Edmund Griffiths
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Author of Aleksandr Prokhanov and Post-Soviet Esotericism (ibidem-Verlag, 2023)
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Ok seriously folks, let's not balls this one up a second time. When the Russian anti-war left seize the winter palace that is your cue to _overthrow your own governments as well_
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Problem is in these situations that governments act too late. A ban on travel from Europe to the Americas could have had real public health benefits; but the time to do it was 1492
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Somehow stumbled into a bit of twitter that consists of hundred-follower accounts excommunicating each other for failing to acknowledge each other as pope
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And where did this man get the idea that people in Dover needed to 'take up arms' against refugees? Surely we'll never know
🔺 BREAKING: A man has thrown petrol bombs in an apparent attack on a migrant centre in Kent
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The invasion of Ukraine is wrong bc it kills & maims innocent people, displaces them from their homes, destroys infrastructure, poisons the environment, brings us closer to cataclysmic world war, & can't solve the problems it pretends it solves. Not bc this time it's the Bad Guys
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This coming from the Health Secretary is a much bigger issue than the original Dominic Cummings story, to my mind. Mr Cummings is just an advisor who broke a rule; Mr Hancock is the responsible government minister & he's saying breaking the rule is fine
I know how ill coronavirus makes you. It was entirely right for Dom Cummings to find childcare for his toddler, when both he and his wife were getting ill.
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You know who'd have been annoying on twitter, though: Socrates. Imagine the sinking feeling when the notification popped up saying he'd replied to one of your tweets. Oh gods here we go again. And his fanboys Plato & Xenophon favouriting all his replies. Doesn't bear thinking abt
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Shame on journalists shoving cameras/microphones in
#GrenfellTower
survivors' faces. If you want to interview someone, doorstep the landlord
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Trying to imagine my reaction in 1999 if someone had told me that in 20 years' time Jeremy Corbyn would be leading the Labour Party, but it would be trailing in the polls behind an alliance of Ann Widdecombe & Living Marxism
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Can we please try to be at least a little bit serious. Heckling a politician is not "shocking behaviour" & pretending it is only makes you look silly
The man screaming at Starmer in this clip is a member of the Scottish Green Party who stood for elected office in 2022.
There’s truly no justification for shocking behaviour like this
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The Labour left in recent years have been the gentlest, most magnanimous, most other-cheek-turning political movement I've ever heard of, & the Labour right have consistently behaved like an army of screaming toddlers
Labour leadership candidate Lisa Nandy tells
@BBCLauraK
that members of Jeremy Corbyn’s leadership team "made it very clear" they would wage factional war within the party, "until the other side had been crushed"
#LabourLeadership
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I must admit I thought people _always_ said "deport the home secretary instead", whoever the home secretary was; & I thought everybody understood it was a way of saying "don't deport anybody"
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The Taliban might be running Afghanistan today!
Imagine if Countries around the World had tried to Force a Ceasefire on the United States during the Invasion of Afghanistan following 9/11.
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So what did this most important vote in centuries do? Did it send British forces to war? Did it widen the franchise? Did it establish a national health service? No: it said the retired MP for Uxbridge & South Ruislip doesn't get a pass to let him into the building
This week Corbyn made jam and missed the most important vote in parliament for decades if not centuries.
Starmer‘s plan came to fruition and destroyed Johnson, he also managed to get back on time to vote.
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A 2 n d r e f w i t h r e m a i n
o n t h e b a l l o t i s w h a t
y o u ' v e b e e n s c r e a m i n g
y o u w a n t e d y o u d o n ' t
g e t t o t u r n r o u n d &
p r e t e n d i t ' s n o t g o o d
e n o u g h
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Tbh if Chomsky remembers that the 2017 election happened at all he's ahead of every professional commentator in the country
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What does "people move to Redbridge to get away from this sort of politics" mean?
Thought twice about sharing this, because I didn’t want to amplify it. But it needs to be called out.
The image, the use of ‘hostage’ in the current climate, it’s disgusting.
People move to Redbridge to get away from this sort of politics. It will not take root in our Borough🚮
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Blairites saying the government has to listen to a demonstration. Classic
Proud to join the 100,000+ people on the
#PeoplesVoteMarch
asking for a say on the final
#Brexit
deal. Time for Leaders to listen!
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There's a concerted drive now to push the idea that, sure, when Putin invades a sovereign country that's pretty bad, but when we do it it's just dandy. Utterly beneath contempt
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Congratulations to the people of Bolivia for defending their democracy. Historic achievement. Contemptuous cold laughter at every single pundit who tried to make excuses for the far-right coup: don't let them forget it
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And yet things he wants keep on happening. Almost as though getting elected is only one part of politics
Nigel Farage is 60 today and someone named him the most successful politician.
He has run 7 times to be an MP, and lost 7 times.
He is in fact the least successful politician in the UK.
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The 9/11 attacks were bad—but Iraq didn't do them—but Saddam Hussein is bad anyway—but invading Iraq would be bad. That isn't an advanced level of nuance; it's the bare minimum that any leftist in 2003 could do standing on their head. I've only gradually realized centrists can't
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Times Corbyn voted against the whip as a frontbencher: 0. Times any frontbencher gets to do it in any party: 0. Let's be clear & also honest
Let's be clear: Corbyn, who defied whip himself hundreds of times, is sacking Labour Mps for supporting the sanity of a soft Brexit
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Every single anti-Corbyn MP who would accept a shad cab post was given one. And after they'd resigned & tried to force Corbyn out, which failed ludicrously, they were all given shad cab posts again if they could be cajoled into accepting them. Mr Mason knows this perfectly well
Also - with all candidates - we are getting a sense of how much talent was suppressed by Corbyn's refusal to broaden Labour front bench. Even loyal ppl of talent were sidelined to avoid upsetting the Lexit deadbeats.
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A household budget isn't the same as the government budget, you see. Households have a responsibility to spend counter-cyclically so as to manage aggregate demand
EXCLUSIVE in today’s Sunday Telegraph
Home workers who 'built up savings' must go on spending spree when pandemic ends, Rishi Sunak says
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Marx died 1883
Engels died 1895
Labour founded 1900
Don't deselect Tristram, he'd do more harm as a historian
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Fourteen years of the Tories followed by a right-wing Labour govt isn't "breaking the pattern". That literally is the pattern
100 years ago today, the first Labour Government was formed.
In the century since then only three more Labour leaders have won power at a general election.
This is the year we must break the pattern of defeat and write a new chapter of renewal. 🌹
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Protesters in Moscow chant "no to war"
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But just imagine the look on the BBC's faces if after everything they've pulled the Tories still lose tomorrow. Let's do it to them. Make them read out the news on Friday morning ashen, grim, choking, the studio full of pundits all standing round like Victorian funeral mutes
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Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha there are people right now on this very app saying No Actually No They Aren't
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Seems to me what we have here is the government making every imaginable concession—concessions no European govt would so much as contemplate—in an effort to avoid violence, & the thuggish rightist opposition responding by just cranking up its demands even further
Bolivia opposition candidate says Morales should not be candidate in new election
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I don't think the British left always appreciate just how bizarre it looks—to almost anybody else in the world—to say at the same time 'defending this is morally bankrupt' & 'it is our duty to vote for this'
Anyone defending this is morally bankrupt, if you wish to out yourself by defending it in the comments, please do fill your boots!
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Couple of weeks of what for Corbyn would have been unusually mild & respectful press coverage & the Conservative Party is reduced to tripping over its feet in the dark & yelling
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In-person voter fraud is almost non-existent. But when they piloted this last year, 1.7% of people who tried to vote were turned away. There were 46 constituencies at the last GE where the winning margin was less than 1.7%—& where voter ID could therefore have swung the result
Voters will have to show ID before casting their ballot to prevent electoral fraud, Government to announce via
@Telegraph
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It's been clear from v early on in "partygate" that somebody within the ruling party had spent the entire pandemic building up a multimedia archive of incriminating photos, screenshots, emails, video, etc., & was now doling them out. If we had journalists they would ask who & why
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People who want to murder an MP don't turn up holding a ceasefire placard in the other hand, surrounded by peaceniks with camera phones who all—however strongly they oppose the decisions—believe in the democratic process enough to bother lobbying their elected representatives
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The Green Party's collapse into single-issue remain is one of the weirdest & saddest aspects of current political life
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Leftists: Trump is a fascist
Liberals: Yes! Trump is a fascist!
Leftists: Shall we oppose his rush to war then
Liberals:
#Maga
🐸 let's bomb
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Really think if I were the leader of a political party, & a writer for the national press said my youth organization's policies would lead to another Holocaust, I would regard it as something of a priority to say whether I believed that was true or not
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Who did Corbyn ever purge? I realize it's prob a bit late to start distinguishing between things that really happened & things that only happened in a dream, but "Corbyn-style loyalty purges" are one of the things you dreamt
Sanders may be too left for others. But he would have to bring moderate Dems along with him, so he couldn't be too radical in office — and wouldn't be able to do Corbyn-style loyalty purges, even if he were so inclined, which I don't think he is 3/
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There's been a lot of anger at people for making submarine jokes; but—if this is accurate—I suspect letting friends & loved ones think they were slowly running out of oxygen, while knowing it wasn't true, will have been more upsetting than a bit of Schadenfreude from strangers
According to this, they heard an explosion or implosion noise when they lost contact with the Titan. So, they pretty much knew what happened days ago.
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Anger needs to lead through to clarity. The Blairites _hate you_, far more viciously than they hate the Tories, far more viciously than you hate them, & the only terms on which they will cooperate with you are your total submission. They'll let you pay your subs & do the leg work
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I think this is right & Sir Lindsay will end up stepping down: not bc of what he actually did (which was bad but he might have been able to tough it out), but bc the goons of the Labour right immediately ran around saying "haha he did that bc we exerted corrupt influence on him"
A friend of Lindsay Hoyle, a senior MP, has warned him he has lost the confidence of MPs, and should "resign before being pushed." This MP says Hoyle - fairly or not - is widely seen to have succumbed to Labour pressure in ditching convention on the Gaza vote. "This is more
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Whenever it thinks the establishment is facing a challenge, BBC news becomes a crude campaigning outfit. It did it against the miners; it did it over Iraq; it's doing it now. And afterwards it tries to slide quietly back to posing as neutral. Don't let it
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This is quite true & the oddness of it is insufficiently remarked on. 1997 is as long ago now as 1971 was then, & in 1997 it would have been _inconceivable_ that anything from political life in 1971 would have been treated as current the way a fossilized New Labour Pledge Card is
When I was a younger I would not have been able to pick out e.g. Harold Wilson or Jim Callaghan out of an ID parade. Much of our current immovably fucked state and downward trajectory is largely down to political/media clowns being unable to leave the ghouls of yesteryear behind.
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Everybody knows it's a crude lie to say the Nazis were on the left; class-conscious German workers knew it too, & it is simply untrue that any significant number of people who had ever supported the CP switched over to Nazism
Nobody seems to know one crucial fact. The Nazis were very Left-wing. They hated Christianity and deliberately set children against their parents. They imposed penal taxes on the middle class and attracted Communists to their ranks. via
@mailplus
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Genuinely inexplicable that _Gordon Brown_ is comfortable using words like 'war criminal' & 'guilty of the crime of aggression' & 'Nuremberg' & 'Hague' in public
Gordon Brown says Putin could stand trial for war crimes "in a few weeks" if the US joins Europe's push for legal proceedings.
"The key is to persuade the whole of the world that this is a crime that is completely unacceptable in the modern world."
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If there are only two choices in the shop, you get the one you prefer even if it wasn't what you really wanted. Fine. Makes sense. But if you go in every week & happily buy it over & over again, they're going to keep stocking it & the thing you say you want will never be there
For those that say Labour is Tory lite…
I get it
The way I see it…
If I’m trying to make a healthier choice, I’d go Diet Coke rather than full fat
Both are far from ideal
But if those are the only 2 options in the shop, what else can you do?
(…and yes, it’s a shit shop)
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If all you'd been told was that it was happening to one of them, imagine the disappointment when you found out which one
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The political conversation in this country is dominated by people who genuinely reason like toddlers. We're the goodies, yay for the goodies, yah boo & sucks to the baddies. For ages I thought they were pretending
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Galloway isn't the far left, he's "socially traditional & economically radical" (as he says himself) & on some issues he's pretty conservative. But in fact Nick Griffin is doing this as a deliberate wind-up, for attention: he often does it & people fall for it every time
What very, very odd bed fellows. The former leader of the BNP cosying up to Galloway. When the far right and far left are closer than you think…..
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Waaaaaaaah nobody will ever vote for the left waaaah Corbyn is electoral suicide waaaaaaaSHUT UP NOW AND NEVER SAY ANOTHER WORD EXCEPT SORRY
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#NoWar
Members of left organizations (CPRF, Left Front, Revolutionary Workers' Party, Russian Socialist Movement, Left Socialist Action), trade union activists, & political scientists condemn the war of aggression unleashed by Russia's leadership & sign an anti-war statement
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Letter from
@ICJPalestine
and its co-director, the Conservative MP Crispin Blunt (see link for the full text). Enormously more forceful than anything I've seen from any Labour MP
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There could well be a general election quite soon: Corbyn needs to contest it in Islington North, & he needs to contest it not as an independent but as a candidate for some left party (an existing one or a new one) that should also stand as many other candidates as possible
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Mr Farron is quite right. Completely uncontroversial—in parliament & in polite society—to say you're a member of a Marxist revolutionary organization; but just try admitting you go to church
“It's okay for somebody who's a Marxist to bring what they've learned from Das Kapital into the room, but not to take what you believe from the Bible. That's nonsense, isn't it?”
@TimFarron
tells
#TimesRadio
that being religious can be a bar to serving in high public office.
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Interested to hear the criteria by which this tiny group is thought to merit an interview on national television, when hundreds of much bigger organizations left, right, & centre are never invited on
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The experience of 2015–19 proved that there's no way forward through the Labour Party—not because of the Labour right but (I'm afraid) because of the Labour left, who want unity & cooperation with the right when the right only wants to smash the left
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When Blairites say "abuse" they mean somebody with less money & power disagreeing with them
Reeves on abuse from Corbynites:
“I was being told at the Labour Party conference, ‘You’re just a red Tory, why don’t you eff off and join the Tories.’ I thought: ‘I’ve been in this party a lot longer than you!’ So that was obviously pretty horrible. But I’m pretty strong.”
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That's funny, I thought maybe it began when the govt & the mass media joined forces to present the opposition party as fundamentally illegitimate
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You're told that; but the political editor of Newsnight was told "hahaha we duffed up the speaker, he's in our pocket now" by the Blairite thugs who are all gloating & smirking abt how well it worked out for them, so I think it's possible you're only being told part of the truth
Am told Speaker's decision today was motivated by desire to protect MPs from threats by offering range ceasefire amendments - attempting to diffuse v hostile debate
Understand MPs went to him with concerns in the lead up to vote due to threats to themselves, families, staff...
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Lol @ the great British public—ID cards bring 'em on, fingerprints yes please, DNA sounds good to me, CCTV if you've got nothing to hide you've got nothing to fear, record your browsing history nnnnooooooooooo
Public support for...
CCTV monitoring all public spaces: 55%
Compulsory ID cards: 54%
National fingerprint database: 50% (net +10)
National DNA database: 45% (net +4)
Communications companies having to retain everyone's data: 16%
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Using any nuclear weapon—& the bombs dropped on Hiroshima & Nagasaki would now be classed as 'low-yield'—would be a historic crime & would make a world-ending nuclear war not uncomfortably conceivable (as it is now) but likely
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Can MPs stop No Deal? Yeah, easy. Can they stop No Deal while also stopping Corbyn, boosting their own parties & factions, advancing their careers, & refusing to compromise with one another on anything whatever? Doubt it. All comes down to priorities really
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The "neutral" one wants a second ref with a remain option, which would have been a hardline pro-remain position until about five minutes ago
BREAKING: Two Brexit motions will be put to the floor at Labour conference tomorrow - one pro-Remain, one neutral. Big day ahead.
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We're all hot & bothered & I don't like to be over-critical, but—you knew what they were like. You knew exactly what they were like: & you did not purge them. In more than four years when you were in charge you purged zero of them; & even now I don't think you would if you could
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Agree with this as a general point but actually I don't think the current purge is about brutal effectiveness. The people they're purging were no threat: they're doing this because they like to & they can. This isn't them fighting to win. It's them enjoying the fruits of victory
I really admire the ruthlessness of the Labour Right, I always have. Bourgeois politics is a cut-throat business. You either kill or you'll be killed. This is a lesson the Labour Left were never willing to accept, much to the detriment of the British working class.
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This is a tiny bit hallucinatory. Sir David wasn't trolled on social media, he was assassinated
Would you consider removing anonymity on social media?
Anonymity on social media means MPs face huge attacks. The Home Secretary says that everything is on the table. “We want to make some big changes on that” said Priti Patel
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Centrists: Hahahaha look silly Americans we've got a president who—
M. Macron: I AM A KING & A GOD & NO I SHALL NOT BE TAKING ANY QUESTIONS
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More people saying this app is an echo chamber & lets you hide in a filtered bubble. I must be using it wrong. Every day on here I am bombarded with the opinions of Times, Guardian, Daily Mail, & New Statesman journalists I would otherwise never have heard of, let alone read
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If your explanation for this result only explains why Labour did so badly, it isn't worth much I'm afraid. The exit poll has Labour's vote share slightly higher than in 2010 or 2015, and only three points lower than 2005. You also need to explain why the Conservatives did so well
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As opposed to throwing about "hard left", which reflects intellectual curiosity & a high degree of analytical seriousness
The hard Left throws about “Tufton Street” the way the hard right throws out “Globalist” and “Soros”. Both throw about “neoliberal”. It’s become a cover for them both to avoid thinking/analysing. So the words are much used on Twitter!
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"Partial results" from the disputed election in Iowa now seem to show opposition pro-democracy leader Bernard Sanders winning the most votes—but the largest number of delegates still go to regime hardliner Lieutenant Peter Buttigieg
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In other words: there's a factional rift in the govt that has already brought down one PM, maybe 2, & nobody will tell the public who the different sides are or what it actually is they disagree about. Bigger scandal than lockdown drinks imo
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The linked article makes no mention of any "intimidation" or "threats of violence": it reports people protesting outside a constituency office by shouting "shame on you" & "vote her out", which (contrary to the opinion of most Labour MPs) is not a police matter in a democracy
MPs must be able to do their work without intimidation and threats. Solidarity with
@rushanaraali
and I hope police will take action on threats of violence.
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Step 3: Labour nonetheless do not halt & reverse NHS privatization
Step 4: sooner or later the Conservatives get back in
Step 5: go to step 1
Step 1: vote tactically to get the Conservatives out of government.
Step 2: put Labour under a huge amount of pressure to halt and reverse NHS privatisation.
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Do not circulate the video of police shooting the suspect on London Bridge. Professional journalists tweeting it out. Bunch of bloody ghouls
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Whoever taught the Americans the word tankie: I hope you're happy
French tankies are really burning down Paris coz they don’t wanna work to save their country from tanking
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I know, weird, right? You'd almost think the left isn't just a cult & it was always about socialist politics not the man Corbyn
Jeremy has betrayed Jeremy.
If Jeremy isn't willing to get behind Jeremy's leadership then he should make way for someone who does
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TUSC 18.2% in Knowsley Northwood. Beat the Greens
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I'm not a member of the Labour Party & it's none of my business whether it expels Alastair Campbell Claret or keeps him in; but the parade of people pretending they can't understand extremely basic things (like a rule against supporting rival parties) drives me up the bloody wall
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They're going to put out a photo of Sir Keir standing awkwardly in front of the TV taking his oath of allegiance to the king, aren't they
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Pizza thing would be of fairly marginal interest if it weren't for the Blairite piranhas all popping up yapping "you don't deserve a slice of pizza you scum"
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But I thought Corbyn was a vicious authoritarian Stalinist purger, what's all this about him having a consensual style & wanting to hear from colleagues with contrasting views, can't be right
The new spirit of pluralism in the Labour Party, direct from the top
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But Mr Lammy would very much like to be the foreign secretary. Important to include that in the moral balance as well
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You know how to you & me it's _completely self-evident_ that being against an invasion doesn't mean you admire the leader of the country being invaded? These people… don't think like us. I'm realizing they really believed we looked at Saddam Hussein the way they look at Zelensky
President Zellensky's address to Parliament. Bloody hell.
Is there a greater statesman on the planet right now?
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"Soviet". Good god, this is a member of parliament. THERE ISN'T ANY SOVIET UNION ANY MORE YOU STUPID STUPID PIGSHIT MORON IT WAS QUITE A BIG NEWS STORY AT THE TIME
We have to offer a safe haven for refugees from Soviet oppression as we have done in the past. We must do this with the minimum of bureaucracy and the maximum of compassion. Time to roll out the welcome mat.
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A pub that has operated on the same site ever since 1613 will be closed down bc it isn't profitable _during a pandemic_ & the owner (
@StJohnsOx
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Thing is, nobody on the Labour right was fooled. You didn't see them running around in a panic bc this dangerous extremist was about to sweep to victory. I'm afraid the Lab left had primed its own supporters to be conned, by pretending amicable unity with the right was _possible_
It's astonishing to think that this Starmer leadership video is only four years old. Note the hug with Corbyn, the attacks on Murdoch, and so much more:
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