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@TheGreenParty
I found a new welcoming home as a Green Party member
No time for the anti-WOKE, anti-Trans or those looking to support evils lesser or greater
@thetimes
Better health care, better education a reduction in infant mortality and a better standard of living will encourage smaller families.
Remember Queen Victoria had 9 children.
If he wants western sized family's in Africa then they need western prosperity.
I know I will lose a number of followers by announcing this -I have just joined
@TheGreenParty
I have been weighing this up for a while.
Some of the things that have tipped my hand.
The muted response from the left when both main parties made a bonfire of net zero.
If it was never his intention to back cutting off water, food, and fuel, then why did he not clarify his position immediately and not wait days until resignations were handed in?
#starmerlies
The LP a party in Starmer's image,
Sir Keir wrote: "The Jubilee weekend isn’t just an opportunity for us to reflect on the 70 years "it is your patriotic duty to do just that".
I have reflected and am even more determined never to vote Labour again.
I find myself asking is the lurch to the right in world politics, in preparation for when climate change and a stalling capitalist system can no longer support those at the bottom of the pyramid?
Have those with the levers of power decided to start hauling up the drawbridge?
During PMQs yesterday,
@RishiSunak
gave a wholly inaccurate representation of me and my views.
I have asked him to correct the record — and stop these tedious smears.
If the PM wants to solve the cost-of-living crisis, may I suggest he starts here:
@TimesRadio
The average London household now spends £23,380 per year on rent, plus almost £3,000 per year on bills. (£26,380)
30K pay, = £5,794 tax, leaving £24,206 per year
Do the maths.
@DurhamWASP
This really is cancel culture, his most famous if personally hated piece is the 1812 which celebrated defending against the common enemy Napoleon.
Is Beethoven responsible for the rise of German Nazism just because he was German but died in 1827?
I am 66 and will not be around for ever, looking on Twitter, I see other D Socalists of a similar age.
My fear was that the DS ideas based on equality and fraternity would die with us.
Thank you, Jeremy Corbyn, for guaranteeing that the ideas will live for generations to come.
All about funding?
Corbyn built a mass membership party (600k) small donations from many who wanted a more equal society
Starmer funded by large donations from a few to make society less equal
Perhaps that is why solving child hunger is not on his to do list?
#SirKidStarver
@jk_rowling
@RosieDuffield1
@UKLabour
She first won the seat in 2017 when Corbyn was leader and defended it in 2019 when he was still leader, she has not tested her popularity with the country since Corbyn stood down.
Little did I think when voting Labour at the last GE the party would turn itself into UKIP 2.0
Talk of nationalist duty, appealing to the anti-WOKE anti-immigration and not interested the sick, disabled or retired (because they are not hard working)
I can see a place for Farage
@DavidDavisMP
@Keir_Starmer
So we have come to the point where a Conservative MP is calling out the Labour Party deputy leader for being too authoritarian and he is right!
What Orwellian nightmare are we living in?
@GeorgeMonbiot
As a socialist I supported the policies offered in 2017, I supported the man because I believe he would have done everything he could to enact them.
I can not think of another politician I would have had that confidence in an hence that makes me a Corbynite apparently?
@Jackiew80333500
Jackie you are correct but I still feel it is worth defending him against smears and false claims, not only because it is the right thing to do but because it helps stop legitimise the claims against others.
@churnwell
I'm looking at Andy Churnwell. I'm like, this man really is a centrist.
A man who can not tell the difference between an accused rapist and an anti-racist. 🤣🤣🤣
If you would have told me 5 years ago that I would be applauding the words of a Tory Peer and at the same time be totally digusted at over 90% of LP MPs, I would have laughed, nothing to laugh at now.
@JeremyVineOn5
@RMTunion
If it takes a general strike to stop the government effectively making strikes illegal the your choice is make a stand today or lose the chance for ever.
It seems both our main party political leaders believe that my father, who did his bit to free Bergen Belsen and 3 of my uncle's that did not come home, would see marching against the needless death of children as disrespectful.
I tell you they are wrong
The idea that a Prime Minister who has demonised refugees & shoved them on barges, pushed millions of children into poverty and cheered on the far right Israeli government (alongside the Labour Party) as they murder innocent children gets to decide what's "respectful..."
@BonnieCraven
Let your conscience be your guide.
I left at the end of 2019 after rejoining in 2015, after my personal red lines had been crossed.
The questions to ask, are trying to achieve the change that you joined the party to work for?
Do they represent your values?
As bad jokes are trending.
Jeremy Corbyn walks into a Fleet St bar, everyone turns and shouts its your round, he says no I am going to give the money to a food bank, they all shout "anti-Semite"
A chance tomorrow for Democratic Socialists to show Mandy we have somewhere else to go, and give give Labour an inadequate rating.
This may be the last chance before a GE to say we are not Tories. We do not vote for Tory policy.
As a thought experiment, if 76% of the population wants a
#CeasfireNOW
If those 76% refused to vote for a party that is not willing to call for that ceasefire.
But voted for party's or independents that have called for one.
What would the political landscape be?
@KateHeywood8
No I vote for policies not labels, convince Starmer to reinstate his 10 pledges and follow a manifesto on the lines of 2017 and I will reconsider.
Remember he tore up the agreement with us, why should we think he would do anything for us now?
@jrc1921
I am not sure from his reply whether he was insinuating that Jeremey Corbyn is AS or whether he was implying the Forde report is wrong?
As the report confirmed that AS was weaponized by some in the party it would need to one or the other?
@paulmasonnews
Paul are you saying that Rayner being unaware of where she was is not newsworthy?
We are asked to support the LP leadership team as they point to the lying from the Johnson government, so should they not be scrutinized also or are you saying that some truths are unacceptable?
@stephengray54
I wonder what the Tolpuddle martyrs would have thought about the organizers of a festival in their honor, being afraid to stand up for the truth?
@OwenJones84
@wesstreeting
The sad thing is he knows what he is doing, a portion of the electorate are behind him in this - that is the portion that the Starmer LP are pitching at.
Not a party I wish to associate with.
@GeorgeMonbiot
George most of us as with yourself were attracted to the Corbyn policies but also some of us to the fact that his political history led us to believe he was serious about implementing them.
I now question what does KS really want and can we trust him?
It is a no from me.
@TomLondon6
Apart from sociopaths we all have a morality but this is tending to be blocked or switched to mute by constant propaganda.
Saying that those that have little are trying to steal from you while the propagandists who are really stealing from you get a free pass.
@paulmasonnews
You know what is also a disgrace separating
anti-semitism from anti-Irish and anti-Traveller racism with ()
You point out there is no place for a hierarchy of racism, then in the same tweet use a hierarchy of racism, who are you playing this to?
If Bernie Sanders can not bring himself to ask for a full ceasefire and our politicians will not break ranks unless sanctioned by Biden.
What does that say about Western Democracy?
@lynnejones_exMP
@UKLabour
You now have the opportunity to champion what you believe in, I found it refreshing.
An unapologetic plug for the Green Party, but whatever you choose I wish you and all those with a conscience my best and solidarity.
@brokenbottleboy
I wonder about the dynamics of the relationship where James obviously did not know anything about the parties (otherwise he would have immediately reported them) while at the same time his wife was laughing about them to camera over 12 months prior.
"we need to communicate more"
I can compromise - as long as it is not capitulation, and it is genuinely about moving to correct inequality, protect the climate and protect the vulnerable.
Call me naïve, but I think they deserve a chance.
@Fyodor34664866
@jeremycorbyn
I think JC knows this in his heart at least, remember he is the first leader to offer Democratic Socialism to the electorate since 1979.
Many voters were not alive then and others based their ideas on distorted history from the MSM.
He came with a whisker in 2017.
@Nadine_Writes
Fascism is a word that should not be used lightly.
It invariably starts with identifying an other, removing citizenship rights and portraying them as not the same as "us"
Then yes it moves onto other groups because no one objected and you find you are no longer part of the "us"
@Jacko63788375
We were told that the cost of the banking crisis had to be repaid, austerity ensured that the poor and working class paid in falling standards of living while those that cause the problem gained even higher bonuses.
Trickle up theory
Is there anything being offered by Starmer's LP that would be have been out of place in a David Cameron or Terresa May manifesto?
As a D Socialist I would not vote for Cameron or May, so why should I be asked to vote for Starmer?
@rupertsmum
If your mum wants to go respect her wishes unfortunately she will not be with you for ever, when you are her age and some royal pantomime is proposed you can tell everyone who will listen where they can stick it.
No one who believes in Democratic Socialism has ever said they will vote for the Conservative Tories, most now know they can not vote for the Labour Tories either.
A reminder to centrists there are more than 2 choices.
@jessicaelgot
We understand there is now only one view which is allowed to be expressed from LP MP's and members and that is the one sanctioned by Kier Starmer.
We also understand the definition of totalitarianism
@LabourList
Visiting a picket line is now a Labour Party disciplinary offence - let that sink in -
Keir Hardie advocated a national strike to avert a world war.
Keir Starmer looks as if he would favor a world war rather than back a strike.
@Socialdemmo
@Keir_Starmer
It is not being radicalized when the rest of politics moves away from you, I am of an age where my political views in my 20's were mainstream.
What has radicalized the rest of society into no longer caring about the less fortunate?
From solidarity to individualism
@SaulStaniforth
So David Blunkett one of the grown ups, believes everyone else should grow up and support war crimes.
A firm backer of the Iraq war also.
Call me childish if you will, but wouldn't the world be in a better place if no one grew up then?
A poster boy for why I left the LP.
@ecomarxi
@RachelRileyRR
I am starting to feel I am just adding Oxygen to her flame, if it was not for the attacks on Michael Rosen I would just do my best to ignore her.
It seems the LP is now acceptable to her, that says so so much about the party.
@PamelaFitzNWC
There are many things that I thank JC for, one is opening the box which now allows us to identify the gatekeepers and guards who are frantically trying to push us back in and the tactics they are using in doing so.
Correct me on this but I am coming to the conclusion that in the unlikely event of the LP restoring the whip to JC it will in fact do more harm to his support base than good.
Many myself included will never rejoin a KS LP and many would not be allowed to.
@patmcfaddenmp
Not only did it not get better for those in Iraq, for us in the NE we saw the gap between rich and poor increase and instead of reversing Thatcherite policy Blair embraced it.
We expected the Tories to attack us but not for Labour to then ignore us.
@helensclegel
@MayorofLondon
He is a neoliberal not a socialist, although anyone being a member of the party is supposed to be a Democratic Socialist very few still are, it is called entryism
@Keir_Starmer
Founder of the LP Keir Hardie
"If we are for the Queen we are not for her subjects. The throne represents the power of caste – class rule. Round the throne gather the unwholesome parasites who cling to the system which lends itself to their disordered condition."
Brian Cox tells Sir Keir Starmer he won't be going back to Labour
"I totally agree with Keir on so many things, but my country was traduced for long enough, time and time again… Scotland has always been sidelined"
#Marr
I have just walked past the TV and heard Richard Madeley say to Liz Truss-
You can not trust Putin because he is a known liar and she agreed, I thought that was being touted as a virtue in the Conservative Party?
@LBC
This says a lot about who the church see as the victim and how seriously they view sex abuse.
But then it is the Church of England and it pays to support your bosses.
@helenmallam
Helen all power to you, I find it tragic that TV presenters and the LOTO are one minute are calling out online aggression and the next indulging in it in front of a daytime TV audience.
Those of us who call for more empathy should get a good kicking. Brave new World.
@DrAmirKhanGP
This is the hospital that I am having my cancer treatment, from just after the start of the pandemic. I have had various scans an operation and will be starting radiotherapy soon.
They have been brilliant and and I am disgusted that someone in my area would do this.
Is this not what a civilized country's leader should be calling for?
Not the Sunak and Starmer call to break international law with all the deaths that will bring?
On a personal note - in some way I suppose I should thank Starmer for making my mind up to leave a party which,
ignores the membership, its own MPs, conference decisions, imposes candidates on CLP's,
@MickWhelanASLEF
He is trying to appeal to Tory lite middle England voters the Thatcherite generation, who are anti TU, anti Strike, in fact Anti Working Class.
He holds to the Mandelson view that anyone left of that has nowhere else to go.
It would be good to prove him wrong.
@Mather2Mather
He has become the human piñata for all sides of politics and even some of the "left wing" media.
Want to distract from what is going on - just attack Corbyn.
Possibly more verbally attacked in the UK than Putin.
The price to pay for having morals I guess.
@DaveAndersonTLR
@UKLabour
I agree, I do not expect the Conservatives to do anything for the working class, but I would have expected something from Labour.
Being honest I now think Labour is a dead end for progressive change and is just a road block to others.
The Russian forces that have entered Eastern Ukraine should immediately withdraw.
The UK government should encourage a return to the Minsk-2 agreement to end the crisis and oppose further eastward NATO expansion.
Diplomacy must resume.
@HanSparkle86
@Keir_Starmer
He until recently he was an invited member of the Trilateral Commission.
Noam Chomsky said "the Trilateral Commission’s aim is to bring about a moderation in democracy to allow only the elite to vote. A backwards step in democracy and the working class movement".
For clarity have we reached the point yet where supporting public ownership is anti-Semitic?
Asking on behalf of the few Democratic Socialists left in the Labour Party.
If there is one iota of democratic socialism left in the
#LabourParty
then all MP's and their leader should be supporting the CWU and ASLEF in their disputes with their employers - they are affiliated unions-
@JohnHealey_MP
Strange you wish to push ahead on this, when you are unsure if you can fund repairing schools or ensuring families with more than 2 kids can eat?
I guess there is money if you know where to look for it?
The realization that political purity is second to actual policy and the raking over of old coals.
I do have my differences, the stance on NATO for one, but then I always said I can be pragmatic.
@OGDuckington
I have cancer and have been treat well by the NHS for the last few years, I would be unable to gain insurance long term in any other country.
For future generations both sets of politicians in the HoC are ensuring that the same will be the case here.
@tynewrc
@The_TUC
"A TUC spokesman said the film does not uphold TUC values," so what particular values are those , honesty, integrity? they are showing they have no more of them than Starmer.
@theclawsoftime
@LBC
Why do you feel spending large amounts of money having private healthcare cover some of the NHS backlog is better than spending that money on the NHS itself.
@DavidBlythBEM
@jeremycorbyn
Hmm just as I thought, asking for justice for an unarmed reporter who was shot by security forces is anti -Semitism apparently.
If an unarmed journalist was shot in London by the MET, what would you call it, not that you would likely call it out anyway.
@StevePowers_
Please correct me, but is this man saying that
@Jackiew80333500
an anti-racist campaigner and also an anti-zionist should not be able to hold these views.
'she has inner conflict’
Jackie must be melting this guys hive mind.
Keep it up Jackie.
@maverick2u2
@RichardBurgon
Because you end up with a 2 tier system, then we will have means testing and the state provided service will be under financed so most feel they have to pay.
Ultimately those paying will not want to fund free services for others and the NHS dies.
@lucianaberger
@Keir_Starmer
The future of Britain, hungry children, below inflation pay rises and 5 years of austerity to stimulate growth.
The profit from that growth going straight to the Cayman Islands
How is this different from Cameron?
#SirKidStarver
@GeorgeMonbiot
You need progressive parties led by progressive leaders with progressive policies to form a progressive alliance, George where are they?
@jeremycorbyn
Thank you, Jeremy , for showing that the ideas of D Socialism are alive and relevant.
What our opponents seem most upset about is how you showed to a new generation and remined an old - there is another way-
@DoubleDownNews
@jeremycorbyn
So this is the man who they say is an apologist for Putin?
Johnson gets a free pass because he thumps the lectern and shouts for war, it is often those with the most to hide that shout the loudest.
I am asking what is now the point of "Momentum"?
It was originally created to back Jeremy Corbyn as Labour Party leader; it requires all its members to be Labour Party members even though JC no longer has the whip.