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Trade Unionist + freelance writer + Podcaster. Words: @tribunemagazine @m_star_online @TheBristolCable Host - People Just Do Something @TheBristolCable link:
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My history of the Malcolm X Centre is up. Its a wild ride with:
Socialist Rastas taking on Thatcher's gov
Community Organising
Molotov Cocktails
The IRA
Sawn-off shotguns
A certain Mayor’s dad accused of a violent crime + police collaboration
Read here:
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If there's no such thing as a positive masculinity then explain this?
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My gf is in London for the weekend so I'm going to get wild and pack the dishwasher in ways she would deem "an inefficient use of space"
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In his defence, he's definitely taken at least one car off the road...
Prince Charles called for action on the climate crisis and says he has spent 50 years "trying to raise awareness."
Charles and his wife have a carbon footprint 96x higher than the average person — releasing 430+ tonnes of CO2 per year, mostly with private jets and helicopters.
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They've been skimming off profits while poisoning our waterways, damaging our health and in some cases literally killing people.
Now they're pushing for more money.
The fact neither major party is screaming about this every single day is an absolute travesty.
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President Xi., My name is Isaac. I am 28 years old. I live in Bristol. My government is now run by a head of lettuce. Please send Chengdu J-20 Multirole Stealth Fighter Aircraft.
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This would only work for Oxbridge as well. No one who went to UWE is going to tweet "been in the middle of nowhere in South Gloucester for barely three hours and have already backslid to an old undergrad pastime: Taking ketamine and baffling woman I try and incoherently chat up"
Must be exhausting to have to come up with new inventive ways to tell people one went to Oxford
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Libs today: I like Mick Lynch's refreshing honesty until he was refreshingly honest about a topic on which I'd rather be lied and pandered to
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We don't have fancy coffee?! In Bristol?
Its literally full of hipsters making fancy coffee.
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British Journos really do just say: "just because we went to boarding school together + shared formative sexual experiences + I worked for his dad + he was best man at my wedding + we've had a satanic orgy with each others spouses doesn't mean I can't report on him impartially".
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Mad that all these Labour MPs suddenly care about Palestine during the 6 weeks they want to persuade the Muslim communities in cities to vote for them.
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Genuinely in awe of this as a bit. Better than any high falutin performance art.
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The sentence "We talk to his sister Rachel about nepotism" really sums up British journalism
Does Boris Johnson’s dad deserve a knighthood ? We talk to his sister Rachel about nepotism, lockdown and family rows.
@TheNewsAgents
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I'm actually the barman at Brewdog Bristol who throws people reading the Economist (and The Times fwiw) out of the bar because they are Nazis. Brewdog knows I have been doing this for years but they can't fire me because they are scared of being called racist.
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It genuinely is mad we ended up in a situation where sharing a platform with Ken Loach made you beyond the pale for public life but staying at a convicted Paedophiles house and calling him in prison is just a fine and normal thing to do and means you can be on TV constantly
Good of the BBC to have on Peter Mandelson the friend of convicted paedophile Jeffery Epstein
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Not to get all cult of Corbyn but it does bring a little bit of joy that he looks so happy and healthy now he doesn't have to take so much shit
We clap for NHS staff, care workers and all key workers every Thursday.
When we emerge from this crisis we owe them a better society where they are truly valued, paid a decent wage and we end privatisation.
#ClapForOurCarers
#ClapfortheNHS
#clapforourkeyworkers
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Bloke running the air BnB has told us that are area of Oslo nearby is dodgy but he also has more Ayn Rand books than I've ever seen in my life and the direction he pointed has an Ethiopian restaurant on the corner so I think I might be able to guess what he thinks the problem is
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Imagine tweeting "allegations this serious demand a serious response" about the current situation and it not being in response to the ICJ ruling there is a plausible case that genocide is taking place.
Allegations this serious demand a serious response. As the UK rightly ensures our aid is never used to support terrorism, we are seeking urgent discussions with Ministers to ensure ordinary Gazans can access aid. The humanitarian crisis in Gaza cannot wait
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Just saw someone say that pointing out that a Ukrainian soldier is wearing a Neo-Nazi symbol is "victim-blaming". The mission drift of social justice language is fascinating to see.
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I genuinely don't think there's anyone in my life who if I invited them for a pub lunch and they said "I'll make sandwiches" I wouldn't immediately offer to buy them lunch, especially if it was my sister.
Followed by a tale about his sister bringing her own sandwiches to the pub lunch because she's so poor
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The left should remember in the next few days the Rayner has shafted us at every opportunity
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So glad my party is fighting to protect *checks notes* the 48 hr working week?!
Labour is fighting to protect:
💷 Holiday pay
⏰ The 48 hour working week
🛌 The right to rest breaks at work
The Government's response to that is to consider longer working hours and less pay.
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Remember guys: tonight is about people having good old fashioned fun with explosive shit. It's not about your neurotic dog. Your dog can take the L for one night of the year so people can have a bit of fun.
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Genuinely saddened to report that Ive been suspended from the Labour party.
Not really allowed to comment any further.
It does likely mean i won't be able run for the position of Bristol West Chair but a replacement will be found
My new tatt was more prescient than intended.
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The boycotting of a Jewish women's talk on holocaust remembrance day just because, as far as I can tell, she has the wrong politics is incredibly bleak. Something has gone deeply wrong in this country.
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So I was shown evidence today that the
@LabourParty
has leaked my name and information about my suspension to someone I have never met.
I am horrified to discover this breach of trust and feel obliged to report it to the ICO.
I hope this won't be used against me by the party.
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Literally people were complaining about Corbyn's "baggage" for having been an active campaigner for decades when, according to his own sister, there is quite a good chance that his opponent slept with one of the ring leaders of a global paedophile network.
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Its mad that China's one child policy garners so much criticism in the west but we now have a situation where both the main parties in the UK are pledged to using financial coercion to enforce a two child policy on the poorest people in our society.
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Absolutely disgusting that Phil Gaskin and Labour South West Regional office have to decided to reselect council candidates, despite members already having already voted.
They didn't even bother to inform the candidates first. Absolutely no way to treat dedicated members.
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Your BF sent me his Monzo year in review. Probably time to have a word with him, to be honest
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"The left would have fallen for WMDs in Iraq" mate over a million people marched through London. Log off and read a book ffs.
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It worth noting that Bristol West is not just any CLP its the biggest CLP in the country. 1 in 20 people in the area is a member. This is an attack on the people of Bristol, have no doubt about it.
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So with Starmer on the ropes now would probably be a good time for socialists to rejoin Labour...
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I left the protest at around 8pm it was totally peaceful, just full of happy, very young, surprisingly chilled out ppl.
This violence being inflicted on peaceful protestors is a total disgrace.
You can see in streams ppl facing away not fighting and etting nailed with shields.
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It will be genuinely hilarious if Keir Starmer has managed to manoeuvre himself into the position where he has to resign over a curry and a pint.
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Rewilding is my most whimsical belief. I have no idea how the science works but firmly belive in releasing the wolves.
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I hate the response to the Man U protests where people just whine "They're never this angry about real politics just football".
If that is the case I suspect it isnt) then its the lefts job to try and connect this to wider anticapitalist ideas not be fucking snobs about it.
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Remember when having tweeted something vaguely nice about the Greens before you were of voting age would get you blocked from joining Labour?
Well now you can have helped launch Change UK to split the Labour vote + worked for a far-right think tank + become a Labour candidate
I’m proud to be a candidate for this changed Labour Party - utterly different from the one voters rejected in 2019.
You may be frustrated about the state of the country, but have never considered voting Labour before.
Come the General Election - take a closer look.
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If Japanese knotweed lowers house prices by like 25% maybe a direct action technique would be to introduce it into rental properties in order to force down rents.
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Just finished reading a book about the 1918 German revolution. Man, liberals seriously will just feed socialists into the meat grinder given the smallest opportunity won't they.
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Sorry for the rant just absolutely fuming. I was on the LCF that organised councillor selections. We worked our arses off to have a fair, well run and democratic process. Spent night after night in halls all over Bristol and it was fucking meaningless because it's all rigged.
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Must suck to have to get a bus with a queue no longer than one in any given commuter town in the country at 9am
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Nothing will prove Zizek's view that our reality is structured by ideology and what we desire to see than everyone watching the same Eddie Dempsey video where he is obviously talking about how to stop people from becoming far-right but take it as him saying entirely the opposite.
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Incredibly disappointing to hear
@ThangamMP
out batting for a ban on environmental protestors this morning on The Today programme.
Seems a bizzare thing to do when she's being challenged by the greens. Punching left is more important than winning I guess
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I had multiple arguments about Gordon Brown selling the gold while door knocking for Labour in 2019
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Can't wait for the "The next Labour leader HAS to he a woman" crew to all immediately fall behind Wes Streeting for leader.
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So Marx literally has a bit in Capital where he makes fun of rich people's costed diet plans for poor people as per the annual left-twitter discourse.
I am every day more and more convinced that'd he'd have been an incredible shit poster if alive today.
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I totally forgot that this happened
Labour (presumably regional) removed access to Organise from every single CLP or ward branch officer in Bristol West, for several months over winter
So nobody could contact their members about campaigning
The greens then won 13 seats in BW
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Call me an idiot but if Deliveroo lost £200m in a year when their workers were some of the very few people legally allowed to leave the house im not convinced they are ever going to make a profit let alone enough to be worth £7b on the stock exchange as suggested
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a left that is unwilling to acknowledge that Starmer is likely to win a GE (a much smaller group after the last week or so) and that his government will make things marginally better for people is a left that is unprepared to build itself in the next few years.
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Starmer has just made a slogan by letting predictive text finish for him after "this must now be a moment"
Mine is: This must now be a moment when we have a group and a mayor to join the group.
Whats yours?
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I will be applying for selection as Labour's candidate in Islington North. The scale of poverty in the borough, together with the acute crisis for private renters and the threats to local health services, mean Islington needs to be setting Labour's agenda in power.
I worked
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It's so grating that Alastair Campbell is out flogging a book pitched at getting young people engaged in politics when there literally just was a project that inspired young people to get engaged and he did everything in his power (with the help of Michael Chessum) to destroy it.
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More like Gear Starmer am I right
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Yeah sex is alright but have you ever tried the sheer thrill of getting into a companies house black hole and managing to piece together some genuinely shady shit about people you had your suspicions about?
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I just don't understand why a small socialist island nation in a perpetual cold war (sometimes hot) with the greatest capitalist superpower the world has ever known doesn't implement every single liberal policy I want to see
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This is such horse shit.
The Colston statue was put up 170 years after Colston died by a bunch of rich wankers in a secret society (the merchant venturers) who've defended it ever since. At the time the people of Bristol out right refused to pay for it.
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It's mad that Starmer was in charge of the crown prosecution service for 5 years but managed to never have anything to do with any of the high profile cases that would end up being politically inexpedient for him to have worked on when years later when he became leader of Labour.
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Why the hell was a prominent and recognisable government minister wandering about on foot through a giant protest and a train station the cops knew ahead of time was gonna be occupied? Gove is false flag change my mind.
Senior government minister Michael Gove mobbed by protesters at Victoria Station in London to chants of “shame on you”.
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Glad to see so many people are willing to fight for the principled socialist position of... *checks notes * being allowed to be horrible to children on the Internet because of assumed political differences.
The A-Team!
@bh_younglabour
on fine formidable form for the Wish by election. They’ve earned their lunch at The Stoneham Pub 😅
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Weird to watch the Tories get absolutely crushed, something I've spent the entirety of my adult life working towards, and for it to feel so underwhelming
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Excuse the headline but this piece says that a counter-protestor with no previous record who was having racial slurs screamed at him got 20 months in prison for throwing back cans which had been thrown at him first + shouting Allah Akbar. That's bleak af
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Its amazing that the British journalist class have listened to Trojan horse and decided that the main issue is that its too harsh about journalists
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Hang on is the mainstream argument just: Keir Starmer didn't fail to investigate Saville it was those who answered to him directly who failed to investigate.
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The candidates whove been removed are young or BAME. The sort of people we should be persuading to run.
What does this tell future candidates? That all their hard work and their time can be overruled by unelected bureaucrats who don't even have the grace to tell them first.
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Everyone hystericises about deeps fakes but British journalists will straight up make a claim about events while sharing a video that disproves their claim.
It’s not untrue though is it? And the evidence is right there, if you watch the full clip, rather than half of it…
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Go fuck yourself. If we were still in the EU theyd still let our industries and the communities built around them rot
Brexit should have freed the hand of the UK to nationalise + properly invest in key industries like steel
The failure to do so is on politicians not people.
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Oh man I've just realised that Starmer's plan is probably to refuse to let Corbyn run for Labour in the next election by not returning the whip in order to have a big media bust up about it right before an election to highlight that the party has moved on from the Corbyn era
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The doomerism about Labour and the prospects of the left ever getting a foothold in it does always conveniently ignore the fact that Welsh Labour is led by a Corbynite and runs the country.
It just gets zero mention in the "every left-winger is blocked and purged narrative".
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People are attacking this obviously slightly tongue in cheek post but I don't understand why the left position is supposed to be in favour of antisocial behavior.
We don't have to be in favour of people acting like twat and making public space worse.
We’re so back. My most authoritarian opinion is zero tolerance on noise in quiet zones on trains.
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Was reading Age of Empire by Eric Hobsbawm and the way he lays out how truly senseless the beginning of WW1 was shocking.
A 19-year-old nobody killing a duke no one really cared about and then the entire European ruling class just deciding to kill millions of people for nothing.
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"Living in a van is all the rage " is a fun way for radio 4 to talk about the housing crises for young people.
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Call me a radical but I think that following through on the policy of killing 130,000 people is worse than privately saying you're willing to enact that policy.
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OMG I've just realised that
@ThangamMP
's phone banking script encourages people who have moved out of the constituency to attend the Bristol West AGM anyway to vote for her right-wing slate ... which is against
@UKLabour
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I dunno man, call me cynical, but I'm not sure the Keir Starmer meant what he said about working with the left
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Weird that Labour will spend so long trawling through the social media accounts of any left winger who dares to run but wouldn't check something basic like "can this candidate legally be a councillor "
🚨 By-election klaxon! 🚨 Just over two weeks since the local elections, it turns out there will soon be a by-election held in Horfield after one newly elected Labour councillor was disqualified
Deborah Vittori is a teacher in a council-owned school, so cannot be a councillor
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I'm sure they'll give Corbyn the whip back now we have all this incontrovertible evidence that the scale of antisemitism in Labour was "dramatically overstated for political reasons by our opponents inside and outside the party".
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The left shouldn't be made up of middle class people who went to Oxbridge and did PPE or Economics it should be made up of middle clas people who went to ex-polytechnics and did humanities degrees.
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Getting tattooed today and a few days ago emailed the tattooist at like 2am and was like "yeah these three bits of flash please" and in my late night haze attached the wrong screenshot. What I had attached was this:
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Been going through the
@tribunemagazine
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FYI if the Lib Dems are involved your alliance isn't progressive
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Am I understanding what the Today programme is saying right that Keir Starmers "tour of the UK" is him going to different cities and meeting focus groups of peoples whove said they won't vote Labour as picked by a polling company?
Because that's fucking hilarious
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Its genuinely scary that the Police and Crime Bill passed its 3rd reading today.
Makes you feel the yawning gulf of leadership at the heart of the movement that has made it difficult to maintain or channel the energy of resistance that was there a few months ago.
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As of Monday, I'm going to be a full-time (well 4-days a week) trade union employee / fat cat union bureaucrat depending on your point of view. I couldn't be more hyped about it.
Imagine going to work every day and knowing you're doing good shit. The dream
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Why are melts all so keen to insist they are socialist?
They literally hate socialism and socialists
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🚨BREAKING: the
#BristolCentral
exit poll from Ipsos UK predicts a more than 99% likelihood
@carla_denyer
will be the next MP.
🟩 Likely Green gain - 99%+
🟥 2019: Labour
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I just can't believe that a footballer would accuse the woman who wanted to set up prison island concentration camps of stoking up racism
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Having spent the last 4 years helping to build the party in Bristol. To ensure we kept all 4 of our MPs, a council majority and a mayor. Engaging new members and persuading them to be councillors. It's absolutely heart breaking to watch it be shat on from a great height.
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Over 215 people at our
@MomentumBristol
meeting already. This meeting is to replace the Bristol West AGM which was suspended by regional office.
The left is absolutely furious and we are going to fight back hard. Solidarity everyone ✊
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This looks like a still from a lesser peep show episode
If I was a Tory MP I would simply not pose with a large amount of gak
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It's great that so many people were blocked from joining Labour in 2017 because they had once publicly said positive things about the Greens online but a Tory MP who took a seat off Labour and has profoundly anti-refugee politics is allowed to just waltz across the house and join
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After deselecting the previous socialists candidates Labour have lost Lockleaze to the greens.
Absolutely outstanding work by the South West regional office.
Turn up in Labour heartland of Lockleaze, Bristol.
Green Party's 2 candidates beat Labour's 2
The Labour 2 were imposed by Labour SW after local party choices were rejected by party officials.
Lockleaze also seeing large-scale development on council sites
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Results have just finally been announced at the Bristol West AGM. The right has had a clean sweeo with 100 less votes than attendees and a number of people reporting they voted twice.
A completely ridiculous evening all round.
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