#Labour

PeatWorrier

PeatWorrier

One of the main sins here is a definitional one, maybe ironic in a lawyer-politician. The notion of "federalism", as such, doesn't mean anything concrete, or commit you to anything

Delly Lama

deltrimental

I'm reluctant to comment on the picking issue again, but something about this article seems fishy to me.https://thenewdaily.com.au/news/national/2020/11/08/australians-farm-work-job/amp/?__twitter_impression=true I got curious about thi

Katie Martin

KMartUK

Looking for some Sunday reading? Here’s a round up of some of the best stuff I’ve seen this week on the longer-term implications of #COVID2019: .@TomMcTague on what the crisis

Amanda Milling

amandamilling

1/ Wow. This is an eye-popping error from Angela Rayner@UKLabour tried to slur Jill for ‘living in a tax haven’ But... she was in Cayman with her family because her

Jon Burke FRSA

jonburkeUK

1/ For Boris Johnson’s eight years at City Hall, it was my job to watch him carefully and, frankly, hurt him. First for the Leader of the Labour Group, then

Zing Tsjeng

misszing

I've heard so many awful stories about what's happening in the Uighur concentration camps but this has absolutely broken me (cw: rape) https://www.haaretz.com/world-news/.premium.MAGAZINE-a-million-people-are-jailed-at-china-s-gulag

Polly Pallister-Wilkins

PollyWilkins

Can we for once stop crapping on university staff who have worked their arses off to move online, and instead see how such moves put the most vulnerable in our

Sunder Katwala

sundersays

A submarine strategy.- Labour aim is to ask questions, esp on trust & process. - Don't want to commit to 'too fast' (or 'too slow') general Labour view of policy.

Aaron Gasch Burnett

AaronGBurnett

Quite a generalization to make based off one editorial. A few thoughts:- depends what one means by “liberal.” Market or social?- Corbyn’s Labour isn’t uniformly socially liberal (anti-Semitism, TERFs, Brexit)-

Neurodivergent Labour

NeuroLabour

Neurodivergent Labour strongly condemns the issuing of 'Do Not Resuscitate' (DNR) orders solely on the basis of neurology.Autistic and other neurodivergent people have the right to live, and the right

Tides of History

labour_history

#OTD 1948. Death of the Labour MP Evan Durbin as he drowns saving his familyOne of the bright stars of Labour’s 1945 intake, Durbin had been PPS to Gaitskell and

Lisa Self Isolating Not Stupid Tucker-Clemens

TuckerClemens

Please tell me so I can understand it, HOW ON EARTH COULD ANYONE WHO VOTED FOR JEREMY CORBYN VOTE FOR STARMER??? This is the style of 'Socialism' we can expect

Owen Hatherley

owenhatherley

I feel like everyone thinks I'm a cowardly Menshevik for this but it seems obvious to me this is both andhttps://twitter.com/jemgilbert/status/1263781297966776320 a) Momentum and Corbynism's major success has been an

Kev Mullins #ThankYouJeremy #GTTO

Kevyla

Cancelling my Labour membership in the morning. Today's #ShadowCabinet announcements have confirmed I no longer belong in @UKLabour.I struggle to understand how any socialists or those on the left of

Alex Deane

ajcdeane

A great deal of time has now passed since Sir Keir was elected leader of the Labour Party and after all the vote was quite close.Is it not therefore time

Paul Johnson

PJTheEconomist

Our analysis of Scottish manifestos out today https://www.ifs.org.uk/publications/15412Strikingly big promises from the main parties, without any serious attempt to provide costings or to say how they would be paid for.