@ElwinWay

Chronic procrastinator

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Joined May 2013
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Andy Burnham going to bat for a far right dictatorship that has inflicted what was the worst humanitarian crisis in the world on Yemen. Nice guy though.
BBC News (UK)
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UK to deploy jets to defend Saudi Arabia from Houthi attacks bbc.in/47wWLs3

UK to deploy jets to defend Saudi Arabia from Houthi attacks

The UK announces it will provide additional defensive military support to Saudi Arabia as Houthi attacks escalate in the region.

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It’s highly unlikely Burnham would be PM if ‘they’ - the security state, the corporate media, the Westminster political class etc - thought he’d act any differently. He’d have got the Corbyn / Polanski treatment.
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The Barry Bannanality of evil.
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‘Don’t say this true thing because it’ll give our enemies ammunition’ means never making progress on an issue. You need to name and describe the problem accurately if you want to bring people along with solving it in a just and democratic way.
Philip Proudfoot
@PhilipProudfootOct 18
The best possible “optics” is saying the truth, loudly, and clearly, when everyone around you is lying.
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‘We win by not fighting for our politics’ probably isn’t the best plan.
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Thread I did on this issue in 2020:
Number10@ElwinWay23 Aug 2020
Replying to @ElwinWay
More and more convinced that McDonnell’s supposed strategic brilliance is just short hand for ‘Will capitulate to the right on foreign policy and defence issues and therefore get less flak than Corbyn did’. That’s it. That’s the ‘strategic brilliance’.
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Number10@ElwinWay27 Jul 2023
The Russian armed forces go from being a bunch of clowns armed with spades (so if we Arm Ukraine they’ll win easily!) or a technologically advanced behemoth that presents a huge threat (that’s why we have to spend more £ on our own armed forces), depending on what’s convenient.
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Been doing her homework and has discovered that disabled children often become disabled adults.
Haldane Army Faction@mypalfootfoot7Oct 17
She’s obsessed in a particularly cruel minor Dickens character way about all this
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Starmer’s levels of duplicity and lying. Burnham, with a straight face, here claims he wants to “push power out of Westminster” while yesterday threatening to throw local government into chaos unless Green coalition partners publicly denounce anti-zionism!
BBC Politics
@BBCPoliticsOct 16
"My message to John is simple, I want to push economic power out into the regions of Scotland, do you?" Andy Burnham challenges Scotland's First Minister John Swinney to "push power" out from Westminster and Holyrood "into the hands of local people" bbc.in/4yl7lNX
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Don’t want to pick on any single MP, but here’s a reminder of how timid the Labour left became on Palestine post-2019. This is the left candidate in the 2020 Labour leadership election agreeing that describing the formation of Israel as ‘racist’ is antisemitic.
Number10@ElwinWay14 Feb 2020
This from the Jewish Labour Movement hustings last night. Peston: Do you regard it as antisemitic to describe Israel, it’s policies, or the circumstances around its foundation as racist, because of their discriminatory impact? Is that an antisemitic statement? Long-Bailey: Yes
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That’s where you end up when you continually try and appease people who hate you and your politics.
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These comments barely caused a ripple at the time. The ‘alternative’ media around the Labour left all but ignored them. As did many activists. Nothing good portended from it IMO.
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Did this thread on the prospect for meaningful Palestinian solidarity (including challenging Zionism as an ideology) in Your Party in August 2025. Could just as easily apply to The Greens, especially given current events.
Number10@ElwinWay28 Aug 2025
That Zionism in practice rather than in the abstract is a colonial, racist ideology that underpins the forced dispossession of Palestinians from their land by Israel is a longstanding belief for many anti-racists, anti-colonialists and anti-imperialists.
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The Labour Party don’t want to work with a party that has a principled anti-racist policy on Palestine, apparently. I don’t know anything about these areas, their politics or why the Greens are working with Labour. I do to think it’s important that they stand up to this.
Robert Peston
@PestonOct 14
The prime minister says the Green Party’s motion opposing a two state solution for Israel and Palestine is anti semitic - and that Labour could not form any alliance with the Greens while that remains its official policy
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A very easy and obvious riposte is ‘We’ll stand by our anti-racist position thanks. Now tell your party to stop arming Israel, stop arming Saudi Arabia, stop facilitating war crimes in Iran and Yemen’, etc
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Labour can’t then turn around and say ‘What have Israel, Iran, Saudi and Yemen got to do with bin collections in Lewis!??’, because it’s *them* issuing ultimatums based on national party international policies.
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I'm the only Jewish leader of a political party. I'm a victim of Antisemitism every day and I've made it clear Jewish people are welcome in my party. You're a Prime Minister who arms a genocide and locks pensioners up for opposing it.
Sky News
@SkyNewsOct 14
Andy Burnham rules out any partnership between Labour and the Green Party due to their controversial motion declaring "Zionism is racism". 🔗 trib.al/c05KDDg
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Hey guys, I’m a radical myself, but can we not do anything radical please? Newspaper columnists, TV presenters and mid-morning commercial DJs will shout at us
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