The bit that bothers me most about people who say Kubrick faked the moon landings is the idea he wouldn’t have done a retake when Armstrong got the line wrong
People claiming kicking Russia out of FIFA, Eurovision etc. wouldn’t harm Putin might want to think about why he bribed his way to hosting the World Cup in 2018. His ego is practically the only thing that does matter to him
@RyanMarino
@abradacabla
Do they never wonder why users aren’t trying to get high by just touching things that have been near fentanyl because they’d save a tonne of money if that actually worked
Just gave my name in Starbucks as “A Labour council *A Labour council* hiring taxis to scuttle round a city handing out redundancy notices to its own workers". As the barrista shouted out my 'name' repeatedly the whole place erupted in to applause & Eric Heffer walked out. Try it
Ed Miliband had a reporter sneak into a family wake after a story lying that his dad hated Britain.
Gordon Brown had a newspaper splash on his 4 month old son’s cystic fibrosis after getting his medical records.
Jeremy Corbyn had a red tint added to a photo of him in a hat.
Keir Starmer: “Within elements of the Press there’s been vilification of Labour leaders that’s gone on for many years and Jeremy Corbyn probably got it worse than any leader ... 1/2
Not going to comment on why Trevor Phillips has been suspended because I don’t know the allegations but the fact they can suspend people “as a matter of urgency to protect the party's reputation" makes you wonder why they drag their heels when it comes to holocaust deniers
Rory Stewart on Steve Hilton is properly funny
‘He told me rapidly that he wanted to “blow up the Foreign Office”… and get rid of the ambassadors.
‘Later I saw him on the floor, staring at a map, saying: “Fuck me, look how big Scotland is. This is just fucking mad, man”.’
Sizewell C won't be generating power for years.
When so many are struggling to pay their energy bills, it is careless to throw so much money into it.
Nuclear power is not the solution to the climate or cost of living crisis.
Len didn’t have a single fucking word to say when
@jeremycorbyn
sacked a women undergoing chemotherapy from his shadow cabinet without telling her.
Len McCluskey will only stand with you if you defend racists & don’t ask who paid for his flat
I’ve said it today at the Durham Miners Gala so I’ll repeat it here. Attacking a woman going through chemotherapy -
@tom_watson
you are a fucking disgrace.
@JennieGenSec
Taking this sign to demand a black MP, with irish family, who protested against antisemitism, resign because he wasn’t a big enough fan of a posh white bloke is certainly a take
Anyone saying Ian Lavery has to be in the shadow cabinet because he ‘understands northern voters’ - we know you just mean he has an accent & it’s patronising as fuck
So the Mail’s bombshell is that they knew there’d be a lunch break? I hate to break it to them but I know I’m having a lunch break at some point at work too
It’s so weird the way some people treat other countries like they’re totally incapable of making any decisions for themselves but I guess that’ll happen when you don’t really see them as people
Corbyn’s team putting the unredacted personal information of members who reported antisemitism into a report they clearly handed to borderline neo-nazis is fucking criminal
Jennie Formby confirms the Labour leadership election will officially kick off on January 7th, with a replacement for Jeremy Corbyn n place by the end of March.
I don’t want to hear anything from Owen Jones on antisemitism without him explaining why he thought the right thing to do when Luciana Berger was being hounded out the party by racists was to use his column to support 2 antisemites in her CLP demanding she sign a loyalty pledge
@twlldun
She should keep inventing quirks that Churchill would do just to see if he’ll copy them. “Oh yes Sir Winston always swore by drinking out of date milk during PMQs. Said it increased vigour tenfold”
Stopping people from being able to ask their MP for help is a sign you’re let your protest be organised by the poshest people they know. They’re not just for dropping petitions off with you know
I guess the only difference is Labour expelled her instead of trying to throw out the whole system to protect their mate in a way that implicated the whole party in corruption. Otherwise pretty close.
Margaret Hodge has a long history of actually fighting racist groups, instead of just telling people that she does. Can see why some must feel challenged by that
Having to convince yourself that what people wanted to keep from corbynism was “supporting the annexation of Ukraine” tells you a lot about why it died out so quickly
I understand the interest in my emergency proxy vote today. I do tend to be bad at losing stuff. I’m also very dyspraxic. Though I don’t want to blame this on everything it does make things challenging for me and I do my best but I do lose things and today it was my passport.
Are they seriously pretending no one said “fuck off & join the Tories”? Join us in 2 months when Owen tells us he’s never heard of anyone called Jeremy
The desperate clamour to turn Starmer being offered a job he didn’t take into a massive scandal is really highlighting one of the main reason they were dire at politics. It’s like the tories trying to point out some Labour MPs work as doctors so their corruption is fine
In politics you often have to have a wry smile. I was the Shadow Chancellor, who first put forward the scrapping of non dom status. Now it seems from reports both the Chancellor & Shadow Chancellor support this. Funny old world.
He did have control of the NEC & they did try being more ruthless it’s just they were fucking clueless & hired people based on them being their kids’ mates or cunts on twitter instead of being able to do the work
No lessons were learnt in Labour from 2017 true. Instead everyone took a years long victory lap & focused on NEC games so we went into 2019 with no plan despite calling for an election every week for the past 2 years
I cancelled my DD to
@UKLabour
when they let Willsman off his racist rant. It was a massive wrench at the time so it’s nice of
@jeremycorbyn
to remind me every single day since why I left.
Normalising racism isn’t a game
You can’t afford to have kids unless both parents are in full time work & basically nothing about looking after kids is set up for both parents to be in full time work so what the fuck did they think would happen
If you end up in a place where it’s a smear to ask someone to apologise for insitutional racism under their leadership but repeating far right talking points is just lovely then you might be bad at politics & morals
She’s gunna be fuming when she remembers Corbyn & McDonnell’s interview *during* the 2015 GE when they made it absolutely clear they didn’t even want an Ed Miliband government
Crank left: I could never go on the People’s Vote march because Chuka will be there
Also crank left: Why yes I will be sharing with a platform with the lad shouting about Soros money & talking about the common cause he has with Tommy Robinson fanboys why do you ask
Trying to wrap my head around the Burgon / Lavery / Trickett position that Labour should be aiming itself at leave voters who voted for someone else in 2019 but not Tory / Brexit Party / UKIP.
It’s not a massive group of people is it
Labour won't commit to scrapping the Rwanda policy if in power.
I asked the Shadow Home Sec, Yvette Cooper, three times this morning if Labour would scrap the policy - no straight answer.
Instead says she believes the money used on the policy could be used better elsewhere.
The thing is though you have nowt to say about the human rights abuses in the video from Guatemala because you only care when you can use it to attack jews. There’s a word for that
Anyone believing Gerry Adams actually cares about protecting kids when he got his brother a job in a Youth Club after his daughter told him he’d raped her for years
Someone on
@jeremycorbyn
’s team gave a report that gives the names & details of members reporting antisemitic abuse to a site that still employs someone who celebrates ISIS beheading jewish journalists. Utterly toxic culture
Manifesto commitments being questioned? Let me just drop off these 20,000 extra police at 40 new hospitals that definitely both exist and I’ll look into it
It's quite an accomplishment for all of Labour's confirmed revenue-raisers (VAT on school fees, a 'proper' windfall tax, banning non-doms) to be massively open to question in terms of the amounts they claim they'll raise. Unless I've missed some?
So
@jeremycorbyn
&
@JennieGenSec
spent a load of party money writing up a fantasy to make themselves feel better & it’s so obviously deranged Labour lawyers think anyone reading is more likely to realise the party under their leadership was racist
It is so fucking shameful that he ignores the role he played in ignoring & downplaying death threats against many of the same women MPs in 2016 because he benefited from it then. I won’t forget.
Presenter: "Is Labour a Remain or a Leave party?"
Richard Burgon: "We're a party that wants to bring the country together... at a General Election that will work well"
@BBCNaga
pushes shadow justice secretary on Labour
#Brexit
policy
#EUElectionResults
Aaron put so much research into this that he didn’t actually bother to check if Rabbi Sacks was one of the 68 rabbis who signed it (Spoiler: He was not)
Demanding investigations of people because they’ve reported racism is a good way to show you don’t care about the problem
Dan Hannan is the ultimate example of how conservatism is just failed men crying they should never have to take responsibility for anything they demanded happen
I’m not a huge fan of egging politicians but if you’re more bothered by it than by someone managing to hand deliver a death threat to Joan Ryan’s office saying she should be raped & burnt then you need a sense of perspective
It’s so weird when you see people on here pretending Tony Benn would have liked them more than his family. He actually knew them, you’re just some creep who sniffs your copy of his diaries every night
No doubt Waters & his bigot bootlicking mates will be crying that he didn’t say this next week too. He’s a racist piece of shit angry that no one wants to listen to anything he’s done for 40 years because it’s all fucking shite
Very interesting news in
@PrivateEyeNews
that editors at the Guardian are running Steve Bell’s cartoons past jewish employees to check if they’re antisemitic before publishing. If you have a cartoonist you think is racist maybe don’t publish them? Just a thought
McDonnell here showing just how easy the question “Should we support a country asking for help after being invaded by fascists?” should be for anyone on the left
“I can’t see any path to peace now, until the Ukrainian borders are secure.”
Former Shadow Chancellor
@johnmcdonnellMP
explains that the UK must support the supply of weapons in defence of Ukraine, but should be wary of any risks of escalation.
#Peston