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Andy Higson

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Writer. Those retweets? Not necessarily endorsements. Though they could be.

Camberwell, London.
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Andy Higson
3 months
Is my life more important than that of a Palestinian? What policy, what idea, what law, could Sunak or Starmer possibly offer that would mean I vote for them after their abject failure over Gaza?
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I'm voting Green because I want a Green MP and one day a Green government. That's it. If I thought there was another way to bring about the change this country needs and deserves, I'd do that. But there isn't. Want change? Vote Green.
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With the appalling behaviour of Starmer and the Labour Right over the last few days, an awful lot of Labour Party members and activists will be thinking to themselves; what on earth can I do? As a former Labour Party member, here's what I think. A short thread 🧵...
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Quote of the election so far.
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If you've made it this far, I'm going to shill for the Greens (). The Green Party is democratic, progressive, and with some of the most supportive, principled people you could meet. It's good to be in a party again that I'm proud of being a member of.
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What do we think after the first 30 minutes? I think I'm voting for the Green Party. #itvdebate #ge24
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Listening to the Green Party's Adrian Ramsay, it's easily the most optimistic vision for what our country should look like. It's not that unrealistic either, in fact it's completely realistic. We all deserve to live in this kind of country. #BBCqt
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is increasingly delusional. Starmer's heading to Downing Street with a huge majority and God help us all. He's broken every promise he's ever made, and it looks like his government will enact every deranged idea that the Labour Right can come up with.
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The Labour Party still has many good people left in it. But someone said that every time that you compromise with the Labour Right you are only ever compromising your own integrity. It's one of the truest things I've ever heard.
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...in the last few days, with Starmer's grubby little machinations and the astounding failure, even now to call for an arms embargo or anything of actual substance when it comes to Israel's actions in Gaza, I have zero doubts that I did the right thing.
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A thread 🧵on leaving the Labour Party 🥀 and joining the @TheGreenParty 💚...
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It's only when you leave the Labour Party, and this massive weight, that you didn't even know you were carrying, suddenly disappears, that you realise just how miserable you were in the Labour Party. You no longer have to watch everything you do in the Labour Party worried...
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New tactical voting method just dropped: Don't vote Labour. That's the tactic. #ge24 #GeneralElection
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People should consider lending their votes to the @TheGreenParty in this election... Labour are going to win with a majority of hundreds, they'll have complete power for 5 years. Every vote for the Green Party will show Stamer's Labour government that people want progressive...
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until the next general election. I joined the Green Party, if that's not your thing, there are other parties, independents running. I threw myself into it and it felt very odd at times, and a general election will be an even weirder time to make the move but...
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Someone still in the Labour Party asked me what's like in the Green Party? I said. "Everyone's nice. It's really weird." Slowly getting used to it.
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Pete Johnson 🏳️‍⚧️🍉
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A very good summary of what it's like in @thegreenparty . People who join us from Labour are often amazed at how confrontational and factional it just isn't. There *IS* a collegiate, consensual and democratic way to do politics. A bit cumbersome. But always moving the right way.
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This is by far the most expensive way to fund projects. But that's the point, millions and billions in profits for the rich. Just tax the very richest a little bit more, for the love of God.
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Alex Wickham
2 months
Exclusive: Labour set to land billions in new investment from banks and international firms within months, as part of a plan to use private finance to rebuild Britain that it hopes will avoid a need for sweeping tax rises With @PronouncedAlva @Joe_Mayes
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A mistake of some former-Labour Party members is thinking that the point at which they left the Labour Party is the point at which everyone should leave the Labour Party. That's not true. We all have a different breaking point and maybe your Labour MP is a good one.
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...you'll be suspended or smeared with some disgusting allegation. You realise how much you self-censored on twitter and social media. Every time you compromise it's because you think of all the good you can do in the future, helping people yourself, or helping get people...
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How do we compromise? We don't always say what we really think, or you just give up trying. What's the point? No one's listening. There's an obviously undemocratic, unjust act by Labour HQ or the regional office and you sit there powerless to do anything.
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A lot of Labour Party members and activists will sit this general election out and the direct debit has already been cancelled. It makes complete sense to take time out after the last few years, and I probably should have done that myself. But it's going to be a long five years
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...elected who will help other people. And of course we so desperately need to get the Tories out, almost anything is worth it. We all have to decide what the right thing to do is. Personally, I think the idea that the Labour Party is worth compromising for or voting for...
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Or maybe you've spent years of your life on the Labour Party. Evening after evening knocking on doors and attending branch meetings. It becomes part of who you are.
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Some businessman you've never heard of switching from the Tories to Labour because they are about to win is considered newsworthy. A former general secretary of the Labour Party voting for the Greens probably won't be covered anywhere! I don't make the rules...
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Jennie Formby
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@adrianlitvinoff I’m voting Green, not perfect but much more transformative agenda. And people can’t just keep voting Labour ‘because we’ve got to get the Tories out’. They’re out anyway so we should vote for parties that genuinely represent what we believe in - which may well be Independents.
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@serenabarksing @Keir_Starmer @HackneyAbbott A lot of Starmeroids getting upset when they suddenly don't get the easy ride from the media that they are used to.
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Voted for @TheGreenParty for the first time 🗳, including @ZoeGarbett for London mayor and @ShinyShep for Southwark & Lambeth assembly member. If we want a better kind of politics, we're going to have to vote for it.
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@DaleVince @bristol247 People will judge Labour on their first term. Until then people will have to judge them on their statements and promises and Starmer's track record of breaking every promise he's ever made. One extra Green MP is massive. One extra Labour MP? So what.
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Voted for the Green Party's Catherine Dawkins in Vauxhall & Camberwell Green. Proud to have voted for the real change we so desperately need, for taxing the most well-off to fund the NHS, for a government that stands against genocide, and so much more. #VoteGreen
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3 months
The media's refusal to feature Green Party spokespeople is one of the big themes of this election.
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Zack Polanski
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Want to add that for Newsnight to drop an intervier because of breaking news is not an issue in itself. It's reasonable. It's the fact @TheGreenParty are so rarely covered that once a year I might be invited on but every single time I'm bumped. 1/2
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Draconian sentences like this will make peaceful protest - essential to a democracy - impossible. This is an attack on democracy itself.
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Paul Powlesland
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Chaotic scenes as a prison van carrying some of the ‘Truth Telling 5’ @JustStop_Oil activists leaves Southwark Crown Court, after being sentenced to the longest prison terms (4 to 5 years each) given to peaceful protesters in living memory.
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First full week of the general election and what have we learnt? 1) Starmer's shenanigans regarding Diane Abbott show Labour is undisciplined and well on the way to becoming the new nasty party. 2) Tories do best when not in news. 3) Media not keen on giving Green Party...
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2 months
Did Kier Starmer just say if you want to get rid of tuition fees you must want longer NHS waiting lists? He makes a pledge, breaks it, is asked about it, then attacks the public. Disgraceful. He's losing it. #questiontime #bbcqt
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In May Sadiq Khan asked Green voters to 'lend' him their votes. Today he's campaigning hard to stop the Green Party's best chance of winning a second seat. A poll today showed Labour winning 493 out of 650 seats.
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Sadiq Khan
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Great to be in Bristol to show my support for @ThangamDebb 's re-election campaign. Local residents have had enough of the Tories and are ready to vote for change. On 4 July - let's get Britain's future back. #LabourDoorstep #VoteLabour 🌹
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@BBCSounds @BBCPolitics If they are, it's in no small part to the disproportionate coverage you and other BBC politics shows have given them.
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Andy Higson
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I joined the Greens because I think they are the only viable political party out there AND they have just been right on all the big issues. I'm a socialist and I think perhaps a party with socialists and other progressives is a more realistic way to win elections and enact...
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When the Labour government are finally forced into abolishing the two-child benefit cap, it will be due to the pressure from the Green Party and independents.
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Andy Higson
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Well done if you made it this far. I'll be honest, I got plenty of lengthy resignation letters and statements as a CLP secretary and I never read them!
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Andy Higson
2 months
Just a reminder. You have one vote. Not a casting vote. You're not deciding who the winner is, either nationally or locally. You're voting for who you 'want' to win. Maybe if everyone did that, democracy might have a chance to work. #NoToTacticalVoting
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Andy Higson
4 months
Theresa May called the general election in 2017 and I don't regret it. I should probably have left the Labour Party a while ago but I was never so proud to campaign and vote for a prime minister as I was for Jeremy Corbyn. When you see the moral vacuum that is Sunak/Starmer...
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...actual, transformative change, and frankly, with the the looming catastrophe that is climate change. I can't sit on the sidelines. We are making our planet uninhabitable. We need radical change. Now.
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...been polite/friendly/understanding. I had to leave the Labour Party over Gaza and that I could just no longer argue for Kier Starmer to become prime minister but some of the very best people I know are in the Labour Party, committed to public service and a better world...
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over Gaza, contrast that with what Corbyn would have said and the pressure that he would have put on the Government. I thought the Labour Party was bigger than Starmer but I simply could not sleep at night with what is happening in Gaza.
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Andy Higson
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@SkyNews It wasn't a mistake. They deliberately shot them. Their mistake was that they thought they were Palestinian civilians.
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2 months
Starmer will 'find the money' for defence - tens of billions. Won't find the £1.3 billion for taking 250,000 out of poverty by scrapping the two-child benefit cap. Absolutely damning. Don't vote Labour. #QuestionTime #BBCqt
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I was at the Southwark and Lambeth count yesterday as a counting agent for the Green Party and it was a very weird experience. A big thank you to the Green Party people who have been so friendly and welcoming (and to my friends and acquaintances in the Labour Party who have...
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though some of the very worst people I know are in too!) It's very odd leaving a political party and joining another one. There's nothing quite like it. I would recommend leaving Labour and joining the Greens but maybe not in the same week! I joined the Labour Party when...
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Andy Higson
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Starmer is daring progressive voters to not vote for him. Maybe he thinks they have no where else to go. We're going to find out.
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Rachel Wearmouth
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Lots of Labour MPs unhappy about the decision to admit Natalie Elphicke. I hear it “goes much broader” than the women’s PLP or the left of the party One MP cites an email from a constituent who voted Labour but after seeing Elphicke’s defection will vote Green
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Andy Higson
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@prafulnargund Not quite so proud to state your position on privatising the NHS.
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Andy Higson
3 years
@itvnews So fund the court system. No politician is being serious about more prosecutions and more convictions if they are not arguing for a massive increase in the courts' capacity.
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@ITVNewsPolitics Yes they are, and it's your fault. Call an election.
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Andy Higson
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Will the real Keir Starmer please stand up? Starmer 2020 vs. Starmer 2024.
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Guardian news
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Starmer pledges to cut net migration if Labour wins general election – UK politics live
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3 months
Second question... NHS!!! Flynn has Rayner on the ropes with Labour's £18 billion spending gap. Farage wants to privatise the NHS. I worry his answer will impress some voters. Outstanding answer from the Green Party's Carla. #BBCdebate
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@SkyNews Imagine if in the last 200 days the leader of the opposition had asked questions like this of the government.
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Andy Higson
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...fair coverage. 4) Adoption of last minute 'NEC dementors' as MP candidates could hurt them. 5) Starmer's penchant for lies could derail him. 6) Labour still set for huge, stonking, historical majority. What have I missed?
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Of the top 10 seats where @TheGreenParty will finish second, two of those seats are (partially) in Southwark. There's never been a better time to #votegreen
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Andy Higson
2 years
Camberwell split into three different parliamentary constituencies in the new, likely final, review by @BCEReviews . Not even the name Camberwell survives. Very disappointing for Camberwell residents. #boundarycommission #boundaryreview
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@bigpeelenergy I don't like austerity, no, and Labour are offering more of it. Far from '100x', the end of austerity and increased public spending, are the only way out of the cost of living crisis.
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@LambethLabour You had no problem with Lambeth Council taking a position (rightly in my opinion) on Ukraine. Why is Gaza different?
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Lambeth Labour
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Today marks Ukraine Independence Day. We are flying the flag of Ukraine from Lambeth Town Hall today to honour this anniversary and show our support for the Ukrainian people. Their courage in the face of Russian aggression has been inspirational. Slava Ukraini!
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@jrc1921 There is something deeply wrong with him.
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Andy Higson
2 years
Speaking to residents in Camberwell Green today. Lots of local issues being raised and plenty of demands for a general election! @CamberwellGnLab @CambPeckLab
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@EdConwaySky Is this what we have to pay to stop having miserable lives and poo in the water? I note it's less than many other countries such as France.
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Andy Higson
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@ArkenMint The only way to get PR is to vote for MPs who want PR. Nothing else makes sense. Starmer's made it clear. He's against PR. If Labour gets 450 seats under FPTP, there is definitely no way they will support PR!
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Andy Higson
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...policies that actually improve people's lives. More Green votes will also show people where next time round the Greens can beat Labour. The Tories are finished, let's not give Starmer a blank cheque. Consider lending your vote to the Greens. #ge24
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Andy Higson
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@thetimes Is it because crazy, obsessed journos couldn't go one day without writing a story about her?
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Andy Higson
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@SkyNews @carla_denyer Ending the Right to Buy scheme could be done overnight and would save the taxpayer money. Weird how none of the comments here accept this.
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This general election may well see us witnessing the end of the Labour Party as a progressive, left of centre party and it's replacement of the Tories as the main right of centre, (small-c) conservative party in British politics. A short thread 🧵 ...
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Andy Higson
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Really hard to believe that 'Eat Work Art' changed the locks, overnight(!), on Cambridge House in Camberwell and evicted a nursery with zero notice! It surely can't be true? @Southwark_News @HarrietHarman @kieronjwilliams @cllrdoradf @SuzanneAbachor
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@SkyNews It's 'deeply unhelpful' for Britain to supply arms and provide military support to an Israeli government that's starving and bombing the people of Gaza.
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Andy Higson
3 years
Speaking to residents this morning in Champion Hill about the issues affecting them. The need to reduce traffic pollution and congestion, and LTNs came up amongst other things. #labourdoorstep @ChampionHillLab @CambPeckLab @SouthwarkLabour
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When Starmer talks about how much he's changed the Labour Party, he's right. This is the Labour Party he changed. It's positively unrecognisable now. #ge24
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Kier Starmer is just going to make all of Britain's problems worse with more PFI. More money for the super-rich, more managed decline for the rest of us. It's not enough to get rid of the Tories, we need to look at what's replacing them.
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@guardiannews I'd rather have a bank holiday.
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@Channel4News @C4Ciaran Someone's found the magic money tree. What about the £18 billion black hole in Labour's spending? Is it tax raises or austerity?
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@ws137rnstaffs They definitely won't win unless people vote for them.
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Andy Higson
3 months
Out campaigning yesterday with housing champion @pete556 in Dulwich and West Norwood. Great reaction from voters. Shocking to see the state of some @lambeth_council homes. #VoteGreen
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@tom_watson Don't sell yourself short Tom! You played your part!
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Andy Higson
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I live 5 metres out of the new Peckham constituency, otherwise I would be voting for the fantastic Green Party candidate Claire Sheppard @ShinyShep . Good luck Claire.
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Southwark Greens 💚
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Claire, standing in Peckham, is a dedicated activist with a deep-rooted connection to her community. She has lived in Peckham for 25 years, she is a cancer survivor, small business owner, and mother who co-founded Nunhead Knocks to provide aid during Covid 🌿 #VoteGreen
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I hope I'm wrong. I hope Keir Starmer is a great, even just good, prime minister. I hope the NHS is saved and not privatised. I hope PFI 'round #2 ' doesn't burden us with debt. I hope we no longer have hungry children going to school. I hope we don't need a green new deal...
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Andy Higson
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Campaigning whatever the weather, talking to residents in London Bridge and West Bermondsey this evening. #lbbwlab #labourdoorstep @andy_higson @Sam_Dalton_1 @liamkmcgrath
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Andy Higson
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In a few months time people will be saying, "If only I hadn't voted Labour and let Labour in."
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Martin Booth
3 months
London mayor @SadiqKhan was campaigning in Bristol Central today. "The two words nobody in Bristol must say on July 5 is 'if only'," Khan said. "'If only I hadn't taken the risk and voted Green to allow the Tories back in.'"
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It's not enough to vote the Tories out. It's not a sport where we can all be happy the blue team have lost. We can't kick the can down the road for *another* five years. We need solutions, for the environment, child poverty, so much more. Labour are offering *nothing*.
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Well look at this little guy.
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Andy Higson
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@SkyPoliticsHub @SophyRidgeSky If the Labour Party won't nationalise failing water companies, it's not serious about making the hard decisions needed to get this country back on track.
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Andy Higson
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Very impressive performance from the Green Party’s Adrian Ramsey under tougher questioning than we got in the main debate. Stephen Flynn was very good. Ed Davey came across as a nice guy, which he is. #itvDebate
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Andy Higson
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I find it quite painful to watch Sunak. On election night as worried as I am about 550 Labour MPs, this guy and the Tories deserve an absolute historic wipeout. #QuestionTime #BBCqt
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Andy Higson
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Britain badly needs constitutional reform... 🗳 Proportional representation 🗳 An elected second chamber 🗳 Regional parliaments in England 🗳 A new law that means a general election within 6 months of an elected prime minister being replaced
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Andy Higson
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The final @BCEReviews boundary commission report is out. It's a real disappointment to see Camberwell split between three different parliamentary constituencies. A (pretty faint) silver lining is that the Boundary Commission listened to my and others suggestion to rename...
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The Labour Party are set to win 500 seats!😅 The only tactical vote for progressives is to back the most progressive candidate. Let's ensure that they get some scrutiny in the next parliament from the left. For some that will be an independent, for me it will be #VoteGreen 💚
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Andy Higson
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The Labour Party has an Islamophobia problem. It's undeniable.
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Alex Tiffin
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@faizashaheen being pulled as a candidate for daring to talk about Islamophobia in Labour, shows how big the problem is. Imagine if a Jewish person was treated like this for speaking up about antisemitism in the party. EVERYONE should be calling thos specific point out,
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@DavidLammy More 'concern', more 'urging'; all meaningless twoddle. Britain is enabling a genocide - the slaughter of the people of Gaza. Time for action.
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Andy Higson
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That first question is better than anything Kier Starmer has ever said. Starmer's answer is, excuse me, bullshit. The woman is asking about poverty and inequality, Starmer waffles on about ambition and potholes. #skynewsdebate #battlefornumber10
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Andy Higson
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Green Party manifesto's just dropped. 🟢 Invest £50bn in health and social care to defend and restore the NHS, including a guarantee for an NHS dentist for everyone 🟢 Overhaul tax system “to make it fairer” – a tax on the top 1% of people
@TheGreenParty
The Green Party
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📗 A manifesto for real hope and real change. Read our 2024 general election manifesto below ⤵️
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@PippaCrerar He donated £100,000 to the Labour Party and then sometime later got parachuted into a seat? How many other times has this happened?!
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Andy Higson
1 year
Just imagine if a member of your family died because the government got rid of a 20mph zone. (There's a much greater chance of being killed or seriously injured by a car travelling at 20mph compared to 30mph).
@GdnPolitics
Guardian politics
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Sunak plans to restrict councils from imposing 20mph speed limits
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Andy Higson
4 months
@SkyNews Just call an election so we can put you out of work.
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Andy Higson
3 months
Someone turn Starmerbot off and back on again. "Let me be clear" "We have to grow the economy" "I want to do things differently" "Change" "Waffle waffle waffle" People are starting to see through this guy. #skynewsdebate #battlefornumber10
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Andy Higson
4 months
What would Jeremy Corbyn running as an independent mean for the general election and Labour's election chances? A thread🧵 ... It will be a huge story week after week, a real media circus, reminding people of how different the Labour Party is under Kier Starmer.
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Andy Higson
2 months
This 'tactical voting' website seems to have an agenda. Tactical voting is baloney. It's about giving a free pass to centrist parties so they never actually have to offer decent polices that will make a difference. Vote Green or independent socialist.
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Best for Britain
2 months
FINALLY Starmer articulates a better answer to the Corbyn criticism. Corbyn was never Starmer's choice as leader, but he was the membership's choice. At that point Starmer has a choice: stay in position of inluence or challenge from outside. He thought "in" was right option. ~AA
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Andy Higson
2 months
Tactical voting means that the Labour Party doesn't have to worry about voters on its left, so it panders and tailors its policies to voters on its right. Tactical voting is a con that's destroying our politics and actively damaging our country. #TacticalVotingIsACon
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