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Joe Guinan

10 months

Our broken economic model drives inequality and disempowerment, lining the pockets of corporations and extracting wealth from local communities. How can we reverse this? #CommunityWealthBuilding

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Joe Guinan

@joecguinan

5 months

Just look at the scale of the destruction.

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The Guardian has created a stunning visual map of the scale of destruction in Gaza. Homes, mosques, libraries, churches, schools, universities -- everything that makes civil life possible -- erased.

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6 months

This man whipped Labour MPs to abstain on a ceasefire and sacked frontbenchers who voted for one.

Sky News

@SkyNews

6 months

Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer backs calls for a sustainable ceasefire in Gaza, adding that his party is strongly in favour of a two-state solution between Israel and Palestine. 🔗 📺 Sky 501, Virgin 602, Freeview 233 and YouTube

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Joe Guinan

@joecguinan

5 months

Biggest liar in frontline British politics bar none.

Keir Starmer

@Keir_Starmer

4 years

No more illegal wars. Introduce a Prevention of Military Intervention Act and put human rights at the heart of foreign policy. Review all UK arms sales and make us a force for international peace and justice.

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1 year

Whom amongst us hasn’t accidentally sent out a letter by mistake threatening to punish children in our care over money?

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@Miss_Snuffy

1 year

@Parallel_Uni @gardnerstuart39 Firstly it was 2016. A letter sent by mistake. But you can campaign against a bogeyman if it makes you feel better. We transform the lies of inner city kids for the better. You are trying to prevent us from doing so by spreading nonsense. Do better.

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2 years

We are witnessing the collapse of the Thatcherite privatisation myth in real time in the UK, and—remarkably—the main party of opposition is operating under a self-denying ordinance which means that they have literally nothing to say.

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@joecguinan

5 months

The defunding of @UNRWA is important because it shows intent. Not intent by Israel, we knew that already from South Africa’s @CIJ_ICJ case and the statements of Israeli leaders. But now we have intent by the U.S., UK, others—intent to aid a genocide, with no plausible deniability

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@joecguinan

4 months

He’s this hated and he hasn’t even been in government yet. Nobody loves these people, they are going to have the shortest honeymoon.

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Joe Guinan

@joecguinan

9 months

I received a notice of allegation from the Labour Party that I am being investigated for a prohibited act—supporting @MayorJD ’s independent run. I informed them that I left Labour two years ago. Support those seeking to bring about real change, not those trying to eradicate them!

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Joe Guinan

@joecguinan

2 years

Schrödinger’s #LabourFiles : simultaneously not significant or important enough to merit any coverage or even mention in the UK mainstream media—and yet so explosive and damaging as to warrant legal injunctions to prevent their being aired.

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@joecguinan

2 years

Looks like the UK is headed into the most bare-knuckle class warfare since the early Thatcher years—and the Labour Party is nowhere.

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@joecguinan

1 year

Jeremy Corbyn got more grief for his pronunciation of Epstein’s name than Mandelson has for his evidently cosy dealings with Epstein or than Starmer has for keeping Mandelson as an advisor despite his dodgy relationship with the world’s most notorious sex-trafficking paedophile.

Guardian news

@guardiannews

1 year

Bank report details Peter Mandelson’s apparent contact with Jeffrey Epstein

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@joecguinan

4 months

I can’t remember a worse time in British political life. We’re governed by an insular political class of the most limited cognitive diversity and talent, with no character or basic decency. Sterile drones safeguarding an elite system that is failing on practically every front.

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Joe Guinan

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3 years

When you have no policies, no politics, no strategy, aren’t opposing the government, and won’t even stand for the things you previously stood for that people like, there’s nothing left but to blame Jeremy Corbyn for the likely loss of a seat Labour won twice under his leadership.

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2 years

There is no solution to the cost of living crisis, let alone climate change, that does not involve large-scale public ownership of basic utilities—energy, water, transport, etc. The profit system is incompatible with universal provision of basic services, which is a necessity.

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Joe Guinan

@joecguinan

7 months

It didn’t take long for the real victims to emerge—not the slaughtered children of Gaza, but poor Labour MPs who abstained on a ceasefire and now don’t like facing the democratic political heat.

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@joecguinan

1 year

Instead of addressing the climate crisis, the British ruling class are assembling the state legal and repressive tools to attempt to contain the protest and unrest it will inevitably provoke. Wellcome to the foothills of post-democracy.

Martin O'Neill

@martin_oneill

1 year

Britain in 2023. Take a cold hard look at this, and realise that things are set to get much worse.

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@joecguinan

1 year

Nobody voted for Blairism on steroids because it wasn’t on offer in the last leadership election—and the last time it was it got 3.5%. The Labour Party has been hijacked for a narrow centrist political project without a mandate. I won’t be voting for this.

‘Clause IV on steroids’: Keir Starmer says his Labour must go further than Blair

Leader says party must ‘change our culture’ as it faces bigger task in government than his predecessor

www.theguardian.com

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Joe Guinan

@joecguinan

5 months

Absolutely disgusting that someone whose family has been annihilated and who had previously been used for a photo op by Rayner was manhandled out of a meeting for verbally protesting Rayner’s pro-genocide position, and that there is now an attempt to paint Rayner as the victim.

Lucy Powell

@LucyMPowell

5 months

People should listen to this interview with Angela. She, like many others, faces daily abuse and threats. As she says, it’s ok to disagree with or dislike what politicians say or do, but leaving them fearing for themselves or their families’ safety, is absolutely not ok 👇

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Joe Guinan

@joecguinan

17 days

Utterly without principle.

David Lammy

@DavidLammy

9 years

The money being spent on Trident could fund up to 850,000 new affordable homes, or 9,000 new schools. Public services must be our priority.

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Joe Guinan

@joecguinan

1 year

Right side of history, yet again.

Jeremy Corbyn sets out plans to 'end government control' of BBC

The Labour leader will also outline plans to nurture community journalism in the wake of his most recent row with big newspapers

www.independent.co.uk

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Joe Guinan

@joecguinan

3 months

Not a single mainstream journalist will ask Keir Starmer what action was taken against the Labour Party officials who were revealed to have made identical comments about Diane Abbott.

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Joe Guinan

@joecguinan

10 days

The notion that Britain doesn’t have the resources to fund a major programme of investment and reconstruction is so wildly wrong it is difficult to know where to begin. Britain today is one of the richest societies in the history of the world.

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Joe Guinan

@joecguinan

2 years

I see Owen the ‘staunch socialist’ who is opposing the strikes and gives this article its title has now been removed from the story after readers pointed out he could simply use the regular bus service from Doncaster to Derby on 27 December for around £20. Shocking reporting.

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Joe Guinan

@joecguinan

4 months

It's good for democracy that genocide enablers are challenged wherever they go. But more prosaically, the current crop of Labour frontbenchers don't exactly exude the common touch, do they? They seem incapable of discussion with the public over matters of political disagreement.

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'How could you live without water Rachel? Children are digging holes for water.'

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Joe Guinan

@joecguinan

3 years

Restores my faith in the public.

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Joe Guinan

@joecguinan

5 months

@babilon____ Two things can be true at once—that Hitler was evil and that the Allies committed war crimes along the way. In fact, the recognition of that is where the Geneva Conventions came from.

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16 days

The way to think about this election is as a de facto merger between most of the Labour Party and most of the Conservative Party. It is an exercise in ruling class political consolidation. The whole point is political supply control so that nothing really changes.

Owen Jones

@OwenJones84

16 days

There is less engagement in this general election than any I remember, which is pretty weird given it ends with a massive Labour landslide!

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Joe Guinan

@joecguinan

10 days

I was at the 2019 Labour Manifesto launch in Birmingham—and so was ⁦ @Keir_Starmer ⁩. Here he is clapping the manifesto and Corbyn. Beware this lying duplicitous snake 🐍 who will say anything—the most dishonest British frontline politician in living memory!

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Joe Guinan

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10 days

The Labour Party is lying that Britain—one of the richest societies in the history of the world—can’t afford more public spending. What they mean is that they don’t want to tackle obscene concentrations of wealth and power and redistribute claims on these extraordinary resources.

The Labour Party

@UKLabour

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Tomorrow, the Tories are going to promise to spend money that simply is not there. Britain can’t risk another five years under the Tories.

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Joe Guinan

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3 years

Starmer is toast if, as now seems highly likely, Labour lose the Batley & Spen by-election. What an absolute waste of a year, and what a year to have wasted.

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1 year

Fine them into bankruptcy and then nationalise the infrastructure at zero cost in the public interest. Clean water should not be a private commodity.

Southern Water admits it doesn't know how much sewage it dumps into Kent seaside bathing waters

Documents seen by i show the company was unable to tell campaigners how much it was discharging because it doesn't track the data

inews.co.uk

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Joe Guinan

@joecguinan

4 months

Absolutely stinks. The institutions of the British state getting Starmer out of his political bind. Something very rotten here.

Newham Independents 💛

@NewhamIndParty

4 months

Speaker of the House of Commons, Lindsay Hoyle has defied convention and accepted amendments from the Government and The Labour Party. This is a break from the normal running of opposition day. We wonder why the speaker has taken this action?

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Joe Guinan

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10 months

Almost all of the international ‘centre left’ Third Way leaders are now multimillionaires (while they presided over stagnant wages and growing income inequality for everyone else), but of them all by far the most brazen, craven and greedy is Tony Blair.

Sir Tony Blair's institute continued to receive Saudi Arabian money after murder of Jamal Khashoggi

The former prime minister's organisation is involved in a multimillion-pound partnership to help a modernisation drive led by the Gulf state's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman - who was accused of...

news.sky.com

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1 year

Pathetic from Reeves, bordering on economically illiterate. The ‘fiscal rules’ were made up by ⁦ @UKLabour ⁩, and nationalisation is not a “cost” but the acquisition of assets (and revenue) by the state—otherwise why would the private sector hold them?

Nationalisation “just doesn’t stack up against our fiscal rules”, Reeves says – LabourList

Rachel Reeves has said the nationalisation of industries the party previously pledged to bring into public ownership "just doesn't stack up against our fiscal rules".…

labourlist.org

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Joe Guinan

@joecguinan

2 years

‘Human Rights lawyer’

The Jewish Chronicle

@JewishChron

2 years

"That is not the position of the Labour party" Keir Starmer says that he does not agree with a recent @amnesty report that branded Israel an 'apartheid' state.

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6 years

One of the less-noticed aspects of the Corbyn era is the immensely valuable tutelage half a million people are being given in the workings of the establishment, the media, and the British state. Political-education-by-fire. No crash course in state theory could be any better.

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Joe Guinan

@joecguinan

7 months

Let’s give the last word on Kissinger to the inimitable Anthony Bourdain. #Kissinger

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1 year

PMQs shows that the Labour leadership may have made a serious error in gratuitously attacking the left to the degree it has. The purges and lies and gaslighting have set in motion a small army of left-wing activists now intent on combing every aspect of Starmer’s record.

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3 months

Because the incoming Labour government after WW2 famously threw up its hands, said everything is a mess as an excuse for inaction, and stuck to Tory economics. Pathetic.

Hugo Gye

@HugoGye

3 months

@bbclaurak Shadow chancellor says an incoming Labour govt would face worst economic legacy since WW2. She says: "We're not going to be able to turn things around straightaway but we will get to work on all of that."

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2 years

To paraphrase the late Tony Benn, the way @Keir_Starmer and his lackeys like @paulmasonnews treat people with differing views amongst the Labour Party membership is how they would treat the rest of us if they thought they could get away with it.

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@joecguinan

5 months

Five years ago we were talking green industrial strategy, regional investment banks, democratic public ownership of infrastructure, shifting 10% of corporate equity into inclusive ownership funds, and community wealth building in every town and city. Now it’s a corporate brochure

Keir Starmer

@Keir_Starmer

5 months

Great to meet with Warner Bros. Discovery CEO David Zaslav today. My mission-driven government will work in partnership with the creative industries to drive growth and build on the UK's reputation as a global leader.

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3 years

The obsession with Jeremy Corbyn amongst the Starmerites is simply astounding, and presumably fills the vast gaping void where their own politics should be.

Jeremy Corbyn ‘Should Be Honest’ About Covid Jab, Starmer Aide Says

“If you’ve had the jab you should say, and if he hasn’t then he needs to sort of be honest I suppose about that,” Sharon Hodgson tells HuffPost UK.

www.huffingtonpost.co.uk

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Joe Guinan

@joecguinan

3 years

The dire quality of UK pundit commentary on Afghanistan as yet another imperial adventure collapses perfectly underscores why no lessons will be learned and no real questions asked—and why the architects of this debacle will carry on about their business entirely undisturbed.

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@joecguinan

4 years

The Unity candidate, I’m afraid, was actually John McDonnell.

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@joecguinan

6 years

It’s a mark of how very far we’ve come and how quickly that, thanks to the Corbyn Project, the economic arguments we’re now having are over public ownership, municipal socialism, and industrial strategy. It should give us heart to press on, in spite of all the media bullshit.

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Joe Guinan

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2 years

Johnson had an 80-seat majority and the crisis smashed him, just like it smashed Cameron and May and is in the process of smashing Truss. Labour could win with a 200-seat majority and the same will happen to them—unless they are prepared to offer real solutions. And they aren’t.

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Joe Guinan

@joecguinan

6 years

Corbynism only became possible because, by mistake, ordinary members were allowed to slip the leash and decide weighty matters like Labour’s future direction. The wisdom of the streets over the elites has been a form of popular avant-garde. Now they want us back in our boxes.

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Joe Guinan

@joecguinan

7 months

“A massive fraud was perpetrated in the 2020 Labour leadership election. It is now clear that Starmer was a kind of Manchurian Candidate, a sleeper agent for entirely other interests than was made to appear at the time.” Me for @novaramedia 👇

The Corruption Behind Starmer’s Rise Has Finally Been Exposed | Novara Media

Details are starting to emerge of the most secretive and dishonest leadership campaign in the history of British politics.

novaramedia.com

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Joe Guinan

@joecguinan

3 years

“If the main party of the left seeks to walk like the right and talk like the right, then what precisely is the point of the main party of the left?” @chakrabortty on the leaked strategy behind Starmerism—a good question for all @UKLabour members.

Keir Starmer's patriot act risks turning off his core Labour voters

Analysis: party leader is pinning hopes on radical rebranding after ‘not Corbyn’ image proves ineffective

www.theguardian.com

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Joe Guinan

@joecguinan

6 months

The most dishonest leadership campaign in British political history.

Saul Staniforth

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"We leave the EU tonight... we need to make the wider case on immigration. We welcome migrants, we don't scapegoat them.. so we have to make the case for the benefits of migration, the benefits of free movement"

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1 year

At a stroke Lineker has exposed the BBC, the right-wing press (who are always moaning about cancel culture), the Tories and reactionary Labour weathervanes like Cooper and Thornberry who are incapable of principled opposition. Not bad for a bloke with milquetoast politics himself

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Joe Guinan

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11 months

The reconsolidation of the British establishment around a Labour Party that won’t disturb its wealth and power isn’t the win some people seem to think it is. It is the path to postdemocracy and the mother of all populist backlashes.

BBC News (UK)

@BBCNews

11 months

Zac Goldsmith is 'very tempted' to support Labour at next election

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The entire premise of Labour’s economics is a lie. Britain is one of the richest societies in world history, it’s just that the resources are maldistributed, with private affluence and public squalor. Any ‘growth’ in this system is distributed upwards—a subtraction from wellbeing

Saul Staniforth

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Bridget Phillipson spelling it out: "It's only through growth that we'll have more money to invest in our public services"

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7 months

Never forget that when an actual attempted genocide took place before our eyes, with open statements of intent from what we already knew was a government containing fascists, our centrist politicians backed it to the hilt, and the liberal media attacked dissenters and objecters.

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1 year

Stephen Fry, a stupid person’s idea of what an intelligent person is like (as somebody once said).

Aaron Bastani

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1 year

Italy & Germany don’t have directly elected President. Meanwhile Michael Higgins, Ireland’s President, is arguably most popular person in country. Stephen Fry is arguing against *any* form of democracy. Why wouldn’t this logic apply to hereditary MPs too?

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Joe Guinan

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6 years

Media reform, public ownership, the new economics, decentralisation, human rights, democratic reform—Corbyn and McDonnell are going for it, and we should too. We may not get another chance at such a radical reforming government in our lifetimes. Let’s not waste the opportunity.

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Joe Guinan

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3 years

Today is the last day of @UKLabour ’s Community Organising Unit, killed despite its promise and effectiveness by Keir Starmer and David Evans as part of their wanton self-destruction of the Labour Party. The deliberate march into irrelevance and oblivion continues.

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1 year

Congratulations to all those who fought so hard and dirty for the past seven years in order to return the Labour Party to this soul-less, dead-eyed, purely instrumentalist politics with neither hope nor purpose.

Labour targets new swing voter ‘middle-aged mortgage man’

Party sees identifying 50-year-old male home-owners as key to electoral success

www.theguardian.com

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4 years

For the UK left, it has been a time of defeat and retreat, of confusion and disillusionment and disarray, as we have received one pulverizing blow after another. The hopes of a few short years ago seem long gone and far away—as if in another country, another world and time, even.

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11 months

The constant performative ignorance of the British media and political class is infuriating. Abbott’s tweet made the direct link between the reactionary language of semi-fascists like Anderson and murderous anti-migrant policies (cheered on by the media). A child could understand

Sky News

@SkyNews

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Diane Abbott has been accused of exploiting the deaths of 41 migrants in a shipwreck off Italy in a now-deleted tweet about the tragedy

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6 years

Imagine surveying the current scene—a world on fire, Gilded Age levels of inequality, fascism on the march, collapsing prospects for the young, food banks and poverty everywhere—and thinking: centrism, that’s what’s needed. Moderation. If you’re not outraged you’re out to lunch.

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Keir Starmer going to war with the public. Except they weren’t laughing at his dad’s profession—they were laughing at what a phony bullshit merchant he himself has become, hiding behind his family whilst offering today’s working people practically nothing.

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2 years

I see the monstering of the RMT’s Mick Lynch is well underway from the political ‘centre ground.’ The question is, how many people on the left have learned lessons from last time?

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11 months

Britain is one of the richest countries in the history of the world. The choice of private affluence and public squalor is a political choice. Saying there’s no money left is not only shockingly economically illiterate but also a lie. We need redistribution and structural change.

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11 months

One of the worst pieces of paint-by-numbers centrist drivel I have read in a long time.

Anne McElvoy: Jeremy Corbyn is back and has much in common with Farage

Guess who’s back? As predictable as rain squalls in a London August, Jeremy Corbyn is on the march — to annoy mainstream politics and especially a moderate Labour leader who might actually run the...

www.standard.co.uk

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1 year

An extraordinarily written piece by the BBC in which former senior Labour Party officials are described throughout as “Corbyn supporters” and costs incurred as a result of decisions by the Starmer leadership are described as dating back to the Corbyn era.

Ex-Corbyn staff court case could dent Labour election fund

A long-running internal feud may prove costly in the run-up to the next election, writes Iain Watson.

www.bbc.com

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@joecguinan

2 years

May called the snap 2017 general election to annihilate Corbynism only to see Labour surge (as one shaken right-wing commentator put it) ‘in a way we’ve never seen during an election campaign before.’ That’s the history they need you to forget—and the star was the 2017 manifesto.

Andrew Fisher

@FisherAndrew79

2 years

Five years ago today, the Labour Party manifesto for the 2017 General Election was officially launched at Bradford University 🌹 Some had been so excited by it, they wanted people to have it early … but this 🧵 is the story of what happened next …

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1 year

When Corbyn has melted your brain so much you attack Shelley’s famous poetry because you think it is Corbyn’s.

keewa 🇵🇸

@keewa

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Fundamentally moronic people

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4 years

Keir Starmer is not merely politically objectionable, a milquetoast hedger and trimmer in a time of deep political, economic and ecological crisis and flux, he is also deeply incompetent and lacks any discernible strategy whatsoever, even on his own terms. Well done everybody!

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1 year

There is something wrong with the polls because every time there is an actual election, for a council seat or byelection, there is zero evidence of this commanding lead—Starmerism dissolves completely upon contact with the actual electorate.

‘Underwhelming’ Keir Starmer ‘sparks little enthusiasm’ in voters, pollsters warn

Labour leader is considered ‘bad’ or ‘terrible’ by more than a quarter of Britons, a YouGov poll finds

www.independent.co.uk

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3 years

The real scandal, of course, is not what’s illegal but what remains legal: the massive offshore financial operations that allow the rich and powerful to evade taxation and stash cash and assets. The City of London is the biggest tax haven in the world.

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2 years

Fishhook theory, unlike horseshoe theory, is not a joke—the centrists really do hate us more than they hate the far right, with whom they will work to defeat us, as history has shown, time and again.

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1 year

This is both heartening and sickening—sickening in that these good people feel the need to disclaim responsibility and are worried that they will face consequences for having been turned into a factional political football. This does not reflect at all well on Starmer’s Labour.

BBC North East

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1 year

Jews living in Newcastle call on the Labour party to state Jamie Driscoll's exclusion from its list of North East mayor candidates is nothing to do with them

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3 years

@paulmasonnews Paul, you are as wrong about Keir Hardie’s Union Jack as you are about everything else!

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@joecguinan

29 days

Hilarious to get begging emails from @UKLabour now. First, you tried to expel me (I’d already left). Second, you shouldn’t have my data in your possession, I’ve repeatedly requested it be deleted. Third, you’ve spent years traducing everything I value and care about. Hard no!

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@joecguinan

2 years

Quite incredible, the number of centrists arguing with @OwenJones84 that World War III wouldn’t necessarily mean nuclear annihilation, and seemingly willing to chance their hand at it!

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Joe Guinan

@joecguinan

2 years

#LabourFiles Episode 2 demonstrates starkly what should have been evident to any journalist who bothered to conduct even a cursory investigation: that thuggery, demonization, abuse and racism were occurring in and around @UKLabour , but perpetrated by those making the accusations!

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Joe Guinan

@joecguinan

4 months

The problem is not, as I hear from Labour people on here, that the British economy is governed by Tories. It’s that the whole economic model is wrong—financialised extraction. Putting Labour in charge changes nothing if the model itself isn’t changed. Starmer supports the model.

BBC Breakfast

@BBCBreakfast

4 months

Schools are spending tens of thousands of pounds more a year to meet rising costs of contracts agreed under the Private Finance Initiative (PFI). On #BBCBreakfast Branwen Jeffreys saw the problems at a school in Oldham

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Joe Guinan

@joecguinan

6 months

Well done to all those who thought that Lexit was red-brown racism but now happily support this awful guy. We could have had industrial strategy, public ownership, state aid for the GND, and a humane migration policy. Instead it's red rosette Faragism with the City left intact.

Stats for Lefties 🍉🏳️‍⚧️

@LeftieStats

6 months

🚨 NEW: Starmer claims that Brexit "was a vote for lower immigration". He went on to attack the Tories for choosing "higher migration" instead of raising skills. (Via The National)

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Joe Guinan

@joecguinan

4 years

After getting off to a somewhat slow start as a Real Opposition™ I see @UKLabour ’s inadvertent #ToryScum campaign turns out to be a roaring success and has gone viral.

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Joe Guinan

@joecguinan

5 months

A reverse-reverse-ferret from Labour. The sheer brazenness of this, since Starmer just dropped recognition of a Palestinian state as Labour policy a couple of weeks ago. They are compulsive and constant liars.

David Lammy

@DavidLammy

5 months

Labour welcomes the government adopting Labour's proposal to recognise the state of Palestine - most recently set out at our National Policy Forum. Recognition should not wait for a final status agreement - it should be part of efforts to achieve one.

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@joecguinan

3 years

The tragedy of Starmerism at this moment of crisis is that it is profoundly less than meets the eye. There’s nothing behind the curtain, no master plan. Just empty focus group strategies around competence and chasing a mythologized Labour-to-Tory voter with a dead-eyed politics.

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Joe Guinan

@joecguinan

4 years

History is a cruel ironist. It’s increasingly evident that we had the @UKLabour leadership and the economic programme that we needed—now more than ever, in the era of coronavirus—and it was sacrificed on the altar of ultra-Remain Europhilia, just thrown away, and all for nothing!

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@joecguinan

6 years

An inmate in Southern Michigan State Penitentiary holds up Ralph Miliband’s ‘The State in Capitalist Society’ in protest against prison conditions. (Photo: Taro Yamasaki, 1980)

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Joe Guinan

@joecguinan

11 months

The most dishonest frontline British politician in living memory. His whole leadership campaign was a fraud, a confidence trick, and even now he can only rule by bureaucratic maneouvre and fiat rather than by leadership.

Matt Zarb-Cousin

@mattzarb

11 months

Claiming victory for quashing another policy he supported during his leadership campaign

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Joe Guinan

@joecguinan

3 years

Dismayed to read the reports from Bristol. The Labour Party under Keir Starmer is becoming an increasingly inept, anti-democratic, and frankly corrupt political machine.

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@joecguinan

11 months

One of the richest countries in the history of the world and the political choice is not to feed hungry kids—and *that’s* ‘unicorns’. People have badly lost their way, neoliberalism has rotted their souls.

Claire L Meadows FRSA

@CL_Meadows

11 months

Everyone seems to lose their shit when Labour don’t promise unicorns. Surely we all recognise that the damage from the Tories will take more than one term to rectify? #c4news

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@joecguinan

3 years

I never met him in person, but it’s really sad to hear that @EdRooksby has passed away after a struggle with Long Covid. I always encountered him on here as thoughtful, insightful, perceptive. Another loss to this godawful time. Rest In Peace.

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@joecguinan

10 days

It wasn’t a confiscation, it was a new share issue, diluting the value of existing shares—which is what happens when a new executive is given stock options (but who cares about accuracy if it’s Corbyn?). It would have given workers and the community a stake in their industries.

Dan Neidle

@DanNeidle

11 days

In the interests of fairness I should point out that nothing in this general election is even a tenth as loony as Labour’s 2019 plan to confiscate 10% of the shares of all UK companies.

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@joecguinan

1 year

The way McCarthyism works is that it cannot afford to back down. So while the move against @MayorJD looks like misjudged overreach they won’t retract it, no matter the pressure from unions, etc. If they did, the spell would be broken. I hope Jamie Driscoll runs as an independent.

Tom Sheldrick

@TomSheldrickITV

1 year

NEW: Labour leader @Keir_Starmer responds to criticism over Jamie Driscoll ( @MayorJD ) not being on the party's candidate longlist for North East Mayor "We're going through a rigorous selection exercise & I make no apologies for saying we want the highest quality candidates"

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Joe Guinan

@joecguinan

6 years

‘Willing to wound, and yet afraid to strike’. It’s time for @ChukaUmunna to make his leap to a new party or to face disciplinary charges for bringing @UKLabour into disrepute.

Jeremy Corbyn's Labour party is institutionally racist says Chuka Umunna

The former Labour leadership candidate said both main parties have institutional racism and do not deserve to govern.

www.businessinsider.com

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Joe Guinan

@joecguinan

23 days

If Akehurst is being lined up for Diane Abbott’s Hackney seat it casts the party’s appalling treatment of her in a whole new light. Not only the failure to apologise to her for the behaviour of party staff documented in the Forde Report but also the kangaroo court to unseat her.

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@joecguinan

1 year

I see that Nick Cohen, whose recent departure from The Observer was stated to be on grounds of ill health, has seemingly made a rapid recovery and now has a column for the Jewish Chronicle. Funny old world.

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Joe Guinan

@joecguinan

2 years

My Dad used to joke that MI5 had a majority on many of the committees he encountered on the left. One can only imagine the scale of the operation around Corbynism—though instead of being paid informants many wreckers were probably happy to do it for free.

Scale of police spying on UK leftist party was ‘Orwellian’, inquiry hears

Dozens of officers infiltrated Socialist Workers party for decades, recording personal details of members

www.theguardian.com

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Joe Guinan

@joecguinan

1 year

Centrism is about sanctifying things in the past that you would oppose in the present.

Keir Starmer

@Keir_Starmer

4 years

Nelson Mandela was born 102 years ago today - he fought for social justice, against racism and led a movement which ended Apartheid. He continues to inspire us today and reminds us that we must come together to defeat racism and inequality in our society and across the world.

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Joe Guinan

@joecguinan

5 months

Shameful. Rayner is useless.

Saul Staniforth

@SaulStaniforth

5 months

Angela Rayner begins the debate on the anti BDS bill by making it clear the Labour party opposes boycotts and sanctions against apartheid. This Labour leadership would have been on the side of Thatcher opposing sanctions against apartheid in the 1980s too.

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Joe Guinan

@joecguinan

4 months

The Labour Party is truly disgusting—and, once again, it is evident that you cannot believe a single word they say.

Karl Hansen

@karl_fh

4 months

This is scandalous. Labour MPs were instructed to do everything they could to prevent a debate on a Gaza ceasefire while Keir Starmer and Lindsay Hoyle struck a dirty deal to block the vote.

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Joe Guinan

@joecguinan

11 months

Retweeting @OwenJones84 is now an act that can get you expelled from @UKLabour . We are living in the vindictive reductio ad absurdum world of Luke Akehurst’s tiny authoritarian mind, where an army of bureaucratic panty sniffers rummages through the membership’s underwear drawer.

Karl Connor

@Karl_W_Connor

11 months

So @UKLabour want to investigate me for retweeting @OwenJones84 on Jamie’s crowdfunding. One retweet from an established UK journalist. I’ve now quit the party and donated again (this time in my own name). Will be great when @MayorJD wins!

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@joecguinan

1 year

Starmer’s across-the-board lying is so obvious and irrefutable and thoroughly evidenced that it is increasingly being openly admitted by centrists.

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@joecguinan

4 years

How wonderful and uplifting that the blood-soaked apologists for Blair-era military adventurism and its resulting humanitarian and geopolitical disasters are being retrieved from the dustbin of history to attend to the present-day deficiencies of Labour Party culture.

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