No Labour MP should ever post such toxic bile, we have to hold ourselves to the same standards that we’d hold Tory MPs to, solidarity with our trans siblings 🏳️⚧️
Britain faces two options:
A Tory Party suffering a collective nervous breakdown
Or
A Labour Party reborn that understands the real needs of the people
I know which I’d prefer
People posting this like they wouldn’t have despised both Attlee and Wilson (the only two who won a GE) at the time they were leader. Disingenuous and frankly weird twisting of history.
The Green Party has become a haven for racists expelled from Labour, NIMBYs and anti-nuclear activists. What part of that sounds remotely progressive or left wing to you?
You have to hand it to Misogyny. It's managed to relaunch, rebrand and market itself as new, progressive, modern, inclusive and 'kind'.
The thing with us pesky feminist women is that we still recognise it for the centuries old thing that it is - as we always have and always will.
BREAKING:
Tom Tugendhat has endorsed Liz Truss for Tory leadership
He writes in The Times that her tax cuts are based on 'true conservative principles' & that she can unite party
Significant as Tugendhat is popular with Tory members & a senior figure in the One Nation group
What an astonishing campaign. I’m in awe of everyone who gave their time, energy, resources and votes.
When recent GE polling in the North East shows Labour with 60+% of the vote, most commentators thought Labour would walk this. The fact that we got 126,652 votes here, nearly
If you read the detail, which the usual suspects will not, what Starmer said isn’t particularly shocking, or untrue. He stated the fact that Thatcher unleashed entrepreneurialism and effected change, both of which are literally facts. He also quotes Blair and Attlee.
The replies to this tweet are vile, coming from a set of folks who claim to be proud that young people are involved in politics. This is the reason young people struggle in politics, they’re belittled by people who do infinitely less work. Disgusting. Keep up the good work guys!
🚨 EXCLUSIVE
Sadiq Khan’s bumper offer to rail unions is a sign of things to come with Starmer, Boris Johnson says tonight
Johnson tells me Khan’s last-ditch deal to suspend Tube strikes “is only a foretaste of what the nation could expect under Labour”
@Keir_Starmer
talks about how his mum’s illness influenced him to get into politics at a young age, and what it’s been like becoming leader of the Labour Party during a pandemic.
The difference is, Labour MPs who’ve announced they’re standing down are veterans, who now finally feel Keir is a safe pair of hands to leave the party with. The Tories on the other hand, are political opportunists who don’t want to loose their seat live on telly.
“We won Young Labour for the left, twice, despite right wing attacks” - this sort of inflammatory language is damaging to our movement, nobody in the Labour Party is right wing, the only attacks I see are coming from momentum itself against fellow LABOUR members.
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But now, Momentum needs your help.
Hit hard by soaring inflation and attacks on the Left, our future is at risk. Can you help
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Typical of The Mail to deliberately twist facts, this article (which they kindly quoted me in) suggests that what Antonia Antoniazzi did was clarify Labour policy, what she actually did was post a well documented transphobic dog whistle. Hate never wins🏳️⚧️
People make out like this is an oxymoron, but to be pro-worker you have to also be pro-business, otherwise a worker has no job. And to be pro-business you have to be pro-worker, otherwise business can’t function. It’s not a complicated idea.
Always remember, Rishi Sunak isn’t some cosy little centrist Cameroon, he’s a Thatcherite who is as right wing socially as he is economically.
He’s a disgrace to this country.
Britain deserves better.
Solidarity with our trans brothers and sisters.
The PM clearly believes he can scrape back votes by fuelling the very hatred that led to Brianna’s death.
Shame on him.
Solidarity with our trans siblings🏳️⚧️
#PMQs
This stupid argument again, The Sun is a rag, but it’s a very popular rag that plenty of potential voters read, to ignore such easy free publicity is counterproductive
"I'm very happy to work with The Sun, to write for The Sun, to do interviews for The Sun..."
Ahead of his party's conference in Liverpool, Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer explains why he writes for a newspaper that's widely boycotted on Merseyside...
@GranadaReports
We canvass in small groups because otherwise you’d have board runners overwhelmed with people coming up to them? Makes you wonder if many of those talking about “the grassroots” have ever actually been on grassroots campaigns?
There are just six canvassers in this photo and the candidate. Three of them are MPs. There's a striking lack of grassroots members turning out to campaign for Labour in this crucial byelection.
Jeremy Corbyn explains his thoughts on why Luciana Berger left the Labour Party citing 'institutional, sickening anti-Semitism.'
Listen on
@GlobalPlayer
.
@lewis_goodall
I have never agreed with Theresa May, but I think we all have to admit she was the last genuinely decent person to be PM. I remember being in Portcullis House and I accidentally walked straight into her, I was mortified, she was nothing but lovely about it.
Genuinely nice lady.
I’ve decided to resign from
@UKLabour
and serve as an Independent Mayor.
People are tired of being controlled by Westminster and Party HQs. They want someone to stand up for them. Let the people decide. £25k by end of Aug & I’ll stand as North East Mayor👉
Those who defend dog whistle politics are either genuinely brainwashed or deliberately acting in bad faith, either way, you can’t call yourself a true progressive. You are deliberately stamping on one of the most vulnerable minorities in Britain.
Labour just won its largest majority in Wakefield since the days of New Labour and yet we have people inside the party playing this down, what benefit does that have except making our achievements seem lesser than they actually are?
Glad we had that YL tweet appealing to 4% of the electorate, or should I say turning on 68% of it. This is why foreign policy is important to get right, people get very angry when we get it wrong
@Keir_Starmer
It didn’t “unfold.” It was state-sanctioned massacre. You also sacked a Labour MP from the front bench for voting against the SpyCops Bill - which would prevent the prosecution of UK troops for war crimes.
On the whole I’ve always been supportive of the leadership of Labour Students, but I’m genuinely astonished at the failure of some to sign the trans rights letter, solidarity with our trans comrades🏳️⚧️
I’m delighted to announce I’m running for Young Labour East Midlands Rep!
Young Labour has for too long been unrepresentative of it’s normal members, I want to change that and give young members in the East Mids a forum for their voices to be heard!
@labour_first
@labtowin
Exclusive:
Downing Street is holding talks about scrapping inheritance tax as part of a ‘totemic’ offering to voters before the general election
There is a ‘live’ discussion among senior figures in No 10 about committing to abolishing the levy entirely
The same Jeremy Corbyn that proposed the same policy in his own manifesto? Which also included FURTHER welfare cuts? Nah I don’t think we’ll take righteous lectures from him.
To all the decent folks who have had to defend him time and time again, please stop. This sort of thing has happened far too many times. Horseshoe theory complete.
As much as I completely agree that Keir should be the one making announcements on cost of living policy, it’s been well known for some time that GB is actively working alongside Starmer. Wouldn’t be surprised if Gordon’s ideas are in Keir’s speech next week.
We once again see the middle class, gentrified left, belittling those of working class backgrounds. My dad is a plasterer, who grafts every day of his life to provide for his family. And I will always be proud of that. Poor taste from PoliticsJoe here
Aside from Merseyside, London is arguably the most left wing part of the country, and Jezza is managing to poll behind Reform UK - London is a LABOUR city, that goes well beyond any one man.
Including Jeremy Corbyn as an independent, Sadiq Khan leads by 4%.
2024 London Mayoral Election VI (10-12 June):
Sadiq Khan 32%
Conservative Candidate 28%
Liberal Democrat Candidate 10%
Zoë Garbett 9%
Howard Cox 8%
Jeremy Corbyn 7%
Other 6%
Amazing how many people have decided to try and martyr themselves - when in fact they just broke well established party rules. And Jamie Driscoll is the hill they’re choosing to die on. Bit embarrassing that.
@LeftieStats
Left-wing Parties with less than 5 candidates:
Breakthrough (4), Northern Independence (2), Workers Party (1), Alliance for Green Socialism (1)
This is some of the most vile language I’ve ever seen from a sitting MP, Suella Braverman is an absolute disgrace.
The fact that she was a recent Home Secretary is a mark of shame on the Conservative Party and it is particularly deplorable that this is her leadership pitch.
Suella Braverman’s speech in Washington this evening contains a blistering attack on pro-LGBT Tories.
She says the pride (progress) flag has been flown on govt buildings as if marking “occupied territory”, accusing Tory colleagues of supporting a “horrible political campaign”
“I just think it's a big mistake to rule it out."
Former Labour Leader
@jeremycorbyn
says
@Keir_Starmer
is wrong to uphold the two-child benefit limit, calling it “cruel”.
#Peston
@OwenJones84
@ktttlouiseee
No remorse for doing the tories jobs for them eh? Actively campaigning against Keir isn’t the same as constructively criticising him and you know it.
I always think it’s proper weird that people stay up till early hours to watch the UFC…..but here I am waiting for the results of a parliamentary by-election
@CentralCee123_
The crank left would’ve hated Attlee for NATO, the NHS prescription charges, Korean War, I could go on. They’d have hated Wilson for spending cuts, supporting Vietnam, not embracing Bennism etc. Regardless of one’s thoughts on that, it’s bad faith to act as though they’d be fans.
Spoilt privileged people living off of trust funds and doing politics on the weekends have no right to threaten or attempt to ransom the leader of a democratic party. A perversion of our political system, and another example of vested interests thinking they have special rights.
Today’s speech shows two things:
1) Keir Starmer is a PM in waiting with serious policies to face the challenges the country faces
2) The hard-left are horrified of a Labour government, because the hard-left is out of sync with the British public
Vote Labour🌹🇬🇧
Angela is an absolute inspiration to us all and especially to women looking to make a difference in politics. I personally couldn’t be happier that we have her as our Deputy Leader (and future Deputy PM!)
@AngelaRayner
I know how it feels to be looked down on - and I know what it’s like struggling to make ends meet.
Whatever people say about me, I’m proud of my background.
It informs my Labour values and our Party’s priorities - offering real help to people, right now🌹
#CostOfLivingCrisis
Hartlepool Analysis-
i tell you unequivocally that a lot of fake narratives are being thrown around about the by-election - we lost partly because of a tory ticket of “time for a change” which was a hard one to argue against (1)
As it happens, the Labour leadership and shadow Treasury team being the grown ups and saying, actually we can’t afford that right now, is a good thing.
Finally hit the big 20, tell you what the last year has been a hell of a journey but I couldn’t be more grateful for the folks I’ve met along the way x
So popular, in fact, that we suffered our worst defeat in modern memory! We did so well that our base voters abandoned us! So progressive and influential, comrades!
As
#GreatBritishRailways
marks a new era for our railways, we've put retired Pacer trains to new uses serving Northern communities:
🏥A family support centre at a hospital
🍳A kitchen for a mental health charity
📚A new classroom for kids
The last one was delivered yesterday👇
Mick Lynch, well known trot, does what they do best, take aim at the wrong target. The front bench were in Parliament voting against the bill he’s protesting. Any MP who was on this platform was showing a complete dereliction of duty.
"Where's the Labour front bench? When are they going to stand up with rest of the labour movement?"
Mick Lynch takes aim at Keir Starmer for his absence in a barnstorming speech defending the
#RightToStrike
.
Congratulations to our new President
@jake_swinburne
, elected unanimously to lead the society for the rest of this academic year! Uni of Lincoln Labour is under new management!
Sir
@Keir_Starmer
’s always changing what he says he ‘believes’
👉🏻 For Miliband’s backing to be an MP
👉🏻 To get Shadow Cabinet job under Corbyn
👉🏻 To try & make Corbyn PM
👉🏻 To win Labour leadership
👉🏻 To become PM
We can’t trust owt he SAYS
We have to judge by what he DOES
🧵
Whilst it is politically very pleasing to see these resignations, spare a moment to think about the fact that all the office staff who work for those MPs have essentially been sacked on a political whim.
Denial of large scale antisemitism and the breach of equality law is not enough to warrant suspension….interesting to see who this account is willing to stand and be counted with
🔴 FACT: Withdrawing the whip from Corbyn was stupid petty factionalism on Starmer's part, and Corbyn did not do anything that warranted such a ridiculous overreaction.
🚨 NEW: After apologising for skipping the D-Day event, Rishi Sunak has just arrived to visit a school on a street called "Veterans Way"
📸
@robpowellnews
Conveniently David Lammy is left out here? Along with countless others, we all know there have been serious issues within Labour, but being an apologist for Tory racism isn’t the one
Labour love to call Tories racist. But this is their top team while Tories had a black Chancellor & brown Home Sec (however useless).
Meanwhile they block a black councillor who has been subject to racist policing & a Labour MP said Kwarteng didn’t ‘sound black’. Who is racist?
Young Labour are blind to 130,000 Russian troops on the borders of Ukraine but they have the time to attack Keir for standing up for democracy and our NATO allies - change has to come to Young Labour
While we accept difference in policy positions to the current leadership of our party, we are especially concerned in this instance to see Keir Starmer pushing not only for further engagement with NATO, but celebrating it while attacking Stop The War and other pro-peace activists
Pleased to say yesterday I was unanimously re-elected as President of Lincoln Uni Labour! We’ve achieved so much already and there’s still so much more we can do. The work continues!