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From each according to their ability, to each according to their needs. Socialist. Parent. Cyclist. Dog lover,Liverpool & Blades fan.

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@BrianHTweed
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2 years
Anyone else had enough of this bullshit?
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2 years
The traditional search of the cellars of the Palace of Westminster is conducted ahead of the State opening of Parliament It's the first time that a woman has been nominated to lead the ceremonial search
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If you want to know what a privatised NHS would look like, visit a vet.
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In Israel children as young as 12 get sentenced to 20 years in prison for throwing stones at the IDF, while members of the IDF get off scot free for murdering children. That’s what apartheid looks like.
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If privatisation worked we wouldn’t have this.
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6 months
If you are struggling to think of a New Year’s resolution, can I suggest that you boycott goods made in Israel?
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Jeremy Corbyn lives in one of the houses on the left, Tony Blair lives in the one on the right, which is just one of the 39 homes and flats that make up his £35 million property portfolio.
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5 years
I’ve experienced Labour defeats at a GE before. But none has taken the winds out of my sails like this one. I still can’t bring my self to watch or listen to the news. I’m deeply ashamed by the way Jeremy Corbyn has been treated. It really hurts deep down inside.
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I’m old enough to remember Tories telling me that privatising the rail network would lead to cheaper fares and an improved service.
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So Grant Shapps has announced that energy will not be rationed in the UK. For the record, Grant, if you are poor it already is.
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3 years
Lest we forget.
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Stormzy gets attacked for saying the UK is racist. Meanwhile Spurs v Chelsea match is twice stopped due to racist chants from the crowd. What a fucking country.
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3 years
Anyone who is surprised by the shocking racism showed by English fans last night clearly hasn’t been paying attention.
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2 years
It was bullshit, wasn’t it?
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3 years
Can BBC news please stop referring to the ‘failures of the NHS test and trace system’? It’s the Serco Test and Trace System, and any failure sits squarely on Dido Harding’s shoulders.
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So let me get this right, because I’m trying to explain it to a child. If I vote for a candidate in a democratic election I’m a threat to democracy?
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7 months
Yeah, right, of course they are. More of the same old bullshit.
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2 years
Tory MP Oliver Dowden has today claimed that ‘Woke Culture is threatening Western Values’. I mean what does that even mean?
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3 years
The UK is overdue a Revolution, isn’t it?
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Look, mum, here’s me shaking hands with a war criminal,
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3 years
Would I be correct in thinking that UK broadcasters have decided to opt out of holding the Tories to account for their mishandling of the Pandemic?
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2 years
Imagine this guy standing to be MP in your constituency and then going into a voting booth and putting your X against his name? No, neither can I.
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You wait years for the worst PM in UK history to come along and then five arrive in quick succession.
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1 year
A reminder of just how deranged the campaign against Jeremy Corbyn was. Just imagine the mouth frothing from this rancid rag if he’d chosen to fly.
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2 years
Last week Mick Lynch was bossing the UK media, and his performances dominated my Twitter trending list. This week he’s disappeared. They couldn’t handle him, could they?
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Things Tories have said this week: Jeremy Hunt says he’s sorry he cut spending on the NHS Ian Duncan Smith says benefits should be higher. Priti Patel says she’s sorry for the treatment of the Windrush Generation and the hostile environment’. And it’s only Thursday.
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2 years
#Newsnight Not a day goes by when I don’t wish Jeremy Corbyn had won GE2019. And nor does one pass when I don’t despise those Labour MPs who worked to sabotage his chances.
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6 months
It’s easy to forget just how deranged the smears against Corbyn were at their peak.
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3 years
Lest we forget.
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2 years
Calling Ghislaine Maxwell a ‘socialite’ is like calling Jimmy Savile a children’s entertainer.
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4 years
She may have a problem with her memory, but I don’t.
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2 years
Had I been there I’d have joined them. Prince Charles has just delivered a Queen Speech that amounts to a Tory attack on the poor. They weren’t just booing the monarchy they were booing what they stand for.
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6 months
Oh Angela, this is where career over principles takes you. Do you have no shame?
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The BDS movement was set up by Palestinians to protest against the Israeli oppression of Palestinians. Here is Angela Rayner, the deputy Labour leader, accusing Palestinians and people who support their fight for freedom of targeting the only Jewish state.
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Tonight my Labour Party Branch in Sheffield passed a VNOC in Keir Starmer’s leadership. We will not be subdued.
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So let me get this right. Israel makes unfounded allegations against UNRW and the US, UK at others withdraw humanitarian funding. Israel commits a barbaric genocide against Gaza and it continues to receive $ billions in military aid from the same countries?
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2 years
Anyone else had it up to the gills with the royal sycophancy pumping out of our media yet?
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I do wish UK journalists would stop talking about the ‘war’ in Gaza. It’s not a war. Israel has the most powerful military in the region. Palestinians don’t even have any tanks, let alone F35s.
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8 months
Anyone else had enough of this bullshit yet?
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King Charles and Queen Camilla hand in hand after the King has made his first Kings Speech as Sovereign I thought this was lovely #KingCharlesIII #KingCharles #QueenCamilla #KingsSpeech
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Remember when the Tories said privatising rail would lead to lower fares and a better service? #IntegratedRailPlan
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5 years
Am I wrong in thinking that the Labour MPs who are currently attacking Jeremy Corbyn for supporting an early GE, are the same MPs who would be attacking him if he didn’t?
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4 years
Dilemma. I still haven’t been able to watch a BBC, ITV, or C4 news or current affairs program since the election. Is it time for me to overcome my aversion, or should I stick with my embargo?
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Lest we forget.
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Correct me if I’m wrong, but weren’t we told that only privatising the water industry would deliver the investment needed to modernise the infrastructure?
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Anyone who thinks the BBC is left wing has clearly never watched #BBCQuestionTime in recent years.
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Lest we forget.
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What a disgusting excuse for a human being.
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🚨Foreign Office minister Andrew Mitchell says the International Criminal Court (ICC) does not have jurisdiction in Israel, and argues that today's arrest applications are unhelpful. #DCUKParliament
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When Jeremy Corbyn was leader there were four members of the Labour Party in my household. Since Starmer took over there are now none.
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I’ve been watching Mark Francois on mute, and he still sounds like a twat. #Newsnight
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I’m old enough to remember being told that privatising public utilities like water, energy, and transport would leader to cheaper and better services that would deliver real value to the public.
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Excellent news. #BDS works. Let’s do more of it.
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BREAKING: Puma has announced it is dropping its sponsorship of the Israel Football Association, including the national soccer team. Puma has long been a target of a Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) campaign for sponsoring teams in illegal settlements.
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Don’t blame me for the current shitshow, I voted for Jeremy Corbyn, and would do so again if I had the chance.
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Does anyone else miss the days when crowds sang ‘Oh, Jeremy Corbyn’ at Labour Party rallies?
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10 months
It’s very difficult in these post-truth times to find consensus, but I think we can all agree that Andrew is an arse.
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2 years
#Dispatches it’s a shame you have a blind spot about abuse like this. In my lifetime no politician has endured more abuse than Jeremy Corbyn.
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I don’t know about you, but I’m struggling to come to terms with the idea that Luke Akehurst is welcomed in the Labour Party but Ken Loach isn’t.
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The worm has turned.
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I’m old enough to remember when being anti-war was a core value of the Labour Party.
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If you can be a Zionist without being a Jew, you can be an anti-Zionist without being an antisemite. It really is that simple.
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And it died because it didn’t.
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Too little too late, mate. We will never forgive or forget your craven behaviour on this and it will follow you for the rest of your political career. @DavidLammy
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Just think, you can defend this guy, who was twice forced to resign from government for his dodgy dealings, but you can expel from the Party Ken Loach who makes films about the condition of the working class.
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Too late mate. You let the cat out of the bag and it ain’t going back in.
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4 years
Am I alone in never having eaten at #nandos ?
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Anyone else looking forward to seeing the back of Johnson but despondent about the thought of Starmer replacing him?
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Just think, in 2024 the UK will have to choose between Sunak and Starmer, and the USA between Biden and Trump. If that doesn’t leave you feeling depressed I’d like to know the name of your medication.
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Gove, hang your head in shame. Corbyn has never uttered an antisemetic word in his life. And, Emily, you should also be ashamed for agreeing with him. #BBCOurNextPM
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Would I be correct in thinking that the celebrities who are expressing their support for a comedian who makes a racist joke, are the same people who traduced Jeremy Corbyn who never had?
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Can we all just agree that Isabelle Oakshott is a rancid hypocrite.
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Isabel Oakeshott
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Personally I think Dominic Cummings has said enough and we should all move on. He made reasonable judgements in terrible circumstances and was clearly trying to do the right thing. Let’s focus on getting the country back on its feet.
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Was told by an ITV journalist that Sheffield City Council has refused to open its schools on Monday. Hats off to them. We know it makes sense.
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When Grant Shapps says that if the railways are to flourish it ‘must banish the outdated working practices that are holding it back’, he means practices like lunch breaks, sick pay, and health and safety regulations, doesn’t he?
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Dump the Guardian! It’s quite shocking when the anti-Corbyn drones are pulled together in this way. It reminds me why I stopped buying it after 30 years.
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I’m a Republican and long for the day we abolish the monarchy, but it really is shocking the hate being spewed at the Duchess of Sussex. It’s out and out racism.
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Rory Stewart will be more welcome in the Labour Party than Jeremy Corbyn. Just marinate on that for a while.
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This is what insincerity looks like.
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"I must say that I do have very serious concerns" Shadow foreign secretary David Lammy calls for legal advice to be published so "we are clear" on whether Israel has "contravened international humanitarian law" in Gaza Follow live
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#dontbuythesun Don’t know who did this, but I love it.
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I bet Prince Andrew wishes he knew how to use photoshop.
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Every time I see Neil Coyle, Margaret Hodge, or Wes Streeting on the TV I ask myself the same question: how on earth did these people become Labour MPs?
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Johnson’s toast, isn’t he? The powers that be have clearly had enough. Odds on him being gone by Xmas?
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Lest we forget.
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Actress Maureen Lipman has told Sky News that the UK is 'part of the global rise in anti-semitism', adding that 'nowhere is a safe place to be Jewish at the moment'. Watch the full interview on #PoliticsHub at ⏰ 7pm. Watch live:
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Starmer, Lammy and Nandy have badly miscalculated the public mood with their craven position on Gaza, haven’t they?
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Whatever happened to our ‘world-beating Test and Trace system’?
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Liz Truss today said ‘That the war in Ukraine is our war’. Call me cynical 🤨 f you like, but I’m starting to think Zelenskyy isn’t the good guy
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Keep hearing journalists say ‘the Queen never got involved in politics’. And it’s bollocks.
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I don’t know about anyone else, but I’m still struggling with the idea that Wes Streeting can openly say on national TV that he didn’t campaign for the leader of the Labour Party in a GE can still be a member of the Starmer’s front bench.
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I do wish Labour MPs would stop calling it a ‘Cost of Living Crisis’ and call it what it is, an attack on the unemployed and poor.
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Why is it that the BBC talk about ‘Hamas Militants firing rockets’ into Israel but never say ‘Israeli militants bombed Gaza today’?
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Corbynism’s greatest liability is now Jeremy Corbyn himself The Guardian goes into full ‘get Corbyn’ mode. I don’t know about you, but I’ve had it up to the gills with comfortable, middle-class hacks undermine the chances of a Labour government.
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I don’t want tax cuts. I want roads that I can cycle on without risking my life.
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I can no longer bear to follow the news about Gaza. It’s making me depressed. I’m sickened by the hypocrisy of our politicians and the shameful reporting by our media. #FreePalastine #BDS
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All credit to Liz Truss. She’s managed to get another promotion while being completely void of talent, skills, or charisma.
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Just ignore him, Shirley, and he’ll go away.
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If you are a socialist and you are marching with people like this, then maybe you are on the wrong march.
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So Luciana Berger, who stood for the Lib Dems in the 2019 GE , is welcomed back into the party but Jeremy Corbyn isn’t? Tells you all you need to know about Starmer.
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Keir Starmer
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I’m proud to welcome @LucianaBerger back to lead a Mental Health Strategy Review. It will be the mission of my Labour government to make sure fewer lives are lost to suicide. Luciana is a fierce advocate for mental health and her work will contribute to achieving that mission.
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The Chief Rabbi should hang his head in shame. This is a highly political intervention during an election campaign. # #bbcnews
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Would I be correct in thinking that the people jumping onto my timeline to accuse me of being a ‘Tory enabler’ for criticising Starmer are the same people who banged the ‘Anyone but Corbyn’ drum??
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Hats off to the Allotment Guy. It’s two years years since he stood down as leader of the Labour Party, and yet a day rarely goes by when Jeremy Corbyn isn’t trending on Twitter.
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The BBC appears to be struggling with the difference between 15 million people being ‘offered a vaccine’ and the number of people actually vaccinated.
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Hats off to the Allotment Guy. He has principles and he sticks to them. And there aren’t many politicians you can say that about.
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Just returned from the vet. Distraught to lose our beautiful dog, Olive. Her seizures this morning were heartbreaking. She was a great and much loved dog. Here’s one of my favourite shadow selfies . Hard to put into words how much she will be missed.
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