ed miliband launches most polite and genuine criticism possible of the green party and gets accused of being a fascist.
Is there anyone actually willing to defend the Greens' position on this issue?
Ed Miliband shows his nasty side as he attacks Carla Denyer with lies about the Greens not committed to infrastructure. This is a picture perfect illustration of how centrists hate socialists more than fascists.
If even just 44% of the UK electorate join
@TheGreenParty
and vote Green in a general election, we will have publicly owned..
✅️ Water
✅️ Energy
✅️ Buses
✅️ NHS
✅️ Rail
✅️ Royal Mail
Vote Green, get what you want ✅️
Everyone but Labour is just so obviously comically bad at running the NHS it's incredible. Like, I literally would not believe it if we didn't have the data, look how stark this is
Really gets to the heart of what I dislike about Rory Stewart. Pretending that all of the awful things he supported were acts of god rather than choices he made that resulted in a lot of hardship for a lot of people
Haha. Rory Stewart: 'I was assessed on my votes through a website called TheyWorkForYou – which told the country that I had “consistently voted for benefit cuts and in favour of military intervention”. But these were not free votes...'
People aren’t frozen in amber ideologically, and it’s pretty clear that since the start of the campaign reform has gained votes at the expense of both parties.
A single Labour Party bureaucrat could revolutionise Democratic Party politics. Democrats don't even seem to know the most basic skills of party management
For those confused about Keir Starmer's announcement of himself as socialist- a quite unscientific poll the BBC did during one of the Miliband Labour Party Conferences. Even Ed Balls voted socialism
It's so funny to imagine talking to someone from the postwar era about this.
"What happened to the army"
"We got rid of it"
"Damn pacifist Labour"
"Actually it was the Tories"
"What, why?"
"Too expensive"
Theresa May was a terrible prime minister and an even worse home secretary. But you can give her one thing: she had the humility to stay in the Commons after being PM. Everyone else's ego, from Blair to Johnson, was too large to withstand that sort of thing.
@DAaronovitch
America hasn't had anti-immigrant riots in over a century, you had them last week. You can't build any housing, you have no industry to speak of, and you elected a prime minister who lasted less time than a head of lettuce. You wrecked your economy by making it totally dependent
These two bullets collided in the battle of Gallipoli in 1915. The chances of this happening are 1 in a billion.
Name something more unlikely to happen...
As the Swedish Social Democrats say, "secure people dare". To encourage entrepreneurship and risk taking, we should develop a robust system of social insurance
Sunak tells Musk he wants people to be more willing to give up "the security of a regular paycheck and be comfortable with failing" to start up companies
Le Bloc supporte le wokisme.
Il appuie C-11 qui permettrait aux bureaucrates wokes de censurer l'internet.
Il « réglerait » les passages illégaux à Roxham en les permettant de se faire en toute légalité.
there's never been a century that's been long and not even a single one that's been short. historians are just lazy about inventing and justifying real names for things
60% of Starmer's new Cabinet did 'worthless' degrees at University.
Phillipson - History
Streeting - History
Reynolds - History
Kendall - History
Phillipson - History and Languages
Steve Reed - English
Kyle - Geography
Haigh - Politics
McFadden - Politics
It's genuinely insane how terrible of s policy the two-child limit is. Like, it's hard to design a worse policy: damages growth and makes people poorer
In the UK, the British Pregnancy Advisory Service has found that the two-child limit has resulted in the termination of wanted pregnancies, while household formation (arguably a product of high housing costs) has slowed:
'Clean up the Reich!' — German poster (1928) published by the liberal German Democratic Party showing a man clearing the country of Nazism and Communism with a German shield. Artist: Theo Matejko.
Womb-to-tomb utopian welfarism now extends to absolving parents of cases of very basic neglect.
Future generations will look back in astonishment to the barbarous past when parents were expected to ensure their children had clean teeth without millions of pounds of state support
“I can’t see any path to peace now, until the Ukrainian borders are secure.”
Former Shadow Chancellor
@johnmcdonnellMP
explains that the UK must support the supply of weapons in defence of Ukraine, but should be wary of any risks of escalation.
#Peston
.
@pritipatel
, the former Home Secretary, is reportedly considering a "potentially explosive" intervention in the House of Commons against the policy.
One former minister stressed that the policy "makes me sick just to mention."
At the bar last night, the Zoomers were all paying with credit cards and closing out on every round. This is psycho behavior. Someone needs to teach these children how to go to the bar.
Open option for the slightly intense nerd journos who follow me - a report to see if anyone did actually win the ten bottles of Claret that Tory Central Office offered for in 1983.
A single Labour Party bureaucrat could revolutionise Democratic Party politics. Democrats don't even seem to know the most basic skills of party management
Anyone who tells you Labour’s plan to give the vote to 16 & 17 year olds isn’t simple gerrymandering is either a fool or a liar.
It - as were their plans to extend the franchise to EU citizens - is about insuring themselves against the perfidity of the Red Wall.
it is unbelievable how bad these people are at politics. a middling Chicago alderman could enter British politics with a staff led by David Sirota and end up crowned Lord Protector within nine months.
I love planning reform as much as the next guy but there's no word for "Boris Johnson could have made us comparably rich as America" that isn't "delulu"
Had Boris Johnson bet the house on pushing through the Planning for the Future White Paper his legacy would have been one of bold pro growth supply side reform.
He may well still have later been removed as PM, but the economy today would be looking more like America than France.
Britain explicitly said "we will never surrender" in Churchill's "We will fight them on the beaches" speech
But no one would consider the possibility of Nazis nuking Britain an ethical thing to do or say it was Britain's fault for not surrendering
To do so about Japan is racism
Incredible chart from
@jburnmurdoch
in
@FT
which shows how extraordinary the UK’s climate consensus is. Working in an organisation that looks at polarisation in different countries I get to see how despite our problems, we’re relatively far less polarised.
It was all silly but the last comment especially piqued my interest. A "bright young person" on average can probably not earn "considerably more than" 250k a year. The top percentile income in the UK is 173,000. Even with generous assumptions his comment is silly
Robert Peston lays out how he would fix Britain.
His first step? Reduce the number of MPs by two thirds and raise their wages to £250,000 per year.
Listen to the full interview on from 6pm 📻
@Peston
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@AyeshaHazarika
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#TimesRadio
What party would have I voted for in each general election 1945-2019:
1945:🟥
1950:🟥
1951:🟥
1955:🟥
1959:🟥
1964:🟥
1966:🟥
1970:🟥
1974:🟥
1979:🟥
1983:🟥
1987:🟥
1992:🟥
1997:🟥
2001:🟥
2005:🟥
2010:🟥
2015:🟥
2017:🟥
2019:🟥
What party would have I voted for in each PM election 1945-2019:
1945:🟥
1950:🟦
1951:🟦
1955:🟦
1959:🟦
1964:🟥
1966:🟥
1970:🟥
1974:🟥
1979:🟨
1983:🟨
1987:🟥
1992:🟥
1997:🟥
2001:🟥
2005:🔶
2010:🔶
2015:🟥
2017:🔶
2019:🔶
Re today's uni discourse, I haven't read one single book as an undergraduate at a high-ranking UK uni, nor any papers, and I've never done a uni essay for which I got a failing grade
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