I see we're doing the "we need to platform these loons so that the public get to see that they're bonkers, sunlight is the best disinfectant" thing again. That's been working real well for the past decade, well done, everybody!
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Today I've signed a world-leading new partnership with Rwanda to break the people smugglers' deadly business model and help us protect the genuinely vulnerable through safe and legal routes.
Part of our
#NewPlanForImmigration
.
Ed Balls here salivating at the prospect of Farage endorsing Starmer's Labour as well as describing Charlie Elphicke's sexual assaults (and Natalie Elphicke's defence of him) as 'complex'
Since nothing illegal or even mildly threatening is happening here, we can only assume Zac means 'how much more of public expressions of support for Palestine must we tolerate'
I've worked on housing & mental health in Islington & Hackney North for nearly 20yrs. The number of stories of indispensable support, advocacy, or simple acts of kindness from Corbyn or Abbott I hear about from clients has always been a consistent & pronounced feature
I live @ a 10 min walk from the border of Abbott (& Corbyn)’s constituencies. They are so palpably beloved by the ppl who *actually* deal with them regularly it is bananas.
'I don't think that the parliamentary party, myself included, gave either the impression or the reality of acknowledging Jeremy Corbyn's mandate and working as effectively as we could and giving him enough time to fail on his own terms'
All you racists who have found my mentions. Fuck you people to the deepest reaches of hell. All you pampered white people justifying this. Also fuck deepest reaches of hell. You're the same. You just don't realise it
It has been like this my entire life. The 'centrists' & 'sensible moderates' have handwrung & bullshat themselevs into supporting every massive atrocity & screamed treason at anyone who opposes bloodshed
The post-9/11-style generalized Islamophobia and bloodlust coming from people I thought I respected this week has been unbelievably shocking and jarring.
Amidst the relentless gloom of UK politics characterising both the Tories & Labour
@ZackPolanski
has emerged as an alternative voice, consistently presenting himself as an eloquent & principled spokesperson for decency & humanity
Watching as Britain's most successful racist conspiracy theorist & white supremacist has his views signal boosted & is warmly welcomed by mainstream commentators & celebs has been indescribably nauseating
Douglas Murray.
Has been employed by the same organisation that employed Tommy Robinson & Kate Hopkins - the far right Henry Jackson Society
Douglas Murray is Tommy Robinson with a posh accent & an Eton education
The Labour right love the 'free at the point of use' line cos it means they can avoid having to talk about the more fundamental & important qn of ownership
Wes Streeting says he would “die in a ditch” before a Labour government gives up on the founding principle of the NHS being free at the point of use
🔴 Exclusive interview with
@wesstreeting
by
@janemerrick23
Read here ➡️
BREAKING:
Rachel Reeves has scrapped Labour’s pledge to spend £28bn a year on green prosperity plan after weeks of fierce internal criticism
She says Labour will now ‘ramp up’ spending on green prosperity over course of Parliament - the £28bn figure appears to have been ditched
People like Madeley are secure on our morning telly shows in order to keep the national conversation & public opinion as dumb, angry & ill informed as possible
For a long time now, The Times has been a recycling bin for obscene right wing talking points so ppl who think they're far too sophisticated to ever quote the Mail or Sun can quote people like Parris instead
This is disgusting and just the latest example of The Times attacking GRT people — a minority who are never given a voice in the national press and are endlessly vilified.
Because our government isn't high-fiving Iran & saying,'You crack on & kill as many civilians as you like while we run PR cover for you & ship you as many weapons you want from your mass death wish list'
Why are people who rightly protest for
#Palestine
not also protesting against the execution of 127 political prisoners in fascist
#Iran
?
Iran uses
#Gaza
conflict as cover for mass executions
Iran persecutes women & ethnic, religious & LGBT+ minorities
I have today written to the government chief whip
@JulianSmithUK
regarding the disgraceful comments made by
@BorisJohnson
on
@LBC
today. I write for
@garycliffe1
@steven_walters4
and all of the other victims of child abuse in my constituency and those up and down the country.
Solidarity with Zack, whose principled & humane opposition to slaughter has seen him hounded on here all day by some of the worst people on the internet
I'll spell it out:
I'm the "type of Jew" who's proud to be Jewish & of my Judaism.
I'm the "type of Jew" that recognises injustice anywhere is injustice everywhere.
I'm the "type of Jew" that comes from a long tradition of left wing Jews that have campaigned against fascism.
What makes Zack so impressive is his sure footedness in navigating the tedious gotcha provocations from interviewers like Marr, whose main interest is generating heat rather than light
I had been wondering when the vilification of the Green Party would begin over their pro-ceasefire position.
Seems to have coalesced around 'sharing publically available information already in wide circulation is incitement'
Just deleted the post about the shameful behaviour by
@TheGreenParty
because I don't want to share there utter nonsense. But if they think it's helpful to encourage the targeting of MPs then you don't care about the issue at all. Stop it.
So people wealthy enough to rent in London but buy elsewhere in the country will benefit from driving up property prices in places they don't live, thereby disenfranchising people in communities they're not part of by further entrenching inequality
What a sick fucking system
I wish my flat in London was mine, but I will get there eventually,” says Katie Wilson, 37. She’s one of a new breed of London “rentlords” who rent in the capital while letting out a property elsewhere in the country
By far, the most diverse march I have ever attended. Extraordinary number of different communities represented. Can't remember anything quite like it before, including the anti-Iraq war demo 20yrs ago
What an incredible outpouring of humanity...
Despite the smears and threats, London sees hundreds of thousands of people marching for
#ceasefireNOW
and
#FreePalestine
Rishi Sunak's government has published the list of acceptable ID required for people to vote in the UK. Six of the Government-approved IDs are specifically targeted at older people, while several forms of ID widely carried by younger people are excluded.
They will then pivot to:
'Oh, you nasty lefties! They're only the government. What do you expect them to do? Being the government is so hard, guys. Give them a break!'
There's a subtle but crucial change in media tone towards Labour. You can hear it in the way Streeting was treated on Radio 4 just now, or read it in the Sun's manner when covering the reshuffle. The party is being treated like a government in waiting.
The Twitter therapy bros, man. Those smug therapist dudes who write epic self-satisfied threads abt how only they're smart enough & tough enough to do the REAL work of CHANGE others aren't cut out for
Breaking: A three-storey barge, which will be used to house migrants has arrived in Falmouth for repairs and renovations.
It is expected to be ready to house 500 people by mid-June.
I didn't ignore them actually, Lee.
I told them to go worry about racism in the Labour Party before they try to interfere with other parties.
And this time I'm calling them absolute hypocrites on the same day that Labour have openly invited a Tory MP.
Housing association houses are not the same as council houses. And if anyone has lived or worked with housing associations, you'd know what a crock of absolute shit they are
🚨 BREAKING: Chancellor Rachel Reeves confirms that the new government won't build any council homes.
Reeves told a press conference: "We need the private sector to build homes. We're not going to be in the business of building those homes directly".
(Source: BBC News)
Remembering when my wife first moved from Turkey, how hard it was for her to open a bank account. Even after we were married she was struggled to access certain banking services
Hilarious that Farage has a campaign to ensure *everyone* in the country has equal access to banking services…
I bet he definitely includes migrants with insecure status who are denied banking - leaving them often all the more under the financial control of traffickers
#r4today
This is a warning to anyone else who might be inclined to object to the precarious being ground to a pulp: you will never know peace again. We will hound you, dox you & screech at you until the end of your days
"Is this the end of your presenting career, Mr Lineker?"
Reporters ask Gary Lineker whether he has had any talks with the BBC or Director General Tim Davie over being taken off air in the wake of his comments about the government's migration policy.
Labours Shadow Home Secretary Yvette Cooper struggles to justify why refugees fleeing war in Ukraine should be treated differently to refugees fleeing war in Afghanistan.
#GMB
"I think it's clear that Keir Starmer is to the right of where David Cameron was in 2010"
@TheGreenParty
Deputy Leader
@ZackPolanski
on Keir Starmer's Labour Party
If I had had the press hound a scientist to their death in order to deceive voters in to supporting an illegal war that killed millions & destabilised an entire geopolitical region, I would simple stay silent about 'nastiness' & 'intimidating behaviour'
.
@campbellclaret
accuses Green Party of "nastiness" for publishing a list of MPs who did not vote for a ceasefire and says it is 'intimidating' behaviour and draws comparisons with the killings of Jo Cox and David Amess
#TrevorPhillips
📺 Sky 501
Exclusive: Labour has U-turned on it's promise to end the charitable status of private schools
The party will still apply 20% VAT on private school fees if it wins the general election, but it will not scrap tax exemptions associated with charity status
We all just gonna forget that Cooper herself was the first out to mainstream & legitimise the Tory attack on Linker, throwing herself at the morning news shows to rehearse her disappointed Head Teacher act?
Shadow home secretary Yvette Cooper has accused the government of using sports presenter Gary Lineker's comments on British immigration law as a 'distraction'.
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Excellent analysis from Aditya, as always. The real story in Uxbridge is not as press & parties are framing it as about ULEZ, but about local democracy & the disastrous consequences of Labour's centralised 'command & control' imposition of candidates
Repulsive. Hope she's caught pronto. This is the sort of behaviour that's made seem permissible when far right talking points & framings are normalised in mainstream political discourse
We just told the Corporate Jet Investor conference that it's time to ban private jets.
There was boo'ing and hissing but we were simply speaking the truth.
Private jets are the pinnacles of climate injustice.
Time to
#BanPrivateJets
.
Know what? All my life I've had the ethical seriousness of my political commitments derided by establishment stooges like Nick who'd sooner see the planet burn to get a cheap jibe against someone like me on the telly & that does something to you over time. It drives you a bit mad
One of the only people left in the Labour Party I actually like. Bet the briefcase freaks are searching high & low for any excuse to smear / suspend / expel her
“This is no time for a novice.” How The Sun’s Rebekah Brooks chose this killer line for Gordon Brown’s conference speech.
Listen to the latest episode of Political Currency 🎧
In
@thegreenparty
we will always stand up for the democratic right to protest - what's the point of a Labour party that won't?
The government have created vague laws that are eroding our democracy.
The Metropolitan Police are under protecting and over policing.
Totally disgusting. Look at the casual violence & blatant racism that's been enabled by our political media class against Muslims. Absolutely ashamed this can happen in my hometown
"Dirty f***ing Muslims."
A man who claims to be an IDF soldier insults Muslims on the London underground and then squares up to a woman.
It's not clear when the video was filmed or what the further context was.
So Cambridge management which is *all* about 'world beating standards' and top class academic rigour etc is getting ready to pass legislation that will allow graduation without work being marked by teaching staff. Only takes a second to drop all the high-mindedness.
Labour won't be coming for Reform. They'll be adapting some of their policies on eg 'stop the boats'. But the thing that gets them out of bed in the morning is strawmanning to stomp on the left. Expect much more of this!
The Leader of the *OPPOSITION* saying “I don’t want to set up...rival strategies” to the Government.
He knows what the job of the Leader of the OPPOSITION is, right?
Just so we're all clear: it's now good & admirable to destroy property in pursuit of realising political aims
We can expect this new principle to applied fairly & universally
Before it was decommissioned at the start of the pandemic, I provided psych consultancy for a few yrs to a refuge in East London for homeless women *including trans women* fleeing DV. There were never *any* problems with trans women being included in the hostel
"Single-sex spaces should be protected"
Shadow domestic violence and safeguarding minister
@jessphillips
says not all women are the same and that there should also be "specialist spaces for transgender victims of domestic abuse"
📺 Sky 501 and YouTube
'Lying is OK if it's someone I approve of doing it. But I sincerely believe they'll stop once elected'
Amazing stuff. Amoral & cringingly credulous simultaneously
This is - by some measure - the most impressive event this Labour leadership has ever assembled. Guests inc CEO of Boots, senior counter terror officer, a terminal cancer patient... each one linked to a key offer to the public.
It's a big contrast to Sunak's speech on Monday..
Deafening silence across the globe on what's happening to the Armenians
They are not only being attacked & having their properties expropriated by Israeli settlers in Jerusalem but have been ethnically cleansed from Nagorno-Karabakh by Azerbaijan
Researchers gave homeless people $750 per month for a year, no questions asked. The recipients spent the money on food, housing, transportation, clothing, and health care. And after six months, only 12% of those who received funds were still homeless.
Keir Starmer could say right now that if he were to become PM, he would move heaven & earth to stop climate-wrecking
#Rosebank
oil field from going ahead. He has it within his power to help stop this climate crime - it's utterly irresponsible for him not to use it.
#StopRosebank
For god sake, can we please just start building council houses already!! Leaving housing provision to the private market has been proven over decades now to have failed catastrophically in every way
Are London's new build homes fit for purpose?
People who put their life savings into property in north London are now living in flats that are effectively worthless due to structural defects.
Understand Apsana Begum, Richard Burgon, Ian Byrne, Imran Hussain, Rebecca Long Bailey, John McDonnell and Zarah Sultana are the Labour MPs who voted against the two-child cap
#KingsSpeech
@conorobrien27
Ensuring we do as much low fee pro bono or work in low fee clinics as possible. It will be the poorest & most vulnerable - precisely those in most need - who will go without therapeutic support
In 1915-16 the Armenians were genocided by the Ottomans (a fact Turkey still does not recognise). In Sept this year, Azerbaijan began ethnically cleansing Areminains from Nagorno-Karabakh as the world stood by. Now Israeli settlers are confiscating their homes in Jerusalem
THE SETTLERS HAVE ARRIVED AT THE SITE. THE POLICE HAVE TOLD THE ARMENIAN COMMUNITY THAT THEY ARE THERE TO SECURE THE TAKEOVER OF THE PROPERTY BY THE SETTLERS, AND NOT TO MAINTAIN THE STATUS QUO.
There's an ever worsening homelessness crisis here in the UK. It's solvable at the stroke of a pen but political will is lacking. Please generously support the incredible work of
@streetskitchen
who feed & support so many each week
#SolidarityNotCharity
Remember the last Lab govt employed Prof David Nutt to carry out a review of drug harm. When he submitted his results & recommended treating drugs as a social rather than criminal matter, Lab sacked him & refused to implement his recommendations
NEW: 'The short answer is no': Asked if Labour would support the Scottish Government's drug decriminalisation plan, shadow chancellor Rachel Reeves said it doesn't 'sound like a good policy'