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Edmund Griffiths

2 years

Ok seriously folks, let's not balls this one up a second time. When the Russian anti-war left seize the winter palace that is your cue to _overthrow your own governments as well_

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Edmund Griffiths

@EdmundGriffiths

2 years

Dynasts when they catch a glimpse of the #people

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Edmund Griffiths

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4 years

Problem is in these situations that governments act too late. A ban on travel from Europe to the Americas could have had real public health benefits; but the time to do it was 1492

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Edmund Griffiths

@EdmundGriffiths

5 months

Somehow stumbled into a bit of twitter that consists of hundred-follower accounts excommunicating each other for failing to acknowledge each other as pope

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Edmund Griffiths

@EdmundGriffiths

2 years

And where did this man get the idea that people in Dover needed to 'take up arms' against refugees? Surely we'll never know

The Times and The Sunday Times

@thetimes

2 years

🔺 BREAKING: A man has thrown petrol bombs in an apparent attack on a migrant centre in Kent

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Edmund Griffiths

@EdmundGriffiths

2 years

The invasion of Ukraine is wrong bc it kills & maims innocent people, displaces them from their homes, destroys infrastructure, poisons the environment, brings us closer to cataclysmic world war, & can't solve the problems it pretends it solves. Not bc this time it's the Bad Guys

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Edmund Griffiths

@EdmundGriffiths

2 years

(The people when we catch a glimpse of #dynasts )

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Edmund Griffiths

@EdmundGriffiths

4 years

This coming from the Health Secretary is a much bigger issue than the original Dominic Cummings story, to my mind. Mr Cummings is just an advisor who broke a rule; Mr Hancock is the responsible government minister & he's saying breaking the rule is fine

Matt Hancock

@MattHancock

4 years

I know how ill coronavirus makes you. It was entirely right for Dom Cummings to find childcare for his toddler, when both he and his wife were getting ill.

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Edmund Griffiths

@EdmundGriffiths

6 years

You know who'd have been annoying on twitter, though: Socrates. Imagine the sinking feeling when the notification popped up saying he'd replied to one of your tweets. Oh gods here we go again. And his fanboys Plato & Xenophon favouriting all his replies. Doesn't bear thinking abt

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Edmund Griffiths

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7 years

Shame on journalists shoving cameras/microphones in #GrenfellTower survivors' faces. If you want to interview someone, doorstep the landlord

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Edmund Griffiths

@EdmundGriffiths

5 years

This but unironically

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Edmund Griffiths

@EdmundGriffiths

5 years

Trying to imagine my reaction in 1999 if someone had told me that in 20 years' time Jeremy Corbyn would be leading the Labour Party, but it would be trailing in the polls behind an alliance of Ann Widdecombe & Living Marxism

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Edmund Griffiths

@EdmundGriffiths

9 months

Can we please try to be at least a little bit serious. Heckling a politician is not "shocking behaviour" & pretending it is only makes you look silly

Ben Procter

@BenProcter

9 months

The man screaming at Starmer in this clip is a member of the Scottish Green Party who stood for elected office in 2022. There’s truly no justification for shocking behaviour like this

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Edmund Griffiths

@EdmundGriffiths

4 years

The Labour left in recent years have been the gentlest, most magnanimous, most other-cheek-turning political movement I've ever heard of, & the Labour right have consistently behaved like an army of screaming toddlers

BBC Politics

@BBCPolitics

4 years

Labour leadership candidate Lisa Nandy tells @BBCLauraK that members of Jeremy Corbyn’s leadership team "made it very clear" they would wage factional war within the party, "until the other side had been crushed" #LabourLeadership

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Edmund Griffiths

@EdmundGriffiths

3 years

I must admit I thought people _always_ said "deport the home secretary instead", whoever the home secretary was; & I thought everybody understood it was a way of saying "don't deport anybody"

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Edmund Griffiths

@EdmundGriffiths

10 months

The Taliban might be running Afghanistan today!

OSINTdefender

@sentdefender

10 months

Imagine if Countries around the World had tried to Force a Ceasefire on the United States during the Invasion of Afghanistan following 9/11.

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Edmund Griffiths

@EdmundGriffiths

1 year

So what did this most important vote in centuries do? Did it send British forces to war? Did it widen the franchise? Did it establish a national health service? No: it said the retired MP for Uxbridge & South Ruislip doesn't get a pass to let him into the building

Jen 🌹🧣

@WorkingDruid

1 year

This week Corbyn made jam and missed the most important vote in parliament for decades if not centuries. Starmer‘s plan came to fruition and destroyed Johnson, he also managed to get back on time to vote.

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Edmund Griffiths

@EdmundGriffiths

2 months

Corbyn could have walked out of Labour in about 2022, set up the Peace & Justice Party or whatever he'd decided to call it, & had armies of volunteers ever since out making sure voters in that constituency knew he wasn't Lab any more. He didn't choose to

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Edmund Griffiths

@EdmundGriffiths

5 years

A 2 n d r e f w i t h r e m a i n o n t h e b a l l o t i s w h a t y o u ' v e b e e n s c r e a m i n g y o u w a n t e d y o u d o n ' t g e t t o t u r n r o u n d & p r e t e n d i t ' s n o t g o o d e n o u g h

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Edmund Griffiths

@EdmundGriffiths

1 year

Tbh if Chomsky remembers that the 2017 election happened at all he's ahead of every professional commentator in the country

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Edmund Griffiths

@EdmundGriffiths

1 month

When you decided to vote out your Labour MP, did you spare a thought for the rest of us being made to hear them moan on about it

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Edmund Griffiths

@EdmundGriffiths

6 months

What does "people move to Redbridge to get away from this sort of politics" mean?

Wes Streeting MP

@wesstreeting

6 months

Thought twice about sharing this, because I didn’t want to amplify it. But it needs to be called out. The image, the use of ‘hostage’ in the current climate, it’s disgusting. People move to Redbridge to get away from this sort of politics. It will not take root in our Borough🚮

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Edmund Griffiths

@EdmundGriffiths

6 years

Blairites saying the government has to listen to a demonstration. Classic

Chris Leslie

@ChrisLeslieUK

6 years

Proud to join the 100,000+ people on the #PeoplesVoteMarch asking for a say on the final #Brexit deal. Time for Leaders to listen!

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Edmund Griffiths

@EdmundGriffiths

2 years

There's a concerted drive now to push the idea that, sure, when Putin invades a sovereign country that's pretty bad, but when we do it it's just dandy. Utterly beneath contempt

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Edmund Griffiths

@EdmundGriffiths

4 years

Congratulations to the people of Bolivia for defending their democracy. Historic achievement. Contemptuous cold laughter at every single pundit who tried to make excuses for the far-right coup: don't let them forget it

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Edmund Griffiths

@EdmundGriffiths

5 months

And yet things he wants keep on happening. Almost as though getting elected is only one part of politics

BladeoftheSun

@BladeoftheS

5 months

Nigel Farage is 60 today and someone named him the most successful politician. He has run 7 times to be an MP, and lost 7 times. He is in fact the least successful politician in the UK.

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Edmund Griffiths

@EdmundGriffiths

10 months

The 9/11 attacks were bad—but Iraq didn't do them—but Saddam Hussein is bad anyway—but invading Iraq would be bad. That isn't an advanced level of nuance; it's the bare minimum that any leftist in 2003 could do standing on their head. I've only gradually realized centrists can't

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Edmund Griffiths

@EdmundGriffiths

7 years

Times Corbyn voted against the whip as a frontbencher: 0. Times any frontbencher gets to do it in any party: 0. Let's be clear & also honest

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Edmund Griffiths

@EdmundGriffiths

5 years

Every single anti-Corbyn MP who would accept a shad cab post was given one. And after they'd resigned & tried to force Corbyn out, which failed ludicrously, they were all given shad cab posts again if they could be cajoled into accepting them. Mr Mason knows this perfectly well

Paul Mason

@paulmasonnews

5 years

Also - with all candidates - we are getting a sense of how much talent was suppressed by Corbyn's refusal to broaden Labour front bench. Even loyal ppl of talent were sidelined to avoid upsetting the Lexit deadbeats.

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Edmund Griffiths

@EdmundGriffiths

3 months

The operation that the shadow foreign secretary regards as a glimmer of hope reportedly killed 200 civilians & was in part carried out by military forces camouflaged in a humanitarian aid vehicle—a manifest war crime

David Lammy

@DavidLammy

3 months

It's now 245 days since October 7th, when these hostages were kidnapped from the Nova music festival by Hamas terrorists. Their rescue is a glimmer of hope in the darkness. We need an immediate ceasefire now, to get all the hostages released and a surge of aid into Gaza.

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Edmund Griffiths

@EdmundGriffiths

2 months

Genuinely shameful footage: @JonAshworth can't stop smirking as he pretends to feel Bullied And Intimidated by constituents asking him questions

Majid Freeman

@Majstar7

2 months

Bumped into Labour MP @JonAshworth who was canvassing in Leicester. Elderly Muslim uncles who prev supported Jon came out to ask why he abstained from the 🇵🇸ceasefire vote so he resorted to playing victim by saying we were bullying & intimidating him. We have every right to Q you

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Edmund Griffiths

@EdmundGriffiths

4 years

A household budget isn't the same as the government budget, you see. Households have a responsibility to spend counter-cyclically so as to manage aggregate demand

Christopher Hope📝

@christopherhope

4 years

EXCLUSIVE in today’s Sunday Telegraph Home workers who 'built up savings' must go on spending spree when pandemic ends, Rishi Sunak says

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Edmund Griffiths

@EdmundGriffiths

2 years

Monarcho-syndicalism

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Edmund Griffiths

@EdmundGriffiths

8 years

Marx died 1883 Engels died 1895 Labour founded 1900 Don't deselect Tristram, he'd do more harm as a historian

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Edmund Griffiths

@EdmundGriffiths

7 months

Fourteen years of the Tories followed by a right-wing Labour govt isn't "breaking the pattern". That literally is the pattern

Pat McFadden

@patmcfaddenmp

7 months

100 years ago today, the first Labour Government was formed. In the century since then only three more Labour leaders have won power at a general election. This is the year we must break the pattern of defeat and write a new chapter of renewal. 🌹

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Edmund Griffiths

@EdmundGriffiths

2 years

Protesters in Moscow chant "no to war"

Тот самый Мартин

@martin_camera

2 years

Сейчас в Москве. Люди скандируют «Нет войне!».

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Edmund Griffiths

@EdmundGriffiths

5 years

But just imagine the look on the BBC's faces if after everything they've pulled the Tories still lose tomorrow. Let's do it to them. Make them read out the news on Friday morning ashen, grim, choking, the studio full of pundits all standing round like Victorian funeral mutes

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Edmund Griffiths

@EdmundGriffiths

5 months

@MattD2099 ░M░Y░V░A░T░I░C░A░N░I░N░B░I░O░

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Edmund Griffiths

@EdmundGriffiths

5 years

Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha there are people right now on this very app saying No Actually No They Aren't

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Edmund Griffiths

@EdmundGriffiths

5 years

Seems to me what we have here is the government making every imaginable concession—concessions no European govt would so much as contemplate—in an effort to avoid violence, & the thuggish rightist opposition responding by just cranking up its demands even further

Reuters

@Reuters

5 years

Bolivia opposition candidate says Morales should not be candidate in new election

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Edmund Griffiths

@EdmundGriffiths

2 years

I don't think the British left always appreciate just how bizarre it looks—to almost anybody else in the world—to say at the same time 'defending this is morally bankrupt' & 'it is our duty to vote for this'

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@owenjonesjourno

2 years

Anyone defending this is morally bankrupt, if you wish to out yourself by defending it in the comments, please do fill your boots!

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Edmund Griffiths

@EdmundGriffiths

2 years

Couple of weeks of what for Corbyn would have been unusually mild & respectful press coverage & the Conservative Party is reduced to tripping over its feet in the dark & yelling

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Edmund Griffiths

@EdmundGriffiths

5 years

In-person voter fraud is almost non-existent. But when they piloted this last year, 1.7% of people who tried to vote were turned away. There were 46 constituencies at the last GE where the winning margin was less than 1.7%—& where voter ID could therefore have swung the result

Allister Heath

@AllisterHeath

5 years

Voters will have to show ID before casting their ballot to prevent electoral fraud, Government to announce via @Telegraph

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Edmund Griffiths

@EdmundGriffiths

1 year

It's been clear from v early on in "partygate" that somebody within the ruling party had spent the entire pandemic building up a multimedia archive of incriminating photos, screenshots, emails, video, etc., & was now doling them out. If we had journalists they would ask who & why

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Edmund Griffiths

@EdmundGriffiths

7 years

Leftists: Trump is a fascist Liberals: Yes! Trump is a fascist! Leftists: Shall we oppose his rush to war then Liberals: #Maga 🐸 let's bomb

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Edmund Griffiths

@EdmundGriffiths

5 years

The Green Party's collapse into single-issue remain is one of the weirdest & saddest aspects of current political life

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Edmund Griffiths

@EdmundGriffiths

6 months

People who want to murder an MP don't turn up holding a ceasefire placard in the other hand, surrounded by peaceniks with camera phones who all—however strongly they oppose the decisions—believe in the democratic process enough to bother lobbying their elected representatives

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Edmund Griffiths

@EdmundGriffiths

3 years

Really think if I were the leader of a political party, & a writer for the national press said my youth organization's policies would lead to another Holocaust, I would regard it as something of a priority to say whether I believed that was true or not

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Edmund Griffiths

@EdmundGriffiths

4 years

Anger needs to lead through to clarity. The Blairites _hate you_, far more viciously than they hate the Tories, far more viciously than you hate them, & the only terms on which they will cooperate with you are your total submission. They'll let you pay your subs & do the leg work

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Edmund Griffiths

@EdmundGriffiths

5 years

Who did Corbyn ever purge? I realize it's prob a bit late to start distinguishing between things that really happened & things that only happened in a dream, but "Corbyn-style loyalty purges" are one of the things you dreamt

Paul Krugman

@paulkrugman

5 years

Sanders may be too left for others. But he would have to bring moderate Dems along with him, so he couldn't be too radical in office — and wouldn't be able to do Corbyn-style loyalty purges, even if he were so inclined, which I don't think he is 3/

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Edmund Griffiths

@EdmundGriffiths

1 year

There's been a lot of anger at people for making submarine jokes; but—if this is accurate—I suspect letting friends & loved ones think they were slowly running out of oxygen, while knowing it wasn't true, will have been more upsetting than a bit of Schadenfreude from strangers

Staz Trudeaux

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1 year

According to this, they heard an explosion or implosion noise when they lost contact with the Titan. So, they pretty much knew what happened days ago.

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Edmund Griffiths

@EdmundGriffiths

6 months

I think this is right & Sir Lindsay will end up stepping down: not bc of what he actually did (which was bad but he might have been able to tough it out), but bc the goons of the Labour right immediately ran around saying "haha he did that bc we exerted corrupt influence on him"

Robert Peston

@Peston

6 months

A friend of Lindsay Hoyle, a senior MP, has warned him he has lost the confidence of MPs, and should "resign before being pushed." This MP says Hoyle - fairly or not - is widely seen to have succumbed to Labour pressure in ditching convention on the Gaza vote. "This is more

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Edmund Griffiths

@EdmundGriffiths

5 years

Whenever it thinks the establishment is facing a challenge, BBC news becomes a crude campaigning outfit. It did it against the miners; it did it over Iraq; it's doing it now. And afterwards it tries to slide quietly back to posing as neutral. Don't let it

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Edmund Griffiths

@EdmundGriffiths

1 year

This is quite true & the oddness of it is insufficiently remarked on. 1997 is as long ago now as 1971 was then, & in 1997 it would have been _inconceivable_ that anything from political life in 1971 would have been treated as current the way a fossilized New Labour Pledge Card is

Flying_Rodent

@flying_rodent

1 year

When I was a younger I would not have been able to pick out e.g. Harold Wilson or Jim Callaghan out of an ID parade. Much of our current immovably fucked state and downward trajectory is largely down to political/media clowns being unable to leave the ghouls of yesteryear behind.

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@EdmundGriffiths

1 year

Genuinely inexplicable that _Gordon Brown_ is comfortable using words like 'war criminal' & 'guilty of the crime of aggression' & 'Nuremberg' & 'Hague' in public

Talk

@TalkTV

2 years

Gordon Brown says Putin could stand trial for war crimes "in a few weeks" if the US joins Europe's push for legal proceedings. "The key is to persuade the whole of the world that this is a crime that is completely unacceptable in the modern world."

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Edmund Griffiths

@EdmundGriffiths

1 year

Everybody knows it's a crude lie to say the Nazis were on the left; class-conscious German workers knew it too, & it is simply untrue that any significant number of people who had ever supported the CP switched over to Nazism

Peter Hitchens

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1 year

Nobody seems to know one crucial fact. The Nazis were very Left-wing. They hated Christianity and deliberately set children against their parents. They imposed penal taxes on the middle class and attracted Communists to their ranks. via @mailplus

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Edmund Griffiths

@EdmundGriffiths

10 months

If all you'd been told was that it was happening to one of them, imagine the disappointment when you found out which one

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lol those were the days

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Edmund Griffiths

@EdmundGriffiths

10 months

The political conversation in this country is dominated by people who genuinely reason like toddlers. We're the goodies, yay for the goodies, yah boo & sucks to the baddies. For ages I thought they were pretending

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Edmund Griffiths

@EdmundGriffiths

7 years

Waaaaaaaah nobody will ever vote for the left waaaah Corbyn is electoral suicide waaaaaaaSHUT UP NOW AND NEVER SAY ANOTHER WORD EXCEPT SORRY

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@EdmundGriffiths

2 years

#NoWar Members of left organizations (CPRF, Left Front, Revolutionary Workers' Party, Russian Socialist Movement, Left Socialist Action), trade union activists, & political scientists condemn the war of aggression unleashed by Russia's leadership & sign an anti-war statement

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Edmund Griffiths

@EdmundGriffiths

7 months

If there are only two choices in the shop, you get the one you prefer even if it wasn't what you really wanted. Fine. Makes sense. But if you go in every week & happily buy it over & over again, they're going to keep stocking it & the thing you say you want will never be there

Marina Purkiss

@MarinaPurkiss

7 months

For those that say Labour is Tory lite… I get it The way I see it… If I’m trying to make a healthier choice, I’d go Diet Coke rather than full fat Both are far from ideal But if those are the only 2 options in the shop, what else can you do? (…and yes, it’s a shit shop)

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Edmund Griffiths

@EdmundGriffiths

6 months

Galloway isn't the far left, he's "socially traditional & economically radical" (as he says himself) & on some issues he's pretty conservative. But in fact Nick Griffin is doing this as a deliberate wind-up, for attention: he often does it & people fall for it every time

Jon Sopel

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What very, very odd bed fellows. The former leader of the BNP cosying up to Galloway. When the far right and far left are closer than you think…..

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Edmund Griffiths

@EdmundGriffiths

2 years

There could well be a general election quite soon: Corbyn needs to contest it in Islington North, & he needs to contest it not as an independent but as a candidate for some left party (an existing one or a new one) that should also stand as many other candidates as possible

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Edmund Griffiths

@EdmundGriffiths

11 months

Letter from @ICJPalestine and its co-director, the Conservative MP Crispin Blunt (see link for the full text). Enormously more forceful than anything I've seen from any Labour MP

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Edmund Griffiths

@EdmundGriffiths

2 years

Mr Farron is quite right. Completely uncontroversial—in parliament & in polite society—to say you're a member of a Marxist revolutionary organization; but just try admitting you go to church

Times Radio

@TimesRadio

2 years

“It's okay for somebody who's a Marxist to bring what they've learned from Das Kapital into the room, but not to take what you believe from the Bible. That's nonsense, isn't it?” @TimFarron tells #TimesRadio that being religious can be a bar to serving in high public office.

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Edmund Griffiths

@EdmundGriffiths

2 months

Not being negative; but if voters think Corbyn is still Labour then part of the reason is that until five minutes ago he was. He had the option to break from them 18 months ago & build serious name recognition for a new project, & he didn't take it

Owen Jones

@owenjonesjourno

2 months

Some big challenges: - A lot of voters think he's still the Labour candidate - Some voters don't even know what constituency they're in - Independent campaigns don't have data and have to start from scratch identifying supporters to get out the vote on election day

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Edmund Griffiths

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6 years

Interested to hear the criteria by which this tiny group is thought to merit an interview on national television, when hundreds of much bigger organizations left, right, & centre are never invited on

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Edmund Griffiths

@EdmundGriffiths

2 months

If only there had been some way it was completely glaringly obvious in advance

Clive Peedell

@cpeedell

2 months

I already regret voting for @Labour . Nye Bevan will be turning in his grave with the appointment of Alan Milburn. In my opinion, a worse health secretary than Andrew Lansley, because he drove marketisation & privatisation under New Labour. Time to start my campaigning again!

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Edmund Griffiths

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2 years

The experience of 2015–19 proved that there's no way forward through the Labour Party—not because of the Labour right but (I'm afraid) because of the Labour left, who want unity & cooperation with the right when the right only wants to smash the left

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Edmund Griffiths

@EdmundGriffiths

6 months

When Blairites say "abuse" they mean somebody with less money & power disagreeing with them

Ben Riley-Smith

@benrileysmith

6 months

Reeves on abuse from Corbynites: “I was being told at the Labour Party conference, ‘You’re just a red Tory, why don’t you eff off and join the Tories.’ I thought: ‘I’ve been in this party a lot longer than you!’ So that was obviously pretty horrible. But I’m pretty strong.”

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Edmund Griffiths

@EdmundGriffiths

3 years

That's funny, I thought maybe it began when the govt & the mass media joined forces to present the opposition party as fundamentally illegitimate

John Harris

@johnharris1969

3 years

This is how the slide begins, by @Freedland

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@EdmundGriffiths

2 years

Using any nuclear weapon—& the bombs dropped on Hiroshima & Nagasaki would now be classed as 'low-yield'—would be a historic crime & would make a world-ending nuclear war not uncomfortably conceivable (as it is now) but likely

AFP News Agency

@AFP

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#BREAKING Chechen leader Kadyrov calls for use of 'low-yield' nuclear weapons in Ukraine

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Edmund Griffiths

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1 year

Lol @ the great British public—ID cards bring 'em on, fingerprints yes please, DNA sounds good to me, CCTV if you've got nothing to hide you've got nothing to fear, record your browsing history nnnnooooooooooo

YouGov

@YouGov

1 year

Public support for... CCTV monitoring all public spaces: 55% Compulsory ID cards: 54% National fingerprint database: 50% (net +10) National DNA database: 45% (net +4) Communications companies having to retain everyone's data: 16%

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@EdmundGriffiths

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You're told that; but the political editor of Newsnight was told "hahaha we duffed up the speaker, he's in our pocket now" by the Blairite thugs who are all gloating & smirking abt how well it worked out for them, so I think it's possible you're only being told part of the truth

Chloe Chaplain

@ChaplainChloe

6 months

Am told Speaker's decision today was motivated by desire to protect MPs from threats by offering range ceasefire amendments - attempting to diffuse v hostile debate Understand MPs went to him with concerns in the lead up to vote due to threats to themselves, families, staff...

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Edmund Griffiths

@EdmundGriffiths

5 years

The "neutral" one wants a second ref with a remain option, which would have been a hardline pro-remain position until about five minutes ago

Kevin Schofield

@KevinASchofield

5 years

BREAKING: Two Brexit motions will be put to the floor at Labour conference tomorrow - one pro-Remain, one neutral. Big day ahead.

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Edmund Griffiths

@EdmundGriffiths

2 years

Bizarre

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Edmund Griffiths

@EdmundGriffiths

5 years

Can MPs stop No Deal? Yeah, easy. Can they stop No Deal while also stopping Corbyn, boosting their own parties & factions, advancing their careers, & refusing to compromise with one another on anything whatever? Doubt it. All comes down to priorities really

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Edmund Griffiths

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2 years

We're all hot & bothered & I don't like to be over-critical, but—you knew what they were like. You knew exactly what they were like: & you did not purge them. In more than four years when you were in charge you purged zero of them; & even now I don't think you would if you could

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Edmund Griffiths

@EdmundGriffiths

3 months

Agree with this as a general point but actually I don't think the current purge is about brutal effectiveness. The people they're purging were no threat: they're doing this because they like to & they can. This isn't them fighting to win. It's them enjoying the fruits of victory

Max Shanly

@maxshanly

3 months

I really admire the ruthlessness of the Labour Right, I always have. Bourgeois politics is a cut-throat business. You either kill or you'll be killed. This is a lesson the Labour Left were never willing to accept, much to the detriment of the British working class.

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Edmund Griffiths

@EdmundGriffiths

3 years

This is a tiny bit hallucinatory. Sir David wasn't trolled on social media, he was assassinated

Sam Coates Sky

@SamCoatesSky

3 years

Would you consider removing anonymity on social media? Anonymity on social media means MPs face huge attacks. The Home Secretary says that everything is on the table. “We want to make some big changes on that” said Priti Patel

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Edmund Griffiths

@EdmundGriffiths

7 years

Centrists: Hahahaha look silly Americans we've got a president who— M. Macron: I AM A KING & A GOD & NO I SHALL NOT BE TAKING ANY QUESTIONS

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Edmund Griffiths

@EdmundGriffiths

4 years

More people saying this app is an echo chamber & lets you hide in a filtered bubble. I must be using it wrong. Every day on here I am bombarded with the opinions of Times, Guardian, Daily Mail, & New Statesman journalists I would otherwise never have heard of, let alone read

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Edmund Griffiths

@EdmundGriffiths

5 years

If your explanation for this result only explains why Labour did so badly, it isn't worth much I'm afraid. The exit poll has Labour's vote share slightly higher than in 2010 or 2015, and only three points lower than 2005. You also need to explain why the Conservatives did so well

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Edmund Griffiths

@EdmundGriffiths

5 months

As opposed to throwing about "hard left", which reflects intellectual curiosity & a high degree of analytical seriousness

Andrew Neil

@afneil

5 months

The hard Left throws about “Tufton Street” the way the hard right throws out “Globalist” and “Soros”. Both throw about “neoliberal”. It’s become a cover for them both to avoid thinking/analysing. So the words are much used on Twitter!

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Edmund Griffiths

@EdmundGriffiths

5 years

"Partial results" from the disputed election in Iowa now seem to show opposition pro-democracy leader Bernard Sanders winning the most votes—but the largest number of delegates still go to regime hardliner Lieutenant Peter Buttigieg

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Edmund Griffiths

@EdmundGriffiths

1 year

In other words: there's a factional rift in the govt that has already brought down one PM, maybe 2, & nobody will tell the public who the different sides are or what it actually is they disagree about. Bigger scandal than lockdown drinks imo

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Edmund Griffiths

@EdmundGriffiths

2 months

That's fine, it's his politics, it's his choice; but it was not _inevitable_ that ten days before the election the local population still wouldn't be quite sure who he was standing for

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Edmund Griffiths

@EdmundGriffiths

9 months

The linked article makes no mention of any "intimidation" or "threats of violence": it reports people protesting outside a constituency office by shouting "shame on you" & "vote her out", which (contrary to the opinion of most Labour MPs) is not a police matter in a democracy

Harriet Harman

@HarrietHarman

9 months

MPs must be able to do their work without intimidation and threats. Solidarity with ⁦ @rushanaraali ⁩ and I hope police will take action on threats of violence.

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Edmund Griffiths

@EdmundGriffiths

1 year

Step 3: Labour nonetheless do not halt & reverse NHS privatization Step 4: sooner or later the Conservatives get back in Step 5: go to step 1

Dr Julia Grace Patterson💙

@JujuliaGrace

1 year

Step 1: vote tactically to get the Conservatives out of government. Step 2: put Labour under a huge amount of pressure to halt and reverse NHS privatisation.

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Edmund Griffiths

@EdmundGriffiths

1 year

Whoever taught the Americans the word tankie: I hope you're happy

Lynx 💛

@LustrousLynx

1 year

French tankies are really burning down Paris coz they don’t wanna work to save their country from tanking

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Edmund Griffiths

@EdmundGriffiths

5 years

Do not circulate the video of police shooting the suspect on London Bridge. Professional journalists tweeting it out. Bunch of bloody ghouls

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Edmund Griffiths

@EdmundGriffiths

4 years

Me reading your tweets

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Edmund Griffiths

@EdmundGriffiths

5 years

I'm not a member of the Labour Party & it's none of my business whether it expels Alastair Campbell Claret or keeps him in; but the parade of people pretending they can't understand extremely basic things (like a rule against supporting rival parties) drives me up the bloody wall

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Edmund Griffiths

@EdmundGriffiths

5 years

I know, weird, right? You'd almost think the left isn't just a cult & it was always about socialist politics not the man Corbyn

Michael Deacon

@MichaelPDeacon

5 years

Jeremy has betrayed Jeremy. If Jeremy isn't willing to get behind Jeremy's leadership then he should make way for someone who does

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Edmund Griffiths

@EdmundGriffiths

2 years

TUSC 18.2% in Knowsley Northwood. Beat the Greens

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Edmund Griffiths

@EdmundGriffiths

1 year

They're going to put out a photo of Sir Keir standing awkwardly in front of the TV taking his oath of allegiance to the king, aren't they

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Edmund Griffiths

@EdmundGriffiths

1 year

Pizza thing would be of fairly marginal interest if it weren't for the Blairite piranhas all popping up yapping "you don't deserve a slice of pizza you scum"

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Edmund Griffiths

@EdmundGriffiths

4 years

But I thought Corbyn was a vicious authoritarian Stalinist purger, what's all this about him having a consensual style & wanting to hear from colleagues with contrasting views, can't be right

Stephen Smith

@SteveNickSmith

4 years

The new spirit of pluralism in the Labour Party, direct from the top

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Edmund Griffiths

@EdmundGriffiths

10 months

But Mr Lammy would very much like to be the foreign secretary. Important to include that in the moral balance as well

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