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@iMcKenzied

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6 years ago I was the day before yesterdayโ€™s person but they cancelled me anyway, destroyed my life in secret and Iโ€™m now broken. But I am still breathing.

The Breakerโ€™s Yard
Joined January 2011
Don't wanna be here? Send us removal request.
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5 years
You can try but youโ€™ll fail to find 1 minute 56 seconds of TV better than this. @afneil on his finest form.
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2 years
Five years ago I designed and did the artwork for this. Tony Blairโ€™s Labour Government supplied the content. #ThingsGotBetter
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5 years
If May had the good sense to attach Kyle-Wilson to her Deal, Bercow would allow a vote, itโ€™d go through, the electorate would get a final say and sheโ€™d win an awful lot of new fans. More than sheโ€™d lose. She wonโ€™t though.
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3 years
These people literally, and here explicitly, have no shame. โ€œEverybodyโ€ may have โ€œhad high hopesโ€ that test and trace would work. But โ€œeverybodyโ€ wasnโ€™t in charge. Everybody didnโ€™t trouser a sum equivalent to two-thirds of the UKโ€™s entire defence budget. #fullPublicInquirynow
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'Expectations were set too high.' In an exclusive interview, @DidoHarding joined @EmmaBarnett to discuss her tenure as head of the NHS Test and Trace initiative until her resignation in April of this year
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3 years
Watch this. Sheโ€™s the Real Deal.
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Poverty is a political choice. And this Conservative Government is choosing to take ยฃ20 each week from the poorest families in the country. For me this is more than political. It is personal. #CancelTheCut
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6 years
Today, Labourโ€™s grassroots in Lewisham East stood firm against Momentumโ€™s machine. Momentumโ€™s full time staff, phonebanks from at least 2 other boroughs, Owen Jones on the doorsteps and all they managed was 167 votes out of 455. #grassrootsnotAstroturf
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3 years
Donโ€™t mention the B word. I mentioned it once, but I think I may have got away with it.
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3 years
Vegetable producer says it is losing thousands of pounds a week and throwing away food due to labour shortage
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3 years
Thought I might go to the Stop the War Coalition march on Saturday against the Russian invasion of Kazakhstan. Anyone know the details? When and where?
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6 years
Knock knock. Whoโ€™s there? The Labour Party. What do you want? To tell you all about how we are going to end rough sleeping. Didnโ€™t you do that last time you were in government? No, that was the Red Tories. Weโ€™ll do it by leaving the EU and destroying the economy first.
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8 years
Corbyn caught out clearly lying. Once this would've been career ending. Now Momentum thugs cheers him.
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3 years
Hearing that Labour have regained control of Haringey Council tonight from Momentum. Wonderful news.
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5 months
Always amusing to behold the Scottish Nationalist Party having a pop at Labour for being Thatcherite when it was the SNP that voted against Labour and FOR Mrs Thatcher and so put her in Downing Street, ushering in 18 years of Tory rule.
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Stephen Flynn accuses Labour frontbench of being 'born-again Thatcherites'
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4 years
If you have time to read only one article this weekend, make it this one. @NickCohen4 on excoriatingly accurate fine form.
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6 years
If you going to a Momentum phone bank today, either the national one or those around Lewisham East, can I ask you to use a Labour Party script? Keeping Owen Jones, Paul Mason and the Shadow Cabinet away from the constituency would be very helpful. Weโ€™d like to win this! Thanks.
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2 years
In case you havenโ€™t heard, my father, Alan McKenzie (b 7.10.30), died yesterday. The kindest, finest person Iโ€™ve ever met, he leaves a huge gap. Most of his friends are long gone but younger generations who met him will remember him fondly. Itโ€™s been an honour to be his son.
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6 years
I was suspended from the Labour Party at 9.25am by email, although journalists had been been briefed many hours ago. I now know what the issue is and will clarify my position as soon as I can. Thank you to everyone who is sending private or public messages of support.
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5 years
PMโ€™s Liaison Committee appearance was a Blair innovation. No notes and no staff next to him. Chairs of all the Select Cttees ask questions on any subject. Have a look at a Blair session and youโ€™ll understand why Johnson has run away in fear. Clowns donโ€™t make very good PMs.
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7 years
My new poster has arrived! Only Labour in power can achieve things.
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6 years
Iโ€™m saying Lewisham East Labour Members were sick of two outside organisations, Momentum and Unite, trying to rig our selection. We humiliated them and Iโ€™m allowed a few hours to crow about it over a cup of tea before going out canvassing to beat the Tories and Libs, again.
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2 years
โ€œBut he shouldnโ€™t take that goodwill for granted.โ€ Truโ€™ dat. Starmer is leading a slow march towards a softer Brexit โ€” he just wonโ€™t say it out loud | Gaby Hinsliff | The Guardian
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1 year
@RhonddaBryant Has to be Skinner to Parkinson on the letterโ€™s first speech following the affair story. โ€œGet your hand out of your pocket man. He canโ€™t leave it alone.โ€
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I looked up irony on t'internet and it came up with this. http://t.co/IKQu6sS3lE
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7 years
In lockdown in the Commons. Feeling very, very grateful to those who stand in harm's way for us.
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3 years
Iโ€™m disappointed and shocked, shocked I tell you, to discover that Stop the War have not organised a march tomorrow in protest against Putinโ€™s imminent annexation of Kazakhstan. Itโ€™s almost as if they want Putin to reassemble the USSR.
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3 years
Thought I might go to the Stop the War Coalition march on Saturday against the Russian invasion of Kazakhstan. Anyone know the details? When and where?
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6 years
A member of the @UKLabour Shadow Cabinet is rightly concerned about rough sleeping. Canโ€™t bring herself to mention that it was almost eradicated by Blairโ€™s Government in about two years at a time she was relentlessly attacking Labour from outside. #bbcaq
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8 years
Not loving the notion that Livingstone has Lansman and McDonnell down as embittered Blairites. We embittered Blairites have standards.
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4 years
In cheerier news, my 60 year-old brother, whose medical condition necessitates his shielding, had his second Covid vaccine jab today. And our 90 year-old Dad has his first jab. Grateful thanks to all concerned.
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4 years
Thatโ€™ll do for me. Solid values. Contrition. Looking the electorate in the eye. Strong on security. Crushing the cancer of nationalism. A measured three nods, no more, to Labourโ€™s three winners. Pride in our record not denigration. A proper Labour leaderโ€™s speech. Been 11 years.
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6 years
I was, and am, a Blairite; I supported the 2nd Iraq War and still do; he will be the best PM of my lifetime (Iโ€™m old); Labour 1997-2010 did more to redistribute wealth than any other Govt in my lifetime; no genuinely Labour person would attack it.
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2 years
@JDBakewell Because the ERG are trying to follow up on Johnsonโ€™s ridiculous tenure and continue his Americanisation of our system making it more presidential. It is deeply worrying.
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2 years
Suited and almost booted for my Dadโ€™s funeral at 3pm. The phoneโ€™s going off soon, obviously. He taught me too many things to list but one of them was how to shine shoes properly. Heโ€™d approve of these, I hope. Alan McKenzie, the finest human being Iโ€™ve ever known.
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4 years
Covid-19 was rough but never life threatening so Iโ€™ve got survivor guilt and cry every time I hear of someone whoโ€™s died. Not been out since 18 March, Iโ€™m depressed, missing my mates (though hugely heartened by those who keep in SM touch) but boy I laughed out loud at Bastani. ๐Ÿ˜‚
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6 years
After careful deliberation, Lewisham East CLP Executive decided, if asked, our shortlist for our MP candidate would have been: @abenaopp @brenda_dacres @JanetDaby @rachelonikosi We hope @Yasmine_Dar @kateosamor and @SarahOwen_ listens to local members. #memberleddemocracy
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2 years
Dear @ipsaUK please organise your website so itโ€™s not possible to characterise staffing costs as โ€œMPsโ€™ expensesโ€. Itโ€™s used by MP haters to corrode confidence in our democracy and itโ€™s really, really annoying as an MPโ€™s staffer to have your salary presented as an MPโ€™s perk.
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. @MrJPenders Michael Foot addresses rally of 40,000 in York just before being elected Prime Minister in 1983.
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5 years
Things are grim. Thereโ€™s no real alternative but learn from Momentum. Iโ€™m going to have to ring my brother and persuade him that we need to sell the Picasso and the Rothko. No way Iโ€™m selling the Schiele or any of the Van Goghs.
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5 years
Imagine being a revolutionary so-called socialist, spending decades trying to take over the Labour Party, managing it (with a little help from soft left morons) and then not having a Plan B when your chosen successor puppet loses her seat. Embarrassing or what? #ferretsinasack
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4 years
Some of the desperate people that MPs and their staff help will be their constituents who are NHS workers without enough PPE. This lazy, populist, pitchfork army nonsense is diverting MPsโ€™ staff away from essential work helping desperate people. Back off.
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MPs offered an extra ยฃ10,000 each to work from home, coming as a great comfort to nurses wearing bin bags to protect themselves from coronavirus.
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9 years
Wow! I missed this last night. Glorious invective from @afneil on his finest form ever.
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3 years
I like to ask you to raise your glass and drink a toast to Aaron Bastani. I like to, but I canโ€™t. No decent person would do that. Instead, why donโ€™t we drink a toast to the end of his @UKLabour membership?
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7 years
@stephanieboland Double denim is fine.
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6 years
Et, no Lisa. That happened almost two decades ago when Margaret McDonagh became General Secretary.
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Huge congratulations to @JennieUnite on becoming the first female General Secretary of @UKLabour she will be great. @jeremycorbyn 4 PM next.
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6 years
The fully automated luxury hipsters seem a tad surprised and upset that the trade unions want a say in how the Labour Party is run. I mean, Iโ€™ve had my criticisms and Iโ€™m no expert but I know a little Labour History. #wewillbeherelongafteryouhaverejoinedtheGreensandtheTrotparties
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8 years
Great 5 hours straight on the phones for @owensmith2016 in Lewisham East. About 2:1 in favour of Owen. Lots of 2015 buyer's remorse.
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8 months
This is worth watching. There may be a group of people currently on the planet braver than Iranian women but I canโ€™t think of one.
@yashar
Yashar Ali ๐Ÿ˜
8 months
Please watch thisโ€ฆ The Iranian freedom fighter and human rights activist @freenargesmhmd was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize tonight. But sheโ€™s imprisoned in Iran, so her children had to accept the award on her behalf. A group of prominent Iranians also attended the Nobel
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4 years
Fred & Anne Jarvis became my spare set of parents. Anne left us 13 years ago and now Fred. Iโ€™m trying to do him justice with some erudite heartfelt comments. I canโ€™t. Iโ€™m devastated. Knew it was coming, the man was 95 after all. Now itโ€™s happened Iโ€™m beyond upset.
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5 years
Because in 2015, @davidschneider when many people like you were warned by many people like me that Corbyn was a serious risk you dismissed those warnings and vilified us. You voted for this. Help fix it.
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8 years
Passionate debate at Lewisham East GC. Motion of support for @heidi_mp and no confidence in Corbyn carried 20 to 10. #savingLabour
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2 years
You might not have realised it at the time, but if in August 2013 you were against stopping Assad and his friends like Putin from killing half a million Syrians then, you were helping Putin in Ukraine today.
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5 years
Thisโ€™ll be a bit tricky for certain senior UK politicians. The Kurds helped defeat mass-murdering, misogynist, theocratic ISIS fascists as Hilary Benn so splendidly advocated, but others wanted to negotiate with said fascists. I support these real feminists. What about you?
@HananyaNaftali
Hananya Naftali
5 years
AMAZING: #Kurdish female soldiers dancing in #Raqqa after defeating ISIS, on streets where #ISIS bought and sold women. These are real feminists that fight for womenโ€™s rights. #IWD2019
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8 years
Cat. Among. The. Pigeons. Oh yes. Let's see Corbyn get out of this one.
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2 years
In our 122-year history โฆ @UKLabour โฉ has only ever won five working majorities: 45, 66, 97, 01, 05. Attlee, Wilson, Blair, Blair, Blair. And, of those, only one was achieved by ousting the Tories. Once, in 122 years. 1997. And look what we did๐Ÿ‘‡๐Ÿป
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8 years
There's a little inner Corbyn screaming: "This is hell. I'm crap at it. How did Blair do it? How was he so damn good at this job?"
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6 years
Waited 90 mins in a feeder branch to join the main march. This is huge and not a Trotskyist or Stalinist placard in view. Excellent!
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5 years
The Leader they wanted, the manifesto they wanted, the Brexit โ€˜policyโ€™ they wanted, the NEC they wanted, the senior staff they wanted, the target seat list they wanted. Our time will come? You gave us 1935. Your time will come. It canโ€™t come soon enough.
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Jeremy Corbyn
5 years
Our time will come.
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8 years
In 20 tweets @OliverKamm destroys what's left of John Pilger's reputation.
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8 years
Ken Loach isn't the solution. He's part of the problem. And his mates are running the Labour Party. Into the ground.
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5 years
Only just seen this. Fabulous little speech. This fine young man will be a force to be reckoned with very soon, and for decades to come. Remember his name.
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8 years
Unison and the GMB are consulting their members on a Labour leadership nomination yet Unite isn't. What's McLuskey afraid of?
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1 year
@ThatTimWalker If Sunak had the bottle heโ€™d remove the whip so Johnson canโ€™t be the candidate, giving him a taste of his own 2019 medicine. If he stands he splits the vote and letโ€™s Labour in. If not, a fresh candidate might win. Either way Johnson and his clowns are history for real this time.
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8 years
I'm a reasonable man. Challenge to Corbynistas: post a clip of Corbyn criticising gay murdering Iran state TV. VT or it never happened.
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7 years
To those who ask โ€œhow can you stomach staying in a party run by people like McDonald, Milne, Murray and McLuskey?โ€, my answerโ€™s simple: โ€œbecause for every one of them there are hundreds of people like Alf Dubs.โ€ Thereโ€™s only one Alf Dubs, mind. This is glorious.
@safepassageuk
Safe Passage ๐Ÿงก
7 years
. @AlfDubs letter to the 1st 'Dubs child' from Greece: "This is your country now too. The young refugees like you who I've met in Calais and Greece and here in Britain are some of the most determined, bright and brave young people Iโ€™ve ever met...you will be a credit to Britain.
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7 years
That Skwawkbox has only just realised CorbynSuperFan is a parody account has cheered me up no end. Goodness knows what heโ€™ll think when he reads the Corbyn Annual.
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1 year
Thinking about my Dad everyday but today especially. He died on 19 April last year. Much missed.
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8 years
If nothing else persuades you Corbyn's not up to the job them this will or you are beyond redemption.
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7 years
My crushing disappointment of Jon Lansman receiving 15 votes at Lewisham East GC made more palatable by 50 votes for @JohannaBaxter #heh
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8 years
Tony Blair on the 08:10 slot on @BBCr4today Calm, assured competence. I miss that.
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7 years
โ€œNationalism: it starts with folk dancing and ends with barbed wire.โ€ Great observation. @BBCRadio4
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7 years
Yet another penny drops in Brexitland. Frank Field says tariffs with the EU will cause chaos, lorries won't move. No shit. @BBCRadio4
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6 years
The woman whose question about negotiating with ISIS I answered in December 2015 has very bravely supported me. Letโ€™s see how those calling me misogynist deal with it.
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4 years
Just RTโ€™d an official @UKLabour video. It feels good to be able to do that without embarrassment or shame. Clowntime is over.
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6 years
Thatโ€™s not whining you hear. Itโ€™s cheering. And chuckling. And crowing. And the chink of glasses.
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6 years
Bravo @IanAustinMP for not being intimidated! Great piece. Want some straight talking, honest politics? Read this.
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6 years
To all members of Lewisham East Labour Party who have received the email from the General Secretary and who are contacting me: first, thank you for your support, and second, sorry for slow response but there are a lot of you and Iโ€™ll get back to you asap. #memberleddemocracy
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Of all the pubs in all the towns in all the world the legend that is โฆ @MikeGapes โฉ walks into mine.
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8 years
"Corbyn must be ousted at all costs. Everything else can be fixed later." Clinical and forensic by @sturdyalex
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1 year
Hard for some to remember, and some even now try to airbrush her out, but the convicted criminal on the right once chaired the @UKLabour NEC Disputes Cttee and referred people to the National Constitutional Committee. How embarrassing is that? #notfitforpurpose
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1 year
Islington residents try to understand rules.
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5 years
Wondering how our politics got in the state it is in? Decades of spittle-flecked, holier-than-everyone, talentless, tiresome, laboured, pointless attacks by Williams and others, and editors who gave them house room. @mikegapes is worth a hundred of you.
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8 years
Channel 4 thinking of using an empty chair for Corbyn in leadership debate but worried people wouldn't be able to tell the difference.
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3 years
8 years ago, horrified by the then 2 years of mass murder of his own people by Assad, I tabled a motion at my GC calling for Labour to condemn Assad and support action to remove him. I lost. The death toll was then 65k. I had asked โ€œhow many was enough, 250k?โ€ Its over 600k now.
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6 years
That, overwhelmingly, politicians of all parties are honest, hard-working public servants.
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Louie Mantia, Jr.
6 years
Whatโ€˜s something that seems obvious within your profession, but the general public seems to misunderstand?
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@LegalKant @Channel4News @mathieuvonrohr It's as far from funny as it gets, short of a world war.
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5 years
Why are people so shocked that the ultra left condemn the last Labour government? Without this betrayal myth (which, btw, repeats a Tory mendacious mantra about the Crash) their whole revolutionary house of cards collapses. #defendtherecord #45 #66 #97 #01 #05 (And 74-79, btw)
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Momentum ๐ŸŒน
5 years
Blair favoured deregulation of the banking industry - leading to one of the worst crashes in modern history. While spending on public services was higher, his legacy will ultimately be the austerity that followed his failure to stand up to big finance.
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4 years
At last! A grown up as Labour spokesperson on the economy on @BBCr4today Felt really good. Especially when Robinson teeโ€™d up a little lob: which is your Labour Chancellor role model? โ€œGordon Brownโ€ says @anneliesedodds Gone is Corbynโ€™s โ€œ40 years of neo Liberalismโ€ nonsense.
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4 years
Covid update. 3 weeks since my last obvious symptom, still feeling knackered all the time but so far as I can tell, my sense of taste has followed my sense of smell back to normality. Earl Grey tea no longer tastes like hot water, orange juice doesnโ€™t taste fishy! Beer is beer!
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5 years
No hint of remorse, no sense that he himself is part of the problem, no glimmer of understanding that those whoโ€™ve taken over Labour - with his help - care not for electoral politics and even less for our EU membership, this chancer is waking up. Haringey? Ring any bells, sonny?
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Guardian politics
5 years
Labour risks total wipeout if it fails to take Boris Johnson seriously | Aditya Chakrabortty
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6 years
At the @UKLabour Lewisham East election thank you party after winning 54/54 seats and the best Mayoral result ever. 50 fab activists singing โ€œThings Can Only Betterโ€ at the top of their voices. #joybeforetheiminentshitfest #watchthisspace
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8 years
Long read, well worth it. @jessphillips gives a masterclass in politics to someone who needs one.
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5 years
After 16 years getting along together nicely in the Never Stopped Any Wars Coalition, UK Trotskyism and UK Stalinism both joined the UK Labour Party. Hereโ€™s what happened next.
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7 years
The. Best. 60th. Birthday. Present. EV-ER!!!
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3 years
The Corbyn tide going out is a glorious sight but, like real tides, ultra left entryism in @UKLabour is cyclical. Better sea defences next time, people.
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@iMcKenzied
(((Ian McKenzie))) ๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡ง๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ซ๐Ÿ‡ท๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ฆ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ฑ๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡ช
8 years
Dear worthy, soft left, think tankers still lecturing on vision and inspiration, you are bringing a seminar paper to a cage fight. Step up.
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@iMcKenzied
(((Ian McKenzie))) ๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡ง๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ซ๐Ÿ‡ท๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ฆ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ฑ๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡ช
8 years
That whole pandering to UKIP-friendly voters in Northern Vote Leave towns strategy is going well for Labour, then.
@BritainElects
Britain Elects
8 years
Brinsworth & Catcliffe (Rotherham) result: LDEM: 66.0% (+50.4) LAB: 17.1% (-26.2) UKIP: 12.8% (-16.4) CON: 3.0% (-8.8) GRN: 1.0% (+1.0)
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@iMcKenzied
(((Ian McKenzie))) ๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡ง๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ซ๐Ÿ‡ท๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ฆ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ฑ๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡ช
5 years
@Maomentum_ Corbyn was a problem but much worse was voters not being able to forgive Attleeโ€™s creation of the UK independent nuclear deterrent without even telling the cabinet. Came up time and time again.
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@iMcKenzied
(((Ian McKenzie))) ๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡ง๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ซ๐Ÿ‡ท๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ฆ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ฑ๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡ช
6 years
Yup. Tideโ€™s turned. Come back and help.
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@iMcKenzied
(((Ian McKenzie))) ๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡ง๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ซ๐Ÿ‡ท๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ฆ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ฑ๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡ช
8 years
Four cheers for the person in the thick of all this. Whichever way it comes out @IainMcNicol is a hero. Someone should cast a medal.
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@iMcKenzied
(((Ian McKenzie))) ๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡ง๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ซ๐Ÿ‡ท๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ฆ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ฑ๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡ช
6 years
โ€œFor the Many not the Fewโ€: the essence of Blairism. I love that those who fought the 94-95 inclusion of it in the new Clause 4, then left the party and have now come back, are parading it as evidence that only Corbyn cares about poor people.
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@iMcKenzied
(((Ian McKenzie))) ๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡ง๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ซ๐Ÿ‡ท๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ฆ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ฑ๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡ช
4 years
This is spot on and badly needed to be said. Bookmark the piece. When this all goes belly up itโ€™ll be a handy guide for those trying to rebuild the broken system. Allegra Stratton is a troubling pick for a bad role
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@iMcKenzied
(((Ian McKenzie))) ๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡ง๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ซ๐Ÿ‡ท๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ฆ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ฑ๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡ช
7 years
Huge respect to Labourโ€™s 44 tonight. To the rest: that fence on which McDonnell has made you sit? Itโ€™s razor wire.
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