What a beautiful city, what history, what buildings, what people! People who are unbelievably decent and sensible, people who don’t quit until they get justice.
I wish I lived closer, it’s one of my favourite cities in the world.
#bbcqt
#BBCQuestionTime
How about mention how rich it is, pun intended, of the Prime Minister saying it’s “unaffordable” to increase nurse pay when he sleeps on a bed of money worth 700 million?
They’re so scared of talking about taxing the wealthy in society it’s pathetic!
#bbcqt
The nerve of Kate Andrews to say austerity isn’t happening or isn’t what’s causing our problems!
Has she even seen a food bank line with her own two eyes?
@implausibleblog
@carla_denyer
She put it eloquently.
I wish she could’ve phrased it as “Audience, how many of you own over £10m in assets?”
The reality is a very wealthy minority.
Because people right now are freaking out about potential tax rises, and Greens are being specific about capital gains tax.
@Paul1Singh
But it was an ideology that focused on improving people’s lives with things like the Inclusive Ownership Fund, pro worker policies, full broadband, ending homelessness.
You sound ridiculous if you think there’s something evil about that.
@PeterStefanovi2
@STVColin
“Absolutely not” says the man not elected by the nation he’s currently crippling.
Phenomenal bit of journalism from Colin. Too many journalists are taking sources and questions at face value too often these days, without questioning anything.
Going to take this moment to politely encourage Liverpool to Vote Green, and not for Labour who are happy to promote a paper that's spent the past 30 years insulting this great city.
#VoteGreen
@TheGreenParty
11k posts vs 1,070.
If this isn’t microcosm proof that more people are progressive than conservatives, transphobes, fascists and right wing nutters think, I don’t know what is.
#IStandWithDavidTennant
#IStandAgainstJKRowling
Why do we need a new left party?
Because the Conservatives are right wing, makes sense, and Labour are…rather right wing too. It might as well be no different.
It isn’t a genuine opposition holding them to account on anything.
We need a serious opposition.
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@ThatEricAlper
Autobahn
I’m going to continue to fight the corner for synth-pop and electronic music in this space.
What an incredible piece of electronic art Autobahn is. Still Kraftwerk’s best work.
Hits so much better when you’re listening to it ON the motorway/highway/autobahn.
Happy
#SocialistSunday
hope everyone’s had a good one.
This is one of the finest electronic albums of all time, the original British synthpop album, a lot of it written and composed by a socialist, that legend on the left
@martynware
Great album, recommended.
#TheHumanLeague
@SaveTheNHS4U
She’s disgraced herself since the moment she wore a T-shirt calling Jeremy a racist, in contrast to all the real world evidence outside of the inflammatory rhetoric of pundits that proves he isn’t a racist.
@SaveTheNHS4U
@SimplyRedHQ
Lol he clearly doesn’t.
I only follow him for his tweets about Brexit being a disaster.
I don’t know why talk of Corbyn is far left, it’s firmly left more than anything else.
But not far left. Far left is communism and such.
And Corbyn is not a communist.
We are launching the call to form a new left party that provides a real alternative to our broken political system.
Are you with us?
#TransformPolitics
Oh piss off
@mrjamesob
What’s wrong with peace talks?
What is genuinely wrong with peace talks?
#CorbynWasRight
about so much, he displays that he’s a humanitarian to his core and you call that disgraceful?
You pathetic excuse for a un-biased radio host.
Solidarity with
@jeremycorbyn
The man is needed in our lives more than ever.
With the Labour Party backstabbing decent people left right and centre, Corbyn’s humanitarianism is needed more than ever to give the establishment what for!
The people know what they want!
Got a tip for this wanker who calls himself Lee Anderson.
You’re supposed to stick up for the people who live in your constituency, a post industrial moonscape deprived of decent economic opportunities, not slag them off for being poor and going to food banks.
Happy to help!
Are the Green Party a bunch of vegetarian Tories? Or are they a serious leftwing alternative?
I sat down with Deputy Leader
@ZackPolanski
to talk about NIMBYism, nuclear power, and how Labour are enabling Gaza.
Excited to see
@carla_denyer
co-leader of
@TheGreenParty
on
#bbcqt
tonight.
I’d love to see the Greens on more, people in urban areas where the party have a chance to gain MPs on progressive policies, need to know the Greens have their interests at heart and are worth voting for.
@adamanska
@JonScoff
In a way this is rather indicative of grassroots versus elite-book educated politics.
Perry has gained his understanding of alcoholism from being alcoholic, knowing how it feels.
Hitchens comes off like he’s read a book about alcoholism written in technical terms at Oxford. 😂
@CrispinBlunt
Good on you for being a Tory with humanitarian principles, not enough of them in the HoC, too many of them put party first.
You clearly don’t. I commend you!
@Number10cat
Too bad it can’t be a Snowman.
“Oh wow, we’re flying higher than my big pile of money which is very tall, Mr Snowma-
Hey, wait why is your grip lessening?”
@ToryFibs
Independent socialists or Green.
To all in the North East, urge you all and anyone you know to vote for Jamie Driscoll.
The guy’s a great independent socialist alternative and he’s neck and neck with Labour!
@mygibbo
I love THIS CITY!
I’ve come up from Burton on Trent for the weekend to attend a music gig, I was happily surprised to see the march, I happily joined in too because you never see anything like this in Burton on Trent.
Solidarity to everyone!
#CeasefireNOW
New vid from
@NoJusticeMTG
reacting to
@ZackPolanski
of
@TheGreenParty
holding Annabel Denham of the IEA think tank to account, calling out her racism & smearing Palestine protestors.
She then did an article in the Spectator smearing the Greens in her fury! 🤣🤣🤣
Vote Green
How could I forget the music as well.
Such a wealth of musical variety.
Especially the city’s contributions to 80s music, I feel it’s new wave scene isn’t talked about enough compared to the likes of the famous 4.
Favourite Scouse musicians?
I’m gonna have to go with:
@DimensionsInJen
For Nu Who, Ten hear Wilf knock, realising the four knocks weren’t a threat, but a reminder that he cares so much more for the safety & health of his friends.
His performance in that moment shatters me into pieces 😭 some of the best acting I’ve ever seen on the small screen.
@Thelma_DWalker
Indeed they are.
If we could all chip in the minimum amount of a fiver to his GoFundMe we could collectively send a real shock to the Labour establishment.
I’ll leave a link to his page:
@Sophia_Nyx
Stand by Me
Nothing else comes close, not for him though, only because he’s in the cast.
An absolutely magical film, great themes, worth watching for any growing kid.
@BladeoftheS
Good trains too.
With bar and food cars…and soft play creches for kids!
Ahh the benefits of a train service run for the benefit of people and not shareholder profits and CEO bonuses.
Just heard
@keaneofficial
’s Sovereign Light Cafe on
@absoluteradio
Got absolutely triggered when it finished and the presenter said “That was Keane with the song…oh who cares what it’s called.”
Umm I CARE…fans of Keane care! Bloody fuming I am!
@MittensOff
A man who refuses to see how the other half (or should that be 99%) live.
What a depressingly out of touch PM he is.
It pains me to hear the Conservatives say otherwise.
@SaveTheNHS4U
Green, no question.
Saw Zack’s video today making it clear Green is a party for dem socialists.
I’ve promised it enough here, and Zack Polanski as well as the official GP account have liked some of my tweets, I can’t let them down. 💚
@NoJusticeMTG
You’d think if Carol cared anything for poll data, her tactical voting campaign would see that Greens are the party to support in that seat given their projected win and not Labour.
Has she posted anything about Carla?
@LeftieStats
Broxbourne, I ask you, what news do you receive that told you the Tories are still worth voting for? People are entitled to vote however they want but idc, wtf is wrong with you people?!?!?
Just before I leave the city, I wanted to walk over to the blue plaque remembering David Oluwale.
His story is one of hope, which turned quickly to despair, misery and cruel racially motivated violence when two corrupt coppers chased him to his death at this spot.
Suella Braverman is threatening to resign?!
No need to threaten, love.
Just need to recognise your own ghastly morals and go, for the good of the rest of us.
“For goodness sake, go.”
@ByDonkeys
@Nigel_Farage
Is there one in Burton on Trent?
Nothing ever happens here, no one feels strongly about anything. If you haven’t stuck up one of these in the town we could do with one.
@tykestakeonit
The irony that when he became leader in 2015 she offered to help build his progressive movement:
Wonder how she feels about that article now
@13sarahmurphy
@CounsellingSam
Agreed.
Speaks volumes that the Tories for their 13 years in government have gotten exactly what they’ve wanted, it’s no wonder that their lackeys pressured the RSPB to apologise. They don’t want any criticism at the end of their tether.
Distract and deflect. It’s hideous.
If you live in Dulwich and West Norwood, Bristol East, Sheffield Central, Hackney South and Shoreditch, Liverpool Wavertree, Manchester Withington, Stratford and Bow, Bethnal Green and Stepney, Lewisham West and East Dulwich and Lewisham North,
#VoteGreen
!
@TheGreenParty
@BurningSunBon
Ahhh don’t make me cry more!!!
I just got done crying seeing Wilf start crying!
Then I see this scrolling through my feed, and I’m crying so much I can barely breathe through both nostrils! 😂😭😭
Labour under Starmer no longer care about the interests of the many, they care only for the few, for the bosses, they take more donations now from private equity and big capital than from trade unions. Unbelievable.
Frank here cares about the many, not the few.
#FrankForMayor
@mickeya100
One of my favourite films of all time.
Billy Caspar is one of the most relatable characters in film for me.
Didn’t grow up in a mining town and trained a kestrel or anything, but that sense of being interested in something massively and feeling alone with it, hits home a lot.
@bbcquestiontime
#bbcqt
#bbcquestiontime
This lad did wonders tonight on Question Time to voice what myself and countless other young people believe, that the Labour Party couldn’t be more unattractive right now.
@JujuliaGrace
We need Tories out of political power, both in the Tory and Labour if you know what I mean.
The rate Labour are keeping much of what the Tories have done, they’re hardly going to be a radical change, but whatever change does come, most will welcome it after years of austerity.
@MassiveAttackUK
@carla_denyer
Greens are also ranked second place in numerous urban seats that are usually Lab strongholds but their respective electorates are disillusioned with the party over its ceasefire stance, wealth taxes etc, Sheffield Cntrl, Leicester Sth, Bradford to name a few.
@mygibbo
I called it.
All the pundits are shouting about people mocking him for being young, I’m not.
I’m happy to see someone so young become an MP.
I can never be excited about an MP however, who tows the party line immediately, getting behind the party instead of his constituents.
@DavidHarpham77
He’s the MP down the road from me.
Here in Burton we’ve got it bad enough with Kate Kniveton towing the party line and doing nothing for us by her own opinions, to call yourself “socially liberal” and yet be a member of the Conservatives is beyond insulting to liberal politics.
So my Labour candidate finally doorknocked on my house and popped a leaflet through the letter box.
I still can’t get over how very Reform UK their branding is.
😂😂
What do you guys make of him?
Off to Barnsley today for the memorial gathering to remember the miners killed during the 1984-5 strike.
Proudly donning my anti Tory shirt too, no better place than Barnsley to show it off.
The Green Party are the party for young people
They want to invest in your future
No other party is committing anywhere near as hard.
#VoteGreen
@TheGreenParty
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@HalimaNyomi
Restores my faith in humanity knowing we the people refuse to fall for Establishment Bulls*t.
We know the truth, we know what’s up, we know what we want!
@CarolineLucas
I’ve just been watching it absolutely captivated.
If this is David’s last programme, I admire that his closing message is his parting gift to us. “If we don’t act, we’ll loose all this. I’m putting my trust in you.”
This has been such important brilliant television!
@socialiststeve6
The atomisation, or conveyed sense of atomisation of the social contract by neoliberalism since Reagan and Thatcher, and how through its direct/indirect action ruined people’s ideas about the power of collectivisation.
#bbcqt
#BBCQuestionTime
#QuestionTime
That old chap in the audience put it wonderfully and simply better than any of these bloody panellists vaguely bickering.
Fully funded state schools absolutely work.
Private schools have educated posh tw*ts who’ve ruined this country!
In Leeds to see the
@slowreadersclub
tonight. Good luck to you guys!
Enjoying a bit of lunch courtesy of a great little sandwich shop called Things in Bread.
With a doubt this is one of the best BLTs I’ve ever had!
@ToryFibs
He literally won’t.
On the matter of setting up GB Energy to bring down bills, it’s a lie.
It’s just a fund to dish out money to private companies that will still do the supplying and providing, which will continue to incentivise them to charge as much as they want.
@LeftUnityParty
True, he’s bloody based.
Olly is a lovely human being. Have you seen It’s a Sin? Excellent based show on C4 about the AIDS crisis in the 80s.
@MccarthyFintan
@jeremycorbyn
/and nothing in the papers that was said of him is true, he’s a friend of the community, a good man, a friendly neighbour and he’s served us well.”
My Mum ended it by admitting that he was the best PM we never had.
Love my Mum and love Corbyn, he has my full support.
@RealEmirHan
David Tennant in his finale episode as the Doctor, everything about the way he carries this scene just wows me.
Maybe childhood nostalgia taking over but my goodness it’s a good performance. Best actor to play the Doctor ever!
“I could do so much more…SO MUCH MORE!” 🥺😭
@ThatEricAlper
A real overlooked gem of an album. Full of intelligent, well-written pop songs, immaculately recorded, with catchy melodies & metaphorical lyrics echoing the feeling of living in the North of England in the early 80s as Thatcher's grip took hold and began deindustrialisation.
@larymary60
@tcanham459
Gotta agree with Lary here Tom.
Your photo Tom looks like a large office meeting compared to the enthusiastic crowd for Corbyn.
Sums it all up really. Keir has setup an unexciting by the books establishment Labour Party, and as much as I hate the Tories, I cannot vote for that.
@ThatEricAlper
James Dean.
Just…James Dean.
That incredible young actor should’ve had a long and prosperous career.
Taken way too soon.
East of Eden is one of my favourite classic films.
#BBCQuestionTime
#bbcqt
Stephen Flynn on Question Time “Keir Starmer is David Cameron with a red tie.”
*gets a smattering of applause
Me:
Yes! THANK YOU!
Scotland, do right by everyone and hold this wonderful politician close to your wee hearts!
@JamesEFoster
@joemartin66
Don’t think I’ve seen this gif used in a long time, but I’m dusting it off because as a young man who supported Labour under Corbyn, I’m just…
@MccarthyFintan
@jeremycorbyn
Any notion people will say of him not being popular with his constituents is nonsense.
My Mum works as a scheme manager for independent living accommodation, and one of the residents happened to have a next of kin address in Islington (we’re up in the Midlands btw)
Joseph Stiglitz is too smart for these zombie panellists. It’s what happens when you bring on a left wing economist, because left wing economists are literally never wrong at all in their material analysis.
#bbcqt
@bbcquestiontime
@Agitate4Change
Just sharing this around.
Jamie Driscoll has left the Lab Party to run as an ind socialist candidate for North East Mayor.
If I could ask everyone to chip in the min amount of a fiver and retweet/share it around, it’d give Sir Kid Starver a real shock!
Oh this makes me sick.
Nothing I hate more than flag shaggers.
This is the same flag that was touted everywhere while we were an Empire and committing atrocities and killing thousands in the name of Queen/King and Country.
@jeremycorbyn
Well said as always just now in the HoC, Jezza.
I really hope that in the wake of Truss and Johnson’s failures, more will look back on what you did with fondness and what this country could’ve had!
You are one of if not the best prime minister we’ve never had!
@Paul1Singh
@Davejackson9876
By “Normal government” you mean people being incurious about politics to make them stop caring so much, when considering austerity has ruined the country, we should care and CONTINUE to care.
Popped into the Morrisons in Lichfield here in Staffordshire to grab lunch, and to see the shortages in fruit and veg for myself.
No tomatoes, no pomegranates.
Context: Lichfield is “pretty town, shit people”, it is a Tory heartland, with a Boris Johnson zombie for an MP.
Can’t wait for the gig on Saturday.
@notionofanguish
It’ll be my first time seeing them live.
Best synthpop band in the world? In recent memory? Definitely.
Synthpop with the most relatable lyrics in their songs, for sure!
#Synthpop
We have got 'Strange Disciple' by
@notionofanguish
on repeat right now, which
@PasteMagazine
call 'the best synth-pop band in the world'. Super excited for them to join us this month!
🎟️ Secure tickets at
@ReturnofR
Only apt considering the singer songwriter in question just passed away, and it’s fits being 2 mins 50 seconds.
Our Lips are Sealed by Fun Boy Three, two tone tune.
May Terry Hall rest in piece, the wonderful songwriter he was.
Peter Mandelson admitting that Labour will basically never be left wing again, now Starmer’s changed it.
“They can no longer attempt to overturn it” means there’s now no way to have people powered democracy, so the Labour membership have no say anymore.
F*k this guy!
Peter Mandelson launches the war against The Green Party.
The same man once said the working class could be disregarded by Labour because we had nowhere else to go.
How wrong was he.
@ThatEricAlper
Absolutely.
Notably in the UK, most stuff on the radio is the same trappy hip hoppy kinda beat, made on an iPad app in 10 mins.
Indie is where it’s at now, the kinda stuff John Peel would’ve championed.
Recommend anyone The Slow Readers Club, Dry Cleaning and Working Mens Club.
Kate Andrews is a far right think tanker’s Siren, luring the gullible fools who can be enticed towards the far right by a sweet talking American accent and cute pretty girl looks.
She is everything I hate about capitalism!
And she’s on Question Time tomorrow…
@KateAndrs
#BBCQT
#QuestionTime
Someone show Kate Andrews this.
The UK has the most economic inequality of any nation in Europe.
And she sits there and has the nerve to lie that austerity isn’t happening.
What a uncaring c-nt!
@ThatEricAlper
Aim for the middle, not too near the front to the point where you’re uncomfortably crushed, if there’s one of those sound boxes out in the middle of the crowd where all the tech guys are, get in front of that for the best sound.