Irish supporter of feminism, Gay rights,Trans rights Palestine & all the marginalized Life long socialist with an interest in philosophy esp Roy Bhaskar's work
Corbyn is having a very good post-leadership & post-Labour Party time. He leads a mass movement. He has a clear moral & political position and all his enemies have exposed themselves as liars, sycophants & genocide enablers
Corbyn almost made PM because ppl turned to him in hope of a better world. Starmer's plans of getting to No 10 depend on everything becoming so awful that the ppl will turn to him in despair. That's quite a difference.
The BBC have earned the undying hatred of all those in the UK who hoped and prayed and canvassed for a better world. BBC support for the Eton Degenerate will never be forgiven. Not ever. Never.
Spoke to someone at The BBC yesterday, this person told me they are SHITTING themselves right now, as viewing figures have plummeted since the election. I mean, REALLY plumetted
They now realise their propaganda bullshit has undone them, they fear there's no way back
There isn't
Why am I annoyed by Baddiel's constant harping on his dread and pain? Is it because he demands that we equate his angst with the slaughter of thousands of children? He is determined to see himself as the victim & his voice is everywhere telling us it is antisemitic to ignore him.
Lots of tweets saying we need to get the Tories out first. Where were these tweeters when Corbyn was offering a credible & a decent alternative to the Tories? There were none saying "We don't agree with Corbyn but we've got to get the Tories out".
Has anyone seen a tweet that says "I'm on the Right of the Labour Party, but I am voting Corbyn because we have got to get the Tories out. I don't want to be a Tory enabler."?
This is the man that the North of England rejected. He is a decent human being and they chose a Degenerate. Shame on them. Of course they will come crawling back when the reality of what they have done begins to bite. But this is to their everlasting shame.
There is an element of truth to the "Long Corbyn" diagnosis. Corbyn enabled the imagination of a better world a better future. Starmer offers us the horror of an endless present where the future will consist exactly of what we have now. No wonder we cling to Corbyn's vision.
@UnknownMe82
@golwg2003
I honestly cannot understand why ppl need to praise royalty. Besides the Windsors, year upon year, have turned out to be the most mediocre of families, Not one thinker, poet, artist, novelist, actor, nothing.
My post on the Guardian columnists seems to have hit a nerve What I mean is that the role of the Guardian in destroying Corbyn has changed everything The same columnists & their devoted readers have to accept the price of their victory over the Left. We are enemies now.
Here we are. The Left have only to tweet constantly demanding to know where the Forde Report is to put the squeeze on the Starmerites. So where is the Forde Report? Retweet if you want to get justice for the Left & Corbyn.
We on the Left want an end to child hunger, homelessness, world poverty, endless wars, environmental destruction, racism & discrimination. What do the Starmerites want?
I am devastated by the news about Assange. He is the sacrificial lamb to the Anglo-American alliance. May all who betrayed him including the Guardian be damned for this.
I was ten days old when the Battle of Stalingrad began in 1942. It seems appropriate at this time to remind ppl that it was at Stalingrad that the Russian army saved the world from Nazism.
What the last 5 years have shown is that from Corbyn to Assange when the status quo comes under stress the Guardian & all who sail in her will move heaven & hell to defeat any challenge to the Establishment.
One of the key functions of the antisemitism Smear campaign was to give ppl a moral excuse for voting Tory & so for voting for privilege, corruption & racism and against the transparent decency of Corbyn
The Corbynites r being told that they must support the Leader r we'll all have 5 more years of the Tories.This is rich coming as it does from those who did all they could 2 ensure the Tories beat Labour.
We should all be clear that what is being done to Corbyn is bc he stood on a socialist program in GE17 & almost won. The Labour Party (sic) cannot & will not forgive him for that. They must destroy even the memory.
My thoughts are with Assange tonight. He is being crushed for telling the truth. And comrades never, ever forget that the Guardian stabbed him in the back.
Under Corbyn Labour has come home to the working class. Now the working class must forgive the bitter betrayals of the New Labour years and return to true Labour under Corbyn
The deepest Tory cuts have been intentionally directed at the North of England. Places such as Wakefield, Grimsby and Darlington have been battered.
Now Johnson wants these same places to give him a mandate to finish off what Thatcher started.
Please, come home to Labour.
Lisa Nandy once supported Palestine. Look at her now. Surrounded by Union Jacks & standing alongside His Holiness the Chief Rabbi & cheerleader for the IDF. He beams. She looks soul sick and so she should.
I go into hospital tomorrow for open heart surgery on Tuesday. I have never spent a night in a hospital & for some reason that disturbs me more than the thought of the operation! I like my own bed! Obviously I will be off twitter for some time. Keep the faith.
Starmer is threatening & expelling ppl for being part of the peace movement. I beg ppl just to think about that. All we are saying is give peace a chance.
When to say that becomes an expulsion offence we are all in terrible trouble.
I have tested positive for Covid. If I don't make it I want all my comrades to know that there is no future for humanity outside democratic socialism. You are not to give up the fight ever. There is a world to win.
I have been told to "wobble" my head bc I do not buy the media production of the Warrior President starring Volodymyr Zelenskyy but what really makes my head wobble is the number of ppl who want a nuclear war.
Did I dream the staggered resignations? The ice cream van & the leadership challenge? Did I dream the leaks, the smears? The rejoicing when Corbyn was attacked physically? Did I just imagine the chant "Where's Corbyn?" from the thousands marching for a PV= a Tory victory?
Anyone tempted to soften towards the Guardian should read Michael Savage's hit job on Corbyn. Full of distortions and selected quotes from the usual anonymous suspects. I hate that paper.
If humanity manages to survive the Ukraine-Russia war, it will be no thanks to characters like Zelensky & Starmer who agitate for war expansion & who seek to drum out the voice of peace and reason.
Starmer with his support for Zionism has convinced us there is no moral case for voting Labour. The cretinous 'Mom taught me to Balance the Books' Rachel Reeves has also shown there is no intellectual case for voting Labour.
In politics & life timing is everything Baddiel's angst & Stephen Fry's proclamation of his victim status as a Jew r palpable exercises in narcissism compared with the frantic searches in the rubble of Gaza for the bits & pieces of babies left by the most moral army in the world
Let me try again The expansion of NATO deeply troubled Russia It formed a red line Think of rockets in Cuba - a USA red line A neutral Ukraine would have satisfied Russian fears What is wrong with neutrality? Why do we need missiles in Ukraine? We should be giving Peace a Chance
Does anyone recall the Corbyn speech at the Miners' Gala (I think) when a woman interupted him & he insisted she be treated with the greatest courtesy & respect? Is there a video of that around?
The Corbyn Camp made mistakes of course but the siege that they had to endure has no equivalence in my political experience which goes back to the 1950s. All sides attacked them & now we see the bitter result of the Right's victory over hope and decency.
The anti-Semitism smear was got up at least in part to defend Israel. Now we see where that leads to. The barbarism of the settler colonists seems to know no restraint & to be deaf to all pleas for decency. A great evil is among us.
Am I the only one who gets sick to the stomach when I see a tweet from
@AngelaRayner
? It doesn't matter what she says. I cannot get beyond her shabby treachery.
What Corbyn did was to give ppl hope & high expectations that they could live to see a better world. What Starmer is doing is to destroy that hope in order to crush the Left. Labour's poor polling is showing that Starmer's war on hope is having an impact on his party's chances
There must be a tipping point ahead. Surely, we will not allow Israel to starve thousands of children to death while the settlers feast and sing "Kumbaya' & the IDF paratroopers cavort in stolen women's underwear. Please tell me humanity is better than that.
As I observe the slaughter of the children of Gaza I admit to a feeling of disgust for those claim that Israel has a right to defend itself and the issue is complex.
Am I the only one thinks that the Guardian columnists, including the ex-Marxists, who brought down Corbyn are now so reviled that their claim to be social liberals is simply a source of ridicule. When I see Crace & Toynbee's name I simply laugh
The point is that it is now clear that it is not safe to vote in a Starmer Govt in the UK. Foreign policy will be outsourced to Blinken. The NHS will be destroyed by Streeting. And the full horrors of neoliberal group think will be visited on the poor. We have been warned.
How are we to get out of this situation? I recommend everyone to listen to Corbyn's Patreon video. He is magnificent because he is speaking carefully and calmly and advocating a path that will save humanity. Others strut and pose but Corbyn speaks for our survival.
Sad thought: How many of the thousands of chn murdered in Gaza would be alive now if Corbyn had not been brought down by the low life of the likes of the LFI?
I grew up in a military family. My dad was wounded as a lad of 16 at the Somme. His whole life was determined by the experience of that horror. That is one of the reasons why I am anti-war and always will be. I spit in the face of the arm chair warriors.
Starmer seems destined to be the most unpopular Labour leader of all time. He writes for the Sun. He supports Apartheid without qualification. He attacks Corbyn. He is a liar & factional warrior. &. now he is pro war & anti peace.
I have lost followers since posting how proud I am of the Irish for reaching out to Corbyn. So be it. He is a great and decent human being and the Irish recognise that. Those that hate Corbyn r just factional filth.
I have blocked two people for associating me with antisemitism. That is a vile slander and I do not have to and I will not tolerate it. From the River to the Sea Palestine will be free.
Corbyn winning MP of the year is vital. Do not doubt that comrades. It will b a triumph for his politics Besides think of the scum bags who will b frightened by a Corbyn victory.
Been thinking of Starmer's speech to the LFI. He dug into the bucket for propaganda & lies from the 50s & 60s I now think he is not just a liar who stands for nothing. I think he is actively a bad person.
I won't read Jonathan Freedland ever again. But I noted in the promo for his column he is talking about the tragic choices facing Israel. Again this is the "Israel as victim" discourse while it slaughters thousands of children. Freedland is sick.
Sharon Graham is one of the first Union leaders to fight back against the Labour Party's war on Labourism (The defence f wages & conditions) that began when Blair refused to repeal Thatcher's anti-Union legislation
The actor Marsden & the priest Welby and all the Guardian correspondents who worked night and day to smear Corbyn so the Tories could win have no right at all to criticize the Govt they brought into being. They should know they have no credibility & we despise them.
Corbyn gave us the time of Hope. With his Manifesto he held up the blue print for a better future. Starmer offers us the Time of Despair, the time of Obeisance to the Rich & Powerful, the Time of "This is as good as it Gets"
Many of the millions of people who have demonstrated for Palestine r feeling despair now at the continuation of the slaughter. I understand but they should also know that they have changed the world. Israel & its supporters bear a shame now that will never fade
I support the naming and shaming of all the LFI. I also support all who call for a vote against them. They have enabled genocide by their support for Zionism. There can be no forgiveness.
So Starmer gets up at PMQs & does dirt on Corbyn. Miliband giggles. Rayner snickers. A good and decent man is slandered & they sit there kissing Starmer's ass. The whole rotten Labour Party show needs to be brought down & it's a comfort to know Starmer will do it.
I hate it when Owen Jones goes on like this. He slides into the hyperbole of appeasement so easily. The AS campaign is clearly an all out war to destroy Corbyn & still Jones insists on giving the smearers oxygen. Yet he has done so many good things. Sad.
I am finding the Guardian's coverage of the Ukraine tragedy particularly hard to take. I am anti-war and will not cheer on any side so the lionization of Zelensky is sickening. Note that does not mean I support Putin. I cannot bc I am a socialist.
The thought of
@Beckett4Unite
winning is terrifying the Blairite Filth. We can all see that. But a Beckett victory would also terrify the right wing Trade Union leaders. They r afraid their members will see what a real trade union and a real union leader look like
I recall Corbyn shushing a Labour crowd that started 2 boo Kuennsberg. I thought she'd b shamed in2 neutrality & I was puzzled why she continued 2 attack him What I did not realize is that ppl are not grateful when their moral inferiority is shown clearly 2 themselves & others.
Genuine Qs: What has Starmer spooked? The polls? A Hard Right plot? Membership in free fall? Funding collapsing? Unrest in the Union movement? The Forde Report?
@georgegalloway
@10DowningStreet
This is probably one of the most important tweets George has ever sent. If I am still alive, I will use whatever energy I have left to prevent them from taking my grandchildren to use in their wars.
The Left have closed ranks around the graveside of the Guardian. It is a significant moment. It means the Left is still combative, still enragé. They are no longer the easy beats of the Blair era, stoically waiting for a few crumbs. Starmerites beware.
My birthday today Oz time. I am 78. Feel well but tbh a little bitter that but for the fools & the venal we would have a Corbyn govt leading the world into socialism. Greetings to comrades everywhere. The struggle is coming.
The Corbyn Legal Fund is now the centre of the class struggle. We didn't pick this battle field. The Right the LFI & the BOD did But we have flocked 2 it with love & solidarity. With every donation we r showing the Right that they can't defeat us 4 we r the many & they r the few
I have just got an email from a friend in NI and he does not know how he will survive the energy crisis. He is old and cannot afford the charges. He is enraged that Starmer has forbidden MPs to go to pickets. He cannot understand why the Labour Party is not leading a fight back.
@ToryFibs
There is nothing unconscious about Irish support for Palestine. We Irish have experienced settler colonialism and genocidal policies from the British. We remember the Famine & the ethnic cleansing of the Ulster Plantation.
I am saddened by the news that
@Hardeep216
has quit the Labour Party. The Starmerite scum are not able to see that as a terrible blow. But it is. The loyalty of the super campaigner inspired us all. Without the idealism of Hardeep and others the Party will surely die.
@Jackiew80333500
@3Muud
What is gripping London and most of the world is a strong wave of disgust with what Israel is doing. I am not sure how this will play out now but there is a feeling that this cannot continue. What the ppl of the Arab World will do will be crucial.
Starmer lied to the Party to become Leader. He pretended to be left-centre. But now that he is talking to Murdoch & Co he is telling the truth. He will destroy the NHS, not reform the Press & will take orders from Tel Aviv & Washington. he will rule from the Hard Right.
What are the demographics of Rochdale? I am hoping there is a huge surge to vote Galloway into parliament. In any case every vote he gets is a vote for decency and a vote against genocide.
I am about to go off line. I am 2 upset by the SCG's surrender. But let me say it is now of critical importance that
@davenellist
do well in Erdington. Somewhere the Left must draw a line & say we r fighting back. Let it be in Erdington.
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Things are very grim now. The slaughter in Gaza is set to escalate into an epochal event of such a horrific scale that it will shame for ever the reputation of all of of us who witness it. The future will ask 'Why didn't they stop it?'
Soon Left Labour MPs will begin to look at one another and ever so reluctantly start thinking the unthinkable - a leadership challenge. They may have no other choice. 5 weeks of Starmer show that he is an existential threat to the Left.
I have no time at all for the Leftist Bitterati who try to drag down
@georgegalloway
. They do the work of the Ruling Class. I have disagreements with him but at this time he & the brave people of Rochdale have as always stood up for the oppressed. That is good enough for me.
The media could take out Starmer in a matter of weeks bc he has no base of support outside the New Labour cabal & even that cannot be relied upon. Corbyn resisted and almost beat a massive onslaught from all quarters. Starmer will be swept away like paper in a wind gust.
As someone who lives outside the Uk I can affirm this statement. There is a whole world to win and the UK Labour Party is leading the fight on behalf of all of us. Do not give up. Keep fighting for your country & the entire planet
If we elect Corbyn we could set off a ripple effect internationally that genuinely has the potential to save the planet, such is the potential of our Green New Deal.
Follow Boris Johnson on the other hand and all you're going to get is a Mean No Deal.
I know what I'm choosing.
I have gone on the MU twitter account and asked them to explain Isabelle Gutierrez' decision to stab Corbyn in the back. I recommend everyone to do the same.
The attitude of the Left to the collapse of the Guardian ranges from indifference to almost blissful schadenfreude. But it also shows that the iron has entered the soul of the Left. Starmerites should beware. Their lesser of 2 evils strategy might meet a similar response.
@georgegalloway
Good on you George. You were attacked for supporting Assange against the CIA entrapment in Sweden. You paid a political price for that & no one has apologized to you as far as I am aware. But I will say it. Well done.
I know that Labour Party members can't tweet or retweet or like the truth about the horror that is Israeli rule in Palestine bc they would get expelled for that. How long will they b able to continue to pay the psychic price for keeping silent about evil?
I belong to the group of ppl who think that Novara Media is important & I wish them well. However, if they have now signed up to the line that "Any Labour govt is better than a Tory govt" & r now praising Starmer's rebirth as a principled politician we deserve to be told.
Frankly I'm amazed but those liberals who worked night & day to bring down Corbyn seem genuinely surprised & upset that we of the Left have not forgotten nor will we ever forgive their treachery.
I'm old but I will have the decency not 2 go cheer squading 4 any side in the Ukraine conflict. My thoughts r with the young men & women of all sides who will die so their elders can stay at home & play their grand power games.
The near death experience of GE17, when Corbyn almost won, convinced the managers who run Labour that they had no alternative but 2 go to zero tolerance for Leftism inside the Party. Starmer was & is their choice of hitman & he is delivering for them.
I repost every racist tweet I see from Israel. I publicize as much as I can everything Netanyahu & Yoav Gallant say. I do so bc that is the truth of Israel - a racist settler-colonial nation. Let Stephen Fry & Eddie Marsan try to deny it but the truth of Israel cannot be hidden.
My big awakening in 2020 was the realisation that Labour Party moderates were not cautious bores but rather that they were treacherous twisted angry vicious self loathing Inquisitors
I have just watched the video of a boy in Gaza saying goodbye to his murdered twin brother. Yet my twitter feed would have me believe that
@georgegalloway
who has fought the good fight for Palestine is the enemy of all that is decent.
Starmer dare not expel Corbyn and he also dare not say he won't expel him. Ditto for the Forde Report. He dare not publish it and he dare not refuse to publish it. So it is endless Limbo time for Starmer.
The A level results affair is NOT a “shambles”. It is a brutal cold hearted and calculated move to put the working class back where Tories think the working class belong & that is at the bottom.
I am losing followers again and I put that down to my determination to do all I can to bring down Mandelson's Labour Party. For me Starmer is little more than a puppet. The Coventry strike shows where the Labour Party stands. It is antiworker.
I think the end will come quite soon for Starmer. When it does we must insist on a political analysis of his failure. His personality is beyond boring but that is not why he has failed. He opted 4 the politics of the past & that is the lesson 2 be learned.
The news that Clare Daly has retained her seat, if confirmed, is excellent. She is quite magnificent in her articulation of the struggles of the oppressed of all nations esp the Palestinians.
For the Israeli Lobby the Labour Party is the key battleground. Their preferences r probably for a Tory govt but they will fight long & dirty to prevent Labour breaking with Zionism. That fight tho is destroying Labour morally & poisoning its links with Muslim communities.
Israel is taking advantage of the war in Ukraine to step up its oppression of the Palestinian people. What we are seeing on Twitter is not being shown on the MSM. Compare the Guardian's coverage of Ukraine with its coverage of the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians