Luke Akehurst @lukeakehurst Twitter profile

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Luke Akehurst

@lukeakehurst

4 months

Pick a side, Houthi terrorists or the Royal Navy. I'm with the Royal Navy.

Harry's Place

@hurryupharry

4 months

The chanting for Yemen is all across the demonstration "Yemen Yemen make us proud turn another ship around"

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5 years

Imagine being a Labour leadership that had managed to alienate a globally iconic children's author, who previously identified with Labour so strongly that she gave the party £1m, but thinking it's her rather than the party that has the problem and needs to do some soul searching.

Phil Burton-Cartledge

@philbc3

5 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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Luke Akehurst

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2 years

If you are spending more time attacking Labour on the day we announced we would end energy prepayment premiums, giving 4m households relief on bills, than attacking the Tories who are the government presiding over this crisis, I've got to question your political motives.

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Luke Akehurst

@lukeakehurst

5 years

I have a different simple message for @tom_watson "you should fucking be proud of yourself" for fighting antisemitism.

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Luke Akehurst

@lukeakehurst

3 years

My lovely mum passed away suddenly this morning aged 75. Later on I will try to write a bit about her and her life, meanwhile thoughts are with my dad, sister and nephew who very much depended on her love and care. RIP Nan Akehurst (nee Davies). Missing you already.

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Luke Akehurst

@lukeakehurst

2 years

Unbelievable that when Labour has the Tories on the ropes and the best poll leads for a decade, Momentum's priority is attacking Starmer.

Momentum 🌹

@PeoplesMomentum

2 years

Truth, integrity, honesty

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@lukeakehurst

5 years

If they abolish Deputy Leader @tom_watson should immediately get the PLP to trigger a leadership challenge in which he should run.

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Luke Akehurst

@lukeakehurst

3 years

Thanks to the people spamming me with thousands of emails about restoring the whip to Jeremy Corbyn. I have no control over this as it is not an NEC matter but am using this medium to reply and tell you all that I wholeheartedly support the action that Keir Starmer has taken.

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Luke Akehurst

@lukeakehurst

2 years

If Keir Starmer comes campaigning in your area help him to beat the Tories rather than wasting his time with internal Labour criticisms

Owen Jones

@OwenJones84

2 years

To avoid the most tedious people on the internet misconstruing what I said, I’ll rephrase it: If Keir Starmer comes campaigning in your area, challenge him politely but robustly on the lies he said to become leader of the Labour Party.

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Luke Akehurst

@lukeakehurst

1 year

Clean sweep for Labour in all 4 of last night's council byelections, including 3 gains, 2 from the Tories.

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@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.

Jeremy Corbyn accuses Labour officials of sabotaging election campaign

Exclusive: Former leader and allies say alleged diversion of funds in 2017 could be fraud

www.theguardian.com

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Luke Akehurst

@lukeakehurst

11 months

This is going to be a tough byelection not a walkover. We couldn't win Uxbridge even in 1997 GE and the byelection later same year, which I was an organiser in. Needs everyone Labour to help Danny Beales' campaign:

Danny Beales for Uxbridge & South Ruislip

Together we can win in Uxbridge and South Ruislip for Labour

www.dannybeales.com

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Luke Akehurst

@lukeakehurst

4 years

Thousands of people put their hearts and souls for years into working for the Labour victories in 1997, 2001 & 2005. To see the amazing progressive achievements of those governments dismissed as same as vile Thatcherism they replaced is disgusting.

Mirror Politics

@MirrorPolitics

4 years

Labour MP, 26, demands end to '40 years of Thatcherism' in first speech attack

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Luke Akehurst

@lukeakehurst

3 years

Labour in Wales just hit 30 seats, equal to its highest ever total

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3 years

As I was saying before I was so rudely interrupted in 2012...

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3 years

It's disappointing that Andy McDonald would distract from a successful conference by grandstanding like this. He hasn't been a high profile member of the shadow cabinet so his departure enables Keir to promote a heavier hitter, one who understands collective responsibility.

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3 years

It's not enough yet, but we shouldn't underestimate how much Keir Starmer has improved Labour's standing with the public since he became leader in April

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Luke Akehurst

@lukeakehurst

5 years

You broke the Labour Party @jeremycorbyn . Please resign now.

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Luke Akehurst

@lukeakehurst

5 months

Every time these thugs harass Keir it adds swing votes to Labour because the public can see the party has decisively rejected the flag-waving politics of the Corbyn era. British voters don't want a PM who is popular with the far left.

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5 months

Starmer's car ramming protestors in Glasgow

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6 months

Note how all the aggression online and offline is aimed at Starmer and Labour MPs, rather than the actual government. It's almost like this is more about far left anger towards Labour than any actual concern about the suffering of Palestinians.

BBC Politics

@BBCPolitics

6 months

Labour MP Jo Stevens' office vandalised by pro-Palestine protesters

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Luke Akehurst

@lukeakehurst

10 months

In my case I'm "gammon faced" because it's a side effect of the life threatening neurological disease I survived in 2009, which also caused my disability. Thanks for your concern Kerry-Anne.

Kerry-Anne Mendoza 🏳️‍🌈🍉

@TheMendozaWoman

10 months

Why do so many Centrist Dads look riddled with gout? Akehurst, Kid Starver, Ian Austin, that Mann bloke who became the Tory antisemitism tsar. All slack-jawed and gammon-faced

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2 years

Meanwhile in the real world - Labour soars to 13-point lead in polls as Tories scrap over Boris Johnson’s successor

Labour soars to 13-point lead in polls as Tories scrap over Boris Johnson’s successor

Exclusive: Margin enough to deliver Keir Starmer comfortable majority in Commons

www.independent.co.uk

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4 years

I fundamentally disagree with RLB's premise that "we need to rebuild Labour as an insurgent force". Any fool can do protest and insurgency and anger. You win power, and get to change society when you stop looking like insurgents & look like a trustworthy alternative government.

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5 years

I think I now understand from replies to my tweet yesterday that: - Opposing Tory Brexit means u r a Tory - Not wanting the poverty Brexit causes means you don't care about poverty - Donating to the Labour Party b4 2015 means u r a Tory - Voting Labour b4 2015 means u r a Tory

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1 year

These Labour gains aren't happening by accident, they are happening because Keir Starmer has changed Labour politically, and David Evans and Morgan McSweeney have overhauled Labour's staffing, organisation & election machinery and turned us back into a winning team.

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2 years

Can people stop trying to make the Lib Dems a thing again? Their behaviour in 2010 ought to be enough to consign them to the dustbin of political history. The British political system can function quite well without them and their dodgy bar charts.

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Luke Akehurst

@lukeakehurst

3 years

That was actually a really good, positive NEC meeting once we got past the ridiculous behaviour at the start. I am delighted that Margaret Beckett and Alice Perry will be providing common sense, loyal and experienced leadership to the NEC as Chair and Vice-Chair.

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@lukeakehurst

5 years

A simple statement from @jeremycorbyn saying he doesn't want Luciana no confidenced or deselected and that she is a valued colleague would have a hugely powerful impact. It might save Labour from splitting. I'm not holding my breath. Please surprise me.

The Jewish Chronicle

@JewishChron

5 years

Luciana Berger faces no confidence motion from her Constituency Labour Party for cricising Jeremy Corbyn

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Luke Akehurst

@lukeakehurst

2 years

No disrespect to Sam Tarry but I really don't think his career as a junior shadow minister is worth even the slightest ripple in the 120 year link between Labour and the unions. Why all this attention to such a minor figure?

Tony Diver

@Tony_Diver

2 years

Sam Tarry tells @BenKentish that he has just taken phone calls from seven union general secretaries that are "absolutely fuming" about his sacking and are now on a "direct collision course with the Labour Party".

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Luke Akehurst

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3 years

The Tories have lost Tunbridge Wells borough council to NOC

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Luke Akehurst

@lukeakehurst

3 years

Looking forward to being part of what now looks like a solid working majority for supporters of @Keir_Starmer on the NEC.

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Luke Akehurst

@lukeakehurst

6 years

I missed the bit when it became OK to mock people's disability. I have a walking stick, and splints on both ankles, because a life threatening illness I had in 2009 left me with permanent nerve damage.

Khaled Elawadi.XRP

@KhaledElawadi

6 years

@lukeakehurst @Oxford_Labour What's with the walking stick Luke, you having to carrying protection around with you in case you bump into a real socialist? ☺

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3 years

I'm going to vote for this at the NEC on Tuesday

Mirror Politics

@MirrorPolitics

3 years

EXCLUSIVE Starmer set to expel 1,000 far left Labour members in four ‘poisonous’ groups

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Luke Akehurst

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5 years

Everything the Corbynistas are doing in response to Panorama - deflection, minimising the issue of AS, attacking whistle blowers, attacking Watson, is all visible to the EHRC. It all adds to the charge sheet of an organisation not taking racism seriously I.e. institutional racism

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Luke Akehurst

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4 months

Worth noting that South Africa, whilst bringing case vs Israel to ICJ, happily hosted ships of Russian Navy while Putin was invading Ukraine. Sadly the SA govt may be motivated by its geopolitical alliance with Russia and China rather than a universal concern for human rights.

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Luke Akehurst

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3 years

Lots of snobby metropolitan "yuck" reactions to me talking about Labour needing to win in Kent and Essex. If we can't win there, it's us there is a problem with, not decent voters in those counties who happily elected many Labour MPs in 1997, 2001 and 2005.

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Luke Akehurst

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6 months

This isn't lobbying or campaigning, it's intimidation and bullying, and targeting an opposition MP suggests the motive is some previous political beef rather than actually changing government policy. I suspect it will have the opposite impact to that intended.

Syed Siddiqi

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6 months

We are outside Wes Streeting MPs office right now. Hundreds of pro-Palestinian activists demanding he "step aside." #FreePalestine

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2 years

15% poll leads don't happen by accident. They are possible because we changed the Labour Party. Please elect @labtowin NEC members who will continue to change Labour to get it ready to win. Voting closes on Friday at noon.

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Luke Akehurst

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6 years

A room full of old white Trots, many of them not from Streatham, expressing a desire to sack one of few black MPs. Grotesque.

Chris Williamson

@DerbyChrisW

6 years

I was in Streatham constituency tonight for the latest #DemocracyRoadshow . Really positive meeting and a unanimous vote in favour of #MandatoryReselection too. And I had the added privilege of meeting Labour movement legend Ted Knight #ChangeIsComing

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Luke Akehurst

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6 months

I can confidently say that some of the the people who were murdered by Hamas in these kibbutzim probably did more for peace and for the Palestinians in their lives than almost everyone marching through London on Saturday will ever have done.

‘This was her heaven’: son returns to Israel kibbutz where his mother was abducted

Noam Sagi wants information on what happened to Ada, 75, during the 7 October Hamas attack

www.theguardian.com

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Luke Akehurst

@lukeakehurst

2 years

This sort of personalised invective and insults seems completely disproportionate to any political disagreement Owen might have with Keir. All staggeringly childish.

Owen Jones

@OwenJones84

2 years

A professional political conman - that’s @Keir_Starmer - sacks someone who, unlike him, has principle and courage, and knows what solidarity means

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Luke Akehurst

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7 years

This is ridiculous as there isn't a problem with personation in UK elections. Is blatant US Republican style turnout suppression.

Sky News

@SkyNews

7 years

Voter ID pilots planned in five areas for 2018 elections to combat fraud

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Luke Akehurst

@lukeakehurst

6 months

The independent coucillor from Kingston writing letters demanding every cllr in UK signs up to a ceasefire or gets their name published turns out to have "Provided political and strategic counsel to George Galloway on campaigns and policy issues, including Batley and Spen". Oh.

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Luke Akehurst

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3 years

Standing next to a flag, terrible campaign idea, will never work for a centre left party with a reassuring, competent leader trying to oust a populist right-winger. Oh.

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@lukeakehurst

3 years

He "inspired millions" to vote Tory.

Len McCluskey

@LenMcCluskey

3 years

The continued persecution of Jeremy Corbyn, a politician who inspired millions, by a leadership capitulating to external pressure on Party procedures risks destroying the unity and integrity of the Party. I urge Keir Starmer in the strongest terms to pull back from the brink. 3/3

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Luke Akehurst

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2 years

Thank you to everyone who voted to re-elect me to the NEC. I'm delighted and humbled to have topped the poll, with twice the number of votes required to get elected, for the second time. Congratulations to my @labtowin colleagues @JohannaBaxter @gsjosan & @AbdiDuale_

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Luke Akehurst

@lukeakehurst

3 years

Remind me whether local members decided the shortlist for the Coventry South MP selection during the Corbyn era?

Zarah Sultana MP

@zarahsultana

3 years

Liverpool Labour Party members must be able to select their own candidates. This undemocratic interference has to end.

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6 years

I look like a gammon because of the side effects of surviving a life-threatening neurological illness that also left me disabled, but thanks for your complexion related abuse, comrade.

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Luke Akehurst

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5 years

Lesson for CLPs - it doesn't matter how overwhelmingly you pass Remain policy, if you send Momentum delegates to conference they will contrive a way not to vote for it. Never, ever elect these people as delegates again.

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Luke Akehurst

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2 years

Ukraine isn't a "complex global situation", it's the unprovoked invasion of a free country by a more powerful autocratic neighbour, involving gratuitous slaughter of civilians. The issue people have with "Stop the War" is that it only seems to be interested in stopping some wars.

Laura Pidcock

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2 years

The continued attacks on the Stop the War Coalition is a damning indictment on our political culture and ability to tolerate different political opinions on complex global situations. 1/3

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Luke Akehurst

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4 years

Because he is part of the problem not part of solving it.

Mirror Politics

@MirrorPolitics

4 years

Richard Burgon 'has not signed and won't be signing' anti-Semitism pledge

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3 months

Citizens' assemblies are a stupid idea. We already have elected politicians who are put there by the public to take tough decisions, it is an abdication of responsibility to farm these out to potentially unrepresentative panels of people w no specific knowledge or accountability

Josh Self

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NEW: Labour will introduce citizens' assemblies to decide contentious issues, such as Lords reform and housebuilding Sue Gray has told @TomBaldwin66 of the “transformational” success of bodies in Ireland that built consensus for constitutional change

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2 years

Just for clarity, if you are an apologist for Putin or China or Hamas or antisemitism, or you think Corbyn was anything other than a disaster for Labour and a moral disgrace, I DO NOT WANT your vote in the NEC elections. Please go through all 19 candidates and put me 19th. Thanks

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@lukeakehurst

1 year

I intend to vote for this motion at NEC tomorrow

Kevin Schofield

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1 year

BREAKING: Labour's ruling NEC will tomorrow consider a motion proposed by Keir Starmer formally blocking Jeremy Corbyn from being a Labour candidate at the next election.

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Luke Akehurst

@lukeakehurst

6 months

I'm not sure they are up for a ceasefire

MEMRI

@MEMRIReports

6 months

Hamas Official Ghazi Hamad: We Will Repeat the October 7 Attack Time and Again Until Israel Is Annihilated; We Are Victims - Everything We Do Is Justified #Hamas #Gaza #Palestinians

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Luke Akehurst

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4 years

Sick. We'll know when Labour deserves to be elected again when people who come out with this sort of disgusting discourse are nowhere near the party.

Kerry-Anne Mendoza 🏳️‍🌈🍉

@TheMendozaWoman

4 years

Membership of Labour Friends of Israel should automatically disqualify a person from the Labour leadership race. It’d be as absurd as members electing a leader in the 80s who’d joined Labour Friends of Apartheid South Africa. Wrong then, wrong now.

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Luke Akehurst

@lukeakehurst

3 years

I don't understand how taking cash to lobby ministers when you are an MP isn't a criminal offence along the lines of Misconduct in Public Office.

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Luke Akehurst

@lukeakehurst

5 years

Criticising NATO is not a "bog standard left position". It's a fellow traveller position. NATO was created by Attlee and Bevin and supported by every Labour government, and only an extreme fringe have ever opposed it.

Owen Jones

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5 years

@Baddiel Arguing that somebody who criticises a Western military alliance - a bog standard left position - is therefore "pro-Russia" is straightforward McCarthyism, compounded by your ignorance of that person protesting against Russia. Have you ever gone on a protest against Putin?

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@lukeakehurst

4 years

Watching #Election97 and had enough of living on nostalgia for glory days of my 20s - I want Labour results like this in the future not just the past.

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@lukeakehurst

4 years

Whoa wait a minute - @Keir_Starmer just got nominated by Islington North???!!!

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Luke Akehurst

@lukeakehurst

2 years

There's been a lot of calling out of Mick Lynch over his bizarre remarks about Ukraine, not enough about his reprehensible comments about the genocide and gulag system being perpetrated by China against the Muslim Uyghurs, which he randomly compares to Leicester...

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3 years

Momentum's latest email says "The results for Die Linke may have been disappointing in the national elections". They are bemoaning the performance of the ex-communist Die Linke, while not even mentioning that Labour's sister party, the SPD, won the general election.

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Luke Akehurst

@lukeakehurst

3 years

Turns out I topped the poll and was elected with 21,355 votes when quota was 12,954:

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Luke Akehurst

@lukeakehurst

2 years

Latest email from Stop the War calls for Ukraine not to be armed, and for there not to be sanctions as these "inflame the situation". Basically just a call for Russia to win, accompanied by half-heartedly asking them to withdraw. Here's the text:

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Luke Akehurst

@lukeakehurst

3 years

It's a special welcome to the NEC that someone has just emailed the General Secretary and all of my NEC colleagues about me with the subject line "Israel Spy".

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Luke Akehurst

@lukeakehurst

2 months

Don't get why anyone on the left would back the Greens, when they oppose the house building that is needed to solve one of UK's most acute social and economic problems, lack of affordable housing.

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Luke Akehurst

@lukeakehurst

2 years

All these people still tweeting "when is Keith going to announce Labour's cost of living policy" when Keir has literally said this afternoon that a comprehensive plan is being announced on Monday.

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Luke Akehurst

@lukeakehurst

6 months

There's a certain post-colonial arrogance to British MPs thinking they can tell the elected government of another democracy that it has to stop fighting to defend its people after the worst terrorist atrocities since 9/11. The former mandatory power should stay in its lane.

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Luke Akehurst

@lukeakehurst

7 months

Perhaps people could wake up and realise there is a connection between antisemitic attacks, whether in Dagestan or Stamford Hill, and lurid, exagerated, demonising language about Israel commiting "genocide", "collective punishment" or "carpet-bombing".

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Luke Akehurst

@lukeakehurst

7 months

Curtice: biggest increase in Labour's vote in a Scottish byelection since 1945. Labour vote share back to 2010 level.

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Luke Akehurst

@lukeakehurst

4 years

Personally, I preferred it when Labour aspired to landslide majorities rather than hung parliaments, and was able to focus on gaining 8 seats in Kent rather than defensive battles to save former coalfield strongholds.

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Luke Akehurst

@lukeakehurst

6 months

Odd that organisers objected to this placard but not blatantly antisemitic ones

Peter Tatchell

@PeterTatchell

6 months

Stop The War stewards blocked my way at the start of Palestine march today They objected to my placard? Said I was "a troublemaker". "We are here to stop you," they said. "We know what you did at the Ukraine march." I supported arming Ukraine @J_Bloodworth @Ozkaterji @im_PULSE

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Luke Akehurst

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4 months

It's just sunk in that this time next year we might have a Labour Government. It's been far, far too long. Looking forward to a year of campaigning for a better, fairer country. Join us:

Join the Labour Party today!

It's simple and affordable to become a member of the Labour Party and it unlocks a ton of opportunities.

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Luke Akehurst

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3 years

Labour Party members shouldn't have to put up with divisive debates re individual disciplinary cases that have been ruled not competent business and make meetings an unsafe unwelcoming space. Please report incidents at party meetings to the national party so they can take action

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@lukeakehurst

3 years

There is genuine pathos in someone Labour being nostalgic for a single opinion poll rather than 3 actual Labour governments with landslide majorities.

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Luke Akehurst

@lukeakehurst

4 years

I'm not sure that presenting Keir as a remainer to an overwhelmingly remainer party membership in the middle of an NEC ballot is quite the strategic masterstroke the Corbynites think it is. #Newsnight PS I'm a massive pro European.

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@lukeakehurst

2 years

Good luck to everyone campaigning for @UKLabour today! Vote Labour!

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@lukeakehurst

3 years

Turns out @labtowin can count. And organise. And win.

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@lukeakehurst

4 years

I really care about my union, Unite. It does great industrial work for its members. I've been in it or its predecessors for 27 years. I'm very sad to see the union of Ernie Bevin, Bill Morris, Ken Jackson, Clive Jenkins, Frank Chapple, making laughably silly political decisions.

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Luke Akehurst

@lukeakehurst

1 month

Just checking I've correctly understood this. Small numbers of people on left stopping voting Labour = definitely entirely Keir's fault. Massive numbers of other people starting voting Labour = nothing to do with Keir, just osmosis or gravity or something.

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Luke Akehurst

@lukeakehurst

4 years

I don't like the sniping at @Ed_Miliband . It takes humility and team spirit and courageous self-awareness of what went wrong to come back and serve again after having been leader. Back off and let him contribute.

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Luke Akehurst

@lukeakehurst

3 years

24 years ago today. What a day to have been Labour.

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Luke Akehurst

@lukeakehurst

2 years

30,000 people have joined the Labour Party since the beginning of September. Join them here:

Join the Labour Party today!

It's simple and affordable to become a member of the Labour Party and it unlocks a ton of opportunities.

jdr.labour.org.uk

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Luke Akehurst

@lukeakehurst

2 years

How anyone can get from watching the horror of what's happening in Ukraine to arguing that we don't need NATO and a strategic nuclear deterrent is beyond me. We live in a tougher geopolitical neighbourhood than we wanted to believe, & we need to be serious about defence.

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Luke Akehurst

@lukeakehurst

1 year

What Keir actually said: Labour "will never again lose sight of its purpose or its morals. And it will never again be brought to its knees by racism or bigotry. If you don’t like that, if you don’t like the changes we have made, I say the door is open and you can leave."

Owen Jones

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1 year

Starmerism is determined to permanently eradicate the left from the Labour party - and thus from English politics almost altogether. My new column 👇

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@lukeakehurst

2 years

Yesterday was a really positive day for Labour as we set out clear and bold policies on the cost-of-living crisis. But still there was sniping and negativity from the Hard Left. Please make sure you use your NEC vote to ensure we have an NEC 100% focused on winning not whining.

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Luke Akehurst

@lukeakehurst

4 years

He's probably done more to set back left wing ideas in British politics than anyone since Ramsay MacDonald.

Momentum 🌹

@PeoplesMomentum

4 years

Jeremy Corbyn really is the best of us. A principled, decent man who has brought left-wing ideas back to the forefront of British politics. No lucrative speaking gigs await - just more tireless activism to improve the lot of working class people across the globe. A titan.

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Luke Akehurst

@lukeakehurst

2 years

Always bemused by people whose primary political cause is abolition of the world's only Jewish state getting affronted at the suggestion they might be a bit antisemitic.

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Luke Akehurst

@lukeakehurst

3 years

I endorse this action.

Keir Starmer

@Keir_Starmer

3 years

In those circumstances, I have taken the decision not to restore the whip to Jeremy Corbyn. I will keep this situation under review.

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Luke Akehurst

@lukeakehurst

4 years

And until members grow up from this infantile hatred of their most successful leader, Labour will keep losing.

Ali Milani

@AliMilaniUK

4 years

In the question of the future of the Labour Party, no version of the answer includes Tony Blair. None.

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Luke Akehurst

@lukeakehurst

3 years

Sounds like @Keir_Starmer has succeeded in passing a more radical package of party democratic reform in one week than his predecessors often painstakingly took a year of painful infighting to achieve. Well done every member who elected sound delegates. You made this happen.

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Luke Akehurst

@lukeakehurst

4 years

Because the one thing that really needs changing about Labour is that we need to spend more time trying to deselect MPs. Divisive codswallop.

LabourList

@LabourList

4 years

NEW: Rebecca Long-Bailey set to announce support for open selections in "democratic revolution" plan:

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Luke Akehurst

@lukeakehurst

4 years

Maybe there could be a ballot of the movement, to see how much support Keir has...

James Foster

@JamesEFoster

4 years

Keir has the PLP. Jeremy has the movement. The movement hasn’t backed Keir. Stay & we can build our own force within the Labour Party.

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Luke Akehurst

@lukeakehurst

6 months

Not impressed by resigners from frontbench. Labour MPs should show moral leadership to their constituents and stand with Israel as it fights Hamas.

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Luke Akehurst

@lukeakehurst

6 years

George McManus is a longstanding Momentum-backed member of Labour's National Policy Forum. This is pretty naked antisemitism, jumping straight to the medieval Christian version.

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Luke Akehurst

@lukeakehurst

1 year

Just to be a rulebook nerd, all candidates have to be endorsed by the NEC. A local CLP can't just go and pick who they fancy.

PoliticsJOE

@PoliticsJOE_UK

1 year

🚨 EXCL Jeremy Corbyn: Keir can’t ban me, I will stand as Labour MP if members agree

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Luke Akehurst

@lukeakehurst

3 years

If this is an attempt by Howard to make Keir look bad, it rather fails, as all the income as a lawyer is from before he was leader, and the other "second jobs" appear to be rather worthy unpaid roles. But he did go to a football match and a rugby match. Shocking stuff.

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Luke Akehurst

@lukeakehurst

3 years

He literally said "equality" was one of the 4 values that were central to his politics.

Grace Blakeley

@graceblakeley

3 years

Starmer did not mention inequality once. Such an omission would be remarkable for a Labour leader even during an economic boom – but it’s utterly astonishing in the midst of a pandemic that has seen inequality skyrocket. Me for @tribunemagazine

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Luke Akehurst

@lukeakehurst

3 years

Have had about a dozen people make what they think are hilarious jokes about my skin colour today, in fact I get "jokes" - actually just ignorant insults about it almost every day, so for their benefit here's a fact sheet about my medical condition:

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Luke Akehurst

@lukeakehurst

3 years

Hearing that mainstream candidates won every single CLP rep seat at the Labour East regional conference, Momentum won none.

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