@RuNoseP
“Picking on someone in the audience so meanly” yeah Trump had done nothing to deserve being picked on aside from *checks notes* spread a racist conspiracy theory about the then president’s birth
@LeftieStats
@nadinebh_
@Taj_Ali1
This is actually going to be very good if they do that- it might kick the remaining Labour leftists into actually organising against the party rather than trying to change it from within
@KatyMontgomerie
As much as I don’t like the Lib Dems they did the right thing here- letting people who directly oppose actual principles in your party and tolerating them is established to hold is exactly the reason Labour are so awful now
@orenbarsky
@richimedhurst
The pro Israel couple interpreted “Israel we’re good but the other team were better” as “OMG I love Hamas 😍😍😍😍”, but sure it’s the young man who had no knowledge of the issue
@AyoCaesar
He’s probably a nicer person than Starmer and Sunak but that is a very low bar. I’m not falling for it though- he maintains the coalition was a good idea and helped engineer austerity
@raceyemu
Weird to think that years ago Tony Blair of all people allegedly stopped Corbyn from being deselected/losing the whip- even he knew removing him wasn’t worth it
@HLeeHurley
She hates her constituents, I remember back in 2019 she managed to single-handedly convince one of my friends to vote Lib Dem because she was so horrible to them
@keewa
It’s a win win for him in any election circumstance- if he wins he gets to be a lawmaker and if he loses he gets to pressure the government from the right while still pretending to be “anti establishment”
@gamray
Right wingers hate Owen Jones and want an excuse to dunk on him, Edwards’s guilt despite having nothing to do with the Sun’s allegations is a convenient sound bite for the worst people
@AllNaz1s
I identify as a libertarian socialist- to avoid misconceptions of being lumped in with American Libertarians I always say “socialist” afterwards
@supertankiii
Rayner’s been massively disappointing but I don’t think she actually agrees with 99% of the labour right’s changes, she’s just smelled power and has reluctantly gone along with it rather than fight for change
@LeftieStats
Corbyn winning Islington north, Ashworth losing, Streeting on knife edge, Starmer at risk next time, 4 greens, multiple pro Gaza voices that aren’t George Galloway- there have been some good results for us
@I_amMukhtar
Wow almost as if the far right are liars and culture war stokers and we should automatically disregard any opinions or grievances they hold
@AyoCaesar
Actually did something about a bigoted faction, consistently good on Israel-Palestine, easily the most leftward voice in the current system, far better plans on climate change than the other parties
@ICanSeeForever1
Idk- he doesn’t outright say “yeah I agree with him” he leaves it vague on purpose but he’s still quite charitable to him as an individual
@LukasMukasPukas
No you see Galloway actually meaningfully challenges the establishment politics by *checks notes* agreeing 100% with the establishment on everything except Palestine
@raceyemu
Oh yeah Blair is an awful human but also realized that blindly declaring war on the left was a fucking stupid thing to do. I don’t think Blair the person is to the left of Starmer but Blair the politician is
@SocialistVoice
Starmer always avoids any media event that will actually meaningfully challenge him. The only person he could probably beat in a debate of the major leaders is Sunak- this is why he’s ducking out
@Jackiew80333500
Not with Galloway- the rest of the left should unite but he is toxic and couldn’t even retain his own seat. We now have pro Palestine left voices without his awful views
@agirlcalledlina
Reeves in particular I genuinely would never have guessed Labour if you were to give me a list of interviews and her beliefs out of context without her party- Streeting and Kendall have some sob stories they use to try and appeal to leftists but Reeves is just a full fledged Tory
@SoozUK
Israel supporters have an insane victim complex. “Israel were not as good at football as the other side” apparently translates to “OMG I love Hamas 😍” or something in their heads
@C0d3C455
@epiczamasu1
Rowling was especially interesting as the right thought she was a woke SJW obsessed with making everything gay and PC whereas the left correctly thought she was trying to capitalise on seeming like a lib hero without doing anything
@VenusStrut
@Lewchube
It’s the most frustrating part about the game, pretty much all of the story doesn’t happen until the final act. Genuinely quite grating when playing through
@jrc1921
@jeremycorbyn
He’s normally too nice to shit talk his former “colleagues” so it’s actually quite satisfying him genuinely enjoy some fun at their expense
@KierHardlie
@lordofintent
He’s just an all around solid guy I think, one of the few to not initially endorse Corbyn in 2015 to actually go “yeah fair play dude’s policies are solid and I support them”
@Capsandnumbers
@BareLeft
I’m not saying it indicates sociopathy but the body language just feels very detached from the words coming from her mouth. Credit where it’s due in that the words are graceful but even if her congratulations are genuinely sincere she seems furious IMO
@NoJusticeMTG
Yeah I really don’t like her but if nothing else she’s smart enough to see where the wind is blowing and more of her colleagues should have taken a note of her actions
@MsUngovernable
Didn’t she describe herself as a socialist? I know not everyone who describes themselves as socialist actually is but I’m pretty sure she said socialism was the only answer a while ago- her being neoliberal is news to me
The difference between me and the average centrist voter is that unlike them I actually listened to trans people when they said “voting Labour will actually hurt us please don’t do it”
@hallofeyes
She said something similar when David Amess’s murderer was revealed to have included a list of 200+ MPs including her about how she couldn’t believe she was being targeted. Like it’s obviously fucking shocking to receive a death threat but she’s made both those murders about HER
@ToryFibs
They’ll still get a majority IMO but yeah they’re finally getting a tiny bit of scrutiny and this is a preview of what they’ll be like in power to a lot of people, not surprised people are being turned off them
Duffield knows and has admitted multiple times that her personal safety is not under threat, she is just so unable to handle criticism that she hides on twitter instead of taking questions
Rosie Duffield's own words on attending hustings
"i knew that a particular group of mostly forner labour members were going to stage a few noisy protests against me and they did when I had my campaign launch and that's right, that's ok, the police and my security team kept me
@SoozUK
Yeah him being boring has never been the problem, almost all politicians are boring. I like him but I won’t pretend that Jeremy Corbyn is exactly the most interesting person I’ve ever heard of. Personality politics are just so weird
@sable_king
@PokemonContexts
Yeah I view most of the Ghost type Pokédex entries in particular as more fables than proven science. A lot of them even have the pretext of “it is said in legend”. Obviously the majority of Pokédex entries are intended to be some form of canon but a fair amount are clearly BS
@owenjonesjourno
Honestly the lettuce stunt isn’t funny in and of itself but knowing that she genuinely fucking hates it and it gets under her skin makes it better
@AlexanderBrewis
@LeftieStats
Aye, they also formed a government with the tories and broke their promises on tuition fees. Their policies are better than Labour and the tories at the moment but you genuinely cannot trust them
@LeftieStats
Anecdotally but very few people I know who voted Labour actually like the party but were genuinely fucking terrified of giving the tories any more power and didn’t think Greens or independents stood a chance- I reckon a large number of them will gradually oppose them
@vanillaopinions
A dude in 2016 almost did but got arrested- and the secret service are super protective of him. I’m surprised this even happened in the first place, someone on his staff must (understandably) hate his guts
@speakoutsister
If everyone cared about JK Rowling’s opinion then when she endorsed Labour in 2010 they would have won- and she was far more well liked then. The media overestimates how much people care about her opinions
@MattD2099
@MyArrse
People hate Tim Martin because he’s a Tory who doesn’t pay his staff enough, Wetherspoons itself is pretty popular for a night out of cheap food and drink
@vicderbyshire
She is not unsafe btw, she’s just looking for sympathy votes from uninformed voters who won’t know about her views on trans rights or anything else but will see this out of context and go “aww poor Rosie”