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Ben Sellers

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2 years

[thread] Cultural hegemony is a concept developed by Italian Marxist Antonio Gramsci. It describes how the state and ruling capitalist class use cultural institutions (soft power) to maintain their grip in capitalist societies. (1/3)

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7 months

Yep.

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3 months

Easiest £160 I ever made. In fact it was 3,243,000 fewer.

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5 years

In case you can’t read @jeremycorbyn ’s t-shirt, it says: "They can cut all the flowers, but they cannot stop the coming of spring" - Pablo Neruda

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2 years

Our national anthem is an anti-working class hymn. If people had any real understanding of the true history of this country or any sense of class consciousness, God Save the Queen would be drowned out by boos every time this grovelling drivel was played.

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2 years

Haha. Brilliant - well done to whoever put this together. Mick Lynch’s greatest hits from the last couple of days 🔥🔥🔥 @RMTunion

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2 months

🧵 Just to recap, because events move so fast, it’s hard to make sense of them: firstly, a group of far right politicians, social media ‘names’ & organised fascists jumped on a tragedy to claim that the person responsible for the carnage in Southport was a Muslim / refugee. 1/13

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Hegemonic culture propagates its own values and norms so that they become the "common sense" values of all and thus maintain the status quo. Cultural hegemony is therefore the main tool used to maintain consent to the capitalist order, rather than the use of force. (3/3)

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2 months

Fash are trying to recycle some photo from 2020, so desperate are they to excuse Muslims getting a kicking.

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2 months

Seems like Tommy Robinson supporters were heading towards one of the mosques in Hartlepool earlier. This is madness - they are chanting save our kids & targeting mosques, over a horrific tragedy in Southport that had literally no Muslim involvement. 🤔

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2 months

🧵 I don’t think many of the media or people on platforms like this understand quite what @Keir_Starmer has done. Parliamentary democracy is designed to have a number of safeguards to stop party leaders behaving as despots: one of those is limits of the use of the whip. (1/9)

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7 months

Whatever you think of George Galloway or his politics, what the last 24 hours have unequivocally proved is that the British political establishment have absolutely zero respect for democracy & the democratic process. Zero.

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2 years

That ruling / dominant class develops a “hegemonic culture” using ideology, rather than violence, economic force, or coercion (the velvet glove over the iron first) (2/3)

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2 years

News is not ‘neutral’. Questions like “are you saying to the travelling public, suck it up?” are not ‘neutral’. It’s about time that someone exposed this nonsense & called the media to account. Well done Mick Lynch. Look & learn, people.

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3 months

It goes without saying this is farcical, wasteful and embarrassing - and it’s high time Britain’s democracy grew up.

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3 years

I don’t believe in hero worship - never have done & never will. Victories are collectively earned & won. But @jeremycorbyn & the movement around him represented the best chance in a generation to transform our society. I won’t ever apologise for throwing myself into that project.

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3 months

I think we should be honest: we’re in this position, where bastards both sides of the Atlantic are openly & casually calling one of the most active anti-racist MPs of our generation an antisemite because of the cowardice of everyone who knows this is wrong & has stayed silent.

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3 months

Jeremy Corbyn, who recently won a seat in Parliament as an independent, once boasted about holding an event with his “friends” Hezbollah and Hamas. As evidenced by the company he keeps, Jeremy Corbyn is the poster child for antisemitism in Britain. The exportation of Corbynism

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1 year

Some people still seem a bit confused so let’s get it right: @Keir_Starmer was asked, very clearly whether Israel’s siege & the cutting off of water & power to Gaza was appropriate. He answered “I think Israel does have *that* right.” (1/3)

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11 months

🧵 This thing between @CelticFC fans & @UEFAcom has been going on a long time. The club has been fined twice - in 2014 & 2016 - for similar displays to last night’s. It’s important that any football fan, no matter which club they support, stand up to UEFA & their bullying. (1/4)

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4 months

Dear @metpoliceuk . Yesterday, a group of Israel supporters positioned themselves at a bottleneck of the @PSCupdates march at Piccadilly Circus, within touching distance of the marchers & spent hours desperately trying to provoke a reaction, no doubt to grab the headlines. (1/3)

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6 years

Don't normally share Tories, but this is extraordinary. Watch Mark Francois & remember that this is a Tory MP, ripping into his own Govt: "We wanted to vote on it, the people expected us to vote on it, and the Govt have gone and run away and hidden in the toilets" #BrexitShambles

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3 months

Some t-shirts come back into fashion for all the wrong reasons.

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1 year

[thread 🧵] It’s a remarkable mess that @Keir_Starmer has got himself into, along with his front bench. Here we have an ostensibly “democratic socialist” party now condoning actual war crimes. As the public are witnessing them in real time, the penny is dropping for many. (1/4)

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3 years

I genuinely couldn’t give a damn what people look like, how they dress or whether they can tie a tie. Politics is about what people do. But surely the sheer hypocrisy of @BorisJohnson getting a free pass, while @jeremycorbyn was slaughtered by the media can’t have escaped people?

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3 years

It’s no good the Tories pretending to give a damn about commercial interests ruining the people’s game, when they have been responsible for the marketisation of our society at every level, from the NHS to the school canteen, from the Post Office to the water we drink. 🙄

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2 years

This one’s for everyone tying themselves in knots trying to defend Starmer’s attack on overseas workers in the NHS. This is the way to talk about immigration & the health service. Thank you, Dennis Skinner.

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2 years

I have resigned from @UKLabour . I know some people will be disappointed at this & some will disagree strongly. But I hope people will recognise that it’s not a decision made on a whim, or in reaction to recent events, appalling though they are, but a firmly held conviction.

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3 months

By the way, @jeremycorbyn ’s t-shirt says: "They can cut all the flowers, but they cannot stop the coming of spring" - Pablo Neruda Applies for Jeremy, but even more so, for the movement. #solidarity

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3 years

Letter from @MichaelRosenYes to Margaret Hodge:

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4 years

13 months ago, Tory MPs jeered @LauraPidcock as she outlined how the Government would secretly use Brexit to deregulate & dilute workers’ rights in order to benefit their millionaire pals, at the expense of working people. Today we’ve arrived exactly here.

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11 months

Let’s be absolutely honest about something. The intention isn’t just to punish Palestinians collectively for Hamas, though that would bad enough. #GazaUnderAttack (1/3)

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3 years

It’s dispiriting that this needs to be said, but there is a long & legitimate tradition of opposition to NATO on the left in this country. What we are seeing is an aggressive attempt to erase that from our movement’s history & stigmatise peace activists who hold that view. (1/9)

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4 years

The hounding of @jeremycorbyn shows the ugliest side of our politics & our media, a world turned upside down where, as Tony Benn once said [the bad is promoted] and “the good is denounced as out of touch, cloud cuckoo land, extremist.” How people sleep at night, I have no idea.

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3 years

Here’s a radical thought: maybe it’s wasn’t about whether @jeremycorbyn made “mistakes” or not. Maybe it wasn’t about whether he looked like Steptoe or not. Maybe, just maybe it was about the actual policies that would have lifted millions out of insecurity & poverty. 🤔

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2 years

So, please tell me why it takes a grime artist & a young Geordie singer-songwriter to tell the truth about the treatment of the former leader of the Labour Party?

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2 months

Starmer (as has been his style), has ripped up another democratic principle, for the sake of a factional victory & the erasure of the left from the PLP. It’s spiteful, vindictive & unjustifiable for anyone who respects democracy. Benn would be out, that’s for sure. (9/9)

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1 year

I don’t know if you can be humiliated on someone else’s behalf, but if it was, I would be for @billybragg - welcoming @wesstreeting to @glastonbury while staying silent on the cancelling of a film about how a right-wing coalition destroyed the possibility of socialism in the UK.

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5 years

To Jo Swinson: “Jeremy Corbyn has been fighting antisemitism & racism in all its forms since before you were born, and you’ve got some brass neck to stand up there and call him an antisemite.”

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20 days

🧵 My objection to @keir_starmer getting any applause is endless, but let’s just talk about today: once again, he used the whip to openly bully MPs. Not to hold them to collective responsibility as Shadow Cabinet members, note, but as *backbenchers*. This is unprecedented. (1/4)

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2 years

One more thing before I go. The person responsible if socialists don’t vote Labour at the next General Election is Keir Starmer. Him & all the people around him who have created a toxic party. No one forced him to do that & no one else is responsible for that situation.

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3 years

Admission that hundreds of Tory MPs would leave Parliament if they were denied their handsomely paid “outside interests” is one of those revealing moments when the mask is removed: truth is, many Tories aren’t representative of anything but big business & international capital.

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2 years

“Our emancipation is in our hands. Our emancipation is in our organisation. So let’s commit ourselves to struggle.” Brilliant by Mick Lynch, @RMTunion GS:

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11 months

This is a perfect example of how the media - in this case @danielhurstbne of the @guardian - uses the pain of antisemitism as a tool. Here he is, basically accusing @FranceskAlbs of employing an antisemitic trope. She deals with it well, but this is cheap.

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1 year

This is an incredible bit of #solidarity from @ReelNewsLondon . The Corbyn film being shown in @glastonbury despite everything. There’s so much caution in our movement. It’s amazing what can be done when we break out of that straitjacket. Well done, people.

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5 years

Hilarious & revealing. What’s clear is that @IainDale doesn’t like being opposed by voices either side of him. It’s what happens to left wingers every time they appear on the media. When confronted by the facts to challenge his ill informed bias, he bails.

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The brilliant woman who is going to take Chingford & Woodford Green off Iain Duncan Smith. @faizashaheen ripping it up at the campaign launch at Jubilee Sports Ground, Highams Park tonight. Amazing atmosphere. #GE2019

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2 years

It also made me think about why I am a socialist, why I want a different kind of society to what we have - which is harsh, uncaring and alienating for so many. And it’s also why I get angry with people who see politics as a game. Take care, people. (3/3)

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11 months

It must be absolutely terrifying to be in #Gaza at the moment. In a blackout, under aerial bombardment. Unimaginable. It reminds me of Tony Benn’s incredible speech in 1998: “Aren't Arabs terrified? Don't Arab and Iraqi women weep when their children die?”

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👇Here’s about 2% of what @LauraPidcockMP did in Parliament & rallies in the two & a half years from June 2017 to Dec 2019 (FYI she also had a baby in that time). A proud record, that few, if any, MPs could match. 👏👏👏

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Almost exclusively, you can trace the decisions Tories make, be it on food parcels, the NHS or school closures, to one thing: how to extract as much money as possible out of everything & everybody. It’s not an accident, an oversight or even incompetence, but hardwired. (1/3)

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This is hilarious, but also quite symbolic of Israel’s supporters self-righteous arrogance, idiocy & paranoia, all squeezed in to 30 seconds. Well done to the lad.

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3 years

. @Keir_Starmer ’s NATO interview deliberately whipped up a persistent lie about @jeremycorbyn - that he was or is pro-Putin / Russia, echoing the tired old Cold War trope. It shows an incredible naivety: nothing could be further from the truth. 1/

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5 years

I’m sorry, does anyone doubt this? Even Tony Benn in his prime was given a modicum of respect by the press and his political foes. The way @jeremycorbyn has been treated brings shame on so many different groups, but our media especially.

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Jeremy Corbyn is the most "attacked and vilified politician we've ever had," says @DanCardenMP

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🧵 The victory in Islington North wasn’t just down to the popularity of @jeremycorbyn (though that was a factor). It was driven by a group of people who have been derided, smeared & patronised - and yet, have continued to turn up (in person & online) to do battle. (1/8)

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The exploitation of the tragedy by the right began the moment people like Farage, Grimes & Robinson started to ‘cast doubt’, talking about a cover up & how the country had had enough. The logic being, if it was a Muslim, that crime would justify the tarring of all Muslims. 2/13

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There is a sentence in this letter by @nadhimzahawi which calls @jeremycorbyn a “dangerous antisemite” & celebrates the fact that he was kept out of No.10 - not by name, but the meaning is clear. It’s important that we understand the implications of this & how we got here. (1/3)

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5 years

Wow. That was outstanding by @jeremycorbyn . Tough questions but Jeremy is in his element being challenged by voters & explaining a vision of a better, more equal, fairer society with patience & honesty. We’ll not get anything like that like that from chancer @BorisJohnson #bbcqt

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That’s no way for a society to be. It has to be a source of deep shame that people who are already marginalised in our societies are now living in fear of violence by angry mobs, goaded on my reckless, poisonous ‘spokespeople’ for a politics of hate. We have to stop this. 13/13

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2 years

Haha. @JeremyVineOn5 so on the ball they don’t get the Sir MICHAEL TAKE parody account. 🤡

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5 years

The worst take of 2019 has to be the ‘It’s over. Give up. Go away’ idiocy. As if socialism works like that. Thousands, like me, have been fighting for socialism for decades & tens of thousand more have been inspired by #OhJeremyCorbyn . No one’s going away. #HappyNewYear ✊

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🧵 Every time anyone posts about the extraordinary #Gaza demos, there’s always a group of people who pipe up, ‘and what does it achieve?’, often followed by ‘why don’t you go to Gaza to demonstrate if you feel so strongly about it?’, then ‘we don’t want you on our streets’. 1/12

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2 years

" @RMTunion members will never meekly join the dole queues of this country to protect the private profits of people who have been ripping the British people off for years. We will not suffer that and we are prepared to fight for it." - Eddie Dempsey

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The problem for the Labour front bench is that they were complicit in the bullying of @HackneyAbbott & swept racism under the carpet. So they have no moral authority talking about the racism in the Tory Party. That’s the issue with being utterly unprincipled.

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3 years

I’ve worked in Parliament & seen a variety of MPs at close hand & I can categorically say the idea that either second jobs or a pay rise would produce a “better quality of MP” is laughable. What we need is more commitment & political conviction & less money-obsessed careerists.

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The far right method is always the same: take examples of criminality, racialise them, make them seem like a pattern, ignoring the fact that anti-social behaviour, violence, sexual & otherwise, gang culture etc happens in all communities & all societies, in different ways. 8/13

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To use it against backbenchers, especially over a single vote on an amendment is pretty draconian behaviour. Conventionally, backbenchers are seen as having more freedom & act as the conscience of the party, precisely because they can vote against the leadership. (7/9)

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2 years

“I think Jonathan should apologise for talking nonsense.” Mick Lynch 1 Jonathan Gullis 0 #ToryRailStrikes

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5 years

Standing ovation for @jeremycorbyn as he announces that @UKLabour will scrap SATS for 7 & 11 year olds when in Government. Let kids read, learn & be inspired rather than subjecting them to continuous, artificial testing. 👏👏👏

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4 years

Sitting here, I can hear the sheer buzz of my daughter’s online lesson through the wall. How teachers keep up that level of enthusiasm, I don’t know - but I do know how grateful I am to them for everything they’ve done throughout this pandemic, in & out of classrooms. ✊ @NEUnion

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1 year

No matter what they say about us, no matter how they lie & cheat, no matter how many people choose to betray real, decent socialist politics, this will remain a victory that changed British politics & something we should be eternally proud of. Eight years ago today. #JezWeDid

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6 years

Anyone who thinks Ahed Tamimi was imprisoned for 8 months purely for slapping a soldier needs to go deeper. It was because of the brilliant way she resisted & documented the occupation & the brutality of the IDF. ✊ to this brave young woman. May she inspire others to do the same

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Stormzy on the manner in which @jeremycorbyn was vilified: “It was really disheartening. I just thought so highly of him and I still think so highly of him and I think, Well if they can make him out to be a pagan then things are worse than I thought. 1/3

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Don’t treat us like idiots. The reason @Keir_Starmer won’t call for a #ceasefirenow isn’t because he has some unique, strategic insight about how to end the conflict, but because he’s tied his mast to one of the most rightwing regimes in the world - a brutal, occupying power.

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Just absolutely scandalous reporting by @BBCNews . How can this be acceptable? Inaccurate, historically & geographically illiterate & ultimately dishonest.

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If the party, or more precisely, the party leadership, could dictate to their MPs, every time there was a vote in Parliament, why would we bother with a MPs or Parliament at all? Why not just elect an executive to make decisions, as if it was a corporation, with a CEO? (3/9)

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This is a senior Labour councillor in Trafford, Greater Manchester: firstly, lying - #Gaza demos around the country have been notable for their family involvement. Secondly, calling for the crackdown of legal, peaceful protest. Utterly disgraceful. What has that party become?

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We’re 20 mins late, because they’re queuing round the block, twice. This @jeremycorbyn fella, unpopular isn’t he? #Toon4Corbyn

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3 years

Incredible scenes from Santiago. Of course, Chile holds a central place in the history of socialism as well as it’s opposite: fascistic repression & neoliberal exploitation. Allende & Pinochet. But most importantly, the people have chosen hope again. ✊

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There was absolutely no proof for any of this, not that it mattered to these far right ‘leaders’. Police information on the suspect was leaked in an attempt to quell the rumours, declaring that he was born in Cardiff & had Rwandan parents. But the die had been cast. 3/13

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That rumour was proved wrong on a few counts. Firstly, there was no machete - instead a flick knife & secondly, the man arrested was named as Jordan Davies from Standish (who lives in Southport). Social media posts reveal him to have far right sympathies & not a Muslim. 5/13

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This isn’t, as the man-boys of Starmer’s praetorian guard would have it, “gesture politics” but an important part of our Parliamentary democracy. If we think back to the Iraq War debates, did the 199 MPs who voted against Blair lose the whip? Of course not. (8/9)

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Then came the violence in Southport, organised by the far right. When challenged about the rioting, these people (led by the likes of Robinson, Golding etc) argued that the violence had flared because a Muslim had brought a machete to the vigil. Again, there was no proof. 4/13

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Congratulations to my boss @LauraPidcockMP who has just given birth to a little baby boy at University Hospital of North Durham. It’s been a long time coming, but a change is gonna come!

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1 year

I lost my dad yesterday. In truth, we’ve known that this day was coming for quite a while, but it is a sad moment in any case. In the end, he slipped away peacefully, and I was grateful for the chance to say a quiet goodbye at University Hospital of North Durham. Farewell, John.

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@verycentrist @metpoliceuk @PSCupdates Honestly, go and do something better with your day, you sad little troll.

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4 months

If those Israel protestors had been Tommy Robinson supporters, they no doubt would have been separated by at least a street. But these people have extensive links with the far right. Effectively, you can drape yourself in an Israeli flag & no one will question it. (3/3)

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1 year

The Labour right seem to have convinced themselves, the media & lots of gullible people that Ken Loach was expelled from @UKLabour for antisemitism. That’s simply not true. It was because he refused to disown those exposing Labour’s witch-hunt against it’s own members. 1/3

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11 months

🧵 We’ve seen an ‘authoritarian turn’ in British politics far exceeding that of Thatcher, partly because it encompasses the whole of the political class. There’s now little space in mainstream politics for anyone who speaks up for international law, peace or human rights. (1/13)

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2 years

Let me just explain something & then I’m out of here. It’s not really about @jeremycorbyn . But when you don’t speak out to defend him, as a long standing anti-racist & former leader of the party, I think you probably won’t defend me either. And I think I’m right.

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5 years

“If the press is to choose our Leader, it will also choose our policy, and once you accept that, then you are saying there can’t be a Labour Party.” - Tony Benn.

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4 years

Hundreds (I’d estimate 500) at the #BlackLivesMatter demo in the shadow of the Cathedral on Palace Green, Durham. Socially distanced, disciplined & average age around 20, I’d say. Very inspiring & moving. #ICantBreathe

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Marchers witnessed multiple provocations, threats of violence, abuse & shouts of ‘rapists’. The only reason they didn’t get what they wanted was because of the self-discipline of the pro-Palestinian protestors. The policing was surprisingly relaxed, considering the tension. (2/3)

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6 years

Message I’m hearing from the @UKLabour grassroots seems pretty clear: let’s ditch the sniping, hyperbole, game playing & backstabbing, deal with issues we have collectively, so we can concentrate on what’s really important: kicking this Tory Govt out of power for a generation.

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@MrBenSellers

6 years

What people outside of the organised left don’t realise about @HackneyAbbott is that she was a fighter & a trailblazer: someone who’s politics have stayed consistent for over three decades. No one’s perfect, but people like Diane, who’ve led from the front, deserve some respect.

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@MrBenSellers

2 years

On Thursday, after picking up my daughter Heidi from school (she was ill) and walking past the train station in Durham, I witnessed something so awful, so brutal that it replays in my mind the minute I close my eyes. (1/3)

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@MrBenSellers

2 months

The person arrested for the stabbings in Southport was named as Axel Muganwa Rudakubana, as reporting restrictions were lifted - again, in an attempt to establish that the perpetrator of these horrific acts was not a Muslim. None of this mattered to the far right. 6/13

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@MrBenSellers

2 years

I want to say this politely, because not everyone realises the damage they’re doing, but if you see @Lowkey0nline as the bad guy & if you throw around un-researched & un-evidenced accusations of racism, it’s time to educate yourself, not just about the man but Israel & Palestine.

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@MrBenSellers

1 year

We’re now firmly entrenched in a political culture where bullies win, either publicly or behind the scenes. And they know it. And they will keep doing it. Shame on @glastonbury .

Double Down News

@DoubleDownNews

1 year

BREAKING: Glastonbury cancels film about Jeremy Corbyn after accusations of 'antisemitism' Film narrated by Alexei Sayle, comedian of Jewish decent, & features Jewish activist Moshe Machover 6 years ago Corbyn spoke to thousands after invite from Michael Eavis Cancel Culture?

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@MrBenSellers

2 years

“It’s not clear why” Jokes 😂 I can confirm that @LauraPidcock has left the Labour Party. Interesting that she only informed @UKLabour through the correct, private channels & yet the press had hold of this info within hours, though. 🤔

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Ben Sellers

@MrBenSellers

5 years

Take a bow @BorisJohnson . You & your party have starved the #NHS of resources, taken chunks out of it for the private sector, destroyed its accountability, undermined & undervalued its staff & decimated training & development <sarcastic applause 👏👏👏>

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