Thank you
@BBCNews
for finding these everyday Chilean voters to discuss whether Chileans really want the socialist leader they just elected! And yes, they are related
They monstered Corbyn for years & after he says he’ll resign the media produces this video basically eulogising how principled & decent he always has been. It’s like when Tony Benn was asked how he became a national treasure: “Because they think I’m harmless now”
From activist and rebel, to Leader of the Opposition - here's how Jeremy Corbyn rose to power and how his losses in the
#GE2019
unfolded.
More on the
#GeneralElectionResults
here:
A pregnant employee of Mike Ashley’s was so scared of losing her zero hours job she gave birth in a warehouse toilet. She cut the umbilical cord with a box cutter & went back to work a few minutes later. That’s the sort of country Mike Ashley is happy with - look who angers him.
US health insurance giant takes over 37 London GP practices, adding them to the 22 primary care services it already runs in the UK - and despite denials Matt Hancock's health white paper will make such privatisations by stealth more likely. Full story in new Private Eye, out now.
If you think Labour would have it easier in the media with a different leader, look at the wrecking job they've managed to do on this gentle 70 year old who talks about the wisdom of homeless people and how he gets up every day to fight against children starving
Andy Burnham has been re-elected with 76% of the vote, including 80% of the vote in the Manchester city area - nearly 87,000 votes against 9,000 for the Tories. Manchester is red
I saw a tweet calling the British media the “pedophile defence force”, then moments later saw that the BBC was going to Alan Dershowitz for first comment on Ghislaine Maxwell lol
What a thing to hear a BBC journalist openly admit that partition was “literally designed” to keep one group of people politically subjugated and another group of people at the top
"Northern Ireland was literally designed, its borders were designed, so that wouldn't happen"
@lewis_goodall
explains why the 2022 Stormont elections "already are historic"
Solidarity to the dockers of Durban, South Africa, who are refusing to unload goods from a ship owned by the Israeli state - a people who know what apartheid looks like, and continue to resist it.
Many Labour members in Gtr Manchester are saying they’ve never experienced anything like the support Andy Burnham’s getting. If his vote holds as Labour cracks nationally, the lesson couldn’t be clearer: people back you when you don’t politely defer to the Tories, you defy them
Thank you to family and mates seeing London Bridge and asking if I’m alright, I’m fine! That bloke who wrestled the knife out of the guy’s hand shouldn’t have to pay for another pint in his life though
Scenes as
@zarahsultana
shows her student debt in the House & asks Tory frontbenchers to "look her in the eye" & tell her its fair that "working class kids are forced to take on this crushing debt when Boris "went from the playing fields of Eton to a free education at Oxford”
It seems like Salford Council, led by the socialist, Corbyn-supporting Mayor Paul Dennett, has actually bucked the national trend by *gaining* seats, including taking a Tory safe ward for the first time in history
The difference being that Sunak fobbing off a D Day memorial *is* insane, whereas in the Corbyn years the press were enforcing the insanity - like measuring Corbyn’s bow at the Cenotaph to discuss whether he was displaying adequate Respect
An elected Young Labour rep quit over Starmer’s pro-war crime stance over the weekend and found out yesterday, via Twitter, that her family members had been killed in Gaza. Today, this is what people around Starmer are briefing. The sheer evil of it is so difficult to comprehend.
Socialists are having their hair ripped out by white supremacist street gangs, police have cut the indigenous flag from their uniforms, the opposition leader said indigenous people will never run Bolivia again. Time for a right-wing liberal piece about how the left lacks nuance
BREAKING: 91.5% of
@CWUnews
members in BT - 9,000 of whom are call centre workers - have voted to strike against a real-terms pay cut. If action take place, it will be the first national call centre workers’ strike in British history.
Section 44 of the Employment Rights Act gives you the right to walk away from unsafe work, and Starmer should be shouting this from the rooftops. There is *no point* of a Labour Party which doesn't use laws it has fought for in the past to save working class lives today.
BREAKING: The Court of Appeal has quashed the convictions of Ricky Tomlinson, Arthur Murray and the Shrewsbury 24, who were arrested during the national building workers strike of 1972. They are now formally - as they always have been - innocent men.
Rebecca Long-Bailey was undermined & humiliated because she stuck up for teachers unions. She shared an article which contained an objective fact: that two vicious occupation forces learn tricks from each other. Her sacking is a cowardly act and she deserves our solidarity.
In Preston, the pioneering left-wing council led by the Corbyn-supporting Matt Brown, have also bucked the national trend by retaining all their seats.
BREAKING: 40,000 BT engineers and call centre staff will take national strike action on 29 July & 1 August against an imposed real terms pay cut.
@DaveWardGS
: “We won’t be having bosses using Swiss banks while workers are using food banks.
“Workers are saying enough is enough.”
In 2017, Corbyn was our leader, our manifesto was radical, our position on Brexit was to respect the referendum. In 2019, Corbyn was our leader, our manifesto was radical, our position on Brexit was to have a second referendum. Can we get a bit fucking real about this?
The dumbest people on here have to be the ones who see bad situations in capitalist societies and say “this was what living under socialism would be like”
What sort of fucked up environment where a young Muslim lad was having wine forced down his throat and nobody around him wanted to say it was scumbag behaviour or to step in and stop it? Absolutely vile
A rise of £1,523 in a single year. A year from today, people who are alive now will be dead because of this choice, and the people in charge couldn’t care less.
Got my Labour conference pass application rejected on the basis that I don’t have a “relevant portfolio”. Guess I should’ve done PR for Deliveroo or Uber instead of working for posties, BT engineers and call centre workers, I might’ve stood a better chance!
I hope Liz Truss’s poor disappointed leftist dad is taking some solace watching his daughter stumble into a situation where she’s somehow fighting the USA, the IMF and the Bank of England
To think that all of tonight’s chaos in Westminster was because Keir Starmer couldn’t support a motion which said that the Palestinians are the victims of collective punishment.
Senior Labour officials laughing at the "truly repulsive" Diane Abbott for crying in a toilet, mocking Dawn Butler for daring to mention racism in Labour, and saying Iain Duncan Smith was "better than most of our shadow cabinet". These people ran Labour until very recently.
Gary Neville talking about the Tory Party to the CWU: "You cannot fight a fair fight with these people. You have to do everything you can to beat them. You have to find a way to win."
Breaking: bar workers at the Ivy House, London, have won union recognition, an end to zero-hours contracts, and the reinstatement of four sacked colleagues, after coming out on strike for three days straight. Pass it on to every bar worker you know - the union makes you strong.
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
If Rashford can find the hours to do this serious investigative work in the morning and play premier league football in the evening, what are most politicians and journalists, whose job is meant to be this stuff, doing with their time?
Wanted to share key points from a conversation with
@Chartwells_UK
this morning.
There is a meeting scheduled between Chartwells and
@educationgovuk
today.
(1)
Sat in a pub near the City of London hearing five suits having shit banter about free broadband, ‘comrade Corbynski’ (in a Russian accent) and shooting striking railway workers, can’t emphasise quite how much I want these people to be defeated and soon
Laughing so much that Corbyn obviously won the Patchwork Foundation MP of the year award so they decided to just not do the award this year and said they’d let people know their judges’ choices
In a pasta place in Manchester listening to some guy selling the Lib Dems chances to the Italian waiter, guy then smugly asks who ‘young Europeans’ will be voting for, the waiter goes ‘Labour. I’m a Communist, I was brought up with Marx & Lenin. Corbyn isnt enough, but...Labour’
From a mate of mine who is a train guard...
"I'm issuing a challenge to Theresa May! Sit in standard class on a packed train eating a cheap meal deal from Londis & talk to other passengers & answer their questions. Because that's what Corbyn is doing on my train.
#manofthepeople
"
How sickening to know in your heart that the politicians responsible for the avoidable deaths of 1,820 human beings in a single day will face no consequences whatsoever because our political and media class is nearly unanimously hostile to the very idea of scrutinising Tories
This is the tweet Dawn Foster wrote that I presume Giles Coren thought justified a bout of indulgent gloating over her death several days ago. What a pathetic, mean-spirited and weak ruling elite we have in this country
Given how rude, aggressive and embarrassingly unprepared every single broadcaster was to the polite, calm and knowledgeable Mick Lynch today, my favourite line from him was muttering “we’ve gone off into the world of the surreal” to himself as Kay Burley began ranting
Preston Council flew the ANC flag in the eighties - and the Palestinian flag in 2014. Voters weren't put off and Preston is still very red, because northerners aren't the amoral, hateful caricatures southerners parachuted into northern safe seats seem to want them to be
Solidarity with outsourced workers at Lewisham Hospital who have taken wildcat strike action because ISS havent paid them. These people are risking their lives for us but because their bosses can’t be arsed paying them they cant pay rent & their kids starve. Despicable
Wonder where this article from The Scum mocking a sick woman hours before she died has gone? Fuck their weasel words, they can honestly burn in hell and we need massive change in how our press operates
Even for the Met, telling women not to walk alone at night in Clapham and Brixton while serving officers are getting their Kent gardens dug up is a new low
When you try to find out if any MPs were bothered when David Starkey went on TV during the 2011 riots to rant about how they started because "the whites have become black" and about how Enoch Powell was right
The positive potential of Erasmus can’t be denied, but so was EMA for practically my entire friendship group as a teenager. Where were the liberal tears when it was being scrapped in 2010?
"Jeremy Corbyn blocked Keir Starmer from accepting a highly-paid second job with upmarket law firm Mishcon de Reya at the height of the Brexit crisis four year ago, according to senior Labour sources."
If you told me when Theresa May announced her resignation that exactly one year later, tens of thousands of people would be dead because of a prime minister who openly accepts a state of legal exception for government figures, I’d have said you were laying it on far too thick
Rest in peace Geoffrey Servante, the last known surviving British volunteer of the International Brigades, who has died at the age of 99. It is up to us now to uphold the memory of these heroes.
No pasaran! ❤️💛💜
For anything to run in Britain, there has to be an iron-cast guarantee that MPs’ mates have to get billions of pounds for unclear reasons and everything has to be expensive and difficult to normal people to guarantee this situation
When Rob Flello was a Labour MP he filibustered a bill that would give agency workers the same rights as permanent staff, sat on an anti-abortion committee, and voted against gay marriage. How deeply reassuring that he feels uncomfortable in Jeremy Corbyn’s Labour Party
Zarah Sultana walking onstage to people chanting her name at a packed
@eiecampaign
Birmingham rally: “Feels like I’m walking into a UFC match - bring me Priti Patel or someone.”
Great to see Jeremy Corbyn, the nasty man of British politics and stain on Labour’s conscience, got destroyed so sensible Labour peers can call for concentration camps to be built on national radio and get zero pushback on it
Lord West on Broadcasting House talking about what we do with asylum seekers arriving by boat “I can see we might need to concentrate them whether be it in a camp or something...” So that would be a concentration camp then
Not even a single remark about England taking the knee from the groups of Lancashire lads packing out the pub I’m in because most people have no issues with it at all and aren’t the giddy racist nonces who get to set the agenda in this country
Good on Ian Byrne, who won by 210-198 against a filthy campaign from people who probably should be thankful they’ll never need to answer why, during an historic cost of living crisis, their core contribution was trying to get rid of a prominent, effective anti-hunger campaigner.
Yeah, the socialist backbencher who spent three decades in complete political isolation is the thin skinned one, not the people who threw a tantrum and quit a party after about three years of not being entirely in charge of something