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Had a meeting tonight where a branch member described the 2017 GE result—the largest swing since 1945, reversing 20 years of electoral decline and breaking the government’s majority—as “catastrophic” for Labour. I find this sort of revisionism deeply alarming.
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We joke about the phrase ‘stay and fight’, but it was a good principle in 2020; the problem is that the people who stayed didn’t actually do any fighting.
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We didn’t fight back. Instead, we contested internal elections; we lodged formal complaints; and we wrote disappointed letters to our MPs. We followed the rules, we went through proper channels, and none of it mattered, because they control the rules; they control the channels.
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The British Left needs to wise up, because we’re heading into a period when all protest, all extraparliamentary politics, is effectively criminalised. The rules will not protect you.
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Ruth Anderson
@RuthAnderson1 Sep 2022
In an otherwise good set of results I’m horrified by this one. @UKLabour has come so far in tackling antisemitism since the EHRC report thanks to the leadership of @Keir_Starmer and for that I’ll be forever grateful. We need to make sure that we keep fighting the good fight.
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Alex Nunns@alexnunns17 Aug 2022
Saw Keir's "commitment" clip so checked the full thing. Ouch. @afneil: A pledge is your word...So is it a pledge that these industries will be in your manifesto for nationalisation? KS: Yes And tuition fees? "They're all pledges so the answer is yes..That's why it's a pledge"
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Good energy at the Oxford @RMTunion picket today.
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They have taken untold millions that they never toiled to earn, But without our brain and muscle not a single wheel can turn…
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Sky News
@SkyNews15 Aug 2022
The Labour leader told Sky News "you can't sit around the cabinet table and then go to a picket line" in some of his most direct criticism of his own MPs defying party orders by appearing at strikes recently trib.al/4ANmMUV

Sir Keir Starmer says Labour MPs should not be on picket line if they want to be in government

The Labour leader has been facing a battle within his own party for calling on shadow ministers to not appear on picket lines as strikes continue over pay for workers while the cost of living soars.

news.sky.com
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Jon Stone@joncstone7 Aug 2022
I reckon newspapers like this can get away with writing such obvious lies about workplaces because so few of their readers have been anywhere near one for decades and just don't understand them
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"The message is clear... if your conditions are being attacked, if your pay is being attacked, if your jobs are being stripped from you, you are in a class struggle" Mick Lynch from the @RMTunion
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Leftie woke culture made it socially unacceptable to call you and I the P-word. Also, we are not your women.
Adam Bienkov@AdamBienkov5 Aug 2022
"I will be incredibly robust in standing up against that lefty woke culture that is trying to cancel our history, our values and indeed our women," says Rishi Sunak.
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It sounds pretty sordid, but doesn’t surprise me at all. stokesentinel.co.uk/news/sto…

Labour members make formal complaint about 'flawed' candidate selection

Ex-MP Gareth Snell was selected as Labour's candidate for Stoke-on-Trent Central, but a group of local members want the process to be re-run

stokesentinel.co.uk
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Imprisoning two million people and then bombing them every time you have an election coming up is a profoundly sick political ritual.
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