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Phil Burton-Cartledge

11 months

Due out imminently. A take on the Conservative Party that owes more to Marx, Foucault, and Wendy Brown than political science and lobby hack gossip. What's not to like?

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Phil Burton-Cartledge

@philbc3

11 days

It remains the case that no leader has got more votes for Labour in the 21st century than Jeremy Corbyn.

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Starmerism at its height is less popular than Corbynism at its lowest.

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2 years

Here is The Financial Times making a more accurate characterisation of the Tories than you could ever hope for from Labour's front bench.

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When Kim Jong Il died, I remember the British media mocking North Korean outlets for talking about rainbows appearing in the sky.

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@MailOnline

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Astonishing moment a cloud resembling Queen Elizabeth floats over English town just hours after she died

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The best Twitter thread of all time.

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In his exchange with Lisa Nandy in the Commons earlier, Jonathan Gullis blamed Stoke's Labour council for closing something in 2017. Gullis's Tories have run Stoke since 2015.

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6 years

IKEA, your boys are taking a hell of a beating.

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11 days

No matter what Labour's leaders say today, they will privately be gutted that their vote share is feeble and that they polled lower than Corbyn managed in 2019.

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4 months

He didn't call Diane because there's every chance she would have raised her awful treatment by the Labour leadership. As we saw with the SNP's motion, Hoyle is using his position to shield Starmer.

Nadine White.

@Nadine_Writes

4 months

During today's #PMQs , Speaker Lindsay Hoyle ignored Diane Abbott who repeatedly stood to ask a question. Britain's first Black woman MP being disrespected in the House of Commons, as news emerged of the Tory Party's biggest donor saying she should be shot, is most concerning.

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11 days

Well Labour, you could have had Iain Duncan Smith's seat. But you decided dumping your left wing candidate was more important.

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4 years

Interesting how celebrity diatribes against "cancel culture", as per the tedious missive from Rowan Atkinson today, never takes aim at right wingers like Allison Pearson who actively tried to get a member of the public the sack for daring to challenge her.

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Phil Burton-Cartledge

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3 years

I see the England team have won their first match since its open embrace of Marxism. A coincidence? I THINK NOT.

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3 years

What did Andy Burnham do that Keir Starmer didn't? 1. Offer a recognisably Labourist platform that responded to the needs of Manchester's residents. 2. Stood up for our people by, you know, actually opposing the Tory government.

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4 years

If the British economy is so reliant on people buying packets of crisps and coffees to and from work, perhaps it wasn't in a strong position to begin with.

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2 years

Hi @BBCNews , I have been inconvenienced by the rail strikes on multiple occasions these last couple of months but still support the @RMTunion . How about interviewing me or someone like me - we are according to polls, the majority of the public after all.

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Phil Burton-Cartledge

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4 years

A lesson for Labour from David Cameron during 2008. He didn't blunt his criticisms. He didn't mumble "now is not the time." He spent the crisis articulating a narrative of Labour failure and its responsibility for the crash. If Labour doesn't do the same now, we're screwed.

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Phil Burton-Cartledge

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6 years

The Taxpayers' Alliance have no members and their funding is opaque. The TUC has 6M members and its affiliates have the most transparent funding of any civic organisation. Why then does an unaccountable campaign organisation command a greater presence on the BBC? #Marr

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2 years

"We're called Labour because we want to associate ourselves with working people." Um, no David Lammy. It's called Labour because the party was founded by the labour movement and remains dependent on it.

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Phil Burton-Cartledge

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6 years

Imagine being JK Rowling and using your 14 million followers to dump on a a party wanting to help the poorest and least fortunate. Meanwhile, my feed tweeting class struggle politics and common sense socialism has a fraction of the following. Can you help this #SocialistSunday ?

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Phil Burton-Cartledge

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3 years

Labour's popular vote in England 1997 - 11,347,882 2001 - 9,056,824 2005 - 8,043,461 2010 - 7,042,398 2015 - 8,087,706 2017 - 11,390,099 2019 - 9,152,034

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Phil Burton-Cartledge

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2 years

The respectful tones with which Kirsty Wark is questioning Lord Howell versus her attempt to get a gotcha out of Mick Lynch just about sums up our media, the BBC especially.

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Phil Burton-Cartledge

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5 years

What makes my arse laugh about these so-called celebrities who bait Owen and moan about how evil Corbyn is that not one of them has ever been seen standing up to the far right on an anti-fascist protest. Not one.

Owen Jones

@OwenJones84

5 years

@RachelRileyRR I'm out, Rachel. This is so unbelievably cynical and desperate, anyone with good faith can see that, I'll keep fighting anti-Semitism, a vile and disgusting bigotry which caused the biggest atrocity in human history, and I'm not going to engage with you further. All the best.

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FWIW, I've resigned from the Labour Party

Leaving Labour

On Thursday morning I cancelled my Labour Party membership. It wasn't difficult. Doing the belt and braces thing the monthly direct debit go...

averypublicsociologist.blogspot.com

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If this turns out to be the case, Labour only has itself to blame.

Stats for Lefties 🍉🏳️‍⚧️

@LeftieStats

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🗳️ Chingford and Woodford Green MRP projection: 🔵 CON 43% (-5) 🔴 LAB 26% (-19) ⚪️ IND 18% (+18) <-- @FaizaShaheen 🟣 REF 6% (+6) 🟢 GRN 4% (+3) 🟠 LD 3% (-2) Via @ElectCalculus / @FindoutnowUK , 14-25 June

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10 days

Waiting for Labour supporters to tell John Curtice that he doesn't understand the electoral system.

Paul Lewis

@paullewismoney

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Labour’s result is actually far weaker than it looks, the numbers don’t lie

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Phil Burton-Cartledge

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9 months

Apart from a smattering of Labour left wingers, the only politicians that have broken rank are Humza Yousaf and, of all people, Alicia Kearns. When this is over, those who disgraced themselves by staying silent will be remembered.

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Phil Burton-Cartledge

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3 months

Train drivers have better wages than most thanks to strong union organisation. They’re an example to be emulated, not a scapegoat to be decried.

Matthew Lesh

@matthewlesh

3 months

Train drivers are a particularly unsympathetic set of striking workers.

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3 years

What a surprise. Since Bristol police admitted they lied about the "riot" last weekend not a single melty decent who condemned the protesters have retracted and said sorry.

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11 days

Keir Starmer has been very clear that social democracy is not on offer.

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Neil Kinnock tells us that “social democracy [under Keir Starmer] cannot afford to fail”.

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2 years

This man used to be the BBC's economics editor.

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@Peston

2 years

The nutshell is this. 1) the government has run out of money, even after putting up taxes by £25bn (their figures, not mine); 2) if they pay all public sector and public service workers more, that fuels inflation, which means both less resource for the public sector...2/12

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Phil Burton-Cartledge

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3 years

I personally would like to thank every liberal and every centrist who pretended Jeremy Corbyn was a Stalinist tyrant in the making. Here's your lesser evil.

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3 years

How it started How it's going

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2 years

This has to be the weirdest line up ever seen

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1 month

It's worth remembering the centrists do not attack the left just because they're spiteful. The left is their enemy because it articulates workers' interests - interests centrism is fundamentally opposed to.

Alex Niven

@Alex_Niven

1 month

We are hurtling to the right and a large part of the blame lies with the extreme centre for torching a left which had more and better ideas than it did out of sheer pique

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4 years

If Jeremy Corbyn's dinner party bothers you but repeated and flagrant breaking of quarantine rules by Stanley Johnson doesn't, then just perhaps your concerns aren't rooted in Covid safety.

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2 months

Find it funny that those sections of the electorate most opposed to this (apart from bosses) are ... retired people.

Politics UK

@PolitlcsUK

2 months

🚨 NEW: 67% of Tory voters back a reduced four day working week of 32 hours if they don’t lose any pay [ @DailyMirror ]

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Phil Burton-Cartledge

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3 years

Welsh Labour, surging. Preston and Stockton, solid. Burnham in Manchester - blistering. Politicians who are recognisably Labour and have a record of delivery to match win.

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2 months

When dealing with the Labour right, there are three things worth remembering. 1. They have no politics beyond personal advancement. 2. Their criticisms of the left are always crude projections of their own behaviour. 3. They are fundamentally dishonest.

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3 years

As Keir Starmer is now learning, there is never a good time to praise Tony Blair.

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Phil Burton-Cartledge

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2 years

Finally finished reading the Forde Report. Three points. 1. What the left has said about the Labour right is confirmed in this report. It is not a whitewash.

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9 years

This cartoon upsets David Cameron. Wouldn't it be a shame if thousands upon thousands of people saw it? #bbcqt http://t.co/OJNegaJVNv

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1 month

This rings true with my experiences. They would have knocked in Faiza's door for the reaction, laughs, and "legend" creds. This is what Labour right wingers are like.

Faiza Shaheen

@faizashaheen

1 month

I’ve taken down the photo of the canvasser that knock on my door on Sunday. I realise that in my anger I made the wrong decision, even though you couldn’t see their face. This person does know me, so I don’t believe it was accidental but part of efforts to harass and hurt me.

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4 years

Your latest in Corbynism is the new common sense.

BBC News (UK)

@BBCNews

4 years

Four-day week is affordable for most firms, claims new study

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4 years

It's worth recalling Corbyn's Labour offered a soft Brexit. The insane effort put into overturning that for a 2nd referendum played a large part enabling the no deal outcome we've got in front of us.

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Phil Burton-Cartledge

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3 years

Johnson now openly advocating "acceptable losses" and no one, least of all the so-called opposition, are taking him to task for it.

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2 months

There's a very good chance that after 4th July, we may never hear from Lee Anderson, Jonathan Gullis, and Suella Braverman ever again.

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Phil Burton-Cartledge

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5 years

Here's a shorter version. Dozens of Labour MPs contributed to the demonisation of the Labour leader and paid the price for it.

Mary Creagh MP for Coventry East

@MaryCreagh_

5 years

I co-wrote and signed this. Defeated Labour MPs call for ‘unflinching’ party election review

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Phil Burton-Cartledge

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3 years

Satire's supposed to be funny. In actual fact, what a Corbyn govt would have done is locked down early, rolled out a more generous furlough scheme, scrapped benefits conditionality and increased payments, and bumped up sick pay. How do we know this? Because he called for it.

The House magazine

@TheHouseMag

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🤔How would Jeremy Corbyn have tackled the Covid conundrum as PM? @RobDotHutton takes a trip down a parallel timeline...

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Phil Burton-Cartledge

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4 years

Imagine the fun if, after everything, RLB wins the Labour leadership.

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Phil Burton-Cartledge

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3 years

Worth remembering YouGov polling found Corbyn supporters were younger and significantly more working class than Labour Party members who opted for Cooper, Burnham, and Kendall.

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Phil Burton-Cartledge

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4 years

I was a Corbyn sceptic in 2015, but he had won the leadership and deserved to have a straight go at presenting his vision to the electorate. Luke and his friends disagreed. They forecast disaster. And spent the next four years trashing the party ensuring that was the outcome.

Luke Akehurst

@lukeakehurst

4 years

There's always an excuse. It's always someone else's fault. 1983 it was SDP and Falklands. 2017 "sabotage". 2019 Brexit. The cold hard truth is they lost because Hard Left politics and Corbyn as leader are deeply unpopular with vast majority of voters.

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1 year

Still, a price worth paying to prevent the jam man from doing some mild social democracy.

Armando Iannucci

@Aiannucci

1 year

Back of my Polling Card for local elections. For 1st time, photo ID is required. Card gives many options for elderly or those with disability. None, NONE, for younger or student voters. The policy is simply biased against younger voters, designed to suppress their vote.

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Phil Burton-Cartledge

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1 year

Rachel Reeves is probably the worst shadow chancellor Labour has ever fielded. Even worse than Ed Balls.

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4 years

The Labour right hate you more than they hate the Tories.

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2 years

Starmer is against nationalisation because it would be spent "compensating share holders". Where does he think the £29bn for a six month bill freeze is going?

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@SaulStaniforth

2 years

Keir Starmer explains why he wouldn't nationalise the energy companies.

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Layla Moran: "I support your right to strike but I condemn you for exercising it." Typical liberal. #bbcqt

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3 years

The JC have lost more libel cases in the last four years than New of the World did during its 170 year run.

Jewish Chronicle newspaper to compensate expelled Labour activist after false accusations - CityAM

A London-based Jewish newspaper has agreed to pay “substantial compensation” to an activist it falsely accused of being involved in a group planning to target Jewish people in the Labour Party.

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2 years

It does boggle my brain that 200 Labour members can look at what Ian Byrne has done these last three years and go on to think that a Blairite could do a better job.

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2 years

Sad to say Keir Starmer is more likely to favour giving Cannabis class A status than decriminalising its use.

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3 years

Should have waved down a bus.

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Phil Burton-Cartledge

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4 years

Dear comrades, it's one of those occasions where if you can't say anything nice it's probably best not to say anything at all.

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Phil Burton-Cartledge

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5 years

Do you want to see a thread of Conservative Party supporters cutting up their membership cards? Of course you do.

Adam Brooks AKA EssexPR 🇬🇧

@EssexPR

5 years

That’s me finally done.. I couldn’t now care less about voting for the next leader . Jeremy Corbyn has no right to be involved after his behaviour over the last two years . @theresa_may you just killed @Conservatives party

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3 years

Would be a terrible shame if a Labour staffer about to get the heave-ho was to leak the Forde report. An absolutely unconscionable action.

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4 years

It's astonishing you worked day and night to prevent a Labour government that would have made Marcus Rashford's efforts unnecessary.

Wes Streeting MP

@wesstreeting

4 years

It’s astonishing that Marcus Rashford has to pop up every five minutes to remind the Government that it is unacceptable to allow children to go hungry in 21st century Britain. Those of us who received free school meals know how important this is. Time for Boris Johnson to act.

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7 years

Help me out here. Labour MP Clive Lewis called another man a bitch and every Tory under the sun was calling for his head. Conservative MP Boris Johnson has a cache of sexist, homophobic "journalism" unearthed and there is *silence*. Am I missing something?

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Phil Burton-Cartledge

@philbc3

7 years

Here's a thought, Stephen. Perhaps Labour would have won the election if you and your mates hadn't spent 18 months sabotaging the leadership. #LabSummer

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1 year

If Labour wins big, it will vindicate its "hard-nosed" approach. And if not, they will conclude they need to go further right to win over former Tory supporters and "seal the deal". The Tories may lose and lose hard, but in the end, their politics win.

Will the Tories Lose 1,000 Councillors?

According to Greg Hands speaking to Sophy Ridge on Sunday morning, the Tories are all set to lose 1,000 councillors in the upcoming local e...

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2 months

With Starmer lying for months about Diane Abbott, and "insiders" trying to force her out of her seat, there is only one word for this behaviour: repulsive.

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11 months

On the day it's officially confirmed that we have stagflation - galloping inflation and increasing unemployment - this is how the BBC decides to spin it.

BBC Breaking News

@BBCBreaking

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UK wages rise at fastest rate since records began

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4 years

Curious. Labour is gripped by another intense bout of internal warfare at the behest of David Evans's heavy-handiness, and not a single story about it on the BBC's politics pages. This would not have been the case at any point between summer 2015 and winter 2019.

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Can pay out £600k to a bunch of toerags Labour would have won its libel case against, but bans a constituency party from giving £3.6k to a food bank. A New Leadership indeed.

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2 years

Never in a million years would a Labour front bencher be as clear and as principled on trans women, and that utterly shames them.

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Sorry, but I completely admire her for this position (& her eloquence). The kind of feminist that schooled me in the 80s, for which I am forever grateful. Bravo, Nicola:

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After everything, this will never not be funny.

Stats for Lefties 🍉🏳️‍⚧️

@LeftieStats

9 months

📊 NEW: YouGov shows Corbyn is more popular than major British leaders. ⬜️ Corbyn 23% (-7) 🟥 Starmer 22% (-7) 🟦 Sunak 18% (-10) 🟧 Davey 10% (-6) Via @YouGov ratings, third quarter of 2023 (+/- since second quarter of 2023)

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2 years

The danger is over so they can now say the quiet part out loud.

Saul Staniforth

@SaulStaniforth

2 years

How casually it's admitted now. Labour MP's openly worked to prevent a Labour govt. #GMB

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Vicky Derbyshire having to provide a welfare advice service during her newsreading slot to a guy who's getting 90p a week from Universal Credit. That's how appalling our social security system is.

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3. The recommendations are fine, but staffers' antipathy to Corbynism is not couched in terms of the protection of power and position. This is a major failing, which is reinforced by a 'why can't we all get along?' ethos that pervades all 138 pages.

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Brilliant cover story.

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When I used to work for a MP, I had to help a woman who survived horrendous sexual abuse try and keep hold of the benefits Jo Swinson's govt wanted to take away. Only a funny kind of feminism would be relaxed with that.

Ayesha Hazarika

@ayeshahazarika

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It’s great to see a younger, modern, feminist woman lead a major party in this era of strongman politics. I hope one day, Labour can have one too.

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And when people take to the streets because they can't pay their bills, will you be calling for the army to be sent in again?

Caitlin Moran

@caitlinmoran

2 years

By Jan, multiple 1000s of people will owe up to £10k in energy bills they just can't/won't pay. There has never been anything like this. And no plans are being made! Boris went on fucking holiday. As I just saw someone Tweet, "The rich have forgotten to be scared of the poor."

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If the Labour right like winning so much, why did they pull out all the stops to lose the last two general elections?

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1 year

Curious how some people get performatively mad about Owen Jones complaining about Starmer dumping another of his promises than Starmer dumping his promise in the first place.

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2 years

Union money is the cleanest and most transparent cash in politics.

The Times and The Sunday Times

@thetimes

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Five Labour MPs who expressed support for the forthcoming strikes have received thousands of pounds in donations from the RMT union

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@NudgeCloud I know how elections work. I also know that politics is more than elections, which is why vote share is important to talk about.

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The gushing over Theresa May out door knocking is nostalgia for a decent Conservative politics that has never existed.

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10 years

Dear homophobes, transphobes, and bigots, Fuck you. Love, Europe. #Eurovision

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1 year

So Wes Streeting's big NHS idea, to be outlined in a Keir Starmer speech tomorrow, is to go back to the 2005 manifesto and give patients greater "choice". How about the choice of providing the NHS more resources and paying staff properly?

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5 years

I've been banging on about this character of the mainstream and populist right's vote for years. Farage *is not* hoovering up working class voters. He's recruiting *retirees*. Perhaps the penny will drop eventually.

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When you donate £10 to a political party, cause, or candidate, it's because you support them. When you donate £100,000, you expect something in return.

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9 months

I find this dumbfounding. Were these professional politics watchers not watching politics at the time?

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3 years

Since its embrace of Marxism, the England team have made it into the third round and beaten Germany. A coincidence? I THINK NOT.

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There was a time establishment politicians, including Tories, would have criticised these lines if they appeared on a BNP leaflet.

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2. It doesn't paint a flattering picture of the left either. But the desire to appear even handed distorts the historical record and the role the PLP played in creating an atmos where the apparat's appalling behaviour was encouraged is barely touched on.

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5 months

There is nothing Lisa Nandy won't lie about.

Andrew Fisher

@FisherAndrew79

5 months

Lisa Nandy says she stepped down from shadow cabinet to speak out on antisemitism. Her 2016 resignation letter doesn't mention antisemitism. She says she's seen Corbyn "handle the numerous personal attacks that have been made towards you with great dignity" #BBCLauraK

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Phil Burton-Cartledge

@philbc3

3 years

In the summer, the UK had a golden opportunity to lock down and finish off Covid community transmission. Instead, the Tories told people to go back to work, ordered schools to open, and insisted on in-person FE and HE teaching. We now have the worst Covid death rate in the world

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Phil Burton-Cartledge

@philbc3

4 years

Also worth noting Len McCluskey attacks the Tories more frequently than Labour's front bench.

Ben Bradshaw

@BenPBradshaw

4 years

@solma_ahmed I wasn’t blaming trade unions. I was asked my views on Mr McKluskey after he attacked Keir again, instead of the Tories.

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Phil Burton-Cartledge

@philbc3

4 years

Who knew favourable coverage could possibly lead to favourable poll ratings? Astounding.

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Phil Burton-Cartledge

@philbc3

4 years

I am impressed we can sort out a new hospital for up to 4,000 patients within the space of a week. Just goes to show overcrowded A&Es and long waiting lists are not natural but are an outcome of political choices. Until Coronavirus, health simply was not a government priority.

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Phil Burton-Cartledge

@philbc3

4 years

There are few things more sickening than watching the right wing press whip up another panic about refugees crossing the Channel in dinghies, and the BBC leading with it on every news bulletin.

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Phil Burton-Cartledge

@philbc3

2 months

Before the election was called, the Labour leadership met with the unions and *agreed* they wouldn't be watering down their workers' right commitments further. Today, they put out a document that went back on that agreement. Why should anyone trust a word Keir Starmer says?

LabourList

@LabourList

2 months

The @UKLabour party has released a 24-page document summarising its flagship workers' rights reforms as part of its #GeneralElection2024 campaign. It's sparked fresh criticism from @UniteSharon of affiliate @unitetheunion :

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Phil Burton-Cartledge

@philbc3

2 years

I do wonder how many 'we should improve society somewhat' types have become full on 'hang the bourgies, smash the state' by interacting with the Labour right.

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