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@Chorus_pedals
Rob
9 months
The train companies keeping your money when your train is cancelled is good actually
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Harry Gray
9 months
Life is just a continual renewal of new stupid people not understanding how to be an adult.
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7 months
Labour these last few years - we’re not going to do anything, but let me tell you about the house I grew up in.
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Saul Staniforth
7 months
Angela Rayner: "When I was growing up I lived in a council house... now if you can get a council house its considered great real estate because you just cant get them anymore" So how many council houses have Labour said they'll fund/build if they win the next election? Zero
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If you were to draw a Venn diagram of people who voted for Matt Hancock in the jungle, and people who buy the Ladbaby Xmas single, you’d have a circle of the worst people in the country.
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It’s easy to laugh at this, but then you remember that Keir Starmer is more interested in winning this guy’s vote than reaching young people with left politics.
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Brexit voting man in white, "I've seen people entering this country and going straight down to the benefits office." #BBCQT
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9 months
People who don’t see the funny side of this shouldn’t get to vote.
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Labour, the party who - Don’t support striking workers - Oppose higher wages What’s the point in them lately?
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8 months
Thom Yorke is such an interesting study in how easy it was to be considered “left wing” in pre-crash, pre tories Britain. Basically against the Iraq War, and a typically reactionary FBPE dad on everything else if you check the timeline.
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Dr Shrimp Puerto Rico
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Found out Thom Yorke is a zionist. Insane shit.
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I’m fifty years time, Ken Loach’s films will still be culturally significant. This period in politics will be remembered for lost opportunity, no serious ideas, and the monopolisation of politics and media by comfortable people of modest talent.
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James O’Brien isn’t a journalist. He’s an entertainer for smug idiots. Both parties want to ban protest, but let’s have a posh man tell Keith in Barnsley he’s thick. Just insane that we’d think any of this matters.
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7 months
In a way, I welcome this, in that I just don’t think most normies will buy the idea that Charlotte Church is a vicious antisemite.
@SaulStaniforth
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The message is clear - if you're in the public eye and you stand in solidarity with the Palestinian people & against Israels genocide, you'll be smeared as an antisemite. So don't.
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7 months
I do wonder if a Starmer defeat will finally be the thing to make centrists realise that the 90s are over, and that it’s time to engage with a post crash, post austerity political economy.
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Matt Zarb-Cousin
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The Starmer project has fully shat the bed this week. If it carries on we might see the biggest political bag fumble of all time
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@cafreiman A pretty uncontroversial and defensible take. Maybe give us an actual counterpoint rather than “I’m an American and this is bad” *frowny face*
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@LordIanAustin As a hypocrite you won’t understand how this works, but she’s saying things that are straightforwardly true, and vindicated by the Forde Report.
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Who’d have thought eh? 😛
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The move by apparently all the political parties to delegitimise anti war activism as a basic stance is not only appalling, but totally unrepresentative of opinion in Britain, and further evidence that we live in a flawed democracy, objectively.
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Every Polly Toynbee column since 2010: “The Tories popularity is about to fall off a cliff. Labour can sweep to power if they adopt sensible policies”
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Yvette Cooper has the same politics as Hillary Clinton, and is admired by all the same people.
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Neither party are *ever* going to entertain taxing wealth, are they? What will it take?
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@helensclegel This is - and I’m not joking - the no longer practicing QC who represented murderer Levi Bellfield in the Milly Dowler case. He drew universal criticism for his pretty ruthless questioning of the family of the victim.
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Byline TV with special guest appearance by Supertanskii?!! Um nah. My last shred of respect for you guys has been rescinded.
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8 months
On the one hand, who cares, and on the other, interesting how Labour right tribalists are moral dullards who don’t see how throwing around antisemitism accusations might be taken as offensive.
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The Guardian are going with “The Forde Report is likely to revive bitter tensions” No. The tensions didn’t go away. No shit that people are bitter when there are injustices that are enacted with impunity. When did liberals forget about justice as a thing that people need?
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Probably the third time I’ve said this on here, but Giles Coren is the epitome of toxic class privilege, and most of his stuff reads like he’s baiting the editor to fire him.
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I can never work out which part of Rachel Reeves’ politics are on the left. A bit like Blair, Yvette Cooper, Wes Streeting and everyone else pushed down our throats by tie wearing media.
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The coming tragedy in UK politics is the egregious unpopularity of the tories delivering by default a right wing Starmer minority government and in the process crystallising the idea that Labour can only win by being right wing for another 20 years.
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Counterpoint- they didn’t change, and having popular left wing positions like nationalisation, free uni etc expunged from mainstream politics is evidence that we’re a flawed democracy where nothing changes without billionaire permission
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Zak
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Hard-left fruit loops unable to comprehend that people can change for the better. People like @Elliot_Conway1 , @Christian4BuryS and many others who’ve come to 🌹 should be lauded for their decency, guts & honesty. Elections are won by changing minds, not preaching to the choir.
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@SocialistFilthy @mrevgenylebedev @Keir_Starmer Surely time for Jeromly Cromblins to resign as an MP and just apologise
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I finally blocked this guy aka “Peaceful Labour Voter”. He’s replied to almost everything I’ve said every day for two weeks. Sad, pedantic, unfunny, passive aggressive stuff.
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@debbiesimone123 @Keir_Starmer Why is someone with a Rory Stewart hashtag the arbiter of who is and isn’t welcome in Labour?
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The post didn’t mention Corbyn, but as you raise the man, the movement that he headed is the only such thing in decades to raise questions of climate, inequality, imperialism, justice etc. If you’re happy that those things have gone away again, maybe you’re not serious.
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@Ghost_Dad_ The suggestion that Corbyn had talent or serious ideas has given me the biggest laugh of the day. Thanks.
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9 months
@JasonReidUK One of the worst things this government are doing in a competitive field.
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11 months
The harassing of Jeremy Corbyn to elicit condemnation/apology etc continues apace. It won’t ever end.
@ITVNewsPolitics
ITV News Politics
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'Do you condemn Hamas?' Former Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn refuses to say if he condemns Hamas but insists 'obviously all attacks are wrong' when questioned in Liverpool
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But also… why tf was a Mrs Thatcher statue commissioned? Who still needs ugly statues of powerful people in the year 2022?
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Tanskii and Russ getting together does raise a minor question - what’s the plural term for more than one grifter? As in “a murder of crows” that kinda thing.
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Labour in Manchester - net loss of 20%. Good in opinion polls, awful in actual election results lately.
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10 months
@xAlexTHFC Was he quick? No. Was he skilful? No. Did he score a lot? No. Did we love him? We did.
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@broseph_stalin So typical that Iain Dale then directs her away from answering the question. Britain’s media…
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11 months
This article is fuck all to do with the war crimes we support, and a lot to do with why tone and message discipline matters to liberals, so they can manage democracy and crush dissent.
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A centrist “Labour” chap has appeared a few times in my mentions today, to take me to task about the usual fairly predictable stuff. The very first tweet on his profile was a retweet of the Lib Dems. No further comment.
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@jrc1921 @emcnally96 Right wing politics excels at this. They’re able to be outraged by things working poorly and somehow not connect them to capitalism. And complain about the people who have structural answers.
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@AugustusCease17 @AyoCaesar Oh look - a bust of a Roman emperor (spelled wrong) expressing a reactionary opinion.
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7 months
I mean… he’s wrong. If you encircle a territory, control its utilities, and periodically murder the people with impunity, you haven’t “pulled out”.
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Daniel Berke
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Josh is back. Politely explaining that the Gaza Strip wasn't occupied for quite some time.... @afneil @jordanbpeterson
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@newswithchris @supertanskiii Satire is when you swear a lot and act like a bold insurgent when in reality you’re a humourless and thin skinned advocate for a completely toothless Labour Party with no detectable values or vision of a better country
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@jrc1921 When the change you want is all about creating a tone that middle class liberal Mums prefer
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Rough and ready take time - the “Progressive Alliance” is a useless form of bourgeois fantasy politics advocated for by people with nothing at stake who want a defanged left & the return of bourgeois respectability politics.
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@HeidiBachram Have a good day on the Tommy Robinson and Nigel Farage march tomorrow
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That’s a very roundabout way of saying that everything that was aired was true
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lee harpin
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Prior to broadcast of Al Jazeera's hit job on Jewish Labour members, @JewishLabour launched a major legal intervention to defend those targeted by the broadcaster. Mishcon de Reya were retained at significant cost & were key in stopping libellous remarks being aired.
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And his music is music for people who consider Christopher Nolan’s films very thoughtful.
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@JoeyL14 I looked down his TL, and his otherwise mostly good politics sort of underline the strangeness of this being the hill he wished to die on. Like ffs man - take the side of working people who are ripped off left and right. Fuck the train companies.
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The storm troopers have come to put a stop to Young Labour…
@YoungLabourUK
Young Labour
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We regret to inform you that access to the @YoungLabourUK Twitter account has been restricted until further notice. As an official channel for the Youth Wing of the Labour Party, we expect certain standards of behaviour from those with responsibility for this page’s output.
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Why do we still have to hear what Peter Mandelson thinks? Is there a demographic other than privately educated centrist media pundits who still care? The guys been disgraced several times over ffs.
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I love the idea that Tugenhadt - a neocon who lobbies for more military intervention - is the “left” of the Tory Party.
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This dude who Starmer wants instead of Emma Dent Coad literally has Matthew Stadlen in his campaign video 🤦‍♂️
@metecoban92
Mete Coban MBE
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The Tories are driving our country, our currency and our communities into the ground. It’s vital we put a stop to them. That’s why I’m standing to be Kensington’s next Labour MP.
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@helensclegel I think if Momentum had plotted a different course as an independent DSA type organisation who’ll work with socialists in Labour, they’d be far and away the most likely vehicle for a left of labour challenge. Instead they’re doomed to play out the eternal compromise of Labourism
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This person hasn’t gone out door knocking. “What are your policies?” “Pragmatism”
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@michaeljswalker It’s time we re-examined the Third Reich’s record on infrastructure development
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@shaun_vids I get what you’re saying about the possible structural component that makes his awfulness, but I’d argue that what we’re getting now is his authentic politics, rather than something he regretfully acquiesced to.
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The mateyness between Kay Burley and these Tory ghouls is sickening. Right wing political actors get nothing but an easy ride in UK media.
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There ought to be a law requiring wages stay in line with inflation at a bare minimum every April. Having to ask cap in hand every year is fucking bullshit.
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I wonder what it is about Diane Abbott and Meghan Markle that’s pissing off the flag and tradition folks so much these last few days
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One day, an honest accounting might show that “I care about antisemitism, but only on the left” isn’t actually a consistent and principled worldview.
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Nick Cohen writes the same column every week. The. Same. Column. His process is “How can I construct and savage a straw man of “The Left””.
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8 months
@AllyFogg If only there were an example in the world of people feeling slightly less safe than her because of their identity.
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10 months
I see the Labour left are back to their very profitable strategy of half heartedly apologising to people who hate them and want to see them defeated.
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@Streettough Boiling the piss of guys who retweet Will Stancil and Matthew Stadlen 🍿
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@lukeakehurst @HuffPostUKPol If you lived in Indonesia in the 60s, you’d cheer Suharto getting “more control” over the country and dealing with the leftists.
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@MattScottMusic I’ve no love for Starmer, but yes. Emphatically yes, because he’s Un-blinkered by Truss’ belief in Tory right/Hayekian economics producing growth and bringing down debt that frankly borders on magical thinking at this point
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@Powderf59550384 The lists I found funny initially. Then you realise he monitors them all day so he can harass people. Creepy asf
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Chris Williamson is a disturbingly cynical person, and wasn’t even on “the left” until he was about 50 and saw a niche there.
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When rail workers go on strike, we miss them. If Richard Madeley, Lord Sugar or Douglas Murray went on strike, no one would care.
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@carregydefaid A truly far left position would be the abolition of private property. In the UK, centre left things like nationalisation of transport and free uni are construed as far left.
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@helensclegel A lot of the greens are just a different shade of liberal, and when push comes to shove, they want the pre-2015 formation of politics back. Also - If Labour had maintained anywhere near a Corbyn level commitment to a Green New Deal, there’d truly be no point in the greens.
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@BareLeft @ayeshahazarika Not gonna lie, I’m taking this for future use.
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@Mukhtar_iam Yeah this stuff makes me uneasy. A lot of people are so compelled to jump into a war based solely on a sense of “Europeanness”, but are neutral on the suffering of people further afield, often aided and abetted by UK foreign policy.
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@RivkahBrown Maybe it's finally dawned on him that he sucks
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@adamjamesdavis_ “There are a lot of factors to take into consideration” says neckless, dead eyed gimp in front of his McMansion and supercars.
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@debbiesimone123 @Keir_Starmer You say they should be “flushed out”. I take it you’re not a fan of rules and due process then?
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@OvensComedy Lol. He’s definitely not mad.
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As someone who welcomes the royal family exposing themselves as nasty elitists, and becoming unpopular, I have to say I welcome Charles’ job performance thus far 🍿
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@scribblercat Contemptible response to some basic human decency
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@prwhittle “LiKe tHe 70s” say all the Tory voting boomers who grew up then and benefitted from better wages, more affordable housing and free uni, before voting to end all of it. Keep wondering why your kids are so far left. Take all the time you need.
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@DickPantis I heard reports that he passive aggressively muttered “Poo Pantis” before closing his front door, so I filed a police report on the grounds of incitement to violence.
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I can definitely see this happening in a state where the media and both major political parties collaborate to destroy popular grassroots politics lest it influence anything.
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@DavidHirsh @greg_herriett @GrumpyO77141291 Usually when you say “then we’ll chat”, you don’t immediately block someone.
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@MarksOfSatan It’s some sort of non-serious medical condition - oft speculated to be caused by their shallow gene pool.
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@AaronBastani Doesn't this kind of thing break ofcom rules? How is it the job of the anchor to posit that a non-violent political position is "distasteful"?
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@SaulStaniforth The well known unifier and team player Tom Watson
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13 years ago the answer to this kind of tight arsed, privet hedge, C of E concern was “let’s cut public spending and get tough on crime.” Maybe another 13 years will sort it out, who knows?
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@rdg_elliott What if you don’t like institutional racism and a campaign to surveil and terrorise members, members families and backbench MPs? What then?
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We can get rid of MPs democratically. We can’t get rid of British legacy media. That’s a much more serious democratic problem.
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If I was accused of something I hadn’t done, I’d want to come out and correct the record. The fact that they’re all being silent apart from that Luke Stanger character suggests they’re just grateful it was on Al Jazeera and not BBC. They want the truth buried.
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@Jessthelefty He’s resurrected the most socially conservative elements of new labour, like explicit support for the failed war on drugs and positioned Labour to the right of the tories on asylum and immigration.
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@AaronBastani Nick Cohen’s column could actually be written by AI. Old man complaining about an imagined left that’s never run anything in the UK outside of a few Sociology departments.
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@ArtCrunchy Clive’s comment was good, Dawn Foster’s was even better.
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@I_amMukhtar His lawyer is about as real as his marriage
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UK political anoraks: “Wow, this is extraordinary drama. Starmer has played a blinder here.” Sad, pathetic stuff. The worst people in the country congratulating each other.
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A hypothesis - Lee Harpin’s motivation for tweeting is almost always baiting leftists into saying things they shouldn’t with lies and insults. He’d like to be able to screenshot replies with the caption: “so much for the tolerant, kind left” or something 1/2
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@tempuracitizen I’d say this - people are allowed to not know political theory and be inconsistent. I get it. There are so many hours in the day, and only so many places you can put your energy. However, to be a zionist in 2024 is fucking disturbing, and indicates just a basic moral inadequacy
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@NapoleonSolo26 Yeah he’s rage replying to a lot of people. Guy likes his train company t & cs 🙄
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