"2020 was an awful year. But this isn't just bad luck, as the prime minister would like us to believe. What we're seeing now are the consequences of
@BorisJohnson
's decisions. The slowness. The indecision. The incompetence" –
@Keir_Starmer
#FEPSFAB21
🚨🚨 NEW FABIAN REPORT 🚨🚨
2 million older voters who did not support Labour in 2019 would consider doing so now.
This is one of the findings of our latest report ‘A mature approach – How can Labour reconnect with older voters’
Find out more in the 🧵 below…
NEW POLLING
A nationwide Fabian Society &
@YouGov
poll shows Labour is ahead in a subgroup of 125 target seats the party needs to win in England & Wales
LAB leads CON by 9 percentage points in the 125 seats - LAB 43, Conservative 34
1/5
New: Trump HUD Secretary Ben Carson believes the Kavanaugh sexual assault allegations are part of a centuries old Socialist plot that began in England with something called the Fabian Society.
“The Tories have become a high tax party. Why is that? It’s because they’ve become a low growth party … You’ve got the find the money from somewhere” -
@RachelReevesMP
#fepsfab22
We're crowd-sourcing ideas for what Keir Starmer & the Labour party should do over the next 12 months. So far we've had policy suggestions of UBI, electoral reform & the green new deal. What do you want to see?
Take our survey now
What do
Keir Starmer
Angela Rayner
Anneliese Dodds
Lisa Nandy
Nick Thomas-Symonds
Rachel Reeves
have in common?
THEY ARE ALL FABIANS
Join them, join the Fabians
We’re pleased to have
@AngelaRayner
opening our event & it’s brilliant to hear her say that she promises that under a Labour government the self-employed will never be forgotten again like they were during the pandemic.
“Both Keir and Angela exemplify the best of Fabian values in the way they combine such passion for social justice with a hard-headed practicality.
The Labour party and the country will be well served by two inspiring Fabians leading the British left.”
🌹"From day one, a Labour government will strengthen workers’ rights and undo the damage the Conservatives have inflicted on working people."
Read
@AngelaRayner
's piece from the summer 2022
#FabianReview
24 hours in A&E isn’t just a TV programme, it’s an experience people are having in our hospitals…12 years of Tory government have left our NHS in a perilous state -
@wesstreeting
#fepsfab22
141 Fabians elected!
From every corner of the country, brilliant Fabians will be shaping the future of the left in parliament. We can't wait to work with you all!
To all Fabians who stood yesterday, whether elected or not, you are the backbone of our movement. Your commitment
‘We should strain every sinew to restore kindness and respect in public debate. Most British people do not want the vitriol’ -
@YvetteCooperMP
#FEPSFabSummer
💡We're crowd-sourcing ideas for what Keir Starmer and the Labour party should do over the next 12 months. Tell us what you think.
Click the link to have your say.
Another dark day for our democracy.
From everyone at the Fabian Society, our heartfelt condolences to the family, friends and colleagues of Sir David Amess MP
Men need to become better allies for women. Beyond the corridors of Westminster and the bright lights of Hollywood, many women are suffering in silence -
@SadiqKhan
#Fab18
“It probably is true to say that I’ve moved to the left as I’ve got older. It's partly that times are different & it's also that I’ve become much more persuaded of the need for bold state action.” -
@kate_murray
interviews
@Andrew_Adonis
>>
#FabianReview
🚨 MAJOR NEW REPORT 🚨
Support Guaranteed: The roadmap to a National Care Service, supported by
@unisontheunion
This is a comprehensive plan for how to deliver on
@UKLabour
's ambition to create a National Care Service in England
To mark the 25th anniversary of John Smith’s death today we re-publish his pitch to be Labour leader from 1992. It is still a very powerful statement of democratic socialism
Don’t miss our John Smith memorial lecture by
@tom_watson
tomorrow evening
‘Every Tory government leaves the country in a worse place than it found it, every Labour government has the lot of improving it - and we will do it again’, says
@NickTorfaen
#FEPSFAB21
Labour will be setting out an alternative to inspire people,
@wesstreeting
tells
#fepsfab22
. “It’s not enough for the Tories to lose the next general election - Labour needs to win it.”
Shadow chancellor
@RachelReevesMP
: “Waste and cronyism goes to the heart of this government and who they govern for - their friends and a very small part of society. Keir and I want to govern for the whole country in the national interest”
#fepsfab22
"Yes we have left the EU, that issue is settled. But we will always be European. And pro-European. And the Labour party will always be an internationalist party." –
@Keir_Starmer
#FEPSFAB21
🐢THE FABIAN LEADERSHIP ESSAYS
First up, here's Rebecca Long-Bailey and her four-point plan for power:
@RLong_Bailey
prioritises:
✅ Aspirational socialism
✅ A Green Industrial Revolution
✅ Empowering our movement
✅ A democratic revolution
Asked which Labour policies in government she’s most proud of,
@KateGreenSU
says lifting 1.1m children out of poverty between 97 and 2010. And SureStart centres.
#FEPSFAB21
Labour to rule out pact with SNP
We’re excited to be hosting
@ScottishLabour
leader
@AnasSarwar
for a Fabian Society in Westminster lecture on Monday
Exclusive to Fabian members
‘The Home Secretary talks tough but when the going gets tough she’s nowhere to be seen...The government is lurching from one crisis to another’...
@NickTorfaen
#FEPSFAB21
Never have the British people been asked to pay so much in tax for so little in return in public services, says
@RachelReevesMP
at our northern conference.
We‘re delighted to announce the winner of this year’s best article is
@GloriaDePiero
for ‘smashing the class ceiling’.
“Labour must not only speak for the working class, it must speak from the working class too” >> read it here
#FabManc
Fabians are at the heart of the new government. Unfortunately this means that some members of our Executive Committee must step down in order to fulfil their new roles on the frontbench in the House of Commons and House of Lords.
We are incredibly grateful for the massive
Ofsted resources would be better used looking at areas like remote learning, catch-up provision and wellbeing, rather than returning to routine inspections in these extraordinary times -
@wesstreeting
#Fabians20
‘Chris Grayling has done more than Karl Marx and Jeremy Corbyn combined to make the case for re-nationalisation of the railways’ -
@Andrew_Adonis
#Fab18
"We need a relentless focus on how well public money is spent, not just how much. The Conservatives have wasted and mismanaged billions in this crisis without batting an eyelid." –
@AnnelieseDodds
#FEPSFAB21
"We have to be clear, crisp and confident in what we have to say, and show people there is an alternative to this dreadful government" -
@EmilyThornberry
#FEPSFAB21
The Fabian Society, a gradualist socialist organisation, was founded
#OnThisDay
1884. Famous Fabians include George Bernard Shaw, Emmeline Pankhurst, Sidney and Beatrice Webb, R. H. Tawney, Clement Attlee, Jawaharlal Nehru, Ellen Wilkinson, Tony Benn and Tony Blair.
- 8500 more mental health professionals to support 1 million more people a year
- Every community will have a mental health hub for young people
- And under Labour spending on mental health will never be allowed to fall
#FEPSFAB22
🌹 Congratulations to the new leader of
@UKLabour
and member of the Fabian Society executive committee
@Keir_Starmer
Read Keir’s leadership essay ‘uniting our movement’
Congratulations to Fabian member
@SadiqKhan
on his re-election as
@MayorofLondon
.
Ahead of the election, Sadiq answered our questions for the Fabian Review, take a look at what he had to say
We’re so very sad to hear of the sudden death of Jack Dromey MP. He was a towering figure of the British left and a much-loved member of the Fabian Society.
‘The British people are more tolerant, outward-looking and progressive than the government ruling over us. The challenge is to make those voices heard standing up against a no deal Brexit’ - Gordon Brown
@thefabians
@hopenothate
#GBUnity
Labour leader
@Keir_Starmer
: “This self indulgent Tory party is having a fight about a leader they should’ve known from the start is not fit for office”
#FEPSFAB22
After
#keirstarmer
’s speech General Secretary
@andrew_harrop
said "It's promising that Keir has committed Labour to four vital economic priorities: prosperity, security, equality and long-termism. He showed that only an active and ambitious state can achieve those goals"
‘You get a very good education in a comprehensive school - I am passionately pro comprehensive education’ -
@KateGreenSU
in conversation with
@schooltruth
#FEPSFAB21
"One of most immediate lessons we need to learn from the US election, is don't let a populist leader define what the country believes in or stands for" -
@EmilyThornberry
#FEPSFAB21
The new, younger Labour membership is looking for leadership that provides answers and security in the changing world we live in - and I worry that by leaving the European model, we let them down. And we lose trust for one, two or more generations. -
@SebDance
#Fab18
CALL FOR EVIDENCE: Roadmap to a national care service
The Fabian Society is seeking evidence and reform proposals to inform our inquiry on the journey to a new care service for England
Supported by
@unisontheunion
@wesstreeting
Asked about the ‘1% pay rise’
@DrRosena
points out that we stood on our doorsteps for 10 weeks in a row clapping for those who saved lives, including Boris Johnson for saving his life, this is nothing more than a slap in the face
#RAKFabians
Most important thing we can do to ensure gender equality?
The next time there's a general election we need to make sure it's Labour that wins -
@SadiqKhan
#fab18
We're excited to announce that the Fabian New Year Conference will take place virtually on Saturday 16 January.
Joining us will be, Leader of the Labour Party and former Fabian exec member, Keir Starmer.
Tickets on sale today, starting at £10 for members
NEW: 95% of the people pulled into poverty by planned Universal Credit cuts will come from working or disabled households according to our new research launched today with
@standardlifefdn
📚
We will win the next election with a narrative of hope not despair… We are in the better lives business not the hairshirt business -
@Ed_Miliband
on Labour’s offer on the environment and climate change
#FEPSFABNYC23
The Fabian Society mourns the passing of our former General Secretary and Chair Baroness Shirley Williams
She contributed hugely to our work, one of the countless causes and movements she championed in an epic political life
Very sad to hear of the passing of my inspirational predecessor Shirley Williams - general secretary of
@thefabians
1960-63, chair 1980-81
Condolences to all her friends and family
A true loss to centre left politics
𝗙𝗔𝗕𝗜𝗔𝗡𝗦 𝗦𝗧𝗔𝗡𝗗𝗜𝗡𝗚 𝗙𝗢𝗥 𝗣𝗔𝗥𝗟𝗜𝗔𝗠𝗘𝗡𝗧
Labour's candidate for Finchley and Golders Green is former Fabian executive committee member
@sarahsackman
. Good luck from the Fabians!
📕NEW REPORT LAUNCH📕
Today we launch 'A Good Life In All Regions: Uniting Our Country To End Poverty' the final report of the Commission on Poverty and Regional Inequality.