like but the people who did prioritize hungry children were punished.
@OwenJones84
My old Enfield North "comrade" Siddo Dwyer in the middle there. Former Protege of ex Labour Friends oF Israel Chair and Change UK MP, Joan Ryan
@flying_rodent
It was almost like someone was paid to promote wedge issues that would separate support from Corbyn and then abandon those issues the minute Labour lost 2019.
@AyoCaesar
We also need to respond with mass mobilisations to drive the far right from communities.
If only we had a left media to promote counter demonstrations and interview people organising them.
@carla_denyer
One of the reasons I joined the Green Party was because of the stance on the genocide in Gaza and the day I do join this is the response to Biden standing down?
Biden is the most complicit politician in the world, outside Israel. He is soaked in blood.
Unsurprisingly, our media and political class are cooking up a narrative that absolves the political status quo they have supported for decades for any blame in the far right terror on our streets.
"New technology and foreign leaders did it!" It's not even original.
I finally caught up with the inspiring
@LeanneMohamad
The far right and shameless politicians can try all the Islamophobia they like, but no one is keeping these Muslim women down!
@Footymac
I saw him speak many times (and once organised for him to come and speak to us at Islington Sixth form centre) and read much of his work when I was teenager (except the one about poetry). He was a great writer, a great journalist, and a great socialist.
To have a Muslim woman on your show to talk about gangs of racist thugs are trying to burn down Hotels where immigrants are staying and beating up Black and Asian people in the street and then to repeatedly shout over her is beyond disgraceful.
In the 1990s I was in the Anti Nazi League, we protested the BNP and Jean Marie Le Penn and helped push back the tide of the far right by showing them they weren't welcome in the communities they claimed to speak for.
Shouldn't we be organising counter demonstrations again?
Extraordinary both sides ing from the Guardian that makes it sound like the violence is between two rival political factions.
No mention of Black and Asian people being attacked by racist mobs.
There's no way Labour would be listening to concerns about Palestine if they hadn't been sent a message by voters voting or pro Palestinian voices and ditching MPs who sat on their hands while thousands died.
But there's much more they need to do, starting with ending arms sales.
Many across Leicester South will welcome this alongside other moves by UK government pushing for an immediate ceasefire and restoring UNRWA funding.
Remember these foreign policy shifts are happening because we have Labour in government not because of powerless independent MPs.
Independent candidates that have changed the game. Grassroots campaigns to build on. There is life after Labour. There is a future for the left.
Roll up your sleeves, and let's get on with it.
@JPsemptyhead
@ZoeJardiniere
No crime is being committed. Some people are having kids and some people aren't.
Without immigration we'd be looking at British society collapsing under an unsustainable number of old people to young people.
@danielmgmoylan
Given how badly the NHS has been governed for decades maybe, just maybe we should be listening to clinicians for once.
But okay what is Kinnock's experience in governance?
Blair tried to establish a new politcal concensus where public services were well funded but profit was great.
Starmer's Labour's default political position is just naked Thatcherism where profit comes before public services.
But the mission that drives them is owning the left.
@CurtisDaly_
And most of the times he rebelled against the Labour government the Conservatives were voting with the government. He was opposing Tory friendly policies.
@JasonReidUK
Had I been a voter in his seat and the Greens had stood down for him I still wouldn't have voted for the Workers Party (who stood against Independents themselves elsewhere).
@melissasigodo
How is fake news the issue? Are they saying if the attacker had been a Muslim it would have been okay to try and attack Mosques, assault Black and brown people in the street and burn refugees alive?
@GreenJennyJones
The Green Party was supported by many people in the General Election for its pro Palestinian stance.
Harris is complicit in the genocide in Gaza. She may be slightly not as terrible as Trump, but she is soaked in blood.
@AllyFogg
That was a hilarious bit of "journalism". They were so desperate to sell the Momentum thugs narrative and just found sweet enthusiastic students.
@CowboyPhilosph1
Yeah that is unfortunately mostly targeted at Black people.
We need to adopt a public health approach like they did in Glasgow when it was the knife crime capital of the world.
Yes, four left wing protesters went to prison for planning a peaceful protest while hundreds of right wing protesters who terrified innocent people and assaulted police are walking free.
@AllyFogg
Absolutely and that shouldn't cloud our judgment on the complicity in genocide of our government and it's allies.
One of the Green's main tasks over the next few years is to build relationships with marignalised communities abandoned by Labour. And with the independent movement.
This is the truth you really can't tell about immigration in the media:
Immigration is great and we don't deserve the people who want to come to the UK.
We need the workers and we really need some influence from other cultures if smashing up the place is what Brits have to offer.
@AllyFogg
They're creating a narrative for some incoming legislation cracking down on protest and free speech I think.
The Labour right's regular deployment of thuggery is completely acceptable to them though.