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| @TheBowhaus No Hard Left is a term invented by the Hard Left to disparage by comparison the "Soft Left" for compromising | ||
| @RooftopJaxx You can ask Hackney Labour Party what data they hold on you based on that conversation yes. Individual canvassers don't keep records we hand them all in to the CLP who are the data controller. | ||
| @Charliemalone5 This is what I stand for if you want the detail: https://t.co/IyAo9GW2uO |
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| @DaiLlDavies I don't have huge problems with the 2017 manifesto. I just linked to a full statement about what I stand for. I do think left rhetoric, factionalism & image, left persona of key front benchers, dodgy foreign policy views, hinders us from winning a GE | ||
| @jruddy99 @AndrewBartletta Marxists are fine. Leninists not. | ||
| @DaiLlDavies Marxists don't have a monopoly on those values. All wings of Labour have always promoted those values. | ||
| Thank you Slough CLP for nominating me for Labour's NEC! https://t.co/Z6k5W3GXAD | ||
| @earthygirl01 @MalcolmFincken Exactly, CLPs need to send delegates who won't just do what they are instructed to by Momentum | ||
| Thank you Mitcham & Morden CLP for nominating me for Labour's NEC! https://t.co/Z6k5W3GXAD | ||
| @Rogue_Sel Yes I was around when it was written by Blair. The debate was all about socialism being a set of ethical values rather than a new economic system based on common ownership. Since about 1950s people have said socialism and social democracy interchangeably. | ||
| @francesleach_ No why would I be joking? Did the entire evolution of social democratic/democratic socialist thought in post-WW2 Europe pass you by? | ||
| @graememckenzie4 Thank you for trying | ||
| @MatthewRavenhil Thanks! | ||
| @cymrurouge It's completely archaic language that most working class people would just laugh at though. Language of conflict is alienating for many people. | ||
| Labour's founders included reformist trade unionists who had often recently been Liberal, Fabian gradualists, non-Marxist Christian & ethical socialists, democratic non-Leninist Marxists. It was explicitly not a revolutionary (Marxist-Leninist) party. They have their own parties | ||
| Many Marxists are not Leninists. Many socialists are not Marxists. Many good Labour people are social democrats, not socialists in sense of wanting to abolish capitalism. |
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| Thank you Wyre & Preston N CLP for nominating me for Labour's NEC! https://t.co/Z6k5W3GXAD | ||
| Thank you Preseli Pembrokeshire CLP for nominating me for Labour's NEC! https://t.co/Z6k5W3GXAD | ||
| Thank you Finchley & Golders Green CLP for nominating me for Labour's NEC! https://t.co/Z6k5W3GXAD | ||
| Thank you Taunton Deane CLP for nominating me for Labour's NEC! https://t.co/Z6k5W3GXAD | ||
| Job vacancy working with me at @WeBelieveIsrael as Campaign Executive (maternity cover) https://t.co/dH6SweWqN9 |
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| @0Calamity @SeemaChandwani @tigerfish4 It says "replying to Linda Grant" so what was she saying? | ||
| Venezuela has fallen to a dictator. But we can help to restore democracy | Reynaldo Trombetta https://t.co/LutAyTCslp | ||
| @tigerfish4 @lizziecoulter @paulwaugh @iMcKenzied Can you post the whole conversation so we can understand what Ian is replying too? | ||
| Wow. "The left has now effectively lost control of the party's NEC". https://t.co/zTJ17DSin8 | ||
| @edknock @joemuggs Believe it or not I follow accounts that I disagree with, find objectionable and dislike as well as ones I admire. | ||
| @AaronBastani @skip_oke Actually it is entirely a matter between him and LB Newham. The party doesn't police breaches of employment political restrictions, it's only of interest to the employer. | ||
| @AaronBastani Just for the record he did not have a politically restricted contract with Newham as he was a consultant not a substantive member of staff. | ||
| @DavidMarkHerman Sorry I meant to write "that was not intended to be implied". | ||
| Thank you Northampton Borough Labour Party for nominating me for Labour's NEC! https://t.co/Z6k5W3GXAD | ||
| @BubbaHoTep_DCUO @KevinEwert1 @ArnoldLabour @JackEDeakin @labour_first @iMattPound That's a leadership election not a selection, and I'm from @labour_first not Progress | ||
| @McDarran @IMusgrave @BrianHTweed @MikeGapes Any one Labour is by definition not a "centrist liberal". | ||
| @McDarran @IMusgrave @BrianHTweed @MikeGapes It did. It went up from 200k to 400k under Blair then dropped during the period we were in govt then rose by 50k at start of Ed M' s leadership. | ||
| Another shameful statement https://t.co/mbiS8SQfar | ||
| @snofooz Bollocks. We could have had a Labour government if we had changed leader. | ||
| Me in 2003 arguing against Ken being let back into Labour Party. Could have headed off a lot of problems by keeping him out then. https://t.co/yE0LHpOfqp | ||
| If Ken had resigned or been expelled a month ago, Barnet might now be a Labour council. | ||
| Shameful. https://t.co/fgxxj4pLXN | ||
| So CLPD trashed their own reputation by backing Ken, then he resigned anyway. | ||
| @patrick13elliot @UKLabour @jeremycorbyn As leader the buck stops with him on all party decisions | ||
| @TVAddictStill Yes he is on their Exec w responsibility for liaison with Momentum | ||
| @colinrtalbot @JonMarsland1982 Correct | ||
| @KevinEwert1 @JackEDeakin We have been defining ourselves according to our opponents since 1988. The function of Labour First is to stop the Hard Left organizationally, within that people can have whatever views they want. There are plenty of other groups pushing specific ideology or policy lines. | ||
| @anthonyleahy Trident replacement will need 2 deal w threats in mid 21st century - likely to b nation states | ||
| @anthonyleahy our existing Vanguard Class subs carrying Trident have to be replaced due to old age - have 25-30yr service life | ||
| @LabourCND @Scarletstand indicative of complete lack of seriousness about regain power if embrace exact same policies lost us GEs in 80s | ||
| @KevinMorton1966 ah where would I be without the Morton spellcheck! | ||
| For a group called "Labour Against the Witchhunt" this looks remarkably like a witch hunt. No idea what @MaryWimbury did to offend them but she should probably see being hated by people who whitewash antisemitism as a compliment. https://t.co/96afxzN5WD | ||
| Pleased only 24 Lab MPs signed CND letter versus Trident. Hope remaining 240 back deterrent's role in UK security + global peace. | ||
| @redsoct1974 @laruedupass @JohannaBaxter @heatherisone @EdaCaz @Jasmin_Beckett @gsjosan @MaryWimbury @MariannaMasters @LisaBanes_ No, why would she want an endorsement from me? | ||
| For people armed with complete control of Labour national machinery, data on many members, massive staffing, cash & phone banks, astonishing Hard Left can't win in Lewisham E. | ||
| @paulwaugh De facto the GS has one power that can change a shortlist- suspending someone on it from party if evidence of breach of rules. | ||
| @Saggydaddy Anyone who might reduce Labour chances of winning the by-election. Bar set far higher than a General Election due to increased media scrutiny. | ||
| @mrjacksonstubbs Thanks! | ||
| @MickeyCliche @bigdamo I don't want your vote given the antisemitic references in your previous tweets. | ||
| Thank you Alyn & Deeside CLP for nominating me for Labour's NEC - my 10th CLP nomination. https://t.co/Z6k5W3GXAD | ||
| @ScouseSocialism @BarryCrombie Exactly. Thank you for engaging in a comradely way | ||
| @ScouseSocialism @BarryCrombie Not yet. | ||
| Thank you Rhondda CLP for nominating me for Labour's NEC- 9th CLP to do so https://t.co/Z6k5W3GXAD | ||
| @ScouseSocialism @BarryCrombie Thanks | ||
| @patrick13elliot @UKLabour Yes. Union reps literally vote as instructed by their TU. The Momentum reps are whipped. The frontbench reps are personally appointed by JC. | ||
| @patrick13elliot @UKLabour He has a majority of his supporters on the NEC who would take a lead from him, so yes the buck does stop with him at the moment. That's what leadership is about. | ||
| @ScouseSocialism @BarryCrombie I enthusiastically backed Ed M because he represented a shift leftward as I had been unhappy with the ideological and policy direction of late Blairism. I took the lesson from 2015 GE that Ed had moved Labour too far to left. | ||
| @MLaffan My stance on these issues is hardly a secret! But misunderstands role of NEC - it deals with nitty gritty of organising the party, not policy. I am not running to be shadow foreign secretary. | ||
| @come_on_didier @UKLabour Thank you. | ||
| @MLaffan My professional role regarding Israel is declared in the biography page. In my previous term on the NEC it never discussed Israel, I would not expect it to, I would recuse myself from serving on the Britain in the World policy commission because my job is a conflict of interest | ||
| If you want to know what I actually stand for rather than wade through vitriol about me from my opponents, read this: https://t.co/IyAo9GW2uO | ||
| @orbyuk No, he was the left candidate for Gen Sec, also backed by Unite, beat a more Blairite candidate backed by Ed Miliband' s office. Before that he worked for GMB for 10 years. | ||
| Very proud to have voted for this guy to be General Secretary when I was on NEC. He did a great job, and has been fighting for Labour all his life. https://t.co/bcDcYog8mK | ||
| @wiremomentum @UKLabour All set out here https://t.co/Z6k5W3GXAD | ||
| @slowdeathtabs @GregClinker @UKLabour You seem friendly. | ||
| @GregClinker @UKLabour Everything I stand for is on the website https://t.co/Z6k5W3GXAD The NEC doesn't decide policy. | ||
| @Darius363 The baby's doctors say she had a pre-existing heart condition and her death wasn't caused by anything that happened at the protest | ||
| @jawclough Me? No. | ||
| Tories are my enemy" says profile of guy spending his evening calling Labour NEC candidate a "dick". https://t.co/zOl4KfZZY2 | ||
| @linfordgibbons I'm sad for them and their families. I'm not going to condemn it unless the facts of what happened are clearer. | ||
| @linfordgibbons Believe it or not it's acceptable to have different opinions about aspects of the Israel Palestinian conflict within the Labour Party. | ||
| @Madman_B1 Thanks | ||
| @EN1Blue Thankfully not | ||
| @Freakydaemon Which is antisemitic. | ||
| @Madman_B1 Not my feed unfortunately | ||
| @NoLove4USGov @SocialDemSheff @jonewilson What's fun about revolutions? They involve killing people and in UK would imply overthrowing democracy. | ||
| Thank you Walthamstow CLP for nominating me for Labour's NEC! https://t.co/Z6k5W3GXAD | ||
| @EagerElephant @adrianmcmenamin I don't think they invented that concept. When I was a student in Bristol we used to get bought as much beer as we could drink as thanks for making Stoke Bishop branch meetings quorate. | ||
| Wouldn't vote against whip on Brexit. So a blank cheque. https://t.co/t9Av7RluxJ | ||
| @banebutwoke https://t.co/66yezRQ788 | ||
| @Isobel_waby @TimesofIsrael No I need an answer. The border between Gaza and Israel has been in the same place since 1949. | ||
| @AaronBastani @ProgressOnline @RichardAngell We (@labour_first) do not endorse candidates in selections | ||
| @jonewilson @NoLove4USGov And anarchism and revolutionary socialism are mutually exclusive concepts | ||
| @Rhobyngoch Doubt it given current composition of membership but I think members deserve a choice and people who share my politics should be able to express that in internal elections. | ||
| @Rhobyngoch Members can choose 9 people they wish to represent them. | ||
| Thank you Warley CLP for nominating me for Labour's NEC! https://t.co/Z6k5W3GXAD | ||
| Thank you Ilford North CLP, my 5th nomination! https://t.co/Eymko0u0fz | ||
| Think this should read "lie" not "line". https://t.co/ZXZNfNoBzX | ||
| @MJAxworthy @Smithy0364 They were trying to break the fence not the wall you have shown a picture of, which is only in limited areas where there is permanent risk of sniper fire, in the areas where the incidents happened on Monday it's a fence not a wall, all the TV pictures show that. | ||
| @jruddy99 I like Dennis. He was a voice of common sense when I was on the NEC with him. | ||
| @wrichristopher1 The Hamas guy describes Monday as the "recent battle" so not murders, deaths in combat. | ||
| @leftwingedduck @OwenSmith_MP It's not a reliable source. Look forward to your apology to Owen. | ||
| @MJAxworthy An IED just means any type of home made explosive, not necessarily an anti-vehicle munition | ||
| @MJAxworthy The idea was to blast a hole in the fence through which the large crowds would then pass. Not to use it vs a vehicle. | ||
| @MJAxworthy 10 groups of people were shot in IED planting incidents. There was also a group shot in a gun and grenade fight with Israeli commandos. The wounded figures include tear gas inhalation ie the non lethal tactics ppl are demanding Israel uses. | ||
| @MJAxworthy But these Hamas members happened to be in the front line of an attempt to breach Israel's border using IEDs etc ... | ||
| @Saggydaddy 0 Israelis were killed. The idea is to stop Hamas killing Israelis. | ||
| @David__Osland Of course. But that's like 20% of the pre-war Syrian population though, leaves 75-80% who consider him a genocidal monster. | ||
| WTAF? https://t.co/Dx73CwLt1m | ||
| @Peegabear @iMattPound @LisaBanes_ @EdaCaz @Jasmin_Beckett @JohannaBaxter @heatherisone @gsjosan @MariannaMasters @MaryWimbury @LabourRoyall Yes I don't think major unions should have backed her opponent given the question marks about his role in Oxford. | ||
| @Peegabear @iMattPound @LisaBanes_ @EdaCaz @Jasmin_Beckett @JohannaBaxter @heatherisone @gsjosan @MariannaMasters @MaryWimbury The person involved was a key player in Oxford Uni Labour Club at a time when they were across every national newspaper due to antisemitism allegations. The party took this seriously enough to commission the @LabourRoyall report. | ||
| @tywysogbach @GT270913 @WeBelieveIsrael And guns, grenades and IEDs. This is all a long way from being a peaceful demo. I am guessing the people who actually did demonstrate peacefully well back from the border are the 49000 who went home unharmed. | ||
| @tywysogbach @GT270913 @WeBelieveIsrael No I'm referring to the deaths not the wounded. | ||
| @le_bassett No one has ever been described by Progress or by themselves as a "Progress MP". We have Labour MPs, not parties within a party. | ||
| @tywysogbach @GT270913 @WeBelieveIsrael I've seen it suggested that all 60 dead were men so I don't accept what you are saying about women. I have seen that 7 minors were shot but not sure accurate to say they were all unarmed. | ||
| @paddyjpf92 I've never heard anyone refer to a "Progress MP | ||
| @BarryCrombie @pavel_itoje @_LFI @joanryanEnfield @JewishNewsUK It's the position of the democratically elected leadership of the Jewish Community. Other Jewish people take other positions because it is a pluralistic and diverse community. | ||
| @BarryCrombie @pavel_itoje @_LFI @joanryanEnfield @JewishNewsUK No. BICOM is funded by private donations and does not accept funding from any government or political party. | ||
| @pavel_itoje @_LFI @joanryanEnfield @JewishNewsUK Why, what has BICOM said or done that you have a problem with? | ||
| @patrick13elliot Yes I do think they will pick up on this. | ||
| @patrick13elliot Yes it's literally publicly stating them- the press follow Mr Bastani's tweets | ||
| All this infighting. Why don't they just get behind the leader and fight the Tories? https://t.co/80NRvpaqQJ | ||
| @domvar @DanJarvisMP No she can't because the rulebook of the Labour Party won't let her | ||
| @tigerfish4 @DanJarvisMP Correct because her NEC seat is one for ordinary members. MPs elect a different set of NEC seats. | ||
| @TimesCorbyn LRC isn't affiliated to the Labour Party - affiliation is for unions and socialist societies not factional groups | ||
| @tigerfish4 @DanJarvisMP No because MPs have a different block of seats on NEC. CLP section is for ordinary members so if they become an MP or Peer their seat is given to highest runner up. | ||
| @DaCraik64 I already follow you | ||
| @Markfergusonuk @johnmcternan @rachaelsaunders @peterwatt123 @owenjones84 @alexsmith1982 we r all 1 Labour Party: ldr, MPs, staff, activists | ||
| @Markfergusonuk @johnmcternan @rachaelsaunders @peterwatt123 @owenjones84 @alexsmith1982 I hate all this central vs local dichotemy | ||
| Thank you Newport East and Copeland CLPs for nominating me for Labour NEC. | ||
| @iMattPound do you confess? https://t.co/WezdKMOfr6 | ||
| @ChrispLOL @Markfergusonuk @alexsmith1982 @johnmcternan #clpdsubmission nothing odious about it at all. | ||
| @ChrispLOL @Markfergusonuk @alexsmith1982 @johnmcternan no I'm referring specifically to the CLPD model submission | ||
| @Markfergusonuk @alexsmith1982 @johnmcternan which is what you will see a lot of in final doc. | ||
| @ChrispLOL @alexsmith1982 @johnmcternan @Markfergusonuk "clients" of whom? I am aware of duplicate model submissions from hard left CLPs | ||
| @Markfergusonuk @alexsmith1982 @johnmcternan the others are from Ed. When Blair wrote new Clause IV he didn't base it on others' ideas. | ||
| @nikicommie No it left that to the local versions of Stalinism | ||
| @ElectionMapsUK Can you do a version with the constituency boundary of Derby N marked? | ||
| @MarkHemi82 You can't contribute to changing the party's position or leadership from outside though | ||
| @maryoxford @bevclack I find the X90 a transcendentally relaxing experience - just sleep all the way from Thornhill to Baker Street | ||
| @smithsky1979 see my blog post from when Glasman spoke to our CLP | ||
| @SpaJw @MSmithsonPB @iMcKenzied Yes | ||
| @SteveHilditch @ProgressOnline Though inaccurate to talk about unity in 1945 eg Laski incident, Bevin attempted leadership coup. | ||
| @Earlsfield_Al There was an attempted coup by Ernie Bevin against Attlee on the actual day of the election result ... | ||
| @CllrDavidSheard Yep great result in tricky territory. | ||
| @DaiLlDavies 283 seats I.e. far fewer than the 326 that constitutes winning, or the 400+ that we actually did win only 17 and 21 years ago. | ||
| @suey2y I missed the bit of their 5 years of coalition austerity with the Tories when the Lib Dems were "progressive | ||
| @TheMatfordMuse @BenPBradshaw @ClaireKober But is the company she has gone to anything to do with HDV? If not, don't insinuate impropriety. I thought HDV was Lendlease. | ||
| @TheMatfordMuse @BenPBradshaw @ClaireKober What you think she should be on the dole now she is a private citizen? | ||
| @krelbourne35 So after effectively sacking her as council leader you get to complain about the job she goes to do as a private citizen? | ||
| @Beaban @OwenJones84 well deserved. 1st time in many yrs someone from hard left has articulated what they r 4, not just what against | ||
| Hearing Labour gains all 3 seats off Lib Dems in Cazenove Ward Hackney, removing them from council. Completed job I started as agent in 2002 when reduced them from 17 seats to 3. Congratulations @HackneyLabour | ||
| Not helpful given current composition of NEC Officers group who will decide shortlist of new candidates. https://t.co/WuttfCjjvC | ||
| Very sorry to hear Rosemary Sales not re-elected in Stamford Hill West ward. We come from different wings of Labour but she is one of the most impressive campaigners I've ever worked with. | ||
| @HullRePublic Not traditional Tory voters- swing voters who were Labour until 2010 or even 2015. | ||
| @TiggerTherese My Brexit policy??? | ||
| @Saggydaddy No just running a ward campaign HQ this time | ||
| @Saggydaddy Results are here https://t.co/YYE253LYKL | ||
| @Saggydaddy It was an all up election for the county not the city- final one before abolition. I ran for Cabot for county in 1993 and Stoke Bishop for City in 1995. | ||
| @pavel_itoje I'm 46 | ||
| @philbc3 It's more likely that they sent non-London MPs home early so they are back in time for polling day. | ||
| Just calculated it is 25 years since I first stood as a Labour council candidate for Cabot Division of the now defunct Avon County Council. I was selected on my 21st birthday. Was also the first election I was Agent in as I was my own Agent. | ||
| Good luck to @UKLabour comrades everywhere with elections tomorrow but particularly in my old stamping ground @HackneyLabour and my current comrades in @Oxford_Labour | ||
| @crpodszus I respect people's choices but I am not going to pretend they are helpful. And why punish Labour councillors who are overwhelmingly sensible? | ||
| @philbc3 Doing GOTV for the council elections tomorrow | ||
| @crpodszus Leaving the party is the opposite of taking action - it's putting yourself out of action as you no longer have a vote or voice in changing Labour. It's saying "I give up". | ||
| Still no apology from LAW for lying about me in this tweet. https://t.co/Im5PkzDqJ2 | ||
| @_ilikefeet @JohnMannMP @RuthSmeeth @Marcwads I told him at the event that she was Jewish and asked him on that basis to apologise. He refused. | ||
| @_ilikefeet @JohnMannMP @RuthSmeeth @Marcwads Unfortunately it does because alleging Jewish conspiratorial control of the media is a long standing antisemitic trope. It was incredibly insensitive of Wadsworth to repeat it at an event that was about getting these tropes out of political discourse. | ||
| @_ilikefeet @JohnMannMP @RuthSmeeth @Marcwads Yes it was. | ||
| @_ilikefeet @JohnMannMP @RuthSmeeth @Marcwads The rulebook says that any member who calls on people to vote for another party is automatically expelled so just send the evidence you have to legal_queries@labour.org.uk | ||
| @CairnsAlistair @David__Osland No I disagree with the soft left too. Just less. | ||
| @David__Osland I always assumed it applied to the whole Bennite left/Campaign Group | ||
| Here's a document from within the hard left referring to the hard left (using it as a complimentary not pejorative) term. One for the zillion people who claim this terminology is pejorative. https://t.co/WeIuQRaFvt | ||
| @StevenTikolo NCC decisions are final - there is no appeal process. The NEC determines whether a person expelled by the NCC is let back in or stays expelled. They usually won't consider this until 5 years have elapsed, unless there are exceptional circumstances. | ||
| @frankiehsimons Actually he was second- Greenstein was first. | ||
| @EastUpper3 Agreed completely | ||
| When are we going to get the result of the Certification Officer hearing? https://t.co/ZdbQjyJZnY | ||
| @RichardAngell @LabourAgainstAS It's not even fair on the accused - if you are accused of something you don't want it hanging over you for 2 years, during which time you are suspended. | ||
| @EastUpper3 It's also Ruth's party and she's a personal friend of mine as well as a comrade, and I know she wants people to express their solidarity by staying in Labour and fighting alongside her to change the party. | ||
| What I wrote about the Marc Wadsworth case when it happened: https://t.co/5kYCHQYhOX | ||
| Hi @LabourAW would you mind taking time off from your demo to confirm that your tweet alleging my involvement in the march to today's hearing was a lie? I'm not there. https://t.co/Im5PkzDqJ2 | ||
| @AsaWinstanley @Marcwads What do you believe to be the significance of that? | ||
| @HuwJonesLabour @aliceperryuk @BoardofDeputies I don't remember people taking much notice of it | ||
| @HuwJonesLabour @aliceperryuk @BoardofDeputies Not very significant | ||
| @HuwJonesLabour @aliceperryuk @BoardofDeputies The anger is because in negotiations yesterday Milne was trying to backtrack on something the NEC had already decided, saying only preamble not examples in IHRA had been signed up to. | ||
| This US article reads remarkably like what's happening in Labour. You get half way through and discover the left faction in the DSA, which is bullying others out of the organisation, is called, in homage, the "Momentum slate". https://t.co/fMvbgziypP | ||
| @resistance_red Their CEO was a Labour MP and Minister. | ||
| @bloodredbird6 @AlanOlive1 @AaronBastani I don't think it will take much time in one case. | ||
| @EmmaBurnell_ @Paul_Burgin considered necessary by the tiny party with 5000 members that carried it out. It was possible in the way a coup by 5000 armed and fanatical people might be possible in the UK. | ||
| @SeemaChandwani @AlanOlive1 @AaronBastani Nothing stopped Aaron working for the Labour Party... oh except he actually supported other parties until recently. | ||
| @Markfergusonuk she wasn't a cabinet minister - was a junior health minister for 2 yrs | ||
| @_kerriprince Design-wise that looks like a rip off of a Labour leaflet | ||
| @AlanOlive1 @AaronBastani Alan and Aaron lets have a competition. Can each of you list the elections where you have been organiser or agent and Labour has won? Not internal elections or selections, proper elections vs Tories, LDs etc | ||
| @LabourAW @velvetrev44 @wesstreeting You won't see me on Wednesday. | ||
| @LabourAW @velvetrev44 @wesstreeting I'm not an MP or Peer - it has clearly been addressed to parliamentary colleagues of Wes and Ruth's. | ||
| @_IanMoss @sundersays The fact she took the Labour Party through a court case and called regional staff as witnesses should perhaps have rung some alarm bells. | ||
| @sundersays The party hasn't had any pre-selection vetting process for parliamentary candidates at all since I think 2005. It was scrapped as the interviews were too time consuming and CLPs complained that it blocked their preferred candidates... | ||
| @blairmcdougall @AnneMcGuire97 There is no pre-selection panel or vetting process for Westminster candidates - it was scrapped in I think 2005. | ||
| @patrickmoule @TPAdams @tomcopley We had thirds with two member wards when I started canvassing in Bristol. Made targeting more fun as some bits of city got a year off. | ||
| @SeemaChandwani No... I think @LabLinda75 would draw the line at that... I used to have a set in office for my old job. | ||
| @SeemaChandwani No #peaknerd is Rawlings & Thrasher council poll books (ward by ward results for whole UK) | ||
| Just voted by post for my great @Oxford_Labour councillor @maryoxford | ||
| @Black19Andrew @GMLidington @liamjarnecki John Woodcock has never been a councillor. | ||
| @Black19Andrew @GMLidington @liamjarnecki He wasn't parachuted, he won a contested selection and already had a connection to the seat. As they make the submarines for Trident there I am guessing they wanted a defence expert. | ||
| @David__Osland You got a good bargain. I paid 50, again to complete post-war set, but is 108 on Amazon | ||
| @wesstreeting Joan Ryan and Jess Phillips were not MPs in 2014 either | ||
| If the Hard Left was serious about establishing its legitimacy it would deal with its impediments to being seen as a potential govt itself - expel the antisemites and Leninists,, take serious stances on national security & foreign policy, instead deal breakers left to fester. https://t.co/AOcq0Ve5RN | ||
| @AmySupranova @NoraMulready @Sarah_Hayward There won't be a shock for Labour at the locals. All the polling is pointing to significant Labour gains. | ||
| @wesstreeting actually Tories almost always mess up defence: appeasement, Suez, cuts just b4 Falklands | ||
| @Ut_Humiliter_Op @MichaelDugherMP that's the point - Libya has happened so review of SDSR needed | ||
| @arachnochist @AsaWinstanley She has set up a new website. | ||
| @marksul44 @RuthSmeeth This is what Ruth says https://t.co/kLgBnW0Yim | ||
| @LabourAW Ruth can speak for herself https://t.co/kLgBnW0Yim | ||
| @JOE_GOLFER_G @RuthSmeeth I'm assuming it was the exact wording she used. The fact he stood up and attacked her was witnessed by over 100 people and filmed. His case is being heard by the National Constitutional Committee. | ||
| @marksul44 @RuthSmeeth His case has been referred to the National Constitutional Committee. | ||
| Factions within factions and so on ad infinitum... https://t.co/88J5GdoN8A | ||
| @HuwJonesLabour Bit desperate including a pic that completely misrepresents what happened on Friday as the bombing of what looks like a residential area | ||
| @JimboOfMancunia Why use it at all? | ||
| @HackneyLabour Trelawney Estate? | ||
| @HuwJonesLabour @PolProfSteve There is zero chance of Assad losing power now- he has won the War to all practical intents- this is about how many of his enemies he is allowed to slaughter. | ||
| @_kerriprince Good luck! Brought back happy memories of helping run campaign HQ in Yiewsley for 1997 Uxbridge by-election | ||
| @GawainKeates People trying to destroy chemical weapons for humanitarian reasons wouldn't do it in a way that actually led to the deadly dispersal of the chemical weapons- would be self defeating. And didn't happen on Friday night. | ||
| @GawainKeates https://t.co/8Cqnh4Pj5a | ||
| @DebbieM1dge And on the third one I think we would have noticed if there had been a nuclear war | ||
| If I have followed Twitter correctly the US/UK/Fr air strikes in Syria are/were causing: - mass civilian casualties - leaking deadly clouds of poison gas - a nuclear war with Russia Have any of these things actually happened? |
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| @Polymorph_ph There have been no fatalities from Friday's air strikes because https://t.co/8Cqnh4Pj5a | ||
| @armyofall There were zero fatalities from Friday night's air strikes | ||
| @silverrich39 @bassmadman I'll answer for her. No, because https://t.co/8Cqnh4Pj5a | ||
| @ceanaedech No, because https://t.co/8Cqnh4Pj5a | ||
| @logan_runs @jeremycorbyn @labour No this is what the Syrian government is saying not what the UK govt is saying | ||
| Not my politics but good pointers here on how to be a principled opponent of military action. https://t.co/fC7L31I97D | ||
| @jucam00 Well no, because the whole point of being anti-austerity is refusing to make those kind of false choices. As one of the richest countries in world we can afford to fight poverty at home in UK and abroad through aid, and to fight murderous tyrants. | ||
| @StephenBottrill The Syrians have already said they didn't cause any civilian deaths. | ||
| @truckerD Have I missed that happening? Haven't had the news on. | ||
| @thatAdamGray @paulleake I already have it. Though is at my parents' home in Kent as was part of my pre-uni book collection that clutters their house | ||
| @hopisen not sure. On hols and no access to rulebook via blackberry. Have a look - it's on membersnet. | ||
| @hopisen at conf, and assume same at NEC | ||
| @stevieciderbely @colinrtalbot Except that Stop the War also get involved in demos against Israeli military actions that the UK has no role in. | ||
| @thatAdamGray No not giving up | ||
| @thatAdamGray Thanks will bid as need that to complete my collection (post war plus the reprints) | ||
| @iamhamesh I had quite a few of those at one time or another in the early '80s | ||
| @alexsmith1062 I share that concern. | ||
| @joshfg @susanhebden Trickett has been promoted - been PPS to Leader. V powerful position. | ||
| @alexsmith1062 Why is it relevant? There won't be a public vote on this. | ||
| @joshfg @susanhebden elephant in room is lack of talent or leader on hard left since Benn/Livingstone generation | ||
| @joshfg @susanhebden still no answer on who the wronged lefties r who shd have been in cabinet | ||
| @joshfg @susanhebden whatever u think of Purnell's latest ideas he's more talented +capable than any current hard left MPs | ||
| @Tweet4Labour @EllieCumbo it will hopefully deter future such behaviour | ||
| @cr_celab @susanhebden but definitions merely mirror spectrum of where public and their elected reps opinions are | ||
| @EllieCumbo OK I accept maybe outwith guidelines, but still entirely subjective personal opinion is he deserved 6 weeks. | ||
| @susanhebden I think your problem is yr definition of left so extreme only McDonnell + Corbyn of current PLP qualify | ||
| @susanhebden @BristolRed nonsense what about Callaghan? | ||
| @susanhebden what about Hain or Prescott? | ||
| @JamesMills1984 indeed but 2 wrongs don't make a right | ||
| @LauraSRobinson @Odettes_rest Ah I was taken there by the officers of Holborn & St Pancras CLP in 1997 as thank you for being agent in the GE... | ||
| @susanhebden Bennite hard left didn't exist when Wilson said that. | ||
| @susanhebden just 4 historical record the 2 wings Wilson referred to were Trbunite soft left and right | ||
| Through the looking glass. https://t.co/9m823kwDWX | ||
| @Lsgirlgang @NickyWildy She was also a great advocate and supporter for Labour Students and Young Labour in her role as chair of the NEC Youth Sub-Committee | ||
| @AgainstHunting @northofcam @LabourList I think you are assuming anyone not on Twitter (i.e. 99% of the population) would have any awareness of who I am. Voters are not interested in the personal views of the canvasser unless they are the MP/candidate. | ||
| @AgainstHunting @northofcam @LabourList If they said they love JC I would say "fantastic", if they say they don't like him I'll try to persuade them to vote Labour on basis it has people like me in the party too. | ||
| @RossettiPete @siennamarla Try reading it | ||
| @AgainstHunting @northofcam @LabourList People don't ask that - they sometimes state their own views about JC but why would they ask a canvasser what they thought about the party leader? | ||
| @HuwJonesLabour @LabourList Good luck! | ||
| @wesstreeting who is Ryan Thomas? | ||
| @CountryStandard @Robin_CG He didn't. He was imprisoned by the Nazis for the entire period of the Spanish Civil War. He did have a battalion in the SCW named in his honour. | ||
| Local elections 2018: The race is on to pick up formerly Ukip seats https://t.co/F2H3QiPibC | ||
| @donnagreen4 @ElliotBidgood @welovelabour @StayInLabour It can be changed from inside - if it can change in one direction it can change in the other direction | ||
| Leaked minutes show Labour at odds over antisemitism claims https://t.co/TtWdI7Qr03 | ||
| Worth reading https://t.co/QKyK6drzRl | ||
| @JustinW07011972 What like they did last June? | ||
| @tremeduna It's never over. Political parties aren't a football match where someone blows a whistle for full time and there's a final permanent victory for one side. | ||
| @JackJohnsonMU It won't change faster, or be less toxic, if people resign. Only impact is one less vote for our side. The Labour Party isn't going away so we have to invest whatever it takes and for however long to turn it around. | ||
| @fascinatorfun @frozenwarning She survived a censure vote over attending the antisemitism demo | ||
| @GlenMitchell1 I'd rather fight than surrender. Leaving doesn't make these people go away. | ||
| @IntJewCon No she would be on track to lose her seat and be out of politics and replaced by a Momentumite. | ||
| @velvetrev44 Indeed, which is why the good people need to go back and take the chair etc at the AGM so meetings are run more fairly | ||
| @rod_truan It isn't happening in all CLPs. | ||
| @tigerfish4 @EvaSoumble @Parisbanlieue94 I disagree with the political outcomes. I haven't suggested the process wasn't correct. | ||
| @tigerfish4 @EvaSoumble @Parisbanlieue94 Campaigning that asks people to vote against the party is an auto exclusion offence, campaigning for a change of leader or policy or direction is obviously OK in a democratic party. | ||
| @EvaSoumble @Parisbanlieue94 " The NCC shall not have regard to the mere holding or expression of beliefs and opinions except in any instance inconsistent with the Party’s aims and values, agreed codes of conduct, or involving prejudice towards any protected characteristic." Rulebook 2018 | ||
| @EvaSoumble @Parisbanlieue94 You can't actually be expelled for holding views someone disagrees with. | ||
| @AndreaMann @LabourList I'm optimistic based on what friends campaigning there are telling me, and long-term demographic trends, unpopularity of Brexit with Londoners etc | ||
| @GreatRedDragon0 @LabourList Rawlings and Thrasher (academics from Plymouth Uni) publish a prediction of the May council elections each year using council by-election results | ||
| @EvaSoumble "Deselected"??? I'm not an MP or a councillor. | ||
| @MarkGardner_Art @upsadaizy @Groundhog1963 @catherinebuca @Mirkasher31 No, prior to my lifetime as well. | ||
| @Alex_Historian1 @geoffreyjewdas @PeoplesMomentum I'm a person not an organisation... | ||
| Should appeal to NUS veterans of a certain generation. https://t.co/Y5ovCqLMSY | ||
| @LC76LFC @Mirkasher31 No of course not. I'm the Director of one of the largest pro-Israel campaign groups and I don't agree with all actions and decisions of the Israeli government. Being a Zionist can also mean passionately wanting peace and a Palestinian state alongside Israel. | ||
| In solidarity with colleagues eating these all week #EnoughIsEnough | ||
| @frankspicer @Mirkasher31 @BoardofDeputies @JLC_uk Plenty of independent synagogues send Deputies to the BoD. | ||
| @frankspicer @Mirkasher31 @BoardofDeputies @JLC_uk Jewdas isn't a denomination- it's members are often members of mainstream synagogues and can vote for or stand to be reps on Board of Deputies if they wanted to | ||
| @J_VoiceUK @Mirkasher31 Yep you are replying to something I said 2 days ago. Positive news if he is meeting them. | ||
| @frankspicer @Mirkasher31 Not a useful comparison. All mainstream denominations of Judaism (Orthodox, Reform, Liberal, Masorti, Sephardi) are represented in structures of both @BoardofDeputies and @JLC_uk - both are umbrella bodies. | ||
| @7january1610 Possibly not the best word to use to describe the leadership of the Jewish Community | ||
| @yodajan73 @AsaWinstanley @geoffreyjewdas @CST_UK @hilary_aked Yes. | ||
| @yodajan73 @AsaWinstanley @geoffreyjewdas @CST_UK @hilary_aked I've said it publicly so yes you can | ||
| @cwritesstuff @CharlotDearling @unitetheunion Industrial impact both with prime contractor and supply chain should always be a factor in procurement contracts, it's an important way for govt to influence regional economies, skills, sovereign capabilities etc. | ||
| @whitbyemma @Samfr @avoiderman @OwenJones84 Believe it or not social media does not belong to one set of people or opinions. | ||
| @arryTuttle @bobwiggin @Mirkasher31 You've literally just made up a whole bunch of opinions I don't hold. | ||
| @Davieboy0906 @RichardJGrant @Mirkasher31 @BoardofDeputies @Jlc About a third of those who voted. | ||
| @Davieboy0906 @RichardJGrant @Mirkasher31 @BoardofDeputies @Jlc 7.5k I obviously have appeal way beyond that... | ||
| @Socialismilucra I've never suggested he is. The problem is in a layer of people who come from the same political millieu as him. | ||
| @Socialismilucra Don't be daft. | ||
| @JoeSaun55108441 @Mirkasher31 He needs to spend more time outside his comfort zone. | ||
| @JoeSaun55108441 @Mirkasher31 No that sounds like a sensible response. He could have picked up phone to JLM and asked how it would play with majority of community, identified an alternative that would have been less controversial. | ||
| @FeralMcCats @reel_politcast Yep, florid complexion is an annoying side effect of a life threatening neurological disorder I had in 2009, which also left me disabled. Helps people remember me though. | ||
| @JoeSaun55108441 @Mirkasher31 I've never used that label for him. | ||
| @Mirkasher31 @JoeSaun55108441 First with those. I doubt a party leader has time to meet a multitude of organisations. | ||
| @Socialismilucra https://t.co/WRJRlMa9l4 | ||
| @Socialismilucra No of course not. | ||
| @ukbloc @Mirkasher31 The representative national bodies of the Community. | ||
| @JoeSaun55108441 @Mirkasher31 That's not a division I have made or would make, but the Jewish Community has representative structures and it makes sense to engage with those. | ||
| @gsoh31 Actually I found the numbers reassuring - shows very few sensibles are quitting. | ||
| @socialist1959 That's two years ago. Usual pattern is at least annual meetings between Jewish communal leadership and leader of Labour Party. | ||
| @logical4ever @upsadaizy @Groundhog1963 @catherinebuca @Mirkasher31 Exactly, proves my theory, campaign strategy provided by my hero Herbert Morrison | ||
| @yeh_rite @Mirkasher31 The Jewish Community has national representative bodies - @BoardofDeputies (elected reps of synagogues and other Jewish organisations) and @JLC_uk (council of heads of major charities etc) | ||
| @mikeyfranklin Who said anything about good or bad? I just don't agree with their politics, and don't think it has helped Corbyn be seen to address last week's issues to hang out with a small grouplet whose views are diametrically opposed to vast majority of the Community. | ||
| @AnshelPfeffer Thank you and great neologism! | ||
| @AlasdairWright1 @bobwiggin @Mirkasher31 No I'm not. I just disagree with them politically. | ||
| @wlarge63 @Davieboy0906 @Mirkasher31 @BoardofDeputies @Jlc I work full time as Director of @WeBelieveIsrael and have spoken at over 100 synagogues of all denominations and other Jewish organisations and events. BoD is elected by shuls of all denominations except Charedim. | ||
| @patrickamon @WilliamPMack @Mirkasher31 @BoardofDeputies @JLC_uk @geoffreyjewdas May be he could start with the big, broad, national representative groups before moving on to the quirky fringe ones that just happen to agree with him more? | ||
| @LillyBynn They did - the two organisations I just cited. | ||
| @Davieboy0906 @Mirkasher31 @BoardofDeputies @Jlc They represent the number of people in them i.e. very small numbers of people. | ||
| @LillyBynn No, the national representative bodies of the Jewish Community are @BoardofDeputies and @JLC . That isn't disputed. | ||
| @buddy_hell I'm not trying to, I don't question Jewdas' legitimacy. But the national representative bodies of the Jewish community are @BoardofDeputies and @JLC_uk | ||
| @WilliamPMack @Mirkasher31 what you think he shouldn't engage with @BoardofDeputies and @JLC_uk which are the national representative bodies of the Jewish community? | ||
| @Davieboy0906 @Mirkasher31 Who decides what? The national representative organisations of the Jewish Community are @BoardofDeputies (reps elected by synagogues & other Jewish groups) and @JLC (leaders of all the main communal orgs). | ||
| @PeterMcC66 @Mirkasher31 It's emerging that most of them were Hamas operatives not civilians. Read the definition, it says what you want it to. | ||
| @Groundhog1963 @upsadaizy @catherinebuca @Mirkasher31 I thought it was a good manifesto, more moderate than the people who wrote it really would have wanted. A little bit over reliant on nationalisation and throwing cash at things to solve all problems. I want an end to austerity, | ||
| @birdonthewing @LauraCatriona @gawdonbennet @danielelton @OwenJones84 Deputy = representative elected by a synagogue or other Jewish organisation. | ||
| @upsadaizy @Groundhog1963 @catherinebuca @Mirkasher31 It will change. Not back to Blairism but Labour goes through constant cycles of moving left, losing, then moving back to centre to win. | ||
| @Groundhog1963 @upsadaizy @catherinebuca @Mirkasher31 No I was quite a fan of his foreign policy. | ||
| @upsadaizy @Groundhog1963 @catherinebuca @Mirkasher31 A traditional social democratic pre-Blairite Old Labour moderate. The politicians I admire are Morrison, Gaitskell, Healey, Hattersley. I didn't like Blair's approach to markets in public services. | ||
| @norrie_stephen @WikiGuido @WeBelieveIsrael They should get media coverage proportionate to their size within the UK Jewish Community, which is a fraction of 1%. | ||
| @norrie_stephen @WikiGuido @WeBelieveIsrael Pollard is Jewish and has expressed his anger about Jewdas saying he isn't | ||
| @norrie_stephen @WikiGuido No it was an attempt to give voice to anyone who had made a submission to Chakrabarti, Jewish or non-Jewish. In my day job I am director of @WeBelieveIsrael so I have a professional as well as political interest in issues around Israel and antisemitism. | ||
| @norrie_stephen @WikiGuido No I'm not! | ||
| @norrie_stephen @WikiGuido I'm not Jewish. | ||
| @atticusfinch104 I think most of my new friends are anarchists rather than Labour. | ||
| @mikeyfranklin Can't wait to explain this to my employers. | ||
| He seems nice. https://t.co/gw5t1HJ9oU | ||
| Useful thread https://t.co/ManuiXuVQT | ||
| I suppose it's a pleasant surprise it wasn't Neturei Karta. | ||
| @MarkTwoLiam My florid complexion is a side effect of a life threatening neurological disorder that also left me disabled, but do carry on taking the piss about it. | ||
| @LauraCatriona @ZeObserver @danielelton @OwenJones84 It's taking the piss - deliberately baiting the mainstream groups that protested on Monday. | ||
| @KateIsla2 @RichardAngell Not that is printable | ||
| @TheAndrewF @Janiete @patrickwintour Indeed | ||
| @Janiete @patrickwintour I think it's more that they are not thinking. | ||
| @Janiete @patrickwintour Some of that but there is also a chunk in middle of party who never had a policy problem with JC but thought him unelectable, and since the GE they don't | ||
| @jengleruk No, 3 of the 4 major unions are in a position to right of current party leadership, and the 4th one may be about to re fight its GS election | ||
| @jengleruk Shouldn't. Membership can change - 2015 showed that. And union link means members are not the only source of power in the party. | ||
| @AlexC93 @WoyHattersly @jg_ccpress @gsoh31 Have removed the RT | ||
| No relation, but I endorse this tweet by my namesake https://t.co/MLP4R3rLAn | ||
| @gersmandan @JournoStephen One of the branches in Birkenhead - Oxton Ward. | ||
| @gersmandan @daverich1 Birkenhead | ||
| @sensiblestu Agree with that. In fact the rules would already allow for STV for national multi seat OMOV elections | ||
| @sensiblestu Not sure that is correct when the voters have 6 votes each | ||
| @sensiblestu I think the view was that the person who came 7th in an often 20 candidate race for 6 seats had quite a mandate. | ||
| @sensiblestu It's because a national OMOV ballot is so expensive that it isn't sensible for filling casual vacancies. | ||
| @MarkAtScope Brilliant | ||
| @therubykid The AWL? | ||
| The idea is to get the racists kicked out of the Labour Party not for the anti-racists to have to leave. https://t.co/YO4LNU7YX0 | ||
| @linfordgibbons @TheDecider25 I'm literally the loudest voice against splitting the party. | ||
| @BristolRed he's Agent for the South CLP! | ||
| @docdave60 @TheDecider25 Yes I should have supported @edballs ... | ||
| @KateIsla2 @NudderingNudnik @UKLabour @JohnMannMP Me? All of them minus the ones who are actually implicated themselves. | ||
| @robertcp She isn't restanding | ||
| @jmendelsohn77 @NudderingNudnik @UKLabour @JohnMannMP @BarrySheerman Easier to ask him! | ||
| Sign the petition if you think Christine Shawcroft should resign from the NEC https://t.co/IVJXYDKpbe | ||
| @NudderingNudnik @UKLabour As the 85% include @JohnMannMP and others who were at the demo on Monday I don't think you should assume they don't support the letter - assembly at speed can limit number of signatories | ||
| @mrchrisnewton Organising and building organisation and contesting elections and selections at every level from branch to CLP to region to national. Can list recent wins but might be dull... | ||
| @NeilStockley @PCollinsTimes But your profile says you are a Lib Dem! So you may have an ulterior motive for wanting people to give up on Labour... | ||
| @ianssmart Recruitment enough people to outnumber them. | ||
| @docdave60 Yes. What was once can and will be again. | ||
| @TheDecider25 I'm not Jewish so I don't claim to speak for Jewish people at all. | ||
| This statement doesn't seem consistent with Corbyn's own statements. It appears to present him, not Jews, as the victim of Labour's antisemitism crisis. And the comments under it are something else. https://t.co/xgMhz2hkex | ||
| Is this an actual Momentum branch attacking MPs for attending the #EnoughIsEnough rally against antisemitism? https://t.co/r8VHK2QDoI | ||
| @iMcKenzied @JTaylor_NB @WTarbiat @angrysigh Yes | ||
| @JTaylor_NB @WTarbiat @angrysigh No it isn't re-run. Len's old term of office is deemed to still be running. That expires during April at which point there would be a new vacancy and contest starts from scratch with fresh nominations. | ||
| OK https://t.co/eDBP9fhF9Y | ||
| To combat left anti-Semitism, Corbynism must change the way it sees the world https://t.co/B8ahZbXNeR | ||
| @PeterCBowyer @coyleneil @YouGov Only if it is published, not if it is a private poll commissioned by an organisation or person for their internal use but not publication. | ||
| @d4nf0x @joedgoldberg He also runs or is, Labour Party Marxists, who published the Machover article quoting Heydrich. They are the entryist wing of CPGB and Weekly Worker. He is in Hammersmith CLP. | ||
| Or the TUC demos against austerity in I think 2010 and 2011 when I organised the Hackney Labour contingent of over a hundred people? | ||
| Or every NUS national demo 1990-1996 | ||
| Where to start? May be the demo against Tory policy on student grants I actually organised for hundreds of students in Bristol in 1994 https://t.co/HTNm4MX6RZ | ||
| @BeavenLinus @MikeGapes No there is no contradiction between the two statements. A small minority can still be many people in the context of c300,000. You only have to look at commentary on Twitter on this issue to see the scale of the problem. | ||
| @tigerfish4 Stalinists. | ||
| @AmanTsays @charliebach I take the issue of antisemitism extremely seriously because my day job invoices studying and analysing it and its connection to anti-Zionism, and I work with the Jewish community. I find your suggestion that I don't take it seriously extremely offensive. | ||
| @MJCreighton Actually it doesn't go far enough - there are people around him who come from political traditions which are deeply antisemitic. | ||
| @AmanTsays @charliebach It's not factional point scoring. You can't tackle antisemitism on the left unless you understand when extreme anti-Zionism takes antisemitic forms and the ideological roots of it in Stalinism and some variants of Trotskyism. | ||
| @CubaMac24 @RuthSmeeth @joanryanEnfield @wesstreeting @JohnMannMP @IanAustinMP @ChukaUmunna @SKinnock @RichardAngell @HarrietHarman @jeremycorbyn You tagged Stephen Kinnock who is a vocal campaigner for the Palestinians, which rather demolishes your own argument. | ||
| @bil_irving That isnt true - there are Blairites like Michael Cashman and Ben Bradshaw who are really critical of Israel but do it without being antisemitic; and the current case- the mural - has nothing whatsoever to do with Israel. | ||
| @drgerke1 No that was announced before this incident | ||
| @TheDecider25 New Statesman | ||
| Heading to Westminster to show my solidarity with @BoardofDeputies @JLC_uk and @JewishLabour #EnoughIsEnough | ||
| @soirdepluie @PoliticsTosser The public don't care about how many members Labour has. Unless they are complete politics geeks they don't even know what a member is, let alone how many the party has. | ||
| @LuiCarpen Members elect the leader, the NEC, the NPF and conference who decide policy, select the MPs and councillors | ||
| @soirdepluie @PoliticsTosser No it won't. It is exactly what they want, and increases their grip. | ||
| @jamesanstee @ProgressOnline @RichardAngell I'm surprised if it gives that impression. We are completely hands on, supporting and mobilising people to organise and win at every level from branches and CLPs to national OMOV elections and Annual Conference. | ||
| @jamesanstee This is what I run https://t.co/PM6XHk5sWd . Every thing we do in organising for internal elections is coordinated with our friends at @ProgressOnline | ||
| @jamesanstee You are asking us to fight elections that don't exist. There isn't a leadership contest, may not be until post the next GE. There is an election every 2 years that decides control of the NEC. There are parliamentary selections. | ||
| @jamesanstee Why not be part of making it happen? We need to stop waiting for a saviour and get on with saving the party ourselves at whatever level each of us can contribute. No one is going to do this for us. | ||
| @jamesanstee We can't build the numbers and the machine if every time we recruit someone to our network someone already in it quits the party. | ||
| @jamesanstee I'm fighting for it. I'm up for election to the NEC this summer and I need you to be a member so you can vote for me. | ||
| @seanjmcg Win the next rounds of elections and selections. If they can go from a 10% minority to control, the opposite is also possible, and we start with 200+ MPs, vast majority of cllrs, 1/3 members, 16 seats on NEC even now. | ||
| @__Saran__ @ComiskeyNathan @AlanOlive1 @timdwelly @andwarn I'm up for suffering for it and doing so if it takes the rest of my life. It'll be worth it. If I have to crawl through glass to win back the Labour Party I'll do it and I'll sing while I'm doing it. | ||
| @theresawoman Now. But not everywhere. In last few weeks they were beaten in national OMOV ballot for Young Labour chair, at Labour Students conference, at the West Midlands and Northern regional conferences, in CLP AGMs, in conference delegate elections, in parliamentary selections. | ||
| @__Saran__ @ComiskeyNathan @AlanOlive1 @timdwelly @andwarn Do you want the Labour Party to change or not? | ||
| @theresawoman CLPs hold AGMs every year. Control of them can change in both directions. | ||
| @ComiskeyNathan @AlanOlive1 @timdwelly @andwarn No it isn't. For a start of there is the Certification Officer hearing in Unite which is this Tuesday! | ||
| @ComiskeyNathan @AlanOlive1 @timdwelly @andwarn Fine I get that but the corrolary is that you can't contribute internally to reducing his people's grip on Labour. | ||
| @andwarn @AlanOlive1 @timdwelly We need to recruit more members than them in the long run, as well as persuading those people who voted for him but are not hard core Momentum. That's how democracy works. I have no illusions about how huge the task is. | ||
| @timdwelly On a personal level the only complicity I would like is for you to pay £45 so you can vote for me for NEC this summer. It doesn't advance your political objective to be unable to do so. | ||
| @AlanOlive1 @timdwelly @andwarn And if everyone walks away it increases the inside the party rebuilding/de-Troting an incoming sensible leader faces - the Augean stables get deeper in the proverbial | ||
| @AnnieBoulger @jreyn It'll change faster the more people that hang on in there. | ||
| @AnnieBoulger @jreyn Not irrevocably any more than Blair transformation to New Labour was irrevocable | ||
| @MarkHirst9 Labour is the only vehicle that exists for providing the country with an alternative more just society than the Tories. Our voting system means an alternative left party won't triumph. So only option is to try to recapture Labour. | ||
| @CitznOfNowhere @ExSpAd @coachoram Or https://t.co/Z6k5W3GXAD | ||
| @CitznOfNowhere @ExSpAd @coachoram Or if you want to support a specific battle https://t.co/0BN5MsRESW | ||
| @CitznOfNowhere @ExSpAd @coachoram Here https://t.co/PM6XHk5sWd | ||
| @itsammayte It's my "sad about premature death of great statesman" look | ||
| @Saggydaddy @JohnRentoul Agreed | ||
| @AdamDShaw But it is only members who get to vote in NEC ballots and MP and cllr selections. | ||
| @JB1953 You can't change the country until you recapture the only party other than the Tories capable of forming a government | ||
| @londonstatto Yes of course, what else would I be doing as a Labour activist? | ||
| @Saggydaddy @JohnRentoul Indeed (except for on Brexit) but Labour exists for its voters and potential voters not just its members (who are demographically & politically quite unrepresentative) and 2015 showed composition of members can change dramatically. | ||
| @RogerMcCormick1 @JohnRentoul Eh? | ||
| @negaburt @Indigoprole @labour_first @iMcKenzied This is what I believe in - which bits do you disagree with? https://t.co/IyAo9GW2uO | ||
| @negaburt @Indigoprole @labour_first @iMcKenzied I've worked with the left fine and got on with them personally in every CLP I've been in. Just don't want them to run the Labour Party nationally. | ||
| @TimGMacpherson I spent 16 years in same CLP as her partner Graham, we get on fine on personal level. | ||
| @tigerfish4 @Indigoprole @labour_first @iMcKenzied @LabourFirst @UKLabour Because we want beat the Tories until we get the Labour Party back on track. Why are Momentum fighting Labour MPs and councillors? | ||
| @TimGMacpherson Maybe I am hardened to it from always living in CLPs where the Hard Left were very strong. | ||
| @tigerfish4 @Indigoprole @labour_first @iMcKenzied @LabourFirst You mean @labour_first . Our funding is very public- we run a crowd funding campaign every year and get hundreds of small donations. | ||
| @jacqui703 Vote me out of what? The only post I hold is branch Secretary, and I don't think you live in Marston. | ||
| @Redcountessa @ChukaUmunna Can you give an actual example of Chuka "slagging off the leadership". I don't think he has. | ||
| @tinymattresses I'm not a Blairite. More a Hattersleyite. | ||
| @John_Ferrett @vincegraff Put that down on the canvass sheet. | ||
| @JamesUndy1 No it isn't. It's the mentality that parties are pluralistic coalitions whose direction can be changed. | ||
| @DanHeley1 @Indigoprole @labour_first @iMcKenzied Agreed | ||
| @andwarn @AlanOlive1 Tony Blair appeared to control everything only a few years ago. Composition of membership, personnel and issues can change. Labour seems to be doing pretty well for a party of a bygone age... | ||
| @suanda Would you like to explain in what way? | ||
| @vincegraff We already did that last June. In any case that isn't how to canvass. You ask "which party are you planning to vote for". | ||
| would be doing cartwheels if I could over 2% lead in new poll. Great early birthday present. | ||
| @Indigoprole @labour_first @iMcKenzied Are you on our email list? https://t.co/VcTiYzfvNT | ||
| @Indigoprole You need to come to one of the training sessions we (@labour_first ) run with @iMcKenzied . Lots of best practice from around the country on beating Momentum. | ||
| @Redbench123 Completely misrepresents my position, on basis of no evidence at all | ||
| @NeilBlairTBP No loss or takeover in politics is ever permanent. | ||
| @Redbench123 WTF? | ||
| @HovellingHermit Please give an actual example of me attacking the Labour Party. There isn't one. There are plenty of pictures of me campaigning enthusiastically for Labour all year round. | ||
| @Jagbooks @alexsobel "Doing them in house"???? De La Rue have been printing UK passports since 1915. | ||
| @DanielPOMahony Those countries don't have printing companies capable of doing high spec security printing. It's a capability that only De La Rue and a few other companies globally have. | ||
| @colinrtalbot @LenMcCluskey @DailyMirror @unitetheunion Those countries don't have companies capable of doing high-end security printing. De La Rue is one of only a handful of companies globally that can do the highest spec banknotes and passports. | ||
| @bil_irving If you get a breach of security in a passport factory- an employee steals some or gives away the details of the security features in the printing to a forger (criminal or spy) you have lost control of your national border security too. | ||
| @drgerke1 @AaronBastani Communism is understood by most normal people to be the totalitarian political system of the former Soviet bloc, it's not a label Labour people should be rehabilitating. | ||
| @carlgardner Loads of EU member states are far better at awarding contracts to domestic suppliers than UK is, e.g. France and Italy procure all emergency services helicopters domestically, citing national security | ||
| @JakeRambles_ @andrew4mk I think Andrew was making the same point as you, using subtlety | ||
| @Betwil78 @TonyBurke2010 Off topic? | ||
| @carlgardner It's not De La Rue which is one of the jewels in the crown of British industry, a UK company with a global reputation for quality. | ||
| @Claud_Mendoza We have a world class passport & banknote company - De La Rue in Gateshead - and France only lets their French company print their passports on national security grounds. | ||
| @Calderbank @LRCinfo @Redlabour2016 I thought you were the LRC! | ||
| @DaveBranwood @AngelaRayner @Deanneferguson @gmbunion Because their experience as reps gives them the representational & leadership skills an MP needs | ||
| @DaveBranwood @AngelaRayner @Deanneferguson @gmbunion People get to be union reps because they did real jobs e.g. Angela from care worker to UNISON official. It's the best mechanism existing for getting working people into Commons. | ||
| @bil_irving The campaign is being run by @unitetheunion - they are not a pro Brexit organisation | ||
| @bil_irving Not my mess, I don't support Brexit | ||
| @drgerke1 Yes Marxists but not Leninists | ||
| What's this about then? https://t.co/P3SHlGB1DP | ||
| UK passports should be made in the UK. Add your name now. https://t.co/ENpe81mq4h | ||
| Do you sneer at communists? I'm the NEC candidate for you. https://t.co/CHqFfUjuC5 |
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| @Disabled_Carer @ProgressOnline @JohannaBaxter @Jasmin_Beckett @EdaCaz @gsjosan @MariannaMasters @heatherisone @UKLabour @jeremycorbyn Why not google those questions, which would lead you to this page where they are completely transparent about their funding: https://t.co/SoBYDkV3pd | ||
| @Sam_Stopp_27 His politics were identical to Corbyn's. | ||
| @Sam_Stopp_27 Denis Healey campaigned for Tony Benn in the Chestefield by-election. Corbyn campaigned for Blair to be PM, even after Iraq. That's how it works being in a party big enough to be a player in a FPTP voting system. | ||
| @hurryupharry @ChrisDaleRogers @TonyGreenstein WTF is the bit about selling arms to Israel about? | ||
| @AgentCorbyn I'm not linked to Red Roar. If I want to publish blog posts I do it myself. | ||
| @wakeyrule @ProgressOnline @JohannaBaxter @Jasmin_Beckett @EdaCaz @gsjosan @MariannaMasters @heatherisone I was a very public campaigner for Ed against David, so not sure what point you are making | ||
| @TheRedTherapist @maxshanly @JWoodcockMP It's a comparable situation. If it was OK for them to stay in Labour under Blair it is OK for John to now. | ||
| @Emina_ibrahim It's the thought that counts! | ||
| @wakeyrule @ProgressOnline @JohannaBaxter @Jasmin_Beckett @EdaCaz @gsjosan @MariannaMasters @heatherisone No, here is me and Labour First arguing for this as long ago as 2013: https://t.co/5SS8sqpBvT | ||
| @adnan_gooner98 A) I didn't say that, I quoted an MP saying it B) It wasn't about Oxford and I would never disparage the people in my own CLP I campaign alongside C) It wasn't about Momentum as it was in summer 2015 before Momentum existed |
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| @maxshanly @JWoodcockMP I have a clear memory of several Campaign Group MPs happily running for re-election under the Labour banner in 2005 when they believed their party leader to be a war criminal, in comparison to which John's moral dilemma is nugatory | ||
| @Craig76017348 I've had lots of practice at that! | ||
| Important that we have people on the NEC strong enough to be able to hold the new General Secretary, and indeed leadership, to account on behalf of members https://t.co/Z6k5W3GXAD | ||
| @hs75uk Thank you | ||
| @canarydan On this page: https://t.co/XEoYvFvbT1 | ||
| @GeorgeLankester @ProgressOnline @LabourList There are only 9 seats and 11 regions and nations hence 2 missed out. Eda is a UEA student so lives & campaigns most of year in Eastern region. | ||
| I've launched my new NEC campaign website and manifesto: https://t.co/IyAo9GW2uO | ||
| @maxshanly @fussydolphin We have been arguing for regional representation for years - here is our 2013 submission to Collins calling for this https://t.co/5SS8sqpBvT | ||
| @pickwickpick @RichardAngell @heatherisone @gsjosan @MariannaMasters @EdaCaz @Jasmin_Beckett @JohannaBaxter @ProgressOnline @labour_first Funny how I very publicly campaigned for Ed Miliband in the 2010 leadership election and he did a speech telling people to read my critique of triangulation if they wanted to understand his political agenda | ||
| @Grimeandreason I'm not a neoliberal I'm a social democrat. I'm not even convinced the concepts you describe exist outside of academic theorizing. | ||
| @Grimeandreason Nope, believe it or not there is a large expanse of political spectrum between Blair and Lenin | ||
| @Antony_Wright @ProgressOnline @JohannaBaxter @Jasmin_Beckett @EdaCaz @gsjosan @MariannaMasters @heatherisone Read the privacy statement | ||
| @Antony_Wright @ProgressOnline @JohannaBaxter @Jasmin_Beckett @EdaCaz @gsjosan @MariannaMasters @heatherisone We want all regions to have a voice on the NEC. | ||
| @Fanxxxxtastic @GloriaDePiero Here is Labour First's 2013 submission calling for this. It's a long standing demand of party moderates: https://t.co/5SS8sqpBvT | ||
| @gjh29 I love democratic socialism but hate communism. My red flag has no hammer and sickle on it. | ||
| The other candidates I am running alongside are @gsjosan @JohannaBaxter @MaryWimbury @EdaCaz @Jasmin_Beckett @heatherisone @MariannaMasters and Lisa Banes | ||
| I'm standing (again!) for the #LabourNEC and backing the campaign for proper regional representation on the NEC https://t.co/0BN5MsRESW | ||
| @7815PWK I don't. | ||
| @maxshanly Hope you have the appropriate that to go with | ||
| Some advice about hats: https://t.co/O91cw3TAzC | ||
| @Pwill666 We are not going to win power to get that fairer society if our party is tainted by Stalinism or not trusted with national security. | ||
| @trotty_jj Funny that you should suggest that... | ||
| @AvidInquirer Generally I would view people who publicly state "I am a communist" as being one, not being misrepresented as one, and their presence in the Labour Party as being a category error | ||
| @Manateejay @Kevin_4_Labour Good luck with that | ||
| @trotty_jj Actually I received 48000 votes last time I ran for NEC, compared to 18000 that Liz got for leader | ||
| @mark4thorne Yep but there is plenty of political spectrum between Blair and Lenin | ||
| @Kevin_4_Labour Unfortunately there are people from both Stalinist and Trotskyist traditions who do hold Labour Party membership. They shouldn't. | ||
| @Kevin_4_Labour I'm a social democrat/democratic socialist. I am extremely intolerant of people who don't realise that socialism is worthless if it isn't democratic, and that totalitarianism of the left is as much our enemy as totalitarianism of the right is. |
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| @KhaledElawadi Neoliberalism isn't the only way to run a capitalist economy though. Our 2017 manifesto wasn't neoliberal but nor did it propose abolishing capitalism. | ||
| @TobyJPeacock Then you need to be transparent about that. At the moment the positioning is ambiguous, with many left activists claiming they are just returning to pre Blair social democracy. And need to accept how media will portray you if you really want to abolish capitalism. | ||
| @TobyJPeacock There are plenty of stances - including our 2017 manifesto - between market liberalism and changing the economic system. It isn't a binary choice. | ||
| @AaronBastani @VersoBooks I know it is a book. How does that undermine the point I am making? You chose to use the C word then get upset when people link you to communism. Why not "fully automated luxury socialism'? | ||
| Until then you will get portrayed how you present yourselves, live with it. | ||
| 4) there is ideological clarity that we don't want to abolish capitalism and replace it with a command economy | ||
| 3) people stop expressing "solidarity" with vile dictatorships like Cuba and Venezuela | ||
| @DaiRees5463 @labour_first No, anyone not on Hard Left | ||
| @BernardMcEldown @PeoplesMomentum @UKLabour No not a Momentum candidate - mainstream. This wasn't a left vs right contest. | ||
| @Odbe34 You win the prize for being sanctimonious | ||
| @Odbe34 What are you on about? | ||
| Congratulations @mrwtch - victory as Young Labour chair is first national OMOV defeat of Momentum since 2015 | ||
| Congratulations to @rokhsanafiaz & commiserations to @RobinForNewham | ||
| Baffled by the tolerance shown by people who did the hard graft in the wilderness decades for the Labour Hard Left towards people who were off playing in fringe parties when the going was tough. https://t.co/Xmu4Nr8KBP | ||
| @DPJHodges Depends what you mean by support... | ||
| @DPJHodges I'm stating there is public goodwill towards it. | ||
| @charliemansell @politicshome @PolhomeEditor I understand some of the Momentum slate CLP reps will back her- like you say, 3 maybe? | ||
| Trying to imagine how someone with this record is more qualified than Byron Taylor, party staffer for decades & ex ldr of Basildon Lab cllrs https://t.co/1A55iksiIS | ||
| @David__Osland The revolution devours its own uncles. | ||
| @NWLabourLeft Yes I get that, but do you agree that Russia's behaviour is also imperialist by same definition? | ||
| @_tom_burke_ Yes they could propose a motion not to appoint either of the candidates and to re run the process | ||
| The Corbynite tribes rule Labour, but how long can they coexist? | Martin Kettle https://t.co/0DRXGdnaRl | ||
| The Russian taste for poison https://t.co/3NKUgmfiE8 via @jewishchron | ||
| Is that the Corbyn spokesman I think it might be who said that? The former circulation manager of Straight Left, journal of the pro-Moscow faction in the CPGB? https://t.co/3kFGJAEGOB | ||
| @KeironOShea Providing a voice for and policies that help young people is important. But Labour also needs policies that appeal to the old. | ||
| The worst electoral advice I have seen for a long time. UK has an aging population, older people have very high turnout. But this recommends Labour should bet the house on young voters. Agist, classist, cult of youth crap. https://t.co/SefIyzv13i | ||
| Looking at beautiful sunny view of harbour in St Ives and feeling almost completely relaxed. Holiday proving good for the soul. | ||
| @mail32186551 @AngelaRayner Tories plus DUP have 327 seats | ||
| @jruddy99 @PeterKenyon And the unions were split - GMB and Unite backed Ian, UNISON and Usdaw backed Chris | ||
| One of the reasons I am running for the NEC is to give a voice to members who care about Labour having a robust stance on defence and national security - who see NATO as well as the NHS as a proud achievement of the Attlee govt. https://t.co/wed4YTraJU | ||
| @Smithy0364 @jstaplesbutler @johnhaydndavies Circle 27 March in your diary. | ||
| Needs to be served without adornment as a starter, with greco di tufo wine, whilst looking at the Bay of Naples #TweetYourFavouriteCheese | ||
| @david_clarke91 @AdamPorte @OwenJones84 @doylematthew And Iraq was 15 years ago - there are people active on moderate wing of Labour who were at nursery school then, they can't be smeared with responsibility for it | ||
| @david_clarke91 @AdamPorte @OwenJones84 @doylematthew I've never met anyone in the Labour Party who "backs austerity". Austerity has involved cuts to all the social programmes and public spending that the Blair and Brown governments brought in. | ||
| @NWLabourLeft Just maths and basic organising not a conspiracy | ||
| @PetaSteel @PaulSandars He knew he would be defeated when he stood -he ran to give other candidates confidence to come forward, not in order to win himself | ||
| Interesting way of describing a procedural fix that meant delegates couldn't vote on a pro single market position. https://t.co/qKGOnX4inN | ||
| Lansman withdrawal could mean he has an alternative candidate and has worked out that his one vote in the room gives them margin of victory | ||
| Just landed in Israel where it's a pleasant 20 degrees. Odd not to have half a dozen Labour councillors w me like I do most times I'm here. | ||
| @Spythecamp @RichardAngell @Tony_McNulty Definitely. Done. | ||
| @alivesince1968 Good local campaigning | ||
| @harami958 @maxshanly @antoniabance That's fine and Labour keeps records of its members who are in non-affiliated TUs | ||
| @MaryWimbury @KatieCurtis @lewis_baston Think 1968 was also awful for Labour - boroughs like Hackney went Tory | ||
| Wow - that's a Lab gain in a safe Tory ward https://t.co/1BP5r9b2aK | ||
| @David__Osland @welovelabour The Fabians aren't a pressure group within Labour - they don't take collective positions on anything or intervene in internal debates and elections. | ||
| @jruddy99 @TomBlenkinsop None of the moderates has expressed a view | ||
| @Hughl60Hugh @JohnRentoul I'm not endorsing her comment. | ||
| Apols, NZ figure (despite recent win) should read down 3. | ||
| OK, comparison with last pre-2008 election: France down 157 Italy down 97 UK down 94 Spain down 84 Germany down 69 Sweden down 17 Australia down 14 NZ down 3 https://t.co/yHpiwOBql6 |
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| @alivesince1968 only if there were two rival fan clubs and they wanted a manager who would be biased against half his own team's fans. | ||
| @PhilR_R Ah I see | ||
| @PhilR_R Every parliament in Italian history has been hung hasn't it? | ||
| @linfordgibbons I'm not on the NEC so I have no vote. If I was on the NEC I wouldn't pre-judge the interview as that could breach employment law. | ||
| @SJT78508478 The Labour Party has to get its act together internally if it is going to beat the Tories. | ||
| @johnmacleod19 @LabourList It's just the Labourlist house style - the people involved don't self identify as centrists | ||
| @cobi_innes @DorsetRachel @DaiRees5463 Defeated, not destroyed. I think organisations of the Hard Left have a valid role in the party (as long as they are not Leninist entryists) but obviously I want them to be in the minority and people who agree with me to be in the majority. | ||
| @Coastguard @ht4ecosocialism @NigelSarbutts @joan32173631 The economy returned to growth in final six months Labour was in power. | ||
| @NotLukeAkehurst @velvetrev44 @silvanitheelder On behalf of the NEC. You make it sound like he brought a court case on an individual whim. | ||
| @KhaledElawadi No I just explained why it is neutral. | ||
| @KhaledElawadi I think you are failing to understand the difference between a politician and someone paid to faithfully, and without regard to their own views, carrry out the instructions of politicians | ||
| @KhaledElawadi Labour Party staff, including the GS, leave their own views on internal politics of party at the door when they sign up because their job is to implement the political decisions of the elected NEC, not implement their own views which they have no mandate to do. | ||
| @Jacqui_Smith1 Me too. | ||
| @BernardMcEldown @LabourFirst You mean @labour_first | ||
| @crazysadie_92 Thanks! | ||
| @mgarry464 @paulwaugh Expulsion comes next after an NCC hearing. It requires a hearing, can't be done automatically outside a small range of offences such as public support for another party. | ||
| @BeatsSurrender @LabourList One person in Southwark. | ||
| @BeatsSurrender @LabourList Not many councillors are being deselected. It happened in Haringey but almost everywhere else members have reselected almost all councillors. | ||
| @John_Ferrett Sounds like a fun role | ||
| @LabourConnected @LabourList we are not "dominant" we just lost a third General Election | ||
| @maxshanly I thought (as a Menshevik) that it was going to collapse automatically without us needing to nudge it? | ||
| @JonathanD1962 @LabourAgainstAS @UKLabour @JohnRentoul @RichardAngell @ayeshahazarika @GnasherJew @EuanPhilipps @EmmaBurnell_ @jeremycorbyn @EmilyThornberry Taking a stand means staying in Labour and fighting to change it. Quitting is exactly that - quitting the fight as well as the party. | ||
| @DaiRees5463 @AlanOlive1 @krchind The "right" didn't choose last time. Iain McNicol was backed by Unite, GMB & almost all the CLP reps (left & right) against wishes of Ed Miliband | ||
| @drcfhussain @dunnicliffe_tim @hr_darren @jonlansman Blair's argument at the time was that he was reverting to a pre-Marx definition of socialism as a set of ethical values rather than a proposal for a new economic system. | ||
| @drcfhussain @dunnicliffe_tim @hr_darren @jonlansman Seeing as the reference to "democratic socialist" in current clause IV was written by Tony Blair and passed at a conference dominated by Blairites I can confidently say it was intended as a synonym for social democrat, not an implication of democratic abolition of capitalism | ||
| @ArnoldLabour There will be once it is advertised | ||
| @JuniorTrix @PolhomeEditor @cobi_innes It wasn't me - I'm a branch secretary not a "senior Labour source". | ||
| @MaccLabour @MikeGapes @UKLabour Ummm my job is nothing to do with the Labour Party - I comment on Labour as a grassroots member in my own time. | ||
| @NoraMulready @ariehkovler It had bugger all impact last time. I was summoned for a personal meeting with Ed Miliband and still voted opposite way to his request. It's a secret ballot. | ||
| @SteveGPScott I don't think my endorsement would be helpful | ||
| @NoraMulready @ariehkovler @RichardAngell I don't believe I have the experience of large election campaigns or running a large organisation to be qualified. | ||
| @NoraMulready @ariehkovler Loads of people applied last time but didn't shout about it to media - the electorate is only 39 people so public campaigning is not that smart | ||
| Gosh. https://t.co/vVJDZacLfx | ||
| @izzywizzyk @jonlansman The former means a current or former Labour Students activist (usually from my wing of party), the latter is a Jewish way of saying/ asking if someone is Jewish | ||
| The endorsement we've all been waiting for. What did @jonlansman do to annoy these people? https://t.co/POi1L29a8j | ||
| @histevegray @KeironOShea He is definitely not a Trot. | ||
| Sceptical about the "uniting" bit. https://t.co/1ywwH5Atsp | ||
| On way to St Paul's for memorial service for Labour and GMB hero Mary Turner | ||
| @ArnoldLabour @jeremycorbyn Do start using it. Well done on doing so many sessions. Very impressive. | ||
| @SaltburnLabour @Spythecamp Not until annual conference | ||
| @debski2222 @SeemaChandwani Believe it or not it is possible for people in Labour to argue about some things and agree about other things... | ||
| @debski2222 Eh? I'm retweeting stuff she has said that I agree with @SeemaChandwani | ||
| Difficult to know if this is an insult or a compliment https://t.co/OZwcxQ5lOg | ||
| @northofcam You would think those would be factors. | ||
| @valstevens24 Unite have more votes than Jon does on NEC Officers group that decides the timetable | ||
| This fight between Momentum and Unite would mean moderate members on NEC were the swing vote who decided the outcome of the GS appointment- or maybe secured it for a candidate from another union. https://t.co/jJt8PiJDsZ | ||
| Yay Unite vs Momentum fight! https://t.co/ojsES76zXb | ||
| I don't CARE what you think Luke so I am going to waste my time replying to you to tell you that" "PS this is my opinion but only people who agree with me are allowed opinions" https://t.co/HeYPpbvCVI | ||
| @sausage8514 No I graduated in politics so our qualifications are broadly similar, though he knows a lot more about the music of the Second Viennese school than I do. And Trotskyism. | ||
| @samhenly @SeemaChandwani https://t.co/gbiiMiQtn8 | ||
| @Kevin_4_Labour It's an opinion piece. I agree with it. | ||
| @samhenly @SeemaChandwani Momentum glory in their own extremism. Their pitch is that they are extreme. And they are riddled with actual Stalin and Trotsky fans. | ||
| @buddy_hell Most people would identify 4 traditions in Labour, some overlap at edges: Hard Left - Bennites, Corbynities, Momentum, LRC, CLPD, Campaign Group Soft Left - Compass, Open Labour, LCC, Tribune Group Old Right - Brownites, Labour First, Solidarity New Labour - Blairites, Progress |
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| @buddy_hell I don't get upset about "Balirite". It's not factually accurate - I'm from an older tradition of Labour moderates that pre-dates him and he rather disdained - more linked to TUs, more statist - but certainly don't see it as pejorative. | ||
| @Smithy0364 @KeironOShea 2016 | ||
| @maurlind I can recommend this as an interesting read https://t.co/MLAcDsvaag | ||
| @SeekerRedflag @SeemaChandwani I've been in the Labour Party 30 years, have served on its NEC and chaired conference twice, I think I understand its internal terminology. | ||
| @RicFlairsDa @SeemaChandwani Both are OK. I use both, I'm neither. Last time I was called soft left was in about 1992. | ||
| @WTarbiat Why? He only won narrowly last year when perception among convenors was they had to support him as he would walk it. | ||
| @negaburt @SeemaChandwani No it isn't- it is terminology invented by the Bennite left to describe themselves as uncompromising compared to "sell outs" on Soft Left | ||
| @SeemaChandwani I'm good. It's not pejorative. I greatly respect your hardness. | ||
| @SeemaChandwani For the millionth time, "Hard Left" is not pejorative. "Soft Left" like "Wet" is a pejorative description. | ||
| @KeironOShea There is a big difference between stopping being a Communist in your 20s and then becoming a very high profile anti-Communist, and being one until you are 58 and never disavowing that ideology. | ||
| Without comment. https://t.co/S7YBLKxZZM | ||
| @BridgemanRob @AlasdairRoss @Oxford_Labour And several other sessions going on across Oxford today as well | ||
| @DPJHodges @RichardLoweUK @westham009 @Jennifrazer @jessphillips @grantfeller @Keir_Starmer @stellacreasy Actually if you read Dave Rich's book most of the antisemitism has it's roots in that period e.g. Labour Herald | ||
| @RichardLoweUK @LaughingDevil1 @westham009 @DPJHodges @Jennifrazer @jessphillips @grantfeller @Keir_Starmer @stellacreasy He can't- that would be pre-judgement and give Ken opportunity to judicially review the decision. | ||
| @westham009 @RichardLoweUK @LaughingDevil1 @DPJHodges @Jennifrazer @jessphillips @grantfeller @Keir_Starmer @stellacreasy I am almost certain that the Momentum leadership I.e. @jonlansman will vote to refer Ken case to NCC. Neither Corbyn nor Lansman can comment in advance on Ken case as would pre-judge it and it could be judicially reviewed on that basis. | ||
| @RichardLoweUK @westham009 @Jennifrazer @DPJHodges @jessphillips @grantfeller @Keir_Starmer @stellacreasy But he was in the Labour Party and an MP when I joined in 1988... | ||
| @frozenwarning @Redbench123 @TomBlenkinsop @UKLabour Why would you do what a bunch of people who disagree with you want? The Labour Party is something a lot bigger than its current incarnation - and even that includes 170 sensible MPs & thousands of good cllrs actually running cities etc | ||
| @frozenwarning @Redbench123 @TomBlenkinsop @UKLabour You really don't need to spell that out to me! | ||
| @Redbench123 @frozenwarning @TomBlenkinsop @UKLabour Of course I would stay - I am Labour. I find the idea of leaving a political party because you temporarily are not in control of it bizarre. | ||
| @Jennifrazer @DPJHodges @jessphillips @grantfeller The decision hasn't been taken yet. MPs have no power over this process. They can express their concerns buts It's a quasi judicial process so pressure from PLP isn't a material consideration. It's a matter for the NEC Disputes Panel and then potentially for the NCC. | ||
| @paulwaugh I don't believe so. | ||
| @paulwaugh No not yet gone to NCC again. | ||
| @conor_boyler He had been agent for a key marginal in 1997 and involved in Operation Toehold - where we won council seats in rural Tory strongholds - before that. | ||
| Genuinely interested to hear of the experience in managing & winning election campaigns for Labour that the candidates being touted for L.P. General Secretary will bring to the job. | ||
| @_kerriprince Any party member can apply, but you need to get shortlisted by the NEC officers then win a hybrid interview/election by full NEC | ||
| @IainMcNicol has been a brilliant General Secretary. Proud to call him a comrade and friend. https://t.co/XvpxuwjeCq | ||
| @rslashpolitical Oxford City council | ||
| @BurgeAgj @britainelects @UKLabour Bullshit I tweet every single council - win or lose - by-election result and have reported them all since 2007 | ||
| @OwenJones84 we were overdue a disagreement on something | ||
| @Steve_Cooke @paulwaugh The point is that people from Momentum have blamed Ann Black for that vote when in fact she took their side on it | ||
| And thanks to ultra-loyal clients like @Bettwsboy of GKN and Graham Cole of AgustaWestland who stuck with me for whole 11 years | ||
| V sad to be leaving friends like @Ut_Humiliter_Op @EloraFeiner and Lucy Jenkins who have been so supportive and fun to work with | ||
| Have learnt so much from great colleagues like @mcleodjon @RedRobertino Wilf Weeks, Priti Patel and others | ||
| End of an era for me - my last day working 4 Weber Shandwick Public Affairs after 11 happy years. | ||
| @peteholly1971 @TomBlenkinsop @UKLabour And moderates had captured the party levers of power under Blair, but a few years later Corbyn was Leader. What goes up can come down. | ||
| @dixiedean9 @PatriciaNPino @MarkHemi82 @LucyMPowell No one is "sniping at Corbyn". This is about the factional behaviour of Momentum. | ||
| @Yah_Reed @UKLabour It didn't have "sides" until Momentum introduced this obsession with factionalism, deselection and internal division. | ||
| @Yah_Reed Why don't your side fight the Tories instead of stitching up internal elections? | ||
| @Johnfrededdy @NotLukeAkehurst It's the business of anyone who is a party member. In a democratic, pluralistic party every member is entitled to express their opinions. | ||
| @cobi_innes @sooty_sayer @jruddy99 @H0raceWimp A) formal notice of the meeting was send weeks ago B) it wasn't possible to give earlier notice of chair election as the vacancy occurred on Tuesday C) common sense suggests a body that only meets once or twice a year should elect a new chair as soon as it next meets | ||
| @LeftwingPoet Model Procedural Rules Ch. 15 Cl. I Pt. F - the Chair presides until a successor is elected at an AGM or GM and there's no requirement for notice | ||
| @GawainKeates So why wasn't that applied to the election at NEC Disputes Panel? https://t.co/xHbvvCd5Zf?amp=1 |
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| @NotLukeAkehurst That is about the election of the NPF itself, not about how the NPF elects its chair. | ||
| This is an argument for empowering conference, elected at relatively small CLP meetings, at expense of NPF, elected partly by OMOV, & for confrontational up/down votes on motions instead of dialogue, negotiation & finding consensus https://t.co/z9gzLN0fc9 | ||
| @ClareFKing @Calderbank Was aimed at what Michael was arguing for, not you. | ||
| @ClareFKing @Calderbank Sure, but if you want to replace it you need to change the party rules, you can't cancel elections for a body based on possibility it might get scrapped. | ||
| Said without a hint of irony. https://t.co/dzsQ90I4Tv | ||
| Hard Left arguing to scrap OMOV ballot this summer for NPF... https://t.co/u3aDQssXgI | ||
| @Calderbank If the rules are changed to scrap it fine, but you can't scrap something pending rule changes that haven't even been debated yet | ||
| @Calderbank There is an OMOV ballot for new NPF CLP reps this summer | ||
| @drgerke1 @ProgressOnline @RichardAngell The risk for Corbyn is of the trap Syrizia has fallen into - talking very left but then winning power and implementing worse austerity than Pasok did | ||
| @drgerke1 @ProgressOnline @RichardAngell Whereas Labour avoided this fate or a re-run of Ramsay MacDonald 1931 because Gordon Brown and Alastair Darling reacted to the 2008 global crash with a big Keynesian reflation | ||
| @drgerke1 @ProgressOnline @RichardAngell My sense is that continental European social democratic parties have paid a heavy electoral price for implementing austerity and the apparent hypocrisy between this and their rhetoric and ideology which were to the left of New Labour | ||
| @drgerke1 @ProgressOnline @RichardAngell My personal take was set out in my timeline last night | ||
| But we keep being told Momentum/Corbynism = mainstream European social democracy. Either it is or it isn't. https://t.co/WivXHpRl2w | ||
| In fact you can argue that Brown, by rejecting austerity in favour of reflation in 2008, saved Labour from a re-run of MacDonald 1931 or Pasokification | ||
| Confused by this because Momentum line is often that Corbynism = mainstream European social democracy. https://t.co/HwzOdgSyzU | ||
| It isn't that Brexit = austerity it's that the officially predicted economic impact of Brexit will mean unemployment and a decline in govt revenue with an impact worse than the last 7 years of austerity. https://t.co/k07vPy6LkL | ||
| @alexsobel @Sarah_Hayward a key consideration will be speed. Boundary review delays start so we need to select fast once over | ||
| @Sarah_Hayward percent women will only decrease if more retire than men - unlikely given age profile | ||
| @ariehkovler @twlldun Yep the Sheriff of Oxford City Councillor is a 3rd ceremonial role below Lord Mayor and Deputy, who does an annual inspection of the livestock grazing on Port Meadow | ||
| @Sarah_Hayward I don't think there will be (m)any cases of incumbent MPs left without a seat - due to retirements | ||
| @PeterKenyon @sarah_hayward unfortunately we had that argument and lost it | ||
| @Sarah_Hayward correct but unless u kick out incumbents it is inevitable consequence of boundary review | ||
| @PeterKenyon @Sarah_Hayward sadly reduction in seats means all non-incumbents will lose out | ||
| @RichardAngell shows how long ago I 1st went to IUSY events I didn't own a mobile then let alone a blackberry #feelingancient | ||
| @SeemaChandwani @mrrudeforth @Jeanette5045 @DIMBERLYisMI5 No, I denied rejecting anyone because of their politics. You were not rejected from the panel because your political views, but because of your public statements. Other people with identical politics to you were approved as candidates because they had not made such statements. | ||
| @mrrudeforth @Jeanette5045 @DIMBERLYisMI5 @SeemaChandwani Any candidates who had publicly attacked the council/Labour Group/council leader/MP were asked about their public statements. | ||
| @ulibarbara @SeemaChandwani The current Haringey councillors, including the left ones, are the ones I interviewed. I spent bulk of my political life in Hackney, where the left have always been a powerful and legitimate force in the local party who you work with, not treat unfairly. | ||
| @ulibarbara @SeemaChandwani I didn't do a very good job at "ensuring left candidates never get selected" seeing as 20 of the candidates I interviewed in Haringey became cllrs who voted against HDV, and another is Kate Osamor who had already stood vs me for NEC when I interviewed her | ||
| @NiclasReddish @yodajan73 @Janiete @Jeanette5045 @FarmerFunky @SeemaChandwani @DavidLammy @ClaireKober It wasn't just tweets, some of it was articles on a local micro-news website/blog. They were clearly public statements that everyone had access to including rival political parties. | ||
| @David__Osland The "social cleansing" that was less likely to happen with HDV than without it because HDV transferred the social housing involved to a company that unlike the council wasn't subject to Right to Buy law? | ||
| At Hackney Overview + Scrutiny Board - last town hall mtg b4 recess | ||
| @Jeanette5045 @DIMBERLYisMI5 @SeemaChandwani The internet. | ||
| @FALLLFAN @Trouserlord @olivercolwell @SeemaChandwani No we don't. Hard Left is a term only ever used to describe a tradition inside the Labour Party - Stalinism/Communism are Far Left not Hard Left. | ||
| @DIMBERLYisMI5 @SeemaChandwani A "dossier" implies secrets. This was confronting a potential candidate about their public statements which directly related to the role they were standing for. | ||
| @SeemaChandwani It's what the feedback form is referring to. Surely you can't have forgotten publicly calling @DavidLammy and @ClaireKober "Tories", or me reading you the tweets and articles saying that in the interview? | ||
| @yodajan73 @FarmerFunky @SeemaChandwani @DavidLammy @ClaireKober I haven't kept paperwork from any party meetings, let alone panel interviews outside my own borough. | ||
| @olivercolwell @SeemaChandwani Most people who apply for Labour candidate status haven't called the local MP and council leader Tories. | ||
| @SeemaChandwani How can you ambush someone by quoting their own public statements back to them? You made this argument at the appeal and our process was upheld, were we supposed to ignore your behaviour? | ||
| @FarmerFunky @yodajan73 @SeemaChandwani @DavidLammy @ClaireKober No I gave all the paper work back to the Local Campaign Forum after the end of the interviews, why would I keep papers from an interview in a neighbouring borough 5 years ago? | ||
| @i400s No, I am very careful to use descriptors like that accurately about people they actually apply to. I have only written seven articles of any description in the last 6 months https://t.co/BZ7DpdEvLJ - hardly non stop. | ||
| @dannnnylol @SeemaChandwani Yep, we started eating at 2pm, usual time for people who do #labourdoorstep 11am-1pm and not that unusual for Sunday lunch anyway. | ||
| @dannnnylol @SeemaChandwani Canvassing and then lunch ... | ||
| @HuwJonesLabour The material for our opponents here is provided by the actions of the NEC readmitting dodgy people, not by the people calling it out. | ||
| @SeemaChandwani Can you explain the alleged "irony"? Are you claiming I have described Jeremy Corbyn as a Tory? | ||
| @GawainKeates @sfoxall1 @SeemaChandwani No, I gave all my paperwork from the Haringey panel process back to their LCF at the end of the interviews. | ||
| @greg_kyriakides Ummm No, I was voted off the NEC in 2012 when I was about the biggest cheerleader for Ed Miliband that there was. | ||
| @SeemaChandwani You are tagged in the first tweet in the thread | ||
| @SeemaChandwani Decision in your case was about behaviour and language not your politics. | ||
| @SeemaChandwani has repeatedly goaded me online to disclose publicly why she was barred from running as a Labour council candidate. Now I've done it she doesn't like it. | ||
| @yodajan73 @SeemaChandwani @DavidLammy @ClaireKober Because the interview panel gives every single piece of paper work back to the Local Campaign Forum. | ||
| @yodajan73 @SeemaChandwani @DavidLammy @ClaireKober Seema has the file. | ||
| The interview panel I chaired in 2013 barred @SeemaChandwani from running as a councillor because she had publicly described her local Labour MP @DavidLammy and council leader @ClaireKober as "Tories" https://t.co/QcArePkkhv |
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| @TobyRay15 @Trouserlord @SeemaChandwani @jonlansman No | ||
| @Trouserlord @SeemaChandwani @jonlansman No | ||
| Very pleased that @Oxford_Labour voted tonight by large margin to say Labour policy should be to stay in customs union | ||
| @williesully @jonlansman @Emina_ibrahim @KateOsamor The period when I chaired panels was well after that era - Haringey decisions were in 2013 when Ed M was Leader and I was cheer leading for him. | ||
| @williesully @jonlansman @Emina_ibrahim @KateOsamor No, that isn't the point of the panel process, it's about ensuring candidates are qualified and ready for being a candidate and wouldn't embarrass the party, not about where they sit on a left-right spectrum. And panel decisions are subject to regional appeal. | ||
| @AnnaHinbest @AlanOlive1 I think in Rhea's case it is voluntary - my guess is she wants to run as an MP instead | ||
| Will be interesting to see if @Oxford_Labour All Member Meeting tonight supports motion from Greater Marston (branch I am secretary of) calling for UK to stay in customs union and for a second referendum on terms of Brexit. | ||
| @SeemaChandwani @jonlansman I'm rejecting the implication that I would determine a panel interview on grounds of someone's politics rather than their suitability to be a candidate. I have approved many candidates with Hard Left politics in panel interviews. | ||
| @SeemaChandwani @jonlansman Our decision in your case was upheld by a regional appeal panel wasn't it? | ||
| @BrianBartonMK I'm literally describing the choice the council I was a member of made to insource services during heyday of New Labour and with ministers approving what we were doing | ||
| @Labourpaul @paulstpancras @GEERUK until now I had assumed GEER was a spoof, like People's Front of Judea from Python. | ||
| @tomttw1tter @DamianGannon @MarkAtScope @maxshanly @mattzarb @AaronBastani @ClaireKober @UKLabour Compare to 1997. Lab up 8.8 + Con down 11.2 = 20, ÷ 2 = 10% swing from Con to Lab | ||
| @Jeanette5045 @NickyWildy I just stated it as a fact. | ||
| @ElliotBidgood Both correct | ||
| @NickyWildy People have left in large numbers. The leadership hasn't become an irrelevance, they could end up in govt. The only impact has been to reduce the moderate vote and voice in the party. | ||
| @LeaningLeft46 @emmacpicken @Smithy0364 @JulieOwenMoylan @NudderingNudnik @DAaronovitch We don't take positions on issues that internally divide moderates - our only function is fighting the Hard Left, not taking stances on every controversy that comes along. | ||
| @emmacpicken @Smithy0364 @JulieOwenMoylan @NudderingNudnik @DAaronovitch Emma, the nastiness we all get wouldn't end if we left Labour though, as most of it is online not at party meetings- in fact it would get worse. | ||
| @IanWoodland Hence his wife saying "but Hugh all the wrong people are clapping" when he gave his "not ending 1000 years of history to join the Common Market" conference speech | ||
| @MnWthtQualities I don't think that was us... the other lot were into that | ||
| @MnWthtQualities This isn't new, it was an MSF branch back in 1990s | ||
| Coming to the conclusion that @BootsUK cheese (Red Leicester) and onion sandwich, at only £1, represents the best taste vs cost value of any highstreet sarnie | ||
| Oh https://t.co/WnhdfpUfOB | ||
| Why do they always have 7 followers? https://t.co/LF3enL82Tb | ||
| @SebJKramer @davidaslindsay You can use the marked register plus age data to conclusively verify if young people turned out in higher numbers in 2017 than 2015. | ||
| @SebJKramer @davidaslindsay The political parties will know you didn't vote, as councils provide a "marked register" showing who voted. | ||
| @Olly4Northfield I'm suggesting the party does this. I don't have access to this data. | ||
| @Olly4Northfield The national political parties could pull up the stats on this for any constituencies where the local party has entered the marked register data | ||
| @davidaslindsay No, the national parties keep the DOM data and drag it forward each year, so Labour's contact.creator system holds dates of majority going back quite a long way (a decade or so but would need to check) | ||
| @davidaslindsay Doesn't require canvassing, this is all official data collected by local councils and made available to political parties, not subjective data obtained through canvassing | ||
| Liam Young claims "we can never be sure how many young people voted in 2017. " Not true. Political parties have data on a) who voted (marked register) and b) which voters are young (recent Date of Majority). They can verify what change was in youth turnout. https://t.co/uHEaB0pmOh | ||
| Haringey boss quits with blast over Corbynista 'bullying' https://t.co/FxweuvLPeG | ||
| @Calderbank @AlanOlive1 The issue with Liverpool was the organisational influence of an entryist political party, Revolutionary Socialist League/Militant. | ||
| @Calderbank @AlanOlive1 All of those people are entitled to opinions but not to a veto. At the end of the day only elected members can take decisions as they have a mandate (even at the end of a 4 year term). | ||
| @Calderbank @AlanOlive1 On organisation, not policy. It has no remit on national policy let alone that of individual council Labour Groups. How could it possibly meaningfully assess policy at a borough level? | ||
| @lez_lezzp @TheRedRoar Read the article, it tells you | ||
| @gotthetrotts @daily_politics @nick_forbes I tweeted about that yesterday. You need to pay more attention. And I never tweet anything "anti Labour". | ||
| How the UK armed forces would look if you started from scratch | Ian J Keddie https://t.co/ANaxMK8J20 | ||
| Sign the petition: Support the right of Local Authority Labour Groups to set their own policy https://t.co/1111VZsR5s | ||
| @lloyd_rm @ThePennyDrops @nsbarstow @labour_first I read the Haringey 2014 manifesto today and HDV is consistent with it | ||
| @SeemaChandwani It isn't the case that if 21 cllrs lose the whip Labour loses the council because cllrs with whip withdrawn are still expected to obey the whip when voting. They lose the rights accompanying being a Labour Group member, but not the responsibilities. | ||
| @SeemaChandwani It's only the LCF Exec who participate, not the whole LCF. | ||
| @SeemaChandwani I.e. Haringey Labour Group can remove whip, doesn't require NEC intervention, though it's something NEC also has power to do. | ||
| @SeemaChandwani Voting against Group policy would be prima facie grounds for removal of the whip, which can be done by a report by Chief Whip after initial investigation, & a majority vote at Labour Group. | ||
| @SeemaChandwani The rules only allow for breaking the whip on issues of conscience such as religion or temperance, and then only when agreed in advance by Group | ||
| @seyiakiwowo @gsjosan I take the criticism as valid and will try to act on it but wanted to ensure the facts about who spoke were recorded | ||
| @tomjon @220_d_92_20 @RuthSmeeth https://t.co/9DVDg7aPzD | ||
| @tomjon @220_d_92_20 @RuthSmeeth The name dates back to the 1980s. | ||
| https://t.co/Lkg1xQp9EZ | ||
| @election_data @markpack How about one of how far outside London you have to get to include 50% of Labour Party membership? | ||
| I wonder why Derek Hatton of Militant hates Gerard Coyne so much? https://t.co/TIu7YnvoAB | ||
| @Britestoan @FinnOBeyts This thread suggests you don't know much about my politics. I spent the Blair years critiquing marketisation of public services. This is a good starting point: https://t.co/0xMwraBuNn | ||
| @Michael_Thawe @MomentumSBham @LabourFirst @LabourBAME @UKLabour @gsjosan who is a member of BAME Labour was one of our speakers | ||
| On the way to Oldbury for @labour_first annual meeting #LF18 . Brandhall Labour Club awaits. | ||
| @LeftySocialist The words are correct but presented in a false context. I was talking about a general plan for the recovery of my wing of the party, not a plan to remove Corbyn, which is no longer on anyone's agenda. | ||
| @LeftySocialist No it was nothing to do with ousting Corbyn, which no one has advocated since the General Election. | ||
| Congratulations to my amazing wife @LabLinda75 who got elected by the Labour Group as Deputy Leader-elect of Oxford City Council last night! | ||
| https://t.co/lOCcUmELEv | ||
| @AlanOlive1 @GlenMitchell1 Setting an illegal budget was already explicitly outlawed in party rules since 2016 | ||
| @Calderbank They weren't formally represented on every LGC under the old system. Hackney was 6 delegates per CLP and 6 from Group from mid-1990s onwards. NB I think some TU reserved seats is a good thing. | ||
| @Calderbank Genuine question, why does an LCF have any less teeth than an LGC? In Hackney the 2 bodies seemed identical in composition and function, only change was who signed off manifesto. | ||
| Re-elected for another year as Secretary of Greater Marston Branch Labour Party. Very well-attended and positive AGM. | ||
| @Mendelpol Sunday Times front page | ||
| https://t.co/Ei9aaSHb1h | ||
| Heading home after a very happy day in London at the wedding of @DermotKehoe and @naw2_williams . | ||
| @LeftySocialist @enttruth @UKLabour This year they only sent postal votes to people the party had no email address for | ||
| @garethflynn @LabourList @britainelects Thanks for flagging - @EdwardsEconomy can you correct? | ||
| It's been downhill ever since... https://t.co/VPa2Goerp4 | ||
| @Labster73 I found the old regime pretty annoying myself as I was blocked from longlists in the seats I applied for in both 2010 and 2015. | ||
| elite interlopers and deep state representatives". Wow. Trumpian levels of paranoia. https://t.co/9Uhd4qwSAP | ||
| @JuniorTrix "Support" in what sense? | ||
| @JuniorTrix Hard Left is what Tony Benn's supporters including Corbyn and Lansman called themselves to imply they were more resolute and uncompromising than the Soft Left (Kinnock, Cook, Dobson, Prescott, Short) | ||
| @JuniorTrix No, I mean anyone not part of Hard Left. | ||
| @dannnnylol His whole thread disparages all previous Labour govts. | ||
| @Daniel_Wernberg Technically yes | ||
| @PeterTwohey I just told you I haven't criticised the leadership since the start of the General Election because they have not done anything to merit criticism since then. | ||
| @PeterTwohey I have no problem with the manifesto we fought the GE on and I would always promote party policy on the doorstep even if I personally disagreed with it. | ||
| @PeterTwohey Yeah when I go out canvassing at weekends I'm clearly "damaging the party". | ||
| @PeterTwohey That is cobblers. Corbyn had a long record of calling for leaders to step down and even campaign managed a leadership challenge. | ||
| @KtKevlt New Labour wasn't "Thatcherite" it defeated Thatcherism and presided over massive redistribution and public spending. I disagree with outsourcing but it wasn't "Thatcherite". | ||
| @KtKevlt The idea that there is a binary divide and the only choices Labour can make are Blairism or Corbynism is rather silly. And everyone in Labour cares about the poor and vulnerable, not just Momentumites. | ||
| @jomacly @SJT78508478 The other 470000 members of the Labour Party | ||
| @SJT78508478 Defeating Momentum is a necessary precondition of unity | ||
| @NoraMulready @jruddy99 Autumn is what Chief Whip told PLP | ||
| The old ones are the best ones https://t.co/AyuT8QR5Kc | ||
| @NoraMulready All these are early selections in what the party has defined as target seats | ||
| @MandM106 It was meant to be. | ||
| @AdolphusSpriggs @iMcKenzied @SocialDemSheff @UKPoliticsLive @debbiesimone123 @SP_Duckworth The main thing about St Ermins was it wasn't public... when the unions get their shit together they won't tell everyone on Twitter. | ||
| Armchair warriors sounding off about a new party might like to consider whether it's a good thing to end up doing what the "why don't you leave" mob want. | ||
| @europechris @debbiesimone123 @SocialDemSheff @iMcKenzied @SP_Duckworth I'd give it more than the 2 years so far! Very premature to give up on a party with a 117 year history. | ||
| @psreklaw_p Sorry have to disagree on both points. | ||
| @psreklaw_p I haven't said anything negative about leadership since start of the General Election. | ||
| @debbiesimone123 @SocialDemSheff @iMcKenzied @SP_Duckworth If you do organise a new party I'll focus my energy on destroying it as a necessary precondition of then saving Labour. | ||
| @MandM106 @iMcKenzied @debbiesimone123 @SP_Duckworth You only get the future for the country that you want by having the will to fight politically for it. Otherwise more motivated people get to shape how we live. | ||
| @psreklaw_p Canvassing, leafletting, running campaign HQ on election days, doing all the admin for my local Labour branch. | ||
| @psreklaw_p I do. | ||
| @carbonlogix @AndrewCrines @TomBlenkinsop I said most not all... | ||
| @carbonlogix @debbiesimone123 @iMcKenzied @SP_Duckworth Finished? It just got 40% in a General Election. | ||
| @debbiesimone123 @iMcKenzied @SP_Duckworth They don't. They have only won 5 of the 23 parliamentary selections so far. | ||
| @IntJewCon Actually more like 2-1 according to ballot yesterday. No need to exaggerate. | ||
| @MatthewRavenhil It's an unincorporated association so the law is just that they have to abide by their own rulebook. | ||
| @MatthewRavenhil They sent paper ballots to people not on email. It's not governed by law like a union ballot is. Entirely up to NEC how to run it. | ||
| @JuniorTrix Not infiltrate, join. Just like people who supported JC did in 2015. | ||
| @AndrewCrines @TomBlenkinsop Even just re-joining to vote online in NEC elections etc is helpful. In most CLPs atmosphere is a lot friendlier than it is on social media. | ||
| @fwhatworld I think it started because of EPLP rep sometimes being stuck in Brussels. | ||
| @fwhatworld It's long-standing NEC custom and practice to allow phoning in. | ||
| @mds49 @liddlejoanne1 And for their cause - for near 20 years she has been the main vote winner for the left's NEC slate | ||
| @redstarneil @AlanOlive1 @paulwaugh @UKLabour Jim Kennedy is Chair of Org Sub. | ||
| @colinwforster @JohnRentoul Indeed, they already had a majority before yesterday's ballot results | ||
| @ivorcaplin @jaystoll It's a two tier process, disputes go to the NEC Disputes Panel first, who deal with most of them but refer complex, contentious and time-consuming cases to the NCC | ||
| @scottr0gers Ann isn't "the left" anymore? | ||
| @jg_ccpress @PolhomeEditor 15 implies GMB, Unison and USDAW voted for Ann. | ||
| @BurgeAgj No | ||
| @philbc3 Turnout in recent parliamentary selections is significantly higher than the 20% in today's NEC result. But basically shows many pro-Corbyn members happy with MPs and cllrs with more diverse politics. | ||
| @IanSMcNee @labour_first I wasn't standing this time! | ||
| Congratulations to @Yasmine_Dar @LabourRachel & @jonlansman. Enjoy your service on the NEC, and I hope you will represent the collective interests of all rank and file members, whoever they voted for. Well done @gsjosan @JohannaBaxter & @eddiefornec on your campaigns. | ||
| @HuwJonesLabour I suggest you unfollow me if you don't like what I say. | ||
| @HuwJonesLabour I am an obsessive. | ||
| @LeftySocialist @b19njy @liddlejoanne1 @timteachtweet Also I've never had a "cushy position" - quite happy with 30 years hard graft as a grassroots campaigner. | ||
| @LeftySocialist @b19njy @liddlejoanne1 @timteachtweet I'm not a Blairite and most people in the Labour Party sit in between Blairite and Hard Left i.e. Brownites, centre of party and Soft Left eg Thornberry, Rayner | ||
| @b19njy @liddlejoanne1 @timteachtweet Anywhere on it that isn't Hard Left. | ||
| @Midj109 They can storm national OMOV elections due to superior data but lower down the party the same members are open to not voting on factional lines for cllr & MP selections | ||
| @JayRoberts86 You may need to change the email HQ uses for you as sounds like ballot emails getting blocked | ||
| @northofcam @jruddy99 @jg_ccpress Only certain chapters | ||
| @northofcam @jruddy99 @jg_ccpress I replied after checking the rule book. | ||
| @jruddy99 @jg_ccpress AWS has always been based on self-identification. | ||
| Sorry to hear news of @JonClempner resignation, it was a pleasure to campaign with him in Harlow in 2013 county elections https://t.co/SJMZ1dLI8t | ||
| If you haven't received an NEC ballot email, today is last day to apply for a replacement: https://t.co/6OJRkVWCHh | ||
| @ClareFKing @skwawkbox @LabourFirst @chrisbirks That's our old website. New one here: https://t.co/KIppzsXK3K | ||
| @ClareFKing @skwawkbox @LabourFirst @chrisbirks We are registered. Our data protection registration number is ZA254659 | ||
| @ClareFKing @skwawkbox @LabourFirst @chrisbirks Thank you we have a data protection policy and our view is that this use is compliant with it. | ||
| @ClareFKing @skwawkbox @LabourFirst @chrisbirks We don't issue volunteers with a "Labour First email account" - exactly same as party which doesn't give CLP or branch secretaries a "https://t.co/2rtSqnD7hv" email account | ||
| @ClareFKing @skwawkbox @LabourFirst @chrisbirks Chris Birks isn't a third party, he used the data as a volunteer for Labour First. | ||
| First #labourdoorstep of 2018 with @Oxford_Labour in Hinksey | ||
| What's behind the protests in Iran and what can you do? https://t.co/vFBdSOamXV | ||
| @ClareFKing @SeemaChandwani The Labour Party position is that it is self defining. Otherwise you end up very unpleasant situation where someone perceives themselves as BAME & other people say they are not. | ||
| @SteveHKay @JTaylor_NB It was enforced by many CLPs in 1980s but died out in 90s. | ||
| @JTaylor_NB Still in there but CLPs don't run the checks in way they did when I first started going to meetings in 1980s. | ||
| @SteveHKay @JTaylor_NB It means if you are in work and not in a job where you are unable to join a union e.g. police, armed forces. | ||
| These figures bear out what @labour_first said in Democracy Review submission yesterday. Labour members r 96% white, 77% middle class, 46% from London & South. Needs to be addressed in both recruitment & internal democracy. https://t.co/lvIsUA5OVI | ||
| If trade union link didn't exist we wouldn't have MPs with backgrounds like this who understand poverty first hand. | ||
| @SeemaChandwani Yes very happy to discuss further. | ||
| @Bob_Arctor_1977 No, it's to go back to the original concept of OMOV within an electoral college that existed from 1994 to 2013. | ||
| Odd reaction to our proposals to give members parity with TUs on NEC for first time in Labour's history https://t.co/VNhWGOIEDe | ||
| @SeemaChandwani We don't score well on anything except blokes with beards, which at least keeps us in @kmflett 's good books | ||
| Labour party is 'too white, middle class, southern' says Labour First campaign group https://t.co/2I5UokfbBW | ||
| On the Use and Abuse of Marxism https://t.co/IN3UcySHKD | ||
| @1shahab1 @RedRobertino @ClaireKober @JamesDAustin @perayahmet @joedgoldberg Lovely bit of antisemitic banter there... gross. | ||
| Also here are @HackneyAbbott @PhilipGlanville @hackneyspeaker @jonathanmcshane @SophieCam @lisa_calderwood @feryaldemirci @VincentStops | ||
| @duncan3ross @CanterburyCCUni @UniKent @chrishanretty That's why I said "helps explain". Clearly multiple factors. I grew up there and the changed nature of the place is extraordinary. | ||
| Political impact of this is huge and 3700 movers from London to Canterbury helps explain GE result there https://t.co/HxhPLuGJwX | ||
| @Calderbank @SeemaChandwani Congratulations! | ||
| Sorry to hear this sad news, Ivan was a prominent figure in Hackney trade unionism and perennial CPB candidate in elections there. https://t.co/0Yz6MBK9Or | ||
| @MnWthtQualities The pre-1998 local Hackney version was a belief that estates that had been nicely regenerated stopped voting Labour. | ||
| @MnWthtQualities When I was younger the main theory pushed (ppl have been writing up decline of SD parties since 1950s) was "embourgoisement" - left parties destroyed their own voter base by redistribution turning proles into bourgeois | ||
| Arrived at #limmud conference just in time to hear @stellacreasy speak | ||
| In most recent poll I can find on this, by Opinium, 45% of voters put themselves in the centre, as opposed to 25% on the left and 30% on the right https://t.co/gHmwTSJ05U |
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| Thinking of the people from Norway's Labour Party I have met over the years and how they will all know victims of this sickening attack | ||
| @Skeptickler @Twitashitter @ComiskeyNathan @BenGoldsmith Ok. Thanks for apologising. | ||
| @Skeptickler @Twitashitter @ComiskeyNathan @BenGoldsmith I just posted it so I am hardly ignoring it. | ||
| @krelbourne35 If you are bored, block or unfollow me. You are not my target audience. | ||
| Quite some chutzpah for McDonnell to urge solidarity and unity on Haringey cllrs who his allies have just sacked. Not much solidarity, unity or pluralism was visible in the selection process. https://t.co/Nk7mLVf7NF | ||
| @ElectionMapsUK Hackney | ||
| @GT270913 @carbonlogix @Skeptickler Unlikely as Momentum only has 30,000 members across all 640+ CLPs | ||
| Odd statement as Labour was alive as a party for 115 years before Momentum was founded. https://t.co/InIT7OBoHD | ||
| @JonHegerty Stop them taking over. | ||
| @JonHegerty Trying to take over. | ||
| @SocialistGreen @KeironOShea @ProgressOnline @LabourFirst Slates at CLP level were largely unknown outside a few inner city CLPs pre 2015. People didn't see each other as in different factions. | ||
| @maxshanly In homage to great socialist Zionist General Moshe Dayan? | ||
| @KeironOShea Without them we might be in government. A bit of canvassing at election time doesn't compensate for their destructive internal behaviour or their disinterest in listening to what voters want. | ||
| @KeironOShea I campaigned for Ed Miliband vs David in 2010 and for Yvette/Tom combo in 2015 so there is a good slice of party opinion to my right on economic & public services policies. | ||
| @TheProleStar @PeoplesMomentum The only people creating division are local Momentum groups obsessed by deselection. There was real appetite for unity post-GE & Haringey purge has destroyed it. | ||
| @tigerfish4 That article isn't by me. | ||
| @KeironOShea Exactly but if those elections now involve slates & factional organising on one side, it is only fair that the other side also organises in response. | ||
| @TheProleStar @PeoplesMomentum We are organising to stop them sacking good people as cllrs, MPs and CLP officers. It is defensive and legitimate. Should we just role over and allow ourselves to be marginalised? | ||
| @UKDemockery @TheProleStar @labour_first @PeoplesMomentum I very rarely say anything negative about any fellow member - my fight is with Momentum as an organisation not the people in it | ||
| @TheProleStar @labour_first @PeoplesMomentum Sadly none over £5k. Salary and operating budget for all the other things we do like events, publications, social media ads. | ||
| @liddlejoanne1 @labour_first No participating in it and trying to make sure there is a level playing field for ordinary members against Momentum's huge resources of cash, staff and data | ||
| @Skeptickler @TheProleStar @labour_first @PeoplesMomentum What are you babbling on about? | ||
| @TheProleStar @labour_first @PeoplesMomentum Hi I do give my time for free. I'm not paid for anything I do relating to Labour First or Labour Party - is all in spare time. | ||
| @mjvdpas @labour_first Momentum has over a dozen staff and an income many times larger than Labour First | ||
| @GawainKeates @tigerfish4 @MomentumBofH It's written in past tense ie since the selections | ||
| Good mtg at Windsor CLP - great team of activists plugging away in a v Tory area | ||
| @tigerfish4 @UKLabour Momentum are lying. The two pictures contradict each other. | ||
| @conradlandin I thought Rawlings & Thrasher had years of data that seemed to prove local byelections predicted national elections better than national opinion polls do? | ||
| Haringey Momentum: Corbynites, conservationism and Hornsey Town Hall https://t.co/ADKcZLmZrQ | ||
| On my way to give NEC Report speech to Windsor CLP | ||
| @carlfisherking @AnnaHinbest You can't call for unity at the same time as saying a previous Labour PM shouldn't be in party. There is a stunning hypocrisy there. | ||
| @FennaLouise @PetercjacksonPj @MrBrendanCox @ProgressOnline @LabourFirst @eddieizzard maybe it would make sense to judge candidates on their merits & what they would bring to NEC rather than your perceptions of who is associated with them. | ||
| @glenmeskell @PetercjacksonPj @MrBrendanCox @jessphillips @eddieizzard @ProgressOnline @LabourFirst That's one of the reasons why we (Labour First and Progress) are backing an independent like Eddie rather than running a slate of people from our own organisations. | ||
| @helensclegel @David__Osland @SeemaChandwani @FatGayVegan @alidogan_uk @fionamenglish @MomentumHackney @MattTurner4L @alexnunns @marthasydenham Does that make me a Klingon? | ||
| @PetercjacksonPj @MrBrendanCox @jessphillips @eddieizzard @ProgressOnline @LabourFirst A) you meant to tag @labour_first B) Labour First isn't a Blairite or New Labour organisation, not that that would be anything to be ashamed of if we were | ||
| @gcfcfan Thanks! | ||
| @VinceHalsey I haven't criticised Jeremy since the General Election because I agree he has earned right to pursue his strategy. | ||
| @VinceHalsey Yes but everyone in the Labour Party of whatever wing is working for people to get a better life. Differences are over foreign policy, what is economically realistic, and electoral strategy for winning power. | ||
| @KatieCurtis @stevo_wych 30 years in March in my case. 25 years membership makes you a newbie. | ||
| @stevo_wych @johnmcdonnellMP Why would I have a problem sharing John's tweet? You are trying to create division where none exists. Please stop. | ||
| @stevo_wych The tweet was actually generated from an email sent in @johnmcdonnellMP 's name... | ||
| I sign a Labour petition. I click send on the official Labour model tweet. Some bloke attacks me for it, on basis I didn't tag John McDonnell. FFS. https://t.co/IqiuEEj8tX | ||
| @stevo_wych I didn't write the tweet - the Labour Party did - its standard text, you click send on it after signing an online petition on party website. Maybe you can apologise? | ||
| Gordon Brown's biography reminds us why he is one of the giants of recent political history https://t.co/RibdfyGZhO via @prospect_uk | ||
| @BrenTierney They lost. | ||
| @Mr_Claydon indeed | ||
| @krelbourne35 @cobi_innes @Klala0913 @wesstreeting If you can find a way to do it, I recommend it, it is very fulfilling to be able to put something back into your community. | ||
| @krelbourne35 @cobi_innes @Klala0913 @wesstreeting We will list any donors as required to by the law i.e. any over £7.5k in one year. That's same rules all political organisations abide by. Anyone over £500 law says we have to check they are on a UK electoral register. | ||
| @krelbourne35 @cobi_innes @Klala0913 @wesstreeting It's kind of how debate works, you set out your stall and explain why people shouldn't support the other guys. | ||
| @krelbourne35 @cobi_innes @Klala0913 @wesstreeting Progress all online here: https://t.co/SoBYDkV3pd | ||
| @krelbourne35 @cobi_innes @Klala0913 @wesstreeting It is difficult to see positive intentions in people effectively sacking their local councillors over a policy disagreement. Maybe you can also see the positive intentions of the councillors who were trying to improve housing in their borough. | ||
| @krelbourne35 @cobi_innes @Klala0913 @wesstreeting It has occurred but has been less successful. Haringey is an outlier or maybe a harbinger. | ||
| @krelbourne35 @cobi_innes @Klala0913 @wesstreeting The MPs may oppose HDV, I don't think they wanted so many cllrs who support it to be replaced. It's a completely OTT response to a policy debate. | ||
| @ArglesJonathan @Sarahistorygirl @SeemaChandwani Not having a PPE degree or a property portfolio, I don't fully understand what you are on about, but it doesn't sound like you have many insights into Tower Hamlets. | ||
| @krelbourne35 @cobi_innes @Klala0913 @wesstreeting Or perhaps the huge focus on HDV is the symptom of intense factionalism rather than its cause. | ||
| @krelbourne35 @cobi_innes @Klala0913 @wesstreeting NB neither Hackney case was "political" in sense of about positioning on internal Labour spectrum. | ||
| @krelbourne35 @cobi_innes @Klala0913 @wesstreeting As secretary of Labour First I monitor selections across the UK. Total number of deselected cllrs in whole rest of UK is in same ball park as the Haringey figure for one borough. | ||
| @ArglesJonathan @Sarahistorygirl @SeemaChandwani Tower Hamlets politics doesn't categorise neatly like that e.g. Lutfur Rahman campaigned for David Miliband in 2010 but appeared allied to Ken Livingstone & remnants of George Galloway's Respect party | ||
| @robinothood @mirabarhillel I don't believe it is. Long answer here: https://t.co/H2Aop3co2U | ||
| @robinothood @mirabarhillel Yes that's a story from Al-Jazeera, effectively the propaganda wing of the government of Qatar, which is a foreign govt trying to influence UK public opinion and govt policy. You were saying? | ||
| @robinothood @mirabarhillel British citizens have a right to try to influence UK foreign policy in any direction they choose. Foreign govts and peoples also have a right to try to persuade UK to act favourably towards them - that's what diplomacy is. | ||
| @FrankFontaine2 @Emina_ibrahim @ace_love @KateOsamor It ought to be possible to debate the merits of their policy without sacking them as cllrs or questioning their socialism or denouncing them as neoliberals if you disagree with the choice they made. | ||
| @FrankFontaine2 @Emina_ibrahim @ace_love @KateOsamor On contrary we seem to have got our way in every other local authority in the UK except Haringey in this round of selections. This implies we are still able to attract wide support from members for moderate cllrs and MPs. | ||
| @FrankFontaine2 @Emina_ibrahim @ace_love @KateOsamor I run Labour First so you could at least name check my organisation rather than my allies... | ||
| @krelbourne35 "oust"? We are not interested in deselecting anyone. We are training people to protect themselves democratically from being deselected. | ||
| Yuck on so many levels. https://t.co/OQYpLsh4Cn | ||
| @___OST___ @cymrurouge I sat in Hackney North CLP meetings with leading figures on the Hard Left for 16 years listening to you sulk and undermine. You literally went on huge public demonstrations when you disagreed with a Labour PM. | ||
| @FitzTheBlitz Care to elaborate? On my watch as campaign manager in 4 elections we took Hackney Labour from 29 cllrs to 50. | ||
| @Sarahistorygirl @SeemaChandwani Disunity in the party is caused by Momentum deselecting councillors and factionalising elections for CLP officers, not by the victims of this or the people standing up to them or drawing attention to their behaviour. | ||
| @artymesia @SeemaChandwani Everyone who has ever been in the Labour Party ever supports a fairer society. What has deselecting other Labour members got to do with creating a fairer society? | ||
| @cymrurouge No I think the rules are fine, this is about political culture and political decisions | ||
| https://t.co/8dRPfNNG8o | ||
| @0Calamity @Samir_Dathi @BlackXList @AaronBastani That's the one I prefer. | ||
| Very 2015 https://t.co/1PeK6Ljk8Z | ||
| Head/desk https://t.co/7Ao3SsyJwF | ||
| @Adastophilis @duncanm @MomentumNDevon No it won't, HDV is a joint venture where council holds 50% share and veto on all decisions | ||
| @bairdystweets @LabourFirst You mean @labour_first | ||
| @KhaledElawadi @tomcoady It's quite rare and pretty racist to oppose another people's right to self-determination, which is what Zionism is | ||
| On my way for quarterly blood tests and haematology consultant check-up at UCH | ||
| I now get equal billing to the PLP as culprit for the absence of "a true socialist Labour government". So much power! https://t.co/xj8y2AmR46 | ||
| @helensclegel @SeemaChandwani I'm going along to find out. My guess is differential turnout, as no Labour meeting has 100% of members attending it. | ||
| @duncanm I love that people in North Devon are going on about reselection when they have no Labour MP or councillors. | ||
| @helensclegel @SeemaChandwani No it's about getting the numbers. If you don't have the numbers you need to recruit them, that's what Corbyn did on a massive scale. | ||
| @DumpTheDup @cymrurouge I'm obsessed by foreign policy, just coming at it from opposite angle to you. Though could have marked Attlee down for not being pro-Israel. | ||
| @cymrurouge @DumpTheDup No I mean what am I comparing it with? | ||
| Very telling https://t.co/v7bckZOfre | ||
| @cymrurouge @DumpTheDup what are the end points of the scale? | ||
| @ClareFKing @SeemaChandwani I imagine what Ian will say is pretty much what Seema would say to an equivalent Momentum meeting. It's an organising teach-in not a political speech. | ||
| @ClareFKing @SeemaChandwani all our recent meetings have been written up by Socialist Worker so you will be able to see the details there! | ||
| @JamieCanavan @SeanLon1962 that is literally a trite slogan. It isn't even anti-Tory, you are slagging off a Labour council's policy for building new homes where they are desperately needed by working class people. | ||
| @JamieCanavan @SeanLon1962 My twitter feed is mainly read by Labour party members who are interested in the debate within the Labour Party. They already know they don't support the Tories, no need for trite slogans about it. | ||
| @NorretteM @lesliemartin978 @Cheltcraig @SeemaChandwani John Spellar | ||
| @Klala0913 @wesstreeting Maybe you could direct that at the Momentum people frantically trying to deselect Labour councillors rather than focusing on winning next May's council elections. | ||
| @David__Osland I know you weren't a member then Dave but your faction was remarkably vibrant under New Labour, controlling many CLPs and winning seats on the NEC. They certainly weren't silent. And then there was Blair vs Brown... | ||
| @Cheltcraig @SeemaChandwani You could run this session, that's pretty much the message... | ||
| Amazing how many Momentum people seem deeply offended by the idea of any other strand of opinion organising themselves in the Labour Party. Single faction parties went out with the fall of the Berlin Wall. Labour is and always has been pluralistic. | ||
| @HexEd1967 It's a reply to someone claiming Thatcher and Blair were the same. | ||
| @bil_irving Yes but this little thing called pluralism means that in a democratic party the minority still gets to makes its arguments | ||
| @Tiramisu_512 Thanks | ||
| @naughtyhorse @HovellingHermit @MomentumBristol @duncanm @jg_ccpress @gjones1086 @david_clarke91 @tigerfish4 @UKLabour @Ed_Miliband No I want there to be more Labour members so that we have a membership that is closer politically and demographically to the profile of the people who vote for us i.e. more moderate and more working class and more northern | ||
| @SeanLon1962 We are on about 40% now, same as we were under Ed Miliband in 2012, but with a far lower lead. I.e. headed for defeat for 4th time. | ||
| @SeanLon1962 So disenfranchised that we won 3 thumping General Election wins? Blair was not a neo-liberal. Stop trotting out this tired lie. | ||
| @TheatreSue He isn't that popular with the wider electorate - was polling at record levels of unpopularity last year and is still 4% behind May now, which is incredible given how weak she is. PLP represents 13m Labour voters. | ||
| @SeanLon1962 I think Momentum jeopardises the Labour Party's struggle for social equality by making it less appealing to voters. | ||
| @bil_irving I certainly don't speak for MPs. I do think I speak for 48,000 members who voted for me in last year's NEC election. | ||
| @OwenJones84 Owen I know plenty of Momentum people and get on fine with them. Happy to debate at a Momentum event. | ||
| @crimness all campaigns are run that way in my experience as former candidate and agent, unless you are in one of a tiny number of targeted marginals. | ||
| @crimness So you were not doing what I am criticising then. | ||
| @winsaint No. | ||
| @crimness Presumably you did that under the legal oversight of the local CLP's Election Agent though? That person, even if a volunteer, will have been trained in election law by Labour staff. | ||
| @ERoachclip @UKLabour I am not an MP. | ||
| @tigerfish4 @RichardAngell @cornishincomer @SpaJw @PeoplesMomentum Any donations over £7.5k that any political organisation gets are on public record here: https://t.co/dhRqBU0F8Z | ||
| @cornishincomer @SpaJw @PeoplesMomentum https://t.co/zeQxJtkFjs | ||
| @HovellingHermit No your point was daft. | ||
| @jacqui703 No I'm not, I'm not a Blairite and was very critical of his policies on public services. There are lots of traditions in Labour between Blairism and Corbynism. | ||
| If this guy is mocking my complexion, it's a side effect of a life-threatening illness, but never mind. https://t.co/ZqlUu2LHsd | ||
| @jacqui703 I haven't called for him to resign since before the GE. | ||
| @jacqui703 In what sense am I not supporting him? Have not criticised hlm since start of GE and do my fair share of #labourdoorstep | ||
| @7815PWK I got 48,000 votes, how many people have ever voted for you? | ||
| Another one who wants a smaller less pluralistic Labour Party. https://t.co/uKt5OTbYs0 | ||
| Maybe Momentum's much vaunted model isn't consistent with British election law, political parties and parliamentary democracy. Maybe they should have thought of the law when developing their "model". https://t.co/aOA9Ow2I9a | ||
| I refer you to my previous tweet https://t.co/tG6TwVpTvm https://t.co/cSkLd678ma | ||
| @corr_matt Campaigning against the Tories is done through canvassing and leafleting not tweets that will only be read by people who already vote Labour. | ||
| @MomentumLeeds Not attacking you at all. | ||
| @moose_malloy No not calling for them to be banned calling for them to operate within those limits | ||
| @samfoster99 @LamentablyAwake And he micro targetted like crazy e.g. tuition fees policy to mobilise student vote | ||
| @samfoster99 @LamentablyAwake Those aren't tiny demographic groups they are the entire working class and lower middle class - 73% of the population | ||
| @HovellingHermit @MomentumBristol @duncanm @jg_ccpress @gjones1086 @david_clarke91 @tigerfish4 @UKLabour @Ed_Miliband No, I'd like you to stay, but to be outnumbered by new members with different politics to you. | ||
| @tazlufc @MomentumBristol @duncanm @jg_ccpress @gjones1086 @david_clarke91 @tigerfish4 @UKLabour @Ed_Miliband I don't think this is about personalities, and I resent you trying to goad me into public criticism of the leader, | ||
| @NeilFindlay_MSP They don't have propaganda aimed at audiences outside the Labour party. Material aimed at internal party debates is fine. Competing with Labour's street or online presence with general public audiences isn't. | ||
| @david_clarke91 @gjones1086 @MomentumBristol @jg_ccpress @tigerfish4 @duncanm @UKLabour New Labour ended in 2007. | ||
| Trying to argue with someone about compliance with election law, then discover they don't understand the concept of an "Agent" in elections. FFS. | ||
| @LamentablyAwake Comrade, I was denouncing triangulation in 2010, 5 years before Momentum existed: https://t.co/krGSCMNORL | ||
| @LamentablyAwake No because the risk was still there. Momentum should be part of Labour's election campaigning, not freelancing. | ||
| @maxshanly @LabourList Like any multi-author blog it publishes what people send it. Your guys need to write more opinion pieces for it and give it stories. The main funder is basically your mate Len! | ||
| Hat tip to @daverich1 for spotting who in George Galloway's book he says he first floated the idea of the Respect party with | ||
| @sambfawu I'm not a Blairite, I supported Ed Miliband and argued against triangulation. There is an entire spectrum of Labour opinion between Blair and Corbyn. | ||
| @charlotte2153 When the rules as they stood until last week were written, hence my understanding of them | ||
| Top Momentum campaign priority for the few months between now & May London elections. Target marginal Tory seats? No. Spend months re-running every selection to unseat Labour cllrs. | ||
| @AnnaSLynch brought back memories of Gonch from Grange Hill (John Holmes) running as NOLS candidate for NUS Steering Committee | ||
| @Rachelh20257338 Indeed, so are the unions that have 50% of vote in new rules. But pretty sure only u27s can be delegates from student Labour Clubs to Youth Conference. | ||
| @Rachelh20257338 It has about 30,000 members organised in Labour Clubs which each cover a university or other college. As an affiliated socialist society it is open to people who are not full members of Labour but they can't hold offices in it such as delegates to youth conference. | ||
| @caprichard11 @RF_McCarthy @AlasdairRoss No it hasn't. Most Labour members have never identified with a faction. They have historically been very weak outside a few inner city areas, & most selections have been won on individual basis. | ||
| @foodleedskidstv @andrewspoooner Sadly it does mean that because GMB is locked into backing left candidate in contrast to their stance on other issues. | ||
| @maxshanly The stats don't support your "most" on that either as small minority of pre-2017 is selections were late or byelections and subject to NEC shortlist. Ironic given what happening in Watford now. | ||
| @sennaista @Emina_ibrahim I'm not going to admonish people for organising to protect themselves when under threat of deselection. | ||
| @liddlejoanne1 Labour, not Momentum | ||
| @Calderbank @AlanOlive1 @hudaelmi_ They probably don't affiliate because there is no GC to send delegates to. | ||
| @Calderbank @AlanOlive1 @hudaelmi_ Indeed I am against AMMs and prefer branch and delegate based GC structure. | ||
| @dan_mccurry @Emina_ibrahim No it isn't the "story" that is making us look divided, it is the drive to deselect cllrs. Did Momentum think they could do this without protest or media scrutiny? | ||
| @Calderbank @AlanOlive1 @hudaelmi_ There are no party branches in Watford, CLP just holds central AMMs, and only 2 affiliated TUs - CWU and USDAW I think. Other TUs that endorsed MH are not affiliated to that CLP. | ||
| @scottr0gers @notcalledjohn Presumably everyone else does their campaigning through their CLP like normal people who are not obsessive factionalists would. | ||
| @CerdynJones @Emina_ibrahim That isn't how it has worked until v recently. Most members used to treat it in a more equal opps way like they were an interview panel hearing applicants for a job without prejudging them. | ||
| @RF_McCarthy @AlasdairRoss That is what we are building. It is a terrible distraction though - all this effort organising internally that should be focussed externally. | ||
| @RF_McCarthy @AlasdairRoss I'm not qualified to answer point B as not a Haringey cllr so wouldn't second guess them on policy detail | ||
| @CerdynJones @Emina_ibrahim I have never heard of slate leaflets or factional involvement in council selections before 2015. It's common in Australia but alien to culture of Labour Party here. | ||
| @RF_McCarthy @AlasdairRoss I have never heard of factions taking sides in council selections before 2015. It is absurd, council candidates should be judged on their personal merits otherwise isn't equal opps process. | ||
| @Emina_ibrahim I would prefer neither side were doing this. | ||
| @Emina_ibrahim I don't think it is appropriate to have "teams" in council selections. Very alienating for any individual member trying to become a cllr without factional backing. Not equal opps. | ||
| @Emina_ibrahim I deplore that too. Selections should be fought on individual basis without slates or factional involvement. | ||
| @orbyuk My fight isn't with members or leadership, it's with Momentum. | ||
| @GBardell29 @RichardAngell @guardian @ProgressOnline Not sure I understand? You want other groups within Labour never to disagree with Momentum or anything it does? | ||
| @GBardell29 What? | ||
| @scottr0gers And would mean one of our guys got Rhea's vacant NEC seat. Everyone wins! | ||
| @GBardell29 Literally all I did was tweet a link to a letter from Watford CLP's elected selections committee. Take your beef up with them not me. | ||
| @GBardell29 It's an internal selection so only Labour people are running - you attack the Tories once your own candidate is selected. | ||
| @scottr0gers Why has he written that article then? | ||
| @Cave_Art_Films Izzard, Baxter, Josan | ||
| They seem genuinely jittery about losing. https://t.co/Qu8kcsne30 | ||
| @leftfutures @Labourpaul congratulations you remembered Rachel Maskell ... | ||
| Worth reading the link. https://t.co/CjuNihxHih | ||
| @tigerfish4 @PeoplesMomentum @UKLabour Helps to RT truth from credible mainstream papers. The sooner Momentum are exposed and defeated within Labour, the sooner we will get a Labour govt. | ||
| @SeemaChandwani Now I have something else to disagree with you both about... | ||
| Must read interview with @AngelaRayner https://t.co/kN4fWXnXry | ||
| @leftfutures @Labourpaul that's not an accurate list of who is on the NEC let alone who voted which way! | ||
| @WirralMomentum @leicesterliz What a load of nonsense. The "coup" only happened because the polls and the EU referendum showed JC was not likely to win a GE. | ||
| @Coolfalsename @WirralMomentum @SocialistVoice @leicesterliz There are a lot of ways to help win a General Election that don't involve being a candidate (speak at someone who has been candidate twice & agent) | ||
| @Coolfalsename @WirralMomentum @SocialistVoice @leicesterliz Yes she did, she was a shadow ministerial adviser in 1997 and a ministerial adviser in 2005 so wd have been involved in both campaigns | ||
| @WirralMomentum @leicesterliz Eh? She is responding to someone calling last Labour govt "neoliberal" which is a) sectarian and b) not associating yourself with wider movement | ||
| @maxshanly @ProgressOnline @LabourFirst You mean @labour_first | ||
| @oneandonlymr0 Sarah Taylor | ||
| @Altook It's actually connected to my neurological condition, but yes it is crazy... | ||
| Let me see what I can do to provide further opportunities https://t.co/GlLTP0KmtE | ||
| @tree_sausage @eddiefornec @MacMacaslin @eddieizzard Yep as Eddie says he ran against me last year. I would love for Eddie to be part of Labour First but that isn't where he is coming from. | ||
| @LeftySocialist @JohannaBaxter @gsjosan @eddiefornec Waves, starting today | ||
| @BernadetteB1961 @sooty_sayer @duncanm @KatieCurtis @skwawkbox The press regulator ruled against them recently, throwing out a complaint that they didn't like being described as a fake news site. | ||
| @gardencourtman @JoeMakesThings @adamlangleben Because people active in local CLPs are the problem... | ||
| Always great self awareness when actual Stalinists start arguing for purges. https://t.co/YZEYSIBSGk | ||
| Momentum trying to #Unseat Tory MPs is great and to be applauded. Their efforts to #Unseat good Labour councillors are sickening bullying sectarianism that will damage local councils & communities. https://t.co/4hFiTvTVPN | ||
| @gsoh31 @JonathanD1962 @DPJHodges @ayeshahazarika @UKLabour @PeoplesMomentum And not all new members were JC voters nor are all JC voters down the line Momentum supporters. Big chunk of 22% increase in Scotland is people who Anas Sarwar recruited. | ||
| @LeftySocialist @malaiseforever Why do you keep going on about Progress when I run Labour First? | ||
| @ulibarbara @PilgrimTucker @gjones1086 Yes and I did do this in selections in Hackney. | ||
| @Pigpenned The only people plotting are the ones deselecting councillors | ||
| @PilgrimTucker Personally unfair on someone who had served the community and Labour well. Deselection should be for laziness or incompetence not policy disagreements or factional advantage. | ||
| @JoeMakesThings @adamlangleben The problem is the huge volume of cases has overwhelmed both the staff and the capacity of the NCC to convene panel hearings. | ||
| @NWLabourLeft I'm not a neoliberal so I'm not upset or surprised that it has failed | ||
| @HenJenny @DemocracyFail Yes. | ||
| @ianjfitch @LeftySocialist @LabourList What policies do you think I support that lead you to that conclusion? | ||
| @DemocracyFail I agree but compromise requires backing off from deselection obsession by Momentum. | ||
| @Prescott_Left @jonlansman @PeoplesMomentum Thanks for pointing out the biog, I wasn't aware it was there. @EdwardsEconomy can you update it? | ||
| @DemocracyFail By the way I get on very well with Momentum people, I just have different view of strategy Labour needs to adopt to beat Tories. | ||
| @DemocracyFail Nothing wrong with the principles, it's the way they behave towards other party members, and the lack of acknowledgement that all Labour people (incl "Blairites") share these principles that is problematic | ||
| @Prescott_Left @jonlansman @PeoplesMomentum I haven't been a councillor since 2014. I don't live in Hackney or London now either. | ||
| @HenJenny @DemocracyFail What "right wing policies" do you think I support? | ||
| @Prescott_Left @jonlansman @PeoplesMomentum How would that help the Labour Party? | ||
| And proud of it. The motion welcomed Machover's readmission, which I found sickening. https://t.co/tRkEXKqUlF | ||
| @jonlansman PS I analysed why New Labour lost when I advocated moving left during Ed Miliband's 2010 leadership campaign. There are other points on Labour spectrum between Blair and Corbyn. | ||
| @LeftySocialist @LabourList I'm not a centrist or a liberal. | ||
| @jonlansman An internal dialectical struggle is necessary to produce an election winning synthesis isn't it? | ||
| @dymunol1 You mean Labour First | ||
| @DemocracyFail Yes. | ||
| @efrogwraig @shanedgj One - very unfair - instance. | ||
| @LifefromtheLeft Isn't that what people said to Corbyn and McDonnell 10 years ago? | ||
| https://t.co/nktviMVmB3 | ||
| @cymrurouge It isn't the policy we pursued in Hackney, no idea if I would back it in Haringey as not privy to the detail of their regen needs or housing finances. But not something to deselect people over. | ||
| @GillianLazarus @timesredbox No not seen it | ||
| @JamesHolah @kieranspeaks You must have missed the bit where it says about not applying 1997 solutions to 2017 problems | ||
| @JamesHolah @kieranspeaks Read the article | ||
| Looking forward to hearing @dannydorling speak on NHS at Greater Marston Branch Labour tonight | ||
| @PoliticsTosser @plain_2 @MikeGapes Virtually none, it's not the kind of CLP they are clustered in. | ||
| @liddlejoanne1 @DaiLlDavies A small percentage are actual Trotskyists. I agree vast majority are not. | ||
| @tigerfish4 @UKLabour What quote have they used? | ||
| @Fertweetssake This isn't OMOV, the Youth Rep will now be elected 50% by OMOV, 50% by union block votes with no member ballot on the TU side | ||
| @plain_2 @PoliticsTosser @MikeGapes Ex-Trots are fine by the way, it's current ones that are problematic. | ||
| @UKDemockery @PoliticsTosser @MikeGapes How about you having zero tolerance of Leninists in your ranks then there would be any for me to criticise the presence of? Not difficult to police boundary between democratic socialists and communists. | ||
| @TheDecider25 @andreww1967 Their top candidate got 206 nominations as many CLPs nominated a mixture of candidates of different political alignments | ||
| @plain_2 @PoliticsTosser @MikeGapes Blair came into politics through Christian Socialism that he learned about from one of his Oxford Uni tutors. | ||
| Brighton & Hove had a Labour majority from 1996 to 2003, does that no longer count as socialist majority control? https://t.co/AyjYfDM1Rf | ||
| Horrible Histories (CBBC) https://t.co/DwpIFyT2IM | ||
| @phil1 @PoliticsTosser @MikeGapes Menshevik versions of Marxism are also great | ||
| @phil1 @PoliticsTosser @MikeGapes Indeed | ||
| @jed_fewtrell @PoliticsTosser @MikeGapes Their public CVs? | ||
| @SocialDemSheff @andreww1967 I'm not claiming we can win national OMOV elections in current political circumstances. Those circumstances won't last for ever though. | ||
| @andreww1967 Out of 644 CLPs only 167 nominated the full Momentum slate in current NEC elections. | ||
| @liddlejoanne1 Members of Trotskyist groups such as AWL, Socialist Action, Socialist Outlook | ||
| @paulleake The new rule passed today is 50% OMOV 50% affiliate block votes | ||
| @YoungOldTrot @PoliticsTosser @MikeGapes Venezuela | ||
| @enttruth Email not post | ||
| @enttruth 30 November | ||
| @andreww1967 Nope not everywhere - mainstream candidates won the 2 parliamentary selections yesterday, Stella's team won Walthamstow AGM by margin of 50 on Thursday. | ||
| @PoliticsTosser @MikeGapes But some of the key personnel involved are literally Trotsky and Stalin fans, recent former members of unreformed Communist parties & activists in the tankie wing of the CP, apologists for Cuba & Venezuela. | ||
| @IoTstudies Surely the concept of being "anti-Corbyn" has disappeared? There isn't a debate about his leadership any more. | ||
| I agree with @mattzarb https://t.co/CWBtzYE0Co | ||
| @george__woods No I haven't told him anything as he is independent and I've never met or spoken to him | ||
| @GawainKeates That was a) tongue in cheek b) about staff not CLP officers | ||
| @GawainKeates No I need you to elaborate | ||
| @GawainKeates Eh? | ||
| @Emina_ibrahim @KateOsamor @LondonLabour I'm not questioning the process I am questioning the impact of the politics of what is happening. | ||
| @leftfutures yes | ||
| @eddie_1955 We were before Momentum introduced obsessional factionalism | ||
| @eddie_1955 it's not my wing of the party trying to deselect cllrs & MPs and oust sitting CLP officers | ||
| Hearing that Momentum attempt to take over Walthamstow CLP defeated by 50 vote margin at AGM | ||
| @NudderingNudnik @angelasmithmp already retweeted it | ||
| Israel https://t.co/W4EKkMRFFU | ||
| @leftfutures do the maths. | ||
| @benraue @latikambourke @smh Ah I forgot Australia actually has a written constitution... | ||
| @KatieCurtis It should be M as the word mainstream is superfluous | ||
| @HadasAltwarg @MarianCraig @ProgressOnline @labour_first Yes https://t.co/Lv21FwsQ5P | ||
| @robertcp I've run polling days where we have won a ward based on keeping going til 10 | ||
| @adamskihealth That isn't what I saw. | ||
| @jed_fewtrell @LabourList I would be fine with giving more power to members if they were politically and demographically representative of Labour voters | ||
| @stevenstewart54 Just didn't mobilise for it | ||
| @maxshanly We should meet up for a lunch along those lines. | ||
| @SussexSeagull @peterkyle I am still scarred by being told to stop at 9pm in Bristol NW in 1992, then going to count where we lost by 45 votes | ||
| @msjenniferjames No exit poll is always on stroke of 10pm. | ||
| And anyone who lived through 1992 would never show any emotional reaction to an exit poll - they can be wrong so you wait for the actual results. | ||
| If you are in front of a TV in time to see an exit poll, you stopped GOTV too early. | ||
| @ivanwhite48 @ClareFKing @AaronBastani We should never have been 24% behind. We wouldn't have been if we had changed leader in 2016. | ||
| @ClareFKing @AaronBastani How can losing to the Tories be an amazing day? It was a better day than the disaster we expected. Amazing would be a Labour PM walking into 10 Downing Street. | ||
| @GBardell29 The party would not have been divided if Corbyn had stood down when he lost the confidence of PLP. | ||
| @GBardell29 @JoshNicholson50 @ProgressOnline @LabourFirst About 100. | ||
| @garageland66 Blocked for ignorance of basic psephologocal terminology | ||
| @garageland66 No it is not. It is the increase in Labour vote. Swing is the change in relationship between the Lab and Con votes. Trust me, I have a degree in this crap. | ||
| @garageland66 No that is not "swing". I'm not disputing acheivement in increasing vote bur please use correct terminology. | ||
| @garageland66 Swing was only 2.1%. Swing = sum of the change in the Lab and Con votes divided by 2. | ||
| @MLaffan I could live with that | ||
| Congratulations to @IainMcNicol Labour's new General Secretary | ||
| @PinkoPalest Agreed | ||
| @gabyhinsliff I thought elections entirely consisted of leafletting in the rain ... there is some other aspect to them? | ||
| @MichaelEzra Progress & LF moderate meet up | ||
| @cymrurouge @JTaylor_NB @ClareFKing @eddieizzard @JohannaBaxter @gsjosan Sorry I didn't intend to make that differentiation. LF, Progress, Open Labour, Momentum are factions. Old Right, New Labour, Soft Left, Hard Left are traditions. | ||
| @cymrurouge @ClareFKing @eddieizzard @JohannaBaxter @gsjosan That was why I referenced the SDF | ||
| @cymrurouge @ClareFKing @eddieizzard @JohannaBaxter @gsjosan Yes it was well-informed and interesting. | ||
| @ClareFKing @cymrurouge @eddieizzard @JohannaBaxter @gsjosan Actually arguably the age of the traditions is: Old Right - from TUs at origin of party Soft Left - from Bevan in 1930s Hard Left - from Benn in 1970s but tracing antecedents to SDF in 19thC & Cripps in 1930s New Labour - emerged out of Soft Left in 1990s but Gaitskell echoes |
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| @ClareFKing @cymrurouge @eddieizzard @JohannaBaxter @gsjosan Sorry which point? | ||
| @ClareFKing @cymrurouge @eddieizzard @JohannaBaxter @gsjosan i.e. tradition is a broader term than faction. Another example, not everyone who sees themselves as New Labour is involved in Progress. | ||
| @ClareFKing @cymrurouge @eddieizzard @JohannaBaxter @gsjosan One is broader than the other - there are people who come from same tradition as LF - the pre-Blair right - who have no organisational involvement with us. | ||
| @1PabloAngel Banking deregulation was done by Thatcher in the mid 80s. | ||
| @sportmankayaker Thank you | ||
| @PinkoPalest @cymrurouge @eddieizzard @JohannaBaxter @gsjosan Campaigning for Ed M against David M for leader. Consistently supporting Ed M when he was under attack from right. | ||
| @cymrurouge @eddieizzard @JohannaBaxter @gsjosan The broad politics most Labour people identify with is the party as an entirety not one tradition within it. | ||
| @cymrurouge @eddieizzard @JohannaBaxter @gsjosan Personally I obviously identify with one specific tradition in party. But most Labour members & politicians don't see themselves in that way. | ||
| @cymrurouge @eddieizzard @JohannaBaxter @gsjosan People's politics doesn't always fit into neat factional boxes. They may have left stances on some issues and votes and centrist ones on others. | ||
| Full day of Labour NEC meetings today. Serious agenda - @RefoundLab reforms and choosing new General Secretary | ||
| @cymrurouge @eddieizzard @JohannaBaxter @gsjosan Because we don't want parties within parties? The party is Labour, not Momentum. | ||
| This is a lot more likely to happen if the NEC has experienced campaigners like @eddieizzard @JohannaBaxter & @gsjosan who can think for themselves rather than people who put a faction - Momentum - first. https://t.co/iNu6e0JbtG | ||
| @socialistMike @Sarahistorygirl @Rachelh20257338 @SeemaChandwani Any major donations we might receive would be subject to Electoral Commission disclosure rules. There haven't been any. | ||
| @socialistMike @Sarahistorygirl @Rachelh20257338 @SeemaChandwani Not yet because we haven't completed first year of operating as a company, and until 2017 our turnover was under £1k a year | ||
| @Sarahistorygirl @drgerke1 @Coyotes_Bar @mcarro2 @Rachelh20257338 @SeemaChandwani @eddieizzard Yes they are standing off their own backs. | ||
| @socialistMike @Sarahistorygirl @Rachelh20257338 @SeemaChandwani Crowdfunding from Labour members who support us | ||
| @mcarro2 Johanna stood against me in 2010. | ||
| @mcarro2 @drgerke1 @Sarahistorygirl @Coyotes_Bar @Rachelh20257338 @SeemaChandwani We had 6 candidates and Eddie Izzard stood against us in 2016. | ||
| @drgerke1 @Sarahistorygirl @Coyotes_Bar @mcarro2 @Rachelh20257338 @SeemaChandwani @eddieizzard I am backing two people who are so annoyingly independent that they stood against me in previous NEC elections | ||
| @Coyotes_Bar @Sarahistorygirl @mcarro2 @Rachelh20257338 @SeemaChandwani @eddieizzard Didn't take many tweets to get to "zionist elements" conspiracy theory | ||
| @Sarahistorygirl @Coyotes_Bar @mcarro2 @Rachelh20257338 @SeemaChandwani @eddieizzard I hope you voted for me last year when I was an NEC candidate with a disability | ||
| @Sarahistorygirl @Coyotes_Bar @mcarro2 @Rachelh20257338 @SeemaChandwani @eddieizzard What personal agenda? | ||
| @KhaledElawadi @mcarro2 @Rachelh20257338 @SeemaChandwani @Sarahistorygirl @eddieizzard I am sure he will state that and may already have on his Twitter feed | ||
| @DIMBERLYisMI5 @SeemaChandwani Independent as in not a member of a faction inside Labour, not "independent from Labour". | ||
| @Coyotes_Bar @Sarahistorygirl @mcarro2 @Rachelh20257338 @SeemaChandwani @eddieizzard No one has a problem with Corbyn post General Election. | ||
| @KhaledElawadi @Rachelh20257338 @SeemaChandwani @mcarro2 @Sarahistorygirl @eddieizzard The privacy policy on the site is very clear | ||
| @SeemaChandwani @KhaledElawadi @mcarro2 @Rachelh20257338 @Sarahistorygirl @eddieizzard A slate is people who all cross endorse each other. | ||
| @SeemaChandwani @KhaledElawadi @mcarro2 @Rachelh20257338 @Sarahistorygirl @eddieizzard No it is not. | ||
| @KhaledElawadi @mcarro2 @Rachelh20257338 @SeemaChandwani @Sarahistorygirl @eddieizzard I think his position is that he will accept support wherever it comes from. | ||
| @Sarahistorygirl @mcarro2 @Rachelh20257338 @SeemaChandwani @eddieizzard There is no suggestion that anyone running has a problem with JC or the manifesto. | ||
| @SeemaChandwani @Rachelh20257338 @Sarahistorygirl @eddieizzard Which one? | ||
| @mcarro2 @Rachelh20257338 @SeemaChandwani @Sarahistorygirl @eddieizzard Why should I answer your questions? | ||
| @Rachelh20257338 @Sarahistorygirl @mcarro2 @SeemaChandwani @eddieizzard By definition people not in Momentum will have better impact on NEC than people who are in it. | ||
| @Sarahistorygirl @mcarro2 @Rachelh20257338 @SeemaChandwani @eddieizzard On who is best placed to beat Momentum. | ||
| @mcarro2 @Rachelh20257338 @SeemaChandwani @Sarahistorygirl @eddieizzard He announced he was running without consulting us in 2016 and 2017. Last year we already had 6 candidates. This year we decided to recommend support for him as he has a good chance of beating Momentum. | ||
| @Rachelh20257338 @SeemaChandwani @Sarahistorygirl @eddieizzard It is a pretty dull thread. Organisation campaigna for independent candidate who previously stood against them. The end. | ||
| @SeemaChandwani @Rachelh20257338 @Sarahistorygirl @eddieizzard The privacy policy on the site is very clear. | ||
| @SeemaChandwani @Rachelh20257338 @Sarahistorygirl @eddieizzard Yes he's pissed off about it. | ||
| @Rachelh20257338 @Sarahistorygirl @SeemaChandwani @eddieizzard I have no idea if he will endorse the other two. I suspect not. | ||
| @lismoreberti @SeemaChandwani What so all the internal elections would have only one set of candidates? | ||
| @Rachelh20257338 @Sarahistorygirl @SeemaChandwani Yes | ||
| @SeemaChandwani Why is the concept that organisations might support candidates who are not part of their organisation so difficult to understand? | ||
| @Rachelh20257338 @Sarahistorygirl @SeemaChandwani No. He's running his own campaign. | ||
| @Sarahistorygirl @Rachelh20257338 @SeemaChandwani I'd love it if Eddie Izzard was part of Labour First but he isn't and would be dishonest of us to suggest he was. | ||
| @STorrance1 @spellar Yes we need to move affiliates as well as members to the right. | ||
| @tazlufc @CLPNominations You must be looking at a different map to me | ||
| Really good night of CLP nominations for non-Momentum NEC candidates tonight esp in Midlands | ||
| Whatever the result, Scottish leadership election turned out, like Unite GS, to be very competitive when Hard Left had expected a walkover. | ||
| @atticusfinch104 Yes following it closely. | ||
| @heatherisone The chair of the session on rule changes on Tuesday said the version in the Tuesday CAC report in your photo was a typo and the Sunday version was what was being voted on. | ||
| @heatherisone The correct version of what was passed is in the document "Addendum to the Delegates' Report" issued on Sunday of conference. | ||
| @JamesNotTheBand @karinjr By the way Leninists don't sing it - they sing the Internationale | ||
| @JamesNotTheBand @karinjr It was a good enough song for Ernie Bevin who founded NATO and smashed the communists in the trade union movement, so I am happy to keep it. | ||
| @JamesNotTheBand @karinjr Agreed, but the song "the red flag" is nothing to do with Leninist tradition, it was written in 1889. | ||
| @JamesNotTheBand @karinjr The red flag was also the emblem of the people Stalin and Lenin killed - Mensheviks, SRs, Kerensky supporters, social democrats. | ||
| Bit unfair on the other Momentum activist who is on the ballot. https://t.co/931bUivAWV | ||
| Eddie Izzard nomination from Labour International was result of an OMOV consultative ballot. | ||
| @Socialism You really need to understand humour. | ||
| Getting back to my Kent roots with a bottle of Shepherd Neame Masterbrew ... And a kebab in honour of current N16 home. | ||
| @ClareFKing @SeemaChandwani @Yasmine_Dar @LabourRachel @jonlansman No in 2012. I am not running this year. I got 107 last year. | ||
| @maxshanly I have. A bit confused about where Chris Leslie sits relative to the OLR. | ||
| @SeemaChandwani Including Tottenham ... enjoy winning it never lasts for ever! | ||
| @SeemaChandwani @Yasmine_Dar @LabourRachel @jonlansman Hate to break it to you but even I have managed 160 nominations... | ||
| @McConaghyBen Nor are the candidates we are backing. | ||
| This is worth a read. https://t.co/4d3xvwWVgf | ||
| @Juggzy Yes I am pointing out that Laura's tweet is inaccurate in that it claims they all supported JC from the start | ||
| @Juggzy I am literally responding to an MP advocating support for a factional slate | ||
| @Aliden400 Certainly no one running for NEC is doing so an anti-leadership platform | ||
| @DPJHodges there's a Populus one tonight as well. Let's see which trend (ICM or ComRes + YouGov) it confirms. | ||
| Didn't Yasmine back Andy Burnham not Corbyn in 2015 leadership contest? https://t.co/UiIrwMv5mU | ||
| @cymrurouge Yep transformative | ||
| @chicamusique Project125 candidates Sarah Taylor and Nicola Morrison | ||
| @cymrurouge I'm not talking about the 3 candidates we are supporting | ||
| This isn't true - there are at least two other Momentum members standing. https://t.co/UiIrwMv5mU | ||
| Hatikvah https://t.co/CJUkPKW0Eq | ||
| Sarwar camp insists Scottish Labour race will "go to the wire" https://t.co/2J2JmaN9Mz | ||
| @SeemaChandwani Some automated thing that shows who interacts most with your tweets | ||
| @SeemaChandwani Oh the irony... | ||
| @RedPeppermag @labour_first If you endorsed the CLGA candidates it would not be accurate to call them the Red Pepper slate, would it? | ||
| @maxshanly What makes you say that? I want to end all economic exploitation and inequality. Just realistic about getting there & want to take smaller steps forward in mean time. | ||
| @RedPeppermag @labour_first 2 of the 3 candidates have so little to do with Labour First that they have previously run against me as independents. | ||
| @maxshanly OK. Perhaps we are not as ideologically far apart as you think (on vision of UK society as opposed to role in world). | ||
| @maxshanly So what's the point in trying to get Jeremy and Labour elected then, given that he isn't committed to changing the economic system? | ||
| @maxshanly Owen is clearly using phrase democratic socialism interchangably with social democracy. He isn't claiming Momentum members on NEC will lead to Labour changing the economic system to socialism. | ||
| @maxshanly You can believe economic system will inevitably change in future but that social democracy is what's needed now to make life bearable until socialism. | ||
| @KhaledElawadi I will be doing a submission to party democracy review about this | ||
| @BazzaInTheLoft I'm always comradely. | ||
| @KhaledElawadi Trust me, I was on the NEC | ||
| @KhaledElawadi It runs the process i.e. how the policy making is organised. | ||
| @KhaledElawadi Not since 1990s, NPF makes policy. | ||
| Chosen as the Momentum candidate" WTF? They have selections within selections? https://t.co/q3y5wJejEV | ||
| @KhaledElawadi Internal & external organisation | ||
| Panic on the streets of Carlisle... https://t.co/UqfEwVKv6p | ||
| The NEC has had no role in policy - only organisation- since Partnership in Power passed in 1990s. https://t.co/qCn0YDwoNb | ||
| Trouble in the Momentum world. Seems to be some dissent about their slate. https://t.co/D0YjXCBy0h | ||
| @MLaffan @ajwillshire @Kasparov63 But Leninism per se is about a) use of revolutionary political violence b) vanguard party c) dictatorship of the proletariat, so all pretty grim. | ||
| @eddie_1955 That's the Evening Standard's tweet/headline not my wording | ||
| Council leader fights off Corbynista coup in re-selection vote win https://t.co/kGRvi3mftc | ||
| @CLPNominations @SeemaChandwani We have it as Running total: Singh Josan 20 Baxter 21 Izzard 22 Lansman 40 Garnham 49 Dar 50 |
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| @AnneFairweather @nargiskkhan Checking out if you have a back story that is real | ||
| @AnneFairweather @nargiskkhan The questions re my kids was when I was travelling alone | ||
| @IntJewCon Not really true, NSDAP was already far right nationalist & antisemitic party when he joined it, but fused this w anti-capitalist economics. | ||
| @AnneFairweather @nargiskkhan Hi Nargis by the way! | ||
| @AnneFairweather @nargiskkhan I get pulled over quite a bit because I look so flushed so they assume I am stressed and hiding something | ||
| @AnneFairweather @nargiskkhan It's about whether your story stacks up or you get flustered and don't know details you should know | ||
| https://t.co/2BaFIUFEWP | ||
| This is quite a lot of fuss to make about a CLP meeting attended by only 20 people, who split 11-9 https://t.co/dFLCkwZeV3 | ||
| @_kerriprince Except in Hackney where we often fielded teams of 3 women in a 3 member ward | ||
| @_kerriprince It's 4. This is one of the big arguments against uneven numbered divisions on NEC - the cumulatively erode the quota across whole NEC | ||
| @LauraSRobinson It works differently on my work phone .... rather more Israel focused ... | ||
| @cymrurouge @Falcon_Malteser What's the best way to describe them? | ||
| @lowhangingsloth @LucyMPowell Very rarely in my 12 years as a cllr. Almost every policy we pursued had consensus support of cllrs from across Labour spectrum. | ||
| @lowhangingsloth @LucyMPowell For an MP maybe but factional voting in local council selections is repugnant. | ||
| @jhallwood @deargodwhatnow Meretz would be first out if threshold raises3 | ||
| @SamuelFawcett92 @EmilyThornberry On Jewish News website | ||
| @TrumptonShul Support for Jewish national self-determination and statehood | ||
| @MarkBrierley1 Yes he said it to Paxman during the General Election | ||
| @PolhomeEditor Before that he was Cameron's PPS again I think convention not to table PQs | ||
| @PolhomeEditor He was a whip - they don't ask any questions | ||
| Blog rant: http://lukeakehurst.blogspot.com/2010/02/class-war-alive-and-well-at-conhome.html | ||
| @nickpdonovan Just for record the moderate wing on the NEC does not hold pre-meetings or operate a whip. | ||
| @Falcon_Malteser Different parties. Murray family in CPB (Stalinist), Machover close to CPGB (Trots) | ||
| Why is the Palestinian "ambassador" speaking at a WRP celebration of the Russian Revolution? | ||
| @PeterKenyon we need all levels of donors - small, medium and large. Don't set up a false choice between big and small 1s | ||
| @BevaniteEllie @HillaryClinton You chopped Alex out of the picture! | ||
| @egracieb @MaccLabour The election was a decision of the previous govt but held after the Oct rev. https://t.co/4k1fRmy1gl | ||
| @egracieb @MaccLabour He and I are both talking about the October Revolution. There were 2 revolutions in Russia in 1917. | ||
| @SeemaChandwani Pineapple on pizza yuck | ||
| @SeemaChandwani The first q no idea | ||
| @SeemaChandwani We probably agree on a lot, seeing as we are in the same political party. | ||
| Paul Mason bigs up the overthrough of a nascent democracy & replacement by a bloodbath civil war then a dictatorship that killed millions https://t.co/jlGrEhBuAh | ||
| Agreed. https://t.co/8hkN16ETkH | ||
| @CharlesLees2 Broad overview here: https://t.co/jpb9p7SLPd | ||
| @kynakwado @NedWarbone @JamesMelville We have some of the richest (London & SE) and poorest regions in Western Europe in one country. | ||
| @sarniejewell @DewiElgordo1 The assumed audience of my tweets is people almost as obsessed about Labour internal politics as me, rather than general public | ||
| @Yesspam2 @Filly_Stein Yes they have. And by the Labour Party and used in disciplinary cases already. | ||
| @Yesspam2 @Filly_Stein That is from March 2016. UK adopted IHRA definition in Dec 2016. | ||
| @CharlesLees2 Part of my antipathy to LDs in Hackney is that the worst elements of Hackney Labour Hard Left joined LDs in 1996 split in group. | ||
| @CharlesLees2 Yes it would be. I'm aware of what that was like. | ||
| @djbeere Let alone Ernie Bevin | ||
| @CharlesLees2 Not in my ward meeting, we are all very comradely and only get excited about planning applications. | ||
| Will be fascinating to see which happens first: another General Election or another Unite General Secretary election. https://t.co/lkjhOitwwR | ||
| Congrats to @UJS_UK on putting together a v interesting conference on peace process, including critical but constructive voices https://t.co/B4DEioz1sc | ||
| It always irritated me that I was only able as campaign manager to reduce Hackney LDs from 18 cllrs to 3. Hope 2018 sees the job finished. https://t.co/NC25l4aEGO | ||
| I don't always agree with @philwoodford but this is exceptionally clearly argued and correct https://t.co/oJmBFj9PbD | ||
| @WyeMonkey @unitetheunion @jonlansman Based on voting at conference the correct figure is 93% - 7% of CLPs rejected the rule change | ||
| @WyeMonkey @unitetheunion And endorsed JVL. | ||
| This is a good read https://t.co/VN2UUVXfhS | ||
| @spellar first elected as MP 35 years ago today https://t.co/aRqT4nC9in | ||
| @maxshanly Sometimes I worry only I understand half your tweets | ||
| Ho ho ho. https://t.co/URiyfW5PqF | ||
| Youth Conference in 1999 when it wasn't passing resolutions against NATO https://t.co/MDxgOpy7ax | ||
| @LaurenceBarrett @LabourFirst @labour_first Sure, but I feel sorry for the bloke with the @labourfirst account when he gets tagged | ||
| @LaurenceBarrett @LabourFirst You mean @labour_first | ||
| @scottr0gers Thanks didn't spot that... | ||
| My correspondence about antisemitism and anti-Zionism with Len McCluskey: https://t.co/Ewoj7O39n9 | ||
| @ClareFKing @MarkWallaceGlos In Oxford only candidates nominated in advance in writing by GC delegates are considered. | ||
| @ClareFKing @MarkWallaceGlos 8? I am only aware of 6. | ||
| @MarkWallaceGlos Also there is no comprehensive list of who is running - there may be candidates out there who CLPs are just unaware of | ||
| @MarkWallaceGlos Until they have received 5 nominations it is not possible 4 candidates to approach CLPs as they would not have contact details 4secretaries | ||
| @MarkWallaceGlos It's up to people in the room to propose candidates | ||
| @Cornish_Damo Tweeting doesn't constitute "taking it to the Tories". Campaigning against them in elections does. | ||
| Congratulations to my rather clever younger brother @SamAkehurst3 who just got promoted to Professor of Mechanical Engineering | ||
| @markforlabour @Cornish_Damo Don't be absurd | ||
| @markforlabour @Cornish_Damo Because I'm not a Tory? | ||
| @GrahamCunning12 @Cllr_S_Mintoff Every candidate in 2017 was imposed by NEC. There were no local democratic selections. | ||
| @phil_watson84 All candidates in the 2017 were imposed, not selected by local party members. | ||
| Remind me who was Leader the only time Labour imposed candidates en masse? https://t.co/oL26tDbkva | ||
| @HinmanMark Anything I do related to Labour is voluntary.. | ||
| @scottr0gers He came within 11k of winning despite not being backed by our organisations. | ||
| @DebbieM1dge Calderbank is heavily involved in LRC and Momentum | ||
| Uncomradely and suggests Izzard NEC candidature has these folk rattled https://t.co/QUseSAxlzK | ||
| Good to see @gsjosan throw his hat in the ring for @UKLabour NEC https://t.co/I7KSYdducJ | ||
| @ConorConneally @colinrtalbot Bedfordshire County Council was abolished in 2009ish round of unitary local authority bids, partly because very small | ||
| @MaraLeverkuhn I agree | ||
| @MaraLeverkuhn Personally I don't find "neoliberalism" a helpful term to describe what's basically free market conservatism | ||
| @Jeanette5045 @MatM93 Most canvassers adapt what they say on the doorstep depending on how the conversation with the voter is going. | ||
| @Jeanette5045 @MatM93 Yep but I read enough about it to be able to argue for it. | ||
| @HinmanMark You think this is my job? | ||
| @MaynardBasilisk Ah! Then it might make sense. | ||
| @maxshanly I am sure you would have opposite criticisms about UK and US veto powers etc | ||
| @maxshanly No, because it does good work in alleviating hunger, disease etc. Just be sceptical about the political superstructure. | ||
| @enttruth OK rephrase my tweet as "decisions by UN and its agencies" -same point stands about composition of member states | ||
| @enttruth WHO is a UN agency | ||
| Why are people surprised by UN decisions like Mugabe appointment, when majority of member states are not free democracies? | ||
| @gotthetrotts @WeBelieveIsrael The UN has a large block of states that for religious or ideological reasons are extremely hostile to Israel. | ||
| @gotthetrotts There wasn't a specific debate - just speeches during international debate. | ||
| @gotthetrotts Like there was a debate with votes on Brexit at conference this year? | ||
| Petition: Stop the cuts to the Royal Marines and the Royal Navy's amphibious assault ships https://t.co/UnTKg80w3Z | ||
| @MatM93 I am not a fan of their output. | ||
| @MatM93 I like bloggers. I am one. I think we tend to fall more into category of activist than journalist though. | ||
| @MatM93 This from 2010 explains my differences with Blairism https://t.co/0xMwraBuNn | ||
| @MatM93 Silly to describe Blair policies as centre right though when they involved massive redistribution and record public spending | ||
| @MatM93 I happily campaigned for the 2017 manifesto. I'm more a traditional Keynesian social democrat than a Blairite. | ||
| @SpaJw @John_Ferrett That's useful to know | ||
| @John_Ferrett From an ATM in Romania - Visa Debit and MasterCard cards will work in ATMs in almost any country | ||
| @MatM93 Care to explain which beliefs or policies you think I hold that are "Tory"? | ||
| @BrenTierney @jruddy99 @SP_Duckworth The income & spend are all in public domain - take a look at @hopisen storify | ||
| @lizzie_yeates @tigerfish4 Exactly. So people who are also bloggers/political activists shouldn't bullshit about being "freelance journalists". | ||
| @efrogwraig @_IanMoss @LauraSRobinson No it's worse than that - playground chat is pro-Trump based on YouTube memes | ||
| @LauraSRobinson @_IanMoss He doesn't have a vote so 2-0 to HRC | ||
| @_IanMoss @LauraSRobinson He doesn't like Hilary Clinton (who has just been on Graham Norton show) as much as we do | ||
| @LauraSRobinson @_IanMoss Was great apart from intervention during dinner by quite annoying 12 year old | ||
| @LauraSRobinson @_IanMoss Yep dressed crab and 2 bottles of picpoul... | ||
| @twitsquince @MichaelLCrick Progress are advertising a job publicly right now. Labour First has one member of staff. | ||
| @cymrurouge They need some creative outlet given they send people with PhDs to do day jobs they are hugely over-qualified for. | ||
| @cymrurouge I did speak at their conference last year ... | ||
| @cymrurouge Is it as good as Janine Booth's? | ||
| @cymrurouge No, I feel I should | ||
| Book Review | The Left in Disarray – https://t.co/XNve8NFaJG | ||
| What's the difference between this and the Lib Dems? https://t.co/jCMvmwYIrf | ||
| When communities tend not to come in neat 70,000 elector lumps | ||
| That way people don't get hung up on whether boundaries designed to equalise electorate size fit "natural communities | ||
| Something to be said for Australian practice of naming constituencies after histrorical figures not towns or geography. | ||
| @crankyfeminist Yep. I missed their democratic period. | ||
| @crankyfeminist I'm using the term communist to refer to the Leninist tradition not democratic interpretations of Marxism | ||
| @crankyfeminist Actually Labour was founded by mainly non-socialist trade unionists, Fabian gradualists, Christian socialists and yes, a few Marxists | ||
| @therubykid Oh I thought that was just Paul Mason. There are others? | ||
| @therubykid Yay I am officially not a centrist. Not that I have ever called myself one. | ||
| @Pete_Radcliff @ChrisLeslieMP From outside UK? | ||
| @RichardJohn I prefer to describe it as the left of the right of the left. I don't have big problems w JC's social & economic policies | ||
| @RichardJohn Hmmm you really don't get where I'm coming from do you? | ||
| @RichardJohn No actually I disagree with them about pretty much everything. | ||
| @RichardMaunders @LML96_ I'm in favour of Western domination of Europe given that means freedom & democracy & not Soviet (now Russian) imperial rule | ||
| @LadyBrainSueMcC @sdsdriller Momentum themselves claimed support of 835 out of 1200 CLP delegates in pre-conference media briefing | ||
| Was going to write something about nationalisation of banks, then remembered I am with NatWest & Gordon Brown already nationalised it. | ||
| @eddie_1955 Rail | ||
| @eddie_1955 They can't, but the CLP can know who not to elect next time | ||
| @cobi_innes @gjones1086 Because Brexit is the single most important issue facing the country. | ||
| I'm less worried by the Trots than the Stalinist tankies. https://t.co/4yIuKIECgJ | ||
| @BenPBradshaw @andygmckay @Oxford_Labour @exeterlabour It is surreal | ||
| @LadyBrainSueMcC @sdsdriller No as your timeline is full of stuff from that milieu | ||
| Back in London from B'ham NEC trip to Chair Inner NE Lon Joint Health Scrutiny (w Newham, T Hamlets + City) | ||
| @LadyBrainSueMcC @sdsdriller Your delegates were conned by Momentum. | ||
| @LadyBrainSueMcC @sdsdriller A few speeches in international debate are no substitute for conference actually voting on substantive policy motions | ||
| @LadyBrainSueMcC @sdsdriller Nope. Priority ballot meant motions from CLPs on single market, customs union etc never got voted on. | ||
| @andygmckay @BenPBradshaw They both voted not to prioritise Brexit in the priority ballot. I raised this at AMM last night. | ||
| Do ask any Momentum delegates from your CLP why they voted against Brexit motions in conference priority ballot. CLPs need to discuss this. | ||
| @MostesharCherry Which comrades in Oxford? I understood neither delegate bothered to attend the pre-conference "mandating meeting". | ||
| @MostesharCherry I accept your explanation but I disagree with your decision. | ||
| @MostesharCherry Actually I spoke to many Momentum delegates in the leaflet tunnel & none of them could justify the way they were voting | ||
| @MostesharCherry We won't be able to tackle any of the other subjects if we inherit an economy trashed by hard Brexit. | ||
| @MostesharCherry I just want the rank and file in Oxford to know that Momentum stopped the party taking a clearer stance on Brexit. | ||
| @MostesharCherry This is just about political common sense - that Brexit is obviously one of the main topics Labour should be voting on at the moment | ||
| @charmaine725 @LabourAgainstAS @andrewspoooner Here are 39 recent cases: https://t.co/qa2gEsRrST | ||
| @McConaghyBen Imposed candidates literally happened twice ever - Alan Johnson in 97, C Leslie in 2010. Then under JC every candidate NEC imposed in 2017. | ||
| @McConaghyBen There were always loud and well organised left voices even at height of Blair era | ||
| @Toddington_B @kayes67 I grew up as one of only 2 Labour families on a housing association estate in Kent, our neighbours loved "Maggie | ||
| @Toddington_B @kayes67 People who got to own their council house, or shares in BT etc, or patriotic about Falklands, all liked Thatcher | ||
| @gjones1086 @UKLabour @labour_first @ProgressOnline Please do | ||
| Imagine if there was only one side to debates in the Labour Party, wouldn't that be wonderfully pluralistic & democratic! https://t.co/C1hXsypwJu | ||
| Haringey candidate selection process stirs Labour undergrowth https://t.co/YiI2uMRUib | ||
| At the @Oxford_Labour All Member Meeting | ||
| @SocialistBloke @labour_first We don't rely on wealthy backers. We have 1 staffer, funded by crowd funding | ||
| @SocialistBloke @labour_first Why the reference to Lord Sainsbury? | ||
| @StandardWill @DGLabour @AnasSarwar @CLPNominations | ||
| @AngelaRayner Get well soon! | ||
| The logo doesn't suggest support for a two state solution. Where is Israel in that map? https://t.co/p6dlyiNL6R | ||
| @joesarling Yes | ||
| Bit of nostalgia. "Clinton, Bill, Arkansas CLP" https://t.co/2XfyjlgQTP | ||
| @Daniel_McAteer If this follows pattern of 1980s many of the younger Corbynistas will end up being equivalent of Blairites in about a decade's time | ||
| @Daniel_McAteer I agree, the problem is the former being used as voting fodder by the latter. | ||
| MP Khalid Mahmood reveals how pal saved his life with secret kidney transplant https://t.co/HUhNQ5yoBj | ||
| @krelbourne35 @corr_matt @Layo_GP @maiantra @UKLabour I have only ever called people Trots who are self-professed Trots eg AWL, Socialist Action, LPM, Socialist Appeal | ||
| I'm warming to comrade Mason. https://t.co/ImGyIZPQHW | ||
| So if Clive is saying the Hard Left are not extreme, does that make them centrist dads? https://t.co/zS1c82Wi8E | ||
| @Vdweller No but if they are swing voters they could assume "centrist" means them | ||
| @old_labour And please give me a concrete example of any recent criticism of the party leader from me. | ||
| @old_labour How about actually engaging with my opinions on economic and social policy. You can read them here: https://t.co/Nd1ELLCcf7 | ||
| @old_labour Any particular views of mine that lead you to that conclusion? | ||
| I'm not a centrist but how is slagging them off going to help Labour win votes we need to from people who voted Tory in June? | ||
| @arachnochist @sooty_sayer @cobi_innes @RichardAngell @ProgressOnline Rather than just saying "yah boo we won", how about justifying the vote on the priority ballot politically? | ||
| @marcohilley I'm blocked from seeing the quoted tweet | ||
| @Steve_Cooke @adr1e No, its that I criticised him when he deserved it because he was performing badly, I'm not now because he has got his act together. | ||
| @adr1e Please show me the last time I attacked Jeremy Corbyn. It was a very long time ago. | ||
| @petergloss @Layo_GP @maiantra Something to do with being a socialist? | ||
| @Melvin343081531 @Jfkwilkinson Yes, and it's also possible to be Jewish and antisemitic | ||
| @TrevorWAllman @Cornish_Damo @Layo_GP @maiantra Say hello to @spellar and @JohnMannMP | ||
| @TrevorWAllman @Cornish_Damo @Layo_GP @maiantra Umm you don't know much about Labour First if you think that | ||
| @andyjameshicks And because moving to Lords would have ended his career as an MP. Wasn't inherently anti-establishment move. | ||
| @andyjameshicks He did that when he was a Gaitskellite! | ||
| @AAlmashoor @labour_first We are not in power though... | ||
| @kindamuslim @Cpcm66 @GraWarner7 Generally no you shouldn't offend faith and ethnic minorities esp ones that have suffered persecution & genocide | ||
| @KhaledElawadi @michaelbranniga @AdvicePol @Layo_GP @maiantra It's not helpful for MPs to say daft things that give Tories something to attack Labour with. | ||
| @corr_matt I agree. | ||
| @KhaledElawadi @michaelbranniga @AdvicePol @Layo_GP @maiantra No in what sense have I attacked her? I haven't. | ||
| @michaelbranniga @AdvicePol @Layo_GP @maiantra I have literally never attacked the Labour Party in my life, nor will I ever do that. | ||
| @corr_matt I think it is possible to take on the Tories & engage in a vigorous debate about the kind of Labour Party you want. | ||
| @bmarks45btinter @tallyblen @hackneylibs That library is still open, one of 8 in Hackney https://t.co/e43q7let33 | ||
| @corr_matt @Layo_GP @maiantra Scroll through my retweets today and see attacks on Tories re. Response to crash, brexit, universal credit & defence cuts | ||
| @AdvicePol @Layo_GP @maiantra That is the point I am making. | ||
| @Jfkwilkinson No that's a crank historical theory - no serious mainstream historian promotes it. | ||
| @elgordo1 No he wasn't. The current CPGB/Weekly Worker are Trotskyists and have no connection to the CPGB of the 1920s to 1990s. | ||
| @JackEDeakin @Oxford_Labour That was only half the team, more turned up after the photo | ||
| #labourdoorstep in Iffley Fields with @Oxford_Labour | ||
| @SamLowry60 @AnasSarwar @jeremycorbyn Yeah that's the point. | ||
| @AnnaHinble @Manc_Customer Yes seeing as he was against joining it | ||
| @sdsdriller In this case it is being sold to Saudi Arabia so it will protect their citizens. What did you mean by "clan" given I'm not a Saudi Arab? | ||
| Odd reaction to sale of a missile defence system that protects civilians from incoming rockets https://t.co/Ys0gYBcExx | ||
| @Manc_Customer I'm not a Blairite. More a Gaitskellite. | ||
| @Emina_ibrahim I thought it was pretty dull! | ||
| @LukeDavidStyles @RichardAngell @ProgressOnline @PeoplesMomentum Yes it says are on 42%. So the centre is to our right. | ||
| @Jeremy_Newmark of @JewishLabour gains seat from Tories on Hertsmere Council. | ||
| Wow https://t.co/0oOFrCBn7t | ||
| @LukeDavidStyles @RichardAngell @ProgressOnline @PeoplesMomentum That doesn't make any sense, Labour got 40% of the vote so clearly the political centre (around 50% mark) is to right of entire Labour Party | ||
| Sign the petition: Sign our petition to end bullying and intimidation at Labour Party Conference https://t.co/hePHuXhLNq | ||
| @AsaWinstanley What's your problem with the definition? Which of the examples cited do you think are "ok" and not antisemitic? | ||
| @AsaWinstanley The examples (which are the definition, without them it is meaningless) are cited in Labour disciplinary letters e.g. to Livingstone | ||
| @Shadocat2017 @AsaWinstanley @FreeSpeechOnIsr @JVoiceLabour No I'm not Jewish, I'm an atheist. I think the view of multiple govts on IHRA is probably more weighty than yours. | ||
| @tazlufc @johnmacleod19 Don't be ridiculous | ||
| @twuttter @LabourMaquis Maybe Labour should give more power to MPs as they seem better connected to Labour voting areas than members are. | ||
| @twuttter @LabourMaquis Too expensive. But shows not necessarily democratic to make members all-powerful. | ||
| @McConaghyBen It;s not particularly Corbynite in internal Labour politics either, compared to say, the rural South West. | ||
| @johnmacleod19 Arrive at what? The stats are reputable academic research. Clearly absurd that a party of Labour is dominated by ABC1s. | ||
| @beatonthedonis and won 3 general elections. By the way we had c400,000 members 1995-2001 | ||
| @djbeere The southern regions outside London esp SW are the Momentum heartland on conference floor. | ||
| @djbeere The last published figures are from 2014 NEC election | ||
| @msjenniferjames I would trust the crowd more if they were more representative of our 13 m voters i.e. more working class, northern and young. | ||
| @davehillsy However you cut it, our vote isn't 77% ABC1 but our membership is. Bizarre given name and purpose of party. | ||
| Someone should commission some polling research on why this might be https://t.co/S3Qa26oln0 | ||
| @dkuk08 If everthing stays the same. It won't - events & personalities will lead to changes in membership. | ||
| @Slots_o_fun Please drop an email to matt@labourfirst.org to discuss local set up | ||
| @Slots_o_fun Though I have to say that every CLP I have been in back to start of email had a moderate email whip running on GC | ||
| @Slots_o_fun Sign up here https://t.co/9DVDg7aPzD | ||
| One day I will understand why the Hard Left publish this kind of detailed organisational analysis, which is quite useful to ppl like me. https://t.co/zYt1OwuIKR | ||
| @martynpeel @brummytaff No it isn't. That isn't how politics works. | ||
| @martynpeel @brummytaff Because you want to change that stance? | ||
| There's about to be an election that will decide who controls Labour's NEC, so can anyone who has quit re-join? https://t.co/oFZPWNPXtS | ||
| @engrugger9 @Soylentish @arryTuttle @sqrl_mnky @PScorfield @JackEdRobinson @supergutman This lists 39 cases: https://t.co/3GnuInucWX | ||
| @donnagreen4 Eventually it will be their undoing - it exposes people claiming to be the good guys as having a more unpleasant agenda | ||
| To put things in perspective here's Abbott, Livingstone & Skinner winning NEC elections in 1997. https://t.co/1fIULwgOga | ||
| In the Lifeboat Pub in Margate with a pint of IPA starting the weekend ... | ||
| Wishing an easy Yom Kippur fast to all my Jewish friends | ||
| Research? I lived under Thatcher & Blair. Could tell the ideological difference from state of schools & NHS and length of dole queues. https://t.co/p0Q6cbuILH | ||
| Obviously MY "people" aren't "members". https://t.co/9S6jfmd26Q | ||
| @linfordgibbons I live in Oxford so I have not got a vote in Withington | ||
| @Ccchazbo What is sectarian about reporting the result of an internal Labour election? | ||
| @linfordgibbons So what? | ||
| @superteadrinker Sounds like it. | ||
| @RyanBelly @talktoharris1 No I'm talking about the "centrist dad" thing | ||
| In a country with an aging population, a political movement based on youth and slagging off older generations seems mathematically foolhardy | ||
| @scottr0gers Congratulations @scottr0gers and @rheawolfson ! | ||
| @tigerfish4 @UKLabour @KenLoachSixteen I have no time for him at all. | ||
| I can. Jeremy Corbyn did until 2015. That's how FPTP with 2 very broad parties works - they are coalitions of ppl with big disagreements. https://t.co/oTYKVj0QlF | ||
| My dad isn't centrist. He is Hard Left. He worshiped Tony Benn. He really likes Corbyn and voted for Brexit. | ||
| @rurallabouruk Which is appalling. They should put their money into Tribune for instance instead. | ||
| And don't forget the Morning Star stands in an 80 year tradition of Stalinism which is riddled with antisemitism. https://t.co/Zuj7eejFLn | ||
| Hello @RightJudgelam would you mind explaining why you think I am a "Blairite neoliberal" (either one will do, as they are different)? https://t.co/25v37uEBKM | ||
| Loach, Livingstone and the Holocaust: a study in slander https://t.co/GEgkcnJb3h via @jewishchron | ||
| Thread https://t.co/1M3OxPYOAU | ||
| @padraigelmundo @VincentN15N17 They are trying to destroy our sister party PSOE | ||
| @adam_rose @UKLabour Never, because we have to turn it round even if it takes decades. | ||
| @swaddicor Our line didn't try to stop Brexit being voted on, and it would have been ignored by our supporters if it had done | ||
| A challenge. https://t.co/ZWK4jncGVx | ||
| @MrJoshBooth You did | ||
| This is very funny and rather subversive. Google it. https://t.co/P4sb8zdYS1 | ||
| @Calderbank @PeoplesMomentum No. | ||
| @Harryb22 Sadly not! | ||
| But as shown on Brexit at conference, the new grassroots robotically do whatever an app controlled by Momentum HQ tells them to. https://t.co/S4OWW0YuH2 | ||
| @David__Osland Why, when you are a socialist not an anarchist? Admittedly it's a great song. | ||
| @KhaledElawadi @Ohnoes112 Morrissey. | ||
| Labour's key disciplinary committee gets a formidable new chair https://t.co/3wfcYoPt9s | ||
| @VincentN15N17 Just seemed like very mainstream platitudes. Plus expressed support for Podemos. | ||
| @RachelEMwilson @PolhomeEditor He did in 2015 and 2016 | ||
| Very smart, unifying speech by @tom_watson | ||
| Great to see the - literally - heroes of the FBU back affiliated to @UKLabour | ||
| What was motive for delay in card votes? Were Momentum having to arm twist ultras to put factional discipline above their antisemitism? | ||
| Vote FOR Card Vote 1 and 3. Vote AGAINST Card Vote 2, 7 and 8. | ||
| @HenryQuamford She's awful. Wall to wall sanctimonious platitudes. | ||
| @AdamSmi57058010 I think I need to vomit | ||
| Someone needs to tell her @GMB_union line on fracking too | ||
| No one tell Dennis Skinner that the guest speaker just attacked extractive industries ie mining | ||
| @LabourAgainstAS The vote on it hasn't happened yet so let's not count chickens before they have hatched | ||
| Best speech of the week so far from @AngelaRayner | ||
| @Markfergusonuk the draft doc is so draft it doesn't yet put forward proposals on the key contentious issues. Stakeholder consult ongoing | ||
| @Markfergusonuk ie has agreement of the TUs | ||
| @Markfergusonuk but realpolitik is that final doc will need to be one that can command majority at conference | ||
| @Markfergusonuk I genuinely don't know how the votes will be taken - assume CAC decides | ||
| @Sam_Prest @Markfergusonuk there's a proposal in the draft doc for helping poorer CLPs to attend ... | ||
| @Markfergusonuk u can't measure the opinions of ppl who disenfranchise themselves - if not sending a delegate unlikely to have submitted | ||
| @Markfergusonuk in what sense isn't conference representative? Everyone w a vote is elected by their CLP or affiliate. | ||
| @Markfergusonuk I'm more interested in the quality of the ideas | ||
| @Markfergusonuk also how would u weigh submissions - is TULO (rep 4 million ppl) of equal value to something sent by 1 person? | ||
| @7815PWK No I'm enjoying it | ||
| @SamanthaPippin7 @EmilyThornberry Exactly. You adore someone who is Soft Left like Ed M rather than a Corbynite. | ||
| @James4Labour @EmilyThornberry @jeremycorbyn Exactly. She has same politics as Ed M ie not Corbynism/Momentum/Hard Left | ||
| Very impressive speech by Emily Thornberry | ||
| Tankie wing of Momentum out in force today. | ||
| Hoist by their own petards. | ||
| First ever use of reference back on an NPF report. Old addage that all rule changes backfire on faction that introduced them... | ||
| @Jeanette5045 It's the absence of a vote we are concerned about. | ||
| @MuradQureshiLDN @PickardJE It isn't a matter for CAC is just the outcome of the priority ballot. | ||
| @Jeanette5045 You are assuming we are all agreed on the issue. We are not. But we wanted a vote on it. | ||
| @Jeanette5045 No | ||
| @Jeanette5045 Because fringe events don't impact what gets debated on conference floor & they all clash with one another. | ||
| @DangerousGlobe @JeanneBartram The voting recommendations of the two factions are publicly handed out to delegates. The 4 topics Momentum wanted won. | ||
| @OneLifeStand87 Because FBU got it added to union side motions at last minute after we had published our line | ||
| @ezziewilf @labour_first Leninists | ||
| @misslucyp @HywelRoberts2 | ||
| @paulmasonnews Mensheviks are fine. | ||
| @TheClunas @_egghater 'Cos my roots are in Stoke Newington | ||
| Love this tweet https://t.co/c8aImbLLV1 | ||
| If you are a #Lab17 delegate and you want to vote on Labour's Brexit policy you need to vote for Brexit in Priority Ballot | ||
| @MichelleBeckett Leafleting from 0815. Just make sure you are in hall at 1030 as procedural votes cd happen. & vote in priority ballot. | ||
| What a load of old cobblers https://t.co/V8P2Agl2wz | ||
| @HuwJonesLabour I got my own rally. | ||
| Never tweeted a link to a @CompassOffice publication before but this is full of insights https://t.co/YZfDYKkSOl | ||
| @warrior4evermor @formerleft Nope. Islamism is a political ideology, not the same thing as Islam. | ||
| She was very helpful to me when I was candidate there in 2005. | ||
| @JackEDeakin Dont worry just go to late accreditation they will print a new one for you | ||
| @Juggzy @britainelects Previous result LD 1059 (elected), Lab 902 (elected), 2nd LD 872 Con 835. % is calculated based on party's lead candidate. | ||
| @SteveJX1973 @LabourList No. As article says we already know we have lost this vote. | ||
| @BobBorsley @jakegoretzki Yes this was something I had noticed | ||
| @jakegoretzki Actually I'm not in same party as Lindsey German, she is in Counterfire | ||
| @GregHadfield You tell me. | ||
| @GregHadfield I engage with them on basis they are a rival political party. | ||
| @NotLukeAkehurst No I only know defence manufacturers. | ||
| @OwenWntr No Swedish social democrats can beat that, largest party in every election since 1917 | ||
| @MarkSeddon1962 Actually that is a really good idea | ||
| Herbert Morrison https://t.co/7VwHiEuNUE | ||
| @KhaledElawadi @LabourList The Tories aren't at Labour conference. It exists to debate Labour policies and rules. | ||
| Sadiq Khan may be allowed to address Labour conference - thank goodness CACV stills sensible until next year https://t.co/Vq2OgORrom | ||
| Why is Jeremy Corbyn speaking at this but snubbing the official Labour regional party receptions on same night, which ldr usually goes to? https://t.co/jOOdcstuS9 | ||
| Definitely not sinister at all. https://t.co/ndIAMsCwym | ||
| @kaicee @PeterKenyon @UKLabour @RefoundLab @PeterHain whoa lots of ppl submitted without any intention or consent 4 their view 2 b published | ||
| I love this tweet https://t.co/ZpieW1lhpq | ||
| @tigerfish4 @Jacqui_Smith1 48000 members voted for me last year in NEC elections | ||
| @GpRanty The NEC gets shown data on demographics of membership. | ||
| @GpRanty There has been plenty of published data from pollsters about the relative political views of party members vs voters | ||
| @gdisney_melb Never, that is why PLP and unions have always also had considerable say in decisions | ||
| @GpRanty Try looking round a room at a Labour Party meeting. | ||
| @GpRanty No I'm unrepresentative too - I'm wealthier, whiter, more southern, more left-wing than most Labour voters | ||
| @waterfriend Not talking about manifesto which was largely fine | ||
| @scottr0gers @velvetrev44 They spent their first 30 years opposing OMOV so member democracy isn't really a long held principle for them | ||
| A gentle reminder that every major reform of Labour's constitution has eventually backfired on the faction that introduced it. https://t.co/AjX20nfkmW | ||
| @SocialistGreen @labour_first They also opposed One Member One Vote | ||
| @cymrurouge 10% threshold means you can have up to 9 | ||
| @michaeljswalker @RichardAngell Where's my invite? | ||
| Still silly though - 9 candidates in leadership race - how do you even do hustings? https://t.co/hvxOO9beoi | ||
| Big climb down given all the left model motions last year said 5% https://t.co/Vlmwg4JL4Q | ||
| @kmflett @conradlandin They are virtually compulsory in @labour_first | ||
| Why is Momentum pushing only 1/2 the extra CLP reps @labour_first called for, and with no regional representation? https://t.co/hmq3a0vokN | ||
| Socialists who offer democracy and liberty as part of their agenda are usually first to be killed or sent to gulag by Leninists | ||
| Democratic socialist govt in Georgia was invaded and overthrown by the Soviets & absorbed into dictatorship of USSR | ||
| An important read to understand difference between democratic interpretations of Marxism and its Leninist variant: https://t.co/atyDNkQfGL | ||
| @SocialistGreen @labour_first No but all the key players like comrade Lansman were already involved, badged up as CLPD and LRC | ||
| @KhaledElawadi @labour_first Yes. | ||
| @_kerriprince @OwenWntr Call them today and ask status of your application. It is probably with the police as that's the bit that takes time. | ||
| @labour_first I don't remember the people who are Momentum being supportive of this at the time. Maybe members then weren't to their taste. | ||
| This was @labour_first proposal to Collins Review in 2013 on NEC reps - 12 CLPs reps with regional representation https://t.co/OyMZntIbs4 | ||
| @_kerriprince @OwenWntr If your pass hasn't arrived it is usually v easy to get one printed at late accreditation office | ||
| Featuring @spellar https://t.co/uYuKzfb5Lr | ||
| Very sorry to hear this. https://t.co/NlJXDtdvf1 | ||
| @champagnecaptl A letter doesn't have your photo or biometric on so is irrelevent to preventing electoral personation | ||
| People who can't afford to buy a car & run it or to take driving lessons won't buy a driving license in order to vote | ||
| @andypandamonium @OwenJones84 The risk is very low as the punishment is harsh & benefit low as elections not usually decided by small number of votes | ||
| @ManCandLovingIt No the legal offence in election law is called "personation". | ||
| @braunold good to meet you Joel | ||
| Big congrats to @gilbertsmyth who is from *cough* different political tradition to me but great Labour campaigner & will b a fantastic cllr https://t.co/cJPi5IkEKr | ||
| @chrishws_ @Paul_Burgin 11% don't have a passport or a driving licence according to the govt figures. Often will be v poor ppl for whom cost would be factor. | ||
| @PinkoPalest I rather like Russia as a country, culture and people. Just not keen on their govts either historic or current. | ||
| @whomegarasia Congratulations! | ||
| @alicoops @ArnoldLabour @JohnRentoul Evidence is that any factor however minor which makes voting process more complex reduces turnout among low turnout demographic groups | ||
| @ArnoldLabour @alicoops @JohnRentoul It's not even 0.1% - there were 44 cases in entire UK in 2016, more like 0.0001% | ||
| @michaelwhite Prosecutions usually deter further episodes. In Hackney all the fraud ended with the 2001 jailings. | ||
| @jfwduffield That's strange as all the "granny farming" proxy & PV cases incl Hackney were Tories. And Tower Hamlets was anti-Labour Rahman lot. | ||
| @MLaffan @TVAddictStill Seeing as I was one of the people blocked from the Stoke C shortlist I am v sympathetic to that particular complaint... | ||
| @MLaffan @TVAddictStill Incorrect. Pre 2017 GE only ever 2 winning parliamentary candidates actually imposed by NEC - A Johnson in 1997 & C Leslie in 2010. | ||
| @jfwduffield Would be fine if we were a country with universal ID cards. | ||
| @grmday Nah I was a lot more centrist and sectarian in 1997. | ||
| @grmday You obviously know nothing about me then. | ||
| So inclusive https://t.co/KfNhwecKmE | ||
| @lukeakehurst the same sense of niceness and fairness that led to Corbyn's reelection in 2016 despite concerns over performance | ||
| @David__Osland It would be like herding cats to get average cllr to vote a "line" within a Labour Group. They behave as individuals. | ||
| @David__Osland Why would anyone care if a council candidate was in a particular place on Labour spectrum? | ||
| @GT270913 @David__Osland Maybe they just thought the Hackney panel's criteria were too exacting | ||
| @GT270913 @David__Osland or does "left" mean factionally active in Momentum rather than being about objective political stances/actions? | ||
| @GT270913 @David__Osland how would you even tell who was "left" given 99% of Hackney Labour folk are anti-austerity, war and privatisation | ||
| @GT270913 @David__Osland was every application from the left blocked? If not, legitimate criteria about quality of candidates were used. | ||
| @David__Osland No it isn't. | ||
| @David__Osland Anyone defecting from Labour in a place like Hackney would have to be daft anyway - would be commiting electoral suicide | ||
| @David__Osland None that I can think of, unless there are people who have radically shifted since I was there. | ||
| @David__Osland It's not really relevant to role of being a cllr what you think of the national political positioning of Labour | ||
| @David__Osland The "left" cllrs in Hackney are liked by their colleagues & leadership. No one outside Momentum looks at council selections factionally. | ||
| Sensible message https://t.co/F5Hw9MWvQF | ||
| @HuwJonesLabour No, he could still have been John's sucessor as PM | ||
| Apparently common 4 those of us w impaired peripheral nerves to get toe problems, not notice until pain gets silly levels | ||
| Can now add ingrown toenail removal to radiotherapy, lumbar puncture + bone marrow biopsy in list of med procedures I've undergone | ||
| What a tragic early loss of a good man who could have been a great Labour PM. https://t.co/xX8gFagBBs | ||
| Going to a chiropodist to hopefully get v painful left big toenail made less painful | ||
| CST and JPR produce major new study of antisemitism in Great Britain – Blog https://t.co/XZNmocqxxK | ||
| @Amy_HF That isn't the point I am making. It's the hypocrisy of them saying full reselection as matter principle then going back on it selectively | ||
| @chrishanretty Internally only I think but get leaked. | ||
| @chrishanretty Labour it is self nomination and a PLP ballot if there are more candidates than vacancies | ||
| Sound Labour contingent https://t.co/9GBaGhCRrE | ||
| @robertjmshaw @EmmaBurnell_ It's a direct quote | ||
| Momentum against "undemocratic" trigger ballots for Hackney cllrs ... except the ones who they like, when it is fine | ||
| Sound Labour contingent https://t.co/oXd91wX4ms | ||
| Sound Labour contingent https://t.co/eQ5cu0sme3 | ||
| Sound Labour contingent https://t.co/OqAWZIIT0x | ||
| CST Antisemitic Discourse Report 2016 – https://t.co/bcSOEjzlsA | ||
| The 2017 election was far from a triumph – Labour must do a lot more to win https://t.co/lGaCXwuwbC | ||
| My speech from @labour_first & @ProgressOnline rally last night: https://t.co/1t8pnXekwf | ||
| @beatonthedonis Yes. My day job. Labour stuff I do on a voluntary basis. | ||
| If you support the work I do (at work!) opposing boycotts of Israel please donate here: https://t.co/DeJFbxz3ZF | ||
| @JimLynchTpt No. I haven't been on NEC since 2012. | ||
| @CraigFitzsimon1 No | ||
| https://t.co/5Ax4OO5YcI | ||
| @WTarbiat It's a TUC vote not a party one | ||
| @KevinEwert1 @ProgressOnline @RichardAngell @GloriaDePiero @mcashmanCBE @joanryanEnfield @JewishLabour @Alison_McGovern @spellar Blair won in 2005 and Brown only got 6 seats less in 2010 than Corbyn got this year. | ||
| @JadeFrancesAzim @RichardAngell I thought it was pretty good even by my standards! | ||
| Historical fact for the day, before everyone gets over-excited. The Hard Left's Pete Willsman was a CLP rep on the CAC from 1981-1994. | ||
| Congratulations to @BillyHayes_CWU and @SeemaChandwani on their CAC election win. | ||
| @maxshanly @JadeFrancesAzim I think you would like him | ||
| @LauraSRobinson @_IanMoss I got 89 | ||
| Congratulations to all the Hackney Labour councillors reselected last night - everyone passed their ward trigger ballot | ||
| @GTMelhuish Skylink bus to Nottingham then train. Says google maps. | ||
| https://t.co/defSDSqHrK | ||
| @HuwJonesLabour Seeing as I voted for the left candidate for General Secretary when I was on the NEC... | ||
| @reel_politcast Because party staff are civil servants - they don't set the policies - and this role is about campaign mechanics not policy. | ||
| @gordonh59 https://t.co/6524X9Jl1n | ||
| @AudaciousBeat Eh? | ||
| @oliverboyland @labour_first @MattyDPound It would help our opponents if they knew our assessment. | ||
| @oliverboyland @labour_first @MattyDPound No. | ||
| @cymrurouge No it makes claims about Communism have good ideological objectives | ||
| @cymrurouge obviously. | ||
| @martinxo Yep I studied Makhno & role of anarchists in Russian Civil War as part of my degree | ||
| Although the leadership has completely ignored the Brexit policy passed almost unanimously by Annual Conference 2016... https://t.co/bjfv5TY76q | ||
| @DarrellChaloner @VoCommunism Stalinism isn't dead there are high profile proponents of it in contemporary UK politics | ||
| SPGB had donations of £380000? https://t.co/DwegwF1XhO | ||
| @JackEDeakin It's a spoof account | ||
| I can think of a few. https://t.co/ntd0WEysdL | ||
| Yes https://t.co/MtxE7JQ9me | ||
| @Labour_Insider @scottishlabour I have a disability which means I won't be riding a bike to Scotland or anywhere else. | ||
| @stevenstewart54 @_kerriprince @labour_first @saving_labour @ProgressOnline The agreement re local groups is that there should only be one set of them & LF leads on this activity | ||
| https://t.co/Swxe1Q3qbf | ||
| @simonccsays @DebbieM1dge It isn't admiring - she's mocking him | ||
| @OwenWntr Agreed | ||
| @johnmcternan You are off the scale... | ||
| @JonHegerty @DebbieM1dge I'm flattered by idea I am a "political commentator" - thought I was just a Labour activist | ||
| Can't help thinking NI must b badly structured co if one exec so indispensible they can't resign even in this firestorm | ||
| Writing my @labourlist column about which 7 of TB's 10 points in his @ProgressOnline speech I agreed with | ||
| @RobCarr @ChrispLOL @KateMaltby @Kevin_Maguire no he named the NI titles as well as Mirror ones | ||
| @MichaelEzra Depends what he means! | ||
| @MandM106 I'm not making any predictions! | ||
| Brave prediction. https://t.co/yua9eunpPg | ||
| @alexsobel @ChrispLOL @KateMaltby @Kevin_Maguire #rebel his view was diff to engage w voters w/o know politics + pop culture they read | ||
| @alexsobel @ChrispLOL @KateMaltby @Kevin_Maguire actually my memory is Kevin specifically said "Sun or Mirror | ||
| @booboo_76 My tweet was literally highlighting hypocrisy... | ||
| @ChrispLOL @KateMaltby Indeed I used to buy Observer + NOTW (because @Kevin_Maguire told Lab PPCs at media training to read a red top) | ||
| @booboo_76 Do you have a sense of humour? | ||
| @brumsongsben It was a joke! | ||
| @KateMaltby @ChrispLOL surely ex-NOTW readers will just switch to another paper? So impact on newsagents etc nil. | ||
| @peersja @wesstreeting please provide evidence for that assertion | ||
| @AndrewIMarshall @camdentheo It's a very good one - recommend following it | ||
| @AndrewIMarshall @camdentheo It's a spoof account | ||
| 190 contacts in Chatham Ward today + another session running in Dalston Ward Hackney #Labourdoorstep | ||
| On the Chatham Ward Labour stall at St John's Church fete b4 leading voter ID session in ward | ||
| @ddom2006 u can critique TB (as I do on public service reform + his current econ views) but still revere his overall record | ||
| @itsammayte Yes you are supposed to, they are model text we want ppl to use or adapt locally | ||
| @midgley_neil Michael Cashman | ||
| @OwenWntr RMT 2002 | ||
| @OwenWntr NUM was Scargill gradually ousting older generation region by region | ||
| @OwenWntr Death in quick succession of two moderate Gen Secs and no replacement from right lined up | ||
| @OwenWntr Others such as Unison, GMB, USDAW haven't moved dramatically | ||
| @OwenWntr Amicus 2002 then 2004 | ||
| @OwenWntr NUM 1982 | ||
| @OwenWntr TGWU went from right to left in 1956 | ||
| @OwenWntr Some of them are now back on the right, without ever having shifted their own position... | ||
| @DuckSpeech No we have been around since 1980s. | ||
| @scatter56 @ChrisLeslieMP No, I said "struggle to think of" any. | ||
| @scatter56 @ChrisLeslieMP Yes Chris is the only one I am aware of. | ||
| @DuckSpeech It was founded a decade before Progress. | ||
| Supporters of Labour's sister parties are being arrested for their beliefs & shot in protests for democracy & this guy says: https://t.co/3i5src4nYR | ||
| @AmanTsays Eight contemporary topics can be prioritised for debate so there is room for some expressing international solidarity. | ||
| NB Labour Party contemporary motions for conference need to be on a topic happening since 3 August so CLPs can submit re Venezuela crisis | ||
| @Falcon_Malteser The irony being people like Milne historically have accused the SI of being CIA stooges. | ||
| The opposition guy from our Venezuelan sister party on Newsnight is someone we should be proud to be in solidarity with. | ||
| @SiHarrisonMorse Fantasies of authoritarianism? | ||
| @andreww1967 Yes, the defenders of Rorke's Drift win! | ||
| @andreww1967 @WavertreeCLP Margin of victory at CLP AGM was not overwhelming, was it? | ||
| @andreww1967 @WavertreeCLP If you really believe they represent more people than we do then democratically they should win. I don't believe that. | ||
| @andreww1967 @WavertreeCLP And many Corbyn supporters would vote their slate but not vote to sack an MP, especially if they have met her. | ||
| @andreww1967 @WavertreeCLP There's one answer to that - recruit more. | ||
| @andreww1967 @WavertreeCLP I really doubt they could win trigger ballot let alone a subsequent full selection. | ||
| @andreww1967 @WavertreeCLP I have total confidence in Luciana seeing them off. Not complacency, just respect for her as a fighter. | ||
| @andreww1967 @WavertreeCLP It really isn't | ||
| It's a struggle to find any MP who has criticised JC or manifesto since calling of GE, so presumably deselection on basis of mind-reading. https://t.co/xKDGeQiBAY | ||
| Me, @DerbyChrisW and @stephenkb on @BBCWorldatOne - Chris arguing for mandatory reselection. Starts at 19.36: https://t.co/oNj38TTO8y | ||
| @PolProfSteve I watched it on Saturday - nice film and great if you like vintage jet aircraft | ||
| @truckerD The "coup" is what the Venezuelan regime are doing ie neutering the elected parliament | ||
| @scottr0gers @DrewSm1th Wow your voting record is to right of mine... | ||
| @Ccchazbo We were both campaigning for the Labour Party. Quit the sectarianism. | ||
| @chrisherries Good work! | ||
| @Ccchazbo I was canvassing in a Tory held marginal yesterday. Did you do anything practical to fight Tories? | ||
| @seantduffy Not being very good at organising would be how we beat you in every major vote at Conference last year? | ||
| @spence721 "Authoritarian liberals"???? You can be one or the other but not both. | ||
| @gruttocks I have reached the dizzy heights of branch secretary | ||
| @Ithrewthebrick @Sabrina_Huck @willgtucker @MattyDPound @skwawkbox Hilarious. | ||
| @Ithrewthebrick @Sabrina_Huck @willgtucker @MattyDPound We literally time our AGM to fit in around Tom Watson's campaigning for NHS Day of Action. | ||
| @Ithrewthebrick @Sabrina_Huck @willgtucker NB loyalty to the party does not require blind loyalty to a leader, people who called for Blair to go over Iraq were not disloyal to party. | ||
| @Ithrewthebrick @Sabrina_Huck @willgtucker Against Momentum. That's no more disloyal to the Labour Party than someone criticising Progress. It's debating direction party should go in. | ||
| @rurallabouruk I'm a long-standing supporter of the Kurdish cause. | ||
| @Ithrewthebrick @Sabrina_Huck @willgtucker I think I know where you are headed with "Where does your loyalty lye?". Not very subtle. | ||
| @Ithrewthebrick @Sabrina_Huck @willgtucker All my Labour Party activity is unpaid and in my own time. My day job is as Director of @WeBelieveIsrael, part of BICOM. | ||
| @Ithrewthebrick @Sabrina_Huck @willgtucker Can you give me examples of the "purge after purge" I have instigated, and in what capacity I did so? This is fantasy stuff. | ||
| @Arcadedawn @MadMontesaurus Organised the Hackney LP contingent of over 100 marchers in the 2011 and 2012 TUC anti-austerity demos. | ||
| @Arcadedawn @MadMontesaurus Have been part of reversing outsourcing, in Hackney we sacked contractors & brought waste collection & revenues & benefits back in-house. | ||
| @Ithrewthebrick @Sabrina_Huck @willgtucker But point remains no one in Labour should be telling other members it isn't their party. | ||
| @Arcadedawn @MadMontesaurus @labour_first No not opposed. I'm Secretary of Labour First, I'm telling you what our position is. If it comes to a vote you'll see us support it. | ||
| @Arcadedawn @MadMontesaurus @labour_first We stand by our submission - 12 CLP reps elected regionally | ||
| @SimonWeller @thisislucio I agree need to organise, but is new in LP, until 2015 was very rare to have slates or factions in CLPs outside inner London. | ||
| @Ithrewthebrick @Sabrina_Huck @willgtucker And don't you dare tell me it's not my party when I've given 30 years loyal activism to it. | ||
| @Ithrewthebrick @Sabrina_Huck @willgtucker No, the party belongs to all of us as members and affiliated organisations, It is not the plaything of either wing, | ||
| @Arcadedawn @MadMontesaurus This is getting pretty tenuous. I voted 4 a guy who once used to work for a pharma company, therefore I am in pocket of big pharma? Grow up. | ||
| @Arcadedawn @MadMontesaurus Please evidence this as it is completely unsubstantiated. E.g. as an NEC member I reintroduced democratic council selections in Birmingham. | ||
| @RedLabourNWales No the violence comes from the regime's use of military and police against protesters. You are backing fascists against socialists. | ||
| @Arcadedawn @MadMontesaurus I'm very proud that I worked as a political consultant to defence companies 2000-2011. If you have armed forces they need good kit. | ||
| @Arcadedawn @MadMontesaurus CLPs already decide their own MPs (the only time candidates have ever been imposed on a large scale was 2017 because it was a snap poll) | ||
| @Arcadedawn @MadMontesaurus I do support more NEC reps for members. I wrote the @labour_first submission to the Collins Review arguing for 12 CLP reps. | ||
| @TheBowhaus That they might misuse their role. | ||
| @Arcadedawn @MadMontesaurus I publicly opposed top-up tuition fees when Blair brought them in, and campaigned on that basis as Parliamentary Candidate in 2005. | ||
| @TheBowhaus It isn't the role of the CAC to "set the agenda" - they are supposed to ensure free and fair debate and smooth running of conference. | ||
| @Arcadedawn @MadMontesaurus No you've just made up some smears because you can't be bothered to look at my actual politics expressed publicly & by actions over 30 yrs | ||
| @Arcadedawn @MadMontesaurus Do you know anything about my personal experience of NHS or my record fighting for it as Chair of Health Scrutiny in Hackney? | ||
| @Arcadedawn @MadMontesaurus Where does the "big pharma" thing come from? Why would I give a shit about the interests of pharma companies? | ||
| @MadMontesaurus So the conference is not about pluralistic debate because the debate was already had when leader elected? Just a rally? | ||
| @izzywizzyk I would think that if it wasn't for his supporters arguing for whole previous history of Labour that leader should not control conference | ||
| @Sabrina_Huck @willgtucker This level of factionalism is new and is very divisive and unwelcoming. | ||
| @Sabrina_Huck @willgtucker No one cared what wing of party you were from as long as you did the work | ||
| @Lokster71 I prefer the state to have a monopoly of the means of violence | ||
| Are the bayonets really necessary? https://t.co/msOUi4RoKH | ||
| @leeroy_funklove There is no evidence of a "caucus" - a factional pre-meeting in this email, nor is it "secret". | ||
| @gerry1957 Sadly none. It is only a 7 member cttee - 5 TU people, 2 CLP reps | ||
| @gocketreen I'm @labour_first but point taken | ||
| On my way to Reading West for twinned seat #labourdoorstep with @Oxford_Labour. In the car with @redmikerowley & @dmk1793 | ||
| @HuwJonesLabour If there is a Labour First caucus that meets in your CLP I would be delighted to be put in touch with them. Pretty sure there isn't. | ||
| @Isobel_waby In what way am I doing that & why link my name to Chuka's? | ||
| @SocialistGreen But you label yourself, your twitter handle is "socialist green | ||
| @JonHegerty Yes very heartening. | ||
| @JonHegerty It's so long since I last said anything critical about him I thought I should clarify | ||
| I've chaired party conference twice. All chairs ensure TU and young delegates get called to speak esp in debates directly pertinent. https://t.co/Dax1rP89uu | ||
| And it isn't even CAC who decides who speaks at conference - chairing is by NEC members https://t.co/Dax1rP89uu | ||
| Trade unions already have 5 of 7 seats on CAC so Shelly's quote re "platform trade union voices" is meaningless gibberish. https://t.co/2DKB7ywGu0 | ||
| Interesting revelation of genuine policy/ideological divides in Corbyn camp. Mandate not being respected? https://t.co/RP1OrGjQFB | ||
| Mary Turner obituary https://t.co/fU9piK4dGy | ||
| @KeironOShea I just compared them to Stalin who was one of the most evil mass-killers in history, so I'm not exactly singing their praises | ||
| @KeironOShea I'm fully aware of how bad they are. Just them collapsing & being replaced by something worse doesn't appeal. | ||
| @KeironOShea Nope. Don't think given my day job I would be massively welcome. | ||
| @SheffieldUncut1 Personally I have long argued against outsourcing in NHS and I'm not exactly from left of Labour Party. | ||
| What if you support both? https://t.co/ta9Cxvzxwc | ||
| @liddlejoanne1 It's more powerful if someone who is not a regular cheerleader suddenly cheers! | ||
| @liddlejoanne1 It was supposed to give the rest of post credibility! | ||
| I'm no Corbynista but the Worthing & 2 Kent gains r significant (better than GE in both areas) & indicate big move from UKIP to Lab https://t.co/EvChbTyXPg | ||
| @MaccLabour @valstevens24 In what sense was me saying I was happy about an election result "self exaltation"? | ||
| @MaccLabour @valstevens24 How is it hubristic to be happy about Labour winning in a town I have a personal connection to? Am I supposed to be sad about it? | ||
| Note still a net swing from Con to Lab. https://t.co/1rtWymcS1c | ||
| @MaccLabour @valstevens24 I wasn't congratulating myself. I said I was happy. | ||
| @MaccLabour @valstevens24 So yes I will say if an election result in a town where I sometimes live makes me happy. | ||
| @MaccLabour @valstevens24 Twitter is a micro-blog site. A blog is a personal online diary. | ||
| @MaccLabour @valstevens24 Yes my twitter account is all about me and my personal reaction to things. | ||
| @_kerriprince No. Our flat is in Cliftonville and I did 2 weeks of phoning from the Thanet South office in Ramsgate as had a broken ankle. | ||
| @RooftopJaxx I am | ||
| @_kerriprince And several other Margate wards in east of town are in Thanet South. | ||
| Given I spend part of year in Margate, campaigned there 2015, this makes me verry happy. https://t.co/kkW1LAfVbd | ||
| @adnan_gooner98 I don't work in the arms industry. I used to do public affairs for defence companies but not since 2011. | ||
| @David__Osland I know... | ||
| @David__Osland I would have thought it was implicit that any leader of a democratic socialist party by definition disapproved of Leninism. | ||
| Being Lab and not liking TB bizarre - like being Liverpool fan who didn't like Bill Shankly | ||
| @GrahamGropius Yes | ||
| The US sanction so far are against key personnel in the regime, not against the wider Venezuelan economy. https://t.co/87gRVFQhxU | ||
| Heading for lunch with @Bettwsboy @Ut_Humiliter_Op and @will_blair | ||
| @PeterKenyon @ProgressOnline #nuLab I prefer to highlight continuity between Blair + Morrison, Bevin, Gaitskell - moderate m imp than "new | ||
| @OwenJones84 for the record I think TB's views on response to economic crisis v wrong and Gordon's correct | ||
| @OwenJones84 @Markfergusonuk completely explains it. Have never met mythical working class ultra leftists. | ||
| @OwenJones84 @Calderbank my bit of the right (lab 1st) includes the actual ppl who stayed Labour + fought when wetter colleagues joined SDP | ||
| @OwenJones84 my experience canvassing was we lost working class votes because not rightwing nuff on crime, migration, welfare reform | ||
| @NTDSMK @OwenJones84 and what caused the SDP? Benn. | ||
| TB "by all means drop the NL tag but keep the attitude of mind ... Apply policies anew even tho values timeless | ||
| @OwenJones84 ... And need to pay for that for oh at least a century to come | ||
| @OwenJones84 I do believe the Labour left esp Benn were responsible/culpable for the 1983 and 1987 defeats... | ||
| @Martinbroderic5 @georgeeaton Eh? I detest Pinochet and everything he stood for. Dislike dictators of both fascist and communist varieties. | ||
| I endorse this message. See we agree on some things! https://t.co/5rfqQQFmii | ||
| @georgeeaton Or Syrizia, now implementing the austerity they came to power claiming to oppose | ||
| @harryhc @ProgressOnline I have no idea what you are talking about. | ||
| Excited about the @Oxford_Labour daytrip to do #labourdoorstep in target seat Reading West this Saturday | ||
| On way to see Tony Blair speak at @ProgressOnline 15th birthday event. | ||
| @cymrurouge So Venezuela isn't actually any more socialist than UK? In fact less so as we have functioning public services & welfare state? | ||
| @cymrurouge No I said "can only thrive". | ||
| @cymrurouge Nope haven't expressed an opinion about it. | ||
| Odd type of socialism that can only thrive if it trades oil with capitalist USA https://t.co/ixwaRmqaPn | ||
| @SeemaChandwani Yes thanks | ||
| @SeemaChandwani They are all back on monthly GE voting intention polls as far as I can see at https://t.co/iGUPz6bwOA | ||
| @TheDecider25 No it wasn't. Declaration of Independence came after UN voted for partition plan. | ||
| Good walking tour of my home city in Guardian today. Go visit if you haven't before. https://t.co/m46GSpsmTc | ||
| @TheDecider25 They did better than that, they waited for the UN to decide the boundaries. | ||
| I'm sure there were other options on the ballot I got ... https://t.co/zEkrmdB1ON | ||
| @redmikerowley @richardtheap @David__Osland | ||
| @scottr0gers Thanks for reminding me or would have missed it! | ||
| @cymrurouge @JonAshworth @GloriaDePiero All her adult life! | ||
| @cymrurouge @JonAshworth @GloriaDePiero No they are a proscribed organisation like Militant. She left them when she was 18. | ||
| @cymrurouge @JonAshworth @GloriaDePiero The criteria are clearly set out in rulebook. | ||
| @cymrurouge @JonAshworth @GloriaDePiero No. | ||
| Rainy #labourdoorstep in Blackbird Leys with @Oxford_Labour | ||
| @MylesHSG @GnasherJew @haringeycouncil @UKLabour @J_Bloodworth No but be careful not to jump to conclusions! | ||
| @bengoldacre Basic problem is that Oxford City Council has tiny boundaries giving it no planning power to expand & solve housing crisis | ||
| @bengoldacre The city council wants to build on the fields around the city but is blocked from doing so by Tory district councils that run planning there | ||
| @Rowan_Draper @LabourList I blogged it straight after it was put on membersnet because was reported to NEC Org cttee but with an embargo | ||
| @RobCarr it's what was tabled and is on LP website. I'm not involved in soc socs so that's all I know. | ||
| @PeterKenyon @JohannaBaxter @RefoundLab peter no one making submissions was told they wd be published were they? | ||
| @Rowan_Draper @LabourList Membersnet on Party website. Constituency Reps not up for election this year. | ||
| @PeterKenyon @JohannaBaxter @elliereeves @PeterHain @RefoundLab decisions on key items will be at Org in Sept. More consultation happening. | ||
| @ashmcgregor @Scarletstand @mtiedemann @LabourList paper tabled at Org and now on membersnet says Connor McGinn only person nominated | ||
| @bongosaloon No, it was done by Tories & Lib Dems when Hackney was a hung council | ||
| @bongosaloon I'm not. | ||
| @bongosaloon You don't seem to get that Labour's historic position has always been strong on defence as well as radical on social justice. | ||
| @bongosaloon As a cllr in Hackney I was part of an administration that brought failing outsourced services back in-house | ||
| @bongosaloon You have just ascribed some generic beliefs to me that are opposite of my politics | ||
| @bongosaloon Not least because of my own poor experience of outsourced NHS transport etc | ||
| @bongosaloon And I have repeatedly written articles against marketisation & role of private sector in public services ... | ||
| @Old_Holborn @ewancwatt @campbellclaret if u can't see diff between GCHQ monitoring for terrorism and NI hacking 2 sell papers u have prob | ||
| @bongosaloon Clearly you've never bothered to read about my views on social & economic policies or what I helped achieve as a councillor | ||
| @Skeptickler It's absurd, grossly offensive and silly as well as antisemitic to compare Israeli behaviour to the Nazis. It diminishes the Shoah. | ||
| @PeterJBeTheName The two can be separated but there is a significant phenomenon of antisemitic anti-Zionism | ||
| @Skeptickler No I have actually read and respect the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance definition of antisemitism | ||
| @babyybashhh Through the Houthi takeover of the government. | ||
| @bongosaloon Because I support the defence policy created by Clem Attlee and Ernie Bevin, which is current Labour manifesto policy? | ||
| @Skeptickler @AWatkins2007 And with "Israel uber alles" phrase you employ Holocaust Inversion, which is prima facie antisemitism. | ||
| In my experience of Hackney Council meetings this will be followed by a Tory attack on cyclists/cycling https://t.co/W6iJQAv1KC | ||
| @briantwid @arachnochist No, Russia is the biggest threat to world peace. | ||
| And he's lived well & into his 90s because Attlee govt created NATO & UK nuclear deterrent to ensure peace & security from Soviet threat https://t.co/WVHziub8tI | ||
| Interesting Trotskyist explanation of Stalin fandom in Labour & Momentum: https://t.co/sqLAtrmTSJ | ||
| @PeterJBeTheName We talk about antisemitic anti-Zionism - when extreme opposition to Israel uses/is motivated by antisemitic ideas & imagery | ||
| @PeterJBeTheName And whether they deny self determination to many peoples or just to Jews | ||
| @PeterJBeTheName It depends if the people being anti-Zionist use antisemitic imagery to do so | ||
| @efemico_online @BritainIsrael @HichamYezza @MPACUK @CarolineLucas @WeBelieveIsrael We encourage ordinary citizens to contact their MPs - grassroots campaigning. Work with MPs direct is done by LFI, CFI etc | ||
| @PeterJBeTheName A Zionist is anyone who believes in Jewish self-determination i.e. existence of Israel. Compatible with belief in a Palestinian state -2 sts | ||
| And Corbyn leadership of Labour illustrates that my Zionist masterplan for control of all the parties is proceeding exactly as planned. https://t.co/ebRpjFbvWT | ||
| I'm doing such a great job subverting British democracy at every level for the Zionists that I've reached Labour Branch Secretary level. https://t.co/ebRpjFbvWT | ||
| Whereas an organisation that actually names itself "PAC" like a US lobby group isn't a lobby at all. https://t.co/ebRpjFbvWT | ||
| @HichamYezza @SocialistGreen Yes I am very proud of my association with the defence industry. Why wouldn't I be? | ||
| @w_nicht Because they are the main barrier to Iranian aggression in the region. | ||
| @SocialistGreen @HichamYezza Yep you do - 15000 well-paid direct jobs on Eurofighter programme and all the other jobs sustained by spending by those people | ||
| @SocialistGreen @HichamYezza and I ran for Parliament in Aldershot where main local employers are Army, BAE, QinetiQ and hosts Farnborough Air Show. | ||
| Apparently I support arms sales to Saudi Arabia because I am part of a Zionist conspiracy. Or something. Makes total sense. https://t.co/ahmN5dmof9 | ||
| @idvck Tblisi residents might be quite hurt to discover he thinks they are not part of Europe | ||
| Indeed, how did I become an MP? I'm such an idiot I missed it happening. https://t.co/TLgVQJUEO5 | ||
| @JohnStrawson I genuinely don't agree. ISIS is nearly defeated territorially. It can generate terror attacks but isn't a strategic threat like Iran is. | ||
| I have found a purpose - detering anarchists from joining Labour (assumed there were some ideological obstacles too, like concept of party?) https://t.co/Y20lsaJ30y | ||
| @Mrs_stax @DACAtHome I'm not New Labour I'm from the Old Right of the party (pre-Blair) | ||
| @zenbarn2 @mcashmanCBE No that was the chair of conference not the CAC. | ||
| @Davejackson9876 @HylandAlan @CarolineLucas Really? https://t.co/jHnvHr88In | ||
| @DACAtHome It wasn't a letter to councillors. It was an email to Labour First list about giving cllrs more seats on NEC. Which would be a good thing. | ||
| @DACAtHome No I don't. | ||
| On one level its cute to see @Calderbank using his journal to help @SeemaChandwani get elected. But why not write positively about her? https://t.co/KwZ1T4p4j7 | ||
| I think a few people are going to be gutted when they find out you can't join Comecon & the Warsaw Pact after Brexit, as they folded w USSR. | ||
| @JackEDeakin @politicsem They would need to get a rule change like this passed by NEC. I'm fairly sure they don't have the votes to do that. | ||
| @BurgeAgj @MrsBurgin No your point doesn't remain as Rachel is from Progress/Labour First wing of party. | ||
| @BurgeAgj I'm canvassing with my MP in Oxford - tweeted this photo at start of session | ||
| #labourdoorstep in Barton & Sandhills Ward with @AnnelieseDodds @Oxford_Labour | ||
| My Progress blog post on shadow cabinet is cited by Guardian editorial today - fame at last | ||
| @emmacpicken @DanHeley1 Agree, report that to compliance unit | ||
| @KevinBosshogg79 @AriehMiller @PSCupdates They do. I was there last week and went through them. | ||
| @soSHA_list It's not me using that kind of language | ||
| @ClareFKing @redsoct1974 @vjm789 @OwenJones84 @MissEllieMae @SeemaChandwani @RichardAngell Correct | ||
| @ClareFKing @redsoct1974 @vjm789 @OwenJones84 @MissEllieMae @SeemaChandwani @RichardAngell CLP Secretaries | ||
| @horatioharry @GloriaDePiero Correct, anyone who does not vote online will in due course receive a hard copy ballot in post | ||
| @BigAl1916 No it wasn't, it was founded in 2013, Blair had been gone for 6 years and Ed M was moving Labour to the left. | ||
| @Stel_Ar @ambientmike Bullshit. I was cllr in one of most deprived wards in UK & saw Blair & Brown pump £££ into housing, police, schools, NHS, transport, jobs | ||
| @bevcott @djbeere It's competing with us for members, funding etc. | ||
| @waterfriend @FoxHedgehog @TripeUK @ambientmike It survives in bad times because for millions of people like me it is like a football team you support even when crap. | ||
| @CrosbyDark @KGDuffy7 Why was it set up when Ed Miliband was leader then, 6 years after Blair quit? | ||
| @ambientmike No my opinion is more legitimate than Ken Loach's because I have been a Labour member & activist 29 years while he was fighting against us | ||
| @bevcott @djbeere It ran candidates against us in 2015 General Election | ||
| @ambientmike Sure - let's united around the people elected in 2015 - Jeremy and for CAC Gloria and Michael. Respect all their mandates. | ||
| @kayaburgess @danielblaney When pensions were introduced they kicked in 18 years after average life expectancy. | ||
| @danielblaney Good, hope same applies to former CPGB and CPB members. | ||
| Oh no. What sad news. Mary was a lovely person and a great fighter for Labour & the GMB. https://t.co/9pE8H9n9UP | ||
| @redsoct1974 @vjm789 @OwenJones84 @MissEllieMae @SeemaChandwani @RichardAngell I accept all those things. Read back through my tweets since GE called. Time to move on. | ||
| @redsoct1974 @vjm789 @OwenJones84 @MissEllieMae @SeemaChandwani @RichardAngell Please do | ||
| @redsoct1974 @vjm789 @OwenJones84 @MissEllieMae @SeemaChandwani @RichardAngell I'm not interested in a "career" I am interested in contributing to Labour victories that create a more equal, just society. | ||
| @redsoct1974 @vjm789 @OwenJones84 @MissEllieMae @SeemaChandwani @RichardAngell Yes I do. Momentum played a fantastic role mobilising people this May and June. | ||
| @redsoct1974 @vjm789 @OwenJones84 @MissEllieMae @SeemaChandwani @RichardAngell No I don't live in Hackney now. I was responsible for the borough elections in 2002, 2006, 2010 and 2014 and many byelections in same era | ||
| @redsoct1974 @vjm789 @OwenJones84 @MissEllieMae @SeemaChandwani @RichardAngell others where I just knocked thousands of doors I am proud to have been a footsoldier in (including this year's General Election) | ||
| @redsoct1974 @vjm789 @OwenJones84 @MissEllieMae @SeemaChandwani @RichardAngell Yes, I'm taking credit for the ones I was legally responsible for as Borough Campaign Manager, and any others where I was Agent or candidate | ||
| @redsoct1974 @vjm789 @OwenJones84 @MissEllieMae @SeemaChandwani @RichardAngell PS we only email CLPs if they have subscribed to our email list. We don't have access to a full list of CLP emails. | ||
| @redsoct1974 @vjm789 @OwenJones84 @MissEllieMae @SeemaChandwani @RichardAngell Happy for you to attack my political views but I will not have you diminish my campaigning for the party, year in, year out, for 29 years. | ||
| @redsoct1974 @vjm789 @OwenJones84 @MissEllieMae @SeemaChandwani @RichardAngell There is absolutely no difference between the organisational methods Labour First uses inside the party and those used by Momentum. | ||
| @redsoct1974 @vjm789 @OwenJones84 @MissEllieMae @SeemaChandwani @RichardAngell Everything Labour First does is public. Our email list is open - loads of media and people from Momentum get our emails, nothing is secret. | ||
| @redsoct1974 @vjm789 @OwenJones84 @MissEllieMae @SeemaChandwani @RichardAngell No I was the organiser - I ran the campaigns, strategy, tactics, messaging, materials, organisation. | ||
| @redsoct1974 @vjm789 @OwenJones84 @MissEllieMae @SeemaChandwani @RichardAngell Do you believe that when Momentum or b4 them CLPD or LRC organise for the left to win NEC or conference it is "rigging"? Or only when I do? | ||
| @redsoct1974 @vjm789 @OwenJones84 @MissEllieMae @SeemaChandwani @RichardAngell When I stood down from the council the elected mayor described me as "personally responsible for the election of 100s of Labour councilliors | ||
| @redsoct1974 @vjm789 @OwenJones84 @MissEllieMae @SeemaChandwani @RichardAngell Organised 4 election wins in Hackney taking council from hung to Lab on 50 of 57 seats? | ||
| @BurgeAgj I don't support neoliberal economics. I'm an old fashioned Keynesian and oppose outsourcing/markets in public services. | ||
| @OwenJones84 @MissEllieMae @SeemaChandwani @RichardAngell Admirably forgiving of you both! | ||
| @scottr0gers Hardly leaking when there is a long tradition of CLP reps publishing reports of NEC meetings | ||
| NB the charming "Judas" description by @SeemaChandwani was aimed not at MPs but at @OwenJones84 and @MissEllieMae for pre-GE concerns https://t.co/Tv2eZikjKD | ||
| @labourwinner @aliceperryuk CLPs will do the shortlisting as well as the selection | ||
| @townfieldfox @mikelovestweets @cllrtrisosborne 2% higher than now | ||
| @ianrobo1 @MrRae1000 @paulwaugh The NEC position will be decided by major unions which also hold the balance of power at conference as CLPs divided. | ||
| @MrRae1000 @paulwaugh No it automatically gets debated at conference. NEC has to decide whether to recommend voting for or against. | ||
| @Calderbank @talkRADIO No read it. | ||
| @BurgeAgj What views did you have in mind? I thought the labour movement was pluralistic. | ||
| @cymrurouge Errr... once. Very happy to debate at their events again. I like them. They just need to choose between Trotskyism & Labour. | ||
| @UtterHunt @RichardAngell @GloriaDePiero @mcashmanCBE Emails will come out in batches. Anyone who doesn't vote online will get sent a paper ballot after a couple of weeks. | ||
| @therubykid Daniel it actually was self-parody ... not sure you always get my attempts at humour... | ||
| I endorse this appeal. Will be far easier to track down entryists if their web archive was more searchable. https://t.co/p3z0j8LnyD | ||
| @talktoharris1 @JamesCleverley1 @GloriaDePiero @mcashmanCBE Yes its a national OMOV ballot | ||
| @columbascave @mcashmanCBE @GloriaDePiero @UKLabour Yes they always go out in batches | ||
| Just voted for @mcashmanCBE & @GloriaDePiero for CAC - ballot email has just arrived if you are a @UKLabour member! | ||
| @histevegray @trbl_up_tmillrd @Maomentum_ @jeremycorbyn Milne and Schneider did | ||
| @MartinCollinson @UKLabour no this was in 1940s-1960s. | ||
| This is actually a remarkably high number - historically local MPs were thought to only positively affect vote by about 1000. https://t.co/8XjcihVkdl | ||
| 110% I would have said. https://t.co/hFVex4v6EU | ||
| Very happy to be visiting beautiful city of Haifa for first time - twinned with my old home Hackney | ||
| @Kate_Butler no, I have very red hair, I find stereotypes about ppl with red hair rather annoying. | ||
| @fwhatworld @VincentN15N17 indeed - Southwark case is national factionalism creeping into local selections - crazy | ||
| @fwhatworld @VincentN15N17 usually the strongest/most popular candidates get selected first in safest wards irrespective of living there | ||
| @fwhatworld @VincentN15N17 in London the boroughs are small and many cllrs don't live in their wards | ||
| @msjenniferjames @WeBelieveIsrael @BritainIsrael thanks but I am extremely proud of my job and my association with Israel. | ||
| @msjenniferjames my organisation - @WeBelieveIsrael - part of BICOM - @BritainIsrael | ||
| @msjenniferjames we take people to meet Fatah/PLO and visit Palestinian refugee camps as part of these trips | ||
| @msjenniferjames would you like to go when I take my next group? | ||
| @McConaghyBen @WeBelieveIsrael a lot of people don't believe Israel should exist. | ||
| @McConaghyBen because I work as Director of @WeBelieveIsrael | ||
| @yahboo14 against it and voted to bring services back in house at Hackney | ||
| @yahboo14 yes but that doesn't mean the members who voted for me are not entitled to dissent. | ||
| @yahboo14 48000 people who voted for me for NEC. Who voted for you? | ||
| @yahboo14 But do the members represent Labour voters? | ||
| @Daniel_Cousins They don't need to say anything. Just need more votes in each trigger ballot. | ||
| @KatieCurtis @jruddy99 Is he a real person? I assumed was a parody account. | ||
| @radicalhoneybee @WarsamaMartin @HuwJonesLabour No, if that was the case Gordon Brown and all his supporters should have been deselected for briefing vs Blair | ||
| @radicalhoneybee @HuwJonesLabour Don't think it's realistic to expect an MP to agree with every policy of their CLP. We are a broad church but all share same values. | ||
| @ClareFKing @johnmcdonnellMP I'm sure we would get on fine as I am personally friendly with most of the leading figures nationally on Hard Left | ||
| @ClareFKing @johnmcdonnellMP Hard Left. | ||
| @velvetrev44 @westham009 No, only about 1/4 of CLPs cast nominations, they got 80% of the 25% ish that bothered to engage in the process. | ||
| @FoxHedgehog @CRawlinson87 @BernardMcEldown Nothing will. It isn't going to happen. | ||
| @FoxHedgehog @CRawlinson87 @BernardMcEldown How about they just beat the deselection threat by getting more votes in their CLP? | ||
| @dr_d_allington @lucianaberger Act in what way? They don't have any decision making power over each other's selections. | ||
| @dr_d_allington @lucianaberger And the conference delegate elections decide the rules about how MPs are reselected... | ||
| @dr_d_allington @lucianaberger What is happening to Luciana is precisely that we lost an internal election in her CLP by 10/15 votes. | ||
| @velvetrev44 MPs have played a key role in the elections I am talking about. Making a lot of noise is not the same thing as effective organising. | ||
| I simply don't get this kind of comment. Labour moderates are fighting elections right now for AGMs and conference delegates. https://t.co/6Rkn4lp1T4 | ||
| @rich50195 @mattzarb The guy you have screen grabbed isn't a Labour member or supporter | ||
| @mattzarb @rich50195 I would definitely condemn people attacking you in a personalised way. It isn't how politics should be conducted. | ||
| @SgawShaw She was elected when Gordon Brown was leader so not sure in what sense she owes being an MP to JC | ||
| @TonyBryson2 @labour_first Labour First was founded by the political secretaries of trade unions... | ||
| @MikeSmith04 This isn't about Corbyn, it is about ridiculously factional behaviour in CLPs - slates removing officers, threats of deselection. | ||
| @MikeSmith04 What has it got to do with Blair? I'm not a Blairite. | ||
| @SAButler7 Pro tip: taking the piss out of people's skin colour, especially when side effect of serious illness, is rather pathetic | ||
| @BanthonyO Who is Roy? | ||
| Big cheers for @IainMcNicol and @GwynneMP at #LGAconf17 Labour Group dinner | ||
| @politicalfubol @labour_first Or he should have quit when he was no confidenced. Most people would have. | ||
| @politicalfubol @labour_first Members should get behind their MPs #unity #TeamLabour | ||
| @politicalfubol @labour_first there already is a vote - a trigger ballot of branches & affiliates - which every Labour MP faces. | ||
| @linfordgibbons @johnmcdonnellMP it was pretty boring | ||
| @linfordgibbons @johnmcdonnellMP yes indeed, McDonnell should stop these divisive interventions | ||
| Not if we've got anything to do with it. Sign up to https://t.co/9DVDg7aPzD to fight against deselections. @labour_first https://t.co/X4HnTUOofu | ||
| @TheDecider25 his whole approach was the opposite of that advocated by the Hard Left - seriously read his speeches & books | ||
| @TheDecider25 actually my critique of 74-79 would be from the left - too many cuts | ||
| @TheDecider25 unilateralism. Take a look at his conference speeches. | ||
| @msjenniferjames Contested selection of new candidates is a given. Deselecting incumbents should only be in exceptional circumstances. | ||
| @TheDecider25 Hard Left = the Benn/Corbyn tradition in Labour. I would describe myself as from the Old Labour Right ie Gaitskell/Healey/Hattersley wing | ||
| @frozenwarning @eddiemarsan @RuthCadbury Only if their MP hasn't engaged with them. | ||
| @frozenwarning @eddiemarsan @RuthCadbury Maybe ours in Oxford are nicer, but I met good people during election campaign. | ||
| @frozenwarning @eddiemarsan @RuthCadbury There are a lot more that haven't been to meetings but do get a vote in reselection ballots if an MP triggered. | ||
| @HenryQuamford It is all a bit arcane. Recommend the Rule Book for holiday reading. | ||
| @frozenwarning @eddiemarsan @RuthCadbury This will be what destroys them. Obsession with deselecting even Soft Left MPs alienates public & otherwise sympathetic ordinary members. | ||
| @HenryQuamford It can't be voted on at conference this year. Rule changes sent by CLPs this year are voted on next year. | ||
| @jruddy99 It's a posh word for bullying. | ||
| @Castor8 Whoa, "dividing" - it's not me talking about deselecting MPs straight after they were elected. I'm promoting unity. | ||
| @HenryQuamford My amendment? Which one is that? | ||
| @ThinkLabour yes | ||
| And now for an afternoon of NEC mtgs - Disputes panel, Organisation Cttee, Birmingham panel | ||
| @peopleman44 I don't | ||
| @mcarro2 You guys are completely humourless... | ||
| @BeadieJay It is, but a bit slow | ||
| @BeadieJay You could - Magdalen Bridge to Cherwell Boat House... | ||
| @JordanThorpes @jamielewis016 @GloriaDePiero I think you may be taking my tweet a bit over-seriously .... | ||
| He seems friendly. https://t.co/L5IeFeJTNp | ||
| @GrahamGropius @SeemaChandwani @BillyHayes_CWU I think perhaps my sense of humour is lost on you .... | ||
| @GrahamGropius @SeemaChandwani @BillyHayes_CWU Surely his promotion of Gloria shows he wants her back on the CAC? | ||
| @ComiskeyNathan He isn't. He's a frontbencher not shadow cabinet. | ||
| Some good appointments here. Congratulations to them all and good luck taking fight to the Tories! https://t.co/YstTJpWxuR | ||
| I think he means part of Hackney Labour administration that sacked loads of private outsourcers and brought services back in-house... https://t.co/fstzyDsoja | ||
| @ClareFKing @timsykes3 @7rjones7 @IanLaveryMP Sorry, you don't get to police how I express myself about politics in a democratic party & free society. Don't read it if you don't like it. | ||
| @ClareFKing @timsykes3 @7rjones7 @IanLaveryMP Why are you still going on about the two years before the election when everyone is now so much more united? Cheer up and enjoy new unity! | ||
| @ClareFKing @7rjones7 I have internal documents from the Hard Left describing themselves as Hard Left! | ||
| @ClareFKing @7rjones7 And if you take positions further from centre of UK politics clearly logical to describe as left or extreme compared to centre left/moderate | ||
| @ClareFKing @7rjones7 "Hard Left" and Soft Left are terms used in academic books about Labour history, invented in 80s by those currents. Not pejorative. | ||
| @ThinkLabour @labourlist maybe, just maybe, ordinary Brit ppl are right and we are wrong? | ||
| @ThinkLabour @labourlist we don't have decades needed to re-programme the electorate into socialists. We need to win in 2015. | ||
| @ClareFKing @7rjones7 There were local elections then a General Election so many CLPs have not met since March. | ||
| @ThinkLabour @labourlist maybe we agree with the existing mindsets? | ||
| @ClareFKing @7rjones7 Nothing factional about it - Just stating the facts of how the rules work. Do you think CLPs unable to meet should have no representation? | ||
| Getting my head round draft @RefoundLab paper in advance of this afternoon's NEC Org Cttee | ||
| @Markfergusonuk I like the title! There go X thousand votes... | ||
| @marcjacobleo 30 years practice... | ||
| @llcooltom And I'm trying to unite the party by ensuring both it's wings are equally strong and have to compromise with each other | ||
| @llcooltom I haven't been on the NEC since 2012. | ||
| @VotedToFloat I don't think there is any debate about the leadership now | ||
| @bifferbasher He is going to be leader for as long as he wants to be, so my personal preferences are irrelevent. | ||
| Another charmless non-recipient of the unity memo. https://t.co/dHGbOVM8Le | ||
| @Calderbank Yes | ||
| @DanHeley1 West | ||
| @MiserableLes1 I did accuse you of using an antisemitic trope straight out of the Protocols. Try to avoid. | ||
| @Trickyjabs @McConaghyBen Have you stood for election or been an agent anywhere? | ||
| @Trickyjabs @McConaghyBen Winnable not wannable... in one of the ones I lost I got the highest Lab % vote in history of the ward. | ||
| @Trickyjabs @McConaghyBen When I was 21 and 23 in non-wannable wards. I am 45 ... | ||
| @_summerhead @Trickyjabs You would not know very much about my political or economic opinions then. | ||
| @Trickyjabs @McConaghyBen and only GEs I've stood in were in safe Tory seats. | ||
| @Trickyjabs @McConaghyBen lost a council election? Not since 1995. Won in 2002, 2006, 2010. Organised Lab gains in those & 2014 &byelections | ||
| @washyourmouth1 @joncstone No because they make a vital contribution to the Labour Party and are under-represented. Why would you oppose this? | ||
| @washyourmouth1 @joncstone I would like the to be two more seats for councillors on Labour NEC. That has nothing to do with Corbyn's leadership. | ||
| @washyourmouth1 What reports? | ||
| @DACAtHome @UKLabour @Rachael_Swindon No I'm not. | ||
| @McConaghyBen @Trickyjabs You think 4 councillors on an NEC which would be 37 would be "dominating"? There are 12 TU reps for instance. | ||
| @willintyne What are you on about? | ||
| @DilettanteVoice @Madman_B1 @LeaningLeft46 @labour_first Depends what vote you are talking about | ||
| @Trickyjabs None of these things requires a fraction of the time and effort I put into campaigning for Labour to win elections, under all leaders. | ||
| Fixation with imaginary plots is not very healthy. https://t.co/KKdmZj8iAQ | ||
| @Trickyjabs I do. | ||
| @Isobel_waby No it wasn't started by either of us as were both rather young in 1988 | ||
| @DilettanteVoice @Madman_B1 @LeaningLeft46 @labour_first This just refers to the CLP delegates. We already know the voting strength & positioning of the TUs. | ||
| @washyourmouth1 Exactly that is the point I am making | ||
| @Emina_ibrahim He was at Glastonbury singing "oh Jeremy Corbyn" @MattyDPound | ||
| @LeaningLeft46 The national picture is pretty much a dead heat. | ||
| @GrahamGropius @JohnHowarth1958 @UKLabour @AnnelieseDodds How would that work when the list is zipped - find FMFMFM ? | ||
| @rachael_obyrne Nah, Ed Miliband told the NEC I was an important voice for party unity. And gave me a certificate at the same time. | ||
| @DarrellChaloner I really doubt you have ever done as much Tory fighting as I have. Come back when you have. | ||
| @SocialDemSheff not really what is happening. There was a bad patch last week but otherwise tightly fought. | ||
| @tj_arnold Withington | ||
| @waksonwaksofff @enrages @NudderingNudnik @fightingb4ck @JohnMannMP No Alex runs @OpenLabour - soft left | ||
| @DomBres @CllrRussBowden @LabourFirst You mean @labour_first ! Well done | ||
| @NudderingNudnik @fightingb4ck @JohnMannMP we are not going to announce any plans on Twitter! | ||
| @ariaclast What are you on about? | ||
| Eh? I thought we were all united now? https://t.co/oOSJPHRkJ9 | ||
| @jruddy99 Don't have to but it will help us collect postcode ie CLP data etc | ||
| @JHepplestone The old website was rather ummm primitive ... | ||
| New @labour_first website launched: https://t.co/FbJdjlHY1y | ||
| @NudderingNudnik Well I feel betrayed that you are not inside the Labour Party able to vote for me in NEC elections... | ||
| @NudderingNudnik He was Shadow Defence Secretary. | ||
| @NudderingNudnik Because it elected more MPs from my side of the party? | ||
| @NudderingNudnik If you can't bear to be Labour that is understandable but don't condemn other people for fighting from within the party. | ||
| @NudderingNudnik And don't put people in an invidious position where they can't oppose poverty, inequality, cuts and oppose antisemitism | ||
| @NudderingNudnik Objective has to be that all major parties are free of antisemitism, not that everyone who opposes it ends up in one party | ||
| @NudderingNudnik If you believe in wider Labour values & what Labour has achieved & stood for you fight inside it vs antisemites not surrender it to them | ||
| @NudderingNudnik There were good anti-racists in the Tory Party at same time as Enoch Powell & Monday Club apologists for apartheid. They prevailed. | ||
| Wish I could be there! https://t.co/cPwF45317v | ||
| @stevo_knows @alallbutt @faltskog5450 Actually I'm having a really nice lunch in a pub garden just outside Oxford, but dream on... | ||
| @PGreen1963 Not enough yet. | ||
| This is characteristically generous and seeking to build bridges. Hope others take note. https://t.co/6lv3WqQBJL | ||
| @maxshanly it was a bit wind assisted. | ||
| Me on #bbcsp today https://t.co/o9YqKPo3F0 | ||
| Another comrade who didn't get the unity memo. https://t.co/YmZ16FoH2K | ||
| @VincentStops Any of the 3 in Barnet- Finchley, Hendon, Chipping Barnet | ||
| @paulmasonnews Where does he think those extra votes came from? Young people, LDs, Greens - all remainers. | ||
| The weirdest thing about @paulmasonnews list of who shouldn't be in Labour is it includes "remainers"... | ||
| Just been at Air League lunch with @Bettwsboy. Not much sign Tory Minister Peter Luff understood need for strong UK aerospace industry. | ||
| @how_vintage Also it makes you sound like a paranoid conspiracy theorist. | ||
| I don't think this person got the memo about unity https://t.co/QdbEcDjJVR | ||
| @godlikemonolith I just spent 7 weeks knocking doors and delivering leaflets for Labour | ||
| @GambieRanger @AaronBastani @SeemaChandwani Pretty good, seeing as I am a Labour supporter and Labour is doing way better than seemed likely before the election | ||
| @GambieRanger @AaronBastani @SeemaChandwani Hi | ||
| @helensclegel You are doing it again now. Stop trying to provoke disunity. | ||
| @MickMcAteer @helensclegel @AlexKuye Try keeping it comradely. | ||
| @MickMcAteer @helensclegel @AlexKuye None, I'm talking about Hackney South. | ||
| @MickMcAteer @helensclegel @AlexKuye Stop purging people and I'll stop exposing you for doing it. You are letting down Jeremy by continuing this sectarianism. | ||
| @helensclegel @AlexKuye Nothing says unity like purging your CLP officers | ||
| @RooftopJaxx Unity does still involve internal party democracy | ||
| @broncoskolar @David__Osland What is "it"? | ||
| @David__Osland I thought we were all united now? | ||
| @PeterKenyon indeed | ||
| @PolProfSteve Denis was serious, thoughtful, independent minded and collegiate when I served with him on NEC. | ||
| @HuwJonesLabour @HuffPostUKPol @CohenJust Both of them are vile | ||
| @everton_de_leon @UKLabour I'm not going to get into the demography of current membership as would ruin my new found positivity! | ||
| @everton_de_leon And there are over 70000 voters per constituency and usually 1 member of staff... | ||
| @everton_de_leon It is illegal under 1983 Representation of the Peoples Act to pay staff to canvass- has to be done by volunteer activists | ||
| @HuwJonesLabour Indeed. The name is unfortunate. I'm not against demos in principle ! | ||
| @ClareFKing @LabourList @mattzarb I think Matt would be a great addition to Labourlist's line-up | ||
| @ClareFKing @LabourList Well yes an opinion column is going to consist of my own opinions. | ||
| @ClareFKing @LabourList Yes - have had for I think seven years with a gap a few years ago. NB unpaid. Before that I had my own blog https://t.co/xKxWgs7hwI | ||
| @ClareFKing @LabourList It's a weekly column! Anyone can submit articles to @Labourlist - if you have different opinions to me, write and submit articles | ||
| @GotTheSkitters @CllrStopp Einstein was a Zionist! | ||
| @maxshanly @malaiseforever As they have blocked me I have no way of assessing this | ||
| @PeterKenyon @alexsobel @IainMcNicol the Edgbaston model w supporters network fielded number of activists PK wants without them joining LP | ||
| @alexsobel @PeterKenyon @IainMcNicol in an all-out borough election we do WARP in most wards and cover stations whole day in key ones | ||
| @alexsobel @PeterKenyon @IainMcNicol in a by-election we cover right up to close of poll but we can field 120 ppl so 4 on stations no worry | ||
| @alexsobel @PeterKenyon @IainMcNicol I've covered polling station with 2 ppl taking it in 4hr turns. Not ideal but works, | ||
| @PeterKenyon @iainmcnicol @alexsobel I agree re. Subs. Cut to 20 quid was in Labour First submission to @RefoundLab | ||
| @jonburkeUK Thanks for reminding me! | ||
| @PeterKenyon @IainMcNicol anyway the answer is approx 350,000 activists and u need 10 members to generate 1 activist ... So 3.5m members!!! | ||
| @PeterKenyon @IainMcNicol #Labour that's double counting - ppl who r knocking up can cover the number taking to rest them for 2 hrs a time | ||
| @PeterKenyon @IainMcNicol #Labour this may explain why WARP was invented... | ||
| @Roh_Yakobi @OfficialSPGB You have tagged the wrong party - nothing to do with SPGB as far as I know (they are non-Leninist Marxists). Think you mean SWP. | ||
| @PolProfSteve Would be helpful if people could understand difference between change in vote share (10%) & Con to Lab swing (2%) | ||
| @LukeBozier not my job to defend Blue Lab but it is about the economy: manufacturing revival, private sector growth, industrial activism | ||
| No, 1997 was the end of the Thatcher consensus - ushered in 13 years of high spending on public services & liberal social reforms. https://t.co/5Uwq0hiT1s | ||
| Just driving within view of the Kensington fire as coach to work turns off A40. The most horrific sight I have ever seen. The poor people. | ||
| @roblugg @LabourList I earned it from 29 years of campaigning constantly for Labour, whoever the leader or local candidate has been | ||
| Just leaving Margate after visiting new Turner Contemporary gallery and enjoying sunny beach | ||
| @NEW_VALIS @ProgressOnline @IanMurrayMP @PollyBillington @PeterHain @stephenkb @glosswitch @ladyhaja Same reason they didn't allocate resources to Gower or Morley & Outwood in 2015 | ||
| @NEW_VALIS @ProgressOnline @IanMurrayMP @PollyBillington @PeterHain @stephenkb @glosswitch @ladyhaja Because they weren't identifiable as being winnable using any of the available data | ||
| @NEW_VALIS Let's concentrate on current unity rather than rehearsing differences that were aired v publicly for 2 years | ||
| @NEW_VALIS I spent 16 years as a councillor in Hackney reversing outsourcing and privatisation so no need to explain to me | ||
| Yeah my family went 2 such fiendish lengths as "Red Tory entryists" they actually set up the local Labour Party in Gravesend in '20s. Subtle https://t.co/fEVtv3Rw9B | ||
| @MickHitchin @whatsinitforme it's kinda my USP. | ||
| @antoniabance @donpaskini basically hardly anyone reads the Guardian except me... and I don't agree with most of it | ||
| @MickHitchin @whatsinitforme I'm in favour of a two party democracy not a multi party one | ||
| The Greens disbanding as they are spoilers whose existence as a party helps the Tories would be a really progressive move. https://t.co/cmMXXE9Skn | ||
| @TheSerpentina @LabourList @jeremycorbyn I just spent 7 weeks canvassing and leafletting for Labour and being relentlessly positive on here. Did you? | ||
| @Ljosalfar @LabourList I spent the previous two years canvassing for Labour too, and the 27 years before that. | ||
| @__BLiP @WeBelieveIsrael Very happy with that. | ||
| @__BLiP Sure. Though I think it is public knowledge my day job is Director of @WeBelieveIsrael | ||
| Where to begin with this tweet. https://t.co/SWIBNEYHim | ||
| @Mungo_5 @LabourList well if they write their opinions down and email them to @labourlist they'll get published and I won't have to bother writing every week | ||
| @Ljosalfar @LabourList No I just spent the last seven weeks canvassing and leafletting and being relentlessly positive on here | ||
| @emjajon @LabourList @LabourFirst I think you mean @labour_first | ||
| @michaeljswalker I don't write the headlines- hope you have read the piece as headline doesn't reflect its tone | ||
| My post-election piece for @LabourList (NB I don't write the headlines) https://t.co/MoZiovRgcB | ||
| @arronz82 @LabourList I'm not sure he would. Different persona to JC and public were still pro austerity in 2015 according to polling then. | ||
| @hs75uk @LabourList being posted tomorrow | ||
| @SDoughtyMP @PeterHain @WelshLabour It's deeply inappropriate for an NEC member to even implicitly publicly criticise the staff they employ and who are accountable to them | ||
| @SocialDemSheff @John_Ferrett @jeremycorbyn no there's never a good time for splits. Labour for ever. | ||
| @John_Ferrett @jeremycorbyn There would have been a split anti-Tory vote, a Tory landslide and they would all be unemployed. Labour wouldn't have a moderate wing. | ||
| @___OST___ Great thanks | ||
| @valstevens24 @Kevin_Maguire Yep I have helped at Woodcraft Folk camps | ||
| Shout out to the consistently helpful staff at @OxfordBusCo for sorting out my faulty coach season ticket at last minute tonight | ||
| @graciesgranny @JessPhilips @theresa_may @UKLabour Eh? I said it was a fight for Labour's survival - it was. We all fought- incl JC - & ensured Labour survived. | ||
| @NoraMulready @Ken_Ferrett Not least in Ken's home town Portsmouth which now has a very good Labour MP | ||
| @HuwJonesLabour @labour_first I hope you are right | ||
| @HuwJonesLabour @labour_first Thanks Huw | ||
| @aliceperryuk @danielblaney @maxshanly That makes sense to me | ||
| @maxshanly Didn't Uncle Pete teach you nothing about CLPD founding principles? | ||
| @maxshanly Nah the sovereignty of conference and between conferences the NEC is sacrosanct | ||
| @maxshanly CLPs don't determine the timing of selection processes, but nice try. | ||
| @Groundhog1963 @paulmasonnews @barbycottontail https://t.co/g1AKO8nRAe | ||
| @EtonTaxDodger Just spent 7 weeks backing him by canvassing and leafletting so much my shoes and socks are worn through | ||
| @LeftieREDHead @edwinmandella I already ate some, it was delicious | ||
| @edwinmandella I just spent the last 7 weeks canvassing & leafleting for them to win the General Election, is there some other thing I am supposed to do? | ||
| @edwinmandella And happy to be irrelevant if that's the tradeoff for 30 more Labour MPs | ||
| @PaulJ2303 No | ||
| @UrbaneSlave It came with 29 gains sauce which made it palatable | ||
| @UrbaneSlave @DPJHodges @TonyParsonsUK @T0nyBlair Already eaten It, it was yummy | ||
| @BarrieJenks I have, it's yummy! | ||
| @NudderingNudnik @IntJewCon FFS you think they want Ian Austin, Ruth Smeeth and Ivan Lewis to win? | ||
| @IntJewCon We would be a Labour faction if we didn't campaign for a Labour government... | ||
| @NudderingNudnik @IntJewCon That's how political parties work- you fight inside them then unite against the other parties | ||
| @tazlufc @rahoulb Looks like it. When he performs well there is nothing to attack. | ||
| @IntJewCon Ummm I run the faction that hasn't backed Corbyn. | ||
| @IntJewCon I'm Labour so I am not interested in changing those parties. | ||
| @NudderingNudnik Never. | ||
| @NudderingNudnik It has confirmed you need to be in the Labour Party to change it. | ||
| @Saaket9000 Cheer up and enjoy the results | ||
| @Saaket9000 It looks like it didn't matter anyway.... | ||
| @chethegeezer I'm not going to rehearse arguments back as this is a good time to just celebrate our gains. | ||
| @HuwJonesLabour Well done! | ||
| @chethegeezer Yummy | ||
| @everton_de_leon How about we all celebrate Labour's gains which we all just worked so hard for? | ||
| @rahoulb One of the reasons we got better results is the party was united during the campaign | ||
| @rahoulb My point exactly | ||
| @Nialloffical24 No, my bets were all based on hunches and tips from local activists | ||
| My 14-1 bet comes in https://t.co/ssHhtqnFz4 | ||
| I bet £10 on this at 20-1.... https://t.co/33HOwSiZry | ||
| My £10 on Midlothian at 12-1 comes in. Ka ching. | ||
| Really proud to have been part of @AnnelieseDodds amazing campaign @Oxford_Labour https://t.co/BAqbG7Ym2d | ||
| @maxshanly I would like to thank my Scottish betting adviser @scottr0gers though Kirkcaldy even he balked at ... | ||
| Another of my long odds bets coming into play https://t.co/r4C66xsCd5 | ||
| @MarkSeddon1962 @britainelects I'm predicting I am £800 better off as every constituency I bet on Labour winning is coming through | ||
| @scottr0gers I will | ||
| @scottr0gers Ka ching | ||
| @scottr0gers Yes | ||
| @ValerieMcDermot Exit poll predicts SNP losing 22 seats | ||
| If the Scottish results are true I am about £800 richer based on bets I made on Labour gains | ||
| Good luck to all @UKLabour candidates! | ||
| @jaydeewiley @AnnelieseDodds @Oxford_Labour Very large | ||
| Good luck to all my Labour comrades. May your WARP sheets get crossed our quickly and not get soggy! | ||
| @TexPat78 is this in Hackney or Texas? | ||
| @Alison_McGovern good luck! | ||
| @_kerriprince We have never lost control of conference. His speech was complaining about how it was being chaired. | ||
| @_kerriprince 2015 | ||
| I'm not standing this time but I approve this Luke instead. #voteLuke https://t.co/Y3ni7ADEyQ | ||
| @_kerriprince Also only political parties get full register anyway. Anyone can suppress their name from commercially available public register | ||
| @_kerriprince I think it operates at PD level, might be ward. But does provide a way of voting without disclosing address. | ||
| @ConqueredLady @BrianFrancisRoy it's possible we could fall to 180 whilst getting a small number of gains in Scotland | ||
| Young people also more likely to work long antisocial hours that make it difficult to get home and vote by a 10pm etc | ||
| But if young people don't manage to vote there are often good reasons not just "can't be bothered | ||
| Parties and electoral registration authorities can all take measures to mitigate this | ||
| Young people rent and move around more frequently, often on register at an old address that could be a long way from current one | ||
| Polling cards can get lost in HMOs and halls of residence | ||
| It's easier to vote when you have done it before and know where polling station is. | ||
| For instance where unis have already finished exams students may be back home but not on register there | ||
| Students if only on register in one place are unlikely to travel there to vote if election happens at wrong time | ||
| Obstacles to young people turning out to vote aren't all attitudinal, some are logistical | ||
| Pic of me on the campaign trail in the UK election coverage of the biggest Swedish daily paper https://t.co/6PO2b5ka57 | ||
| Local members saying they want MPs to shut up arguing with each other and attack the Tories | ||
| Now heading to Herne Bay | ||
| Have now left Sheppey - v similar to Canvey Island where I was PPC in 05 but more industry (steel) and more Labour voters | ||
| @scottr0gers it would be clearer if we said "leader and shadow cabinet won't be campaigning today | ||
| @frannygranny yes | ||
| And East Renfrewshire also in play https://t.co/A4ARpRjMAS | ||
| East Lothian looking a good chance of a Labour regain in Scotland https://t.co/RPgFDc2oih | ||
| Maybe Bernie could have a word with his Green Party candidate brother Larry who is trying to stop Labour winning in Oxford East https://t.co/RhfEl5UrUK | ||
| One of my great grandmothers came from Isle of Sheppey but this is first time I have ever been here | ||
| @Hawthornwood not when their tactics are wrong. | ||
| @leftfutures the route to election victory is NOT strikes by non-Labour affiliated unions. | ||
| @leftfutures strange as the other political events this Thursday were a thumping by-election win + swings to us of 14pc in council seats | ||
| I'm taking @OwenJones84 advice and off out for 4pm Marston and 5.30pm St Clements #labourdoorstep https://t.co/rHJGGgbuq8 | ||
| @tazlufc @britainelects @IpsosMORI I would have to believe in different ideas to have done that, so I can't imagine it. | ||
| @RooftopJaxx not going to suddenly agree w him on foreign policy if he wins but by definition my concerns re electability would be redundant | ||
| @RooftopJaxx it's certainly a pleasant surprise | ||
| @RooftopJaxx Why would you need to feel sorry for me if my party appears to be doing well? | ||
| @jack_lenny @JP_Shiel @britainelects And most of the general public use Twitter to follow celebs etc not to chat politics | ||
| @jack_lenny @JP_Shiel @britainelects Presumably most of us don't follow Tory accounts! | ||
| @mattzarb @leumasmai I find it explains most things | ||
| Take a look at the hashtag #labourdoorstep you'll find our MPs there https://t.co/zUYdPNC2xg | ||
| Any chance of a full set of region by region data again @YouGov ? | ||
| Twitter letting me know my next leaflet round is on the way https://t.co/DJaKU7OVa0 | ||
| @78philb @politicshome suspension is to allow an investigation that could lead to expulsion | ||
| @TripeUK I don't think we should assume we are out of the woods in that kind of seat yet. Is exactly demographic mix we need to focus on. | ||
| @Carefulthought I'm working my socks off where I live in Oxford East - a seat we can't take for granted as was ultra-marginal in 05 and 10. | ||
| @johnjdc @bristolpaul Not sure, but postal voters can be excluded from direct mailshots etc anyway | ||
| @bristolpaul as well, though they have lower propensity to turnout. Older voters themselves very keen to be able to leave property to their kids. | ||
| @John_Davies1927 My instinct says know but they have faith in their model and are taking the numbers at face value. I hope my instinct is wrong! | ||
| Also need focused appeal - with dementia tax mess the clear ammo - to high-turnout older voters | ||
| Even small numbers of direct switchers from Con to Lab will deliver many seats | ||
| Wales poll implies Labour narrowly gaining Gower and Vale of Clwyd from Con, with Arfon and Carmathen E &D knife-edge poss gains from Plaid | ||
| @HuwJonesLabour @ToniaAntoniazzi Great, I have a small bet on Tonia winning that one back! | ||
| @HuwJonesLabour agree, it's fantastic but we need the final week of the campaign to focus on areas in Midlands and North with many swing seats | ||
| @Socialismilucra I hope you are right. It will be wonderful if we do so well so I won't mind eating it. Meantime let's focus on campaigning. | ||
| @philbc3 and Andrew Gwynne and Jon Ashworth | ||
| @alivesince1968 The imprint doesn't say they are published by the Labour Party so probably illegal to use them. | ||
| @spandex3000 @DavidLammy @jessphillips @JackDromeyMP Progress and Labour First are both going to 3 marginal seats every weekend. | ||
| @J_Bloodworth It isn't a poll. | ||
| @spandex3000 @DavidLammy @jessphillips @JackDromeyMP I'm only working in my home seat, Oxford East. Can't move around due to childcare responsibilities. | ||
| Just been reminded by someone of this piece I wrote in 2011: https://t.co/qklkaStJrx | ||
| @GoodwinMJ surely 1997 and 2001 were higher for Lab???? | ||
| @maxshanly @Oxford_Labour Certainly is! | ||
| @NigelCurrie2 No it's why I didn't vote for him to be leader. | ||
| @Jagbooks @NiaGriffithMP @MirrorPolitics @UKLabour How would it get overturned when PLP would have a very clear pro-Trident renewal majority? | ||
| @twcuddleston @willgtucker It needs an imprint says every Agent in the country! | ||
| #labourdoorstep in Blackbird Leys this evening with @AnnelieseDodds @satellite_nick @redmikerowley @Oxford_Labour | ||
| @FoxHedgehog @JRogan3000 @PickardJE Yes there was. | ||
| @FoxHedgehog @JRogan3000 @PickardJE It took me seconds on google to find MPs statements on this from 2015 and 2016. | ||
| @DavidPBMaddox Because SNP are falling more than they are so relatively there is an SNP to LD swing | ||
| @JRogan3000 @PickardJE It was repeatedly raised during both leadership elections but had no impact. | ||
| @adrianmcmenamin @smithjj62 @mel_haslam part-timers! | ||
| Good morning on the #Labourdoorstep for @AnnelieseDodds in Headington Hill & Northway Ward | ||
| @NudderingNudnik @Kenny_young "Unwilling"? They no-confidenced him and triggered a leadership contest. | ||
| @JournoStephen @Kenny_young No I said it is the only viable centre-left party - doesn't mean it is now, means it is only possibility of being one | ||
| @LukePollard @unitetheunion and straight couples should be allowed to enter into a Civil Union as in New Zealand if they don't want 2 marry | ||
| @NudderingNudnik @Kenny_young but virtually all our MPs and candidates are from the centre left. | ||
| @RossFootball @Kenny_young I have never been in favour of another challenge under current rules | ||
| @Kenny_young Don't agree. I'm optimistic about the future of the party. Current poll rating shows Labour is only viable centre-left force. | ||
| @Kenny_young Anyone who stepped outside the PLP would be expelled. | ||
| @Kenny_young "group" inside or outside the PLP? | ||
| We should have on polling day late registration like some US States do. https://t.co/Tr45FKB1eM | ||
| @susanhebden @PeterKenyon when u say "MPs who crossed picket lines" do u mean "went into the House of Commons"? | ||
| @PeterKenyon also a comradely obligation for Ed to warn them when their tactics poorly judged | ||
| @David__Osland Exciting isn't it? | ||
| So in Oxford East only Labour has managed to get its Freepost election address delivered in time for start of postal voting @Oxford_Labour | ||
| Just voted by post for @AnnelieseDodds @UKLabour now off for some #labourdoorstep in my local ward, Marston | ||
| @colinrtalbot @IsabelHardman they will think the same thing as the polls say because their canvass returns will say the same | ||
| @colinrtalbot @IsabelHardman that many losses fits exactly with the regional vote shares Yougov published last week | ||
| Another great afternoon of #labourdoorstep for @AnnelieseDodds in Rose Hill Ward. Real buzz to @Oxford_Labour campaign! | ||
| @haykirstin when Thatcher was PM everyone used to go on about Attlee - it's part of being young! | ||
| @NewsFrmNowhere a Trotskyist. What else would I mean? | ||
| Lab vote almost unchanged, swing all caused by LD collapse to SNP | ||
| Imagine propaganda coup if TUs that struck today had called it off in interests of service users. | ||
| @scottr0gers I have £10 on each of E Renfewshire, E Lothian and Kirkcaldy & Cowdenbeath | ||
| @d_incurable @ns_mehdihasan what if there case is wrong or immoral or unreasonable? (Today's wasn't but want to check rules!) | ||
| @debgardiner I have more faith in the GSs of affiliated TUs to keep negotiating and try to avoid strike - think most saw today as avoidable | ||
| @haykirstin it didn't have any power as a threat - if it did the govt wd have conceded and it wouldn't have happened | ||
| But there is no obligation of solidarity from Ed to a Trot like Serwotka - until he supports Labour, which he doesn't | ||
| And we should have highlighted we were better at reducing # of strikes - this is Tory created "summer of discontent | ||
| Personally my line on strike wd have been neutrality - this is between employer and employees not in LP affiliated TUs | ||
| @haykirstin also note this was a strike about cuts to Ts+Cs not 2 defend services from cuts | ||
| @haykirstin it should be an inconvenience for bosses (esp capitalist ones) not public service users! | ||
| @haykirstin ... Who have had to take a day off as schools shut is a big, big issue as is impact on economy of all those days off | ||
| @maxshanly I thought you would like it. Citizen Smith appealed to me when I was 8 in 1980! | ||
| @maxshanly Have you watched him in GBH? | ||
| @OwenJones84 what was the mistake? Chucking the Taliban out of power? | ||
| Swing figures here not bad https://t.co/rdEt1nfC1I | ||
| Great morning on #labourdoorstep with @AnnelieseDodds in Cowley | ||
| Have reached Doncaster. Surely there is faster way from Leeds to Donny that via York? | ||
| Finally reading Chavs by @OwenJones84 - it's a v well written and argued book | ||
| At York now, fortified by a McDonalds 1/4 large meal | ||
| @mel_haslam @LabourStudents @rossmacrae Ross I hope you enjoy your year as Nat Sec as much as I did in 95/96 it's a great position to have | ||
| @JohnEdwards33 @PaulSandars Agree re the content but the data use is legitimate and available to all parties from councils | ||
| @RedRobertino don't forget Ristorante Tre Galline in Turin | ||
| @David__Osland in any case last time I seriously studied Scottish Labour internal politics there were six or seven factions not two! | ||
| @David__Osland I think you may be trying to make this a factional thing when it probably isn't | ||
| @David__Osland I suspect they just fancied clinging on to positions and the enhanced allowances that go with them | ||
| @David__Osland nor does the fact that it is Kezia who has announced they are suspended | ||
| @David__Osland which doesn't suggest they are organisationally aligned with people on my wing of party | ||
| @David__Osland do you actually know if the Labour Group in Aberdeen are associated with a wing of party? I don't. | ||
| @OneLifeStand87 @youngvulgarian he isn't a member | ||
| Heading to Leeds to do NEC Report to Pudsey CLP | ||
| @CJPW91 Not true, GMB, Unison and Usdaw the other big 3 affiliates who all make sensible contribution to Labour deliberations | ||
| @GrahamGropius @LabourList Well spotted | ||
| @Misellaineous1 What are you on about? | ||
| @emjajon @AlanOlive1 @UKLabour I've written a Labourlist post for tomorrow showing how to do that | ||
| @AlanOlive1 @emjajon @UKLabour If you enter a Bristol postcode it sends you to Gower or Telford! | ||
| I suppose better late than never to move on from revolutionary totalitarianism aged 59 after serving on Politburo of Stalinist CPB. https://t.co/imeh9aSmGU | ||
| @davidgwynne @LabourList Seats that would change hands on the swing suggested by current opinion polls | ||
| @RWRL @meaglemp Not heard this at all in Oxford East which must be similar to his seat | ||
| On @LabourList tomorrow I'm going to give an accurate data informed guide to the marginals where Labour activists can affect the outcome | ||
| This LD tweet is cynically designed to reduce turnout and reflects messaging used in LD direct mail to Lab & Con supporters https://t.co/aa1Oep3xMD | ||
| Looks like I may be delayed @LabLinda75 https://t.co/TPRYWq5Xi4 | ||
| @DebbieM1dge It was a rhetorical question, he was until last year in a party not famous for engaging with democratic elections. | ||
| Is there any evidence Mr Murray brings any knowledge or skills related to election campaigns to his secondment? https://t.co/L085zdErg5 | ||
| Beautiful morning for #labourdoorstep for @AnnelieseDodds @Oxford_Labour in Rose Hill | ||
| @kevpeel surely whoever was in the NOLS office would have issued the line, and Wes as President just followed it? | ||
| @Dave_Burns_ we are in the middle of a General Election campaign so stop being divisive. | ||
| @Dave_Burns_ @UKDefJournal eh? We were not discussing Corbyn & I am working my socks off on #labourdoorstep are you? | ||
| @Dave_Burns_ @UKDefJournal all the press reports I have seen say it was spread by attachments on emails | ||
| Opinium poll (9-12 May) Con 47% (+1), Lab 32% (+2), LD 8% (-1), UKIP 5% (-2) | ||
| @MarkSeddon1962 Sadly I spend quite a bit of time as outpatient in hospitals and can confirm every patient still has a paper file. | ||
| @dodgemeisterT @jackalsbynight @Mancman10 @wendy161966 @FoxHedgehog why does Russia test our airspace with Bear bomber incursions? | ||
| Lunch break between 2 #labourdoorstep sessions for @AnnelieseDodds . Good response from voters in Sandhills this morning. | ||
| @N5_1BU I haven't "knocked the manifesto". Don't make things up. | ||
| @SeemaChandwani @AngelaRayner @BarryGardiner @RichardBurgon @RLong_Bailey Eh? Barry was a minister for 5 years appointed by Blair. | ||
| @SteveAkehurst the real debate about manifesto content would usually happen long b4 Clause V mtg with unions and frontbenchers | ||
| @SteveAkehurst on some previous occasions it was printed before the meeting ie meeting was a rubber stamp exercise | ||
| @Carefulthought The people that wrote it were the only ones who had access to it. | ||
| @SteveAkehurst Actually can't blame the folk listed, they only got it at 10am today. | ||
| Join me to campaign for the Labour Party https://t.co/ODbeN92npz #labourdoorstep | ||
| Join me to campaign for the Labour Party https://t.co/jB107ojxEg #labourdoorstep | ||
| Best wishes to my former boss @capbyrne as he steps down after many years leading Weber Shandwick https://t.co/cRRYvikEr4 | ||
| @HullRePublic I've never criticised the Labour Party, just some of the people in it. Let's save this conversation for after the election. | ||
| @HullRePublic Last 29 years of active membership. | ||
| @SimonAttwood @James4Labour @Simon_Vessey @UKLabour Try harder | ||
| @tigerfish4 Read my twitter feed | ||
| @totnesredgreen And my opinion is not very important as I will vote Labour regardless of what the policies in the manifesto are | ||
| @totnesredgreen I haven't read it all yet! | ||
| @tigerfish4 Like I said, read my twitter feed before accusing me of knocking the leadership. | ||
| @tigerfish4 No I think the voters have the answer | ||
| @JonHegerty Thanks for good questions/points. | ||
| @wildernessyrs @MrRae1000 Yes | ||
| @JonHegerty I would prefer that we retained a UK defence industry as we need it for our own security | ||
| @JonHegerty In an ideal world nor would I, but sometimes you pick lesser of 2 evils eg our alliance w Stalin vs Hitler | ||
| @JonHegerty I don't consider it a bad thing to arm our allies | ||
| @MrRae1000 Prefer not to speculate! | ||
| @MrRae1000 No. I am not convinced they will even push it to a vote. | ||
| @MrRae1000 Yes. I would caution against an early leadership challenge. | ||
| @MrRae1000 It is the least accurate article I have read for a long time. There is no prospect of this happening. | ||
| The Greens standing in Hampstead & Kilburn will presumably take votes off the Lib Dems, which is actually helps Labour. https://t.co/dUHMzWoYfX | ||
| @David__Osland I am surprised you are giving credance to such a silly story. | ||
| @grmday @dijdowell The selections were done last Monday | ||
| @grmday @dijdowell After | ||
| @renieanjeh @FSGLoveman @Labourpaul No they couldn't. That would require support of NEC, which they don't control. | ||
| @FSGLoveman @Labourpaul Yes and no - electoral position worse, position of moderates in terms of control of party structures is a lot better than it was then. | ||
| @renieanjeh @FSGLoveman @Labourpaul How? They don't have ability to win control of any of the key structures like NEC, NCC, Conference. | ||
| @FSGLoveman @Labourpaul That's what the SDP thought in 1982. They got it wrong. | ||
| @FSGLoveman @Labourpaul People who were 20 in 1979 had to wait until they were 38... a split would delay rather than speed up a return to a winning Labour Party | ||
| @FSGLoveman @Labourpaul For as long as it takes. | ||
| @grmday @dijdowell That was a decision by the NEC, not a local CLP going off piste. | ||
| @grmday @dijdowell Every candidate in the country was announced last week. | ||
| @grmday @dijdowell Yes | ||
| @OpenlyClassist @markcurtis30 I did, but only involving UK MoD as no useful insights regarding overseas markets... | ||
| @Blackadder345 @TheDecider25 @CompletePol Actually YouGov is/was an exception. Explained here: https://t.co/qc89Gii3uR | ||
| @SpaJw @twlldun @RossFootball Nah, vast majority of students don't talk about politics | ||
| This worked brilliantly in Sheffield in 1992... maybe we could also do a PPB about a child's ear and the NHS. https://t.co/3VTgemSXPI | ||
| @attarj @AnnelieseDodds Cheaper and faster to print. You can overprint yellow blank posters with candidate name locally. | ||
| #labourdoorstep for @AnnelieseDodds in Churchill Ward today | ||
| @tomcopley @LucyAndersonMEP @AnnelieseDodds Assuming you are coming to the main 11am canvass? | ||
| @tomcopley @LucyAndersonMEP @AnnelieseDodds See you there! | ||
| @CalumSPlath @colmuacuinn The St Pancras bit needs updating as HS1 now serves Canterbury & Thanet | ||
| Request a Poster or Garden Stake https://t.co/W14FtJdZiS | ||
| @LillyBynn Yes | ||
| @socialist1959 @LillyBynn Mr Lynn just accused me of having a failed strategy. To extent I was responsible (as an NEC backer of Ed M) I'm defending it. | ||
| @scottr0gers And they need to get sign off for coalition deal with NEC or SEC as applicable, presume/hope won't be given! | ||
| A performance related promotion? https://t.co/kjGmXNhL13 | ||
| @TheDecider25 @hollyamcd @DavidGJonesss @jeremycorbyn And John Smith was a Labour moderate who appealed to centre ground voters. | ||
| @spandex3000 @RichardAngell were you running a campaign centre vs the Tories yesterday? I was. | ||
| @phil_space @bradley915 actually I have repeatedly said Vote Labour | ||
| Gutted that county where I grew up looks like this. 1997, 01 & 05 shows people in Kent will vote for moderate Labour. https://t.co/aTawjtGaFp | ||
| @spandex3000 You mean the Progress folk like @RichardAngell who spends every weekend on #labourdoorstep with @Lab3seats ? | ||
| @ianrobo1 @_DaveTalbot @anthonyleahy And in any case I was thinking twinning with Essex not all the way to Brum | ||
| @ianrobo1 @_DaveTalbot @anthonyleahy Don't be ridiculous. Your own members in Brum aren't all locally raised with local accents. | ||
| @anthonyleahy I'm not a Corbynite! I thought that was fairly well known... | ||
| @anthonyleahy Yes I know. | ||
| Congratulations @TurnbullEC on 2nd @Oxford_Labour gain from Greens! | ||
| @anthonyleahy Our excellent MPs and councillors | ||
| Gain from UKIP I think https://t.co/soUqWWjSUz | ||
| Phew I still have a Labour County Councillor! Well done @MarkLygo | ||
| @maxshanly No they began in 1955 when Jock Tiffin died and we lost control of the TGWU | ||
| @valstevens24 Except in 2013 everyone did - I took big teams from Hackney to Harlow then. | ||
| Amazing, @helentevans has gained Iffley Fields & St Marys from Greens for @Oxford_Labour! | ||
| @KatieCurtis Exactly. Hackney was twinned with and sent big team to Harlow in 2013. | ||
| Commiserations to @asquithbill who fought a great campaign for @Oxford_Labour in Headington & Quarry | ||
| @helenerswell I'll be doing an analysis of yesterday's results for @LabourList once they are all in. | ||
| Worth reading this thread from psephologist @lewis_baston https://t.co/rd7yFovyWV | ||
| Completely pissed off about this - I took loads of Hackney Labour people up to Harlow in 2013 to help gain these seats. https://t.co/i3wB78rx3I | ||
| @jimwaterson @aspirationalbob All the parties have an odd man with a spreadsheet who calculates the result. Only Lib Dems tell the media what he says. | ||
| Obligatory committee room selfie #labourdoorstep | ||
| Looking forward to running committee room for re-election of @MarkLygo of @Oxford_Labour in Marston & Northway Division tomorrow | ||
| Labour's ruling NEC has approved the party's list of candidates for #ge17 general elexn https://t.co/1UxEjbr8lS via @HuffPostUKPol | ||
| Can Britain’s Labour Party Come Back From the Brink? https://t.co/B60fiTv26x Hattersley in the NYT |
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| @wildernessyrs Tomorrow I think | ||
| @flashboy No local party in the entire country got to choose candidate this time - they have all been picked by NEC | ||
| @SimonAttwood @LabourList It isn't 10% representative, as the relative demographics of our members and wider population would tell you | ||
| @SimonAttwood @LabourList Why are you writing off people who voted Labour in past but now vote Tory? | ||
| @SimonAttwood @LabourList You need two non-voters or Greens to vote Labour to equal effect of one person switching from Con to Lab | ||
| @SimonAttwood @LabourList We've had two years of a strategy that was sold as appealing to non-voters. Surely they would all now be motivated to vote? | ||
| @SimonAttwood @LabourList I'm not writing them off but all the polling says their party allegiences would be similar to those of people who do vote. | ||
| @JohannaBaxter thanks, see you on Monday at PLP | ||
| @JohnStrawson @stevienicholas I'm not insulting them. I think they are very sensible not to have any time for the Greens. | ||
| Oldfield Road, N16 makes it into this list, just round corner from my old flat. https://t.co/NlTYXX7WIN | ||
| @obotheclown @HouseofTwits they will get fined if they ignore it | ||
| @SeemaChandwani Hove if you fancy the seaside | ||
| @SeemaChandwani Slough, Norwich South, Luton South, lots of marginals in Midlands if you can go that far. | ||
| @SeemaChandwani in what sense? | ||
| @SeemaChandwani Harriet Harman has tweeted useful grid of all those picked in Labour held seats | ||
| @SeemaChandwani only decided on today | ||
| @SeemaChandwani good thanks | ||
| @SeemaChandwani @TanDhesi and @CllrPreetGill | ||
| @kmflett @SeemaChandwani one of the BAME candidates has a beard! | ||
| @SeemaChandwani also BAME candidates in Slough & Birmingham Edgbaston | ||
| @SharonHodgsonMP Hartlepool candidate is Mike Hill | ||
| @oneandonlymr0 No I think I will be doing all my campaigning in Oxford East where I live as we need to get our new candidate @AnnelieseDodds elected as MP | ||
| #labourdoorstep this morning in The Leys for @AnnelieseDodds & Deborah McIlveen @Oxford_Labour | ||
| Dog Control Orders being discussed now - serious issue in Hackney's parks and open spaces | ||
| The assumption that withdrawal of an LD candidate would benefit Labour/Greens more than Tories doesn't strike me as necessarily correct. | ||
| @mail32186551 @scottishlabour @blairmcdougall Mr McDougall is a lot more New Labour than Mr Brown | ||
| @scottr0gers Congratulations and good luck @rheawolfson | ||
| Is David Ward still holding public office as a Lib Dem Councillor in Bradford? | ||
| We could also try producing a manifesto that is appealing to older voters given they turnout already. Socialism for all ages not just yoof! https://t.co/GpPpl2JmGl | ||
| @EdmundGriffiths thanks! | ||
| @LeahFHardy @AntiNazisUnited @JRogan3000 @JolyonGreen @JohnRentoul @AdamBienkov @SarahAB_UK @Jake_Wilde @J_Bloodworth @ComiskeyNathan No he was Agent for Bermondsey Labour Party in the 1990s. Then quit and involved in various left anti-Lab initiatives. | ||
| Local election projection by the UK's main experts on local govt voting https://t.co/kqlS242S10 | ||
| @frenthegeordie @richard_d_sandy @politicshome In theory but impossible given GMB, Unite and USDAW have pro-deterrent policy. | ||
| My Labourlist column: https://t.co/CmGhcMkLlA | ||
| Because Red Wedge won us loads of General Elections in the '80s https://t.co/iKEzWJpNB0 | ||
| Ummm Welsh Labour left to its own devices won the Welsh Assembly election last year. https://t.co/7XvGgG1Rtw | ||
| @23Maisey Why would his former job be of any significance? What's wrong with being an investment banker? | ||
| @UncleBarber @ldobsonhughes They do in a run-off when the only other candidate is Le Pen. | ||
| @rurallabouruk Yes if it was a run-off vs Le Pen | ||
| Over 130 members out on #labourdoorstep with @Oxford_Labour today. Amazing start to campaign. | ||
| On the #labourdoorstep in Headington with @Oxford_Labour | ||
| @burkski @anmac2012 @Hobotnic @EdmundGriffiths @WeBelieveIsrael It is rather tiresome. | ||
| @burkski @anmac2012 @Hobotnic @EdmundGriffiths I think it's a reference to my day job as Director of @WeBelieveIsrael . I am a Zionist but not an "agent" if implication is spy/secret. | ||
| Joining the afternoon session of this while @LabLinda75 does the morning. Very proud to be part of @Oxford_Labour https://t.co/sDs00ArpN5 | ||
| @McConaghyBen @scottr0gers No I wouldn't because I'd like us to be in government. We can argue about who would be PM once we got a majority. | ||
| @McConaghyBen @scottr0gers "Going well"??? We are 25% adrift! What would going badly look like? | ||
| @McConaghyBen Odd as all the "Bitterites" I know are campaigning their guts out on #labourdoorstep | ||
| @maxshanly @ryxnf Why not? What a weird thing to get upset about. | ||
| @james_jsl Wasn't intended to acheive anything. Just expressing emmotional reaction to some v upsetting polls. | ||
| @burnetbasher @dungra I am fighting for it on #labourdoorstep just like I have in 6 previous General Elections | ||
| @LeightonAndrews @charliebach It reminds me of the cornfield scene in Dr Zhivago | ||
| @scottr0gers Problem is same as 2015, great policies for our base but lack of offer for people we need to win back from Tories. | ||
| @scottr0gers Of course they aren't. I don't see those as policies owned by your wing of party. Pretty sure everyone Labour backs them. | ||
| @scottr0gers I am not going to publicly criticise party policies in the middle of a General Election | ||
| @scottr0gers It's the rhetoric, demeanour, image & personnel that are the main problems. | ||
| @scottr0gers Wasn't majority at conference, isn't majority of MPs or councillors or even of active members. | ||
| @philwelshdundee Read my timeline - I was out canvassing today and will be tomorrow. | ||
| @scottr0gers Nope. Have never criticised the party, just your faction in it. | ||
| @scottr0gers We aren't. Our stances & members are totally unrepresentative of people who vote Labour let alone people who used to. | ||
| @Shaker_Chizzle @LS1hack Most of the people voting Tory are not instinctively Tory, driven there by us not presenting a credible alternative | ||
| @scottr0gers By the way I argued vehemently to keep electoral college so not taking any blame for scrapping it. | ||
| @scottr0gers But given the polling what is the point in you having won? You've just had chance to prove public don't want your politics. | ||
| @scottr0gers Ed Milliband created a leadership voting system that allowed people with no real commitment to Labour to vote. | ||
| @winsaint @spellar I didn't say anything negative - just stated a fact that explains the polling we are seeing. | ||
| @alberttrigg infiltrated? My family have been Labour & union activists since early 1920s. I joined aged 16. | ||
| @JonHegerty I'm to the left of Blair on economic and domestic policy | ||
| @JonHegerty similar to Denis Healey or Roy Hattersley's. Lots of social justice & redistribution but robust on defence & foreign policy. | ||
| @scottr0gers I'm not sniping, I'm nearly in tears at what you fools have done. You could at least have the decency to apologise. | ||
| @JonHegerty I guess I am lucky that my personal views are not too dissimilar from those of swing voters. | ||
| @JonHegerty only works if you have sensible arguments and look competent. | ||
| @MrMuhammedGrey it's not about which ones I approve of, it's which ones swing voters in marginal seats approve of | ||
| @anthonyleahy @JackyHolyoake @MSmithsonPB I am upbeat as I track all the delegate election results | ||
| @anthonyleahy @JackyHolyoake @MSmithsonPB big difference between behaviour of conference & OMOV ballots - mods won at conf in 2015 & 2016 | ||
| @ihaveleftlabour @JolyonGreen OK but we are an idiosyncratic area, nothing like Con vs Lab marginals | ||
| @ihaveleftlabour @JolyonGreen yes | ||
| @JolyonGreen lots of them were out today in Oxford. | ||
| @roadto326 places like Enfield Southgate only came on radar even Observer ran some single seat polls on final Sunday | ||
| @roadto326 the latter. Everyone was working in the very marginal seats, the long shot wins were not expected | ||
| Please RSVP: Super Sunday, morning session https://t.co/xBkfdJh5tJ | ||
| @eddie_1955 @election_data @UKLabour PS I was out canvassing for a Labour govt this afternoon. | ||
| @eddie_1955 @election_data @UKLabour I have retweeted every opinion poll for 10 years because I follow polling in detail. You can't ignore the ones that upset you. | ||
| Enjoyable #labourdoorstep in the sunshine in Iffley Fields & St Mary's. Loads of posters up for @Oxford_Labour 's @helentevans | ||
| @maxshanly And exactly, as stated I prefer my socialism without mass murdering tyrants, of Baathist or Bolshevik orientation. | ||
| @maxshanly Opposing Saddam Hussein is in same category as opposing Lenin, Stalin and Trotsky. Good vs bad. | ||
| @ClareFKing @Oxford_Labour Less than that as my commute means I get home too late to do weekday evenings. V impressive, keep up the good work! | ||
| @ClareFKing you can ask @Oxford_Labour | ||
| @Ohok123456789 @Davejhes1950 @hx_06 these are all policies that everyone in Labour supports | ||
| @capbyrne @ChichesterDC that's awful. | ||
| @capbyrne @ChichesterDC you have put it in wrong envelope. Ballot goes in A, then that & statement go in B. | ||
| @Davejhes1950 @hx_06 So historically Soft Left supported Kinnock leadership, Hard Left opposed him. | ||
| @Davejhes1950 @hx_06 It's less about policies (often same on Hard & Soft Left) more about willingness to compromise w rest of Labour Party. | ||
| @Davejhes1950 @hx_06 That is the specific. Hard & Soft Left are widely uses terms in political science, history books, journalism & self description of ppl. | ||
| @ChrisDaleRogers Their definition - a supporter of the Campaign Group of MPs. | ||
| @Beccmason Because she was selected in 1987 before 98% of local members joined the party. | ||
| @_kerriprince not really given Burnham has already resigned before the result has even happened for Manchester | ||
| @AdamWisdish @LouieWoodall correct the list includes the ones where the 2015 candidate might reapply | ||
| @_kerriprince because Steve will resign when he wins Merseyside Mayor on 4 May. | ||
| Join me for Door knocking for Labour in Iffley Fields and St Mary's https://t.co/XO4q8Z4DeE #labourdoorstep | ||
| @Midj109 Far as I can see yes. | ||
| @Amy_HF Of course. But in leaflets. My followers on Twitter already knows about the Tories. | ||
| @Amy_HF No I think it is electorally important to distance Labour from such ridiculousness. | ||
| @Midj109 He is suspended from his job. Has no impact on his status as a candidate for GS. | ||
| @tazlufc Rather a lot. #VoteLabour | ||
| @tomwilliamsisme @OneLifeStand87 @mikeysmith It is his workplace - he has been suspended from his job, not as a candidate for GS. | ||
| @AwayFromMars @MichaelDugher It's not about being with Labour, it's about being Labour. It wouldn't occur to me that it was possible to support another party. | ||
| @gsandhu @stephenkb No. CLPs may be able to hold full meetings between 9 & 23 June. But if they can't manage that EC could pick the delegates. | ||
| @Freedland They were friends - Bob and Brian - in the dining club "Old Testament Prophets | ||
| @JackyHolyoake The meeting started at 2pm and the email came at 3.02pm. | ||
| @LifeofOpuscula @NoraMulready yes | ||
| @LifeofOpuscula @NoraMulready doesn't stop them running for parliament a month later | ||
| @NoraMulready NEC deciding this today. | ||
| Take responsibility for your political choices. https://t.co/kJnU26NxqN | ||
| @HuwJonesLabour @PickardJE Good luck if you are running again | ||
| @CllrStopp Leader's office wanted trigger process but NEC Officers overruled them. This is all being reported by media. | ||
| @CllrStopp I think you have got wrong end of stick. Proposal is that all MPs automatically run again with no trigger or selection. | ||
| @David__Osland It fits my understanding from NEC members of the scrap likely to happen tomorrow. | ||
| @DarrellChaloner Hopefully a PLP fan club. | ||
| @nialldeacon Indeed. And a trigger process would imply time to run a shortlisting & selection if the MP was triggered. | ||
| @SeemaChandwani @carmel_prescott @the_awakend Generally it's polite to thank people who give up 5 whole days to chair selection panels in your borough rather than attack their decisions. | ||
| @cymrurouge @SeemaChandwani indeed, Spurs are in the same position | ||
| @SeemaChandwani I never tweet anything that is anti Labour. | ||
| @cymrurouge @SeemaChandwani @WalesOnline he doesn't hold any office in Labour First. | ||
| @cymrurouge @SeemaChandwani @WalesOnline no because he's running for parish council not a primary authority | ||
| @SeemaChandwani if you want to be a Labour councillor you can't call the council leader & MP "Tories" & attack key council policies. | ||
| @SeemaChandwani it isn't. You were making public statements on social media that a panel judged made you unfit to run for council. | ||
| @SeemaChandwani and every time I run for NEC Left Futures does pull out the file they have on me and republish it! | ||
| @Barnabyspeak They don't believe in conventional electoral politics - think a crisis of capitalism is inevitable and will propel them to power. | ||
| @DamCou people (correctly) argued Ed M couldn't win because he was "only 10% ahead of the Tories | ||
| @HuwJonesLabour @AlanOlive1 Was a union delegate to my CLP for 23 years. Recruited loads of ppl & pushed TU recognition in my workplace. | ||
| @PLSpeakman @Maomentum_ It's a parody account! | ||
| Sad to hear this. He chaired the commission that recommended Hackney should have an elected mayor. https://t.co/ytrFiJcMRV | ||
| @ChrisDaleRogers And I campaign vs Tories where it actually had an impact - on #labourdoorstep | ||
| @ChrisDaleRogers I am 100% confident that my tweets have no impact on national voting intention | ||
| @PLSpeakman what behaviour? What are you alleging I have done? | ||
| @BenGartside @JoePAnderson and Labour agent may believe Andy and Afzal on same leaflet gives a coattails benefit | ||
| @BenGartside @JoePAnderson they may have decided not to dilute byelection message | ||
| @JoePAnderson @BenGartside yep the agent(s) allocate the spend in approx proportion to the coverage of each candidate | ||
| Expel the dissenters", "snakes". Language last heard in Stalin era show trials. https://t.co/B8CdF8uePT | ||
| @rcwilliams612 And the other poll yesterday showed us 21% behind. | ||
| @rcwilliams612 "Relatively good news" at this stage in cycle would be being 10% ahead. We need to be 20% ahead to win a GE due to swing back to govt. | ||
| @desmond_chester A leader who people could visualise as PM. | ||
| Redefing success as a really awful Tory govt being 9% ahead in mid-term. Tragic. https://t.co/pscrm9Gvr3 | ||
| @LRCinfo @skwawkbox and head strategist of Momentum Jon Lansman couldn't get his slate nominated in his CLP, so we are quits. | ||
| @krelbourne35 Oh I thought you were referring to Peoples' Front of Judea/Judean Peoples' Liberation Front | ||
| @krelbourne35 the Spanish Inquisition scene isn't in Life of Brian | ||
| @krelbourne35 It explains its satirising British revolutionary groups. | ||
| @krelbourne35 Read the bit here on political satire: https://t.co/kQORoqsBC1 | ||
| @krelbourne35 It's not a hidden meaning, it's the joke. It's only funny because its mocking far left groups. | ||
| @krelbourne35 Who do you think it was about then? | ||
| @krelbourne35 The sketch in Life of Brian you are referring to was mocking the UK far left. | ||
| Spending day off work helping Ken L campaign day in Hackney - he's getting great reception from voters | ||
| @ldnsw2 yes they did well. Impressive organising, though historically always a left CLP. | ||
| Interesting take. https://t.co/OHZddna3bz | ||
| @ChrisDaleRogers yes it is widely recognised that Ernie Bevin was antisemitic | ||
| What I think about the Tory push for more grammar schools: https://t.co/IxpDd0Ms9q | ||
| @MarcsWords @johnstares45 @drbeckyallen A comprehensive is a school with pupils of all abilities. I.e. if a grammar exists the other school can't be comprehensive. | ||
| @SeemaChandwani Actually it was on 10 March. No supporting speeches allowed.... | ||
| @cr_celab who rules by decree, has neutered congress and represses dissent. | ||
| @MattLangleyUK @TomMillerUK @RichardAngell such as the Boer War, WW1, Korea, Vietnam and all the wars Israel has won | ||
| @MattLangleyUK @TomMillerUK @RichardAngell don't forget to republish my tweet slagging off Beyonce's set at Glasto as well | ||
| @MattLangleyUK @TomMillerUK @RichardAngell and I'm sure voters will also want to know about my support for other contemporary conflicts ... | ||
| @rhys_thomas26 yes these guys https://t.co/kUEqW82XlU | ||
| @musicians4JC @anfieldroad1973 about the same. That's why I cited economic & social policy, not foreign & defence. | ||
| @musicians4JC @anfieldroad1973 err no. I'm not a Blairite and pretty near centre of party on economic and social policy. | ||
| @anfieldroad1973 how very 2015 | ||
| @skwawkbox @i400s @charliemansell that's why we emailed & asked rather than assuming ppl w overseas IP were members of Labour International | ||
| @i400s @skwawkbox @charliemansell @paulmasonnews @PeterStefanovi2 spoilsport. | ||
| @charliemansell @i400s @skwawkbox @paulmasonnews @PeterStefanovi2 also tells you how many opens (a proxy for forwards) | ||
| @i400s @skwawkbox @charliemansell @paulmasonnews @PeterStefanovi2 if they get opened. | ||
| @i400s @skwawkbox @charliemansell @paulmasonnews @PeterStefanovi2 no, Mailchimp doesn't record incoming emails. | ||
| @j0nj86 @charliemansell @skwawkbox @paulmasonnews @PeterStefanovi2 actually he's libelled us. But life is too short for litigation. | ||
| @burnett1975 Think you need to look at the politics of West Bromwich E CLP if you think Tom could be deselected. | ||
| @skwawkbox @charliemansell @paulmasonnews @PeterStefanovi2 From his IP address. Mailchimp captures this. | ||
| @charliemansell @skwawkbox @paulmasonnews @PeterStefanovi2 If the data had improperly come from the party it would already state the CLP and we wouldn't need to ask! | ||
| @charliemansell @skwawkbox @paulmasonnews @PeterStefanovi2 Our records show this person subscribed to our emails in 2015. | ||
| @hbgbln Ostuni in Puglia has the walled tiers but is around a conical hill | ||
| @foodleedskidstv Shhh | ||
| This is what fighting Tories actually looks like. https://t.co/h0F0g8BQh0 | ||
| Remember a great week in Tamworth campaigning in this one with NOLS finest activists. https://t.co/h0F0g8BQh0 | ||
| I hope that Chavez isn't dead but that the people of Venezuela will rise up and overthrow his regime while he is in Cuba | ||
| A democratic revolution in Cuba would be great news as well | ||
| @peopleman44 @UniteforLen Branch nominations not a good guide if turnout is high. E.g. Simpson beat Jackson despite far fewer nominations. | ||
| @BenSoffa go it alone??? Do you know size of UK armed forces? | ||
| @ckyoung19 @Huttoneer sorry I missed the bit when I had any connection to Labour's performance in Scotland. When was that? | ||
| @CrowdenBen @_kerriprince the balance of CLP results is not dissimilar to last year but 70% of delegate elections are in May & June | ||
| @XanPhillips Self funding is also v problematic - hardly equal opps | ||
| @XanPhillips It's the budget agreed by the CLP. On the low side as accomodation + travel + pass ×19 is far higher than £4k. | ||
| @Gweilouk @JohnRentoul @afneil That's a protest against the US airstrikes not the gas attacks. | ||
| @andrewspoooner Paul Watson? | ||
| @ExSpAd @andrewspoooner No I meant who is Paul Watson? | ||
| @andrewspoooner Who is he? | ||
| If this cobblers was correct, how do they explain why large moderate CLPs are choosing not to send their full delegate entitlement? https://t.co/1k5euBroSH | ||
| @portraitinflesh In what sense? She opposes the moderates who run her own CLP and Lambeth Council? | ||
| @TimSwift Quite a few of those as well! | ||
| @_IanMoss @LauraSRobinson @Labourpaul Thanks for reminding me of that ... | ||
| @j_bettany @BristolRed @MomentumBristol @bristolwestlab You can shout and scream as much as you want but NEC proposed rule changes always have & will be taken in bundles not singly. | ||
| @j_bettany @BristolRed @MomentumBristol @bristolwestlab No that is not what happened. The show of hands was on a procedural motion about whether to take the rule changes as a bundle. | ||
| @j_bettany @BristolRed @MomentumBristol @bristolwestlab The full contingent is never present as the unions never send delegates = in number to CLPs but do have half the card vote | ||
| @BenSoffa that article suggests Iran, Libya and N Korea as much threats as Iraq. I agree! | ||
| @wlarge63 where is the "insult"? | ||
| @maxshanly You ain't seen nothin' yet! | ||
| @winsaint That's handy as moderates are winning majority of CLPs | ||
| @msjenniferjames Only if they are not close. Whenever our outcome is in doubt there is a card vote to ensure TU half of conference gets correct weight. | ||
| Just voted for my friend and comrade @andrew4mk for SE rep on Co-Op NEC | ||
| @Jack_TaylorSE15 Correct. | ||
| Being Trot-splained how Labour Conference works by first time delegates when I've chaired it twice. FFS. | ||
| I've chaired Conference twice. This is not true. Bodies in room never decisive as chair knows where unions with big card vote are sat. https://t.co/hKBVnC6sa8 | ||
| Thanks for the heads up. We now know to call a card vote on literally any contested vote. https://t.co/hKBVnC6sa8 | ||
| @thomas_adf @reecewhayes Nope all rule changes are done on a card vote not a show of hands. | ||
| @reecewhayes @thomas_adf All rule changes are decided on a card vote where CLP gets vote = its number of members regardless of how many delegates it sends | ||
| @frozenwarning This is how many they are entitled as they have over 4000 members | ||
| @JulieCh42576212 we need to get you and the country a Labour government. Any disagreement we have is about how we can achieve that. | ||
| @JulieCh42576212 been on the Labour bus as member since 1988, my family since 1920s. You? | ||
| Paper with hammer and sickle emblem defends antisemitism. Plus ca change... https://t.co/JrEwq0YimX | ||
| This is what a vibrant social movement that rejects essentially apolitical activities like #labourdoorstep looks like. Or something. https://t.co/eZf0NY2S5R | ||
| @robpettitt123 We are in the same CLP. | ||
| @sportmankayaker Voting closes on 20 April, result on 28 April. | ||
| Maybe if you were going to make this ridiculous point, given context not picking a Jewish politician to attack would have been tasteful. https://t.co/uggb1LwOL2 | ||
| @lynne1808 @LDNYoungLabour What do you mean by "charged"? Labour's NCC found him guilty. It's not a criminal matter but one of party rules. | ||
| The Clash of left and right https://t.co/IbeD6FVSbY via @mjcreighton | ||
| @JohnStrawson No thanks. | ||
| @gsandhu @Semakaleng @steve_race I struggle to visualise Trots like Graham Bash wasting time on cultural events when they could be drafting rule changes. | ||
| Lunch south of the river with @andrew4mk @islingtonlizzi @Lee_Findell @sarahwardfindel @LabLinda75 rhodri and large number of kids | ||
| @ianrobo1 @roadto326 But overall composition of NCC irrelevant as cases are heard by 3 member panels. | ||
| @ianrobo1 @roadto326 Correct. The huge time commitment means MPs couldn't do it. | ||
| @roadto326 2 of the 4 CLP reps are up for election this year. | ||
| @roadto326 Currently the moderates hold 3 of 4 CLP reps. JLM hold the socialist soc seat. Union ones are from the big TUs. | ||
| @roadto326 6 trade union reps, 1 socialist society rep, 4 CLP reps | ||
| @roadto326 Sorry 11 members | ||
| @roadto326 They are elected in groups at annual conference. | ||
| @roadto326 There are 12 members on the NCC of whom 3 sit on each case. | ||
| Mark Gardner's Blog: Ken Livingstone: Dragging us through the dirt https://t.co/Dcw2wasHI6 via @timesofisrael | ||
| Livingstone, Labour and antisemitism https://t.co/FneeK5ysA5 via @jewishchron | ||
| The composition of the NCC panel deserves some scrutiny. | ||
| @danieljeffery26 Sensible but this was only a 3 member panel. | ||
| @garethhunt01 @enrages @ComiskeyNathan @FrankFactfinder @Torterra21 I don't think it's helpful to discuss that on social media. | ||
| @DPJHodges @ComiskeyNathan Actually it was 3 people who took the decision. | ||
| @TomMillerUK @RichardAngell he did have WMD and used it, gassing the Kurds at Halabja | ||
| @FrankFactfinder @Torterra21 @ComiskeyNathan all I can ask is hang on in there this fight will take a long time but we will prevail | ||
| @FrankFactfinder @Torterra21 @ComiskeyNathan It can't happen yet as the current party rules mean Corbyn would win if challenged for leader. Need to change rules or change membership! | ||
| @Torterra21 @ComiskeyNathan @FrankFactfinder I don't agree. With a dramatic change of leader and top team people's view of party would change very quickly. | ||
| @enrages @ComiskeyNathan @FrankFactfinder @Torterra21 If the NEC submit it. Depends what the unions decide to do. | ||
| @Torterra21 @ComiskeyNathan @FrankFactfinder It's never too late. At some time UK will need a moderate Labour Party again. | ||
| @ComiskeyNathan @FrankFactfinder @Torterra21 Yes returning to an Electoral College where MPs, members and TUs have 1/3 of votes each. No point having a contest under current rules. | ||
| @FrankFactfinder @ComiskeyNathan @Torterra21 At Annual Conference | ||
| @davidiancollins @DPJHodges @IntJewCon It doesn't even do that as nominations usually only close at end of June. | ||
| @PaulDBrant Yes Ken published the charge letter. | ||
| @EmmaBurnell_ He hasn"t been suspended from membership, just from holding office. | ||
| @wildernessyrs Correct. He returns to full membership then. | ||
| I.e. not even suspension from membership, just from holding office within party. https://t.co/eRqnZDDMbS | ||
| @JennieUnite From non members? Everyone I've seen campaigning for a change of GS is a longstanding member. | ||
| Unite isn't just the union of Len McCluskey. It's the union of Ernie Bevin, Ken Jackson, Gavin Laird, Bill Jordan, Frank Chapple too. | ||
| School funding cuts to hit poorer areas harder, says Labour https://t.co/lBU4UwkBJI | ||
| @ReeceLingard @MichaelDugher no requires NEC to propose a rule change and then Annual or Special Conference to pass it | ||
| @ReeceLingard @MichaelDugher need to change the leadership election rules before having another contest. | ||
| @_kerriprince Old Right is my lot - think Spellar, Dugher, Watson. Trade union wing of the moderates. Labour 1st. Healey & Hattersley tradition. | ||
| @wildernessyrs @rob_francis @liamjlhill @steamedhamms My guys are so Old Right they make phone calls rather than use social media | ||
| @_kerriprince Yes and no. Explained here: https://t.co/F2wE0MVBOh | ||
| @MrJackHazlewood @Labourpaul Ditto | ||
| @_kerriprince Yep you will. We thought Labour would never win again in 1992. Democracy makes parties come to their senses. | ||
| @tigerfish4 In what sense? | ||
| @iamhamesh They would be expelled within 5 minutes. Even the Aussie Labor "Hard Left" are sound on defence & security. | ||
| @barbycottontail @David__Osland @annaturley Everyone used to talk about Compassites. Are you new to the Labour Party? | ||
| @barbycottontail @David__Osland @annaturley No it means a supporter of Compass. | ||
| @mirabarhillel @msjenniferjames @cato_theelder You'll be talking to yourself then. | ||
| @barbycottontail @David__Osland @annaturley The Soft Left faction Compass. They used to be famous b4 Momentum. | ||
| @David__Osland @cato_theelder @orpen_m @msjenniferjames Yep but how much higher would it have been without all of Labour's redistributive policies, both to individuals & poorer localities? | ||
| @David__Osland Oh dear. | ||
| @msjenniferjames @cato_theelder No a consensus is when everyone can live with the result, not a big win by a divisive candidate. | ||
| @orpen_m @msjenniferjames @David__Osland @cato_theelder Actually I want poor people to have more money and believe this can only happen when Labour wins Tory votes in marginal seats. | ||
| @msjenniferjames @cato_theelder That will happen once we get a leader who there is consensus support for in the party. | ||
| @David__Osland Who is advocating that? I tend to ignore theoretical wafflings esp if given naff names. | ||
| @David__Osland In which case unless you have way to see inside their minds, almost every Labour politician also in that category. | ||
| @cato_theelder @msjenniferjames @David__Osland I think that might be a bit premature. | ||
| @David__Osland Corbyn is a social democrat not a socialist by that definition? | ||
| @David__Osland In which case there are very few socialists in the world. Do you still believe in abolishing capitalism? | ||
| @msjenniferjames @David__Osland @cato_theelder I can't say its something I've thought about since I was about 15. | ||
| @sunny_hundal The 4th Geneva Convention forbids holding civilians hostage... | ||
| @David__Osland I was thinking more about how voters define themselves than how politicians do | ||
| @David__Osland @cato_theelder Don't we want as many people as possible to think of themselves as socialists? | ||
| @RichardAngell @mfaulding @Conorpope @lauragriffiths @JeromeNeil It sounds like it was brilliant. Congrats and sorry I could not be there. | ||
| @d4nf0x The Balearics were ours during the Napoleonic Wars | ||
| @Vdweller £490m | ||
| @TomBeattie2010 @McVinoFC you meant to tag @labour_first | ||
| @JolyonGreen @_IanMoss My mum had one with page for restrictions on how much currency you could leave UK with. We may have that to look forward to. | ||
| @kb32904 @PeoplesMomentum @ULnational I think they have sent it to every party member who is in Unite | ||
| @dinkydoodent @DannyStone1 The International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance definition of antisemitism is helpful:https://t.co/LcqkV0uSn5 | ||
| @dinkydoodent Originally last April? | ||
| @MsSFothergill I think that was written when it was just the executive elections scheduled and no one knew Len was standing down | ||
| @MsSFothergill The left slate is United Left. This is everyone who isn't United Left, incl. Coyne supporters. | ||
| @moira723 No its not against rules. | ||
| @CalumSPlath @_kerriprince no is sadly the law that unions can only ballot by post (written in Thatcher era b4 internet) | ||
| @ryxnf look at how they have already trashed the internal politics of Momentum | ||
| @ryxnf it only takes one of these guys in a CLP to completely poison the atmosphere. | ||
| @peopleman44 but the stuff he said was nothing to do with Palestinians or Corbyn | ||
| @ryxnf AWL, Socialist Appeal. Some evidence of TUSC as well. | ||
| @fraserwat https://t.co/l3SqA06NwH | ||
| @fraserwat there is one CLP for all members outside UK - Labour International. It has branches but not one in Moscow yet so yes you could. | ||
| @fraserwat the tweet retweeted by someone today was from the 2015 leadership election. The link in it no longer works. | ||
| @fraserwat UK citizens can join Labour wherever they live. | ||
| @ryxnf historically Militant (Revolutionary Socialist League). | ||
| @ryxnf no entryism is when members of one political party join another one to take it over. | ||
| @fraserwat join what? | ||
| @TomMillerUK @RichardAngell it's about whether they might use them. Do u think wd b OK for Saddam still 2 b in power + have had 8 yrs 2 dev? | ||
| @TomMillerUK @RichardAngell also entire world incl peace movement, France + Russia thought he actually had WMD already | ||
| What I wrote immediately after the referendum: https://t.co/FNE1z2ICij | ||
| @HuwJonesLabour you haven't criticised the Tories today either! | ||
| @HuwJonesLabour actually I spent another day in the office at work, not tweeting. | ||
| Gerard Coyne makes case for Unite crown and takes of problems facing UK workers https://t.co/bnQ4DaAT9h | ||
| I don't think he likes the MPs I like. https://t.co/sE2wFpwYj4 | ||
| @SeemaChandwani @UniteforLen @jeremycorbyn Len has an ideology? | ||
| He should be expelled for what he says in this interview about the NCC. https://t.co/bd2DRl8SYE | ||
| @joecottrell10 didn't see it! | ||
| You can join YouGov's panel here: https://t.co/rstuckB3ab https://t.co/IXJYnWQdyA | ||
| @Smithy0364 @ariehkovler email legal_ queries@labour.org.uk | ||
| @mcarro2 I can see the ones who are Trotskyists would be offended. Always surprised how Trots & Stalinists co-exist in TU broad lefts. | ||
| @mcarro2 why? There are actually real Stalinists - associated CPB & Morning Star tradition - holding high office in Unite. | ||
| @mcarro2 there's a difference between not reading it and trying to ban other voters in the election from reading it. | ||
| @mcarro2 it's nothing to do with lists or data. These are unaddressed newspapers to be handed out in workplaces, left in canteens etc. | ||
| @maxshanly yes he was the left candidate against @Sarah_Hayward | ||
| @gasm0n no just looking at photos online! | ||
| @JackyHolyoake @Hoopsdips @PolhomeEditor Greg Hadfield | ||
| The Momentum conference looks rather small for an organisation with 20000 members. | ||
| @davelawson35 @momentum_watch Labour First is funded through the crowdfunding appeal we very publicly did in December | ||
| @maxshanly I thought you did. | ||
| @sad_vomit sure | ||
| Gloves are off https://t.co/YjENkvTzLP | ||
| @washyourmouth1 @ProgressOnline it's impossible to demolish and rebuild an estate without decanting the residents. | ||
| @washyourmouth1 @ProgressOnline this? https://t.co/OcAWXPS2OB you are against rebuilding an estate? | ||
| @washyourmouth1 @ProgressOnline I don't take your description of Lambeth's housing policy at face value. | ||
| @washyourmouth1 @ProgressOnline Progress doesn't hold power in Lambeth Council - the Labour Party does | ||
| @washyourmouth1 @ProgressOnline I'm not a spokesperson or office holder for Progress - happy to work with them but I run @labour_first | ||
| @washyourmouth1 @ProgressOnline and? | ||
| @washyourmouth1 @ProgressOnline ummm why do you keep talking to me about Progress? | ||
| @washyourmouth1 @ProgressOnline I live in Oxford so I can't claim to know anything about Lambeth's housing policies. | ||
| @washyourmouth1 @ProgressOnline I'm in politics because I'm angry about poverty incl the poverty I experienced growing up. | ||
| More whining that skawking. Momentum being out-organised (or just less popular) in CLP after CLP. https://t.co/Niz13U1mTn | ||
| He won't respect the NCC's mandate? Bad form to take Labour to the bosses' courts. https://t.co/GsyVSExxPp | ||
| @hazelhurst unlike Momentum we don't run phone banks to whip people to attend internal mtgs | ||
| @MSmithsonPB is there a betting market for Unite GS race? | ||
| Can someone post the contents of Unite Herald? It sounds great. | ||
| @mjrharris @iMcKenzied @rob_marchant @SpinningHugo you need more than that to challenge incumbent - 20% of PLP & EPLP (50 signatures) | ||
| @WTarbiat @JackyHolyoake no I think they want to expel him if he loses. They are not great on being magnaminous. | ||
| @Walsallpolitics no a great couple of days watching Len walk into an elephant trap. | ||
| @mjrharris @iMcKenzied @rob_marchant @SpinningHugo to pass a rule change? No, not based on CLP delegate elections so far. | ||
| @iMcKenzied @rob_marchant @mjrharris @SpinningHugo correct. | ||
| @jonathas hi Jonathan, @labour_first and @ProgressOnline deal with internal elections etc, @saving_labour recruits ppl to party | ||
| @tonygoober @L_Morgan98 you need to do some reading about Norway's Labour Party. It's seen as Blairite & routinely denounced as "neoliberal | ||
| @tonygoober @L_Morgan98 the clue that Corbyn has nothing in common with the Norwegian Labour party is that their leader now runs NATO | ||
| ? https://t.co/BrBzxWAAd7 | ||
| @barleymow1 no totally different person | ||
| @Saggydaddy sorry am I supposed to treat them like they actually are a real Shadow Cabinet and not a bit of a joke like the Leader? | ||
| @HuwJonesLabour or things even | ||
| @HuwJonesLabour Jon is many thinks but he isn't irrelevant | ||
| @MccIsabella @mirabarhillel @paulwaugh yes I was one of the people blocked in that instance so I am acutely aware of it | ||
| @HuwJonesLabour the people that draw attention to something bad someone said are not morally responsible for it - the person who said it is | ||
| @gareththornton out organise it. | ||
| @vacuouari @AngelaRayner I'm sure Angela didn't criticise Tom. | ||
| @gareththornton organised factionalism on a scale never seen in Labour before - members acting as a block not individuals - is menacing | ||
| @DPJHodges or protect them... | ||
| In Wrexham. It's very rainy! | ||
| @jeelanimir94 who started this by setting up Momentum and boasting about taking over the Labour Party? | ||
| Meanwhile in the real world https://t.co/z779Xpx2WO | ||
| @LJDavies87 @EmmaBurnell_ @KatieCurtis yep that is correct it is subject to the three year rule | ||
| @PaddyBriggs @cllrjoncollins move on? Jon's city council has about half the govt funding it used to thanks to LD support for austerity. | ||
| @Midj109 yep. | ||
| @Chris_Matheson B | ||
| @23Maisey I'm in Oxford now not Hackney | ||
| @23Maisey inside every newly enthused leftist is a pragmatic moderate waiting to develop. | ||
| @23Maisey in real life I work with you all fine. Just find the online version exasperating. | ||
| @23Maisey I don't think he should be leader. | ||
| @JackTMPhipps @Kirsten_KE yep that captures it up until the Uxbridge byelection which calmed us all down a bit | ||
| @23Maisey I would just about trust them to deliver leaflets | ||
| @23Maisey I don't think we should run Corbynistas for parliament as their extreme politics is a vote loser. | ||
| @23Maisey is he a union rep? All I can see online is that he is on a Unite youth cttee. You can do that by being political activist not rep | ||
| @23Maisey worked for an MP, studied at Oxford Uni and private Manchester Grammar School | ||
| @23Maisey and Sam Wheeler isn't a shop floor worker. | ||
| @23Maisey yep but you should learn how to represent ppl as a cllr or candidate in a less winnable seat first | ||
| @Chris_Matheson 1710 to Chester | ||
| @hopisen it's just an individual submission to the consultation from Harriet | ||
| @johnmcternan I love the diversity of our insurgency | ||
| @RooftopJaxx @theshiteknight individual submissions that haven't been voted on aren't democratic, they are just personal opinions | ||
| @theshiteknight @RooftopJaxx it's consultative not decision making ie window dressing | ||
| @AdamWisdish @charlotte2153 @BenGartside but that only has an effect if they are shortlisted. | ||
| @scottr0gers @johnmcternan I supported it and no one has ever suggested I am a "liberal"... | ||
| @charlotte2153 @BenGartside this was learned hard way in Greenwich in 86 and Govan in 88 when CLPs chose candidates who media destroyed | ||
| @scottr0gers I might just do that | ||
| @scottr0gers but actually I favour a balance of funding between unions, major individual donors and membership fees | ||
| @scottr0gers a different set of members might pay the subs without demanding policies that make us unelectable | ||
| @scottr0gers I have literally no idea what that sentence means | ||
| @scottr0gers why the reference to Lord Sainsbury? What's he got to do with me, or anything? | ||
| @scottr0gers no I mean the electoral interests of the party. | ||
| @scottr0gers no I think if Jeremy is to go it will have to be because he voluntarily puts the party first and does so. | ||
| @scottr0gers not with the current leadership anyway | ||
| @Ljosalfar no I like debating with ideological opponents, just not with people who don't deal in or know basic political facts | ||
| @RichardAngell @Ed_Miliband @OwenJones84 @MissEllieMae @JadeFrancesAzim Ed is welcome to use my 12 May 2015 column https://t.co/4J0op8w1bc | ||
| @BevaniteEllie it's not really a newspaper for Londoners though - aimed more at Tory commuters going home to Home Counties | ||
| We expect people to combine being an MP with being a Cabinet Minister so don't be surprised if they think they can combine it w another job. | ||
| I've started blocking people for being daft. It makes Twitter a far calmer experience. | ||
| How are Greens on 4% when Corbyn fans told us they would hoover up all votes to our left? https://t.co/VCoCyJ5b2t | ||
| @dungra @JackyHolyoake @RossFootball @velvetrev44 @DPJHodges unlikely to pass based on delegate elections so far. | ||
| @JackyHolyoake @RossFootball @dungra @velvetrev44 @DPJHodges it's on the agenda because it was submitted by CLPs last year | ||
| WTF? https://t.co/GC3SwsUoQP | ||
| @wildernessyrs the CLP that proposes it can remit it to avoid a vote happening | ||
| @geoffwetblanket tradition of hiding falling membership and that membership is geographically lop-sided (maybe 1/4 in London) | ||
| @geoffwetblanket leaks from the NEC | ||
| @theobertram the amendment is unlikely to pass even with Unite support as Momentum doing no better in CLP delegate elections than last year | ||
| @Torterra21 I am no longer CLP Membership Secretary. Different positions. | ||
| @cymrurouge @CraigFitzsimon1 @phil_space except I don't. Go and read all my articles critiquing triangulation. | ||
| @cymrurouge @CraigFitzsimon1 @phil_space hence I backed Ed M not David M in 2010 | ||
| @cymrurouge @CraigFitzsimon1 @phil_space nope I had huge disagreements with his position on markets in public services for instance | ||
| @cymrurouge @BertGeltrude not as simple as that. Pre2015 we lost ground in white working class areas & gained ground in BAME areas. | ||
| @Rachel_Moses_ yes | ||
| Shhhh! No one tell them I am still a Branch Secretary. | ||
| @BertGeltrude Birmingham Perry Barr 2005 maj 7948; 2010 maj 11908; 2015 maj 14828 | ||
| @BertGeltrude Hackney South 2005 maj 10204; 2010 maj 14288; 2015 maj 24213 | ||
| @BertGeltrude Oxford East 2005 maj 963; 2010 maj 4581; 2015 maj 15280 | ||
| @BertGeltrude Manchester Gorton 2005 maj 5808, 2010 maj 6703; 2015 maj 24079 | ||
| @BertGeltrude Liverpool Riverside 2005 maj 10214; 2010 maj 14173; 2015 maj 24463 | ||
| @BertGeltrude the majorities in many urban seats went up in 2010 and 2015. Examples to follow. | ||
| @JGiftmacher it's the group I run. We were set up by the trade unions in 1980s. There are different traditions on Labour right. | ||
| @JGiftmacher no @labour_first has always argued strongly for union link and our Collins review submission favoured keeping electoral college | ||
| @AAlmashoor QED | ||
| @CraigFitzsimon1 @phil_space out of interest who are you alleging I am a "spook" for? | ||
| @CraigFitzsimon1 @phil_space I am not a Blairite, but don't let facts get in the way of your wittering | ||
| @HuwJonesLabour @LabourList yes I was wrong | ||
| Has @GeorgeAylett quietly joined the exodus from @PeoplesMomentum to soft left @OpenLabour? | ||
| @HuwJonesLabour @mrchrisaddison it should be raised to 25% | ||
| @CashsteinJ @101_Bullets I have reported this to the Compliance Unit. | ||
| @Calderbank see we do agree about some things. | ||
| @WyeMonkey @AlanOlive1 one thing I wasn't as a youth was naive. | ||
| @WyeMonkey @AlanOlive1 @tigerfish4 @Calderbank South West actually. TGWU Nat Youth Cttee & rep at TUC Youth Conf & LP NEC Youth Sub Cttee. | ||
| @WyeMonkey @AlanOlive1 @tigerfish4 @Calderbank that's odd as I thought Unite inherited TGWU tradition of authoritarian officer control | ||
| @BlackXList @stranack_p @HuwJonesLabour @timsykes3 offensive nonsense. | ||
| @BlackXList @stranack_p @HuwJonesLabour @timsykes3 they implemented austerity after they beat us - pretty big difference! | ||
| @BlackXList @stranack_p @HuwJonesLabour @timsykes3 a leader attacked as "Red Ed" was appeasement? | ||
| @BlackXList @stranack_p @HuwJonesLabour @timsykes3 & 2010 appeasement? Huge Keynesian spending and "dividing lines" strategy vs Tories? | ||
| @BlackXList @stranack_p @HuwJonesLabour @timsykes3 I wasn't actually in charge of the 2010 or 2015 General Elections - Ed & Gordon were | ||
| @BlackXList @stranack_p @HuwJonesLabour @timsykes3 you win some you lose some, that's democracy. | ||
| @BlackXList @stranack_p @HuwJonesLabour @timsykes3 48000 for NEC was last summer. | ||
| @BlackXList @stranack_p @HuwJonesLabour @timsykes3 no exactly what Corbyn did - changed the membership by recruitment | ||
| @BlackXList @stranack_p @HuwJonesLabour @timsykes3 Nutall got 9600 votes for UKIP leader, I got 48000 for NEC. 30000 when I won in 2010. | ||
| @HuwJonesLabour @BlackXList @stranack_p @timsykes3 ha I forgot! | ||
| @BlackXList @stranack_p @HuwJonesLabour @timsykes3 happy to list them if you want. | ||
| @BlackXList @HuwJonesLabour @timsykes3 no it isn't - the people on GCs are members, elected by members. | ||
| @BlackXList @HuwJonesLabour @timsykes3 that's really the best you can throw at me, that I prefer delegate GCs to AMMs? | ||
| @originaldbailey yes I did. I don't accept an analogy between Israel - a multiracial democracy - and apartheid South Africa. | ||
| @VavatchO @originaldbailey no I'm not authorised to. | ||
| @originaldbailey yes but sadly there are many people who don't think it should exist. | ||
| @VavatchO @originaldbailey donations from people here in UK | ||
| @originaldbailey my day job? I'm Director of a campaign called "We Believe in Israel". My Labour activity is upaid in my spare time. | ||
| Without comment https://t.co/oRxcYMt6dt | ||
| @English_Leftist no that's what I think of off topic single issue campaigns that hijack other issues' demonstrations | ||
| @lesvcampbell @joanna_caron @Daniel_Cousins 4m???? Iraq Body Count says total death toll since Iraq War is 268k | ||
| @Calderbank @AlanOlive1 @tigerfish4 I guess you think I am a reactionary Neanderthal. | ||
| @Calderbank @AlanOlive1 @tigerfish4 indeed, Blair was way to the left of most working class people | ||
| @JonHegerty @Calderbank @AlanOlive1 no it went wrong in 1931, 1951, 1970, 1979 and 2015. Ok in between. | ||
| @Calderbank @AlanOlive1 @tigerfish4 our MPs are representing the party that got them elected - pre-Corbyn Labour | ||
| @Calderbank @AlanOlive1 actually we were founded to represent working people in parliament, & only became explicitly socialist in 1918 | ||
| @lesvcampbell @joanna_caron @Daniel_Cousins those pictures include MPs who actually removed Blair as leader. | ||
| @kmflett that's harsh | ||
| And another one. https://t.co/oFIe4JPolS | ||
| @benftea no. That isn't the problem with JC. | ||
| @bigdamo no! | ||
| @joan32173631 @JohannaBaxter @scottishlabour err Johanna is Scottish | ||
| @joan32173631 @stranack_p @HuwJonesLabour @timsykes3 don't dismiss them, disagree with them. Like the 48000 who voted for me for NEC. | ||
| @WyeMonkey @ElliotBidgood not brown nosing, we are friends from time in same CLP in Hackney. | ||
| @jakegoretzki and only party members can get rid of him. | ||
| @stranack_p @HuwJonesLabour @timsykes3 they clearly don't as the party is wildly out of synch with public opinion | ||
| @stranack_p @HuwJonesLabour @timsykes3 I understand it I just disagree with them and prefer what voters think. | ||
| @HuwJonesLabour @timsykes3 because if you look at the record of what I've actually done on NEC, as cllr, PPC & CLP officer I'm not divisive | ||
| Looking forward to @Oxford_Labour canvassing tmrw. Hope everyone who has been taking potshots at me today will be on #labourdoorstep too. | ||
| @talktoharris1 @UKDemockery imagine if I hadn't disclosed my job anywhere on the site. | ||
| @timsykes3 good to hear | ||
| @talktoharris1 @UKDemockery and fails to grasp that my wife might have a different surname to me... | ||
| @socialist1959 yes two of Corbyn's virtues are he is polite and he campaigns hard. Neither qualifies him to be leader. | ||
| What now indeed? Clearly I will have to take a vow of silence having lost huge platform & status of being CLP Membership Secretary. https://t.co/O29HkrWXxA | ||
| @socialist1959 @g_m_hodgson two but we work very happily together | ||
| @UKDemockery @wordpressdotcom did you write this? There are some fairly glaring factual errors. | ||
| @kathryn_daye @mamsamusa275 @Crashed7 @kimwhite666 @oxfordgirl please list Labour MPs who are to his left. | ||
| @kimwhite666 @mamsamusa275 @kathryn_daye @Crashed7 @oxfordgirl it's never too late to mature from infantile ultra leftism | ||
| @101_Bullets @bigdamo @Oxford_Labour anymore than PSC is funded by Palestinians | ||
| @101_Bullets @bigdamo @Oxford_Labour BICOM is not funded by Israel or Israelis | ||
| @JackGaleaa with LRC and Walker despite differences on Israel etc | ||
| Someone took the time to make this. I love it! https://t.co/G6HQizJUqN | ||
| @originaldbailey I see someone out of their depth with naive views on domestic issues and malign ones on foreign policy. | ||
| @Carefulthought @Paul_Burgin @OwenJones84 and 48,000 members voted for me for NEC, so not "universally unpopular | ||
| @Carefulthought @Paul_Burgin @OwenJones84 Paul was tweeting about Owen, not me | ||
| @mamsamusa275 @kathryn_daye @Crashed7 @oxfordgirl experience of 1980s members become more moderate when they see Hard Left lets Tories win | ||
| @originaldbailey I agree with all of that. Corbyn can't deliver it because of lack of charisma, experience & ldrship skills & left rhetoric | ||
| @kathryn_daye @Crashed7 @oxfordgirl the centre is where the median voters are | ||
| @andyehawk @angelaeagle that is an election - 'selection' means being picked to run as candidate for public office like MP or councillor | ||
| @originaldbailey @louiselking1 I don't actually think I am important enough to make a difference to Corbyn's chances. | ||
| I'm confused because half of Twitter think I got deselected as an MP last night and the other half say I work for Israeli intelligence. | ||
| @smt49 it gets better, there are people celebrating that I have been "deselected | ||
| @andyehawk @angelaeagle I am not an MP or councillor so quite difficult for me to be "deselected"... | ||
| @louiselking1 @originaldbailey no it isn't, it's wanting Labour to have a different leader, just like the left did under Blair | ||
| @Crashed7 @oxfordgirl no that's not Labour Party terminology as everyone in Labour is on left of UK political spectrum. | ||
| @oxfordgirl it's an inside the Labour Party phrase - not insulting & self applied. Refers to 1980s split Campaign & Tribune groups of MPs. | ||
| Looks like McDonnell's LRC is on side of Jackie Walker's Grassroots Momentum in the split with Lansman https://t.co/6uJ8UZsg8k | ||
| @cymrurouge @HelenJonesMP sorry I mistook you for someone actually politically active rather than a loud mouthed spectator | ||
| @simonccsays @johnmcternan I did apply for Edmonton in 2015 and Stoke C in 2010 but blocked from longlist in both cases | ||
| @cymrurouge @HelenJonesMP maybe you should have got off the sofa and done the canvassing then. | ||
| @daniellejade198 @originaldbailey no it isn't I am never negative about the party. The people who have hijacked it, yes. | ||
| @originaldbailey I have never attacked the Labour Party | ||
| @101_Bullets @bigdamo @Oxford_Labour I don't work for or share an office with the Israeli Embassy, please don't tell absurd lies. | ||
| @jonwillchambers he won't necessarily be shortlisted. | ||
| @ashmcgregor @mtiedemann @refoundlab I'm happy 4 ppl to go 4 local models like that where there's a consensus for it | ||
| @mtiedemann @RefoundLab because the electoral unit we campaign in is the parliamentary constituency? Borough polls primarily run at ward | ||
| @KerryMP from rows facing front with an aisle to semicircle with lots of seats in front row | ||
| @hellenjc1954 @earthygirl01 @RichardAngell I'm very on message. | ||
| @hellenjc1954 @earthygirl01 @RichardAngell no it's not in the script. | ||
| @choosymother no | ||
| @choosymother I'll be busy canvassing for my local Labour MP approaching the election | ||
| @choosymother sorry I have no idea what you are on about. | ||
| @choosymother obviously. I am a Labour activist. I always vote for and campaign for Labour. | ||
| @earthygirl01 @hellenjc1954 @RichardAngell there isn't an upward trend in that graph. | ||
| @TheFibreman @MattyDPound @labour_first we are members (in my case for 29 years). My voice has same value as any other member. | ||
| @garethhunt01 copying in @redmikerowley Oxford's Cabinet member for Housing who can explain what Oxford has done | ||
| @garethhunt01 isn't just about social housing, we need land for all types of housing as demand is so high | ||
| @garethhunt01 our problem isn't funding it is neighbouring Tory councils refusing planning permission around edge of city | ||
| Oxfordshire is in the middle of a housing crisis - only building more can help us. Sign the petition! https://t.co/dqDfTfLAB9 | ||
| @TheFibreman @MattyDPound you mean @labour_first | ||
| @WTarbiat @stephenkb @theobertram yep Oldham is another example. They are only good at winning ballots, not votes at meetings. | ||
| @charliemansell @AaronBastani and Oldham - Chris Williamson. | ||
| @WTarbiat @stephenkb @theobertram what needs explaining? | ||
| @Unite2017 6. There's a knee on the right. | ||
| @Harryslaststand thanks. | ||
| I applaud any politician who manages to quote Napoleon in an interview. https://t.co/FhqF3hBunr | ||
| @JOE_GOLFER_G @davidaslindsay @NeilGarratt @maurlind @election_data because its president until 2016 was Labour? | ||
| @davidaslindsay @JOE_GOLFER_G @NeilGarratt @maurlind @election_data they have all their demographic & location data but not linked to names | ||
| @davidaslindsay @JOE_GOLFER_G @NeilGarratt @maurlind @election_data You Gov is online only | ||
| @ChrispLOL @mattzarb @Labourpaul @IainMcNicol people who work for MPs are not party staff & not covered by NEC code of conduct | ||
| @ChrispLOL @mattzarb @Labourpaul @IainMcNicol I have never seen staff join in an internal debate before. You sure they work for party per se | ||
| @ChrispLOL @mattzarb @Labourpaul @IainMcNicol MPs are politicians and hence part of debate, staff are supposed to be neutral | ||
| @JOE_GOLFER_G @NeilGarratt @maurlind @election_data no they don't, people volunteer for the You Gov panel, they then weight representatively | ||
| @cazziemacca @Wolfpack_A1 @skwawkbox @Rachael_Swindon we already take people to meet Fatah/PLO and visit Palestinian refugee camps | ||
| @cazziemacca @Wolfpack_A1 @skwawkbox @Rachael_Swindon actually have been discussing doing exactly that. | ||
| @mikecoulson48 it's irrelevant to my judgement as 99.9% of UK politics doesn't relate to the Middle East. | ||
| @mikecoulson48 no I am not paid by Israeli govt, any Isaeli entity or Israeli person. My day job is for an independent British funded org. | ||
| @Wolfpack_A1 @skwawkbox @Rachael_Swindon I lead trips to Israel as part of my day job, nothing to do with LFI. | ||
| @mikecoulson48 for what I do 9-5 four days a week. My Labour activity is in my spare time and without fear or favour to anyone except me. | ||
| Classy. https://t.co/AXWmOFbfih | ||
| @ianstevenson01 @IainMcNicol but given I served on party NEC and as staff myself I do know what the rules are they opperate under | ||
| @ianstevenson01 @IainMcNicol I would be appalled if a manager discussed their staff with third parties on social media | ||
| @mikecoulson48 oh I see a variant on antisemitic dual loyalty tropes. Clever. | ||
| @mikecoulson48 have a guess. | ||
| @barleymow1 because mummy and daddy are not at work and nor are the people we need to canvass for Labour | ||
| @mikecoulson48 this is the definition I and the govt use - from the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance - https://t.co/LcqkV0uSn5 | ||
| @23Maisey no I don't. I obsessively catalogue their internal divisions. | ||
| @DbAshby @MutazElnour I agree. | ||
| @DbAshby @MutazElnour don't get me started. | ||
| @NUFC_OurClub sounds about right. | ||
| @MutazElnour depends if he was actually able to use the role to get a peace deal and a two state solution | ||
| @NUFC_OurClub I'm not a Blairite - disagreed with him on other stuff like public service reform. Liked the foreign policy though. | ||
| @MutazElnour don't hold your breath. | ||
| @MutazElnour I just disagree with you about the legality and morality of the war. I am pleased we overthrew Saddam. | ||
| @MutazElnour if it is illegal why no legal case brought in any court at any level? | ||
| @MutazElnour no I don't think it says anything at all. I'm sorry that on this John isn't defending his government's record. | ||
| @MutazElnour if it was illegal then Prescott would be in jail as he was Deputy PM at the time. Clegg is a proven liar (tuition fees). | ||
| @MutazElnour it wasn't illegal. That's just your opinion. | ||
| @MutazElnour nonsense, colonialism is when you stay and rule somewhere, not when you go in and free the inhabitants from a dictatorship | ||
| @MutazElnour my values include wanting to see fascist regimes overthrown. | ||
| @MutazElnour that kind of language is not acceptable in any context not least a debate about merits of a war when u were in primary school | ||
| @MutazElnour you used the phrase "bumbuddy". That's profoundly bigoted homophobic language. | ||
| @MutazElnour PC allegations of "privilege" don't actually work with old gits like me who have no idea what you are going on about. | ||
| @MutazElnour I'm not but it's still homophobic language and childish to insult someone you disagree with about a war 14 years ago. | ||
| @MutazElnour love the inclusion of some casual homophobia. Classy. | ||
| @MutazElnour that's the death toll caused primarily by the other side, not us. | ||
| @MutazElnour as a result of the subsequent anti-western insurgencies. You can't blame Blair for his enemies' actions. | ||
| @VavatchO @daphne_miles maybe if he was JFK or Obama or Blair with these policies he might stand a chance. He isn't. | ||
| @VavatchO @daphne_miles before we even get started on the weak and boring oratorical skills and the amateur, gurning media performances | ||
| @VavatchO @daphne_miles plus he looks like someone that wandered in off the street not a potential national leader. | ||
| @VavatchO @daphne_miles you can't elect someone at the extreme edge of the UK political spectrum and expect him to be popular | ||
| @VavatchO @daphne_miles nope it's self evident from looking at and listening to him. It's just a fact that his views are cranky/unpleasant. | ||
| @PazuzuDemon sorry I meant canvassing in general - including phoning as well as doorstep. I see it all as the same activity. | ||
| @__jonesey @LapGongLeong sadly finance and services. I would have preferred manufacturing. Industrial strategy came too late (2008-10). | ||
| @__jonesey @LapGongLeong ten years of really strong economic growth | ||
| @__jonesey @LapGongLeong yes. | ||
| @PazuzuDemon it is all about knocking on doors, that's how elections are won when they are close. | ||
| @Johnfrededdy @MickMcAteer @Siddo_D https://t.co/9jmY2ZCPuR | ||
| @__jonesey @LapGongLeong no I think it's a combination of left on economy & social policy w centre on defence, security | ||
| @__jonesey @LapGongLeong all the cuts now are cuts to / Tory backlash vs spending that happened under Blair | ||
| @__jonesey @LapGongLeong I don't expect public to know it but would hope party members would | ||
| @__jonesey @LapGongLeong it spent record amounts on schools, hospitals, local govt, introduced minimum wage, tax credits etc etc | ||
| @Johnfrededdy @MickMcAteer @Siddo_D this is worth reading: https://t.co/dtIh1SQroP | ||
| @__jonesey @LapGongLeong there are 4 main currents in Labour: Hard Left, Soft Left, Old Right, New Labour. All are on left of UK politics. | ||
| @Johnfrededdy @MickMcAteer @Siddo_D I don't - read my Labourlist column on this, I am very measured about how many cases there may be | ||
| @Johnfrededdy @MickMcAteer @Siddo_D sadly Labour moving leftwards brought in people from ideological traditions where antisemitism common | ||
| @Johnfrededdy @MickMcAteer @Siddo_D presumably you are aware of history of antisemitism on extreme left, both Stalinists & SWP & WRP Trots | ||
| @Johnfrededdy @MickMcAteer @Siddo_D there shouldn't be anyone with antisemitic views in a socialist party | ||
| @retrobluecolly @IainMcNicol he isn't a member of staff. | ||
| @mattzarb @Labourpaul @IainMcNicol please note party staffer breaching rules on staff neutrality in internal debates | ||
| @mattzarb @Labourpaul if you work for the party you are in breach of your contract by engaging in internal debate on social media | ||
| @katrinamurray71 no at Stonehenge on a family day out | ||
| @MickMcAteer @Siddo_D it would be pointless. We would lose just as badly. | ||
| @totnesredgreen We accept his mandate. It's lefties like Clive Lewis and Owen Jones who are trying a #SoftCoup to get rid of him. | ||
| @totnesredgreen I support party. Just want a different leader. | ||
| @DollyDillyDally @Mikeex4buDoyle Soft vs Hard Left is less about policy & more about confrontation or compromise w rest of party | ||
| These people want to ban public dissent by party members to cover up their own failings. Stalinist mentality. | ||
| When you get lectured by a previously anti-Labour Corbynista about not using social media to debate the direction Labour should go in. | ||
| @Mikeex4buDoyle no Benn was the Hard Left figure at that time, criticising Foot from the left | ||
| @totnesredgreen I don't and wouldn't use Twitter as a medium for fighting Tories. Ordinary voters don't use read this. | ||
| @ian4newforest not talking about voters - talking about Corbynistas Twitter activists. Voters did know the difference. | ||
| How do you debate with people who think the Soft Left, Blairites, SDP and Labour First are all the same thing? | ||
| @Mikeex4buDoyle @TVAddictStill I actually run the group that rejected the SDP split. Study some Labour history. | ||
| @Mikeex4buDoyle @BBCNews no Blair isn't Soft Left. Soft Left means Clare Short, Robin Cook, Nye Bevan, Michael Foot, Lisa Nandy | ||
| @Mikeex4buDoyle @TVAddictStill and my lot - Labour First - Healey/Hattersley tradition, close to unions, Keynesian, Atlanticist... | ||
| @Mikeex4buDoyle @TVAddictStill there are also 2 traditions on Labour mod side - Blairites (evolved from Labour left via LCC group in 80s) | ||
| @__jonesey @LapGongLeong OK Blair "third way" Brown "trad Atlanticist Keynesian social democrat" Ed M "soft left twist eg green stuff | ||
| @Carefulthought it's the definition used by academics, political journalists and the left themselves | ||
| @LapGongLeong graph here: https://t.co/4dN1O3PJ9x | ||
| @KirstyMartin19 @JonClempner you really are kidding me? | ||
| @KirstyMartin19 @JonClempner they are defined as such by the International Holocaust Rembrance Alliance https://t.co/LcqkV0uSn5 | ||
| @andyjmusic84 @Shawscope it was set up in 1988 so nothing to do with Corbyn | ||
| @KirstyMartin19 @JonClempner you know accusations of dual loyalty are themselves an antisemitic trope? | ||
| @andyjmusic84 @Shawscope there are other places on the Labour spectrum between Blair and Corbyn. | ||
| What is it with people hating "middle England"? Why would you dislike the average people in your own country? https://t.co/a4jAt1PE01 | ||
| @Shawscope I'm not a Blairite. | ||
| @BenMyers12 @Saggydaddy @JonClempner zero tolerance of antisemitism and antisemitic forms of anti-Zionism. New leader. | ||
| @BenMyers12 @Saggydaddy @JonClempner I'd say it's quite a national issue if Labour has slumped to 8% support in a minority faith community | ||
| @Saggydaddy @JonClempner yes. The Jewish community is sadly completely alienated from Labour due to Corbyn and the antisemitism incidents. | ||
| @Saggydaddy @JonClempner I can assure you they wouldn't have voted Labour anyway, even without the planning issue. | ||
| @JonClempner national opinion polling shows Jewish support for Labour has dropped to 8% which explains result by itself. | ||
| @JonClempner I know the Bury/Salford Jewish Community very well, speak in synagogues there etc in day job. Corbyn toxic there due to the AS. | ||
| @MXRXISM when did you join Labour? Me 1988. | ||
| @MXRXISM I've read the NEC analysis & maps of the new members, have you? | ||
| @SpaJw 34% Jewish ward so a backlash vs antisemitism in Labour | ||
| @aubrey_ebenezer I'm not in a position to stop the party doing anything as I hold no national office | ||
| @Felix_keeps_on @ManCandLovingIt no I'm a lot less controversial offline! | ||
| The bar keeps getting raised https://t.co/h3QBzQxECZ | ||
| @Rhobyngoch @jeremycorbyn not since the second election. I respect his mandate. | ||
| @Rhobyngoch when? | ||
| @Rhobyngoch it belongs to the ordinary people it is supposed to represent in power | ||
| @scottr0gers your's have proven they can't. | ||
| @SeemaChandwani we don't want a deal. Not pushing for a change of leader right now. | ||
| @SeemaChandwani Smith? | ||
| @SeemaChandwani I gathered Owen offered Clive yesterday. | ||
| @GrahamGropius they don't follow me on Twitter. I prefer just beating them in elections, a precondition of which is beating the Hard Left. | ||
| Happy birthday Mikhail Gorbachev! | ||
| 45 years of annoying the Hard Left down, 45 to go. | ||
| @JenWilliamsMEN @patrick_hurley @MENnewsdesk someone needs to tell the candidates that NEC determines byelection shortlists | ||
| @PrivateHenry1 @gareththornton @willgtucker personally I would prefer someone with experience as a govt minister pre 2010 | ||
| I'm in illustrious company here. My contribution rather less than theirs. https://t.co/NGejeYGkLe | ||
| @PeterGilkes1 hereditary. Great grandparents set up their CLP in early 1920s. | ||
| @PrivateHenry1 @gareththornton @willgtucker loads of historic left baggage, he was on NUS NEC over 20 years ago | ||
| @PrivateHenry1 @gareththornton @willgtucker Clive is from the Hard Left. Angela isn't, she's a Unison person. | ||
| @JoeMillis59 it was more Monty Python inspired... | ||
| @gareththornton @PrivateHenry1 @willgtucker the people who support it and the style in which it is presented. There is no policy content. | ||
| Renouncing the leader is a good but insufficient first step. His politics and factional groups and key personnel also need to be renounced. | ||
| @PrivateHenry1 @willgtucker OK then Hard Left without Corbyn would still not be very good | ||
| Don't idealize Leon Trotsky. https://t.co/VQsezK8565 via @slate He was a mass murderer. But Ken Loach is OK with that. | ||
| @rich50195 on BDS if you are all also boycotting every other country with a similar record to Israel fine, but ... | ||
| @rich50195 you can support Israel but oppose Israeli govt policies | ||
| Worth reading https://t.co/VoJIDXTczk | ||
| Read Ken Loach's comments on antisemitism and ask why this person has been allowed anywhere near the Labour Party. | ||
| @retrobluecolly @OwenJones84 they have been quiet since Corbyn was reelected in September. Because they are respecting his mandate. | ||
| @Jonathanpercent these are not people with a track record of comradely discourse about former Labour leaders. | ||
| @Jonathanpercent it was extremely flattering. That was the satire. | ||
| @Jonathanpercent individuals not the party. And both tweets are clearly satire. | ||
| @Jonathanpercent I just checked my tweets and RTs - nothing derogatory about Labour at all. | ||
| @Bettwsboy @annaturley Killers cite Smiths as a big influence. I like them a lot, @LabLinda75 less keen | ||
| @AgainstHunting @HuwJonesLabour @jonrosling @LabourList @labour_first I don't. I spend my spare time campaigning for Labour. | ||
| @HuwJonesLabour @jonrosling @LabourList @labour_first maybe you could be explicit about which of our actions you have a problem with | ||
| @HuwJonesLabour @jonrosling @LabourList the whole point in the name @labour_first is we put party above faction | ||
| @HuwJonesLabour I wasn't on the NEC. In June 2014 I held no office in the party, in 2015 GE I was a CLP membership secretary. | ||
| @HuwJonesLabour you mean @labour_first | ||
| Ppl who I've enjoyed good political chats with today: Jonny Reynolds MP, Claire Kober, Steve Hart, Adrian Weir. | ||
| I love it when people just make stuff up. I was on NEC Oct 2010 to Sept 2012. Results Huw refers to were in 2009 (MEPs) and 2007 (MSPs). https://t.co/njfo5L12LN | ||
| @RadarNvrSleeps @BloggsMr @LabourList you recall wrongly. I supported Yvette and Tom in 2015, Ed M in 2010. | ||
| @tavole @reperioverum it isn't a fact. He only became MP in 2005. | ||
| @reperioverum Reed wasn't MP until 2005 | ||
| @NorwichLeft @RossArmour346 its a reply to the memes about that | ||
| I can't wait to hear what Lavery's insights are. https://t.co/VH5tEzir3K | ||
| I worked on this byelection campaign as a rookie Organiser. I want results like this to be part of Labour's future not just its history. https://t.co/JnvT0ErQcc | ||
| En route from Hackney Overview + Scrutiny to do NEC report 2 Hornsey + Wood Green CLP | ||
| @johnmcternan I agree. I opposed Tony's removal as leader very publicly | ||
| @coso9001 odd reaction to a tweet criticising Blair | ||
| @johnmcternan sorry you are saying Europe and immigration were not factors in votes we lost? | ||
| @clairefp_ I am speaking for the thousands of voters I have canvassed as a parliamentary candidate and activist. Polling supports my claim. | ||
| @johnmcternan yeah I'm just making up what thousands of voters told me when I was a parliamentary candidate in Essex in 2005 | ||
| @aybrtr because sadly even before tuition fees many working class ppl were culturally excluded from HE | ||
| @aybrtr I opposed tuition fees but all the research shows it mainly affected voting behaviour in middle class areas | ||
| @aybrtr no, that's why we lost liberal middle class votes in university towns etc to the Lib Dems | ||
| @JoshDixonTweets @MSmithsonPB really? | ||
| @MSmithsonPB the problem is we have hardly any voters left, so we need to listen to Tory and UKIP ex-Labour voters as well. | ||
| @MrsBurgin Shami Chakrabarti says we lost because it was rainy and Labour voters don't have cars | ||
| @samcro1882 yeah like yesterday when I actually set up a new Labour Party branch in an area that has never had one before | ||
| @tigerfish4 @GR1900 what has Denis Healey got to do with us losing in 2010 and 2015? | ||
| @SamMorecroft ???? Where did I attack Prentis? Disagreeing with bits of a speech isn't "attacking | ||
| Unity through down-sizing, the time-honoured route to electoral victory. https://t.co/nQWbZf0CEr | ||
| @MarcsWords @MikeGapes the composition of the membership can change just as fast towards moderation as it did to extremism. | ||
| @susanhebden @JohnBM John said it was "interesting". Hardly warm praise. What's right wing about asking if strikes are correct tactic? | ||
| @SamMorecroft TU members need a Labour govt more than anything else. Labour's interests are inherently the interests of TU members. | ||
| Without comment. https://t.co/TYTa43HAZJ | ||
| @sportmankayaker @Oxford_Labour yes - it covers Botley, Cumnor, Kennington, Radley, Hinksey, Sunningwell | ||
| Really delighted to have organised the launch of a brand new branch of @Oxford_Labour tonight - Botley & District | ||
| @paulhughes0 @MichaelDugher an obtuse one as more of them voted Labour at end of those 13 years than now, and beneficiaries are Tories | ||
| @StreathamComics NEC needs to commission polling & focus groups of Copeland switchers to find out why they abandoned Labour | ||
| Heading to Botley as @Oxford_Labour Membership Secretary to meet members from Botley, Cumnor, Hinskey, Radley, Kennington & Sunningwell | ||
| Head/desk. https://t.co/nzPJyuy8pA | ||
| @NUFC_OurClub we are not proposing a change of leader. The one we have needs to lead. | ||
| @SpeakToSteve stand for what? | ||
| @AndKiely cobblers | ||
| @Calderbank @AlanOlive1 @KatieCurtis no one on our wing of party is speculating about leader. Corbyn is leader he needs to sort this out. | ||
| Someone's "Waterloo" is generally used to mean their final conclusive defeat. https://t.co/FtMHUzuR0o | ||
| @SamMorecroft I've been a TU member for 18 yrs I have a right to a view on what political stance TUs should take. There's no "you" and "us". | ||
| @SamMorecroft and a prerequisite of beating the Tories is that we beat those in our own ranks who wd make us unelectable | ||
| What is this about? No one has been "detracting" from JC, PLP has been disciplined, silent & passive since September. https://t.co/fEZoKv5spP | ||
| What are they going to do, sack moderate frontbenchers? https://t.co/mjLwUalI10 | ||
| @stevo_knows @tedtully @Properganda4 I'm nothing to do with Saving Labour or its Twitter account, I run @labour_first | ||
| ... if we want to. I don't. | ||
| ... futile protest about a wrong cause through a megaphone while the real world drives past in its cars. We can waste 11 yrs like he did..,. | ||
| Strikes me Brian Haw is a perfect analogy for where the Hard Left wants to take Labour: a crazy dude covered in badges shouting ... | ||
| @David_Harney I know that's why I am open minded on the strike action, it is a genuine tactical dilema | ||
| @gezkirby the media gets there ammo from the left's behaviour. | ||
| @gedrobinson I think mentioning one side in Mid East conflict and not the other is extremely misguided. | ||
| @David_Harney Yes I completely agree - it's because he is basically a good moderate ldr that I am worried by some of rhetoric. | ||
| @gezkirby I bet it would actually be quite popular with his mainstream delegates if he laid in to the SWP and enemy within his own ranks | ||
| @David_Harney Ken Jackson never used any "left rhetoric". We need more union leaders like him. | ||
| @gedrobinson @KatieCurtis In what sense have I attacked the unions? Just said I supported Unison's cause and openmind on strikes | ||
| At @Oxford_Labour EC and then All Member Meeting about dreadful county unitary proposal. | ||
| Oh and a knock against Trident - built by Unite and GMB members! FFS can't we have some union GSs who take on + smash the left? | ||
| @cr_celab @oldpolitics @sunny_hundal important not 2 confuse being a committed TU person with signing up to any daft idea TUs suggest | ||
| @sunny_hundal diff is in Commons whips have more power as promotion based patronage, in Congress its seniority so easier to ignore whip | ||
| @sunny_hundal but in UK TUs r a part of a federal LP they set up, in US they r just AN Other 3rd party lobby like the NRA or AIPAC | ||
| @Calderbank @GrahamCunning12 @AlanOlive1 @JackyHolyoake it was highly explicable - it happened because of the independence referendum | ||
| @GrahamCunning12 @Calderbank @AlanOlive1 @JackyHolyoake it was a boring GE because we won easily, ppl didn't bother voting as knew outcome | ||
| Shopfronts from the year I moved to Stoke Newington. https://t.co/tLGorclSOP | ||
| @Carefulthought politically he is | ||
| @oldpolitics @sunny_hundal correct | ||
| @SeemaChandwani @Calderbank @AlanOlive1 the fundamentals are the same - the Hard Left always enable the Tories. | ||
| @Calderbank @SeemaChandwani @AlanOlive1 because the public sector unions stabbed Callaghan in the back | ||
| @SeemaChandwani @Calderbank @AlanOlive1 got v angry about Benn's role in ensuring Thatcher was PM and my family were therefore in poverty. | ||
| @SeemaChandwani @Calderbank @AlanOlive1 studied the 1983 election result and why it happened | ||
| @Calderbank @AlanOlive1 @SeemaChandwani my views were similar to yours until I was 12. | ||
| @AlanOlive1 @SeemaChandwani @Calderbank lots of people grow out of daft politics as they mature | ||
| @Calderbank @AlanOlive1 I met public sector workers who were voting Tory as they thought we would damage the economy | ||
| @Calderbank @AlanOlive1 not everyone in @labour_first agreed with me... | ||
| @Calderbank @AlanOlive1 I canvassed thousands & literally no one said that. | ||
| @Calderbank @AlanOlive1 evidence in the 2015 General Election result. | ||
| Even paid £300k you can't polish a ... https://t.co/fPPO5KGqQB | ||
| @Calderbank @AlanOlive1 we were proudly Keynesian in our response to crash. We should celebrate that. | ||
| @Calderbank @AlanOlive1 they don't flow from it. A Labour govt didn't & wouldn't be pursuing austerity. It's a Tory & LD political choice. | ||
| @Calderbank @AlanOlive1 and Corbyn isn't even arguing for "fundamental economic reform" now. | ||
| @Calderbank @AlanOlive1 we wouldn't have been elected because the public rather like the current economic system. | ||
| @Calderbank @AlanOlive1 utter utter drivel. | ||
| @jamieweeks70 @Calderbank @AlanOlive1 yep I am personally responsible for Corbyn's inability to lead Labour. Mea culpa. | ||
| @Calderbank @AlanOlive1 you live in an inner city area, you saw the schools, hospitals, buses, trains, police, benefits, jobs Labour funded! | ||
| @Calderbank @AlanOlive1 that's such nonsense, I just outlined huge investment Labour made in places like Hackney from 1997 to 2010. | ||
| @Calderbank @AlanOlive1 no one suggested that. But he has turned crisis into meltdown and wasted years in which we cd have been recovering. | ||
| @Calderbank you don't really need to tell me that. | ||
| @Calderbank no because Hackney is brilliant | ||
| @Calderbank https://t.co/wDmqbvOZQt post Blair but shows Hackney building more than any other UK council | ||
| @Calderbank lots of housing association ones. | ||
| @Calderbank @AlanOlive1 and absurd to suggest electoral base was eroding in 1997 or 2001 - in most seats these were our best results ever | ||
| @Calderbank @AlanOlive1 but it didn't collapse under Blair. Stop moving the goal posts. | ||
| @Calderbank we put new kitchens, windows and bathrooms into every single council flat in my ward | ||
| @Calderbank as a cllr in a deprived ward in Hackney I saw Blair transform the lives of my constituents. Real socialism. | ||
| @Calderbank and the "unsustainable" argument is the Tory justification for austerity | ||
| @Calderbank even if you hate PFI, the rebuilding of so many hospitals & schools is worth celebrating | ||
| @maxshanly @AdamMarkDavis as Clause IV was written by T Blair I think we can guess its intent. | ||
| I told you so. | ||
| Today I got beaten at Monopoly by my 5 year old son. Hotel on Vine Street - 1k rent. I had assets of £905. | ||
| @SpiritofJD @LabourFirst @Cllr_Meredith_L you mean @labour_first | ||
| @OwenJones84 @wesstreeting @katiecurtis @robnewman30 some of our top MPs shd emulate John Golding and leave parliament to run for GS of a TU | ||
| @OwenJones84 @wesstreeting @katiecurtis @robnewman30 we need MPs to play more role in shifting political line of their unions to a sound one | ||
| .@tom_watson taking questions from #lablocal17 delegates when Corbyn didn't. Interesting optics. | ||
| @Samfr I think it's rather unlikely that Labour will get to 2020 GE with current ldr and positioning | ||
| Nope, Labour could radically reposition itself as a party that actually tried to appeal to swing voters in marginal seats. https://t.co/gOIu1bLe3D | ||
| This year's elections" headline led me to expect it was about gaining county councils. Nah, all about internal CAC & NCC polls. https://t.co/zFe4e4k4bi | ||
| At #lablocal17 conference with a lot of good Labour folk who r quietly getting on w delivering great council services in dire circumstances | ||
| Interesting, now it's a 3-way fight with a candidate to Len's left https://t.co/Nv9gjQPIU6 | ||
| At Labour Group. Impressed by new Housing Cabinet Member @PhilipGlanville 's command of policy detail. | ||
| @MockLabour @DaveBarron_Band it annoys them when you answer back | ||
| @DaveBarron_Band @MockLabour @LabourList no it isn't | ||
| @DaveBarron_Band @MockLabour that's someone's personal opinion in a blog. | ||
| @DaveBarron_Band @MockLabour they abstained for valid tactical reasons, they did not vote with the Tories or for the cuts. | ||
| @DaveBarron_Band @MockLabour no he didn't | ||
| @DaveBarron_Band @MockLabour no they did not | ||
| @DaveBarron_Band @MockLabour they didn't "support the cuts". | ||
| @DaveBarron_Band @MockLabour the cuts now are cuts to spending that Blair introduced | ||
| @DaveBarron_Band @MockLabour I'm an old fashioned social democrat - I want Keynesian economics & redistribution of wealth | ||
| @DaveBarron_Band @MockLabour I joined the Labour Party because I was angry about poverty, inequality and Thatcher's cuts. | ||
| @Samfr and you would only have the choice to use them in Kent if your kids were in the minority (10% at my primary) who passed 11+ | ||
| Meet Ken Livingstone in Hackney - public mtg Mon 27th, Abney Hall, Church St, register online: http://t.co/1MT09Ed | ||
| @mail32186551 @CorbynSuperFan it's a spoof account mocking Corbyn supporters | ||
| @DaveBarron_Band oh give over, he spent more on schools, hospitals, inner city regeneration than any other PM in history. | ||
| @DaveBarron_Band the media isn't fascist. | ||
| @DaveBarron_Band he clearly isn't moderate because his views are only aligned with the 10% leftmost fringe in British society. | ||
| @DaveBarron_Band and offensive to say he is first opposition for years - he is weaker in opposing Tories than any previous leader. | ||
| @DaveBarron_Band and I don't see why progressive social & economic policies have to be combined with being soft on terrorism & dictatorships | ||
| @DaveBarron_Band but to get elected and do those things you have to convince the public you can run the economy well. | ||
| @DaveBarron_Band my politics are mainstream Labour. Redistribute wealth to poor, invest heavily in schools, hospitals, councils. | ||
| @DaveBarron_Band eh? Please specify what these obnoxious views are you think I hold? | ||
| @DaveBarron_Band @wildernessyrs how do you know it isn't they that are right, and you who hasn't the foggiest? | ||
| @DaveBarron_Band @wildernessyrs that attitude says it all. Some socialist you are if you snear at views of ordinary voters. | ||
| @DaveBarron_Band that's because I have something sensible to say | ||
| @AdamWisdish 2010 and 2015 were explicitly not fought as New Labour | ||
| @DaveBarron_Band I am a member. I argue my case within the democratic processes of the party, which measure what members want. | ||
| @DaveBarron_Band no, I was a paid employee of Labour Party 1996-1998. All my Labour activity is voluntary. | ||
| @tazlufc it's supported by all the polling evidence, all serious psephologists, and my 29 years election campaigning. | ||
| @tazlufc I go out at weekends door knocking for Labour so already buckled down. It's the campaigning that tells me what the problem is. | ||
| @tazlufc I want a Labour PM. We'll have to change leader for that to be possible, due to the obvious problems with JC. | ||
| Oxfordshire County Council: Hands off Oxford City - Sign the Petition! https://t.co/BtTAsR0O0B via @UKChange | ||
| @TheProleStar @nathanleegayle @RichardAngell @ProgressOnline eh? Labour always has members who don't agree w leader. A party not a fan club. | ||
| @nathanleegayle @RichardAngell @ProgressOnline I want leader to have backing of PLP | ||
| @JadeFrancesAzim @tom_watson hashtags didn't exist in 1995... | ||
| @briantwid @CraigFitzsimon1 intrigued to know what you think I believe in that would be so obnoxious | ||
| @briantwid @CraigFitzsimon1 Old Labour Right i.e. Healey and Hattersley tradition. Old fashioned social democracy. | ||
| @HenryQuamford there's a strong correlation between political talent & not holding views public see as batshit crazy. | ||
| @CraigFitzsimon1 I'm not a Blairite | ||
| @JohnRentoul @johnmcternan no he couldn't because he remains factionally aligned with the left. | ||
| @Middletonfox good question | ||
| @NorthWales4Len @peopleman44 @gerard_coyne please explain why I have "no place" in a party I joined in 1988 & union I joined in 1993 | ||
| @WTarbiat in 2013 there were about 1200 nominations made. Turnout this time example - 12 people at Sports Direct main depot | ||
| @Rachel_Moses_ @WTarbiat ballot starts 27 March and ends on 28 April | ||
| @WTarbiat if turnout stays low he will win. If members who don't go to branch meetings vote, he could lose. | ||
| Tractor output exceeds target ensuring five year plan will be acheived in four! https://t.co/rb4FxtRllT | ||
| @jodylmcintyre the State itself can't be illegal; it was set up following a UN resolution. | ||
| @jodylmcintyre it infuriates me to be associated with someone who hates the world's only Jewish state so much. | ||
| @jenstuds the choices available to Labour extend beyond two rival types of Hard Left. No obligation on MPs to put him on ballot. | ||
| @scottr0gers I would rather keep him than swap to a younger Hard Left leader | ||
| This is why winning CLP delegate elections for Annual Conference, where rules decided, is the absolute priority for saving Labour. https://t.co/y0jcITiK6b | ||
| This tweet has made my day https://t.co/KdtzEG8OQx | ||
| @NickMillward @SocialistVoice @LabourList no that's factually incorrect. 1992: 11,560,484 votes; 1997: 13,518,167 votes | ||
| @Tron1993 @nathanleegayle no, sadly I am not as up to speed as I used to be | ||
| @doncoyote52 @LabourList it wouldn't help people to name them | ||
| @Xaizeo as my article explains, the back stabbing is being done by people also from the Hard Left | ||
| No it's blindingly obvious to anyone who knows anything about how voters behave. https://t.co/3O644425jg | ||
| My warning - beware leadership bids from Hard Left wolves in Soft Left sheeps' clothing. https://t.co/eOrw7rAV3e | ||
| @CountryStandard yes very wrong. It's a disgusting Stalinist rag. I wouldn't wipe my arse with it. | ||
| @CountryStandard yes by Marx but not Lenin. I like and respect non-Leninist Marxists. No time for Bolsheviks though. | ||
| @CountryStandard @Unite2017 @M_Star_Online nah the Guardian and Mirror are the alternative to right wing papers. Communism no thanks. | ||
| @iMcKenzied @ChriswMP not sure I agree. Tactical anti-Labour voting means same ppl going UKIP or LD whichever best placed to beat us. | ||
| @WTarbiat @ianrobo1 @roadto326 we won't know until voting starts | ||
| @ianrobo1 @roadto326 McCluskey is favourite but Coyne can win if turnout goes above 20% | ||
| It could do ... with a dramatic change of leading personnel and positioning https://t.co/vR0e74uW8M | ||
| @roadto326 the primary requirement for any moderate candidate is to be able to inspire big recruitment of registered supporters | ||
| @roadto326 @ianrobo1 yes but it is not likely to be passed at Annual Conference | ||
| @roadto326 the composition of the membership will change dramatically as soon as Corbyn goes so no point taking it into account | ||
| Looking forward to #labourdoorstep in Marston Ward with @Oxford_Labour this morning | ||
| @josie1964 yes I've seen it. | ||
| @dylanhm I'm talking members not voters | ||
| @MickEgan3 @JolyonGreen @PolhomeEditor no | ||
| @BarryThaHatchet personally I support party line on Art 50 but it is clearly hugely unpopular with wider membership | ||
| @BarryThaHatchet OK if you don't believe me ask your CLP Secretary how many members have quit and what reasons they are citing | ||
| @BarryThaHatchet for 2 CLPs. | ||
| @youngvulgarian No it's a sign that Brexit doesn't impact voting behaviour. People are voting tactically for main local anti Labour party. | ||
| @BarryThaHatchet story is accurate - I'm a membership secretary so I can see how many people are resigning | ||
| It's as though the Corbynistas didn't know their leadership candidate was the most anti-European member of PLP (after Hoey & Gisela) https://t.co/9Mc4IlVwqk | ||
| That was not a good way to start the week - lots of metal on tooth scraping and mouth full of blood - promise of more in 2 weeks | ||
| @DavidBloor2 nothing, she was fine, just desperate the way they are ramping her as a "socialist leader". | ||
| Ok... https://t.co/uyycMgjEKZ | ||
| Haringey. So much to answer for. https://t.co/PQj4fg8pta | ||
| @JohnRentoul @Oddschecker how would Lewis or McDonnell get enough nominations to get on the ballot? | ||
| A kind of classic example of its genre https://t.co/qXPVKePasa | ||
| @_troglodytes to change the party into the one that you want? That's what we all did in 1980s and 90s to create New Labour. | ||
| @MickHitchin the problem is that's a self fulfilling prophesy. The party will stay in a mess until good people sort it out. | ||
| Monday morning trip to dentists. Not a great way to start the week. | ||
| @Linda_Marric this was decided that night. It was a given that if Tories won GE there would be a referendum and Brexit would happen. | ||
| I endorse this tweet. https://t.co/0w83Mj4CVO | ||
| @CaptainMeg @Steven_Swinford hmmm | ||
| @Jagbooks but MPs disagree about what is the right thing to do. | ||
| The Tories have a majority, so not sure why anyone cares which way Labour MPs voted. | ||
| @AdamWisdish @feedthedrummer he is organisationally aligned with them. Backs all their candidates. Hence my initial tweet. | ||
| @MartinHeneghan Mary Creagh | ||
| @SpaJw @AndrewDownes89 @rob_francis @JolyonGreen benchmark would be endorsement of moderate slate for NEC | ||
| @SpaJw @AndrewDownes89 @rob_francis @JolyonGreen I'm happy to work with anyone who breaks away organisationally from left | ||
| @SpaJw @rob_francis @JolyonGreen it took Corbyn one month. | ||
| @IanWoodland haven't seen Labor statement yet but Yesh Atid (centre party) has condemned the tweet: https://t.co/L5wddwh562 | ||
| @IanWoodland I already said I don't like it. Why would I like any tweet praising Trump? | ||
| @IanWoodland they do fine opposing him without overseas advice. | ||
| @IanWoodland no I'm not. I don't think it helps Israel. | ||
| @IanWoodland no happy to answer | ||
| @IanWoodland the Israeli Labor Party spell the English version of their name like that, same as the Australians do | ||
| @IanWoodland my day job at @WeBelieveIsrael doesn't take sides on internal Israeli politics - is for anyone who thinks Israel should exist | ||
| @IanWoodland I would be Labor if I was an Israeli just like I am Labour here. | ||
| @ianrobo1 @OliverKamm @LabourMaquis | ||
| @IanWoodland sure. A lot may have changed in between. | ||
| @IanWoodland no I can't. It's obviously a daft comparison given Mexico is a peaceful US ally and trade partner. | ||
| @ChrisWatt4 what days to live in where we have factional contests for branch vice-chair | ||
| @AwayFromMars I'd rather crawl through glass | ||
| @SeemaChandwani yes thanks, and you? | ||
| @katrinamurray71 ssh! | ||
| @SeemaChandwani it's an idea | ||
| Re-elected as Secretary of Greater Marston Branch Labour Party. Today Marston, tomorrow? | ||
| @therubykid I've never held a pre-meeting for a branch! It's not part of the culture of the Labour Party. | ||
| On my way to branch Labour AGM. Hope Momentum holding a factional pre-mtg doesn't detract from usual comradely mood. | ||
| In which I get cross with Neal Lawson - my opening speech is at 25.40 https://t.co/oJYkVzRl7c | ||
| @ubercoca I know this meme | ||
| @sandwellleader good to see you today and congrats on the 2 new members of yr Labour Group | ||
| Dinner with @LabLinda75 at Xian in Summertown, Oxford. Wanted to try it for years - v good, lots of chilli! | ||
| On my way to @Oxford_Labour Exec to give membership report | ||
| @marleybennett the latter. NEC shortlists, members vote | ||
| @GardnerTVFTW @ariehkovler the point is that Turkey has been hostile to Russia and vice versa for about 500 years | ||
| @elliereeves sorry you could not make it today! | ||
| @HuwJonesLabour don't be absurd. | ||
| Mtg welcomed 2 Sandwell LD cllrs who have defected this week to Lab incl current Mayor | ||
| ... Big turnout from CLPs across West Mids where mtg held + from ppl who had travelled from CLPs in SE, Lon and NW | ||
| Had a great morning at Labour 1st Annual Mtg, great speech by John Healey, strategic analysis on challenges ahead for Lab from @spellar ... | ||
| Can he mean me? https://t.co/n0jsLYNcYF | ||
| Hey @paulmasonnews just gave a positive namecheck to @labour_first | ||
| Very impressive speech by @stellacreasy . Passion and insights. Compelling. | ||
| @JolyonGreen we were a lot better than this in mid-20th century in terms of policies, personnel and presentation | ||
| Panicked. Unite bullying machine goes into hyper drive. https://t.co/zph9Je0fuR | ||
| Agree with much of Corbyn analysis of what's wrong in unequal society, but how come we aren't ahead in polls when Tories are so bad? | ||
| Panicked. It isn't normal for an incumbent General Secretary to keep drawing attention to the rival candidate. https://t.co/YPeZx28gwz | ||
| On my way to Fabians conference to speak against "progressive alliance" concept. First time I've been despite 25 years in Fabians. | ||
| @donnagreen4 no one is necessarily going to be deselected, there's a strong operation to help any MPs under threat. | ||
| @CB_PRandPA I'm on Newsnight too. Busy day. | ||
| @KevinMorton1966 sorry you can't make it | ||
| @Matt__Lockwood @BBC3CR done | ||
| @Matt__Lockwood @BBC3CR yes | ||
| @Labourpaul or the Old Tom opposite the town hall | ||
| @Labourpaul the King's Arms | ||
| Second trip of day to BBC studio in Oxford, this time a pre-record for tonight's Newsnight | ||
| @Leonmexico40 I am not an MP or even a councillor any more. | ||
| @MattTheRobot @Herbiv4 @Xaizeo you think Gordon Brown and Ed Milliband were half Tory? Crackers. | ||
| @cutter78 @andywalpole @EmmaSlomski @WeBelieveIsrael neither directly nor indirectly. | ||
| @andywalpole @cutter78 @EmmaSlomski @WeBelieveIsrael no it is funded by philanthropic donations. Receives no cash from Israeli government. | ||
| @Saggydaddy I will do and will be mobilising others to help too | ||
| @Saggydaddy wasn't planning on applying. I agree probably best to have a local candidate. | ||
| @Tron1993 @timsykes3 I don't see same issues as with West Bank. There is no real issue around self-determination for local population. | ||
| I'm talking about Momentum on the Daily Politics on BBC2 this lunchtime with @paulhilder. Do tune in! | ||
| @Xaizeo his political views. | ||
| Not impressed. | ||
| @wendy161966 @annaturley sorry to hear that I was in hospital with lots of Parkinson's patients when I had neurological illness, feel for u | ||
| @tedtully it's the written statement from @WeBelieveIsrael which I am Director of. As it's work related I won't make further comment. | ||
| @BenGartside98 @Politics_co_uk that's what I meant too. She is a very divisive figure within the Hard Left eg split in Labour Briefing | ||
| According to this, Christine Shawcroft is "universally liked". Where to begin... https://t.co/6wglq4uxsX | ||
| @pisspoorpoet @AngelaRayner @UniteforLen my personal experience of TU activism all about protecting former colleagues facing redundancy | ||
| @robertcp @momentumexposed no, think Socialist Action/IMG are still in key role, as are ex CPB Stalinists | ||
| @bettinapizer I'm not actually the General Secretary of a trade union | ||
| @pisspoorpoet @AngelaRayner I've been an active trade unionist since joining TGWU in 1993 when I started work. | ||
| @AngelaRayner @unitetheunion @UniteforLen as 4 Len, offers constant commentary on internal Labour matters and v little on industrial issues | ||
| @alidogan_uk @momentumexposed we don't engage in policy formulation, that should be done through Labour Party structures | ||
| @tonyloftus6 @steve_hawkes are you a proponent of antisemitic conspiracy theories? | ||
| @EJCJones93 yep she wouldn't be at the top of my list | ||
| @jessphillips I have learned never to answer any calls with a Swansea dialing code - all Unite cross selling of insurance | ||
| @EJCJones93 yes, shortlisting is an explicitly political process which is why it is done by elected politicians from NEC, not neutral staff | ||
| @ianrobo1 I think being formal director of the company is nothing to do with running the organisation | ||
| @Peter_Taylor_14 indeed, I've seen the memorial there to those events | ||
| @piratedarcy @ProgressOnline I am fairly sure they have zero interest in affiliated status. | ||
| @piratedarcy @ProgressOnline I'm not making a value judgement re Momentum's politics, they r wrong type of organisation to affiliate | ||
| @piratedarcy @ProgressOnline and neither should have affiliated status, nor should @labour_first which I am secretary of | ||
| @piratedarcy @ProgressOnline in the same way that "Conservative" and "Labour" are not parliamentary constituencies | ||
| This stuff about affiliation is a category error. Factions exist to try to influence Labour, not formally be recognised in structures. | ||
| Doubt hardcore Stalinist wing of Corbyn fan club are even in favour of freedom of movement within the UK. | ||
| @69jayh @skwawkbox correct. They provide a very good service, can recommend it. They already transferred the funds. | ||
| @rickmuir1 ... Which to ppl in my precise segment of Labour is our version of Mount Kailash | ||
| @rickmuir1 is a staging post to even redder Sandwell tmrw - specifically Brandhall Labour Club, Oldbury ... | ||
| @davidosler @peprice @northsixteen the warm seafood salad and the warm rare beef salad were both lovely | ||
| @davidosler @northsixteen @peprice Lemongrass is a sad loss to N16 takeaways | ||
| If you want to expel me at least spell my name right. In illustrious company though. https://t.co/qB2Bmh3CES | ||
| @PSW101 cheques and standing orders. | ||
| @LJDavies87 it's great. Do go if you can. | ||
| @PilgrimTucker @wildernessyrs he means the Labour NEC not the Unite one. | ||
| @wildernessyrs on the party NEC? Effectively put forward by General Secretary. | ||
| @alisonseabeck @LabourList "...and provide Hackney with the financial breathing space and know-how it needed to recover. | ||
| @alisonseabeck @LabourList yes it says that "somehow they persuaded extremely sceptical government ministers and other councils .... | ||
| @LJDavies87 did you see the Rick Stein in Palermo one? | ||
| Good stuff from Shadow Defence Secretary @NiaGriffithMP https://t.co/ftLR0Oidko | ||
| @Calderbank @thefabians no that's a different spectrum | ||
| @Calderbank @thefabians it means on the scale internationalist to protectionist, not on economic left/right axis | ||
| @Calderbank @thefabians I wouldn't dig too deep into what any of our predecessors believed 80 years ago... | ||
| @Calderbank @thefabians the Fabians have never "backed" anything. They publish all views but against their rules to have collective policies | ||
| @scottr0gers @stephenk I agree with what Coyne said. | ||
| @tigerfish4 no it's a disagreement between different sets of members. | ||
| @tigerfish4 no it's an election for General Secretary of a very large union. | ||
| @SarahAB_UK @CJPW91 I'd assumed that was happening anyway as there was that referendum thingummy last year... | ||
| @daphne_miles I like your profile picture of Margate Main Sands. Happy New Year! | ||
| @flipthecoyne read the "about" section on that blog, is written by a woman called Lyn in Staffordshire. Not me! | ||
| @flipthecoyne can you link to that because I didn't write it. | ||
| @flipthecoyne I haven't written any blog posts about it. | ||
| @simpsonjonathan thanks it was great to see you | ||
| @LiamMurray @colinrtalbot @NoraMulready it's less than in 80s as hasn't been an SDP split to deal with | ||
| @otivar55 for record my day job is Director of @WeBelieveIsrael the grassroots bit of @BritainIsrael | ||
| This is clearly a sensible merger but sad that it means Labour loses @bectu as an affiliate after many years https://t.co/7MutMxqXbo | ||
| @Layo_GP @andrewlomas again correct | ||
| @otivar55 we hit the target and have appointed someone (not me I do this for free) | ||
| @leftwingedduck @TomLondon6 actually I dream of Hugh Gaitskell and the old Labour right led by trade unionists like Sam Watson of the NUM.. | ||
| @Layo_GP @andrewlomas particularly given the seat losses would mainly be good sensible MPs | ||
| @TomLondon6 I will be voting for a Labour govt | ||
| @JamesLord2 actually that's not a fact. You assume twitter is my main political activity. It isn't. | ||
| @andrewlomas it saved us in the 1980s and will save us again. | ||
| @TomLondon6 let's do both. Internal mtgs are to resolve internal debates. Campaigning is for beating Tories. Labour always does both. | ||
| @andrewlomas I will always vote Labour in all elections. I voted for Bernie Grant in 1997 and Diane Abbott in 2001, 2005 and 2010. | ||
| @MrLumpy1 you can do both and Labour has always had internal debate and external campaigning. | ||
| @NoraMulready @LiamMurray then we'll have to do it without them. People can either help turn this round or not. It's their choice. | ||
| @NoraMulready @LiamMurray yes it is - and it's happening and working in many CLPs. Is also fun once you start winning. | ||
| @Barnabyspeak there won't be a split as everyone has learned lessons of 1983. | ||
| @NoraMulready @LiamMurray one person per CLP. Rest just need to turn up and vote right way. | ||
| @RosMcM @NoraMulready @wesstreeting eventually we always win because our ideas have mass appeal and their's don't. | ||
| @LiamMurray @NoraMulready it needs everyone as this is won by having more bums on seats in key meetings branch by branch, CLP by CLP | ||
| It gets quite confusing when real Corbynistas tag spoof accounts assuming they are real. | ||
| @MalcolmFincken he's not real. It's a spoof account mocking the corbynistas | ||
| .@suey2y is a good Labour comrade but wishful thinking that austerity is resonant issue w enough voters 4 Labour to win just on anti-cuts | ||
| Interesting analysis: https://t.co/CQ1KRu7IGh | ||
| @adnan_gooner98 @SeemaChandwani "far left" = people outside the Labour Party | ||
| @rob_francis @JimmyRushmore @iMcKenzied basically dem soc is UK way of saying soc dem as SDP meant v difficult 4 Lab ppl to ID as soc dem | ||
| @MichaelDugher I preferred the Fleetwood Mac documentary b4 - @LabLinda75 enduring both... | ||
| @SeemaChandwani great unifying idea! | ||
| Inflation impacting the cover price of BattleAction picture weekly comic. https://t.co/yAeJ9Q12KG | ||
| Is that a pro-Brexit roadshow or an anti-Brexit one? Genuinely not sure what side Corbynistas are or were on. Only 6 months too late. https://t.co/XbjphtriHG | ||
| @jackkidd94 @tom_watson yes | ||
| @wildman_adam it was about getting power in local council in order to fund communal projects | ||
| @mpblackman @TonyBurke2010 in Northern Ireland there was a history of widespread personation. There isn't in rest of UK. | ||
| @bally968 none of those things proves identity & stops personation as they have no photo or biometric identifier to link to the bearer | ||
| @mpblackman @TonyBurke2010 you don't need photo ID to get a pension. | ||
| @SeemaChandwani no he personally didn't but the faction that backed him in Tower Hamlets politics is linked to that ideology in Bangladesh | ||
| @SeemaChandwani someone who supports a group w an Islamist political ideology eg Muslim Brotherhood or Jamaat-al-islami. | ||
| @manxboy it was perpetrated in Tower Hamlets by Labour's enemies on the Islamist far left: https://t.co/mh8ZsXBujp | ||
| @MaraudingWinger @PooeyMcSkatface poll cards don't reach many individuals living in halls of residence, flats w shared hallway, HMOs etc | ||
| @FreeSpeechOnIsr yes we are on a panel together. Expect we will agree on quite a lot. | ||
| @MaraudingWinger again reduces turnout. Low turnout groups less likely to be organised re keeping poll card. | ||
| @LefebveM @TomBlenkinsop @NSP55 @Stephenh61 indeed but that policy was scrapped in 2010 | ||
| @NSP55 @Stephenh61 I think lowering already low turnout is a more substantive risk to the integrity of our democracy | ||
| @NSP55 @Stephenh61 shows you are out of touch that you can't visualise there are large demographics who don't travel abroad & don't drive | ||
| @NSP55 @Stephenh61 people in inner city areas more likely to rely on public transport and therefore have no driving licence | ||
| @Stephenh61 @NSP55 17% of UK citizens don't have a passport. Disproportionately poorer and older people. | ||
| @NSP55 anything that makes it more difficult to register or to vote is usually a bad idea and usually proposed for political advantage | ||
| @NSP55 experience in USA is it depresses turnout, disproportionately among poor and BAME voters | ||
| @alexsobel @RichardAngell @ProgressOnline ...from TUs or specific faith or BME groups than can mobilise bloc votes winning | ||
| @alexsobel @RichardAngell @ProgressOnline ... Winners tended to be celebs, the rich, here one cd see candidates with heavy sectional backing | ||
| @alexsobel @RichardAngell @ProgressOnline this is the problem - when our Italian sister party tried primaries ... | ||
| @RichardAngell @ProgressOnline but 6000 is a turnout of only about 8pc | ||
| @RichardAngell @ProgressOnline would have to b a lot more to cover costs of primary ballots (30k per constituency?) | ||
| @kevthecheff it's not about you or me though is it? It's about the 70% of voters to Labour's right. | ||
| @SirBasilBrush no the farming bit of family are upset that the EU won't allow amateur castration of cockerels by non-vets. | ||
| @ZeObserver @donpaskini not true, legally you can serve out your term if you move away as long as you qualified to stand by residency | ||
| Good result but Aylesham is a former mining village and NUM/Communist stronghold, often 90% Labour in past. https://t.co/FZTeD10K1Z | ||
| @itsdavegreen @iMcKenzied @AustraliaToon1 @JolyonMaugham no it's an irritating distraction from hard slog of winning back Labour | ||
| @itsdavegreen @iMcKenzied @AustraliaToon1 @JolyonMaugham go on then, you found it, we'll fight it. I'm waiting. | ||
| @itsdavegreen @iMcKenzied @AustraliaToon1 @JolyonMaugham a new party wd just delay saving Labour 4 a decade while we destroyed the new party | ||
| @itsdavegreen @iMcKenzied @AustraliaToon1 @JolyonMaugham it wouldn't be credible without Labour's brand, history, core vote & union link | ||
| @SarahMarieGraye no "principles" would be a very bad reason for causing a byelection. | ||
| @donpaskini depends how far you have moved, ability to come back for mtgs, marginality of ward, timing of other elections | ||
| The only thing Labour boundary proposal should consider is maximising # of winnable seats. Who the individual MPs affected r is irrelevant. https://t.co/MhBxNey3kl | ||
| @HCH_Hill I am not in favour of people leaving Labour politics when party faces an existential internal battle. | ||
| @donpaskini it's for the Chief Whip to decide whether a byelection was better option. Lots of factors to balance case by case. | ||
| @PhilLLister I agree but had hoped Jamie would be part of turning the party round | ||
| @PhilLLister there won't if they quit rather than fighting to change Labour. | ||
| @87UkeStreet @SinceWilliamos @JackyHolyoake @liamyoung phone canvassing can be done from home anywhere in UK | ||
| @mikeysmith jail sentences in the Hackney case had a useful deterrent effect at the time | ||
| @mikeysmith indeed, I agree with general point that this isn't a significant problem. | ||
| @Pingachoo @Jon_Lee_Proctor @LabourList no says an actual list of election results. | ||
| @Marshajane @UniteforLen your twitter profile wasn't up to date | ||
| @tonyloftus6 @Redpeter99 @wildernessyrs @adamboultonSKY if all cuts = neoliberalism then Blair was only non neoliberal PM. | ||
| @tonyloftus6 @Redpeter99 @wildernessyrs @adamboultonSKY they opposed austerity. Brown ran a Keynesian response to the crash. | ||
| @Castor8 @DJMHarland @19Averil are you all so sensitive we can't even sing songs at you any more? | ||
| @TwobobTwobob2 oh do lighten up. It's a fun, silly xmas party story. | ||
| @DJMHarland @19Averil yeah but I don't see the problem if they had sung some pointedly political songs. | ||
| No karaoke I have ever organised has been complete without the 13th verse of 12 For the Chimes on the Kremlin Clock | ||
| @KulganofCrydee I think they prefer the Internationale | ||
| @DenisMacShane yes Med Fish Bar on Cherwell Drive in Marston | ||
| I agree https://t.co/4QXCTmTON5 | ||
| Just seen #RogueOne with my sons. Brilliant film and great start to the xmas holidays. Best Star Wars movie since Empire Strikes Back. | ||
| @feedthedrummer there are over 1000 branches so 50 is not a difficult nomination threshold | ||
| @WTarbiat @feedthedrummer on balance it makes it more difficult for Len | ||
| @feedthedrummer he wouldn't have announced he was running unless he thought he had a chance of winning. | ||
| @feedthedrummer the far left will get on the ballot without any help - Hicks ran 3 times | ||
| @MarkBrierley1 no one is from the non-Labour left and I think will be SWP backed | ||
| So there is now a far left candidate challenging McCluskey for Unite GS too https://t.co/5LqcVTs9rA | ||
| @Odbe34 I think you will have trouble wishing us away | ||
| @Odbe34 no I don't. | ||
| @Odbe34 oh I do read it. I retweet things I think my followers may also want to read. | ||
| @Odbe34 no, factions or currents within the party can't affiliate to it. | ||
| Good to see my old uni doing this https://t.co/xfKNpLVEo3 | ||
| What do HQ staff do?" Let me see, I wonder what the "Elections Unit" does? https://t.co/TAQXSUFJGS | ||
| @carmel_prescott because that's the historical tradition he is from. He's not a Tribunite. Was a Benn man not a Foot man. | ||
| @carmel_prescott that isn't Corbyn's policy. Google it, it's Ed Miliband's policy from the 2015 General Election. | ||
| @HerbyTod @AdeleVBW @tigerfish4 that means you didn't vote Labour for 13 of 37 years you could have! | ||
| @CllrStopp @LJDavies87 probably same folk who said LDs were finished 18 months ago. | ||
| End of a long day during which someone told me they couldn't possibly be antisemitic as they were allied with Tony Greenstein. | ||
| @maurlind @mikecoulson48 @tonyloftus6 @HerseyJane @skiamakhos I run one of UK's largest Zionist organisations so confident re definition | ||
| @moodvik 1988 but campaigned from age 10 in 1982 (my mum was a member) | ||
| @MissLilySummers they don't believe in economic collectivism. If they did they would be Labour. | ||
| @maurlind @mikecoulson48 @tonyloftus6 @HerseyJane @skiamakhos yes a Zionist just means someone who thinks Jews should have a state | ||
| @kmflett the combination of trade unionists, sikhs & hipsters in our ranks means beard count is through ceiling | ||
| @kmflett no, one ginger beard in @labour_first is enough | ||
| @RCollumbell I can't get excited about it. The time to be excited was before the referendum result. | ||
| @blairsupporter it's a spoof account taking mick out of Corbyn supporters | ||
| @WTarbiat @Alex_Bjarnason you should take pleasure in making them angry. I have for 28 years. | ||
| @HowardWilde I'm basing this on their cllrs and activists who I've encountered. Sanctimonious middle class leftists. | ||
| @WTarbiat @Alex_Bjarnason no one is shouting at us on doorstep. Mostly they look at you pityingly. | ||
| @WTarbiat @Alex_Bjarnason the idea that LDs are a tabula rasa is false. Just because few MPs doesn't mean all the baggage isn't still there. | ||
| @mjrobbins trouble is you can't change it from outside. | ||
| @mikecoulson48 @tonyloftus6 @HerseyJane @skiamakhos here you go again. | ||
| @iamhamesh it's a spoof account | ||
| @mikecoulson48 @tonyloftus6 @HerseyJane @skiamakhos here we go again. | ||
| @mikecoulson48 @tonyloftus6 @HerseyJane @skiamakhos I am relying on this definition not my own views https://t.co/91DKvGstSM | ||
| @mikecoulson48 @tonyloftus6 @HerseyJane @skiamakhos take a good look at yourself, disagreeing w the Intl Holocaust Remembrance Alce. Classy | ||
| @mikecoulson48 @tonyloftus6 @HerseyJane @skiamakhos Labour announced it also supports this definition | ||
| @stephenwild @mikecoulson48 @tonyloftus6 @HerseyJane @skiamakhos criticising is fine doing it using antisemitic themes eg conspiracies isn't | ||
| @stephenwild @mikecoulson48 @tonyloftus6 @HerseyJane @skiamakhos read this. Explains when it is and isn't: https://t.co/91DKvGstSM | ||
| @mikecoulson48 @tonyloftus6 @HerseyJane @skiamakhos Read this (Now UK govt policy): https://t.co/91DKvGstSM | ||
| @mikecoulson48 @tonyloftus6 @HerseyJane @skiamakhos @WeBelieveIsrael usually best to avoid posting antisemitic conspiracy theories. | ||
| @tonyloftus6 @HerseyJane @mikecoulson48 @skiamakhos by the way NEC is not a paid role - NEC members are volunteers | ||
| @tonyloftus6 @HerseyJane @mikecoulson48 @skiamakhos I do my Labour stuff unpaid in my spare time. | ||
| @A1AN_J_R indeed, but he wasn't | ||
| I pledged to vote for Vote Coyne https://t.co/q980FUA7q8 | ||
| Are we in a worse state than in the '80s? https://t.co/iGpO8Y4cgn | ||
| I think this meant to be an attack on me, but I really like it. https://t.co/YEgyFMaBdv | ||
| @sheil54 @TJDunningham @Odbe34 I'm not aware of many policies being announced | ||
| @DebbieM1dge yes very wrong. I find it incomprehensible. I would struggle to approve him as a parish cllr. | ||
| @Johnfrededdy @tigerfish4 @BenGartside98 dream on | ||
| @TJDunningham @Odbe34 I'm not fussy. Almost anyone could do better. | ||
| @TJDunningham @Odbe34 we need to change the leadership to ever get the chance to tackle those issues. | ||
| @TJDunningham @Odbe34 none of the very important stats you have shared contradicts the point I made | ||
| @derekrocholl @BenGartside98 @tigerfish4 we haven't needed any money until this year, hence the crowdfunding. Annual turnover was about £300 | ||
| @WyeMonkey @BenGartside98 @tigerfish4 it's quite difficult debating when you don't seem to grasp basic Labour terminology | ||
| @WyeMonkey @BenGartside98 @tigerfish4 sorry no idea what you are on about | ||
| @WyeMonkey @SaolDara @tigerfish4 @BenGartside98 that's odd as I have the internal documents where you do. | ||
| @derekrocholl @tigerfish4 @BenGartside98 errm I'm Secretary of Labour First & I campaigned for Ed M in 2010 leadership election | ||
| @a_gannon516 we can only do that with a leader who we can unite around. Don't advocate a coup, do advocate JC resigning with honour. | ||
| @a_gannon516 they always move in favour of the government after this stage in a parliament. We need to be 20% ahead now to win in 2020. | ||
| @SaolDara @tigerfish4 @BenGartside98 no one is suggesting one | ||
| @Odbe34 I don't think you know much about my background. But Tories v clever at ensuring most ppl unaffected by austerity. | ||
| @SaolDara @tigerfish4 @BenGartside98 yes because it's the accurate one in terms of Labour terminology. | ||
| @Odbe34 no it doesn't because although we are rightly angry re poverty, most of population r not poor or on benefits | ||
| @SaolDara @tigerfish4 @BenGartside98 no it's how that wing of party self describes, seen as a +ve description as opposed to "soft left". | ||
| @SaolDara @tigerfish4 @BenGartside98 because millions more find Hard Left politics anathema, as shown by polls & election results | ||
| @mikecoulson48 @_DaveTalbot @HerseyJane @skiamakhos yes conference can change rules for any reason it sees fit | ||
| @tigerfish4 @BenGartside98 Labour worth it. Corbyn not. | ||
| @tigerfish4 @BenGartside98 because that's how Labour resolves disagreements between members - democratic internal votes | ||
| @tigerfish4 @BenGartside98 same reason Momentum does, to deal with internal Labour elections & our own events etc | ||
| @tigerfish4 @iamhamesh which is exactly what Diane did from 1997 to 2010. | ||
| Closing the gap in 12 months might be a bit late if there is a May General Election. Or even if u r a county cllr up 4 reelection. https://t.co/m9lAezgXSf | ||
| @philwoodford @spellar which leaves us in control of rulebook, selections, actual power in councils that run public services | ||
| @mikecoulson48 @HouseofTwitsLab can you substantiate that claim? I run @labour_first & we have yet to do anything about Unite GS poll. | ||
| @Odbe34 @chocolatewig @colinrtalbot no, by putting up a fight @labour_first has kept many active in party who would have walked away | ||
| @Odbe34 @chocolatewig @colinrtalbot I campaign hard for Labour on doorstep and I resent implication I don't. | ||
| @Odbe34 @chocolatewig @colinrtalbot which is why it is depressing to see the repetition with bells on of a previous disaster from 1980s | ||
| @chrisrumfitt @spellar @JohnRentoul no its completely irrational and just helps them cement control in internal elections and selections | ||
| @Odbe34 @chocolatewig @colinrtalbot indeed but Corbyn harks back to a period of defeat in 1980s | ||
| @chrisrumfitt @spellar @JohnRentoul cobblers. | ||
| @chocolatewig @Odbe34 @colinrtalbot I liked it when we were in power helping create a fairer society 1997-2010 | ||
| @robertjdun I'm Labour so of course I don't want Tories to win. But they will unless Labour returns to centre ground. | ||
| @robertjdun I speak on TV about what I'm invited on to speak about - the internal politics of Labour | ||
| @Odbe34 well I agree. But it's not going to happen. | ||
| @Odbe34 @chocolatewig @colinrtalbot I'm confident my time is well used fighting to restore Labour to what it should be. | ||
| @colinrtalbot of course Labour could be usurped. I'm trying to stop that happening. | ||
| @colinrtalbot no I mean multiple smaller parties doesn't work under FPTP. | ||
| @robertjdun because I take it for granted that me and all my readers are anti Tory & it would be boring to talk about stuff we agree on | ||
| @chocolatewig @Odbe34 @colinrtalbot no you need a Labour government. | ||
| @Odbe34 what benefit to my ego is it to stand up to the dominant faction in the Labour Party. Not a careerist so not sucking up to them. | ||
| @colinrtalbot I'm not in favour of him being in charge. But while he is I'm not going to let him smash up every other level of the party. | ||
| @Odbe34 @colinrtalbot those people will be needing food banks longer the longer Labour stays unelectably left. It's all about helping them. | ||
| @colinrtalbot and post Corbyn moderate leader will b able to recover ground quicker electorally if MPs, cllrs, CLPs, rules, policies r OK | ||
| @MomentumOx yes I consider you to be my comrades as we are in the same party! | ||
| @WTarbiat yes | ||
| Labour 'moderates' hope this West Midlands union leader will save their party https://t.co/Ne8CIXDxhI | ||
| @MaraudingWinger what makes you say that? | ||
| @skwawkbox @labour_first thank you for apology. | ||
| @_tom_burke_ it will only become credible if people stay in and change it. Please reconsider. | ||
| @skwawkbox @labour_first as a Unite member I will be voting for Gerard Coyne | ||
| @skwawkbox @labour_first I prefer to be attacked on basis of facts not your imagination. | ||
| @skwawkbox @labour_first happy to be attacked for things we do or say but making stuff up is lying and libellous | ||
| @skwawkbox @labour_first all our emails are effectively public as sent 2 4000 people including journalists & opponents. No email about Unite | ||
| @skwawkbox what's your evidence for this false story? I write @labour_first 's emails and we haven't mentioned the Unite GS election. | ||
| @Jonathanpercent @britainelects it shows as RT'd when I look at it. I RT all byelection results, good or bad. | ||
| @Jonathanpercent @britainelects I retweeted it last night | ||
| @_IanMoss @d4nf0x @KarenPollock100 he's not alone. Me, @LabLinda75 & a bottle of Havana Club Anejo Especial are watching too | ||
| @awkwardsod didn't mention him | ||
| @HuwJonesLabour how so? The only person who mentioned the topic today was Paul Mason. | ||
| @DarrenMcCaffrey the Bristol event? 1990s grads. | ||
| On my way to appear on BBC Daily Politics this lunchtime. | ||
| Now going to Commons reception for Bristol Uni Politics Dept alumni, then dinner with former Hackney Housing Chair Simon Matthews | ||
| Day off so spoke in Health Scrutiny Chair capacity at conference on tobacco control, then met up with @islingtonlizzi to catch up on gossip | ||
| @Herbiv4 @Wilshaw755 we do work together with Progress. Fabians are neutral on all policy & internal party debates - they just host debate. | ||
| More on Momentum shenanigans: https://t.co/hLVrIdlVqC | ||
| @MsSFothergill I am | ||
| @HuwJonesLabour my organisation @labour_first are the bit of the moderates that stayed Labour & fought the SDP. | ||
| @oxfordgirl @UKLabour @MomentumOx some people in Momentum are not part of the Labour Party e.g. AWL is proscribed/expelled | ||
| @oxfordgirl ask Momentum. They can't even stop fighting each other. Personally I think Denis Healey supporters are nearer the soul of LP. | ||
| @oxfordgirl I prefer to think of it as debating the direction of the party. | ||
| @oxfordgirl are you a Labour activist in Oxford? If so you will be aware of amount of campaigning I do for Labour. | ||
| @oxfordgirl @MomentumOx nothing to do with Militant. The people from 80s I am talking about were mainstream Bennites not Militant. | ||
| @oxfordgirl @UKLabour @MomentumOx @Oxford_Labour I haven't mentioned them. This is about Momentum nationally. | ||
| @wildernessyrs yes and possibly | ||
| @JonHegerty @WikiGuido no this is CPGB (Trots) not CPB (Stalinists). It's not connected to original CPGB just stole the name. | ||
| @HuwJonesLabour the experience in the 1980s was that some of Benn's biggest supporters evolved politically & became Blairites eg Hewitt | ||
| Why don't they just focus on fighting the Tories? | ||
| @says_it_now no. Read the blurb on the appeal, it's not about the leadership. | ||
| Tectonic plates moving. | ||
| Looking forward to tonight's @Oxford_Labour xmas dinner! | ||
| @frankwroche yep | ||
| Better than losing, but winning ceremonial presidency in a country of 8m doesn't really compensate for losing executive presidency of USA. | ||
| @GracieSamuels @PeoplesMomentum everyone in @UKLabour cares about working classes, otherwise we wouldn't join Labour. Stop being divisive. | ||
| @Herbiv4 @DavidLazar45 gosh | ||
| @originaldbailey sorry but I don't take lectures about level of campaigning. I do more than my bit for Labour and have done for 28 years. | ||
| @originaldbailey required because I have run out of spare time! | ||
| @originaldbailey stop being divisive. | ||
| @originaldbailey who said anything about undermining JC? Our organiser will be working on annual conference delegate elections. | ||
| @avigar123 @britainelects because 3 other parties stood last time | ||
| @Purfleetjohn @maxmcevoy @LabourFirst except John McDonnell... | ||
| @Purfleetjohn @maxmcevoy @LabourFirst correct | ||
| @maxmcevoy @Purfleetjohn @LabourFirst no one has advocated a 2nd coup. | ||
| Another unintentionally ROFL causing article. Sublime: https://t.co/LIl2oevUsl | ||
| @Saggydaddy @LabourFirst you mean @labour_first you just tagged some poor bloke who is nothing to do with us | ||
| Never knowingly under-hyped https://t.co/xuB6pUO054 | ||
| @Wytherman @wildernessyrs @labour_first Ed Balls is rather famously not a Blairite... | ||
| Hilarious. Very retro insult from 2012 NEC campaign. https://t.co/JAy5owvkTZ | ||
| @MSmithsonPB @MattSingh_ I was being sarcastic | ||
| Congratulations Manuel. Not my politics but appreciate his comradely manners! https://t.co/7tQsHCI59H | ||
| @benevetts welfare reform wd be most popular amongst ppl themselves on welfare or working poor who see cash they need going walkabout | ||
| @adam_acid @beingrichard @CrowdpacUK @labour_first wish we had some. | ||
| @adam_acid @beingrichard @CrowdpacUK no I do @labour_first for free. This is for someone to work for me. | ||
| @kb32904 sorry if it alarmed you! | ||
| @londiner @northsixteen @MatthewWells they don't just treat their staff well, the staff (partners) have shares in the business - is a mutual | ||
| @Celeb_Watcher can you be more specific? I don't "hate" anyone. | ||
| @North_Socialist no I am an equal opps opponent of all dictatorships. | ||
| @Celeb_Watcher are you denying Castro killed and jailed non-communist socialists? | ||
| @Jack_Scott @DPJHodges yes but given devolution UK ldr has hardly any control or impact on non-Westminster polls there | ||
| Feeling like a corner has been turned. | ||
| @people_noises parliamentary democracy | ||
| I'm intrigued to know where one qualifies to decide who is and isn't a socialist. Useful role to have. https://t.co/gc3YeUM4rJ | ||
| Good to bump into @CllrJamesDawson at Derby station. https://t.co/NK2MbWzE37 | ||
| @HenryQuamford @paulwaugh there are other choices of economic & political model than binary choice of Haiti or Cuba. Both are horrible. | ||
| Not starving? I'd like to think socialism set the bar a bit higher than "not starving". https://t.co/G89cjzk7Yg | ||
| Standing "against the US" i.e. the democatic side in Cold War doesn't strike me as being praise-worthy. https://t.co/inVcR5QVaQ | ||
| @ProletaireX apology accepted | ||
| @DarrellChaloner the one addressed by the bloke who got rid of Blair? | ||
| @David__Osland sure but he could have held democratic elections once in power like the Sandanistas did (I support Nic SC but not Cuba SC) | ||
| @WirralMomentum why are you being so divisive and negative? | ||
| @daphne_miles @tom_watson @jeremycorbyn JC has the same money as every other MP. | ||
| @daphne_miles @jeremycorbyn I spend my spare time canvassing to win elections for Labour whether the leader is one I wanted or not. | ||
| @daphne_miles @RatherBAPear @tom_watson @leicesterliz @TristramHuntMP @ChukaUmunna you know Tom Watson actually got rid of Blair as PM???? | ||
| Excited about seeing many of Labour's best activists tomorrow at @labour_first annual mtg #Lab1st17 - back at Brandhall Labour Club again! | ||
| @Markfergusonuk I would describe that more as destructive and attention-seeking than just "controversial | ||
| @JasonSlade87 I want the votes of Middle England because they are good decent people who should be Labour not just because we need them | ||
| @JasonSlade87 I'm not advocating rehashing Blairism but he did prove 3 times that Labour can build that broad coalition | ||
| @JasonSlade87 the groups I cited are not numerous enough in seats like Thurrock or Nuneaton, let alone the furthest targets like Canterbury | ||
| @lukeakehurst we need all these groups and Middle England swing voters - relatively well-off, socially conservative people | ||
| Even if you add together every voter from a minority or in economic hardship & progressive middle classes still not enough to win a GE. https://t.co/t5OKs0fa5X | ||
| @tonyloftus6 @Oxford_Labour explain? | ||
| @cymrurouge @David__Osland the article is inaccurate, talks about "creating new branches". No TU has done that. Is about affiliating old 1s. | ||
| @cymrurouge @David__Osland you could also ask Unite why they have multiple branches affiliated in say, Walthamstow. | ||
| @cymrurouge @David__Osland the one bit I do know is major TUs don't organise their branches w LP internal affairs in mind. | ||
| @cymrurouge @David__Osland different employers. Seriously though ask USDAW, not my TU so I don't know how they work. | ||
| @David__Osland @cymrurouge given there are several supermarkets in every constituency you might expect several USDAW affiliations | ||
| @David__Osland @cymrurouge the USDAW branches referred to are each composed of the staff at a supermarket. | ||
| @David__Osland @cymrurouge there aren't any union branches with just one member. | ||
| @cymrurouge @David__Osland @FinancialTimes all the branches are real. | ||
| @David__Osland @FinancialTimes yes but wholly defensive to protect incumbents. | ||
| @mistertim @_JackMcCabe in most CLPs officer positions are done by self-nomination. Branch noms are quite old-school. | ||
| @AlanOlive1 @joedgoldberg @britainelects calculated on top vote for party | ||
| Hearing good results for Labour moderates tonight at AGMs in Southampton and Walthamstow | ||
| @Ohok123456789 that they are badly let down by their leaders. | ||
| @benclarke121 @PamCrossland @WeBelieveIsrael no. Just an issue that needs to be resolved via negotiations. | ||
| @hare_wood @marthasydenham did you even read my Labourlist column attacking Clinton for failing to court working class voters | ||
| Interesting morning meeting Fatah activists & residents at the Al-Amani refugee camp in Ramallah. | ||
| @richard_d_sandy that's my point. I was being sarcastic. | ||
| @PamCrossland I'm Secretary of @labour_first the Labour moderates who fought against SDP & were around before Blairism | ||
| @mariepye @elliereeves the Standard's words not mine! | ||
| @maxtasker1 @WeBelieveIsrael home on Friday | ||
| @johnmcternan @HRHTudor1976 I am not even sure diversity is inherently progressive. 1930s-70s Sweden was monocultural but v progressive. | ||
| @rightwayisleft @johnmcternan @HRHTudor1976 I said "most" not "all | ||
| @pvandck yes it was. | ||
| @johnmcternan @HRHTudor1976 surely historically most migration caused by human misery - wars, famine, persecution, poverty. | ||
| @johnmcternan @HRHTudor1976 why would it be inherently progressive? Suggests something wrong with staying living in your home town. | ||
| Read this and feel even more nervous https://t.co/WAjx1DYdNU | ||
| @Emina_ibrahim congratulations anyway! | ||
| @QianYu61 a couple. The moderate slate was very broad - Blairite through to soft left and even beyond. | ||
| @carlgardner today is first time I have used the word! | ||
| @GrahamCunning12 some choice but more about push and pull of market forces. | ||
| @SpenceLivermore I don't have an answer yet to what we propose for future but we already lost battle to defend EU model | ||
| @SpenceLivermore we badly failed to understand the importance of nation states, stable communities, national identity as social glue | ||
| @SpenceLivermore I think we badly failed to mitigate its impact and now reaping the electoral whirlwind | ||
| @LefebveM yeah great to be engaged in rational debate | ||
| @Trickyjabs @stfumikey I've no idea but I do think our own govt should set the level rather than allow market forces to do it | ||
| @stfumikey @Trickyjabs you really think there is no connection between large movements of people & supply of housing, services & wage lvls? | ||
| @stfumikey in a market system if there are more people then obviously housing will be more expensive & if more workers wages held down. | ||
| @dinosaurblue @carmel_prescott it's just ludicrous we got to a situation where a state couldn't decide alone who had right to live in it | ||
| @dinosaurblue @carmel_prescott maybe the people living through this understand it better than your experts | ||
| @dinosaurblue @carmel_prescott I don't accept its a misconception. Basic economics that increased labour supply holds down wages. | ||
| @eldergill @LabourList not conflating them but white & BAME working class voters behave differently in both UK & USA, needs addressing | ||
| @thephilippics @roadto326 @EByard it also wrongly assumes today's young progressives won't grow up to be tmrw's old conservatives | ||
| And the one thing not lacking, just as with Labour in 2015, was good organisation. This is about politics that doesn't resonate. https://t.co/Pd9Yq21mC1 | ||
| @andreimuri who do you think a party called "Labour" is supposed to represent? | ||
| Thanks to @lisa_calderwood @new_art_riot @dannyjstevens @olidebotton @IvanaBartoletti for canvassing today | ||
| Good canvassing session in Lordship Ward N16 - 124 contacts, 58 Lab, with Ken support net 21 higher (+17pc) than underlying Lab vote. | ||
| @SinceWilliamos I would never do that. | ||
| @Pooolitics @AshleyB0203 AGM. Lots of CLPs having them this month. | ||
| @SinceWilliamos sabotage? I spend my weekends canvassing for Labour. | ||
| @SinceWilliamos you need to try googling their names | ||
| @AshleyB0203 because no one else stood even though moderates had a majority | ||
| @SinceWilliamos in what sense am I seeking to separate anyone? | ||
| @SinceWilliamos I always want Labour to win in all elections. | ||
| @SinceWilliamos we can't have total unity as we disagree. People can't pretend to agree about really serious policy differences. | ||
| @SinceWilliamos I always want Labour to win. As someone with extensive experience of election campaigns I know unlikely with JC as leader. | ||
| @MarkOfHam @SinceWilliamos don't be ridiculous. I've given up all my spare time for 28 years to helping Labour win. | ||
| @SinceWilliamos but Jeremy is - he is a member of the Campaign Group of MPs - the Hard Left as opposed to Soft Left Tribune Group. | ||
| @SinceWilliamos I don't. We just have our own networks just like the left of the party does. | ||
| @SinceWilliamos no don't be daft. Labour has always had disagreements on policy & rules. These are resolved at conference | ||
| @MarkOfHam @SinceWilliamos I don't have pro-markets views. Have argued vigorously against marketisation of public services. | ||
| @Labour_Insider @LittleTinca @Londoner_Tony @TheCanarySays also backed Yvette for similar reasons in 2015 | ||
| @YouGovUS @Siddo_D some of the fieldwork is October! | ||
| @SuffolkJason it's just normal internal democracy that different views in the party would seek to win votes at the conference | ||
| @SuffolkJason we are doing what we have done every year for 30 years, same as the left organisations like CLPD and LRC do | ||
| @nickyebrennan that's what I was doing when I was out canvassing yesterday | ||
| @SeemaChandwani @LabourList authors don't write headlines.... | ||
| @talktoharris1 @TedJeory @MayorJohnBiggs it's the trigger ballot for running in 2018 | ||
| @AndyCroy @JonnyforNewbury @GlenisWillmott the exact details were in reports from NEC members. | ||
| @JonnyforNewbury @GlenisWillmott I think regional parties will ask for local volunteers. Assumption is no time to run full selections. | ||
| @JonnyforNewbury @GlenisWillmott the NEC has already ruled that 2015 candidates run again if they want to in a snap GE | ||
| @idvck thanks! | ||
| @MattWrack @jonlansman @BuzzFeedNews I got Matt too ... | ||
| @yvonnemaxwell19 @David__Osland I voted for @HackneyAbbott in 3 General Elections! Good luck tomorrow! | ||
| I endorse this message! https://t.co/tRi0c6IK44 | ||
| @wildernessyrs @220_d_92_20 @stephenkb not helpful to speculate | ||
| @wildernessyrs @220_d_92_20 @stephenkb the 12 union seats are up for election at conference 2017. Unite also have a 5th seat - Treasurer. | ||
| @PaoloBrennan @Herbiv4 eh? | ||
| @Torterra21 yep usually takes a week | ||
| @Tweet4Labour ages you? I was shouting for Twigg, Fitzsimons, Murphy and Trainer | ||
| @KatieCurtis feeling sad about everything I cd have done for Canvey and Benfleet now... | ||
| A bit of a rant: http://t.co/6L1Lz0t | ||
| @BBCMichaelCrick I'm sure @DPJHodges came up with constructive and positive advice! | ||
| Canvassing for Ken tmrw (Sat) in key ward, Lordship. Meet 4pm at 38 Bouverie Rd N16 #labourdoorstep | ||
| @Bickerrecord interesting proposal - and doesn't abolish my primary organisational role on NEC so I'm not offended! | ||
| @HenryQuamford no, Heathrow 3rd runway. | ||
| @slepkane @stuartbruce @spellar what if Richmond CLP decides to select a pro-Brexit Labour candidate? | ||
| @stuartbruce @slepkane @spellar what has pro or anti Europe got to do with this? We already had a referendum on that. | ||
| @jruddy99 over 1000 is my understanding | ||
| @Phillip_D_Jones @charliemansell that would be a great unifying debate to show the nation wouldn't it? And you would not win. | ||
| Richmond Park CLP has big new membership. Byelection provides an opportunity for national party 2 prove can mobilise new joiners 2 campaign | ||
| EXCL: Labour former minister hits out at MPs calling to abandon Zac Goldsmith by-election https://t.co/jFoLvwkjtv via @PoliticsHome | ||
| Witnessed my first earthquake today in Italy. Luckily in Venice and epicentre in Appenines but still wierd to see chandeliers in bar swing. | ||
| @olivermorgans she competes with David Ward MP for saying vile things about Israel and Jews | ||
| @scottr0gers exactly | ||
| @PaddyBriggs it's strategically better for Labour not to have a Lib Dem revival. | ||
| @niknickerson @aliceperryuk why would you care who won out of an LD and a Tory when they form govts together? & in a seat where Tonge was MP | ||
| @PaddyBriggs so Labour has to drop out in seats where it was 2nd as well as seats where it was 3rd? | ||
| @dino_blue_nose @LPT1984 500 to 1200 | ||
| @twitsquince from 500 to 1200 | ||
| @KimberworthWill I don't. I never criticise the Labour Party, only elements within it who are reducing its chances of winning. | ||
| @dallo100 @Staircase2 no I have a day job too. Everything I do for Labour is in my spare time. | ||
| @ledredman @Redpeter99 including | ||
| @Staircase2 that increased membership hasn't had a positive impact on Labour's vote. | ||
| Witney 2015, 20 Lab voters per member, Witney 2016, 5 Lab voters per member. | ||
| @nwwarr tactical voting only works if everyone agrees to back the 2nd placed non Tory party everywhere. Otherwise just means "vote Lib Dem". | ||
| @PiesMcQ @skwalker1964 it's not that difficult to ask NEC members what happens at meetings. Several of them publish written reports. | ||
| @sooty_sayer @gabyhinsliff doesn't need to be as they only ever had a few dozen seats | ||
| Yeah kick out all those Progress supporters on the other slate like err @SteveHartUnite & @tomcopley & err ... https://t.co/tnc8lW5JRY | ||
| @carolewilliams I love Hoxton but ... | ||
| @carolewilliams I'll be in Venice and Naples ... | ||
| @tremeduna @mcashmanCBE I think both of us would agree with that | ||
| @carolewilliams jealous, I don't get to do contact.creator nowdays | ||
| @JHASTARKBAR @MissLauraMarcus yes it was suspended. Corbyn spoke against but lost. | ||
| @cooljool80 @ThePennyDrops yes he was at Disputes Cttee and opposed the suspension | ||
| @shirleymcbrinn it was suspended | ||
| @JolyonGreen against. He was there as part of a whipped effort to block it. He spoke in the debate. | ||
| @goat94 @SALiddy @nickyebrennan Witney already has Labour councillors on county and district | ||
| Start fighting the govt? What does this chump think I was doing this weekend in Witney or all the other weekends I'm out canvassing? https://t.co/wwsEfqjIwR | ||
| No we haven't yet started expelling people 4 writing articles suggesting Labour should have different policies, strategy or leader ... https://t.co/tpMJzzeKqn | ||
| @nickyebrennan @KrumpoB obviously. I wouldn't be a member of the Labour Party if I didn't think that. | ||
| @KrumpoB @nickyebrennan not on Saturday but over the period I have been a party activist definitely voter ID'd more people than that | ||
| @nickyebrennan @jeremycorbyn I know I was there at the same time as him | ||
| @IanWoodland @UKLabour I have a very broad definition of what a moderate is nowdays | ||
| @forry_anthony @duncanenright no intended to but got sent straight out to canvass instead | ||
| @IanWoodland @rtruscott I'm very patient, historically this usually takes a couple of decades to resolve | ||
| @forry_anthony @duncanenright yes that is how elections work. All the Labour people campaign for Labour. | ||
| @IanWoodland @rtruscott with respect, democratic organisations that move in one direction can move just as easily back in another direction | ||
| @almostandy @cr_celab it wasn't a tick box form with leading questions - responses are qualitative rather than quantitative | ||
| @BrendanChilton actually same as losing Coventry and Doncaster and Hackney | ||
| @andrew_kitching @JohnRentoul @BBCPolitics indeed. | ||
| @bongosaloon @SocialistVoice @skwalker1964 well except for the 2 years when Labour members nationwide elected me to NEC to represent party | ||
| @Lab2Palestine @WeBelieveIsrael I didn't personally retweet that and will remove the RT. Thanks for pointing out | ||
| Ho hum https://t.co/xFVQ3nTKF4 | ||
| Brilliant news & sorry to @NiaGriffithMP that I got her position wrong in my @LabourList column this morning https://t.co/gjSvebUuse | ||
| @chrisvanbrcon @jbmccrea we will have to agree to differ. This is beginning of a v long struggle. | ||
| @Rhobyngoch @jbmccrea Labourlist is internal. I'm a (unpaid) columnist for it, would you have me write bland platitudes? | ||
| @Rhobyngoch @jbmccrea anything you say within party meetings can and does get tweeted by others | ||
| @Rhobyngoch @jbmccrea it's not the 1950s with closed sessions of conference and secret speeches | ||
| @Rhobyngoch @jbmccrea you don't really get how debate happens in age of social media do you? | ||
| @RooftopJaxx @LabourList this is Labourlist's house style. Not a label I accept. | ||
| @DbAshby @everton_de_leon @JackyHolyoake they wouldn't be flying if there was a risk of being shot down | ||
| @Calderbank @AlanOlive1 Alan was party staff then so he wouldn't have been allowed to express an opinion on the policy | ||
| The only imperialist aggression going on in Syria is Russia bombing civilians to prop up a client regime & keep its sphere of influence https://t.co/vXqv2bVoko | ||
| G'mar Hatima Tova. Wishing all my Jewish friends well over the Yom Kippur fast. | ||
| @suebrazier public opinion would change overnight if we changed leader | ||
| @IanLabour I wasn't. I think we need to change leader. | ||
| @suebrazier I'm worried for you if you are Labour and happy with a 17% Tory lead | ||
| @TheStaggers Jim Kennedy now represents Unite not Ucatt | ||
| @SuperMickyChow that isn't what the polling says - YouGov tested why people are turning against Labour and was mainly Corbyn | ||
| @McForeigner you called me a Tory. I'm trying to establish how committed you are to Labour. | ||
| @McForeigner yes | ||
| @McForeigner how long have you been a party member? | ||
| @cr_celab it hasn't "started in the media" these r findings from local parties going out asking voters what they want | ||
| @cr_celab that's not incompatible with the findings released today | ||
| @DarrellChaloner only @labour_first | ||
| @stefanstern I probably should | ||
| Good county council selection meeting tonight. Congrats to Mark Lygo on reselection as @Oxford_Labour candidate for Marston & Northway | ||
| @peopleman44 I have never criticised the party. Any criticism I make of leadership is in the party's best interests. | ||
| @tom_watson @guardian agreed. The Grayson Perry exhibition at @TCMargate was one of the most thought-provoking things I've ever been to. | ||
| @peopleman44 I do that on the doorstep in elections. This account is for Labour members to follow to hear my views on internal party debate. | ||
| @MrsBurgin @jonwillchambers yeah I said by a compelling mainstream candidate. That person yet to emerge. Leaving really is daft though. | ||
| @gsoh31 unfair to bracket Unison with Unite. There stance on NEC has been very different. | ||
| @TomFromThePool those determined who the leader is and 6 CLP reps on NEC, not every other position in party structures | ||
| Sorry Barry it is not tenable to expect sceptics of current approach not to seek to influence balance of NEC & other party structures https://t.co/lj4WpaCnXN | ||
| @VLubev I am not a Blairite. There are other options between Corbyn and Blair. | ||
| @ariehkovler @OliverKamm @PCollinsTimes no we hit 19% in 2009. | ||
| Thank goodness for that conference bounce. https://t.co/7l2Iy53tM2 | ||
| @Saggydaddy @GallucciFred @andreww1967 @CllrStopp @labour_first @ProgressOnline work with them vs Tories yes. But not cede em control of LP | ||
| @Saggydaddy @GallucciFred @andreww1967 @CllrStopp @labour_first @ProgressOnline and your point is? | ||
| @GallucciFred @andreww1967 @CllrStopp the absolute priority is electing good conference delegates so Momentum can't rewrite party rulebook | ||
| @GallucciFred @andreww1967 @CllrStopp the key thing people need to do is be active locally to keep CLPs sensible & stop deselections | ||
| @SamuelAmadeus but not going to cheerlead for a leader who is marching us over an electoral cliff | ||
| @SamuelAmadeus I tweet positive stuff whenever Labour takes on the Tories e.g. #EducationNotSegregation and our excellent byelection cands | ||
| @SamuelAmadeus suggest you unfollow me if you don't support my stance | ||
| @SamuelAmadeus no I have never attacked the Labour Party, only people in it who are taking it in wrong direction. | ||
| @SamuelAmadeus I take it as given that all Labour people oppose the Tories and therefore don't need to keep saying so. | ||
| @brianging @stephenkb exactly that's point Stephen is making. It's the antithesis of socialism to buy a class segregated education. | ||
| @PolProfSteve @stephenkb snobbery | ||
| @CoffeeandCave @stephenkb no I lived and was cllr in Hackney where Labour transformed the schools | ||
| Very distressing news. Hope he makes a full recovery. https://t.co/FCrvkZkn3g | ||
| @southcoastbloke @Purfleetjohn @politicshome if you are taking decisions about public services you and your family should use them | ||
| @igloo660 @OmarBaggili no the role is elected by the Shadow Cabinet. Try reading the rule book. | ||
| @hal_westergaard correct | ||
| @davidgwynne indeed and equally wrong in that case | ||
| @MrRae1000 she didn't have kids when she was selected. All happened long after she was safely an MP. | ||
| @ambientmike and obviously would want the Labour candidates for an elected upper house democratically selected | ||
| @ianrobo1 looks like it | ||
| @SamPritchard @feedthedrummer AWL is the new name of Socialist Organiser | ||
| @SamPritchard @feedthedrummer the only organisations currently proscribed are the sucessors of Militant & Socialist Organiser | ||
| @BlackXList can you send me link to where that is from? | ||
| @CDivinio @michaelwhite @SALiddy @CaptJAKirk @BaronVonDuncs "soft left" is pejorative as denotes selling out/compromising vs HL consistency | ||
| @CDivinio @michaelwhite @SALiddy @CaptJAKirk @BaronVonDuncs no the Labour Hard Left describe themselves as such - seen as badge of honour | ||
| @CDivinio @michaelwhite @SALiddy @CaptJAKirk @BaronVonDuncs yes Far Left or Ultra Left denotes beyond Bennite Hard Left | ||
| @RichardJMurphy it has to be combined with an industrial policy that generates private sector jobs | ||
| @bfatchett what would you have them do? | ||
| @CllrLeonSpence @bfatchett in what way? Only 5 of 172 are serving on frontbench. We won all the votes at conference after he won. | ||
| @Reuters: FLASH: Obama is 13 points ahead of Mitt Romney" Is there a US @DPJHodges saying how this is not good enough? | ||
| @RichardJMurphy aim of welfare reform shd be more cash for "those unavoidably out of work" by stopping ppl who can work chosing not to | ||
| @theday2day aim is to streamline number of ppl involved and focus on key functional tasks | ||
| @theday2day oversight of candidate selection and campaigning to be done by CLP officers | ||
| @michaelwhite @SALiddy @CDivinio @CaptJAKirk @BaronVonDuncs Hard Left just means someone from Benn rather than Tribunite tradition | ||
| @ColinXLaney which bit? | ||
| @marcjacobleo no. Doesn't bother me. | ||
| @L_Morgan98 I feel sorry for them. It's Saturday night, they should be out having fun. | ||
| @emmacpicken @feedthedrummer last time I checked | ||
| Someone else didn't get the unity memo cc Compliance Unit https://t.co/erhtx4ljVA | ||
| @IainCrawford @feedthedrummer 1970s | ||
| @Whorulesme @Labour_Insider @OmarBaggili I have a real job. I do Labour stuff unpaid in my spare time. | ||
| @Labour_Insider @Whorulesme @OmarBaggili I would self identify as Hattersley/Healey type traditional Labour moderate. | ||
| @Labour_Insider @Whorulesme @OmarBaggili nearer to them ideologically. My views are similar to Tom Watson's on many things. | ||
| @Whorulesme @Labour_Insider @OmarBaggili which Tory policies do you think I support? | ||
| @Labour_Insider @Whorulesme @OmarBaggili Blairites. I was an Ed Miliband supporter in 2010 remember. | ||
| @Labour_Insider @Whorulesme @OmarBaggili actually I'm not. Loads of people to my right in party on economic & social policy | ||
| @TVAddictStill @JonAshworth yes | ||
| @AbiWilks @OmarBaggili we are just urging Jon to re-stand when the decision is taken at shadow cabinet. | ||
| @ftmsuperfly no it would be fine if Momentum was trying to change Lambeth Council's leader through proper processes inside local party | ||
| @cassiuskerrigan I don't think it helps to protest vs a Lab council when any cuts are result of budget being reduced by Tory central govt | ||
| @Janiete @BrummieGran @iMcKenzied he has announced who he wants but requires shadow cabinet vote to sign it off | ||
| Lunch with fellow blogger @hopisen at Brasserie Joel, Park Plaza Hotel | ||
| @MrsBurgin @JackyHolyoake @BrummieGran @iMcKenzied it also depends who turns up and stays in room for 8 hours... | ||
| Anyone doubting Lambeth Momentum are campaigning vs their own Labour council, they say it themselves https://t.co/YuavUtwodI | ||
| @SewellTim @ianrobo1 @JewishLabour @_LFI I'm probably the wrong person to try this line of argument with. See u once I've won! | ||
| @arronz82 errr I live in Cliftonville part of the year, you telling me I am imagining the ASB in my street? | ||
| @arronz82 not connected to Manston. Issue is ASB in Cliftonville. | ||
| @arronz82 I am from Canterbury originally, have a holiday flat in Margate live there part of year | ||
| @MargaretRHallid @Herbiv4 @ianrobo1 @JewishLabour @_LFI the chair, who is on our side | ||
| @Jagbooks no even without him it would be finely balanced | ||
| @ianrobo1 @JewishLabour @_LFI no it just means NEC balance exactly what it was b4 conference as left +3, mods +3 | ||
| @ianrobo1 @JewishLabour @_LFI leaving just makes it easier for these guys to win selections etc though | ||
| @_TUFI https://t.co/Pt9ILEeToN | ||
| @JRogan3000 @ComiskeyNathan @DavidMills73 @CoffeeandCave sadly we are leaving the EU anyway | ||
| @CoffeeandCave @ComiskeyNathan @JRogan3000 but surely those needs should still be met by migration that is planned & controlled at UK level | ||
| @PolhomeEditor it doesn't give Corbyn a majority. It restores balance to what it was before conference. | ||
| @CoffeeandCave @ComiskeyNathan @JRogan3000 would be better to increase supply of jobs in countries where people already live | ||
| @ComiskeyNathan @CoffeeandCave @JRogan3000 you can't plan allocate and allocated the resources unless migration is planned/controlled | ||
| @feedthedrummer @DMcCaffreySKY @JonAshworth no net effect of all changes is just to take NEC back to balance of one week ago | ||
| @CoffeeandCave @JRogan3000 because too many people have moved here too fast. | ||
| @JRogan3000 too late, we already lost the referendum | ||
| @matt_young I campaigned for remain. We lost. | ||
| @JRogan3000 enlargement to CEE states should have involved a 20 year economic alignment period before they got freedom of movement | ||
| @en_ligne_ @everton_de_leon @dankpym sure but the receiving country has to get a choice too. | ||
| @trainman1958 @everton_de_leon @dankpym I don't just want UK workers, I do want the UK to be able to plan who comes and works and lives here | ||
| @IntJewCon @chris_chalky but that 7e | ||
| @IntJewCon @chris_chalky I think you are making the wrong decision but respect you even if I disagree | ||
| @MarkBrierley1 @chris_chalky @IntJewCon indeed | ||
| @valvebender fight. Resigning never helps. | ||
| @chris_chalky @IntJewCon @UKLabour ah I see the problem. Sign up to @labour_first emails as trying to set up a group in East Kent. | ||
| @chris_chalky @IntJewCon @CrowdenBen I'm angry too but channel it into activity. | ||
| @chris_chalky @IntJewCon I spend all my free time organising against them - & this worked at conference - soI don't advocate "doing nothing | ||
| @everton_de_leon @dankpym or adequate jobs in eastern Europe so people can stay and make good lives where they grew up | ||
| @everton_de_leon @dankpym how about a vision of socialism where people don't need to migrate as all countries are prosperous and peaceful? | ||
| @IntJewCon @chris_chalky surely leaving is what they want? | ||
| @chris_chalky @IntJewCon @CrowdenBen it's not a "tiny victory" to take back control of NEC. Need to stop being defeatist. | ||
| @IntJewCon @chris_chalky are you in @JewishLabour ? | ||
| @chris_chalky @IntJewCon @CrowdenBen @labour_first our rally at conference was addressed by about 15 MPs | ||
| @imat106 @chris_chalky @IntJewCon @CrowdenBen @labour_first are you on our email list? | ||
| @IntJewCon @chris_chalky @UKLabour you assume way closer following of the news than actually happens | ||
| @IntJewCon @chris_chalky @UKLabour most of them know nothing about it. For us it's a core debate, most members not following it. | ||
| @chris_chalky @IntJewCon @CrowdenBen given left are moaning we out organised & beat them at conference don't think we lack organisation | ||
| @chris_chalky @IntJewCon @CrowdenBen if you want organisation sign up to @labour_first | ||
| @chris_chalky @IntJewCon @CrowdenBen I didn't mean literally "hang on" I meant systematically hold and take power structures of party | ||
| @IntJewCon @chris_chalky no if they had given in they would be flocking back to serve on frontbench | ||
| @chris_chalky @IntJewCon MPs inert??? 172 of them voted to no confidence him. | ||
| @dankpym @everton_de_leon why put "concerns" in inverted commas? You don't think economic impact on low wages ppl is real? | ||
| @suey2y who is the Asian mayor in the shadow cabinet? | ||
| @elena_gualtieri @everton_de_leon https://t.co/yoTSAPJ9G9 | ||
| @cr_celab sounds good to me. Stop trying to ignore what the ppl esp our core vote want. | ||
| @RichardJMurphy not on economy or public services but definitely on crime/security/welfare reform. | ||
| @RantyMcRantface that isn't the implication it's the reality of where it is an electoral issue for Labour | ||
| About that unity thing? https://t.co/K8tbQqR6Gf | ||
| @David__Osland @PhilipGlanville @HackneyLabour congratulations! | ||
| @RooftopJaxx on a personal level I am. | ||
| @everton_de_leon or possible full stop. | ||
| @Heaven_5ent I neither said nor thought that. The problem is her extreme liberalism on the issue not her ethnicity. | ||
| @everton_de_leon surely in a planned economy you need rather a lot of state control of migration? | ||
| @everton_de_leon and since when was lack of immigration controls intrinsic to democratic socialism | ||
| @everton_de_leon yes I just think we should advance towards socialism at speed working class want, we are not a vanguard party | ||
| @everton_de_leon as we lost the last two GEs and Brexit by being too leftwing on immigration I think we should start listening to voters | ||
| @TripeUK gosh. Are other people's tweets in a different time zone too? | ||
| @TripeUK no in Oxford | ||
| That would be unhelpful to functional party unity https://t.co/nxuzbMBVYg | ||
| @Kerri_Prince one way to channel the enthusiasm of all the new members | ||
| @maxshanly @Sabrina_Huck in what sense was it tough? It was an election campaign & giving loads speeches - both fun if you are a politician. | ||
| @DPJHodges this flat-earther is delighted that voters want a traditional moderate Labour agenda | ||
| @CllrStopp maybe the silence is out of respect for Rosh Hashonah... | ||
| Has anyone else read Martin Pugh' "Speak for Britain" history of Labour? Just started it and seems v insightful. | ||
| @Jack_TaylorSE15 sorry I meant 1993 | ||
| @Jack_TaylorSE15 they all voted against OMOV in 1994. | ||
| @Benjwestwood @SteveTunn yep it's a very engaged mailing list. | ||
| @Benjwestwood @SteveTunn thanks for signing up | ||
| @Benjwestwood @SteveTunn we have just under 1000 back out of 4200 on email list | ||
| @Benjwestwood @SteveTunn it's very variable. Some branches the attendees are unchanged since before GE. | ||
| @JG_108 no idea | ||
| @JG_108 yes double what I got in 2014 | ||
| @EdmundGriffiths @YaNanous it's inspiring me to go and read the original Milton | ||
| @JoshLeNeveu a reasonable amount | ||
| @ColinXLaney @GetinTrickledOn @JohannaBaxter there is a Labour CLP for NI - @LabourParty_NI but as yet UK NEC hasn't let it run candidates | ||
| We chose which county to live in part on basis it had comps not 11+ selection. Some ppl to my "left" seem less averse to segregated schools. | ||
| @DPJHodges @KevinMorton1966 I think we're doing as well as we could be given the starting point of 2010 GE. this is going to be a long haul | ||
| This time a decade ago I had just arrived at count for Aldershot, awaiting result of my first go as a General Election candidate | ||
| @mark_stockwell @DPJHodges i.e. a majority of 1 would be an amazing acheivement next time | ||
| @mark_stockwell @DPJHodges I don't believe a 1997 style result is possible starting from 29%. Last time it took us 3 elections to recover | ||
| @jakeyt23 you can call membership unit at HQ on 0345 092 22 99 to transfer to new address | ||
| @mark_stockwell @DPJHodges depends if u view Kinnock/Smith/Blair as a continuous march back to electability or 1994 as Year Zero | ||
| @OwenJones84 It's about individual attention seekers. | ||
| @OwenJones84 this isn't about Blairites. Most Blairites v loyal to Ed. @DPJHodges is not a Blairite as far as I know. | ||
| @Purfleetjohn they haven't been heard by the NCC yet | ||
| @KevinMorton1966 @DPJHodges exactly. Point is we r not in the 3 years prior to the GE. Starting point in 92 was 34pc not 29pc we got 2010. | ||
| Steve Bullock: Labour rule changes will ensure we don’t let Tories off the hook for cuts to local public services - https://t.co/odb4CgTdhR | ||
| Heading for drinks with @askbagnall | ||
| Worth reading first 2 letters https://t.co/V2yPXiQWaC | ||
| @DamCou they should have come to the @labour_first rally ... | ||
| @Phillip_D_Jones it doesn't work like that. Other than Unite the big unions look at each issue on its merits as it comes up. | ||
| @LeeJasper @jessicaelgot that's not our twitter feed, this is @labour_first | ||
| @jessicaelgot @LabourFirst you meant to tag @labour_first | ||
| Five things we learnt from Labour conference https://t.co/IvATrgXofi via @FT | ||
| @MatthewRavenhil @DebraJinks @Benjwestwood @chris_chalky @TheSirrahYnot how cd Galloway rejoin when there is now a moderate majority on NEC? | ||
| @0scarmild no it is their appointees. Kezia plus a Welsh frontbencher | ||
| Great to hear @tom_watson describe NATO as a socialist construct | ||
| Former Militant LPYS leader not happy with rule changes. https://t.co/4zDrcVX48k | ||
| @WhartoJohn you obviously haven't been watching the conference today | ||
| Morning Star write up of @labour_first rally: https://t.co/rZ1iuEOP3L | ||
| @adam86foster @labour_first as you come in from me! | ||
| @Rhobyngoch I am not on the NEC. I haven't been on it since 2012. | ||
| I get all the news I need from the CAC Report. | ||
| @BenC42 @Labourpaul @TraceyPaul I'd stay in Labour. Born in it and will die in it. | ||
| @diamond_59 @StayInLabour they aren't demographically or politically like average voters | ||
| @arronz82 we have to recruit from among the millions of Labour voters who are to Corbyn's right. | ||
| @terranto76 very pluralistic. Last time I checked we lived in a democracy where people could express dissent and criticise leaders. | ||
| @Pooolitics @jonrosling how will that work if there is a freeze date? And you won't have a vote in any selections or internal elections. | ||
| @VincentN15N17 @ElliotBidgood @Delna_42 if it's over, how come you are still a Labour councillor? | ||
| @VincentN15N17 @Delna_42 @ElliotBidgood I persuaded loads of people to do that in Hackney, eventually we won | ||
| @westham009 @davidebaines that is completely illogical. Like saying if you stay living in the UK under a Tory govt you must be endorsing it. | ||
| @diss1 what as? A person? | ||
| @schooltruth that happens by default if selections are completed using current trigger system. | ||
| @IanWoodland there have been periods of greater consensus or at least grudging acceptance of direction of travel | ||
| @LukeOHolland @LadPolitics slight obstacle is he has a marginal seat which we won't win with a leader with those politics - like Benn 83 | ||
| @schooltruth it isn't even on the conference agenda so yes it has been ruled out (for a year at least) | ||
| @ChrispLOL @_whenisayjump @Kerri_Prince vast majority of public completely disinterested in those issues | ||
| @toates_19 recruitment. Differential turnout at meetings. When I arrived in Hackney N had huge left majority. We out organised them. | ||
| Politics isn't a spectator sport. If you want a different Labour Party you have to be actively involved in changing it. | ||
| @VeeCee30 yeah there is. Will take a long time but the country needs a moderate centre left party so eventually we will win back Labour. | ||
| @SamPallis voting Tuesday announced Wednesday | ||
| @scottr0gers majority of CLPs never mandate delegates. That's always been a left thing. | ||
| @scottr0gers but meetings about conference business specifically were allowed and have been held | ||
| On my way to Liverpool for Labour's most important internal election this year - Maggie Cosin vs Chris Williamson 4 Nat Constitutional Cttee | ||
| Errr I am not an MP. Just a member with opinions representing myself. Thanks for the promotion though. https://t.co/Q9XOWKpV4y | ||
| @azuretone good! | ||
| @GlenMitchell1 Prentis has never personally backed Corbyn. Unison playing a very constructive role on NEC. | ||
| @AnniebFrancis @britainelects you don't need to send these to me I retweet them all as they come out anyway | ||
| @DavidS_Glasgow @UKLabour @kezdugdale @jeremycorbyn @FMcAveety @scottishlabour delegates were all elected before 24 June. | ||
| @MomentumOx because we are not in any illegal wars at moment so no saving to be made there? | ||
| @michael53021960 @britainelects that's an 8% swing from Lab to LD | ||
| This sounds a bit pathetic actually. I made 400 voter ID contacts - not calls - most weekends as a parliamentary candidate. https://t.co/FXxXeyAcnB | ||
| @GraysPsephology and because there are millions of people who are tribally loyal like me, Labour will remain only centre left game in town | ||
| @yatesyman @JadeFrancesAzim time to get active then... | ||
| @GregLabour @AdeleNDouglas @charlotte2153 @RichardAngell I know but just clarifying. | ||
| @GregLabour @tristanpw1 @RichardAngell particularly if she has been expelled | ||
| @TerriPaddock I disagree. The country needs a viable centre left party and turning Labour around is only way to acheive that. | ||
| @GregLabour @RichardAngell yep grossly offensive and I hope you will forward the links to party HQ | ||
| Why would anyone walk away from the most important political battle of our lives - saving the Labour Party? | ||
| @garypepworth that sounds like Hackney North in 1997. What can change in one direction can change in another. | ||
| @HandsOffCorbyn @EK_Heather and in 1980s many people started off Hard Left but matured once they saw damage it did | ||
| @HandsOffCorbyn @EK_Heather no I am suggesting recruiting new members just like Corbyn did | ||
| On my way to Manchester to speak at this https://t.co/EoogIoYIeB | ||
| @SaolDara @StuartTheRed 28 years experience of organising and standing in elections??? | ||
| @StuartTheRed @SaolDara yes. I am not prepared to be led to inevitable defeat. | ||
| @MrStevenJones @RichardAngell @jeremycorbyn the numbers can change as dramatically as they did in 2015 in opposite direction | ||
| Latest blog post by union veteran Fred Jarvis is a must read https://t.co/JlrKuHD62K | ||
| @SaolDara I want Labour to beat the Tories. People voting Corbyn as leader are making that less likely. This distresses me. | ||
| @SaolDara I don't think the membership increase tells us anything useful about wider public opinion. | ||
| @littlefishblues thanks | ||
| Mainly my twitter mentions are people angry that anyone they disagree with gets to publicly express opinions. | ||
| @SaolDara I'm representative of the ones who voted for me. Both of us are way to left of UK voters but me less so than JC. | ||
| @charmaine725 @fairdealphil no one deserves the chance to lose a General Election and put the Tories in power for another 5 years | ||
| @darrenw_cardiff @SDoughtyMP @welshlabour there's no law saying the NEC has to meet on a Tuesday | ||
| Only now is the penny dropping that running for reelection when you don't have confidence of PLP delivers a meaningless victory. | ||
| @BlackXList he quit the Lib Dems and campaigned for Labour in the GE | ||
| @BlackXList ask the BBC. Basically if you show willing to do interviews and can argue, they ask you back. | ||
| @BlackXList you don't have to be on the NEC to have opinions | ||
| Me on TV https://t.co/4MiXvnAfLJ | ||
| Me on TV today, starting at 32:45 https://t.co/qWTWWBxpCc | ||
| @stehibernian11 yep you can. Thatcher won 3 elections but we still opposed her. | ||
| I'm on the Daily Politics today at 12.30 talking about yesterday's NEC decisions | ||
| My @LabourList column: https://t.co/W5IlUxvUn7 | ||
| @CharlotteB1 it's not the responsibility of the NEC, it's the responsibility of individual CLPs. National events already have a creche. | ||
| @markhowell7 not including me I haven't been on NEC since 2012 | ||
| @simonevans117 @politicsem correct but to have got through NEC means it has support from key unions so conference not problematic | ||
| @David__Osland no we were advocating a challenge for months in full expectation of losing. Strategically this challenge has been helpful. | ||
| @ChrisWatt4 @labour_first drop me an email. | ||
| @westham009 probably. Depends who else wants to! | ||
| @LeaningLeft46 correct | ||
| @westham009 good, we need people to stay and be part of turning this round | ||
| @charliemansell @SpaJw @jruddy99 yes | ||
| @westham009 loud but not a majority. Some quietly sensible Union people on there. | ||
| @charliemansell @SpaJw @jruddy99 it isn't as Carwyn said not to want it. | ||
| @westham009 NEC proposing it as a rule change at conference, implies it already has significant union support. | ||
| @Rachel_Moses_ no this is start of a process that could take years. Moving faster than I expected. | ||
| @JamesBower93 @David__Osland @GloriaDePiero usually that gets you sent to jail doesn't it? | ||
| @SpaJw no they are still deciding on elected shadow cabinet which also has implications for NEC balance | ||
| @peopleman44 I am just a spectator | ||
| Nah is just 33 people all want to speak on every item. https://t.co/C10baxbtF2 | ||
| @paulwaugh from Holyrood and Cardiff Bay frontbenchers? | ||
| @iainjwatson this means Kezia and Carwyn get NEC votes? | ||
| @David__Osland @GloriaDePiero obviously | ||
| @Stu101093 @MrTCHarris no she wouldn't. Defecting MPs and cllrs invariably welcomed. | ||
| @Stu101093 @MrTCHarris but Corbyn opposes both those and he is Labour leader | ||
| @jaym1000 @fghays22 @bill_d2016 yep | ||
| @MrsBurgin yes it would be very useful and my highly political 10 year old would love it | ||
| Jeremy Corbyn and Tom Watson to slug it out for control of the Labour Party https://t.co/Ar6l9WRQtq | ||
| And unnecessary at conference where there is a professional & totally non political creche https://t.co/D845LB8rsO | ||
| @bill_d2016 the childcare is a great idea. Political content to it needs to be done with great care. | ||
| @Hullbhoy @AshleyB0203 yes because of that kind of behaviour | ||
| These people specialise in destroying harmony of CLP mtgs with bullying, hectoring & endless procedural game playing. | ||
| Back in 1988 I remember Mark Sandell of AWL bullying a left trade union delegate at Canterbury CLP mtg until she ran from room in tears. | ||
| @beatonthedonis less fanatical. More extreme people are always more motivated. Membership disproportionately southern, wealthy, graduates. | ||
| @mralowe @JamesHinnigan @sashasimic @UKLabour no 19th century. This is a good starting point to understand: https://t.co/QipoiGsDst | ||
| @JacobKishere @QMDebateSociety akehurstluke@gmail.com | ||
| @maxshanly definitely | ||
| Presumably these comments were a "joke" too. https://t.co/kcj6c1O5IW | ||
| @ms_peaceweaver @ShellyAsquith sounds like common sense to me. | ||
| @scottr0gers my pleasure comrade | ||
| @scottr0gers you are one already | ||
| @scottr0gers in Michael's case he one of the officers of the LRC | ||
| @ThomSnape surely maths would suggest some students are potential terrorists and need monitoring etc? | ||
| Article by key Corbyn activist seems point to them eventually leaving Labour as unprepared to compromise for unity https://t.co/d7ILXgIwKc | ||
| @MSmithsonPB even the poets feature an expelled AWL entryist! | ||
| Good luck @PhilipGlanville in Hackney Mayor election tomorrow - first one since elected mayor created I have not been campaign manager for! | ||
| @GroupHostile @David__Osland @lfpme the same people that are "against" the pharmaceutical industry | ||
| @David__Osland @lfpme "arms dealing" = illegal supply of arms which is immoral. If you mean defence industry, yes I am a supporter of it. | ||
| @David__Osland @lfpme the companies I worked to were competing w Israeli industry rather than supplying Israel. | ||
| @David__Osland @lfpme and I'm not sure making analogies between democratic Israel & despotic Saudi Arabia is helpful | ||
| @CB_PRandPA good to see you! | ||
| @David__Osland yes that would be good. | ||
| @David__Osland of course. You will find me in the leaflet tunnel. | ||
| @paulwaugh de facto AWS I think. No such thing as AWS in byelections but I think in practice NEC will shortlist all women. | ||
| @cymrurouge @britainelects @labour_first you think Tom Watson is same politics as Tristram Hunt for instance? | ||
| @cymrurouge @britainelects not really @labour_first 's demographic. | ||
| @Jack_Hazlewood_ thanks | ||
| @MrZetkin just searched my feed and I said "comradely" 9 times on Twitter before Corbyn was leader. Probably more than that in blogs. | ||
| About to speak at @ProgressOnline & @labour_first #roadtoconf rally in House of Commons | ||
| @BenGartside98 has Jim Fitzpatrick said he is retiring? | ||
| @steveoakes1234 @MrsBurgin @davidcstanley and we need to disassociate ourselves from Trots | ||
| @steveoakes1234 @MrsBurgin @davidcstanley we also need a leader who looks and sounds trustworthy & moderate - eg John Smith, Jim Callaghan | ||
| @steveoakes1234 @MrsBurgin @davidcstanley tax, defence, crime, immigration, foreign policy | ||
| @steveoakes1234 @MrsBurgin @davidcstanley I'm a traditional old Labour moderate | ||
| @steveoakes1234 @MrsBurgin @davidcstanley no | ||
| @davidcstanley @steveoakes1234 like Corbyn backed Blair? There has never been a period in Lab history where ppl backed leader unthinkingly | ||
| @arminkuntz @Cool__Daddy @LabourList @jeremycorbyn | ||
| Not sure I have quite this level of influence https://t.co/EMQgaqAWFO | ||
| @twitsquince @AmeliaRoseTighe @jeremyforlabour sadly probably not | ||
| @twitsquince @AmeliaRoseTighe @jeremyforlabour Labour already has almost all those votes. Poll shows only = 25% | ||
| @davidcstanley @Cllrjfahy I wasn't on the NEC in the first place. | ||
| Slight contradiction in this tweet https://t.co/I8EOHbA7IF | ||
| @fghays22 the problem is that it only takes one AWL or Militant person to turn an entire CLP into a really unpleasant war zone. | ||
| @jazi68 @JonHegerty yes | ||
| On way to @Oxford_Labour meeting to debate contemporary resolutions for conference. I'm proposing one on impact of Brexit. | ||
| @davidaslindsay @saving_labour @LabourFirst @ProgressOnline @RichardAngell yes | ||
| Always thought he was a headbanger https://t.co/2vP46o9lIu | ||
| @AJCTmusic @MosesBrox @alpha_q67 so casual antisemitism is fine if you don't tag the person it is aimed at? | ||
| @alpha_q67 @AJCTmusic who is "they"? I'm not Jewish. My ancestors have lived in UK since time immemorial. | ||
| @GregLabour @CaileanHenri @chelleryn99 I wasn't there. Was watching it on TV at home in Oxford. | ||
| @fghays22 @Nataliefleet there wouldn't need to be a contest if Corbyn had done the honourable thing & resigned when no-confidenced | ||
| @anthonyleahy she thinks she will be deselected if she opposes JC. | ||
| @CoffeeandCave gets to be shadow foreign secretary & avoids deselection hassle from leftwing CLP | ||
| @ECO_Sean_UK I | ||
| What is JC's 2020 General Election strategy? Early in last parliament Labour already revealed its target seats etc. | ||
| Slightly pointless choice of reading for someone who lives in Braintree constituency (Con maj 17610 over UKIP). https://t.co/YPVR2cnhpq | ||
| @tattyheaded I think what you suggest is fine but as I am not on NEC can't give authoritative advice | ||
| At Shanghai in Dalston for Dim Sum | ||
| Good morning's work - 225 contacts, 160 of them Labour (71pc). All voted in GE 2010, none ever previously contacted. | ||
| @ashmcgregor yes we had words about that! He wants to recreate pre-1964 Stokey and Shoreditch councils. Wouldn't be big nuff to run services | ||
| Innocent" target="_blank" style="color:#3c73a6">@LeChatInnocent thanks! | ||
| Innocent" target="_blank" style="color:#3c73a6">@LeChatInnocent I wasn't sure! | ||
| Innocent" target="_blank" style="color:#3c73a6">@LeChatInnocent what for knowing what is going on in the Labour Party? | ||
| If I had £1 for every Corbynista who mistakenly thinks I am currently on the NEC I would be quite well off. | ||
| @Martinush66 @dallo100 it was completely inappropriate language | ||
| @bigdamo @AnnelieseDodds @CarolineFlintMP no. | ||
| @sarniejewell @RossFootball even more reason to stay and fight if they are readmitted. | ||
| @dallo100 report them then. I am not an NEC member so no role in these decisions. | ||
| @sarniejewell @RossFootball we need to out recruit them not shrink our side. There will be another contest next year + key local votes. | ||
| @sarniejewell @RossFootball no it's easy. Leaving helps them. | ||
| @RossFootball that's what they want you to do. Rain on their parade by staying. | ||
| @scottr0gers I haven't commented on who the alternative candidate should be as my role at @labour_first means helpful to be neutral on this | ||
| @scottr0gers I'm busy getting ready for conference, not involved in leadership campaign. | ||
| @scottr0gers I meant in 2015 but still able to vote this time | ||
| @Labourpaul @richardhowitt think Alex Mayer was 2nd on list? | ||
| @sad_vomit oops | ||
| @stoddart_martin @JonMarsland1982 @LynnMooreCllr why didn't he get behind Kinnock and Blair? | ||
| @stoddart_martin @JonMarsland1982 @LynnMooreCllr because I don't agree with his ideas and I don't think he is competent to do the job | ||
| @stoddart_martin @JonMarsland1982 @LynnMooreCllr as almost all my followers are Labour members I assume they already know Tories are bad. | ||
| @PiesMcQ I'm not on the NEC & haven't been since 2012 | ||
| @gazzcam @Grombags some polls did put leave ahead - almost all of them correctly said would be close: https://t.co/939O13Si0k | ||
| @Cave_Art_Films @GregPaulHayes another blogger who for some reason thinks I am an incumbent member of NEC | ||
| @nivekder @feedthedrummer it would be accurate to say @labour_first has a different relationship with unions to his | ||
| Wondering what my "ilk" is https://t.co/7tf1lhqvmq | ||
| @Grombags @Fertweetssake I am secretary of @labour_first which is basically the Old Lab Right (pre-Blair, Healey, Hattersley etc) | ||
| @dallo100 @jk_rowling nonsense. It was the govt that spent the most on schools and hospitals in UK history & increased income of poorest | ||
| @Olly_Drew @Grombags @mosabbir it's the folk who are making us unelectably left wing whose impact will be the status quo not changing | ||
| @Fertweetssake @Grombags ensures all three main stakeholders in party have an equal 1/3 say - unions, members, MPs. | ||
| @Grombags and common sense. Why would voters back someone more leftwing than Ed M who they rejected as too leftwing? | ||
| @adamwisdish95 @georgeeaton oh I see that NEC vote. Gotcha now. | ||
| @adamwisdish95 @richardmarcj @jhallwood @Jack_Blanchard_ no one suggested we could win that. | ||
| @richardmarcj @jhallwood @Jack_Blanchard_ they don't need to. Trust me I have a spreadsheet. | ||
| @richardmarcj @jhallwood @Jack_Blanchard_ Tom wouldn't be speaking about this unless TUs lining up right way | ||
| @richardmarcj @jhallwood @Jack_Blanchard_ incorrect see GMB ballot they have mandate they didn't have before leadership contest | ||
| @richardmarcj @jhallwood @Jack_Blanchard_ the challenge shifted GMB via ballot from neutral to active so changes dynamic massively | ||
| @eddyman00 @jhallwood eh? It would give PLP 1/3 of votes. | ||
| Yay someone remembers me from my heyday! https://t.co/Xe5cu3tAxP | ||
| Yep dreadful bloke. https://t.co/YRE9WiDhss | ||
| Long wait for ballot to arrive but just voted for @owensmith2016 | ||
| @CllrAlanClark @RichardAngell no it is probably just someone's personal twitter account | ||
| Pluralism ... https://t.co/UTLw3WoYr0 | ||
| @newkindpolitics we are moderates because we are nearer the middle of UK political spectrum than you are | ||
| @newkindpolitics the way democracy works is that you can campaign to change leader | ||
| @rurallabouruk more rhetoric than policies. | ||
| @ivanwhite48 @Labourpaul it's the PLP that are calling for elected shadow cabinet. | ||
| @Odbe34 not really. Was tolerant of very open criticism & breaking whip by Corbyn and other rebels throughout his time as leader. | ||
| @MarkHemi82 yep | ||
| @PeterKenyon @BBCNewsnight you mean as called for by the party deputy leader last month? It's @labour_first btw | ||
| Wonder how long the writer of this account has been Labour. Me, 28 years member. He wants me expelled. For dissent! https://t.co/zjdAmMARyo | ||
| @PeterTwohey @sckitupbuttercp @conradlandin @MarkSeddon1962 I used to receive disability benefits. My sister does. Why would I back cuts? | ||
| @PeterTwohey @sckitupbuttercp @conradlandin @MarkSeddon1962 I ran as parliamentary candidate opposing tuition fees | ||
| @beansandstuff unity and ability to fight Tories require a change to a unifying and credible leader. | ||
| @Odbe34 will happily unite behind any credible leader. | ||
| @PeterTwohey @sckitupbuttercp @conradlandin @MarkSeddon1962 could you tell me the policies you think I support that are Tory? | ||
| @Odbe34 we can't win government unless we change leader. All polling supports that premise. As does common sense. | ||
| @pmacbrum @PaulDBrant @ParburyWill @politicalhackuk on that chart there is a lot of left space between Corbyn & centre. All still left. | ||
| @maxshanly @ProgressOnline @RichardAngell @labour_first I was there, picture taken halfway through the room with ppl behind camera | ||
| @WyeMonkey they don't send responses to the complainants | ||
| @WyeMonkey it's not my guidance I replicated it from what party sent out. You can send in complaint to party. | ||
| @CalumSPlath @BenGartside98 Angela was never really part of Brown operation. | ||
| @James4Socialism Corbyn's base is middle class. | ||
| @Jack_TaylorSE15 no | ||
| @MarkFrance62 come back to me when you get 48,632 in any kind of election. | ||
| One for the conspiracy theorists: I haven't got a leadership ballot yet. Maybe I am being purged. | ||
| @JonathanRWarner remember Rosie from his many visits to London Labour in 1990s. Great man. My wife went to campaign in Dominica for him. | ||
| @richardlanigan @yahboo14 @Redlabour2016 I'm extremely relaxed about political insults but not about personal ones | ||
| @KirkChris no it was to stop moderate members resigning in despair | ||
| @Rebels4Ever @GregLabour @BlueNoseRed8 no I sent in a submission to keep electoral college | ||
| @Daveofanewcity today's polling shows the long term party members don't support Corbyn. | ||
| @SamJRushworth @Redlabour2016 @LabourLeft actually I approve of them using a Smiths song title to attack me | ||
| @RusholmeLabour @GregLabour @BlueNoseRed8 I get on fine with all the Corbyn supporters I know in person. | ||
| @BlueNoseRed8 @GregLabour @RusholmeLabour @wordpressdotcom why engage me in conversation then? | ||
| @BlueNoseRed8 @GregLabour majority of who though? | ||
| @GregLabour @RusholmeLabour @BlueNoseRed8 charming | ||
| @BlueNoseRed8 @GregLabour I don't respect election outcomes that are absurd | ||
| @RusholmeLabour @GregLabour @BlueNoseRed8 ok he has my respect then | ||
| @BlueNoseRed8 @GregLabour despair at incompetence, comically bad presentation, sectarianism & pursuit unpopular policies like unilateralism | ||
| @cymrurouge @MarkSeddon1962 yep there are more of us in the wider population. | ||
| @tazlufc I agreed with them. Without lying how can you support things you disagree with? | ||
| @Robzeeroo @JackyHolyoake no. See my Labourlist column last week. | ||
| @Robzeeroo @JackyHolyoake that rule change won't get through conference | ||
| @garethhunt01 @LeaningLeft46 Private Eye | ||
| @thisislucio @RichardAngell ordinary working people are not very leftwing. Canvassing a council estate quickly tells you that. | ||
| @timallon there isn't a majority for McDonnell amendment at conference. | ||
| @MarkJDoran @SocialistHealth @UKLabour I am not a member of NEC since 2012 so absolutely nothing to do with me | ||
| @MarkJDoran @SocialistHealth @UKLabour the NEC elected the Procedures Cttee which elected the panel | ||
| I'm at Paradise Wildlife Park in Broxbourne, known by Jed as "Thomas Zoo" (for its train ride) | ||
| Would be convenient for left for conference to be cancelled as removes risk for them of defeat on key votes https://t.co/vSVRqhCorD | ||
| One of the reasons why NATO is important https://t.co/doJdluniTz | ||
| @Herbiv4 @Militant4Corbyn it's a spoof account | ||
| Time to return to not being a public figure perhaps https://t.co/UFD60GBVve | ||
| @garethhunt01 @EmmaBurnell_ @ianrobo1 the outgoing members are the NEC until the end of conference | ||
| @ianrobo1 @EmmaBurnell_ CAC is 5 reps from big unions plus Michael Cashman and Gloria De Piero. | ||
| @alextalbot116 annual season ticket £999 so under 1/4 of train | ||
| I can recommend the coach as alternative to overcrowded trains. Seats are compulsory. About to brave A40 traffic on X90 home to Oxford. | ||
| @binny_uk @richardbranson @tonyblairoffice yeah they got out at Watford Junction if my memory is correct. | ||
| Once upon a time in 1997 General Election I remember @richardbranson & @tonyblairoffice sharing the drivers' cab of a Virgin train. | ||
| @clarecruiky @timrollpickerin not yet. | ||
| @washyourmouth1 it was the position of @labour_first which is the group I am secretary of | ||
| @washyourmouth1 I encouraged MPs I knew to serve in his team and try to make it work. It didn't. | ||
| @FALLLFAN @MutazElNour actually I couldn't have. Conference agrees the rules, not the NEC. | ||
| @rtrn94 @AntBreach remember that only 1 part of Unison - the APF - is affiliated to Labour (reflects old NUPE & COHSE vs Nalgo origins) | ||
| @suey2y no. They go out in batches over several days. | ||
| @BlackXList @GardnerTVFTW @MarkHemi82 which is allowed in the rules. CLP GCs are elected by members. | ||
| @suey2y @FindSource correct. We have 3 constituency MSPs and 21 list top-up MSPs. | ||
| @GardnerTVFTW @MarkHemi82 more for full membership, less for unwaged | ||
| @suey2y @FindSource no she has/we have 24 MSPs | ||
| @bordesleygreen @eldiablo0786 yes | ||
| @Fertweetssake @ChriswMP @annaturley @LadyontheLeft haven't heard of a single CLP no-confidencing their MP. | ||
| @VincentN15N17 @carinaoreilly not if you report him to validation@labour.org.uk | ||
| @ChriswMP @annaturley @LadyontheLeft no Corbyn is still obliged to quit as still won't have confidence of PLP | ||
| I was a borough campaign manager for Ken Livingstone in 2008 & 2012. Didn't lead me to assume I had a veto over who he backed for leader. | ||
| An odd assertion given Labour already "won London" under Ed M in the 2015 GE https://t.co/cu2XxSW8zU | ||
| @Conorpope there was a trigger when Ken was reselected for 2008 - each CLP cast one vote | ||
| @thegreenelk getting an effective centre-left party. Gotta be 500000 people up for that. Also voting system may cge back 2 electoral college | ||
| @thegreenelk eventually moderates will out recruit left as 90% of UK population are to right of Corbyn | ||
| @thegreenelk ok! | ||
| Sadiq now a "Blairite". Hilarious. https://t.co/EvIqG2WxyO | ||
| @RichardBrooks18 @JohnRentoul @georgeeaton and prior active membership of Respect proves you don't | ||
| @JuniorCelente @SkyNewsBreak combination of b and c | ||
| @sylvia_howells lost votes? I went from 21000 votes to 48000 | ||
| @WindleshamRich @cjfaraway @rafaelbehr probably never fatally, party is v resilient, but may take decadrs to recover | ||
| @JoeMakesThings @JonAshworth Ayesha is not a member of staff. This is about attacks on current staff who r banned from arguing back selves | ||
| @TameIdiot we just lost part of it that was still Labour at county council level | ||
| @dijdowell actually worse than that. The Hard Left actively support Russian agression. Hence tacit Putin support for them - media etc | ||
| @JonHegerty no the Trident replacement has a lifetime stretching to the 2060s. Is insurance vs future threats. | ||
| @JonHegerty there's a meme about my last reply | ||
| @JonHegerty Russia | ||
| @JonHegerty this also explains how it works https://t.co/sC7LlcgwP9 | ||
| @maninthestreet9 @britainelects I'm anti-Corbyn so I agree | ||
| @JonHegerty we can use it "without permission". Is fired on orders of UK PM alone: https://t.co/uMuTZk4t0r | ||
| @D_Carlin1 @rogersahota @britainelects interesting given Corbyn's USP last year was ability to inspire non-voters | ||
| @probableroller @StevieMoonshine @britainelects it is | ||
| @seantduffy @chockeyboy @britainelects no it isn't. I think I am reasonably qualified to talk about psephology. | ||
| @seantduffy @chockeyboy @britainelects there is no formal definition of a marginal. It's a key target seat we have to gain. | ||
| Can everyone wake up please? https://t.co/kACLonM4sN | ||
| @seantduffy @chockeyboy @britainelects Gravesham is a seat we have to win to win the General Election | ||
| @cjfaraway @rafaelbehr not helpful to resign as if he wins will be another leadership vote next year | ||
| @rafaelbehr clearly most likely outcome is a Corbyn win but better to have started challenging him than go along with charade everything ok | ||
| @rafaelbehr if the wider selectorate is similar to the hustings audience. It may not be. | ||
| @twitsquince yes the previous leadership was out of touch in 2015 - was far too leftwing for voters. Corbyn has just amplified this. | ||
| At the @ShalomFestival in Edinburgh watching Israeli band anna RF sing a song in praise of Gozlemme - Turkish pizza. | ||
| @alexadranghi yep drop me a line on email at akehurstluke@gmail.com | ||
| @alexadranghi no in Margate! | ||
| @Charles_Pooter @Evostein which one? | ||
| @LabourJelly @Mancman10 probably the rallies actually terrify swing voters | ||
| @marbessa1 meet them half way. | ||
| @DPJHodges @SamTarry @RefoundLab I thought you would have supported that! I won't support anything that weakens TU link. | ||
| @marbessa1 I oppose cuts/austerity but suspect public think we are wrong about this | ||
| @marbessa1 the 3 reasons we lost in 2015 were perceived economic competence, weak leadership, immigration. Corbyn addresses none of these. | ||
| @marbessa1 foreign and defence; general rhetoric and image. | ||
| @VLubev I'm not a Blairite | ||
| @VLubev Blair | ||
| @marbessa1 I'm in favour of both those policies. They aren't the problem. | ||
| @peopleman44 please show me the polling evidence for that assertion | ||
| @malvachat in the minority in the party but not in the wider country. Among voters I would be seen as an idealistic leftie. | ||
| @DinahSW they mean 84% of the CLPs that bothered to nominate. About half chose not to hold a nomination meeting. | ||
| @AgainstHunting @InterstellarPal @MarcusDysch @JewishLabour what incident are you referring to? | ||
| @morelikewater @Harryslaststand what office did you mean? | ||
| @morelikewater @Harryslaststand my only office is at @WeBelieveIsrael | ||
| @cazziemacca @Harryslaststand the polling evidence is he has worst personal ratings of pretty much any leader ever | ||
| @cazziemacca @Harryslaststand & just isn't common sense. Why would someone from leftmost point on spectrum be popular in centre? | ||
| @BrindDon @charliemansell @CLPNominations @MSmithsonPB I think 70000 is the new ones since 2015 | ||
| @kimwhite666 @MidWalesMike I have argued for CLPs to hold delegate based GCs not All Member Meetings for decades. AMMs were a Blairite idea. | ||
| @jruddy99 @MrsBurgin @JackyHolyoake @Labourpaul yes the official LP list has 632 CLP units. Don't forget Labour International! | ||
| There are 632 CLPs so Corbyn actually only got nominated by 45% of them https://t.co/irmr3msEId | ||
| @MidWalesMike @suebrazier @SteffiThompson @labour_first that is the traditional way large CLPs take decisions. | ||
| @MidWalesMike @suebrazier @SteffiThompson @labour_first no I don't and nowhere in the email does it suggest that. | ||
| @MidWalesMike @UKLabour @suebrazier @SteffiThompson @labour_first don't be ridiculous. It's campaigning, same as Momentum does for Corbyn. | ||
| @MidWalesMike @suebrazier @SteffiThompson I am secretary of @labour_first it is an email sent to supporters of @labour_first | ||
| @suebrazier @MidWalesMike @SteffiThompson what's your problem with my email? | ||
| @suebrazier @MidWalesMike @SteffiThompson that would be. It would also be against the rules. Please give example of where this happened. | ||
| @suebrazier @MidWalesMike @SteffiThompson are you saying you view delegate based GC's as "underhand"? Bizarre. | ||
| @suebrazier @MidWalesMike @SteffiThompson yes | ||
| @rob_francis @NoraMulready @workersliberty @shanedgj @tom_watson SO/AWL has been proscribed since 1990 | ||
| @wes_ball @alonorbach @ChriswMP is accusing a judge of bias contempt of court? | ||
| @DPJHodges @aidanskinner you quote unnamed senior officials saying "We have been sidelined | ||
| @DPJHodges in which way and for what outcome? | ||
| @DPJHodges it was a tiresome article about process | ||
| @DPJHodges yes. They contacted me to ask my advice and get me to write a response on the @RefoundLab website. | ||
| @cymrurouge @momentumexposed former UK branch of League for 5th International | ||
| @DPJHodges @gusbbaker does anyone feel they have been excluded from consultation or it is some way a fix? | ||
| @DPJHodges @gusbbaker how about debating the substance of reform rather than Qs of process? | ||
| @gusbbaker @DPJHodges I think it's more a capacity issue. There is no "internal one-off consultations unit" at HQ | ||
| Have just paid only 10.50 to go from New St to Euston in 1h25. Good VFM. | ||
| @David__Osland @charliemansell @workersliberty @tom_watson why does LRC allow them to be an affiliate? https://t.co/AVJ4XOezSK | ||
| And many of these good people are members of Unite and GMB who will be distinctly unimpressed by Corbynism. https://t.co/kYQ3xcS9PD | ||
| @shanemclabour @WeBelieveIsrael the organisation I work for supports a 2 state solution i.e. creation of a Palestinian state | ||
| @shanemclabour @WeBelieveIsrael We Believe (which I am Director of) is completely independent of the Israeli govt. | ||
| 100 members vote against Corbyn in his own CLP https://t.co/cl1vLcIIM2 | ||
| @MickHitchin agreed | ||
| @WyeMonkey @MissLilySummers no that isn't language the NEC Procedures Committee has barred | ||
| @SeemaChandwani @CLPNominations @jonrosling @AdamBienkov I agree with Seema. | ||
| @rhysmorgan this gives them mandate to be bolder | ||
| @rhysmorgan I already counted GMB as non-Corbyn in my totals of 16 JC 17 not JC | ||
| @JonFletcherAUL no read the article, it defines Trots and entryism very precisely | ||
| What did Corbyn expect? Wants to destroy GMB members' jobs in defence industry so of course they won't vote for him. | ||
| @rachaelwrd there aren't any newly elected male members, the blokes were incumbents. | ||
| @mcash @chrisinspired I haven't suggested she is. But she doesn't mind AWL being in the Labour Party. I do. | ||
| @Kenny_young @RobinsonTr46 @JolyonGreen no they were appealing to different geographical areas | ||
| @Kenny_young @RobinsonTr46 @JolyonGreen voting was more about Liverpool vs other boroughs than left/right | ||
| @ThatZolnaGuy just that late Bob Kiley was effective at London transport | ||
| @kevinyoung1964 @LabourList it's not pejorative, is how they describe themselves in internal documents | ||
| @joedgoldberg agreed but I'm not the guy to develop the vision, I'm a humble organiser | ||
| @Lokster71 can you point me to any column where I have ever used the word "moron"? | ||
| @mcash @dunbarrover @rheawolfson touche | ||
| @mcash @dunbarrover @rheawolfson that was one of the final 2 answers. I said I disagreed with the first 4 of the 6. | ||
| @paul_mcmc I don't get paid to write for any publications | ||
| @Admiralowen it was a clean sweep of the 6 CLP seats. Previously been 4 left 2 mods. The whole NEC has 33 seats. Mods won the 2 cllrs. | ||
| @dunbarrover @rheawolfson I disagree with her first 4 answers. That's why we stood against each other in the NEC election. | ||
| @nytamann as my tweet says, composition of new NEC will be 16 Corbyn, 17 not Corbyn | ||
| @CaptainMeg @JolyonGreen correct freeze date was 24 June for NEC | ||
| @KingsleyAbrams @jeremycorbyn no I won't. Also I am not a Blairite. | ||
| @TullyMatt @mcashmanCBE Kinnock increased Labour MPs by 62. Corbyn more likely to lose 62. | ||
| @CllrPeteBowyer indeed, but it's not an either/or question. supporting constitutional reforms won't lose any votes | ||
| @CllrPeteBowyer except in your borough and mine judging by the AV result. | ||
| @_IanMoss @TelePolitics they have absolutely no votes in any reselection as not got a Labour MP | ||
| @RooftopJaxx ahhh I will miss the attention | ||
| @RooftopJaxx Momentum didn't exist in 2011 and 2012. Think Schneider was still a Lib Dem then. | ||
| @SocialistCraig the interview isn't with me | ||
| @SirUbu @politicshome I'm not a Blairite | ||
| @cymrurouge @momentumexposed @jeremycorbyn @PeoplesMomentum it hasn't dissolved, I spoke at their conference a few weeks ago | ||
| @leeannward @HerseyJane @CllrStopp @lab_alan @Christine4NEC yes actually - both as a cllr and organised for all the big TUC demos etc | ||
| @AaronBastani don't count your leadership chickens until they have hatched. | ||
| @MissLauraMarcus @WildColoniaIBoy they don't have control of the NEC. Remains finely balanced. | ||
| @HerseyJane @CllrStopp @lab_alan @Christine4NEC he self describes as Hard Left. It isn't an insult. | ||
| @BOBrien451 takes office on last day of conference | ||
| @MShapland actually it's not even 55% Corbyn. There are 33 seats only 8 elected today, 6 left, 2 (cllrs) mods. | ||
| @MissLilySummers that needs to be sent to validation@labour.org.uk | ||
| @ianrobo1 @liamjlhill no it won't because most of the delegate election results have been fine. | ||
| @maxshanly thanks | ||
| @johndavidblake there were no individual members until 1918 | ||
| @MrsBurgin Tom Watson | ||
| @HermansSermons at 6pm | ||
| @JonathanRWarner @LabLinda75 party website | ||
| So I got 21115 votes last time and came 9th. This is the 2014 NEC result: https://t.co/bOScA1YD5x | ||
| NEC results coming out at 6pm. Assume brace position before impact .... @LabLinda75 can you have a drink ready for me? | ||
| @shanemclabour @Tony_McNulty @Harryslaststand really? You don't think any of key players come from Stalinist tradition? | ||
| @PeterKenyon @UKLabour @unitetheunion hardly a secret as I dedicated an entire @LabourList column to this couple of weeks ago | ||
| @LordMVee @Anothergreen the unions | ||
| @LeftwingPoet how about picking someone of same level as JC? Flattering to be compared but a little lop-sided. | ||
| @d4nf0x @JolyonGreen nah you just reintroduce old concept of being a provisional member for a certain period until you become a full member | ||
| @jessphillips @Rory_Palmer @BexBailey6 @ParmjitDhanda @JohannaBaxter @elliereeves not sure. This week ... | ||
| @left_of_Left @UKLabour @MichaelDugher @CarolineFlintMP @SDoughtyMP no read my Labourlist column defining antisemitic anti-Zionism | ||
| @new_art_riot @EllieCumbo and for Gallo Nero deli and the Fishery both on High St | ||
| @tom7p @JolyonGreen I am talking about area covered by Kent County Council | ||
| @RooftopJaxx no he has blocked me so can't even read it | ||
| Take the test & if you get @labour_first sign up here https://t.co/DKTf5W8a1b https://t.co/LxbyP6ZtdS | ||
| @trebornaeth @GregHadfield @LabourLeft when did that happen? | ||
| @arthur_ascii @HuffPostUKPol errr I didn't write it | ||
| @paulleake next Friday I think | ||
| @Pooolitics @SpaJw no best to stay and fight ward by ward, CLP by CLP. Read Fightback by @HayteratLords to see how was done last time. | ||
| @Pooolitics doubt it. Think Momentum will have used their email lists and phone banks v effectively. | ||
| Another NEC election over. 7 months campaigning every 2 years. Good job I enjoy this stuff. | ||
| @cymrurouge @harris1498 yep the first is from the spoof Luke blog that Hackney Socialist Party used to run | ||
| @SamFawcett92 end of next week | ||
| @ClarkRenney @UKLabour thank you | ||
| @SynthLassie thanks | ||
| 30 minutes left to vote online for NEC. | ||
| @cymrurouge @Calderbank YouGov 22 Sept 2015. 62% support for Trident, incl majority of Labour voters. | ||
| Intresting mix! Thank you! https://t.co/oZmyW8wSzc | ||
| @Calderbank @cymrurouge no it's the position taken by majority of public | ||
| @cymrurouge basically you know nothing about my political views despite me proclaiming them online for a decade. | ||
| @mattwilson_g next week | ||
| If Beaver ward is same as Beaver estate it is one of the most deprived working class areas in southern England. https://t.co/zbOUmNs09v | ||
| @cymrurouge there is nothing stopping you dropping your leftwing rhetoric, branding & policies if you want to be seen as "moderate | ||
| @NicholasElmslie @Harryslaststand @bobl1961 @Kittygoldie under 1% | ||
| @phil1 @viccfc @Harryslaststand @bobl1961 @Kittygoldie only those of them that proudly admit it | ||
| @bobl1961 @viccfc @Harryslaststand @Kittygoldie wow. | ||
| @NicholasElmslie @Harryslaststand @bobl1961 @Kittygoldie no I don't and haven't suggested that. | ||
| @viccfc @Harryslaststand @bobl1961 @Kittygoldie do you get to define socialism? Who appointed you to this role? | ||
| @iamaafaq thank you. | ||
| @iamaafaq @SplottDave @JOYOURPAPARAZZI @Cool___Daddy @Smeggypants @jeremycorbyn @SeumasMilne @LabourParty some of them don't. | ||
| @Harryslaststand @bobl1961 @Kittygoldie no its about exposing communists trying to enter into a socialist party | ||
| @Phillip_D_Jones @Harryslaststand yep there are. | ||
| @Phillip_D_Jones @Harryslaststand there aren't Nazis in the Labour Party. | ||
| No it's the antisemitism that's repugnant Harry. And it comes from the far left - Stalinism, SWP & WRP all had it. https://t.co/TgKPzJvILt | ||
| @billyspruce thanks | ||
| @PeterKeithJones @SocialistVoice except I didn't write that, it's from a spoof blog | ||
| @billyspruce except it isn't my blog they quote from it is a spoof. | ||
| Comradely discourse https://t.co/PMhti4KLQA | ||
| @iamaafaq thank you | ||
| @iamaafaq I support the 2 state solution and work for an organisation with an explicit commitment to it | ||
| @loz70 @paperwarbird @SciscoMedia what for defending the last Labour Government? | ||
| @EdDavie @James_Pattersn @peterkyle he is great but just for record there are 4 Lab MPs in SE - also Slough, Oxford E, Southampton Test | ||
| @peopleman44 @GdnPolitics I don't identify as New Labour or Blairite so I don't want it to. Hence happy to vote for a leftie like Owen S | ||
| @michaelwhitham @MissMossley @Really_Robbie shrinking the state??? Public spending as share of GDP rose under Labour. | ||
| @DonkttNews @SocialistVoice that isn't my blog you have linked to it is a spoof produced by Militant/TUSC | ||
| @renieanjeh @iMcKenzied @TyronWilson if was a split I would stay in Corbyn Labour, fight the splitters 1st then Corbyn. So won't happen. | ||
| @michaelwhitham @MissMossley I'm against outsourcing, marketisation of public services but they are not intrinsically neoliberal. | ||
| @michaelwhitham @MissMossley UK 1945-1979. | ||
| @michaelwhitham @MissMossley a market economy is not same thing as neoliberalism. Classical social democratic govts have market economies. | ||
| @TonyBliarOffice @RachelReevesMP @JohannaBaxter @ParmjitDhanda @BexBailey6 I don't apologise for Israel I celebrate it | ||
| @TonyBliarOffice @RachelReevesMP @JohannaBaxter @ParmjitDhanda @BexBailey6 there are 6 NEC reps from arms industry trade unions... | ||
| @CuttingRoomJohn @JoshNewlove I think we are in an extremely difficult strategic position whoever wins the leadership | ||
| @CuttingRoomJohn @JoshNewlove no he is Soft Left. Seems to be to left of Ed M. | ||
| @michaelwhitham disagreeing with a war doesn't give you the right to bandy round the word "atrocities". | ||
| @michaelwhitham no I don't recall any "atrocities" at all. Literally no idea what you are on about. | ||
| miserable neoliberal drivel" - I.e. An article going on about Labour govt redistributing wealth & being Keynesian https://t.co/5TLBxWtnOX | ||
| @kmflett sure, in which case Corbyn and McDonnell talk about making Labour a social movement is cobblers. | ||
| @chrisrumfitt thanks Chris | ||
| @itsthemamboson @tobymoses @sunny_hundal @LabourList I repudiate austerity. I actually say so in the article too if you bother to read it. | ||
| @JWoodcockMP @peter_c_smith they can't deselect him as the CLP is suspended. | ||
| @baba_luther @mralowe read this https://t.co/Kuyy8k5hi0 | ||
| @Tobyr_ice @guardiannews no it will be the lives of millions of people in the UK that it made far better | ||
| @robcassidy84 @MattJBall maybe you could use a word that isn't historically associated with the former? | ||
| @JohnnyLeigh @MomentumSurb @PeoplesMomentum it is obviously a spoof. Why would I retweet a real Momentum branch? | ||
| @JohnnyLeigh @MomentumSurb @PeoplesMomentum yes because it is very funny. | ||
| @MarkHemi82 it's a spoof account | ||
| Just joined a twibe. Visit http://t.co/Fa9spdL to join | ||
| I think he meant "statement of the obvious" rather than "self-fulfilling prophesy". https://t.co/JOaq2N3SSD | ||
| @MarkHemi82 @J_Proctor23 take a photo and send it and names to compliance unit | ||
| @Phil_O_Keefe @SteveReedMP @unitetheunion @GMBPressOffice @InsideCroydon MPs aren't neutral they have nominated candidates | ||
| @Phil_O_Keefe @unitetheunion @GMBPressOffice @InsideCroydon Oxford Labour is staying neutral, as far as we know Unite is not | ||
| @bigdamo by the Exec at end of June. | ||
| @bigdamo Oxford Labour has decided not to endorse either candidate, in interests of local party unity - as per all recent leadership ballots | ||
| @Chrisdobson59 @angelasmithmp thanks! | ||
| @Dan_A_Murphy @renieanjeh @Rachel_Moses_ @iMcKenzied the timing of a snap election logistically precludes any new selection process | ||
| @renieanjeh @Rachel_Moses_ @iMcKenzied @Dan_A_Murphy they don't. NEC has said in a snap election the 2015 MPs and candidates run again. | ||
| Watched this - it was someone only caring about what they want, not what the people Labour aspires 2 represent want https://t.co/Sg775feDch | ||
| @BBCMisTrust @J_VoiceUK @Redlabour2016 @PeoplesMomentum as I support a 2 state solution I am clearly arguing for occupation to end. | ||
| @BBCMisTrust @JoeSucksmith @Redlabour2016 @PeoplesMomentum @J_VoiceUK does that include Corbyn given his support for Cuba and Venezuela? | ||
| @JohnRuleLondon thanks! | ||
| @rob_francis that's quite heartening | ||
| @greengrass1980 you can assume that. The moderate ticket is me, Bailey, Baxter, Dhanda, Reeves, Wheeler. | ||
| @MirfinBoukouris thank you! | ||
| @liamjlhill @seandw14 both. We got 16% in Euros. 18% in Mori poll May 2009. | ||
| @JackTindale @liamjlhill @seandw14 my view is we would lose more seats than uniform swing suggests as Corbyn even less pop w swing voters | ||
| @liamjlhill @seandw14 we went down to 18 or 19% in 2009 if my memory is correct | ||
| @PiesMcQ @LabourAbuse @Rachael_Swindon I have never used that word on Twitter or anywhere else | ||
| Possibly not the most helpful analogy for the person making it to use. https://t.co/VzLp1gzcWJ | ||
| @CllrEjiofor Joe we have been comrades in same party for decades. Long may it continue. | ||
| @JonHOrchard @JonHegerty @Twiz007 no. | ||
| @north_sapientia @CoffeeandCave @LeaningLeft46 thank you | ||
| @CoLeTtEStJeAn how is Owen's policy agenda not strong and progressive? | ||
| @JonHegerty @JonHOrchard @Twiz007 it was | ||
| @morelikewater no I think very little impact either way | ||
| @morelikewater they help remind moderate voters sensible Labour still exists and Corbyn isn't the whole party | ||
| @morelikewater no | ||
| @morelikewater stay and fight until we get rid of him | ||
| @MLewisLawyer I meant a formal split into 2 parties. I believe Owen could heal the internal divide. | ||
| @morelikewater it makes unity more difficult to re-acheive | ||
| Because we can't let the Labour Party & everything it has done & can do for Britain split & die - party unity is essential so vote #Owen2016 | ||
| @ParburyWill @SocialistAct and he doesn't stand for the 3 things they say he does. | ||
| @DMUVC thank you | ||
| @catkinson80 hi Catherine can you follow me so I can send you a direct message? | ||
| Latest conspiracy theory https://t.co/Nso1wSsmHE | ||
| @Antony_Wright @_oatc_ they are purchased via competitive bids so the cheapest bid gets the contract | ||
| @Livingstone_RJ that is what we have in Oxford. | ||
| @JohnPReid 1000 | ||
| @WTarbiat also the 1950s numbers are false/inflated. Pre 1979 every CLP was reported by NEC as having minimum of 1000 members. | ||
| @poobIocks @BritainIsrael Blair abolished the NEC's role in policy making in 1996 | ||
| @poobIocks @BritainIsrael my views on Israel are one aspect of my overall involvement in politics - not the dominant one | ||
| @poobIocks @BritainIsrael because I am also an active Labour member and have been for 28 years | ||
| Would love to see Corbyn's reaction when he hears 1/6 of NHS drugs come from an Israeli pharma company. | ||
| @LucyHigherEd thank you | ||
| @JonFletcherAUL @KarenPBuckMP @OwenSmith_MP the meeting ban does not apply to nomination meetings. All CLPs can have them. | ||
| @beaban @OwenJones84 one day the power of dialectical debate will turn Owen into a moderate. | ||
| Heading for curry with fellow N16 resident Lord Glasman of blue labour fame. Should be an interesting chat. | ||
| @andyc0605 @BexBailey6 I want abolition of registered supporter concept | ||
| @DrRGSmith @KateGodfrey_ our CLP co chair is a US citizen | ||
| @DrRGSmith @KateGodfrey_ yes as a member but not a registered supporter | ||
| @dungra @MaryGre98087940 thanks! | ||
| @AndyPandy_20 @Sarah_Hayward @MrsBurgin @UKLabour email to validation@labour.org.uk | ||
| @totnesredgreen @UKLabour it wasn''t my bit of the right. We argued against. | ||
| @philwelshdundee @JeremyCorbyn4PM fair enough that's what the debate is about. | ||
| Yes it is the entire point. Policies wrong and politically suicidal for Labour to have shifted to the left. https://t.co/HXEVgGQig5 | ||
| @ChrispLOL @UKLabour @D_Raval @Peston I introduced myself as a member since 1988 & Secretary of @labour_first . I guess they didn't show it. | ||
| @ChrispLOL @UKLabour @D_Raval @Peston please don't make up shit about me. Facts: Used to advise a helicopter company. Haven't for 5 years. | ||
| @ChrispLOL @UKLabour @D_Raval @Peston all 3 of us interviewed were members & activists. Think distinction w supporters not known by ITN! | ||
| @ChrispLOL @UKLabour @D_Raval @Peston think you will find I do support Labour | ||
| Beware of the little snake" https://t.co/IcEn5s0Ktz | ||
| @JolyonMaugham @SocialDemSheff NEC Procedures Ctttee said general rules & requirements 4 membership all apply to registered supporters too | ||
| @jpjanson 12 August. | ||
| @fightingb4ck @davesmith_109 @LabourAbuse @David__Osland hey apologise to Dave language like that is offensive & grotesque. | ||
| @mirabarhillel @jeremycorbyn actually happy to settle for a competent leader regardless of position on Israel. Owen and Angela not LFI types | ||
| @MichaelUnett can you follow me so I can send you a DM? | ||
| @DamianGannon @UKLabour party says paper ones should arrive by Friday. Check spam folder for email one. | ||
| @ZahiraHassan thanks! | ||
| @PeterKenyon @UKLabour @kategilson isn't former Corbyn staffer Ben Soffa party head of digital? | ||
| @enttruth @unisontweets @UKLabour you need to register as an Affiliated Supporter here https://t.co/0ysHWkeBXy | ||
| @RossFootball no it isn't | ||
| @RossFootball no he won't as can't assemble a conference majority against Trident as pro renewal unions have 35/50 of TU half of votes | ||
| @Redlabour2016 @JeopardyLeyton @ShameTheDevil it hasn't been. | ||
| @JeopardyLeyton @Redlabour2016 @ShameTheDevil that's why this activity would be done by CLPs or MPs not Progress or Saving Labour | ||
| @Redlabour2016 @JeopardyLeyton @ShameTheDevil no to recruit as registered supporters. | ||
| @pauloCanning @rob_francis party says leave it until 27 July b4 calling to ask for replacement ballot | ||
| @ShameTheDevil @Redlabour2016 its about them reusing data they harvested last year | ||
| @maxshanly love it | ||
| Here's the link to become a Registered Supporter and vote to #savelabour please RT: https://t.co/ttSekNhHFE | ||
| @Redlabour2016 this is about communication from candidates in the last leadership election. | ||
| @LAmericasNews @mcarro2 @unojen_wood @charleyallan @Redlabour2016 no | ||
| @LAmericasNews @mcarro2 @unojen_wood @charleyallan @Redlabour2016 wouldn't take office until after conference so no | ||
| @LAmericasNews @mcarro2 @unojen_wood @charleyallan @Redlabour2016 the decisions are taken by an NEC panel just like last year | ||
| @Phillip_D_Jones @dino_blue_nose @BexBailey6 no. There is nothing to discover. | ||
| @Phillip_D_Jones @dino_blue_nose @BexBailey6 no and no such use of data has occurred or would in my CLP. | ||
| @Phillip_D_Jones @dino_blue_nose @BexBailey6 yes. And no data has been used for any purpose not approved by CLP EC. | ||
| @LAmericasNews @mcarro2 @unojen_wood @charleyallan @Redlabour2016 no because it was 3 years ago and because of the context | ||
| @mcarro2 what about all the Momentum candidates advertised as standing for NEC to support Jeremy? | ||
| @Phillip_D_Jones @dino_blue_nose @BexBailey6 no. The only calling of lapsed members in my CLP has been by Momentum, with permission of EC. | ||
| @TVAddictStill doubt it | ||
| @Phillip_D_Jones @dino_blue_nose @BexBailey6 no because I am not a data controller for anything other than my own CLP, | ||
| @Phillip_D_Jones @dino_blue_nose @BexBailey6 the only data I have access to is as a CLP membership secretary and party can track all use. | ||
| @LAmericasNews @unojen_wood @charleyallan @Redlabour2016 if you breach any of the procedural guidelines yes | ||
| WHY? https://t.co/TB2rrF2IgK | ||
| @GladToHaveLeft @PunkSunflower @Redlabour2016 I don't physically hold it. Is on a national database accessed via internet. | ||
| @GladToHaveLeft @PunkSunflower @Redlabour2016 I haven't and nor has anyone. | ||
| @Redlabour2016 @GladToHaveLeft @PunkSunflower and? | ||
| @GladToHaveLeft @PunkSunflower @Redlabour2016 I am the Oxford Labour Membership Secretary. | ||
| @BT_Egality @ProgressOnline @saving_labour I am not on the NEC. | ||
| @GladToHaveLeft @PunkSunflower @Redlabour2016 they aren't. | ||
| @msjenniferjames @Redlabour2016 the advice does not suggest canvassing on behalf of candidates. | ||
| @PunkSunflower @GladToHaveLeft @Redlabour2016 and? | ||
| @PunkSunflower @GladToHaveLeft @Redlabour2016 data is not being disclosed to another organisation | ||
| @GladToHaveLeft @Redlabour2016 nothing in the document you have linked to says they can't | ||
| @GladToHaveLeft @Redlabour2016 yes they can. | ||
| @Redlabour2016 when acting on behalf of data controllers. | ||
| @Redlabour2016 data law is clear. | ||
| @Redlabour2016 I was on the NEC so don't patronise me about the rulebook. | ||
| @Redlabour2016 data users can do this. For instance an MP could email members to ask them to join an NGO like CND or Momentum. | ||
| @Redlabour2016 they can with permission of data users in same way they can canvass in elections etc | ||
| @Redlabour2016 lots of data users are on our email list | ||
| @Redlabour2016 they can't | ||
| @Redlabour2016 @boredomjunkie @tim2040 only legitimate data users can ever access member centre data | ||
| @Redlabour2016 @tim2040 only people with legitimate access to membership data can use it. | ||
| @testedbylife @orpen_m @huxley06 I'm not a Blairite. I voted for Ed M in 2010, Yvette/Tom/Sadiq in 2015. | ||
| @Fruitandvegdon @syonward @SE_PontyLabour @teamponty @OwenSmith_MP only with written permission of regional director | ||
| @mikecannytalk @Maomentum_ it's a spoof account | ||
| @debbiesimone123 @BernardMcEldown @shanedgj have you reported this guy to Compliance Unit? | ||
| Coalition split on cuts in Hackney - LDs concerned by but not opposed to cuts, Tories didn't vote at all so presumably couldn't give a ... | ||
| Side effect of NEC stopping us holding @Oxford_Labour meeting is that @LabLinda75 & me are getting unexpected night out at Brasserie Blanc. | ||
| @a_gannon516 I support NI LP proposals to stand, I think the blanket ban on meetings is a bit excessive, depends what last question means | ||
| @melanielicity go from what? I am a local activist the only role I hold is CLP Membership Secretary. | ||
| @Admiralowen yes I would prefer what you are suggesting. | ||
| @AmannPaul no I think it should be set nationally not organisation by organisation | ||
| @Admiralowen freezes were the norm until 2007 for dep & ldr & have always been applied in selections | ||
| @Labourcat @SarahAB_UK they are being sent in batches | ||
| @alastairharding full members who joined before 24 June | ||
| @LizALPatel yes you will receive an email link from the party to enable you to vote | ||
| @bexleerc @OwenJones84 @paulmasonnews @PaulFlynnMP @johnmcdonnellMP @mcarro2 @MrTopple @GregHadfield @bhlabour because its in the rules! | ||
| @stevegb0071 those are internal organisational matters not policies. Policies are the things you would do if you were the govt. | ||
| @jenniwak @iamhamesh no the freeze date counts from when you rejoined so you will have to pay the £25 | ||
| @jenniwak @iamhamesh £25 route is the only way to get a vote if you were not a member or in a union b4 12 Jan | ||
| @Madeleine_1115 Max - the guy I said it to - is a friend. I subsequently apologised to him. | ||
| @tealtastic everyone receives both formats | ||
| @Gvs_Smith all by tomorrow | ||
| Mandatory reselection actually removes current union de facto control through trigger ballots of which MPs face reselection. | ||
| @JoshFeldberg no only happens if party conference changed the rules. Unite don't have enough support to make that happen. | ||
| They know they can lose. https://t.co/QnUCLkj8IV | ||
| An eternity. https://t.co/foNhgHQvOA | ||
| @NeilHarding @Awifefirst @ZoeMarieRogers the NEC elected them. They are NEC members. | ||
| @MrAndyR1963 @conradlandin @schneiderhome he is a full member not a registered supporter. | ||
| @eldiablo0786 @BankersDidIt @IainMcNicol I voted for him to be General Secretary | ||
| @sundersays I agree with the first bit. Relaxed re £25 as I would just have not run registered supporter scheme at all on time grounds. | ||
| @sundersays the NEC Procedures Committee is meeting to rule on all the details like this today | ||
| @RossFootball @DebraJinks @JackyHolyoake it will be published! The rules of contest aren't going to be secret. | ||
| @RossFootball @DebraJinks @JackyHolyoake this will be clarified by NEC Procedures Cttee tmrw | ||
| @maiantra @ElmLodgeEstate @DawnHFoster NEC Procedures Cttee will rule on this tmrw | ||
| @Cllrjackcousens waiting to see if anyone else declares | ||
| @Cllrjackcousens different interpretation0 | ||
| @Cllrjackcousens that is my understanding | ||
| @Cllrjackcousens the meeting is tmrw AM | ||
| @DrRGSmith unfortunately not! Sorry. | ||
| @crumblebum_bg no you have to pay £25 | ||
| @LeaBenne NEC Procedures Committee will be clarifying | ||
| So it turns out there is no Unite £2 a month affiliated supporter recruitment loophole. 1/2 | ||
| @SpaJw @LabourList yes. I wrote it before that was known. NB recruitment loophole. Entryism means something specific. | ||
| @JamesDMorris @georgeeaton my assumption is unions held the balance and pushed this through. They obviously want to increase their share. | ||
| @richard_d_sandy @JohnEdwards33 Labour First don't have members or fees - just an email list. | ||
| @NDM66 either of them, or maybe someone else. | ||
| @LauraSRobinson what plan? | ||
| Donate to my NEC campaign now to fund my final GOTV push: https://t.co/BKgmfewVDS | ||
| @fultonmatthew @JennieUnite @UKLabour yes that is why I voted for him last time | ||
| @Robin_CG @JennieUnite that was last time | ||
| Added bonus is you get to vote against Len when he runs for Gen Sec again so do join me in Unite https://t.co/LEqfZ4egRD | ||
| @MichaelDugher @karie_murphy Brut is dry champagne not sweet! | ||
| @waksonwaksofff nothing | ||
| 50p pw = £26 a year https://t.co/LyElJZAner | ||
| @deargodwhatnow not sure. Need to see detail. | ||
| @TobyChopra they have to pay £25 | ||
| @MelvilleAbigail you will probably have to sign up as a registered supporter to vote ... is a bit crazy | ||
| @Danielbjones6 the NEC | ||
| @Redpeter99 no | ||
| @Beaban NEC tonight | ||
| Oh do calm down everyone. | ||
| @Sarah_Hayward @MichaelLCrick this is what I wrote in 2012 https://t.co/HXvVaoBzrH | ||
| @Labour4PR yes I would vote for it if there was another referendum. | ||
| @JonathanRWarner @MichaelLCrick NEC meetings always like that even when we won elections.... | ||
| @Smithy0364 @SouthernSP @Socialist_party it definitely isn't a Labour event | ||
| If anyone from CLP section wants to call it a day, I would be delighted to replace them as 2014 highest runner up. https://t.co/fxetIwdJjY | ||
| @davesuncat that's my best guess having gone through the names. | ||
| My experience in 2010-12 is leader's office always overestimate their vote on NEC as assume politeness = pledged support | ||
| It's gone up a notch. Note the CAPITALS. https://t.co/EqRLW4Pxcb | ||
| @Aliden400 at the start of that agenda item | ||
| @Aliden400 the NEC | ||
| Nothing more. https://t.co/F49qVLwf0i | ||
| Why would anyone oppose a secret ballot unless they planned on bullying people to vote the way they wanted? https://t.co/ELqZD3OaCl | ||
| Lib Dem Group Leader disembling and refusing to vote versus cuts | ||
| @cravenite @philmcnally79 surely would have been easier to just buy oil from Saddam? Or any other oil producer. Doesn't stack up. | ||
| @philmcnally79 if you believe he lied, what do you think was his motive? | ||
| @susanhebden @owenjones84 @davetomhodges If u think Blair lied I feel very sorry for you. U really think Lab PM would lie over going to war? | ||
| They don't seem very confident https://t.co/ZbPmcuWdJp | ||
| @MickEgan3 @LivEchonews @Liam1971 no. And they won't be deselected. | ||
| @Redlabour2016 who can't attend? | ||
| @moodvik I admire your certainty. We will discover tomorrow if NEC share it. | ||
| @conradlandin you are right actually. Covers a whole two wards. | ||
| @Phil_O_Keefe it is my interpretation of the rules. If they were clearer, NEC would not be asked to vote on them. | ||
| @Phil_O_Keefe If I was on the NEC I would be voting that incumbent needed same nomination requirement as challenger. | ||
| @Phil_O_Keefe all candidates should be treated equally | ||
| @Spenny_Says @MSmithsonPB the Blairites and the Soft Left are two completely different sets of people | ||
| @spain1936 @cymrurouge @hamish_yewdall neoliberal is a meaningless term. Literally no idea what you mean by it. | ||
| @hamish_yewdall @cymrurouge @spain1936 support for Kinnock leadership; preparedness to compromise, expelling Militant | ||
| @SUwebsite @OwenJones84 @DaveTomHodges yes, that was argument made at time by me and others | ||
| @hsnburdon @dats he doesn't have enough PLP support. | ||
| @BenC42 @tomcopley I'm not a Blairite. Think he was great but wrong on public services. | ||
| @susanhebden @OwenJones84 @DaveTomHodges maybe if we didn't have party members accusing a Lab PM of lying wd still be in power | ||
| @OwenJones84 @DaveTomHodges I don't admit that as need to check Hansard to see if Kaufman and Kinnock spoke on it. | ||
| @OwenJones84 @DaveTomHodges Blair wouldn't have been allowed to speak re. Halabja. He was a shadow spokes on a domestic dept in 1988. | ||
| @OwenJones84 @DaveTomHodges the threat of WMDs being developed was not false. We'd be confronting it now if hadn't then. | ||
| @OwenJones84 @DaveTomHodges built in different ways. Built sucessfully by bombs in Germany, Italy and Japan. | ||
| @OwenJones84 @DaveTomHodges all of which outweighed by removal of Saddam. Same argument re. deaths cd be used vs WW2 | ||
| @MarkHemi82 @election_data the police should have been called as spitting on someone is common assault | ||
| @OwenJones84 @DaveTomHodges don't care how many MPs broke whip. No moral defence for opposing overthrow of a fascist dictatorship. | ||
| Mandelson's "fighter not quitter" speech on #vote2001 now. Great moment. | ||
| @wildernessyrs end of this week. If he does require nominations then multiple challengers is fine | ||
| @waynemoore4e @robfordmancs @stevienicholas the existing one. New NEC not elected until August and takes office on Wednesday of Conference | ||
| I'm running for NEC on instructions of "Israel lobby" apparently. Plus CIA, arms industry, Portland Comms. https://t.co/Kdw9PKM5uR | ||
| This is quite a compliment https://t.co/gltU6rvD8M | ||
| @debbiesimone123 @simonevans117 Momentum is legally just a rebranding of the JC campaign | ||
| @simonevans117 @debbiesimone123 exactly | ||
| @RossFootball @timjohnston_89 @PeoplesMomentum it is to increase their turnout in the NEC ballot | ||
| @simonevans117 @debbiesimone123 they are calling people who opted in to Corbyn campaign having their data last year | ||
| @darren_dodd @labourmatters yes by NPF and Annual Conference | ||
| Waiting for the great leap forward. | ||
| @Smithy0364 @jannydavies1 @John_Ferrett yes regional directors can suspend CLPs or put them in special measures | ||
| @John_Ferrett @MichaelDugher @ruthie_dee it's the NEC's responsibility to deal with this not the PLP | ||
| @danielblaney that is just as unacceptable | ||
| @gettingrc I am not and never have been a "neoliberal". Please explain which policies you think I support? | ||
| @angela_feeney @jeremycorbyn still waiting for Jezza to resign | ||
| @angela_feeney @jeremycorbyn bring it on | ||
| @JadeFrancesAzim I joined in 1988 because of him. Amazing inspiring man. | ||
| @viccfc @JoeDiego24 but 350 is. | ||
| @viccfc @JoeDiego24 what's your point? That is as small as the Birmingham one. | ||
| @ianrobo1 @TomBaldwin66 they don't publish it. | ||
| @NoraMulready @welovelabour no I have always believed this may take several leadership contests. It's the eternal battle never final one. | ||
| @iMcKenzied that he was joining Labour to help Corbyn by deselecting Hoey | ||
| Seem to be a lot of sanctimonious people around today. | ||
| @ChriswMP @ghostbiggie I don't agree with Chilcott. | ||
| @everton_de_leon @ProgressOnline @saving_labour you mean @labour_first at least attack the correct organisation | ||
| @LiamCallananana yes I am | ||
| @UseTheLeftWing no | ||
| @malvachat @LOS_Fisher donations in kind have to be declared to electoral commision | ||
| @JoePAnderson @malvachat @LOS_Fisher this article says the office is provided free by TSSA https://t.co/mRrX9GTGo0 ie a donation in kind | ||
| @FieldLongbow @LabourList no idea I run @labour_first | ||
| @ChriswMP @Godfrey_Lee @AlanOlive1 @anniepixeykeys public think his programme is crackers | ||
| @ChriswMP @Godfrey_Lee @AlanOlive1 @anniepixeykeys I don't respect him. It's ridiculous to have a leader that many activists can't respect. | ||
| @Godfrey_Lee @AlanOlive1 @ChriswMP @anniepixeykeys I'm furious we have a joke leader at a time of national crisis | ||
| @DPJHodges @ariehkovler why would he have done that? There's no motive. | ||
| Really delighted to hear final number of CLPs that nominated me for Labour NEC was 107, up 13 from previous election in 2014. | ||
| It seems just a retweet from me can lead to excommunication from the church of Corbyn https://t.co/XpBkZMnhhb | ||
| @DM_Andy1 equal opps would suggest 20% same as a challenger. | ||
| @ChriswMP @_whenisayjump it isn't on offer given leader proposals are Tom, Angela and Owen. | ||
| It represents me and I've been in the union 23 years. https://t.co/Kus857lMrF | ||
| @David__Osland @gsoh31 I don't deny that just think it is immature and unprofessional to lose temper over politics. | ||
| @NeilHeavens not name-calling. I am very careful only to apply "Trot" to real Trotskyists, not to misuse it as shorthand 4 wider Hard Left. | ||
| Tin foil hat time. https://t.co/UthPHWLO2F | ||
| @JonHegerty @OwenJones84 because it has been superseded by the PLP vote of no confidence | ||
| @JonHegerty @schooltruth yes Owen Smith, Angela Eagle, Tom Watson | ||
| @OwenJones84 why is it obvious? There will only be a split if people want one. They should calm down - is just a change of leader. | ||
| @SarahAB_UK that's their problem. No one would be making them throw their toys out of the pram. | ||
| They all had the sense of honour to resign after they lost elections hence expect Corbyn to do same after referendum https://t.co/7ylOOWy6av | ||
| @kathknights @schooltruth deselection doesn't cause byelections just means you have a new candidate in next general election | ||
| @OwenJones84 and big difference between sympathy for Palestinians and PSC's soft line on Hamas and hostility to 2 state solution | ||
| This works in reverse as well. https://t.co/1jiZ8hFRzQ | ||
| @EOkenesi @JadeFrancesAzim @UKLabour our roots were not Corbyn's politics. | ||
| @EOkenesi @UKLabour @tonyblairoffice @AustralianLabor @jon_trickett I am not a Blairite. | ||
| Note the clusters of high Brexit support in swing areas in elections - Pennines, E&W Midlands, N Kent/S Essex https://t.co/9el2FJdCw1 | ||
| Sensible strategy. No rush. https://t.co/d1Qwj423Vf | ||
| @russballinger policy and personnel | ||
| @RooftopJaxx @MarcusDysch @johnbrissenden @AsaWinstanley it's all on film anyway so ppl can draw own interpretation | ||
| @RooftopJaxx @johnbrissenden to be clear I was not "attacked" by Wadsworth and haven't suggested I was. We had an argument, politely. | ||
| @schooltruth @JonHegerty they would. | ||
| @JonHegerty I think very little real division on domestic social and economic policy. | ||
| @JonHegerty I hope not. Want Corbyn in Labour just not leading it. | ||
| @colmuacuinn @ariehkovler they don't have many strong candidates out there | ||
| @UKGE2020 @jruddy99 no you could have an election w multiple candidates if incumbent resigns | ||
| @MrsBurgin deselections don't cause by-elections | ||
| @cravenite someone has to keep an eye on you lot | ||
| @jruddy99 @UKGE2020 correct. Pointless to trigger a contest unless absolutely necessary. | ||
| Question for Corbyn supporters - even if you think he is great, & he won again, how would you make this work without PLP support? | ||
| @GroupHostile @anthonyleahy @MrTCHarris @johnmcternan so no point proposing rules that are not attractive to TUs | ||
| @GroupHostile @anthonyleahy @MrTCHarris @johnmcternan any new rules would need to be passed by conference where 50% of votes held by TUs | ||
| @andrewspoooner @RuthSmeeth of course he knows him, it's Marc Wadsworth, big player in 80s in same segment of the left | ||
| And then the left lost every vote https://t.co/YeHdzhGprK | ||
| Sick of losing he means. https://t.co/FG7TXodysN | ||
| @rlmoorhead may start one | ||
| @Robert___Harris @Peston yep I think this includes loads of moderates joining | ||
| @jackcevans akehurstluke@gmail.com | ||
| @ivorcaplin 150 people there. CLP that nominated JC in 2015. | ||
| @ivorcaplin they voted against him | ||
| @jackcevans they voted against a motion positively expressing confidence | ||
| @jonwillchambers @paulwaugh I read that as v good news as all the online buzz has been moderates joining. Left maxed out in 2015 already. | ||
| @LovingDalston he suggested Ruth was part of a conspiracy with the Telegraph to undermine Corbyn. Echoes of Jewish control of media trope. | ||
| @AndyBaxterBass @ZionistFed I was there. He said it twice. | ||
| @colinrtalbot @corbyn50plus RMT isn't affiliated to Labour in any case | ||
| @PhilMerrylfc no Dobson one | ||
| Newsnight interviewed Momentum groupies outside this Camden mtg & didn't report they lost the vote. https://t.co/6oBbzkKi4Y | ||
| @ashmcgregor @lablinda75 Linda is a "fellow" of ZSL (season ticket holder) so we pop in and out in small bites | ||
| @ashmcgregor @LabLinda75 @zsllondonzoo we haven't made it out of the children's zoo yet | ||
| This was a CLP that nominated almost entire Hard Left NEC slate only a month ago https://t.co/6oBbzkKi4Y | ||
| Maybe Momentum can deselect the members https://t.co/6oBbzkKi4Y | ||
| @SamF_H @JoshLeNeveu CLP chair's only power is to chair meetings. They have no disciplinary role whatsoever. | ||
| @JoshLeNeveu he doesnt have any authority to do that. | ||
| @richard_d_sandy doubt it. | ||
| @john_osjo but then he lost the most important vote since World War Two. If I was appointed to a job and screwed it up I would be sacked. | ||
| @LeaBenne @MichaelLCrick yes leader can do it instantly | ||
| @richard_d_sandy there are different legal opinions about it | ||
| @Beaban Angela is anti austerity. She was Jeremy's running mate backed by LRC and CLPD last year. | ||
| @richard_d_sandy I am expecting NEC to say he does not need MP nominations as he is the incumbent | ||
| @JonMarsland1982 we just did, we are not running a candidate. | ||
| This works on highest runner up rule, so I am now next on if any of current 6 come off. https://t.co/GvFv9ccsdj | ||
| @magneticsparrow what's the issue? Not my site but can pass on a message. | ||
| @JonMarsland1982 @WTarbiat no not Heather, the Barnet guy | ||
| @kentsussexnut we are a federal party. Unions have 50% of the annual conference vote. | ||
| @mcash John McDonnell! | ||
| They are not interested in electability as believe crisis of capitalism will make their victory inevitable. https://t.co/R6Unof9DvV | ||
| That well known ultra Blairite Rhodri Morgan speaks https://t.co/1eJ4BvYsXR | ||
| @JonMarsland1982 Lansbury | ||
| This is quite startling news. Apparently I control Labourlist and it is a "paper". https://t.co/R64NZsEpEz | ||
| @sueihaworth @Phillip_D_Jones @Conorpope I know but I'm not telling. | ||
| @robinjpotter @Robert___Harris but votes also needed in NEC election (full members only can vote) 2 stop that being stacked with Corbynites | ||
| @Watforddogs @moorlanddragon @KulganofCrydee they didn't last year | ||
| @Saul_Freeman but will report | ||
| @Calderbank @BexBailey6 this https://t.co/75QeZJWHgO | ||
| @Cranleycranley @LabourList no. | ||
| @Jane_Basham depends if you are a member of LRC, CLPD or Momentum | ||
| @jasonst30000000 @LabourList no provision for that in rulebook, so would be meaningless. | ||
| @Jane_Basham everyone except the organised hard left | ||
| @jasonst30000000 @LabourList you can't. Selections haven't started yet. | ||
| @lc_mullen it's only entryism if it is members of another, usually Trotskyist, party, instructing people to infiltrate | ||
| https://t.co/oFZPWNPXtS https://t.co/0adSTWDE6l | ||
| @Phillip_D_Jones @suey2y @donpaskini well that leaves you with about two dozen MPs so you have a problem. Deal with the political reality. | ||
| @suey2y @donpaskini the people now resigning are the soft left guys who tried to make it work. Angela was his Deputy running mate! | ||
| @suey2y @donpaskini it isn't usual to lose the most important vote since WW2 9 months in. | ||
| @Martin_SE5 full members vote in NEC poll too - starts 11 July | ||
| @davrwu that isn't clear. Conflicting legal advice. | ||
| Something quite important happened within the last 2 weeks. https://t.co/rslPXu34Bk | ||
| @AndyPandy_20 tomorrow. Secret ballot not done at a meeting. | ||
| Just the endorsement they need https://t.co/YHX6HWElGD | ||
| And we are the millions of moderates and we have not spoken yet. Reclaim Labour https://t.co/oFZPWNPXtS https://t.co/EZ71mLdZAD | ||
| Ministry of all the talents https://t.co/ziy2Wzt4t5 | ||
| @JadeFrancesAzim @Hodges777 I am assuming will coalesce around a unity candidate. | ||
| @_whenisayjump @JadeFrancesAzim no there are rival legal opinions. Will be a vote at NEC and maybe a court challenge. | ||
| @JadeFrancesAzim no he can't stay if there is a formal challenge triggered by 20% of PLP/EPLP and he loses the OMOV ballot. | ||
| @LiamHoward1970 I don't think you get to decide who is a socialist. I am confident I am one. | ||
| Not possible to run reselection processes before a snap GE so this is just bluster https://t.co/LcG0Ge9AGo | ||
| @talktoharris1 no this will all be over before most CLPs meet | ||
| @athanaseus @LabourList internal politics. | ||
| @athanaseus @LabourList the unions privately want Corbyn gone. | ||
| @Lokster71 @JoePAnderson in hand. | ||
| Is there anyone on this list who isn't in the new shadow cabinet? https://t.co/FU2W2jnLCh | ||
| Without comment https://t.co/ksrsB4fi8J | ||
| @LifeofOpuscula @Saul_Freeman but better to join as full member as NEC ballot imminent and crucial | ||
| @LifeofOpuscula @Saul_Freeman £3 supporters will be a thing in any immediate ballot | ||
| @timallon only requires 1 in 6 of his supporters last year to be angry about sabotage of remain campaign | ||
| @HadasAltwarg @gabyhinsliff soon | ||
| @JackyHolyoake @debbiesimone123 that's for selections not for national ballots where there has been no freeze date since 2007 | ||
| @suey2y @BenPBradshaw how can we unite behind someone who deliberately sabotaged the remain campaign? | ||
| @suey2y @BenPBradshaw the party will only unite when it has a better leader both in terms of politics and basic ability to do the job | ||
| @AMoveToTheLeft @BenPBradshaw we wouldn't. The unions want him gone. | ||
| @suey2y @BenPBradshaw eh? | ||
| They assume his behaviour during referendum has not alienated 1 in 6 of people who voted 4 him. If it has he loses https://t.co/tSNLMCALoM | ||
| @land_lock_ed the registered supporter thing only reopens when a contest starts, & doesn't give you an NEC vote | ||
| @nick_osborne @JolyonGreen @georgeeaton only full members vote in NEC election control of which is rather important right now | ||
| @yatesyman @geoffingarfield @labourlewis @jeremycorbyn his profile says he is a member of NHA not Labour | ||
| @hopisen first time for about a decade I have had TV on at this time on a Sunday. | ||
| Unlikely there is any time to run reselection processes before a snap election so this is a completely hollow threat https://t.co/aPIjRwRqSP | ||
| @james_wby_ yes they can but it can only be voted on at conference | ||
| @james_wby_ they can't. Rules can only be changed at conference. | ||
| @BSedgwick3 yes anyone who joins before nominations closed would be able to vote as per last year | ||
| @MatthewRavenhil @Finlay4Labour @RossFootball @JackyHolyoake actually NEC currently finely balanced & unpredictable | ||
| @3075John read my Fabians piece today about Blair. Then you might understand I am not a Blairite. | ||
| @3075John because I agree with it. | ||
| @RupertMyers @JohnRentoul @Long_Tailed_Tit China had to seek a vote as Taiwan was the govt in exile. Presume Scotland won't argue it gets it | ||
| @ianrobo1 I hope you are right | ||
| @ianrobo1 not clear if Corbyn auto on ballot suspect he can get 51 noms anyway. Same rules as last year. | ||
| @Kerri_Prince @andrewlomas @MikeGapes no the opposite we need massive recruitment of new members by the moderate candidate. | ||
| @andrewlomas @MikeGapes if there is a leadership ballot the composition of membership may change as dramatically as it did last year | ||
| @benevetts errr we are in the middle of a leadership challenge. Bit early to decide he has won. | ||
| @schooltruth thank you | ||
| @schooltruth needs to go as soon as possible. We will lose 100 seats if we fight snap General Election under Corbyn. | ||
| After the referendum catastrophe Labour must change direction. Support my NEC campaign here: https://t.co/pZdJLPNmPg Please RT. | ||
| @doktordunc @MikeGapes if you are not from his constituency why would Mike be interested in your opinion? | ||
| @benevetts it looks like it is | ||
| @benevetts 20% of MPs can trigger a leadership contest by writing to General Secretary. | ||
| @_IanMoss Labour NEC elections. | ||
| Time for a drink. | ||
| @RossFootball if it is in someone's home doesn't matter how near it is to a polling station | ||
| @ConranTickle yes and campaigns target houses next to polling stations as poster sites | ||
| Thank you Bury North CLP for my 99th nomination to Labour's NEC! Who will be number 100? | ||
| Thank you Morecambe & Lunesdale CLP and Streatham CLP for nominating me for the NEC. On 98 CLPs with 48 hours til deadline. | ||
| @toooldforit @LabourList you are aware of Jo Cox's views? https://t.co/Cig4edhKxO | ||
| Go to Dreamland. It and Margate as a whole are great. https://t.co/8dWYIu2K7P | ||
| Heading to Imperial War Museum. 1st time Jed (5) has ever been to South London! It's another country to us Hackneyites... | ||
| Thank you! 93rd CLP to nominate me for NEC. https://t.co/XgU6VLURca | ||
| My dad's pig farming business was destroyed when we joined Common Market but it was 40 years ago so I am voting #Remain to save today's jobs | ||
| @RossFootball St Ives? | ||
| Thank you Dunfermline CLP for my 92nd nomination to NEC! | ||
| Thank you! Nomination number 91. https://t.co/hDrppqAYZG | ||
| @ariehkovler @IntJewCon @ken4london @UKLabour @twlldun the review isn't dealing with any individual disciplinary cases, has no power to. | ||
| @andrewlomas @DPJHodges why would anyone canvassing ever meet an unregistered voter - you canvass using lists from the register9 | ||
| @MissLauraMarcus @ChukaUmunna @CommonsHomeAffs yes it applies to select committees incl what witnesses say | ||
| @MissLauraMarcus @ChukaUmunna @CommonsHomeAffs MPs can't be sued for things they say in parliament | ||
| I hope Almond Valley CLP considered my request 4 nomination. They told me in March "We don't have another business meeting until September | ||
| Tweets you didn't expect to see... https://t.co/Y2R2FSvOxn | ||
| What a stupid comment. Morrison was the strategist whose campaign targeting marginals won the 1945 landslide! https://t.co/8BDCGM3SIX | ||
| @new_art_riot no there's West Brom West too! | ||
| @JohnDMerry is there a submission/proposal about how to reform ALC that I can read? | ||
| Heading to West Brom E CLP to give NEC report and speak on @RefoundLab review | ||
| Thank you Caerphilly CLP for my 90th NEC nomination! | ||
| Thank you Wrexham CLP for my 89th nomination for NEC! | ||
| Thank you Bristol NW, Kingswood and Strathkelvin & Bearsden CLPs for taking me to 88 NEC nominations. Target of 100 achievable! | ||
| @MattDeaves @BenGartside98 which CLP is that Matt? Is it a ballot for nominations? | ||
| @antoniabance @Oxford_Labour county group argued we had to wait for the consultants' reports on the 2 models | ||
| @NikBarstow @paulwaugh @rheawolfson if it Canterbury, yes | ||
| @GarethRoberts3 if they don't believe in democracy and freedom. | ||
| @aborisdrone excellent | ||
| Just seen Adam Ant in concert in Oxford. My 10 year old self would be very jealous! | ||
| Thanks to Epsom & Ewell CLP for my 82nd NEC nomination! | ||
| My supporters are: https://t.co/BKgmfewVDS https://t.co/c7QZQiCxYr | ||
| @PetersWooll @jonlansman @PeoplesMomentum it is crowdfunded by members who support me https://t.co/BKgmfewVDS | ||
| @Debaser92 @LabConsensus not banning! Would Blair be invited to a Momentum conference? Is our space. | ||
| @Debaser92 @LabConsensus because unity doesn't mean agreeing on everything - read the article | ||
| @AbiWhitlock @OwenJones84 lots = 1 (FBU) | ||
| @AbiWhitlock @OwenJones84 I would choose the leftist party if that was the one called Labour and linked to the unions. | ||
| @JohnWilliamslab @savage_tina I was in favour of people serving under JC (even helped persuade a couple) but understand why some couldn't | ||
| It's a shame as he's so divisive!" says comment linking to article where I argue for party unity & against splits! https://t.co/dssbhR0pMI | ||
| @maxshanly that's the problem. | ||
| @Saggydaddy @Markfergusonuk please give me one example when I have used the word "Militant". | ||
| @susanhebden it didn't disband it changed name and took up entryism. Were you in it too? | ||
| Thank you Morley & Outwood CLP for my 81st NEC nomination. | ||
| @PatC63316307 shared politics. | ||
| @HarwoodNiknok1 @gsoh31 I'm quite honoured if you think my tweets are like those of one of the BBC's most senior journalists | ||
| @Phillip_D_Jones @labour_first @ProgressOnline no | ||
| @timallon @Jake_Wilde @OwenJones84 unlikely given the demographics of the area and Jim's relationship with Scottish Jewish community | ||
| @rob_francis I hope you will reconsider. Winning back Labour is the political fight of our lives. Need ppl like you to be part of it. | ||
| @ChrisYorkUK happy for people to vote against me if they don't like material I circulate. Not happy if they are blocked from reading it. | ||
| @simonevans117 @CllrPeteBowyer there is inconsistency between decisions of different NEC panels | ||
| @CllrPeteBowyer @simonevans117 and Janine Booth application to rejoin rejected | ||
| @CllrPeteBowyer @simonevans117 not sure decision is that clear cut as Jill Mountford for instance expelled | ||
| Yup. https://t.co/M0LusZTvbL | ||
| @hanifleylabi I prefer old fashioned parliamentary democracy. Trots support dictatorship of proletariat and killing their pol opponents | ||
| @hanifleylabi veteran Trot activist. I don't respect revolutionaries who don't respect democracy. He was chased away long b4 New Labour. | ||
| @Kate_Butler just editorially odd to ask someone whose views that extreme on to critique Obama | ||
| @michaelwest it attempted to enter into the Labour Party under the name Socialist Action | ||
| @Mentos_Pure yes members vote by post in July | ||
| Thank you! My 80th nomination for NEC is from Cleethorpes CLP. https://t.co/A6KBwNA42q | ||
| @EllieCumbo @JohannaBaxter river Thames or river Lee? Latter really would be a shock. | ||
| Why is #bbctw giving platform to Tariq Ali of the Trotskyist Intl Marxist Group? Who cares what a Trot thinks about Obama? | ||
| @EllieCumbo @JohannaBaxter ... So concept constituency cd disappear or change radically not familiar one | ||
| @EllieCumbo @JohannaBaxter all Hackney boundary changes since 1983 abolition of Central CLP been minor switches between N + S ... | ||
| @EllieCumbo @JohannaBaxter I think enormity of way this will disrupt CLPs not sunk in with most activists | ||
| @EllieCumbo @JohannaBaxter @RefoundLab oh dear. What was view on post boundary review selections? | ||
| @EllieCumbo @JohannaBaxter must have been v animated cos I thought @RefoundLab debate getting aereated as I left | ||
| @haykirstin we have 975 members so our largest wards r bigger than many CLPs - my ward has 12 GC delegates + 7 more through affiliates | ||
| Thank you Plymouth Sutton & Devonport and Tunbridge Wells CLPs for my 78th & 79th NEC nominations | ||
| @OwenJones84 I was shocked it was raised - wasn't just dilution was proposal to sever link | ||
| Thank you Enfield N CLP & Rochester & Strood CLP for taking me to 77 CLP nominations forNEC tonight | ||
| @LouieWoodall @renieanjeh he is also an incredibly decent & pleasant person, so forgive him when wrong. | ||
| Disagree with @OwenJones84. Whatever our differences broad based Labour Party uniting all progressives is essential. https://t.co/FOtWGV34By | ||
| Without comment | ||
| @kb32904 @PeterWillsman actually I quite like Pete. I have no idea why he is trying to drag me into this. | ||
| @GregLabour @jonlansman deals are within rules, lying about your main address is cheating. | ||
| @RF_McCarthy @TimMacpherson @PeoplesMomentum Hackney was not a leftwing Labour Party by the time I finished with it. | ||
| @RF_McCarthy @TimMacpherson @PeoplesMomentum errr no I beat the left in Hackney multiple times. | ||
| @doktordunc @SBuckinghamUK I applied for Eastwood and they didn't nominate me either. They never nominate anyone. | ||
| @doktordunc @SBuckinghamUK the left did try to block Bex this year and lost the vote. Tried to block me in 2014 in Hackney and lost the vote | ||
| @JuniorCelente @lahoare @UKLabour I haven't been elected to anything | ||
| Just voted by post to stay in the EU. | ||
| @55krissi55 but how would I get any information from his team to leak? | ||
| @marthasydenham this is exactly what the left did try vs me in Hackney N in 2014 and vs Bex in Walthamstow this time | ||
| Hope Rhea won't copy the 2 previous left NEC candidates who cynically flipped adress when rejected by home CLPs https://t.co/AU2bRFR0SK | ||
| This is commonly known as cheating. https://t.co/Pbbw6aL8J4 | ||
| @Mendelpol do it | ||
| @LRCinfo @jonlansman @SeemaChandwani they explain their motives in the Huff Post piece. Corbynism toxic in most Jewish area of Scotland. | ||
| @earthygirl01 @SeemaChandwani @jonlansman he was the MP there for 18 years | ||
| @gairmscoile @David__Osland I haven't said that it was limited to my CLP. | ||
| @earthygirl01 @SeemaChandwani @jonlansman pretty sure he lives there. | ||
| If anyone needed an incentive to vote for me... https://t.co/LQk9io7fMl | ||
| @gairmscoile @David__Osland sorry what's your point? I am not a member of Eastwood CLP. | ||
| @David__Osland if Rhea was in same CLP as me I would have voted for her to have nomination. But she isn't - it's her CLP's decision. | ||
| @jonlansman you should ask same question to your comrades who have voted to block me in each of last 4 contests. | ||
| @SeemaChandwani @jonlansman I don't think there has been any suggestion that Eastwood CLP did not follow fair & equal process | ||
| @David__Osland except in 2014 when Graham organised really hard to block me | ||
| @schneiderhome @RichardAngell it's none of my business. If she lived in my CLP I would have argued for her to b nominated. But she doesn't. | ||
| @jonlansman it's none of my business. If she lived in my CLP I would have argued for her to be nominated like I did for Ann & Pete. | ||
| @gairmscoile I resent you dragging me into a discussion about a decision of a CLP. | ||
| @schneiderhome @RichardAngell that's for her CLP to decide. | ||
| @schneiderhome @RichardAngell perhaps you could have a word with those of your comrades who voted vs me getting home CLP in 2010, 12, 14 &16 | ||
| @gairmscoile it's not antisemitic to not nominate someone who happens to be Jewish. | ||
| @gairmscoile @EastwoodLabour or maybe not as that twitter feed is a branch in the East Midlands not a CLP in Scotland | ||
| @gairmscoile I think you should address your concerns to @EastwoodLabour | ||
| @gairmscoile I attempted a national deal with Momentum to ensure all candidates got their home nominations. For which was called a gangster. | ||
| Heading to ward organisers' mtg then speaking on @RefoundLab at both Hackney CLPs | ||
| @Tonybirte @jpjanson I don't. I'm fine with the economic approach though suspect voters are more pro austerity than I am. | ||
| The news that I was a Tory at uni may come as a surprise to @LabourStudents alumni of a 1990-1996 vintage https://t.co/QvpaBePvDb | ||
| @davidwhite1972 @hazmatt72 I don't deny I was a Blairite in 1995. Shifted as disagreed w post 2001 marketisation of public services. | ||
| Thought for the day. Yep consider my "utter malevolence". https://t.co/wjRcpWDcl1 | ||
| Yeah I'm an ultra Blairite. That's why I supported Ed M in 2010 & Yvette/Tom/Sadiq in 2015. https://t.co/P4s1HomURl | ||
| @suebrazier @ExSpAd @TomBeattie2010 there isn't a binary choice between Blairism and Corbynism. Most Labour folk in between incl me. | ||
| @malvachat @sagger500 @Russ12189 @Krug_Socialist if I was ambitious wouldn't I be a Corbynite now? | ||
| @Catniptwoshoes no I want Facebook likes | ||
| @TonyGreenstein @WeBelieveIsrael you mean @labour_first | ||
| @deeinsidefilm the Hard Left are the guys obsessed with CND, Palestine, Venezuela etc and hate Blair and Brown. | ||
| @cole_davesc66 @markus_brutus none of those issues particularly resonate with working class voters. Who rather liked Blair. | ||
| @deeinsidefilm no everyone in Labour Party shares those beliefs | ||
| @SuffolkJason @Joskinesque why present them in a radical image that terrifies voters then? | ||
| @Joskinesque there are also types of Labour in between Blair and Corbyn (almost all Labour MPs are neither Blairite nor Corbynite) | ||
| @markus_brutus shared by everyone Labour | ||
| @suebrazier promoted tweet has reached 75000 people | ||
| @markus_brutus err... Attlee, Bevin, Morrison, Dalton were from my wing of Labour not Corbyn's. Won in 45 by targetting middle class suburbs | ||
| @jolly_angelina @savage_tina @mikecoulson48 @AcesWalling @CrowdpacUK so is one of the Momentum candidates and yes it is legit. | ||
| @MrsBurgin @StevenFeldman @stewartjoseph only full members can vote for NEC. Rejoining now would mean you could vote. | ||
| @cymrurouge I supported Ed M in 2010 and Yvette, Tom & Sadiq in 2015. Not a 4.5%er or a Blairite. | ||
| @Chingfordtoffee no | ||
| QED https://t.co/uMEMIrsSDc | ||
| @Mentos_Pure @MissLilySummers not about running commentary. He has been invited to honour the dead of the Holocaust at Yad Vashem. | ||
| @Mentos_Pure @MissLilySummers no this was a letter from party leader to party leader. Protocol & courtesy is you reply at same level. | ||
| @Mentos_Pure @MissLilySummers good manners. An invitation to Yad Vashem is quite a big deal. | ||
| This is outrageous given Israeli Labor MKs say they are taking political damage for refusing to sever links w Labour https://t.co/4AR8W3PYXU | ||
| @talktoharris1 @SpaJw @Dan_A_Murphy @DPJHodges we need more votes than them. | ||
| @jenniwak there is a one member one vote election in July for 6 members' reps on NEC | ||
| @talktoharris1 @SpaJw @Dan_A_Murphy @DPJHodges what's your alternative? | ||
| @Dan_A_Murphy @SpaJw @DPJHodges yes that is probable scenario. That's why I advocate a leadership challenge. | ||
| @SpaJw @Dan_A_Murphy @DPJHodges errr.... I'm running for NEC on a platform of disagreement with those people. | ||
| @SpaJw @Dan_A_Murphy @DPJHodges name a single MP who would leave Labour. There isn't one. Either we save Labour or progressive politics dies | ||
| @Cranners007 @Dan_A_Murphy @DPJHodges SDP was a crap idea then that delayed Labour recovery by taking key moderate votes out of party | ||
| @SpaJw @Dan_A_Murphy @DPJHodges if you have the political strength to create "something new" you are strong enough to retake Labour | ||
| @JackyHolyoake @MrAndyR1963 @LeaningLeft46 @cbisbored there is no ability to have such a ballot in the rules | ||
| Well said https://t.co/EcF0MuZhol | ||
| @LeaningLeft46 @JackyHolyoake @cbisbored just not true, read the lists of NEC nominations | ||
| @Dartford_Labour @BexBailey6 @JohannaBaxter @ParmjitDhanda @Christine4NEC thanks! | ||
| @luff_steve @Smithy0364 it is worse but ultimately there are more moderate people in UK than there are extremists | ||
| @rob_francis not seen confirmation. Would assume needs to go to NEC disputes panel. | ||
| @JackyHolyoake @JoshLeNeveu @LeaningLeft46 @labour_first which CLP are you in? | ||
| @JoshLeNeveu @LeaningLeft46 @labour_first great | ||
| @Smithy0364 correct but it is the only game in town. If we don't save Labour progressive politics in UK is dead. | ||
| @LeaningLeft46 huge battles going on now for control of NEC, policy & rule changes at conference, control of individual CLPs | ||
| @Linda_Marric you only need 3 incl home CLP. Rest are just indicative of support. | ||
| @Linda_Marric it says in the tweet - 69 CLPs so far. Would like to get to 100. | ||
| @cosmiclandmine @ivanwhite48 @SamCoatesTimes no a term used by the Hard Left to indicate its moral superiority to the compromising Soft Left | ||
| @CllrPeteBowyer 48 submitted to HQ 67 voted on at CLPs. Everyone has proportionately more actual than registered yet. | ||
| Thank you Hitchin & Harpenden CLP for my 67th NEC nomination | ||
| @CllrJonHawkes basically chair should only allow nomination of candidates not contributions attacking candidates | ||
| @Not_Political @PeoplesMomentum because the election rules ban disparagement | ||
| Dear @PeoplesMomentum your script for NEC nomination mtgs incls pejorative attacks on me. Pls desist & stick to positives of yr candidates. | ||
| @Carefulthought great result | ||
| @kb32904 pattern continued to be good tonight | ||
| NEC nominations tonight from Birmingham Selly Oak, East Ham, Hackney S, Vauxhall, West Ham taking me to total of 65 CLPs | ||
| @jonathanmcshane thanks! | ||
| @LJDavies87 @BexBailey6 @elliereeves @JohannaBaxter thank you! | ||
| @VauxhallLabour @BexBailey6 @JohannaBaxter @elliereeves thank you! | ||
| @SeyiAkiwowo @BexBailey6 @WestHamLabour thank you! | ||
| Thank you Finchley & Golders Green CLP for my 59th NEC nomination | ||
| What the Andrew Fisher appointment tells me is that they don't have many cadres to pick from. | ||
| @Mr_JDTraynor I am involved in @labour_first not Progress | ||
| What a great team. https://t.co/XapTBp7A0c | ||
| @TVAddictStill @LabourList then fairly easy to use polling to establish which demographic groups to advertise to | ||
| @TVAddictStill @LabourList never make the mistake of thinking commenters are representative of all readers | ||
| @sashasimic @LabourList no I mean Brownites and soft left too. | ||
| @JacquiSafford @KevSaff @DocMartin457 my employers are funding it. Is part of my day job as director of @WeBelieveIsrael to lead tours | ||
| What Morrison would submit to Refounding Labour review: http://lukeakehurst.blogspot.com/2011/05/what-herbert-morrison-would-submit-to.html |
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| Thank you Redcar CLP for my 57th NEC nomination | ||
| Felt a bit sad reading this review as reminded me of lunches there with my friend @Bettwsboy, who died last year. https://t.co/xTFLXFW4Bk | ||
| @CllrStopp @danieljeffery26 @rebecca_moore_ see you at the airport | ||
| My blog post tonight on the Refounding Labour review will be written by Herbert Morrison. Impressive as he's been dead for 50 years. | ||
| @CallumWarwick96 why do Momentum leaders use hard left in internal documents where they map NEC members? | ||
| @CallumWarwick96 no Bennites came up with it. Was intended as mark of pride ie hard left were resolute, soft left were sell outs. | ||
| @CallumWarwick96 nonsense what about all the people serving loyally in shadow cabinet? | ||
| @CallumWarwick96 Labour First is the traditional pre-Blair right - tradition of Morrison, Bevin, Gaitskell, Healey, Hattersley | ||
| @CallumWarwick96 we are working to resolve them by ensuring Jeremy has to compromise with strong moderates in positions of power | ||
| @CallumWarwick96 I am not a Blairite and not advocating a return to New Labour rhetoric. | ||
| @CallumWarwick96 obviously not. It is a catastrophe | ||
| Back in Hackney with @LabLinda75 for first time in 2 years to see Pete Doherty in concert at the Empire | ||
| @Castor8 I would support same party there as here so disappointed coalition has opened right rather than left to our sister party Labor | ||
| @CllrWhitehouse @johnmcternan no need, current indications are 70% of CLP delegates are from our wing of party | ||
| @jonlansman @sunny_hundal @wildernessyrs @georgeeaton I'm Labour and I agree on principle with the public on many issues. | ||
| @frozenwarning in what way? What policies do I advocate that are not drawn from a mainstream Labour tradition? | ||
| @frozenwarning just want a focus on listening to centre ground voters. | ||
| @frozenwarning if you are not a Corbynista I don't understand why you wouldn't be voting for me. I'm not advocating return to Blairism. | ||
| @frozenwarning it's difficult for me to understand what you think my politics are. | ||
| @JimDicksLambeth @DaWNLabour @BexBailey6 thanks Jim | ||
| @frozenwarning @DougSilverstone there isn't any personal animosity at top level. I am friends w many leading hard left ppl. Is political. | ||
| My 53rd nomination is Dulwich & W Norwood. Got second highest number of votes. | ||
| That makes 52 nominations. https://t.co/OWY3YRS6vE | ||
| You know that thing crowds do at cricket when a 6 is scored? Need a Twitter version for every time full moderate NEC slate nominated by CLP | ||
| Thank you Tatton CLP for nominating me for NEC this evening. My 50th nomination. Would be great to get 50 more by 24 June. | ||
| @frozenwarning happy to answer specific questions. | ||
| @frozenwarning but basically I'm a traditional pre-Blair era Labour moderate. Pro-Trident, pro-NATO, pro-EU, pro-Israel but... | ||
| @frozenwarning my beliefs are set out at length every week in my Labourlist column at great length. | ||
| @frozenwarning @labour_first I voted for Ed Miliband in 2010 & Yvette/Tom last year so not sure where all the "extremist" label comes from | ||
| @feedthedrummer yes Salford is tonight - Peter Wheeler. | ||
| @frozenwarning @labour_first yeah the one I'm on. | ||
| @SeemaChandwani thank you for running the nomination process in an exemplary way. I mean it. | ||
| @ariehkovler @twlldun my memory of Bristol Politics BSc is too much about ideas and not enough about elections | ||
| @ariehkovler @twlldun he translated entire works of Marx and Engels into Japanese if my memory is correct | ||
| @adnan_gooner98 the main people standing up for arms industry on NEC are Unite (4 reps) & GMB (2 reps) which represent the workers in it. | ||
| @Mentos_Pure not yet | ||
| @stephen_such @MarkSeddon1962 @labour_first @tom_watson he comes from our political tradition. | ||
| @susanhebden who were you thinking of? | ||
| @BiffBean I don't agree with the choice members made as it has damaged the party. I have a duty to hinder idiocy. | ||
| @BOBrien451 @iMcKenzied @charlesworth102 yes they are and will continue to be listed but have no rights so a bit meaningless | ||
| @BiffBean of course. I am hardly hiding it. I want people to have a clear choice. | ||
| @charlesworth102 @iMcKenzied they will have to pay £3 again if there is a new leadership contest. | ||
| @BiffBean sorry to hear that but it is important that members are given chance to vote for someone who opposes direction Corbyn is taking us | ||
| @krasnyy_ @labour_first good | ||
| @gotoutb4gove @LabourRoyall think of me as the shadow NEC... | ||
| If I had been on NEC today I would have argued for publication in full of @LabourRoyall report. Need more transparency in Labour's processes | ||
| @ElliotBidgood @JohnRentoul @viewsfromme recruitment to £3 category only happens during a leadership election | ||
| @J_VoiceUK @pigreen1 @CNDuk @labourlewis Clive wants to rethink UK role in world. I don't. | ||
| @rob_francis no I doubt it's about libel. Will be about potential disciplinary cases. | ||
| @NickCohen4 would you mind inserting word "Uni" between Oxford and Labour? | ||
| @schneiderhome any divisions are because ppl legitimately disagree over personnel, policy & strategy. Can't have faux pretense of unity. | ||
| @dapperfox @johnmcternan the balance of opinions of the membership will change if moderates join. Get a vote in NEC election this summer too | ||
| @DPJHodges the ones on the doorstep are fine (see moderate lead in CLP nominations for NEC). The passive ones are the problem. | ||
| How do you start to debate with someone who says "the last two incumbents to lose were from the Blairite wing" i.e. Brown and Ed M! | ||
| Presumably if I'm divisive the platform will appeal to one side of the divide... https://t.co/5XEj8zsPDc | ||
| @Carefulthought @Smithy0364 @Dungwit1 we lost the last two after shifting to the left. | ||
| @___OST___ @mezznj @LeftwingPoet @johnmann Corbyn also had support from both hard and soft left democratic socialists. | ||
| @___OST___ @mezznj @LeftwingPoet @johnmann no of course not, there are only 5k Trots in whole of UK. | ||
| @left_of_Left @grahamjsutton I am a Zionist. Is not an insulting word. Just means believe Israel has right to exist. | ||
| @mezznj @LeftwingPoet @johnmann I only call Trotskyists Trots. I wouldn't say it to someone who wasn't a Trotskyist. | ||
| @saleh_mousavi @paulwilkinson4 @ChriswMP he is an MP | ||
| @rurallabouruk @LouieWoodall @labour_first just to be clear on moderate side slate support does not involve any whip or caucus if elected | ||
| @saleh_mousavi @paulwilkinson4 @ChriswMP it's very difficult to be united with people who call you a Tory. | ||
| @rurallabouruk @LouieWoodall @labour_first she is supported by us this time and was in 2014 too. We are all individuals with own platform. | ||
| @LeftwingPoet @johnmann I'm not against Universal Basic Income but need to understand how it would work in practice. | ||
| @LeftwingPoet @johnmann also more specific about what fairness & equality means? Those r values not policies. | ||
| @LeftwingPoet @johnmann can you be more specific about what anti-austerity and support for vulnerable mean? | ||
| @LeftwingPoet @johnmann generally though I am open to pretty leftwing ideas on social and economic policy but not foreign and defence. | ||
| @LeftwingPoet @johnmann give me examples of his policies and I'll say what I think of them | ||
| @LeftwingPoet eh? Progress and Blairites were marginalised from 2007. Their guy David M lost in 2010. Policies in 2015 were soft left. | ||
| @Mumtoposie if someone calls me a Tory they are a troll. | ||
| @saleh_mousavi @ChriswMP @Rugbymumno9 a) I'm not an MP so can't be deselected b) I was one of Ed M's biggest supporters | ||
| @left_of_Left @UKLabour @MichaelDugher I'll let @InTheSoupAgain explain to you who you just retweeted. | ||
| @ChriswMP @Rugbymumno9 if he does things I agree with I will praise. If he does things I don't like I will say so. Honest politics etc. | ||
| @davidaslindsay @ChriswMP @Rugbymumno9 detailed analysis would show more often when rebelled he was in same voting lobby as Tories | ||
| @ChriswMP @Rugbymumno9 Blair had a huge party & public mandate but Corbyn repeatedly voted against him in Commons | ||
| @malvachat @bobwiggin if I want to campaign vs Tories I go canvassing not tweeting. Would be preaching to the converted here. | ||
| @malvachat @bobwiggin I'm running in an internal election for NEC which is about direction you think party should go in | ||
| @Carefulthought no they'd fine, you've never insulted me or called me a Tory. | ||
| @malvachat @bobwiggin who already know they hate Tories but are interested in internal debate in party | ||
| @malvachat @bobwiggin the people that follow me are not swing voters deciding between Lab and Con they are mainly Labour members ... | ||
| @ChriswMP @Rugbymumno9 I think it's possible to defeat the Tories without buying into the direction Jeremy wants to take the party in | ||
| @ChriswMP @Rugbymumno9 Chris you are not a troll and you are always respectful even when we disagree. | ||
| @connorwebster98 @IanAustinMP yes it is, also you are not trolling me, you are engaging in a polite and comradely way | ||
| @connorwebster98 they automatically wouldn't match either of those criteria | ||
| Very sorry to hear of death of Lynne Smith, a great activist, comrade & friend in Hackney b4 she moved to Bradford https://t.co/Dxb2BJLLFj | ||
| @marbessa1 @iMcKenzied loads. Ask me specific questions & will answer. But NEC runs stategy & organisation not policy (that's NPF). | ||
| I chaired this debate yesterday at #pac16 @peterkyle was brilliant: https://t.co/CHVQZgBNei | ||
| @Saggydaddy oops | ||
| @Saggydaddy there wasn't any content to criticise. | ||
| @GeorgeAylett @HouseofTwitsLab the problem is some Momentum ppl literally r proudly Trots eg AWL, Socialist Action, Socialist Appeal | ||
| @doktordunc not everyone here did. .. | ||
| @doktordunc it was a joke! | ||
| I've never been in hall for a Corbyn speech before. First time for everything. He speaks very fast. | ||
| @Oscar_VN I was really shocked as meetings are usually very friendly. | ||
| @Carefulthought @Smithy0364 @Dungwit1 he would need to shift policies on foreign and defence stuff too. | ||
| @Hoopsdips @MikeGapes no he isn't taking questions. | ||
| @Carefulthought @Smithy0364 @Dungwit1 they need to be both | ||
| @Hoopsdips @MikeGapes don't hold your breath waiting | ||
| @Dungwit1 I'm not a Blairite | ||
| @Oscar_VN sadly it was. Meeting was as usual very polite and then this guy appeared at end to confront me. Was very aggressive. | ||
| @Saggydaddy no | ||
| home to new books from Amazon - Chavs by @OwenJones84 and The Peaceful Revolution - 1949 book of speeches by my hero Herbert Morrison | ||
| @iwasid @nickvsx @BenjaminDupres @CST_UK not if there are minority populations as citizens in both states | ||
| @Jack_TaylorSE15 @jreedmp @spellar @STWuk I actually am speaking about Trident at @workersliberty | ||
| Exciting news about political diversity at Progress conference #PAC16 tomorrow - I'm chairing a breakout session! | ||
| @BenjaminDupres @Pal4Peace if you support a 2 state solution that makes you a Zionist as Zionism is simply belief in a Jewish state | ||
| @BenjaminDupres @CST_UK yeah I'm a Tory. That's why I joined Labour 28 years ago and my entire family have been Labour since 1920s. | ||
| @BenjaminDupres @CST_UK I'm an internationalist so I don't just care about UK issues. That's a UKIP world view. | ||
| @BenjaminDupres @CST_UK and I have opinions about Tibet, Burma, Kurds, Latin America. Russia, China too | ||
| @BenjaminDupres @CST_UK I'm involved in Israel as issue because when I was a student Jewish students asked me to show solidarity with them | ||
| @BenjaminDupres @CST_UK perhaps you should learn to debate in a more civil less ad hominem way. | ||
| @BenjaminDupres @CST_UK they are my political enemy. | ||
| @BenjaminDupres @CST_UK I suggest you take up issues about communal definition of antisemitism with CST, not me. | ||
| I don't think she realises I'm not Jewish. https://t.co/QCPyRTbqbL | ||
| @DylanStrain my job was giving political advice to companies bidding for MoD contracts that were policy decisions of a Labour government | ||
| @DylanStrain also "involved in arms trade" suggests I was flogging AK47s to dictatorships | ||
| @DylanStrain have you put that to 2 of Labour's largest union affiliates, Unite & GMB? Both represent workers in defence industry. | ||
| @WTarbiat will check | ||
| Despite all the abuse I am getting online, picking up dozens of nominations from CLPs that never nominated me in previous contests. | ||
| @Jacktk @BexBailey6 @rheawolfson @JohannaBaxter @ParmjitDhanda @elliereeves thanks! | ||
| Wow I hit the jackpot, condemnation by Mira Bar-Hillel. https://t.co/bgGhsL9mZV | ||
| @vriyait @BexBailey6 @ParmjitDhanda @elliereeves @JohannaBaxter thank you! | ||
| @FloEshalomi @eddieizzard thanks! | ||
| Now left r saying unfair to scrutinise NEC candidates' old blog posts, looking forward to @leftfutures removing several articles about me | ||
| @Martin_SE5 28 years | ||
| My fan club are busy this morning https://t.co/FbNxZhmDs3 | ||
| Charming https://t.co/0Lzj3FFrsV | ||
| @RooftopJaxx @AsaWinstanley @plymouthkate no in a disagree profoundly but respect way. | ||
| Heading to Westminster for chat with @JWoodcockMP then LP Education + Skills Policy Commission | ||
| @lizmcshane thanks! | ||
| @LeaningLeft46 she agrees with Ken on economy, Corbyn etc but not Israel/Jewish issues/what constitutes antisemitism | ||
| @LeaningLeft46 the people abusing her aren't part of the debate about her article about winning, they are Ken apologists | ||
| @GeoffRunciman @WeBelieveIsrael donations any MP gets are publicly declared on electoral commission site so check there | ||
| @GeoffRunciman this rebuts the apartheid allegation https://t.co/qUmz72HoqX | ||
| @GeoffRunciman don't claim academic standing but as expert in this as all but a few people in UK | ||
| @GeoffRunciman I don't know more than them I know a lot and I have a different opinion to them | ||
| @redalphababe thanks! | ||
| @MatthewBlott thanks! | ||
| @adam86foster done | ||
| @rob_marchant @LabourList if you read the article I think you will find I agree with you. | ||
| @JeremyCorbyn4PM @LabourList | ||
| @marbessa1 @schneiderhome will you say the same next year when mainly Tory areas vote? | ||
| Very comradely https://t.co/2k0kk7dd5Z | ||
| @joncraig never done by full NEC will just be a panel of 3 NEC members that shortlists | ||
| @seanjonesqc thanks! | ||
| @marbessa1 @schneiderhome 47.9% of the seats up for election were won by Labour | ||
| We don't have 48% of cllrs. Tories have c8000 cllrs we have c6850 cllrs. https://t.co/pSVJlyLPVP | ||
| @danielblaney we were told to put up or shut up. We are doing the former. | ||
| @danielblaney @andrewspoooner the point is you guys demanded we put up so we are. | ||
| Here's an accurate msp of Thursday based on the PCC elections https://t.co/iVWfgYT44s | ||
| @alexsobel @tomcopley @SnoozeInBrief you mean big English cities | ||
| @EOkenesi no I'm not a Blairite. Voted Ed M not David M in 2010, Yvette & Sadiq & Tom not Liz & Tessa & ? in 2015 | ||
| @EOkenesi @UKLabour yeah I have magic powers to go back in time and persuade people to post antisemitic stuff on social media in 2014 | ||
| @JonnyforNewbury done | ||
| @FoxHedgehog why does my name appear in that? Have I done something to upset them? | ||
| https://t.co/HppahCn8QE | ||
| @GrahamCunning12 @labourmatters an NEC panel does the longlisting and shortlisting in by-elections | ||
| @sunny_hundal it's a cause both for some Blairites & soft left. Brownites/Old Right tended to prefer FPTP. | ||
| @JulsJulsblues we need a better leader in order to effectively fight the Tories. | ||
| @JulsJulsblues I'm not New Labour or a Blairite. | ||
| @ChriswMP @georgeeaton incorrect. Tories have about 8000 councillors we have about 6700. Tories control 52% of councils, Labour 29% say LGIU | ||
| @EOkenesi @SadiqKhan one reason why Sadiq won is he was so fast and firm condemning Ken's antisemitic remarks. | ||
| @EOkenesi @SadiqKhan those are two separate things. Ken caused one, Lynton Crosby the other. | ||
| @Kerri_Prince @Conorpope @JonathanRWarner AWS doesn't apply to by-elections in theory, but in practice NEC could choose only women shortlist | ||
| @Tir_Tairngire @Saggydaddy as I am disabled (nerve damage in legs from cancer) can we pick an idiom other than "working my legs off"? | ||
| This is not a map of anything it is someone colouring in red entire counties that sadly went Tory or SNP on Thursday https://t.co/dnF48Z5FPP | ||
| @labourmatters @SadiqKhan I supported Sadiq in selection so that was indeed my judgement | ||
| Imagine if the London Mayor candidate had been a Corbynista - Ken again or Diane. We would have woken up to Mayor Zac. | ||
| Apparently moderate CLP NEC nominations and conference delegate elections don't reflect what "real membership" wants https://t.co/ZsXjTCfKiG | ||
| @MartinLarner @MrAdrianSmiffy why would I back someone who I believe to be both wrong and useless? | ||
| @MartinLarner @MrAdrianSmiffy he did worse than Ed Miliband on Thursday. | ||
| @CllrJonSHarvey I am putting up. Running for NEC on an anti-Corbyn platform. | ||
| Hopefully MPs who have been avoiding rocking the boat b4 polling day will now hold our inept leadership to account far more robustly. | ||
| @crazywizdom @mjrobbins @gracepetrie no I support that | ||
| @AlfieSteer you have to assume govt recovers by GE as historically they always do. | ||
| @hbgbln no as UKIP split right not left. | ||
| @hbgbln OK 1980 then. Ie last equivalent situation. Fairly sure we gained cllrs in 1971 and 1952 as well. | ||
| @AlfieSteer because it was lower than was needed to win a general election and was historically not that impressivw | ||
| @ChriswMP @NinaDluzewska no we lost net seats. Less popular than we were under Ed Miliband. Unsurprising as more extreme. | ||
| @ChriswMP @NinaDluzewska you tweeted an image of council election results not PCC results | ||
| Yep grow up and realise that hard left ideas are unpopular because they are either stupid or morally wrong. https://t.co/qFS5dgRstl | ||
| @ChriswMP not running it down, just alarmed you don't know basic facts about the election yesterday. | ||
| Alarmed that an ex MP doesn't understand there were no council elections in most rural Tory areas https://t.co/XBVrC8E7yJ | ||
| @ShimonCobblers Labour's only MP in Scotland. In Shadow Cabinet. | ||
| Nothing to do with Scottish experiment of running left manifesto (anti-austerity, tax up, scrap Trident) then? https://t.co/UPu4BZWJZQ | ||
| @SeemaChandwani unique | ||
| @peopleman44 @SeemaChandwani so that you can work out who people are allied with & what they believe? | ||
| Thank you Middlesbrough S & Cleveland E CLP for nominating me for NEC tonight! | ||
| @SeemaChandwani she's very much from Soft Left. | ||
| @worth3016 no I prefer moderates who stay for 13 years and win 3 elections | ||
| @humphriesjohn @JeremyCorbyn4PM I didn't support the 4.5% candidate. And I have "put up" for the NEC. | ||
| @worth3016 yes don't you want Cameron to resign? I do. | ||
| @MereCommoner obvious example is Scotland where @jackiebmsp held her constituency by supporting Trident renewal against manifesto line | ||
| Two brilliant additions to Hackney Council https://t.co/jd1eaDbaLp | ||
| Important reading https://t.co/0AEklkKuSi | ||
| @ElwinWay I didn't vote for the 4.5% candidate and opposed David Miliband in 2010 on similar party unity grounds | ||
| @judoker sorry you are right but it was a 3 way marginal in early contests | ||
| @WirralMomentum I am putting up - running for the NEC. Beating your candidates on CLP nominations too. | ||
| @AMoveToTheLeft many on hard left are not democratic socialists | ||
| @Brooklyn_eusko @wesstreeting I am putting up. I am running for NEC on a platform criticising the current leadership. | ||
| @robjeffecology I'll stop attacking him when he resigns or starts agreeing with me on issues like Trident. | ||
| @Smithy0364 @labourlewis yep I was Labour when Clive was some kind of independent in NUS | ||
| Storming victory by nearly 550 votes for my super-cllr wife @LabLinda75 https://t.co/eHaFkgsuWC | ||
| @godwyns @labourlewis @bbclaurak I want to democratically overturn his mandate | ||
| I refuse to do either. What is @labourlewis going to do to make me "shut up or get out"? https://t.co/0T62F18GaR | ||
| @TomLondon6 @Amina_Lone we would be united if we had a leader who wasn't from the leftmost edge of party opinion | ||
| I don't think he liked being asked what campaigning he was doing https://t.co/ovgoIF7sCI | ||
| @hackenslash1 @moodvik1 @Smeggypants his remarks last week were antisemitic. Yes I know him as served on NEC with him. | ||
| @Saggydaddy @MarstonLabour thanks, good luck! | ||
| Up and ready for the @MarstonLabour good morning leaflet to be collected! | ||
| @deerdoe1 @moodvik1 @Smeggypants see my article for detail https://t.co/XBjcEUFONG | ||
| @moodvik1 @Smeggypants opposing Israel is fine. Using anti-Jewish imagery to do so is not. | ||
| @moodvik1 @Smeggypants yes they are but they still ain't happy about Ken et al being antisemitic | ||
| Very excited about running the @MarstonLabour campaign HQ for @satellite_nick our brilliant council candidate! | ||
| @MBThirlaway @CJPW91 it would be more exciting if they actually sent it to me | ||
| Pretty impressive for an organisation with only 2 staff! Well done @_LFI ! https://t.co/9yEAHDvaZS | ||
| @GeoffRunciman almost everything he says is. Except he opposes BDS. | ||
| @jpjanson @LabourList by begging people to still vote Labour despite Ken? | ||
| @BrindDon obviously I disagree as would not advocate something I thought would harm Labour. | ||
| Why stalking horse? She would make a great leader. https://t.co/ofFaD18YgD | ||
| United except for all the actual perpetrators of antisemitic tropes & the ppl saying there is no real problem. https://t.co/Guh2stKmFu | ||
| @johnmcternan @DinahSW @GOsborneGenius @schneiderhome her inquiry is not the Ken disciplinary process which is NCC & NEC disputes panel | ||
| @DinahSW @johnmcternan @GOsborneGenius @schneiderhome no he can stand if his suspension is lifted by 24 June. | ||
| @Calderbank @sundersays no Brenner has no credibility at all: https://t.co/iGDHliB3Qz | ||
| What I wrote about Ken in 2012. Sadly stands test of time: https://t.co/Dtg4j2ied8 | ||
| This is a must read to understand the impact of this week not on Labour politicians but on ordinary Jewish families https://t.co/eRYDEQY87A | ||
| Great move by @Ed_Miliband appointing @MichaelDugherMP as his PPS. Will be a source of sound advice. | ||
| @LRCinfo @JolyonMaugham @Conorpope @CLPD_Labour @PeoplesMomentum yes because I feel morally compromised being on same ballot paper as him | ||
| @LRCinfo @CLPD_Labour @PeoplesMomentum surely you will politically disown him for these remarks even if he faces no disciplinary action? | ||
| @gedrobinson blocked for idiocy | ||
| @gedrobinson I would hope they would disown him even if his suspension is lifted and he can run | ||
| @gedrobinson I'm asking about his status on their slate not his eligibility which we will know on 24 June if he is still suspended then | ||
| Question for @PeterWillsman @ClaudiaWebbe @annblack50 @darrenw_cardiff C Shawcroft: Is Ken still on same slate as you for NEC election? | ||
| Thank you Nottingham North CLP for my 41st NEC nomination. Real #Momentum | ||
| @earthygirl01 @SJHemus @Saggydaddy @JohnMannMP @wesstreeting so only YouGov is in line with the claim you have circulated | ||
| @earthygirl01 @SJHemus @Saggydaddy @JohnMannMP @wesstreeting Opinium 2% swing from Con to Lab since JC elected | ||
| @earthygirl01 @SJHemus @Saggydaddy @JohnMannMP @wesstreeting IpsosMori swing since JC elected 1% Con to Lab | ||
| @earthygirl01 @SJHemus @Saggydaddy @JohnMannMP @wesstreeting ComRes swing since JC elected 3.5% Con to Lab | ||
| @SJHemus @Saggydaddy @earthygirl01 @JohnMannMP @wesstreeting ICM swing since JC elected 0.5% Con to Lab | ||
| @peopleman44 @DamianGannon will be difficult to vote for him if he is expelled | ||
| @JonnyoftheBingo @GeoffRunciman @JewishLabour read my labourlist columm for detailed explanation of when anti-Israel becomes anti-Jewish | ||
| @GeoffRunciman @JewishLabour no my opinions coincide with them | ||
| @GeoffRunciman @JewishLabour there is no debate that the incidents were antisemitic - Labour has suspended the people concerned. | ||
| @GeoffRunciman @JewishLabour no. All the main Jewish organisations in UK - BoD, JLC, CST - believe recent incidents are antisemitism. | ||
| @GeoffRunciman @JewishLabour I take my lead on this from the representative bodies of UK Jewish community not from small fringe groups | ||
| @GeoffRunciman @JewishLabour difficult to agree simultaneously with people who disagree with each other | ||
| @Calderbank @danielelton nonsense they are very well funded and organised. | ||
| @jruddy99 24 June | ||
| @jruddy99 if you are suspended you can't attend branch meetings let alone NEC | ||
| @jruddy99 if he is expelled or still suspended at close of nominations he won't be on the ballot. If suspension lifted, he will be. | ||
| @Jack_SE15 Humberside is the most marginal Police Commissioner target seat so it did make sense | ||
| Another really useful response. https://t.co/ytiFH3LyjA | ||
| Ok https://t.co/yQmiw4K3G0 | ||
| @Dan_A_Murphy @MarkHemi82 @edballs sadly casual vacancies are filled by the highest runner up | ||
| https://t.co/uBeffeITa1 | ||
| @janemerrick23 @welovelabour @SMKD1984 and conference delegate elections are going well for moderates | ||
| @LeaningLeft46 @briandlondon @coyleneil you have to be in a party to change it | ||
| @twoshadesofhope @workersliberty @Ideas4Freedom I'm happy to debate against members of other parties | ||
| Worth the trip to Margate for this alone https://t.co/4BFUu9v6QI | ||
| @feedthedrummer @Cherwell_Online all politics | ||
| @RichardLoweUK @JohnMannMP yes, direct message me | ||
| @Tir_Tairngire @LabourList and I campaigned vs boycotts long b4 this job and will do when I move on | ||
| @Tir_Tairngire @LabourList yes I work for a pro-Israel organisation but it receives no funding from Israel - all from UK donors | ||
| This kind of crap is basically accusing me of being an agent of a foreign power because I campaign against boycotts. https://t.co/sFn1f30p1v | ||
| @ShneurOdze you need to see my presentation that I do at speaking events | ||
| @ShneurOdze https://t.co/XBjcEUXqcg | ||
| @ShneurOdze @LabourList already wrote that one 2 weeks ago | ||
| My fan club continues to grow https://t.co/Ym9T9TISN7 | ||
| @broncoskolar @mikecoulson48 resign from what? | ||
| @marbessa1 @Dan_A_Murphy @CrowdpacUK Trident | ||
| @iMcKenzied @MarkHemi82 @John_Ferrett there are enough MPs scared of deselection or promoted by JC to get him on any ballot | ||
| @Shirley747 @teresamcmahon4 oh dear. I started something I couldn't finish. | ||
| @RightJudgeIam sorry I don't agree with him on many issues and don't think he is qualified for the job | ||
| @RightJudgeIam no I don't. I'm an old fashioned Keynesian social democrat who opposes marketisation of public services. | ||
| @Shirley747 then don't vote for me | ||
| We need the strongest possible moderate voice on Labour's NEC - please donate to my campaign here: https://t.co/BKgmfewVDS | ||
| @Sagger10000 @David__Osland that's for members to decide when they vote this summer | ||
| Excited about 5 May having had polling day briefing as a ward committee room organiser from @Oxford_Labour | ||
| @VLubev yes he can win as he has big name recognition | ||
| I'm in joint 2nd place. Moderates in 5 of top 6 slots https://t.co/8KRZoYzLZT | ||
| @Sagger10000 @David__Osland I don't side with the Tories. They are very happy Corbyn is leader as they think easy to beat. | ||
| @deerdoe1 @BarbaraSpiegelh didn't Jeremy himself publicly criticise Tony Blair rather a lot? And repeatedly voted against party policy? | ||
| Ashdown right to say only foreign leader who wants UK to leave EU is Putin | ||
| Might surprise people who make assumptions about rest of my politics based on my views on defence & foreign policy https://t.co/j1m1k0pqtL | ||
| .@left_of_Left I will be canvassing for Labour this weekend & running my ward campaign HQ on polling day. What campaiging u doing 4 Labour? | ||
| @left_of_Left you are right I'm more Gaitskellite than Blairite | ||
| It was so much easier when I only used to be accused of being a CIA stooge https://t.co/PvqPQylYqX | ||
| I think I can see a pattern here ... https://t.co/PvqPQylYqX | ||
| @hopisen pretty good esp Daily Mail http://bit.ly/jkcjPu | ||
| @deerdoe1 @BarbaraSpiegelh I have window full of Vote Labour posters, spend my weekends canvassing & will run my ward on polling day. You? | ||
| @framcgowan yeah it will have been by one tweet, which has only been seen by a few thousand people, that did it. | ||
| @magneticsparrow @CrowdpacUK thanks! | ||
| @CheneyCraig thanks! | ||
| @TomHarrisMP @PeterWatt123 what's the point in issuing challenges for sake of it? Does it help Labour win? | ||
| @TomHarrisMP @KatieCurtis and b) it looks at cuts in terms of deficit reduction and political position only, not at the need for the service | ||
| @TomHarrisMP @KatieCurtis also quickest way to cut deficit is through growth, which our policies wd have promoted | ||
| @TomHarrisMP @KatieCurtis we have already done that. We have constantly said half the deficit in 4 yrs. Big cuts but lot less than Tories'. | ||
| @alexhilton @JohnPReid welcome back | ||
| Help crowdfund my campaign to get on Labour's NEC: https://t.co/BKgmfewVDS | ||
| And it didn't take long to get a Rothschilds antisemitic trope into the mix ... https://t.co/YcMbgkeaje | ||
| @cardiffnan resign from what? | ||
| @mickjackson10 I'm not the leader | ||
| @susanp_80 @avoiderman @TVPaulD @LabourList no last 2 polls we were 5% behind | ||
| Actually campaigning for Labour is now an "arbitrary criteria" apparently. https://t.co/yVMqdOHiUo | ||
| @iloveluisgarcia resign from what? Branch secretary? | ||
| @IVORSCOMICS no I read and retweet every UK opinion poll. Only 3 have shown us ahead since May 2015. | ||
| Says it all. Opinions based on no campaigning or interaction with the electorate, merely prejudices. https://t.co/gjA5Tdlo18 | ||
| @Castor8 yes | ||
| @IVORSCOMICS why are the Tories 5% ahead in the polls then? | ||
| @TVPaulD @LabourList except that it did win votes when we did it | ||
| @TVPaulD @LabourList there are more people to right of Corbyn than to his left. Fairly obviously. | ||
| @j_razor101 bless him | ||
| @Sagger10000 @enttruth @UKLabour and the membership can change as it did last summer | ||
| Election 2016: Australians set to head to polls on July 2 https://t.co/tMONRcxVXt via @smh | ||
| @Livingstone_RJ my threshold for die hard support 4 leader is v low - they just need to be able to walk & chew gum same time & not back CND | ||
| @Livingstone_RJ @VLubev ICM 5% Tory lead today (from 0 last month). That's what I am responding to. | ||
| @Livingstone_RJ I didn't. I robustly defended both. | ||
| @VLubev yeah 5% behind in polls, brilliant achievement. | ||
| Corbyn should put party above faction & resign. He has wrong politics to win an election, & lacks skills & experience to lead effectively. | ||
| Very sad news https://t.co/CjtTaJ9Y0v | ||
| @Mentos_Pure @labour_first @britainelects @JeremyCorbyn4PM we need a leader who is not from extreme fringe of party if to be united | ||
| @iMcKenzied @MarkHemi82 as someone who is tracking delegate elections, can assure you that isn't direction conference is heading in | ||
| @the_awakend no it's because the NEC wouldn't allow McDonalds to have a commercial stand at party HQ | ||
| @skybluejim @MrsBurgin @JamesAsser it was owned by McDonalds until recently wasn't it? | ||
| @the_awakend no not really Corbynism isn't actually a religion yet | ||
| @andrewsberry68 @RaviSubbie @MikeJack41 @cguthier @OwenJones84 No not a UK employer |
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| @n_blondel a party of govt needs to allow major national employers to exhibit & engage at conference | ||
| I despair at the humourless nature of some comrades. https://t.co/TG5SrbizFV | ||
| @cazziemacca @wesstreeting @ruthserwotka I like Byron too but a bit pricey for a work day lunch | ||
| @cazziemacca I go almost every week. | ||
| @kindofwater @wesstreeting @RaviSubbie @MikeJack41 @cguthier @OwenJones84 I'm blocking you then | ||
| @tedsplitter @kindofwater @wesstreeting @RaviSubbie @MikeJack41 @cguthier @OwenJones84 thanks I spent 11 years as consultant to defence cos | ||
| @kindofwater @wesstreeting @RaviSubbie @MikeJack41 @cguthier @OwenJones84 legit companies that supply MoD - yes | ||
| @kindofwater @wesstreeting @RaviSubbie @MikeJack41 @cguthier @OwenJones84 real arms dealers no - it's illegal | ||
| @MikeJack41 @cguthier @OwenJones84 @wesstreeting don't be silly. Allowing companies a commercial stand doesn't imply support for them. | ||
| @davesmith_109 yes I know but that means we should engage with them. | ||
| @An_fhirinne nowhere else to go. Party still pleasant/decent at CLP level in most places. Enjoy a political fight. | ||
| The £30k from McDonalds would have covered a good chunk of the £75k Euro referendum costs Alan Johnson just emailed members asking for. | ||
| @Smithy0364 @MomentumKent thanks | ||
| @CllrDave4Gornal @MomentumKent thanks | ||
| @MrMattvR try using mailchimp - free service for number of emails a CLP sends to | ||
| Unwanted, except by the CLPs who have given me second highest number of nominations so far https://t.co/J99wHQLlj7 | ||
| @An_fhirinne I think @tom_watson more likely to have the answer on #DisneyInfinity than @jeremycorbyn | ||
| @paulleake @labourkev @LabourList thanks Paul | ||
| Anyone know how to get your characters back if #DisneyInfinity on ipad crashes (corrupted save)? Asking for my 10 year old. | ||
| Answer: a lot of members as I am running 2nd in number of CLP nominations https://t.co/qnUQmYnMd4 | ||
| I got "Hugh Gaitskell" on "Which Labour Leader Are You?" on Qzzr. What about you? https://t.co/1Wh2Ch5lsk #quizzes via @Qzzr_ | ||
| @MattDeaves @marleybennett sorry fair enough | ||
| @Carefulthought you keep sending me things I have already retweeted | ||
| @lewis_coyne_ I think that is correct. And Momentum has alienated many longterm activists even on left. | ||
| I have lived in 4 of these 7 places https://t.co/kuFuAx3KUv | ||
| @Liam_JF_ORourke @PWheeler56 we can't tell as they are not listed yet due to their home CLPs not having met. Salford is next week. | ||
| @feedthedrummer she and Peter Wheeler's home CLPs have not met yet | ||
| Candidates recommended by @labour_first are in 5 of the top 6 slots | ||
| Official NEC noms figures: Black 38 Akehurst 23 Reeves 22 Dhanda 21 Bailey 19 Baxter 18 Willsman 15.... |
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| @Carefulthought @SamCoatesTimes indeed we need to move to the centre to get votes back off Tories and UKIP | ||
| Thank you Gedling CLP and Liverpool Wavertree CLP for nominating me for NEC last night! #realmomentum | ||
| @Carefulthought @SamCoatesTimes yes I want Corbyn gone. | ||
| @Carefulthought @M_Star_Online it is up to party conference to decide the rules. | ||
| @Carefulthought @SamCoatesTimes I tweet all of them. Labour has only led in 3 polls since the General Election. | ||
| @Carefulthought @M_Star_Online not plotting, but have openly stated I want a different leader as I don't share Jeremy's politics | ||
| @Carefulthought @SamCoatesTimes I already retweeted it last night as I do all opinion polls | ||
| Good to see ideas we float being taken seriously https://t.co/eZZiMpr1NH | ||
| @Kirat_Raj yes good to meet you | ||
| @sfajanathomas have a look at the #pac11 comments thread to see what was discussed. Shame u cd not attend | ||
| @BDSJustice @MichaelDugher you keep sending me links to Tony Greenstein. Am I supposed to be impressed? | ||
| @BDSJustice @MichaelDugher errrm that's a comment from Tony Greenstein (https://t.co/lDB6zhBDxX) | ||
| Thank you Chichester CLP for my 35th NEC nomination. | ||
| @GregLabour no I said there's more of it. There are obvious exceptions like @workersliberty who solidly oppose antisemitism within left. | ||
| @saumarezsmith @RafaDavies good morning both! | ||
| @kb32904 these are two councillor wards ie you get two votes for two vacancies | ||
| @kb32904 can you send me a link? | ||
| @kb32904 running for one place? | ||
| Evening Standard reports I'm running 2nd in NEC race. Apparently I am now a Blairite. https://t.co/lPQ9ks80Uh | ||
| Out on the #labourdoorstep in Marston Ward for Nick Walker, our excellent @Oxford_Labour candidate working hard to win seat from an indie | ||
| @RachaelSaunders @ProgressOnline It's as though the 1960s never happened. Depressing beyond belief. | ||
| Cheer up everyone - bit more miserablism at @ProgressOnline than I like to hear. | ||
| @frozenwarning @Joanne13Harding it's just common sense | ||
| Thank you Beaconsfield CLP for nominating me for the NEC tonight | ||
| Looking forward to @Oxford_Labour manifesto launch dinner with John Healey MP | ||
| @Sagger10000 I refer you to all the published academic analysis of the GE, eg Cowley & Kavanagh book, Worcester & Mortimore book. | ||
| @Sagger10000 I supported the old electoral college system - 1/3 each for members, MPs and TUs | ||
| @ChriswMP @AlanOlive1 I know, I cited Derby as a target to hold in my analysis: https://t.co/1DvZp9jPJV Good luck! | ||
| @ChriswMP @AlanOlive1 that is exactly what I will be doing - I live in a ward we are trying to gain, and my wife is also up for reelection | ||
| @Phillip_D_Jones we have to do better than 2012. It wasn't good enough. | ||
| @Phillip_D_Jones you think Jeremy is great and has great policies so why won't there be sweeping gains? | ||
| @Phillip_D_Jones I don't understand why you don't think #Corbynmania will lead to sweeping gains this May. | ||
| @ChriswMP @AlanOlive1 I am really insulted that you would describe my carefully researched analysis as "pointless speculation | ||
| @ChriswMP @AlanOlive1 bizzare. Previous leaderships always supported me doing analysis and setting benchmarks at this point before May. | ||
| @Odbe34 @mwreay @PeoplesMomentum internal pressure groups are not really eligible to affiliate. | ||
| @NCPoliticsUK that's a map of 05 on 2010 boundaries. Actual 05 we won Chatham and Gillingham | ||
| I want to buy a Gaitskell anti-CND speech postcard "We will fight, and fight, and fight again" https://t.co/ml77aGVXqq | ||
| it's the https://t.co/PSsCIwoQcc | ||
| @CliveBrewer1 @LabourList 9.5% swing i.e. we need 40% vote share to win a majority (https://t.co/AYnpHyTQsa) | ||
| My Labourlist column https://t.co/PulNYw7oTq | ||
| @WTarbiat sorry can you ask question more clearly? | ||
| @thomasmessenger no but it shows you what actual activists think | ||
| @ChrispLOL @Oxford_Labour @OxMailKieranD @TheOxfordMail well they have seats to lose to us in Oxford | ||
| Suggests Greens are scared of losing council seats to @Oxford_Labour https://t.co/aI6XGqE5UW | ||
| @GrahamCunning12 probably less hush hush and more incomprehensible to non-locals | ||
| @AndreaParma82 membersnet | ||
| @MickEgan3 @britainelects rural Yorkshire still some of them | ||
| @David__Osland @andrewspoooner @Steve_Cooke no idea I didn't support Liz. | ||
| @David__Osland @SeemaChandwani used to it and focused on winning the next contest not the last one. | ||
| @David__Osland @andrewspoooner @Steve_Cooke it was voted off and that was a bad and crass decision given steel industry crisis. | ||
| @SeemaChandwani @David__Osland I love how our inability to agree on one candidate now gets called a "strategy". If only. | ||
| @David__Osland @andrewspoooner no I don't. I think it was disgusting in context of steel industry crisis. | ||
| @haykirstin surely everyone under 27 in Lab Students is also in Young Labour? | ||
| @LeaningLeft46 no its time to report the people saying it so they get expelled | ||
| @Sagger10000 the party can express its opinions about me democratically through current NEC election. Currently I have 2nd most nominations | ||
| @Sagger10000 yawn. | ||
| FF NOLSies of my vintage @AndyCharlwood @IainMcNicol @tom_watson @_IanMoss @Anfield39 @islingtonlizzi @GloriaDePieroMP | ||
| Just to keep @DPJHodges happy last retweet was in a work capacity as I am proud to be associated w UK defence/aerospace industry | ||
| @DonFear @DPJHodges @Italkcrap4life you can decry specific actions of Israel & be a Zionist eg Meretz party | ||
| @adrianmcmenamin @histevegray @DavidMills73 @AntBreach the allegation isn't even true, Royall isn't involved in LFI https://t.co/AdcASxNoCX | ||
| @TheVickyMD @Ken4LabourNEC @JennieUnite @krelaben @_EllaMarshall @ht4ecosocialism @willhquick @UKLabour no only 6 seats of 33 | ||
| @DonFear @DPJHodges if you support Israel existing you are a Zionist. It literally means supporting having a Jewish state. | ||
| @hippocastanum I think Sam was referring to us not having internal elections as we are not a membership organisation | ||
| @hippocastanum we are democratic socialists who respect party rules and democracy | ||
| For my Hackney followers, Vincent is Mr Garden Stake Posters https://t.co/mQT4IjqXbQ | ||
| This is terrible. Very sad news. https://t.co/nACRxD2odG | ||
| @AdamGraySays @patrick_hurley @DPJHodges I thought u had resigned from the party Adam? | ||
| @Carefulthought @AJ_lunn @britainelects we didn't stand last time! | ||
| @DPJHodges I'm proud of my job but I tweet + blog in a personal capacity. | ||
| @DPJHodges that was actually quite droll (though inaccurate) | ||
| @DPJHodges because right now all you are doing is dismaying party members + giving ammo to our enemies | ||
| @DPJHodges I think u should test the support for your ideas by running in an OMOV election in the Labour Party | ||
| @DPJHodges actually u are just a maverick who represents no serious current of political opinion | ||
| @DPJHodges but don't go round claiming to represent Blairites or the Labour right if u r offside on defence of our country | ||
| @DPJHodges I'm actually disgusted u would try to use my job against me in a political argument | ||
| @DPJHodges your insinuation is as though I had claimed u only advocate "No" because u were a paid consultant to them | ||
| @DPJHodges you just failed the key test of political seriousness. Trident replacement is the acid test of soundness. | ||
| @DPJHodges @markfergusonuk @nickbent @wesstreeting @samtarry dan what is it u would be offering that wasn't what the Tories were? | ||
| @jpjanson @Ed_Miliband November 2014: https://t.co/xZq7UTf4zu | ||
| @jpjanson @Ed_Miliband March 2015: https://t.co/rIvwYlCcGK | ||
| @jpjanson another one? When was the first? And how would I stage it - l'm not an MP? | ||
| @DPJHodges @Markfergusonuk @nickbent @wesstreeting @samtarry and we will have a vision for rebuilding services | ||
| My Labourlist column https://t.co/L4wa77rOb3 | ||
| @borispomroy @dpjhodges @Markfergusonuk I'm at a work event so not joined in | ||
| @OwenJones84 @jreynoldsMP @KatieCurtis I go to lots LP mtgs + never heard single member endorse Peter and Dan's position on accept cuts | ||
| @AAttfield @michael_chessum @Maomentum_ @PeoplesMomentum in the case of Suffragettes and Tulpuddle the then laws had no democratic mandate | ||
| @SteveAkehurst @JohnRentoul @nadiakhomami it's silly - attempting to take a US measure and apply it to UK where there is a rigid whip system | ||
| Jobs going if you would like to work at @BritainIsrael with me https://t.co/q78FxgsWJ2 | ||
| @Sagger10000 @britainelects I retweet every local council byelection result. I would never "celebrate" anything other than a Labour win. | ||
| Or for balance on NEC and someone fighting for a Labour Party that reconnects with voters' priorities, nominate me. https://t.co/SY8i3uGVgp | ||
| @KirkTiger @LabourEoin eh? I retweet every poll - look at my timeline last night. | ||
| @foodleedskidstv @DPJHodges we were 10% ahead when these council seats were last fought in May 2012 | ||
| Back in 2011 I argued vs Dan that 8% poll lead was enough 4 Lab victory in 2015. I was wrong, he was right. https://t.co/xxSxZJgPdD | ||
| @stfumikey pleasing but we need to be 20% ahead now to win in 2020 | ||
| @MatthewRavenhil he isn't | ||
| @peopleman44 fine. I disagree. | ||
| @peopleman44 I am running on a platform that the party needs to move back to the centre ground to win in 2020 | ||
| @peopleman44 if I disagree with him I will say so. | ||
| @peopleman44 no | ||
| @SirBasilBrush no | ||
| Wow. So proud of borough where I was cllr. Couldn't have dreamed of this transformation in '90s https://t.co/2lQ2sNSCN4 | ||
| Looking forward to #labourdoorstep tonight with our @MarstonLabour council candidates | ||
| This is a classic of its genre. https://t.co/SWdRKtRUod | ||
| @richarddlewis done | ||
| @frank9648 @LabourList those are policies not rules | ||
| @DPJHodges we both know the stance needed to win Tory switchers back in South but doesn't help get there if u do Private Fraser act "doomed | ||
| @IntJewCon not sure there is great value in tweeting admonishments at ppl like Chuka & Yvette who are already fighting direction party going | ||
| @AndrewBoff be interesting to see how she squares that w threats to defy whip + vote 4 a no cuts budget only 2 mths ago | ||
| @Spetmologer @britainelects https://t.co/9sU0CRvbEr | ||
| @adamwisdish95 yep send me an email and will reply w details | ||
| @adamwisdish95 yes. Deadline to submit rule changes from CLPs is 24 June. | ||
| @davesmith_109 no | ||
| @adamwisdish95 no it would need a rule change not a resolution | ||
| @adamwisdish95 Woking lady was never expelled, just suspended as candidate. | ||
| @adamwisdish95 it could. Currently exclusions are for 5 years and then reviewed if you apply to come back in. 9 | ||
| Jules Pipe "I pay tribute to council officers at time Eric Pickles denigrating public servants | ||
| @Tory_Hater @wildernessyrs fight him again the next year. | ||
| @AWatkins2007 I'm not suggesting right now, nor is anyone. We have local elections to fight. | ||
| Very strong speech at national #standwithisrael rally by @joanryanEnfield https://t.co/lIUenlpa9Y | ||
| On way to Hackney Council AGM to see Susan Thomas become new Speaker of Hackney | ||
| Delighted to have been nominated for NEC tonight by both my home CLP Oxford East and neighbouring Oxford W & Abingdon CLP. | ||
| Heading to @Oxford_Labour AGM | ||
| @Paul_Burgin @JohnRentoul @stephenkb that's a red herring as Corbyn would easily get 50+ MPs to nominate him now as incumbent | ||
| @JohnRentoul @stephenkb not necessarily true if a candidate can recruit as many new members & supporters as Corbyn did. | ||
| For someone who wasn't Labour for 25 years Serwotka seems to know a lot about our selection process. | ||
| @WTarbiat about the same. Only 1 CLP that nominated me in 2014 has not this time. | ||
| @Saggydaddy @Paul_Burgin that's correct. London & West Midlands are at opposite ends of spectrum of extreme left activity. | ||
| Wow. Made the big league of conspiracy theories. https://t.co/RElFHOWBrW | ||
| @HuwJonesLabour you think it is good for Labour's reputation if he was just allowed to be a member? | ||
| @HuwJonesLabour several quoted here: https://t.co/DOawfWeA6Q | ||
| @lewis_baston ah you see I want a powerful senate that challenges Commons as I don't like way Commons is elected | ||
| @Steve_Cooke same website: https://t.co/suRUPjhwA0 | ||
| @ssalvara @carbonlogix Corbyn is on NEC and the inner NEC Officers Group which can take urgent action in real time between meetings | ||
| @HuwJonesLabour in this case his allegations were a) serious about alleged antisemitism b) upheld as person concerned expelled tonight | ||
| @CEandDLabour @ParmjitDhanda @BexBailey6 @elliereeves thank you | ||
| @HuwJonesLabour I've stated where I stand. If you don't like it don't vote for it but it needs to be on offer. | ||
| @HuwJonesLabour honesty | ||
| @MosesBrox @LeaningLeft46 @_beccawright @GuidoFawkes please stay and fight. Don't let these people win. | ||
| If only Bevin was still leading his union, TGWU, now Unite. https://t.co/gnicT7shsC | ||
| @pete_eastwood @JWoodcockMP @MrTCHarris let's not prempt the ballot. | ||
| More unhealthy obsession with "Zionists" from campus left: https://t.co/PfrIRLNokP | ||
| Quite aside from his repugnant views he is actually leader of what appears to be a (tiny) rival Trotskyist party https://t.co/4yJPeE9pjc | ||
| @RossFootball Brent Central. Remind me who lives there? | ||
| @lewis_baston Surely the 15 year term is nonsense and not v democratic? 6 yrs like US Senate more reasonable. | ||
| @MarkHemi82 they won't be able to deselect MPs either. It's all hot air. | ||
| According to this incisive blog @ProgressOnline & @labour_first control the NEC. Wow. https://t.co/JUy3j3xpsr | ||
| To change rules left need to win at conference. Evidence so far is they are not winning conference delegate elections. | ||
| More accurate headline would be "try to tighten grip". These rule changes are eminently stoppable. https://t.co/VvuNH8dsyR | ||
| @DorsetRachel he's not a Labour member | ||
| I don't think he likes the PLP. https://t.co/1llF0KG2tg | ||
| @DamianGannon there's a mix of positions among the 12 TU ppl on NEC. Only a few are committed Corbynistas. | ||
| @DamianGannon they are elected by block vote at annual conference, nominated by union national executives. | ||
| @GraySergeant it probably can. | ||
| @richarddlewis it will have been a small panel not the whole NEC | ||
| This is getting ridiculous: https://t.co/5bILP2w5Zz | ||
| Really proud to have backed @SadiqKhan in the mayoral selection. He is proving to be a great candidate. https://t.co/LMOrYcGALU | ||
| @rob_francis drop me an email & will introduce you to the organisers | ||
| @Saggydaddy I'd love to come and speak so next time round in 2018 your CLP will know I am actually rather consensual and fluffy... | ||
| @Saggydaddy well as long as you nominated moderates I'm happy. It's about the team not me. | ||
| @Doilum Trotskyists didn't agree w Stalin's concept of socialism in 1 country. Most support entryism into centre left parties. | ||
| Thankfully some Trots are being expelled. And are whining about it. https://t.co/kw8sl6qqZ0 | ||
| Serwotka earns £92k a year. PCS funds down from £12m to 6m. Auditors concerned PCS may stop being a going concern: https://t.co/pmolVHkqZK | ||
| @hanifleylabi @wesstreeting no it should only be used when somone is a Trotskyist. Serwotka was expelled for being one. | ||
| My platform 4 NEC includes making it as difficult as possible 4 Trots like Serwotka to join Labour or deselect hard-working MPs. | ||
| @Phillip_D_Jones @jessphillips @DorsetRachel @guardian @SundayTimesNews that would be easier if he stopped saying divisive things | ||
| @scottr0gers @RichardAngell @Conorpope @jimwaterson yes as a Unite member I expect our delegates to vote for moderates in AEEU tradition | ||
| @WildColoniaIBoy at moment we are in nomination stage. CLP meetings are nominating candidates for this summer's ballot. | ||
| @WildColoniaIBoy at the moment CLP meetings are voting who to nominate for the ballot this summer | ||
| It is quite difficult to debate with people who spout evidence-free balderdash https://t.co/XqcmPwcXH6 | ||
| @earthygirl01 @actormanager my agenda is to restore moderate control of both Unite and the Labour Party. | ||
| @earthygirl01 @actormanager both. | ||
| @_Weekender_ I disagree with which side they organised on. I want unions to return to traditional role on right of Labour Party. | ||
| @_Weekender_ it backed a hard left candidate | ||
| @earthygirl01 @actormanager it is a fact that Unite supported hard left candidate for NEC Youth Rep. I disagree with that stance. | ||
| @rickmuir1 or "Dear Prime Minister" is generally considered manners when writing to PM | ||
| @bartoncreeth no. TGWU was right until late 50s then left. Amicus was on right until Derek Simpson beat Ken Jackson. | ||
| @dsquareddigest @dlandoncole well I'm going to. Don't follow me if you don't like it. | ||
| @dsquareddigest @dlandoncole but certainly there were cases of sectarian behaviour by Blairites while Blair was leader if that's your point | ||
| @dsquareddigest @dlandoncole why? | ||
| @dsquareddigest @dlandoncole no sectarian is about the behaviour not the popularity level | ||
| I think I need to get back on the NEC. Would have something to add to meetings like this. https://t.co/5KtumhEA23 | ||
| Heading home after debating Trident vs @joshchown at @KCLLabour | ||
| @wesstreeting NB Labour's NPF voted for 100pc elected Lords. Hope Labour MPs will listen to view of wider party. | ||
| @Steve_Cooke you mean @labour_first | ||
| @jamesgoldstone ah I see. | ||
| @jamesgoldstone I'm not sure, there were contradictory regional swings in last General Election | ||
| @dis_politics yes but that's not a matter for the NEC as not internal to Labour Party | ||
| @dis_politics yes but that's not a matter for the NEC as not internal to Labour Party | ||
| @dats done | ||
| @finance_LL surely Bernie is a bit rightwing for you? He'd be in @labour_first if he was here. | ||
| I am not allowed to disparage rival NEC candidates so tweeting this logic without comment https://t.co/69i0QEIpGa | ||
| @finance_LL no I have never done any election campaigning in USA. Maybe I am just jealous. | ||
| Shouldn't they be prioritising fighting local elections vs Tories here over an internal primary in USA? https://t.co/datwzM0NK7 | ||
| @IsabelHardman maybe this is an opportunity to ask @MichaelDugher to give back Crick's Militant & Brivatti's Gaitskell, "lent" in 1998... | ||
| @ElliotDugdale @jonlansman if someone had used antisemitic tropes I would consider rival candidates had a duty to expose that. | ||
| @jonlansman maybe you could try a more self-critical analysis of why you just lost a key election. | ||
| Among other things, this article demands the NEC overturn an election result & decide its own future youth member. https://t.co/s4cOJNGhSo | ||
| @JerryHicksUnite for someone who aspires to lead @unitetheunion you could try defending jobs of our fellow members at Barrow, Derby etc | ||
| @RachieJ40 @steveyemm Bennites invented Hard/Soft Left labels as a way of insulting the "soft left" so quit whinging. | ||
| @RachieJ40 @steveyemm I would expect you to understand standard Labour descriptions in use since 1980s. | ||
| @rob_francis decision of annual conference. No it won't happen to Momentum. Currently applies to Militant & Socialist Organiser. | ||
| @rebecca_moore_ is that the publication that doesn't seem to understand difference between Labour Students & Young Labour national cttees? | ||
| Very good news https://t.co/8mrvuRwmWd | ||
| @GawainKeates @enttruth @spellar @KevanJonesMP I was alive during the Cold War so of course I know | ||
| @GawainKeates @enttruth @spellar @SocialistAct I look forward 2 them denouncing Trotsky, Lenin, use of violence, dictatorship of proletariat | ||
| Important to note that throughout 1980s Militant held Youth Rep on NEC. The hard left failed to retake that bastion yesterday. | ||
| @nytamann the OMOV voting for NEC is in July so please hang on in there! | ||
| @NHC75 2 union delegates. | ||
| @alildn400 @nytamann @MichaelDugher unfortunately winning the internal fight against Hard Left is precondition of electability | ||
| @alildn400 @nytamann @MichaelDugher it's a constant battle. We will win eventually though as moderate are closer to British public. | ||
| @_Weekender_ @feedthedrummer @Jasmin_Beckett the NEC has no role in triggering a leadership challenge. MPs do. | ||
| @alildn400 @nytamann @MichaelDugher no every 2 years | ||
| @nytamann @MichaelDugher slate is me, @JohannaBaxter @elliereeves @ParmjitDhanda @BexBailey6 @PWheeler56 . Eddie is running independently. | ||
| @_Weekender_ @feedthedrummer @Jasmin_Beckett no idea. Ask her. | ||
| @davesmith_109 about 120. But you can do a lot wish 120 fanatical and well organised people. | ||
| @GeorgeAylett @_josephbarnes no I know you are not. But you should have zero tolerance of AWL, Socialist Action, Socialist Appeal. | ||
| @RossFootball it didn't disband. Just deregistered and resumed entryism. It's website is full of current content and activity. | ||
| @the_awakend no I was a Cllr in South, a member in North | ||
| @the_awakend if you can't pass a CND motion in Hackney North then you really would have a problem. | ||
| The problem is that some Corbynites (not all) ARE Trots - literally Trotskyist entryists not democratic socialists https://t.co/QkRdTTK9HJ | ||
| If that's their largest rally no wonder I missed the smaller ones happening... https://t.co/rFJNneO0Ae | ||
| So what? 75% of public disagree. https://t.co/YO2ViFIFjs | ||
| @the_awakend also intrigued to know why you are bringing @labour_first into this issue? | ||
| @the_awakend let's wait for outcome of party investigation before proclaiming whether the allegations are true or false. | ||
| @the_awakend the allegations of antisemitism are being invesigated by Labour Party & were made by Jewish Students at the uni. | ||
| 10/10 for honesty https://t.co/c9Ro1xxHeJ | ||
| @KyeDudd you don't know me very well if you don't think I am campaigning for May (not least as my wife is up for re-election as a cllr). | ||
| @KyeDudd eh? In what sense? | ||
| @JuniorCelente you need to read this: https://t.co/nocjSTTP5w | ||
| @JuniorCelente @MrTCHarris I'm revolted that you would smear either Israel or its supporters as backing apartheid. You just called us racist | ||
| @JuniorCelente @MrTCHarris @Telegraph Mandela also endorsed Zionism as the national liberation movement of the Jewish people | ||
| This is just blatant voter-suppression like the Republicans do in USA. Disgraceful. https://t.co/FCst3SPCum | ||
| @election_data @taerri @Conorpope for a start 100,000 corbynite members would have resigned | ||
| Thank you Runneymede & Weybridge CLP for nominating me for NEC tonight | ||
| @Harryb22 @election_data @UKLabour there should always be a Labour candidate. You should stand if no one else will. | ||
| This makes me feel ill. https://t.co/ZZ3EXQtjxG | ||
| @matthewfelgate @JoshKeeling94 maybe, but it will take years longer if good people don't stay in and fight. | ||
| @AgainstHunting @BritainIsrael @Jsorene @TimesofIsrael BICOM supports creation of a Palestinian state as part of two state solution | ||
| Flying back from Tel Aviv. Good trip to Israel even if the weather was a bit more like London than I would like... | ||
| @NEWTEKWORLDNEWS @Karendarlau @joannesinton1 did u say same when left NEC members disagreed with Blair? | ||
| @feedthedrummer I believe some of their current most active cadres will eventually switch sides | ||
| @feedthedrummer But there was big shift of younger Bennites to being Kinnockites then Blairites - journey taken by Hewitt, Milburn, Byers | ||
| @FinnBrennan right now they are, as evidenced by Corbyn doing better at OMOV stage than in CLP nomination meetings. | ||
| Whole premise of OMOV introduction in 90s was passive members were more representative of voters than activists who attended mtgs were. | ||
| One thought re @election_data poll - is this 1st time in Labour history that activists who campaign r to right of passive/paper members? | ||
| @GrahamCunning12 @election_data this one: https://t.co/4xtJ6bZNjs | ||
| Where discourse on my NEC candidacy is at: "so do we want Israel influence in the NEC". Wow. https://t.co/TufzXXGKZC | ||
| Without comment https://t.co/ioa8DrdK6o | ||
| @Martin_SE5 the candidates they have endorsed. It's like a straw poll of the most active members. | ||
| @Martin_SE5 the number of nominations is published in the candidate booklet sent to members, some CLPs encourage members to vote for ... | ||
| Thank you Barnsley East CLP for being my 10th NEC nomination tonight! | ||
| @stephenkb think that means they have done the maths and expect to lose NEC Youth Rep | ||
| @georgedowns @MarxistStudent @JonathanRWarner @JohnPReid conferences in 20s voted several times to refuse affiliation bids by CPGB | ||
| @georgedowns @MarxistStudent @JonathanRWarner @JohnPReid conference voted to proscribe Militant & Socialist Organiser | ||
| @LifeofOpuscula @theobertram yes. Results were mixed across regions but v good for moderates in London which has most delegates. | ||
| @georgedowns @JonathanRWarner @JohnPReid @MarxistStudent Militant represents a different ideology from Labour's democratic socialism | ||
| Thank you! https://t.co/DHpS2HcCWW | ||
| @JWoodcockMP and because they can be destroyed by a preemptive strike unlike subs, they don't deter & encourage an enemy attack | ||
| @gotoutb4gove @JewishNewsUK explained here: https://t.co/QipoiGsDst | ||
| This guy is running for @LabourStudents National Committee. I am not sure he is a Labour supporter .... https://t.co/8Ksopjn3Y7 | ||
| Needs reading https://t.co/uQtdSsFfPm | ||
| @Paul_Burgin @JohannaBaxter @AlanOlive1 no | ||
| @Chordiegurl @holland_tom @adrianmcmenamin @razanadim @HarasRafiq @MPACUK 120,000 deaths both sides combined since 1948 | ||
| @iMcKenzied @Delna_42 no you have to recruit 200000 new members just like he did last summer | ||
| @holland_tom @adrianmcmenamin @razanadim @HarasRafiq @MPACUK the allegation that Israel has killed more people than ISIS is nonsense | ||
| @david_taylor congratulations David and commisserations to @TalMichael | ||
| Pleased to hear I was nominated for Labour's NEC by Ispwich CLP last night! https://t.co/pZdJLPvLXI | ||
| @JohnRoss43 @haasbenjamin it's hardly rigging! Senior politicians have votes at convention as superdelegates & they back HRC. Good 4 her! | ||
| @FinnBrennan we should have kept the electoral college so that PLP and TUs had a 1/3 say alongside members | ||
| John Golding would doubtless be delighted that he is still annoying the left even 16 years after he died. https://t.co/uwT7PVHBzv | ||
| RIP Holborn Labour stalwart Irene Wagner: https://t.co/cfSxxgQsIF | ||
| @DanWalshie @JohannaBaxter @ParmjitDhanda @elliereeves @PWheeler56 thank you | ||
| @kindofwater no it was what I expected. Over engineered. Why does an internal party network need such complex structures? | ||
| @kindofwater no we have managed 27 years with only one leak in 1991. Prefer to keep private meetings private. | ||
| Having a unilateralist as shadow defence secretary is as daft as having someone who doesn't believe in the NHS as shadow health secretary | ||
| @RossFootball Jill Mountford | ||
| @WalkerSah @AlanOlive1 the slate I am on! | ||
| Unhappy about Labour's direction? 1) Get elected as a CLP delegate to conference 2) get your CLP to nominate moderate NEC candidates | ||
| @gsoh31 it's usually a good idea if plans are not in the public domain | ||
| Sounds fun https://t.co/rQVTvWQ1xT | ||
| @BristolRed what's making ppl say that? It's in the Council of Europe and geographically all former USSR west of urals in Europe | ||
| @TheDecider25 I am. | ||
| @TheDecider25 I have 8000 followers. That's not going to impact the General Election result. And I will be saying same things in 2020. | ||
| @maxshanly @ronanburtenshaw @apdmurray @jacobinmag I will read it | ||
| @maxshanly @ronanburtenshaw @apdmurray @jacobinmag I thought Comrade Murray was in CPB so none of his business who leads Labour? | ||
| @hazmatt72 @SamPritchard that's what a "given" is. you don't need to state it. I suggest you look back at what I was tweeting during the GE. | ||
| @eddie_1955 @MichaelDugher @tobyperkinsmp we need to campaign all out for Labour wins in May & then judge whether JC can win a GE or not | ||
| @AndKiely he was a Bennite not a Trot | ||
| @PaulDBrant it is on her Twitter profile. Yes people expelled very recently for AWL membership, reported in national press. | ||
| Looks like AWL/Socialist Organiser doing well in internal war with CLPD and Socialist Action to control Momentum. | ||
| Anti-Labour credentials of newly elected Momentum steering cttee member: https://t.co/1OPfSXHdbb | ||
| Gosh. https://t.co/pI59bMq3Ud | ||
| @RodneyBates1 you mean @labour_first | ||
| @RF_McCarthy @election_data @sundersays @rafaelbehr @jessicaelgot there's a new NEC Panel looking at Brum selections again | ||
| @RF_McCarthy @election_data @sundersays @rafaelbehr @jessicaelgot I was part of NEC panel in Brum in 2012 that enforced AWS in that round | ||
| Interesting phrasing given disparity between political approach of JC and moderate-led Labour councils https://t.co/wTkFyUAzr5 | ||
| @LabourCllrs @LGA_Labour @tom_watson does ALC have a draft rule change CLPs can pass re more cllrs on NEC and NPF? | ||
| I think we are interested in this. I tried to answer even b4 we lost: https://t.co/QrfNOmFnAy https://t.co/mff6kXevOQ | ||
| @rob_francis oh! Shows how little I am following this debate.... oops. | ||
| @rob_francis who is that? | ||
| 10 people in audience incl photographer? https://t.co/nbQI7wqEMV | ||
| @OwenJones84 @robfordmancs @GeneralBoles or you can inspire a new membership to join (which was big part of how JC won) | ||
| @ashmcgregor it's west of urals so in Europe geographically (and as tonight showed, culturally) | ||
| @elliereeves @JohannaBaxter less a movement, more a line to take | ||
| Dear Nick, inequality is injustice now if u don't get the income u need for decent life or a fair reward for your work | ||
| Have voted for Moldova. First time I have ever voted in Eurovision. | ||
| @Argue_mentalist @johnmcternan @politicshome I would be very happy to but not many deep sea ports in Oxfordshire | ||
| @timsykes3 @conradlandin it was endorsed at our annual meeting | ||
| @conradlandin yes | ||
| @Udders38 @antoniabance the district cllrs are the backbone of Tory canvassing & would drop out of activity if not cllrs | ||
| @Udders38 @antoniabance the main reason (told me by Eric Pickles) is they don't want to lose the hundreds of district cllrs ... | ||
| @Sarah_Hayward @antoniabance @Udders38 we had timid approach of asking for volunteers then rejecting places like Oxford that wanted it | ||
| @conradlandin Johanna wasn't on any slate in 2012 when she won outright (we ran me, Ellie, Peter, Ruth Smeeth, Florence N, Jo Milligan) | ||
| @Udders38 @antoniabance bizarre that with huge cuts govt hasn't made obvious saving of abolishing two tier local govt | ||
| @peopleman44 @antoniabance city of Oxford doesn't elect single Tory to county but still gets a Tory county council | ||
| @conradlandin don't forget the other Luke (Cresswell) | ||
| @MaryWimbury for activists of a certain age this means everything. If only we had someone like him now. | ||
| That moment when Neil Kinnock puts an NEC endorsement quote in the comments on your blog. | ||
| @JonnyWmusic @grolschevik @ExSpAd @kottwitz Kerensky opposed the Whites and the Bolsheviks | ||
| @grolschevik @JonnyWmusic @ExSpAd @kottwitz led by this fine socialist who the Bolsheviks ousted: https://t.co/l5OvC0NCU5 | ||
| @JonnyWmusic @grolschevik @ExSpAd @kottwitz the Bolsheviks overthrew a democratic & mainly socialist provisional govt, Tsar was long gone | ||
| @grolschevik @ExSpAd @kottwitz @JonnyWmusic the October Revolution | ||
| @rob_francis well spotted, will change! Nominations at CLPs now, OMOV in July. | ||
| @ExSpAd yes is going to be long haul back | ||
| @ExSpAd @ThurrockPolly which would require a rule change at conference. Which is why small victories to elect CLP delegates are vital. | ||
| .@LabLinda75 in the news https://t.co/oFP7DfCOrL | ||
| Convinced opinion polls are wrong? You can join Yougov's panel here and be counted in their polls: https://t.co/uvalVTDKLm | ||
| @frozenwarning no I am a former member of exec of Labour Campaign for Electoral Reform | ||
| Day off work spent getting new lighter ankle orthotics at Homerton Hospital, catching up on Contact.Creator data entry... | ||
| @doylematthew @maxshanly it wouldn't even give it to them. They would just be 6 votes out of 33. | ||
| @maxshanly surely if she was a careerist she'd be sucking up to Corbyn and supporting his proposals? | ||
| @SBuckinghamUK @maxshanly @guardian not just smaller, far tinier proportion of CLP reps on NEC than NPF or conference | ||
| @maxshanly you are confusing the two functions of debating policy (needs many ppl) and taking executive decisions on organisational matters | ||
| @maxshanly you should join Labour First, was in our Collins submission to have 12 CLP reps elected regionally | ||
| I can only hope China will be consistent and allow the creation of a free, democratic Tibetan state. https://t.co/dzHVPHJnkx | ||
| @garypepworth no it delayed the change by removing some of the moderates' forces | ||
| @Markfergusonuk good decision by them and you | ||
| @the_awakend @paulwaugh hang about, I didn't support the candidate who got 4.5%. | ||
| @revdkath @Crashed7 @philbc3 sure. We will be back. | ||
| @revdkath @Crashed7 @philbc3 they never accepted it before. There's always a battle over direction of party. | ||
| @MnWthtQualities @patrickwintour the data suggests Corbyn also got support from rich middle aged people | ||
| Rumoured these 44 Lambeth Momentumites include members of 16 different left of Labour parties. Maybe some Labour members to? | ||
| People slagging off Newham Labour when it has delivered massive regeneration, quality services & big cut deprivation https://t.co/ZRfKymKzo6 | ||
| @hollygirl133 @GawainKeates @RichardCotton10 @jhallwood I prefer to trust former Labour defence secretaries to former Tory ones | ||
| @PolskiHipis surely people who voted JC were expecting him to take us into a poll lead? | ||
| One of the Paris restaurants @LabLinda75 and I went to on our honeymoon. Memorable! https://t.co/Yvt5CEEUut | ||
| @DWPscumbags which has turned out not to be a great idea | ||
| @PeterKenyon @LabourFirst @KingsleyAbrams @DanaCarlin1 @jonlansman you mean @labour_first | ||
| @jonlansman no my loyalty is to the party and its ability to win elections. If Corbyn's was he would resign. | ||
| @DanaCarlin1 @jonlansman it is a necessary condition of beating Tories that he ceases to be leader | ||
| @Phillip_D_Jones @jonlansman I would still disagree with him and would still campaign for Labour | ||
| @Phillip_D_Jones @jonlansman of course they should vote Labour. | ||
| @jonlansman think it is very important there is a new leadership vote this summer to test if he still has a "mandate" now seen in action | ||
| @jonlansman I called for the leader to be sacked last week after the reshuffle | ||
| @WarmongerHodges @jonlansman obviously I want to get rid of him, but will continue to support and campaign for Labour in interim | ||
| @maxshanly @jonlansman that's how politics works - compromises in interests of unity and building a coalition big enough to win the country | ||
| @SeemaChandwani @philbc3 no | ||
| @jonlansman that remains my starting point. He has to earn continued loyalty by not doing or saying bad things. | ||
| @suebrazier @IanWoodland I think you mean "only half". | ||
| @MartynC86 no we follow polls when they are consistent with Labour values, which should include strong national defence | ||
| @MartynC86 yes because unlike national security it is unlikely to affect their propensity to vote Labour | ||
| @paddyjpf92 @robfordmancs that spending is a total figure over 50 years, not cash available now | ||
| Shouldn't be a surprise we are 11% behind when our leader believes in nonsense like unilateralism which hardly any voters support. | ||
| @magneticsparrow thanks! | ||
| Already in the West Midlands, Labour's soundest region #Lab1st2016 | ||
| @Conorpope @CllrBGentry is correct, has to be declared by cllrs just like membership of Fabians, GMB, RAC or WI | ||
| @rob_marchant @nextleft why wd anyone sensible praise Lansbury when Poplarism applied now wd mean councils setting illegal budgets? | ||
| @rob_marchant @nextleft why is Blue Labour, which wants to laud the Flag and working class patriotism, praising a pacifist? | ||
| @RooftopJaxx he wasn't advertised as speaking | ||
| @MarpleLeaf @NoraMulready that's how General Elections work ... | ||
| Let's hope this solidarity extends to GMB & Unite members whose jobs depend on Trident https://t.co/CWQSJkO6uW | ||
| @NoraMulready my takeaway would be only 30 attendees so anyone who can organise 31 allies can run the CLP | ||
| Thinking of wonderful family friend David Ashworth & sons, inquest today confirmed he died saving my sister's life. https://t.co/VBezyD5boc | ||
| @feedthedrummer @steamedhamms https://t.co/11NfCB7kOB | ||
| @LabLinda75 did you know it was #KissAGingerDay ? | ||
| We'll see about that. https://t.co/ru5v9fkZnz | ||
| @davidbrede @RichardCotton10 @PaulSandars @steveyemm you don't think MoD constantly reviews that? | ||
| @grassrootslabou @JohnRentoul @IndyVoices I work with them, good organisation w positive role. I'm from overlapping but different current. | ||
| @grassrootslabou @JohnRentoul @IndyVoices no idea, I don't represent Progress | ||
| @davidbrede @PaulSandars @steveyemm no it is deterring any hostile powers that arise during next 40 years from nuking the UK. | ||
| This year, the constituency delegates are also likely to be more strongly opposed to Trident." Not necessarily! https://t.co/a5Xmvd6o1h | ||
| Would GMB sue/injunct Labour to stop Corbyn doing an outside the rules ballot on Trident which excluded TUs from policy decision? | ||
| Interested to know how the CND logos play with workers at Rolls-Royce Derby which makes engines for Vanguard subs https://t.co/VJnYCn76as | ||
| @Calderbank @conradlandin does that make it ok? Generally history has proved conference was right. | ||
| @conradlandin and nothing in it was contentious - it was a media stunt not a way of resolving a dispute over a policy division | ||
| @conradlandin it was agreed by NEC only on proviso it did not supercede conference decisions | ||
| @ibatten @SallyPrentice Blair didn't. His kids went to the Oratory, a state Catholic comprehensive | ||
| Sorry will not save Labour: http://lukeakehurst.blogspot.com/2009/12/sorry-will-not-save-us.html | ||
| @class_bore @MichaelDugher those are quotes from Ken, not insults about him | ||
| @WarmongerHodges @JWoodcockMP no, they just employ large numbers of his constituents & MP needs to fight for their local economy | ||
| @WarmongerHodges sadly arms manufacturers don't pay me anything. | ||
| @WarmongerHodges no it won't happen because the threat of doing it is a deterrent | ||
| @WarmongerHodges @nickpdonovan we are a bigger geopolitical player than any of those countries - creates enemies | ||
| @WarmongerHodges @nickpdonovan three of those countries happy to rely on USA. We are not due to experience of unreliable allies in early WW2 | ||
| @MikeJack41 no thanks | ||
| @GraysPsephology not guilty - see my 2003 letter vs re-admission: https://t.co/CNvBfU3fPR | ||
| @AMoveToTheLeft @kinsman_a @MrTCHarris @MrHarryCole coordinates and ballistic missiles existed before satellites & GPS did | ||
| @CRawlinson87 we need to get rid of him or get him to radically change his politics to have any chance to beat the Tories | ||
| @CRawlinson87 but yes I am running on a platform of opposition to the direction Corbyn wants to take the party in | ||
| @CRawlinson87 presumed I am followed by people who are all already anti-Tory like me and don't need to read tweets about it | ||
| @Bickerrecord our annual meeting is always in West Midlands | ||
| @Bickerrecord we will lose the General Election even more badly | ||
| @Bickerrecord removing pro renewal defence spokes. Also triggered Kevan Jones resignation as #2 in MoD team | ||
| @Bickerrecord @labour_first no, didn't say that, the Maria Eagle demotion was though | ||
| @Bickerrecord you mean @labour_first | ||
| @AMoveToTheLeft @MrTCHarris @MrHarryCole that is factually untrue. They don't use GPS or any other US controlled guidance. | ||
| It's difficult to know where to start with this tweet... https://t.co/d3ixcqpWjA | ||
| My meteoric rise through Labour's ranks continues - elected as Branch Secretary of Greater Marston Labour tonight. Great, comradely AGM. | ||
| @RichardHorton2 @DPJHodges yes I was trying to avoid hyperbole. 150 MPs feels optimistic. | ||
| @wildernessyrs @GraysPsephology he and Blair should focus on specific task of persuading Blairites to rejoin party so they can vote | ||
| Wow this is quite a read: https://t.co/RIA9sOjXNX | ||
| @DFosterEvans @liamjlhill I was using it in original Roman sense of a 10% loss | ||
| @TheDecider25 Cooper hasn't commented since her defeat | ||
| @liamjlhill I was anxious to avoid accusations of hyperbole | ||
| @TheDecider25 errm I didn't vote for the Blairite candidate. | ||
| Sensible call by John Denham for unity, but is anyone around Corbyn listening? https://t.co/vHXeKIhOpc | ||
| @GeorgeAylett democracy doesn't mean you have one election and then can never reverse it | ||
| @TimTim1981 I really don't mind as long as they reunify the party | ||
| @StuartWheeler28 @GeorgeAylett the deputy is great, he should stay. | ||
| @Odbe34 @Robert58585858 @GeorgeAylett I think someone should put up. I would if I was an MP. | ||
| @GeorgeAylett yes but it turns out he is not much good at the job | ||
| @spike_humphrey @peteyvv the insult was "soft left" - contrasting "hard left" implied solidity/consistency | ||
| @Stoicalist @DPJHodges which can change as dramatically as it did in June/July last year | ||
| @AndreaDudding @JeremyCorbyn4PM @nathanakehurst different Akehurst wrote that | ||
| @LukemCresswell no she wasn't my candidate. | ||
| @petedigger yes I have a Latin GCSE so I was using decimate correctly to indicate 10% loses. Didn't want accusations of hyperbole. | ||
| @adamwisdish95 paging @JWoodcockMP | ||
| @Markfergusonuk @KarimPalant you've lost me there | ||
| @drjennings @robfordmancs @IsabelHardman through mass recruitment. Next leader will be person who can recruit 200,000 £3 moderates | ||
| Doesn't Corbyn know I've got a @labour_first bulletin to send out that I can't complete until I know the full absurdity of the reshuffle? | ||
| @J_VoiceUK @OpenLabour you mean @labour_first | ||
| @ElliotDugdale sadly I am not an MP so can't initiate a challenge. I hope others do. | ||
| A lot more working class people think like & relate to ppl like Dugher than they do ppl like Corbyn. https://t.co/TojhjbelDD | ||
| @ChrispLOL @Paul_Burgin yes it is very unusual having a contrarian as leader. | ||
| @Discworld101 no that's me being polite and restrained | ||
| @Paul_Burgin @JadeFrancesAzim I doubt some of them ever met anyone working class | ||
| @Phillip_D_Jones @RichardAngell @Aminurahman @LabourList leader's office spin. Trying to intimidate PLP a la Admiral Byng. | ||
| @ivorcaplin think you meant @labour_first | ||
| @SocialDemSheff he has a marginal seat so he won't be an MP if we go backwards in 2020 | ||
| @Xinuafc Corbyn forgot foreign policy is supposed to be bipartisan | ||
| @conradlandin @suttonnick @SamCoatesTimes wow if this has been the diplomatic phase time to get popcorn in for the move to confrontation... | ||
| Revealing. https://t.co/U8s9YrR0DP | ||
| @TheDecider25 we spend slightly more - $62bn vs $53bn per year for slightly wider range of conventional capabilities | ||
| @cllrtrisosborne too true, and between them the weathervane of the nation. | ||
| I wonder which part of "you lost the priority ballot on Trident at conference" some folk don't understand? | ||
| @TheDecider25 cost. French spend more because they are less closely allied to USA than we are & maybe also good 4 their industry. | ||
| @MrsBurgin we don't know. If there was a case for auto exclusion it would not have gone to a panel. | ||
| @MrsBurgin this "Corbyn supporting NEC" is a myth. Best case he can scrape a 17-16 majority. 4 of that 17 are Unite ... | ||
| @Gambl93 the Tories would shred any shadow minister who contradicted their own party policy on such a big issue. | ||
| If for instance Clive Lewis became Shadow Defence Secretary, he would have to articulate Labour's pro-Trident renewal policy. | ||
| @CRawlinson87 hi Chris I accidentally gave you wrong day for CLP AGM when nominations happen. Correct date is Fri 11 March. | ||
| @RachieJ40 @cristinaprkr @rightwayisleft @OwenJones84 the idea Hilary Benn is a neo con is absurd | ||
| @seantduffy @NiclasReddish @jruddy99 @tshep42 it wasn't the leader's prerogative until recently - was elected by PLP | ||
| @danielblaney for me, he can have promote another 3 from Campaign Group as long as they don't have foreign or defence portfolios | ||
| @alildn400 what can't go on? | ||
| @ChrispLOL @OwenJones84 Emily's perceived insult was to people in Kent so North/South isn't the issue | ||
| If Labour is to remain a broad church, our shadow cabinet needs to reflect that in its breadth. | ||
| Just reminder speculation is re sacking cuddly H Benn & soft left M Eagle, not raving Blairites or neo-cons, or even Bevin/Healey bruisers | ||
| @OwenJones84 @danjamlewis sacking Benn would cause the fatal split. Corbyn needs to compromise on these issues. | ||
| @rightwayisleft @OwenJones84 no I don't think the left should ever be allowed near foreign/defence portfolios in any circumstances. | ||
| @marbessa1 @OwenJones84 the media is rather important to winning elections | ||
| @danjamlewis @OwenJones84 he didn't. At most were half dozen convinced Blairites in his cabinets at any one time. | ||
| @frozenwarning @OwenJones84 yes. Yours, a bloke from Kent | ||
| @everton_de_leon no, for moderate trade union officials and cllrs. Not much time for liberal anyone, esp lawyers & journos. | ||
| @TomBeattie2010 @ronanburtenshaw the poverty of low expectations. We were 10% ahead at this point after previous GE. | ||
| @mark4thorne @Bryn__Phillips @paulwilkinson4 I'm not a Blairite or a Corbynite either, so snap. | ||
| @MattSingh_ @robfordmancs @wallaceme @HCH_Hill the rules the NEC had in 2012 would have avoided almost any full reselection contests | ||
| @PetersWooll @wesstreeting depends what that means. I am running on transparent platform that I disagree with his strategy of move leftwards | ||
| @ianrobo1 @natandoron @anthonypainter nothing to do with Puritanism, I'm a hedonist. just giving my liver a month to repair itself. | ||
| @IntJewCon @JHepplestone @KateVotesLabour so what are you going to do about changing it? | ||
| @ianrobo1 @natandoron @anthonypainter because it tastes nice? Can't imagine many foods without wine. | ||
| @natandoron @anthonypainter the opposite, I am a man of extremes. No booze in Jan, rather a lot the rest of the time. | ||
| @IntJewCon @JHepplestone @KateVotesLabour will be in a worse state if people don't fight back CLP by CLP. | ||
| @anthonypainter @natandoron no medically quite useful. Also tends to mean reduced booze in Feb/Mar due to lowered capacity to consume. | ||
| @IntJewCon @JHepplestone @KateVotesLabour The left hold the leader but haven't made further gains beyond that because ppl have fought back. | ||
| @IntJewCon @JHepplestone @KateVotesLabour surely it is about will you have done your bit to turn the party round? Can only be done inside. | ||
| @RobbieTravers @chrisrumfitt @KateVotesLabour don't dispute it's happening, but is an unhelpful response. | ||
| @RobbieTravers @chrisrumfitt @KateVotesLabour I disagree. Popular local MPs will be able to recruit to help defend from deselection. | ||
| @chrisrumfitt @KateVotesLabour in which case we need to be recruiting new members just like the left did last summer | ||
| @MikeCordingley I don't live in London | ||
| @jonlansman we have a similar record when it comes to OMOV ballots.... Happy New Year! | ||
| @HildaPalmer I think his image, rhetoric and foreign policy stances make us unelectable so stopping progress on social justice etc | ||
| @pollumbo I think I admitted that when I joined in 1988. | ||
| @220_d_92_20 @grahamemorris no one on front bench has rebelled. Syria was a free vote. | ||
| Happy to volunteer to replace anyone not up for the battles ahead. https://t.co/2VWIWLphlb | ||
| @Phillip_D_Jones @rebecca_moore_ I think she means canvassing not turning up at meetings | ||
| @Abernsmate101 @wildernessyrs @labour_first yesterday's debate. Party united in fighting it. | ||
| @Abernsmate101 @wildernessyrs that's why I run @labour_first | ||
| Merry Christmas! Signing off now as wine and tweeting don't mix... | ||
| I approve https://t.co/uqfGEmzAdI | ||
| @marcusaroberts why is anyone Labour giving him a platform? | ||
| @adamdfox useful but there are questions of scale. | ||
| @iMcKenzied it strikes me as absurd that anyone can wander round UK w no proof of right to be here | ||
| @tomneumark and I'm against it if it means double devolution and councils giving away powers | ||
| @tomneumark I'm in favour of empowering councils if that's what meant by localism but never met a voter who cares | ||
| @marcusaroberts not with him on that. State power packs a lot more punch than any other kind. Useful 4 all kindsa problems | ||
| @aidanskinner @DAaronovitch @nextleft agreed | ||
| @aidanskinner @DAaronovitch @nextleft obviously qualify my populism w some red lines on human rights and equality | ||
| @DPJHodges @nextleft and I believe likely to also appeal to working class voters we exist to represent | ||
| @DPJHodges @AndyCharlwood that's settled that then | ||
| @DAaronovitch surely the point about politics is we can't agree what the truths are? | ||
| @DAaronovitch my preferred method for robustness on immigration was ID cards. Guess back to drawing board on that one. | ||
| @DAaronovitch @nextleft we exist as a machine for getting power for the voters' ideas - not them as fodder for pushing through our ideas | ||
| @DPJHodges @AndyCharlwood prize for anyone who knows which former LP GS I was quoting then (note quoting not endorsing) | ||
| @DPJHodges @AndyCharlwood "policies don't win elections. Policies lose elections. Balloons and whirly hats win elections | ||
| @DPJHodges @AndyCharlwood doesn't everyone in country want good public services and a strong economy? It's convincing them to trust us | ||
| @DPJHodges @AndyCharlwood ... And refuse to accept we should triangulate as per Dan's prescription on core cuts battle ... | ||
| @DPJHodges @AndyCharlwood ... But I refuse to accept that we shouldn't also go after LD voters using other policy themes... | ||
| @Robert58585858 @LabourList actually no error, just South West header not in bold and with a line break above it. @Conorpope can u tidy? | ||
| @Robert58585858 @LabourList that's an error - will sort it and recalculate the averages | ||
| @steve_cov In the councils with new wards there are now 72 more Labour councillors than before, and six fewer Conservatives. | ||
| @steve_cov There were 837 Labour gains and 61 losses, not including the councils with new wards. The Tories had 657 gains and 641 losses. | ||
| @cllrtrisosborne @LabourList Labour Party's own national results monitoring sticks to primary authorities | ||
| @cllrtrisosborne @LabourList because parishes have so few powers, this 1 exception in being party political, 2 many to monitor | ||
| @cllrtrisosborne @LabourList St Austell is a town/parish council. My list is only primary authorities. | ||
| @iMcKenzied all the key wards went split | ||
| @peteyvv it takes a while to do! | ||
| @VeryBritishDude It gave me an answer I did like - BBC said Labour won by 2% nationally | ||
| We worked on squeezing LDs (canvass code S) and gertting them to switch (code Wr) as well as Tory switchers (Wq) | ||
| Labour took seats off the Tories - lots of them in key marginal areas like E Midlands and Lancashire. | ||
| @ostercywriter @LabourList I think it is still a good analysis of how we got in this mess | ||
| This works https://t.co/40AHZFN55n | ||
| @Calderbank @britainelects I was there. They sounded alienated, angry, & grudgingly voting Labour because they liked Jim McMahon. | ||
| @MissLyndseyB @mr_big_peter @OwenJones84 I agree it's not rational! But many questions of identity e.g. Faith are not rational. | ||
| @mr_big_peter @OwenJones84 using your logic all the moderates like me should have joined SDP in 1980s. Most of us didn't for emotional rsns | ||
| @mr_big_peter @OwenJones84 even if there was another party I agreed with more I would still vote for and be a member of Labour. | ||
| @OwenJones84 @LabourRoyall @PES_PSE no I linked to Party of European Socialists, not Socialist International which I agree with u about | ||
| @BenOAFC akehurstluke@gmail.com | ||
| @jonlansman sign up here: https://t.co/DKTf5W8a1b | ||
| What have they got to hide? https://t.co/3WaOt6Knpx | ||
| And SNP victory showed we need to attack the local enemy in each area - no point focus on Tories in areas they dead and LDs and Nats oppo | ||
| Though problem is most Tory voters actually wanted cuts etc. | ||
| Why the choice being presented twixt attacks on Tories + LDs? Surely shd attack Tory-led coalition as a whole - ie both of them. | ||
| @jeff_wode I know the feeling. @LabLinda75 regularly beats me by margins of over 100 at scrabble | ||
| This is another imaginative way of disqualifying Ken from CLP section of the NEC... https://t.co/XHRD9f1GaS | ||
| @JHepplestone do you have my number? Would be good to discuss Yorkshire. | ||
| At Hackney Labour Group pt 2 AGM. Been re-nominated chair of health scrutiny unopposed. | ||
| @MikeCordingley @John_Ferrett @Tweet4Labour I'm glad you find it funny. | ||
| @welovelabour @Rowan_Draper @JackyHolyoake @ChrisBloore but mean time they are just not convening NPF meetings. | ||
| Disgusting that NPF reps elected by OMOV this summer aren't getting chance to input into policy making https://t.co/eS3nfoTuuP | ||
| @feedthedrummer without it you would get perverse outcomes as they have a four or five party system | ||
| @feedthedrummer generally you vote with heart in round 1 and head/tactically in round 2 | ||
| @feedthedrummer it's like our preference voting for London mayor but done in 2 stages so voters can make informed tactical choices | ||
| This is good news as if he is a Peer Ken is disqualified from the CLP section of the NEC https://t.co/fdfkedk5ja | ||
| @chrisrumfitt @andrewlomas this is going to take years like it did in 80s. There is no quick fix. | ||
| @chrisrumfitt @andrewlomas I won't be joining it even if there is. | ||
| @suey2y @andrewspoooner I just don't agree with him, that's not disloyal. Disloyalty would be defecting to another party. | ||
| @suey2y @andrewspoooner it's a manichean struggle between good and evil and STW are evil. | ||
| Quite difficult to claim to be pro peace if you are a Trotsky fan given he founded Red Army & slaughtered 100,000s in Russian civil war | ||
| @Mrs_stax membership doubled between May and October but hardly any further change in November | ||
| @davesmith_109 @stellacreasy I'm @labour_first . Different culture. | ||
| Ideological control of Stop the War revealed as IMG key cadres leap to its defence https://t.co/pTqppjrBfQ | ||
| @Mrs_stax @davenellist @bbcqt @QuentinLetts_ no (I'm a local membership secretary) | ||
| @philbc3 oops! | ||
| @JinaduOladimeji @Mrs_stax @davenellist @bbcqt @QuentinLetts_ no with an as yet unidentified leader whether that is in 5 mths or 10 years | ||
| @Mrs_stax @davenellist @bbcqt @QuentinLetts_ would prefer to do it by positive recruitment | ||
| @karinsmyth @LauraSRobinson mainly I remember that night for Doug Naysmith losing by 45 votes (was at Bristol NW count) | ||
| @ashleytmason Bath. It is like that. Posh and liberal. | ||
| Agreed https://t.co/ELoe5wrKYE | ||
| @Saggydaddy @labour_first all welcome! | ||
| @Saggydaddy it's @labour_first Which area? | ||
| Feeling contented after Chanukah lunch of chicken soup, salt beef, latkes and festive doughnut! | ||
| That sounds like the sort of thing I might say... https://t.co/dhv50PjFHa | ||
| Wow I am being told to get behind a party I have given most of my spare time to campaign for for 27 years. https://t.co/HHKr2zt6tF | ||
| @DuncanWeldon yes! | ||
| I don't think this person likes me. https://t.co/2iQ1X7yk8J | ||
| @peopleman44 @LabourList we will be going back because the electorate will make us do it. | ||
| @marcusaroberts @RowennaDavis congratulations! | ||
| @Tom_Gann yes but they can be dealt with issue by issue language of "control" alienates most members who don't identify factionally. | ||
| @adamwisdish95 send me your email. We circulated it yesterday to Labour First email list. | ||
| @PaulFrame85 @twlldun au contraire this guy was editor of what's now the magazine of McDonell's Labour Representation Committee | ||
| Because allocating leaflet delivery rounds & picking venue 4 the ward social need to be factionally controlled. Not. https://t.co/OonQbWaNXZ | ||
| @twlldun the main left organiser in my old CLP told me "nothing to choose between US & Japanese versions of imperialism in WW2 | ||
| @Calderbank you mean @labour_first | ||
| @LukeBozier don't you think a lot of the self-loathing is caused by the divisions in society she opened though? Talk of "enemy within" etc | ||
| @new_art_riot I'll investigate | ||
| @jimmyfrith I've namechecked it (Blackpool was another good Lancs straight fight vs Tories) | ||
| @KevinPMeagher no national ballot of cllrs at same time as NEC clp section ballot | ||
| @KevinPMeagher not until the summer as already scheduled. | ||
| So if Jim has won, Coventry leader Cllr Ann Lucas replaces him on NEC as highest runner up in cllr section. | ||
| So do I. It's an outstanding victory for Labour. Very reassuring. https://t.co/LMnplEmhlB | ||
| @Mrsatnavatron @CllrJimMcMahon I've blocked you as requested | ||
| @KyeDudd @CllrJimMcMahon you do know the left tried to block him at selection? | ||
| @EOkenesi @Emily_Benn @AlexSalmond @UKLabour actually her uncle may have saved it by speaking for ordinary Labour voters | ||
| @petedigger @britainelects didn't stand last time | ||
| @stuartbruce that's the price we have to pay to get an electable Labour Party. That's how we won in 80s. | ||
| @mehdirhasan @SeanDolat he clearly didn't have a shadow cabinet majority to whip the vote or would have done so | ||
| @charlesworth102 I think he is one of the backroom brains behind Corbyn | ||
| @ianrobo1 name recognition | ||
| @new_art_riot @annaturley in case u haven't heard we took 1 of the 3 seats in North Deal - unfortunately Morris and Brian didn't win | ||
| @TheMockneyRebel @HouseofTwitsLab that is the opposite of what every opinion poll says. | ||
| On my way to Oldham! | ||
| @ashmcgregor following now | ||
| @ashmcgregor @dpjhodges can u message me which seats and I will raise with Party staff | ||
| @DPJHodges I think u need to consider why Ed went to Gravesham on Saturday not Chesterfield or Sheffield. | ||
| @DPJHodges yes. Nothing incompatible between that approach and the one u suggest. | ||
| @DPJHodges I actually agree with your strategic formula and would be shocked if the leadership didn't. | ||
| @robertcp @SamCoatesTimes yes but YouGov this week suggests we have lost votes in marginal seats & gained in already safe ones | ||
| Odd that Lab did v well in areas lost b4 2010 GE eg King's Lynn, Gravesham, Forest of Dean. Tory eye off ball in seats behind latest gains? | ||
| @vriyait I am sure the extra vote will make all the difference given size of opposition groups! | ||
| @EllieCumbo plus their party funds v dependent on cllr levy paying - 600 fewer cllrs means poss 300k a year less income | ||
| @EllieCumbo LD Northern Strategy now dead - a strategic threat to Lab urban hegemony buried | ||
| Whatever the result Jim has been a brilliant candidate. Looking forward to helping in Oldham on Thursday. https://t.co/F7aQ2Luc8b | ||
| @maxshanly lol can always rely on you comrade | ||
| @AlanScobbie turn up to meetings, argue and vote for sensible policies, sensible candidates at all levels. | ||
| @garypepworth annual conference delegate; NEC nominations | ||
| @jonburkeUK @DavidPrescott Richard Burgon | ||
| @metecoban92 @JohannaBaxter @IainMcNicol @UKLabour it wasn't sent to all members I want to know how sample was chosen | ||
| And a leader who looks like they won't be PM and is embarrassing to serve under in opposition has no powers of patronage to cajole with | ||
| If MPs think they will lose their seats at GE under current leader anyway then no whipping or threats of deselection have any leverage | ||
| @_IanMoss that's why I just tweeted what I did | ||
| It would be really helpful if the Chief Whip clarified what the PLP standing orders say about who authorises the whip- ldr or shadow cabinet | ||
| @charlesmaggs most people wouldn't run for or stay as leader unless they had confidence of their senior colleagues | ||
| Why doesn't JC just accept he is in a minority in shadow cabinet & vote w collective position rather than own view? https://t.co/HLIjeYbOWz | ||
| Can someone explain how JC can get round the convention of Shadow Cabinet collective responsibility & setting whip? https://t.co/HLIjeYbOWz | ||
| Says leading figure in group trying to impose leader's command & control against democratic vote of shadow cabinet https://t.co/gYbE53TsdG | ||
| @AndyHarvey7 @benglaze yes - I'm deeply uneasy myself, neither choice is a good one | ||
| @AndyHarvey7 voters seem to be very clear on the Syria issue | ||
| Reading them it looks like all the conditions have been met https://t.co/zxZBk9tzst | ||
| @JackyHolyoake @Furries4Corbyn @IvanLewis_MP great insight into demographics of Bury South there | ||
| @Saggydaddy yeah I'm just some bloke who spent the whole 2007-2015 period writing columns calling for and celebrating party unity | ||
| I know we are not supposed to quote Mao, but only 9000 clicktivists suggests Momentum is a "Paper Tiger" https://t.co/Z8TsPArS39 | ||
| These people are obsessed with trying to cause division and conflict within Labour locally and nationally. https://t.co/ogCyK7PbGj | ||
| No it isn't connected. What a ridiculous statement. Can have student bursaries and wage war on fascists. https://t.co/uIMZdVCIfM | ||
| @OkeLabour no it isn't | ||
| @RadicalMusic1 that isn't an opinion poll - doesn't have a weighted demographically representative sample | ||
| @Richhbrown no that was a draw and is being re-run next month | ||
| @OkeLabour if you think it was ok for him to rebel, it is also ok for MPs to rebel now if their judgement differs from his | ||
| @OkeLabour I am not an MP. I haven't decided my position on Syria. Nor has Labour yet. | ||
| @tomdaviesE17 @patrickmoule I just can't see logic if you are in a war that you would rule out air power in one part of hostile territory | ||
| @tomdaviesE17 @patrickmoule except more of their fighters will be dead and their capabilities degraded, which helps ppl fighting them. | ||
| @patrickmoule I think it's more that France wants to assert some level of deterrence - show Isis its attack has consequences | ||
| @SamwiseHampson on which topic? | ||
| @patrickmoule I'm in favour of all that, but in order to create a national unity government that will then help us destroy ISIS | ||
| @patrickmoule what's the alternative? | ||
| @patrickmoule the bottom line is we have to militarily defeat ISIS, killing or taking prisoner all their fighters. Open minded about how. | ||
| @RidaVaquas I think that is a valid concern but we are already bombing them in Iraq and so are our allies in Syria | ||
| @Valleyman007 @JPonpolitics @bbc5live untrue, 62% of voters are in favour of RAF participation in air strikes | ||
| @wildernessyrs if the membership changed so fast once it can change again | ||
| Wow. https://t.co/gWUSd0dLV3 | ||
| @wildernessyrs actually I think PLP, most CLPs and all of local government are in a better political state that in 1980s | ||
| @jamesgoldstone why? All CLP meetings are now of national media interest. Every moderate victory stops the flood of members resigning. | ||
| @SpencePatrick @GlenMitchell1 YouGov tonight -62-20% support for UK involvement in air strikes | ||
| @ISSANMICK @Calderbank because RAF have precision missiles that are less likely to hit civilians by mistake than other air forces | ||
| @gotoutb4gove @C4Emily @HackneyAbbott it is a minority position with general public (62% vs 20%) | ||
| @jonathanwebber stirred up by a faction | ||
| @DPJHodges @Markfergusonuk That says "Tories privately forecasting". Quite an important qualification. BBC figure is the authoritative one. | ||
| @susanp_80 @johndavidblake I didn't. | ||
| @Daniel_McAteer correct | ||
| RIP Chris Martin, my contemporary at Bristol Uni and one of the finest, cleverest and kindest people I have ever met. | ||
| Nice - now I am being called "5th columnist" - a fascist from Spanish Civil War. # comradely https://t.co/IGIDtVGp0c | ||
| @SEANLWOODCOCK @left_of_Left difficult as my mum and dad live there! | ||
| Trying to figure what the "will no one rid us" hints at - phrase that triggered murder of Thomas Beckettt.... https://t.co/3tb8wQ8vce | ||
| @JeremyJJacobs no I'm arguing for representative democracy not referenda | ||
| @Phillip_D_Jones @danielblaney you temporarily have no rights as a Labour cllr, can't attend Group meetings etc | ||
| @ivorcaplin that makes sense when Shadow Cabinet was democratically elected but not now | ||
| @Phillip_D_Jones @danielblaney no punishment for MPs, suspension from Group for cllrs | ||
| @Saul_Freeman nothing was tabled in writing so it is a bit unclear what the precise decision was | ||
| @hopisen it's as much about celebrating the "otherness" of Hackney though. Which is a reason why ppl choose to live here. | ||
| @hopisen if only NEC had power to do that. | ||
| @ConallMcD congratulations! | ||
| Brilliant and heartfelt rant from a young Labour member https://t.co/tMmEy3nfBx | ||
| @Ut_Humiliter_Op but that's the trick - he'll be publicly arguing for the union but his persona will drive voters against it | ||
| @Jack_SE15 @adamjlent @anthonypainter only Annual Conference or a Special Conference can change the rulebook | ||
| @Markfergusonuk yes indeed. It's @LabLinda75 who is the real fan but I have seen him live 3 times now. | ||
| @LawDavF @Jack_SE15 @MikeGapes British Trots organised strikes that undermined the war effort even after 1941 | ||
| @Jack_SE15 @MikeGapes we know they didn't from the actual historical actions of their predecessor party the RCP | ||
| All this attention on Portsmouth but does anyone know outcome of Walthamstow CLP AGM? | ||
| @gary_d01 @MrsBurgin @John_Ferrett @wildernessyrs secretary is key job in all Labour and TU bodies - hence Gen Sec is leader of each TU | ||
| @John_Ferrett it sounds like every Hackney North CLP meeting for last 20 years | ||
| Something tells me all the folk burbling about deselection are not familiar with LP rules on picking candidates. | ||
| Congratulations @BenSoffa . Great appointment & good his talents will now be deployed 4 whole party not part of it! https://t.co/R4C6zYa6JH | ||
| @Phillip_D_Jones @MsMainstay @RichardAngell @labour_first @spellar @LabourList I said he ought to keep an open mind | ||
| @Phillip_D_Jones @MsMainstay @RichardAngell @labour_first @spellar my position - not yet convinced - was in @LabourList on Tuesday | ||
| @JohnRoss43 @RichardAngell @labour_first @spellar I really think you should check our speaker @SadiqKhan position on Mid East wars ... | ||
| @Phillip_D_Jones @MsMainstay @RichardAngell @labour_first @spellar except I don't and nor does John who you have copied in. | ||
| @SpencePatrick @Lad87Red @RichardAngell @labour_first no I think I am miles to left of public opinion | ||
| @Lad87Red @RichardAngell @labour_first @spellar in relative terms yes they would be further from centre of UK public opinion | ||
| @Lad87Red @RichardAngell @labour_first @spellar being near the middle of UK spectrum of political opinions | ||
| @JohnRoss43 @RichardAngell @labour_first @spellar actually we don't take positions on such issues | ||
| @JenGerber79 would have to be proven he had brought party into disrepute. Won't happen. | ||
| If you are disgusted by Ken Livingstone's behaviour today, don't resign please stay in Labour Party so you can vote him off NEC next summer. | ||
| @Jonproctor22 have just sent you link, let me know if raises further questions. Basically network of Labour moderates. | ||
| Thanks to @unmeshdesai @Siobhain_MP @Sarah_Hayward for speaking at #londonlabour1st launch tonight | ||
| Thanks to @SadiqKhan @heidi_mp @SeemaMalhotra1 @MikeGapes @wesstreeting @HayteratLords for speaking at #londonlabour1st launch tonight | ||
| Disgusted but not surprised by personalised and uncomradely remarks by Ken: https://t.co/D8k2IDJxLG | ||
| @andrew_graeme @LabourList no I am very proud to have advised companies that equip UK armed forces, we need a strong defence industry | ||
| @rickmuir1 Hackney resident so 60pc chance he is for. | ||
| @RichardCotton10 @owolade14 I get that but Socialist Action provided the organisational spine that meant there was a campaign for you 2back | ||
| @NoraMulready @dlandoncole if they have a go at the IDF they will all die. | ||
| @PhilFree2Tamper @KathyShaw1 @redcatandnipper @jessphillips @stellacreasy Danczuk has no particular links to right of party - a maverick | ||
| Yeah freedom of speech is really annoying. If you don't like what I say block me. https://t.co/vRBPaHV9Ja | ||
| @tomdaviesE17 I mean what is it you hope to do with Walthamstow CLP that requires a new set of Officers? | ||
| @tomdaviesE17 and in most CLPs internal elections are not fought upon factional left/right lines | ||
| @tomdaviesE17 but generally for vacancies - not to remove hard working incumbents | ||
| @tomdaviesE17 @jessphillips @stellacreasy the fear is you are removing the CLP officers to make it easier to deselect MP and cllrs | ||
| @tomdaviesE17 @jessphillips @stellacreasy it's a story based on the reality of an attempt to pack CLP AGM in favour of a slate of candidates | ||
| @LukeBozier reading The Guardian doesn't make u a "politico". | ||
| @LukeBozier contrary to myth most of popn of inner London r not "politicos". | ||
| Proud to live in Hackney one of few majority YES areas. Part of our long tradition of dissent, radicalism and democracy. | ||
| @lewis_baston surely bit better than "respectability"? We have only twice since 1979 got more gains than that. | ||
| @CondorEggOmlet @marxroadrunner @IanAustinMP @ChriswMP but anyway I agree with you he should have been autoexcluded | ||
| @CondorEggOmlet @marxroadrunner @IanAustinMP @ChriswMP that isn't my memory of what happened | ||
| Speaker tonight at @Oxford_Labour is @LordPhilofBrum Shadow Dep Ldr of Lords. He's very impressive. | ||
| @DPJHodges @wdjstraw u r not talking down ed here, u r talking down work and acheivement of loads of grassroots activists | ||
| @DPJHodges @wdjstraw 3rd best number of gains in last 30 years. U asking 4 us to have gained seats we never tried to target. | ||
| @CondorEggOmlet @IanAustinMP @ChriswMP Dan Hodges resigned from the Labour Party in 2012 but would have been expelled if had not | ||
| Labour gone past 400 gains (party target for "fair" result) after only half of councils declared | ||
| Daft Orwellian newspeak attempt to label people nearest to UK public opinion as "extreme" by @labourlewis https://t.co/pU8W5c6Hcc | ||
| Crossing the Tay Bridge en route from Aberdeen to Edinburgh - a beautiful railway journey | ||
| @frozenwarning @LabourList @BenPBradshaw no do it privately | ||
| @frozenwarning @LabourList @BenPBradshaw unacceptable and politically daft but not against the rules. | ||
| @frozenwarning @LabourList @BenPBradshaw it isn't her words it's a retweet. | ||
| @frozenwarning @LabourList @BenPBradshaw but not breaking any party rules. | ||
| @frozenwarning @LabourList @BenPBradshaw that's an article from during the leadership election not since it. | ||
| @frozenwarning @LabourList @BenPBradshaw Fisher is a senior figure in ldr's office, Danczuk is a maverick backbencher | ||
| @frozenwarning @LabourList @BenPBradshaw I've read her tweets and she didn't say that. | ||
| @frozenwarning @LabourList @BenPBradshaw & on Facebook I have condemned Danczuk comments about JC at cenotaph | ||
| @frozenwarning @LabourList @BenPBradshaw he hasn't been abusive or called for voting vs Labour, & he isn't employed by leader | ||
| On my way from Inverness to Aberdeen | ||
| Another inappropriate attempt to interfere politically in a quasi judicial disciplinary process. https://t.co/8FnZBsBIf0 | ||
| @katrinamurray71 no I only made it as far north as Dundee for SOLS Conference. | ||
| RIP Yitzhak Navon, socialist, Zionist, peacemaker and 5th President of Israel https://t.co/x9W7OesHmX | ||
| @kmflett no there are 3 unrelated political Akehursts - @SteveAkehurst @nathanakehurst and me | ||
| @revdkath @philbc3 no I am fighting to change it back again | ||
| @Livingafloat @IainMcNicol @martinmayer46 the NEC has not taken a decision. He is suspended while they investigate and decide. | ||
| Another NEC member disqualifies themselves from Fisher disciplinary case by publicly prejudging it cc @IainMcNicol https://t.co/hUyDbsOiYa | ||
| @InsideCroydon @Govtandpolitics @FinnBrennan Mr Fisher's disciplinary case gets judged on its own merits, not whatabouterry | ||
| @Abernsmate101 @220_d_92_20 all the evidence in last few weeks is we have plenty of power and support and votes. | ||
| @doktordunc @220_d_92_20 they weren't different (speaking as a fan of the two Eds) | ||
| @philbc3 because he was also a divisive appointment | ||
| @SpencePatrick @jonlansman @frankfieldteam agreed. | ||
| @FinnBrennan yes strange but retweets are not endorsements, could just be something you want others to see | ||
| @KevinMorton1966 and Ken | ||
| @FinnBrennan she didn't advocate anything - she retweeted something a third party had said, retweets are not endorsements | ||
| A reminder to serving NEC members that if they publicly prejudge the Fisher or any other disciplinary case they can't vote on it. | ||
| @DAaronovitch why would we be expected to get straight back to pre-2003 position in one go? | ||
| Odd that LRC claims not to have heard of SO/AWL - it is affiliated to LRC: https://t.co/AVJ4XOezSK https://t.co/uWmP7Lrq52 | ||
| @FinnBrennan she hasn't advocated a vote for another party | ||
| @SimonWeller @jonlansman Andrew Fisher has not been expelled. Suspended while allegation is investigated. | ||
| @jonlansman I wouldn't justify it either, I don't know Frank Field or hold him in any regard. | ||
| @jonlansman if you advocate tactical voting it is an auto exclusion matter, 2nd preferences are not | ||
| @TheDecider25 put a complaint in then. | ||
| @jonlansman he hasn't been auto excluded. | ||
| And both the Labour and Class War candidates read the tweet as indicating support for the latter https://t.co/OUrpxJxcdm | ||
| How was this "obvious"? On face of it his tweet advocated voting for them. https://t.co/OUrpxJxcdm | ||
| @jonlansman @frankfieldteam he did it theoretically not in context of an actual election. I agree reprehensible. | ||
| @jonlansman @Emily_Benn @frankfieldteam neither of them has actually called for a vote against Labour | ||
| @jonlansman @Emily_Benn @frankfieldteam the rules are quite clear. | ||
| @DPJHodges we got 400 gains in 1996 and the next year Blair got Lab's greatest ever landslide | ||
| @morrison_derek1 sure, sample size 1236, majority for renewal & keeping in Faslane: https://t.co/Zi6ZJONtf3 | ||
| @mel_haslam @tomwilliamsisme @RichardAngell Without All those Reading Pads | ||
| Great GOTV operation in Dover - think we are in with a shout of council control | ||
| @SteveAkehurst if NEC draws up guidelines on previous model clashes between incumbents can be avoided | ||
| @SteveAkehurst we won pretty much every election at the recent East Midlands and North West regional conferences | ||
| @Conorpope @CarolineFlintMP no it's your right to address house from dispatch box when you want to! | ||
| @wesstreeting @OwenJones84 I knew. He does a lot of voter ID in Hackney. | ||
| @LabourList @unitetheunion stop voting for unilateralism if you don't want to be attacked for it. | ||
| Defence workers are proud to be involved in equipping our armed forces. They don't want diversification. https://t.co/X9k5hWgKQu | ||
| Dover CLP working their socks off to win marginal wards here in Deal. | ||
| @wildernessyrs or we need to change the make up of the membership/supporters, which is what JC did | ||
| @nyanlasers @thinkingzionist most Zionists support two states for two peoples, I.e. end of post 1967 occupation. | ||
| Ironically a victory for Jim as moderate candidate is in Corbyn's interest as maximises chance Labour holds seat https://t.co/MyR3lDffj7 | ||
| @morrison_derek1 this sets out the facts: https://t.co/G01TUDFyHE | ||
| Thanks to GMB who are sending activists to help North Deal Ward where I'm running cttee room | ||
| @election_data not available online as far as I know | ||
| @JadeFrancesAzim it isn't. Just been hyped up by the left. | ||
| @jonlansman he did stick to unilateralism until the 1988 policy review. | ||
| @conradlandin eh? | ||
| @AnnaTurley @new_art_riot I'm on the train - 2nd carriage from front, platform 11 | ||
| Good luck to Labour candidates everywhere tmrw. | ||
| @Kevin_Maguire see my Labourlist post for stats on cllr gains. 600 only exceeded 3x in 30 yrs, 1000 only exceeded once | ||
| Flying to Israel today. As usual expecting to be inspired by a wonderful country and saddened by an intractable conflict. | ||
| To Hackney town hall for final full council of this municipal year | ||
| @KateVotesLabour done | ||
| @annaturley yes see you on train | ||
| @NewStatesman @Anoosh_C tiny correction, I am not a councillor any more, stood down when moved area in 2014 | ||
| @fbreckels @MichaelDugher there will be a facility for the public to add their signatures. | ||
| @fbreckels @MichaelDugher you can | ||
| Great effort tonight in Northfield Brook by election by @Oxford_Labour | ||
| Heading to Northfield Brook Ward to do #labourdoorstep GOTV for @Oxford_Labour excellent by-election candidate Jennifer Pegg | ||
| @MrIvanLocke @stephenpollard PSC not PCS | ||
| Series of significant victories for moderate MPs in Parliamentary Committee and Select Committee elections https://t.co/Je6YAetsZP | ||
| @conradlandin @leftfutures thinking of you and @jonlansman sorry for your loss of such a close friend and comrade | ||
| @MarkSeddon1962 I can only judge the guy on what he has written and the organisation he used to work for | ||
| Not sure why left is bothering to keep SWP out of Momentum if appointing Stalin-apologist to key role. At least SWP not Stalinist. | ||
| @joe_oliver no | ||
| One day I will understand the relationship between Trots and Stalinists https://t.co/b4jZKgAzRU | ||
| Yay I am being attacked by Socialist Action cadres for agreeing with Jeremy Corbyn about China #newpolitics | ||
| @JonAshworth @hopisen @LabourList exactly. Need an early ruling from NEC treating 40% claims post boundary review as incumbency. | ||
| Good luck in General Election to Labour's Canadian sister party the NDP https://t.co/MYMsMZ5iYD | ||
| @Carefulthought @Tweet4Labour agree we should campaign hard on the tax credits issue | ||
| @kickivirby @labour_first @susanp_80 @PeoplesMomentum happy to work together within democratic structures of Labour Party | ||
| Great job opportunity - Organiser for @Oxford_Labour http://t.co/EOtkbDayaK | ||
| @kickivirby @labour_first @susanp_80 @PeoplesMomentum they sent a launch email to everyone who opted in to further comms from JC campaign | ||
| @new_art_riot it's on my list to go to - my family are from Canterbury so go to Whitstable a lot | ||
| @new_art_riot @EllieCumbo can't believe u think "Mozzarella is pointless unless cooked". Try mandara buffallo mozz w tomato and olive oil | ||
| @adamskihealth I'm not in favour of "resistance" just vigorous participation in policy formulation and internal elections | ||
| @adamskihealth if you want to know what Labour First stands for it is here: http://t.co/z0HCOxNtVc | ||
| @adamskihealth my beliefs have been set out in extensive detail here http://t.co/xKxWgs7hwI and in my labourlist column every week | ||
| @adamskihealth Neither I nor Labour First have attacked the leader once. | ||
| Just heard from CLP which agreed 2 run 2 voter registration street stalls, then discovers Momentum hijacked them & no longer branded Labour | ||
| @jonlansman @hopisen thank goodness social media didn't exist when I was younger and more hardline... | ||
| @hopisen most of my old stuff remains readable! In fact @jonlansman once had to read my entire archive to find bad things I had said. | ||
| #FF @labour_first Labour moderates finally on Twitter | ||
| Why? Party policy in favour of Trident renewal is absolutely clear. https://t.co/jQ3s6Dm2V5 | ||
| @PLinotype I believe that too. So does everyone Labour. | ||
| The idea that Labour was "moribund" BC (Before Corbyn) is grossly insulting to 1000s of GE 2015 volunteers https://t.co/6QxSRZie6c | ||
| @susanp_80 @labour_first @PeoplesMomentum yeah they have a slight head start in inherited data | ||
| This seems sensible, but slightly contradicts what @HackneyAbbott said recently https://t.co/YkepyOW3Ak | ||
| @gezj86 I am prepared for it to take decades if necessary but the centrists will win in the end as our views reflect those of electorate | ||
| @gezj86 no, I am in for life. | ||
| @LukemCresswell a) I don't represent Progress b) why do you need this when you already have CLPD and LRC - what's the motive? | ||
| Says a guy whose profile says he is a communist... https://t.co/qb6C8fUrQE | ||
| @roadto326 @carinaoreilly actually quite a few are e.g. people who really like their local MP | ||
| I will be on the Daily Politics today discussing @PeoplesMomentum with @conradlandin | ||
| @roadto326 I understand but how would that help? We need moderates to stay as members so they can vote against deselection attempts. | ||
| @MnWthtQualities @davies_will marketisation. Why bring the word "liberal" into it, which ought to be a positive word for the left? | ||
| @MickMcAteer @MaryCreaghMP @thetimes how could it be misrepresentation when it is directly quoting me (NB not a letter to Lansman though) | ||
| My take on "Blue Labour": http://lukeakehurst.blogspot.com/2011/04/something-old-something-new-something.html | ||
| @nextleft CON 39.6%, NDP 30.6%, LIB 18.9%, BLOC 6.1%, GREEN 3.9% | ||
| Open use of Momentum as vehicle from entryism by Militant/TUSC https://t.co/5Mk9FGqcrR | ||
| @GEddy039 no I am Labour | ||
| @hepolytes 3 of 4 largest affiliates - Unite, GMB and USDAW are against scrapping Trident. | ||
| @hepolytes we just voted at conference not to reopen the debate/change the policy | ||
| @OwenJones84 by linking it to his leadership campaign he immediately alienates the other 41% of the party | ||
| @OwenJones84 just an expression of frustration. He could have launched this as a party initiative not connected to leadership campaign. | ||
| @Lab2Palestine @katedinns why don't you offer to take them on one of your trips too, rather than what looks like bullying them? | ||
| @calumjcraig I'd call them cuts. The problem with the word austerity is it has connotations of common sense and frugality to most people. | ||
| @STorrance1 @mcashmanCBE @JohnEdwards33 actually I think the right have adapted to changed situation easier & more gracefully than the left | ||
| @McPartlandJohn @JohnEdwards33 @UKLabour I do. | ||
| My impression of couple of hundred new @Oxford_Labour members here tonight positive, v similar to long term members but lots more of them. | ||
| @JohnEdwards33 thank you for your comradeship Cllr. | ||
| @JohnEdwards33 no it means he shouldn't have licensed the creation of divisive Momentum organisation, needs to be leader of whole party | ||
| @GothicBlue I have never said that. | ||
| @JohnEdwards33 I think I will be the judge of what I mean when I write something. | ||
| @JohnEdwards33 that his priority should be building the party | ||
| @JohnEdwards33 @PeoplesMomentum @UKLabour I haven't and wouldn't do that. | ||
| At @Oxford_Labour meeting. Huge turnout. Not sure All Member Meetings can cope with 3000 members! | ||
| @JohnEdwards33 @PeoplesMomentum @UKLabour because we are diehard Labour supporters hence the name @labour_first | ||
| @AndyHarvey7 @PeoplesMomentum @UKLabour that is the job he should focus on then, not this "social movement" guff. | ||
| The Sherlock Holmes award for investigative skills goes to: https://t.co/n4xrBLVwrB | ||
| @jonlansman @IainMcNicol I will forward it | ||
| I also retweet people who say mean things about me, on an amateur basis https://t.co/zomdRBXZHu | ||
| @refitman I don't know if that actually exists. | ||
| There may be a reason why us moderates are called "Labour First" but new left faction "Momentum" doesn't mention Labour in its name. | ||
| Why doesn't Jeremy go off and lead @PeoplesMomentum as a social movement & leave @UKLabour to get on w being an electable political party? | ||
| Just received email from @PeoplesMomentum but I never opted into comms from them or JC campaign. Misuse of @UKLabour data? @IainMcNicol | ||
| .@peoplesmomentum will "Organise in every town... to create a mass movement for real progressive change." err doesn't @uklabour do that? | ||
| There was (I remember the fuss at time) - we lost the 1987 election because of relentless Tory attack on this issue https://t.co/udL7nBUWJj | ||
| Ditto in Hackney, and also increased service quality by "insourcing" https://t.co/AeWHLGOSAC | ||
| Really good Marston branch @Oxford_Labour meeting tonight where we selected @satellite_nick as council candidate 4 Marston next May | ||
| @palestininianpr @_LFI @joanryanEnfield @JewishNewsUK on wider Labour matters I am speaking as Secretary of Labour First & a party member | ||
| @maxshanly @LabourList actually that was a point I meant to include | ||
| @Lintellan it doesn't but will have soon. | ||
| Worth reading in full. https://t.co/kLuUagqV9a | ||
| Quotes numbers 2 and 9 should be reprinted on the back of every party membership card. https://t.co/lcViEVEVUU | ||
| @J1llyR no I don't. I haven't had any connection to defence industry for 4 years. Do keep up with my CV. | ||
| This sounds cool https://t.co/wuaIzBQR7o | ||
| Lovely. Personally I think we owe the USA our solidarity for saving us in two world wars and the Cold War ... https://t.co/pcLzwHEczN | ||
| @NyeBeverage @TinaTeapot27 6 years is less time than you can build a nuclear deterrent in | ||
| @jxckhy @TinaTeapot27 yes that's why it works as a deterrent - makes that type of war unthinkable | ||
| @MarkSeddon1962 that's an urban myth, it's operationally totally independent | ||
| @TinaTeapot27 its 2045, Russia threatens to attack us if we don't withdraw UK troops stopping them invading Estonia | ||
| @robertcp most countries don't play the geopolitical role that the UK does. | ||
| @jeff_wode yes. | ||
| I repeat my plea to left to shut up about Trident so party can unite behind JC in fighting austerity. https://t.co/P62j9KJS95 | ||
| Tribute to John Smith on Omov much needed. | ||
| 10/10 for @tom_watson passage on unity and anti-austerity | ||
| Tom Watson stealing the show. | ||
| @Cravenma that's better than scrapping it as at least the PMs after him would still have the kit. | ||
| @TimMacpherson yes it was unanimously reaffirmed on Monday in the Britain in the World policy report | ||
| Keep up the momentum after the moderate victories at #Lab15 , join Labour First's email list http://t.co/DKTf5W8a1b | ||
| @GideonSeymour it was Neil Kinnock dropping unilateralism that inspired me to join Labour in 1988. | ||
| @GideonSeymour the Labour Party has multiple democratic structures - not run by leader diktat | ||
| @OwenJones84 he just needs to say "Like all PMs I am not going to say what would be in the orders issued by me to the submarines". | ||
| @TheDecider25 @MrTCHarris without Trident would look like UK wanted a "something for nothing" defence alliance with USA. | ||
| @timsykes3 @patrickwintour the whole point is the threat of use means you never have to use it. | ||
| @DavidMills73 @patrickwintour the correct deterrence answer is to refuse to answer, otherwise reveals your posture to threats. | ||
| Presumably nature of deterrence is Russians may worry he was lying or it was all a clever bluff anyway. https://t.co/ZkATBcGhoC | ||
| @Dan_A_Murphy leader rather than leadership. The deputy leader is in same place as the shadow cabinet on defence. | ||
| Debate on Colombia very inspiring - UK trade unions doing real, constructive solidarity work there. | ||
| @GardnerTVFTW oops forgot that bit! | ||
| I agreed with all the policy content except Trident. | ||
| @jeff_wode eh? | ||
| @atticusfinch104 he just switched Union to Unite. New chair is USDAW. | ||
| Good to see @JohannaBaxter chairing #lab15 | ||
| @tea7971 @doc_griffiths personally or Labour First? | ||
| @jeff_wode no it was detailed in our submission to Collins Review including how to regionalise it | ||
| Labour First supports the Colne Valley rule change to increase CLP representation on the NEC #Lab15 | ||
| @itsdavegreen being debated today. Compositing process seems to have produced something less problematic. See CAC report on membersnet | ||
| @phil_space they didn't push it in the end - think realised TUs would have been irritated | ||
| @BenC42 @tom_watson what's your point? | ||
| Good news - left backed off from trying to challenge CAC Report this morning. #Lab15 | ||
| @TomPurvis2 here http://t.co/DKTf5W8a1b | ||
| @whyoutloud @mattstrong no - rules on emergency motions different to contemporary motions | ||
| @FrancisTDavis we are expecting an attempt tomorrow morning to reference back the CAC report and debate 5 issues not 4 | ||
| I'm at the Hackney dinner at #Lab15. As usual dozens of comrades here. Good to catch up with everyone! | ||
| @Janiete @Tony_McNulty @SamCoatesTimes there will be a bigger effort from moderates to win CLP delegate seats than for 20 years | ||
| @SamCoatesTimes also I think he just misread where CLPs are politically. | ||
| @SamCoatesTimes we out organised the left and our message re party unity resonated | ||
| But yes unions have historically been a force for moderation and hopefully will be again https://t.co/uapbfwpT6Y | ||
| NB CLPs also appear not to have wanted a Trident debate - unilateralism not just unpopular w unions https://t.co/PldkFt63tq | ||
| If rumours about Trident are true, no appetite from conference delegates for dramatic change in Labour's defence stance. #Lab15 | ||
| @SaneKate funny how you think it is ok to compare members of your own party to a murderous fascist. Silly and childish. | ||
| Speeches at Labour First rally from @YvetteCooperMP @tom_watson and @SeemaMalhotra1 | ||
| This is assuming it gets prioritised for debate https://t.co/Yli9XYNs2a | ||
| Lovely sunny morning outside #Lab15 at Brighton Centre. Waiting for the Labour First leaflet team to arrive! | ||
| @Odbe34 this is why we don't make policy at conference - proper process is the NPF | ||
| @peopleman44 yes through deliberative reasoned NPF process, not 3 minute rants at annual conference | ||
| Are you a Labour moderate? Make sure you are at the Labour First fringe meeting, 1pm Sunday, Mash Tun pub, 1 Church Street, Brighton. | ||
| @LukemCresswell @RC_Garrick @davrwu actually the main motion text on those two issues comes from the left - from @CLPD_Labour | ||
| @davrwu but certainly the major unions who represent defence workers have strong views | ||
| @davrwu already being prioritised for debate by the unions - they pick 4 topics, CLPs pick 4. | ||
| .@LukemCresswell @davrwu which out of NHS, Housing, Refugee Crisis & Social Security do u think is less important to debate than Trident? | ||
| The assumption there will be a Trident vote is premature. Delegates can vote to debate refugee crisis instead. | ||
| If you are going to set up a left faction in Young Labour, naming it after Militant controlled LPYS ain't subtle: http://t.co/jZ0U8DvFjV | ||
| @HamishP95 it was ruled out by CAC so the left need to move reference back on CAC report to get it debated | ||
| @forwardnotback @UKLabour surely everyone that came through NUS & NOLS training ground v familiar with this style of politIcs? | ||
| @LouiseOldfield happy to discuss via email. DM me. | ||
| To avoid a divisive battle over Trident CLP delegates should vote for NHS, Refugee Crisis, Housing and Social Security in priority ballot. | ||
| Which of NHS, Housing, Refugee Crisis & Social Security do Labour's left think is less of priority 4 conference 2 debate than a Trident row? | ||
| @paulleake @davidaslindsay there are 12 topics of which 8 get discussed | ||
| @DemocracyFail thanks | ||
| @davidaslindsay he already has publicly budged on it last week. | ||
| Best wishes to all my friends fasting for Yom Kippur. | ||
| @bencobley usually the winner is supported by more than 20 MPs and the contest is rather less divisive | ||
| @tomwburke anonymous. You just get the totals. | ||
| @kevpeel @SeemaMalhotra1 @LordRoyKennedy @CoopParty @_karin_c @GarethThomasMP eh? I'm not there! | ||
| @MrsBurgin @PLinotype that, but also Greens live mainly in already "radical" areas, non-voters in poorer inner city Labour areas | ||
| @paulleake exactly one target seat in the region. | ||
| @JA_Onion_Bhajis they don't believe that. JC needs to convince them. | ||
| @BenSoffa I thought he didn't drink? | ||
| @JA_Onion_Bhajis and the swing voters we are talking about are not rich, they are working hard and just about doing OK. | ||
| @JA_Onion_Bhajis e.g. If you live in Kent or Essex, poverty in London sounds like another planet. Sad but understandable. | ||
| @JA_Onion_Bhajis most people don't know much about the country beyond their own family and friends. | ||
| @JA_Onion_Bhajis and for many people national security fears trump domestic policy issues. | ||
| @JA_Onion_Bhajis Not many people can afford to vote against their own economic interest. | ||
| @JA_Onion_Bhajis what the Tories are doing is cynically targeted at people who are not swing voters. | ||
| @ValerieMcDermot correct, people respect the mandate and want to give him a chance. | ||
| @therealitygap @ExSpAd yes it will probably be worse in Middle England marginal seats. | ||
| @JA_Onion_Bhajis it's not difficult to predict that if you move to left you will lose votes to Tories. Bit like gravity. | ||
| @Linda_Marric http://t.co/APndu8j8vP | ||
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| @patrickmoule @HaringeyLabour @KatieCurtis @ClaireKober @SteveHartUnite good luck! | ||
| @Labourpaul assumed everyone knew it | ||
| @AltWhitter @LabLinda75 Sicilian rice balls - crispy on outside with tomato sauce inside | ||
| @Dan_A_Murphy @iMcKenzied @DPJHodges @hopisen @adamjlent safer neighbourhood teams were good too. | ||
| Gutted that I haven't been asked to be Political Secretary. Or even offered @fletchersimon old job! :( was up for the #newpolitics | ||
| @Jeremy_Newmark @richardbudden @pejmason socialist societies are open to non party members in same way unions are. | ||
| @Bryn__Phillips walk the plank | ||
| @KatieCurtis I think I can guess. | ||
| @iMcKenzied do you think they realise they need to live in the constituency of the MP they hate in order to vote to get rid of them? | ||
| Cool, people want to deselect me as an MP when I'm not one and not even a cllr any more. https://t.co/YEC0fYQoZj | ||
| @kieronam wasn't meant to sound chilling - just want Unite run by someone like Sir Ken Jackson or Ernest Bevin | ||
| @Aaron_Kiely good luck on Thursday! | ||
| @Manterik @timrollpickerin @MrsBurgin would you go to work on Christmas Day? | ||
| @Manterik @timrollpickerin @MrsBurgin employment law | ||
| @HCH_Hill don't think that was me! | ||
| @jruddy99 yes I have them gaining 4 in Scotland, 5 in SE, net 2 elsewhere | ||
| @TodJSullivan @starandsixpence yes a major priority for the lizards is to analyse NPF elections so it looks like moderates did OK | ||
| @MrsBurgin two are pregnant and on leave, three are religious Jews and it is the Rosh Hashanah festival. They will all have been paired. | ||
| @roadto326 3 of them are Jewish and it is Rosh Hashanah (New Year Holiday) where they would be at synagogue and not supposed to work | ||
| @BobFurb and 3 of them are Jewish and its a high holy day (Rosh Hashanah) where if you are religious you go to pray and can't work | ||
| @dickiesview what are we supposed to just roll over and stop contesting internal elections, debating policies etc & pretend we agree? | ||
| @dickiesview Corbyn just won a battle he started in 1970s. Tenacity is everything. Politics is a marathon not a sprint. | ||
| @wilsondan @PaulSandars sorry to hear that. Hope you will return when things get more sensible. | ||
| Surely the great Denis Skinner gets it as highest runner up last time? https://t.co/WKxqUfXzw2 | ||
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| Congratulations on NPF victory to @JamesFrith ! | ||
| @AxelLandin @GloriaDePiero @mcashmanCBE NB Gloria is not on the Parliamentary Cttee - not same as Shadow Cabinet | ||
| @patrickmoule in the context I think we should be pleased with the results | ||
| @LawryONeill @katrinamurray71 http://t.co/ZhsSJRjUef | ||
| Change since 2012 - Left up 11, Moderates down 11, non-aligned unchanged. 9 of 11 net changes came in Scotland and South East. | ||
| These are very solid results and give me optimism that grassroots revival of Labour moderates is possible. | ||
| Agreed totally. https://t.co/IIDvlRUsUR | ||
| NPF regional totals: 25 Moderate, 25 Left, 5 non-aligned | ||
| North West 3 Moderate, 1 non-aligned, 1 Left Scotland 3 Left, 1 non-aligned, 1 Moderate South East 4 Left, 1 non-aligned |
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| Eastern region 3 Left, 2 Moderate East Midlands 4 Moderate, 1 non-aligned London 3 Moderate, 2 Left North 3 Moderate, 2 Left |
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| NPF results by region coming up. | ||
| anyone got full NPF results? Tweets look like left hasn't done well. | ||
| @BenC42 everything we send out is assumed to be in the public domain, very relaxed about non-supporters seeing it | ||
| 40% increase in size of Labour First email list since Saturday. Not just the Labour left that's growing. Sign here: http://t.co/DKTf5W8a1b | ||
| CAC and NPF results out today. Will be fascinating to see strength and geography of Corbyn's coattails for rest of left slate. | ||
| @carlgardner actually the opposite - an opportunity there to fight a rearguard battle to defend existing policy | ||
| @jeff_wode @220_d_92_20 I seem to remember lots of Labour members attacking Ed Balls & falsely accusing him of supporting austerity. | ||
| @jeff_wode @220_d_92_20 I will still vote and campaign for Labour. That's "support" isn't it? | ||
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| @MarkSeddon1962 wasn't Cripps rather a fan of austerity? | ||
| @Phillip_D_Jones @SEANLWOODCOCK @rachel_wenstone @simonevans117 there were already nearly 30 explicitly Muslim States before IS. | ||
| @Phillip_D_Jones @rachel_wenstone @simonevans117 the Declaration of Independence is a good starting point: http://t.co/qGPDXcazy6 | ||
| Just checking with @RichardAngell that I still qualify as a "Progress dick" as charmingly described below... https://t.co/RTWJYHoi8h | ||
| @LeabridgeLabour http://t.co/z0HCOxNtVc | ||
| @PatrickRaeburn why is that? It is a statement of fact that sacking Ivan will not help give Jewish community reassurance about Jeremy. | ||
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| Fair question but shows many people don't understand party policy decided by NPF democratically, not by leader alone https://t.co/8m7HJYdbGA | ||
| @sunny_hundal that is what Ivan was doing by offering to continue | ||
| @sunny_hundal ok "organised community" - the elected Board of Deputies has been very public about its concerns. | ||
| Important to join even if you don't like leadership result, so you can be part of debate about Labour's future https://t.co/bcjWUEYq22 | ||
| @sunny_hundal of course not, but it still reinforces the fear the Jewish Community has about Corbyn's allies etc. | ||
| Been in Ockendon (Thurrock) canvassing 4 @aaron_kiely - pls help Lab win Thurrock between now and Thurs (only 28 mins on train from Ldn) | ||
| @J1llyR ps I haven't been a lobbyist or had any connection with defence industry since 2011. | ||
| @J1llyR we are all supporting him now, he is leader of the Labour Party. | ||
| This is why I voted for him. https://t.co/V7MOOjOzWm | ||
| @philbc3 @trudiemc announced next week | ||
| @patrickwintour @CllrJimMcMahon also a key figure on NEC | ||
| Will be out campaigning w @Oxford_Labour on #labourdoorstep this morning in Churchill ward - meet 11am junction The Slade and Wood Farm Road | ||
| @MediaActivist @SFox81161093 @keithdibs words fail me. | ||
| @nicholaswatt @Rosiecosy @jeremycorbyn sorry explain how Blair's leadership votes were not a "party mandate"? | ||
| Cracking open a bottle of Bollinger to celebrate the regime change (actually to celebrate @LabLinda75 birthday in week). Cheers, comrades! | ||
| @UnionKatie @Tweet4Labour name chosen in 1988 | ||
| @BigBigBen @northernheckler http://t.co/z0HCOxNtVc moderate network founded in 1988 | ||
| @backtoroubaix @foodleedskidstv @JonB_89 @JohnRentoul in 1994 many TU members backed Blair against guidance from their TUs | ||
| @backtoroubaix @foodleedskidstv @JonB_89 @JohnRentoul Andy is correct, block vote was abolished in 1993 OMOV decision | ||
| If this wasn't the result you wanted, you should join Labour First's email list http://t.co/DKTf5W8a1b | ||
| @foodleedskidstv @JohnRentoul 507,000 voted Blair in 1994 | ||
| @ScoutSleepe I didn't support the candidate who got 4.5%. | ||
| @mjrharris @ricktoomer @NickCohen4 at the main entrance for an hour before first session on Sunday morning | ||
| @TomBaldwin66 @patrickwintour no it won't be published | ||
| @MrZetkin yes | ||
| @thomasmessenger it worked so well last time | ||
| By my calculation under old 33-33-33 Electoral College & assuming votes of 20 MPs, Corbyn would have got 38.5% and been beaten by Burnham. | ||
| Agree Harriet should have been given a speaking slot as interim ldr https://t.co/8YadDUaKGz | ||
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| @patrickmoule we are better able to cope than many, just Hackney North CLP scaled up to national level. | ||
| @GardnerTVFTW @tom_watson vice chair of Trade Union Friends of Israel | ||
| 1st time been able 2 walk well enough to #labourdoorstep canvass since got ill in Feb 2009. Childishly excited to be back doing it. | ||
| @new_art_riot should we get u a ticket? | ||
| Heading to @Oxford_Labour meeting to discuss education policy. | ||
| @jhallwood @CamBeavanKing the Old Right has a home: http://t.co/APndu8j8vP | ||
| @cr_celab I'm very certain I'm just as ethical as you are - just less naive | ||
| @johnjdc @_IanMoss @adrianmcmenamin @DPJHodges @hopisen yes | ||
| @hopisen @adrianmcmenamin @_IanMoss @DPJHodges can someone reweigh the last YouGov poll? | ||
| @patrickwintour @KarimPalant Members 81%, Registered Supporters 92%, Affiliated Supporters 45%. | ||
| @DPJHodges I thought opposite - I think the registered supporters have had more share in London than they will nationally | ||
| Proportion of members to registered supporters voting London almost exactly 2:1. Guessing will be more like 2.5:1 nationally? @KarimPalant ? | ||
| @_IanMoss indeed but there was a deliberate recruitment focus on London bus drivers as Sadiq's dad was one. | ||
| Extraordinary that only 10k affiliated supporters voted in London when I heard Unite registered nearly that many just among bus drivers. | ||
| @_IanMoss no Frank definitely self-identifies as Soft Left. I think he backed Benn not Healey. | ||
| @johnmcternan @RachelEMwilson it seemed like a good idea at the time. | ||
| @hopisen @marcusaroberts if only he had been given a role in the national General Election campaign. .. | ||
| @jeff_wode not seen it yet | ||
| Intrigued by the 7% of voters who transfer Diane 1, Tessa 2. | ||
| @susanp_80 I think it's great we took seat off Greens But the actual vote change indicates we didn't suddenly get more popular in that ward. | ||
| @susanp_80 good. I would expect nothing less from Sandwell Labour. | ||
| @NCPoliticsUK @matt_dathan no that's the shares of eligible voters, not the shares of who actually voted. | ||
| @sirtophamhat yes | ||
| @commsdan they are welcome to do my leaflet round and membership reports. | ||
| @jeff_wode @patrickwintour no London has been 20% of members for ages. Same CLPs always in 20 biggest nationally. | ||
| @davidaslindsay @hopisen @foodleedskidstv @DPJHodges we'll see. I'm rather hopeful of getting back on. | ||
| @hopisen @davidaslindsay @foodleedskidstv @DPJHodges as is the likely Deputy Leader in my opinion. | ||
| @EliotAndersen @jmfletchers96 @Labourpaul same as me | ||
| @ruairidunne I don't support Liz | ||
| This is long but worth reading: http://t.co/fgkVEzFCYi | ||
| @robertcp @MichaelDugher @UKLabour it isn't too late. The votes cast in final 24 hours may determine the outcome. | ||
| @achriscarey yes can still win even if YC lead over AB is a lot tighter | ||
| Looking forward to the big Labour vote - selecting @Oxford_Labour candidates for Marston and Headington Hill & Northway wards tonight. | ||
| @starandsixpence I did it at 5-1 in May with my GE winnings then at 8-1 last week | ||
| @jonlansman correct. I think I say that in the article. | ||
| @jonlansman no, just an educated guess. @KarimPalant had some more reasoned figures! | ||
| @PhilipGlanville thanks for warning, got the washing in | ||
| Just seen TV ad for dance music from "back in the day". 2000-2010!!! Feel very old. | ||
| Brilliant final speech of campaign by @tom_watson http://t.co/NXH8YyfaK9 | ||
| Genuine question, was Jeremy Corbyn a member of the Chartist Tendency, with Graham Bash & Keith Veness, which became Labour Left Briefing? | ||
| @grahamsphillips good - analysis rather than polemic! | ||
| @TheGrumpyBitch @DPJHodges we did have rather different views on @Ed_Miliband (like I was one of Ed's biggest cheerleaders) | ||
| Fame at last, I'm in the UK's only Stalinist daily newspaper: http://t.co/gnsKLk9X0J | ||
| @MissLilySummers @jhallwood @tom_watson I'm not. Let's see how he does in the various sets of elections between now and 2020. | ||
| @charleyallan @danieljeffery26 @susanp_80 if he wins leader and then Tories thrash us I reserve right to say "I told you so | ||
| @susanp_80 @charleyallan it's my sincere opinion that it is stupid to vote for Corbyn so I will say it. | ||
| @lizab144 @OwenJones84 the ulterior motive is all the rule changes are about entrenching left factional control of the party | ||
| @martin_clark1 agreed. | ||
| @CallumWarwick96 @oxfordgirl no I retired last year - was Hackney cllr 2002-14. Moved to Oxford so stood down. | ||
| @ValerieMcDermot yes. Possible. Read the Liam Byrne analysis for why. | ||
| @louisstrisino @OwenJones84 can you not spot when someone is on a wind-up? | ||
| @DPJHodges I tried the not being polite thing today. It's really cathartic. | ||
| @MarkSeddon1962 @conradlandin modernisers = Progress; moderates = Labour First (we don't claim to be new or modern) | ||
| @patrickwintour I.e. historically NEC would ensure boundary changes would not lead to competitive reselections to avoid red on red fights. | ||
| @patrickwintour when changes were mooted last time there was a formula defining which MPs were treated as incumbents & only faced trigger | ||
| @SEANLWOODCOCK I will try to come across | ||
| @CallumWarwick96 @oxfordgirl I don't hold any elected office. | ||
| @shirleetemple @arjan____ I don't represent anyone - I hold no public office | ||
| @ClareBlair @jonlansman @Labourpaul happy for you to suggest an alternative metaphor | ||
| @ClareBlair @jonlansman @Labourpaul no I used it only as a metaphor for the left's speed of advance. | ||
| @ScalCapone @AndyHearn09 I refute that Labour has ever abandoned the poor. Last Labour government did loads for poorest communities. | ||
| @ScalCapone @AndyHearn09 the swing voters who went Tory in Nuneaton include many who are objectively working class | ||
| @jst_a_statistic @jonlansman @Labourpaul I am very rarely mean. | ||
| @jonlansman @Labourpaul bit of an overreaction to what was intended as a compliment to the speed of your advance... | ||
| @foodorwarmth @Harryb22 @awkwardsod @jeremycorbyn I have questioned your judgement not your loyalty. | ||
| @SeemaChandwani QED | ||
| @Rokewood @David_Goodhart indeed but the movement is in right direction. Check out all the great Vietnamese restaurants in Hoxton. | ||
| @Harryb22 @awkwardsod @foodorwarmth @jeremycorbyn because he has endorsed Yvette publicly. | ||
| @foodorwarmth @Harryb22 @awkwardsod @jeremycorbyn I would never compare you to ISIS but you do have similar momentum | ||
| @Harryb22 @awkwardsod @foodorwarmth @jeremycorbyn he isn't voting for Corbyn. | ||
| @awkwardsod @foodorwarmth @jeremycorbyn no actually my MP nominated Jeremy and opposes Trident. | ||
| @foodorwarmth @jeremycorbyn I didn't. I quoted an MP saying they had similar momentum - a compliment! | ||
| @foodorwarmth @jeremycorbyn because I want Labour to get maximum number of MPs that it can. And have an excellent local MP I want to keep. | ||
| @foodorwarmth @jeremycorbyn I always vote & campaign 4 Labour whoever the leader or candidate & whatever the policies | ||
| @ostercywriter @OwenJones84 @earthygirl01 I am backing Cooper & Watson this time. Neither is a Blairite. | ||
| @Andy4Leader what job did you offer him to get him to say that? | ||
| @itsdavegreen @LukeOHolland correct | ||
| @ostercywriter @OwenJones84 @earthygirl01 "Blairite"? Hilarious - you do know I supported Ed M? | ||
| .@OwenJones84 apologies, I meant to say "moving through the party with same shock & awe momentum the 82nd airborne had in Iraq in 2003". :) | ||
| @Labourpaul @sundersays they went home in 1918 | ||
| @valstevens24 Clynes | ||
| Good to get the latest guidance from the UK's most successful Trotskyist entryists: https://t.co/eA2kAi2XEK | ||
| @iMcKenzied don't forget the Typhoons and Tornados - same aircraft as taking on evil in Libya right now. | ||
| @Callum_Munro I would say disgusting rather than scary. | ||
| @mcgregormt paddy power | ||
| So far no rebuttal from Corbyn to say he will oppose mandatory reselection or converting £3 supporters into full members @fletchersimon | ||
| @AnnaYearley it's a way of intimidating MPs into falling into line. Ironically Blair never did this to people like Corbyn. | ||
| Jed (5) now playing w Star Wars toys "cos this is the right music | ||
| @OwenJones84 @_IanMoss Owen will you oppose the rule change @CLPD_Labour has circulated which makes deselection easier? | ||
| Anyone would think they are planning a big package of rule changes including easy deselection to go through September NEC. | ||
| Oddly none of the Corbyn backers I have tweeted have responded to say they will oppose the proposed rule change making deselection easier. | ||
| Will @CLPD_Labour oppose their own proposed rule changes designed to make deselection easier? | ||
| Will GRA NEC members oppose the rule change being promoted by @CLPD_Labour to make deselection easier? @PeterWillsman @ken4london | ||
| @BenSoffa @OwenJones84 @_IanMoss @CLPD_Labour no, could be debated this year if NEC comes under left control | ||
| @fletchersimon @OwenJones84 @MichaelLCrick will Jeremy oppose @CLPD_Labour proposed rule change to make deselection easier? | ||
| @OwenJones84 @_IanMoss proposed rule changes to make deselection easier are on the @CLPD_Labour website. | ||
| Corbyn supporting @CLPD_Labour are moving at this conference to make it easier to purge MPs who try to stand up to them. | ||
| Make sure you all vote for Hugh Gaitskell in the only Labour leadership poll that matters: https://t.co/tzxZ4xP4GR | ||
| Archbishop of Canterbury's frock has rather upstaged mother of bride's | ||
| @wallaceme @PoliticoVoice his CLP has always been like that. That's how he got selection - as left candidate vs Steve Reed | ||
| The battle to make Labour electable & moderate will continue whoever wins. Join Labour First's email list http://t.co/DKTf5W8a1b | ||
| My son has just asked why the Roman Emperor isn't at the wedding | ||
| @Odbe34 leadership announcement is on 12 September not at Annual Conference | ||
| @RichardAngell @AndyHarvey7 @ProgressOnline or me. | ||
| @StewartWood if it had been 600,000 people whose views were representative of ordinary Labour voters we would be celebrating. It isn't. | ||
| @WarGit the later voters r less decided for one candidate more likely to take notice of newspapers and senior politicians | ||
| @WarGit only about a third had voted at start of week. Guess 50% by now. | ||
| No need to SHOUT! https://t.co/hr1CKEA7gE | ||
| Welcome to the world where the actual election victory of Tories doesn't count vs imaginery votes of non-voters https://t.co/OV9hnNlcaY | ||
| @34marko @ScalCapone @reandrewslab @OwenJones84 elections are by definition decided by people who can be bothered to vote. | ||
| I'm at a loss to why hard left wd prefer losing badly to Tories under Corbyn to influencing govt policy from within under an electable ldr | ||
| @ScalCapone @reandrewslab @OwenJones84 this then falls flat as Labour voters and wider country not very leftwing at all. | ||
| @reandrewslab @OwenJones84 and why do you think they are treated with disdain? | ||
| @OwenJones84 also he got nominated on blatant lie that he was in it for widening debate not winning. Honourable course would be withdrawal. | ||
| @OwenJones84 basically don't run a divisive candidate if you don't like strong negative reactions. | ||
| Winter is coming. | ||
| @OwenJones84 @DenisMacShane @JohnRentoul then how come Blair OK to represent Quartet in Mid East? | ||
| @DenisMacShane @JohnRentoul it ought to be libel to acuse ppl of doing something illegal purely as a political assertion u disagreed w them | ||
| @AndyCharlwood @iMcKenzied I'd never heard of this statist/non-statist debate until last month. Passed me by in prev 22 yrs Lab membership | ||
| @mrchrisaddison It is - I just spent 2 weeks watching Rai Uno | ||
| @iMcKenzied says we didn't put worker reps on boards | ||
| @ashmcgregor hackney north CLP GC | ||
| @DuncanWeldon @guardian_clark I wd recommend reading "Breach of Promise" by Clive Ponting - v detailed history of fails of 64-70 govt | ||
| Graham Bash, Ed of Briefing starting by being complimentary to MG but then asks what has he got to say about reality of cuts, and intlism | ||
| I think Glasman is way too dismissive of acheivements of Labour govt. We in danger of talking down 2nd best govt in UK history | ||
| Says went to live in Italy soft left and came back a patriot who loved London and Labour | ||
| Glasman says core idea is restore democratic resistance to power of capital eg German models of employee power in companies +regional policy | ||
| @CarlPackman yes I have supported her since start of process | ||
| @DavidMills73 @camdentheo @JohnRentoul @LabourHistory surely the grandslam starts NOLS office, cllr, agent, NEC? | ||
| I think he's a bit starry eyed bout ppl of faith and rather dismissive of morals and family life of those of us of no faith | ||
| Glasman says Purple Book row was a hate fiesta with James Purnell as the antichrist | ||
| Glasman very upfront about Cruddas being his closest parliamentary ally | ||
| Tough questioning for Glasman on faith, family and women's issues | ||
| Lord Glasman about to speak - one of our local members, architect of Blue Labour, which may not be to taste of entire GC... | ||
| At Hackney N GC rallying the team to go to Thurrock campaigning this weekend and polling day | ||
| @PeterKenyon @Tom4Deputy @Corbyn4Leader and I have never mooted and don't support a leadership challenge. | ||
| @PeterKenyon @Tom4Deputy @Corbyn4Leader I didn't attend the meeting Tom did under Labour First auspices which was in May or early June. | ||
| @dlandoncole a D+D rulebook? | ||
| @BristolRed it was S Williams who beat me in 1993 | ||
| @BristolRed that's theoretically a safe LD seat isn't it? (I stood there in 1993 and was agent for it in '94) | ||
| @GeorgeAylett @nasmith59 because they are duplicates (members & supporters) or not on electoral register - only 3000 because not Labour | ||
| @Yats44 @LabourList once a week. | ||
| @bencobley or people that don't exist - ringers | ||
| @adrianmcmenamin @Dannythefink you defend the policy though so that next leader does not have to go through process of changing it back | ||
| @MickMcAteer @DanRCorry I have written publicly my stance on almost every major policy issue so not being obscure about what I support | ||
| @MickMcAteer @DanRCorry I have prpv | ||
| @eddwilson 2/3 have not voted yet according to the campaigns | ||
| @MickMcAteer @DanRCorry what we won with in 1997, updated. I loved most of what we did in government. | ||
| @SeemaChandwani I'm backing Sadiq and think he will win after transfers | ||
| Isn't the whole point of Corbyn that all the lefties would stop voting Green and TUSC and switch to Labour without needing a pact? | ||
| How about we do an electoral pact with normal middle England voters instead? https://t.co/HPY2khYMq8 | ||
| @stuartwramsay yes will try and look at it tomorrow. Limited web access in deepest Kent! | ||
| Fairly sure the main economic thinker on Corbyn wing of party is Socialist Action's John Ross, huge fan of Chinese economic model. Hmmm. | ||
| @Harryslaststand sadly Corbyn increases chances of your past being our future - ie Tory rule as swing voters scared of Labour | ||
| @TheRedRag @blacbloc that is because he lives in and represents a constituency in tube zone 1 | ||
| @RichardAngell and SE activists I spoke to yesterday said more campaigning by Lab in south than any time in last decade | ||
| @awkwardsod that's what I meant, I haven't seen one since then, which I think was before several key interventions | ||
| @EliotAndersen there were in 2010 | ||
| @Christy_McM I thought @workersliberty and @SocialistAct still practised entryism | ||
| @Christy_McM quite common historically for some student Labour clubs to be controlled by rival far left parties | ||
| @Salty765 @John_Ferrett I am a Unite member and voted @YvetteForLabour and @tom_watson | ||
| Unite seem a bit panicked that their members might be confused about or disagree with their nomination, don't they? | ||
| I actually feel really sorry for the decent sensible care about the party people on Labour left whose brand is being trashed by Corbyn | ||
| @campaigner odd because in Oxford West they had leaflets and posters and garden stakes. Looked pretty rival to me. | ||
| @Harryb22 yes and I submitted a detailed argument to review calling for the electoral college system to be kept | ||
| @BSedgwick3 we don't make a recommendation for Deputy but point out @tom_watson has longstanding link with us. I personally support him. | ||
| @KirkTiger the bar is set a bit higher than that | ||
| From triumphalist sneering to paranoid victimhood in 24 hours. Ho hum. | ||
| @IanWoodland @EmilyMaiden why mention Bennett and write "Green" not "green" if not about party? | ||
| @IanWoodland @EmilyMaiden new members as well as supporters are all being vetted | ||
| @IanWoodland @EmilyMaiden @natalieben she needs to argue that to the NEC. | ||
| @IanWoodland @EmilyMaiden indeed why would someone join Labour when they publicly support another party? | ||
| @EuroSue NEC members | ||
| @LazarGillard no I haven't been involved in vetting process in Oxford or anywhere else | ||
| @jonburkeUK @HuskieWalleyes @emmadentcoad yes it is NEC members who are making the final rulings | ||
| @jonburkeUK @HuskieWalleyes @emmadentcoad a protest against what? | ||
| @HuskieWalleyes @jonburkeUK @emmadentcoad and both panels are chaired by NEC members elected on GRA left ticket | ||
| @SocialistHealth presumably he will seek to abolish NPF and go back to resolutions at Annual Conference | ||
| Corbynites hinting at deselection threats need to be v careful what wish 4, I can think of several left MPs whose CLPs could remove them. | ||
| @bencobley I mean dies as a distinctive soft left as opposed to hard left initiative. Has been reabsorbed by Bennites. | ||
| Voting this evening? Recommendations for moderate NPF and CAC candidates: https://t.co/j4VRVSB3TJ | ||
| And so dies the Compass project. https://t.co/k9STgbVurn | ||
| @LadyMyler @DavidMills73 @CJTerry yes, before they announced the result | ||
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| @CherylNevin good | ||
| @CherylNevin I didn't so much mean his supporters as the interviews he has been giving e.g. Guardian today. Disappointing. | ||
| @Semakaleng yes and yes. Both Y + N campaigns have access to entire UK electoral register same as political parties do. | ||
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| @AnnaYearley I think @joedgoldberg had a t shirt like that for NUS Conference | ||
| @cpeedell @steve_race @thefabians no, Fabian convention is members speak as individuals and it takes no collective position. | ||
| Tory Zionist" does that score double? Proud Zionist, proud Labour. https://t.co/b0tCsaj1nK | ||
| @cpeedell @steve_race @thefabians you are vice-chair of another political party so it is none of your business. Who cares what u think? | ||
| @paulwilkinson4 for retweeting what? | ||
| @feedthedrummer it was waived for leadership elections in 2007 in order to use them as a recruitment exercise. Still stands for selections. | ||
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| @johndavidblake people's votes can be voided even after they have been cast. | ||
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| C) making sure everyone understands importantance of using all three preferences | ||
| B) personal persuasion of soft Corbyn supporters & people deciding between him and another candidate ..... | ||
| Corbyn can still be stopped if all moderates focus on a) GOTV of every possible non-Corbyn voter ... | ||
| @hopisen @adrianmcmenamin funnily enough I remember another version too | ||
| @red_labour I hope everyone serving on the NPF or NEC whoever they are voting for will act responsibly whoever wins | ||
| @RCollumbell the biogs and statements are sent out by the party in the ballot pack. | ||
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| @stephenkb yes | ||
| Remember Corbyn fans don't be cheated by using a 1 or an x, write "not Tory" diagonally across the ballot | ||
| @foodleedskidstv @KarimPalant @stephenkb Burnham needs to give his supporters a lead on who they should transfer to | ||
| @foodleedskidstv @KarimPalant @stephenkb he is going to get knocked out before Yvette anyway. | ||
| @foodleedskidstv @stephenkb a) we don't agree with his analysis | ||
| @aliceperryuk https://t.co/X1cNAYOqEa | ||
| @AmandaRamsay @labourpress eg members now quoted as 299000 | ||
| @AmandaRamsay @labourpress I think those are figures from yesterday morning. Loads more came in on day. | ||
| @AmandaRamsay sadly less active members are less aware of how the transferable voting system works. Need lots more noise about it. | ||
| @ericjoyce he has already lost all of those people to Corbyn. | ||
| @CalumSPlath surely they all want to quit parliament to be mayor? | ||
| Ok I'm on Radio 4's programme about Corbyn being broadcast now | ||
| @clubthanz1 shhhh don't let everyone know my secret mission | ||
| @bIairsupporter @clubthanz1 me? Neither. | ||
| @bIairsupporter the signature "Eric Honnecker" at tge the bottom is a bit of a giveaway - dead former East German Communist leader | ||
| @VincentN15N17 @JSuhermanBailey correct. And local intel on recent council candidates and nominators etc | ||
| I'm featuring on The Report on Radio 4 at 8pm tonight about Corbyn and his supporters | ||
| Hugely significant endorsement from leftwing former Unite Political Director, now chair of largest UK CLP https://t.co/IdhsCTOKe4 | ||
| @LauraSRobinson yes which is why we need to organise. | ||
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| @patrickmoule making similarly good speeches at every hustings but oddly not to broadcast media | ||
| @andrewlomas we haven't scheduled it yet. Probably November. | ||
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| @MikeFoster1403 there are other people wavering between Corbyn and mainstream who can be persuaded though | ||
| @totnesredgreen correct | ||
| @DavidMills73 @anthonypainter yes ok mea culpa, no need to rub it in! | ||
| @_IanMoss @adrianmcmenamin sorry yes I don't agree with John. | ||
| @adrianmcmenamin @_IanMoss no, the registered and affiliated supporter ballots are not being sent out yet due to vetting process | ||
| I suspect some of late registration surge will be as much to stop Corbyn as back him. I had people asking advice today about how to sign up. | ||
| @RooftopJaxx @MirrorPolitics no they don't. It is kept as an administration fee. | ||
| @LatteLabour @jellychrissy in practice it has only been used for extreme underperformance never to remove MPs because of their politics | ||
| Thanks for the warning. Again the spirit of unity prevails. https://t.co/QoOoIJTozE | ||
| Back to work! | ||
| @bencobley @renieanjeh @MatthewBlott actually he was only nominated by about 1/4 CLPs. Looked better as opponents split 3 ways. | ||
| @progint if you send links to tweets etc that prove people don't support Labour they will definitely be blocked from voting @aliceperryuk | ||
| @progint @UKLabour you need to email leadership2015@labour.org.uk with the details | ||
| @maxshanly I was on its executive. When Neal Lawson was a Blairite. | ||
| @maxshanly he gave £1000 to each of 106 target seats | ||
| @earthygirl01 @LabourList I am not a pundit I am a Labour activist | ||
| @ExSpAd also we already don't have a majority on the NEC or even last year the officers' group. | ||
| @ExSpAd no. Only full members. But that only costs £1 if you are under 26.... | ||
| @Abernsmate101 @LondonLabLeft @CalumSPlath @DianeforLondon @Angela4deputy we don't hypocritically disguise ourself as a "democracy campaign | ||
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| @JohnDClare I know, I run the rival one. But I find their name a bit ironic - especially as for years they opposed OMOV. | ||
| I love how a "democracy campaign" instructs people how to vote. https://t.co/EOIUtRNBbK | ||
| @Mrs_Labour workers there have until Wednesday to sign up to vote against him | ||
| @peterhalsey @RichardAngell @mattforde I got told yesterday it was "very negative" to want to beat the Tories | ||
| @AaronBastani Times story is nothing to do with me. I don't have access to check names nationally and would never give a story like that. | ||
| @LOS_Fisher using Google? | ||
| Thanks to the tube strike I am spending the day at @DreamlandMarg | ||
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| @peopleman44 @LabourList yes because the assembly candidates were not as leftwing as Ken | ||
| Check out Tom Watson. I just joined. http://t.co/Jxu7NlxHmE via @tom_watson | ||
| @LukemCresswell @LabourList I will be resurrecting my own blog to write about why I am supporting @YvetteForLabour and @tom_watson | ||
| @LukemCresswell @LabourList that's because it is Labourlist's editorial policy not to allow columnists to write pieces promoting a candidate | ||
| It's tactically daft to refuse to serve under Corbyn, Looks churlish and if he wins we need moderates in Shad Cab to defend policy red lines | ||
| @cardiffnan @theredflag87 have we met? | ||
| @Mangal2 sounds like Margate | ||
| At least in @LabourStudents we knew the words to this: https://t.co/iNNhLO5vMs | ||
| @Livingafloat sure there is an upsurge, doesn't mean it is a good thing. | ||
| @mark4thorne @Tony_McNulty @ProgressOnline no I don't. I supported Ed Miliband for ldr in 2010 & argued against Blairites. | ||
| Supporting Jeremy Corbyn is therapy, not politics http://t.co/IisrRFXwEA | ||
| . @IanIlett the next Labour leader is likely to stand against Boris Johnson and Nicola Sturgeon nationally. | ||
| @ariehkovler @MrsHudsonsHair @ShellyAsquith Birmingham Labour Party meetings I've been to are attended by loads of Sikhs & Kashmiri Muslims | ||
| @BrummieGran @davidaslindsay @andrewspoooner the chair was one of his allies and has also stood against Labour | ||
| Heading to Blackbird Leys with @LabLinda75 for @Oxford_Labour #labourdoorstep | ||
| @Hatter71 I don't support Burnham | ||
| @jonburkeUK @TimMacpherson @Saggydaddy many but not necessarily a majority. | ||
| @jonburkeUK @TimMacpherson @Saggydaddy not sure why I was tagged, I will do same amount of campaigning for Labour whoever is leader. | ||
| @davidaslindsay @atticusfinch104 I am in favour of all 3 and think Corbyn will reduce the chances of achieving any of them | ||
| @forwardnotback he was called from the floor by the chair. They knew who he was as he ran against Labour in Liverpool mayor election. | ||
| @andrewlomas yes the root of the crisis is loss of the unions | ||
| @Phillip_D_Jones @MikeGapes no they mean anyone not supporting Corbyn including the soft left, party centre and old right | ||
| @Phillip_D_Jones @MikeGapes it hasn't been in the leadership since 2007 | ||
| @ClissoldLabour we don't nominate in leadership elections. Viewed locally as divisive as we have diverse range of views here. | ||
| @RhonddaBryant and the completely different economic circumstances and political culture in those 2 countries compared to UK | ||
| @Jillnarin I don't support Liz Kendall | ||
| @timsykes3 @GracieSamuels @Phillip_D_Jones they are representative of a tiny section of wider public | ||
| @GracieSamuels @Phillip_D_Jones @jeremyforlabour they are often the same people | ||
| @Jillnarin and certainly don't think public, most of who voted Con or UKIP this May, will support him. | ||
| @GracieSamuels @Phillip_D_Jones 43. I was already helping in elections when I was 11. | ||
| @GracieSamuels @Phillip_D_Jones no it will have to be taken on and beaten like it was in 1980s | ||
| @peopleman44 @isunshineblack you don't even use normal language. Phrases like "neo-liberal" & "austerity" are meaningless jargon. | ||
| @DPJHodges @Jonathan_Todd no it underlines that loads of "Blairites" are backing Yvette e.g. @Labourpaul | ||
| @Phillip_D_Jones @LeonieC @paulwaugh no they don't they show the others are over dependent on CLPs we already hold. | ||
| @J_R_Douglas @OwenFields1 pretty much | ||
| @J_R_Douglas @OwenFields1 but if in Oxford East I would say we have an excellent local MP who deserves support regardless of national party | ||
| @Saggydaddy @Rowan_Draper just as I would campaign hard for a Corbyn led Labour party | ||
| @RC_Garrick @EllieCumbo we should form a left/right dream ticket | ||
| @DocMartin457 @Jake_Wilde @stephenkb it's going to decide the outcome so get used to it. | ||
| @stephenkb and I have never backed a losing candidate for Labour leader! | ||
| @stephenkb that's their problem. | ||
| @stephenkb @RhonddaBryant @HouseofTwits and I don't believe Burnham can come second any more so key thing is to get behind Cooper | ||
| @stephenkb @RhonddaBryant @HouseofTwits I say "there would be a tight run-off between Cooper and Corbyn. | ||
| @stephenkb @RhonddaBryant @HouseofTwits you are quite right it is the fourth para from end where I say it. | ||
| @stephenkb by 2% at moment which is reversible. I think the balance of registered supporter recruitment is going to alter. | ||
| @doktordunc @_IanMoss @foodleedskidstv @LauraSRobinson @wesstreeting sometimes think am the only exNOLSie who kept talking to all 3 factions | ||
| @craigawoodhouse @LabourList @paulwaugh @BBCNormanS because I wrote my article yesterday not realising they had extended the deadline | ||
| @_IanMoss @foodleedskidstv @LauraSRobinson @wesstreeting I'm bringing Duncan into this conversation @doktordunc | ||
| @LauraSRobinson @_IanMoss @wesstreeting yes | ||
| @LauraSRobinson @_IanMoss @wesstreeting never but regularly in their Periscope gossip column | ||
| @twcuddleston keep saying what you think | ||
| Very sad read. http://t.co/wWmRJIrEue | ||
| @GabrielScally @LabourLeft by a pollster with no track record of political polling in the UK | ||
| Interesting interview with @tom_watson http://t.co/N4G4C9tofr | ||
| @warelane I didn't know you were a fellow Moz fan | ||
| @ScoutSleepe you seem to have us confused with the Blairite group Progress which is funded by Lord Sainsbury | ||
| @totnesredgreen yes, tonight. | ||
| @ScoutSleepe @JohnDClare you said a few tweets ago I should be expelled because of my job and my views | ||
| @stephen_such @ScoutSleepe @UKLabour lol | ||
| @Sammykaine no because that is irrelevant as we have FPTP in general elections. But preference voting within Labour. | ||
| @ScoutSleepe @JohnDClare because I think you have probably only been back in the Labour Party a few weeks, but trying to expel me! | ||
| @ScoutSleepe @kinghani well I think we should all be in same party, want Labour to grow not shrink, and don't want to expel ppl I disagree w | ||
| My wife has just accused me of trolling people. No idea what she means. #stopcorbyn | ||
| @anthonyjwells: New post: ComRes/Mail - CON 40, LAB 28, LDEM 7, UKIP 10, GRN 5 http://t.co/AyKwPYatwe” more Corbyn mania strikes voters | ||
| @ScoutSleepe @kinghani I have never written to the Labour Party about Corbyn, wrote to Labour First which is a network of ppl who agree w me | ||
| @owenhb_ @NiclasReddish no | ||
| @Abernsmate101 @keiranpedley yes but he isn't second in every CLPs. Many have been Cooper vs Burnham fights. | ||
| @Abernsmate101 @keiranpedley who won it? Not clear from your tweet. | ||
| @owenhb_: @lukeakehurst Give over, if you're genuinely stooping this low then leave and don't come back” I'm Labour till I die. | ||
| @davidaslindsay @stokey4labour @PaulSandars @Corbyn4Leader my bit of the right wanted to keep the electoral college | ||
| @LukemCresswell @PaulSandars but you are consumed with negativity towards everyone to your right | ||
| @LukemCresswell @PaulSandars no why would I do that? My family have been Labour members since 1920. Only leaving in a box. | ||
| @Iankingston73 he might but not inevitable | ||
| @Carefulthought I'm not carping just commenting as momentum is important in these races. | ||
| @Sarah_Hayward Google | ||
| @VincentN15N17 for one moment I thought that was actually a real response. | ||
| @GerryHassan @iainmartin1 eh, he only went up 3 tonight | ||
| @davidaslindsay @HayteratLords so Gordon and Ed are Blairites? FFS. | ||
| @doktordunc guy with candidate specific Twibbon accuses guy with whole party's symbol Twibbon of being sectarian. | ||
| @ShneurOdze @TheStaggers I will be doing that for my labourlist column | ||
| @MichaelEzra @JohnRentoul nip and tuck. Not over yet. | ||
| @charliemansell @stephenkb net the reforms disenfranchised loads of people. Awful. | ||
| @Carefulthought deadline is tomorrow | ||
| @susanp_80 and he lost | ||
| There are 649 CLPs. Corbyn has only been nominated by 133 of them. | ||
| @JossMacDonald I am very negative about the idea of him becoming leader. | ||
| @jeff_wode for a frontrunner you all seem unusually thin-skinned | ||
| @JohnDMerry yes that's why I keep making so much noise about people needing to transfer to #stopcorbyn | ||
| @KyeDudd with their 1st preference vote yes. But I am using my 2nd and 3rd preferences to #stopcorbyn | ||
| @jeff_wode and your feedback is actually taken quite seriously by me. Not that you are really a swing vote in this contest. | ||
| @PetersWooll @UndercoverMutha Whitstable Bay Ale actually | ||
| Aren't viruses usually quite difficult to beat? #stopcorbyn | ||
| @reandrewslab I'm proud of Labour First and its history. The party needs an organised campaign to stop the Hard Left, now more than ever. | ||
| @simondraper I have been positively promoting @YvetteForLabour throughout the campaign | ||
| @reandrewslab Labour First has existed since 1988 with same mission statement of beating the Hard Left. | ||
| @reandrewslab but see all my Labourlist columns where I have made the case in great detail | ||
| Let's make #stopcorbyn go "viral". Join Labour First's mailing list: http://t.co/EFD6VkTGwW … … | ||
| CWU: "The grip of the Blairites and individuals like Peter Mandelson must now be loosened once and for all." What grip since 2010????? | ||
| Both "swarm" and "virus" are nasty dehumanising ways to describe people. | ||
| @DaveSemple no I'm not a fan of crude triangulation: http://t.co/0xMwraBuNn | ||
| Clement Attlee detested faddish radicalism – you couldn’t say that Jeremy Corbyn is his heir http://t.co/0ACmQsIgHZ | ||
| @kenningtonkitty when you were in NOLS office the NOLS vote was cast to put me on the LCER executive. | ||
| @migrationman general elections are fought under First Past the Post. This election is fought under Alternative Vote so winner needs 50%. | ||
| CLP nominations so far: Corbyn 133, Not Corbyn 220. All still to play for. | ||
| @stephenkb not sure that's quite what I said to Liz in June! | ||
| @MartinHeneghan @forwardnotback though several members of my old CLP in Hackney proudly self described as Trotskyists | ||
| @MartinHeneghan @forwardnotback I very clearly said the opposite on @LabourList yesterday | ||
| @ValerieMcDermot he's ahead but close in final round | ||
| @808sdgs yes when I joined aged 16 in 1988 my first thought was to capture Labour for ordo-liberalism. | ||
| @reddickpaul you may want to sign up to Labour First mailing list: http://t.co/EFD6VkTGwW | ||
| Dan Hodges is not advocating what Golding did over the manifesto. He is advocating a repeat of madness that saw SDP defectors vote for Foot. | ||
| @renieanjeh that is not what Golding did, it is what SDP defectors who voted for Foot did | ||
| @jondalladay @JeremyCliffe they have no excuse for their stupidity | ||
| @_IanMoss @LauraSRobinson @anthonypainter we don't need to rally behind one candidate. Just transfer to each other. | ||
| @KarimPalant @anthonypainter @LauraSRobinson @_IanMoss just childish trolling. Sectarian sniping while Labour faces an existential crisis. | ||
| @_IanMoss @LauraSRobinson @anthonypainter look if Liz ends up being in the final two our transfers go to her. This is reciprocal. | ||
| @thatJamesWest my old stuff is all still at http://t.co/xKxWgs7hwI - you can track my political journey! | ||
| @thatJamesWest very happy here | ||
| @thatJamesWest @reddeviljp @LabourList to be honest I write far less than 8-9 years ago when I was blogging every day | ||
| @thatJamesWest @reddeviljp @LabourList no, it's a weekly column I have always written. | ||
| @CllrLeonSpence @JonAshworth that is the point Jon is making. SDP just damaged left. MPs from right who stayed eventually won party back. | ||
| @fletchersimon it's all gone down hill since I left | ||
| @stephenkb Herbert Morrison | ||
| @stephenkb rightwing trade union leaders controlling 90% of the votes at party conference | ||
| @stephenkb a Royal Navy with 17 aircraft carriers | ||
| @bencobley the whole scenario is unsustainable. | ||
| @bencobley no they would just reassert the PLP's right to collectively decide the whip | ||
| @Labourpaul only the results after transfers count | ||
| All the coaches home to Oxford r late/full, it's raining & my umbrella broke, Corbyn is 2% ahead. Wake me up from this nightmare pls. | ||
| @JFGElliott you are sui generis | ||
| @SeemaChandwani how do you know? Feedback I have had is that transfers have stopped Corbyn in a number of CLPs. | ||
| @SeemaChandwani yes and everyone has understood that means filling in the ballot 1,2,3. | ||
| @SeemaChandwani yes that's exactly why I have been saying use all of preferences 1, 2 and 3. | ||
| @SeemaChandwani same thing: "single round preferential voting system | ||
| @SeemaChandwani a redistribution of votes shall take place according to preferences indicated on the ballot paper. |
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| @SeemaChandwani so apportioned shall be declared elected. If no candidate reaches this total on the count of first preference votes, |
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| @SeemaChandwani 2015 Rulebook Page 14 Clause II. Procedural rules for elections for national officers of the Party , rule C ix |
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| @SeemaChandwani what do you mean "it's not an exhaustive ballot". It is. | ||
| @therubykid in my experience most Blairites born into/long term members b4 Blair of party and converted from soft left, not "entered" it. | ||
| @therubykid @AndrewGilbert1 who has the UK franchise on FI. Is it @SocialistAct ? | ||
| @therubykid @AndrewGilbert1 but clearly revolutionary and democratic socialists should be in different parties? | ||
| Kinnock Militant speech worth rewatching but so is this one, Gaitskell "Fight, Fight and Fight Again": https://t.co/WxhxaYdNuv | ||
| @ChrispLOL their director used phrase Corbyn-lite to describe Yvette and Andy | ||
| @ChrispLOL quite a few of their key people have been saying to me Liz 1 then no transfer. | ||
| @ChrispLOL @LabourList very necessary | ||
| @tessafrost I know that's cobblers but it is what the British public very firmly believe. | ||
| @tessafrost canvassing I did during and since election got constant refrain that we spent money the country didn't have. | ||
| @tessafrost but to swing voters just reminds them of Tory narrative that we are spendthrifts who can't be trusted on the economy | ||
| @tessafrost the problem with Jeremy's narrative about austerity is it appeals to ppl like us already on the left, .... | ||
| @tessafrost her views are a lot closer to those of average voters in seats we need to form a majority. | ||
| @DanJCooke1 that's why the leader speech at conference is called the parliamentary report. | ||
| @DanJCooke1 it's just one role. In fact until recently leader was only leader of PLP not party in country. | ||
| @tessafrost ok please explain to me why Corbyn would be more able to win an election than Cooper? Who exactly would like his politics? | ||
| @tessafrost I genuinely fear evidence is a shift to left will mean we get thrashed in 2020 and people endure 10 not 5 years of Tories. | ||
| @tessafrost everyone in Labour has hope and passion, it's not exclusive to Jeremy's supporters. | ||
| @tessafrost no that's not my intention. Just prefer you got real about Corbyn's threat to Labour's electability now not after a Tory win. | ||
| @Phillip_D_Jones @LabourEoin ha I read that as gaining 6%! Oops | ||
| @tessafrost if Corbyn has 50% support after transfers he wins, if he doesn't he doesn't. That's how Labour voting system works. | ||
| @tessafrost there isn't anything undemocratic about tactical voting in a multi candidate election being conducted w preferential voting | ||
| @tessafrost I argued very publicly for him to be on the ballot: http://t.co/JxXwCviL5u | ||
| @tessafrost I do respect it, many of my personal friends support him. | ||
| @tessafrost there isn't any name calling in it. We just don't have the same politics as Jeremy. | ||
| @NiallMFC91 could be any of Corbyn Cooper or Burnham | ||
| My 2012 guide to the groups making up Labour's Hard Left, all now backing Corbyn: http://t.co/kary1uvbNb | ||
| @HildaPalmer "hard left" is the term Jeremy and other Bennites use to describe themselves. Soft Left = P Hain, C Short, R Cook etc | ||
| @johnmcternan @DPJHodges @PhilNTaylor @PeterWatt123 reinforced of course by electoral imperative of F6PTP NEC elections... | ||
| @johnmcternan @DPJHodges @PhilNTaylor @PeterWatt123 I'm midly obsessed w project of how u keep broad aliance of Lab moderates united | ||
| @johnmcternan @DPJHodges @PhilNTaylor @PeterWatt123 it's funny/sad how these divisions recurr through generations... | ||
| @johnmcternan @DPJHodges @PhilNTaylor @PeterWatt123 perhaps credit 4 that realignment actually lies w Kinnock though | ||
| @johnmcternan @DPJHodges @PhilNTaylor @PeterWatt123 for instance M Hodge is a Blairite but came from a left not right tradition | ||
| Good to hear from a thoughtful and considered @tom_watson in Oxford tonight, rising above name calling in the leadership race #tom4deputy | ||
| @wmtolley no his chancellor was known as "austerity Cripps". | ||
| @bevclack @Oxford_Labour @tom_watson @michele_paule on my way! | ||
| @GrahamAllenMP @maxshanly yes the lesson is vote for leadership candidates from the centre of the party like Attlee was | ||
| @BatchelorCl @PRCAIngham @JonAshworth and a breach of PRCA ethical code? ;) | ||
| @BatchelorCl @PRCAIngham @JonAshworth prima facie fraud to sign a false statement | ||
| @PRCAIngham @JonAshworth yes £3 when London Tories charged only £1 | ||
| @PRCAIngham @JonAshworth it's almost same as one Tories used to pick Boris as mayor. | ||
| @ricktoomer @paulleake we won't be nominating in the two Oxford CLPs either. Seen locally as divisive. | ||
| @wildman_adam he can win if the supporters of the others don't transfer to each other | ||
| @JonAshworth @BarrieCunning no the onus is on secretaries to regularly check Member Centre | ||
| @wmtolley @juliangbell I think my current employer may be an issue there | ||
| @maurice1941 why? I don't support Liz Kendall so her number of nominations doesn't concern me. | ||
| @KarimPalant @Conorpope staff can and should join in identifying and blocking | ||
| @stephenkb @ChrispLOL 88+14+101? | ||
| @RichardAngell @TomMillerUK @gusbbaker @_IanMoss they have different views to Liz. That's why there are 4 cands not 2. | ||
| @juliangbell report to compliance unit at HQ then she won't get a vote. | ||
| @theqeld they did | ||
| @LatteLabour I have my differences with the latter but can't think of any who would ever defect | ||
| @chrisrumfitt @gusbbaker @RichardAngell @TomMillerUK @_IanMoss more seriously haven't seen anything I would call pandering | ||
| Heading back from St David's to be in Oxford for tonight's @tom_watson meeting. Great holiday - can recommend Pembrokeshire. | ||
| @anthonypainter that isn't the line. One thing to learn from 1980s is always follow the line from @spellar | ||
| @DPJHodges @PhilNTaylor @PeterWatt123 I'm not sure makes sense 4 them to have an identity distinct from broader Labour right. What's benefit | ||
| @danielblaney because u want us to have unpopular policies? Surely if what hard left believe is so great it ought to b able to win 50pc? | ||
| @KarimPalant @Conorpope if not organised it isn't entryism. | ||
| @Conorpope and a proper definition of entryism means members of another party not just voters, and organised joining not spontaneous | ||
| @SeemaChandwani @RC_Garrick I was thinking about the people running those parties, not individuals. "Entryism" is organised not individual | ||
| @RC_Garrick @SeemaChandwani why are you attacking a tweet that was intended at rubishing the allegations about entryism? | ||
| @garydunion not same, just better and closer than the other party left in final round | ||
| @DPJHodges @PhilNTaylor @PeterWatt123 ... Now needs coalition stretching from Balls to Ed M to Progress. | ||
| @DPJHodges @PhilNTaylor @PeterWatt123 ... to win. In 1994 took coalition stretching from Blair to Brown to Cook to reshape Labour | ||
| TUSC, Greens etc want Labour to move rightwards to open a space for them so no reason they would bother with entryism to move Labour to left | ||
| Important to note the big surge in Labour recruitment has been full members not £3 supporters and happened before Corbyn decided to run. | ||
| @DPJHodges @PhilNTaylor @PeterWatt123 ...incarnation of tradition that has always existed in party. By itself is too narrowly defined.. | ||
| I don't think there is entryism on any great scale. More similar to wave of idealistic kids who backed McGovern in 1972. Nixon thrashed him. | ||
| @garydunion @TomHarrisMP @rickmuir1 no we attack the LDs and Greens as being unworthy of ppl's votes of any preference | ||
| @VincentN15N17 usually the opposite | ||
| @MarkFerris3 @corbynjokes @janemerrick23 the joke is that Jeremy is famously dour and doesn't tell jokes | ||
| @MarkFerris3 @corbynjokes @janemerrick23 the whole point of the account is the jokes are not supposed to be funny! | ||
| @MnWthtQualities probably but who cares? | ||
| @TomBeattie2010 we are all toast | ||
| Charlie Brooker on the referendum campaign: http://bit.ly/fEKLhf | ||
| I like Angela Eagle a lot but her claim to be above factionalism is undermined by her w Corbyn being officially endorsed by @CLPD_Labour | ||
| @JFGElliott @LabourStudents sounds good | ||
| @JFGElliott @LabourStudents I'll explain the history over a beer some time! | ||
| Without comment https://t.co/I8exBCABFL | ||
| @BristolRed you can as a CLP ask HQ to block any names you see sign up from other parties | ||
| @stephenkb @LukeOHolland @YvetteCooperMP wow | ||
| @LukeOHolland @YvetteCooperMP 14 according to @stephenkb | ||
| @LauraSRobinson who would have thought that would be the case 30 years ago? | ||
| @jamiebarnes82 each extra non voter who goes Lab only half as effective as flipping someone from Con to Lab as that reduces their vote too | ||
| @jamiebarnes82 we know who they are from turnout figures by constituency and the marked register | ||
| @BenYaminHowey @jamiebarnes82 e.g. Australia has compulsory voting but similar conservative victory to UK in most recent election | ||
| @BenYaminHowey @jamiebarnes82 my hunch is that getting them all to vote wouldn't necessarily help Labour | ||
| This is brilliant: http://t.co/Fw86CSEIDQ | ||
| I would also call on @ProgressOnline to make clear that as well as endorsing Kendall they want transfers to go to Cooper and Burnham. | ||
| @Tina_Attwood you probably don't want to join Labour First's mailing list then | ||
| Keep calm and organise to stop Corbyn. Join Labour First's mailing list: http://t.co/EFD6VkTGwW | ||
| @JenGerber79 he could come first under FPTP but lose if people transfer in a sensible way | ||
| @SeemaChandwani not saying it's good but is how some CLPs work | ||
| @DJSkelton @atulh @PCollinsTimes alternative theory I set out on Labourlist is activists now more moderate than armchair members ... | ||
| @Phillip_D_Jones @iMcKenzied @John_Ferrett @BobC1965 an atypical area as it does have the kind of voters who liked Ed M | ||
| @Phillip_D_Jones @iMcKenzied @John_Ferrett @BobC1965 our vote was going direct to Tories in seats I canvassed in Reading, Southampton, MK | ||
| @Phillip_D_Jones @iMcKenzied @John_Ferrett @BobC1965 voters I canvassed in marginals cited distrust of our economic plans as well | ||
| @Phillip_D_Jones @iMcKenzied @John_Ferrett @BobC1965 yes but by piling up surplus majorities in safe seats while losing votes in swing seats | ||
| @MrsBurgin Burnham and Flint. Big North West links may have swung it to Burnham. | ||
| @JohnRentoul @LeaBenne no these are the ones already received. They seem to come in batches. | ||
| @JohnRentoul @LeaBenne @IndyOnSunday it is up to Unite to pass them on. Registration can include saying yes to a Unite phone call or email | ||
| @AMoveToTheLeft @jakegoretzki @MayaGoodfellow BBC describes it as unconditional/virtually unconditional http://t.co/poKLLoNvE6 | ||
| @AMoveToTheLeft @jakegoretzki @MayaGoodfellow no there were no talks it was an unconditional surrender without negotiations | ||
| @TheDecider25 @jakegoretzki initially was colonial style with military governors and allied appointed mayors | ||
| @TheDecider25 @jakegoretzki we occupied them and imposed a democratic system of govt with UK and USA writing the constitution | ||
| @richardmarcj @Conorpope because NEC wrongly thought main electoral problem was gaining MSPs not holding MPs.... | ||
| @richardmarcj @Conorpope @LabourList party changed to organising on Scottish Parliamentary boundaries up there | ||
| @binny_uk they create momentum, that's all. Some CLPs that nominate may then email members and encourage them to back "their" candidate. | ||
| @BOBrien451 Friday meetings are usually timed to enable the MP to be there | ||
| @NHC75 tend to be places outside London where they time it for Friday so the MP can be there and often "lead" the CLP politically | ||
| @HintonKath only 160 of 635 nationwide have nominated so far. Most GMs fall in second half of month so will be a late flurry. | ||
| @Keith_Vaz @YvetteCooperMP excellent choices! | ||
| @GraysPsephology it's a lot better than the 2010 edition | ||
| @TomHarrisMP on this "progressive majority" Q. There had better be as democratic govt requires popular consent. | ||
| @derekdraper my excuse is my parents were Bennites | ||
| @JFGElliott @stephenkb we unexpectedly publicly relaunched Labour 1st which was last in news when Kinnock was leader | ||
| Bizarre how Corbyn and his supporters believe things I did when I was 11 and then revised my approach when I read the 1983 election results | ||
| @JFGElliott @stephenkb to be honest email's primary purpose was keeping you off the NPF, Corbyn not an issue when I wrote it! | ||
| @JFGElliott @stephenkb we had to say something about leader and only thing agreed on was "not Jeremy". | ||
| @JFGElliott @stephenkb email was sent before Corbyn surge and just reflected we couldn't agree which of other 3 to back! | ||
| @JFGElliott @stephenkb not ramping though, genuinely think he is doing well. | ||
| @cazziemacca @Dannythefink instead of thinking about people and policies you like, why not empathise with how swing voters feel? | ||
| @cazziemacca @Dannythefink the problem is that people adored by Labour left terrify ordinary voters | ||
| @ADBremner @Dannythefink authentically wrong. | ||
| @Isobel_waby: sadly it would seem LP is being run by luke akehurst these days and his connections to Israel” In my dreams! | ||
| @cazziemacca @DavidMills73 @GazFenemore @Jonathan_Todd @adamjlent most people literally no idea what we are on about when we say "austerity | ||
| @cazziemacca @DavidMills73 @GazFenemore @Jonathan_Todd @adamjlent most of public feel economy getting better and not impacted by "austerity | ||
| @cazziemacca @DavidMills73 @GazFenemore @Jonathan_Todd @adamjlent Tories carefully targeted cuts at ppl who already vote Labour | ||
| @davies42g @MissEllieMae it makes a lot of sense. | ||
| @davies42g @MissEllieMae no | ||
| @davies42g @MissEllieMae what rule changes? | ||
| @davies42g @MissEllieMae no I am just a Labour member with a bunch of opinions | ||
| @Steph_Peacock @Hales_RowleyCLP great CLP and a great PPC, so sorry you did not win | ||
| @alexsobel he was to the right of me in NEC voting pattern 2010-2012. | ||
| So Ken played at being leadership lackey on NEC since 2010 but now mask slips and he is backing Corbyn. | ||
| @Phillip_D_Jones @MissEllieMae no I think they are born centrist and want fairness, good public services, but also fiscal restraint | ||
| @danielblaney @MissEllieMae for all our sakes I hope we don't have to test Jeremy's electability. | ||
| @Odbe34 I am not famous for agreeing with Ken | ||
| @MissEllieMae I'm just not keen on history of party being appropriated to make ahistorical analogies. | ||
| @stephenkb both of them had a very good night tonight - Liz 5 big London CLPs, Yvette half a dozen spread in lots of regions | ||
| @stephenkb Andy and Liz? | ||
| @stephenkb you are missing some Yvette ones from tonight - all in my Twitter feed | ||
| @PickardJE might cause a sudden loss of members in Aerospace and Automotive sectors ... | ||
| @maxshanly for some reason rs21 haven't interviewed me... | ||
| Lots of Oxford Labour members picking @YvetteForLabour after storming performance at Oxford hustings. | ||
| @SeemaChandwani we have the debate - and a hustings with all the Ldr and Dep candidates and 350 tickets sold happening tonight | ||
| @BOBrien451 I think most CLP Secretaries will be aware, and in many CLPs nominations still done by delegate GCs not AMMs | ||
| @BOBrien451 they wouldn't receive notification of the meeting | ||
| @SalmanRukhsar27 that we might manage to get a few % more to vote but they aren't the answer to winning an election | ||
| @nomauvaisefoi @HamishP95 @atulh yes but with centrist moderate policies | ||
| @nomauvaisefoi @HamishP95 @atulh swing voters vote with their heads and wallets not their hearts | ||
| @Jon_Proctor92 @paddyjpf92 Labour First was set up in 1988 by trade unionists. Different culturally and politically to Progress. | ||
| @Odbe34 @TomMillerUK @Robin_CG I am a friend of the author and agree with most of it (not the end bit) | ||
| @susanp_80 people complained it was boring when I tweeted positive stuff about Yvette! | ||
| @Jon_Proctor92 @paddyjpf92 I don't support Liz Kendall | ||
| @nomauvaisefoi and Corbyn is working class? | ||
| @Jon_Proctor92 because I disagree with it | ||
| @Odbe34 that was in 1920s! | ||
| @nomauvaisefoi @atulh why have you signed up to join Labour then? | ||
| @nomauvaisefoi @atulh not enough Blairites or Bennites to win an election unless they work together and compromise | ||
| @nomauvaisefoi @atulh Labour is a coalition including everyone from Benn to Blair. Leader probably needs to be somewhere in between. | ||
| @Odbe34 we didn't extend a hand of friendship, we held tough negotiations | ||
| .@nomauvaisefoi @atulh I joined when I was 16 in 1988 and will stay until I die whoever wins the leadership | ||
| @Odbe34 they were never described as friends | ||
| @KevinPMeagher @PaulSandars @georgeeaton most CLPs meet at end of month. And some like Oxford don't nominate to maintain unity. | ||
| @mehdirhasan @jaystoll why would you be polite to terrorists? | ||
| .@joe3469 neat use of antisemitic trope about "Mossad" payments there. | ||
| U.S. Election slogans. Democrats on Republican Barry Goldwater 1964: "in your guts you know he's nuts". | ||
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| @LauraSRobinson my bit of Labour right didn't | ||
| @MrsBurgin its preferential voting so no need to tactical vote with first choice, can do that with transfers | ||
| @PCollinsTimes @JamesFrith approx 80000 of 260000 joined in last 12 months. Maybe some DM supporters walked in 2010. | ||
| @DanJudelson yes I believe he should be on ballot and democratically defeated. | ||
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| Ate all 10 of the antipasti (highlight deep fried courgette flowers stuffed ricotta) + pasta course + 3 pork chops w caponnata | ||
| Just had lunch at superb Osteria del Tempo Perso in Ostuni - return visit after 9 years. Special Easter feast menu. 2 confessions: | ||
| @Marnerbanana Labour First doesn't have a collective preferred candidate, we have key people backing each of Burnham, Cooper and Kendall | ||
| @ivanwhite48 @_IanMoss @PCollinsTimes because they start off more aligned with public opinion than we do. | ||
| @stephenkb @gusbbaker or 1st on first round and only beaten after transfers | ||
| @perhourmyles1 I am not a supporter of triangulation - read what I wrote in 2010: http://t.co/0xMwraBuNn | ||
| @Bettwsboy there's no escape - royal wedding update every night on TV news even here in Italy | ||
| Me about Corbyn on the Daily Politics - starts at 44.44 http://t.co/ciPQjv7Q7b via @bbciplayer | ||
| @GEddy039 @LabourList @TheHodmeister it was on national TV | ||
| @davidaslindsay @hopisen because she isn't. | ||
| @hopisen it's become like a mirror image of Corbyn, ideological purity for sake of it. A tragic waste of good people on crap policies. | ||
| @hopisen it isn't that ppl like me have gone one step to left, it's that Blairite right seems kamikaze fixated on being more unpopular | ||
| @hopisen I've held approx the same beliefs on every issue since 1988 so I rather resent idea I have repositioned to outflank you | ||
| @hopisen I consider myself one mile to right of rest of Labour on foreign policy and one step to your left on domestic | ||
| @SeemaChandwani @jonlansman we are yin and yang | ||
| @Scrafflad hard left is the self description of Campaign Group of MPs. Far left would be SWP etc. | ||
| @thatJamesWest @robertcp need to check but think he voted Kinnock not Hattersley in 1983 | ||
| @jonburkeUK probably not | ||
| @MidWalesMike @GracieSamuels @JackyHolyoake no I wrote an email to people who ask to be on the mailing list | ||
| @MidWalesMike @JackyHolyoake @GracieSamuels fine I am very proud that I am trying to stop Jeremy as I think he would make us unelectable | ||
| Time to retweet link to one of my key past articles on limits of triangulation in light of today's events: http://t.co/krGSCMNORL | ||
| @MidWalesMike @JackyHolyoake @GracieSamuels it's not trying to "twist a selection" to oppose a candidate you don't agree with | ||
| @MidWalesMike @JackyHolyoake @GracieSamuels I'm happy to be judged on record of how I have voted and what acheived as a councillor etc. | ||
| @adamskihealth @Jasperfirst read what I wrote attacking triangulation: http://t.co/krGSCMNORL | ||
| Feel party members should get an induction course explaining pluralism and that there are different valid opinion within party. | ||
| @MidWalesMike @GracieSamuels @JackyHolyoake the party voting system is preference voting not first past the post | ||
| @HamishP95 @stephenkb membersnet, party activity section, foot of the page about rulebook etc | ||
| @fghays22 @andrew_graeme @MrsBurgin I don't think so. Let's agree to differ, as I am not planning to disband Labour First after 27 years. | ||
| @fghays22 @andrew_graeme @MrsBurgin "disrepute" is an allegation of rule breaking. As a former NEC member would ask you to withdraw that. | ||
| @fghays22 @andrew_graeme @MrsBurgin and I am quite sure Corbyn and his team (who I get on well with) are relaxed about it. | ||
| @fghays22 @andrew_graeme @MrsBurgin I'm sorry if you don't like it but a lot of people do - loads have signed up for the emails in last 24 | ||
| @fghays22 @andrew_graeme @MrsBurgin and am only able to suggest "ganging up" as other 3 are closer to each other than JC | ||
| @RC_Garrick fairly sure it is how LRC, CLPD and Campaign Group of MPs describe themselves | ||
| @SeemaChandwani I love that you get so much entertainment from my tweets | ||
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| @anthonyleahy IFS produce analysis of redistributive impact of all fiscal and benefit measures. | ||
| @fghays22 @MrsBurgin we need agree to differ. I am equally proud to positively support Yvette and to try to stop Corbyn. | ||
| @fghays22 and organising is not a bad thing - democracy requires campaigns which require organisation | ||
| @SetSpeed @thejoeymcnally @MrsBurgin would be better to support economic growth abroad than disruption of mass economic migration | ||
| @JackyHolyoake @GracieSamuels @MidWalesMike Yvette. | ||
| @fghays22 not organising - just expressed opinion that ppl who support other 3 should transfer to each other | ||
| @fghays22 it is a transferable voting election - Labour elections work on preference voting not First Past the Post | ||
| @foodleedskidstv @NoraMulready @TristramHuntMP can we ban the word "progressive"? Meaningless. | ||
| Apparently now I am a "fascist" rather than just "Tory" and also an associate of Liz Kendall which will b news 2 her https://t.co/1GNOdgzlNM | ||
| @OliverJamesUK and I campaigned for Ed M in 2010 leadership and Yvette and Tom this time so hardly Blairite | ||
| @OliverJamesUK Labour First isn't Blairite | ||
| @joe_oliver @LauraSRobinson we are going to need a similar sense of humour in the coming decades | ||
| @Rosiecosy you have a different canvassing style to me then. | ||
| @andyjameshicks @mark4thorne @ProgressOnline @SusanJDurant yes it is because it is transferable voting so have to command 50% not FPTP | ||
| @andyjameshicks @mark4thorne @ProgressOnline @SusanJDurant we agree then. | ||
| @andyjameshicks @mark4thorne @ProgressOnline @SusanJDurant Labour voting system is designed so usually get consensus centre leaders | ||
| @andyjameshicks @mark4thorne @ProgressOnline @SusanJDurant it depends what your starting position is. | ||
| @andyjameshicks @mark4thorne @ProgressOnline @SusanJDurant generally as I organise to block the left that is what I would advocate! | ||
| @andyjameshicks @mark4thorne @ProgressOnline @SusanJDurant because Burnham not equidistant between Cooper and Corbyn, far nearer Cooper | ||
| @andyjameshicks @mark4thorne @ProgressOnline @SusanJDurant what final two candidates is the scenario you are thinking of? | ||
| @LauraSRobinson @joe_oliver it's a great read. | ||
| @MrsBurgin @thejoeymcnally or maybe just think maybe voters are right and I might be wrong! | ||
| @andyjameshicks @mark4thorne @ProgressOnline @SusanJDurant no I mean people on party left should obviously transfer rationally to centre too | ||
| @RansonFiona @DocMartin457 @gareth_snell I didn't agree with the move away from the electoral college. MPs should still have 1/3 votes. | ||
| @andyjameshicks @mark4thorne @ProgressOnline @SusanJDurant no. | ||
| @thejoeymcnally @MrsBurgin like I say we are in a different paradigm. Mine shaped by months of canvassing swing voters in key seats. | ||
| @thejoeymcnally @MrsBurgin and I was very careful not to target individual in expressing my anger about sectarian barrage I was getting. | ||
| @thejoeymcnally @MrsBurgin and I say that as someone who was on his leadership campaign and stayed loyal whole way through | ||
| @andyjameshicks @mark4thorne @ProgressOnline @SusanJDurant no. Not sure what you are getting at. | ||
| @thejoeymcnally @MrsBurgin yes I am surprised by it given I very publicly argued for Corbyn to be on the ballot. | ||
| @thejoeymcnally @MrsBurgin also a huge arrogance - what gives any of us right to define Labour values and who can and can't be Labour? | ||
| @mark4thorne @andyjameshicks @ProgressOnline @SusanJDurant but no we have had same name for 27 years and will stick with it | ||
| @mark4thorne @andyjameshicks @ProgressOnline @SusanJDurant that was a brand used by the moderate slate in the NEC elections in late 90s | ||
| @thejoeymcnally @MrsBurgin @RachaelSaunders in what way? | ||
| @thejoeymcnally @MrsBurgin @RachaelSaunders not about sacrificing for power, about compromising so you get to enact some principles at all | ||
| @Rosiecosy of course, just giving our opinion, no one has to listen. | ||
| @mark4thorne @ProgressOnline @andyjameshicks @SusanJDurant my politics are that I backed Ed M in 2010 and Yvette and Tom now. | ||
| @hopisen @_DaveTalbot @anthonyleahy @atticusfinch104 he won't win as long as the rest of us all transfer to each other. | ||
| @mark4thorne sadly Ed didn't give us that option as resigned immediately | ||
| @hopisen @_DaveTalbot @anthonyleahy @atticusfinch104 because given scale of his support, undemocratic to keep him off ballot | ||
| @followmorris90 @johill54 so mysterious it has fielded candidates in every NEC election for three decades. | ||
| @hopisen @_DaveTalbot @anthonyleahy @atticusfinch104 but if you think it's not essential to stop him then fine don't transfer. | ||
| @hopisen @_DaveTalbot @anthonyleahy @atticusfinch104 because I supported him being on ballot myself. Just don't want him to win. | ||
| @mark4thorne no I don't understand the point you are making. | ||
| @AndyHearn09 @followmorris90 @johill54 you need to learn a bit more about Labour history then. | ||
| @mark4thorne just an opinion. No one has to listen! | ||
| @SeemaChandwani @eredarP I think there is a risk of infighting on right meaning people don't transfer at all. | ||
| @followmorris90 @johill54 https://t.co/oYi9b9FpLn | ||
| @SeemaChandwani @eredarP just to transfer to remaining candidates as own ones are eliminated. To act logically not sectarianly. | ||
| @DanielAustin_01 there is plenty of space to offer more to swing voters before you would abandon Labour values. | ||
| @SeemaChandwani @eredarP this election is conducted under AV not FPTP | ||
| @hopisen @anthonyleahy actually it could have made things a lot worse. | ||
| @maxshanly @jonlansman I know! Shocked Jon would take a holiday mid campaign! | ||
| Otherwise like Benn vs Healey Corbyn's campaign will become defined by unpleasant sectarianism of some over excited supporters. | ||
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| @Neil_FindlayMSP @Corbyn4Leader not a personal attack at all - just urges people not to vote for him as we don't support his politics. | ||
| @MrsBurgin @RachaelSaunders as Corbyn said at LGA hustings, his priority is to turn Labour into a social movement | ||
| @RacingDaily @redwater1 Blairite faction is Progress. We disagree with them on many issues. | ||
| @ClissoldLabour I think you may be surprised how many come to the meeting - all the candidates will be mobilising people to turn up. | ||
| @ClissoldLabour they create momentum. And some CLPs put a line out to members to back who they nominated, donate to that campaign etc | ||
| @RacingDaily @redwater1 that isn't Labour First's twitter account we don't have one. | ||
| @RacingDaily @redwater1 no it's how the Campaign Group of MPs describe themselves to differentiate from Soft Left - old Tribune Group | ||
| @ClissoldLabour no, just trying to make sure people don't accidentally gift CLP nominations to JC by not transferring to other candidates | ||
| @adamskihealth I strongly disagree with marketisation of NHS but respect others can (wrongly) argue it would improve services | ||
| @ClissoldLabour I want an open positive contest too but that includes full scrutiny of Jeremy's views and their electoral impact. | ||
| @redwater1 unknown? Has existed since 1988, history is very well documented. | ||
| @adamskihealth I don't support Kendall so not answerable for her views. But she has a legit place in Labour big tent as does Corbyn. | ||
| @odds_and_sods_ very pluralistic of you. | ||
| @kampra @jeremycorbyn @LabourFirst @UKLabour that isn't the Labour First twitter feed, we don't have one. | ||
| @LukemCresswell correct. | ||
| @LukemCresswell as an individual I am making positive case for Yvette, but Labour First doesn't have a chosen candidate. | ||
| @CEOemail @followmorris90 it's not illegal and I support it. | ||
| @PetersWooll @chandnidaina @SamHennessy4 @Corbyn4Leader no! | ||
| @PetersWooll @chandnidaina @SamHennessy4 @Corbyn4Leader 21115 members voted for me in 2014 - up 4000 from previous election | ||
| @MrsBurgin @rafaelbehr @stephenkb the evidence from CLP nominations suggests there is a lot of real as well as online silliness | ||
| @briandlondon sorry was just illustrating how charming and comradely their debating style is | ||
| @DeanMThomson @thejoeymcnally apparently not! | ||
| @oakeshottm @renieanjeh @PickardJE Corbyn = Benn not Foot. | ||
| @stewyrobz in what sense? PASOK supported austerity, Labour reacted to financial crisis with massive extra public spending. | ||
| A good read if a rather unpleasant headline: https://t.co/lKEuyVWFN9 | ||
| Trolls are out in force this morning. | ||
| @owenhb_ I don't support Liz Kendall so I really don't care if people criticise her | ||
| @Bugswash no it is how Labour Party voting at CLP meetings works - transferable/preference voting not First Past the Post | ||
| @chbash @kinghani @AMoveToTheLeft ISIS is regional problem but not WMD and missile threat like Saddam would have been by 2015 | ||
| @chbash @kinghani @AMoveToTheLeft this was assessment of anti war security services like France and Russia as well as UK and USA | ||
| @chbash @kinghani @AMoveToTheLeft sorry disagree all pointed to Saddam over decade or so developing WMD and buying missiles from N Korea | ||
| @chbash @kinghani @AMoveToTheLeft the sovereignty of the elected UK government to decide how to use its own armed forces???? | ||
| @HamishP95 v useful | ||
| @DocMartin457 @brucerisk @SamHennessy good night. Thanks for discussion. | ||
| @AMoveToTheLeft @kinghani people in OPT vote in PA elections (when the PA is minded to have them) | ||
| @AMoveToTheLeft @kinghani 1967 with land swaps | ||
| @DocMartin457 @brucerisk @SamHennessy and you don't read what I write if you think my vision is "not much different to Tories | ||
| @DocMartin457 @brucerisk @SamHennessy the swing voters who decide outcome of UK General Elections | ||
| @AMoveToTheLeft @kinghani rest of poster expresses support for two state solution. | ||
| @SamHennessy4 @YvetteCooperMP @jeremycorbyn @LabourFirst we are not running it for Yvette. | ||
| @stephenkb heresy. | ||
| @HazzyC no statement to sign. | ||
| @TenPercent @PaulRutherford8 good piece of kit. | ||
| @DocMartin457 @SamHennessy4 @LabourList ppl join Labour First mailing list because they want guidance which way to vote | ||
| @SamHennessy4 I'm in favour of just publishing facts about Jeremy's policies. | ||
| @brucerisk @DocMartin457 @SamHennessy4 @LabourList @jeremycorbyn but to win we need a leader who can reach ppl who didn't vote Labour | ||
| @HazzyC I can assure you all rather dull and obvious | ||
| @SamHennessy4 clearly not. | ||
| @PaulRutherford8 @TenPercent usually it meant I was arguing on same side as Unite for MoD to buy helicopters made in Yeovil not USA | ||
| @PaulRutherford8 @TenPercent I was a public affairs consultant to defence industry companies selling to the UK MoD eg Westland helicopters | ||
| @DocMartin457 @SamHennessy4 @LabourList the party's internal voting system enshrines tactical transferable voting not FPTP | ||
| @DocMartin457 @SamHennessy4 serious answer is am Keynesian on economics, against markets in public services, but centrist on foreign policy | ||
| @richardmarcj I got same email and ditto | ||
| @DAaronovitch @LauraSRobinson @paulwaugh it does. Same reason I supported Jim Murphy. | ||
| @DAaronovitch @LauraSRobinson @paulwaugh I have supported Tom since 1992 when he beat me for NOLS National Committee. Not gonna change. | ||
| @PeterKenyon I already said as much to @maxshanly | ||
| @callumrsmith @thisislucio @andyjameshicks agreed | ||
| @chrisrumfitt @DAaronovitch @LauraSRobinson @paulwaugh no. He couldn't win so he wasn't that good. | ||
| @DAaronovitch @LauraSRobinson @paulwaugh sInce then there have only been two contested leadership elections | ||
| @DAaronovitch @LauraSRobinson @paulwaugh the problem is that the Blairites haven't run a decent candidate since him. | ||
| @thisislucio @callumrsmith @andyjameshicks no contradiction between thinking someone should be allowed to run but wanting them to lose badly | ||
| @DAaronovitch @LauraSRobinson @paulwaugh and we wouldn't have taken sides in say Reid vs Brown | ||
| Never been so glad to get on X90 coach to Oxford - been in queue for two hours. | ||
| @Rosiecat2 this is also worth reading as directly quotes him: http://t.co/bUQ7GlTnGN | ||
| @Rosiecat2 @CST_UK the CST blog is doing him a favour by flagging questions he will get asked at the LFI hustings | ||
| @Rosiecat2 @CST_UK there have been persistent efforts for years to ask him to be more judicious about who he associates with | ||
| @Rosiecat2 yes that's the one I posted. @CST_UK has a very rigorous and clear definition of antisemitism. | ||
| @Rosiecat2 every point that has been raised relates to speeches and articles by Jeremy. He can't say extreme things and expect no scrutiny. | ||
| @Rosiecat2 I didn't post propaganda - I linked to a serious set of questions from @CST_UK , Jewish charity that fights antisemitism | ||
| @Rosiecat2 and I am asking @Corbyn4Leader to disassociate himself from boycotts and delegitimisation of Israel | ||
| @Rosiecat2 I am also asking @Corbyn4Leader to confirm he supports 2 state solution | ||
| @Rosiecat2 OK I'm asking @Corbyn4Leader to say does not support Hamas and Hezbollah, they r not progressive & condemns their genocidal views | ||
| @earthygirl01 @HackneyAbbott Hamas' first act in Gaza was to kill Fatah, PLO and PGFTU officials | ||
| Labour needs to be far broader coalition than 31% it was in 2015 GE. Ppl trying to drive out either wing will just get more Tory govts. | ||
| @OlszewskiLAB @commsdan @JamesWThurston there r enough downsides 2 trying to combine parent and politics w/o saying not allowed 2 mention it | ||
| @JHepplestone @paulwaugh has it become a thing that you can't stress how your life experience gives adds to your fitness for office? | ||
| @JHepplestone @paulwaugh sorry that's illogical. Andy Burnham and Jeremy Corbyn have kids. | ||
| @WarGit @TelegraphNews he won't want a job in the shadow cabinet. He doesn't actually want to be leader either! | ||
| @eredarP indeed. | ||
| @eredarP I haven't been a lobbyist for four years let alone a respected one! | ||
| @Labourpaul @askbagnall at v least after 5 mths I'd expect some upspeak (http://bit.ly/hVGMAe) or to be greated with "g'day | ||
| @EMcG67 @MSmithsonPB that's an exaggerated figure, London is about 20% SE region a lot less than that | ||
| @stephenkb I haven't "predicted JC could come first". I have said possible he may get to final two. He won't win as won't get transfers. | ||
| @PickardJE gulp | ||
| @HamishP95 @stephenkb @georgeeaton it is being compiled by @AndreaParma82 | ||
| @MnWthtQualities @TheStaggers @AndreaParma82 only to Andrea - he has made the effort to track this! | ||
| @TheDanWatson @AndreaParma82 I should hope they did! | ||
| Said it before but thank goodness Gordon Brown and Ed Balls kept the UK out of the Euro. | ||
| @DanHeley1 @TotalPolitics I'm citing the General Election in May won by Tories on 37% and with UKIP on 13%. In 1980s right never reached 50% | ||
| @ThePennyDrops @CllrStopp @AlexC93 they are saying either Tom or Angela for Deputy. | ||
| Deputy CLP nominations via @AndreaParma82 Watson 19, Creasy 8, Eagle 5, Flint 5, Bradshaw 2 https://t.co/ASSEAcUjFo | ||
| 44 of 63 members of Unite Exec are blokes. Maybe this explains recommendation to vote man 1st preference, man 2nd preference. | ||
| @DanHeley1 @TotalPolitics yes public opinion is a lot more right wing than it was in the 1980s | ||
| @DanHeley1 @TotalPolitics the lowest we went in 2009 minus a bit more | ||
| @finance_LL at moment in my CLP running at about 90% members, 5% affiliated, 5% registered | ||
| @CalumSPlath not surprising to anyone who has a feel for views of members | ||
| @ArjunMittra they haven't decided yet. | ||
| @ArjunMittra I missed that if they did. Any link? | ||
| @SteveAkehurst @mcashmanCBE what is there to celebrate? Surely NO vote will just accelerate economic catastrophe? | ||
| Interestingly UNISON seem to be signing up far more Affiliated Supporters in my patch than Unite. Look forward to seeing who UNISON back. | ||
| @HildaPalmer workers in those industries are rightly proud to be involved in equipping our armed forces and want to continue to do so. | ||
| Hope Unite mbrs in defence industry, esp at Barrow sub yard, ask why Exec voted for a Labour Ldr candidate who would have them unemployed | ||
| @MrsBurgin each branch can send up to 5 delegates, 1 per 100 or part thereof | ||
| @MrsBurgin you can be one too - Unite is entitled to send delegates from any branch with a member in the CLP | ||
| @JennieUnite @petedigger I get the logic that he is candidate superficially best aligned with Unite policy positions (except on defence) | ||
| @joe_oliver 2018 | ||
| @doktordunc indeed | ||
| @doktordunc I want to change Unite's policies as well as its endorsements | ||
| @petedigger it's about internal union politics. Current leadership are terrified of losing their jobs to SWP if they don't act left enough. | ||
| @joe3469 I think Sir Ken Jackson and T Blair were better at advancing Unite members' interests than Len and Jeremy | ||
| If, like me, you don't like Unite's decision to back Corbyn, you need to join/stay in Unite and fight to change its politics, not walk away | ||
| Most important election for Labour is probably next Unite General Secretary one. Last chance to save Unite for forces of common sense. | ||
| @julie4nw @JonBenja @WeBelieveIsrael @Lab2Palestine odd comment as I very rarely tweet about Israel, 95% of what I tweet is about Labour | ||
| @julie4nw @Lab2Palestine @WeBelieveIsrael and commission of foreign generals found Israel webt to extraordinary lengths to avoid civilians | ||
| @julie4nw @WeBelieveIsrael @Lab2Palestine it's not trolling to ask do you want to disarm Israel in a region where ISIS is operating. | ||
| Small plate of frittura mista (prawn, calamari) demolished. What next? | ||
| @AndreaParma82 @alexsobel have you got a similar count going for Deputy? | ||
| @alexsobel I'm fairly food and wine obsessed all the time | ||
| @LabLinda75 is now having linguine con ricci (sea urchins) | ||
| Is anyone keeping a list of CLP nominations for Leader and Deputy? Or shall I do that? | ||
| @sundersays they happened at same stage (after the actual PLP nominations) in all previous contests. | ||
| @MSmithsonPB commissioned by a well funded candidate but placed them 4th? | ||
| @JennieUnite @jeremycorbyn hmmm widespread tax evasion with unsustainable public spending was probably Greek public's fault. | ||
| @kentsussexnut @IanAustinMP I believe foreign and defence policy should be bipartisan so voters can choose on domestic issues | ||
| @gareth_in_blyth really? On my authority every cllr was part of pension scheme. | ||
| Looking forward to the Labour leadership hustings at #LGAConf15 | ||
| @MarkWalker59 @LGAcomms I'm on stand 7 in the exhibition, come and say hello | ||
| @JWoodcockMP @LabourList maybe the problem has been with the recent Blairite candidates if someone like me hasn't felt able to back them. | ||
| @OslandDavid governments. Also owes loads to banks. | ||
| Greece owes €56bn to Germany, €42bn to France, €37bn to Italy, and €25bn to Spain. I.e. To taxpayers in countries also hit by austerity. | ||
| Heading to Harrogate for LGA conference | ||
| @PickardJE @JohnRentoul the movements are net ones I.e. net 2% Lab to Con | ||
| @220_d_92_20 @Rowan_Draper I watched it when it was broadcast in 1995 with @tom_watson and @IainMcNicol | ||
| @TomPurvis2 @JWoodcockMP you need to achieve a majority in the party before you can get a majority in the country | ||
| Bit shocked by the muted public and political reaction to the atrocity in Tunisia. | ||
| @ashmcgregor @lablinda75 it's in whichever selfcatering villa Linda happens to book 4 our Italian hols - in this case nr Polignano (Puglia) | ||
| In Manchester to chair session on Israel at @JLC_uk and @BoardofDeputies briefing about Jewish issues for North West councillors | ||
| Orrechiette with provolone sauce. And pecorino. A veritable cheese feast. | ||
| Scamorza. Ok its a cheese not a salami but little fried balls of it wrapped in proschiuteo crudo are v nice. | ||
| Mmm... Lardo. Will try not to tweet whole list of salamis I am eating. | ||
| @RichardCotton10 correct but switched to Tory in early 1960s | ||
| Very sorry to hear that Joe Lobenstein has died. He was Tory Mayor of Hackney for 4 years when council was hung and cllr for 40+ years. | ||
| @Labourpaul how about they all make friends ON 5 May by doing GOTV together for Labour candidates in the elections? | ||
| @commsdan they win if people walk away. | ||
| @Emz5048 @LukemCresswell he got killed by Darth Vader. | ||
| @wesstreeting and what's balance between SO, SWSS and SBL sucessors? | ||
| @LabourEoin @Cadoret @barberous007 @YvetteForLabour you don't have to back down in real time. Later is fine. | ||
| @wesstreeting what are the factional alignments (or lack thereof) of rest of new NEC? | ||
| @foodleedskidstv @Joe_Dromey I retweeted a lot of polls during the General Election showing Ed would win... | ||
| @Joe_Dromey well done | ||
| @robertcp that is the point I was making | ||
| I'm not satisfied by the anaemic 4k/9k sign up rates. Can't have fewer people voting in 2015 than 2010. | ||
| And has @UKLabour emailed every address it holds nationally to ask them to sign up as Registered Supporters? | ||
| Have all the members of Labour's affiliates been sent a simple email or letter asking them to opt in to be Affiliated Supporters? | ||
| @jhallwood my impression is they can live some kind of meaningful life in UK whereas in France not | ||
| Good morning of #labourdoorstep with @AndrewSmithMP and @Oxford_Labour in Marston Ward. | ||
| @SeemaChandwani for this kind of demo to be huge it would need the buy in of and to be supportive of the Labour Party | ||
| @SeemaChandwani also if it is a march against Labour then it's inevitably only going to attract a fringe on the left. | ||
| @SeemaChandwani depends if your definition of being anti-austerity is "no cuts". | ||
| @ajcdeane that is actually correct. My perception is the demo was about the internal politics of the left. | ||
| @SeemaChandwani actually Labour proposed £50bn more spending than the Tories. | ||
| @jon_trickett @LabourEoin we offered hope in May and the British people told us to F off. We need to listen. | ||
| @JuniorCelente @OwenJones84 sadly Labour is out of power until 2020 so changing its policy can't achieve aims of the demo | ||
| I can't quite work out how the demo is going to "end austerity now" when electorate just endorsed five more years of cuts. Unstrategic. | ||
| @commsdan they don't actually think it's the answer - it's a transitional demand - deliberately unrealistic | ||
| Just started playing @HexWarGames new Waterloo game for iPad. Sadly I am no Wellington, been thrashed twice already by turn 6 of Quatre Bras | ||
| @DylanJeffrey Andy I think | ||
| @jeff_wode don't know. By "Labour supporters" sample doesn't mean people who are actually going to have a vote in this, but Lab voters | ||
| Mori poll of Labour supporters: Burnham 23%, Cooper 20%, Kendall 11%, Corbyn 9%, | ||
| @CllrPeteBowyer @iankatz1000 @PCollinsTimes @Dannythefink she will be. Kendall and Corbyn are in battle over 3rd vs 4th. | ||
| if you really do want to get out of the Westminster bubble then PM of the UK probably isn’t the job for you." Great zinger from @DPJHodges | ||
| @TheGreatCheema @keiranpedley @Beaban Stalin and Mao spent 40% of GDP on defence, Attlee 12%, it didn't make them Tories or right wing. | ||
| @maxshanly @AbiWilks @RichardAngell when the main stock market investors are workers' pension funds the line blurs a bit | ||
| @AbiWilks @maxshanly @RichardAngell no debate it but accept we are all one party | ||
| @maxshanly @AbiWilks @RichardAngell exactly its better he is no longer funding a rival to Labour but a stream within it. | ||
| @maxshanly @labourgeorgia @RichardAngell I feel sorry for you if you can't feel any empathy or affection for other wing of your own party | ||
| @SeemaChandwani thanks, just on way back from hospital visit now. | ||
| @SeemaChandwani I think the actual general election result is the best guide to what the public think | ||
| @SeemaChandwani if we were too rightwing for Nuneaton how come the Tory vote there went up 4% and the UKIP vote went up 14.4%? | ||
| @LabourNHSJAN @tom_watson @stellacreasy courage and campaigning zeal. We have been friends for over 20 years since student days. | ||
| I'm voting for @tom_watson but impressed by field of 5 Dep Ldr candidates who would all be excellent. @stellacreasy gets my 2nd pref. | ||
| @pejmason @CllrPeteBowyer I thought I was dispassionately analysing the state of the race. | ||
| Tessa campaign could have talked about the Evening Standard poll without badmouthing Sadiq. Keep it comradely. #LondonMayor | ||
| @CllrLeonSpence @maxshanly typo I meant 60s and 70s. 64-70 and 74-79. | ||
| @MrsBurgin @LabourList yes. It isn't a reversible process. Once you nominate you don't get a second chance. | ||
| @OwenJones84 defence, crime, tax and that some of NL agenda on technocratic/marketise PSR was of no interest to swing C1 and C2 voters | ||
| @OwenJones84 my idea of centrism is not necessarily same as everyone's in that think centre ground is defined by robust policies on ... | ||
| @SohoPolitico has just given ammo to loons to say "ha, we always knew u weren't really Labour | ||
| @SohoPolitico my main concern is that the "purple" branding will be used by left as stick to beat Progress and rest of Labour right | ||
| @SohoPolitico I agree good thing for Progress to contrib to review but shouldn't be called purple book and shouldn't hve gone 2 press b4 5/5 | ||
| @alexsobel @susanp_80 @SeanDolat my experience of cancer and the NHS in 2009 changed both way I handle politics and the issues I emphasise | ||
| @maxshanly @TomMillerUK he needs to come up with a new name for it then. | ||
| @foodleedskidstv @_IanMoss @SeanDolat what just making up a view and attributing it to me? | ||
| @_IanMoss @foodleedskidstv @SeanDolat pardon me? | ||
| @foodleedskidstv @_IanMoss @SeanDolat have to win in the Labour Party that exists not the one you wish existed | ||
| @foodleedskidstv @SeanDolat I haven't seen myself as a moderniser for over a decade. Old Labour Right. | ||
| @RC_Garrick my experience is people ignore even the stick I carry and casually knock into me, ignore that I might need seat on tube | ||
| My colleague Prof Alan Johnson has a few things to raise with Jeremy Corbyn: http://t.co/bUQ7GlTnGN | ||
| @oldpolitics @OwenJones84 @sunny_hundal that's why I support it | ||
| @followmorris90 you don't know much about Jim Murphy's politics then. | ||
| @followmorris90 the key dilemma being you need to win elections to do any of that | ||
| @followmorris90 seeing as a large chunk of my article was a critique of Blairism, I'm guessing you didn't bother to read it. | ||
| @suzanne_moore buy all the boxed sets, it's brilliant, only started watching two months ago. The books are great too. | ||
| @SohoPolitico I'm a big fan of Progress' work in general but they shd apologise for the briefing. Was unhelpful to anyone inc themselves | ||
| @SohoPolitico Ed contributing foreword doesn't imply he knew about the briefing of the Times on Tuesday | ||
| @PeterKenyon @conradlandin @jeremycorbyn rank in what sense? | ||
| @jakepitt_ Liz. Not probable but possible as left core vote for NEC is higher than Progress candidates get. | ||
| @jakepitt_ or third. | ||
| @JohnSlinger @JWoodcockMP you need a machine that delivers the party in a sane policy direction. Doesn't happen by accident. | ||
| @Rory_Palmer it's already about three weeks too long! Boring and divisive contest. | ||
| @PetersWooll @rurallabouruk @JohnMannMP @Ed_Miliband having backed him in 2010 I am accountable for and stuck with my decision | ||
| @benullmann @ariehkovler @Claud_Mendoza senior whips and PLP Chair and Deputy Speaker stayed neutral too | ||
| @PetersWooll @rurallabouruk @JohnMannMP Attlee was from centre of party not its extreme left. More like Miliband than Corbyn. | ||
| @rurallabouruk @JohnMannMP @Rowan_Draper I think that's a silly point, swing in Is N was high as Ed M appealed to metropolitan lefties | ||
| @ariehkovler @Claud_Mendoza @benullmann the 24 is incomplete but the other bits are complete | ||
| @finance_LL @robertsjonathan not a large group of people and many of them will vote for Yvette and some for Andy. | ||
| @finance_LL @robertsjonathan my prediction AB 35%, YC 33%, LK 18%, JC 14%. YC wins 51-49 after transfers. | ||
| @LatteLabour @doktordunc to be fair in this case it was the Blairites who were having the "Taliban" insult thrown at them | ||
| @doktordunc @GeorgeAylett | ||
| @doktordunc @GeorgeAylett the Tories are clever and cynical and ensure cuts targeted at people who already vote Labour not swing seats | ||
| @doktordunc @GeorgeAylett most swing voters feel economy ok and haven't personally experienced cuts as schools and NHS protected | ||
| @doktordunc @GeorgeAylett and will be irrelevant by 2020 as cuts will all have happened and Tories will engineer a pre election boom. | ||
| @doktordunc @GeorgeAylett people volunteered lots of political views. It's very sad but I just don't sense public see cuts as a big issue. | ||
| Day off so spent the morning on #labourdoorstep duty in Blackbird Leys with @LabLinda75 . | ||
| Not an advance for democracy that the tens of thousands of TU members who voted in 2010 disenfranchised + reduced so far to 2500 | ||
| I'm not voting 4 @LizforLeader but am traditional Labour voter who is delighted by 2% defence spending target -also proposed by @tom_watson | ||
| @PhilipGlanville @MnWthtQualities yes but get the politics right and don't attack the principle | ||
| @PhilipGlanville @MnWthtQualities I thought my job on RSL board was to work for tenants not the bureaucracy of the institution | ||
| @PhilipGlanville @MnWthtQualities parliament decides the law. If govt doesn't like the law it can change it. | ||
| @MnWthtQualities @PhilipGlanville we are out of power until 2020 anyway so our policies need to start from situation then not now | ||
| @PhilipGlanville @MnWthtQualities no extra supply is created by stopping tenants buying. They still live in same property. | ||
| @PhilipGlanville @MnWthtQualities you are taking the side of the service provider against the actual tenants. The latter have votes. | ||
| @PhilipGlanville @MnWthtQualities so my in-laws should have had RTB as council tenants but my mum & dad as RSL tenants shouldn't? No logic. | ||
| @PhilipGlanville @MnWthtQualities to the families that live in them? I think it's morally the right thing to do. | ||
| @PhilipGlanville @MnWthtQualities I was using "help to buy" to mean RTB | ||
| @PhilipGlanville @MnWthtQualities in which case Labour needs to be coming up with policies that will have that effect | ||
| @PhilipGlanville @MnWthtQualities Labour needs to be party of people who aspire to buy as well as the homeless. Morally and electorally. | ||
| @MnWthtQualities @PhilipGlanville yes I did | ||
| @abrjacobson @PhilipGlanville @MnWthtQualities which can be easily dealt with through covenants on the leasehold banning buy to let. | ||
| @PhilipGlanville @MnWthtQualities and why should people have to move from their home and community just because they aspire to buy? | ||
| @PhilipGlanville @MnWthtQualities the stock stays depleted without RTB as same people are just stuck living in same places renting | ||
| @PhilipGlanville @MnWthtQualities we subsidise the rent of ppl in social housing so why not subsidise them buying the same property? | ||
| @KarimPalant @joedgoldberg @jonathanmcshane everything any good that has ever happened has usually been because of a political machine egNHS | ||
| @AJogee do you want to help in Dover? Am running a cttee room, 1h10 mins from St Pancras, marginal council and parl seat | ||
| @susanp_80 yes an incredibly talented line up | ||
| @KevinMorton1966 good point | ||
| @rob_marchant @HackneyAbbott the panel could have made a shortlist any size from 2 up to 6. They chose 6. | ||
| @KevinMorton1966 good. All that needs to happen now is for the name of the book to be changed. | ||
| @joedgoldberg I was thinking more that her politics are similar to Caroline's. I am not sure "new community politics" exists. | ||
| @VincentN15N17 @joedgoldberg I don't think me supporting Tom Watson should be a big surprise to anyone. | ||
| @joedgoldberg no there are going to be people on DL ballot from same broad tradition as Stella. | ||
| @elliott_hayes I didn't. | ||
| @joedgoldberg I would like Stella to be on ballot, she would like be my 2nd pref after Tom. But not same exclusion of a whole current as JC. | ||
| @CountryStandard I don't support Liz Kendall | ||
| @Chris1966 international law needs changing then. | ||
| @Alex_Ross_Shaw @MrsBurgin @terryjdaniels there are 40000 new members in last month my guess is they are ppl who liked Ed M | ||
| @Alex_Ross_Shaw @terryjdaniels evidence of members to left of PLP is the recent NEC elections I and rest of moderate slate have lost | ||
| @Siddo_D because of the doctrine of collective responsibility. Frontbenchers can only debate in private not public. | ||
| @terryjdaniels some MPs have a lot of influence over how members in their CLPs vote | ||
| @annejoynes @HouseofTwitsLab they are waiting to see how the numbers are going | ||
| Remarkable how little comment there is on how close to Burnham Cooper is in number of nominations. Very much a two horse race. | ||
| And 51 MPs who could still nominate for Leader. | ||
| Corbyn has uttered the words "we need an alternative economic strategy". Presumably identical to 1980s policy of same name? | ||
| @Chris1966 I think that's misguided. You should go and see situation and in Bethlehem your visit would help Palestinian economy. | ||
| Flying back from Tel Aviv after an all-too-brief trip to meet Israeli colleagues. It's a fantastic city and easy to reach by Easyjet. | ||
| @joedgoldberg because he represents a strand of party opinion that wouldn't otherwise be on the leadership ballot | ||
| Heading to Tel Aviv to speak at seminar with @BritainIsrael and INSS think tank colleagues | ||
| @foodleedskidstv @ProgressOnline @stephenkb and seemed to ignore we were losing promises faster than could canvass them due to air war | ||
| @redstarneil @LiamConlon2 tell him he can't then. Party sets rules. But choose candidate on merit. | ||
| @DylanJeffrey @redstarneil @LiamConlon2 well in that case party has to make by election compulsory but that's not sensible politics | ||
| @redstarneil @LiamConlon2 the precedent from Dobson is we don't make our mayoral candidates resign as MPs. | ||
| @redstarneil @LiamConlon2 e.g. wasn't Chirac mayor of Paris and PM at same time? ; ) | ||
| @election_data New Statesman list seems to mix endorsers for most candidates with actual nominations for Tom Watson | ||
| @election_data @UKLabour @stephenkb @TheStaggers @LabourList I thought Healey was on 17 actual nominations? | ||
| @labourlewis well we are both backing the same Deputy Leader candidate. .. | ||
| @JohnRentoul do you mean 'anti-left'? | ||
| Reassured by fact I am backing same combo as @JonAshworth i.e. @YvetteForLabour and @tom_watson | ||
| @LauraSRobinson @Labourpaul @anthonypainter I think it already will be | ||
| @Labourpaul @LauraSRobinson @anthonypainter oh dear you won't like my column tomorrow then | ||
| @CalumSPlath a lot of us who identify as on the right of Labour are supporting @tom_watson he has support across the spectrum | ||
| @twcuddleston you can get a day ticket for the Sunday only, it's worth going even for one day. | ||
| @Redpeter99 @chris_coltrane I wasn't aware that Obama, Hollande or Merkel were particularly into privatising anything | ||
| @joedgoldberg @anthonypainter I thought that in 2010 London Mayor GOTV of uncanvassed using Mosaic was more accurate than the canvass data | ||
| @bobfrombrockley that is an Attlee quote I think | ||
| @RooftopJaxx I think I remember that - tower block near London Fields 2014? | ||
| @OwenJones84 @Jessica_Asato @wesstreeting @danielblaney Owen your argument is bizzare. Strategy 2010 was dividing lines not triangulation. | ||
| @MrsBurgin that's unfair on Foot who was from the more moderate soft left and consistently undermined by Bennites like Corbyn | ||
| Pol Pot - innovative approach to urban overcrowding in Phnom Penh # niceguynastysituation | ||
| @election_data @UKLabour @stephenkb note @YvetteCooperMP strength in high membership areas of London and W Midlands | ||
| The busker at Oxford Circus tube who started playing "There is a light that never goes out" has got my weekend off to best possible start. | ||
| @OwenJones84 @DPJHodges @DeanoXX surely Campaign Group split from Tribune Group not other way round? | ||
| @Midj109 I am supporting @tom_watson | ||
| @doktordunc people in my time line | ||
| @Midj109 @YvetteCooperMP on moderate wing of party but without all the marketisation public services that oddly obsesses Liz etc | ||
| @stephenkb pledges don't mean anything until nominations start for real | ||
| @MrsBurgin @Stuart_King and the moving house thing is daft either you are genuinely local or not - you can't move somewhere & become local | ||
| @richarddlewis it is a broad church but it has identifiable historical traditions and currents within it. | ||
| @carlgardner http://t.co/x3nFNWWZke | ||
| Open primaries are really bad idea. | ||
| @richarddlewis everyone? | ||
| @TheGreatCheema @BenPBradshaw Bristol West result was great but we need to win in Kingswood, Bristol NW, Filton & Bradley Stoke, NE Somerset | ||
| @susanp_80 @paulleake @robertabwMP though she doesn't represent a specific strand of Labour opinion that would otherwise not be on ballot | ||
| @catchfrases @jeremycorbyn @HackneyAbbott the labels are about the spectrum within Labour not beyond it. SWP etc would be "ultra left | ||
| @catchfrases @jeremycorbyn @HackneyAbbott I am backing Yvette and Tom. Does that still make me a Blairite. | ||
| @davidaslindsay my view is Liz isn't electable within the party and left probably ambivalent between Yvette and Andy | ||
| @davidaslindsay think they are unhappy with policy stances he took in last few weeks | ||
| @LS1hack I don't support Liz | ||
| @SamFawcett92 I think he will get the required 35 from left plus surplus Burnham and Cooper supporters and VIPs like Ed and Harriet | ||
| My guess is Corbyn standing means Yvette better placed to edge past Andy and win. | ||
| @PauldeHaas1 @robfordmancs @jeremycorbyn @HackneyAbbott yes Diane has wider appeal | ||
| @LabourEoin are you switching to back him? | ||
| @steveyemm @sunny_hundal @lisanandy far too electable. The Hard Left enjoy the purity of losing. | ||
| @SarkyChris91 @jeremycorbyn yeah I do claim a certain degree of knowledge of it. | ||
| @SarkyChris91 @jeremycorbyn @HackneyAbbott so you don't understand standard terminology that left themselves use to distinguish strands? | ||
| @SarkyChris91 @jeremycorbyn @HackneyAbbott what because JC will romp to victory? | ||
| @MnWthtQualities hence A400M transport plane, Eurofighter, Meteor missile, EH101 helicopter are all European multi-nation projects | ||
| @MnWthtQualities under Blair the general policy was to be part of big pan-European defence projects so we weren't dependent on US tech | ||
| @MnWthtQualities so all the main US companies have some kind of jobs here in UK to make the stuff UK is buying | ||
| @MnWthtQualities generally the deal is that if you buy a US technology as a condition of purchase they have to manufacture it in UK | ||
| @MnWthtQualities fixed wing aircraft - BAE and Rolls have workshare in all major programmes we buy | ||
| @MnWthtQualities not much defence equipment is US made. Ships & subs - all made in UK. Helicopters - all made in UK. Tanks - all made in UK. | ||
| @nicholaswatt @UKLabour @tom_watson @GloriaDePiero and he shared a flat with me. | ||
| @jonburkeUK high-minded parties get beaten by pork-barrel ones | ||
| @adrianmcmenamin hear, hear. | ||
| @220_d_92_20 @electiondata and Hackney North | ||
| @blairmcdougall ... The timing in mid election which is unhelpful period to engage in a debate re future ideological position | ||
| @blairmcdougall that's the problem, it has been trailed 6 months b4 publication so no one can read it or debate what's in it til sept | ||
| @_IanMoss in the current contest I just think any experience would be useful. | ||
| @_IanMoss in fact Beckett joined Shadow Cabinet a year after Blair | ||
| @_IanMoss I would dispute that Blair had no experience, he had been an MP 11 years and Shadow Cabinet for 6 years by 1994 | ||
| @_IanMoss you should do same thing now as in Blair election in 1994 - back the Shadow Home Secretary | ||
| @haykirstin At Bristol Uni we were awarded BSc degrees in Politics - apparently it's a science | ||
| @_IanMoss yes you mean you need to be more experienced as a minister to be credible PM than London Mayor? | ||
| Confused why many of same folk backing "skipping a generation" for national leader want the opposite for London Mayor. | ||
| @MnWthtQualities @patrickwintour no the Collins review removed double voting. All ballots issued by the party and duplicates not sent. | ||
| @AndyCharlwood I identify with Blair era but determined think use of "purple" likely to damage reputation of right of party | ||
| For the record I am in favour of statist/municipalist solutions. That's why I'm a social democrat. Apols to purple comrades if old-fashioned | ||
| @iamtheman331 @robfordmancs @britishfuture my guess is Labour did better in Gravesham than rest of Kent because of Sikh candidate / support | ||
| @TomHarrisMP @KevinMorton1966 @wallaceme @pollytoynbee I'm as tribal and proud of it as Tom but voting #YestoAV because will good 4 Labour | ||
| @johndavidblake George Cross surely? | ||
| Have been in Italy too long (three days) as thinking their song ok. | ||
| Now going to enjoy Eurovision with Italian commentary and some limoncello! | ||
| @hopisen or absence of any compelling offer from Labour to this group versus inheritance tax cut from Tories? | ||
| @SeemaChandwani @anthonypainter Reading West and Halesowen &Rowley Regis. London very different. | ||
| @anthonypainter it also doesn't explain why everyone doing GOTV in key seats found large numbers of Lab promises who had voted Conservative | ||
| @commsdan @Harryslaststand http://t.co/ztcp7SatQy | ||
| @davidgwynne I am not in favour of closing any schools just bring them all under LEA oversight | ||
| Honestly I despair at lack of immagination that means modernisation defined as public service marketisation - boring old policies reheated. | ||
| @JohnRentoul @Alex_Ross_Shaw correct they want to win but that means new attractive centrist policies not boring public sector marketisation | ||
| @NoraMulready who should plan for overall pattern of provision/number of places etc then? | ||
| @ScottSeamons that's an argument for an LEA with different boundaries ie unitary greater Oxford not for no LEA | ||
| @Bryn__Phillips I'm not in favour of closing any schools just bring them all under LEA oversight | ||
| @NoraMulready academies are great but they should be under oversight and strategic planning an elected LEA | ||
| @NoraMulready I'm worried this is going back to failed shibboleths of 10 years ago - tired old nonsense of maketising public services | ||
| Unless I have totally misjudged mood and composition of Labour leadership electorate, ramping free schools something of a kamikaze strategy | ||
| @forwardnotback @stephenkb £45 annual fee excludes most other people. | ||
| @stephenkb @Alex_Ross_Shaw and increasingly Newham is full of Guardianista public sector workers who can't afford Hackney any more | ||
| @stephenkb @Alex_Ross_Shaw but lots of Asian residents which is the other driver of mass membership CLPs e.g. also Brum, Southall | ||
| @Alex_Ross_Shaw @stephenkb membership levels r almost entirely driven by demographics not local recruitment work | ||
| @timrollpickerin actually in past you got a ballot paper and then declared you were not a backer of another party. Now vice versa. | ||
| @timrollpickerin failure to tick the box. | ||
| @timrollpickerin as per TU members in old electoral college - you tick a box to say you are not a supporter of another party (and pay £3) | ||
| @ChrispLOL @JamesAsser I'm not sure there is any evidence that the PLP's pattern of support is much different to that of members | ||
| @doktordunc @JamesAsser if there was a left candidate running I would agree 4 would make sense but no need for multiple similar ppl | ||
| @Alex_Bjarnason as I say here: http://t.co/AYGtvGTAZj | ||
| @JamesAsser I think it will be fine as long as the top three get through. Two would lack credibility. | ||
| @thisislucio 50 CLPs | ||
| @JamesAsser for what its worth I think it is important Kendall is on the ballot. | ||
| @JamesAsser I wasn't in favour of getting rid of the electoral college so I am the wrong person to ask | ||
| @JamesAsser I really don't think someone who can't muster support of 35 MPs should run | ||
| @JamesAsser but the deal done over Collins was that the PLP gave up its 33% of vote in return for control of the shortlist | ||
| @Americanist9 @helenadollimore to be fair to Owen he did his share of canvassing when he was in Hackney at same time as me | ||
| @hopisen no I am in favour of full membership being done on that basis ie a lot cheaper for poorer people | ||
| @blairsupporter @FoxHedgehog @hopisen @_IanMoss @HarrietHarman I don't support it. Preferred old electoral college. | ||
| @blairsupporter @FoxHedgehog @hopisen @_IanMoss @HarrietHarman Ray Collins review made the rules | ||
| @ChrispLOL @jonlansman Bash isn't on the internet! | ||
| @commsdan passion is fine but let's keep it comradely we all have to work together afterwards - applies to left and right | ||
| @FoxHedgehog I used to run half marathons so get the analogy (personal best of 1h25 so I did pace myself) | ||
| Matera, Basilicata - the sassi (caves inhabited until 1970s) http://yfrog.com/h4bg1bqj | ||
| I'm disgusted by what has happened in Scotland. Brain dead sectarian game playing to oust our strongest campaigner there. | ||
| @MSmithsonPB @DYoung90 I maanged to get 5-1 on Yvette earlier in the week. | ||
| @DPJHodges you are rejoining the party? | ||
| @marksul44 @LabourList even if you agree with the policy you need to accept it cost us three marginal seats in a region we did well in | ||
| @Busty1956 no, wrong way round, Palestinians get a state after they negotiate a peace deal, not before | ||
| @Busty1956 @NickCohen4 @Sathnam I support a two state solution and so does organisation I work for @WeBelieveIsrael | ||
| @ja_bateson @Jonathan_Todd and we did 3% worse in raw terms than in 1992. | ||
| @ja_bateson @Jonathan_Todd but it is nearly 100 seats not 60 | ||
| @patrickwintour does the whole of UNISON APF automatically count as having registered? | ||
| @tomcopley @ashmcgregor @jonburkeUK @georgeeaton good. | ||
| @Tony_McNulty @tomcopley @jonburkeUK @georgeeaton we are acting like govt on this and Tories are acting like populist opposition | ||
| @tomcopley @ashmcgregor @jonburkeUK @georgeeaton OK well my challenge to you is to find imaginative way in which we can help tenants buy | ||
| @tomcopley @jonburkeUK @jeff_wode @georgeeaton I agree. Extend it to private tenants too. | ||
| @tomcopley @jonburkeUK @jeff_wode @georgeeaton yes why not. We should outflank the Tories on this. | ||
| @theclarionblog @jonburkeUK why? why shouldn't your rent help you buy? | ||
| @tomcopley @jonburkeUK @jeff_wode @georgeeaton change the law so it doesn't impact their borrowing ability | ||
| @jonburkeUK @jeff_wode @georgeeaton I disagree - most stable element of community on many estates is leaseholders | ||
| Pleased @SadiqKhan has declared as a London Mayor candidate | ||
| @jonburkeUK @jeff_wode @georgeeaton that isn't what I am suggesting. Just used it as an example of Tories appealing to swing voters. | ||
| @DA_E10 @NickCohen4 yes but we can't gamble another 5 years after 2020 of Tory rule by running that as an experiment to see if it works | ||
| @LabourEoin @Neil_FindlayMSP Does that mean you could not join UK Labour if you live in Scotland? | ||
| @MarkSeddon1962 akehurstluke@googlemail.com | ||
| @nashienet one thing I learned in NOLS as a contemporary of both is not to take sides in battles between Jim Murphy and Tom Watson | ||
| @JohnMannMP Hi John, your point is valid but exaggerated. London membership is 20% of total not 50%. And may be lower % once TUs included. | ||
| @90lwells historically some ppl ran for both and runner up for ldr might be deputy eg Kinnock/Hattersley Blair/Prescott | ||
| @MattRedmore yes have written about this in detail in past | ||
| @atticusfinch104 @RedRobertino I pointed it out because of the irony | ||
| @atticusfinch104 @RedRobertino he did a good job purging the Bennites from Bristol DLP when he was a TGWU official | ||
| @davidgwynne @johnringer no a suspension means you can't hold any office in the party | ||
| @DanaCarlin1 @JennieUnite particularly I did a load of the persuasion calls to Ds and DLs which were long conversations | ||
| @DanaCarlin1 @JennieUnite its annecdotal but source is same as yours ie canvassing in Reading, Southampton, Dover, Thanet, Milton Keynes | ||
| @DanaCarlin1 @JennieUnite @sowadally problem was not policies we had but lack of any to appeal to ppl who went Tory in 2010 | ||
| @DanaCarlin1 @JennieUnite @sowadally I have a @LabourList column tmrw urge you to read it. | ||
| @JennieUnite @sowadally I wouldn't use "Torylite" as a description for party comrades. We can debate strategy without questioning values. | ||
| @CheemaAFC I was thinking more of @YvetteCooperMP | ||
| @abrjacobson the new system we are using this time is OMOV | ||
| @cmichaels97 it wasn't a good thing that Blair hadn't got cabinet experience was because we were out of power for 18 years | ||
| @RedRobertino ha! I picked him in 2008 so not exactly a snap decision. | ||
| @RobbieScott100 and you don't think some of the leadership contenders have been positioning for over a year? | ||
| @RobbieScott100 I have helpfully identified all the problems this weekend and will be publishing my findings on @LabourList on Tuesday | ||
| @JennieUnite @sowadally unfortunately there are not enough people in those categories to win an election. | ||
| @JonAshworth @IanAustinMP the two and a bit months to end of July would already be interminably long. | ||
| @grahamsphillips @MrsBurgin the two are really same question | ||
| @Semakaleng you did! | ||
| @RussellKennedy2 @John_Ferrett we lack authenticity anywhere where the main newspaper isn't the Guardian | ||
| .@LabLinda75 giving some very sensible strategic advice: https://t.co/VBMp5zXesL | ||
| @RussellKennedy2 @John_Ferrett not sure that simple eg we lost northern seats like Morley, Bolton straight to Tories | ||
| @anthonyleahy @Sarah_Hayward actually there was lots of debate last year but once we got near GE debate not helpful | ||
| @MrsBurgin @AdamHug I think Adam means responding to what we have been hearing. | ||
| @RussellKennedy2 I think many of them were Lab until 2010 then Con then UKIP based on canvassing I did in marginals | ||
| @philwoodford @Sarah_Hayward not sure purges are great for party unity | ||
| @mpandnotanmp @JamesEValentine or changed their minds - not necessarily dishonest! And Ds and DLs broke to T late in day. | ||
| @maxshanly we can't agree on everything - might ruin both our reputations! | ||
| @Sarah_Hayward I agree likely to take two terms but part of the rebuilding will include looking like we have someone who could be PM | ||
| @Talha_Jamil @DavidPrescott I have in mind @tom_watson don't know who Dave was thinking of | ||
| @PCollinsTimes @peterkyle @wesstreeting agreed | ||
| @DAaronovitch but overemphasising chattering class issues on constitution will reinforce normal people view of Labour as out of touch | ||
| @atticusfinch104 which is actually good Marxism - people will vote for what is in their material self interest. | ||
| @DAaronovitch and don't believe we should waste time debating it now, displacement therapy for not addressing why Labour lost. | ||
| @DAaronovitch that's why I have campaigned for electoral reform for 27 years. But don't have any expectation could win a repeat referendum. | ||
| @ianrobo1 pointless anyway as referendum result would be identical. | ||
| Electoral reformers also need to be honest with themselves and say UKIP getting 12% seats as well as votes unlikely to solve left's malaise. | ||
| @forwardnotback not on duty - here to recover | ||
| @PickardJE no that is Callaghan figure from 1979 | ||
| At least now we have a new benchmark for feeling gutted about elections and can move on from the 1992 metaphor. | ||
| @welovestokey alcohol is probably a good idea | ||
| @acogofchange yes | ||
| @Labourpaul who cares? | ||
| @hopisen my initial reflection is that the things I liked were the problem. | ||
| @alexhilton Foot got 209 | ||
| @estellehart that's what they wanted. They hate us more than the Tories. | ||
| @ClissoldLabour @MnWthtQualities very sad as Dismore and Sackman both great candidates punished for policy stance they publicly disagreed w | ||
| @ClissoldLabour @MnWthtQualities we lost by 5000. Same factor. | ||
| @MarcusDysch it is gripping theatre even if you are on the side taking a kicking | ||
| Well done @HackneyLabour and @HackneyAbbott on 24000 majority | ||
| @MnWthtQualities Hendon directly connected to us alienating many Jewish voters during Gaza conflict last summer. | ||
| Gutted for both @Mari_Williams and @ThurrockPolly | ||
| Kingsley Abrams' petulant walkout from Labour after Edmonton selection ends in just 142 votes in Bermondsey. | ||
| Hope comrades' analysis will be more sophisticated than simplistic "too Blairite in Scotland" vs "too leftwing in UK". Neither really true. | ||
| @ariehkovler @lucianaberger wow | ||
| @marcusaroberts there will be other elections | ||
| @bally968 yes | ||
| Another mile and he would have asked what my day job was. | ||
| This is nothing like 1992. Then we thought we were ahead, now we know it is the closest election ever. | ||
| @Oscar_VN I had a text message from someone with Blair in Sedgefield because the initial readout was that we would gain seats due to turnout | ||
| @LabourHistory featuring @RedRobertino | ||
| Isn't there constitutional requirement 4 @DPJHodges 2 publish piece at this point in election calling it wrongly for @Ed_Miliband opponent? | ||
| @ERA_Legal @UnionKatie @Steph_Peacock after 10pm | ||
| @antibessteve @LabourList that's what my article says. Is about legitimacy if Cameron can't secure a confidence vote. | ||
| @Meir_Taub at least one of the ppl pictured (Balls) does live in Stamford Hill and most of rest live in diverse areas of inner Lon/Bham | ||
| @Jonathan_Todd @Steph_Peacock have replied with DM. Look forward to working with you on the day. | ||
| @Montyb09Shaun @IanAustinMP it wasn't segregated there are pictures of the whole audience milling around together | ||
| Galloway manifesto for Bradford - a tad ambitious for a single MP to achieve: http://t.co/8kNltdQHln | ||
| Rainy day so I have been hitting the phones for @andrew4mk in Milton Keynes S. A knife edge marginal so do help him if you can! | ||
| I quite like the stone. But even if I didn't I wouldn't criticise campaign just days b4 Polling Day. Who benefits? | ||
| @martinstevens27 @MSmithsonPB Mike isn't a Labour supporter so this represents his objective analysis not his "dreams | ||
| @CllrPeteBowyer my line manager when I was an Agent in 1997 said every week of campaign go to cinema to see non-political film to stay sane! | ||
| @forwardnotback quite a few people I have canvassed in key seats say were basing decision on the TV debates | ||
| @GerryHassan @Efrogwraig which six do they think Labour will hold? | ||
| Just finished 107 phone contacts in Reading West for @VictoriaGroulef | ||
| Sad this is my last day working with my friend and comrade @DermotKehoe . He has been a great boss and v effective leader of @BritainIsrael | ||
| @ClissoldLabour 9pm is correct stop time for both #labourdoorstep and phone calls. | ||
| Cannock Chase, Gt Grimsby, Gt Yarmouth all far better for Labour than in previous rounds of Ashcroft polling. | ||
| @David_K_Clark mentioned once in 200 conversations I had on phone with English key seat voters on Thurs/Fri | ||
| @roadto326 yes will rise because registration has fallen.... | ||
| @roadto326 % of those registered. No one has an accurate figure for those eligible but not registered. | ||
| @ianrobo1 possible but stretching | ||
| @sunny_hundal @Kevin_Maguire there needs to be a deterrent to warn people off cheating - the 5 year ban on running makes sense to me | ||
| @Zbigniew_G @sunny_hundal some degree of authorisation would have to have been proven to lead to a conviction | ||
| @Zbigniew_G @sunny_hundal when you just chat to someone you are presumably not implying u represent the party or candidate | ||
| @Zbigniew_G @sunny_hundal correct it is legally defined. Is about canvassing/publishing material on behalf of a candidate. | ||
| @Zbigniew_G @sunny_hundal correct you have to be part of official campaign otherwise how can spending limits & other election rules work? | ||
| @Zbigniew_G @sunny_hundal it is also illegal to campaign for a candidate without being authorised by them or their legal agent | ||
| @Zbigniew_G @sunny_hundal in law a candidate and agent are responsible for everything done by people campaigning for them | ||
| @PippaCrerar on the basis of stopping cheating? | ||
| I hope court verdict has same transformative impact on Tower Hamlets that the proxy vote fraud convictions in 2001 did on Hackney politics | ||
| @DPJHodges no he can't | ||
| @LatteLabour in this case he wasn't fairly elected - he cheated | ||
| @paulieboy1 @scottishlabour the IFS data only came out this morning | ||
| Spending the day in @Oxford_Labour office calling undecided voters in Reading West for @VictoriaGroulef | ||
| @RichardOsley probably canvass sheets we have to shred after entering data for data protection reasons | ||
| @derekdraper yes but will be closer than the Ashcroft poll said | ||
| @david_taylor @JohnRentoul @IainDale @londonstatto as long as 200000 trade unionists register and vote they outvote the CLP members | ||
| Supermarket is selling donkey meat of Martina Franca as an Easter speciality ... Non grazie | ||
| Good to see some of my analysis written yesterday of most knife edge seats for @Labourlist immediately corroborated by @lordashcroft polling | ||
| @MichaelLCrick @TimMacpherson they would be canvassing the wrong areas if got bad response - main point is to ID and mobilise your core | ||
| @Monster_Buzz | ||
| @jonburkeUK @willscobie as per the polls for this seat - Lab, Con and UKIP all in a dead heat | ||
| After 28 hours of phone canvassing, speaking to 397 voters, I am confident @willscobie can beat Farage here in South Thanet. | ||
| I wouldn't have campaigned for Ed in 2010 leadership election unless totally sure he was sound on Trident renewal. Tory attack just silly. | ||
| Spending another day hitting the phone for @willscobie vs Farage in South Thanet | ||
| Sorry to hear #GrahamCopp moving abroad | ||
| Another productive day on the phone for @willscobie vs Farage in South Thanet - 151 contacts. | ||
| Just starting another full day on the phones for @willscobie vs Farage in South Thanet | ||
| @RooftopJaxx @mwarne @grayee I thought you were an anarchist so I'm guessing both epithets rather insulting | ||
| Great new description of Greens from @grayee : "Tories on bikes". | ||
| @mwarne @RooftopJaxx a good description. In Hackney they colluded with Tories to keep Labour out of power 1998-2001. Will use it myself. | ||
| 100 contacts on the phone today for @willscobie in South Thanet. Not a bad day's work. | ||
| Looking forward to spending today in the @ThanetLab office helping @willscobie beat Farage | ||
| @Anfield39 according to Greg Cook swing voters r now many micro demographic groups not one blob of C1C2s | ||
| @Anfield39 also we may think that way as partisan supporters one party, but many voters aren't partisan and system needs to express thr view | ||
| @Anfield39 because you will usually have a pref for who doesn't win between any other 2 cands. | ||
| @Anfield39 case I'd make is increase voter choice, end tactical squeezes, no MPs elected by minority cos of split oppo. | ||
| @RooftopJaxx @WritersofColour no it meant what it said. The mug exists because the policy was announced weeks ago. | ||
| @RooftopJaxx @WritersofColour not sure why you have interpreted my tweet as an endorsement. | ||
| People seem to be more upset by the mug of the pledge than when it was actually announced as a pledge. | ||
| @paul_trembath @AnnTaylor_HoL in what way? By any objective criteria Labour has moved to left since 2010 when those ppl did vote for us. | ||
| Great to see both @GlenisWillmott and @AnnelieseDodds speak at @Oxford_Labour dinner. Labour MEPs doing a huge amount of campaigning. | ||
| Heading to the @Oxford_Labour Gala Dinner with @LabLinda75 - a good way to start the short campaign! | ||
| @VoteAndrewSmith @Oxford_Labour and I am still proudly voting and campaigning 4 u despite this! | ||
| @reandrewslab off crutches but it is still painful to walk very far | ||
| 2nd Election I can only do phoning - 2010 wheelchair after neuro illness, this time broken ankle recovery. Annoying as love #labourdoorstep | ||
| This parliament lasted a year too long. Parliamentary term should be 4 years as any 2010 mandate ran out long ago. | ||
| As a one time NUS Area Convenor I am proud to support @ucu #loveFE campaign vs cuts to Further Education | ||
| @MichaelEzra happy to meet up and discuss | ||
| @MichaelEzra no problem. You should have been there! | ||
| @Mog83 thanks | ||
| Making final preparations for today's huge @WeBelieveIsrael conference. Particularly pleased @MichaelDugher will be a plenary speaker. | ||
| @hughster3 email conference@webelieveinisrael.org | ||
| @hackneyamyg we tried to stop schools being used when last reviewed, as bad to force closure for a day. And churches problem 4 other faiths. | ||
| @antoniabance no Town Hall Ploughman Room | ||
| At my first ever @Oxford_Labour executive meeting | ||
| @MillisJoseph @Tony_McNulty belief in Jewish national self-determination is not contingent on the outcome of Israeli General Elections | ||
| @SarkyChris91 I would vote for the sister party of the party I'm a member of here i.e.Labor (though NB UK Labour sister of Labor and Meretz) | ||
| @jbmccrea I still think he would have been a far better Mayor of London than either of the two we have had | ||
| @kohima44terry @jacobsinn @LabLinda75 no I just had temporarily added a broken ankle to my usual neurological damage! | ||
| @kohima44terry @jacobsinn @LabLinda75 when I say ditched crutches means back to my normal level of disability w stick and orthotic splints | ||
| Nice Guardian obituary of Carlton Heath who was my neighbour in Beatty Road and a real N16 character: http://t.co/5yUCDzjXEV | ||
| @anthonypainter I'm unashamedly in favour of the old politics. | ||
| @anthonypainter if the SNP brought down a Lab govt it would destroy them, so they won't do it, and deal of any kind not needed. | ||
| Rather good day ended annoyingly with ATM eating my bank card :( |
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| @iMcKenzied get well soon! | ||
| I've just been elected Vice-Chair (Membership) of @Oxford_Labour, job share with @TPAdams. Same job I did for 14 years in Hackney North. | ||
| Excited to be at my first AGM of @Oxford_Labour ! | ||
| @tomcopley and if I was your agent I would advise against trying to sack the person who ensures you are legally on the ballot paper. | ||
| @tomcopley in many CLPs the agent is elected by the CLP or is a member of national or regional staff, not dismissible by the candidate. | ||
| @tomcopley actually it is up to their agent. | ||
| @MisterFrancis unfortunately has supplied 9 PMs since the war (with Brown only graduate of another uni) so its intake of some importance | ||
| @lauren_gilmour @LabourList no offence taken! | ||
| @lauren_gilmour @LabourList I've won 4 elections as council candidate & 200 as an agent. Just never stood for a winnable parliamentary seat | ||
| Richmond 321, Hammersmith + F 290, Westminster 286, City (which only has 1 state secondary) 102 | ||
| Tower Hamlets 1, Knowsley 1, Sandwell 0, Barking + Dagenham 0 | ||
| @jonlansman if Foot or Benn has donated/offered to campaign 4 a Blairite in a marginal seat I hope they wd have gracefully accepted | ||
| @conradlandin @RichardCotton10 @LesleyEastend quit the double standards and sanctimony then. | ||
| @RichardCotton10 @LesleyEastend yes they should | ||
| @SeemaChandwani @Emina_ibrahim actually I did quote them when they bigged me up re Edmonton! | ||
| @SeemaChandwani @Emina_ibrahim nah | ||
| @RichardCotton10 @LesleyEastend I was probably angrier about both those 2 too | ||
| @DavidStockdale partly rhetorical Q as @LabLinda75 has discovered in Oxford not all councils invest in casework tracking systems | ||
| @DavidStockdale doesn't the council do this for you? In Hackney members services sent all the letters and tracked responses. | ||
| @RichardCotton10 @LesleyEastend it's not going to happen but I hope she realises how angry people are with her churlish response | ||
| @SeemaChandwani @Emina_ibrahim I'm only repeating what was in the Dundee Courier article - have no special insight into this! | ||
| @SeemaChandwani @Emina_ibrahim the national party declares spend that does not name a candidate but just says Labour or Miliband | ||
| @SeemaChandwani @Emina_ibrahim read the article. Eg If national party pays for a key seat organiser it employs that person, not CLP | ||
| @MartinHeneghan @sowadally @seantduffy @Bryn__Phillips I think everyone copied into this wants UK to be a more equal society. | ||
| @Emina_ibrahim @SeemaChandwani my concern is she has made the other 105 candidates look like something wrong with taking £ they need | ||
| @Emina_ibrahim @SeemaChandwani had to be disclosed as was one £106k donation to national party, not 106 separate £1k cheques | ||
| @MartinHeneghan @sowadally @seantduffy @Bryn__Phillips higher rate tax payers pay 28% capital gains tax not 18% | ||
| @MartinHeneghan @sowadally @seantduffy @Bryn__Phillips that's why I very publicly campaigned for Ed M to be leader in 2010 | ||
| @MartinHeneghan @sowadally @seantduffy @Bryn__Phillips please tell me in which year 1997-2007 the top rate of tax was cut. Stayed 40%. | ||
| @MartinHeneghan @sowadally @seantduffy @Bryn__Phillips as a Hackney cllr for 12years I'm obsessed with delivery of redistribution 2 our base | ||
| @sowadally @MartinHeneghan @seantduffy @Bryn__Phillips disgusting lie of calling Labour 1997-2010 "neoliberal" fuels voter alienation | ||
| Just canvassed another 56 voters on phone for @ClairHawkins in Dover. Enjoying my chats with voters in Maxton, Elms Vale & Priory ward | ||
| Presumably there will be a queue of more sensible Labour PPCs asking for TB's £1k that @lesleyeastend rudely and bizarrely rejected | ||
| @MillisJoseph as far as I know there's no vacancy in Barnet at the moment | ||
| Round-up of council by-elections. Some strong results for Labour: http://t.co/PTzAL87hBf | ||
| @DavidMills73 I get a longer one, with a picture http://t.co/AWTW8R62sT | ||
| Broken ankle out of cast after 5 weeks but still on crutches for another fortnight | ||
| CND spinners in hyperdrive presenting unilateralism of 9% of Labour PPCs as a 75% view. @Vernon_CoakerMP @spellar @JWoodcockMP | ||
| The PPCs quoted on Trident on CND website and tweets are mainly sitting MPs who have always been unilateralists | ||
| Labour First Update - March 2015 - http://t.co/hzcxz1qZ6G Subscribe to our newsletter here: http://t.co/DKTf5W8a1b | ||
| About to start another round of phone canvassing of Dover 4 @ClairHawkins . Meanwhile @LabLinda75 doing #labour-doorstep with @Oxford_Labour | ||
| @adrianmcmenamin @KatyClarkMP @jonlansman @RuthSmeeth @TulipSiddiq let's check with @PeterWillsman | ||
| @kmflett ah, I was very Labour Party centric and started with 1900. | ||
| @kmflett that was the subject of my degree disertation - unfortunately therefore my account stopped in 1993! | ||
| @kmflett @MSmithsonPB have commissioned polls myself and the big companies don't let you skew the questions | ||
| @kmflett @MSmithsonPB I'm not sure I understand reluctance to accept how popular UKIP are in Kent and Essex. | ||
| @Zbigniew_G @MaajidNawaz I'm also against secular ideologies e.g. Communism being imposed in a totalitarian way. | ||
| @kmflett @MSmithsonPB the questions and methodology are set out here: http://t.co/KuXtQeLC7Y | ||
| I've been blocked by @georgegalloway ! | ||
| Christopher Price obituary via @guardian http://t.co/bvg2AcqL43 | ||
| @StuartWheeler28 yes that's me | ||
| @MnWthtQualities the February democratic revolution or the October Bolshevik coup? | ||
| @Labourpaul I will work that out... several current members retiring so growth may not be huge. | ||
| @hillsidepaul @John_Ferrett and Trident is an insurance policy against threats yet unknown over next 3 decades. | ||
| @MSmithsonPB surely there is just as likely to be tactical voting for UKIP to get rid of government in Con vs UKIP marginals? | ||
| @joe_oliver it wasn't design for parties, it was designed for the representation of shires and boroughs b4 parties existed | ||
| @mikehatfield12 @Stephen_Beer I don't agree with him - on this or very much else. | ||
| @mikehatfield12 @Stephen_Beer that is not true. | ||
| @Stephen_Beer @mikehatfield12 but what if NATO doesn't exist in current form by 2050 when we are still using Trident replacement? | ||
| @mikehatfield12 @Stephen_Beer yes it could. | ||
| @mikehatfield12 @Stephen_Beer BBC says "firing does not require the permission, the satellites or the codes of the US. | ||
| @mikehatfield12 @Stephen_Beer sorry the final bit of that is an urban myth, each sub carries sealed firing orders from UK PM. | ||
| @davidaslindsay @Stephen_Beer @ProgressOnline no one else is sending warships and aircraft to probe our defences | ||
| @BobDeed @PaulSandars affronted because I got on well with her as an NEC colleague and disturbed to think NEC confidences not betrayed 2UKIP | ||
| @BobDeed @PaulSandars no she was on the left of the party | ||
| .@keeptrident you might want to read and RT this: http://t.co/r4TquPyx2V | ||
| Is the little yellow x twibbon something to do with referendum? Difficult to see what it says on blackberry. | ||
| @ArvidsPelshe nominated by TSSA union | ||
| X-ray day. Another 3 weeks of cast and crutches but now I am allowed to touch walk on broken ankle. | ||
| @lewis_baston has interesting memories for me as it is where me and fellow National Neurological Hosp patients learned wheelchair skills | ||
| Made it to holiday destination - Polignano a Mare in Puglia - in time for lunch w this view http://yfrog.com/gyg5cfzj | ||
| I am eating guacamole made by @LabLinda75 and writing a @LabourList column that praises Peter Mandelson on industrial policy. | ||
| Looking forward to next weekend's phone canvass which will take my virtual tour of South East to Milton Keynes S for @andrew4mk | ||
| @RichardAngell that may be why we lost it in 2005! | ||
| @LovingDalston @DavidLammy and any money saved on Trident would need to go into conventional defence to replace it | ||
| @LovingDalston @DavidLammy it would only save that much money over 50 years, in year saving would make v little difference | ||
| @Labourpaul don't say that. Given me flashbacks of Bristol NW count - we lost by 45 votes. | ||
| @maxshanly @JFGElliott next x-ray is Tuesday, hopefully go from cast to air boot | ||
| @JFGElliott it's an important principle that CLPs should give local members the home nomination that qualifies them to run :) | ||
| Pleased that both Oxford CLPs nominated @mpandnotanmp and @duncanenright for NPF at this evening's meeting | ||
| @simonevans117 yes but it bars people from other parties that stand in elections http://t.co/opoYS1gG5r | ||
| An inside view of the Hard Left: http://t.co/rkAdK2uEiD | ||
| Round-up of council by-elections: http://t.co/at4jHNRK3v | ||
| @bally968 @MSmithsonPB anti-politics people. In the urban North LDs were getting an anti-Labour right wing vote which is now UKIP. | ||
| @AbneyParkN16 @patrickmoule indeed, one of the N16 shops I most miss. | ||
| @co503jb you are up early! I'm at Stanstead | ||
| Waiting for @LabLinda75 to bring home kebabs after her Blackbird Leys ward meeting .... | ||
| @doran_j @SCLV_UK is SCLV a @workersliberty initiative, or wider? | ||
| @CPBritain or will people associate your hammer and sickle emblem with Stalinist dictatorship, famine in the Ukraine, the gulag etc? | ||
| Enjoyed writing tomorrow's @LabourList column about NHS. It's covers policy, ideology, strategy, polling, revisionism and even Trotskyism! | ||
| @AnnaYearley is it true @JCryerLandW is the new Chair? If so, excellent news. | ||
| @Kev_2507 @Labourpaul yes because it gives you a political platform to speak to loads of voters. | ||
| Just completed my Reading W phone canvassing for @VictoriaGroulef . Next weekend phoning Southampton Itchen for @RowennaDavis | ||
| @doran_j @Calderbank no only the Npf itself can. | ||
| @doran_j @Calderbank not yet as TUs prefer to a series of deals at final NPF meeting | ||
| @doran_j @Calderbank but basically NPF process is based on reaching consensus positions via negotiation | ||
| @doran_j @Calderbank the NPF can also submit minority positions to conference when they have certain level of support | ||
| @doran_j @Calderbank will tweet the link when I finish phone canvassing but its the final NPF reports voted on at conference 2014 | ||
| @callumrsmith exactly, the correct time to make these demands was run up to the final NPF meeting last summer | ||
| @red_labour: One theme of #leftplatform today: the left in the LP have been too quiet." Eh? | ||
| A productive 51 contacts on phone canvassing this PM for Reading W Labour's @VictoriaGroulef. More tomorrow! | ||
| @KingsleyAbrams @JennieUnite @SouthwarkTUSC @TUSCoalition @johnmcdonnellMP bizzare when BAME left candidate @KateOsamor was shortlisted... | ||
| @tomdaviesE17 @LatteLabour it needs all kinds of networks. It doesn't need them to promote rival manifestoes just b4 election. | ||
| @ostercywriter you do know I was a big supporter of @Ed_Miliband in the leadership election and continue to be? | ||
| @LatteLabour yes | ||
| Labour does not need #leftplatform as we should be proudly promoting great policy platform already democratically agreed by whole party. | ||
| Hitting the phones for Labour target seat of Reading West. Proud to be helping excellent candidate @VictoriaGroulef | ||
| @LRCinfo is Serwotka Labour? | ||
| No surprise that #leftplatform can't resist anti-Trident 1983 era CND stuff rather than focussing on practical and popular social policies. | ||
| The policy and spending gap between Labour and Tories has rarely been wider - why aren't Labour's "left platform" proud of this? | ||
| The description by some on Labour left that Labour backs "austerity" is a lie that is feeding rise in Greens, SNP and non-voting. | ||
| @OwenJones84 picking beans was painful - back aches and very bad sunburn - and u got sent home without pay if it rained | ||
| Quite impressed that my boss @DermotKehoe hung up a call to me because @tonyblairoffice had walked up to chat to him. | ||
| Don't agree with all of it but this is a fascinating interview: https://t.co/esXZXatX93 | ||
| @Mayday_magazine no reporting fact, Labour membership just under 200000, highest level since 2005. | ||
| @doran_j how does that fit with rising Labour Party membership? | ||
| Good to see @maitlis has taken over the role I had in NUS as @jimmurphymp jogging partner. He was too fast for me even when my legs worked. | ||
| @richardmarcj @matthew_jupp @RichardAngell @LabourList good point. So that's 5 now but still 3 after May. | ||
| @AnneMcGuireMP @matthew_jupp @RichardAngell @LabourList and would like the PLP to at least do an accurate audit ... | ||
| @AnneMcGuireMP @matthew_jupp @RichardAngell @LabourList hi Ann I am sure there are other MPs with hidden disabilities and ... | ||
| #FF more Hackney Labour ppl @VincentStops @welovehoxton @welovestokey | ||
| #FF more Hackney Labour ppl @carolewilliams @SophieCam @Semakaleng @sfajanathomas @Steve_Longden @stokeylabour @TexPat78 @tomebbutt | ||
| @SophieCam not got to S yet! | ||
| #FF more Hackney Labour ppl @Markfergusonuk @munafzeena @NedMulready @new_art_riot @olidebotton @PhilipGlanville @PollyB1967 @rickmuir1 | ||
| #FF more Hackney Labour ppl @HackneyAbbott @jedkeenan @JennetteArnold @jonathanmcshane @LabLinda75 @lisa_calderwood @LloydSamantha | ||
| #FF Hackney Labourites @90lwells @DanCareyDawes @davidosler @EllieCumbo @OwenJones84 @emmataggart @feryaldemirci @giampialhadeff | ||
| @emilyhewson @LabourList the census gets ppl to self define as having a longterm limiting condition. | ||
| @matthew_jupp @RichardAngell @LabourList I'm happy to hear of any others but only know of Begg, Blunkett and 2 w profound hearing problems | ||
| @JohannaBaxter @LabourList thank you | ||
| @meralhece @MichaelLCrick one of the three BAME women shortlisted is Turkish | ||
| @conradlandin I don't think that is in any doubt | ||
| @askbagnall we weren't impressed when we saw it! From memory Peter Lehman was Barossa winery with best tasting offer. | ||
| Hooray! Made it to the end of dry January... | ||
| @eredarP @danieljeffery26 @Markfergusonuk would usually be 10 or 12 people of whom 4-6 shortlisted | ||
| Hackney Council agrees to fly St George's flag on St George's Day after my letter on behalf of constituent. | ||
| @TomMillerUK @IonathanRex @DPJHodges based on insurance idea benefits are related to some earlier tax contribution | ||
| @EquusontheBuses one week into six weeks in a plaster cast and on crutches. X-ray to check progress on Tuesday. | ||
| This week's council by-elections: http://t.co/jEvFs4UWpS | ||
| @SeemaChandwani thanks Seema. | ||
| I would recommend support in Edmonton now for @feryaldemirci who is a brilliant campaigner and cllr from the Kurdish/Turkish community | ||
| @maxshanly @LabourEoin @MigCMatos I don't support "no cuts" if that's what you mean. I don't believe every pre2010 spend was sacrosanct. | ||
| @TomMillerUK @IonathanRex @DPJHodges for same reason we don't give voting rights to everyone the minute they arrive? | ||
| @co503jb actually according to conventional maths minus 26 is worse than nothing | ||
| @simonredfern @PeterWatt123 @RichardAngell Not this time! | ||
| @DavidLammy I think most voters will be pleased to see us clearly addressing an issue they think Labour has previously tried to duck. | ||
| @DAaronovitch @kenningtonkitty I thought it was refreshing to actually see Labour addressing the main issue voters think we try to duck. | ||
| @TottenhamTories @SeemaChandwani @lfeatherstone @Stefan4TottMP @kmflett @CCHQPress @DavidLammy no just speak for myself. | ||
| @mattzarb @DPJHodges depends who you think our base are. | ||
| @DPJHodges oh the bit you have just made up? | ||
| @DAaronovitch @kenningtonkitty what's the problem with it? Looked just statements of obvious common sense to me. But then I backed ID Cards. | ||
| @DPJHodges what bit of it don't you agree with? | ||
| @WellingtonCone @yinyangyogi your syntax is getting ropey so can't follow the line of questioning. | ||
| @WellingtonCone @yinyangyogi but if USA ever stopped selling us the missiles we could (like France) spend more to make our own. | ||
| @WellingtonCone @yinyangyogi yes | ||
| @WellingtonCone @yinyangyogi that is a made up fact. Trident is solely under control of UK. | ||
| @yinyangyogi @WellingtonCone I reject the idea that unilateral disarmament is "progressive". Proud that Attlee govt gave us bomb as well NHS | ||
| @WellingtonCone @yinyangyogi there are no US missiles in the UK now that Cruise has gone. | ||
| @WellingtonCone @yinyangyogi I've been studying it for 30 years | ||
| @yinyangyogi @WellingtonCone a "ridiculous concept" support by every UK govt for 70 years. If I'm wrong I have a lot of company. | ||
| @WellingtonCone @yinyangyogi we need them rather more than they need us, NATO is basically USA guaranteeing European security. | ||
| @WellingtonCone @yinyangyogi it's not a risk I am prepared to take. | ||
| @WellingtonCone @yinyangyogi when people don't understand basic realities you have to patronise them | ||
| @WellingtonCone @yinyangyogi The USA can walk away from NATO. | ||
| @yinyangyogi @WellingtonCone that is what it is down to. Something for something disarmament not something for nothing. | ||
| @WellingtonCone @yinyangyogi I'm in favour of multilateral not unilateral disarmament | ||
| @WellingtonCone @yinyangyogi at any point in next 50 years? Anything. We have no idea what threats will emerge in future. | ||
| @WellingtonCone @yinyangyogi you do know Obama has been President since 2009? | ||
| @yinyangyogi @WellingtonCone no I am asking do you think the leaders of all those countries are crazy? I don't. | ||
| @yinyangyogi @WellingtonCone it's the defence strategy of all the world's most powerful nations | ||
| @Welshbeard @InTheSoupAgain yes | ||
| @yinyangyogi @WellingtonCone yes | ||
| @yinyangyogi @WellingtonCone http://t.co/kslB7rQu4e | ||
| @wesstreeting Dover | ||
| @blues525 unfortunately Labour not standing in that ward - 2 LDs, 1 Con and 1 Green candidate. | ||
| @jonlansman does he want Labour to win in UK? | ||
| @Kevin_Maguire sad. Greeks should have been offered a third way between austerity and the far left. | ||
| @CGHutchison @blairmcdougall the only period when Labour was unilateralist was 6 years in 80s and 1 year in 60s. | ||
| @RF_McCarthy I know what Labour's policy is - multilateralism - agreed by NPF and Annual Conference. Not unilateral disarmament. | ||
| @wj63w @blairmcdougall do you think the Russian bombers and warship that have intruded into Scottish air/sea space are non-threatening? | ||
| @morwoo no because we would have to spend more on conventional forces if we went non-nuclear | ||
| Telling that SNP red line is about undermining UK defence not about a positive social policy improvement or anti-poverty measure. | ||
| Learning to deal with a whole new set of pain and inconvenience thanks to adding a broken ankle to longterm mobility problems. :( | ||
| @blues525 which ward of which council do you live in? | ||
| @Princemischief only in hard copy of New Statesman | ||
| @SadiqKhan @LondonLabour @VirendraSharma @tom_watson @ClaudeMoraesMEP @DrOnkarSahota look forward to seeing you there | ||
| Looking forward to tonight's Ealing Southall CLP annual dinner. | ||
| Hope @UKLabour NEC read powerful @helenlewis article about need for more MPs with experience of living with disabilities | ||
| @jane738 @Ed_Miliband that's the whole point. Economy was growing when Lab left office then went into double dip because of austerity. | ||
| Council by-election results so far this year: http://t.co/YS4DTBziEZ | ||
| @TheWordRabbit @Ti1ou when? In the Indy referendum we won by 10%? | ||
| @Sarah_Hayward @tomcopley @TomMillerUK why? We didn't "accept" ppl voting Tory in 80s so why "accept" popularity of minnow parties? | ||
| Why isn't the Canvey Island Independent Party in the debates? | ||
| @davidaslindsay @UKLabour I'm from the lot that always stay Labour. | ||
| @peteo48 @Hepworthclare the detail of the polling shows Green support is ex-Lib Dem middle classes, not working class Labour core voters | ||
| @DickWinchester @sweenato I don't think any of them are asking to become the govt of the UK. | ||
| Guardian ICM poll shows voting Green cuts Labour lead over Tories meaning dozens of seats would stay Tory. #voteGreengetBlue | ||
| First time I have ever been unable to speak somewhere because of security concerns: http://t.co/BipeXEYisR | ||
| @johnpreid @LabourList not what I said. Could also be a minority Labour govt. | ||
| @ianjsilvera it's quite common in Nordic countries for the largest party to govern alone without a majority. Worked well for SNP 2007-2011. | ||
| @ianjsilvera and even more as a minority government doing ad hoc deals without any ministers from other parties. | ||
| @ianjsilvera @LabourList as I said in blog we should either govern alone or not at all. | ||
| Frosty morning in Oxford! | ||
| @Tweet4Labour my concern is anything other than CASD incentivises enemy preemptive strike. | ||
| @OwenJones84 I agree! | ||
| @athanaseus he says he didn't | ||
| Sorry but what is the appeal of Natalie Bennett? Sanctimonious and pompous person. | ||
| @athanaseus not sure Ed M could be described as "war-mongering | ||
| @georgeeaton at most. Hopefully none. | ||
| Been chairing Health in Hackney Scrutiny. Local GPs v hostile to Lansley reforms. | ||
| The Guardian on Gaitskell: http://t.co/OZzwKJ9viW | ||
| @DanJudelson @CllrTomHayes @SixFiftyPolls tactical squeeze messages always work - loads of evidence for this. | ||
| @jeff_wode @McCaineNL be careful what you wish for, their are plenty of uber-Blairite BAME candidates well to the right of me | ||
| @joedgoldberg wow six years ago! Time flies. Great campaign and great contribution by you to Haringey since. | ||
| @LouiseBaldock it's brilliant. I get to see bits of all the other TV programmes I never watch, and the people in it are all great. | ||
| @TalOfer @Anna_SoubryMP or Toulouse | ||
| @mwood2001 that would be a bit contrary to my personal dietary choices | ||
| Here's why I am applying for the Edmonton Labour parliamentary selection: https://t.co/7Xl6fxeuzB | ||
| @ashrouen @Siddo_D no not from Edmonton, but campaigned there a lot. I was a Hackney cllr for 12 years until May. | ||
| @str8edgegeeza @Jonathan_Todd @jeremyduns antisemitism was a word invented by ppl who hated Jews in c19th to try 2make hate sound scientific | ||
| @PeterKenyon @UKLabour of course, but what about candidates w disabilities like me? What +ve action will there be for us? We face barriers. | ||
| I plan on putting my hat in the ring for the Edmonton parliamentary selection. What do people think? | ||
| Hi @johnprescott I've replied to your Mirror column, hope you will have a read http://t.co/gbzFw5v01J | ||
| Sad to see news of Andy Love retiring as MP. I helped his 1997 campaign to win Edmonton as CLP I was Organiser in was twinned with it. | ||
| @DbAshby @JonBenja @BBCTimWillcox reference to this line of questioning https://t.co/OdFpsZo8cc | ||
| @DbAshby @michaeldweiss indeed but important to rebut way Hebdo has been misrepresented | ||
| @sundersays @FoxNews this is the same Birmingham which hosts UK's largest Christmas Market? | ||
| Heading with @LabLinda75 to do @Oxford_Labour #labourdoorstep in Rose Hill & Iffley wards. I know @reporterboy loves these canvassing tweets | ||
| @Furqan_Naeem 11.45pm | ||
| @mrchrisjohn @ILNewsFlash killed by the terrorist before the police assault started | ||
| @alomshaha @frozenwarning correct it was mainly staffed by veterans of the 1968 student protest left | ||
| Great dinner at Que Viet in Kingsland Rd with friends from uni days. | ||
| @Ianrosmarin @RedRobertino @nla @LabourParty sorry no idea I have not been involved in this policy area | ||
| @barrett_marcus Emily is also in a safe Tory seat. These are people who are being selected because of their own hard work not their surnames | ||
| @barrett_marcus @judyk113 Straw seat is a Tory held marginal and Prescott seat is unwinnable safe Tory one. Your allegation is inaccurate. | ||
| Now at Homerton Hospital to b assessed for new orthotics (splints) which should let my ankles b more "dynamic" (physio speak) | ||
| Good to meet @euanmills today to hear about exciting work local volunteers doing to regenerate Chatsworth Rd (pt in my ward) | ||
| .@TristramHuntMP "“no such thing as a progressive argument which denies the right of the Israeli people to a homeland”. | ||
| @RichardLoweUK @LabourList sorry that would not be helpful to individual candidates. | ||
| @rafaelbehr because our offer is more appealing than our rivals'! I think we will lose some of our current support but squeeze Greens & UKIP | ||
| @GuidoFawkes @Conorpope played 3, won 1, lost 2. | ||
| @CouncillorBill yes all the time by YouGov online. | ||
| @MrsCJeffrey candidate in one of their main target seats! | ||
| @RichardWatts01 anway sorry I should have said Stoke Newington not Islington! | ||
| @scnnr @Marat1789 and Mandela recognised Zionism as a national liberation movement like the ANC and PLO. | ||
| @scnnr @Marat1789 I am opposed to Labour forming coalitions with anyone. Should govern alone or not at all. | ||
| @sowadally @JohnRentoul and New Labour in 1997 didn't "include everybody", it was a 42% strategy. | ||
| Ed Balls moves to claim political centre ground for Labour http://t.co/YPfJd6k4gT |
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| @davidaslindsay @jonewilson @CompassOffice he says it here today http://t.co/LIm1D5qc0o | ||
| @MarioDunn1 @Lab2Palestine @UKLabour @DavidLammy maybe he wants to win, unlike Ken whose margin if defeat was linked to anti-Israel stance | ||
| @davidgwynne he ran for selection for MP in Bridgend. At that time he was New Labour. | ||
| @AlanScobbie @CalumSPlath yep Labour First have more of a problem w Compass than Progress does. | ||
| If you hate Neal Lawson talking about "the wrong people" voting Labour in 1997, read this: http://t.co/LgAK16wqun. Happy New Year! | ||
| @conradlandin I was thinking more that Pasok actually sit in same EP group and European party as us. | ||
| Interesting to see some Labour folk cheerlead Syrizia. NEC more relaxed on endorsing non-sister parties than in Attlee era (Nenni telegram). | ||
| @Politicsatbest part of my day job as Director of @WeBelieveIsrael | ||
| @electrocarp the quality of the six was great though! | ||
| @_MattEgan @GerryHassan @NUS_Vonnie of course it is. But all things in politics can be changed. | ||
| U-turn on NHS reforms too late in many cases - loads of best officers already made redundant by my local PCT | ||
| @kenmckelvey224 please find a way to attack Israel that doesn't include sick and stupud comparisons to Nazis. | ||
| @bobfrombrockley I got Economic Left/Right: -6.62 Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -5.08 | ||
| @adrianmcmenamin @JohnRentoul will never forget kids aged 11 in tears on results days as told "failed" and unable to go same sch as friends. | ||
| @adrianmcmenamin @JohnRentoul ditto in Kent. Defined 90pc of my primary class as having "failed". | ||
| Jim Murphy: ‘The SNP know they’re up against someone who isn’t crap’ http://t.co/yLk3pxDRqc | ||
| In mega traffic jam at south approach to Blackwall Tunnel. Lovely view of sunset behind Canary Wharf though. | ||
| @SophieCam "flawed" is a better word. It would b a great system if there were only 2 parties but produces perverse results w multiple parti | ||
| Maybe what happened was leaflet for other 90pc of country was default one and BZ was added in in London 2appeal 2 its cultural diversity | ||
| Conservative support drops to 28% after autumn statement, the party’s lowest score since May last year | ||
| Enjoying @BoardofDeputies Chanukah reception at Commons. Very powerful speech by Speaker John Bercow. | ||
| Also reassuring to know that rather than their top demand being anything to do with social justice, it's that we please Putin by disarming. | ||
| @johnpreid @LabourList he lives there! | ||
| @IrvineWelsh @doran_j don't be absurd. Difficult to think of anyone less Tory than Jim Murphy. | ||
| @maxshanly @SamTarry @ostercywriter @johnmcternan @DPJHodges his views on international issues are irrelevent in context of new job | ||
| @DPJHodges you also assume a degree of autonomy for the Scottish bits of UK unions which doesn't exist. Affiliation determined at UK level. | ||
| @DPJHodges so there can be as many SNP folk in unite or unison as they want, they have no voice in decisions about election funds etc | ||
| Good to see Jim got a good share of vote - nearly 40% - in affiliates section despite everything thrown at him | ||
| I hope Holborn & St Pancras Labour select the excellent @Sarah_Hayward today. And that @jimmurphymp gets a win too! | ||
| @horatioharry thanks! | ||
| The new politics of UKIP looks a lot like the worst excesses of the old Tory politics the country kicked out in 1997. | ||
| @Callum_Munro @thomasgraham #ecosy only had 2 VPs when I went to my first Congress in 1995 | ||
| Tactical voting appeal to Greens is fine but betrays a lack of political self confidence ... | ||
| @HackneyAbbott hope it goes well | ||
| I just got asked for ID to check I was old enough to buy booze in my local co-op! 1st time since early '90s as I am 42 years old! | ||
| @hannahblythyn calum raised this at NEC on Tues. Is under consideration. | ||
| @danielelton @LabourList my wife is writing one | ||
| @hannahblythyn polling day | ||
| @ianrobo1 @MSmithsonPB all the national stuff about immigration came up but trumped by the local campaigning and council delivery | ||
| @ianrobo1 @MSmithsonPB basically @Oxford_Labour has a great story to tell locally about investment e.g. new sports centre on the estate | ||
| @MSmithsonPB Blackbird Leys is a 7.7% UKIP to Lab swing since this May if using same swing comparison as you have for neighbouring ward. | ||
| @MSmithsonPB you have quoted the swing since 2012 in Blackbird Leys but the swing since 2014 in Northfield Brook. | ||
| Love the bar charts in this. Lib Dems - losing here. http://t.co/1FPUAwX8he | ||
| Round-up of all yesterday's council by-elections: http://t.co/DTIjfCgJXY | ||
| @derekrootboy @davenellist like the 21 people who voted Green and 13 TUSC vs 509 Labour in Blackbird Leys yesterday? | ||
| @haykirstin it goes to every member in London | ||
| @chrisdeerin @jonathanmcshane @JeremyCliffe I assumed Corby rather than Berwick! | ||
| @MSmithsonPB I'm not sure that UKIP running second in Doncaster is really a huge revelation. Consistent with S Yorks PCC byelection? | ||
| Reading ComRes marginals poll whilst humming "it's beginning to look a lot like Christmas". 4% swing not bad considering recent events. | ||
| @GuidoFawkes it would remove any possibility of BNP winning seats, as democratic parties likely transfer to each other above BNP | ||
| @JohannaBaxter it being N16 his class has other kids who went on demo but with parents from full spectrum of left organisations | ||
| @JohannaBaxter he also asked his mum "is it true that the Green Party are as annoying as David Cameron | ||
| @yani1988 @Conorpope @LabourList indeed. Or returning/moving to us if we appeal to them. | ||
| Woken by 5 year old chanting "they say cutback, we say fightback". | ||
| @Tom_Fowdy I'm not. | ||
| @SarkyChris91 all democracies in Europe have laws based on religious teachings. Where do you think "thou shalt not kill" originates? | ||
| @SarkyChris91 I wouldn't vote for that aspect of the draft law and I doubt there is a Knesset majority for that clause to get passed. | ||
| @SarkyChris91 by the way there is a statue of Moses in the Royal Courts of Justice as British law is based on Jewish laws eg 10 commandments | ||
| @SarkyChris91 no. Why would that be a problem? Surely UK law has its roots in Christian teachings? | ||
| @SarkyChris91 state of "Jewish people" is nothing to do with religion/theocracy. Greece is constitutionally defined as state of "Greek ppl | ||
| On way to Blackbird Leys Ward for @Oxford_Labour by-election #labourdoorstep with @LabLinda75 Shame about the rain. | ||
| @MarioDunn1 @stuartbruce Imp not to generalise re. "North London". My Hackney colleagues are geographically there but not culturally. | ||
| @MrsBurgin I shall be out on the #labourdoorstep tomorrow in Blackbird Leys | ||
| @MrsBurgin and 2 teams of 10 is even better as reduces the number of people running the board and not knocking on doors | ||
| @RoperCarl we can't get elected and save the NHS if we needlessly alienate/insult the working class voters we are supposed to represent | ||
| When I see a white van I think Experian code H46 "white van culture" a key demographic component of any election winning coalition. | ||
| Labour hit less by UKIP than either Tories or LDs were thanks to efforts of @naushabahkhan @malcpowers @joshjcole @ChrisBryantMP and team | ||
| @lewiclarke8775 @sunny_hundal @raymonddelauney @bobfrombrockley @SarahAB_UK e.g. 2 Jewish Quarter of Old City of Jerusalem | ||
| Enjoyed my day speaking to c200 Rochester & Strood voters. Good friendly ppl whether or not voting Labour. Makes me proud of my Kent roots. | ||
| @poobIocks @SarahAB_UK @sunny_hundal West Bank. Roads in Israel are open to all just like UK roads. | ||
| Doing my final batch of calls for @naushabahkhan in Rochester East ward | ||
| @poobIocks @SarahAB_UK @sunny_hundal because of terrorist attacks when roads were shared | ||
| @Lab2Palestine @sunny_hundal @martinlinton @bobfrombrockley @SarahAB_UK no I don't think it is useful to. Political deal the key not law. | ||
| @sunny_hundal @martinlinton @Lab2Palestine @bobfrombrockley @SarahAB_UK I already said I want the 1967 borders changed by land swaps | ||
| @lisa_calderwood hope it goes well. Sorry can't attend due to council duties. | ||
| @Lab2Palestine @SarahAB_UK @sunny_hundal I don't think pragmatic arguments over whether border changes by a mile or so are "extremist". | ||
| @MarkSeddon1962 didn't you fight one of the seats in Bucks? | ||
| @PeterKenyon @georgeeaton @UKLabour I didn't support the move to primary for that either | ||
| @georgeeaton because their candidate is living proof that open primaries do not improve candidate quality in any criteria | ||
| X90 coach home on diversion so get to see Beaconsfield which is ridiculously cute | ||
| Lib Dems lose a key activist over Rennard and David Ward MP: http://t.co/pjIZkv3Gdi | ||
| @susanhebden "our" in what sense? I thought Serwotka was in the Socialist Party (AKA Militant) not Labour? | ||
| @DYoung90 @Lab2Palestine I thought they should have RT'd @Ed_Miliband 's clear condemnation. | ||
| @DYoung90 @Lab2Palestine yes that is all I could see. | ||
| I'm struggling to find a clear condemnation of the terrorist atrocity this morning in your timelines @lfpme and @Lab2Palestine. Why? | ||
| Polling shows UKIP voters closer to Labour on economic issues: http://t.co/JPw8CoE2Bx | ||
| @maxshanly @Daniel_McAteer me and every post war UK govt | ||
| Team of 40 of us out today from @Oxford_Labour for #labourdoorstep in Blackbird Leys and Northfield Brook byelections | ||
| @PeterKenyon Labour fielding 20pc more council cands in E, SW and WM and 10pc more in SE than in 2007 | ||
| @Daniel_McAteer @maxshanly if we want to shelter under US umbrella which I do then they expect us to help pay | ||
| @Daniel_McAteer @maxshanly it isn't. | ||
| @Daniel_McAteer @maxshanly it is independent, UK has full control over its use. Are you arguing we need to develop own missiles like France? | ||
| @Daniel_McAteer @maxshanly that just isn't case any more than any other military kit purchased overseas. | ||
| @Daniel_McAteer @maxshanly only the missiles are leased. Personally I want this level of linkage to USA. | ||
| Sturgeon Trident comments another reason to want a Labour majority so we don't have to negotiate with ultra-leftists. | ||
| .@scottishlabour Deputy Leader CLP nominations: @kdugdalemsp 47 CLPs, @KatyClarkMP 7 CLPs | ||
| MPs hit out at disappointing Livingstone over attendance at Lutfur Rahman rally - http://t.co/WRhyumIt1f | ||
| 10 tangible changes Ed Miliband could make today to kickstart his leadership http://t.co/t8YEmCPXMz | ||
| Labour beats Ukip to land data guru http://t.co/vEVgjiBXFY via @guardian | ||
| My Labourlist column: http://t.co/bqjAJmivcC #webackEd | ||
| Washing up whilst listening to Morrissey singles compilation '88 to '95 and thinking through Labour structures reform... | ||
| Main impact of New Statesman cover showing @Ed_Miliband as Dr Who is my 9 year old stole my copy to read it | ||
| @PVMill his actual birthday is 2 March, same day as me. | ||
| @joeyjonessky leadership plots require someone willing to run for leader! | ||
| Seems like a good time to republish key posts from 2010 on why I back @Ed_Miliband http://t.co/SCDEGaqMh9 http://t.co/7F2JV0uv1h #webackEd | ||
| @MrBenSellers @OwenJones84 @LukeBozier rubbish. The TUs and Labour got the 400k there. Ppl I marched w annoyed by uk uncut b4 saturday. | ||
| Last night's council by-election results: http://t.co/K6ceERoO10 | ||
| @MrBenSellers @OwenJones84 @LukeBozier it's not about where we r culturally it's about where society is and what it will tolerate | ||
| @MrBenSellers @OwenJones84 @LukeBozier sit ins not a "threat" but to normal voters they look nutty | ||
| This makes sense to me: http://t.co/avORxN04W5 | ||
| @OwenJones84 @LukeBozier I agree they are peaceful but I think their tactics are on balance unhelpful and likely to turn off support | ||
| @LukeBozier it's an EDM signed by a small number of Lab MPs incl usual suspects | ||
| Westminster gossip and plotting circus today seems a long way from real life concerns of people I was canvassing in Blackbird Leys | ||
| It's my day off so I'm in Blackbird Leys for #labourdoorstep with @LabLinda75 | ||
| Heading to Northfield Brook Ward for #labourdoorstep with @Oxford_Labour | ||
| As usual @IanAustinMP making sense: http://t.co/BejkLgx9Tc | ||
| I've signed this open letter calling for solidarity with the Kurds against ISIS: http://t.co/zCYEQhZzfm | ||
| @hopisen there are ways round this e.g. leafleting and being in person outside entrances of major unionised workplaces at shift change time | ||
| .@conradlandin yes why do CLPs keep picking national calibre politicians for the national parliament? A great mystery. | ||
| @KevinMorton1966 these ideas are about self-liquidation not reform | ||
| @kmflett rare should equal some visible blood | ||
| @kmflett depends on the cut of steak | ||
| End of a long day - just been writing up report of this AM's NEC. Will be on Progress website tmrw I think. | ||
| Excellent article by @JohannaBaxter http://t.co/6saytF6TfC | ||
| @James_Aston_29 @naushabahkhan so we could just as easily be up ten points next week. | ||
| @James_Aston_29 @naushabahkhan 32% actually. Three weeks to get them back. | ||
| @Julian_Sayarer vegetarians and vegans in Hackney Labour were strongly opposed to Greens trying to impose Vegan Mondays on schools etc | ||
| If you don't want actual result in Rochester & Strood to look like today's Survation poll please go there to help @naushabahkhan campaign | ||
| @Rowan_Draper @johnmclarke @leftfutures no it's just a Pavlovian response. | ||
| @alexlmayer @Matthew_Reilly1 @castlepointlab @JoeCookeLabour good luck! | ||
| @Markfergusonuk I am surprised we are as high as 23% | ||
| @CllrWalshaw @clements_tom not seen any suggestion of that - his launch talked about tackling poverty | ||
| @CllrWalshaw @BristolRed I remember him running as left candidate for Labour NUS President nomination in 94 so his politics more nuanced | ||
| @CllrWalshaw I think @jimmurphymp is shrewd enough that he will run with positions that enable Labour to win big in Scotland | ||
| @JhonCooper drop me an email - want to know what you mean so i can give considered reply | ||
| @MrsBurgin I don't think that is an enforceable rule given campaigning mainly consists of talking to local members | ||
| @JohnRentoul by definition you are not a Labour voter unless you vote Labour | ||
| @stuartwramsay I was doing the rural area where we are not strong but previous Lab vote holding up well | ||
| Having a good day at Labour HQ in Rochester calling voters in Strood Rural Ward for @naushabahkhan | ||
| Payday loan brokers regularly raid bank accounts of poor customers via @guardian. This is just evil. http://t.co/OWgj8MDe5B | ||
| Looking forward to my trip to Rochester tomorrow to campaign for @naushabahkhan | ||
| @mcfuckingduff @LabourList I renounce neoliberalism. | ||
| @tomcopley good! | ||
| @tomcopley @LabourList so do I - I've been in LCER for 20 years - but I've never made case for reform by referring to unfairness on LDs/Grns | ||
| @KevinMorton1966 it led Huhne and Cable to where they are today | ||
| @tomcopley @joedgoldberg I just don't like the Green Party or want them to have elected representatives under any voting system | ||
| @tomcopley @joedgoldberg one way to put most Labour ppl in Hackney off PR is to say would put Greens on council when we fought to keep off | ||
| @conradlandin @maxshanly true bit of history though, he was the left candidate vs my current boss Dermot Kehoe | ||
| @maxshanly I'm shocked the left are not backing Jim like they did for NUS President in the 1994 NOLS selection ;) | ||
| @shippingjourno I have never heard of him until this weekend. | ||
| Just tried 2 look at @leftfutures attack on @jimmurphymp + got "This site has been blocked because it's listed as having malicious content. | ||
| @OwenJones84 and irony is that one of the CLPS in Scotland which is vibrant sucessful model is @jimmurphymp 's, who you attack | ||
| @OwenJones84 that was after Blair had announced he was quitting | ||
| @OwenJones84 but when the party was Blairite the SNP was marginalised and Labour won every election in Scotland handsomely | ||
| full NEC meeting today. Be interesting to hear reactions to the party reform proposals | ||
| Busy morning of #labourdoorstep followed by @lablinda75 visiting members in Blackbird Leys to get nomination papers signed | ||
| @stfumikey @UKuncut if you had any idea how much discomfort and effort it took for me to walk the distance I did on Sat u shd b ashamed | ||
| @RobertAChapman say hi to David from me | ||
| Please donate to @naushabahkhan 's campaign for Labour in Rochester and Strood by-election: https://t.co/6A6Dc8Iu9W | ||
| @Fruitandvegdon no I don't believe it had anything to do with it. Saddam was happy to sell us oil. | ||
| @Fruitandvegdon I take the politicians I actually know at face value | ||
| @Fruitandvegdon no I don't. I was reasonably proximate to the Blair govt, spads, ministers etc and if they wanted oil could have bought it. | ||
| @Fruitandvegdon I used to live in N16 until 6 months ago so I have good contacts in the Kurdish community | ||
| @Fruitandvegdon does other means include insertion of ground forces? I would prefer that to air strikes - more militarily useful. | ||
| @Fruitandvegdon potential future development of WMD and purchase of missile delivery systems from N Korea. I wanted it preemptively stopped. | ||
| @Fruitandvegdon yes. | ||
| @Fruitandvegdon bottom line for me is people in the region are begging us to intervene militarily | ||
| @Fruitandvegdon using your criteria there is very little point having an air power as can't see which circumstances you would use it | ||
| @Fruitandvegdon I am bemused by why the 32 civilian deaths outweigh the hundreds of thousands of lives ISIS threatens | ||
| @Fruitandvegdon that clearly is not the way air strikes are being used - which is to hit ISIS heavy weapons etc + support Kurdish fighters | ||
| @Fruitandvegdon 32 tragic collateral deaths alongside 521 of terrorists shows no gung-ho approach, but very precise targeting | ||
| @Fruitandvegdon it should stop when ISIS are defeated. | ||
| @Fruitandvegdon yes but how many innocent people are they saving and how many ISIS fighters are they killing? | ||
| @shippingjourno @Fruitandvegdon last week there was e.g. of a hill in Kobane retaken by Kurds as direct result of close air support | ||
| I signed up to volunteer for Together We Khan. Join me! http://t.co/qxM9vlkDwi | ||
| Round-up of last night's council by-elections: http://t.co/1qSbkG0LHO | ||
| @davidosler @OwenJones84 @Calderbank actually I was raised in the Bennite faith | ||
| @Calderbank he remembered wrong. My Trot phase was when I was 12-13. I was rightwing Labour by time I joined party age 16. | ||
| @MrsBurgin @cllrtrisosborne copying in @AlanOlive1 to see if he can look at feasibility | ||
| @cohendave @LabourList as far as I know our campaign is focussed on the NHS which is a big issue locally | ||
| Time for Labour activists to head to Rochester: http://t.co/mG4bfTwgzx | ||
| Gough Whitlam dies at age 98 http://t.co/6V5S5YccUv |
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| @maxshanly not really because an entryist comes in from another party | ||
| @maxshanly yes I was just pointing out the history of why the current YL structure is as it is. | ||
| @rachellybee @maxshanly @bradmarshall92 structure of Young Labour is designed to stop in being hijacked by entryists like LPYS, YS and LLY. | ||
| I'm going to spend day campaigning 4 @naushabahkhan in Rochester byelection on Wed 29 Oct. Anyone want to join me there? | ||
| @JohnRentoul that's strange as Newsnight interviewed WI members from Cotswolds villages who were going on the march | ||
| Sorry not to be able to join tomorrow's Britain Needs a Pay Rise demo in London. Solidarity with everyone marching esp fellow Unite members. | ||
| @PaulWoodhead100 @LabourEoin @duncanenright @maxshanly ok just don't do guilt by association - I back lots ppl who don't always agree w me | ||
| #Labour Rochester by-election trip from London on 26 Oct led by @AdamDKHarrison https://t.co/SWqNDvJM4q Please RT | ||
| @PaulWoodhead100 @LabourEoin @duncanenright not all my friends share all my politics e.g. @maxshanly ! | ||
| I've booked a day's annual leave to help @naushabahkhan on Polling Day (20 Nov) in Rochester & Strood byelection. Will you be there too? | ||
| Round-up of last night's council by-elections including impressive Lab defence vs UKIP in Thurrock: http://t.co/VZjdG5kh8r | ||
| @maxshanly someone needs to tell Putin that. | ||
| Yet again CND will be undermining/hijacking an anti-austerity march with placards calling for a spending cut ("scrap Trident"). Parasites. | ||
| Pleased to be back in Oxford and here until Tuesday morning. Looking forward to baked Camembert with @LabLinda75 #healthyeating | ||
| @tomcopley @plymouthkate and? that makes violence ok? | ||
| @Tarikahmedkhan it isn't recognised as a state by the UK government - this was a non-binding backbench debate where govt didn't vote | ||
| @MichaelEzra @Labourpaul a religion would imply some kind of spiritual or belief content to rituals. For my family there is none. | ||
| @Labourpaul @MichaelEzra exactly. | ||
| @MichaelEzra no I think Christmas appropriated a bunch of older pagan midwinter festival customs, for me is just a winter festival for kids | ||
| @MichaelEzra yes we do | ||
| Back at National Neurology Hospital for routine check up - my home for 5 difficult months as inpatient in 2009. | ||
| @maxshanly @Robert_Philpot @simonevans117 @janemerrick23 I was there and saw the trench warfare that won it in each area | ||
| @DanJudelson @redstarneil @Jeremy_Newmark @WeBelieveIsrael @GarySpedding is that some kind of religious allusion? | ||
| @sunny_hundal @Amina_Lone just be careful not to make that a self-fulfilling prophesy I.e. Push away ppl you wrongly assume not winnable. | ||
| @GarySpedding @redstarneil @Jeremy_Newmark @WeBelieveIsrael I think you ought to have bigger priorities in life. | ||
| @GarySpedding @redstarneil @Jeremy_Newmark @WeBelieveIsrael the clue is in the title! | ||
| @GarySpedding @redstarneil @Jeremy_Newmark @WeBelieveIsrael I don't actually read your tweets. All a bit same-ish. | ||
| @GarySpedding @redstarneil @Jeremy_Newmark @WeBelieveIsrael PS I am impressed you follow my work with such interest. | ||
| @GarySpedding @redstarneil @Jeremy_Newmark @WeBelieveIsrael no we don't. The opposite, we have broadest definition possible. | ||
| @GarySpedding @redstarneil @Jeremy_Newmark but @WeBelieveIsrael is for all Zionists who support 2 state solution and .... | ||
| @GarySpedding @redstarneil @Jeremy_Newmark my personal views on Israeli politics are nearest to Israeli Labor not Meretz | ||
| @GarySpedding @redstarneil @Jeremy_Newmark I think you are confusing my personal and work roles | ||
| @GarySpedding @redstarneil @Jeremy_Newmark please give examples. | ||
| @GarySpedding @redstarneil @Jeremy_Newmark no it's past my bed time, I have to be up at 5.30am to commute to my fight for Zionism. | ||
| @GarySpedding @redstarneil @Jeremy_Newmark what gives you this great insight into minds of Israelis Gary? | ||
| @sunny_hundal @Amina_Lone why shouldn't we get 40% of the vote? Surely there are that many people who share our values? | ||
| @sunny_hundal @Amina_Lone how about wanting and believing Labour can do better and looking for ways to achieve that? | ||
| @mehdirhasan helps you locate important stuff you want to re-read but not RT | ||
| @MillisJoseph @DanJudelson oh I see you will, but you only have 172 followers so only they will hear! | ||
| @MillisJoseph @DanJudelson would you like that to come at the start of each conversation? Or only after a certain number of tweets? | ||
| @LukemCresswell @QMannRed on both sides. Hamas should not be launching 1940s type attacks on cities. | ||
| @LukemCresswell @QMannRed Israel doesn't randomly bomb anything - it targets known rocket launch sites like UK did against Vs and V2s in WW2 | ||
| @LukemCresswell @QMannRed actually in international law that depends on the exact circumstances. | ||
| @QMannRed @LukemCresswell 24000 Israelis the rest Arabs but not all Palestinians as includes Egyptian, Syrian, Jordanian soldiers etc | ||
| @QMannRed @OwenFields1 not my decision but all recent peace deals have included some variation from the 1967 lines via land swaps. | ||
| @DanJudelson think this could get silly e.g. I am relaxed when PSC staff tweet personally about the issue, don't expect declaration of job | ||
| @ShneurOdzeUKIP eh? I have been a trade union member and office holder for 21 years. | ||
| @MillisJoseph @DanJudelson I express work views on my work twitter feed, these are my personal/Labour activist views | ||
| @DanJudelson for instance the view I expressed on land swaps is not policy of my employers who do not take a stance on that issue | ||
| @DanJudelson I said the same thing last night. For record views expressed here are personal ones, not necessarily those of @WeBelieveIsrael | ||
| @DanJudelson oh you mean I should end every tweet with "in my professional life I am Director of @WeBelieveIsrael"? | ||
| If I was a Labour MP with a vote tomorrow I would b breaking the whip. Which is probably a reason why I am unlikely to become a Labour MP... | ||
| @GarySpedding I don't personally agree with the exact 1967 borders, I want land swaps so there isn't mass forced movement of population | ||
| @GarySpedding in practice it does | ||
| @lfpme @AldermanGeo @Jeremy_Newmark one would hope not. | ||
| @tomcopley @redstarneil @TomMillerUK @davidaslindsay @CalumSPlath it's a wrecking motion. A transitional demand. | ||
| @SarkyChris91 @SayelGaza deserve it but through negotiated peace deal. | ||
| @LukemCresswell "genocide"? Please don't misuse serious term. 115000 deaths in total on both sides in Arab/Israeli conflict since 1947. | ||
| @tomcopley @Daniel_McAteer @TomMillerUK @davidaslindsay @redstarneil @CalumSPlath need some pressure on Palestinians to sign peace deal too | ||
| @tomcopley @Daniel_McAteer @TomMillerUK @davidaslindsay @redstarneil @CalumSPlath but the reality is it does. Need to deal with reality. | ||
| @TomMillerUK @Daniel_McAteer @davidaslindsay @tomcopley @redstarneil @CalumSPlath not true - all polling shows majority support for 2 states | ||
| @hillsidepaul @John_Ferrett well actually creation of Palestinian Authority through Oslo is a huge advance on situation before peace process | ||
| @SarkyChris91 yes. Most of them are not democracies themselves so I am not over interested in their stance on national self determination. | ||
| @TomMillerUK was. Isn't now as Dalai Lama embraced democracy and abandoned any secular power. Tibetans should be able to choose future. | ||
| High praise indeed from my wife @LabLinda75, says I didn't look "too fat or too red" and was "bit like Neal Lawson" on BBC Sunday Politics. | ||
| @paulgittings yes I agree | ||
| Good to see Labour are on 35% in Opinium. We need clear strategy to get from there to 40% by taking 5% from UKIP's 17%. | ||
| @acogofchange I strongly support a two state solution but believe this has to result from peace negotiations not preceed them | ||
| @Daniel_McAteer it risks undermining a negotiated peace by not saying Palestinian state can only come through negotiation | ||
| @LutonNUT no there is not. Foreign and defence policy should usually be based on bipartisan consensus. | ||
| @tommilleruk @LukeBozier I agree with Tom. Both stand in same broad tradition within Labour. As will Ed. | ||
| @LukeBozier @tommilleruk we have to end this Blair vs Brown nonsense. They were both good men from same wing of party. | ||
| @mathiasbarrett @LukeBozier some of us r from bit of Labour right who existed b4 1994 and were bit offended when New Lab implied we hadn't | ||
| @LukeBozier why would anyone find it offensive to say we spring from same tradition? Indeed TUC same org that led many historic UK struggles | ||
| @LukeBozier you are not making a lot of sense on this. Large slice of shadow cab r from Blairite tradition. | ||
| Cheered up by @Oxford_Labour meeting. Whatever challenges we face nationally, Labour grassroots in good shape and up for the fight ahead. | ||
| @hjoneshojo @VincentN15N17 I voted for and campaigned for and am a committed supporter of Ed. | ||
| @SteveHartUnite I wish that was true, churn is LD vote has collapsed to us but some of our 2010 core vote has gone to UKIP | ||
| @doylematthew you were very good | ||
| @philbc3 if she did say that, huge Kurdish community in Hackney may not be tremendously happy | ||
| @PeterKenyon @RoperCarl @RaviSubbie we need to ask why they have gone from Tory on to UKIP not back to Labour | ||
| @PeterKenyon @RoperCarl @RaviSubbie Tory to UKIP switchers include many voters who were Labour until they went Tory in 2010 | ||
| @RaviSubbie @RoperCarl that's what we need to explain to voters, they really don't know much about what UKIP is really about | ||
| @Guy_SittShepp @SittSheppLabour good luck! | ||
| @EmmaBurnell_ thanks. | ||
| @donpaskini some recent by-elections have made a profit - more donated than spent | ||
| @duncanqbruce positive or negative? | ||
| @donpaskini resourcing Rochester properly could cause a change to national narrative/momentum that wins us key seats | ||
| @donpaskini I didn't make any personal attacks - deliberately didn't refer to individuals | ||
| @donpaskini in fact it appears I rate their appeal higher than they do themselves | ||
| @donpaskini I don't see it as slagging off the leadership to argue that they can and should try to win a by-election. | ||
| @AndrewGilbert1 they are not part of us in first place | ||
| @DPJHodges @dylsharpe he hasn't | ||
| Howard Jacobson "I need 140 million characters to say what I need to say". Read his book J. | ||
| Exasperated by Jonathan Powell comparing Northern Ireland/IRA to ISIS. Up there with Chamberlain thinking he could do business with Hitler. | ||
| @petedigger @WalkerMarcus intervention in 2013 would have helped ISIS wouldn't it? | ||
| Is @CNDuk just one of the bundle of pressure (front?) groups where the strings are pulled by @SocialistAct Trots? Same Q re. @PSCupdates | ||
| @mollymulreadyj if they want to carry out tactics not endorsed by TUC should do it on separate day rather than hijack TUC's media coverage | ||
| @mollymulreadyj whether or not they were peaceful, actions like occupying shops were distraction from main demo and not asked 4 by TUC | ||
| Dear #ukuncut the TUC asked everyone to walk from A to B. They never asked u to occupy shops. So pls don't complain when u get arrested. | ||
| @tobyperkinsmp I don't think they even pretend to share our values. As anarchists they hate everything democratic socialists stand for | ||
| @IrvineWelsh @SocialistHealth Norway has conscription as did Sweden for whole of Cold War. I'd rather have Trident. | ||
| @VincentStops @patrick_kidd @SpandeliUk ward level results here: http://t.co/Q4HnixDfiE | ||
| @antoniabance sadly separated from its MP who is already at Hyde Park | ||
| @smithsky1979 odd as the march does not go down Oxford st | ||
| @SocialistAct @NATOSource look who supports dictatorship. | ||
| @IntJewCon better | ||
| Jed on #26march http://yfrog.com/gzdb2ptj | ||
| @ariehkovler me neither. | ||
| Brooks Newmark may not have defected but his Braintree seat must be a prime UKIP target | ||
| Me last November on why Labour needs a Kent strategy in light of UKIP: http://t.co/EDIiF1a1KF | ||
| @MnWthtQualities @MSmithsonPB we selected ages ago. It was a Labour seat 1997-2010. | ||
| About 130 Hackney Labour members set off from Dalston | ||
| @election_data Sittingbourne and Sheppey | ||
| @jane738 @TraceyPaul Manchester University Press | ||
| Have purchased Lewis Minkin's "Blair Supremacy" as any book w Labour First in index and @TraceyPaul on cover must be accurate | ||
| @SephRBrown @ProgressOnline it is an accurate description of how people feel | ||
| @vriyait this time 57% of public disagree with them | ||
| @SephRBrown Ed indeed has right to a different opinion to me, but @ProgressOnline correct to say stance may make some key seats trickier | ||
| @maxshanly @LabourEoin I would like to increase all public expenditure (incl MoD) but I trust Shadow Chancellor to know how much can afford | ||
| @maxshanly @LabourEoin he just pledged £2.5 bn extra for NHS to save lives. | ||
| @maxshanly @Siddo_D to quote @BilldeBlasio "#progressive | ||
| The @Harryslaststand speech is being posted on Facebook by people who are not political activists and I doubt usually watch conf speeches | ||
| @RoperCarl @mcaino http://t.co/IS0EuBQT7r | ||
| @RoperCarl @mcaino http://t.co/FxTEy41kPC | ||
| Heading home to Oxford. #Lab14 flat etc but I think we will be back at Lab15 conference with Ed as PM. | ||
| @RoperCarl 2/2 because it shows the party delivering the leaflet a) cares about your area and your vote and b) thinks it has a chance there | ||
| @RoperCarl that and just receiving material that is hand delivered increases propensity to vote even if it is unread 1/2 | ||
| @maxshanly seeing as we are pledged to increase spending on the NHS that would be an odd thing to do | ||
| Wow so much good policy content in Yvette Cooper speech. We need to raise the profile of our policies on these issues, a lot to tell voters. | ||
| @wesstreeting @LabourStudents they are just unrivalled full stop. | ||
| First Blair quote of the week - "tough on crime and tough on the causes of crime" says Yvette C | ||
| Obligatory "I'm in the hall waiting for the speech" tweet. #Lab14 | ||
| My review of conference so far: http://t.co/Ot1mjknsh1 | ||
| @8twisden @deborahsacks yes or at least parts of them | ||
| @cymrurouge Labour First actually. | ||
| @guardian_clark I would think more because our manufacturing policies on aerospace in final years before 2010 were liked by industry | ||
| I didn't think much of Douglas Alexander drawing a moral equivalence between Hamas terrorist rockets and Israel trying to stop them. | ||
| @jaystoll order of demands is confused. See my proposed redraft. | ||
| Reminder to #Lab14 delegates please vote for Rose Burley and Kevin Hepworth for NCC | ||
| @Labourpaul noon | ||
| @GrimstonJack @DenisMacShane actually it does have different powers in some areas. This asymmetry is driving greater devolution all round. | ||
| http://t.co/MWebFRYWev | ||
| At Hackney Dinner at #Lab14. Great to catch up with old comrades - nearly 30 ppl from @HackneyLabour at Conference. | ||
| @davidgwynne no they hate each other far more than they hate Labour moderates, let alone the Tories | ||
| @davidgwynne yes couple of years ago | ||
| @DavidMills73 sadly they dropped that column before I could feature in it. This was in "Periscope". | ||
| I must be doing something right as "the original Labour Briefing" magazine has a column w a personalised attack on me 1/2 | ||
| @Daniel_McAteer @HackneyAbbott our problem re the general election is that we are not popular enough with over 60s, who almost all vote | ||
| @Daniel_McAteer @HackneyAbbott actually we are not, we have good polling numbers with youngest voters for UK General Election intention | ||
| @BeastOfBarnes Rose is from Walsall and Kevin is from Derby | ||
| #Lab14 delegates please vote for hardworking and fair Nat Constitutional Cttee incumbents Rose Burley and Kevin Hepworth | ||
| #Lab14 delegates please vote for excellent Nat Constitutional Cttee incumbents Rose Burley and Kevin Hepworth | ||
| @SurrealAnarchy capital grant to rebuild nursery he went to axed | ||
| @SomeblokeJust I watched it when I was 11 and supported CND until I was 15 and actually read some facts about how deterrence works | ||
| @beaubodor @JolyonMaugham @iMcKenzied no, vibrant local branches which debate, campaign and socialise | ||
| @iMcKenzied @JolyonMaugham because turnout and engagement are positively affected by people being door-knocked by parties | ||
| @iMcKenzied @JolyonMaugham stronger better organised political parties are the cure for what ails democracy | ||
| @Labourpaul I played that before I left the house | ||
| @MartinOKeeffee @stucrow no that's just what I would personally like it to be. Sadly I don't influence the conference agenda. | ||
| @AdamGSpencer I.e. We need a line on this but it should not be allowed to become a theme of our election campaign. | ||
| @georgewpotter @nickjbarlow @miss_s_b the rural but should be called Mercia and the urban bit West Midlands | ||
| @mcneil_tom oh they have already given me 2 biscuits and a cup of tea | ||
| @georgewpotter @Paul0Evans1 you should do a similar map for minimum population of 2.5 million | ||
| @Odbe34 cross country | ||
| @JonCollett @sundersays @ProgressOnline and yet your own twitter profile names two prospective regions you identify with | ||
| Let's spend 4 days attacking Tories and setting out vision for NHS, economic growth, housing, social justice not guff about constitutions. | ||
| Sturgeon saying Salmond finest ever First Minister. What about Donald Dewar who won devolution,or Jack McConnell who did not divide like AS? | ||
| @mehdirhasan eh? They just won a massive victory. | ||
| @BatchelorCl it's always classy when critiquing the world's only Jewish State to use a New Testament analogy. | ||
| @Kopology nuclear deterrence has saved far more lives by deterring conventional wars than the "peace movement" ever has | ||
| @Labourpaul of course! | ||
| @Sarah_Hayward it is now on among political classes. I do not believe wider public could give a stuff about it, as shown in AV referendum. | ||
| @danielblaney @CNDuk I want and am proud of both. We are a rich country and can afford both proper healthcare and proper defence. | ||
| @TomMillerUK @CNDuk no but relocating it is hassle can do without. | ||
| @LouieWoodall I'm in favour of regional devolution in England. But to win General Election we need to focus on bread and butter issues. | ||
| @ariehkovler we don't need to keep wittering on about it though. It is irrelevant to the problems ordinary ppl face. | ||
| @Andrew_Howell in fact there is a good argument Oxford should be in West Midlands in any new devolution settlement (automotive economy etc) | ||
| @Andrew_Howell Southern? I live almost as near to Birmingham as London. | ||
| I would like to see @jimmurphymp play a similar role in UK General Election to his role in No campaign. Has genuine ability to connect w ppl | ||
| @davidgwynne Jim is in shadow cabinet | ||
| @toni_pearce I thought he always did? | ||
| @RedRobertino I think he went in 1997 | ||
| @DavidMills73 having lived in Hackney when council was hung and bins were not collected, it is not a boring issue | ||
| My son (5) has invented a chant 4 the demo "David Cameron down the toilet! With a poo for a hat! | ||
| @paulstpancras @MSmithsonPB the party doesn't organise the fringe events so how could they cancel them? | ||
| .@gusbbaker posted a link to one of the key articles I wrote in the 2010 leadership campaign. I stand by it: http://t.co/RqCHilpcvy | ||
| @georgeeaton only marginally better in UK where all synagogues and Jewish schools require security guards | ||
| @HessleLabour surely could do branch and affiliate in week 2, shortlist then hustings in week 4? | ||
| Uxbridge Boris saga does illustrate 1 lesson for Labour - Tories only take 1 month to select candidates, why do we have far longer process? | ||
| Round-up of yesterday's council by-elections: http://t.co/ihPbG1HQth | ||
| @Markfergusonuk better late than never | ||
| @alexsobel I very much doubt it. PLP is a lot less into disciplinary action than council groups are. Just means u don't get promoted | ||
| @alexsobel correct. | ||
| Only just caught up with news @Ed_Miliband has appointed Matthew Laza as Head of Broadcasting. Excellent appointment! | ||
| Great to be back at Hackney Town Hall this evening for civic reception for hospital staff from Israeli twin town, Haifa | ||
| @Markfergusonuk it's fine to turn up late | ||
| At Hackney North GC Diane Abbott and Nicky Gavron reporting | ||
| @election_data surely just because it has the largest electorate? | ||
| @maxshanly NOLS has 20000 members? Wow. If only. | ||
| @SamFawcett92 @SaraLBA @lfpme @timjohnston_89 remind me when Hamas was last up for re-election? | ||
| @SamFawcett92 @SaraLBA @lfpme @timjohnston_89 errrr whilst democratically elected Hamas is not a democratic regime | ||
| @timjohnston_89 @Daniel_McAteer @MichaelEzra @SaraLBA or do you propose a stick for one side in the conflict but carrots for the other? | ||
| .@timjohnston_89 I actively want to visit Israel to express my solidarity and it is a great place to visit. What basis do u deny my choice? | ||
| @PSCupdates presumably you will condemn direct action disruption of shops and damage to Israeli goods by BDS campaigners then | ||
| I wish my legs still worked like they did b4 was ill. Just missed coach to Oxford by seconds as can't break into a run. | ||
| @keithmobrien what is your explanation for the inconsistency? | ||
| @ianrobo1 @PaulSandars @Unite4Len exactly I don't want your position being strengthened by a coalition deal with Lib Dems. | ||
| Heading to Abingdon with @lablinda75 for @Oxford_Labour all member meeting | ||
| Round-up of yesterday's council by-elections: http://t.co/o8GsrWNXY7 | ||
| @ShneurOdzeUKIP not my work, I was away during campaign and just did a bit of GOTV this afternoon. | ||
| Reckon Carfax ward byelection must have had one of highest ratios of Lab window posters per vote cast of any election ever | ||
| @Lab2Palestine I am disgusted you would seek to bring Middle East conflict into internal party selection 4 a city mayor candidate | ||
| @LukemCresswell ok I think we will have to agree to differ | ||
| @LukemCresswell the blockade is legal under intl law and will end when Hamas disarms | ||
| @McPartlandJohn @LukemCresswell absolutely agree | ||
| @Oxford_Labour @OxLabourCllrs on my way back from London to do some campaigning! | ||
| @SteveTheQuip have been to Trullo D'oro? | ||
| @OwenJones84 @jaystoll replace it with "Luke Akehurst says Owen was a really good Lordship Ward Labour Organiser | ||
| At Town Hall for Homerton Neighbourhood Forum. Main issue from public seems to be cyclists using pavements | ||
| Beautiful evening sunshine in the Stour Valley - last night in Kent before home to Oxford tomorrow | ||
| @joedgoldberg @Kiran_R on a more serious note the Rabin Museum is very moving and impressive | ||
| @Jonathan_Todd @brianwhelanhack ah I understand! | ||
| Amazing how a bacon roll, a coffee and sunshine lift the mood | ||
| @SallyBercow surely Haribo is only for grownups? Esp. Tangtastics | ||
| @mtiedemann Rome needs a week to do it justice | ||
| @mtiedemann Whitstable is do-able in a day$ | ||
| @david_singleton congratulations! | ||
| Crossing the Medway on HS1. In Margate with family for next week. | ||
| @costyanddugs sorry I was only referring to the CLP section that I've run in. The PLP may not be as comradely. I would have voted 4 Denis. | ||
| Whatever the result, thank you to party members and other candidates for making NEC election a pleasant and comradely democratic exercise. | ||
| @ariehkovler either. | ||
| @gedrobinson not sure appropriate to describe a UN resolution as a "tabloid driven agenda | ||
| Find public scepticism re Libya action v distrurbing. Worried UK becoming isolationist and heading thus into geopolitical insignificance | ||
| @JohannaBaxter let's discuss if there's a way to push change on it | ||
| @Stuart_King oh dear. Think just discovered the one issue you are unsound on. | ||
| @TheBrianDuggan they want shift to per member levy so bigger CLPs pay more | ||
| @gordonlyew1 yes will circulate thanks | ||
| @iMcKenzied yes on train now | ||
| Issues I will raise about unfairness of flat rate levy on small CLPs for Euro elections. | ||
| Impressed they have selected more candidates than last time and having a real crack at the district council elections. Report lots new membs | ||
| Great meeting with members from the 2 New Forest CLPs and Christchurch. They r keeping flag flying in tough Tory territory. | ||
| @davidaslindsay @HouseofTwitsLab @Alex_Bjarnason sadly that is true | ||
| @AndreaParma82 ballot closes 5pm on 18 August. Results declared on 20 August. | ||
| On my way to rally the Labour troops of New Forest West CLP | ||
| @AlasdairRoss thanks! | ||
| If you lost or didn't receive NEC ballot today is last day 2 ask 4 a replacement from http://t.co/YLJMHWiZmO or call 0845 092 2299. Pls RT | ||
| @HemanttBhatia thanks! | ||
| @AjrGeo thanks! | ||
| @NiallTheBoi do you mean in politics? | ||
| @90lwells also UN mandate is far wider than an NFZ - covers "all means" needed to protect civilians except ground forces | ||
| @90lwells you can't send in aircraft to patrol and enforce NFZ without removing Libyan ability to shoot down those aircraft | ||
| @ChrispLOL @Sharonavraham we shouldn't use same language as a loopy far right blogger | ||
| @ChrispLOL @Sharonavraham the figures I have seen are 53% civilian (still tragic ) 47% armed Hamas, PIJ etc fighters | ||
| @ChrispLOL @Sharonavraham not helpful to misuse term "genocide". | ||
| @Grabcocque funding&practical support to pro-peace organisations and economic & cultural projects 2 bring Israelis and Palestinians together | ||
| @LovingDalston @ThirdManFilms the JC | ||
| @_DaveTalbot because it's an air superiority plane only recently having ground attack role added to requirement? | ||
| @_DaveTalbot no they are not obselete, it's the brand new Eurofighters which r lazily accused of being Cold War as programme started then | ||
| @_DaveTalbot no they've been thinking about Iran which has the same Russian air defence systems | ||
| @LabourList column written and sent to @Markfergusonuk; time to relax with late roast chicken and some Orvieto Classico | ||
| @Chrisgalpin I need to read more about the science on fracking risks - happy to be pointed to useful links | ||
| @Stuart_King the money u spend on them is cancelled by the trips to restaurants etc u can no longer have | ||
| Running canvassing session today in King's Park Ward with Meg Hillier MP - part of London Labour build up for Ken 2012 | ||
| @davidiancollins @LabourList my piece addresses need for transparency about the decision criteria | ||
| Sat on train to Margate writing @LabourList column defending AWS selections. Depressing that still have to argue this. | ||
| @GlamorousLeft they are. The war crime is to deliberately target civilians. If you miss or get blocked is still a war crime. | ||
| @rickmuir1 thanks! | ||
| @TomBeattie2010 too true! | ||
| @williamdbrett thanks! | ||
| @NewRedHouses thank you | ||
| @AJogee you can't enforce a NFZ without first using missiles to destroy air defence radar and missiles and command centres | ||
| Proud to have voted for Frank Dobson to be Labour Mayor of London in 2000. | ||
| Congrats to Jonathan Ashworth. He will make an excellent candidate and MP for Leicester S. | ||
| @LS1hack @iMcKenzied @JohannaBaxter @FloNosegbe @kevpeel @elliereeves I need about 18000 to win | ||
| Thank you Frank Dobson for giving me my first proper full time job as Organiser for Holborn & St Pancras CLP | ||
| @NiallTheBoi competitive mentality! | ||
| @Jessica_Asato ironically in favour of Brian Sedgemore who ended up a Lib Dem | ||
| @AJogee Sedgefield | ||
| About to hear Tony Blair speak. Can't quite believe it is now two decades since he was elected Labour Leader. | ||
| @LukeBozier it's a social enterprise, the profits help fund Vietnamese community centre | ||
| Israeli Labour Party General Secretary Hilik Bar MK in the Guardian: http://t.co/7KUmhXIRxd | ||
| Just been to visit veteran Hackney N CLP Secretary Greta Karpin who is in Homerton Hosp w a broken leg | ||
| @UnionArbeiter @SallyBercow PS I'm in favour of intervention in all the countries named but we don't have unlimited military resources | ||
| @UnionArbeiter @SallyBercow Burma and Bahrain are oil producers aren't they? And Gaddafi happy to sell oil to west? | ||
| Doing advice surgery w other Chatham Ward cllrs and Meg Hillier MP at Banister House Estate Hall, 10am | ||
| @SJCeleven it's already been agreed by the Collins review | ||
| @KatRRose @ken4london @KateOsamor @PWheeler56 please explain? | ||
| Well done to @Oxford_Labour Organiser @TPAdams on very smoothly run Cowley byelection polling day | ||
| @adrianbee18 thanks! | ||
| @Labourpaul ooops that is feb so other one was Oct | ||
| @Labourpaul feb 74 | ||
| @Labourpaul 1983 | ||
| @Labourpaul 1964 | ||
| @Labourpaul 1966 | ||
| @Labourpaul note the Last Five Days purple branding | ||
| Heading to Cowley Ward to do GOTV with Oxford Labour for council byelection | ||
| Good to see @FedericaMog who I was an ECOSY (European Young Socialists) Vice President with is now Italian Foreign Minister! | ||
| @ja_bateson thank you. I am not sure anyone agrees with me on everything! | ||
| NEC ballots arriving now by email and post. Please vote for me & encourage other party members to as well! http://t.co/Mck71QFsgh Please RT | ||
| I just voted online for NEC: @lukeakehurst (surprise!), @elliereeves @PWheeler56 @FloNosegbe @kevpeel @JohannaBaxter http://t.co/Mck71QFsgh | ||
| Oxfordshire looking beautiful in the morning sun as I head to London on the X90 coach | ||
| I am not sure that anyone who thinks being made Chief Whip is a demotion understands how politics works. | ||
| @CllrWalshaw I don't accept the term "collective punishment" for strikes targetted at terrorists and their equipment | ||
| @Politicsatbest I didn't think I had been tweeting about anything else for last few days | ||
| @toby_greene_ hope you are all ok | ||
| @MichaelBorio thanks for your support | ||
| Interesting opinion piece on Hamas by Israeli Labor MK Hilik Bar: http://t.co/8PG1sdylw3 | ||
| @RooftopJaxx you can add using Ryanair for family holiday once a year to my list of neo-con enviro thought crimes. | ||
| @smithjj62 but it also needs politicians who see nuclear as policy solution to energy crunch to robustly defend it. | ||
| Enjoyed #labourdoorstep this morning for Cowley Ward byelection with @Oxford_Labour | ||
| Perhaps booking a holiday in 3 weeks where flight lands at what think is Italian military airfield nearest to Libya not that clever | ||
| @RichardAngell Owen Jones has a book coming out soon | ||
| @LRCinfo Libyans in Benghazi celebrating UN vote. Why don't you? | ||
| @carlos_lll @alexsobel @AndyCharlwood the 26 are "island " seats - Lab winnables that have no other winnable next door | ||
| @alexsobel @AndyCharlwood not really when there are 600 minus the ones w sitting MPs to select | ||
| Round-up of council by-elections and deferred polls since 22 May: http://t.co/l0wkIuYZUb | ||
| @stfumikey 34 quid off peak day return | ||
| @Bettwsboy @IanCLucas and a rare time I disagree with Ian | ||
| high speed train to Dover is ridiculously fast - 1h10. No excuse for London Labourites without elections not helping win Dover Cl in May | ||
| On my way to Dover to speak at Dover and Deal CLP's GC | ||
| Just done exhausting physio session at St Leonard's, focus on rebuilding higher level balance | ||
| No reaching out to the LDs thanks! http://lukeakehurst.blogspot.com/2010/11/will-they-ever-learn.html | ||
| @JoeWalkerUK @patrickmoule @HackneyLabour congratulations. Strong new team. | ||
| @JamesFitz1981 yes I've seen models - we win all the elections we won under FPTP w more seats and we wd have won 1992 | ||
| @JamesFitz1981 where does his speech suggest that? | ||
| Meeting 2 of evening - Hackney Overview and Scrutiny looking at how housing ALMO doing | ||
| @hopisen @Jessica_Asato I think audience v pleased that uncompromising and v direct appeal for Lab voters to vote Yes | ||
| Ed M "AV will mean we have to campaign harder and be more honest about what we think of other parties not just oppose for sake of it | ||
| Ed M: "right we focus on winning 5 May but ppl have to take a stand on AV and seize moment 4 reform | ||
| Ed M "strange timidity affected us on reforming Commons ... reasons vs change not good enough | ||
| Ed M says PLP voted Yes to AV in Commons 1918 and 1931 | ||
| AJ pointing out electoral reform was a founding policy of Keir Hardie's LRC in 1900 | ||
| Wide spectrum of Labour opinion here - from Kenite left through Neal Lawson of Compass and various Progress types to me | ||
| Impressive platform: Ed M, Kinnock, Livingstone, Bradshaw, Oona, Susan Nash, Alan Johnson, Tony Robinson, Sadiq Khan | ||
| On my way to the Labour Yes launch event | ||
| @BeingFrankDoc @Ken_Ferrett | ||
| @VanCllrvcoulter the only cattle are at the city farm | ||
| @VanCllrvcoulter when I see tweets like that it brings home I don't live in Hackney any more! | ||
| Thank you Meon Valley CLP for nominating me for the NEC last night. Deadline 5pm today. http://t.co/Mck71QFsgh | ||
| @SanchiaAlasia @KateOsamor @FloNosegbe @elliereeves thanks! | ||
| @CraigBJonesLab thanks! | ||
| Thank you Bridgend, Thurrock and Witham CLPs for nominating me for the NEC. http://t.co/Mck71QFsgh | ||
| Thank you Fareham CLP for nominating me for the NEC last night. http://t.co/Mck71QFsgh |
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| @CalumSPlath general perception is he was one of best PMs we ever had. | ||
| @CalumSPlath I think you need evidence before projecting your dislike of him (shared by maybe 20% on far left and right) onto whole public | ||
| @gwilymmorris that is disputable. Blair and the UK remain extremely credible internationally. This angst over Iraq is a local phenomenon. | ||
| @dfawqlouy @tomcopley @AlexWhiteUK you are assuming there is some kind of education that could be completely free of values or culture | ||
| @tomcopley @AlexWhiteUK in think would be discriminatory if state only funded education secular people want, not schools for specific faiths | ||
| @tomcopley @AlexWhiteUK this is about the rights of minority faiths to preserve their religious and cultural identities | ||
| @tomcopley @AlexWhiteUK but problem is that parents want this so much they will then go to ropey private schools - see Stamford Hill example | ||
| @tomcopley @AlexWhiteUK all that happens there is that all the religious schools are private | ||
| @tomcopley @AlexWhiteUK and in a democracy parents have votes so you would need their support to make these changes | ||
| @tomcopley @AlexWhiteUK well you need to deal with the reality that some religious people want their kids educated only with coreligionists. | ||
| @tomcopley @AlexWhiteUK no I don't agree with you. A more positive campaign would be to argue for some state funded Humanist schools. | ||
| .@AlexWhiteUK @tomcopley and as an atheist I can still empathise with parents whose faith is central to their lives and want a faith school | ||
| I want socialists to tell us how we can have democratic socialist countries not insist choice is limited to fascism or al-qaeda | ||
| @gusbbaker @Oxford_Labour @LabLinda75 @HackneyLabour yes and I used to buy both the rival factional versions after they split | ||
| At my first @Oxford_Labour meeting with @LabLinda75. Big change from @HackneyLabour is no one selling Labour Left Briefing at the door. | ||
| @timrollpickerin @WestHamLabour both Newham CLPs already nominated me | ||
| @larmstrong98 Hi Louise, I won't be able to make it on Tuesday but thanks for asking and happy to come and speak at a future meeting. | ||
| Just one week left for CLPs to nominate for NEC - can you help me get nominated by your CLP? http://t.co/Mck71QFsgh | ||
| Thank you Stalybridge & Hyde CLP for nominating me for the NEC last night. http://t.co/Mck71QFsgh | ||
| At Hackney Labour Group meeting | ||
| @antoniabance @wesstreeting also not done on length of service in Hackney as time commitment involved means very few members want to do it | ||
| @antoniabance @wesstreeting we thought chairing full council and representing the borough civically were highly political! | ||
| @antoniabance @wesstreeting not in all boroughs. In Hackney we always give Speaker to Labour and when hung it was same Tory for 4 years | ||
| @TomMillerUK it's more that they are not meant to be a centre left party and the electoral drubbings are because voters can now see that | ||
| Heading for an afternoon of NEC Disputes Panel and Organisation Committee at Vic St | ||
| @ComeOnScotland @johnmcternan @trenchantly @LabourList http://t.co/ixkhlLMv71 | ||
| @PoliticalChamel @trenchantly @LabourList http://t.co/ixkhlLMv71 | ||
| @johnmcternan @trenchantly @LabourList I quote the things you said. | ||
| @trenchantly @LabourList I'm responding to an article by @johnmcternan that says we don't need the "white working class" vote | ||
| Thank you Bolton West CLP for nominating me for the NEC. http://t.co/Mck71QFsgh | ||
| @stephenkb I'm in favour of maximising the Labour vote. | ||
| @spellar I will be responding to it tomorrow on @LabourList | ||
| @maxshanly @LukemCresswell @Lab2Palestine touche! | ||
| I've now been nominated for NEC by 61 CLPs. Can you help me get nominated by your CLP by 20 June deadline? http://t.co/Mck71QFsgh | ||
| Thank you Dudley North CLP Lewisham East CLP and Redcar CLP for nominating me for NEC last night. http://t.co/Od1AACDWED | ||
| @jgslater thanks! | ||
| Sorry to hear @PeterHain is retiring as an MP, I enjoyed working with him on the NEC | ||
| By my count I now have nominations from 58 CLPs. Can you help me get nominated by 20 June deadline by your CLP too? http://t.co/Mck71QFsgh | ||
| Thank you South Cambridgeshire CLP and Woking CLP for nominating me for the NEC. http://t.co/Mck71QFsgh | ||
| @Lab2Palestine sounds like there isn't actually a consensus on the interpretation of international law | ||
| Just been back at Hackney Town Hall to film an interview with BBC @daily_politics about being/not being a councillor | ||
| Thank you @BathLabourParty for nominating me for the NEC. http://t.co/Mck71QFsgh | ||
| @RobertAChapman @HackneyLabour congratulations! | ||
| Thank you Torbay CLP for nominating me for the NEC last night | ||
| @stephenkb we certainly won't be competitive in every seat if we countenance tactical votes 4 ppl who then go in govt w Tories | ||
| @SeemaChandwani @Rowan_Draper this was my exit article http://t.co/5iH2RfjigI. Today's one is about not being a councillor. | ||
| @mrchrisjohn read the article | ||
| I'm at Governors' meeting tonight at Parkwood Primary in Finsbury Park | ||
| @stephenkb it's a problem cos voting tactically means not voting Labour. | ||
| I'm amused by people dismissing @LordAshcroft polls as though he was stood in high street with a clipboard himself. | ||
| Hmmm not sure people should have been so dismissive of my blog re. Tories being in existential crisis | ||
| Thank you High Peak CLP for nominating me for the NEC http://t.co/Mck71QFsgh | ||
| @carolynharris24 neither of the Swansea CLPs has nominated yet | ||
| Is your CLP one of the 400+ which hasn't nominated for NEC yet? Please support me at CLP mtgs b4 20 June d/line. http://t.co/Mck71QFsgh | ||
| Thank you West Ham CLP for nominating me for the NEC this week! #luke4nec http://t.co/Mck71QFsgh | ||
| My Labourlist column: http://www.labourlist.org/compass-and-progress-a-tale-of-two-groupings | ||
| @stephenkb it's kinda incompatible with their current position of being in a Con/LD govt | ||
| @Mandy4PPC_2015 @FloNosegbe @TomBeattie2010 @PWheeler56 @JohannaBaxter timetable being decided by NEC on Tuesday. Voting will be in July/Aug | ||
| @WillCross61 legal hub | ||
| @WillCross61 yes it is updated every Friday on membersnet | ||
| @Npton_Labour @Fruitandvegdon @ken4london @elliereeves @JohannaBaxter thank you! | ||
| @jonlansman @johnringer I don't understand why anyone would consider any office worth leaving Labour Party to hold | ||
| @jonlansman @johnringer why didn't he resign and back Labour's candidate last Thursday then? If he's so Labour how can he bear 2 stand vs us | ||
| Just been to the Mondrian exhibition at @TCMargate another good reason to visit East Kent | ||
| @iancogg just to correct you, I am a big fan of Ed, and campaigned for him in the leadership election | ||
| @Microcynicon Kent and Lincolnshire | ||
| My prediction for next year is six UKIP MPs | ||
| @petedigger they all got the parties in right order but inflated UKIP lead | ||
| @DrEoinCl we did better than in 2004 which was a year before we won a general election | ||
| BBC believes an emphatic victory is when UKIP gets 4 more seats than Labour. Eh? As predicted all 3 parties closely bunched. | ||
| Watching the results in Cliftonville, Margate. Epicentre of UKIP? | ||
| Nick Robinson says "London may change positions of Lab and Con". Understatement of the year. | ||
| @rickmuir1 @HackneyLabour I think over the next year you should be spending a lot of time in Hornsey and Wood Green | ||
| Catching up on physio exercises I missed while at #ppw11. Great weekend well done @progressonline for organising it | ||
| @Chris_Matheson http://t.co/KyQMcJWtdu my review of this will appear on Tuesday | ||
| Lots of people not seeming to understand that BBC projected national vote share factors in all the areas that didn't have council elections | ||
| @SeemaChandwani no. I was one, it's a four year contract. | ||
| @SeemaChandwani @mjrharris sadly only groups of 2 or more can have a paid Pol Asst (in those councils which choose to have them) | ||
| Congrats to Guy, Sally and Rob on election in my old ward, now renamed Homerton, by 1400 majority | ||
| @SeemaChandwani @mjrharris he means Political Assts as defined in law - paid council staff | ||
| @SavetheChesham thanks! | ||
| @JohnPage10 the count has many hours left to go only two wards decided yet | ||
| Jules Pipe reelected for fourth term as Labour Mayor of Hackney with 59% up 7% 40858 votes | ||
| 45% turnout in Tory held Springfield Ward, Stamford Hill | ||
| 49% turnout in Cazenove ward the only Lib Dem ward in Hackney | ||
| @Politicsatbest eh? There are no results yet from Hackney. | ||
| @ShulemStern lunchtime | ||
| Not expecting gains in Hackney count but amazing campaign forced Tories and LDs to realise they cannot take Stamford Hill wards for granted. | ||
| Delighted for all the excellent candidates I interviewed in Haringey panel process last summer who are now councillors | ||
| @haykirstin Lisa Homan (London Labour Board) is from that CLP | ||
| @Politicsatbest the leaflet lists 5 ways we helped. Look at @JoeWalkerUK twitter feed for pics of English and Yiddish versions. | ||
| @Politicsatbest our widely publicised leaflet to the Charedi Community set out all the ways we have helped them |
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| @JamesWThurston I don't | ||
| Will be spending Polling Day running HQ in the remaining Tory and Lib Dem wards in Hackney. Going to be very interesting! | ||
| Just discovered downloading the polling day application exceeds an X90 coach's WiFi limit. #labourgeekproblems | ||
| The Guardian on Hackney http://t.co/nZCXljBqK2 | ||
| @TottenhamCake @jryan298 @HaringeyLibDems You seem confused about the nature of Twitter. It is a public medium. What you say is on record. | ||
| @Politicsatbest @Jeremy_Newmark let's see on Thursday. I expect very close results in all 3 wards: Springfield, Cazenove, Stamford Hill West | ||
| @Politicsatbest we will have to agree to differ about that chapter in Hackney political history. | ||
| @Politicsatbest historical reasons - the defectors from Hackney Labour Group in 1996 included all the Charedi councillors. | ||
| Losing my patience with contact.creator! | ||
| @RoseyNorth akehurstluke@googlemail.com | ||
| @rachel_london we are targeting the non Labour wards as we would like to gain seats - though will be difficult | ||
| I'm wondering if differential regional turnout will mean party with most Euro votes nationally comes second on seats. | ||
| @LabourUncut who does publishing this kind of crap help? | ||
| Heading to Margate on HS1 to celebrate wedding anniversary with @LabLinda75. Enjoying beautiful East Kent countryside in sunshine. | ||
| So Tzipi Livni actually met Palestinian President to talk peace in London - "Palestine Solidarity" activists protested vs her presence | ||
| @tomwilliamsisme send me your email | ||
| @tomwilliamsisme a network of Labour moderates (cue insults from P Kenyon) | ||
| @haroyousofian @Lab2Palestine thank you! | ||
| @elliereeves agreed if u mean turn them into comprehensive intake state academies | ||
| Confused that Left Futures says Progress are the illuminati running Labour. Peter Kenyon says it's Labour 1st. Luckily I'm involved in both. | ||
| @DavidMorton359 @LordAshcroft @Markfergusonuk no its my one, we both wrote about this today | ||
| @ShulemStern this site has good explanations of polling methodology: http://t.co/Dg0lmtkdyT | ||
| @OwenJones84 I support PR but believe the referendum was pretty conclusive | ||
| @MattCarterUK hmmm will have to dig out the relevant academic studies of their impact. There is a reason we bother delivering them. | ||
| @RJ_Macpherson @OwenJones84 1992. A majority didn't want a fourth Tory term. | ||
| @OwenJones84 no. People only just voted to keep it, knowing full well it can produce perverse results. | ||
| Maybe these Tory leads cos every household in UK has had Tory freepost leaflet but Labour one only just dropping today? | ||
| @Freedland my final campaign as Hackney borough campaign manager is leaving no wards untargeted. | ||
| @wesstreeting @aliceperryuk @steve_race @HackneyLabour @feryaldemirci @tedewey if he hasn't got one it can be arranged! | ||
| @aliceperryuk @wesstreeting @steve_race @HackneyLabour then it is @feryaldemirci and @tedewey | ||
| @aliceperryuk @wesstreeting @steve_race @HackneyLabour I thought it might be @feryaldemirci and @tedewey flat | ||
| My @HackneyLabour colleagues have canvassed 12000 local residents in last four weeks. Momentum building as we go into final lap of campaign. | ||
| Looking forward to Israeli Embassy Independence Day celebrations followed by Friends of Labour Students dinner | ||
| @janeholgate no Tories? | ||
| @tedewey @LovingDalston the lack of bias is evident from use of word "regime" to describe Labour administration | ||
| @Greenleftie @haykirstin @SallyBercow good for them. Important for defending free world. | ||
| @haykirstin @SallyBercow also radiatioactive vapour has been released in non harmful way, not a leak or meltdoen | ||
| @haykirstin @SallyBercow problem has been power failiure to cooling system, not the bdg being damaged | ||
| @AndyCharlwood @oranjd we exist in that we have had annual mtgs with Ed Miliband, Ed Balls, John Reid as recent speakers | ||
| @SallyBercow technical answer is Japan is otherwise massively dependent on imported fuel | ||
| Despite appearances, it’s Miliband, not Farage, who’s breaking with tradition and upsetting the status quo http://t.co/eKMgd1dEfA | ||
| Compass now advertising self as "home of centre left". Massive conceit. Labour Party not 1 faction or group is "home of centre left". | ||
| Hoping there will be an opportunity for singing at Progress weekend | ||
| @hopisen see you there | ||
| @RedRobertino hope u will be attending my workshop at #ppw11 | ||
| Just completed leaflet round in Headington Hill and Northway Ward. Thank you Jed (8) for helping with the flats with stairs! | ||
| @haykirstin @JamesAsser @antoniabance I had started leafleting in 1981 though! (Aged 9) | ||
| @haykirstin @JamesAsser @antoniabance and I was only 15 in 1987! | ||
| @haykirstin @JamesAsser @antoniabance now I feel less guilty about leaving it until after the 1987 GE to join Labour... | ||
| @haykirstin @JamesAsser @antoniabance yes, congratulations | ||
| @PhilipGlanville if I've correctly understood, this is Socialist Action (ex-IMG) pulling their out of Compass Youth | ||
| Thank you Liverpool West Derby CLP for nominating me for the NEC tonight. #luke4nec http://t.co/Mck71QFsgh | ||
| MP facing assault claim 'too ill for trial', but campaigning for election http://t.co/DL87W2XQ5z |
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| @JohnDMerry a pleasure. He was actually my voter ID trainee! | ||
| @vellstells looking forward to it! | ||
| Great buzz as people assemble to hear @Ed_Miliband at Labour's national election launch in target borough of Redbridge | ||
| I signed up to volunteer for Oxford Labour. Join me! http://t.co/qIawGgNFQD | ||
| Don't understand Farage reluctance to fight Newark. Fighting and losing byelections still provided momentum for SDP eg Warrington. | ||
| .@Springfield_Lab @mariepye @labourdoorstep @HackneyLabour Marie is this side of river Lee? Tories should be v afraid! | ||
| @mrjohnofarrell they can't. The deadline for calling it then has already passed. | ||
| @joejervis89 @LabourList @JohnRentoul do bloggers on group blogs write their own headlines #qtwtain | ||
| @greggmcclymont thank you! | ||
| @petedigger surely Osborne is a credible contender? | ||
| @petedigger why? | ||
| This ought to give heart to all of us who are Unite members and would prefer a more moderate direction 4 our union: http://t.co/rQe9rYwIIV | ||
| Won't Tory leadership hopefuls other than Boris have a vested interest in a coup after Euro defeat to seize leadership b4 Boris is an MP? | ||
| @Paul0Evans1 @PJDunleavy no just few months before becoming Frank Dobson's Organiser | ||
| @Paul0Evans1 @PJDunleavy I worked for Anita Pollack. I thought u worked for Carole Tongue at same time or am I confused? | ||
| @Paul0Evans1 @PJDunleavy I think we both worked for people who were victims of it... | ||
| @PJDunleavy @Paul0Evans1 when Pauline Green resigned the seat was taken by Mary Honeyball who was originally 7th on the list | ||
| .@LabLinda75 and me are about to hit the #labourdoorstep with @Oxford_Labour in our new home ward Marston | ||
| @PJDunleavy @Paul0Evans1 the main parties name full states because these people can become replacement MEP if there r deaths or resignations | ||
| Yesterday's council by-elections: http://t.co/kJmtKx2sTC | ||
| @paulw56 no. Some boroughs don't publish SOPN until Monday | ||
| @charliebach thank you for the nomination | ||
| @charliebach A113881 | ||
| @rickmuir1 @annajoyrickard if you send me the data tonight I will get it all entered tomorrow | ||
| @metecoban92 I am very happy to have supported you in the selection, you are going to be a great councillor | ||
| David Kingsley obituary http://t.co/r81pXFPBav |
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| @RooftopJaxx @AaronBastani I did. Was Hackney Central Ward. | ||
| @RooftopJaxx @AaronBastani actually a key factor was Oxford has comprehensive schools and Kent has the 11+ system which is basically evil. | ||
| Top priority for public health action in Hackney is now mitigating health impact of welfare cuts, esp on incomes of disabled. | ||
| Having retweeted @MSmithsonPB hundreds of times I am now meeting him in person for the first time | ||
| Left the office at 5pm and already back in Oxford - credit due to X90 coach service. #apolsforboringtweetswhileigetusedtocommuting | ||
| @Phillip_D_Jones @gardenerj668 actually he was suspended repeatedly from the PLP. Labour discipline was far stricter then than now. | ||
| If only the news today was China giving up its colonial rule over Tibet rather than the Dalai Lama retiring | ||
| Just been woken up by a two year old spitting half chewed milk chocolate egg all over the duvet. Truly the spirit of Easter. | ||
| @VanCllrvcoulter @tomhayes1983 thanks! | ||
| @ppvernon @HackneyLabour thanks Patrick and good luck going forwards | ||
| Lib Dems leaving old Cowley St SDP HQ seems appropriate as they now have no shred of connection to the politics of the SDP | ||
| So my first #labourdoorstep in Oxford was for @tomhayes1983 in St Clements Ward. Enjoyed it. | ||
| Looking forward to my first #labourdoorstep session with my new CLP in Oxford today | ||
| @PhilipGlanville yes but the UK media totally fail to understand the role and impact of grassroots in elections. They assume media decides! | ||
| @JohannaBaxter good luck! | ||
| David Axelrod tipped to make grassroots central to Labour campaign http://t.co/PxsxCiomCg |
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| There was 30 seconds last night where I misheard and thought Labour had hired @AxelLandin | ||
| @hopisen explains Len mouthing off about disaffiliation as PCS not affiliated and Serwotka not Labour | ||
| @adamboultonSKY ours does work on organisation in key seats - just done cheaper | ||
| Hackney Labour's campaign video for the local elections: http://t.co/LI4JlMqMG1 | ||
| @antoniabance Oxford Road, Old Marston. Same street as Linda's parents and her brother! | ||
| Starting my first ever commute to London from Oxford. Can anyone explain difference between X90 and Oxford Tube coach services? | ||
| @romanvince back in the region I joined the party in | ||
| @maxshanly was that at the same meeting where they nominated me for the NEC??? | ||
| @HackneyLD I'm back for polling day to have a try at taking Cazenove off you lot. | ||
| Just written my presentation for this weekend's Progress political school: a history of soundness in Labour from Morrison to Mandelson | ||
| @romanvince @FloNosegbe @kevpeel @UKLabour thanks! | ||
| Chag Pesach Sameach to everyone celebrating Passover | ||
| @maxshanly @DannyHackett the link you have linked to contradicts your statement | ||
| @TottenhamCake @john_mcmullan @LizIxer @gavinlambert @TimPrest no. I stand by all my panel decisions. This one was upheld at regional appeal | ||
| @TottenhamCake @john_mcmullan @LizIxer @gavinlambert @TimPrest it is inappropriate to discuss panel interviews publicly. | ||
| @TottenhamCake @gavinlambert @TimPrest clearly not what Tottenham Labour think, they nominated me for NEC | ||
| @Tara_Hewitt @TottenhamTories @HackneyLabour indeed but the responsibility for that lies with the opposition. They need to up their game. | ||
| Belated round-up of recent council by-elections: http://t.co/KvjKv8vGip | ||
| @cllrstevereed as the coalition is split on the issue, both outcomes damage them | ||
| @TimPrest agreed | ||
| Disappointed to hear about a CLP Secretary receiving and opening my NEC CV then only tabling the ones from left slate at meeting #cheating | ||
| Thank you Wyre Forest CLP for nominating me for the NEC #luke4nec | ||
| @ShneurOdzeUKIP it is the toughest ward for us on the new boundaries but we are working hard there | ||
| Great #labourdoorstep session in Stamford Hill West Ward - lots of Labour support in Hackney Tories' best ward @HackneyLabour | ||
| Looking forward to #labourdoorstep in Stamford Hill West Ward with @HackneyLabour at 11am today | ||
| At Shoreditch Town Hall for conference on public health in Hackney - never been inside b4, its a beautiful Victorian bdg | ||
| @MaryWimbury @kevpeel @JohannaBaxter @gareththomaslab @SeasideCelt thanks! | ||
| @RooftopJaxx @RachaelSaunders they r very disimilar budgets despite overall funding cut being same - Hackney 1 involved no cuts 2 frontline | ||
| @kmolley no complacency but no headless chicken syndrome either | ||
| Remind me how long that crisis in Labour's poll lead lasted? | ||
| My @BritainIsrael colleague @toby_greene_ on Ed Milband's views on #Israel: http://t.co/xizIrFWK4M | ||
| Just chaired my last Health in Hackney Scrutiny Commission. Hope I have contributed to local NHS policy and defending NHS in last 4 years. | ||
| Beautiful morning in Stoke Newington! | ||
| Maria Miller MP: Either pay back £45,000 in fraudulent expense claims or resign. http://t.co/fqmJvLxHdv via @UKChange | ||
| @OwenJones84 @Scarletstand @MarkReckons @krs133 if we refought 1983 positions we would probably get 15pc not 27pc even without Falklands | ||
| @OwenJones84 @Scarletstand @MarkReckons @krs133 and demographic shift to south and suburbs has weakened our baseline position | ||
| @OwenJones84 @Scarletstand @MarkReckons @krs133 but this time they have the LDs as allies - cuts both ways. | ||
| @OwenJones84 all my article said is that we can't box ourselves in to "no cuts". Leaves a rather wide spectrum for the 2 Eds to choose from | ||
| @OwenJones84 until u show me a poll that asks the question "do u believe in no cuts at all" I am sceptical about what 33pc represents | ||
| @OwenJones84 I just would caution against overoptimism. Tories are clever to keep key groups of voters happy, target pain in Labour areas | ||
| @OwenJones84 seen them do it b4 for 18 years | ||
| @OwenJones84 and they are experts at working economic cycle so will be rosier when election comes round | ||
| @RachaelSaunders just for record did the independent mayor vote against Labour budget position? | ||
| @OwenJones84 I think you've taken an overoptimistic reading. I would tick a poll saying "cuts r unnecessary" (I did as I do YouGov polls).. | ||
| Fantastic news that @RuthSmeeth has been selected for Stoke North. She has great politics and will be a fantastic MP | ||
| @OwenJones84 what 33pc oppose all cuts, every single one? | ||
| @OwenJones84 @thewarmjets how about a fringe debate at party conference (or even NUS Conference!) | ||
| @OwenJones84 @debsalini @thewarmjets you missed my national tour of CLPs in 2007 debating vs Kate Hudson, CND Chair | ||
| @OwenJones84 actually that sounds grudging when ought to have sounded enthusiastic | ||
| @thewarmjets @OwenJones84 it could be arranged! | ||
| @OwenJones84 given who the alternative was I would have supported it | ||
| @OwenJones84 "direct democracy" as in "not democracy | ||
| @OwenJones84 why would u want soviets (let's give them Russian name) if u had parliamentary elections? | ||
| @OwenJones84 as a social democrat I'd have been killed by Lenin and Trotsky about 6 years before Stalin took power | ||
| Arrived in Margate, which, topically, is twinned with Yalta in the Crimea. | ||
| @OwenJones84 and why focus on just about only victim of social democrats and not the tens of millions killed in last century by Leninists | ||
| @OwenJones84 pls don't give me any commie nonsense about workers' councils. Democracy means parliamentary elections. | ||
| @OwenJones84 Yes but a revolution against autocracy by democrats is legitimate. | ||
| @OwenJones84 what would b correct response to a communist revolution? Let them win then b slaughtered like the Mensheviks and SRs in Russia? | ||
| @OwenJones84 it has never been proven that the freikorps acted on SPD instructions - very much disputed that this was case | ||
| @OwenJones84 no I would have preferred she was tried and jailed | ||
| @OwenJones84 also worth remembering her party was engaged in violent effort to overthrow Weimar democracy and replace w communism | ||
| @WillCross61 @ReadingLabour @JohannaBaxter thanks! | ||
| It's new electoral register day. 3000 of our canvassed Labour supporters have moved away from Hackney but luckily that still leaves 37000 | ||
| @BandiniMassimo @MSmithsonPB yes easily. Labour would have 364 seats on uniform swing with these votes. | ||
| @welovestokey read my Labourlist column. Marathon not a sprint. | ||
| @philbc3 very good post | ||
| @John_Ferrett I want my union back. I joined AEEU because it was the most loyal to the Labour Party | ||
| It's also stupid and like the SDP would fail but in the short term help the Tories | ||
| I don't think it is acceptable for the GS of an affiliated TU to speculate about a scab breakaway party http://t.co/t3QHvSFoY4 | ||
| If elected to Labour's NEC it will be so I can try to help LABOUR candidates win elections. No one else. #luke4nec | ||
| @maxshanly I refer you to our mission statement. No mention of capitalism. | ||
| Ironic that Young Fabian April Fool about delinking from Labour is exactly what Compass actually did. Who then was the fool? | ||
| My @LabourList column this week is about what I've learned from 12 years on @hackneycouncil: http://t.co/5iH2RfjigI | ||
| @rickmuir1 @welovestokey yes please | ||
| @rickmuir1 @welovestokey hmmm thanks for that Rick. I look forward to the puzzle of your old register data. | ||
| Also that both organisations seem to be apologists for Independent Mayor of Tower Hamlets in hotly fought election vs Labour's John Biggs. | ||
| Strange coincidence that "Labour Assembly" and Socialist Action (aka IMG) accounts tweet identical words at same time. Front group 4 Trots? | ||
| Alarmed that main cafe in Paddington appears to be subject to pigeons pooing from above. Poo in my americano wouldn't be nice. | ||
| @ClissoldLabour that isn't the correct email address! | ||
| @s_gregory7 in Hackney's Lake District! | ||
| Heading out on the #labourdoorstep in Brownswood Ward with @HackneyLabour | ||
| Thanks East Ham CLP for nominating me and @elliereeves for NEC | ||
| has spoken at #lab09 | ||
| @Romjim97 @ClissoldLabour Thanks Jim, I am joining you in the Hackney Labour diaspora. There must be 1 ex-Hackneyite in every CLP by now! | ||
| All last night's council by-election results incl. Lab gain in Gedling: http://t.co/i2spyB1Jbe | ||
| @torbayred thank you | ||
| @kdugdalemsp @kevpeel @JohannaBaxter thanks! | ||
| @torbayred same job, new home in Oxford near my wife's family | ||
| @kevpeel @JohannaBaxter @PWheeler56 thanks and well done! | ||
| Thanks Manchester Central CLP for nominating me for NEC. #luke4nec | ||
| @JFGElliott @AndrewGilbert1 @gabrielquotes I really hope you are not a history student. | ||
| @johnringer actually the first time I ever heard the phrase "sectional capture" was @SteveReedMP using it two weeks ago. | ||
| @callumrsmith you should have done! | ||
| Hackney councillor steps down http://t.co/4u9mNWvH2K via @sharethis | ||
| Hmm. Labour lead w Comres 5%. Budget bounce for Tories already fading? | ||
| @OwenJones84 important not to confuse this PLP-led shortterm process w manifesto devpt which is property of elected NPF | ||
| @OwenJones84 no, because these reviews involve co-opted external experts, which she is one of. U don't elect ppl u call to provide evidence | ||
| @Lisa_Johnson82 @gusbbaker I agree with Lisa | ||
| @OwenJones84 @wesstreeting @CherieBlairFndn how do u know this isn't being covered by multiple other strands of DFID review? | ||
| Finding the anti-Cherie Blair bile today bigoted, personalised, uncomradely and ungrateful to someone who has given beyond the call 2 Labour | ||
| @OwenJones84 @wesstreeting @CherieBlairFndn yes one part of it and a proven development model | ||
| @OwenJones84 @BristolRed her charity foundation is focussed on women in 3rd world. S | ||
| @PeterKenyon @nottsprofsteve @johnrentoul don't be absurd. Clearly shadow teams have right to appoint people they trust to help reviews. | ||
| @RachaelSaunders see you there. Reminds me I need to write a presentation! | ||
| @Brutus_Teabags yes I do. Read my column for Progress on that subject about a month ago. | ||
| @PeterKenyon @NottsProfSteve @johnrentoul one out of about 120 strands of policy review. Do u begrudge that to former PPC and mem of 30 yrs? | ||
| @OwenJones84 @KatieCurtis each shadow team is running multiple policy reviews, Cherie one is just one of X number of DFID ones | ||
| @OwenJones84 seeing as Cherie was a Labour activist in Hackney b4 u were born Owen, and a PPC, bit of an off comment | ||
| speaking in the health debate at about noon Wed if anyone wants to listen, and staying in Brighton all PM if people want to meet up #lab09 | ||
| Heading to Liverpool to speak at Liverpool Day Limmud | ||
| @jmignano90 @hackneypost yes of course. Have you got my number? | ||
| Thank you Bromsgrove CLP and Hertford & Stortford CLP for nominating me for NEC. #luke4nec | ||
| Please RSVP: Hackney Labour - Local Election Rally and manifesto launch http://t.co/KnuP4Yt2MW | ||
| @markwrightuk88 you can't do anything to protect the poor unless you win elections | ||
| Last night's council by-elections: http://t.co/eHAaX6tEa4 | ||
| Thank you Dover CLP for nominating me tonight for NEC #luke4nec | ||
| OSB and LCF over, now time for G&T | ||
| @northernheckler @PaulSandars sorry to hear that. Some of the reaction supports my comments about historical bullying. | ||
| @callumrsmith @HackneyLabour moving house to Oxford as cheaper and where my wife's family live | ||
| My last ever Hackney Labour Group meeting after 16 years - going out on a high note agreeing byelaws for public toilets. | ||
| @gusbbaker see my column on the SDP from two or three years ago | ||
| My column: remember Benn the man with affection, but don't forget the damage he did to Labour: http://t.co/CjNUGOMzWR | ||
| @thewarmjets unfortunately that may lead to Gaddafi's opponents suffering same fate as the Bolsheviks' opponents | ||
| @thewarmjets military defeat of the Bolsheviks in the civil war. | ||
| @thewarmjets and knowing what we do about Soviet Communism wd have been better to die fighting it than accept it and end up in the gulag | ||
| @thewarmjets they were fighting against the Russian people. In the Civil War the Reds only had minority support. Came v close to losing. | ||
| @thewarmjets hence "dictatorship of proletariat" was in Russia a dictatorship on behalf of a small minority (who weren't even all Bolsheviks | ||
| @thewarmjets working class represented by Soviets was a tiny minority in a largely agrarian nation where peasants voted SR not Bolshevik | ||
| @thewarmjets yes - the Bolsheviks lost the Duma elections and didn't like the results | ||
| @thewarmjets NB the Feb 1917 democratic revolution was a great thing. It's the Oct Bolshevik coup I have a problem with | ||
| @OwenJones84 @sunny_hundal @wesstreeting oddly not a fan of British role in Napoleonic Wars though. French were the good guys then. | ||
| @OwenJones84 @sunny_hundal @wesstreeting let's not debate the Boer War or the American War of Independence or Russia in 1919 | ||
| @OwenJones84 @sunny_hundal @wesstreeting what 3 democracies attacking a dictator to try to secure one of world's main sea routes? | ||
| @OwenJones84 the UN is already intervening in DRC | ||
| @GeorgeMonbiot cuts to defence are just as much a cut to public services as any other. I'm part marching cos I want aircraft on our carriers | ||
| @OwenJones84 @sunny_hundal @wesstreeting incidentally Egypt could have avoided 40 yrs of dictators if US hadn't blocked UK Suez action | ||
| @OwenJones84 @sunny_hundal @wesstreeting exactly, their policy changed so can change in other ways | ||
| @GeorgeMonbiot I'm marching because I want Labour back in power, simple as that (ditto thousands of others) | ||
| @GeorgeMonbiot oh dear. The anti defence bit wd immediately mean huge numbers Unite and GMB members not taking part as u want them jobless | ||
| @OwenJones84 @sunny_hundal @wesstreeting change poss. US foreign policy was support of anti-colonial rebels vs France and UK until 1950s | ||
| Just written first of my new Monday regular weekly columns for Labourlist | ||
| @OwenJones84 @sunny_hundal @wesstreeting that's an argument vs past western decisions not vs west doing right things in future | ||
| @OwenJones84 @sunny_hundal @wesstreeting securing supply of fuel your entire economy depends on is a legit foreign policy consideration | ||
| .@maryhoneyball giving great explanation of practical ways extra Labour MEPs will help make EU more progressive #ppw14 | ||
| @OwenJones84 @sunny_hundal @wesstreeting a quick look at wikipedia shows u the Libyan military got 90pc of its arms from Russia | ||
| Thought provoking panel on election strategy from @Andrew_Adonis @SpenceLivermore @PatrickDiamond1 @zoetyndall @Sally_Keeble at #ppw14 | ||
| @conradlandin that's correct. You should write to Brian and ask him to correct it. | ||
| This obit by Brian Brivatti strikes me as spot on in its analysis of Tony Benn's career: http://t.co/iqu40N8FF7 | ||
| Looking forward to giving my now traditional talk on Labour History at #ppw14 at Stoke Rochford | ||
| Enjoying tweets from @SELabour regional conference. Looking forward to being a member in your region again for first time since 1990! | ||
| @Sam_Prest @OwenJones84 @wesstreeting no Sam democracy is a very clearly defined system where ppl vote for govt in free and fair elections | ||
| @OwenJones84 @wesstreeting no, I've only ever argued for a no-fly zone ie we give the rebels an airforce | ||
| @OwenJones84 @wesstreeting we have no way of knowing what a country that never has elected govts wishes. Not being killed must be a wish | ||
| @OwenJones84 @wesstreeting "colonial" would imply an attempt to rule the countries in question for our own benefit | ||
| Just had very productive meeting with @tedewey and @stuartwramsay planning the next month's @HackneyLabour campaigning | ||
| RIP Tony Benn. Thoughts are with his family, friends and comrades. | ||
| @AndrewBoff Hackney CT collection rate was 65pc when council was hung, Labour has increased it to 95pc in year (more collected after yr end) | ||
| In Hare and Tortoise at Brunswick Centre, an old haunt from my 5 mths in hospital round the corner. First time been here not in wheelchair | ||
| @SeemaChandwani @ken4london @KateOsamor Thanks @TottenhamLabour honoured to be nominated by neighbouring CLP | ||
| Steve Hart, Unite Reg Sec, denounces Trot transitional demand attacks on Labour Councils and says Unite must have nothing to do with them | ||
| Ted Knight not here which is surprising | ||
| @PeterKenyon @vriyait @sowadally @ProgressOnline @UKLabour eh? They were auto excluded = thrown out | ||
| @PeterKenyon @vriyait @sowadally @ProgressOnline yes at branch and regional level | ||
| @vriyait @sowadally @ProgressOnline RMT didn't disaffiliate, were thrown out of Labour for allowing branches to affiliate to other parties | ||
| At Unite London and Eastern Regional Political Conference. First time for over a decade I'm not standing for reg pol cttee. | ||
| @JoeWalkerUK @LabourList thanks | ||
| Thanks to Bristol W CLP and Walsall S CLP for nominating me for NEC. Bristol West is my old CLP 1990-95 so esp chuffed by that 1! #luke4nec | ||
| @hbgbln the Labour Party | ||
| @SeemaChandwani it's possible! People learn and change. | ||
| @SeemaChandwani we prefer to think of it as municipalism. Council services should be provided by councils ... | ||
| @SeemaChandwani exactly | ||
| @SeemaChandwani the article says the new chief execs remuneration could be 3 times higher than his predecessor | ||
| @SeemaChandwani I don't think they should have. But a) unite say will give similar amount as donation not affiliation fee and b) ... | ||
| @martingowans the Birmingham one is in a white working class area that is trending away from Labour long term | ||
| @Efrogwraig I still struggle with the idea of daytime council meetings. How do people with jobs ever get involved? | ||
| @jonlansman @RachaelSaunders I would hope so. There is strong consensus for AWS on NEC but sadly not in wider party outside London. | ||
| @jonlansman @RachaelSaunders it is monitored at regional level. I will look into this if I get back on NEC. | ||
| @RichardAngell how come three nominations? I knew there was an extra BAME one? | ||
| @jonlansman @RachaelSaunders where only a single seat is up in each ward a pattern of AWS is agreed | ||
| @jonlansman @RachaelSaunders I thought AWS in council selections already existed? | ||
| Well done Homerton Hospital's orthotics department I have been seen and leaving outpatients 10 minutes b4 advertised start of appointment! | ||
| @marcusaroberts @danielelton @Markfergusonuk my guide to the possible range of results will be out next week | ||
| @reggibarbossa @mehdirhasan @DAaronovitch the current peace process is partly about defining what those borders are | ||
| @SeemaChandwani I've been told by @LabLinda75 that you are right and I am wrong and it is an eyesore! I surrender ... | ||
| @SeemaChandwani @londonforest not in the picture I am looking at | ||
| @SeemaChandwani it is actually 17 years ago. I don't think it is that bad given the original architecture wasn't great | ||
| @SeemaChandwani in 1997. Sadly I am not that young. | ||
| @Labourpaul @kevpeel @FloNosegbe @elliereeves thanks! | ||
| @blairsupporter large donation is usually the code for symbolic £1m | ||
| @blairsupporter no there is no limit yet | ||
| George Osborne: Make March 19 The ‘End UK Hunger’ Budget http://t.co/nMp7q9Up4Z via @UKChange | ||
| These people aren't a peace movement they are a fan club 4 authoritarian or totalitarian regimes: http://t.co/HVoESiQsKt | ||
| @gedrobinson @CalumSPlath in that case it is also ethically inconsistent for people who opposed those wars not 2 oppose what Russia is doing | ||
| @plymouthkate will probably be quite consensual compared to 16 years in same CLP as comrade Graham Bash | ||
| @maxshanly let me know when you are next in London | ||
| Just used q&a 2urge @DAlexanderMP that we use current election campaign 2 register supporters under new rules +get them involved in campaign | ||
| Listening to briefing on election strategy at local govt conference sat alongside @JimDicksLambeth and @TomBeattie2010 | ||
| @mpandnotanmp @michele_paule though there was some chanting from the Hackney comrades | ||
| Now we need to make these reforms work and get as many affiliated members and registered supporters signed up as possible | ||
| 86% in favour great result! | ||
| @michele_paule @mpandnotanmp don't worry Michele as you are from Oxford you'll be hearing from me all the time when I move there. | ||
| Great speech by Martin Linton. We don't agree on everything but do agree on these reforms. | ||
| Some of the @CLPD_Labour leaflet team r also handing out material from the Posadists http://t.co/gP50sdy9cO #UFObelievingTrots | ||
| @maxshanly yes of course | ||
| @TH_Labour_Party @elliereeves @PWheeler56 @FloNosegbe @JohannaBaxter @UKLabour thanks ! |
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| @ShulemStern @hackneycouncil it shows we are paying attention! | ||
| Wow. Mayor of Hackney Jules Pipe just called Grant Shapps MP "an absolutely repellent human being" in budget speech. | ||
| @hackneycouncil @RunHackney wrong hurst! Q is from @BenHayhurst | ||
| I agree with Unite. If we don't win a majority (NB I think we will) we should govern as minority not form coalition w LDs at high price | ||
| @mwood2001 @suzy4harlow @UKLabour that's the government's official figure | ||
| @Jo_Milligan @FloNosegbe @kevpeel thanks! | ||
| Eric Pickles MP: Help councils stop betting shops taking over our high streets http://t.co/h0Yw1bTgHx via @UKChange | ||
| @OwenJones84 does Katie Hanson count? | ||
| @SophyRidgeSky @Alex_Bjarnason Sell Fridges which used to be be in N16 has to be a competitor | ||
| @johnmcternan @MSmithsonPB Mitcham and Morden 1982? | ||
| Birthday party tonight. Looking forward to karaoke which normally ends with renditions of Red Flag, Internationale and Twelve for the Chimes | ||
| @StuartMoules @GregoryPope no. In that case coop needs to also boycott USA, Russia, China, France, India, Pakistan and UK! | ||
| @realnickperry @RobertAChapman also scrutiny function is as much about positive policy development as poking holes in the executive | ||
| @realnickperry @RobertAChapman my experience is Labour cllrs ask scrutiny qs that are just as tough as the opposition ones. It's nonpartisan | ||
| @ByronTaylor74 I won't need them personally (grand total of 2 UKIP supporters identified in Hackney in last year) but good to know about | ||
| North Korea - hell on earth: http://t.co/SUjwQAg0Yo | ||
| With @RachaelSaunders @terrympaul and other Newham and Tower Hamlets colleagues at Joint Health Scrutiny meeting | ||
| Lab majority numerically up from GE despite half the turnout | ||
| Both coalition parties pulverised. Reaping what they sowed. | ||
| Very impressed by Dan Jarvis speech | ||
| @haykirstin MMS - FPTP constits with top up list (German system) | ||
| @marcusaroberts three percent? | ||
| @david_taylor doing it now | ||
| Tim Waters doing great job holding 2 correx boards at count to keep UKIP out of camera shot | ||
| Feels good to be meeting for #labourdoorstep near to St Leonard's hospital where physio taught me to walk again back in 2010 | ||
| Looking forward to #labourdoorstep in Hoxton tomorrow morning #LoveHackney | ||
| On my way to town hall for my councillor advice surgery for residents of Chatham Ward #LoveHackney | ||
| @stellacreasy Stoke Newington School has done loads of good work on this | ||
| Speaking tonight at Hackney Downs Labour Party - combo of NEC report and local campaigns update | ||
| Neurologist says I need another 2 or 3 cm of nerve regrowth to get my calf muscles going again which will stop my feet dropping | ||
| @ScottSeamons of communication not appeasement | ||
| @ScottSeamons @donpaskini that was b4 the current govt reminded everyone of the difference between Lab and Tory | ||
| @NoelTweet @owenjones84 @sunny_hundal maybe making points about Hackney's budget when non-resident and ignorant of budget contents problem? | ||
| @donpaskini I'm not sure we shd devise an electoral strategy aimed at ppl so stupid they think Labour and Tories same - given evidence | ||
| @OwenJones84 @NoelTweet @sunny_hundal good, protest is fine, disrupting democratic mtgs not | ||
| @OwenJones84 @NoelTweet @sunny_hundal I hope they weren't joining in the chanting | ||
| @NoelTweet @owenjones84 @sunny_hundal it already did deliver for ord ppl for 13 yrs in govt | ||
| @donpaskini they have nowhere else to put their 2nd prefs now LDs gone Tory | ||
| @NoelTweet @owenjones84 @sunny_hundal Noel there were no cuts to old ppls homes or youth facilities or any other frontline service | ||
| @NoelTweet @sunny_hundal @owenjones84 Noel would u mind addressing fact there were no cuts to frontline services in Hackney budget? | ||
| @OwenJones84 @NoelTweet @sunny_hundal who? Only LP members I cd see in balcony were cheering us (Trey, Sem and Daniel) | ||
| @NoelTweet @OwenJones84 @sunny_hundal I apologise to SWP if they are in fact some other non-Trot brand of Leninists | ||
| @NoelTweet @OwenJones84 @sunny_hundal I am very careful to only use the word Trots to describe members of Trotskyist parties | ||
| @NoelTweet @OwenJones84 @sunny_hundal the contempt for democracy was shown by ppl chanting 2 try to shut down a mtg of elected cllrs | ||
| @OwenJones84 don't you consider yourself part of the West? Surely we should always want best outcome for our democratic values? | ||
| @OwenJones84 u are ruining my street cred! | ||
| @guardian_clark I would be very surprised if they only got 20%. | ||
| @katrinamurray71 @ScotLabStudents it was the year I was in the NOLS office | ||
| @jruddy99 work - speaker meeting in my capacity as director of @WeBelieveIsrael | ||
| Should insert "nearly" before 20 years. Was last in Dundee for Scottish Labour Students conference in 1995 or 96 | ||
| @the_no i could see the SWP full time organisers orchestrating the protest | ||
| Looking forward to getting the data back from big @HackneyLabour #labourdoorstep push this morning in Cazenove, the only LD ward here | ||
| @CllrPope @CllrRalphBerry @danieljeffery26 thanks | ||
| @danieljeffery26 @CllrRalphBerry not until 20 June but most CLPs won't meet between March and then due to elections | ||
| @CllrRalphBerry I will cross my fingers. | ||
| Good to see on membersnet I am one of first 3 NEC candidates to be validly nominated (3 CLPs incl home one from 3 regions) #luke4nec | ||
| Last night's council by-elections: http://t.co/N060ccrPKn | ||
| Sign Labour's petition to tackle the #ToryHousingCrisis in London. http://t.co/LkYZpu4t4E via @londonlabourpty | ||
| Latest #luke4nec endorsement from @BexBailey6 on campaign Facebook page here: https://t.co/Rqz6CW4aCR | ||
| New #luke4nec endorsements from @JWoodcockMP @patrickmoule and Jules Pipe (who doesn't do Twitter!) http://t.co/0MZDu3acBv | ||
| @DJack_Journo quick answer seems to be they get 21% of income, so only the extra 6.5% is redistribution | ||
| @DJack_Journo what % of national income do they get though? Genuine question. | ||
| @rita_krshn @LabLinda75 personally I reckon we have a minimal carbon footprint. We hardly ever use the car but I want the choice to. | ||
| @rita_krshn @LabLinda75 I think we may be in a different paradigm ... | ||
| @rita_krshn @LabLinda75 this would also be good for UK economy as people could buy the excellent Nissan Leaf, made in Sunderland. | ||
| @rita_krshn @LabLinda75 I applaud people who can live the hippy dream but I don't think most people can or should be made to | ||
| @rita_krshn @LabLinda75 and weekly shopping for a family just doesn't work without a car | ||
| @MnWthtQualities Kafka? | ||
| Herbert Morrison would be very proud of his old council in Hackney | ||
| @hackneycitizen what an odd article. If we are able to freeze council tax without cutting frontline services we should. | ||
| @mehdirhasan @bencobley and in case of West Bank clear offer was made to Jordan to stay neutral, which king rejected | ||
| @TheWilk good. Please do. | ||
| @paulw56 @metecoban92 helps that in London all councils meet in evening so people of working age can be cllrs more easily | ||
| @bencobley @mehdirhasan ... they didn't set out to appropriate land. And have given vast swathes back in hopes of peace. | ||
| @JamesAnthonyRN @OwenJones84 @danielelton when Israel feels safe is when the Palestinians will be free. Needs to come fast 4 sake of both. | ||
| @JamesAnthonyRN @OwenJones84 @danielelton because the other side had been repeatedly invaded and subject to rockets and terrorism | ||
| @danielelton @OwenJones84 and definitely includes China. Makes world trade rather difficult. | ||
| @JamesAnthonyRN @melanie_ward @estellehart @Lauren_Crowley the best way to stop settlement expansion is for a deal to be struck ASAP. | ||
| @OwenJones84 that's exactly what about 20 of us did say in speeches | ||
| @melanie_ward @estellehart @Lauren_Crowley I guess someone had better call the international police and arrest me for disrespecting bad laws | ||
| @OwenJones84 there are not going to be mass redundancies in Hackney. | ||
| @OwenJones84 they were being organised by Trot cadres who I recognised! Behaviour was ignorant, abusive and anti-democratic. | ||
| @OwenJones84 no one outside a tiny far left millieu is exposed to their narrative, when they r the public can see it is bonkers | ||
| @OwenJones84 I'm not really interested in being popular w SWP. Nothing we cd do wd satisfy them. They represent virtually noone. | ||
| @gezkirby @OwenJones84 no cos in face of massive reduction in funds we r proud to have defended frontline services | ||
| @branespeaks yes but they should protest WITH us AGAINST Tories | ||
| @branespeaks other side of who? The SWP represent no one except themselves. Labour on 44pc in polls. Trots on zero. | ||
| Every single Labour cllr followed whip. Budget carried. | ||
| @SeanBSullivan @MichaelDugherMP as the unions are themselves democratic organisations that statement makes no sense | ||
| I do apologise, it seems some of the nursery rhyme chanters are Greens not Trots. Equally wrongheaded. | ||
| Trots just shouted "careerist" at @olidebotton - great compliment for Oli coming from them | ||
| Trots have voted to let us back in to chamber. Very kind of them. Who elected them? | ||
| @JackHopkins_Lab in the SWP so not v interested in democracy | ||
| @TexPat78 trey why would you bring deodorant to a council meeting? | ||
| Protest inside so far limited to cheeky refusal by some in balcony to stand in honour of The Speaker | ||
| Scanning balcony 4 known agitators/Trot cadres but can only see officers of Hackney S CLP | ||
| No hot drinks in council chamber in case thrown at us by rioters | ||
| @TomDWatts the whole package involves difficult comprises! | ||
| @TomDWatts I think its necessary to give the PLP a strong role in the short listing given they are giving up 33% of the votes | ||
| Labour First statement re. Party reform proposals: http://t.co/QYHfqCH3he | ||
| @msawle @kevpeel @FloNosegbe @JohannaBaxter @elliereeves @PWheeler56 thanks Mark! | ||
| Good to see actual proposals now out on @Lord_Collins review of party, after some ignorant or mischievous online speculation | ||
| Yesterday's council by-election results: http://t.co/g3E1HU8V7P | ||
| @Jamie4Labour @JohannaBaxter @kevpeel @FloNosegbe thanks! | ||
| @kathrynjohnston @JohannaBaxter thanks! | ||
| @MichaelBorio @KateOsamor @JohannaBaxter @FloNosegbe @kevpeel thankyou! | ||
| @kevin__barry I'll ask | ||
| @KamaljeetJandu are Vauxhall CLP doing NEC nominations tonight? | ||
| @BoltonNELabour or if it was about the local "offer" they got from the CLP, what can you change locally that would attract them back? | ||
| @BoltonNELabour if it was about a policy issue, has the national party moved on? | ||
| My 39th birthday today. Not quite sure where the last decade has gone: meetings, canvassing, hospital, fatherhood... | ||
| Just added new #luke4nec endorsements from @ToddDForeman @ConorMcGinn and @gusbbaker : http://t.co/0MZDu3acBv | ||
| My column on the difference between reaction to @edballsmp speech to @thefabians this year vs his 2012 one: http://t.co/63S3sp9KLX | ||
| New #luke4nec endorsements from @wesstreeting @Jo_Milligan @RuthSmeeth and @redstarneil http://t.co/0MZDu3acBv | ||
| @LouiseMensch @metecoban92 why are you tweeting abuse at someone who, far from being a "fascist" is a moderate Labourite? | ||
| @LouiseMensch @Francislunn @metecoban92 Louise, you obviously don't know Mete. There is nothing extreme about him at all. | ||
| @maxshanly I'm still waiting for that NEC endorsement from you. .. | ||
| @SeemaChandwani the symbol before the Xs at end of your tweet, what is it? | ||
| @SeemaChandwani @conradlandin what does the little bug icon mean? | ||
| @SeemaChandwani @conradlandin not sure why its narcissistic to expect 2b judged on record and views. Surely the criteria in all elections? |
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| @SeemaChandwani @conradlandin I didn't apply through their process. I had already been endorsed by Labour First along with Ellie and Peter. | ||
| @SeemaChandwani @conradlandin no. They are only endorsing two candidates this time. | ||
| @NicolaDay78 what sort of change? | ||
| Great to see people adding endorsements, latest one is from @TomBeattie2010 leader of Corby Council. Thanks Tom! http://t.co/0MZDu3acBv | ||
| @plymouthkate @Rowan_Draper @anthonymckeown also incumbent NEC members are given the list regularly to send reports | ||
| @plymouthkate @Rowan_Draper @anthonymckeown I expect CLPD and LRC just keep a running list of all the secretaries they know of | ||
| @plymouthkate @Rowan_Draper @anthonymckeown nominations from home CLP plus 2 from different regions | ||
| @plymouthkate @Rowan_Draper DM me your email. We don't get a list of CLP secretaries until pass a certain threshold. | ||
| @Rowan_Draper I'll update it. When is your CLP holding its nomination meeting? | ||
| More new #luke4nec endorsers incl. @sionsimon @DrEoinCl http://t.co/0MZDu3acBv | ||
| @kevpeel @wesstreeting @FloNosegbe @JohannaBaxter @elliereeves @PWheeler56 me too | ||
| @wesstreeting I don't expect exclusivity! Just try not to endorse more than six of us... | ||
| @wesstreeting thank you! Any chance you could email me an endorsement for my website? | ||
| @Turners_Tweets sorry Alec I stick to just principal authorities as not possible to track all towns and parishes. Great result though! | ||
| Last night's council by-elections: http://t.co/Mljh9ufkmS | ||
| @ClissoldLabour @iancpeacock thankfully yes otherwise wouldn't be on ballot paper | ||
| @iancpeacock thanks Ian | ||
| Early endorsements for my NEC campaign incl @jimmurphymp @IvanaBartoletti @StephenTwigg @andrew4mk @Labourpaul http://t.co/0MZDu3acBv | ||
| @Bickerrecord everything is here: http://t.co/kUbuPskvsk | ||
| @Bickerrecord yep please | ||
| @Bickerrecord @AndyCharlwood yes I am. Would be delighted if you could endorse me. | ||
| @TedJeory he is a Hackney veteran from when things were tough here. | ||
| @AndyCharlwood @Bickerrecord I attempted to answer that question here: http://t.co/wLipmYJC0x | ||
| @LabourWomensNet hi, thanks for inviting me, unfortunately I have a full council mtg that night so please pass on my apologies | ||
| Gábor Vona is flying to the UK to preach hate before Holocaust Memorial Day. Sign @hopenothate's petition to stop him http://t.co/FV1LEjBfn6 | ||
| My colleague Professor Alan Johnson on Anelka: http://t.co/MSbP3PONaS | ||
| @maxshanly @tom_watson when I'm in Shoreditch its to canvass council estates not go to bars. Guess you could canvass in a fez. | ||
| @DanWalshie @kevpeel @JohannaBaxter thanks Dan! | ||
| @election_data you haven't coloured in Thanet South | ||
| @jonlansman I'm being careful not to comment on specific case regarding staff I'm hoping to become one of the employers of. | ||
| @LauraSRobinson @JamesAsser :( | ||
| @jonlansman I refer you to my previous reply. It was v clear. Would be improper to comment further as could pre-judge case you raise. | ||
| @jonlansman I'm not going to comment on specific cases but wish to state v clearly anyone administering an election must be strictly neutral | ||
| @Efrogwraig @mdbuckley that's ok if the old one didn't want to go | ||
| @mdbuckley that's for delegates not visitors, delegates are the same ones as 2013 annual conference | ||
| @VincentN15 that's odd as we have discussed it at two successive GCs | ||
| @VincentN15 It just got emailed to all members | ||
| @Matthew_Reilly1 totally depends which one Farage runs in. That's part of why they are paying for constituency level polling. | ||
| @DavidJo52951945 @Matthew_Reilly1 I was thinking Kent and Lincolnshire. They will put by-election type campaign into a couple of seats. | ||
| @jonathanmcshane @welovestokey @BenHayhurst @Tedewey it makes me rather ashamed of my own ugly little emails | ||
| My column this week for @labourlist takes a geeky look at Labour's chances of victory: http://t.co/dRp3TJxYQF | ||
| Getting ready to chair Hackney Health Scrutiny hearing on controlling transmission of HIV | ||
| Support my campaign for election to Labour's NEC: http://t.co/kUbuPskvsk #luke4nec http://t.co/wed4YTraJU please RT | ||
| @Thercutsnotours surely the crowds will be outside Eric Pickles' office at CLG? That is where the demo is isn't it? | ||
| @WillCross61 you would need to ask them! | ||
| @WillCross61 Kevin Peel and Florence Nosegbe | ||
| @CPJElmore thanks! | ||
| If your CLP is making its NEC nominations this week here are details about my candidature: http://t.co/kUbuPskvsk | ||
| @Markfergusonuk @SBuckinghamUK if you can't drop everything at a minute's notice you are not able to run in a snap byelection anyway | ||
| @hopisen @natandoron @Markfergusonuk why would anyone Labour draw attention to bad polls for us? Tweet good news 2 create momentum | ||
| @hopisen @Markfergusonuk the populus one showed the same | ||
| @davidhp99 three member ward with elections in 3 of every 4 years | ||
| @DAaronovitch I thought NUS position was same as mine: accept 1998 fee model but not 2006 top-up fees intro | ||
| @fbreckels @PWheeler56 which CLP are you in Fabian? | ||
| Delighted to hear that Salford CLP nominated me and @PWheeler56 for Labour's NEC tonight | ||
| @LukeBozier in Hackney we would argue all our academies have a comprehensive intake so r comps | ||
| @Kevin_Maguire it isn't a problem if a democracy like Israel or UK has nukes. It is if a regime like Iran does. | ||
| @martinangus @rob_marchant you are right it was 90 but Brecon and Radnor was the one we lost | ||
| And if your blog post is going to be greeted gleefully by @ConHome probably best not to write it. | ||
| How about we all go and canvass in key seats instead of trying to backseat drive, undermine or put a bad interpretation on Labour strategy? | ||
| @lizhutch if he is a Labour cllr, complain to our Chief Whip, Cllr Louisa Thomson. | ||
| Just send in the first of my return 2 weekly @LabourList columns - this 1 is out tomorrow and looks at the 1 March Labour Special Conference | ||
| @SHW4Labour @HackneyLabour well done! | ||
| Have agreed with @Markfergusonuk to re-start my weekly column for @LabourList . Looking forward to letting off some steam! | ||
| My diary has 3 welcome and unusual words for a cllr with a family "no meetings tonight | ||
| @Dan_Filson @LabourFOGingers it's a joke! | ||
| Why I'm standing for the NEC this year: http://t.co/7nG5avsg9e | ||
| @SeemaChandwani yep. It's addictive. | ||
| @PeterKenyon endorsed by Labour First annual meeting along with Ellie and Peter. Progress still completing their process. | ||
| @haykirstin citizens of 10 most recent states to accede to EU I think | ||
| Looking forward to leading tomorrow's @HackneyLabour #LabourDoorstep session in Dalston Ward - meet 11am at CLR James Library, Dalston Lane | ||
| @CalumSPlath @Tom_Coole if you were the one being executed you would probably prefer not to go out impersonating Pedigree Chum | ||
| @KevinPMeagher I don't agree. Local = having random advantage of living in a Labour winnable where lottery of vacant seat occurs. | ||
| @KevinPMeagher I've been a PPC in Hampshire and Essex whilst living in London and resent implication I was less qualified than "local" cands | ||
| @KevinPMeagher that rules me out of every selection in the country as I am just about to move. Guess some people might see that as good. | ||
| @KevinPMeagher all your proposal would do is advantage candidates rich enough to move and live in a constituency in run up to selection | ||
| @SteveAkehurst I'd like to think I would have scored same/better on one with more social/radical history questions | ||
| @DanJudelson @IsraelinUK @Shachtman it doesn't say that and I don't understand why you are interpreting it that way | ||
| @DanJudelson @IsraelinUK @Shachtman most passers by will only see the provocative image of the wall, won't be exposed to any context | ||
| @DanJudelson @IsraelinUK @Shachtman it's the use of a church to do agitprop like this that I find odd | ||
| @DanJudelson which part of it are you unhappy about? | ||
| @KevinMorton1966 current UK govt shows coalitions not always weak. If only this one was. | ||
| @DavidMills73 as well as they deserve | ||
| Hope UK Coalition Ministers r watching Irish GE results to see how public reacts to massive cuts. Tories and LDs will be in FF's shoes soon | ||
| @TomHarrisMP how about focussing on our sister party making huge gains rather than obsessing about UK referendum? | ||
| @GuidoFawkes AV count in single member seats far faster than STV. Also who cares if count few hours longer when picking govt for 5 yrs? | ||
| @LukeBozier surely that's welcome? We've had ten years of people all fundamentally on right of party defining themselves by differences | ||
| @LukeBozier no I don't know what he was implying. Pls explain! | ||
| @LukeBozier if narrowly defined was only supported by 10pc of party. Why wd anyone want to define their support base that narrowly? | ||
| @LukeBozier but then I was always more interested in New Lab as restoration of values of Morrison and Gaitskell rather than totally new | ||
| @LukeBozier It depends if u take a broad or narrow view of what New Labour was about. My view is encompassed Brown as well as Blair | ||
| @davidosler dave full running results here: http://www.rte.ie/news/election2011/results/index.html | ||
| @CalumSPlath @rebecca_moore_ such good taste in music combined with such dodgy politics. .. | ||
| @MatthewSmth @rebecca_moore_ @conradlandin @TomMillerUK @YProgressivesUK eh? The Taliban were overthrown | ||
| Chuffed that my #limmud presentation had to be moved from room allocated to a large lecture theatre as so many turned up | ||
| It had to happen. Nick Conway is on twitter @NHC75 | ||
| @JohnRentoul @MikeGapes special conferences | ||
| Heading to #limmud to give my 09.20 presentation on social media. Lesson 1: tweets should be more interesting than this. | ||
| @bencobley @rob_marchant I was impressed you have come up with structural solutions to the ethical problems you've previously highlighted | ||
| @CalumSPlath I agree with Calum! | ||
| @bencobley @rob_marchant I thought it was good | ||
| @LabLinda75 are you already in Oxford? | ||
| @JemStone I think if I was a driver I would have radio in car ... but I don't drive | ||
| @bencobley it comes from a Whig view of world, that party in country exists for benefit of MPs not vice versa | ||
| @JamesAsser I get all the news I need from canvass returns/contact creator | ||
| @JemStone I'm aware I am missing some culturally and politically good stuff as grew up w R4 and R3. | ||
| Amongst other shockers, I do not own a radio so never hear anything said on Today, WATO, PM etc | ||
| @PollardTom that's the spoof website it's not written by me | ||
| @iambrianjones unfortunately not due to recovery from illness - maybe in the future | ||
| @RobinShepherd1 thousands of them are amongst the victims of communism your post ennumerates eg Russia's Mensheviks | ||
| @RobinShepherd1 I think you are confusing Communists/Leninists and the wider term Marxists which includes some social democrats | ||
| Round-up of Thursday's council by-election results: http://t.co/VMCpEUm8GY | ||
| Re. my last RT, I take a very dim view of Mark Seddon having worked as a £500 a day speechwriter for independent mayor Lutfur Rahman. | ||
| @jamescrabtree @MattTempest presume those are partly driven by changing demographics. The detail is online here: http://t.co/l8XwE6egnL | ||
| @jamescrabtree @MattTempest these are the satisfaction levels w council services. The sat levels for area as a whole even more dramatic.. | ||
| @alexhilton @anthonypainter @HackneyLabour @IpsosMORI it doesn't look like it's annual from the graph! | ||
| @iambrianjones @rickmuir1 @hackneygazette I have signed now, thanks for the prompt. Good campaign. | ||
| @RafaDavies I thought it was a mechanism for finding a tweet on future if you thought it was important | ||
| @Aaron_Kiely They did - there's a pamphlet LCC published about its own history and far left Mike Marqusee did a chapter on them in his book | ||
| @Aaron_Kiely Labour Coordinating Committee. Kinnockite group that started out close to Benn and ended up Blairite. Neal Lawson used 2 run it | ||
| @HarryLangford email me at labourfirst@gmail.com to go on mailing list | ||
| @Markfergusonuk @OwenJones84 Labour First? | ||
| I hope soft left folk who r Labour loyalists will quit Compass and set up something new. Time to resurrect the LCC brand and realign left? | ||
| First they said vote tactically for LDs. Now despite coalition they vote to be Trojan Horse into Labour debates for LDs. | ||
| Compass confirms all my instincts about them by voting by 68pc to open their ranks to non-Labour people. | ||
| @spellar make that 3 of 4 as there was a ward in Hambleton the Tories got uncontested | ||
| Very happy to be on train heading to Oxford to meet up with Linda and Jed | ||
| @alexsobel I only report primary authorities but congratulations! | ||
| Yesterday's council by-elections: http://t.co/FL6J8ivyHm | ||
| @RooftopJaxx not even best value, law is stacked in favour of developers | ||
| @RooftopJaxx hence committee members expressing any view barred from participation incl @LabLinda75 as member of @AbneyParkN16 trust | ||
| @RooftopJaxx lobbying doesn't happen, cttee members not allowed contact w developer or objectors, like a jury | ||
| @TerryFBH @LRCinfo yes it's a recall conference consisting of the same delegates as attended Annual Conference | ||
| Labour First's submission to the Collins Review: http://t.co/nbS6V3JZyU | ||
| @MrTomWilletts @christianwolmar thanks for inviting us! | ||
| @GarethSiddorn @christianwolmar I enjoyed it, would have been a good debate whatever the result | ||
| On my way to Lewisham E CLP to argue against primary elections in debate with @christianwolmar #lukeontour | ||
| @Riches_C @thefabians the other obvious ones are you get sent great publications and can participate in local discussion groups | ||
| Proud to report CLP now has 923 members, up 292 since May last year | ||
| Re-elected as CLP Vice Chair (Membership)for tenth year | ||
| So sad to see the news about Nelson Mandela. What a great man. RIP | ||
| @patrickmoule @WeBelieveIsrael all of them. The only companies that the Co-op's "ethical" policy boycotts are from Israel and Morocco. | ||
| @alexsobel @antoniabance Ann has known this was possible for a long time so I think Pete does too | ||
| @alexsobel @antoniabance @LabLinda75 and yes to q2 but suspect will still be in Hackney at point of nominations | ||
| @alexsobel @antoniabance @LabLinda75 I'm still going to campaign manage this May's Hackney elections. | ||
| @antoniabance @LabLinda75 was an option we looked at but now settled on Oxford partly to avoid subjecting our kids to the 11+ system | ||
| @antoniabance I'm sorry our time in Oxford Labour hasn't overlapped. @LabLinda75 and me will be moving there soon | ||
| Hackney North CLP AGM packed room loads of new delegates | ||
| At Hackney Town Hall for ceremony conferring honorary Freedom of the Borough on our comrade Cllr Saleem Siddiqui | ||
| @JWoodcockMP sorry to hear you are not well but good luck and maximum respect for your courage in tackling this publicly | ||
| @MSmithsonPB @Tim_Mullen has Austin Mitchell announced retirement? I hadn't seen that. | ||
| @RedRobertino: Welcome @WS_London to twitter!" Seems my employers are on here now - welcome (ps working really hard today!) | ||
| @maxshanly it's what the AWL called themselves in NUS in the early 1990s | ||
| Just written a @LabourList post on why today's Thanet South poll means Labour needs an ambitious strategy to win seats in Kent | ||
| Just sorting date for council candidate photos in Hackney. First time for 20 years neither me nor @LabLinda75 will be featuring in line-up. | ||
| @Luca0Salice @Lab2Palestine @Andrew_Dismore when did anyone claim that? | ||
| @IainMcNicol you should make it 107 and add Thanet South after today's poll | ||
| Labour ahead by 5% in Thanet S with Tories 3rd http://t.co/PU7widRU57 | ||
| Vol sector now at lowest level of resource for years and making redundancies due to axing of Area Based Grant says HCVS. Big society??? | ||
| Public sector in Hackney facing total of 58m pounds cuts this year | ||
| At Overview and Scrutiny Board questioning Hackney Council for Voluntary Services | ||
| @TomHarrisMP not using lower prefs is a choice though. In FPTP you are forced to do one X. AV means u can choose an X or multiple prefs. | ||
| @DPJHodges @DAaronovitch and so MPs would all have a 50pc mandate and greater authority | ||
| @DPJHodges @DAaronovitch I'd change it if no seats changed hands so that voters got increased choice | ||
| @AndreaParma82 their strategy board is deciding on either 2 or 3 candidates | ||
| Very pleased that Labour First annual meeting has endorsed me, @elliereeves and @PWheeler56 as candidates 4 next year's Labour NEC election | ||
| Heading out for #labourdoorstep for @Steph_Peacock in Rowley with Labour First annual meeting attendees | ||
| Heading to the West Midlands for the Labour First annual meeting. Our guest speaker this year is @RachelReevesMP | ||
| Interview with Hackney's Labour Mayor Jules Pipe about how he has led our borough's transformation: http://t.co/yUpT0T8Aoc | ||
| Last night's council by-election results: http://t.co/FNKfOtKQnb | ||
| @PierBarrett will do | ||
| @PierBarrett I was his line manager for the organiser role | ||
| @jeremycorbyn actually I was thinking of doing one arguing 4 military intervention now in Libya to stop the regime killing people.. | ||
| Heading to National Hospital for nerve conduction tests. These involve sharp pins and electric shocks. #notfun | ||
| This is well worth a read: http://t.co/0vfXFyhUx5 | ||
| @mikekatz @RichardOsley their loss! | ||
| @alexsobel @AndyCharlwood #labourdoorstep unfortunately my recovery from illness means I'm not quite back to doorstep canvassing yet | ||
| @Steve_Longden definitely. | ||
| @alexsobel @AndyCharlwood yes that would be great - email me to set up. I speak about more exciting things too if asked! | ||
| @AndreaParma82 not that I've heard | ||
| @ashmcgregor @RachaelSaunders it was a training academy event I think advertised to all members | ||
| @howarddawber what's your email address Howard? | ||
| @PeterHain was also worry that easier to influnce policy through an NGO campaign in media than through formal PiP structures | ||
| @PeterHain concerns about current system being opaque and over complex and too slow to respond to urgent issues cos of 3yr cycle | ||
| Heading to Hackney Town Hall for overview and scrutiny board, 3rd of 4 scrutiny events for me in 36 hours. | ||
| @CalumSPlath I prefer to remember the war dead as having successfully preserved our freedom, rather than see their loss as senseless | ||
| @CalumSPlath in WW2 there was talking first - appeasement - but not after as it ended in unconditional surrender as did WW1 | ||
| @Labourpaul remember it was 12 percent of a huge army. And armies include many unit that are not involved in frontline. | ||
| I have just witnessed a human sized pink lego brick leading children in a dance to Fleetwood Mac Clinton campaign theme #legoland | ||
| @johnmcternan and his vision for society was v unattractive - an overpowerful state, anti-Europe, autarky, appeasement of USSR | ||
| @maxshanly you know how hurtful it is when ppl call Labour lefties Trots when they are not, that's basically what TB said in reverse | ||
| @maxshanly I'm sorry but it is completely disrespectful uncomradely and stupid to describe fellow Labour people as Thatcherite | ||
| @BishopsgateInst @maxshanly liberal reforms like civil partnerships | ||
| Just finished good mtg w Hackney Keep Our NHS Public and local GPs to agree campaign vs Lansley's NHS reforms | ||
| @susanhebden I agree. When I was in hospital they worked out after 5 mths the food was 600 calories a day less than I needed | ||
| @petedigger @DPJHodges @rob_marchant yeah but you are a Tory so I suspect your motives may not be concern for Labour's internal democracy | ||
| @rob_marchant @DPJHodges but politically would be more helpful if people didn't escalate this. There would be no winners from that. | ||
| @rob_marchant @DPJHodges I guess the textbook answer is, if there is new evidence, the party will obviously look at it. | ||
| @rob_marchant @DPJHodges I'm sorry I had read those, but struggled to find anything that I hadn't already heard earlier in the year. | ||
| @DPJHodges @rob_marchant you both seem more interested in punishment than reconciliation - which is what Falkirk CLP needs | ||
| @rob_marchant @DPJHodges no. | ||
| @rob_marchant @DPJHodges what do they say? | ||
| @rob_marchant @DPJHodges and they haven't got what they wanted in almost any other parliamentary selections | ||
| @rob_marchant @DPJHodges they didn't get what they wanted - Karrie Murphy had to withdraw from the selection | ||
| @rob_marchant @DPJHodges what is the political benefit to Labour of escalating rather than deescalating conflict w our largest affiliate? | ||
| @philbc3 i.e. cuts. which unless you substituted equivalent spending would cause huge job losses in Barrow and Derby. | ||
| Wading through emails. Puzzled to see that advert for an anti-austerity event includes a speaker from CND. | ||
| @tommilleruk @GuidoFawkes Chavez is an authoritarian chump who abuses human rights not a democratic uprising. Never trust ldrs in uniform | ||
| @GuidoFawkes @tommilleruk Tom you are talking tosh. Venezuela was a democracy from 1958 with the social democrat AD party often in power. | ||
| Heading to celebration of @aliciakennedy07 becoming a Baroness | ||
| @HackneyFirst who was announced as your mayoral candidate? | ||
| @tomrahilly if you haven't had lunch yet I recommend @FortsCafe | ||
| @tomrahilly we are a few hundred yards to your east in Cliftonville | ||
| Round-up of last night's council by-elections incl. 2 Lab gains: http://t.co/aT7bxJR4lB | ||
| @ChrispLOL @CarolineFlintMP no - that is how it works in Australia but not the version proposed in UK. An "X" would count as a "1 | ||
| Heading to Hackney Labour Campaign Meeting | ||
| @OsmanArsenal41 we don't arrive at collective findings, is for individuals who participated to draw their own political conclusions. | ||
| Running canvassing session this morning in Dalston Ward - early work for 2012 Ken vs Boris | ||
| @DanJudelson sure happy to meet and discuss | ||
| @DanJudelson Fatah Foreign Affairs Commission - Nabil Shaath and Mahmoud Labadi | ||
| @OsmanArsenal41 no I'm leading a study tour of Labour councillors and activists as part of my job at @WeBelieveIsrael | ||
| That was an amazing day: Old City, Yad Veshem Holocaust Museum, Mount Herzl, dinner w former Rabin spokesperson Uri Dromi #wbii13 | ||
| Just landed in Israel for @WeBelieveIsrael study tour w @benjaminbutter @martinwhelton @CoopCrofts @tori_rigby @ben_garratt and others | ||
| @benrathe @DPJHodges @rob_marchant we would still win with a lead of nothing due to the electoral system | ||
| @anthonyleahy @DPJHodges @rob_marchant the same polls that say that are the ones that show us winning | ||
| @DPJHodges @rob_marchant I send a monthly average of the 8 main polls to Labour First. It hardly ever shifts. 7pc lead. Will tighten a bit. | ||
| Good to see from tweets that @martinwhelton and @benjaminbutter are up and heading to join me at airport ... only 8 others to worry about | ||
| @rob_marchant @DPJHodges it was a joke Rob! I was suggesting you were a bit of a pessimist about Ed's chances of becoming PM... | ||
| @briandlondon @DPJHodges @rob_marchant no I'd prefer to spend time as an activist making a practical contribution to achieving one | ||
| @happyhenry @stokeylabour Hackney North Labour Party has policy against the development. Sadly its illegal to apply whip in planning ctee | ||
| @smithsky1979 the one who does most #labourdoorstep is the most pure! | ||
| @KevinMorton1966 of course they will has anyone suggested they wouldn't? | ||
| The claim that AV will cost more than FPTP has to be the most inane and desperate argument I've ever heard. Total, utter cobblers. Then some | ||
| @redmikerowley @antoniabance uni Labour clubs are the local manifestation of a national body set up by the party, Labour Students | ||
| @dlandoncole @AdamBienkov @EllieCumbo personally I think they should have included @margarethodge @christianwolmar | ||
| @dlandoncole @AdamBienkov @EllieCumbo YouGov included him in this poll and he came top | ||
| @jonathanmcshane if you get the data in tonight it will appear in stats tabled at Group | ||
| Didn't go to #prolondon11 as going to Ken's other favourite place, London Zoo. | ||
| @mwood2001 @simonevans117 @Vernon_CoakerMP @JWoodcockMP yes that was apparent from both Rachel and Tristram's interviews | ||
| Message to all Hackney #labourdoorstep team: we are doing an estate w decks today so can stay dry - don't worry about the rain! | ||
| @Rosiecosy @DavidPrescott @lizmcshane that's why we are repealing Bedroom Tax and making ppl take real jobs not deadend training schemes | ||
| @Rick_Coyle @CllrNinaKillen for instance I want local authorities to run all schools but am not "demotivated" by T Hunt disagreeing with me | ||
| @Rick_Coyle @CllrNinaKillen part of being in a broad political party is accepting it will have some policies you don't personally like | ||
| @vickyfoxcroft Spellar calls them "advice bureau | ||
| @CllrNinaKillen @Rick_Coyle Rachel was repeating an existing policy to fund creation of 230,000 guaranteed jobs | ||
| @steveunion @RachelReevesMP I think it is compassionate to give young unemployed people a guaranteed job | ||
| Survation poll: Lab 37%, Con 27%, UKIP 18%, LD 11% | ||
| Looking forward to borough wide #labourdoorstep session in Cazenove ward, Hackney's last LD ward | ||
| @glasterlaw1 @ajcdeane best tweeter to follow for detail of retirements and selections is @AndreaParma82 | ||
| @glasterlaw1 @ajcdeane 10 tory retirements so more than Lab or LD | ||
| By my count exactly same number LD MPs standing down as Labour so far - from parliamentary party 5x smaller. Doesn't suggest high morale. | ||
| I'm at Co-op North London Area member mtg. The chair says I am "keeping them on their toes" by critiquing their boycott of 4 Israeli firms | ||
| @Jonathan_Todd @rob_marchant I would be more impressed if he had stayed inside the party and made his case | ||
| @OwenJones84 tell them about the Menshevik tradition. Tends to be forgotten. | ||
| @kenningtonkitty @rob_marchant @simonevans117 @RichardAngell I don't think either of us are going to persuade each other. | ||
| @kenningtonkitty @rob_marchant @simonevans117 @RichardAngell journalists who they read are. | ||
| @rob_marchant @simonevans117 @RichardAngell stuff u say on here is public - always need to consider if your remarks will help Labour win | ||
| @simonevans117 @RichardAngell don't be daft. You think McCluskey was hoping Tristram, Gloria, Rachel + Michael wd be promoted? | ||
| @rob_marchant @Alex_Bjarnason association with it doesn't seem to have hurt several of the ppl promoted today | ||
| @c_quigley @CalumSPlath @andrewlomas a slightly faster train line is hardly in same league of utility as a strategic nuclear deterrent. | ||
| @susanhebden @bevclack @leftfutures I guess so seeing as he promoted a couple of people well to the right of me to the Shadow Cabinet! | ||
| @Markfergusonuk maybe he promoted people based on merit? | ||
| @simonevans117 really? what's the evidence for that? | ||
| To counterbalance some of the sectarian reaction to reshuffle, can't spot single promotion 4anyone the likes of @leftfutures wd call "left | ||
| @simonevans117 it might do Jim a favour to be covering a brief that is cuddlier for party grassroots. Fairly sure Coaker is sound on Trident | ||
| @JFGElliott I really couldn't give a **** if people were TB or GB fans. I formed judgement on Liam +Stephen in NUS before Blairism existed. | ||
| I still expect both will be playing a significant role in next Labour govt. | ||
| Pleased with new shadow cabinet appointments but sorry @LiamByrneMP and @StephenTwigg no longer in there. | ||
| @DanJudelson I'm sorry I think you are being naive. You visited West Bank of course security will want to check liquids in your luggage. | ||
| #ff RT @martinangus: If I get to 100 followers tonight I'll have a large whisky to celebrate! | ||
| Cameron:"AV could ... (give) Labour an even bigger advantage than they already have at general elections. | ||
| @Lab2Palestine @DanJudelson also Dan says in his twitter feed he lied about where he had been. Why would you do that with a security check? | ||
| @Lab2Palestine @DanJudelson racial profiling? I'm not Jewish! | ||
| Weirdly it is the Tories who are sounding most like Marxists | Andrew Rawnsley http://t.co/Xm3u8m3ERk | ||
| @jruddy99 @angelaeagle I forgot about that. Rather overtaken by events! | ||
| @AndreaParma82 that's not that many for a safe non AWS seat. I was in a field of 34 in Tory held Castle Point in 05 | ||
| @Bryn__Phillips I think we are well and truly weaned, he hasn't donated to the party for several years, can't remember if stopped in 10 or07 | ||
| @DPMcBride NB Ariel Sharon is still alive (in coma) and was a key commander in Sinai in 6 Day War and Yom Kippur War | ||
| @MichaelH14 @kiranstacey @PickardJE at Westwood Cross shopping centre | ||
| @MichaelH14 @PickardJE @kiranstacey will be a fascinating 3-way fight as was Lab seat 1997-2010 and @willscobie is a great candidate | ||
| @DPMcBride Ehud Barak | ||
| @PickardJE @kiranstacey Margate is in Thanet N. Thanet S is basically Ramsgate and Broadstairs | ||
| Just doing membership report and my CLP - Hackney N - got 17 new members during September - something going on out there! | ||
| Hmmm .. Green Party names Leader of Brighton's carcrash council as national spokes on local govt. Not the best advert ... | ||
| Yesterday's council by-elections incl. surprise Lab gain in rural Lincolnshire: http://t.co/dfXVgMFjSc | ||
| .@HackneyLabour now has a Facebook page - https://t.co/TVHC4Oa5AX please "Like" it to get updates! | ||
| @LukeBozier @TomHarrisMP but they don't own electoral reform. I've been campaigning for it for years as have many Labour people. | ||
| @TomHarrisMP the leader, deputy leader, NPF chair, shadow foreign sec and loads more senior Labour bods support AV so why say it is LD led? | ||
| Papers describing council AD Adult Services as "non-job". Isn't that person in charge of social services for vulnerable old and disabled? | ||
| @RobbieScott100 @LordAshcroft but Ipsos MORI do lots of polling for councils on resident satisfaction with services | ||
| @RobbieScott100 @LordAshcroft as in polls of voting intention at local govt level? There aren't any. | ||
| @8twisden that would be Nabil Shath who had to slam platform speakers at @lfpme fringe last week for their lack of enthusiasm for 2 states | ||
| @JuliaHB1 @MShapland it's a fact that Cameron went to Eton whereas accusation that R Miliband "hated Britain" is a lie | ||
| @simonevans117 @BBCPolitics headline is misleading. He doesn't rule out renationalisation, just says he can't pledge to do it. | ||
| @Sarah_Hayward @CamdenLabour that's very sad news | ||
| Read this http://t.co/5rALGEXyxd | ||
| Last night's council by-elections: http://t.co/2pXDNoairt |
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| At the @hopenothate fringe on UKIP. Great to hear serious analysis of UKIP's nasty politics and threat to Labour. | ||
| Important note for Oxford colleagues: Only local branches of national affiliates can affiliate to CLPs. Just saying. | ||
| @PeterKenyon @Markfergusonuk @benfolley problem is changing GC/EC structure usually code for dismantling grassroots democracy | ||
| @ScottSeamons @andrewlomas @labourpaul @oxfordunilabour not good. Just cos an ancient uni should be no more important to NOLS than any club | ||
| @antoniabance that's like saying if the Cowley Unite branches left Unite they could still affiliate to the CLP | ||
| @andrewlomas @Labourpaul @OxfordUniLabour I declare interest as still grumpy/chippy 1990 Oxbridge reject | ||
| @andrewlomas @Labourpaul @OxfordUniLabour will feed anti-Oxbridge instincts of rest of student polity. | ||
| @andrewlomas @Labourpaul @OxfordUniLabour don't doubt it but there's something a bit conceited about going alone from body u r branch of | ||
| @Labourpaul I was going to say Bristol, Salford, Warwick, Hull | ||
| @ProgressOnline @PCollinsTimes #Lab13 I hope you disagree with him! | ||
| @Markfergusonuk and none of the people you name was engaged in NOLS at meaningful level nationally | ||
| @AndreaParma82 I will put them on my blog when published in CAC report tomorrow | ||
| @antoniabance bit like saying "we the fish are unhappy with the sea and hence disaffiliate from it | ||
| Well that was excellent! #lab13 | ||
| @johng1959 no I assume it was my tweets yesterday that won it | ||
| @susanhebden @maxshanly my apologies I thought that was how you self described! | ||
| I hope CLP delegates will vote for Heidi Alexander and Tom Blenkinsop for CAC and Maggie Cosin for NCC. Ballot closes at 4pm. #lab13 | ||
| @Jo_Milligan @AndyCharlwood FPTP is voting equivalent of going for a Chinese meal and being told u have to eat just one maincourse | ||
| @Jo_Milligan @AndyCharlwood what rational person wouldn't want to rank candidates rather than just pick one? | ||
| @Jo_Milligan @AndyCharlwood because they get greater choice and can vote 1st pref who they really want, not have to consider tactics | ||
| @Callum_Munro @OxfordUniLabour @LabourStudents daft to even have debate on affiliation - be like a CLP voting not to affiliate to Labour | ||
| @Callum_Munro @OxfordUniLabour @LabourStudents if not affiliated to NOLS, surely it isn't the official Labour Club anymore? | ||
| @LabourUncut @JohnSlinger @rob_marchant if u r going to charge people £1 to vote why not make them members rather than call it a primary? | ||
| Torn between excitement about conference and seeing lots of comrades and sadness can't be there w my family as it's term time | ||
| @maxshanly the next stage is when you meet the Labour people you thought you would dislike cos of their politics, but like them too | ||
| Young Labour's @helenadollimore impressive vs UKIP and Tory youth reps on C4 news | ||
| Great to see firm policy stance on axing bedroom tax. We need more announcements like this and less tittle tattle and angst re TB/GB past | ||
| #FF my colleagues @BritainIsrael for the latest news and analysis about Israel and the Middle East | ||
| All this week's council by-election results: http://t.co/jPiKbU8CfK | ||
| @benjaminbutter which two? | ||
| This is worth reading: http://t.co/m04vLK3JO7 | ||
| @Commsdan @Alex_Bjarnason @DPJHodges I don't see any evidence for left resurgence in my (trad v left) CLP or in NEC or NPF results | ||
| @MrHarryCole @RaheemJKassam the whole point of FPTP is that national vote share doesn't determine how many seats you get | ||
| @MrHarryCole @RaheemJKassam we don't have a proportional voting system so silly to expect proportional results when turnout varies by seat | ||
| @oldpolitics we'd get good majority under both systems | ||
| @oldpolitics if you stick the current polls into electoral calculus website, it shows AV seat total only 2 less for Lab than FPTP | ||
| @Jo_Milligan it was a very real issue for voters in Aldershot in 01 when me and left LD got total of 27000, but seat got rightwing Tory MP | ||
| @Jo_Milligan don't get excited, just judge it rationally | ||
| @Labourpaul my copy of Crick's March of Militant was nicked by @MichaelDugherMP about ten years ago. | ||
| @marcusaroberts @andrew_harrop no the commanding heights are in Archway ward | ||
| @JohannaBaxter congratulations, hope you enjoy it it's quite an experience! | ||
| @bencobley I do (though accept the referendum result as settled rejection of idea by public) | ||
| @welovestokey no it's not normal, I'm also #late stuck on a 55 | ||
| @bencobley for instance, if it's OK to say Hackney has to have 2 MPs, or Kent 15, why not say women should have 325? | ||
| @bencobley democracy means rule by the people not rule by blokes. Quotas/AWS are no more undemocratic than geographical constituencies. | ||
| @bencobley it's not democracy if half the population (women) are underrepresented in parliament | ||
| I think @LordAshcroft 's Labour conference fringe debut with @thefabians is going to be one of the must-attend fringes this year | ||
| @alexsobel I got one of only 3 copies on there, so 2 to go | ||
| Latest second hand book purchase "Quite Right, Mr Trotsky!" by Denver Walker - humourous critique by a Stalinist of Trot factions | ||
| RE community up in arms over threat to religious education due to curric time squeeze from Eng Baccaluareat. Stern letter to Gove being sent | ||
| @EquusontheBuses say hello to him from me | ||
| According to populus I am 97% cosmopolitan critic but @LabLinda75 is mainly contented optimist | ||
| @BowsKitchen what specials have you got tonight? | ||
| @StephenCarter2 I don't disagree | ||
| @StephenCarter2 eg I think some of them post a report annually to every constituent | ||
| @LouiseBaldock the campaign shop on membersnet | ||
| @mjrharris actually lots of Tory cllrs nowdays publicly declare freemason membership in council register of interests | ||
| @mjrharris @tomwburke I don't think that's true. You would just have to declare it if went for council selection. | ||
| @brolezholloway no it couldn't that's a different budget too | ||
| @brolezholloway also Hackney have avoided cuts to frontline services to date so didn't cause any cuts | ||
| @brolezholloway it was capital spend not from the revenue ie services budget | ||
| @brolezholloway £8m. Important investment in restoring much loved building to community venue use | ||
| @ChukaUmunna @labourpress @bbcquestiontime hope you like beautiful Stoke Newington town hall, renovated by Labour Hackney Council | ||
| Hackney Tory chief whip just said he can't see point in responding to elected Mayor's statement. Astonishing and pathetic. | ||
| Not a single question tabled by Hackney Tory or LD councillors in 3months since last full council. Not fulfilling their role as opposition | ||
| @JohnRentoul surely best Gaitskell speech was 1960 fight fight and fight again | ||
| @JohnRentoul Bevin's attack on Lansbury "hawking his conscience | ||
| @Tron1993 can you send me a link to his remarks | ||
| @DarrellGoodliff @HuskieWalleyes I would favour a model where they just tick a box, same as UNISON already has | ||
| @DarrellGoodliff @HuskieWalleyes surely most of the TU members who voted in 2010 leadership election will tick a box to join? | ||
| @danielelton @_TUFI I'm not speaking just listening! | ||
| @jimmurphymp rather than boycotts he should focus on getting a peace deal then there wouldn't be 1/2 ... | ||
| @DPJHodges the briefer may have had their own agenda? | ||
| @DPJHodges would be difficult to shelve them. None of these were suggested in Ed's speech. | ||
| @DPJHodges there never were any proposals to " dilute the union’s influence over leadership elections, ... conference and....NEC" so ... | ||
| @rob_marchant @JohnRentoul but the key red line for Labour 1st is to retain a collective voice for affiliates | ||
| @jonrogers1963 @Labourpaul @unisontweets exactly | ||
| @jonlansman @steveyemm @Pete_Radcliff we haven't got any £ let alone £millions! | ||
| @steveyemm @Pete_Radcliff @jonlansman the full text is on my blog: http://t.co/5d1U1rcZUJ | ||
| @Pete_Radcliff @jonlansman have you read our submission? Is all about keeping a collective voice for TUs in the party. | ||
| @Pete_Radcliff @jonlansman I think the submission made by Lab 1st to Collins should be adopted because it is good stuff anyway! | ||
| @jonlansman yes | ||
| Head/desk | ||
| Worth reading: http://t.co/lczgV7yvJw | ||
| Yesterday's council by-elections: http://t.co/P2hpA7CpSM | ||
| Hackney Labour Group meeting - final decisions on our position on council budget to be made | ||
| @SeemaChandwani yes good thanks! | ||
| @SeemaChandwani no printed it all | ||
| My letter in the Guardian about the GMB and Labour: http://t.co/IU4zjGWHmH | ||
| Just been discharged by my neurology consultant 4 years on from my illness | ||
| @Jessica_Asato @DPJHodges what price democracy? Cost arguments could have been used vs having elections at all in Egypt and Tunisia. | ||
| At dentist for first time since 1988... | ||
| @DPJHodges @Jessica_Asato they are useful for detecting electoral fraud but not essential 4 counting AV - putting the votes in piles works! | ||
| Shana tova to everyone celebrating the new year! | ||
| @ConallMcD sorry to hear that | ||
| @PeterKenyon I'm not able to go but just checked and there r no circulated or tabled papers, is an informal consultative mtg | ||
| @DPJHodges and? The support or otherwise of Clegg is not a rational basis for making public policy decisions. | ||
| @sunny_hundal @fareastdan @OwenJones84 @Aprilcumming so injection of one person with cyanide would be as much problem as gassing 1200? | ||
| @OwenJones84 @sunny_hundal @Aprilcumming should have said WW1 not www! | ||
| @OwenJones84 @sunny_hundal @Aprilcumming gas was viewed by those who experienced it as uniquely barbarous weapon | ||
| @Sammykaine @sunny_hundal @Aprilcumming I don't think it is "fine". It should only be used in uninhabited areas not urban ones. | ||
| @sunny_hundal @Aprilcumming effects are horrible but that doesn't make it a chemical weapon | ||
| @sunny_hundal @Aprilcumming no and yes. | ||
| @sunny_hundal @Aprilcumming no not remotely comparable on any level | ||
| @sunny_hundal @Aprilcumming that's nuts - wp is horrible if used in wrong way but is in no way comparable to poison gas attacks | ||
| @mjrharris @SephRBrown @LabourList I agree shouldn't be ruled out, but I don't think everyone who expressed opposition is a "Trot | ||
| @SephRBrown @mjrharris @LabourList as all the polling shows the general public are sceptical, not unreasonable that LP members would be also | ||
| @ariehkovler I'd whack you with my walking stick | ||
| .@reddeviljp kinda comes with being disabled. But stay classy. | ||
| I'm not exactly known as a peacenik but I think @Ed_Miliband is right to have forced a more cautious, considered approach b4 UK dives in |
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| @gpaterson8 @JrussoUK @tomilo @CalumSPlath because we are one of only a handful of nations w strong enough military to do anything | ||
| @JrussoUK @tomilo @CalumSPlath your analogies are silly. Pls show we instances of Israeli carpet-bombing WW2 style or using gas. | ||
| @JrussoUK @tomilo @CalumSPlath RAF did target civilians in Dresden - was carpet bombing. Israel doesn't target civilians. | ||
| Celebrating Valentine's Day by going to hear Jim Murphy talk to Labour First defence seminar | ||
| @toadmeister @blairsupporter @Ed_Miliband not actually true as tessa jowell was one of Blair's most die hard supporters | ||
| @abrjacobson because it isn't a newspaper? | ||
| @rob_marchant sorry Rob I am with @jonlansman on this, bizarre that you are buying an attack by a Tory paper on Unite when ... | ||
| @DPJHodges @mcaino @Markfergusonuk @RDarlo untrue they switched earlier from doorstep to phone banks | ||
| Submission by Labour First to the Collins Review of TU link and selections: http://t.co/OyMZntqA3u | ||
| @Markfergusonuk because they are not free? Absurd to bestow rights of free citizens on people who have lost freedom by breaking laws. | ||
| @rob_marchant @danielelton I'll say this for Stalinists, they are loyal to their allies and client dictators, even ones dead 40 years! | ||
| .@ConHome fewer than 100 per constituency association? We have 150 Labour members in my ward! | ||
| @RooftopJaxx not yet ... | ||
| @RooftopJaxx @philbc3 Labour increases in 1994 and 2010 showed the trend is reversible | ||
| @RooftopJaxx @philbc3 see the link I just tweeted | ||
| @GerardDiTrolio @philbc3 Loads of data on membership numbers here: http://t.co/2eTdvSnhG9 | ||
| @RooftopJaxx @philbc3 sorry to disappoint you but Labour membership in Hackney is up by about 60% to 1600 since before the General Election | ||
| @GerardDiTrolio @philbc3 tories had more members than labour for whole of 1945 - 1994 | ||
| @Sarah_Hayward a brilliant restaurant, we took the kids there last week | ||
| @Efrogwraig @Harryb22 @Rosiecosy @SteveReedMP I think holidaying in Margate I definitely win prolier than thou contest | ||
| @Rosiecosy @Efrogwraig @Harryb22 @SteveReedMP no they just haven't wasted announcements now that can be made at a better time | ||
| @Rosiecosy @Harryb22 @SteveReedMP because schools are on holidays, council is in recess and its hot | ||
| @Harryb22 @Rosiecosy @SteveReedMP "career politician"! In my dreams -I'm a backbench Hackney councillor. | ||
| @GuidoFawkes what's the connection? | ||
| @mikeunlikely @LabourList yes but doesn't need full set of every policy to do that just some key ones. | ||
| @mikeunlikely @LabourList yes but you don't do that via canvassing, primary purpose is to ID existing support to ensure they vote | ||
| @bmitchellwrites if you feel leader needs to do things different as an mp you can and should speak to Ed privately not go to press | ||
| Sharpening my icepick (metaphorically) | ||
| @JasonABryant Shanghai | ||
| @RussellKennedy2 yes will respond sorry for delay | ||
| @Steph_Peacock sorry we only overlapped on NEC for couple of mtgs. Well done on brilliant period as Youth Rep | ||
| @OwenJones84 you only just realised? | ||
| @livbailey @SamanthaKennedy @rossmacrae let me know if anything I can do from NEC to support Labour Students. Congrats on yr election | ||
| @susan_nash @Callum_Munro #yl11 congrats, look forward to working with you! | ||
| @OwenJones84 I think I'm probably the customer with that mix... | ||
| @IanAustinMP @iMcKenzied yes it was the 74-9 bit I was unsure of | ||
| @iMcKenzied @IanAustinMP only 1945 and 1966 with working majorities | ||
| @judithflacks I like that it has the woodcraft creed on back exactly where clause IV used to be on Labour cards | ||
| Impressed to get back from Hackney campaign mtg w @tony_rigby to find @sfajanathomas @metecoban92 & @patrickmoule canvassing my street | ||
| @judithflacks I don't think jed has been issued a card | ||
| In case you missed them, Thursday's council by-election results: http://t.co/Gr7JKsyXnq | ||
| Well visiting Bristol for first time in 15 years made me hugely nostalgic for student days in early '90s :( | ||
| @benullmann @ariehkovler was the basement next to ten o'clock shop- number ten I think | ||
| @ariehkovler was already doomed when I was doing it as UBU and UWESU were political opposites | ||
| @ariehkovler yep whole time I was an undergraduate | ||
| @ariehkovler I was sabbatical NUS area convenor for 2 years hence living next to UBU | ||
| @Efrogwraig on Guido | ||
| @Beaban both are unfree and undemocratic and stick regime opponents in jail | ||
| Nostalgia making me wish I had an excuse to be at Youth Conference | ||
| Really impressed by Waltham Forest Leader Chris Robbins taking on Gove on BSF on London BBC news | ||
| @davidmentiply @oranjd prob true but a shame | ||
| @davidmentiply but had rigged elections, veneer of constitutionalism - whereas China is an upfront oldschool totalitarian state | ||
| Beautiful morning in Somerset at Hackney Woodcraft Folk summer camp after a very damp night! | ||
| @davidmentiply Chinese regime massively more controlling and oppressive even than Egypt was - in Egypt more dissent was possible | ||
| @davidmentiply and what about Tibet - literally a colony undergoing a slow cultural destruction, occupied by a huge neighbour | ||
| @davidmentiply if CP regime is doing such a fab job why don't they run for re-election in a free process? | ||
| Brisk cllr advice surgery - usual Chatham Ward issues of housing needs and parking | ||
| @alexsobel well done! | ||
| @davidmentiply the population being happy is no justification for tolerating a dictatorship. They might be even happier if free. | ||
| And Saudi Arabia, Iran, Cuba, North Korea, Vietnam, Burma oh drat list of vile dictatorships is still too long for 140 characters | ||
| Hope one day the 1bn + people of China get to experience liberation from dictatorship as Egypt appears to have today | ||
| Heading to Glastonbury for Hackney Woodcraft Folk summer camp | ||
| Last night's seven council by-election results: http://t.co/QLFi2JVdS9 | ||
| @MSmithsonPB | ||
| @rickmuir1 @jonburkeUK if it goes to NCC it works like a court case with standard natural justice rules applying | ||
| @rickmuir1 @jonburkeUK Unite already saw the report, they have said this. | ||
| @rickmuir1 @jonburkeUK I think more that they need to complete process and publish the final decision | ||
| @BritainVotes Labour got respectable 21 pc in seat failed to contest in 2007 | ||
| Very happy to be heading down to Margate with my lovely wife and sons after a week away from them | ||
| Impressed John Spellar has spoken on an issue linking cost of motoring and right of Royal Navy to sink pirates. | ||
| @JohannaBaxter say hello to Denise Robson from me (she's former Hackney cllr now active in Gateshead) | ||
| @israelvoice not yet! | ||
| From high ground IDF has briefed us on which Syrian towns we can see are controlled by Asad regime, FSA and Jihadis | ||
| @chrisvstumour no, POEMS syndrome, tumour produced anti-bodies that attacked my nerves | ||
| #iloveournhs because it saved me from cancer and taught me to walk again after a year in a wheelchair | ||
| @JFG_Elliott that's why I support a two state solution. | ||
| @JFG_Elliott also my belief in the principle of self-determination leads me to identify as a Zionist + supporter of Jewish statehood | ||
| @JFG_Elliott I think you are probably inhabiting a different paradigm to me. | ||
| @Amirmizroch good to meet you yesterday | ||
| .@BenCooper86 I could have told them that (and did in a blog post) without need for an expensive review! Public money wasted appeasing LDs. | ||
| Driving down from Jerusalem to Tel Aviv. Beautiful views in the early evening sunshine. | ||
| @ShulemStern scale was obviously hugely different. I went to main Belz shul which has 10,000 congregation! | ||
| @Zbigniew_G topic the peace process + their side of the story. Of course they knew my job as were mtg a @BritainIsrael organised delegation. | ||
| @benabyad no, meeting Fatah Foreign Affairs Commission. | ||
| @OldHolbornian I'll have a chat with the Israeli Bedouin who is number 3 at their London Embassy | ||
| @jeff_wode that was undisputed whereas no one other than the ignorant or the hate-filled believes Israel is apartheid | ||
| @atticusfinch104 yes will tweet updates! | ||
| @jeff_wode @Labourpaul @chetony so do me + rest of Group get similar kudos for giving 5pc of our cllr allowances to Hackney Labour? | ||
| @jeff_wode @Labourpaul @chetony it wasn't like he gave it back to the taxpayer or to a good cause! | ||
| @poshrickysmith @gmbcityclean a lot of it | ||
| @suemacmillan @DPJHodges lots of ppl join organisation to express general support but have no opinion on internal politics/candidates | ||
| @suemacmillan @DPJHodges also the turnout from individual CLP members was only 60pc so more ppl may opt-in that wd want 2 use internal votes | ||
| @YatishN @DPJHodges no. Labour's affiliates are in an exclusive relationship w Labour not w rival parties | ||
| @ChrispLOL yes good model but I think Ed is looking at making everyone who opts-in to APF an individual party member | ||
| @DPJHodges how many new members do you think it will generate? | ||
| @DPJHodges depends on the process. If all they have to do is tick a box, not pay extra, eminently achievable. | ||
| @DPJHodges there are over 2.5m members currently affiliated, so 500k of them opting-in sounds a sensible target | ||
| @DPJHodges I see you have resumed normal service ... | ||
| I'm at the launch of the new Healthwatch Hackney - new structure that provides patient voice on health + social care | ||
| Letter from me re. Mayoral primary in tonight's Evening Standard p45 | ||
| @MHWitchfinder how do you mean "endorse"? We don't intervene in selections but very happy with that particular result. | ||
| @jeff_wode if journalists have it I am surprised it hasn't been uploaded on a blog somewhere | ||
| @jeff_wode the descriptions I have heard of the contents are lots more serious | ||
| Journalist who started on Stalinist wing of CPGB in not caring about vote-rigging shocker. | ||
| @SteveHilditch @camdentheo please can you elaborate on which bits were divisive? | ||
| @joncstone @tomdaviesE17 nor do I, I spent the last decade arguing against them. | ||
| @joncstone @tomdaviesE17 surely also you join for socials, debate, campaigning, not just votes in selections? | ||
| Me on Ed's speech: http://t.co/SDiHl8lfQo #betterpolitics | ||
| It's really time all the ex-Labour people in LDs like Oakeshott came home to Labour | ||
| My commentary on today's speech will be on @ProgressOnline at 2pm #betterpolitics | ||
| @DPJHodges @terrympaul how would that help the Labour Party? | ||
| @DPJHodges @terrympaul primaries. I lost the argument! | ||
| @DPJHodges @terrympaul this morning? | ||
| @maxshanly @renieanjeh @richardmarcj @Labourkevin which is part of the Democrats. | ||
| @terrympaul that's why I argued against it. But now we need to make it work. | ||
| @terrympaul @renieanjeh of course not! A|l would need to be passed as rule changes by conference anyway. | ||
| @terrympaul actually the proposal is a closed primary where you have to register as a party supporter to be given a vote. | ||
| @terrympaul @renieanjeh no all this is subject to a review. I suspect it will fall to NEC Org Sub to pick any primary seats as per AWS. | ||
| @terrympaul @renieanjeh yes but he hasn't actually made any substantive allegation and none has been received by the party. | ||
| @renieanjeh @terrympaul there are no substantive allegations or complaints about any seat other than Falkirk | ||
| @DPJHodges @MichaelLCrick anyway I'm pleased you are now joining me in singing Ed's praises. Better late than never. | ||
| @renieanjeh @terrympaul nothing will be rerun. There is a proposal to look at running primaries in Labour-held seats w very low memberships. | ||
| @DPJHodges @MichaelLCrick sorry I don't understand what you are digging at or what the purpose of this conversation is. | ||
| @DPJHodges @MichaelLCrick I didn't expect such an imaginative proposal to be brought forward. This isn't breaking the link. | ||
| @DPJHodges @MichaelLCrick Why would I think that? | ||
| Chairing Health in Hackney scrutiny tonight - taking evidence from LINK (patient body) | ||
| @Rosiecosy yes it helps remind ppl on here that most party members hate this infighting | ||
| ... Except that time at NOLS Conference 1992 when they both ganged up to keep me off the national committee. #confusedbyrecentevents | ||
| I am a Progress member and a Unite member. I supported both Tom Watson and Jim Murphy when I was in NOLS ... | ||
| Did someone sound the NOLS being attacked claxon? Which trench am I supposed to be defending from the far left hordes? | ||
| @VincentN15 @Emina_ibrahim and my guess is if I hadn't worked in politics wd have been an equally "un-real" job in media or law | ||
| @VincentN15 @Emina_ibrahim also I think UK constituency system w emphasis on canvassing and casework means our pols + connected than rest EU | ||
| @VincentN15 @Emina_ibrahim there r other "real world" experiences than work - eg in my case extensive use of NHS services | ||
| @Emina_ibrahim agreed | ||
| @Emina_ibrahim a bit unfair! I've only ever wanted to work in politics, why should I have been forced to do a job I didn't enjoy as much? | ||
| The arguments vs primaries here apply as much to MP selections as to London Mayor: http://t.co/x3nFNWFnVE | ||
| @Green_Adz87 @robertcp @jason_manc @OwenJones84 and the legal disclaimer on the ballot said u can't use it if a member of another party | ||
| @Green_Adz87 @robertcp @jason_manc @OwenJones84 I'm happy with the current electoral college. TU members who pay levy r a type of LP member | ||
| @robertcp @jason_manc @OwenJones84 @Green_Adz87 no | ||
| Impressive article by @Ed_Miliband on response to Falkirk: http://t.co/jBOlPbZQ0R | ||
| @Welshbeard you must have walked past us, we were on the beach at Stone Bay! | ||
| @Margaretgord @rickmuir1 @HackneyLabour @RitaKrishna @jonburkeUK @feryaldemirci @annajoyrickard it was today! | ||
| @maxpark1 @OwenJones84 problem is that most ppl who fancy being an MP become adviser, TU or party staff, FT cllr b4 getting there | ||
| @jason_manc @OwenJones84 @Green_Adz87 I think primaries would produce even less representative PPCs than current system - celebs + rich | ||
| @jason_manc @OwenJones84 @Green_Adz87 can see taxpayers loving that! | ||
| @renieanjeh yes - Unite (the former TGWU ACTS section) or GMB (APEX section) | ||
| @WillardFoxton @johnnypaige but even capping at level of real elections wd mean ind candidates needing to find 10k. | ||
| @NickXHall @OwenJones84 she was a GP - they earn about 4X the national average salary hence can afford 10k cost of a primary campaign | ||
| @PeterKenyon how would that be helpful? | ||
| @marywimbury yep I am relaxed about any of the 3 outcomes. | ||
| Great day on beach at Broadstairs. Sorry to miss Hackney N Labour barbq. | ||
| @Dan_Newcastle @tobyperkinsmp I'm relaxed about any person or grouping seeking to influence selection as long as they don't break rules/law | ||
| @chrisrumfitt for record I am tweeting this from the beach with my kids not from the #labourdoorstep | ||
| @chrisrumfitt a) weekends are long enough to do both b) strolling round in sunshine canvassing is enjoyable c) is often followed by drinks | ||
| @PeterWatt123 @DPJHodges @david_taylor @BBCAllegra I don't want fundamental reform. | ||
| @petedigger yes pette. Lukke | ||
| @CountryStandard I agree is huge problem and would be worse if union link weakened | ||
| @Tweet4Labour @CountryStandard but whoever selected then needs to talk to voters for year, 2 years | ||
| @DPJHodges @david_taylor @BBCAllegra actually most key decisions can be taken through NEC Officers not NEC and in any case has NEC majority | ||
| Times change. Only 5 or 6 years ago I was on right-controlled Amicus (now Unite) pol cttee that backed Steve Reed vs then leftie Chukka... | ||
| @CountryStandard half agree. If selected though the time commitment is huge so not just a problem pre-selection. | ||
| @philbc3 @Jessica_Asato if CLPs are moribund we cure that by organising, not by constitutional gimmicks | ||
| @RussellKennedy2 akehurstluke@googlemail.com | ||
| @carlgardner individual candidates would need cash to communicate with 70k electors - or a huge local media profile | ||
| @RussellKennedy2 can you email me details of other cases? Will take up with former NEC colleagues. | ||
| @DavidMorton359 @CllrWalshaw I think they are awful and I don't want UK to import flawed aspects of US system | ||
| @Jessica_Asato @philbc3 I meant the expense to the candidates of campaigning, not the expense to LP of organising | ||
| My Progress column responds to Cameron's speech on multiculturalism and security: http://www.progressives.org.uk/columns/column.asp?c=600 | ||
| @maxshanly and morally it stinks, how would u feel if you were a longterm CLP activist and membership suddenly stacked to dilute your vote? | ||
| @maxshanly the allegation is they signed people up without their knowledge and misused data. Both are illegal if proven. | ||
| Yesterday's council by-elections, some good Labour results: http://t.co/lEVemKeapl | ||
| @lukey_stanger I'm not trying to smear my own trade union I'm telling you one of the sectors it represents! | ||
| @lukey_stanger @Sam_Prest it's not an insult. If you work in financial services Unite is correct TU to join. | ||
| @lukey_stanger @Sam_Prest just a fact... | ||
| @ChrisjCart @MrsBurgin my guess is 10k as is equivalent to a General Election | ||
| @MrsBurgin primaries would be even more inaccessible | ||
| @suemacmillan well done! | ||
| As usual, @michaellcrick has some perceptive insights: http://t.co/GLgTUXKogO | ||
| @yeskatiedear yes I've never heard of it being raised in recent decades! | ||
| Well I think it's a great shame that @tom_watson has resigned and a big loss to the party. | ||
| @yeskatiedear my guess ids it would be by the NEC designated rep (usually an RO) in the selection if anyone made an issue of it | ||
| @maxshanly @Nancy_Platts I think it is basically a list that reflects that Unite is such a big union in covers spectrum from me to A Murray | ||
| Interesting thing for me about leaked Unite NPC minutes is they are mainly backing sensible mainstream parliamentary candidates, not lefties | ||
| @yeskatiedear "not otherwise prevented" exempts military personnel etc who are not allowed to join a TU | ||
| @yeskatiedear .... and contribute to the political fund of that union. Any exceptions to these conditions must be approved by the NEC. | ||
| @yeskatiedear shall also be a member of a trade union affiliated to the TUC or considered by the NEC as a bona fide trade union ... | ||
| @yeskatiedear yes - Chapter 5, Clause I, rule 1bi: "persons wishing to stand as a Labour candidate ... Where not otherwise prevented they | ||
| @gusbbaker I hope so. We need some Lukes in Parliament. | ||
| @Planet_Pedro @TomHarrisMP that's what he is now saying. | ||
| @joedgoldberg @andrewlomas or with institutional backing from large. organisations such as ... Errr not such a solution after all? | ||
| @MLaffan @DAaronovitch I think @SophieKLinden 's time outside govt as a local cllr means she brings other perspectives + experience too | ||
| @chris_underwood @DAaronovitch ha! Not everyone I've worked with gets my endorsement! | ||
| @MLaffan @DAaronovitch depends if you think someone with 7 years experience of govt might be useful in a future govt! | ||
| @DAaronovitch only really by reputation, which as I said is very good in both cases. They both got active after my time in Camden. | ||
| @DAaronovitch sound politics, highly respected SPAD to Blunkett, great campaigner + deputy ldr in Hackney, think voters in H+K will like her | ||
| @haykirstin he was very popular with public when he was PM before - just fell out with parliamentary colleagues. | ||
| @LukePollard congratulations! | ||
| A big thank you to Cllrs @ShabanaQadir and @feryaldemirci for giving up their weekend to do Haringey Labour panel interviews with me | ||
| About to start a second full day of chairing council candidate interview panels for my neighbours in Haringey Labour | ||
| @jonburkeUK yes is intentional uncontacted who voted in 2010 or new on register. | ||
| @jonburkeUK @VincentStops parents agree with the school to take a sponsored board outside their home + the estate agents pay the school. | ||
| @jonburkeUK @VincentStops maybe we could respect residents' right to advertise their kids' school fete? | ||
| @VincentStops @jonburkeUK actually I think its them being socially responsible and supporting school fetes. | ||
| Worth reading. Gets all political at the end: http://t.co/vinrGtId1D | ||
| @teddyryan89 @labourstudents @TyronWilson oh dear. I've spent 20 years saying NOLS was excuse for my 2:1 | ||
| @BexBailey6 good to meet you | ||
| Been at Labour Education Policy Commission. Great that Andy Burnham, Sharon Hodgson and Gareth Thomas attended to hear from NEC and NPF reps | ||
| Useful short explanation of the logic behind ALP leadership coup: Kevin lots more popular than Julia: http://t.co/TMLxPG37lb | ||
| @hopisen also what's with the anti-road building stuff? A) people want better roads and B) good Keynesian policy | ||
| @hopisen I'm pretty sure their estimated saving from Trident is double even CND's estimated cost for it. Quite aside from job losses implied | ||
| @Hazico_Jo no about London | ||
| Delighted to hear local resident and community organising guru Lord Glasman is speaking at Hackney North Labour's April meeting | ||
| @jonewilson lost | ||
| @PeterKenyon @Calderbank @danielelton @leftfutures don't think I personally insulted anyone | ||
| @Calderbank @PeterKenyon @danielelton more childish and uncomradely insults. | ||
| @AshleyB0203 it isn't. The CND figure (which MoD disputes) is a lifetime cost of 100bn over 4-5 decades. MoD tends to quote 25bn. | ||
| @maxshanly @PeterKenyon @Ed_Miliband @jimmurphymp @danielelton that is one of the finest compliments I've ever had | ||
| .@PeterKenyon @danielelton I think you are possibly exagerating my influence on UK foreign policy as a backbench Hackney cllr | ||
| @PeterKenyon @Ed_Miliband @jimmurphymp @danielelton hooray I never knew I had this role. | ||
| @danielelton @PeterKenyon yeah my military delusions are good social democratic ones | ||
| @AshleyB0203 annual cost of Trident renewal is approx 2 x cost of running a small London borough council. A lot, but affordable. | ||
| @AshleyB0203 and cost isn't all paid now - the headline figure quoted by CND is spread over 4-5 decades as includes sustainment | ||
| @AshleyB0203 no, using same argument we wouldn't have rearmed in 1930s as there was a recession! | ||
| .@PeterKenyon @leftfutures are you calling Ed M a "proto-Tory harbouring military delusions". Or Jim, or me? Not v comradely Peter. | ||
| @jonlansman I assume he is too busy to decide the line on every issue. But this is something he has taken clear stance on. | ||
| @danielblaney @leftfutures for as long as any potentially hostile other countries have them. | ||
| @AshleyB0203 it was reviewed by Parliament following huge national debate in 2007. | ||
| @OwenJones84 @steve_race there is even a Brighton Green cllr as well as Lucas. These people are cutting binmen's pay! | ||
| @OwenJones84 @steve_race these are tiny groups who bring nothing but sectarianism, why did you need to work with them? | ||
| @OwenJones84 @steve_race explicitly anti-Labour parties like Greens and anti-democratic ones like Counterfire and Communists is a red line | ||
| @OwenJones84 @steve_race I don't think he should have chaired a panel for the government. | ||
| @OwenJones84 @steve_race Compass definitely ARE "splitters", they voted to accept members from outside Labour ie cosy up to Greens + LDs | ||
| @RichardOsley @sophieklinden @alexsmith1982 @markfergusonuk Lynne Featherstone is full time MP and also candidate so this is a non-issue | ||
| @RichardOsley @sophieklinden @alexsmith1982 @markfergusonuk if she stepped down as ldr wd have to find a new job 4 1 year so guess staying? | ||
| @RichardOsley @SophieKLinden @alexsmith1982 @markfergusonuk "full time job" equals c38 hours a wk, plenty of time to be PPC too | ||
| @jeff_wode @rob_marchant it is a basic question and people who think it isn't are usually apologists for authoritarian regimes. | ||
| @jeff_wode @rob_marchant looking at their rankings they all look pretty commonsense to me. | ||
| @ashmcgregor @CalumSPlath Labour is not going to go 2next election advocating unilateralism. End of debate. CND should focus on LDs instead! | ||
| @ashmcgregor @CalumSPlath I'm getting bored with re-playing a debate that was settled by Kinnock's 1988 policy review in my 1st yr as member | ||
| @jeff_wode @rob_marchant and here's Amnesty on how Ecuador treats indigenous people: http://t.co/Q5BUYR4aPM | ||
| @jeff_wode @rob_marchant the Press Freedom Index speaks of "noticeable problems" and puts Ecuador in bottom half of nations for press free | ||
| @jeff_wode @rob_marchant the Economist Intel Unit also ranks Ecuador as a "hybrid regime", not even a "flawed democracy". | ||
| @CalumSPlath you know as well as I do that the 100bn is over 4-5 decades so annual figure is no big dent inHMG spend. Also sustains 13k jobs | ||
| @jeff_wode @rob_marchant Freedom House is an independent NGO that gets govt grants, not an "arm of US gov | ||
| Drama at GLLP - card vote on Royal Commission idea. Co-Op vs Unions fight. | ||
| @InTheSoupAgain that's nonsense, he has made every big call of his leadership correctly. Name a bad decision by Ed. | ||
| @Jos21 @J_Bloodworth that's the point. Why are democratic socialists consorting with them? PS I march and campaign but won't join "fronts | ||
| Another great selection result - @Steph_Peacock in Halesowen + Rowley Regis | ||
| Another brilliant Labour parliamentary candidate picked - @Mari_Williams in Cardiff North | ||
| It would be nice to think there were ways to combat austerity that didn't involve broad fronts w Trots from Counterfire, SWP and Soc Action | ||
| @mcaino yes | ||
| @anthonyjwells oops will correct! | ||
| Round up of council by-election results: http://t.co/oQdnUuHjzZ | ||
| @Zbigniew_G @atticusfinch104 | ||
| .@Zbigniew_G @atticusfinch104 the only place I'm planning on moving to is Thanet in Kent, next year. Respect 2 your manager though. | ||
| .@Zbigniew_G @atticusfinch104 hmmm use of antisemitic trope re dual loyalty. Nice. Just to confuse u whilst Zionist I'm not Jewish. | ||
| @Zbigniew_G thanks for that polite intervention. | ||
| @JennetteArnold @mehdirhasan having met extreme Christians who actively want apocalypse I don't find absurd that Iranian leaders might too | ||
| @MissleeCarlisle there isn't a "new government". They don't have proper democratic elections + president is less powerful than "supreme ldr | ||
| @matthewhoulihan and you can choose whether to build an anti-cuts majority or to be a purist fringe sect. | ||
| @haykirstin @Callum_Munro I just retweeted something Callum said that I strongly agreed with. He is only candidate I know about. Who others? | ||
| @SaraLBA wow I have never heard Haganah bracketed with Irgun before. Astonishing when one suppressed the other's violence. | ||
| Been writing Progress piece about PM' speech on Islamism. Think more thought has gone into my article than some sections of his speech | ||
| @GTMelhuish Labour Co-ordinating Committee - in some ways the predecessor of both Compass and Progress. Started on left and ended Blairite | ||
| Then I met @spellar who explained the error of my ways. He was quite persuasive ... | ||
| For avoidance of doubt, yes I was once on exec of same soft left/moderniser faction as Neal Lawson ... | ||
| Sad about the Fabians leaving 11 Dartmouth St, memories of trips to London from Bristol for Cole Room mtgs of LCC exec when I was a NOLSie | ||
| @RachaelMaskell @Lucy4MEP I would be confident that every Labour candidate wd fight for jobs + employment rights, otherwise how on panel? | ||
| This makes a lot of sense to me: http://t.co/kJZQlve0IP | ||
| @OwenJones84 @spellar eh? What personal abuse? | ||
| @gusbbaker @fbreckels agreed. Should be prosecutable as Bribery as per US Foreign Corrupt Practices Act. | ||
| @fbreckels @gusbbaker why? There haven't been any real lobbyists involved in the recent scandals. All about corrupt MPs caught by journalist | ||
| By-election gains for Lab in Cambridge and Swindon: http://lukeakehurst.blogspot.com/2010/11/council-by-elections.html | ||
| Catch-up on council by-election results incl stunning Lab gain from Con in Nottingham: http://t.co/d0XRmD2Gys | ||
| @Jonesythered not sure the real Owen would read Gramsci, a theorist much favoured by Eurocommie revisionists, LCC Blairites and 80s NOLSies | ||
| Heading to be Local Campaign Forum observer at Labour council candidate shortlisting 4 Springfield, Cazenove + Stamford Hill W wards | ||
| @Efrogwraig next summer, am borough campaign manager in May then we will move | ||
| I'm at my Labour ward meeting in Stoke Newington shortlisting council candidates for Hackney May 2014 elections | ||
| @BenSoffa I introduced Tibet as an example of another contemporary occupation. I'm in favour of 2 states there as well! | ||
| @BenSoffa none of these are arguments against going to see for yourself what the situation is | ||
| @SeemaChandwani I can't wait! We'd better not prejudice the interview by discussing it ... | ||
| @krchind @lfpme should respect the desire of both Jews and Palestinians to have their own nation states + their right to self-determination | ||
| @krchind @lfpme a one-state solution would more likely lead to a Yugoslavia style blood bath | ||
| Trafalgar Square full of Israeli flags for the #ClosertoIsrael rally celebrating Israel's 65th b'day http://t.co/a0gOQlmW0h | ||
| Great atmosphere in Piccadilly as people and vehicles assemble for the #ClosertoIsrael parade | ||
| Heading back to London for the #ClosertoIsrael parade | ||
| @Renatus84 @GreenBenali @lfpme @conradlandin actually that's what happened when Ireland became independent! | ||
| @JohnRentoul @Kevin_Maguire but this misses point - APPC Code bans payments + excessive hospitality by lobbyists to MPs | ||
| @JohnRentoul @Kevin_Maguire he could have checked existing APPC register of lobbyists signed up to code of conduct | ||
| @DYoung90 @dpjhodges I don't see much left organisational success. Ideas wise not impressed by and don't see much new thinking on any wing. | ||
| Ending the week as I started it, in the sun on Margate Main Sands. The new exhibition at @TCMargate is great! | ||
| If I wasn't on holiday and looking at the sea I would be composing a lengthy demolition of all the flawed analysis in @DPJHodges piece today | ||
| @renieanjeh @Labourkevin @maxshanly Mandelson was never a Trot. He was in the Young Communists. | ||
| @mehdirhasan (2/2) just as in Cold War social democrats had key role vs communism so now democratic Muslims key to fighting Islamist extreme | ||
| @mehdirhasan I agree that Islamist terrorism is no more connected to mainstream Islam than Leninism was to democratic socialism but (1/2)... | ||
| @SeemaChandwani no ... | ||
| This, by @j_freedland, is a must read: http://t.co/6iJeQhp75m | ||
| @DrEoinCl @Labour_Lac did a fine speech for UCATT at Annual Conference while I was chairing | ||
| Lisa Calderwood and Patrick Moule elected as Hackney N's other 2 Annual Conference delegates | ||
| Mayor Pipe announces his new Deputy is Cllr Sophie Linden | ||
| Mayor Pipe pays tribute to outgoing Deputy Karen Alcock for delivering huge amount of new housing in Hackney incl new council housing | ||
| @Markfergusonuk @Scarletstand it works both ways. I was called soft left this week. | ||
| @tomwilliamsisme @LabLinda75 yes I understand Mitterand held his victory party here in 1981 | ||
| @JohnRentoul @jimmurphymp surely aim is to ensure children might grow up in a future where class doesn't exist and judged as people | ||
| As we've lived together 15 years and have 2 kids we haven't had a big ceremony or reception, just the 2 of us and 2 witnesses | ||
| @new_art_riot http://t.co/jXjNKbEewo | ||
| @new_art_riot the Danish party was initially a single body merged with the equivalent of the TUC. There is now no formal link. | ||
| @InTheSoupAgain actually only among a tiny percentage of the far left of the middle class. Most ppl continue happily buying Israeli goods. | ||
| @renieanjeh @BenLyons1 @gusbbaker @rafaelbehr I'm a service user (NHS + parent). I don't want to be in the driving seat... | ||
| Scan done. As usual thanks to caring and skilled staff at UCH for their work. | ||
| Discovering pre-scan fasting and crashing hangovers from Labour fundraisers don't mix that well | ||
| On way for PET/CT scan at inst of nuclear med, UCH. Fingers crossed still in remission ... | ||
| @ByronTaylor74 I'm actually living in socialism for the weekend! | ||
| Heading with Jed to Hackney @woodcraftfolk camp in Essex | ||
| We now have highest number of Lab controlled councils - 116 - since 2002. | ||
| @DPJHodges @TomMillerUK not according to the party officials who briefed me. | ||
| @SmallwoodCorner exactly back to pre-09 ie to what we won on same day as 2005 GE | ||
| The seat totals on the BBC website are running some way behind the reality. Anyone got a real figure for Lab gains? | ||
| @mbeevor it's now more a sea of NOC grey | ||
| @HarryLangford that was on a GE turnout and voting patterns so not comparing like with like. | ||
| @tomdaviesE17 hung. Labour got 39 of the 84 seats - up 23 from four years ago. |
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| @Paul0Evans1 @rob_marchant guess at moment but once we get full set of county results sure it will show UKIP "won" some constituencies | ||
| @rob_marchant I think 10 UKIP MPs after the GE is a realistic target for them. Dangerous to mock. | ||
| @JamesAsser my name is @lukeakehurst and I approve that activity | ||
| @irrpfad @absmo24 @ewancwatt actually in 1967 the West Bank was part of Jordan according to the Jordanians. Israel is waiting 4 a peace deal | ||
| On way to @MichaelDugherMP and @GloriaDePieroMP fundraising dinner | ||
| @Lab2Palestine errr... rather famously the British Army trained the Jordanian and Egyptian armies that invaded Israel in 1948... | ||
| At the SE Region Co-op members meeting - impressively organised by @artystar | ||
| @CallumRSmith @c_quigley @TomDWatts @haykirstin @teddyryan89 @danielelton because renewal equals getting the updated version! | ||
| @c_quigley @TomDWatts @haykirstin @teddyryan89 @danielelton given no one has tried to nuke us, suggests deterrent does work. | ||
| Round-up of yesterday's council by-elections: http://t.co/fcJz32pVjs | ||
| Cam wants councils to share chief execs. On same basis can we share PM with another country with a better one? | ||
| @wesstreeting @LukeBozier @lukejcr there's also former AGS Luke Bruce | ||
| @kevpeel agreed | ||
| @LukeBozier perhaps there should be quotas for people called Luke... | ||
| Great to hear Hackney Council buying high street freeholds so that as landlord it can end plague of betting shops and pawn brokers | ||
| Ed M bold response to Len may be connected to TUC General Council today rejecting general strike as impractical ie Ed aligned w TUC majority | ||
| @blairsupporter clearly we are not in a 1995 scenario. Some southern counties went hung then. But none actually won. | ||
| @blairsupporter we've never controlled county councils in the south, even in mid-90s | ||
| Looking forward to Chatham Ward Forum tonight but sorry I can't therefore make @IanAustinMP dinner or FOLS dinner, both great events | ||
| @torbayred @PeterKenyon @Debsalini quite insulting to imply I would exhibit bias | ||
| @torbayred @PeterKenyon @Debsalini for clarity Newham Labour Party LCF decided they wanted external panel + voted to have me as part of it | ||
| @BristolRed it needs to be done by people from broadly similar authorities | ||
| Heading to East Ham to do council candidate panel interviews for my neighbours in Newham Labour | ||
| @DAaronovitch @Kevin_Maguire not just Communist, Stalinist - openly linked to the Stalinist CPB | ||
| @BristolRed who has said what? | ||
| Day off work on council duties - tour of Jewish community organisations in Stamford Hill and now at Town Hall for mtg re health scrutiny | ||
| @maxshanly @CouncillorBill @ruskinsu basic bottom line is confronted by ballot with Labour next to candidate's name u don't vote for them. | ||
| @KevinMorton1966 @ProgressOnline we'll convert you by polling day Kevin. Even Tom Watson is on our side now... | ||
| @nathanakehurst @maxshanly congratulations on leaving the SWP comrade Akehurst. | ||
| Great to see my @hackneylabour and ECOSY comrade @IvanaBartoletti shortlisted for London Euro elections. Will have my 1st pref vote. | ||
| @PeterKenyon @Markfergusonuk I'm sure of course that in your paradigm you play same role. All rather subjective. | ||
| @PeterKenyon @Markfergusonuk that's how we see ourselves. Protectors of the rulebook who want Labour electable. Therefore the good guys. | ||
| Getting my culture fix from BBC4's The High Art of the Low Countries. Worth watching. | ||
| @CalumSPlath we should keep them until there is multilateral global nuclear disarmament. | ||
| @CalumSPlath so what? | ||
| @CallumRSmith and Trident replacement is about the future, up to 50 years time. Nothing to do w current threat levels. | ||
| @BioResPartners @CallumRSmith you are confusing 2 different threats. | ||
| @BioResPartners @CallumRSmith no you can't. If it was that easy Iran wouldn't be bothering w centrifuges, years of uranium enrichment | ||
| @AlexWhiteUK N Korea per se not the reason, but an example of WMD threats that could emerge over next 50 years + need deterring | ||
| .@conradlandin correct analysis but surely anyone proposing new far left party likely 2b several volumes short of collected works of Marx | ||
| @DYoung90 @tobyperkinsmp @ianaustinmp difference between respect for Benn and ignoring fact he was hated and feared by most voters | ||
| @tobyperkinsmp @ianaustinmp I haven't seen Ian tweet anything that isn't a statement of the bleedin' obvious re. T Benn | ||
| @Markfergusonuk Mark as with many activists the antics of the ultra left are helping u realise u r a moderate. Welcome to forces of light. | ||
| @gordonlyew1 thanks - it's not 2 march - planning in advance | ||
| Dim sum lunch at Shanghai, Dalston and booked their karaoke room for my birthday party | ||
| Listening to Mete Coban give brilliant report on Young Labour conference and need to be welcoming and supportive to young members | ||
| @markwrightuk88 @mrsvb @mr_onions if squeezed middle not working class then working class is tiny. I use Marxist definition of class. | ||
| @markwrightuk88 @mr_onions @mrsvb squeesed middle are working class sociologically and economically but don't self define as such | ||
| @MrsVB @mr_onions @markwrightuk88 yes but that was in 2005 when we still won overall. | ||
| @mr_onions @markwrightuk88 well we agree then. But don't underestimate how difficult to win the public round. | ||
| @mr_onions @markwrightuk88 not as extremists but we are currently to left of public (Con+LD still add up ahead of us in polls) | ||
| @mr_onions @markwrightuk88 and we risk underestimating Tories - very clever at cuts and attacks on our people then still winning elections | ||
| @mr_onions @markwrightuk88 I don't want us to copy Tories but I want us to keep a sense of realism about politics of the electorate | ||
| @markwrightuk88 @mr_onions please try canvassing in a marginal seat then come back and tell me what public think | ||
| @mr_onions @markwrightuk88 that we lost the election and all the polls show we haven't won argument on deficit and cuts? | ||
| @OwenJones84 I think the student protests pushed down the LDs in polls and pushed LD MPs to rebel so had measurable impact | ||
| @OwenJones84 aim yes - but don't hold your breath for it. There is strong self interest in Coalition lasting full 5 years. | ||
| @OwenJones84 really? My memory of those is a bit rusty. '68 for instance actually strengthened De Gaulle | ||
| @markwrightuk88 well that's the choice - Labour re-elected or more of this lot. We are the last best hope. All else is pissing in the wind. | ||
| @OwenJones84 BTW I'm in favour of biggest possible protests, alternative is acquiescence, but realistic will not change govt policies | ||
| @OwenJones84 pls explain, short of armed revolution, how u will bring down govt b4 next general election? | ||
| @OwenJones84 the danger is if protest scares swing voters we will be waiting 20 years not 5 years | ||
| @OwenJones84 the endgame is the 2015 Election. The alt've is a Labour Govt. Mass movnt and protest only useful if contrib to Lab win. | ||
| @scottjmurphy yes. Will do some background reading first. | ||
| @sunny_hundal last authoritative statement was AJ who I think said 60-40 in Oct. Position expressed in summer by both Ed's was different | ||
| @sunny_hundal we haven't won the argument with public for Labour position on deficit yet, let alone one to its left | ||
| @RooftopJaxx I am expecting you to organise a celebratory bonfire with effigy of me to mark my departure | ||
| @ConallMcD who are the others getting 15? Independents? | ||
| @CllrToddForeman thanks for joining us! | ||
| @SeemaChandwani a network of people with similar politics to me | ||
| Writing the Labour First newsletter. Then steak and claret. Good way to spend Friday evening. | ||
| @Markfergusonuk thankfully there is zero support at NEC level for abandoning AWS | ||
| Round-up of last night's council by-elections, which saw the Tories lose 2 safe wards: http://t.co/ct13AfGDdV | ||
| At Hackney N CLP EC w @giampialhadeff @JermainJackman @jonburkeUK @sfajanathomas @mandy4PPC_2015 @lisa_calderwood | ||
| @alexsobel he interviewed me for Radiojcom, is broadcast Monday. | ||
| Housing association board meeting then CLP exec tonight, rounding off a long week of meetings | ||
| Tory:UKIP support ratio was 10:1. Now 5:3. | ||
| @andthenwhat_ @nashienet you've obviously never read anything I've written. I spent 01-10 attacking marketisation of public services. | ||
| .@andthenwhat _ what's left and right got to do with it? I got selected in 05 by CLP w strong left tradition cos wanted strong campaigner. | ||
| Oh. I've said it. | ||
| .@BearToTheLeft @mnwthtqualities the Hackney borough elections. Yes I hope to find a parliamentary seat to fight in the General Election. | ||
| @PeterWHiggins more that I am bored/disinterested by papal stuff so trying to relate it to something more interesting | ||
| At Hackney Town Hall to chair Health in Hackney scrutiny of "increasing cancer survival in Hackney | ||
| @petedigger that's what I meant by quotas. AWS is how you implement quotas in a FPTP system. | ||
| Surprised by lack of calls for Pope to be elected by OMOV or Primary. Or for a "working class" Pope. Or quotas. Last one perhaps less likely | ||
| @jamiehanley Good luck, I hope you get selected again! | ||
| @RooftopJaxx why? They are upfront about being Leninist revolutionaries, it's on their website and in their newspaper. | ||
| @SeemaChandwani yes | ||
| MT "@MichaelLCrick: #Eastleigh LD agent Keith House claims one million leaflets printed + 130,000 phone calls, and 5,000 volunteers. | ||
| @yeskatiedear @QMannRed @LRCYouthUK yes. | ||
| @TheMainstand I have genuiney never heard of the concept of written regional Englishes. I don't even like US (mis)spellings. | ||
| @biteback7 @rattlecans PS Kentish applies to people from West of River Medway, I'm a Man of Kent not a Kentish Man | ||
| @rattlecans I should mention my ancestors spoke Gaelic so the issue of how to spell tae/to was rather academic for them. | ||
| @rattlecans as my maternal MacKenzie ancestors lived in the Highlands from time immemorial until 1920 I'm probably more Scottish than you | ||
| @rattlecans I pronounce three as "free" because I'm a proud Man of Kent but I still write it "three | ||
| @rattlecans ps don't call me "son" it's patronising. | ||
| @rattlecans your spelling seems to be a bit odd. It's fine to pronounce "to" as "tae" but it's still written as "to". | ||
| @rattlecans charmless response when I was actually trying to explain serious strategic rationale | ||
| @martinbright what are you doing next? | ||
| @rattlecans @Labourcat Trident replacement will be in service c50 yrs from now so has to be able 2deter any threats that might arise by then | ||
| @AndyCharlwood @CllrWalshaw @alexsobel @anniesec Labourlist and Guardian reported it same way | ||
| @CllrWalshaw @alexsobel @anniesec that's why I used the phrase "unfortunate". It made me wince. | ||
| @alexsobel @anniesec ... And even this is less widespread than used to be as campaigning culture has spread via internet etc ... | ||
| @alexsobel @anniesec ... My experience is complacency/low levels of activity more likely in safe seats than in ones we don't hold ... | ||
| @alexsobel @anniesec ... But unfortunate to appear to characterise Eastleigh as "lazy" when the problem there is no cllrs or MP to lead ... | ||
| @alexsobel @anniesec my understanding is ER does have a record of lots of campaigning - is how he has held what was safe Tory seat ... | ||
| @TomMillerUK @danielelton @samtarry unlike Chavez he didn't ever lead a coup either. | ||
| @OwenJones84 yes I know a fair bit about Chile through friendship with Chilean refugees who worked at ECOSY and IUSY. | ||
| .@kernewek61 @OwenJones84 nice, 2 antisemitic tropes in one tweet. | ||
| @VivianDarkbloo1 @OwenJones84 Labour managed to create an NHS and welfare state in UK whilst opposing communism in cold war. | ||
| @EXIT_left me too. I wholeheartedly agree. | ||
| @KombatBadger because obviously Tories hope countries can become more social democratic. | ||
| @OwenJones84 all of which could have been achieved without Chavez' authoritarianism or dodgy foreign policy | ||
| @OwenJones84 as we have discussed before, I don't think Mr Blair should work for Kazakhstan | ||
| @capbyrne Chavez's alliances were with evil scumbags like Ahmadinajadd | ||
| @capbyrne surely there is a space for radical politics that doesn't involve sucking-up to dictators? | ||
| @mikeghedges what, more progressive than Scandinavia? I don't think so. | ||
| Amazed to see fellow democratic socialists describe Chavez as a "revolutionary" as though that's a positive descriptor | ||
| #AIPAC2013 has finished so now heading to New York on Amtrak for a concert at the UN building | ||
| Interesting. Apparently left faction @CLPD_Labour only has 218 members: http://t.co/3WprTg8a0X | ||
| @TulipSiddiq maybe you should all fightback against bourgeois conventions! In Hackney Herbert Morrison refused to wear mayoral regalia ... | ||
| @TulipSiddiq we only have a dress code for AGM. I have chaired committee in jeans + t-shirt. | ||
| @Dadzwisdom errr France just went to war in Mali. 13 EU countries were part of NATO action in Libya. | ||
| @TulipSiddiq is wearing jeans unusual in LB Camden meetings? | ||
| @GuidoFawkes a lot less than it raised in donations | ||
| @GuidoFawkes no but when they come out they will confirm my statement | ||
| @SephRBrown @Alex_Bjarnason sorry Seph that's absurd and "segregation" line is nonsense as these buses are to jobs in Israel! | ||
| @Sam_Prest @AndyCharlwood @jamesasser @alexsobel AWL and Socialist Action are both active in YL. I don't find Leninism cute. | ||
| I'm in a bar called Policy, having failed to find one called Organisation. | ||
| The other (council) by-elections on Thursday - all good for Labour - http://t.co/D0JoyCSVHv | ||
| @joywol thanks! | ||
| @JohannaBaxter we were in nextdoor CLPs - I was at Hammersmith tonight | ||
| Very good GC at Hammersmith CLP - they r in frontline vs Eric Pickles' favourite rightwing council | ||
| @jonlansman I still miss the Class Traitor of the Month column | ||
| Tory Group finally reveals that not worth cutting Hackney Today (council free paper) as net money earner for council | ||
| Jonathan McShane making powerful case that GP co-op not private Harmoni should have won out-of-hours contract in Hackney | ||
| Guy Nicholson outlining jobs that will be created by Morning Lane fashion hub in our council ward, which has 25pc unemployment | ||
| @SeemaChandwani and like him @joedgoldberg is infallible #JustSaying #HaringeyFullCouncil | ||
| At Hackney Town Hall for Full Council Budget setting meeting | ||
| Just landed from flight from work trip to Edinburgh. On way to give NEC reportback to Hammersmith CLP. | ||
| @JoshFG right now that's true but this is about what we may need over next 50 years. Big risk to assume we will not need deterrent. | ||
| @JoshFG for instance, if Iran gets nukes would it be a good idea for the UK not to have them? | ||
| @Ianrosmarin yes there is a free bus tmrw on polling day | ||
| @JoshFG no, I find it extremely difficult to imagine anything as useful as being able to deter threats to the UK and its citizens | ||
| Delighted if this is true: http://t.co/Kok98IFbpe Labour to back Trident renewal. Key benchmark of seriousness about being back in govt. | ||
| @lbutcheruk @JohnSlinger @Rosiecosy so what? | ||
| @TerryFBH all happened in my council ward! | ||
| @TerryFBH I'm watching it! | ||
| @lbutcheruk @mehdirhasan the Lib Dems believed there were WMD in Iraq but this wasn't reason for war, same as France, Russia + China | ||
| Last RT important as Italians in UK have right to vote in council and Euro elections | ||
| @jeff_wode @DawnHFoster the money secured from the GLA was specifically for this project, along with renovating shop fronts on the Narroway. | ||
| @suzannemoore197 @haroyousofian my understanding is all the secondaries r improving but some primaries inc one my son attends have issues | ||
| @RupaHuq did you advise them on questions asked at panel interviews? | ||
| @seanrr1982 the rail journey itself is an amazing experience. Enjoy! | ||
| @CarlRaincoat I liked them too :( | ||
| Belatedly, council by-elections round up: http://t.co/CyLAZXhh1R | ||
| @petedigger not sure you are that typical of my followers! | ||
| .. Was well researched. If you haven't read Tribune for a while or ever, this would be a good edition to start a subscription with. | ||
| Analysis of Eastleigh by Terry Ashton plus John O'Farrell interviewed by Cary Gee, fascinating article on Trident which disagreed with but.. | ||
| Home from a weekend away to open the best edition of Tribune magazine I have read for years. Great Paul Anderson column, ... | ||
| @suzannemoore197 my son is at a local primary which is in a real mess. But the solution is to improve that school, not choice. | ||
| MORI - Lab 43, Con 33, LD 13 http://reut.rs/hnVswo | ||
| @suzannemoore197 @meralhece @JohnRentoul personally I don't want stressful choice of schools for my son. Just want a good local one. | ||
| @camdentheo we don't allow public meetings about political issues/parties on council premises | ||
| @camdentheo CNJ ought to make clearer this call is a political stunt by an anti-Labour party. How come TUSC can use council chamber? | ||
| @camdentheo which party is behind this call? Sounds like an old Militant demand ie TUSC. | ||
| @AJogee @joedgoldberg @thomaswilliams I'm 38 | ||
| @democraticaudit surprised Respect doesn't make it into list given high-spending on external publicity in by-elections | ||
| @stroppybird @feryaldemirci Ridley Rd, Hoxton, Stamford Hill, Wilton Way, Narrow Way | ||
| @RooftopJaxx actually I never got as far as Wiki, article was recommended by my colleague Prof Johnson (@Shachtman) | ||
| @RooftopJaxx @novaramedia have you read this (appreciate I am going in reverse order, critique b4 book): http://t.co/ZZQgSJvW | ||
| @RooftopJaxx I'm going to read it because I now feel honour bound to! Will tell you what I think when I have. | ||
| @suzannemoore197 @meralhece @JohnRentoul Suzanne u live in nicest bit of Stokey. Catchment area 4 M'bourne is mainly Pembury Estate | ||
| @garyWoolerton yes with stick and ankle orthotics for now | ||
| @meralhece @suzannemoore197 @JohnRentoul Mossbourne hasn't caused other Hackney schools to lose out. All Hackney secondaries improving | ||
| @RooftopJaxx it's kinda offensive to say any people or nation is "invented". Surely self-determination and self-definition are rights? | ||
| @CalumSPlath I thought she, Ginger and Posh declared as Tories in 97 whilst Sporty and Scary were Labour. | ||
| @jonlansman Ed Miliband had to beat local boy @MichaelDugherMP to win selection in Doncaster. Was extremely competitive. | ||
| Part 2 of my look at Alan vs Len http://t.co/u20H1bHs | ||
| @alexsobel Hackney Alliance Against Cuts - think from typeface SWP led | ||
| Hackney Council votes to support End Legal Loan Sharking campaign | ||
| @Beaban yes there's a public gallery - space limited so 1st come 1st served | ||
| Mayor Jules Pipe "if this govt's vision is the future of society, shoot me now | ||
| @Beaban will need to wait for 2 March meeting | ||
| @Beaban @Paul0Evans1 yes to protest but protest with us not against us | ||
| Labour's Dented Shield protecting Hackney people's services | ||
| @jonlansman I wasn't persuaded of need to reduce below 50. I floated compromise of keep 50-50 for rule change votes but change it 4policy1s | ||
| @Beaban Jules Pipe just confirmed to full Council our budget will make no cuts to frontline services | ||
| But we face massive reductions to investment esp Decent Homes programme | ||
| Part 1 of my response to the Alan vs Len spat: http://t.co/Zbx2SGe0 | ||
| @Beaban we want to work with local campaigners vs govt - leaflets asking us to set illegal budget does not build unified campaign | ||
| Just introduced deputation from local GP warning Lansley reforms will destroy key NHS principles incl equity of care | ||
| @Beaban as I know the individuals concerned, I'm wholly aware of their politics | ||
| @Exnorthseatiger @OwenJones84 I didn't particularly consider myself to be his competitor for anything | ||
| Just read @OwenJones84 article on Galloway. Important to realise oratory that works w a live audience can make u look bonkers +shouty on TV. | ||
| Student from poor family says 30 quid EMA increases family disposable income by 25pc | ||
| Deputation of FE students from Hackney College and B6 tell council massive impact EMA cuts will have on ability to afford college | ||
| Disgusting and divisive Trot leaflet entirely devoted to attacking Labour council not the Tory/LD govt cutting our budget | ||
| Just been lobbied outside Town Hall by Trots and Greens urging me to vote for an illegal no-cuts budget. Nothing learnt since 1984. | ||
| @OwenJones84 @yeskatiedear @TigerTaggart they were the organising spine of STW though. And motivated by Cold War hatred of USA. | ||
| @blairsupporter no it replaced Family Allowance in 1975. Barbara Castle's Bill. | ||
| @OwenJones84 @TigerTaggart it's not a disputed fact that coalition didn't kill many ppl compared to the terrorists. No one made them do it. | ||
| @ashmcgregor @sunny_hundal it is. | ||
| Good to see @hackneyabbott @ajogee @SophieKLinden @lisa_calderwood @rickmuir1 @vincentstops @welovestokey + @jonburkeUK on #labourdoorstep | ||
| Sun has come out just in time for 11am Hackney #labourdoorstep of New River Ward | ||
| @Paul0Evans1 it would be more exciting if there were hustings for contested Board positions. Would smoke out the politics. | ||
| @Paul0Evans1 it will be lively enough in 2 years time when people are seriously positioning themselves to be mayoral candidate | ||
| @Paul0Evans1 I wasn't there! To be fair they are limited to debating specifically London issues, which r not usually contentious in party | ||
| @new_art_riot @jeff_wode that implies either a split in TULO (unlikely) or that the CLP section remains heavily on right | ||
| @new_art_riot @jeff_wode who won and who did they run against? | ||
| @BenCooper86 is more a demonstration of how little control Cameron has over his party | ||
| @BenCooper86 no, they are not clever enough to do that! | ||
| @lisa_calderwood that was the key political result of the whole day. A 4pc swing would have made the CLP section 4-4 for 1st time in years | ||
| The 8 CLP reps elected by #LondonLab13 conf are a 5-3 moderate-left split. 1 seat gain for left from 6-2 split from last 2 conferences. | ||
| @Paul0Evans1 I wasn't there to provide sarcastic commentary... | ||
| @new_art_riot have you got the percentage votes/names of defeated cands in the CLP divisions? | ||
| @WarGit gracefully conceded! | ||
| Hope someone at #LondonLab13 will tweet the Regional Board election results as they come out for those of us not there | ||
| @WarGit that's a different one of her sons I think. She was campaigning to keep his state special school open when I met her in Essex in 05 | ||
| @keithdibs brings back some great memories of 2000/2001 campaigning | ||
| @WarGit and the maths don't work - would be difficult to pay school fees on an MP's salary | ||
| @WarGit I don't think that claim stands up with Lab. Can only think of a couple of MPs who have paid for private education.... | ||
| @new_art_riot what did you speak about? | ||
| @D_J_Frost who is he? Excuse my ignorance ... | ||
| @SUwebsite indeed | ||
| @SUwebsite @benfolley @mikeghedges @unitetheunion @CLPD_Labour good, I agree | ||
| @benfolley @MikeGHedges @unitetheunion @CLPD_Labour except that it has won back voters, as evidenced by every opinion poll. | ||
| @Futiledemocracy very well written | ||
| Back in London tmrw to lead Hackney #labourdoorstep canvass of New River Ward (split Con/Lab ward). Join us 11am Sunday Manor House Tube. | ||
| @rob_marchant AWS in half seats and balanced shortlist in the open ones | ||
| @jjarichardson as I didn't work for the Russian arms industry, no. | ||
| @gavinlambert @AndySawfordMP good result. I don't include parish and town council results in my round-up as difficult to track them. | ||
| Last night's council by-elections, a bad night for the Tories: http://t.co/CyW8ejgs | ||
| @Ianrosmarin @SteveGPScott there is a bus going from London tmrw, will send you details | ||
| @Sarah_Hayward no it was in the 1990s. Before that only GC delegates selected candidates. | ||
| @SteveGPScott I'm in a CLP EC meeting | ||
| @Markfergusonuk I might try to a constructive response for my next column. | ||
| @robinpollard will try to get one | ||
| I'm on a dinner table with @LordKennedy1 @PeterWatt123 @RichardAngell @Callum_Munro @KathrynPerera and @ChukaUmunna good company to be in | ||
| Heading to the Labour Party's Diversity Dinner as a guest of @CommunityUnion | ||
| @jameschappers so what? They are in coalition together so why would anyone care which of LDs and Tories comes ahead of the other? | ||
| @charliemansell u mean the 1s designed to suppress turnout that say "as a Lab supporter u were probably planning 2 stay at home on Thurs | ||
| @Labourpaul smiths. Is it How Soon is Now? | ||
| Good news about Paul Kenny staying on as GMB Gen Sec. On most issues he is a constructive voice in Labour politics. | ||
| @CllrPeteBowyer I used to agree but find it useful as source of contact details + to track what job people are now doing | ||
| Hurray! I have one of the top 1% most viewed @LinkedIn profiles for 2012. http://t.co/AR46IHu8 | ||
| Just received an email asking me to become a TUSC (i.e. Militant) candidate for Hackney Council! Beyond bizarre. | ||
| @simpsonjonathan @Sarah_Hayward whose seat was it? If you email me details I will try to get Hackneyites to help. | ||
| @Sarah_Hayward is that for 2014 or is there a by-election? | ||
| @anarchofabulous @CalumSPlath I wouldn't for a start. | ||
| @conradlandin @CalumSPlath exactly. Don't have to agree w her to find her interesting. | ||
| @blairmcdougall yes, that would be useful. Call me tmrw to diarise | ||
| @celticchickadee clearly part of Labour family | ||
| Liking the idea of M4C a lot more after seeing in Guardian it will seek Lab affiliation as a socialist society | ||
| @pmdiogo actually Unite has had branches for councillors since the days of MSF | ||
| @BristolRed I would be happy to come and speak to one or more of the Bristol CLPs at some point | ||
| @BristolRed student days 1990 to 1995. I was Campaigns and Pol Ed officer and on DLP, stood for Cabot (county) and Stoke Bishop (city). | ||
| @BristolRed your posts tonight made me v nostalgic for my 5 years in Bristol West CLP. Big part of my political education. | ||
| Loving how "anti-war" "left" at #TenYearsOn includes Stalinists who supported Soviet invasions of Hungary, Czechoslovakia + Afghanistan | ||
| @JohnRentoul no I meant "anti-war" "left | ||
| Report on today's NEC meeting: http://lukeakehurst.blogspot.com/2011/01/nec-report.html | ||
| #ff @fathomjournal the fascinating new journal about Israel from my colleagues at @BritainIsrael | ||
| Yay passed 5k followers! | ||
| Yesterday's council by-elections: http://t.co/ABsrDJVY | ||
| Excellent article by @MichaelDugherMP in the JC: http://t.co/gqp4EyuO | ||
| @Aaron_Kiely well I do so you'd better go be sick. | ||
| @simonevans117 @Ed_Miliband that's not from the rulebook though. Branches themselves need to change way they run meetings. | ||
| Volunteer sign-up for Labour in Eastleigh by-election: http://t.co/pjiOZveV and donate here: https://t.co/gL3mQOpn | ||
| @MartynWilliams2 yes. that's why lots of people came to the meeting to express their anger to NHS NELC | ||
| @casiotone it's not my "pet project" I'm employed to staff it. 1500 people attended the launch conference. | ||
| @Barghest5 @Callum_Munro @LabourStudents and you have exactly 2 followers | ||
| Campaigns guru John Braggins on Eastleigh: http://t.co/5VNWCVMo | ||
| @forwardnotback what's JB said? | ||
| @sngoodall95 @LabourList if you tweet the campaign details for this w/e and nudge me, I will RT | ||
| @c_quigley @LabourList thanks! | ||
| @MichaelPDeacon they are representative of people who are motivated enough to be politically active and thus a) vote, b) influence others | ||
| My take on Labour's prospects in Eastleigh: http://t.co/ehDoFIaR | ||
| @sngoodall95 @LabourList can't make it this weekend but will be bringing a Hackney team as soon as I can | ||
| @TomMillerUK indeed I will be writing about that. All in due course. | ||
| @CountryStandard agreed. Was going to write a friendly critique of his interview but Eastleigh got in the way! | ||
| @AAEmmerson @GreenBenali and not written by me, as the article makes clear! | ||
| @brianfmoylan USDAW have a partnership agreement with Sainsburys don't they? (Happy to be corrected if wrong) | ||
| @philipjcowley Carmarthen 1957 was last Liberal loss of a by-election to Labour | ||
| @anthonyjwells @LabourHistory @anthonypainter what was impact of last 2 rounds of boundary changes? | ||
| @LabourHistory @jolyongreen @markfergusonuk was the key boundary change pre-97 or pre-2010? | ||
| @Markfergusonuk I will write one tonight | ||
| @Markfergusonuk not sure it needs to be expensive - just hard-hitting msg that LDs and Cons are tweedledum and tweedledummer | ||
| @Markfergusonuk actually correction to my earlier tweet - Labour came 2nd to LDs in 1994 by-election and got 21-26pc of vote in 97, 01 +05. | ||
| @Markfergusonuk also if UKIP run hard you might only need 26-27pc to win in a 4-way fight | ||
| @TerryFBH just sore feet! It takes a weak or so to adjust to the new splints. Probably wasn't a good idea to canvass in them yesterday. | ||
| Some irony that my motor nerves weak enough to need ankle orthotics but my sensory nerves recovered enough to find new ones v uncomfortable | ||
| Just finished #labourdoorstep of Cazenove Ward with c30 ppl and heading to speak at Hackney candidate training day | ||
| Looking forward to leading tmrw's big Hackney #labourdoorstep push in Cazenove, only remaining LD ward in borough. | ||
| @DPJHodges @olivercoppard @marcusaroberts I've never met him. | ||
| @olivercoppard @marcusaroberts @dpjhodges I would be asking what was wrong with CLP that the good community ldr hadn't become a cllr | ||
| @AdamTyndall @marcusaroberts @DPJHodges that's why I think experience in councils and TUs is useful | ||
| @rob_marchant @dpjhodges @marcusaroberts I'm just against quotas for inexperienced, nor very committed people | ||
| @rob_marchant @dpjhodges @marcusaroberts we only have quotas 4women. There is clearly a need as good women were not getting selected preAWS | ||
| @Rosiecosy @marcusaroberts @dpjhodges I don't think anyone would want to do something as stressful as being an MP unless they believed | ||
| @olivercoppard @marcusaroberts @dpjhodges we need MPs who are experienced in fighting elections + then exercising power 2implement policies. | ||
| @olivercoppard @marcusaroberts @dpjhodges we are a political party though, not a community group... | ||
| @Rosiecosy @marcusaroberts @dpjhodges you can't find out if a prospective MP believes in what they r doing if not tested in another role | ||
| @marcusaroberts @DPJHodges but then I would say that, wouldn't I? Obvious exceptions eg military who can't be politically active. | ||
| @ByronTaylor74 seems more interesting in the NS - shiny pages. | ||
| I'm letting my 14 month old son rip up copies of Tribune and New Statesman. Seemed a good use for them. | ||
| @CllrPeteBowyer Mets elect in thirds. Swing is from when ward was last contested not from when this seat was. | ||
| Yesterday's council by-elections incl Labour gain in Stourbridge parliamentary marginal: http://t.co/wWkr4rQL | ||
| Another Friday morning, another trip to Homerton Hospital to sort out orthotics | ||
| @JonnyMedland @lewis_baston @hopisen I'm not sure it has formally | ||
| @antoniabance as it's a secret ballot I won't answe that on twitter | ||
| @danielblaney @c_quigley there's real scope to come up with some radical ideas for manifesto and instead you give us reheated unilateralism | ||
| @c_quigley the fact that it's someone from the left of party saying that undermines your claim that it is mainstream. | ||
| @russell_fraser I can only speak from own experience as a citizen + cllr of Labour investment in public services vs cuts now | ||
| @russell_fraser I don't mind u wanting something more radical than 97-2010 but pls don't talk down how great it was compared this lot | ||
| @russell_fraser when we downplay the diff choice of govt makes it is dismissive of impact of even small policy changes on ppl's lives | ||
| @russell_fraser ... Lesson of last few years is Blair + Brown stood for something radically different + better than Tories + LDs | ||
| @russell_fraser I'm just a bit narked by your suggestion some pols don't stand for anything ... | ||
| @russell_fraser that's the general idea! | ||
| @russell_fraser as a Labour moderate I found it rather reassuring. He blames Tories for need to find votes in centre ... Voters drive this. | ||
| As the SWP disintegrates, theorists compare selves2 Lenin despite revolutionary success limit to few student unions: http://t.co/64ve9E9G | ||
| If that's the Tory bounce (net 3 pts) hope Cameron thinks worth gambling UK's status and prosperity for. | ||
| About to arrive in Croydon for lunch with @askbagnall and @jo_milligan | ||
| @alexsobel @PeterKenyon @susanhebden it's @CalumSPlath 's birthday so maybe that's the party | ||
| @alexsobel @PeterKenyon @susanhebden Ed has been once. Susan's position is strongly represented! | ||
| @PeterKenyon @alexsobel @susanhebden that's narrow compared to the Hackney N GC. | ||
| @RichardAngell also newark and carmarthen e and dinefwr | ||
| @joe3469 except that the Israelis are not commiting genocide against the Arabs, are they? | ||
| @Dadzwisdom @ProgressOnline thanks | ||
| Just been to very moving Holocaust Memorial Day event at Hackney Town Hall, where we heard personal testimony from a survivor. | ||
| @DCWood1986 the cost (of running them and competing in them) makes politics too much of a money game. Undermines role of members. | ||
| @LabSouthFront actually it's the '50s that are most interesting as we were losing nationally but still winning some Kent marginals | ||
| @RichardOsley @Markfergusonuk that will be a decision for the NEC in due course. | ||
| @SephRBrown @_LFI @BritainIsrael @ben_garratt why awkward? I am against boycotts of settlement goods ... | ||
| @BenSoffa so we'd better hope anyone we are trying 2 deter will only need it on weekdays 9-5 GMT? Or wd we have Trident in months with an R? | ||
| @MichaelEzra they must have used the same bus stop as me! | ||
| @MichaelEzra are they the ones who lived in Amhurst Road? | ||
| At Town Hall for Overview + Scrutiny Board question time on housing w Cllrs Karen Alcock and @PhilipGlanville | ||
| @ashyawns @D_J_Frost the likelihood of me going to a philosophy class is nil. I'm interested in engaging with reality not theory. | ||
| @anthonypainter @Markfergusonuk no there is nothing else. | ||
| @DavidPrescott @Markfergusonuk @OwenJones84 @LabourList I'm up for that | ||
| @Microcynicon @markfergusonuk @owenjones84 I don't welcome Lib Dem ideas | ||
| @LeeJasper @Markfergusonuk @peterkenyon @labourlist @cllrleonspence @owenjones84 doesn't feel like it this morning | ||
| @jeff_wode @OwenJones84 I look forward to be asked to be involved in the creation of the new network. Presume Ed Balls will be Hon Pres. | ||
| @jeff_wode @OwenJones84 if Lab is alreading promoting proper alternative (I think it is) then no need for a new pressure group is there? | ||
| @jeff_wode @OwenJones84 he talks about putting pressure on Labour to create new policies. I am happy w the current Labour stance. | ||
| @jeff_wode @OwenJones84 because he says he is not satisfied with current LP economic stance. | ||
| @DamianPhipps @stevefreeman20 @Markfergusonuk @owenjones "marginally better"? u think difference between life now +under Labour is marginal? | ||
| @OwenJones84 because you only talk 2audiences who share yr worldview. Like I said, an echo chamber. You never tell them anything difficult. | ||
| @OwenJones84 big difference between Progress and your proposed "network" is your's extends to opponents of Labour Party | ||
| @johnmcternan @sunny_hundal @DPJHodges weird given public embraced personal credit/debt with extraordinary relish | ||
| Seriously discombobulated by absence of Guardians from snowy newsagent. N16 equivalent of Trident sub captain not being able tune into Today | ||
| @RichardAngell @jim1982 @owenjones84 ... As well as being economically and morally right thing to do. | ||
| @AbiWilks @sunny_hundal @hopisen yeah all that rightwing stuff like minimum wage, redistribution, massive spending on public services ... | ||
| @FutureFutures @owenjones84 where have I been? On the Zionist Labour bit of the left. :) | ||
| @sunny_hundal @hopisen would also contend we are led by an idealist - and one who has made fewer compromises than many. | ||
| @sunny_hundal @hopisen believe it or not I'm an idealist. Just some different ideals and some compromises with reality. | ||
| @teddyryan89 Rylan | ||
| @teddyryan89 I'm pleased someone else in my twitter stream is watching same stuff as me and @lablinda75 | ||
| @hopisen no, meantime it will waste the energy of and disillusion ppl who could have been guided into constructive political activism | ||
| Duncan Hall just said I'm "the most sectarian person he's ever come across in the labour movement". Some people will be jealous. | ||
| @clairee_french @shamikdas @marcusaroberts can I suggest "alliances with values (and hardware to back em" is where we should really b headed | ||
| @BenLyons1 @gusbbaker agreed | ||
| @gusbbaker @benlyons1 in what sense isn't our economic strategy centrist? | ||
| @KatieCurtis education and skills | ||
| @timrollpickerin will be patchy | ||
| @mjrobbins @Scarletstand @suzanne_moore interesting, there's a big crossover between her fan club and mine. | ||
| @leftfutures @jonlansman Jules also has a policy of only appointing to Cabinet cllrs who have previously won an elected position in Group .. | ||
| @leftfutures @jonlansman ...this is untrue, only Cabinet are appointed by Mayor, the cttee chairs etc are all elected by Labour Group | ||
| @leftfutures @jonlansman there is an inaccurate point in your article. It suggests Jules Pipe controls SRAs for 24 Labour cllrs ... | ||
| As a fellow ginger I think we should just abuse Danny Alexander for his pernicious policies, which he chose, rather hair colour he born with | ||
| @KevinMorton1966 Labour already has AV in our own constitution ie already up-to-date | ||
| @oldpolitics @krs133 breakaway left liberal/soc dem party that splits off from LDs in return for our 2nd prefs? (Just an idea...) | ||
| @mrcolmquinn as I have just criticised a former Lab NEC member for calling Labour staff by a Nazi rank title I'm grateful 4 u pulling me up | ||
| @ewancwatt not about saying no profit, restrict it due to market not delivering the cheap housing society needs | ||
| @ewancwatt that's why has to be combined with bdg extra social housing - which would create construction jobs | ||
| @joe_oliver I think I accidentally put the number from the end of the 1992-97 parliament after by-elections | ||
| @joe_oliver oops. @Markfergusonuk can you edit that bit? | ||
| @wesstreeting @owenjones84 the A5 flyers on TUC demo website can be altered to put a borough Labour logo at the bottom | ||
| @wesstreeting @OwenJones84 he is. Leaflet referred to re TUC demo is being used as an "out card" whilst canvassing. Multi-tasking! | ||
| @OwenJones84 I can confirm that Mr Jones is indeed part of Lordship Ward team this morning | ||
| @KevinMorton1966 I've never been ashamed of being tribally Labour. Australia has AV and just as tribal Laborites as here. | ||
| @KevinMorton1966 being so dismissive of what voters might want not v attractive. System exists 4 their benefit not the parties'. | ||
| Personally I find horse goes better w pasta than in burgers. Have had donkey involtini as well - Easter speciality in Puglian cuisine. | ||
| Good to see Hackney Cllr Michael Desmond in audience on Celeb Big Brother's Bit on the Side | ||
| Running Lordship Ward canvassing session | ||
| Forget horsemeat, @LabLinda75 just tricked me into eating a vegetarian lasagne. If we were married this might b grounds 4 divorce. Tasty tho | ||
| @KelvinBlake pls do I think I am only person on NEC with a disability hence concious need to be a voice | ||
| @KevinMorton1966 that will only happen if voters choose to give LDs 2nd prefs. I assume Labour will advise its supporters not to. | ||
| @KevinMorton1966 @TomHarrisMP don't be ridiculous, many of us in Yes campaign detest Lib Dems and have beaten them at local level #yes2av | ||
| well done Camden comrades, great result in Kentish Town | ||
| @RafaDavies no delighted Unmesh is great and I am backing him 110 pc to be my successor in the board seat I held til getting on NEC | ||
| .@c_quigley @danielblaney but you lost didn't you? Which suggests they may agree with you on Trident but it is a low resonance issue 4 them. | ||
| @CllrPeteBowyer @LabourUncut @David_K_Clark we won't get into govt unless we continue to keep the LD vote low | ||
| Heading to Dulles for return flight after a productive and enjoyable 6 days in USA | ||
| @joedgoldberg 80 Leverton Street is HQ - diane hayter's house | ||
| @stopjump not sure when yr mtg is but Hackney N CLP is canvassing marginal Lordship ward at 11am from 38 Bouverie Rd N16. #LabourDoorstep | ||
| @SMirrorNews unfortunately that's a personal scandal by a politician, not a "political scandal | ||
| @askbagnall how are the polls looking in NSW? Have you turned Labor rout into retreat yet? | ||
| Embarking on new exercise regime at behest of physios - longer on exercise bike to up stamina and weights as illness has left triceps weak | ||
| Very pleased Labour aiming confidently for 60 seat majority: http://t.co/wD87aVXy | ||
| @CalumSPlath think you are thinking of 1931 | ||
| @CalumSPlath sadly that's not true, in 1929 Labour under MacDonald+ Snowden had orthodox fiscal strategy and only Lloyd George was Keynesian | ||
| OK I have decided I rather like New York. Not as much as Hackney obviously ... | ||
| @hoxbot I have written to the Mayor of Hackney appealing for the ROA rabbit to be saved | ||
| @cllrtheo nice mistake | ||
| In New York on work trip. My first ever visit here so have arrived a day early to do some sight-seeing. | ||
| @PeterKenyon good. And their decision, nothing to do with NEC or region. | ||
| @PeterKenyon aren't u concerned about damage to Lab's reputation if we are associated with Lutfur, given the allegations? | ||
| @PeterKenyon no it's that I can't judge what my now colleagues did in september, not having heard the debate or evidence | ||
| @PeterKenyon btw do you really think appropriate that in your blog you refer to 2 LP officers using a Nazi SS rank title? | ||
| @AndrewBoff presumably if we leave EU we will have to reintegrate millions of ex-pat Brits expelled from Spain etc. as free movement ends | ||
| @jonburkeUK 6 Jan, 19 Jan, 3 Feb, 17 Feb | ||
| @tommilleruk @callum_munro @KatieCurtis should be small enough for members to regularly meet up | ||
| @tommilleruk @callum_munro @KatieCurtis YL groups were supposed to follow natural community boundaries eg a city or part of a county | ||
| @tommilleruk @callum_munro @KatieCurtis how can a region-wide YL group campaign or even meet in geographically big regions? | ||
| @tommilleruk @stackee @JohannaBaxter be interesting to know what @tom_watson thinks - as youth officer he oversaw creation of YL | ||
| @tommilleruk @stackee @JohannaBaxter so no funds, no sabbaticals, no decisions, no policies | ||
| @tommilleruk @stackee @JohannaBaxter YL structure was designed to ensure was not attractive vehicle for entryists to poach Lab youth | ||
| @tommilleruk @stackee @JohannaBaxter YL structure was designed to not be an attractive vehicle for entryism | ||
| @tommilleruk @stackee @JohannaBaxter context: YL was created to be everything LPYS had not been - 3 previous youth sections had gone Trot | ||
| @JohannaBaxter Longterm someone needs to look at constituting smaller YL groups in London. 72 dels from 1 body unbalances YL conference | ||
| Pleased to see out-going C Exec of Homerton Hospital, Nancy Hallett, has received a DBE | ||
| Find it offensive to democracy that resignation of an unelected spinner is as big a story as resignation of the Shadow Chancellor. | ||
| @new_art_riot no, already enjoying this one though | ||
| @antoniabance interesting! Merry Christmas. | ||
| @lajineta that's what I wrote first time and @lablinda75 told me I had spelt it wrong! | ||
| Finally finished 960 page slog through Clinton's "My Life". Gun control stuff and failure to get MEPP deal from Arafat both poignant. | ||
| @DocR0cket @twinjenin whole point of negotiations is to negotiate which land ends up in which state, need to get on + start talking | ||
| @DocR0cket @twinjenin that isn't the map tabled at any peace talks, all have had West Bank contiguity | ||
| @andrewlomas wow | ||
| @andrewlomas yes - my mum grew up in Coventry so I always enjoy visiting. | ||
| @MahmoudKhazim the "colonial" analogy falls down when you look at the fact that 50pc of Israeli Jews are of Mid East, N Africa origin | ||
| @McCaineNL @benabyad I'm fairly sure Palestinians don't want votes in Israeli elections. They want their own state. I support that. | ||
| @Bellaguillaume @benabyad could you point me towards some evidence of these "concentration camps"? | ||
| @McCaineNL @benabyad not with universal suffrage | ||
| @twinjenin @danleveneuk @benabyad is the UN Special Rapporteur Richard Falk? Also a 9/11 conspiracy theorist etc? If so, yes. | ||
| @OwenJones84 ie not by other 2 thirds | ||
| @MichaelDugherMP how out of character! | ||
| @ashleytmason yes. He gets a few hundred votes, esp in Farnborough where he lives and is popular local character | ||
| @dianelangford I think the phrase they have used is "disappointed". | ||
| @dianelangford commercial decision. My guess is they thought their bid wasn't competitive, so why incur further bid costs? | ||
| @sncolborne @resource_media Amused u think Veolia wd have quit4bn #NLWA contract cos handful extremists shouting at town halls | ||
| @intifada Amused u think Veolia wd have quit4bn #NLWA contract cos handful extremists shouting at town halls | ||
| @hocinedim Amused u think Veolia wd have quit4bn #NLWA contract cos handful extremists shouting at town halls | ||
| @rachelhinda @LondonBDSgroup #BDS #Veolia Amused u think Veolia wd have quit4bn #NLWA contract cos handful extremists shouting at town hall | ||
| @birdSTL @hala_aziz_ @stlpsc @BDSmovement Amused u think Veolia wd have quit4bn #NLWA contract cos handful extremists shouting at town halls | ||
| Amused to see #bds campaign think Veolia wd have quit 4bn #NLWA contract bid cos of handful of anti-Israel extremists shouting at town halls | ||
| @Billy_Azul @aliciapees yes, it's about control of high ground that can be used for artillery etc | ||
| @SephRBrown why the big secret about your postal address? | ||
| @aliciapees @Billy_Azul all about securing more defensible borders. Given history this is understandable. | ||
| @Rowan_Draper @S_eastwood Tory opposition to unitaries in 2007-2010 was all about keeping large numbers of their activists as rural cllrs | ||
| @Billy_Azul I'd recommend reading this 4 both flaws in Israel's treatment of Arab citizens and why isn't "apartheid" http://t.co/EDq0924l | ||
| @Callum_TH @CalumSPlath @EllieCumbo @rachellybee to be honest I have higher concerns should Scotland go, eg perpetual Tory govts in England | ||
| @Callum_TH @CalumSPlath @EllieCumbo @rachellybee a) Scotland won't go independent b) we could dock at French or US bases temporarily | ||
| @CalumSPlath @EllieCumbo @rachellybee Calum, I LOL at your stance on this too. Silly '80s badge-wearing. | ||
| @Cllr_Roxsie yes but reduced range! | ||
| @HackneyAbbott NHS has sprung into action and getting factory to send new ones at start of Jan. Until then they suggested using duct tape! | ||
| Just experiencing that moment when the orthotics I rely on to walk properly break, and the spare ones are off being re-made. | ||
| @McCaineNL because working people have views nearer to mine than to yours? | ||
| @BobAkehurst1 hi welcome! | ||
| On way to speak to Labour members in Hampstead and Kilburn | ||
| Something particularly nasty about smearing the unemployed when this government's policies caused the lack of jobs. | ||
| @judoker both of them are very good advocates of Lab case | ||
| @DannyHackett which communist party? CPB, CPGB or CPB (ML)? | ||
| @Karl_Frampton @Labourpaul it's moved further down the street. Went to my 1st GC at the old one 25 years ago! | ||
| @wesstreeting @CalumSPlath he was wrong. | ||
| Oops missed @StefanKerner 72 and @JazzAssassin 51 | ||
| @gusbbaker @AndyCharlwood I did predict it - check out my blog posts from April 2010 | ||
| @gusbbaker shame it has taken this awful govt for young people to realise what Labour was doing to help them | ||
| @TheStevenThomas actually we have 11 cllrs there, very hard working CLP | ||
| @lizmcshane @JrussoUK decent healthcare and freedom/democracy needn't be mutually exclusive | ||
| @lizmcshane there wouldn't be an embargo if the communist regime allowed multi-party elections and basic human rights | ||
| @AndyCharlwood @JohnRentoul arguments need setting out as ammo for people confronted with this as proposal at their GC or Group | ||
| Labour shouldn't revisit the rate-cap rebellion: http://lukeakehurst.blogspot.com/2011/01/ideas-from-labours-past-not-to-revist-1.html | ||
| @HugoSwire Burma’s reform process is top down and skin deep, please make human rights, not trade, your top priority in #Burma | ||
| @wesstreeting not same but he was not justified standing in 2000. Frank won selection fair and square under the then rules. | ||
| @SteveAkehurst it will be even better when it has a Social Democrat govt again! You are right though it is a great place. | ||
| @adamhollandblog @CiFWatch wow he links to the @WeBelieveIsrael toolkit which I wrote when I'd never heard of the word or concept "hasbara | ||
| .@joedgoldberg on top form setting out the funding challenges faced by councils (c50pc cuts) and how to shape political response | ||
| @keithdibs see you there! | ||
| @_TUFI residents of our house were killed in the Coronation Avenue shelter disaster in Oct 1940 - among 170 victims named on memorial | ||
| Looking forward to Unite councillors network meeting tmrw. Good to meet ppl from other councils + share campaign ideas. | ||
| @Jessica_Asato @KevinMorton1966 @TomHarrisMP Can I be Ted Grant and Jess Derek Hatton? | ||
| @AndyCharlwood exactly, I grew up in Kent with 11+ and didn't feel like there was much social mobility there - 90pc branded failures at 11 | ||
| What makes me angriest about Pickles is tone of contempt towards people working as public servants - often for Tory councils. | ||
| @allanholloway @JohnRentoul surely nuclear deterrent is a good thing? Like NHS. | ||
| Exhausting physio session but balance continuing to recover | ||
| @labourlewis @benfolley @labourcnd was it really a debate? Were there any speakers invited who support Trident? Sounds more like a rally. | ||
| @Callum_TH @aliciapees yes but I actually help ensure ppl get decent homes, schools + social services. Rather more of a contrib to socialism | ||
| @CllrPeteBowyer @rob_marchant we must continue to attack LDs to retain LD switchers is view leadership repeatedly said at NEC when I was on | ||
| @anderslindberg a college of London Uni specialising in middle east studies w a very extreme left political reputation | ||
| @debbie_e_w Strathclyde always was sounder. | ||
| @CllrDave4Gornal the spending isn't much once you annualise it over life of project | ||
| @Chas_Boz @cr_celab actually Threads was responsible for my brief CND phase when I was 12 | ||
| @TJPoynton @RCMoya612 @CalumSPlath @joshuwahwah are you expecting me to have some sudden conversion to tree hugging? | ||
| @TJPoynton @RCMoya612 @CalumSPlath @joshuwahwah weapons save lives when used to fight terrorists or troops of repressive regimes | ||
| @RCMoya612 @CalumSPlath @joshuwahwah I think it is nice. Read my CV. Not everyone shares your anti-western values. | ||
| Every night I go to sleep thankful safer as UK protected by Trident. Long may it continue. CND will never be allowed 2 undermine our defence | ||
| People are wasting their political energy on a cause that was wrong when Foot promoted it in 50s and 80s let alone now. Such a waste. | ||
| @LabourCND @CalumSPlath @LabourLewis it is not likely to be a major election issue and now is not the time to debate it -we did that in 2007 | ||
| @CalumSPlath @KatyClarkMP don't mean to be funny, but Trident is under the sea, not on anyone's soil | ||
| @TJPoynton sorry you will have to explain what on earth you are talking about | ||
| @jonlansman *cough* | ||
| @jonlansman depends who else is running. I voted for him last time. | ||
| @OwenJones84 yawn. | ||
| @RichardWatts01 no, Compass was the most ridiculous name for a ginger group ever. This appears to be its rebirth. | ||
| @SamMannion we will have to agree to differ. I am a proud Labour tribalist and I meet many other people who are too. | ||
| @Lab2Palestine @robertjeevans @efrogwraig @lfpme @rob_marchant I can't see any peace deal being agreed without land swaps | ||
| @KevinMorton1966 @Jessica_Asato and anyway current UK debate is about AV not PR. AV tends to exclude extremists as don't get transfers | ||
| @KevinMorton1966 @Jessica_Asato Argument flawed as Nazis would have had a majority of seats under FPTP but didn't cos of PR | ||
| Flying to Glasgow this morning to speak at @WeBelieveIsrael meeting with @hasanafzal and @DermotKehoe | ||
| Ratio of Con to UKIP support in polls now almost 2:1 when it used to be 10:1. Realignment of UK right underway? | ||
| @Gaylussite there's been a problem with google chrome for about a month because the Labour Party adverts I used to stream had malware | ||
| Catch-up on recent council by-election results incl stunning Lab gain in Stratford-on-Avon: http://t.co/ozWQ6Uki | ||
| Driving through lost Lab Kent seats on A2. How do we win them back? Answers in under 140 characters pls. | ||
| Final meeting of a day of meetings - Hackney Labour Group | ||
| @Zbigniew_G I agree with them. The UN bid is unhelpful. Statehood should come at end of peace negotiations, | ||
| An afternoon of NEC sub committees awaits | ||
| Hmmm salt beef sandwich at 6pm followed by proper dinner at 9.30pm #twodinners | ||
| @greglovelluk I'm getting a copy - message me your email and will forward | ||
| At John Denham Smith Inst lecture on growth. Denham v impressive on case for industrial activism. | ||
| On the East London Line to Croydon w Hackney #labourdoorstep team incl @lisa_calderwood @new_art_riot @HackneyAbbott and @jonburkeUK | ||
| @RCMoya612 @SephRBrown @mehdirhasan of course | ||
| @marxroadrunner @mehdirhasan Marx in your Twitter name and SOAS in your CV. LOL. | ||
| @mehdirhasan rockets have been fired since 2007 | ||
| @mehdirhasan yes it is tragic. Everyone killed is an innocent victims of Hamas - no rockets would have meant no Israeli response. | ||
| @LukePollard I had several MRIs last year - very boring and not for the claustrophobic - long time stuck in tube bombarded noise | ||
| Writing my Progress column. Been a long day. | ||
| @CalumSPlath ironic that no one is free in Cuba because its a communist dictatorship | ||
| My thoughts on the conflict between Israel and Hamas: http://t.co/SlpYOIFJ | ||
| Someone should have reminded Cameron that Prescott won Humberside on FPTP, system we use for electing MPs, only lost on transfers | ||
| @casiotone @matthewjorda @tjpoynton "thousands"? There have been 49 deaths. About half civilians. Tragic but not "thousands". | ||
| @casiotone would you mind telling me what "crimes" you are referring to? "Thought crimes" of having different political views to you? | ||
| @casiotone trial? | ||
| @OwenJones84 respect to T Benn, but doesn't it worry u he still your star turn? Be as though Denis Healey was main speaker at Progress | ||
| @londonmuslim @benabyad I would expect that the Muslim voters in my ward don't support Hamas and would deplore terrorist rocket attacks | ||
| @benabyad @Aaron_Kiely how is it possible to have normal trade with a neighbour who fires rockets at your population? | ||
| @DelroyBooth I'm the Director of a grassroots campaign organisation called We Believe in Israel. | ||
| @DelroyBooth you do know what my job is? | ||
| @marywimbury so sorry Tal did not win | ||
| Well done @LucyMPowell you have worked so hard! Will be a great MP. | ||
| Feeling v alive after GP referred workout at Clissold Leisure Centre. A good feeling when you've been as ill as I was last year. | ||
| @haykirstin yes but any facts in it will have been checked out as accurate | ||
| @andrewlomas @hopisen @Red_Nick strange allegation as it has given control of shortlists to local cttees elected by CLP ECs | ||
| @hopisen @andrewlomas @Red_Nick sometimes fairer to people not to let them run in by-elections but to wait for less intense scrutiny of a GE | ||
| @hopisen @andrewlomas @Red_Nick the current system was brought in after the Greenwich and Glasgow Govan defeats in 87/88 | ||
| @yeskatiedear @JHepplestone @ChrispLOL we need get over whole narrative of "local" when vast majority of members live in seats where ... | ||
| @timothygodfrey I'm not on NEC now and wasn't on interview panel, who knows what at interview led to their decision? | ||
| @TomMillerUK @AlexWhiteUK at least one of them was, in context, clearly a joke, but presented by CLPD as a serious viewpoint. | ||
| @haykirstin @wesstreeting trouble is debate is straying from principle of rules to undermining a candidate | ||
| OK there is a by-election on in difficult circumstances. Can we debate selection rules after polling day? | ||
| The bar is rightly set very high for by-election shortlists. No one should expect themselves or candidate they like to get on one. | ||
| @anthonypainter @iMcKenzied @gtmelhuish anthony is correct, men could have been shortlisted | ||
| @AndyCharlwood @sbuckinghamuk no, performance can vary between interviews as can political context. | ||
| @danielblaney @susanhebden @tobyfoster Thurrock was a local shortlist by the CLP | ||
| @danielblaney @tobyfoster an NEC Panel. As I'm not on the NEC anymore I don't know who, but usually panel of 5. | ||
| .@anthonypainter actually I would argue there has been a good range of candidates in all the other by-election selections since 2010 | ||
| Just been reading The Hobbit to my 7 year old. Both of us getting hyped up re coming film version and Lego Lord of the Rings range ... | ||
| @lfolgado best Hackney cllr for you to speak to is @tomebbutt | ||
| @Efrogwraig thanks | ||
| Peter Hain appointed to chair NPF and be on NEC - who got other ldr appointed NEC post? Keen to know who I'll be working with. | ||
| Heading to St John at Hackney church for Hackney civic service of remembrance | ||
| @RachaelSaunders See my previous tweet. We are supposed to be internationalists. | ||
| @jonesythered do you mean alternative economic strategy or "alternative economic strategy" (copyright T Benn 1983)? | ||
| @antoniabance I think big shame if in a party proud to be internationalist, we see running foreign policy as "wasted | ||
| Clever appointments, helps to present team as hawkish on both deficit and crime. | ||
| Very choked up to be given books belonging to my late friend Greta Karpin, written by her TU boss Clive Jenkins. A fitting memento. | ||
| My Jewish Chronicle opinion piece about cultural boycotts of Israel - http://t.co/BBarqfxw | ||
| @haykirstin robert evans - former MEP | ||
| @BevaniteEllie some states allow up to 2 weeks for postal votes to arrive | ||
| @Markfergusonuk a win is a win. | ||
| @Chris_Matheson yes lots of Labour blogs were infected with malware by the party's banner ads! But is being sorted by Google. | ||
| 20 new members in my CLP in last month. Ed's speech clearly had an impact. | ||
| @jonathanmcshane I'm assuming they a) get on local TV in key states and b) act as mobilisation events for GOTV ground campaign | ||
| @CountryStandard but part of the problem is big TUs are not running as good selection operation as AEEU/Amicus did under Watson then Wheeler | ||
| @CountryStandard I accept that - I want more working class candidates | ||
| @PeterKenyon @wesstreeting local members already do the shortlists except in by-elections or v late selections ie about 90-95pc of time | ||
| @PaulSandars @LabourLeft apparently the problem was with the Labour Party adverts we both stream! | ||
| @paulleake @CountryStandard a mix of both. People who can lead CLPs and communities as candidate then MP. Some need 2b potential ministers. | ||
| @paulleake @CountryStandard anyway let's see who Middlesbrough CLP select tmrw | ||
| @CountryStandard also think you should be careful re. Focus on being a TU rep - excludes working ppl in non-unionised workplaces | ||
| @CountryStandard I agree but we also have too few MPs who have been council leaders w all experience that brings of decision making | ||
| @jeff_wode @CountryStandard ask him! | ||
| @gavinshuker maybe they have fewer polling stations esp for early voting? | ||
| @CountryStandard Steve's TU credentials are good enough that he was Unite cand vs Chuka for Streatham | ||
| @brianfmoylan done | ||
| @SeemaChandwani looks like a problem with google rather than my site. Is working fine. | ||
| On way to sanctuary housing s hackney estates ctte @ kingsmead estate | ||
| @SeemaChandwani in what sense? | ||
| @cllrstevereed congratulations! | ||
| @Labourpaul will do | ||
| @redrenie24 no, because of why he resigned as mayor of Cincinnati | ||
| @andrewlomas akehurstluke@googlemail.com | ||
| @will_blair he was right on Westland too | ||
| @RDStalker was also thinking about the 26k limit - the housing benefit cap has already hit the orthodox jewish community near me | ||
| @pow365 I'm delaying blair book cos been warned will make me think less highly of him | ||
| 1000 followers hit today. Hooray! | ||
| @Jo_Milligan odd that he starts "Ed Miliband's speech" rather than "my brother's speech | ||
| @fathomjournal: The app and website r now live! Search fathom in itunes for your free copy." Web and PDF versions at http://t.co/6wlt3Yx8 | ||
| @Standup4Labour Denis Healey would have done if he had beaten Foot for the leadership | ||
| @SBuckinghamUK @alexsobel I don't think she represents M4C's thinking on this. | ||
| @SBuckinghamUK @alexsobel I've never heard M4C say that. Only person I have ever heard attack VID is Stella C. | ||
| @JenGerber79 @hopisen Jen you need to tell @pollytoynbee | ||
| @hopisen @KenPenton @pollytoynbee hi Polly I believe in Trident replacement and spoke in favour of it vs CND at multiple CLPs in 2007 | ||
| @OwenJones84 the people who are disagreeing w u and Francis, what they proposing? A new left party? | ||
| Vote Yes to Trident renewal in this poll. We need strong defence: http://t.co/VbOwzIAc | ||
| @jonrogers1963 I thought he would be. Give him my regards. | ||
| Out of interest, has #lrc11 suggested any changes to strategy they pushed in response to Thatcher? | ||
| @HarrietHarman congrats on 30th anniversary of your by-election win! | ||
| Heading for an afternoon's campaigning in Corby with fellow Hackney cllr Guy Nicholson | ||
| @OwenJones84 good to see he still has the same knack for spotting popular policies as 30 years ago | ||
| Better jokes from @GloriaDePieroMP to @CommunityUnion dinner than I remember from her NOLS speeches 20 years ago | ||
| @Andrew_Adonis look forward to seeing you there! | ||
| @anthonyleahy @ProgressOnline @communityunion always! | ||
| @antoniabance that is in Victoria Park which is about near to Stokey as Florence Park is to North Oxford! | ||
| @cs009d4735 my version is more that we have always been social democrats and the unions usually have + should be the party's moderates | ||
| On my way to @CommunityUnion political weekend to give speech on Labour Party history | ||
| We're on 41pc says yougov. When was last time we scored so high? | ||
| Had great dinner in Jericho, Oxford, unofficial twin town of Stoke Newington | ||
| Impressed by @paulblomfieldmp 's v comprehensive tour d'horizon report to @Sheff_Cen_CLP | ||
| @cyruseng yes sure | ||
| All last night's council by-elections: http://t.co/mbKoJs84 | ||
| @robnewman13 Yarnton Nurseries antique market near Oxford only one copy unfortunately. | ||
| Just been to planning exhibition for proposed fashion retail hub in my ward on Morning Lane next to Burberry site | ||
| Hackney Council now voting for new by-laws for first time since 1932 when Herbert Morrison ran the borough | ||
| Gosh my speech worked, the Lib Dems switched line and voted with us... | ||
| Oh dear I have been told off by the Speaker for being "discourteous" to the Lib Dems who are refusing 2 vote 2 condemn fire station closures | ||
| My cheerful GP just informed me average duration current untreatable round of cough and cold viruses everyone getting is 2 months! *cough* | ||
| @RowennaDavis the deposit is 5k not the 50k your article says. Still excessive! | ||
| @martinangus congratulations! | ||
| @SarahAB_UK the supplementary vote system means you can vote Labour 1st pref then a tactical anti-extremist vote with your 2nd pref | ||
| @Billy_Azul @RCMoya612 @TJPoynton why? | ||
| @RCMoya612 @TJPoynton we don't have the answer yet. | ||
| @TJPoynton @RCMoya612 it's factually true we need to win those voters to win an election. There isn't a 2nd set of voters with more PC views | ||
| @RCMoya612 @TJPoynton it's not nice but it's an accurate picture of the electorate. We need to work out how to shift entrenched prejudices. | ||
| @PutneyDebates you'll have to explain what that means as I'm a simple Labour loyalist | ||
| @PutneyDebates I marched on #oct20 and I thought it was a useful bit of polling | ||
| @PutneyDebates no I haven't | ||
| @marcusaroberts well done - you fought amazing campaign confounding all the conventional wisdom | ||
| @Jessica_Asato hope so - it's a massive responsibility and only six of us to speak for 200000 people | ||
| @itsdavegreen @AdamGraySays personally I went today because I wanted to publicly express anger about the cuts and solidarity ... | ||
| @AdamGraySays that's not really a good argument against people doing what they consider the right thing to do - canvassing looks odd too! | ||
| John Denham delivering barnstorming attack on Pickles - excellent speech | ||
| Listening to John Healey speak in housing debate. He deserves to get elected to Shadow Cabinet. | ||
| Second NEC meeting lasted approx 10 minutes, agreed statement on remission of post office composites | ||
| Just passed Temple station. This is a BIG march #oct20 | ||
| Big crowd of Hackney Labourites assembling in Dalston for #oct20 | ||
| Can we just abolish different "classes" of carriage on trains? Hangover from Victorian era. | ||
| Join @HackneyLabour on the #oct20 demo - setting out to Embankment by train from Dalston Junction station at 11am | ||
| @KentPCC have re-tweeted - should reach loads of people | ||
| At Unite reception proud to celebrate link between my union and party | ||
| @stopjump using that definition I live in London but am from the kent or bristol party (with stints in essex and hants as a ppc) | ||
| @EmmaReporter Gazette would thrive if it was a high quality, hyper-local freesheet like the Camden New Journal | ||
| @EmmaReporter I don't agree. It is clearly not a newspaper. Gazette sales drop is more to do with change of editorial style in last decade. | ||
| Dinner with Maggie and Ben Cosin - also part of "shadowy hard right below radar network" according to CLPD | ||
| @RafaDavies I thought of u as soon as they showed Blackwood! | ||
| @CllrRachel @alexsobel I don't understand how ppl who work, let alone parents, can do daytime council mtgs | ||
| @alexsobel @CllrRachel we have 10 Lab cllrs with under 5s incl elected Mayor + Deputy in Hackney - and evening mtgs only as per all London | ||
| @tomebbutt that was 3 hours before I got home | ||
| Next NEC 8am tmrw. Sacrificing my lie-in for smooth running of the party. Anyone seeing me in bar after midnight pls send me to bed. | ||
| @haykirstin isn't that a good reason to do it? | ||
| @LukePollard and I wasn't there so at least one blog would have kept going | ||
| @stopjump yes I will be doing reports but tonight's one there is no formal business, just a handover and thanks to retiring members | ||
| Trying to work out how/when broke specs last night. Suspect alcohol involved. | ||
| At Hackney Town Hall for Overview + Scrutiny Board incl. Cabinet Question Time to @jonathanmcshane | ||
| Great victory last night but let's stay sober about scale of challenge ahead. End of the beginning not beginning of the end. | ||
| 5 health scrutiny site visits done, now at Standing Advisory Cttee on Religious Education, followed by Labour Group | ||
| @CalumSPlath @NextGenLab #oct20 #NGL hope u will march with your TUs or CLPs not as a visible faction. | ||
| Brilliant speech. Told you all so. | ||
| What is behind the doors that say "no exit" in the Blackwall Tunnel? | ||
| Curtice says worst squeeze ever 4 Tories | ||
| V good UKIP vote | ||
| 14718 good vote | ||
| If you've never watched the "Wilderness Years" BBC doc about Labour @jonlansman provides links here: http://t.co/mBs4yZHv | ||
| Curtice highlights UKIP threat to Tory right flank | ||
| Must be a scheduling nightmare for Socialist Action/IMG cadres today with clashing CND and SBL events | ||
| @sfajanathomas some of the people who died lived in the house we live in now | ||
| Just had delicious parma ham + rocket pizza at newly opened @gbpizzaco on Margate seafront - half price all this weekend | ||
| @SeemaChandwani surely as a civil servant the policies he implemented in Barnet were chosen by Tory cllrs, not him? | ||
| @nextleft and courageous and political v tricky decision by Hackney Labour to shut failing Hackney Downs and open academy | ||
| @Jonathan_Todd @rob_marchant and this from 2009: http://t.co/a9X9LPvh | ||
| @Jonathan_Todd @rob_marchant this from 2008: http://t.co/bO9SQG6j | ||
| @JohnSlinger monthly. 3 cllr ward so there are 3 surgeries a month. Very quiet nowdays as people send emails not come in person. | ||
| @Jonathan_Todd too young to follow the lyrics! | ||
| @DarrenWCohen peace? Germany and France negotiating stuff at dull meetings instead of invading each other? | ||
| @anthonyleahy very good thanks | ||
| ... Good to hear I am still getting bit of nerve recovery after 3 years | ||
| @KevinMorton1966 it's not the rich buying privilege that bugs me it's everyone else's inability to buy it | ||
| @KevinMorton1966 I'm happy for the freedom to exist if the state tries to ensure poorer people get freedom to access same facilities | ||
| Quadrouple meeting clash tonight. First up: Homerton Neighbourhood Forum on impact of 2012 on local traffic and transport | ||
| @KevinMorton1966 I don't accept the many don't aspire. Almost all parents want the v best education for their kids. | ||
| @TJPoynton sorry I'm quite a boring mainstream leftie on social + economic policy. Only worth goading on foreign + defence stuff... | ||
| @TJPoynton it's kinda meaningless without the context which is he is arguing for austerity, which I don't support | ||
| @TJPoynton which statement? Link didn't work. | ||
| I'm speaking at RT @Progressonline: Next event: Progress Rally, Comedy Store, Deansgate at 6pm http://bit.ly/a50ktz All welcome #lab10 | ||
| @rachelbayne sorry wouldn't be appropriate for me to comment on an individual case as Chair of Health Scrutiny | ||
| @KevinMorton1966 I'd love my constituents to be able to choose Eton or a BUPA hospital but that requires state to control admission and fund | ||
| @KevinMorton1966 freedoms and choices that r only 4 the richest might as well not exist for the many | ||
| Excuse typos | ||
| @KevinMorton1966 the many never get to choose private schools or hospitals though cos the cost is beyond vast majoritye's wages | ||
| @KevinMorton1966 sorry I don't understand the point you are making. I always assumed everyone in party was hostile to private ed and health | ||
| @AndyCharlwood why would you ditch a mechanism for involving working classes to vote for lab leader | ||
| @AndyCharlwood even on low turnout TU votes have meant large number of ordinary public took part | ||
| A new dawn has broken, has it not? | ||
| @timsykes3 tiring! But a great way to end my time on NEC. Pleased I was able to call a good mix of delegates to speak. | ||
| Quite a day. NEC numbers out tomorrow morning. | ||
| @rhys_goode akehurstluke@googlemail.com | ||
| @bmitchellwrites @CarlRaincoat @OwenJones84 I think the term limits is a red herring. We don't have term limits in UK. They r undemocratic. | ||
| @itsdavegreen this is the first time. Always before I have been running, which I can't do in real life. | ||
| ... When I first got ill I used to dream about being able to run again ... Last night had a nightmare about losing my walking stick! | ||
| @steve_cov from HQ at vic st | ||
| @leejamesbrown @OwenJones84 @lukeakehurst @danielblaney @CarlRaincoat @benfolley Venezuela’s arms imports up 555 pc between2002–6 + 2007–11 | ||
| @OwenJones84 they were the people fighting autocracy, like the left in Chile, whereas Chavez and Castro are the autocrats in their countries | ||
| @OwenJones84 @danielblaney @CarlRaincoat PS as far as I am aware Latin America is culturally and geographically "Western" as you put it | ||
| @OwenJones84 @danielblaney @CarlRaincoat No. Should judge Venezuelan foreign policy on its own merits. It stinks. | ||
| @OwenJones84 @danielblaney @CarlRaincoat ... join me as members of the Nicaragua Solidarity Campaign | ||
| @OwenJones84 @danielblaney @CarlRaincoat me as NOLS Nat Sec interviewing the Sandanista VP and urging people to .... | ||
| @OwenJones84 @danielblaney @CarlRaincoat in fact if you can find a 1995 copy of the Young Labour magazine you will see ... | ||
| @OwenJones84 @danielblaney @CarlRaincoat I opposed the US backing for both of those organisations | ||
| @OwenJones84 @danielblaney @CarlRaincoat you seem to be very partisan for an election observer ... | ||
| @OwenJones84 @danielblaney @CarlRaincoat as opposed to backing narco-terrorists in other countries ... | ||
| @danielblaney @CarlRaincoat @OwenJones84 what does the UK left think about Chavez' massive spending on arms imports? | ||
| Row 3 to left of podium as u face it | ||
| @OwenJones84 a bit harsh given left parties Dem Action, Movement 4 Socialism, Radical Cause; Red Flag; For Social Democracy oppose Chavez | ||
| @simonredfern assumed u were there cos u were a highroller too | ||
| @CllrPope thanks! | ||
| Music in hall still seems to be Margaret McDonagh's record collection | ||
| Seeing friends come into hall who have worked on all 5 leadership campaigns makes me think exercise has been good for pluralism and debate | ||
| @Sam_Prest do. Lots of applicants so difficult to get picked but I've heard it's very good. | ||
| @AJogee by-election. | ||
| On M1. Will katie hanson drive fast enough to get me through late accreditation in time to hear result? | ||
| At UCH for blood test and haematology check-up | ||
| @KevinMorton1966 a) it's queue jumping and b) those of us cllrs etc shd use same services we expect our constituents to | ||
| @Alex_Bjarnason @TomMillerUK I think there would also be market for more balanced tour that met Israelis as well, to get both sides of story | ||
| We're in the Legoland hotel at Legoland Windsor for Jed's 7th birthday treat. It's very very Lego-y. | ||
| Just been round the new Star Wars miniland at Legoland Windsor ... A must-see ... Hoth scene particularly good. | ||
| @ZephLeppard will take a look but not this w/e as at Legoland! | ||
| @BenSoffa @danielblaney @tommilleruk besides which I'm fairly sure Harriet Yeo sees herself as from left of party | ||
| @ricktoomer you would need to go back to the Nenni telegram incident in 1948 for last time action was taken | ||
| Suggests Venezuela election less about left vs right than about for or against Chavez' authoritarianism | ||
| Opposition coalition vs Chavez includes Dem Action (SI member), Movement 4 Socialism, Radical Cause; Red Flag Party; For Social Democracy. | ||
| @simondraper that Ed's "One Nation" sounded like it would be East Germany. Pathetic. | ||
| No one under 40 will have enough memory of East Germany to understand Cameron's childish insult. | ||
| @ZephLeppard I thought it was the clear explanation that we have moved on from New Labour but not back to Old Labour that was needed | ||
| @ariehkovler indeed | ||
| @Commsdan @JohnRentoul it says here - http://t.co/jwJOQgzL - subs, Joseph Rowntree Trust, ERS, unions b4 2010. | ||
| @sarahbrown1984 yes it was fantastic (the 2 years and the chairing both years). | ||
| @amy_dalrymple yes that's the number who voted | ||
| @sarahbrown1984 just over 450 active enough to vote using same measure (votes cast in their board election divided by 4 as had 4 votes each) | ||
| @iancpeacock I think they were all Socialist Action cadres who walked out en masse | ||
| @Anthillel thanks! | ||
| @lizmcshane @new_art_riot But isn't there an argument for normalising NI party system and giving ppl electoral choices that not communal? | ||
| @new_art_riot @lizmcshane the problem is we have hundreds of members there, some want to run for council on same basis as here | ||
| @jameschappers one idiotic person heckled but didn't interrupt her | ||
| Really honoured that my last task as an NEC member was to chair #lab12 conference, particularly my friend @StephenTwigg 's brilliant speech | ||
| Wow exhausted, 3 hours chairing was hard work #lab12 | ||
| @SeemaChandwani I'm chairing in 5 mins | ||
| Backstage getting ready to chair #lab12 | ||
| Heading to bed several hours earlier than I want to so I can be ready to chair #lab12 in the morning | ||
| Lovely dinner with Hackney comrades at Yang Sing now in the Midland bar | ||
| Heading to the NEC AGM to hand-over to Peter Wheeler! #lab12 | ||
| Ed quite correctly says not a unilateralist and we need minimum deterrent - (which review will find is Trident) | ||
| Trident finally gets raised on conference floor after @conradlandin forgot to mention it | ||
| Pleased to hear Ed M will be participating in Oct 20 anti-cuts demo. All Labour and TU members should try to be there. | ||
| Portillo on This Week: Tories fear Ed M the most | ||
| Tim Horton on the "angry middle". A must read: http://bit.ly/fPUkQ2 | ||
| Journalists asking other journalists their opinions on newsnight. | ||
| @marcusaroberts: #em4pm http://t.co/o6VAZOPa" #lab12 some key comrades/Edistas | ||
| @JenGerber79 you and Rafi got a name check from Rachel and the Ambassador! | ||
| Good to see so many Labour Students and Young Labour members at Lab Friends of Israel reception, continuing long trad of support by both | ||
| Wow. Very good speech! #Lab12 | ||
| Left candidate Mark James got 30.72pc of vote, moderate candidate Judith Blake got 69.28pc #Lab12 | ||
| @new_art_riot Suzy? She's v good. | ||
| @vriyait all makes sense when you know the political history of the people who make those kind of speeches | ||
| @conradlandin are you OK? | ||
| Good to see impressive parliamentary candidates for Kent marginals of Dover+Deal and Chatham+Aylsford speaking in this debate #Lab12 | ||
| @conradlandin I think you may like what I suggest next week | ||
| I'm trying to connect Len McCluskey's firebrand rhetoric to the rather moderate and mainstream text of the composite he was moving. #Lab12 | ||
| @conradlandin I'm going to float a very radical change to conf that deals with conflict btwn internal debate + external PR - blog next week | ||
| @new_art_riot ask at the party stand in exhibition area | ||
| @OwenJones84 @OxfordFreddie oh dear | ||
| @OxfordFreddie @OwenJones84 what does the headline say? | ||
| @thatJamesWest actually it was quite a strident contribution. | ||
| Whoa a whole story slagging me off in Campaign Briefing (CLPD's daily handout to delegates). Reassuring I am still worth targeting. #Lab12 | ||
| @LRCinfo is Mark Serwotka a member of the Labour Party (genuine question)? #lab12 | ||
| Also here @giampialhadeff @KatieHanson2 @new_art_riot @Meg_HillierMP @rita_krshn @VincentStops @BenHayhurst @tomebbutt @lisa_calderwood | ||
| At the Hackney Labour dinner - more than 20 of us up in Manchester #lab12 | ||
| Just about to go to the TULO reception #Lab12 | ||
| When I hear @iainmcnicol addressing conference on regeneration of our party makes me v proud I voted for him to be Gen Sec. | ||
| @AJogee @HackneyAbbott I'm looking forward to the 50 year celebrations | ||
| @tomilo presumably the account reflects the political views of the elected political leaders of @YoungLabourUK | ||
| NEC Chair @mcashmanMEP giving his leaving speech after 14 years on NEC. A great speech by a great NEC member. | ||
| @_TUFI Giampi Alhadeff (EPLP GS) | ||
| @wesstreeting thanks! | ||
| @Rowan_Draper the stewards will give you a copy of CAC report as you go into hall - or you can ask for one at Party stand in exhibition | ||
| @theday2day housing | ||
| Good to see contemporary motions on order paper from Assoc of Lab Cllrs and Young Lab - using new powers given them by Refounding Labour | ||
| At first NEC meeting of Conference - we meet every morning during the week | ||
| Ed on passionate and fluent form at London Labour reception. Some good jokes too. | ||
| Queuing to get into a packed London Labour reception - always the social start of Conference | ||
| @ClareHarrisson I will do | ||
| Just been in hall for chairs' briefing. Set + staging look stunning, well done to everyone involved in design. #lab12 | ||
| @BBCRichardMoss he can't stay a cllr if he is declared bankrupt | ||
| @elliott_perkins they r all already scheduled. 2013 is Brighton. Southampton doesn't have the facilities. | ||
| @Markfergusonuk @mtiedemann there's loads of seats in coach E of the 11.40 | ||
| @CllrPeteBowyer see you there | ||
| @marcusaroberts which train r u getting? | ||
| At Euston, was expecting it to be swarming with Labour delegates ... Anyone else on 11.40? | ||
| All yesterday's council by-election results -some good swings to Labour: http://t.co/vNzYv2sD | ||
| @Labourpaul yes but election was b4 conf and my son was due so I stayed home in case Linda went into labour. In event he was 2 weeks overdue | ||
| @nell_newman @star_pumpkin @Old_Holborn the Board deals with council selections + internal party campaign planning etc | ||
| @iancpeacock did Hackney South do any Regional Board nominations? | ||
| @simondarvill in which case they are not sticking to rulebook | ||
| @simondarvill is that for London Board CLP reps? The rules in this case uniquely are 1+1 not a minimum quota. | ||
| Hackney N CLP nominates @Mandy4AM_2012 for London Labour Board Ethnic Minorities Rep | ||
| Hackney N CLP nominates Sally Mulready 4 London Labour Board Disabilities Rep - also backed by @CoopParty | ||
| @Efrogwraig merger with @LRCinfo . Graham Bash faction supported this, Christine Shawcroft faction opposed it. | ||
| @jonlansman delete the word "Labour Left" your followes know what Briefing is. And what the other Briefing is. At least I think so ... | ||
| On a lighter note split in Labour Left Briefing now means I need take 2x more cash as there will b2 rivals sets of papersellers, same name | ||
| Hackney North GC tonight - we will be paying tribute to Greta Karpin. | ||
| @LabourHistory Hilary Armstrong? | ||
| @jonlansman coming from someone whose slate ran the ex London Mayor for the NEC section for grassroots CLP reps, a little rich | ||
| @jonlansman Joe Mann + the Doncaster + Liverpool cllrs are hardly the metropolitan in-crowd | ||
| @jonlansman @hopisen @davidbutler100 @ProgressOnline seriously it's insulting to 2 women w own strong political identities + track records | ||
| @TJPoynton @Mike_hugs @WGLloyd @RCMoya612 @_stux_ my dad is 74 and can drive a combine harvester, assuming this is a contest about dads | ||
| @Callum_TH @RCMoya612 @WGLloyd @TJPoynton @_stux_ but free to practice my own culture and religion | ||
| @Callum_TH @RCMoya612 @WGLloyd @TJPoynton @_stux_ because in exile Dalai Lama has embraced democracy. | ||
| @TJPoynton @Mike_hugs @WGLloyd @RCMoya612 @_stux_ no I'm old (40) | ||
| @RCMoya612 @Callum_TH @TJPoynton @WGLloyd @_stux_ what is "Google Scholar"?? And wouldn't most of those be about Victorian era? | ||
| @RCMoya612 @TJPoynton @_stux_ they help justify our permanent membership of UNSC | ||
| @RCMoya612 @_stux_ you think we would be able to design a new deterrent from scratch if a threat arose in future? | ||
| @RCMoya612 @_stux_ so UK deterrence would be dependent on France? Please try seeing what voters think of that. | ||
| @_stux_ Nick Harvey wants us to keep nukes but not in a non-detectable submarine force. Incentivises pre-emptive attacks on UK. | ||
| Unbelievable + scary that a unilateral disarmer like Nick Harvey was ever allowed anywhere near ministerial office in MoD. | ||
| At the Nisbet Estate Tenants + Residents' Association in my council ward | ||
| Just heard I will be chairing the Thursday morning of Labour conference - 9.30am-12noon. My NEC swansong .... | ||
| @CalumSPlath say hello if you spot me. Will be there from London reception (6pm Sat) onwards. | ||
| @CalumSPlath thanks. We do welcome visitors from across the River Lea! Will you be at conference? | ||
| @CalumSPlath PS I agree re.E17. Under-rated! | ||
| @CalumSPlath well done, hope it is fun. Sorry you are not joining us in Hackney! | ||
| @Chris_Altree @dlandoncole @JWoodcockMP the equivalent French deterrent costs more | ||
| @Chris_Altree @JWoodcockMP location of land based missiles is known so they incentivise pre-emptive attacks | ||
| @SeemaChandwani @ivanabartoletti yes Ivana definitely exists she is on my GC ... | ||
| @SeemaChandwani @IvanaBartoletti you are at conference? I thought u only existed on Twitter? | ||
| @MissEllieMae thanks | ||
| On my way to full NEC for last time in my term of office (not counting mtgs at conference) | ||
| clegg said not cutting capital spend. What about BSF? What about cancelled rebuild of my son's nursery? | ||
| Clegg preached pluralism then used most of speech for old-fashioned yah-boo politics attack on Labour | ||
| @london2let akehurstluke@googlemail.com | ||
| Hackney team now hitting the phones for @AndySawford from Corby Labour campaign HQ | ||
| At the most important political gathering on today. Hackney Labour Group awayday. | ||
| @KatieCurtis Lewisham. | ||
| Council by-election results: http://t.co/FiugI8AD | ||
| @LabSouthFront that looks like quite a good result as new students probably not registered. | ||
| @TomHarrisMP @mathiasbarrett so Camlachie was a Tory gain from ILP not Lab | ||
| @TomHarrisMP @mathiasbarrett Technically when reporting results convention on a seat is held/lost by the party that won it at the GE | ||
| @TomHarrisMP Thanks! | ||
| Getting by-election withdrawal symptoms. Feel most alive when I'm part of an election campaign. Sad I know... | ||
| Recovering from polling day. Thinking about session on campaigning I'm running @ Sunday's Labour Group awayday | ||
| @SeemaChandwani 40 - so 5th form was 1987. | ||
| I took mix of last O levels in 4th form + first GCSEs in 5th. The O levels were easier - so much 4 academic rigour. | ||
| @RooftopJaxx 295k so about 100k more than now but 100k less than Blair peak. It fell by 100k during Foot leadership ... | ||
| @GreenBenali @calumsplath odd kind of dictator who is subject to term limits. | ||
| @GreenBenali @calumsplath whereas leaving far worse dictators in place to kill far more civilians is just fine? | ||
| @CalumSPlath @GreenBenali are you suggesting a moral equivalence between NATO soldiers and Taliban insurgents? | ||
| @GreenBenali @calumsplath they would be ruling the entire country, not launching raids, if NATO hadn't gone there | ||
| @GreenBenali @calumsplath they are compared to the numbers who would have suffered or died without NATO ousting the Taliban/AQ | ||
| @torbayred @SteveTheQuip the Greens are Labour's main electoral opponent in that area - and messing up power -that's why they attack them | ||
| New river byelection turnout 38.48 percent | ||
| A tribute to my friend and comrade Greta Karpin: http://t.co/zmmVKLHB | ||
| Hope carpers will stop carping and give Ed Miliband some credit for 8pc poll lead. If we were behind or lost in OES he would be blamed... | ||
| @TonyDowling @owenjones84 you could use a similar argument to attack the military overthrow of any other tyranny in history. | ||
| .@Tim_Flatman @jeff_wode given Galloway's recent Assange comments am v relieved he is no longer Labour MP and his views don't reflect on us | ||
| @tomdaviesE17 @jeff_wode more potent of course. But both seek our defeat. | ||
| @jeff_wode depends on what Respect is - left socialist rebels or influenced by undemocratic strands of Leninism and/or Islamism | ||
| @jeff_wode the fault still lay with Galloway's behaviour. No one made him say what he said. Other left MPs opposed war without that language | ||
| @symeonbrown @SeemaChandwani no. I'm on the right of the party but have no problem being in same party as ppl you name. | ||
| @SeemaChandwani @symeonbrown local impact in Birmingham; reputational risk of previous comments; scepticism re sudden change of heart | ||
| @LabourHistory do you have a stat on how many SDP MPs rejoined Labour? I know John Grant also did. | ||
| .@LabourHistory In the spirit of all the talk about new recruits, it is pleasing to read that he eventually rejoined Labour Party. | ||
| @CalumSPlath @Markfergusonuk indeed, fair comment. Some people have a mid-life political crisis/change of heart! Or their party changes... | ||
| @CalumSPlath @Markfergusonuk good. Does beg question why she was in Respect (initially w SWP et al) and not Labour in 1st place. | ||
| @CalumSPlath @Markfergusonuk but we have to also define left + right boundaries to our tent ie belief in social justice + democracy | ||
| @CalumSPlath @Markfergusonuk I was on NEC Bradford panel + interviewed Respect voters. Your reading of their motives is not v accurate. | ||
| @SeemaChandwani @CalumSPlath @DarrellGoodliff democratic socialism and communism/revolutionary socialism r 2 entirely separate ideologies | ||
| @DarrellGoodliff @CalumSPlath I haven't called for anyone to be excluded. All I've asked for is Birmingham LP to be consulted! | ||
| @CalumSPlath @DarrellGoodliff I wasn't talking about Salma. But you can stand in elections whilst not believing in democracy eg BNP | ||
| @CalumSPlath @DarrellGoodliff democracy is a key value as well as social justice hence revolutionaries not welcome | ||
| @RachaelSaunders good for him/her. Newham cllr ones I think have stayed Labour? I was on panel that let them in. | ||
| @DPJHodges @sunny_hundal didn't planning for 7/7 start b4 Afghanistan or Iraq wars? | ||
| @Alex_Bjarnason @SaraLBA @johnlyndon1 why does PSC logo appear to show one state? | ||
| @CalumSPlath we have a very friendly and politically diverse CLP in Hackney North - new activist v welcome | ||
| @OllieVargas if my union, Unite, balloted its members and they decided to support it, so would I | ||
| @Alex_Bjarnason is that the line? | ||
| @davidosler I assumed it was a kind of organisational transitional demand - called 4 as known to be impossible for leaders to deliver | ||
| I always assumed 'general strike now' was a Trot slogan not an actual tactical proposition. | ||
| @OwenJones84 does "v hostile to SWP" mean what they are AWL/Socialist Organiser??? | ||
| @OwenJones84 I've now read the NUS NEC motion. Backs a TUC rally in Manchester on 29/1. The event in London clashed with it. | ||
| @dermotfinch @j_freedland he took time out (possibly didn't need that much) to beat me in the NEC election :( | ||
| @Tara_Hewitt @MWheeler25 any organisation should have right to intervene in electoral politics if feels key to advancing its agenda | ||
| @Tara_Hewitt @MWheeler25 effectively the Labour affiliated unions are constituent parts of a party, same as CLPs are | ||
| @Tara_Hewitt @MWheeler25 I disagree w PCS decision to field candidates but have right to do it, just as other TUs set up Labour | ||
| @Tara_Hewitt @MWheeler25 that's what "affiliated political fund" means - affiliated to Labour Party. | ||
| @Tara_Hewitt @MWheeler25 when you joined UNISON the form actually offered you choice of Labour Affiliated Political Fund or Non-APF. V clear | ||
| @OwenJones84 what is the nature of the 2 days of action? Who called them? And what was nature of backing asked for? | ||
| @OwenJones84 I'd need to know details of what the vote was about today | ||
| @OwenJones84 does that mean he was elected on a Labour ticket? Silly question... | ||
| Very proud of 30 ish of my Hackney Lab comrades braving rain tonight for last push for Thursday's New River by-election. | ||
| @Jefflet my partner @lablinda75 grew up on the Cutteslowe estate in the street the infamous wall used to divide (was gone by then) | ||
| @Doyle282 definitely no one to equal him. His speech to Labour Party Conference was the best I have ever heard. | ||
| Hooray! | ||
| @SephRBrown agreeing with Barak I think. | ||
| Writing about Hugh Gaitskell for @ProgressOnline . He seemed more worthy of a column than the flotsam and jetsam being reshuffled today. | ||
| @chrisshipitv Labour right finds that reassuring too (Trident) | ||
| @OliverMilne no, I just stuck it into a seat prediction model. So just rule of thumb. | ||
| Effect of allegedly more "Labour-friendly" Cable replacing Clegg would be 23 fewer Labour MPs, 15 more Tories, if u run YouGov numbers | ||
| @Ianrosmarin I will take a look! | ||
| Amazed YouGov seen as surprise when it is basically the numbers anyone who knows party might have guessed 3 months ago. | ||
| @olafcramme be interesting to see how many of the far left people who were celebrating PvdA eclipse will report this | ||
| @chrisrumfitt wow, this is the "diet Tory" version is it? Feels v similar to Thatcherism. | ||
| @chrisrumfitt correct but no one made LDs go in with Tories. Could have done confidence + supply and vetoed bad legislation like NHS bill | ||
| @chrisrumfitt meanwhile attacking LDs helps reduce chance they will hold balance of power | ||
| @chrisrumfitt I think unlikely that in a hung parl Lab + Con would be balanced so that LDs can choose between the 2. | ||
| @chrisrumfitt our job as a big party is to work out how to reverse that. We have a binary choice of govt: Labour or Con/LD Coalition | ||
| @chrisrumfitt I don't think trends in politics are irreversible. Only 20 years ago academics said Labour might never win again | ||
| @chrisrumfitt no, I think it is possible to remove them from board. 2010 was equivalent of them landing on Mayfair with 2 hotels on it. | ||
| My blog post on the Lib Dems: http://t.co/9NWRUe7Q | ||
| @DAaronovitch not as unhappy as would be if Green policy of compulsory vegan school dinner once a week was implemented | ||
| @StuartWilksHeeg @democraticaudit level of activism is a consistent ratio of 1 active member for every 10 with a party card | ||
| @StuartWilksHeeg @democraticaudit also the historic membership numbers 4 Labour r inflated as used to say each CLP had at least 1,000 mems | ||
| Fed up with assertions rather than evidence: http://lukeakehurst.blogspot.com/2010/09/politics-of-unsubstantiated-assertions.html | ||
| Q How many SWPers does it take to change a lightbulb? A Don't change it, smash it. Sums up their contrib to student cause today. | ||
| @ja_bateson indeed | ||
| @JamesLewisLab indeed. What with those 2 and Merlyn Rees Leeds has quite a tradition of good sense. | ||
| Anyone know which Trot faction has caused the trouble today? Is it AWL or SWSS or both? Or do they have new names. Expect same old people. | ||
| That was superb. | ||
| @TexPat78 indeed! | ||
| Brilliant. | ||
| @alexsobel I have the odd feeling of actually being lucky to have had my period of severe disability b4 this lot slashed all the support | ||
| @CalumSPlath @sam_woodcock @mikeeakins @cnduk they don't want to switch career not least as many are ex-military + want to stay involved | ||
| @CalumSPlath @sam_woodcock @mikeeakins @cnduk I know lots of ppl who work in defence industry. They are proud to contribute to nat security. | ||
| @CalumSPlath @sam_woodcock @mikeeakins @cnduk there will be Unite and GMB members from BAE and Rolls on demo. You want to axe their jobs. | ||
| @CalumSPlath @sam_woodcock @mikeeakins @cnduk I think contributing to national security through deterrence is one of the most moral careers | ||
| @jonathanmcshane me too. As I am obviously soooo interested in football. And not his club if I was. | ||
| @CNDuk I am sure highly skilled defence engineers can't wait to downgrade to other jobs. Not. | ||
| @sam_woodcock @CalumSPlath @mikeeakins @cnduk and big footprint in Derby (Rolls sub engines) + Berkshire (AWE) too. | ||
| @CalumSPlath @MikeEakins @CNDuk if you want to cut Trident organise a cut Trident march, don't hijack a march for jobs and growth | ||
| Put my number in NEC booklet. First and only call just now: @johnprescott called - voting 4 me cos I said proud of lab govt | ||
| @new_art_riot and Phoenix, Fleadh and Tribal Gathering. Lab Students used to fundraise by providing volunteer stewards. | ||
| @alexsobel I got the highest mark ever recorded in the stewards' training exam! | ||
| @Rowan_Draper @SeemaChandwani actually disagree, Labour right aren't centrist, are still to left of UK political spectrum | ||
| @Mr_Chas indeed. Nothing is too good for the workers. | ||
| I'm at the Whitstable Lobster Shack. A good place to be. | ||
| @nanthony1987 @DarrellGoodliff also it's not about courting the City it's about courting a rightly cautious, sceptical electorate. | ||
| @DarrellGoodliff we've tried that before. When offered that choice the Tories win. | ||
| I agree with this: http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2010/sep/08/labour-leadership-ed-miliband | ||
| @hopisen you have my vote | ||
| @antoniabance oh! We have whole of August recess for council + party - no activity at all... assumed it was standard. Was wrong! | ||
| @Ontablets thanks | ||
| @antoniabance planning committee in August?? Does Oxford CC not have a recess month? | ||
| @benabyad to fellow co-operators as I am a Co-op member | ||
| @benabyad don't forget the Israeli chocolates and sweets. Co-op staff loved them. | ||
| @LukeBozier agreed | ||
| @RCMoya612 @SephRBrown @ShellyAsquith @andrewspoooner any land swaps would also be product of negotiation | ||
| @RCMoya612 @SephRBrown @ShellyAsquith @andrewspoooner but creating a Palestinian state (which I support) 4 1st time is also redrawing map | ||
| @lbutcheruk @SephRBrown @ShellyAsquith @andrewspoooner no but I am glad Israel defeated the genocidal 1967 attempt to destroy it | ||
| @SephRBrown @CllrWalshaw @ShellyAsquith @andrewspoooner no, peace is possible with land swaps. | ||
| @ShellyAsquith @andrewspoooner @sephrbrown big diff between large long-standing ones near green line + maverick outposts | ||
| @ShellyAsquith @andrewspoooner I would personally like land swaps so Israel keeps small areas of the West Bank it needs for secure borders | ||
| @andrewspoooner it's a boycott of all products by the 4 main Israeli agricultural exporters. | ||
| @andrewspoooner some of them probably will be part of Israel thru land swaps in any negotiated final status tho | ||
| @a_y_alex @seancourt agreed but a state helps provide that | ||
| .@seancourt odd to hear you would make assumptions about my ethnicity and/or faith based on one of my political views. | ||
| @KrisSaunders24 the pics were allegedly taken by people he was partying with | ||
| @DelroyBooth in that case you should be inside the Labour Party trying to out vote ppl like me. You would probably win most of time. | ||
| @DelroyBooth what political ideology do you support by the way? Are you a Leninist? | ||
| @TheMainstand no, not encountered him | ||
| @DelroyBooth because obviously they would base their views of Labour on their reaction to a backbench local councillor's tweets | ||
| @SephRBrown given extension of policy this year my concern is it is just a second a step towards full boycott. All part of delegit | ||
| .@tomburke999 learn some manners. Your addition of abusive language detracts from the points you make and makes you look ignorant. | ||
| @jonlansman I do worry you are a bit obsessed by me. The attention is very gratifying but how many blog posts am I really worthy of? | ||
| .@tomburke999 thanks for that thoughtful and comradely contribution to the complex debate on the Middle East. | ||
| @jonlansman you would think the people behind BDS would have tried to be a bit more sensitive about tactics they chose given their target? | ||
| @jonlansman and its the use of boycotts against Jewish targets - eg the only Jewish state - that has ugly historical echoes | ||
| @carolewilliams my ward where I'm cllr has good mtgs, so does SNC where I live, so does GC. I look forward to all of them. | ||
| @SephRBrown that was a joke. Just feeling a bit left out and that as a blogger who is on Labour NEC might have had something to contribute | ||
| @InsideHoops thanks | ||
| @KevinMorton1966 talking to people who are Labour. What's not to like? | ||
| @SephRBrown I would have backed it and promoted it if whoever organised it had contacted me. Disappointed not to be able to contribute. | ||
| @Jessica_Asato I need an oldfashioned email, letter or facebook invite or call before putting an event in my diary | ||
| @Jessica_Asato probably more that until today I didn't understand what it was | ||
| @tomdaviesE17 read my blog. Plenty of attacks on Tories and particularly LDs (the latter before it was fashionable). | ||
| @redrenie24 previous plan was to get 100 done by end of this year incl some non-winnables | ||
| @redrenie24 there hasn't been an NEC meeting since the LDs came out against the boundary changes | ||
| @redrenie24 no | ||
| Been away so catching up on August council by-election results: http://t.co/HrLiB6ov | ||
| @UnionArbeiter and Nora and I are both Labour | ||
| @UnionArbeiter Mensch is wrong on other stuff should still aplaud her for being right on this | ||
| @UnionArbeiter @NoraMulready and your point is? | ||
| @alexsobel fascinating as describes same stuff I've just been reading in Robert Service Trotsky biog | ||
| Heading back to London after 3 days in Oxford through glorious sunny countryside. | ||
| @TomHarrisMP that is also an argument for not electing the Commons either. But I presume you don't support that. | ||
| @MediocreDave @animeirl @dotcormunism @FrFintonStack @aliciapees that's what the embourgeoisement theory in psephology says. | ||
| @freericeforyou I am and I do. As do millions like me. | ||
| @animeirl @dotcormunism @MediocreDave @FrFintonStack @aliciapees the petty bourgeoisie due to widespread property + share ownership | ||
| @MrHeliotrope ppl w no property only their labour to sell | ||
| @MediocreDave @dotcormunism @aliciapees it will be replaced because of the poverty and inequality causes. But long way off, democratically | ||
| @MediocreDave @dotcormunism @aliciapees no. I don't think human society will have capitalist economic system for ever. | ||
| @MediocreDave @FrFintonStack @dotcormunism @aliciapees hence interim stage of dictatorship of proletariat. Which is as gross as sounds. | ||
| @MediocreDave @FrFintonStack @dotcormunism @aliciapees sadly people don't want to give all they r able + only get back what need | ||
| @JamesAsser nothing to what mine is. | ||
| @FrFintonStack @dotcormunism @aliciapees @MediocreDave but the economics of communism usually leads to coercion + violence | ||
| @lukeshore @RCMoya612 because the alternatives don't work very well + require massive coercion + violence | ||
| @dotcormunism @aliciapees the red flag and the CP holding every seat in parliament are a bit of a giveaway. | ||
| @cjmclellan would u mind taking it out on the people I am arguing with? | ||
| @WGLloyd thanks for that reasoned contribution to the debate | ||
| @_manes_ @Hayrr I do apologise for wanting to stay alive. | ||
| @lukeshore Nordic countries have managed it. Social democracy. It works. | ||
| @WGLloyd USSR. Was the real choice US and UK faced. | ||
| @MatthewSDent even I'm getting bored | ||
| @lukeshore equality and social justice. | ||
| @WINDY_BUTT when up against USSR, yes. | ||
| @Hayrr I know that. Hence trying to stop it. | ||
| @SteveHartUnite Obama. Assuming that was question. Putin's recent behaviour suggests Russia still the problem. | ||
| @NiklasNrdstrm these are ones on our party's hard left who favour dialogue with Respect and talk of plural left | ||
| @himwiththecyst since when did using the C word as an insult become socially acceptable, particularly on the left? | ||
| @SeemaChandwani do what? Wind everyone up? | ||
| @danielblaney @JHepplestone @susanhebden with other parties (non-Communists) able to freely contest them? | ||
| @ctmflanagan no - democracy is more than just 1 vote - is about a long term democratic constitution + entrenched human rights | ||
| @OwenJones84 @TheWilk @DawnHFoster Cuba has gulags. Was therefore surprised to see it being defend today as an example of "good" communism | ||
| @ChrispLOL it's the eternal battle to safeguard democracy. | ||
| @danielblaney @owenjones84 I'm happy to let my voting record on issues of party democracy speak for itself | ||
| My ability to upset people by saying the obvious - that democratic socialists should hate totalitarian ideas like Leninism - seems undimmed | ||
| @OwenJones84 @TheWilk @DawnHFoster and I want ppl to understand that being on the left should involve rejecting anti-democratic ideologies | ||
| @Iukenukem until 4th October, sorry to disappoint you | ||
| @DelroyBooth @susanhebden if it does it shouldn't. I don't hold any position of influence over Progress and never have. | ||
| @susanhebden @jhepplestone @katiecurtis I've not been to Burma, N Korea, Saudi Arabia, Iran either but have right to condemn their regimes | ||
| @susanhebden @jhepplestone @katiecurtis could be paradise on earth but if population aren't free + can't vote it stinks. | ||
| @susanhebden @jhepplestone @katiecurtis why support it when you haven't been there? It is a dictatorship. Nullifies any good points. | ||
| @susanhebden @jhepplestone @katiecurtis I will wait to go to Cuba when its free. Find hols in dictatorships unpleasant + morally troubling. | ||
| @JHepplestone @susanhebden @katiecurtis yes, some of us have endured this nonsense twice | ||
| @HarryTGTaylor @susanhebden @jhepplestone @katiecurtis as Communism based on dialectical materialism ie more material wellbeing 4 workers | ||
| @HarryTGTaylor @susanhebden @jhepplestone @katiecurtis surely bit of a problem w any regime that can't give ppl material goods + nice food? | ||
| @susanhebden @jhepplestone @katiecurtis without (social) democracy to ameliorate it, yes free market capitalism is evil | ||
| @susanhebden @jhepplestone @katiecurtis No. Democratic socialism good. Communism evil. | ||
| @HarryTGTaylor @susanhebden @jhepplestone @katiecurtis and if Cuba is so great, how come it has so many refugees fleeing it? | ||
| @HarryTGTaylor @susanhebden @jhepplestone @katiecurtis I'm sure the ppl are great. That's why they shd be allowed freedom + democracy. | ||
| @susanhebden @jhepplestone @katiecurtis the ppl in current CPB - Hudson, Murray etc were not EuroCommunists - were pro-Moscow hardliners | ||
| .@leftfutures it's very simple - when Labour is running in an election don't give platforms to or promote its opponents. Ever. | ||
| Are the rumours that Socialist Action/IMG are doing parallel entryism into Labour AND Respect true? | ||
| Are CND members happy that their Gen Secretary is moonlighting as Galloway's Respect candidate in a by-election? | ||
| .@leftfutures wow you just published a self-promotional post by the Respect candidate running against Labour in a key by-election. | ||
| .@conradlandin wow you just re-tweeted a self-promotional post by the Respect candidate running against Labour in a key by-election. | ||
| @MsIntervention @TomHarrisMP ie a list of gobby people with zero political influence | ||
| @ajcdeane kids in restaurants are part of Italian culture. Personally I like it and did even b4 I had 2 kids. | ||
| @itsdavegreen @conradlandin @leftfutures Was an email from Ken sent out by GLLP on 8th as Dave says. I got it, so did other ppl in Hackney. | ||
| @Alex_Bjarnason @TalOfer coffee | ||
| Sorry to hear former MP for Hull West Lord Stuart Randall has died. He was very supportive of pro-EU young ppl in Labour when I was in NOLS. | ||
| @DanRRatcliffe @richardmarcj not scrapped, just think it should be part of Labour Students like every other Labour Club | ||
| @DanRRatcliffe @richardmarcj where I come from you don't scab on national organisations you are part of | ||
| @DanRRatcliffe @richardmarcj I live in Hackney so not really tuned into places like Cambridge University, nor wanting to be by sounds of it | ||
| @TPAdams @jonwillchambers using same argument would be OK for CLPs to accept affiliation by branches of non-affiliated TUs. | ||
| @jonwillchambers as a chippy Oxbridge reject I am also sceptical about attitude that thinks a single club has status beyond national body | ||
| @jonwillchambers the legitimacy to call yourself a Labour Club comes from being a branch of NOLS, just as a CLP's comes from being pt of LP | ||
| @jonwillchambers my experience in NOLS office 17 years ago was that 3 national officers left us very stretched. Assume as busy now. | ||
| @jonwillchambers other than the rulebook the CLP operates does not allow for affiliation by random groups of students as opp 2 NOLS branches | ||
| @jonwillchambers and their call for OMOV is not realistic in a student organisation with a very limited income | ||
| @jonwillchambers their primary complaint seems to be uncontested national elections. Why didn't they solve that by running as candidates? | ||
| @johnmcternan @martinkettle should admit I was taught economics by Dr Roger Berry b4 he was an MP so theories may have been tad Keynesian | ||
| @PSCupdates following does not indicate support. And you have 4000 followers not 40000. | ||
| Corby shows NEC was absolutely correct to push ahead with early selections - we had candidate in place so been able to get campaigning fast | ||
| Galloway position on Tibet bizarre. Supposed anti-imperialist supports Chinese imperialism and colonisation of Tibet. | ||
| Something I did for first and last time yesterday: eat jellied eels | ||
| Sat on the harbour arm in Margate looking at beautiful sunset | ||
| Traffic brings home disabilty to me. I don't have option of getting out of cab and walking. | ||
| @teaandfred I have! | ||
| Support I voted for Ed Miliband, add a #twibbon to your avatar now! - http://twb.ly/atoovL | ||
| @PeterKenyon peter if you read my article that's exactly what it calls for | ||
| @MichaelLCrick my own CLP went up from 560 to 980 mems in 2010, now drifted down to high 800s. | ||
| Having lunch with my brother and his family at Osteria Posillipo overlooking the sea in Broadstairs | ||
| @davidaslindsay @ProgressOnline @lukeakehurst @DPJHodges David, Third Place First is NOT a Progress campaign. Is non-factional. | ||
| @gordonlyew1 @dreoinclarke I think very damaging to CND cause in Labour that their GS is running as a Respect candidate | ||
| @gordonlyew1 @dreoinclarke Kate Hudson, Gen Sec of CND. Who I actually like + get on with on personal level, but no friend of Labour. | ||
| @DrEoinClarke but she has joined Twitter to promote fact she is standing against Labour as Respect candidate for Man C. | ||
| @DrEoinClarke I was being facetious! My mum and dad read it and they are socialists. | ||
| @DrEoinClarke all good people already boycott the Daily Mail | ||
| @leftfutures don't be daft | ||
| @hexter8 @keithdibs No I am only as far as Walton on Thames. | ||
| @DrEoinClarke it's not the govt that are running the opening ceremony. Fairly clear from rehersals Danny Boyle is on left. | ||
| @LabourHistory no | ||
| @LucyMPowell no he announced stepping down as MP at 2015 GE. | ||
| Sorry 2 hear Dennis Skinner is retiring. On NEC he is consistently wise, sensible and also very funny. Always thinks what's best for Labour | ||
| @RedRobertino if u r "NL" does that make me "OLR"? | ||
| @Bickerrecord Georgia and US State of Georgia could be difficult too ... | ||
| @epictrader want way forward negotiated with SDLP - support right of NI LP members to run, esp in council and assembly as PR | ||
| @SuperPhi1618 @Dr_Ellie @CooperativeFood the Co-Op boycott is of all produce from 4 Israeli firms, not just settlement produce | ||
| @WarGit 1h3m | ||
| @DermotKehoe shocking. | ||
| @clissoldkaren welcome! | ||
| @Sarah_Hayward @OwenJones84 @RichardAngell wow are those the options available? ;) | ||
| @SuperPhi1618 @CooperativeFood @Dr_Ellie if it is illegal why wouldn't UK Govt ban such imports | ||
| @Efrogwraig @wesstreeting I really hate the way the Murray article implies those of us who send our kids to state schools letting them down | ||
| .@CooperativeFood currently trying to justify to @Dr_Ellie why they boycott Israeli companies but not Syrian ones. Unjustifiable. | ||
| A shame that otherwise admirable @CooperativeFood has adopted a ridiculous + partisan boycott policy vs 4 Israeli companies - see @Dr_Ellie | ||
| Surely whole point about SPADs is supposed to be personal political allies of minister. Policy advice comes from civil service. | ||
| @DuncanWeldon definitely | ||
| Dinner with comrade who reminded me that in 1947 despite huge national debt UK had 10 battleships and 22 aircraft carriers | ||
| @MrAverage2 @petercoles44 and if C2DE voters voted as much as ABC1s. | ||
| @sunny_hundal @DrEoinClarke agreed. I wasn't a fan of much of the public service reform agenda as I think u know. | ||
| @SeemaChandwani you had me for a minute. V mean! | ||
| @SeemaChandwani he seems to be replying! | ||
| .@DrEoinClarke talking down what we did for poorest in UK depresses turnout and depresses hope. We shd be proud of what we did. | ||
| .@DrEoinClarke in 1 ward 2 brand new secondary schools, a brand new primary school bdg, children centre, police office, playgrounds refurbed | ||
| .@DrEoinClarke in my own council ward which is 1 of most deprived in UK there were massive targeted interventions to help poorest. | ||
| .@DrEoinClarke hi Eoin I think it is unfortunate u have taken 1 measure - raw personal disposable income - + used it 2 say Lab govt ... | ||
| @Rowan_Draper @MikeEakins @CllrJamesDawson @sarahbrown1984 the idea that "local" is a key criteria is a very new and anti-political one. | ||
| @Rowan_Draper @MikeEakins @CllrJamesDawson @sarahbrown1984 correct definition of parachute is a last minute imposed cand. Hardly eva happens | ||
| @Rowan_Draper @MikeEakins @CllrJamesDawson @sarahbrown1984 need to stop misusing word "parachute" to describe non-local candidates | ||
| @LabLinda75 I find that reassuring | ||
| @ashmcgregor @JohannaBaxter some of the national officers of BAME Labour are co-optees on the Community Campaigning Sub-Ctttee | ||
| Extremely jealous that @LabLinda75 and Jed are off to Olympic Opening Ceremony Rehearsal - but I am on baby duty which is fun too... | ||
| @AlanScobbie @vmrampulla most CLPs I know are desperate for new council candidates esp now we r gaining seats | ||
| @martinbright I thought we should have gradually expanded it and nationalised the private sector by stages | ||
| @ChrispLOL @RDStalker @emilyhewson @Markfergusonuk ... Probably have been a nicer person! ;) That's what @lablinda75 thinks ... | ||
| @AlanScobbie @Markfergusonuk when AEEU was around + fielding moderate candidates e.g. Tom Watson they won loads of selections | ||
| @AlanScobbie @Markfergusonuk actually its down to TUs putting up candidates politically out of tune w members who do the selecting | ||
| @Markfergusonuk probably unenforceable in law as impossible to get an agreed definition of "working class | ||
| @david_taylor @itsdavegreen would also be about what was politically acceptable to voters, party in country and PLP. | ||
| @itsdavegreen say we are on 297 and need 300 wouldn't we work w 4 SDLP not 20 LDs? | ||
| @tooPsychedout we have FPTP though - so we have to operate in it. Was against coalition w LDs led by Clegg and Orange Bookers. | ||
| @bliss_LDN @rita_krshn @LondonMetUni thanks for info. Good to know grassroots sports ppl like Takashi have had chance to carry torch | ||
| My week in politics: http://t.co/fsd1Cy0m | ||
| @PlatoSays also the state already coughed up 12 bn so 700m is nugatory. | ||
| @PlatoSays problem seems to me that their marketing budgets are paying, rather than it being donations from their CSR budgets | ||
| One Hackney parade was great. Now lunching w kids and @lablinda75 at Il Bacio Express b4 torch comes past. | ||
| Just had excellent steak at Hix restaurant in Smithfield with former Hackney campaigning and housing policy guru Simon Matthews | ||
| @scott993 @tom_watson drop me an email so I can put you in touch w relevant staff | ||
| @johnmcternan to paraphrase Lloyd Bentsen: I backed Blair, unfortunately DM has many qualities but he ain't Blair. | ||
| My concerns re, the limits of triangulation as a strategy for Labour: http://lukeakehurst.blogspot.com/2010/08/limits-of-triangulation.html | ||
| @RedRobertino I can't believe in "change" if is shorthand for triangulation with Cameron's policies | ||
| Split in Hard Left continues - Shawcroft resigns from LRC: http://t.co/GL3nPVEQ | ||
| Crossing river Medway in glorious evening sun. Territory Labour must win to form a govt. | ||
| @RafaDavies think I have a chance of taking 6th seat but if do will be by fingertips | ||
| @JamesAsser @andrew4mk it was a volunteer I sent home 4 arriving drunk + climbing up a delay tower | ||
| Having been in NEC meetings from 10am to 6pm, now heading to Hackney Labour Group. Annoyed as wanted to go home between to see kids. | ||
| @MichaelLCrick about 80 LD members per constituency so in most of country they must have no organisation at all | ||
| @RedRobertino any evidence to support unsubstantiated assertion? Views do not equa facts. | ||
| @bootherstone send me an email luke.akehurst@hackney.gov.uk | ||
| @AndyCharlwood @DAaronovitch @sundersays @j_freedland Marks + Spencer sandwiches were good b4 1995 | ||
| @DPJHodges as Progress Conference is held at TUC HQ and its political weekend at an NUT premises that unity already expressed. | ||
| @Rosiecosy will try to join in | ||
| @Rosiecosy sounds great | ||
| @RobMcKellar @Katie_Cronin @NTnewseditor u need to work out vote share in multi-seat elections based on either highest per party or average | ||
| @alexbrooks @Gail_McDade I think he added all the 2011 Labour votes in a 3 member ward together which would inflate our 2011 share by X3 | ||
| @mbeevor though no point doing that on Twitter as none of us have followers who are Tory/Lab swing voters - Twitter is basically online GC | ||
| @GaeMar01 @danielblaney @mehdirhasan @TomHarrisMP @steve_race don't agree. If all cared about was winning, would have stayed out of Iraq. | ||
| @conradlandin good answer | ||
| @Rosiecosy there's room in party for ppl w all sorts of reasons to join. I joined cos hated Thatcher + inspired by Kinnock. | ||
| @conradlandin I was in the hall. | ||
| @LissyNumber @AynRand4Lyfe the rationale I remember at time was threat of future development of WMD. | ||
| @LissyNumber @AynRand4Lyfe killed 90% by the insurgents. Would you blame Allies for ppl the Axis powers killed in WW2? | ||
| @BenPWilkin yes | ||
| @Rosiecosy pleased you have joined it is obvious from your tweets you are very committed | ||
| @dan_mccurry it was Ed who announced it | ||
| @paul_trembath @ReformAgenda @Liza_Harding see my Twitter feed - YouGov 2010 and 2011 | ||
| @anthonyjwells @callum_TH @OwenJones84 thanks Anthony. | ||
| @benfolley @Rosiecosy even exceeds our 1500 in the 2 Hackney CLPs. But Camden even bigger. | ||
| @Callum_TH @OwenJones84 what would have changed public perception of TB since late 2010? Would expect more "don't knows" as interest fades. | ||
| . @callum_TH @OwenJones84 57pc think Blair likeable, 43pc principled, 50pc good rep for UK but 44pc think dishonest | ||
| . @callum_TH @OwenJones84 we know what ppl think of Blair as YouGov polled on it in 2010. Divided - 47pc think he was good PM, 46pc not. | ||
| @TomMillerUK you are on the rational left though Tom. | ||
| @OwenJones84 it's our vote relative to Tories that counts - not raw number - otherwise 1951 and 1992 wd be triumphs | ||
| @Johnny_Clements @tomdaviesE17 @owenjones84 you mean 83. They opposed Kinnock's 83-87 reforms + expulsion of Militant. | ||
| @Liza_Harding @ridavaquas after 2 years of this awful Tory govt surely u can see contrast w TB years incl low unemployment, hi spending? | ||
| @itsdavegreen my dad is still tractor driving aged 74 - can't afford to retire as no proper pension | ||
| @emilyhewson @Rosiecosy they are meant to extract maximum cash so we ordinary members get the organisers + materials we need | ||
| @DAaronovitch @mehdirhasan @OliverKamm it's not balanced. I get some ppl angry about Iraq but surely they can see all social good TB did. | ||
| @Rosiecosy lots of ppl there will be guests of unions or companies or donors which buy 1 or more whole table | ||
| @Rosiecosy the 500 quid u quoted is for a seat at a basic table at the back - there are special tables u pay more for at front | ||
| @Rosiecosy there is usually a frontbencher on every table + the key stars work the room but focus more on the top price tables ... | ||
| @danielblaney @steve_race @mehdirhasan @DAaronovitch @tomharrismp delicate balance needed to keep 40pc+ coalition from left to Blair fans | ||
| @danielblaney @steve_race @mehdirhasan @DAaronovitch @tomharrismp think Ed M has got the degree of moving on/distance from NL exactly right | ||
| @mehdirhasan @danielblaney @tomharrismp @steve_race but FPTP is game we r playing. If had PR Labour could have a core vote strategy. | ||
| @danielblaney @TomHarrisMP @mehdirhasan @steve_race we got back loads of Iraq protest voters in 2010 but lost loads who had been Lab in 05 | ||
| @danielblaney @TomHarrisMP @mehdirhasan @steve_race from my experience as a PPC in Essex in 2005 Blair lost many votes to right... | ||
| @danielblaney @TomHarrisMP @mehdirhasan @steve_race 2011 survey showed only 7m Brits consider selves on left,of whom 1.8m on "far left | ||
| @Rosiecosy exactly - the tickets themselves raise huge amount then ppl meet Ed and Blair and are asked to pledge more | ||
| @OstendGudgeon @MediocreDave general public, polled in 2011. | ||
| @torbayred that was just one of about 50 received from various people today. | ||
| @simonevans117 @Callum_Munro @johncbayliss she's on Twitter if you want to take this up with her | ||
| @hopisen and Daily Mirror? | ||
| @RoperCarl has there ever been a contested TUC GS election? Interested in the history of it. | ||
| @carolinejmolloy @alexsobel a lot of what the military does is about saving lives. | ||
| NPF recommendations: http://lukeakehurst.blogspot.com/2010/08/npf-recommendations.html | ||
| @UnionKatie @OwenJones84 also have too many sad memories of 1992 to allow myself to get over-optimistic. | ||
| @stackee @Markfergusonuk @sowadally also if we only go local how r ppl from areas we never win or which have long-serving MPs ever selected? | ||
| @stackee @Markfergusonuk @sowadally eg Foot and Callaghan were Welsh MPs but not from Wales, Hattersley moved from Sheffield to Birmingham | ||
| @stackee @Markfergusonuk @sowadally Labour used to have strong tradition where CLPs did not want local MPs but swapped stars w other areas | ||
| @stackee @Markfergusonuk @sowadally I think this is a bit unfair as many London residents have roots elsewhere ... | ||
| @UseTheLeftWing it doesn't, I'm just trying to guess at his motives for supporting residents in being so un-public spirited | ||
| Is Chris Nineham the spokesperson against the Bow Olympic missile defences same guy who used to be on SWP Central Committeee? | ||
| I served Margaret Beckett an Early Starter breakfast when I worked in a Little Chef in 1992 #lametofame | ||
| @The100Worst only #95? Must try harder. | ||
| @CRawlinson87 @jonrogers1963 thanks for the clarification ... | ||
| @david_taylor the problem is the model being proposed - with the 15 year terms - is awful and hardly democratic | ||
| @fatty_m @pwheeler56 yes | ||
| @ChrispLOL sometimes people say or do things that they need to be called out on e.g. Dan Hodges repeatedly | ||
| @fishisoff examples pls? undermines legit criticism of Israel to demonise it and make wild comparisons | ||
| Wow I have now had 2 tweets comparing T Blair to J Stalin. These people need to study history a bit more. | ||
| @Rowan_Draper @adrianmcmenamin Socialist Organiser (AWL) and Militant (RSL) were proscribed in the 1980s. | ||
| @AdamGraySays @JohnSlinger why not invite them all to become members for one pound? | ||
| @JohnSlinger very rare for anyone to make much of where they sit ideologically | ||
| @david_taylor @johnslinger I find the idea that the way to solve low turnout is to double the number of elections logically flawed | ||
| I'm helping staff the Chatham Ward Labour bookstall at St John of Hackney Church Fete. | ||
| @Tweet4Labour @marcusaroberts surely that's something TUs can sort v easily as they have large political funds to support candidates? | ||
| @jonburkeUK @HackneyAbbott do you think Sainsbury wanted "influence" when he gave £45 million to Cambridge University's Botanical Gardens? | ||
| @jonburkeUK @HackneyAbbott I'd rather they donated to us than the Tories or buying extra yachts with it | ||
| @jonburkeUK @HackneyAbbott personally think we should celebrate that there are wealthy people who give to Labour .... | ||
| @jonburkeUK @HackneyAbbott unless we can persuade public to accept state funding then individual major donors will always be part of mix | ||
| @HackneyAbbott he hasn't held a management role at Sainsburys since 1997 - it isn't the company's money | ||
| @HackneyAbbott would you consider the 1 billion Lord Sainsbury has put aside to give to charity tainted "corporate money | ||
| @DuncanWeldon yes extremely well written | ||
| Now for 20 mins on exercise bike while reading Trotsky biography. | ||
| @HackneyAbbott @patrickwintour I think I prefer Ed Miliband's position on question of Progress. And in interests of unity ASLEF should too | ||
| @LabourStudents @livbailey @Emma_ODwyer @Lauren_Crowley @TeddyRyan89 Good luck! Hope you enjoy it as much as I did in 95-96 | ||
| @AlexWhiteUK thanks! | ||
| @AlexWhiteUK @WeBelieveIsrael you need to turn the link into hypertext! | ||
| @torbayred this sets out current Hackney position: http://t.co/UVRcggYP | ||
| @david_taylor they will have to elect their editorial board + give half their income over 25k to party!!! | ||
| @david_taylor @itsdavegreen or Tribune, which holds a rally at conference. Or any number of NGOs and charities. | ||
| @jonlansman Jon, @RichardAngell is a great organisational talent but he does not cost millions of pounds. | ||
| @jonlansman happy to work with anyone issue by issue but will defend Ed's strategy against its critics on left and right | ||
| @jonlansman sadly they spend 99pc of it on think tanky type activity - policy seminars etc. | ||
| @davidaslindsay @DPJHodges I think my politics are nearer to George Brown or Roy Hattersley's than Dan's are. 2 of my heroes. | ||
| Good to see Hackney NHS activist Shirley Murgraff on Newsnight | ||
| @Jessica_Asato what was the result after transfers? | ||
| @conradlandin I think that was last week's fight. We are all united now, only ASLEF submitted a rule change. Do catch up. | ||
| Heading to Birmingham for full day of #NEC panel mtgs with Cllrs, District Party + Labour W Mids staff | ||
| @robbiehibby more seriously I RT if people say I do a good speech because I want to get more invites to speak - so RTs are like good reviews | ||
| @robbiehibby in fairness I retweet the most amusing insults I get too ... | ||
| Thanks to Paul Murphy MP + @NThomasSymonds for welcoming me to Torfaen CLP tonight and to Nick for signed copy of his Attlee biography | ||
| @gordonlyew1 good thanks ... Looking forward to a summer rest! Will be in Birmingham tomorrow on #NEC business. | ||
| Congratulations to Hilary Perrin on her secondment to GMB's political team and 2 Ken Clark on resuming role as Labour London Region Director | ||
| I'm heading to Wales to speak tonight at Torfaen CLP in Pontypool | ||
| Last night's council by-election results - swings vs Tories in all 6: http://t.co/mp3sQlFS | ||
| @SeemaChandwani @johannabaxter Labour Left Briefing is nothing to do with @LabourLeft . | ||
| @chris_underwood no they are having a huge fight about whether to become the LRC's mag or stay independent. There's an overlap. | ||
| Lab Left Briefing says I have "extreme right wing policies" and that I am "against reversing Tory cuts". | ||
| Hackney N CLP elects @IvanaBartoletti as Training Officer, Jermain Jackman as Youth Officer, Mandy Richards as Ethnic Minorities Officer | ||
| Hackney N CLP elects Lisa Calderwood as Treasurer, Sophie Cameron as Women's Officer, Giampi Alhadeff as Events Officer | ||
| Hackney N CLP re-elects Barry Gray as Chair, me as Vice-Chair (membership), Susan Thomas as 2nd Vice-Chair, Greta Karpin as Secretary | ||
| @simonevans117 I hope you will approve them all so they appear on the blog, they may unintentionally reinforce your post | ||
| @SeemaChandwani I will be in the new Hackney South if BC stick to initial proposals they published | ||
| @SeemaChandwani the old CLPs are being abolished by the Party on 31 Dec this year and new ones on BC recommended lines being created | ||
| @antoniabance back in late '90s it was 2 rival sets of rightwingers (AEEU vs Blairites) bullying each other,both courting left as swing vote | ||
| @EquusontheBuses yes its fine | ||
| @EquusontheBuses yes | ||
| @LabourTim at the median point of the British public's opinions. Where else would the centre be? | ||
| @LabourTim you mean my centre-left ideology. No, I just keep ploughing on + have been for 24 years so far. Stamina the key in this game. | ||
| @LabourTim one of the 20 book reading list ppl who do my Labour history session at @ProgressOnline events get given ... | ||
| @LabourTim actually it's a good read about an interesting part of Labour history. Not boring at all. Essential political education. | ||
| @rob_marchant it's important to de escalate things + try to find common ground. We are all in same party! | ||
| @peterward2008 we will be lucky to get 5000 new activists into CLPs from anywhere, let alone one union. But its a good aspiration. | ||
| @peterward2008 agree re. Unite (also my union). Correct stance on this + pol strategy is fine (just don't agree all its objectives). | ||
| @peterward2008 but the organisations that are similar to Progress are all not affiliated. Why pick on 1 when there r 20 non-affil orgs? | ||
| @peterward2008 by the way I would never make a sweeping allegation about whole of LRC as there r some good comrades in it (incl from my CLP) | ||
| @EquusontheBuses @rob_marchant Fightback by @HayteratLords is the other must-read | ||
| @NiklasNrdstrm @simonevans117 if we are not careful we risk throwing away the mature reaction to defeat of last 2 years + poll lead. | ||
| At Hackney Town Hall for Full Council. Nice of @Thercutsnotours to remind me despite NEC result "at least u r still a Hackney cllr"! | ||
| @ShellyAsquith I was only down in my work capacity for TUFI fringe. Shame as sounds like it has been a good week. | ||
| @SephRBrown I think based on @ShellyAsquith 's tweets debate is going on now | ||
| @SephRBrown I was hoping you could tell me! | ||
| From what I can see Unite has voted more moderate of options on table on each of EU, Trident, nuclear power + Labour Party. Good. #upc2012 | ||
| @Andrew_Howell under that rule ppl elected in 1997 landslide would only now be up for re-election ... Mandate? | ||
| I hope #upc2012 delegates will look at this pamphlet b4 voting on Israel boycott motions today: http://t.co/PQTJjsBc | ||
| Arriving in Margate for the weekend #happy | ||
| @smoulderstoat I'm from Chartham, which says it all | ||
| #ff @marcusaroberts if only I'd listened to ALL his advice not just 99pc of it | ||
| @ericjoyce explains why he was so weak in putting the case in 2007 | ||
| @davidabrahams8 @martinbright actually due to the extremely sensible Labour council | ||
| Why do people keep putting a . in front of the @ ? Doesn't seem to do anything. | ||
| @HarryLangford I don't think they are going to. Len was quoted last week saying he wanted to win battle of ideas with Progress not "outlaw | ||
| Watching local news in Cornwall. Key item: world record broken for cooking biggest pasty. No regional stereotypes then... | ||
| Last night's council by-elections: http://t.co/kzJPRklf | ||
| @chrisrumfitt yes I do. Doesn't sound unreasonable to me. | ||
| Good sensible post by John Healey: http://t.co/jwaebRKu | ||
| @david_taylor all except 1 of the non-slate candidates had politics would have fitted into the Lab 1st/Progress slate. Too many sound folk! | ||
| @HackneyUNISON I hope you will ensure you are affiliated to and send delegates to both Hackney CLPs - we want and need your input | ||
| @conradlandin @MichaelLCrick my views are identical to Pete Wheeler's on virtually every subject as far as I am aware | ||
| @tomdaviesE17 of course | ||
| @tomdaviesE17 correct. So like for like in terms of politics. | ||
| @Commuterist actually I'm still a "lame duck" on the NEC until the final day of Party Conference. | ||
| Looks like in losing I have helped bring back some regional balance - political balance stays exactly the same | ||
| Just missed it. Well done Peter Wheeler! | ||
| @Scarletstand @marcusaroberts could you two operate like the Pools Panel for determining notional contests? | ||
| @BenCooper86 Unite said today they will not vote w Unison + GMB on this | ||
| @ericjoyce what's changed since 2007 vote? If anything strategic threats are greater eg Russian strategic posture more aggressive | ||
| @SeemaChandwani @DavidLammy shouldn't play off different public services vs each other. We need Trident and police. | ||
| @tom_watson but our SDR should't include trident as eric suggests, as was already voted on by parliament after huge debate | ||
| @Progressonline labour shd be trying change attitudes of public. Tory attempts to compare keynesian deficit spending to personal debt absurd | ||
| @teaandfred he was the best of the choices available. | ||
| Pleased to see my own union Unite seems to be taking a more commonsense approach re Progress. Makes me happy I voted for Len to be GS! | ||
| @PutneyDebates no that's outsourcing which I would look at case by case on its merits | ||
| @PutneyDebates moving something from public to private ownership. | ||
| @LukePlace correct. My instinct is Pete Willsman will come 6th and me 7th. | ||
| @gezkirby I think you would expect me to comment on a direct attack on an organisation which is supporting me in a current internal election | ||
| @gezkirby my main comment on the matter has been to write a blog post calling for GMB and Progress to work together | ||
| @GuidoFawkes anti-totalitarians need to be consistent. I'm against Pinochet AND Castro; against communism + fascism. | ||
| Deplorable that public statements stoking an internal fight r being made on day we are launching our PCC candidates. | ||
| Why aren't the unions bringing positive policy on public sector pay to conference rather than rule changes vs ppl who disagree with them? | ||
| If I understand the latest intervention correctly Ed Balls (Brownite) is controlled by Progress (Blairite). Would be funny if not serious. | ||
| @tobyperkinsmp @markferguson highest one I have heard is 51pc in S Yorks which was a 4-way contest | ||
| Has anyone managed to work out turnout in PCC selections? Key indicator of what might happen in NEC contest (higher turnout helps moderates) | ||
| @Sodze @Labourpaul @alunmichaelmp @talmichael Shneur as your dad inherited his council ward from u u r not really in a position to criticise | ||
| @OwenJones84 no I don't think the SI should ever have had ruling parties from dictatorships in it. Was gross. | ||
| @carolinejmolloy Waltham Forest was a hung council until 2010 | ||
| @PutneyDebates please tell me about New Lab "privatisation". Only one I can think of was NATS. | ||
| @stephenpunter I agree, minimum membership fee is set too high | ||
| @bunjiweb there's a difference between diff quality of life + establishing a minimum level no citizen has to live below | ||
| Ed "I'm for more ppl coming into Labour not excluding ppl | ||
| Ed on excellent form today. | ||
| I don't want anyone in the UK to be in poverty whether they are working or not. | ||
| Enjoyed chairing education + skills policy seminar at #NPF w @StephenTwigg | ||
| @rob_marchant Tessa hasn't gone to Lords. Dames are not peers. | ||
| @mallfields London has 5 delegates on NPF,same as each other region | ||
| Anyone else getting 0803 from Euston to #NPF ? | ||
| @ppvernon congratulations Patrick! | ||
| @WaseemZaffar congratulations Waseem on your MBE | ||
| On my way to #NPF in Birmingham. | ||
| We are celebrating CLP Secretary Greta Karpin's 80th birthday w other Clissold Ward Cllrs + their spouses | ||
| @NE28_Politburo because I draw a distinction between democratic socialists and communists | ||
| @TomMillerUK @cjmclellan @sunny_hundal @OwenJones84 people join Progress to express support for what it stands for not control it | ||
| @cjmclellan @susanhebden which is why I changed the content so that it made the general not specific message | ||
| Great column by @labourpaul http://t.co/jLc7so9n | ||
| @NE28_Politburo yes | ||
| @alanrlaing @LabLinda75 thanks Alan what a nice thing to say! | ||
| @AlunHayes no, standard electoral commission reporting of donations rules apply | ||
| @TristanLearoyd no I wasn't, was elected to NEC at same time Ed M was elected Leader | ||
| @TristanLearoyd thank you for your positive intervention. | ||
| @AmandaRamsay wednesday 12 noon | ||
| Thanks to everyone who has voted for me. | ||
| Final chance to vote online in NEC elections by 12 noon today. | ||
| Delicious free dinner thanks to Linda foraging for mussels on St Ives' Porthgwiden beach | ||
| @HarryLangford there doesn't need to be given the balance of votes at Annual Conference | ||
| @alexsobel @hopisen @DPJHodges I'm a realistic optimist | ||
| @SeemaChandwani @BenCooper86 you must be following different people | ||
| @SeemaChandwani @BenCooper86 actually debate tonight is hi-brow and interesting one about ideology | ||
| @DPJHodges @hopisen probably better that I just pretend you hadn't told me it exists | ||
| @Commsdan @DPJHodges what's point being in politics if you have to "keep quiet"? Might as well go into accountancy! | ||
| @Commsdan @DPJHodges wish someone had told me about this "keeping quiet" tactic. Must try it sometime. | ||
| @hopisen @DPJHodges never heard of it until now. | ||
| @DPJHodges @commsdan should she be saying something? | ||
| @DPJHodges @hopisen who or what is "Shifting Grounds"? | ||
| @DPJHodges @Commsdan you are being unduly pessimistic. Loads of people incl MPs have joined Progress this week. | ||
| @Commsdan it's not that Progress per se have influence, left r frustrated that Ed M + Ed B are sensible so ascribing this to "dark forces | ||
| @Rosiecosy I know and I'm grateful for your support and respectful of your position of wanting a diverse NEC | ||
| @RDStalker @Rosiecosy @doktordunc I'm v concious I get nominations + votes from ppl who like my work but not all my politics | ||
| @Rosiecosy @doktordunc yes we all agree on core values + fight elections together. But there are genuine internal differences of opinion. | ||
| A nice endorsement from a CLP Secretary: http://t.co/AhXysvdw | ||
| @Rosiecosy @doktordunc if it is true of all of them then surely a clear indication of their politics helps pick which 6 to vote for? | ||
| @Rosiecosy go for it, but not being an "independent" doesn't mean I'm not an individual with independent views. No one tells me how to vote | ||
| @Rosiecosy but candidates being upfront about where they stand helps people choose. | ||
| @Rosiecosy it's clear many members want a mix of voices from across spectrum, others want a particular set. Both legitimate choices. | ||
| @Rosiecosy they are an opportunity for members to say the kind of Labour Party they want and the voices they want leading it. | ||
| @Rosiecosy yes but those are the shared values of entire party. Internal elections are about direction party takes within spectrum of those | ||
| @Rosiecosy I hope we are all team Labour whatever particular strand within party we identify with (or none) | ||
| @Rosiecosy fine if ppl want to run as individuals but I don't - it's not just about me as an individual it's about values I stand for | ||
| Very proud to be part of a team running for NEC which isn't just about @ProgressOnline but is broad coalition of mainstream Labour people | ||
| @grahamemorris I am happy to settle for the 2010 result again but other candidates maybe less so | ||
| @Kate_Butler it is quite possible that both me and @JohannaBaxter can be elected this time as lots of ppl seem to be voting 4 both of us | ||
| @alexsobel @KatRRose @AndyCharlwood actually it's a mix - Matthew Reeve is in Sheffield Central CLP. Others r in Socialist Party. | ||
| As last RT showed I've received a death threat overnight. I will be reporting it. | ||
| @itsthemamboson I don't have personal enemies on the left as far as I know - in fact good friends with lots of ppl from Hard Left | ||
| @itsthemamboson because my politics don't justify that - I'm not on the right of the party spectrum on issues like public services | ||
| @Kate_Butler who me? Or Seema? | ||
| @itsthemamboson I don't follow football so your analogy is completely lost on me! | ||
| @itsthemamboson if the left want a fight they will get more than they bargained for. But what a waste of energy that shd be used vs Tories. | ||
| @itsthemamboson it only exists in my head? Who are the ppl throwing abuse at me every day on here? Figments of my imagination? | ||
| @JohnPage10 to expose it and otherwise I am just suffering it alone! | ||
| @HelenGibson86 of course | ||
| This is a good analysis: http://t.co/q0Nf13sU | ||
| @dtlevene but they don't take the decisions. They are servants of the NEC. | ||
| @dtlevene by the way, conference is chaired by politicians not by staff. | ||
| @dtlevene I don't know. How can you tell criteria used by a conference chair w 1000 delegates sat in front of them? | ||
| @dtlevene problem is same as civil service - works for whole country (all members) but also for govt (NEC + Ldr). | ||
| @dtlevene it didn't happen when I was in the chair at conference. | ||
| @dtlevene positive stuff like arranging briefings for delegates with shadow ministers is fine | ||
| @dtlevene would be ridiculous to expect staff to stand back + not help leader achieve desired policy outcomes. Part of job to support ldr. | ||
| @dtlevene I already stated several times that quote was tongue-in-cheek, taken out of context and is a reference to 1950s not current times | ||
| @MatthewSmth @AdamGraySays because the an external party taking over a host party is factually similar to pathology of disease I had | ||
| @cllrbpiper Bob I'm such a pluralist I'd even die in a proverbial ditch for your right to say what you want and organise how you want | ||
| I wonder what time the "daily hate" will start today? Had Trots behaving like Stalinists into early hours of last night. | ||
| @torbayred no point being in politics if u don't say what u believe. | ||
| @janburnell oh dear Jan I think you just accused a Militant of being SWP. He won't like that! | ||
| @1066Chris I was thinking we could all join SWP or SPEW after we are "outlawed | ||
| Interesting to find out there is a subsection of ultra left who find jokes about murdering social democrats in gulag amusing. | ||
| @DelroyBooth @Efrogwraig Delroy you are another "socialist" so full of hate I find it hard to believe you hve any understanding of socialism | ||
| Also good to bump into and have a chat to my N16 near neighbour Lord Glasman on way home. | ||
| Enjoyed training young activists at human rights NGO @Rene_Cassin tonight and delighted by bottle of Negev Kosher Pinot Noir they gave me | ||
| @anthonyleahy Islington??? I'm even more insulted. Hackney please. | ||
| @anthonyleahy any evidence? Which particular views of mine do you find so rightwing? | ||
| Reminds us precedent for banning factions was Resolution 12 of the Tenth Party Congress of the Bolshevik Party in March 1921 | ||
| Wow SPEW (party formerly know as Militant, AKA Rev Soc League) really have a problem with me... | ||
| @barryfunite @steve_race what pulls the Party rightwards is electoral maths. The centre is where the votes are that you need to win a GE. | ||
| @oliver_segal they reflect everything about me. Family tradition is very important to me. | ||
| @barryfunite @steve_race but frustration w who? Blairites haven't bn powerful in Labour since 2007. GMB has far more power than Progress | ||
| @Jessica_Asato worried about your data if he was not already down as a promise | ||
| @GMBCampaigns now member of Labour NEC consistently voting with GMB and supporting its candidates for Leader and Party GS. So grow up. | ||
| @oliver_segal worked as opening line at hustings when I was last selected as a PPC ... | ||
| @gezkirby but this has gone beyond criticism and is an existential attack | ||
| @gezkirby criticism of Progress is fine. I disagreed with Progress about David Miliband and choice agenda in public services. | ||
| @gezkirby I was on the London Region Political Cttee of Amicus for a decade. Ran a recruitment drive in a non-unionised company. | ||
| @gezkirby @northernheckler I don't feel entitled to anything other than not to be told my role in the party is illegitimate | ||
| @jonlansman I shouldn't worry, Labour 1st was treated like that by TB too... | ||
| @AdamGraySays would have needed his CLP to object or draw attention | ||
| @jonlansman I'm surprised and saddened by what Paul Kenny said as he is one of most pragmatic and moderate of current TU GSs. | ||
| @gezkirby I think I have more moral authority in party than someone who stood against Labour in 2005 General Election when I was a Lab cand | ||
| My great grandad was a boilermakers' union shop steward (the B in GMB). I was a GMB NULO member. | ||
| But then what do I know, I'm just the 4th generation in a family that have been Labour members loyalists since the 1920s .... | ||
| If I had only joined Labour two years ago from Respect I think I'd be a bit more circumspect about saying who cd and couldn't be in Labour | ||
| @jonlansman I resent your lot, I'm not trying to stop you operating though. You should beat Progress on policy arguments not delegitimise | ||
| @DAaronovitch @OwenJones84 reality is Blairism sits neatly in Labour history and Bennism was the alien import from outwith Labour tradition | ||
| @hopisen @OwenJones84 yes he is still in the (Stalinist) CPB | ||
| @DelroyBooth @OwenJones84 best book ever on internal Labour politics | ||
| @OwenJones84 also deplorable that when Labour more UNITED than at any time for years some doing sectarian attacks on other wings of party | ||
| @OwenJones84 Owen I was being provocative in the same way the movers of the GMB motion were. This is all childish factionalism and shd stop. | ||
| @OwenJones84 find me any evidence David Sainsbury doesn't keep his political and business interests wholly separate | ||
| @OwenJones84 if it had blocked the Commies Bevin wouldn't have cared where the money came from. | ||
| @OwenJones84 Surely Sainsbury's workers are in USDAW which sends delegates to Progress events??? | ||
| A shame as GMB and Paul Kenny are the obvious moderate union people who should be allied with Progress within party | ||
| @dtlevene Compass being half in, half out of party is why it SHOULD be investigated if Progress is. Ditto LRC. | ||
| @KatieCurtis otherwise where draw line? Do we investigate single issue groups like LCER, LFI, LFPME? | ||
| @KatieCurtis I don't think the party should police the way its members choose to associate with each other as long as rulebook is respected | ||
| @KatieCurtis I particularly look forward to the new age of transparency vis a vis Socialist Action which claims not 2 exist but has website! | ||
| No NEC ballot yet? Deadline for asking for replacement is noon today - call 08450922299 or go to http://t.co/02fOZjSq | ||
| @andyjameshicks @dtlevene sorry to have explain but I RT support so ppl can see I have it, and stuff attacking me because it makes me laugh | ||
| @OllieVargas @tomwilliamsisme the 1m dead in Iraq were overwhelmingly murdered by the West's opponents | ||
| @CllrArjunMittra it's what the Trots used to call me in NUS | ||
| @SUwebsite @kernewek61 yes but the trust is also Lord Sainsbury's money. | ||
| @kernewek61 @SUwebsite Progress is funded by Lord Sainsbury. This is not a "secret" - it's in their returns to the Electoral Commission. | ||
| @AlexWhiteUK Alex it's not GMB leadership pushing it. Is some random ultra who is a GMB branch secretary pushing it. | ||
| @HackneyAbbott of course now u r on frontbench u have accepted + defend Jim Murphy's line on nukes #collectiveresponsibilitydoctrine | ||
| Now the owner of Anthony Howard's biog of Crossman, thanks to one of Ramsgate's many charity shops. | ||
| @DrEoinClarke indeed! | ||
| @DrEoinClarke you can get visitor passes for kids and there is a really good creche | ||
| @dannycarrier @lablinda75 has the record of that song! (Amongst other Margate memorabilia) | ||
| @davidabrahams8 thanks! | ||
| Please remind any Labour members you know to vote in the NEC ballot and encourage them to support me as one of their 6 choices | ||
| Heading down to Margate. Enjoying the high speed train and beautiful scenery of my native county. | ||
| @alonorbach thanks Alon | ||
| @DPJHodges it would be quite worrying if the incumbents in an election were responsible for the detail of its administration! | ||
| @McPartlandJohn thanks! | ||
| @kevpeel nominations for the ALC reps are done by Labour Groups so paperwork will have gone to Group Secretaries back in Jan to report to LG | ||
| @MsLesleySmith @adrianmcmenamin seems cllrs' one were sent late as ALC ballots had to be added in | ||
| @duchessofackney @E9_Residents @mmurday87 in this case I was referring to people who have actually voted for me! | ||
| @mmurday87 just interested to know what it does that the college Labour Club doesn't. | ||
| Heading back to London from Kent, already missing my family who are staying on for rest of half term break | ||
| @Scarletstand we were told 15 June for results at NEC. | ||
| @flailing I persuaded my own mum to vote for me today before anyone reached her with the "anyone but Luke Akehurst" message | ||
| @ChrispLOL well spotted! | ||
| Celebrating the Jubilee with a walk in the rain in Margate then a full English breakfast at @FortsCafe | ||
| @RichardAngell you need to give me more notice if you want something more analytical/measured/intellectual | ||
| @LucyRigby I have spoken to @IainMcNicol who says they are in post and please can ppl wait until after Wednesday's post b4 calling party | ||
| @PortsladePen cllr ones were delayed while they put in the ALC voting papers ... | ||
| @nashienet thanks! | ||
| Still can't vote for myself as still no #NEC ballot paper! | ||
| All last night's (v good) by-election results: http://t.co/4DZRyUeF | ||
| @jonlansman and what's "Centre Left Grassroots Alliance" if not a very misleading marketing slogan. | ||
| @jonlansman but most of your slate have so little online presence no one can find out what they stand for! | ||
| @ofalkland I remember quoting the LBJ remark about the Black Watch at a Hackney North CLP Exec meeting! | ||
| @Jo_Suherman it could take a while as there are about 1000 posts dating back to 2006 .... Make sure u read http://t.co/y3IRgvWw not spoof 1 | ||
| @c_quigley you'd be surprised which bits of his career are missing from the Ladybird book of Cromwell and the Roundheads | ||
| @DeanMThomson the class all have to dress as monarchs so most of the rest fit that description too | ||
| @Paul0Evans1 he even has a roundhead haircut ... | ||
| @ofalkland ... who are now enduring same bizarre mix of totalitarian politics and rampant free market economics as China is. | ||
| @ofalkland The US etc were there defending a sovreign country. | ||
| @DrEoinClarke thanks Eoin I really appreciate that. Sorry if u get flak for it. | ||
| @APFaz which CLP are u in? Have u got my email? | ||
| OK warning: turn away now if you don't like re-tweets of endorsements... | ||
| @SeemaChandwani definitely not. My sense is this will be as close as 2010 where only 2000 votes separated about half a dozen of us. | ||
| The hard left seem very scratchy tonight. Is something not going well for them? | ||
| @RickyStafford90 nice positive message there comrade. | ||
| @WillCross61 the "spoilt" ballots last time included people who voted for leader but sent back blanks for the down-ticket elections eg NEC | ||
| @anthonyleahy endorsements marginally more interesting than me repeatedly tweeting variants on "don't forget to vote | ||
| @anthonyleahy I'm under rolling attack from hard left as they are desperate to replace me w Willsman. And u think I should go Trappist? | ||
| @anthonyleahy I scraped in by less than 200 last time. Turnout of sensible ppl will be massively down this time as not at same time as Ldr | ||
| @anthonyleahy it's not self-praise though is it? Like I said if you don't want to know who is backing me, unfollow me. | ||
| @anthonyleahy same reason we put endorsers in general election leaflets. And demonstrates momentum. | ||
| @anthonyleahy if you don't want to know who is supporting me then unfollow me until 13 June. | ||
| @Wiggletts thanks! | ||
| @johndavidblake @PhilipGlanville @noramulready no, most non-cllr members in Hackney seem to have their's - incl those in same houses as cllr | ||
| @Bennwasright @GloriaDePieroMP @elliereeves we're all dem socialists aren't we? Says so in New Clause IV on party card, written by T Blair. | ||
| @cjmclellan I'm jealous - had a great time at ECOSY summer camps I went to in Andalucia (96) and Tuscany (98) | ||
| @Markfergusonuk surprising which candidates haven't replied yet! | ||
| @WillCross61 could be links of off 1 email. The 250 words in manifesto isn't much info unless you follow these things anyway. | ||
| @PeterKenyon I agree @IainMcNicol pls read PK's suggestion re level playing field on candidate emails | ||
| Some thoughts about public service reform: http://lukeakehurst.blogspot.com/2010/08/improvement-doesnt-always-need-reform.html | ||
| @SmudgeSmith I can think of stronger reasons eg political disagreements?! | ||
| @SmudgeSmith unfollow me until 13 June if you have a problem reading a lot of stuff about the NEC election ... | ||
| @lukerigg yes | ||
| Just been at counter demo against cultural boycott of Israeli theatre company Habima. Good turnout and v positive atmosphere. | ||
| @jonlansman I think you have read my blogposts in enough detail to know what I think went right or wrong 1997-2010. | ||
| @dundee_dee have a read of my campaign website: http://t.co/22EgzEsn | ||
| @doktordunc not wholly unexpected Duncan! | ||
| @SeemaChandwani usually ppl say I look like Chris Evans | ||
| @SeemaChandwani is that good or bad? | ||
| @yemimakinde my manifesto for NEC is here: http://t.co/22EgzEsn | ||
| @elainacohen sad you think that when Brum NEC panel made big progress in 2012 in ensuring democratic council selections | ||
| Let me - and your Labour followers - know if you are voting for me for NEC - use #luke4nec Pls RT http://t.co/22EgzEsn | ||
| @elainacohen pls email me anything you want the panel to look at | ||
| @jonlansman @conradlandin u r just encouraging the "say nothing, be as bland as possible while u climb the greasy pole" tendency | ||
| @conradlandin @Scarletstand @jonlansman those of us who are candidates r banned from disparaging other cands by code of conduct | ||
| @ruskinite good to know I have been downgraded from "fiend" to "fruitloop". Next step "class traitor". Personal abuse always backfires. | ||
| @conradlandin I think it would be difficult to find any candidate who has been more loudly transparent re views than me. | ||
| @conradlandin members don't want sectarian attacks on individuals. Tell them what your candidates stand for not what you dislike about me. | ||
| @conradlandin Modified Tweet ie when you have changed it! | ||
| @conradlandin I think technically that is an MT not an RT as you have crudely censored @HackneyAbbott 's support for @QueenFlo | ||
| @PeterWatt123 ditto. Because my son says they are a children's band. | ||
| @HuskieWalleyes have to reach party by 13 June. Were posted yesterday so should reach people on Monday. | ||
| Coffee in the sunshine in Red Lion Square ... | ||
| @conradlandin loads of people (incl me!) have not been shortlisted or longisted by NEC in selections. We don't then go run as independents! | ||
| @conradlandin in this case "overwhelming will" was a 25 vote majority in a selection where well over 800 votes were cast | ||
| @OllieVargas I love the heat of the kitchen . I would be doing something wrong if person in question was being nice about me. | ||
| @CllrSimonHogg thanks for reminder can u re-email so goes to top of very full inbox? | ||
| @ricktoomer the ballots are going out tmrw so most ppl will receive on Monday. Need to vote by 13 June. | ||
| Hopefully the great weather will increase turnout in the #nec election! More likely to walk to post box if sun shining? #clutchingatstraws | ||
| @mattzarb you'd need to speak to London region LP. They used to publish list of CLP secretaries in biennial report but haven't recently. | ||
| @Mandy4AM_2012 agreed! | ||
| Another early morning trip to Hendon! | ||
| @Mandy4AM_2012 yes I am very proud of my local record of mentoring and supporting BAME cands thru select + elect as Chief Whip +Campaign Mgr | ||
| @Mandy4AM_2012 on NEC itself I would urge ppl voting 4 me to also vote for @QueenFlo so we restore BAME representation in the CLP section | ||
| Is anyone else going to the Unite cllrs network meeting on Saturday? | ||
| @ProgressOnline: Five ways Labour can maximise gains in 2013 county elections @LukeAkehurst http://t.co/cSImy1mF #LabourDoorstep | ||
| @JohnDClare stems from Edgbaston where G Stuart MP has a mailing list of supporters who do loads of campaigning hence she held seat | ||
| @JohnDClare it means u r saying happy for Lab to email you - so if u have a proactive CLP u would be invited to events, campaign etc | ||
| @adamlangleben @TalOfer the counter-demo on Monday is going to be dignified and properly stewarded. I'm one of the stewards... | ||
| @jonlansman not appropriate to discuss in a public forum in case comes b4 me in Disputes Panel | ||
| @jonlansman yes. The party should have held email back until ballot had finished. | ||
| @Lauren_Crowley they (Compass) spam thousands of ppl then claim us in "supporters" number. Have repeatedly asked to be taken off list. | ||
| @SBuckinghamUK @Labourpaul I think it is just Paul offering to take a pay cut if he wins. | ||
| @Efrogwraig it was in his capacity as a School Cllr - he does a lot of political networking for a 6 year old! | ||
| @jonworth @Labourpaul I was making more general point that I hope ppl don't think only way to contribute to politics is being an MP or MEP | ||
| @PhilipGlanville Mine is George Hyde-Wicks | ||
| @torbayred there's nothing in the emails I send out that isn't on my blog so you r not missing any great secrets! | ||
| @torbayred we don't hold internal elections. | ||
| @torbayred you would ask me to add you to mailing list. | ||
| @torbayred I've argued for a Labour First website but failed to persuade technophobe colleagues of value! | ||
| @torbayred NEC slate is negotiated between Labour First and Progress. | ||
| @torbayred people make lazy assumptions about my politics - read my blog it's all set out in some detail | ||
| @torbayred no Ed M nearer to my views. I'm against choice agenda/markets in public services and pro union link/anti-primaries | ||
| @torbayred clearly given I campaigned for Ed Miliband to be leader I am a massive supporter of "creating a NuLab hegemony"! | ||
| @torbayred they want to defeat us/replace us. They are not our friends. Stabs Welsh Labour in back to befriend Plaid Cymru. | ||
| @torbayred the clue is in the name of the organisation I help run: "Labour First | ||
| @torbayred actually Blair was a pluralist - wanted deals w LDs - as r some in Progress. I'm not. I'm a tribalist from the old Labour right. | ||
| @torbayred I want Labour have hegemony over left. I want to defeat Greens, LDs, Plaid, SNP, Respect as well as Tories not cosy up to them. | ||
| @OwenJones84 @jonburkeUK ah you see Hackney, led by Morrison, was main opponent of Lansbury/Poplar-ism illegal rate strategy | ||
| Sums up the Cruddas paradox - he cites heroes as brilliant Aussie moderate Paul Keating and utterly useless leftie George Lansbury! | ||
| @LabourList I think you mean Helen Holland not "Helen Hammond | ||
| No changes to Hackney's high performing Cabinet + Senior Mgmt team this year | ||
| @lewis_baston I think it would be v interesting | ||
| @lewis_baston have you looked at swing wards in other boroughs? | ||
| Jules Pipe nominating Cllr Jess Webb to be speaker - Jess won the 2000 Wick by-election when LD #56up star Neil Hughes resigned | ||
| @JohnSlinger same way it stopped USSR expanding beyond 1945 iron curtain. It's ultimate threat - we can destroy you. | ||
| @JohnSlinger I'm convinced Trident is minimum strategic deterrent. Unless continuous at sea w ICBMs, doesn't deter all powers all time. | ||
| @JohnSlinger not sure "we could have same defence posture as Italy" would sell well in Kent + Essex marginals | ||
| Somehow think reappointment of @jimmurphymp as Shadow Defence Secretary shows Ed's take on Trident debate is not far from mine. | ||
| @JohnSlinger none of the others project power independently in way France and UK still can - or r even v useful in coalition warfare | ||
| @JohnSlinger not that useless as it stopped cold war ever going hot. MAD is reason why there was no WW3. | ||
| @torbayred yes thanks all settled back in. | ||
| @conradlandin wow found something we agree on! I also think NEC chair shd b chair of party. | ||
| @DelroyBooth it's only on the extreme fringes of the left that association w defence or defence industry wd be seen as somehow "bad | ||
| @jeremycorbyn @HackneyAbbott yes. 100bn for a 50 year project (your figures not MoD's) equals budget of 2 London borough councils per annum | ||
| @DelroyBooth please use past tense, seeing as other weeks u have attacked me over current job. | ||
| @DelroyBooth most of the other ones (about 10 over the years)! But not BAE. Nice to know you follow my work career so closely. | ||
| @HackneyAbbott but strangely not prepared to vote for a leader advocating that? | ||
| @Zbigniew_G and national security is ultimate priority of any govt. No point having great public services if we r not safe to enjoy them. | ||
| @DavidAbstract depends what you want us to manage to be. If you want global foreign policy role you need strategic deterrent. | ||
| @DelroyBooth I don't mind accurate attacks on my CV but I have never ever had any links to BAE Systems. Please keep attacks factual. | ||
| @sunny_hundal @hackneyabbott @JonCruddasMP let's just not go there ... Every time CND has pushed this it has split party down middle. | ||
| @timothygodfrey @joncruddasmp I spent a year travelling round CLPs debating Trident in 2007. Would prefer to spend my time fighting Tories. | ||
| @jonburkeUK 7338 | ||
| @DPJHodges is everything you say a joke? Problem is it gets quoted as "Labour commentator Dan H says ... | ||
| @JohnRentoul have you factored in the huge changes to polling methodology after 1997 to remove that inflation of Labour's score? | ||
| @jonlansman that would be an odd move as Ed was the keynote speaker at the Progress conference last weekend | ||
| @abrjacobson I was Political Asst 1998-2000 under McCafferty, Manion and Pipe | ||
| @abrjacobson @jonathanmcshane @stokeylabour and Linda Smith was a cllr in 1998-2002 for Brownswood | ||
| Just heard I have official total of 83 NEC nominations. Exceeded all my expectations! | ||
| @abrjacobson though sadly he contributed to the hung council chaos that caused financial meltdown and service delivery failure + misery | ||
| @kevpeel I had to go b4 they did correspondence etc | ||
| Congleton CLP wins prize for liveliest most diverse internal debate I've been to on a CLP visit! Full spectrum of Labour opinion represented | ||
| @SBuckinghamUK @PeterWatt123 @danielelton @Jonathan_Todd turnout in elections already low - for primaries cd be pitiful | ||
| @PeterWatt123 cost of a real primary exceeds the annual budget of all except a handful of richest CLPs. | ||
| @danielelton @Jonathan_Todd @PeterWatt123 I would prefer that we spent time on nuts + bolts party capacity bdg in both | ||
| @leftfutures @jonlansman will you be endorsing me for NEC on same basis? ;) | ||
| @Jonathan_Todd @PeterWatt123 how about we just focus on making every CLP function to the minimal level JT suggests? | ||
| @SephRBrown yes but not via medium of 140 characters! | ||
| @SephRBrown I just think it's a bit slack to say support for Israel isn't "progressive", seeing as Zionism is a national liberation movement | ||
| @PeterWatt123 surely if a candidate is unfit to represent Labour they should not make it onto panel of potential selectees? | ||
| Lots of mud now being scraped off us, our sleeping bags, clothes, rucksacks etc | ||
| Both of us are totally exhausted. | ||
| Back from taking Jed to Woodcraft Folk camp in Epping Forest. We had brilliant weekend: hike, night walk, wide game, campfire sing song | ||
| Latest blog post: http://lukeakehurst.blogspot.com/2010/08/in-pity-of-john-kampfner.html | ||
| I'm in Bradford as part of NEC panel hearing from local ppl about what happened in by-election and why | ||
| @itsdavegreen difficult to see without something like RDAs how you would have regional aspect to growth strategy | ||
| @itsdavegreen one re-establishing Regional Development Agencies? | ||
| @JohnPage10 my 6 year old is! Internationally they are affiliated with SI. | ||
| @JonBenja you know the UK MoD's satellites are actually called Skynet 5? | ||
| Thinking about my boss @DermotKehoe on anniversary of tragic death of his partner David Cairns | ||
| @leejamesbrown @JamesMills1984 @wesstreeting this is a task we should have undertaken in 2008. | ||
| @CraigA_Ryan @leejamesbrown @JamesMills1984 @wesstreeting Ken was beaten by Boris. Labour won the Assembly. Gaps etc not relevant vs that. | ||
| @leejamesbrown @JamesMills1984 @wesstreeting yes it would. Swing from B to A would be reported by press and psephologists as 7.5pc. | ||
| @ChrisWatt4 chris I'm not actually sure I want Dan's spoof endorsement re-tweeted! | ||
| @JohnWiseman1 are you and Elaine Jones the Centre or the Left bit of that slate? | ||
| @VincentStops re-elected Group Campaigns Officer. | ||
| @rickmuir1 re-elected Group Chair. @dannyjstevens elected Group Secretary. @welovestokey re-elected Chief Whip. | ||
| At Hackney Labour Group AGM, welcome to our newest cllr, byelection winner @BenHayhurst | ||
| @Calderbank it's the bit I was organising so happen to know the turnout | ||
| @JanineBooth can you explain phenomenon where ppl get on full trains at Seven Sisters when every 2nd one is an empty one from siding? | ||
| @DrEoinClarke @DaveTomHodges yes I accept that - ppl like me and my neighbours in Stoke Newington! | ||
| @DaveTomHodges Mayor SV system requires you to win centre votes even more than FPTP GE system does. | ||
| @DaveTomHodges our core vote is only about 30pc of the electorate. And in London you need 50pc +1 to win Mayor. Ken went beyond it. Not enuf | ||
| @DaveTomHodge you can't win any election above ward level without reaching beyond core vote | ||
| @wesstreeting In a close election it strikes me as bleedin obvious that a controversial candidate reduces chances of winning. | ||
| @WillCross61 this is all reinforced by YouGov consistently showing Ken running many percent behind London GE Lab vote intention | ||
| @WillCross61 anyone who thinks Ken didn't underperform Labour can't have done any canvassing or polling day GOTV. | ||
| @Mandy4AM_2012 you will get a special mention in my @LabourList scorecard tmrw - excellent swing in a tough area for Labour! | ||
| @DarrenWCohen because the other EU nations expect German taxpayers to pay for their public spending??? | ||
| @itsdavegreen Labour MP selections in recent rounds have produced a v strong PLP. So process we have works. | ||
| @RachaelSaunders @itsdavegreen dread to imagine what a primary would b like in Tower Hamlets ... | ||
| @simonevans117 @MsIntervention left of PS is not as far left as Lab Hard Left as in France they would b in Communist or Trot parties | ||
| @AndyCharlwood @itsdavegreen @stuartbruce @terrympaul @peterwatt123 @richardangell drop me an email w details | ||
| @alanrlaing more an expensive bullet in the foot | ||
| @RichardAngell TUs get a veto on rulebook because they set up and fund Labour. Ultimate guardians of rules. Has worked well for 112 years. | ||
| @simonevans117 @MsIntervention mistake to try to measure French policies on UK spectrum. Hollande is on right of PS. | ||
| @RichardAngell I think it is a real political mistake for any of us on right of party to back something that disempowers members + TUs | ||
| @RichardAngell @itsdavegreen @peterwatt123 fair to say I was more cautious/less radical than @Ed_Miliband on the Refounding Lab process | ||
| @RichardAngell @itsdavegreen @peterwatt123 also we have to judge reforms on merits, not reform for its own sake. | ||
| @itsdavegreen @PeterWatt123 @RichardAngell if public r disengaged from elections then offering them 2X as many elections (primaries) not ans | ||
| @itsdavegreen @PeterWatt123 @RichardAngell I don't buy the "huge problem of engagement" thesis. | ||
| @iMcKenzied @itsdavegreen @peterwatt123 @progressonline Registered supporters do not get selection votes. | ||
| @Steve_Longden @itsdavegreen @peterwatt123 @progressonline and as a member I don't want to give up my say in selections to non-members | ||
| @Steve_Longden @itsdavegreen @peterwatt123 @progressonline as I've stated b4 I will not vote for anything that dilutes TU link | ||
| @itsdavegreen @PeterWatt123 @progressonline primaries are a) unaffordable b) would have produced same candidate as our selection ballot did | ||
| @Zbigniew_G give me a link to where you found it otherwise impossible for me to investigate | ||
| @BenCooper86 you have to balance whether saying anything could change candidate or just make things worse | ||
| @MsIntervention more like your grocery store is a co-op and majority of fellow members voted to eat and sell rotten apples | ||
| @andrewspoooner @anthonypainter my views on the SDP were published by lablist a few months ago. They weren't complimentary. | ||
| @andrewspoooner @oldpolitics ... Given that v few "democratic socialists" aspire to change the entire economic system | ||
| @andrewspoooner @oldpolitics for clarity I use "social democrat" and "democratic socialist" interchangeably as in practice both mean soc dem | ||
| @w_jack_smith it's partisan because Ken and I have different ideas about the kind of party Labour should be. | ||
| @w_jack_smith I haven't attacked him. I've analysed why we lost. | ||
| @OwenJones84 my political idols were in the EETPU and AEU in the 1970s | ||
| @charliebach @owenjones84 there's a place for the left as long as not revolutionary left, who have their own parties. | ||
| @OwenJones84 but your piece says your mum + dad worked with him in Norwood - thought they were Millies? | ||
| @anthonypainter sure. | ||
| @OwenJones84 this explains what the problem was. He was a hangover from a 1960s "insurgent left" that included Militant. | ||
| @joe86pw yes | ||
| @anthonypainter no one makes anyone join. You can do politics without rules + collective decisions if want 3pc of votes like @Siobhan4Mayor | ||
| @anthonypainter @_karin_c actually the rulebook is quite clear that you do sacrifice certain free speech rights when you join. | ||
| @anthonypainter not about free speech, a rule I impose on myself. No campaigning, no complaining. | ||
| @anthonypainter just my experience that party activists won't listen to anyone who hasn't been at their side in the trenches. | ||
| @DrEoinClarke what about the other 10? | ||
| @MsIntervention you are asking for the abolition of entire system of how internal democracy of all European political parties works! | ||
| @Zbigniew_G I voted and campaigned for Ken - ran the Labour campaign in Hackney as I always do | ||
| @AndrewBoff congratulations! As you know, don't like your politics, but good to have another Hackney voice in there. | ||
| @LukeRobboUK only if you want to take political choices out of politics | ||
| @CllrMarkBennett exactly. I would have voted Gaitskell in 62 and George Brown in 63. | ||
| Something proufoundly anti-democratic about ex-senior civil servants wanting to be apolitical city managers | ||
| @tomcopley congratulations. Use the role wisely! | ||
| @annaturley hopefully now Herbert Morrison's tradition will reassert itself in London Labour politics | ||
| Ultimately the London electorate just repeated what told us in 2008. Then as now dignified speech by Ken but should have called day then. | ||
| @martinbright even now concerns u have always expressed r not widely understood. Most members don't engage in that level of detail. | ||
| @martinbright a lot of the stuff that concerns you, me + activists not followed by all members - name recognition big role in OMOV ballots | ||
| @martinbright because he was popular with members - see also his NEC vote in same ballot. No point being in denial about that. | ||
| @sowadally @jonlansman @GuidoFawkes @DPJHodges he doesn't present himself as a journalist - presents himself as a Labour insider | ||
| @MikeEakins they didn't start counting until this morning. | ||
| @etonmessuk he may not be but Jewish community perception is he is- hence huge difference between Ken vote and Dismore votes Barnet | ||
| @LeftieHamster I haven't thrown any bile at him I've been running his campaign in Hackney but can see how he lost votes. | ||
| @LeftieHamster the mtg that caused so much upset was set up by Jewish activists to find way support Ken - instead he totally alienated them | ||
| @LeftieHamster presumably u think Jewish Labour activits he insulted invented it or suffer from "false consciousness". | ||
| @DailyRobbery @MayorWatch I have no idea who would want to run. | ||
| @alexsobel congratulations! | ||
| @janburnell standard format party email: firstname_secondname@labour.org.uk | ||
| @danielblaney yes would be delighted to come and help in Basildon | ||
| If anything scope 4 gains in May 2013 better than this - all the counties where we got wiped out in 2009 up for election. Bring it on. | ||
| @cllr_mikeharris @Labourpaul @BristolRed that's why they were told the timetable before the referendum was held | ||
| @RadicalDanFrost you don't need 50pc of the total cast, just 50pc of those still valid at round 2 ie excluding non-transferables | ||
| @cllr_mikeharris @Labourpaul @BristolRed is designed to be same ballot as NEC, NPF and Police Commissioner candidates. Otherwise too costly | ||
| @cllr_mikeharris @Labourpaul @BristolRed no the election is in only 6 months time + the ballot timetable was published months ago | ||
| @jonlansman @RachaelSaunders how can they be? Labour has no powers to investigate ex-members. Charges overtaken by him running vs party. | ||
| NB re. Hackney Central landslide - Tory cand was Andrew Boff from GLA, LD was Pauline Pearce, YouTube celeb during riots | ||
| @SeanDolat what is the overall result there? | ||
| @kevpeel as will NOLSies of an early-90s vintage | ||
| Well done @IainMcNicol and Lab staff team for a v professional campaign. | ||
| Wow what a great night to be a Labour activist. Enjoyed watching early results w Hackney's fantastic (+ huge) Labour team. | ||
| @jonburkeUK @Commsdan no one in our borough. | ||
| @jonburkeUK @Commsdan it's a national organisation not just a London one | ||
| @jonburkeUK @Commsdan no he did trips to places which r part of party toehold strategy in SE or target councils like Harlow + Reading | ||
| @jonburkeUK @Commsdan my sense of campaign in Hackney was right + left of party contributed in proportion to their strength | ||
| @jonburkeUK @Commsdan that's actually untrue - Progress organised loads voter ID sessions in London and its director+dep signed Ken letter | ||
| @itsdavegreen @gusbbaker @alonorbach no we need more members | ||
| Labour should run moderate candidates who appeal to swing voters. #hopethatisnowastatementofthebleedinobvious | ||
| @LovingDalston not in Hackney C. Turnout on Pembury Estate 3pc higher than in more middle class polling districts. | ||
| @MsIntervention who did you vote for for the GLA? | ||
| Still getting over surprise of @Ed_Miliband namechecking my blog post in speech at Red Fort fundraiser last night | ||
| National head office just rang to instruct us to knockup PD KA of Hackney C ward #command+control | ||
| @welovestokey Leabridge in Nov or Dec 2002 was also freezing with fog coming in from the Lea Valley | ||
| @martinbright late evening Friday | ||
| @SeemaChandwani it's a glitch with c.creator not adobe. National party are sorting it. | ||
| Hmmm. IT problems because Pembury Estate has so many Labour promises (nearly 900) c.creator can't make a PDF of the knock up sheets. | ||
| @rickmuir1 that's a 2.2pc turnout so far .... | ||
| It's days like this when I'm glad my borough party doesn't have any truck w early morning leaflets.... | ||
| Britain http://t.co/6UrtwwwJ via @sharethis - interesting analysis of UK foreign policy re. USA and EU. Makes us sound quite shrewd! | ||
| @LabourList: 10 top tips for a successful polling day http://t.co/goGL72FD"my column this week | ||
| @JonBenja good advert for the high quality products of the UK aerospace and defence industry too #TyphoonsOverLondon | ||
| @stephenpollard so if there were 6 then you and I were one third of Frank's support! | ||
| Been sorting out number taking rotas, election car insurance + briefing on how WARP works for non-Reading system wards. Polling day nears .. | ||
| My 6year old is shouting "turn off the TV' because Boris appeared on it. We are bringing him up well. | ||
| @Semakaleng wow I never knew that, v useful! | ||
| @carolewilliams done | ||
| @tomwilliamsisme take it in to be on safe side | ||
| Thank you Brigg & Goole, Holborn & St Pancras and New Forest West CLPs for nominating me for NEC. | ||
| Heading to Homerton hospital to pick up new ankle orthotics just in time for polling day. | ||
| Just been handed big stack of Cazenove Ward canvass returns. Well done @IvanaBartoletti and team for relaunching Cazenove branch | ||
| Entering yet more data from SNC and Lordship wards. I hear c30 Lab Students + Hackney cllrs will be sweeping Hoxton tmrw w @TheBrianDuggan | ||
| @TalOfer though that's a bit double-negative ... I prefer idea of seeking out and buying Israeli produce. Morrisons has Israeli spuds now! | ||
| @TalOfer as Co-Op is a member-based democratic organisation, ppl unhappy w boycott policy can/should join it to try to reverse it. | ||
| @ewancwatt @RaheemJKassam how did you guess? | ||
| @new_art_riot @BenHayhurst @iancpeacock a bit of rain wouldn't have deterred him after Eylau (snow) and icy crossing of Berezina | ||
| @DanCareyDawes back to the old house we lived in b4 I got ill - other side of Beatty Road - where we ran the SNC by-election from | ||
| @iancpeacock yes just paying the price for owning large percentage of all books published about Labour Party or Napoleonic history | ||
| @Semakaleng what did you think? | ||
| #ff @welovestokey @rickmuir1 @WendyMitchell82 dynamic officers of Hackney Lab Group, leading by campaigning example | ||
| #ff @new_art_riot @IvanaBartoletti @dannyjstevens @lisa_calderwood some of hard working Hackney Labour campaigners, in wind, rain + snow | ||
| #ff @TheBrianDuggan @VincentStops and @BenHayhurst heroes of the Hackney Labour campaign | ||
| @borispomroy I can tweet about buses if u want ... Spend a lot of time on 243 and 149 ... | ||
| Busy day started w wonderful Israeli Embassy Independence Day celebration now frantic packing as moving house tmrw | ||
| Going to be on LBC at 8pm - panel discussion about politics with Iain Dale | ||
| @lizmcshane thanks | ||
| @alexsobel it was a deliberate rip-off of the SWP's editorial line in General Elections - as explained in 1st paragraph! | ||
| Wow what a beautiful morning in N16. | ||
| @DelroyBooth when compared to the whole country Blairites are on the left of the spectrum. Centre equals where median voter is. | ||
| @DelroyBooth @MsIntervention @citizen_sane it's the term the Socialist Campaign Group of MPs historically self-used | ||
| @SaraLBA yes that's an accurate description. | ||
| @MsIntervention @citizen_sane if you don't join you let them win. Have to be inside to influence choice of candidates + policies. | ||
| @MsIntervention yes I am sure they believe they are the good guys too! | ||
| @JamesAsser @DermotKehoe I think shame I was never allowed to speak at let alone chair NUS conf voided by chairing Labour Party conf | ||
| @MsIntervention from which direction? | ||
| @MsIntervention I think it's probably the other bloggers in your avatar who are controversial! | ||
| @RadicalDanFrost @benjaminbutter canvassing isn't about persuading people, it's just doing a survey to ask how they plan to vote | ||
| @Mikejoslin useful warning as was about to head to 7 sisters | ||
| @SpeakersChair in principle, yes, just need to find time! | ||
| @gordonlyew1 it's almost impossible for one party to get majority on GLA as elected by proportional voting system | ||
| @gordonlyew1 how do you mean by full control? | ||
| Good morning on #labourdoorstep with @TheBrianDuggan @lisa_calderwood @stokeylabour @TomPrice80 @emmaplouviez @jonburkeUK + loads more | ||
| Heading to Chatham Ward where I'm cllr to hit Nisbet House, Wyke + Morningside Estates on the #labourdoorstep | ||
| Enjoying a rest in the sun while Jed plays at Shakespeare Walk Adventure Playground | ||
| Main borough-wide #labourdoorstep session tmrw is 11am in my ward, Chatham. Mtg outside Homerton Station, Barnabus Rd. | ||
| #labourdoorstep teams out today in Hackney C, Hackney Downs, Hoxton, Stoke Newington C, Dalston, Springfield, De Beauvoir. Any I've missed? | ||
| @tom_watson did your GC nominate for NEC tonight? | ||
| @Rory_Palmer Thanks! | ||
| Fed up with people (mainly my mates) calling Ed M a leftie: http://lukeakehurst.blogspot.com/2010/07/ed-miliband.html |
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| @rob_marchant Indeed. Beyond comment. | ||
| Hackney #labourdoorstep tmrw at 11am meeting at Dalston Junction station | ||
| @anthonyleahy you can't have it both ways - if low leads are his fault, so are high leads. | ||
| @PeterKenyon what's the alleged connection? | ||
| @natandoron biggest lead since 2007 | ||
| @thejimsmithm I'm not going to be drawn into commenting. | ||
| @Michael_Heaver @ProgressOnline not where I canvass. Grand total of UKIP supporters out of 1800 contacts by Labour in Hackney this week = 0 | ||
| @thejimsmith As an NEC member I'm not allowed to comment on individual cases in case I prejudge them | ||
| Contact.creator tells me Hackney Labour has spoken to 1800 voters on #labourdoorstep in last week, 1200 of them Labour promises | ||
| @mpandnotanmp ... Was never clear to me if he was already Lib Dem spy on our debates or was Lab person who switched sides to go into govt | ||
| @Markfergusonuk a few billion a year on each ie nugatory in context of deficit | ||
| 25 people turned away from #hackneynorthdecides as arrived after start | ||
| @Markfergusonuk not sure speakers have researched politics of this CLP | ||
| Diane asks us to have more policy debates and less campaigning as it might scare new members. Yep, we'll beat the tories with resolutions. | ||
| 120 members at Hackney North nomination meeting | ||
| @Zbigniew_G I believe in self-determination and the rights of all peoples to a homeland. In middle east that requires 2 states 4 2 peoples. | ||
| Horrific scenes of self-immolation protests in Tibet on Newsnight. World must not ignore China's behaviour there that has driven ppl to this | ||
| @TheBrianDuggan this in addition to teams out in a number of other wards tonight. Have just been entering Leabridge + Kings Park data. | ||
| @georgemaddocks @dpjhodges thanks George, very well argued and has had the desired effect of making me think again. | ||
| @Tweet4Labour isn't @alexhilton her PR? | ||
| @pejmason we went there December 2010 when it was snowing in London and had fantastic week | ||
| Thanks to @LabLinda75 for coquailles saint jaques for dinner (half price made in store at Stamford Hill Morrisons). | ||
| @PeterKenyon @torbayred @CllrPeteBowyer also insulting to say ideas to our right are "prejudice and ignorance". | ||
| @PeterKenyon @torbayred @CllrPeteBowyer no, but we need to avoid slack thinking about our core vote being to our left | ||
| @DrEoinClarke on which kind note I need to sign off for the night. Thanks. | ||
| @DrEoinClarke genuine dilemma for Labour of cultural dissonance between our working class and chattering class votes | ||
| @DrEoinClarke ... should not pretend our historic core vote is to our left on all issues. Some they are, some they aren't. | ||
| @DrEoinClarke I'm not necessarily saying acceptable to move rightwards on any of issues I listed but ... | ||
| @DrEoinClarke I think to be honest I have switched to right on EU in last 15 years. Used to be a federalist now .... | ||
| @torbayred @CllrPeteBowyer it's only if u think Labour's core vote reads Guardian + Indie that shifting left wd be popular w it | ||
| @mpandnotanmp they didn't get in - the LDs put them in | ||
| @LukeBozier he's also Labour. Not too late to rejoin Blair's party. | ||
| @CllrPeteBowyer he is just stunningly good isn't he? | ||
| @Gregory_McBride that's a shame, hope you will find other ways to get involved | ||
| Well done @lucympowell on selection. Commiserations to rest of shortlist esp my Hackney comrade @ppvernon | ||
| @ctmflanagan gosh my mental image of it was all trendy Man Uni Lab students and loft-dwelling young professionals ... Got that wrong | ||
| @mpandnotanmp @Markfergusonuk @sowadally really Martin! "Incessant key clicking"! Why not ban it at conference then? | ||
| @jonlansman oh I see. I presumed ban was on tweeting not reading tweets! Almost impossible to police. | ||
| No logic to twitter ban at #McrCentral hustings. Suggests ppl saying one thing in private to mbrs + another in public. Assume not case! | ||
| @simonevans117 thanks Simon is was great to meet you today | ||
| Wow. Total of 1352 #labourdoorstep contacts by Hackney Labour this week. So much hard work being done. | ||
| @lisa_calderwood do u want to drop your canvassing returns round to me? | ||
| @anthony_heaton for many others it's an expression of cultural identity more like a football team or even a faith | ||
| @anthony_heaton if that's the case why do so many voters say "I'm Labour" rather than "I'm voting Labour in this election | ||
| @CllrPope good! | ||
| 860 contacts so far this week by Hackney #labourdoorstep teams. This time in 2008 campaign we were only doing about 100. | ||
| @fazhakim @peterwatt123 I hadn't noticed any lack of debate if this is a typical forum. | ||
| @fazhakim @aaemmerson @peterwatt123 Trots now are more subtle than Militant. Socialist Action/IMG hold key positions in both LP and Respect | ||
| @fazhakim @aaemmerson @peterwatt123 no I want debate within party, debate within right of party, but then unity v internal +external threats | ||
| @fazhakim @aaemmerson @peterwatt123 far left is not in its 1980s strength but is still a major threat | ||
| @DPWF0 @AAEmmerson @PeterWatt123 @fazhakim given where SDP has ended up, no. | ||
| @AAEmmerson @PeterWatt123 @fazhakim I applaud rationality of those who do decide as swing voters. It's just not who I am. | ||
| @AAEmmerson @PeterWatt123 @fazhakim those Lab moderates who stayed Lab agreed more with SDP policies but stuck with party right or wrong | ||
| @AAEmmerson @PeterWatt123 @fazhakim attitude of an older generation who shared my way of thinking is what saved Labour in 1983. | ||
| @AAEmmerson @PeterWatt123 @fazhakim yes. Would have voted Labour in 1983 even though most Lab policies then repugnant to me. | ||
| @AAEmmerson @PeterWatt123 @fazhakim what gives me a sense of who I am, of community, belonging, extended family, clan, is Labour | ||
| @AAEmmerson @PeterWatt123 @fazhakim I guess this is more complex for ppl with other sources of identity/belonging. | ||
| @AAEmmerson @PeterWatt123 @fazhakim but if people had destroyed Lab in 1983 as we deserved, we would not have had 1997-2010 govt | ||
| @AAEmmerson @PeterWatt123 @fazhakim no I'm not asking for it from others I'm explaining my own irrationality! | ||
| @AAEmmerson @PeterWatt123 @fazhakim actually for many people it is. For many voters there party is expression of cultural identity. | ||
| @tooPsychedout I don't support FPTP. If we had PR I would work with you. We don't. | ||
| @PeterWatt123 @fazhakim which ones? Ken for instance was selected fair and square. I didn't vote for him. I lost. | ||
| @fazhakim @PeterWatt123 Peter's piece confuses 2 issues. I agree need to have more open, democratic less-fixed internal culture. BUT.... | ||
| @tooPsychedout I don't like what your party stands for. And when you get in power like in Brighton you are a disaster. | ||
| @tooPsychedout why would I co-operate with the Greens when you are the main electoral threat to us in my part of Hackney? | ||
| @tooPsychedout Labour membership isn't in freefall it's up 50k since 2010. Turnout was up so much in 2010 were queues at some poll stations | ||
| @tooPsychedout rubbish. Majority of UK voters do not pick and choose they vote loyally for one party all their lives. | ||
| @tooPsychedout @iMcKenzied maybe our understanding that politics is a team sport is why Labour has 40pc + 258 MPs while Greens have 3pc +1MP | ||
| @tooPsychedout yes politics is a team sport. It's about the party + shared values + abiding by collective decisions. | ||
| @briandlondon @imckenzied no, his policies + record on London issues the mayor is responsible for are/were good | ||
| @DrEoinClarke thanks. A lot of ppl on here could learn from your comradely manners! | ||
| @DrEoinClarke @HarrymBarham I think I will duck out of this as you are well-intentioned guy and I'm in too different a paradigm 4 this chat | ||
| @DrEoinClarke @HarrymBarham why are they talking to you and not to the Labour Party itself or Andy Burnham? | ||
| @ruskinite lucky 4 u unlike Galloway I am not litigious as you prima facie defamed me and could be sued for libel - it applies on Twitter | ||
| @DrEoinClarke i don't agree with single issue candidates, election is about one issue. | ||
| @DrEoinClarke @alexsobel I really don't think you should be having those kind of discussions. | ||
| @alexsobel @DrEoinClarke we should never stand down because even in our weakest seats people have the right to b able to vote Labour | ||
| @Labourpaul I assume @ruskinite thinks means Muslim which it doesn't. Can't have watched news coverage of Arab Spring. Or was confused by it | ||
| @AlanScobbie @Labourpaul @peterwatt123 quite diff to debate what problem is with Islamist ideology if accused of racism for using the word | ||
| @RDStalker @DPJHodges agreed | ||
| @MrsHeal I just said I'd like to hear from him | ||
| @DPJHodges I don't think anyone has ever accused me of representing the "New Politics". | ||
| @MrsHeal yes BUT clearly the more involved you are in the political process the louder your voice is. | ||
| @ruhawksley yes of course it is, it's a free country. | ||
| @ruhawksley sorry I don't understand the question. Are you saying you want to decide Labour's policy and direction and candidates? | ||
| @santaevita @Peduntic in which case there r other fun ways to help like leafleting, data entry, stuffing envelopes | ||
| @Peduntic @santaevita I am mobility impaired myself following cancer/nerve disorder. Was in a wheelchair for 2010 GE so phone canvassed. | ||
| @marxistpoet @santaevita correct, you earn the right to criticise | ||
| @allanholloway @santaevita that's basically my message... | ||
| @georgemaddocks @DPJHodges no they didn't. I'm not from that particular stable. | ||
| @DamoclesBDA no because the picture is never that clear cut. Eg Ken dreadful on foreign policy issues but great on transport + police | ||
| @DPJHodges you rascal! | ||
| @DamoclesBDA hence I thought the critical letter from Jewish members re Ken was constructive, as got him to publicly alter his stance | ||
| @DamoclesBDA this is different to pulling up a candidate on a specific issue and trying to change their stance | ||
| @DamoclesBDA pointless now - nominations have closed, too late 2 change candidates, attacking them just reduces Lab vote | ||
| @DamoclesBDA not during the election. Say it at selection time and then when analysing result. | ||
| @georgemaddocks @DPJHodges depends how much weight you want me to give to your opinions. | ||
| @DPJHodges @redarsedbaboon @hopisen about 2 dozen ppl who campaigned for Rahman and didn't clarify like Ken were auto-excluded | ||
| @redarsedbaboon @DPJHodges it's not a threat, it's a statement of fact about what is in the rulebook. | ||
| @DPJHodges I would be delighted if you did any canvassing. Anywhere in the country. You might get to hear from some voters and members. | ||
| @DPJHodges and what practical campaigning (as opposed to armchair commentary) are you doing to help them? | ||
| @DPJHodges I just wanted to check something. As u feel unable to campaign in London, will you be campaigning for Lab in another key council? | ||
| @tootingscot General Secretary, Director of Compliance or Regional Director | ||
| @MShapland I've personally repeatedly stood up to him but you do that at selection stage not in middle of an election campaign. | ||
| @MShapland this is what I wrote at the time: http://t.co/OxkKPWgj | ||
| @MShapland it's a matter of public record though that I was one of few voices who publicly opposed his readmission to Labour in 2004 run up | ||
| @MShapland I wasn't privy to all the evidence that was considered so I'm not going to speculate about how I would have voted | ||
| @RaheemJKassam I have no idea about the others. At least one of them is recognised as a bloke who runs a restaurant in Exmouth mkt | ||
| @RaheemJKassam one of them is Rabbi Joseph Stauber who is former cllr, friend of mine, and prominent in Stamford Hill - def not an actor | ||
| @JohnDClare some wise advice. | ||
| @SeemaChandwani why didn't she ask to join Labour then? Either she shares values, so why fight us, or doesn't. | ||
| legalaware" target="_blank" style="color:#3c73a6">@legalaware @thefabians don't worry I enjoy it. And actually an interesting discussion tonight. | ||
| @SeemaChandwani I believe in pluralism but within democratic socialist family. Leninists don't fit into that and need own party. | ||
| @SeemaChandwani Respect isn't some kind of lost wing of Labour, they are a rival that wants to replace us and has diff world view | ||
| @SeemaChandwani they didn't leave. Salma was never member. Galloway was expelled. SWP were SWP. Can't be a Leninist and a dem socialist, | ||
| @SeemaChandwani no more name-calling than saying Tories are "a big party full of free market capitalists and anti-Europeans | ||
| @SeemaChandwani it wasn't name calling it was an accurate description of Respect's politics. There is a reason why they are not in Labour. | ||
| @SeemaChandwani @mmurday87 no, democracy is about robust debate between parties | ||
| @SeemaChandwani @mmurday87 of course not, but you can be anti-Zionist without being an Islamist or a Leninist. Fatah wing of PLO r neither. | ||
| @SeemaChandwani @mmurday87 in this context Islamism refers to the ideology of the Muslim Brotherhood. | ||
| For anyone who thought I was going soft in middle age, appears I still inspire rage in some quarters: http://t.co/McseC8CL | ||
| Now for some canvassing data entry and planning polling day for 3 May. | ||
| @markhanslip I'm not going to apologise for being tribally loyal to the Labour Party. | ||
| @SUwebsite we lost Bradford cos tried to frame as Lab vs Con when should have attacked Galloway hard using Poplar template | ||
| @elainacohen no my worry is she will run against us as Respect candidate for either that or Brum Mayor | ||
| @ruskinite that's quite a serious allegation. Can you clarify? You do know that "Islamism" is a pol ideology not backed by all Muslims? | ||
| @MrBenSellers I'm in Hackney North. All strands of Labour opinion vocally represented but we stay comrades. | ||
| @jonlansman maybe as I was always minority voice in left dominated CLPs I missed the paradigm u describe | ||
| @AAEmmerson yes. I am really far more tribal and partisan than I can politely tweet. Don't follow me if u r not tribal Labour. | ||
| Digusted by sectarianism I am reading of alleged Lab members preferring Respect to their own party comrades. Shocking. Sick. | ||
| @LeftieHamster @jonlansman that's kinda how it works - political parties stand against each other as have competing visions of society! | ||
| @ellenrlucas thanks! | ||
| @SUwebsite @DPWF0 @DrEoinClarke @oranjd @Debsalini @jonlansman Respect is not a "centre left party". Hilarious! | ||
| @RichardBurdenMP she stands against us in elections. You can't get much more of an enemy of Labour than that. | ||
| @CTerry1985 apology accepted! | ||
| @CTerry1985 I'm traumatised - you write one of my favourite election websites but say I write "shit". May cry myself to sleep. | ||
| @DPJHodges thanks for acknowledging that. | ||
| @DPJHodges b) no one is being "threatened with expulsion | ||
| @DPJHodges the NEC officers before I attended my first NEC meeting. | ||
| @Calderbank no. but could be used as evidence in future selection applications etc. | ||
| @markblackburn @DPJHodges voting isn't the offence. Campaigning is. | ||
| @DPJHodges I assumed you were stating your intent! | ||
| @DPJHodges @andrewspoooner I blogged about it at time: http://t.co/HafuLzMf | ||
| @EdwardBE1 it's not about how people vote it's about who they publicly support. Members are not allowed 2 publicly support other candidates. | ||
| @anthonypainter they can do what they want but they need to know what the rulebook says. | ||
| @anthonypainter and I just have old-fashioned view that you can criticise candidates if you must but you don't endorse Lab's opponents. | ||
| @davemcwish @Old_Holborn it's not about voting or even saying you won't vote Lab it's about public endorsement of other candidates. | ||
| @anthonypainter wasn't trying to throw my weight about. Was trying to make sure ppl don't give their enemies means to do them in! | ||
| Bear that in mind between now and 3rd May please folks. Simple easy to remember rule from Chapter 2 of the Rulebook. | ||
| ... shall automatically be ineligible to be or remain a Party member | ||
| @DrEoinClarke I don't know enough about her personal politics to comment, but Respect has in past included SWP who are not democrats | ||
| @DrEoinClarke there are people to our left who are not "good moral ethical & progressive humans" because they support violence not democracy | ||
| @DrEoinClarke @oranjd @Debsalini @jonlansman she needs to stop running candidates that stop Labour candidates winning if she is on"our" side | ||
| @CllrRuth I assume you have a local election manifesto in Bradford that your local party wrote. You should be campaigning on that vision. | ||
| @CllrRuth Hi Ruth, I have written at length on here in the days afterwards about what went wrong. Am on NEC panel reviewing it in detail. | ||
| @oranjd you don't win supporters from other parties by being nice to those parties. E.g. we won most of 2010 LD voters by attacking LDs | ||
| @SalmaYaqoob @jonlansman No one made you join another party, stay outside Lab (your other 2 Brum cllrs joined us) or campaign 4 Galloway | ||
| @jonlansman @sowadally @andrewspoooner we don't have that kind of nonsense in Hackney. | ||
| @andrewspoooner agreed. | ||
| @jonlansman errr... Isn't she in another political party? I thought it was only Compass on the left that did this hugging our enemies stuff | ||
| @asabenn yes of course | ||
| @benjaminbutter the blame the right thesis is in Mike Marqusee's book "Defeat from the Jaws of Victory" blames Neil, LCC and NOLS! | ||
| @hopisen Greenwich is usually defined as "inner" because it was in the Inner London Education Authority | ||
| @ashmcgregor @johannabaxter see my comments last night. | ||
| Just spotted @DawsonWill on #faredealtuesday duty outside Stoke Newington station, one of 12 Hackney Labour is leafleting | ||
| @alexsobel @AndyCharlwood or make local members fund the campaign if they select an MP instead of someone else! | ||
| @AndyCharlwood I think there are a couple of seats where MPs might want to be a Mayor where I would want to spent up to the limit if agent | ||
| @AndyCharlwood @nansloane is there an MP in Leeds planning on running? | ||
| @NanSloane @EllieCumbo @itsdavegreen my guess is current position (by-elections if any MP selected) will hold as alternatives unpalatable | ||
| @NanSloane @EllieCumbo @itsdavegreen seriously you are saying an MP has time to run country or lead party but not to run a city? | ||
| @NanSloane @itsdavegreen there is a precedent - Ken stayed as MP for Brent E after winning Mayor. But wasn't in Labour then so not our call | ||
| @marywimbury @itsdavegreen aha I should have known that and didn't. The PCCs there is in any case the T Lloyd precedent. | ||
| @itsdavegreen my guiding principle is members should get widest choice candidates and we should have strongest shortlists poss as key jobs | ||
| @itsdavegreen complication is Tony Lloyd has already resigned to run for PCC. | ||
| @Scarletstand it's first I've heard about it and contradicts everything we agreed at Org Sub and precedent of Manchester Central | ||
| @HarryLangford no, I assume you are working hard in Birmingham! Aimed at @DPJHodges | ||
| @HarryLangford I'll only take seriously the reaction of people who have pulled their weight on the campaign trail between now and then. | ||
| @220_d_92_20 he is equally robust on the NEC 20 years on | ||
| @Labourstone plus there are 2 more with exits in both Islington and Hackney | ||
| @teaandfred no I was just a student activist - campaigned in 3 marginals in 92: Bristol E, Bristol NW, Kingswood | ||
| Second recount in Bristol NW" just flashed across 1992 GE screen. I was at that count. Horrible. | ||
| I'm at @FortsCafe in Margate. Best full English breakfast in the South East. | ||
| @itsdavegreen Edmonton | ||
| Why we don't need a chair - elected or unelected: http://lukeakehurst.blogspot.com/2010/07/surfeit-of-chairs.html | ||
| @new_art_riot even worse were the locals a month after - voters +activists completely demoralised, lost v safe seats. Hence huge '96 gains. | ||
| Most of tough lessons I learnt about what Labour needs to do to win - organisation + politics - were on 9 April 1992. | ||
| Tmrw is 20th anniversary of 1992 General Election. Seems like yesterday I was doing loudspeaker car in Southmead + Avonmouth Wards. | ||
| @WillCross61 the ending is not in the book - she became national treasurer of Socialist Alliance then quit that due to SWP shenanigans | ||
| @WillCross61 it ends with her quitting because the forces of sanity beat her in a vote on Hackney N CLP GC - I was there | ||
| Noisy but enjoyable Easter Sunday at my mum + dad's with whole family incl. 4 little boys aged from 6 downwards (my 2 + their 2 cousins) | ||
| Just had lunch at Margate harbour in beautiful sunshine after morning on beach at Joss Bay. Good to bump into colleague Dr Noam Leshem. | ||
| Heading down to Margate to recharge batteries and see family | ||
| Congratulations to Alan Olive and Labour's Eastern Region for fielding a candidate in every ward up for election this May in their region | ||
| @antoniabance the same Matt Sellwood who told voters in Hackney how committed he was to the area when he ran here in 2010? | ||
| @2Tone79 @AlexWhiteUK actually now is the time to join Unite and fight to make it more moderate | ||
| @torytowncrapola no I can't see the connection as Bradford West voted for Tony Blair to be PM 3 times | ||
| Really interesting piece about Bradford: http://t.co/YledcPa7 | ||
| @OwenJones84 if it's not relative, who has the right to define it? And why would you want to define it narrowly? | ||
| @susanhebden @ibn_hytham @owenjones84 @hackneyabbott the "left" means all people to the left of the mid point in UK politics. | ||
| @danielblaney @OwenJones84 @susanhebden @hackneyabbott you could try showing a bit more solidarity with Lab members in Bradfd + Bethnal Grn | ||
| @OwenJones84 @susanhebden @bristolred @hackneyabbott "disrepute" doesn't mean "a policy I strongly disagreed with | ||
| @OwenJones84 @susanhebden @bristolred @hackneyabbott so into "disrepute" that we went on to win a 3rd election after it | ||
| @HackneyAbbott @danielblaney this all stems from inhabiting a parallel reality where what SWP say re Labour more imp than what the Tories do | ||
| @HackneyAbbott @danielblaney surely Robin Cook was the most prominent Labour opponent of the war as he was an ex-Foreign Secretary | ||
| @HackneyAbbott @danielblaney really? I thought he was an obscure backbencher with comic value because of his personal foibles | ||
| @danielblaney @HackneyAbbott the anti-war movement needs to take a look at itself if it ends with Galloway as "leader" + SWP as organisers | ||
| @HackneyAbbott @danielblaney why would we want George anywhere near the Labour Party? | ||
| @HackneyAbbott @danielblaney but you opposed the war just as much and were not expelled so that view is balderdash | ||
| @danielblaney don't underestimate extent to which ppl esp our core vote hold armed forces in affection even when having fight unpopular wars | ||
| @danielblaney big diff between being anti-war and wanting the other side to win once UK enters a conflict | ||
| @kevpeel did you have the fritto misto? | ||
| @Jamie4Labour I find it useful for checking which wards next lot of data will come from! | ||
| @AndyPandy_20 in case you haven't seen my campaign website - http://t.co/22El7eBx hope you will consider me for one of other 4 votes | ||
| @conradlandin actually it dates back to brief period when they were called "Social and Liberal Democrats" (1988 to 1990???) | ||
| @RichardAngell I thought I was "candidate with all the momentum". Oops sorry different and way more exciting Labour election. ;) | ||
| Thank you Barnsley East and Burton CLPs for nominating me for NEC | ||
| @camdentheo Tories I know call Labour ppl "socialists". Their canvass code for a Lab voter is S for socialist | ||
| On way to Homerton Hospital to have casts made for new ankle foot orthotics #IcanwalkbecauseoftheNHS | ||
| Thanks to following CLPs I've only just learned nominated me: S Swindon, Stroud, Watford, Witney | ||
| Some NEC nominations stats: http://t.co/qyWcdFxV | ||
| @Paul_Burgin @rdstalker congratulations! | ||
| Waiting for the final list of NEC nominations but pleased to hear today that I got Birmingham Hall Green and West Bromwich E CLPs | ||
| @MsIntervention I never knew you had that in common with George Galloway | ||
| @sophisabella thanks! That is 1st time I'm ever collected canvass data via Twitter. | ||
| Good to see @dannyjstevens @IvanaBartoletti @lisa_calderwood @OwenJones84 @welovestokey as part of big team on #labourdoorstep today | ||
| I'm outside Stoke Newington Library waiting to lead #labourdoorstep session in Lordship Ward | ||
| @Furqan_Naeem yes definitely would be good to hear your perspective. Need to meet to agree timetable and terms of reference though | ||
| Just found out I've been appointed one of 5 members of NEC Review of community + youth engagement and organising in wake of Bradford West | ||
| @new_art_riot we're trying to catch them before they leave the house. You can join us later if you want. | ||
| @new_art_riot yes Lordship Ward at 10.30! | ||
| NEC nominations have closed. So many submitted on deadline day today that HQ will not finish processing them until Monday. | ||
| Thank you Vale of Glamorgan CLP and Sutton & Cheam CLP for nominating me for #NEC | ||
| @Callum_Munro @gusbbaker @johannabaxter @elliereeves agreed. I have already fed in my observations based on polling day to GS | ||
| @AndrewBoff are you the Respect candidate? | ||
| @mrmarksteel Mr Galloway's final campaign letter to the Muslim community implied he was in God's eyes a better Muslim than Imran Hussain | ||
| @Calderbank not a one-off as other seats like B'ham Hodge Hill w similar demographics could be vulnerable | ||
| @Calderbank I did see it coming hence my blog post earlier in the week trying to get people to go there. | ||
| @Calderbank no we need to think about very specific issue of disaffection of part of Muslim community. | ||
| @mpandnotanmp don't unfollow them screengrab the tweets and send them all to National Constitutional Cttee | ||
| Tragic that young people should invest their hopes in this charlatan | ||
| @Colchester1648 you do know I'm pretty much Ed Miliband's loudest supporter on NEC and Labour blogosphere? | ||
| @Rosiecosy agreed. | ||
| @Aaron_Kiely good to see you are back on message (just teasing) | ||
| @DomJBrown no they won't it is being held on same day as police commissioner + poss mayor elections across country + maybe other byelects | ||
| @tomgreatrexmp down to good local campaign run by Kevin Flack who used to work for Angela Smith | ||
| @Aaron_Kiely Aaron mate try to remember which party IMG has told you to enter into. Labour not Respect. You might blow your cover! ;) | ||
| @KatieCurtis interesting rumours that Socialist Action activists in Yorkshire were working on Galloway campaign | ||
| @popeandrew @vriyait what I saw of his campaign it was massively funded, glitsy, vitriolic, inflamatory. The guy knows how to fire ppl up. | ||
| @anniesec he would have won bigger w a longer campaign - his momentum was building in final days. Prob is his fanatics do drop everything. | ||
| @vriyait we did know it, there was a full page report in the Guardian saying it would happen, plus all the bookies suspended betting | ||
| @PeterKenyon about appeal of Galloway rhetoric to young Muslims disillusioned w UK foreign policy + communal power hierarchy | ||
| @PeterKenyon the Bradford West CLP is extremely active and large so problem not organisational | ||
| @davidosler Tory party were invisible on streets today w lots of Lab and Respect presence - ppl, cars, posters | ||
| @davidosler their candidate last time was Muslim. Looks like their white vote has switched to Lab and their Muslim vote to Galloway. | ||
| @davidosler not necessarily but possibly. Much of Tory vote gone straight to Respect. | ||
| There is a beautiful vintage steam engine at King's X station - nice surprise | ||
| @ns_mehdihasan and never forget gullible lefties fell for the LD con trick despite being warned the LDs were running under false colours | ||
| Heading back to London w very sore feet from #labourdoorstep . Hope we have done enough to stop the Galloway bandwagon. | ||
| Thank you Huddersfield CLP for nominating me for #NEC | ||
| @Rosiecosy @DCWood1986 @danjarvismp we need to make sure as well as mix of backgrounds Lab MPs r all extraordinary community leaders | ||
| @DCWood1986 it would guarantee none of those ppl would be selected. If low limits then only celebs or ppl w media profile wd win | ||
| @DCWood1986 open primaries wd mean only cands who were rich or had big donor support could win - would get US politics as millionaire's game | ||
| @conradlandin either way looking forward to a pasty at the station | ||
| I'm getting a train to Leeds this morning. Or was it Liverpool? | ||
| Thank you Newark and Northampton South for nominating me for NEC | ||
| Freaked by One Night all being filmed in places in Hackney I have canvassed loads of times | ||
| V pleased with the 125 contacts for Hackney C Ward our by-election candidate @BenHayhurst has just handed me. Suggest swing to Labour. | ||
| Thank you Reigate CLP for nominating me for #NEC esp thanks to @rhys1984 | ||
| Hackney council chamber a bit lop sided tonight. 39 Lab cllrs here, 1 lonely LD, Tories all missing | ||
| @HarryLangford please do | ||
| @georgegalloway pleased I have booked the day off work on Thursday to help stop you getting elected. | ||
| @antoniabance my experience going round country visiting CLPs is that most now have friendly internal culture. Small minority led side down. | ||
| @PortsladePen thanks! | ||
| @antoniabance seeing as leaders and mayors have far more power than MPs odd our political system doesn't treat them more prestige | ||
| @antoniabance would be good if we had a culture where being ldr or mayor of a big city made you by default a major national figure | ||
| Thank you Aldershot CLP for NEC nomination. Makes me nostalgic for the happy campaign I had there as Labour's PPC in 2001. | ||
| @RDStalker yes it is in | ||
| @StevenageLabour Hi can you submit your CLP's NEC nominations? They haven't been received yet according to published list. | ||
| @GrLabour Hi, can you submit your CLP's NEC nominations? They haven't gone in yet according to published list. | ||
| Great piece on Callaghan by Morgan: http://t.co/m16LcHB5 | ||
| @BenSoffa this is too important and too close an election not to go after every possible vote, whatever mosaic group they are in. | ||
| @BenSoffa also all the areas with a big Jewish vote either have Lab MPs still or had them until 2010 so is a community prepared to vote Lab | ||
| @andrewlomas they should have done supply + confidence not coalition then negotiated bill by bill | ||
| @mattzarb surely whole point is Tories WERE a creation of the rich. Parliamentary wing of capitalist classes? | ||
| @andrewlomas no one made them sign up to the stuff that has happened since. They negotiated a surrender, not a Coalition Agreement. | ||
| Thank you Nottingham North CLP for nominating me + rest of Progress/Labour 1st team for #nec | ||
| @andrewlomas really? The NHS Bill is after it was moderated?? The cuts have been moderated?? In what way? | ||
| @stephenkb I am relieved to find u were not seeking to compare my values to those of Gov Wallace of Alabama - your 1st tweet implied that | ||
| @stephenkb but you are staying loyal to a party that's helping implement Tory policies. | ||
| Blog post on Labour's internal elections (all of them!): http://lukeakehurst.blogspot.com/2010/07/labours-choices.html | ||
| @CandWCLP thanks! | ||
| @Labour_Partisan new secondary school, rebuilt primary sch, new housing, old housing renovated, more police, great hospital, more trains | ||
| @Labour_Partisan my deprived council ward in Hackney looks like a living monument to socialism because of Tony Blair + Gordon Brown - cont'd | ||
| Using my 1000th tweet to wish everyone a merry Christmas | ||
| @johnprescott @j_freedland Ken and we as party need address that v fast. Because it is vital to outcome of election + 4 community cohesion | ||
| @johnprescott @j_freedland John this really isn't about Jonathan's personal views. It's about alienation of a whole community...cont'd | ||
| @Labour_Partisan surely Tony Blair is the most effective left politician in your lifetime? | ||
| Thankyou Banbury, Bexhill & Battle, Broxtowe, Macclesfield, NE Cambs, Spelthorne, Taunton Deane, Walsall N, Witham CLPs for #NEC nominations | ||
| Good to meet Crewe CLP and discuss Refounding Labour, as well as getting feedback on how things r going nationally. Now head back to London. | ||
| Thank you Truro and Falmouth CLP for nominating me for #NEC | ||
| Help Labour in Bradford West by-election: http://t.co/Vmkw4eZq | ||
| Sign of panic and a blatant abuse of campaign non-disparagement rules - getting your allies to undermine rival candidates. | ||
| Writing my NEC report after quality time looking after Jed and Ben while @LabLinda75 was out on #labourdoorstep in Clissold Ward | ||
| Thank you Penrith + The Border CLP for nominating me for #nec | ||
| Hope any top tax rate paying Labour supporters will donate their 5pc windfall to the Party. | ||
| Abandoned my copy of Guardian as disgusting smear of gob, snot or worse stuck to it from N16 bus shelter seat. Yuck! | ||
| @CllrRachel hope you can help at OMOV stage with encouraging ppl in your CLP to vote | ||
| @CllrRachel thanks for trying! | ||
| @abrjacobson this is a Tory govt. You could have vetoed the NHS bill + the depth + speed of cuts. You haven't. | ||
| @susanhebden important to show unity on such a fundamental issue as NHS | ||
| 117 CLPs say they have nominated me for #NEC so far compared to 83 last time | ||
| About to do data entry of large amount of #labourdoorstep canvassing done by @IvanaBartoletti and Cazenove Ward team | ||
| @popeandrew Compass also taken decision to allow LDs to join their organisation. Unusual timing! | ||
| @popeandrew quite apart from stab in back for hard working 3rd place CLPs | ||
| @popeandrew in GE when LDs said wd work w party that got most votes, any call that reduced Lab national vote unhelpful | ||
| Will be using my role as Chair of Health Scrutiny in Hackney to monitor + expose damage to local NHS by this dreadful Bill | ||
| @labourmatters thanks | ||
| @labourmatters If it's Hodges a) he is a troll b) he has no right to call himself a Blairite as he never supported Blair | ||
| @MarkMeredith01 thanks Mark! | ||
| @RichardBurdenMP @hackneyabbott @steve_longden I support a 2 state solution because I'm a Zionist and my understanding of Zionism is ... | ||
| @DelroyBooth "the stately home we plot in" is owned by the National Union of Teachers | ||
| @DelroyBooth I look forward to having the same effect in Unite. | ||
| @DelroyBooth @AndrewGilbert1 @leftfutures apologies if I put you in the wrong party | ||
| @AndrewGilbert1 @DelroyBooth @leftfutures no SP I think (AKA Militant AKA Revolutionary Socialist League). That's why he's so polite! | ||
| @DelroyBooth as you are not a Labour member it's not really any of your business. | ||
| @DelroyBooth same difference. All Trots. Arguing over which lot is like Monty Python sketch. | ||
| @HackneyAbbott @steve_longden NATO (Bevin's idea) nuclear deterrent (Attlee's idea) and Israel, backed by Morrison, Nye Bevan and Mikardo | ||
| @HackneyAbbott @steve_longden good I support “an unprecedented emphasis by central government on the redistribution of income” AND ... | ||
| @HackneyAbbott @steve_longden my basic thesis is New Labour wasn't new but sits in a long revisionist tradition | ||
| @RoperCarl I didn't compare them to Unite. I am a member of Unite. I have no interest in, affinity with or sympathy for venture capitalists. | ||
| @KatieCurtis @ropercarl I've no idea. Is he? | ||
| Good to hear from @GloriaDePieroMP that Ashfield CLP has nominated me for #nec | ||
| @KatieCurtis @ropercarl the person there from BVCA was Tim Hames (ex Times journo, wrote a book w Adonis) | ||
| @KatieCurtis @ropercarl ... Most of FTSE 100 | ||
| @KatieCurtis @ropercarl so you've never been to a conference reception sponsored by any company or body which has Tory c exec? Rules out ... | ||
| @RoperCarl agree with Len McCluskey | ||
| @RoperCarl accepting a drink from them doesn't make me agree w them any more than attending a Unite reception wd suddenly make me ... | ||
| @RoperCarl same reason they sponsor things at Labour conference - ppl sponsor cos they have a controversial message to try to get across | ||
| @TomMillerUK @BenCooper86 @DAlexanderMP arguably our platform in 97 was more rightwing than in 01 - eg accepted Tory spending plans | ||
| Many individual members of other TUs here at #ppw12 esp Unite. In future years I hope there will be delegations from all Lab affiliated TUs | ||
| Thank you Barrow-in-Furness CLP for nominating me for #nec | ||
| Byrne: have reached point on policy review already that took 8 yrs til 87 last time in oppo #ppw12 | ||
| Belatedly, last night's by-election results: http://t.co/H6FcILYY | ||
| @itsdavegreen about 110 I think | ||
| Thank you Birmingham Selly Oak, Carmarthen East & Dinefwr, Colchester, Darlington CLPs for nominating me for #NEC | ||
| @RadicalDanFrost they are a registered political party like the Tories or LDs (but a lot smaller!) | ||
| @tomwilliamsisme on my blog http://t.co/DvTjYetW | ||
| @BenRBentley indeed, if you read my blog you will see my own politics are influenced by the democratic tradition in Marxism BUT ... | ||
| @marxistpoet it's a satire on the anonymous dossier about Progress - and a warning that left have more to lose by making this an issue | ||
| @Rosiecosy sadly I wasn't able to be there | ||
| @georgemaddocks on @ProgressOnline appropriately enough! | ||
| @DrEoinClarke it won't stop anyone campaigning on the NHS - just a set of facts | ||
| Really looking forward to publication of my dossier tomorrow! People in glass houses, stones, etc. | ||
| @JamesEValentine thanks James! | ||
| @welovestokey it's not dinner time yet! | ||
| @RachelReevesMP thanks Rachel! | ||
| Thank you Dover CLP for nominating me for #NEC | ||
| On my way to Slough to chair @ProgressOnline event featuring @CarolineFlintMP @JWoodcockMP @fionamacmp and Patrick Diamond | ||
| Just wrote a dossier about Labour Party factions. Not anonymously. | ||
| @Jo_Milligan good result! | ||
| Can you help make sure your CLP is the 100th to nominate me for #NEC? Have 99 so far! http://t.co/22El7eBx | ||
| Thank you South Suffolk CLP for nominating me for #NEC | ||
| @TomMillerUK @Callum_Munro @leftfutures @ProgressOnline for years I used to send emails at NEC election times to about 200 people ... | ||
| @TomMillerUK @Callum_Munro @leftfutures @ProgressOnline annoying Progress being attacked using stuff they r open about as ammo | ||
| @TomMillerUK @Callum_Munro @leftfutures @ProgressOnline - and agree they like certain policies or candidates? | ||
| @TomMillerUK @Callum_Munro @leftfutures @ProgressOnline how do u police/define it tho? Surely any group of party members can meet together - | ||
| @TomMillerUK @Callum_Munro @leftfutures @ProgressOnline rulebooks, elected national execs, delegate conferences w motions, | ||
| @TomMillerUK @Callum_Munro @leftfutures @ProgressOnline ... Add value to Labour Party. I don't agree w all content bt think it said is good. | ||
| @TomMillerUK @Callum_Munro @leftfutures @ProgressOnline basic question is do the events + publications Progress produces ... | ||
| @TomMillerUK @Callum_Munro @leftfutures @ProgressOnline personally find idea of internal elections in a party too close to ... | ||
| @TomMillerUK @Callum_Munro @leftfutures @ProgressOnline if ppl want a faction on right of party w internal elections nowt stops creating one | ||
| @jonlansman the candidates it endorses r the ones nearest to its politics - kind of a no brainer | ||
| @jonlansman no pretence at internal democracy - it's not an organisation run by its members - they r honest about that | ||
| @jonlansman officers + staff are publicly named | ||
| @jonlansman small percent is event sponsorship by companies or TUs, same as for all think tanks + party | ||
| @jonlansman vast bulk of funding is from Lord Sainsbury who in same period donated 18 mil to Labour Party | ||
| @jonlansman content of events + publications is all public | ||
| @jonlansman spend has been 2.9m over 19 years so basically salaries of 2 or 3 staff + events + publications | ||
| @jonlansman all the facts about @ProgressOnline are out in public domain | ||
| @Jamie4Labour Hi Jamie can you chase up the Perth nomination, it hasn't been received yet? | ||
| Good to see @paulsimpson1976 @RichardAngell @Jeremy_Newmark @carlymaisel @sheldoffline @doylematthew @martinbright | ||
| @ns_mehdihasan @cjmclellan I'm not sure helpful to talk about victims when both peoples are traumatised by decades of violence | ||
| Busy night at my cllr advice surgery - mix of social services, housing and noise nuisance cases | ||
| Thank you Great Grimsby, New Forest E and Twickenham CLPs for nominating me for #NEC | ||
| Latest official #NEC nominations - I've moved into 5th place: http://t.co/eiKrFPq5 | ||
| Hi @exeterlabour have you done your NEC nominations yet? If not can you consider nominating me? Full info here: http://t.co/22El7eBx | ||
| 90 CLPs have now said they have nominated me for #NEC. Can you help me reach 100? http://t.co/22El7eBx | ||
| Thank you Bromsgrove CLP for nominating me for #NEC | ||
| Reduced to ranting by Gove et al: http://lukeakehurst.blogspot.com/2010/07/cancelling-schools-for-tory-future.html | ||
| Enjoying coffee and the Guardian on 0730 Birmingham to Euston train. Should get to work not a lot slower than my usual commute from N16. | ||
| @MichaelPayneUK thanks! | ||
| @LukePollard My response: http://lukeakehurst.blogspot.com/2010/07/luke-pollard-who-fought-excellent.html | ||
| @dannyjstevens you are - you overtook 2 wards last week | ||
| @Cllr_Roxsie thanks! | ||
| @NickiBrooksx thanks! | ||
| Thank you North Herefordshire CLP for nominating me for #NEC | ||
| If your CLP is meeting tonight, please nominate me for #NEC http://t.co/22El7eBx | ||
| On my way to The Hawthorns in West Brom for @spellar 's CLP fundraising dinner | ||
| @AlexWhiteUK SDP: The Birth, Life, and Death of the Social Democratic Party by Crewe and King is the authoritative history | ||
| @1066Chris thanks! | ||
| Now on 82 CLP nominations for #NEC just 1 less than total I got in 2010 - with rest of March to go. Will your CLP help me get to 100? | ||
| Thank you to Haltemprice + Howden CLP for nominating me for #NEC | ||
| On way to #labourdoorstep trade union day of action in Dalston and Chatham wards. Not liking the drizzle! | ||
| @stellacreasy NB you would have been selected in Walthamstow whether AWS or not. | ||
| @stellacreasy quite aside from need 4 more women MPs 4 equality u and rest of women intake r credit to Labour and will help us win. | ||
| @jonlansman I backed Ed M in first ballot as did Ellie. Pete Wheeler backed Burnham + transferred to Ed M. | ||
| @jonlansman I thought it was the term invented by you Bennites to differentiate yourselves from the Foot/Bevanite soft left tradition | ||
| Thank you Torbay CLP and Bognor Regis & Littlehampton CLP for nominating me for #NEC | ||
| @simpsonjonathan yep 40 tomorrow | ||
| I'm not going to spend the last 20 mins of first 40 years of my life watching George Galloway. | ||
| @abrjacobson Dobson in my case | ||
| @vickyfoxcroft also important to note facility time for TU reps is to level playing field in workplace disputes vs huge employer HR depts | ||
| @SamTarry unfortunately vast majority of employed ppl work in private sector | ||
| Thanks to Aldershot CLP, where I was parliamentary candidate in 2001, for nominating me for #NEC tonight | ||
| @debgardiner @KatieCurtis what is it with you and islands Katie? Canvey to Wight ... | ||
| @new_art_riot Saturday 11am Dalston Junction Station and 2.30pm outside Town Hall, Mare St #labourdoorstep | ||
| Thank you Stevenage CLP for nominating me for #NEC and for nice feedback about my reports! | ||
| @MichaelEzra not yet. @DermotKehoe is interim CEO. | ||
| @athanaseus 11 is a bad age to test for "ability". And why do kids of diff abilities need to be in diff schools?Can set and stream in comps. | ||
| @athanaseus having passed the 11+ in Kent it is an evil, divisive system that stigmatises majority of kids aged 11 as having "failed | ||
| Doing contact.creator data entry. Great way to end a long day. | ||
| @Rowan_Draper @gusbbaker @ShellyAsquith @wesstreeting members need to consider that kind of issue when they vote | ||
| @conradlandin I always assume GRA model rule changes mainly submitted so you can ritually condemn NEC members for not accepting them | ||
| Tories in Hackney have budget calling for cuts to tree planting and road repairs | ||
| @conradlandin I think you should check which way the GRA members voted on each issue b4 asking me! One of your's voted for Refounding Labour | ||
| Delighted to hear from Mayor Jules Pipe no cuts to frontline services in Hackney this year. | ||
| @conradlandin @wesstreeting @gusbbaker @shellyasquith NEC does not have votes on conference floor | ||
| @conradlandin @wesstreeting @gusbbaker @shellyasquith judge me on my record on NEC not on scare stories that I am r/w bogeyman | ||
| @RadicalDanFrost seeing as that's the Hamas position, yes. | ||
| @SteveHewittMIS @wesstreeting agreed. That's why I want the unions to have moderate politics. Like they used to when they set up Labour. | ||
| @MShapland we wouldn't take her | ||
| There's a very good reason why mine countermeasures vessels are made with non-metalic hulls ... | ||
| @markrowney sorry!!! | ||
| Wonder how history will look back at people who didn't stand in solidarity with Israel defending itself when it was attacked by Hamas and its citizens slaughtered in the most barbaric way possible. | ||
| @markrowney which CLP are you in? | ||
| It's morally reprehensible to suggest stopping a country that is trying to defeat Hamas after the worst terror attack since 9/11 from receiving the equipment its armed forces need. | ||
| Thank you Meon Valley CLP for nominating me for #NEC | ||
| @JoGibbo01 brings back happy but cold memories of December canvassing in Bebbington Ward | ||
| Delighted to hear from Nick Smith MP that I have been nominated for #NEC by Blaenau Gwent CLP | ||
| @Cllr_Roxsie unfortunately there are lots of councils with only 1 or no Lab cllrs. @BenCooper86 in S Hams is an example! | ||
| @CalumSPlath @RadicalDanFrost @tomwilliamsisme don't fall for Tory trap of playing off diff key services against each other | ||
| @Jo_Suherman wasn't until Kinnock created nat membership system as precondition of OMOV then Smith OMOV that ord CLP/TU mems got votes | ||
| @Jo_Suherman there was full OMOV put forward at time but rejected | ||
| @Jo_Suherman ...expanded ldrship franchise beyond PLP it only empowered TU Gen Secs and CLP GCs on winner takes all basis | ||
| @lukey_stanger @RichardAngell all of which isn't to detract now from the need to find a 2-state solution as the only way to lasting peace | ||
| @lukey_stanger @RichardAngell also you are not 100% correct saying Pal played no part in WW2 - the Grand Mufti actively supported the Nazis | ||
| @lukey_stanger @RichardAngell Lukey it's a bit late to revisit the location of Israel as a) it has been there 64 years .... | ||
| @ariehkovler @twodoctors @JamesAsser difficult when they also oppose economic growth on environmental grounds | ||
| @andrewspoooner but so is line that it was "illegal" when lack of 2nd res was cos of threat of Russia + China vetos | ||
| @RichardAngell hope it is informative. I am very jealous! | ||
| On my way to Hackney #labourdoorstep in Haggerston Ward - mtg 11am outside Geffrye Museum on Kingsland Road | ||
| @HackneyAbbott @briandlondon @ns_mehdihasan the only body that could find the war to have been illegal is the UN Security Council. It hasn't | ||
| @HackneyAbbott @briandlondon @ns_mehdihasan they didn't need one #legalandjustandmoralwar | ||
| @AJogee @tomcopley @JuliaGillard I'm with whoever the New South Wales Right faction is backing - assume her? #respill #Labor #Gillard | ||
| @alexsobel @AndyCharlwood thanks to both of you. Pleased I have such broad support!! | ||
| @lukeblackheath thanks. Don't like not defending my views though. | ||
| Pleased to hear I have been nominated for #NEC by Bracknell CLP and Bassetlaw CLP | ||
| Cue political joke opportunities re The Muppets | ||
| @lisalazuli just new schools and hospitals all over the country ... | ||
| @SUwebsite @DelroyBooth @HackneyAbbott at time of start of war UN, all the main nations and the anti-war movement believed he had WMD | ||
| @PickardJE @PeterWatt123 what his post-politics career as middle east peace envoy + giving millions to charity? | ||
| @HackneyAbbott the Kurds and Shiites (ie the majority of popn) and those Sunni who opposed Saddam r not displeased w being free | ||
| Thanks to 2 CLPs I just found out nominated me for #NEC - E Hants and Keighley | ||
| #FF one of Hackney's hardest working councillors @dannyjstevens who has just sent me yet another batch of Lordship Ward canvass returns | ||
| @DannyHackett thanks for trying on our behalf | ||
| Delighted to hear Torfaen CLP has nominated me, @QueenFlo @Jo_Milligan @RuthSmeeth @elliereeves + #wheeler4nec for #NEC | ||
| @DannyHackett all my campaign info is here: http://t.co/22El7eBx | ||
| #FF my fantastic #NEC running mates @QueenFlo @Jo_Milligan @RuthSmeeth @elliereeves and #wheeler4nec | ||
| @DYoung90 6 NEC, 4 + Youth NPF | ||
| @lukey_stanger thanks! | ||
| @mel_haslam that's dreadful. What happened? | ||
| I hope fact I can get nominations whilst being v frank about my politics will encourage others to be courageous in saying what they believe | ||
| Losing count of CLP nominations tonight. This is a good thing. Humbled so many ppl backing me. Thanks comrades! | ||
| @RachaelSaunders fantastic thanks! | ||
| @debgardiner thanks Deb really appreciated | ||
| @jkblacker thanks! | ||
| @AndyCharlwood thanks! | ||
| @andrewspoooner @anthonyleahy @DAaronovitch the West hasn't armed Syria - all his arms are from Russia | ||
| @DavidMills73 Baldwin? | ||
| @jonlansman I prefer a no frills approach - this is after all an election for a volunteer lay role so spend should be proportionate | ||
| @spellar honoured for 40 years service to Unite and predecessor unions: http://t.co/EvXbjaqE | ||
| @hopisen SPEW not SPGB | ||
| @debgardiner thanks Deborah | ||
| Home to do data entry of 300 contacts from Wick Ward #labourdoorstep | ||
| @mtiedemann for any non-incumbent to win, one of 6 incumbents must lose, I was 6th at last election so very vulnerable | ||
| @Debsalini which CLP are you? | ||
| @CandWCLP thanks! | ||
| @alonorbach thanks Alon | ||
| @anthonyleahy I wish it was that easy - will be v competitive race for places 5 and 6. Tough to win w/o high t/o ldr election. | ||
| Just heard I have been nominated for #NEC by Ealing Southall, Labour's largest CLP | ||
| I think that means 40 CLPs have now nominated me. Can you help me get to 100 nominations by end of March? http://t.co/22El7eBx | ||
| @kevpeel gosh thanks I'm flattered! | ||
| @ariehkovler assessing the health needs of an area then planning & procuring the correct services | ||
| @StephenTwigg great to see you had Hackney Cllr @olidebotton on panel with you | ||
| @jonlansman You cynic! I've just never met the other 2, and @LabLinda75 was John's Agent in 2005. | ||
| @johnjdc @jonewilson John just to state for the record Labour First has no staff, premises or income! | ||
| @oldgreydoc @LabourList @Ed_Miliband I don't disagree but I was trying to explain to existing activists why they shd implement it | ||
| @jonewilson it's traditional for the left to whine about process. Suits their conspiracy theories + narrative that they are "victims". | ||
| The Hard Left seem very excitable these last few days. What can be worrying them? | ||
| @RDStalker hi Rachel, is that the branch or the CLP decision? | ||
| @TheBigShow1976 who got nominated? | ||
| @michaelsavage both | ||
| @michaelsavage is having a big impact on party regeneration in south and rural areas | ||
| @michaelsavage new CLP funding scheme has pushed cash from high membership areas to areas that previously had little cash | ||
| At NEC Refounding Labour implementation working group - followed by panel on diversity + democracy fund applications | ||
| @gareth_snell v vocally w them on key policies like primaries and public service reform | ||
| @doktordunc @conradlandin @hopisen people decide they want to run, people and organisations decide who they most support, and endorse them. | ||
| @jonlansman Jim Murphy. And no you can't. But happy to debate vs you in any public or party forum. | ||
| @conradlandin @doktordunc @hopisen sorry Conrad but don't think I will be adding you to the list. | ||
| @conradlandin @doktordunc @hopisen it's a mailing list not a membership organisation. As I send the emails I decide who is on mailing list. | ||
| @jonlansman an AGM implies decisions, elections etc. We just have a speaker mtg - Ed Balls in 09, Ed Mili in 2010, John Healey in 2011 | ||
| @jonlansman it's actually an Annual Meeting not an AGM - I used incorrect abbreviation to stick to 140 characters | ||
| @Nathage @WavertreeCLP my flyer is here: http://t.co/LOvI2s4z | ||
| @doktordunc @jonlansman @hopisen I am 99pc sure it has not come from the left but from someone disgruntled that Progress hasn't backed them | ||
| @lukeakehurst @doktordunc @jonlansman @hopisen should be very very careful about where they chuck stones at other orgs' legitimacy | ||
| @lukeakehurst @doktordunc @jonlansman @hopisen LRC affiliates http://t.co/Jr9YOr7M include Alliance for Workers’ Liberty, .... |
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| @doktordunc @jonlansman @hopisen the point I'm making is attack Progress if you must for its politics rather than attack its legitimacy | ||
| @doktordunc @jonlansman @hopisen the report says Progress structured like a company. Difficult to at same time acuse of being a party. | ||
| @jonlansman @hopisen LRC is very conciously a shadow version of Labour Party's own structures, even using original name of Party | ||
| @donpaskini I think the problem is this isn't the Party's money - if individuals want to put their own cash into pet projects can't stop em | ||
| @Paul0Evans1 arguably party is more democratic now than pre-OMOV and when only MPs could vote for Leader and CLPs only had 10% of conf votes | ||
| @gareth_snell the right of people in a party to group together to promote shared policies or candidates is a fundamental one | ||
| @donpaskini yes, all named on their website, just like Compass' staff are. | ||
| @donpaskini £2.9m in the course of their entire existence since 1994 and includes staff pay - £161k a year on average, 5 staff must be 80%+ | ||
| On open top bus tour of Rome. It's sunny and 14 degrees C | ||
| @jeff_wode @AlanScobbie @TomMillerUK I think you misinterpreted a reference to Chris Ford as being about you | ||
| @AlanScobbie @TomMillerUK missing tweet was saying much as diagree w him Neal Lawson is soft left not a "Trot | ||
| @AlanScobbie @TomMillerUK important that "Trot" is used accurately to describe real Trotskyists e.g. Socialist Action/IMG | ||
| @pollytoynbee good for you | ||
| Pretty desperate if the best they can do is "Luke supports Trident and Israel". I mean, who knew? | ||
| And as I respect the "no disparagement" clause in the candidate code I will not be responding in kind | ||
| I guess the Hard Left must b freaked out by the number of CLPs nominating to bother w trawling blog posts I wrote in 2006 for quotes #NEC | ||
| Chuffed to have picked up 3 CLP #NEC nominations last night: Bermondsey, Dulwich, Enfield N. | ||
| @Ben_Maloney oops sorry for mix up | ||
| Thanks to Dulwich + W Norwood CLP for nominating me for #NEC tonight. | ||
| Heading down to Kent for the weekend. Trying to get to Margate in time to watch @OwenJones84 on #bbcqt | ||
| @PeterKenyon my critique of its flaws is pretty clearly set out in my @LabourList response to D Mili's NS piece | ||
| @MShapland yes. Ends the Argentine narrative about "colonialism" if Falklands et al are integral parts of UK like French DOMs | ||
| Happy birthday to @PeterHain | ||
| Happy start to the day as tracked down a favourite shirt in wardrobe which I thought I'd somehow lost ... | ||
| @elliereeves and Ellie you also got Hackney South and Walthamstow. | ||
| @TeddyBearEdward he stood for MEP in Merseyside in an election in late '90s. Heard nothing since. | ||
| Just heard Gloucester CLP nominated me for #NEC. Thanks! | ||
| @OwenJones84 wow that's an amazing platform. Use it wisely! | ||
| How we can help stop the Health & Social Care Bill: http://t.co/6dZuDreF | ||
| @DPJHodges the problem we have is called the boundary review - it means loads of MPs need to find new jobs such as police coms or mayors | ||
| Thank you to Leeds West, Hornsey & Wood Green and Tooting CLPs for nominating me for NEC | ||
| Sun people should be v worried re. US Foreign Corrupt Practices Act investigation. Serious law w serious penalties. | ||
| Pleased to hear I was nominated for #NEC by Ealing North CLP on Friday | ||
| 1 more follower gets me to 3000. Please RT. | ||
| @PollyB1967 please pass on my thanks to Thurrock CLP for the nomination #NEC | ||
| @blackdogtales the average "reading age" of all UK adults is nine so #TheSun is quite well pitched at general market. Scary. | ||
| Just seen Bugsy Malone with Jed at Barbican for his friend's birthday. Not sure which of us enjoyed the pie fights more! | ||
| @pete_boyle thanks, I really enjoyed it | ||
| Are any of my cllr followers on auths that have these prayers? Never heard of prayers at mtgs b4 case as don't have in multifaith Hackney | ||
| All yesterday's council by-election results: http://t.co/mI2rHbra | ||
| @NickiBrooksx actually he's done both. Hackney council meetings can be quite lively! | ||
| My son has just told me I am like Indiana Jones cos I "have been on lots of adventures to council meetings". | ||
| @stephenkb ... My picks: John Reid, Herbert Morrison, Denis Healey, Tony Crosland | ||
| @stephenkb find idea that Blair/Kinnock not part of same process odd. All Kinnock's inner office ended up Blairite ministers ... | ||
| @stephenkb and Kinnock inherited such a dire position would have been unlikely anyone could win from it | ||
| @stephenkb think you've read things into my article that weren't there. | ||
| At Heathrow after long detour due to shut M4. | ||
| @AdamJFarrell here's mine: http://t.co/LOvI2s4z | ||
| Thank you East Dunbartonshire CLP for nominating me for #NEC last night. | ||
| On our way to Heathrow, naively believing BA website which says the 0730 to Rome will fly | ||
| He seems absolutely oblivious to the role Ken Loach has played over many decades in the debate about antisemitism or the extent to which the Jewish community find association with Loach abhorrent and offensive. | ||
| @DrEoinClarke there are hardly any of them - 62pc of 9pc is not many ppl! | ||
| @Markfergusonuk stop tweeting about NOLS and post my @LabourList column Mr Ferguson! | ||
| @Markfergusonuk @Callum_Munro but my view is with Callum, if you are Labour and a student you should join Labour Students... | ||
| @Markfergusonuk @Callum_Munro ... people from joining. Otherwise it would make more sense to be a section of party like Young Labour. | ||
| @Markfergusonuk @Callum_Munro the only reason for its affiliate status is cos student union rules mean Labour Clubs can't stop non-Labour.. | ||
| @Markfergusonuk @Callum_Munro it's an unusual affiliate though in that it was set up by the Party and is based at HQ. | ||
| Pleased to hear I have been nominated for #NEC by Shipley CLP | ||
| @HarryLangford I'll be there #PPW2012 | ||
| @chris_underwood I'll say same I did to @LukeBozier. Blair got active in Lab when it was dominated by Foot and Benn. | ||
| @chris_underwood bottom line is Blair won the union section of electoral college in 94 so if DM didn't was about him, not the system | ||
| @chris_underwood @RafaDavies TUs did not have a veto. Ed could have lost. In Scotland TUs voted for cand who lost dep ldr | ||
| @chris_underwood @RafaDavies that's whole point - union link connects us to a wider group of electors | ||
| @chris_underwood @RafaDavies historical consideration is they set the party up and have repeatedly saved it from extremism | ||
| @chris_underwood @RafaDavies practical consideration is we would be bankrupt without our union affiliates | ||
| @jreynoldsMP thanks! | ||
| @chris_underwood @RafaDavies only if u think "we" excludes union levy payers. I think they r as much part of Lab as individual members r. | ||
| @chris_underwood @RafaDavies but the logic of that reaction to losing the electoral college is to break the union link | ||
| @conradlandin @jackfalkingham if there is a caucus or line for anyone else I haven't been invited to it or given it ... | ||
| @conradlandin @jackfalkingham reality is biggest block of votes on NEC and NPF is TU caucus | ||
| @conradlandin @jackfalkingham there's a bit of a contradiction twixt your take on NEC balance + @leftfutures narrative of our recent debates | ||
| @stfumikey why wouldn't you want takeaway flyers? How do you order takeaways without them? | ||
| @JohnRentoul the comments underneath that article unintentionally support its thesis | ||
| @edwardgretton @jo_milligan @elliereeves @Ed_Miliband I did indeed and believe I made the right call | ||
| @Alex_Ross1983 there is valuable expertise in other sectors but also risk of marketisation and lack of public service ethos | ||
| @Alex_Ross1983 I'm from a council that prides itself on having taken services back in house and massively improved them | ||
| If the state isn't the answer, why are we bothering to contest elections? Why not just become an NGO does social action? Sorry bein trite | ||
| @Alex_Ross1983 but no one, not even Roy H, suggests state action is the answer to everything. It's a straw man. | ||
| @KatieCurtis I define my politics by clear stances (sometimes unpopular) on issues, not by attempts at an overarching theory. | ||
| ... Are given away to unelected local activists. | ||
| The more I am thinking about it the more I reject central premise of D Mili article that state action has had its day... | ||
| @oliver_segal if it didn't work we wouldn't do it but last GE showed we held those marginals that did most voter ID | ||
| @oliver_segal that's why we primarily target canvassing a low turnout but v Labour areas | ||
| Congratulations to Hastings Labour on taking control of Hasting Borough Council in by-election last night. Labour winning in the Deep South. | ||
| @TomMillerUK @lizmcshane @Daryn_mccombe Neil K was actually from soft left (he beat Hattersley who was the right's candidate for ldr) | ||
| @tomebbutt @welovestokey @progressonline yes ... But ... Ppl need to understand purpose is data collection - that's why I do league tables | ||
| @athanaseus @welovestokey @ProgressOnline ... Hurt feelings by saying won't vote for them | ||
| @athanaseus @welovestokey @ProgressOnline all evidence is ppl lie more to the candidate than to other canvassers as don't want to .... | ||
| @athanaseus @welovestokey @ProgressOnline ... Or say "don't know" when they mean "against" as don't want to cause offence | ||
| @athanaseus @welovestokey @ProgressOnline I think some of it is politeness tho - voters say what they think will please the canvasser ... | ||
| @athanaseus @welovestokey @ProgressOnline ... Visit from the party you lied to to remind u to vote on polling day. | ||
| @welovestokey yes indeed - but may not have all the answers on the spot! | ||
| @welovestokey @ProgressOnline ... Time to engage in detail. Elsewhere we have a cruder task - simply identifying our core vote + little time | ||
| @welovestokey @ProgressOnline you r in the luxurious position (thru previous hard work) of 2300 promises in your ward so u can afford the .. | ||
| @Doyle282 no nominations from Devon yet ... | ||
| @LukeBozier ... I get impression u think they should all walk off and set up small businesses | ||
| @LukeBozier the anti-TU stuff is bizarre. Who will fight for ppl working in catering or retail 4 instance, if not USDAW ... | ||
| @LukeBozier ... Entrepreneurs but work in public service or for other ppl's businesses | ||
| @LukeBozier ... Who aren't cut out to be entrepreneurs + need decent jobs working 4 others, and economy needs some ppl to not be ... | ||
| @LukeBozier that's why I think you should reconsider it. Tory ldrs really don't go into politics to help ppl like you or your family. | ||
| @AdamGraySays @LukeBozier In fact there is a case that Blair was returning to pre-1979 "real Labour" tradition + the Bennites were alien | ||
| @LukeBozier sorry Luke B but Blairism was not about "mixing left and right" - it was explicitly a project about the modernisation of Labour | ||
| Labour's fightback in Surrey: http://t.co/I9XK0MBY | ||
| Nick Cohen on Ed M: http://t.co/6m4mCXrJ | ||
| In defence of "tribalism": http://lukeakehurst.blogspot.com/2010/06/in-defence-of-tribalism.html | ||
| Just had fantastic full English breakfast at @fortscafe in Cliftonville, Margate. | ||
| @guvno0or maybe we could try peaking on polling day rather than mid-term. Just an idea. | ||
| @AndyCharlwood I wrote a whole labourlist column about it on Monday! | ||
| @cheadlelabour I'm not excited, just quietly noting that economic policy clarification wasn't unpopular | ||
| @alexsobel @AndyCharlwood I agree but annoyed Labour ppl excited when we go down + ignore when we go up | ||
| Not a lot of reaction to Labour having gone back up from 35 to 40pc in one week | ||
| @anthonyleahy @Scarletstand @benfolleyi and interventionist US now might become isolationist in future - or a lot weaker compared BRICs | ||
| @anthonyleahy @Scarletstand @benfolleyi but hypothetical enemy might take gamble US would not risk everything to defend UK | ||
| @PeterKenyon @catriona_ogilvy #NPF #Labour I raised this at Org + NEC. Don't pretend it wouldn't impact campaign tho ... | ||
| @PeterKenyon @catriona_ogilvy Peter surely no one in party has a spare weekend in Feb and Mar when we face knife edge London election? | ||
| @anthonyleahy @Scarletstand @benfolleyi it's about replacing subs as well as missiles. any ship or sub has a limited life like any vehicle | ||
| @anthonyleahy @Scarletstand @benfolleyi wear and tear. They last decades but take decades to design + build. | ||
| @Scarletstand @benfolleyi Bevan's brilliant anti-unilateralist speech is here: http://t.co/1jt0YTEt | ||
| @Scarletstand @benfolley depends if USA still has interest in Europe's security or retreats into isolationism | ||
| I think I win prize for first NEC candidate to argue case for deterrent since Hugh Gaitskell's 1954 Treasurer campaign #olderthanoldlabour | ||
| @Scarletstand @benfolley why should we be the ones to take risks with our national security? | ||
| @Scarletstand @benfolley I would not want UK to not have deterrent so long as any other nation has WMD | ||
| Just heard I was nominated by Streatham CLP last night as well as Hackney N, Hackney S, Perth, Vauxhall, Mcr Withington, Walthamstow CLPs | ||
| @teddyryan89 thanks! | ||
| And good to see @new_art_riot @Mandy4AM_2012 @lisa_calderwood | ||
| If your CLP has an NEC nomination meeting tonight I hope you will attend, propose and vote for me: www.luke4nec.org.uk | ||
| Key mtg for my NEC campaign tonight: need to get my own CLP's nomination to get on ballot paper. I never take Hackney North for granted! | ||
| @PeterKenyon @gemmaricketts @jo_milligan e.g. when bulk of a CLP's members are in a non-winnable ward | ||
| @PeterKenyon @gemmaricketts @jo_milligan and some CLPs prefer to organise without BLPs so they can target resources ... | ||
| @PeterKenyon @gemmaricketts @jo_milligan would clearly be absurd to tell those CLPs they should have 20 BLPs each with only 5 or 10 members | ||
| At full Council at Hackney Town Hall w @LabLinda75, Jed and Ben - his first political mtg aged 7 weeks. | ||
| @markwrightuk88 I think that is the point I'm making. Violent revolutions involve killing your political + class enemies. Not nice. | ||
| @markwrightuk88 ah, so you renounce Lenin and Trotsky? If you do I withdraw my remark. | ||
| @rattlecans in a democracy it's up to you. | ||
| @latentexistence @rattlecans that's kinda how voting works. You can always set up a new party if you don't like these ones. | ||
| @rattlecans oh I see you are an SNP voting Thatcherite! Good luck with that. Yes I do love the UK. I want to live in UK not little England. | ||
| @rattlecans well most people were not. | ||
| @rattlecans we achieved much of what Hardie called 4 in 1900 eg devolution, minimum wage | ||
| @rattlecans in what sense? We created a Labour Party ppl liked enough to elect 3 times. It did great things for the British ppl. | ||
| @rattlecans no it was more like joining a non-league side and wanting it to get new players and tactics so won more matches + got promoted | ||
| My @LabourList column on the opinion polls: http://t.co/gOnZk0CU | ||
| Jed "will you tell me the whole story of everything that's happened in your life daddy?" That's it, I am already ancient history. | ||
| @PhilipGlanville it's true he told me on Sunday he wd be in audience. He asked a Q incl words mazeltov and Dostoyevsky | ||
| Good to see Hackney's Cllr Michael Desmond on Celeb Big Brother's Bit on the side tonight | ||
| @davesuncat obviously it's not good enough. I don't think leads materialise - they have to be earned. | ||
| @ashmcgregor there are links to them in the "latest news" box on front page of contact creator | ||
| @Bickerrecord thanks | ||
| If you want to add an endorsement or just let me know you are supporting me, go here: http://t.co/xMNw5MJk | ||
| Endorsements for my NEC campaign: http://t.co/YEcI8TVN Thanks to @JohnMannMP @marcusaroberts @hopisen @spellar @SarahWardFindel | ||
| Endorsements for my NEC campaign: http://t.co/YEcI8TVN Thanks to @SeemaMalhotra1 @richardangell @stellacreasy @askbagnall @unmeshdesai | ||
| @MsIntervention good decision! | ||
| Good to be joined on Hackney #labourdoorstop by @OwenJones84 @IvanaBartoletti @jonathanmcshane @rita_krshn | ||
| Beautiful sunny morning for some #labourdoorstop in Chatham Ward. | ||
| @DPJHodges @OwenJones84 oi Owen stop tweeting and head to Homerton Library for voter ID | ||
| @ruskinite I am as likely to join another party as fly to Mars. Reading anything I write would have told you that. | ||
| @ruskinite very sad, offensive and uncomradely that you would say that. Have been loyal Labour member for 24 years. | ||
| @newlesa50 yes agreed, doesn't stop them trashing the country tho so all a bit theoretical | ||
| Just a reminder to anyone looking 4 some #labourdoorstop to do on Sunday, Hackney starting 11am from outside Homerton Library, H'n High St | ||
| Thank you Rhondda CLP for nominating me for re-election to #NEC last night. 10 nominations so far, all from outside my home region of London | ||
| @gusbbaker @TheGreenBenches @RoryWeal I was more upset by suggestion Thatcher had a mandate than that Coalition didn't! | ||
| @TheGreenBenches tho obtained by stealth as Lib Dem economic manifesto was nearer our position than Tories' | ||
| @TheGreenBenches Thatcher didn't have a mandate in vote share. Only got 42-44pc. Arguably Coalition has majority support, she didn't. | ||
| @OwenJones84 @sunny_hundal @hopisen @anthonypainter we stopped offering them headline policies after Minimum Wage | ||
| @OwenJones84 @sunny_hundal @hopisen @anthonypainter unless of course you think Guardian readers, not Sun + Mirror ones, r Labour core vote | ||
| @OwenJones84 @sunny_hundal @hopisen @anthonypainter it was categorically not about moving close to Cons on the issues where we were already | ||
| @OwenJones84 @sunny_hundal @hopisen @anthonypainter ... crime, tax and defence, and turning them into strengths | ||
| @OwenJones84 @sunny_hundal @hopisen @anthonypainter triangulation in 90s was about addressing the policy areas we were weakest on .... | ||
| 2 by-elections last night both Lab gains on big swings since last May: http://t.co/GPbmv2tw With London poll lead too, Labour doing well! | ||
| First time Linda has ever allowed football on TV in house. | ||
| @RichardAngell only been to compass once to debate Trident vs Jon Tricket and CND. Don't think I converted audience. | ||
| @HarryDumpRich @RichardJMurphy @JohnDClare @DPJHodges @OwenJones84 I thought Ed B already published a 5 point plan for growth | ||
| @Tom_saunders self determination of 2000 multi-generation inhabitants, nearly 200 yrs sovereignty | ||
| @CllrWalshaw LD | ||
| @SephRBrown @AshSingleton @Jessica_Asato it looked good meat to me! #carnivore | ||
| @Aaron_Kiely had you noticed she is in another party? Anti-colonialism equals self-determination incl for Falklanders and Israelis! | ||
| @RobCarr Murphy, Byrne and Balls according to Len McCluskey | ||
| @stephentwigg as brilliant and fluent on #BBCQT as he was in NOLS and NUS 20 years ago. We are very lucky to have the "4 horsemen". | ||
| @longsight9a hope so! Luke | ||
| Delighted to hear from Peter Wheeler that Salford & Eccles CLP nominated him, me, @elliereeves @QueenFlo @ruthsmeeth @Jo_Milligan for NEC | ||
| @ChrispLOL @OwenJones84 @JohnDClare @DPJHodges @RichardJMurphy shd never have been in budget in 1st place as of low value to public | ||
| @JohnDClare @DPJHodges @RichardJMurphy @OwenJones84 evidence of today's London poll is campaigning on fare cuts is winning votes | ||
| @JohnDClare @DPJHodges @RichardJMurphy @OwenJones84 once growth is back, then we can start reinvesting in public services | ||
| @mel_haslam you are right! However key to involvement in political side of Unite is to ask to be GC delegate - layers above flow from that. | ||
| @PeterKenyon @ProgressOnline what all of them?! | ||
| @susanhebden but only 20% of the UK workforce work in the public sector, we need political and economic policies attractive wider than that | ||
| @susanhebden public opinion on economic policy remains to the right of Labour's position | ||
| @susanhebden did it not cross your mind that LDs have hit new low in poll BECAUSE people LIKE what Ed and Ed have said? | ||
| Good mtg at Ilford N CLP. Tough questions, thoughtful analysis from members and they r focussed on campaigning. #NEC | ||
| Finishing mtg of Lab Education Policy Commission and about to head east to speak at Ilford North CLP #NEC | ||
| @alexhilton me too but had a different view about which one was frank! | ||
| @RichardAngell ... They were interested in his opinions but who as a whole are not interested in reading opinions of Tories. | ||
| @GurneySam all that's been confirmed is we can't pledge now to reverse cuts in 2015. That's not new Labour, it's just common sense. | ||
| @GurneySam I don't get where this is coming from. Nothing either Ed has said fits this description. Ed B defended Keynes on Saturday. | ||
| @oranjd NPF process is slow - takes 4 years to generate manifesto. Economic situation moves faster than that. | ||
| @oranjd ... As in power is market sensitive so secret even from no10 until budget day. | ||
| @oranjd it doesn't lend itself to formal processes. Chancellor can't go to conf or NPF to set tax + spend plans b4 budget ... | ||
| @OwenJones84 but where would u find the "more money"? Tax increases (reduces consumer demand), other cuts (to services?), or borrowing? | ||
| @JamesMills1984 I am in favour of the TUs having a big role in Labour's structures. But this cannot include a veto on macroeconomic policy! | ||
| @judoker stay in Unite. Important votes ahead. | ||
| Have the unions chuntering about disaffiliation figured this wd leave USDAW and Community w 12 NEC seats and 50pc of conf and 1/3 ldr votes? | ||
| Fellow Unite members let's get this hashtag trending #imaunitememberbutdontagreewithlen | ||
| ....Could defect to GMB. #uniteleadershipcrisis #lukedefection #statementtofollow | ||
| @68ron @Labourpaul correct that's one reason why I support the link (but want more moderate TU Gen Secs elected) | ||
| @Labourpaul actually Sir Ken Jackson and Roger Lyons led bits of what is now Unite. Were loyal. We need to retake Unite for that tradition. | ||
| @jason_manc @DPJHodges ditto I have never voted 4 Ken in Lab mayoral selections but when he has been Lab cand have run borough campaign. | ||
| @jason_manc @DPJHodges you can't switch your campaigning on and off for candidates you like. I would expect lefties to work 4 me if selected | ||
| @gordonlyew1 hi Gordon my NEC material has a whole website: http://t.co/O9X5MCSh | ||
| @Tim_Flatman @hopisen I already have to deal w this - Diane my MP and Ken 4 Mayor - and loyally organise Hackney's #labourdoorstep 4 both | ||
| What shall I write for my @LabourList column tonight? | ||
| @make_trouble @PlatoSays what are the policy stances of Brown or Ed that have not been centrist? | ||
| @DPJHodges maybe that makes me old-fashioned. We could do w some old fashioned virtues like discipline and loyalty. | ||
| @DPJHodges resent implication I "shifted behind" Ed, I backed him from b4 ldrship contest | ||
| @DPJHodges essence of a party is a group of ppl who abide by collective democratic decisions even of were on losing side in vote | ||
| @DPJHodges it's what members of political parties r supposed to do - elect a ldr then back them to win general election | ||
| @cjmclellan thanks! | ||
| @MsIntervention 90% of Labour members not on twitter, don't even know who the personalities r that seem important on here | ||
| @MsIntervention even under Blair, "Blairites" had maximum of about 6 cabinet seats and had to build alliances w Brown, Cook etc | ||
| @MsIntervention power in the Labour Party sits where it has since Benn defeated in '80s - an uneasy coalition of .... | ||
| @MsIntervention leadership election showed Hard Left have about 10% support in Party. | ||
| I had missed @tomharrismp being appointed, so his "sacking" bit of a surprise. Was role Scotland or UK, was sack by Ed or Lamont? | ||
| @brianfmoylan entryism: http://t.co/W539Chul | ||
| @brianfmoylan I think John and Dennis both self-describe as "hard left" tho confusingly Dennis was close to Blair + voted 4 David Miliband | ||
| Just been to see my grandmother who told us about her memories of helping Labour as a 13 year old in the 1935 General Election. | ||
| Good to bump into Tim Waters, Tottenham CLP stalwart and Labour campaign IT guru, at Ramsgate station | ||
| @hopisen is spot on with this: http://t.co/c6c6iL9c | ||
| @sunny_hundal in some cases it is physically impossible to reverse a cut eg kit is sold/scrapped, skilled staff teams disappear to new jobs | ||
| @sunny_hundal also campaigning against a cut happening is diff to saying you'd reverse it after it happens. | ||
| @sunny_hundal now - yes. In 2015, we can't say yet, can't write our first budget now. | ||
| @Markfergusonuk unfortunately from early 90s it was 7 years more in opposition and another GE defeat | ||
| @sunny_hundal we wouldn't cut as far or fast if we were in govt now. But by 2015 it already will have happened ... | ||
| ... As are all the non-spend related legislative policy changes that can be used to shape a fairer society | ||
| ... Surely what and who in society you spend money on, and how and who you tax are also potentially hugely different ... | ||
| Left attack on Balls seems to be based on idea that only poss diff between left + right govts is based on total quantum of public spending.. | ||
| Actually embarassing explaining to LP members this AM how little influence NPF and commissions have on reality of Labour policy making ... | ||
| @sunny_hundal it's not "matching" - the cuts done b4 2015 will already have happened. Leaves open poss of v diff fiscal plans for after 2015 | ||
| @sunny_hundal our position that won us a landslide in 1997 was to stick to Tory spending plans for 2 years | ||
| @sunny_hundal there's a diff between having diff policies +reversing cuts that already happened | ||
| On my way to Maidstone to meet Labour education task force from the Kent CLPs #NEC | ||
| London Labour statement vs cuts: http://lukeakehurst.blogspot.com/2010/12/london-labour-statement-vs-cuts.html | ||
| Sorry I can't be at #fab12 tmrw as speaking in Maidstone to Kent County Labour education task force | ||
| @ReadingLabour thanks! | ||
| Great excitement in Akehurst household - Jed (6) has 1st ever Woodcraft Folk event tonight. | ||
| @DAaronovitch he would be better off picking a fight with Seumas Milne. | ||
| @gusbbaker meet on Sundays in the West Midlands. Brandhall Labour Club is a good venue. (Not entirely a serious answer!) | ||
| @BenCooper86 two | ||
| @ianrobo1 correct | ||
| @gusbbaker ... Those of us who are lay members (only about 9 of the 33) are a a recent minority addition (CLP section all MPs til 97) | ||
| @gusbbaker Gus the all day meetings are not just a problem for ppl from outside London. NEC designed round MPs and FT TU officials and... | ||
| @marcusaroberts @ewancwatt do you guys know each other, or only on here? | ||
| Anyone got a link to the Welsh boundary proposals? | ||
| @keithdibs @DuddridgeLloyd @laurenhowellss Yes of course | ||
| @JonBergdahl @gsjosan @UKLabour The Labour Party as a whole is already subject to the EHRC Action Plan, which is the highest form of statutory intervention you can get for issues like this. I am sure the EHRC is watching everything the NEC does in relation to antisemitism very closely. | ||
| For anyone who wants the full breakdown of the NEC results: https://t.co/RGBxQqB3GU | ||
| @iambongy13 @siennamarla I was a bit busy this evening, some other election happening | ||
| @hearnimator The NEC has a 28-11 mainstream majority | ||
| @gsjosan Congratulations! Happy birthday! | ||
| @AndrewHose4 Thank you | ||
| @DanJarvisLeader Thanks | ||
| @DanJarvisLeader Probably tomorrow | ||
| @mshamburt The people who comment on Twitter are not "the room | ||
| @breadf2man Let's see what the actual ballot results are | ||
| @roskell_paul Probably Thursday | ||
| @watchitlad @GFFurness @gsjosan @JohannaBaxter @AbdiDuale_ @CampaignJane @labtowin No sadly not | ||
| @ringwodian @gsjosan @JohannaBaxter @AbdiDuale_ @CampaignJane @labtowin Thank you | ||
| @RhonddaBryant @gsjosan @JohannaBaxter @AbdiDuale_ @CampaignJane @labtowin Thank you | ||
| @265kay @stephenwild Centre left on the whole UK political spectrum = on the right half of the Labour political spectrum | ||
| @GFFurness @gsjosan @JohannaBaxter @AbdiDuale_ @CampaignJane @labtowin Late Thursday | ||
| @DevonTory No she resigned earlier this year. | ||
| @stephenwild About 1900 when the party was founded. | ||
| @Paul_Burgin Thank you | ||
| @patanna @Thehuck_59 Thanks | ||
| @redned76 No offence taken | ||
| @ravenjetbyrne Thank you | ||
| @markvonneo @labtowin Try emailing ballots@labour.org.uk | ||
| @tom_patterburn You will have had a ballot email from the Labour Party. Search your emails for labourelections@cesvotes.com | ||
| @JackSummersUK @labtowin Thank you | ||
| @maryoxford Thank you Mary | ||
| @richwhiting Wednesday or Thursday | ||
| @Scarletstand @RidaVaquas @LabourList think you mean this: http://t.co/smtb2T5P’s-nec/ | ||
| @EricnotTony @OriginalKebz @MarinaPurkiss I haven't expressed particularly strong opinions about nationalisation. | ||
| @Drewratter @labtowin Thank you | ||
| @marc_wintermute @labtowin Thanks | ||
| It's Sunday evening to time to catch up on those little tasks you've been putting off. Like voting for the @labtowin candidates to give Keir Starmer a supportive team on the NEC and NPF, working together for a Labour victory. Dig out the ballot email and vote by 5pm Tuesday. | ||
| @quirkyyy of course | ||
| @RedBasildon @labtowin The total number of expulsions in the last few years is just a few hundred. | ||
| @MikeBannon99 Next week, some point from Wednesday onwards | ||
| Info about my re-election bid for NEC: http://t.co/z0xrMqn0 Please RT to help this reach Labour members as nominating mtgs started | ||
| @Aimz_1987 Abuses elsewhere a) are mentioned, you just showed me a press cutting about modern slavery in the UK and b) not comparable in scale or egregiousness to the situation in China | ||
| @disgruntledbad1 @ClintSaville @EdDavie @labtowin It's from a spoof account, not a real person. | ||
| @disgruntledbad1 @ClintSaville @EdDavie @labtowin "Fascists"??? You don't think that's a bit hyperbolic? | ||
| @RobertJ_Goodall @UKLabour @labtowin Thank you | ||
| @keepsayingit1 @EdDavie @labtowin That's a very narrow definition of socialism. | ||
| @GeorgeAylett Hi George, on the day the campaign started Labour was 24% behind the Tories, so yes, all 3 of those could reasonably have been judged to have been defensive marginals that Labour was at risk of losing. Bristol West had only been gained from the LDs in 2015. | ||
| @socialist1959 @BoD @lmharpin This explains the group they belong to: https://t.co/LbSwFcWwVm | ||
| @Mudkipstoat23 @labtowin Why didn't they happen between 2015 and 2019 then? | ||
| Here are the @labtowin recommendations by region and nation: | ||
| @keironm Thank you | ||
| @TobiasTaylor Sorry is there some sort of official definition I should be aware of, that isn't the official definition in the Labour Party rulebook? | ||
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| @PutinsVespa @labtowin I was ward organiser for my ward in both those general elections and canvassed and leafleted for Labour throughout 2015-19, despite my profound misgivings about the then leadership. | ||
| @Ange_LooseHeel @labtowin According to the definition in the Labour Party rulebook, yes. | ||
| @StephenMoreton3 Bit off topic? | ||
| I want a bold strategy where we aim to build a coalition broad enough to win a convincing parliamentary majority. To do that we will need radical but realistic policies. | ||
| Greater equality and greater freedom aren’t in conflict, you can’t enjoy a more equal society unless you are free, and you can’t be truly free if you are in poverty. You can manage and regulate markets. | ||
| I’m a social democrat. I stand in the Labour tradition that is as proud of Attlee’s creation of NATO as the NHS, the tradition of Ernest Bevin, Herbert Morrison, Hugh Gaitskell, Denis Healey and Roy Hattersley. | ||
| @philashley2 @labtowin Probably Friday evening | ||
| @SorayaAdejare @UKLabour @LondonLabour @mish_rahman @JohannaBaxter @gembolton Thank you! | ||
| @catherigorman No I don't actually. What are you referring to? | ||
| @LukeBozier we LOST seats in by-elections in every other period we were in opposition | ||
| @LukeBozier we didn't have a clean sheet in by-elections in Kinnock era eg lost Greenwich to SDP, Govan lost to SNP... | ||
| @mac_puck @Bathacademic This booklet sums up where the organisation I run, @WeBelieveIsrael stands. I hope you will have a read. https://t.co/kNun3DWlyp | ||
| @Damoned Not all of this is profit-taking though - there's a crisis of supply caused by the Ukraine war that is the main component of the price rises. Hammering the companies won't remove the basic problem that gas is more expensive because there is less of it if we can't buy Russian. | ||
| @Alansneverright No, because I disagree with the Far Left, Soft Left, Lib Dems, Tories, SNP, and far right as well as the Hard Left. | ||
| I wonder what is meant by saying "Akehurst is in ... the wrong country." I mean I guess I would fit in better in Australia. | ||
| @RegJPF Only if you did it without compensation. | ||
| @Gfranklinsense and which you can peel off when you get home. | ||
| @RegJPF @bywaterjulie @danbloom1 @BBCBreakfast @jeremycorbyn @GordonBrown No, that would be if you did it without compensation, which I assume would be illegal. With compensation is just expensive. I'm not against it, I just think have to be aware it would cost a lot and the state only has a finite amount of money. | ||
| @kevpar4 Why do you "hate Zionists"? What is it about the idea of Jewish national liberation that you find so hateful? | ||
| @ChanceTheGardin @jeremycorbyn I just expressed it. | ||
| @Fed65 @khadem_djavad Because my Jewish friends asked me to. And out of empathy and solidarity with a community that has survived genocide and two millennia of persecution. | ||
| @ChanceTheGardin My view would be that the very large influx of new members to vote for Mr Corbyn in 2015 included many who identified with his campaigning on Israel, an important minority of who were so anti-Israel they became antisemitic, or were anti-Israel because they were antisemitic. | ||
| @ChanceTheGardin What have workers or trade unions got to do with the fringe issues I have called out? Ordinary working people and trade unionists want nothing to do with Corbynism or the Hard Left. | ||
| @taffridge142 Nothing to do with blood pressure, which is normal, my skin is an unusual colour as a side effect, along with my disability, of the life-threatening neurological illness that put me in hospital for 5 months in 2009. | ||
| @TyroneS42704917 This twat is on the National Executive Committee of the Labour Party. | ||
| @red_revenant @johninrosc @MikeDeadman3 I'm trying to create the politically stable party and effective campaigning machine that gives our frontbenchers the space they need to be creative and radical with policy. It's their job to develop policy. | ||
| @Jeremy59155866 That is pretty radical isn't it, literally banning energy price rises? | ||
| @tashidale @shinyandnew70 @toady @MolinesPinto @Keir_Starmer Do keep up: https://t.co/dhVarlKxBE | ||
| @Peter36416138 Right now we can't do anything as we are not in government | ||
| @YusufIbbyy https://t.co/sU4LifucGq | ||
| @DavidNa33970510 Well not really, because swing voters nowadays include working class people in the former mining areas that make up the Red Wall, and both parties are trying to attract them. | ||
| @pewpy I'm familiar with the rulebook of the party whose NEC I serve on. The paragraph you cite was drafted by Tony Blair. I'm not against nationalisation, but it hasn't been mentioned in our aims and values since 1995. | ||
| @David__Osland Using this link: https://t.co/2z3FzSYSVr | ||
| @alonorbach @JohannaBaxter @elliereeves all reasonable. Hope we don't ignore @Jo_Milligan proposals for scrutiny work by commissions... | ||
| @LabourWomensNet @CampaignJane @SelfKaz @UKLabour I've just emailed my answers. | ||
| @EllieCumbo they go canvassing | ||
| Great #labourdoorstep session with 21 people out in Kings Park ward Hackney today. Good to see @rickmuir1 @VincentStops @rita_krshn | ||
| @ian4downton @UKLabour @gsjosan @JohannaBaxter @AbdiDuale_ @CampaignJane Thank you | ||
| Not voted yet in the NEC elections? Please read and share my statement: https://t.co/qWlmSxQODp | ||
| @MarkLFCL25 @jeremycorbyn I hold no public office so how could I have possibly affected your life? | ||
| @heyheyde It's the same people in different orders depending on the region for NEC, to try to make sure all 5 of us get plenty of votes | ||
| @JeevunSandher @MichaelMarmot @philipjcowley @ProfKEPickett @ProfRGWilkinson Congratulations! | ||
| @JimmyHSands All this week they will be coming out in batches | ||
| @DaVinci_Sound @Welshbeard @MirrorPolitics @SundayMirror @keirstarmer The Murdoch press doesn't support Starmer so no idea why you have used that image | ||
| @millze100 @NewBritain_ @Daniel_Grigg @Keir_Starmer That article is about the old process that Corbyn brought in, used in 2019. Last year conference passed rule changes that make it more difficult for MPs to be triggered - party branches and affiliates each get 50% of vote and a majority of the whole required to trigger the MP. | ||
| @Tocialist @jemgilbert I've only raised the 1997-2010 period because Jeremy raised the 1974-1979 one. | ||
| @jemgilbert The bit after 2007 wasn't. | ||
| @jemgilbert In any case, we've had a more recent and far more successful period of Labour government, led by the right of the party, which responded to a global financial crisis with full on Keynesianism. | ||
| @TVAddictStill @AbdiDuale_ @Falcon_Malteser @JohannaBaxter @gsjosan @CampaignJane @labour_first @progbrit @labtowin Set out in the section on vote management here: https://t.co/qpnnUJswoE | ||
| @FredMadagascar @lmharpin I don't have a blue tick. There is a summary of my critique of Corbynism here: https://t.co/olD0DBUBDZ | ||
| @gusbbaker thanks! | ||
| @johnwest_journo @donpaskini it's not cheaper. It is same capability but dearer as done independently of US design work on missiles | ||
| @OwenJones84 @RichardAngell @tony_mcnulty some of it is just accepting faits accomplis. Militarily Jim says Nimrod cut is not good for UK .. | ||
| @OwenJones84 @RichardAngell @tony_mcnulty ... and the full set of Tory cuts agreed in the SDSR | ||
| @OwenJones84 @RichardAngell @tony_mcnulty Owen you are talking tosh, there is a huge difference between the £5bn cuts Jim has agreed to ... | ||
| @MakeAmericaWait 3 | ||
| Totally sane reply | ||
| @littlejohnuk1 that's a question for @abelardinelli | ||
| @littlejohnuk1 @jimmurphymp no, shadow chancellor shd set the dept cash limits, the dept teams have to come up with the line by line cuts | ||
| As true now as it was in 2020 | ||
| @DAaronovitch no, I am on the receiving end of her caustic wit most times she gives an MP's report so I know how it feels | ||
| @DPJHodges I indicated I was surprised anyone was surprised, rather than thinking the words were particularly helpful | ||
| @PeterKenyon @alonorbach agreed. | ||
| @PeterKenyon what's the question? | ||
| @beeandmundy The report itself explains in great detail why it was delayed. | ||
| @chrisrumfitt @KerriPrince_ The diverse Tory leadership candidates are a product of Cameron imposing diversity in candidate selection through the A List. | ||
| @guymit No this is my take: https://t.co/zYDjRlmVxe | ||
| @MatthewLloydGB @sammywrainbow @tobyperkinsmp @UKLabour @JohannaBaxter @gsjosan @AbdiDuale_ @CampaignJane I think you had to be a member by 17 June to get a vote | ||
| @frozenwarning It isn't a report from Labour it's an independent report about Labour | ||
| @pepejansz @LongTimeLefty @Baylonious @margarethodge @UKLabour I didn't. | ||
| @juliatanner @hilaryscoaching @TheCentristMark I think in this case it is very clear that Labour is the main challenger. There's a solid base to the Labour vote in NE Somerset because of the mining history of the old Somerset coalfield, which makes it very different to other Somerset seats that have a stronger Liberal history | ||
| @juliatanner @hilaryscoaching @TheCentristMark Labour has always been second in this seat since at least 1997 | ||
| @martinjow @NeilHopkinson11 @helensclegel @labtowin Labour has its highest poll lead for over a decade so it figures that membership would be at a reasonable level. | ||
| @oilwellsthatend @labtowin I haven't seen that but I can assure you that our disciplinary processes are able to judge the difference between antisemitic criticism of Israel and other criticism of Israel. A lot of antisemitism cases are nothing to do with Israel and are Rothschild tropes etc. | ||
| @NeilHopkinson11 @martinjow @helensclegel @labtowin I'm grateful as an actual member of the NEC that hears reports in person from the General Secretary that some random bloke off Twitter is able to correct me, based purely on guesswork arrived at from his own political prejudices, about how many members we have. | ||
| @HannahJaneBarto @MHarris360 @labtowin @BThroughParty Labour are second in that seat, with nearly twice as many votes even in 2019 as the LDs: https://t.co/s7gMfq9tdr | ||
| @electrodecay @Europa97531 We aren't in a "dire financial situation". We restructured last year to reduce spending to an affordable level and that means Labour has no deficit budget and no debt. | ||
| @JanCT8 @labtowin What news about the Forde Report? It's quite famous for not having been published yet. | ||
| @forwardnotback Only seven | ||
| Double meeting night - Hackney Labour campaign cttee, then Overview and Scrutiny Board | ||
| @BenCooper86 salary needs to be competitive w senior roles in TUs, charity campaigns etc. Its lower than lobbyists or council officers get | ||
| RT @nadhimzahawi: Prime Minister: this is not sustainable and it will only get worse: for you, for the Conservative Party and most importan… | ||
| RT @David__Osland: William Golding's Lord of the Flies tells the story of a bunch of public schoolboys who take back control of an island c… | ||
| RT @KateEMcCann: NEW: Tory vice chair @BimAfolami has just resigned his position live on @TheNewsDesk | ||
| RT @Keir_Starmer: The Tory party is corrupted and changing one man won’t fix that. Only a real change of government can give Britain the f… |
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| RT @BenPBradshaw: None of these resigning Cabinet Ministers should get a smidgen of credit. They’ve propped up a disgraced leader for far t… | ||
| RT @MirrorBreaking_: BREAKING Sajid Javid RESIGNS over Chris Pincher in devastating letter to Boris Johnson https://t.co/mxP4IgRbde https:/… |
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| RT @Peston: Treasury source tells me that first @RishiSunak knew that @sajidjavid was resigning was AFTER he put out his own resignation st… | ||
| RT @RhonddaBryant: I want a General Election. All these people should have resigned months ago. They should never have put him in Downing… |
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| RT @RoryStewartUK: Finally doing the right thing. It is amazing though that after everything is will be Pincher who brings Boris Johnson do… | ||
| RT @RishiSunak: The public rightly expect government to be conducted properly, competently and seriously. I recognise this may be my last… |
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| RT @BalancePowerUK: BREAKING: Sajid Javid has resigned as Secretary of State for Health and Social Care. | ||
| RT @UJS_UK: The deadline for submissions closes this week. It is vital that this investigation captures the experiences of Jewish students… |
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| RT @UKLabour: Today the NHS celebrates its 74th birthday. Founded by the Labour Party, it has transformed people’s lives, giving access to… |
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| RT @Survation: NEW - Westminster Voting Intention: LAB 43% (+2) CON 35% (+1) LD 11% (+1) SNP 3% (-1) GRN 2% (-1) OTH 5% (-2) 1,017 UK a… |
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| @laurenhowellss The Old Fashioned (@labour_first drink) | ||
| RT @LabLinda75: Some sunny #labourdoorstep this morning around Horspath Rd in Lye Valley Ward. Residents were pleased to see us and wanted… | ||
| RT @LabtoWinYouth: Are you a student in the West Mids? You have until Friday to Nominate @lilysoaper!! 👉🏻register as a student: https://t.… |
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| @JohnRentoul ... social democratic Sweden i.e. more egalitarian + with bettter public services. I thought/think Blair was inspired ... | ||
| @JohnRentoul maybe I missed something re. your jibe about "Sweden-on-Thames" but as a proud Blairite I thought the New Labour project ... | ||
| @CommunistPompey @QprfcPaul Membership elected me to NEC | ||
| RT @LabourList: NEW: Labour regains 'Red Wall' seat Wakefield, ousting the Conservatives as the party secures a 4,925-vote majority: https:… | ||
| RT @nickeardleybbc: Labour win Wakefield by just under 5,000 votes https://t.co/assAHGJFp4 |
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| RT @willgeorgelloyd: Updates incase you need it: Labour are on course for their largest majority in Wakefield since Blair. As more votes… |
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| RT @BritainElects: Wakefield, turnout: 39.1% (-24.5) |
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| @Jackiew80333500 No, because it would be completely inappropriate for an NEC member to comment about complaints about contentious selections or trigger ballots and pre judge the NEC's stance on them. | ||
| Sign up to support the @labtowin NEC candidates and so you receive details of all our candidates for NPF and other roles when balloting starts on 24 July: https://t.co/cbRQkMrKdF | ||
| @GeorgeAylett It's a very serious word to use in the labour movement. | ||
| @GeorgeAylett Isn't that a word for a worker who crosses a picket line and doesn't take part in a strike? There isn't a duty to join picket lines in industries you aren't a worker in, if there was we would all spend our entire lives picketing. | ||
| Hackney Labour will be leafleting vs fare rises at every tube + train station serving the borough tmrw AM #faredeal | ||
| @David__Osland Europe by Rail was what I took in 1990 and apparently is now on its 17th edition | ||
| @forwardnotback @UKLabour Yes. I was an organiser in Yiewsley and West Drayton during it. | ||
| @forwardnotback @UKLabour Uxbridge. We lost so he never did it again! | ||
| Thank you to the following 7 CLPs for nominating me for re-election to the NEC, taking me to a total of 108 so far: Aberavon, Braintree, Ealing North, Lichfield, Penistone & Stocksbridge, Tunbridge Wells, Witham. | ||
| At the first in person All Member Meeting of @Oxford_Labour since March 2020! | ||
| @FinnOBeyts @BenProcter No, email ballots@labour.org.uk | ||
| @JonnyR_Labour @jemgilbert @AaronBastani I think he will if conference votes for it this year. | ||
| @BlairPScott95 @RobShorrock I'm opposed to progressive alliances, not least because I think the Lib Dems aren't progressive, you are a bunch of Tory-enabling opportunists. | ||
| @BlairPScott95 @rorydash90 You might want to look up who came second in recent elections in Tiverton & Honiton. | ||
| @MarkBrierley1 @MaryWimbury @TalMichael 5 of the 1979 ones are now part of Unite | ||
| @PearsonFran welcome to twitter! | ||
| @S007Chris Varied between a low of 1.2m and a high of 2.2m if my memory of the list we were shown is correct. | ||
| @james_e_b_ I have and it is hard, and only works in areas with long straight roads or deck entry council blocks, otherwise you lose people, or can't keep pace with the speed at which people are asking for new doors. A tightly run by-election campaign won't send people out in massive groups. | ||
| @paddyoverall Presumably you think the excellent Labour results in the May elections, caused in part by this organisational good health, were "highly dubious data" too. | ||
| @james_e_b_ If anyone sent out a team of more than 6 they didn't know how to organise. If you have 60 volunteers that's 10 boards or teams, not one guy with a board and 59 people following them down the street. | ||
| @watchitlad @yimbychris @AnnBlackLabour There's no official public record of the meeting. | ||
| @jane4animals The official numbers run behind the real ones as they are only updated weekly and some CLPs take their time submitting their results, but we have a clear lead. | ||
| @timsykes3 @AnnBlackLabour Given the original leaked report was c800 pages I am guessing this is very very long. Everyone likely to be named might engage in litigation and some of them already have. | ||
| @ianrobo1 Yes but it runs behind the real total as CLPs can take days or weeks to submit their nominations: https://t.co/GGCJy7Y4Q5 | ||
| @Jackiew80333500 Your guess is as good as mine. | ||
| @jemgilbert Gillard was from the left faction too. | ||
| @joerayment91 @KerriPrince_ I would always be cautious about assuming the people at the top of a CLP are representative of the wider membership, or that byelections rely particularly on local members as opposed to large numbers coming in from around the country. | ||
| @KerriPrince_ @b0botheclown Alternatively it might be that they were factionalists who didn't have the party's best interests at heart. Sadly there are still many CLPs led by destructive people who would feel vindicated if Labour lost the next general election. | ||
| @KerriPrince_ @b0botheclown They were literally in the room. A CLP officer was on the panel. | ||
| @Andybettridge1 @KerriPrince_ The level of sensibleness of the CLP EC in that CLP has been demonstrated by them petulently resigning. I'm sure they have many sensible members but sadly a very silly CLP leadership. | ||
| @Andybettridge1 @KerriPrince_ Would the shortlist in Wakefield have been stronger and increased Labour's chance of winning a crucial byelection if the CLP EC, who have shown their disinterest in winning by resigning en masse, had 1/2 the panel. No. | ||
| @KerriPrince_ The CLP has a representative on the interview panel for long listing and short listing in byelections. I think that is an appropriate level of involvement. | ||
| @dlandoncole @Huntingdon_Town Congratulations! | ||
| @RedmondGarvey Thank you! | ||
| @aylesburyowl Been a bit busy this week if you take a look at my timeline. | ||
| @LionHeartGB https://t.co/e7MYo0uXlx Message me about the other matter |
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| @LydiardSimon I think I was in the same room as Cabot candidate | ||
| @KatieCurtis Is this the same bloke that supported David Miliband for leader? | ||
| @Dickdude @jfbonner @UKLabour I was organiser for my ward then, same as now. Do you do anything practical to help Labour win elections? | ||
| @jfbonner @UKLabour Eh? https://t.co/xBdB83jrQo | ||
| @Jackiew80333500 No. | ||
| Sorry to be leaving #limmud conference after just 1 day but had enjoyable and educational experience | ||
| Odd way to describe forced deportations https://t.co/6CQmcEa5WM | ||
| @lewis_baston good list here on D Boothroyd's site of all MPs ever expelled by Commons: http://t.co/1jVqCiKE | ||
| Red and buried – Sir Keir Starmer’s transformation of the Labour Party https://t.co/ErtUDO02NB | ||
| @JohnEdwards33 @_LFI Anyone who holds public office has to record trips they go on in register of gifts and hospitality, so the information you are seeking is already in the public domain. | ||
| @SallyBercow belated reply: http://labour-uncut.co.uk/2010/12/03/luke-akehurst-reports-from-his-first-meeting-of-labours-nec/ | ||
| @Bettwsboy you need to follow more people then you can start arguing with them! | ||
| @AHerber10065252 @CharlotDearling It doesn't say that. | ||
| @Phil_Brickell @SolCuthbertson @ElectionMapsUK East Devon - Independent candidate is quite a close second to Tories and has been 2nd 3 times: https://t.co/lqqMtPS0gW | ||
| @JamesMills1984 @siennamarla @LabourList I emailed the article to @elliot_chappell this morning, so it should be published this weekend | ||
| @MattWBroadley @Roobotham @UKLabour No they were community organisers. These are trainee election organisers, nothing to do with community organising which is a specific project. | ||
| @Shafia06674714 @Jackiew80333500 No I was talking about the leaked report. It was absurd rather than damning. | ||
| Labour to bring 'clown' Tories 'back to reality' with aggressive ad spending https://t.co/QOSGAYRaAx | ||
| @ijb19662 @HuwLabourLeftie @UKLabour No, it's been confirmed by Hamas affiliated Quds news that the masked men were celebrating the "operation in Tel Aviv" https://t.co/yTBPDOlSfq | ||
| @HeiferRed @gstokey @JonathanSGlass @HuwLabourLeftie @UKLabour It's not a "claim". Hamas affiliated Quds news confirmed that the masked men were celebrating the "operation in Tel Aviv" https://t.co/yTBPDOlSfq | ||
| @alicub4 @theylesinwales Happy to condemn that as well. | ||
| @theylesinwales Here's Hamas affiliated Quds news confirming that the men handing out sweets were celebrating the "operation in Tel Aviv" https://t.co/yTBPDOlSfq | ||
| @timsykes3 @HuwLabourLeftie @UKLabour Hi Tim, the men handing out sweets are fully masked, indicating they are supporters of a paramilitary group, not civilians celebrating Ramadan. Unfortunately Hamas operatives do this after terror attacks in Israel. | ||
| @Bettwsboy enjoyed it, congrats on first tweet! | ||
| Really extraordinary that John and other have leapt to the defence of Lowkey, an ally of Chris Williamson and David Miller who raps about Rothschild and globalising the intifada. Alternative petition to get anti-Israel hate off Spotify is here: https://t.co/hPRZq2Hjij https://t.co/jOa0XWbfQM | ||
| The amount of work Gurinder puts in to try to get Labour into shape to win power is unbelievable. 👏👏👏 https://t.co/YO0u2monD5 | ||
| @HogansHero6 @MarkChesham @helensclegel Maybe your paradigm - where everyone hates me - is at odds with reality. | ||
| @helensclegel It depends on whether they are saying that the concept of Jewish statehood and self-determination is inherently racist, and whether they think the concept of self-determination for all peoples is inherently racist, or they just have a problem with Jewish statehood. | ||
| @Charles68431225 @helensclegel No I haven't. I had no idea she was talking about herself. Assumed it was just general philosophising. | ||
| Great morning canvassing with a big team to get @Oxford_Labour 's @ajazrehman3 re-elected as councillor for Lye Valley https://t.co/BZjRxw0Jzv | ||
| @moshuk1999 @MalcsTheory @Vinni3Charlotte @Oxford_Labour Yes I'm recognised by other parents from the local school and by my neighbours and by members who get branch emails from me. | ||
| @helensclegel @UKLabour Actually it's from the website of BICOM's Fathom journal | ||
| @BennyBlanco22 @UKLabour By virtue of winning an OMOV ballot of Labour members | ||
| @stepneybarry @PamelaFitzNWC I'm blocked so I can't see it | ||
| Got there in the end only 7 years after calling for proscription to be enforced: https://t.co/HkIxPFr7Ut | ||
| @acaby75 Mr Forde is the only person who knows why he is taking so long to write it | ||
| @acaby75 Unfortunately looks like we still won't get it | ||
| @mrsDugskullery Over 400,000 | ||
| @mrsDugskullery Something to do with thousands more Labour members voting for me in the NEC ballot than for any other candidate | ||
| @GeorgeAylett @labourball The NEC panels dealing with this have overturned, from memory, 6% of cases, because the person has convincingly explained that they don't support the organisation they are charged with supporting. | ||
| @withnail_damo I see the two as parallels - like Ukraine, democratic Israel was subject to unprovoked invasions by far stronger neighbouring dictatorships that didn't believe it had a right to exist - Egypt, Syria and Jordan. Even down to the hardware being Russian made for Egypt & Syria. | ||
| @teaforpterosaur @_KerriPrince I was around when we created the Hackney Labour logo and it was a very deliberate attempt to assert local and different branding at a time when the national party wasn't that popular. | ||
| @Blogsbloke I actually look like this! | ||
| Good that now NORAD just track Santa. For 40 years Xmas day was highest risk day for Soviet preemptive nuclear strike on West. | ||
| @anthonypainter @PeterWatt123 @dermotkehoe @davidmills73 merry xmas to you all. Have abandoned lengthy blog post in spirit of xmas truce. | ||
| @TomMillerUK @talktoharris1 It varies. E.g. " In a 2017 telephone poll, 40% of Arab citizens of Israel identified as "Arab in Israel / Arab citizen of Israel", 15% identified as "Palestinian", 8.9% as "Palestinian in Israel / Palestinian citizen of Israel", and 8.7% as "Arab | ||
| @anthonypainter @peterwatt123 don't think anyone other than hard left has criticised u for writing it have they? | ||
| @anthonypainter @peterwatt123 test is "can the media or Tories use this against us" if yes, say it privately not publicly | ||
| @anthonypainter @peterwatt123 TSF's comments failed the "does saying this help Labour in any way" test that party members shd apply | ||
| @anthonypainter @peterwatt123 in fairness your posts were more "Labour is institutionally crap | ||
| @PeterWatt123 @anthonypainter no but the guy quoted in the Indie did and I found that shocking. | ||
| @PeterWatt123 @anthonypainter element of collective resp too. Party decided leader, now needs to give him some loyalty. | ||
| @PeterWatt123 @anthonypainter depends how you do it. "Ideas Ed should take up" is positive, "Ed is crap" is just destructive and pointless | ||
| @anthonypainter @peterwatt123 I'm only telling ppl to shut up w ldrship speculation. The more said about policy ideas the better. | ||
| @PeterWatt123 @anthonypainter there was no "line" on leadership election, if anything machine wanted David, so I voted against line | ||
| @PeterWatt123 @anthonypainter also PW's attack on "group think" + line is a description that is out of date | ||
| @anthonypainter @peterwatt123 I also think ppl should be blogging answers not questions (ie "if I was Ed this is what I'd do") | ||
| @anthonypainter @PeterWatt123 also don't like implication that ex-SPADs did something wrong by working 4 Lab ministers + shdn't become MPs | ||
| @raphaeldogg Will find out in May | ||
| @SimonD555 I'm well known. Labour is ahead in every opinion poll. | ||
| @SimonD555 Good job it's a national ballot and that last time I turned out to be the most popular person standing. | ||
| Worth reading from @institutegc https://t.co/fO44T50URu | ||
| @_KerriPrince It's also the earliest they can hold an election with the new parliamentary boundaries | ||
| @purr121 Words signifying direction or position can change usage accordingly to context. I'm on the left of the whole UK political spectrum but within that I'm on the right of the Labour Party. | ||
| @LangabeerJoe And they've labelled it as "fact reporting". | ||
| @LangabeerJoe They've put it in "skews right". There's 2 more categories to the right of that. | ||
| @moshuk1999 @Yantofullpelt33 If a CLP wants me I might consider it. | ||
| @LangabeerJoe I think you may have confused it with a different outlet - this is the newspaper/website I am sharing a link from - non-partisan not alt-right: https://t.co/sdwEfxGa4j | ||
| @Yantofullpelt33 It's one of 642 CLPs. If I win it I will be delighted but it is no more important a nomination to get than any of the other 641. | ||
| @ukstevearnold Doubt it. Left have a majority of GC delegates. | ||
| @mjh0421 My CLP isn't meeting to do nominations until May. | ||
| @notmymess @Jackiew80333500 @JohnEdwards33 @MuslimahRev @Keir_Starmer @_LFI I don't think the phrase is intended to imply that Keir Starmer is funded by Arab citizens of Israel. | ||
| @notmymess @Jackiew80333500 @JohnEdwards33 @MuslimahRev @Keir_Starmer @_LFI Because it's an antisemitic trope about Jewish financial control of politics. | ||
| Analysis | Democratic campaign chair Sean Patrick Maloney faces toughest job in politics https://t.co/LTUqfjWYuD | ||
| @timsykes3 Where would the MPs live while they were in London? They get one salary but have to have somewhere to live in 2 places, one of which is the most expensive place in the country. | ||
| @tez123 @duncanpoundcake @skwawkbox You seem charming. | ||
| @NeilCam52208510 @duncanpoundcake @skwawkbox You seem nice. | ||
| @oxfordgirl @Chris_EvansMP @UKLabour There's nothing evil about producing the weapons people in Ukraine are using to protect themselves from a fascist like Putin | ||
| @Jackiew80333500 @UKLabour I'm against home demolitions. It's a stupid, wrong and counterproductive policy. | ||
| @Cravenma Hadn't noticed the war was cold this time | ||
| @simondraper Sorry!!! | ||
| @JimmyHodgo No I wasn't. Explaining what something can do isn't advocating doing it. | ||
| @haykirstin JLP are their Tories, PNP is the Jamaican sister party of UK Labour | ||
| @theday2day the aspects of Refounding Lab to do with NPF + policy process r still being consulted on, didn't go to 2011 conf | ||
| @theday2day we (policy commissions) + the shadow ministerial reviews which feed into us both hear from expert witnesses | ||
| @SredniVa5htar Thank you for reminding people I got nearly twice as many votes in a single council ward as Nellist got in an entire parliamentary constituency | ||
| @ianstew33 Being a leading member of Militant, an avowedly Trotskyist group, would be a bit of a clue. | ||
| @ukbygaslight Yes he did. You need 5% to get it back. | ||
| @defender_red @PauletteHamilto @Dave4Erdington Name and CLP? | ||
| @ColliarElaine In the event of a nuclear war the lucky people would be the ones of us who died instantly rather than slowly of radiation sickness or starvation | ||
| @jonoworswick I'm not touting one. | ||
| @kazzacoey When was "not so long ago"? | ||
| @jonoworswick The current situation is a country with a nuclear deterrent (Russia) being able to attack without military interference (because it deters it) a country that gave up its nuclear deterrent (Ukraine). | ||
| @Opinionista_NE No, have had no connection to defence industry since 2011, but very proud of my previous involvement. | ||
| @Enest0_ Having 40 is as useful as having 6000 in deterrent terms. Using even 40 would cause unthinkable levels of destruction. The actual costs are here and nothing like the ones you cite: https://t.co/igznhPYhr9 | ||
| @BertoltBrechts @Crawfordlongbo1 @jrc1921 @Agitate4Change The test fails mean they just never take off properly - not that they explode in the wrong place. | ||
| @Enest0_ No, you've deliberately misunderstood. A deterrent is not about punching first at all. It's about threatening to punch back so hard that you never get punched. They don't "cost mind-blowing sums of money", our entire defence budget is only 2% of GDP. | ||
| @JonHegerty Have you been expelled? | ||
| @JonHegerty I'm not. | ||
| @JHMmmm0 "Blue Labour" are a specific, small organisation - the guys who are anti-immigration, pro Brexit, socially conservative etc - not my politics at all. It's not a general term for people on right of Labour. | ||
| @AlixAltair @Jackiew80333500 I'm very aware of that as it's a side effect of a life threatening illness I experienced, along with my disability | ||
| @unojen_wood @Jackiew80333500 I've never advocated that. | ||
| @edjmckeon I think that's been answered this week. | ||
| @larymary60 @Jackiew80333500 I literally came top in the NEC ballot, by quite a wide margin. | ||
| @charliemansell @spectatorindex Their government announcement says they are sending 100 light anti-tank weapons - not clear if this is NLAW like UK sent, or previous generation of kit. | ||
| @JeffWeetman No I answered a hypothetical answer about what is was for. If you look at the tweet- from 2015 - I was explaining the theory, not advocating it. | ||
| @DenisMacShane UK sent 2000 NLAW missiles and training teams weeks ago. Alongside US Javelin these are what are taking out Russian armoured vehicles. | ||
| @AnathemaJane Sorry, can you explain your tweet? Do you think I should be talking about this MP? If so, why? I try not to personalise politics, arguments should be aimed at ideas and organisations, not individuals. | ||
| @loulabella_bee @BeckettUnite This is what the Shadow Home Secretary has actually said: https://t.co/z9GJFEJtGd | ||
| @DavidWa01448973 Same picture at all regional conferences so far except North West. | ||
| @twlldun Young Labour was an excellent organisation for at least the first two decades of its existence, and Labour Students for the entirety of its nearly half century. | ||
| @joemillis1959 @lmharpin @JewishNewsUK No, his behaviour while the whip is withdrawn can be taken into account in deciding whether to restore it. Suspension of the whip removes the rights and privileges of being a Labour public office holder, not the obligations and expectation of standards. | ||
| @jruddy99 @_KerriPrince No it's to stop them being spammed | ||
| @SeemaChandwani @Calderbank Congratulations! | ||
| @SteveAkehurst I think I saw polling last year that showed some Labour voters would vote Tory if the choice didn't include a Labour candidate. | ||
| @IMusgrave @DZL_2004 I'd do a deal with them, because that's who exists as another political party in the UK, doesn't mean I would dislike them any less. | ||
| @AaronBastani @Lovely93169815 Southmead Ward isn't in Bristol West. | ||
| @forwardnotback Gladstone? | ||
| Big morning in the Akehurst household - Millennium Falcon day in the Lego Star Wars advent calendar | ||
| The union spent £100m building the Birmingham venue, which is now the subject of a QC-led inquiry https://t.co/37XwB0rTcm via @HuffPostUKPol | ||
| @omnisophos @robertcp @TrousersofDoom @councillorian @UKLabour This isn't correct. CLPs don't get to just go ahead and select candidates, the NEC controls the process. | ||
| @frederickchespy @gsjosan @JohannaBaxter @labtowin Yes it does. The unions have 50% of the vote so they usually agree a candidate who has backing across all the major unions, they haven't done this yet. | ||
| @iain4europe @_KerriPrince Correct | ||
| @_KerriPrince Yes. At that stage it would be a late selection so an NEC panel would do the short listing. | ||
| @OwenWMichael @_KerriPrince See my reply to Kerri | ||
| @AlunEphraim @OwenWMichael @danielspaniel5 @VortiGan_ Nope was because I've been a friend and ally of Iain for at that point 20 years and thought he was the best candidate. The unions were split. GMB and Unite backed Iain and Usdaw and Unison backed Chris. | ||
| @OwenWMichael @danielspaniel5 @VortiGan_ I don't think that was the case. Ed indicated his support for my reelection in 2012 by getting his CLP to nominate me. | ||
| @patrickmoule The Western response will be economic sanctions rather than military force, that's been fairly publicly stated. I.e. it's not an assumption, it's been said. | ||
| @NewMouthSouth No I'm a fan of democratic variants of Marxism. Just an enemy of the Leninist version. | ||
| @EganRichardson @HeidiBachram This explains the scoring matrix, which covers 60 questions and covers a lot more than elections: https://t.co/kDdl2TygsH | ||
| Sound. https://t.co/g2nvtj0Dcu |
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| @PatMurray20 @suremeanttosay @bum_o_tron I'm always bemused by claims that Labour might go bankrupt. If the party has less income it will just spend less. The party gets Government grants of £7m a year and membership income from around 400,000 members, before any union affiliation fees or donations of any kind. | ||
| @therubykid The point is that local government is local and we believe in localism - we can't dictate the same policy approach to Labour councils from Southampton to Sunderland which may have totally different policy needs, political and financial circumstances. | ||
| @SocialistLew @labour_first Not always. For instance, I support proportional representation, Labour First doesn't as it has supporters on both sides of that debate. | ||
| @AdrianKeithBrya @barnettmike26 @Fran__Jacobs There are 4 CLPs suspended in the entire UK, out of nearly 650. | ||
| @AdrianKeithBrya @barnettmike26 @Fran__Jacobs Because of reading the Labour Party rulebook - council candidates are selected by the local members who live in that council ward. There are a tiny number of exceptions where a local party has been suspended or is under special intervention. | ||
| @Chilling_dayz @RainSteamSpeed @NickCooperative @margarethodge The data wasn't lost. Access to the system used by CLPs is down. But party HQ has the membership data. | ||
| @RainSteamSpeed @Chilling_dayz @NickCooperative @margarethodge Membership went up massively between December 2019 and April 2020 due to the leadership election, steadily dropped through to end of 2021 and has now started to go up again. | ||
| @MarkEdonLeftie I'm opposed to the nation state law but it doesn't do anything that looks like or proclaims apartheid. | ||
| @MarkEdonLeftie No governments thought that South Africa "wasn't apartheid" because it literally proclaimed it was, announced it was bringing in the system of apartheid and boasted about how racist it was. | ||
| @TomMillerUK correct | ||
| @mainlymum @gotthetrotts @alexnunns The vision I would have is active economic, cultural and social co-operation between the two states, so they mutually thrive, not just tolerance or co-existence. | ||
| @aRtHuRoftheLeFt For instance Amnesty cites as an e.g. of "apartheid" that Arab Israelis aren't conscripted to IDF. But that's actually a privilege, it's also accorded to Charedi Jews, neither community wants to be conscripted, and they can and do volunteer when they wish to. | ||
| @aRtHuRoftheLeFt Thanks, I try to be transparent. There's no point hiding things I have been enthusiastic enough about to actually do as a job for a decade. | ||
| @aRtHuRoftheLeFt Wider than just that, includes civil aerospace (passenger jets etc), civil satellites, emergency services kit etc, often made by the same companies that make military stuff. But I had a particular knowledge of MoD procurement competitions. | ||
| @aRtHuRoftheLeFt A) I'm not "charged with selections" B) I have never had any connection to or done PR for "Israeli arms firms" Please stick to facts if you feel the need to attack me. |
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| @suremeanttosay @Keir_Starmer I think he's a bit busy holding Boris to account right now. | ||
| Amnesty’s apartheid slur is an attack on Jewish self-determination - my article for @JewishNewsUK https://t.co/9vkTwTLwKH |
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| @MICHAEL37656467 @helensclegel You are replying to someone stating that Ann didn't vote with us. She also voted with the left on the second motion, on proscribed organisations. If you are going to criticise, make it factual criticisms about what actually happened. | ||
| @TheDobba @labtowin @gsjosan @CampaignJane @AbdiDuale_ @JohannaBaxter Did you see the previous set of NEC election results? | ||
| @WyeMonkey He's an MP so he can't serve in the CLP section of the NEC. | ||
| @KeirStitt They re-run the STV without Laura on the ballot. In this case it is likely that her preferences flowed to other Momentum candidates so Ann Henderson will get on. She was the highest runner up but this system doesn't necessarily give it to the highest runner up. | ||
| @philashley2 July | ||
| @lifesabitch_2 @BillWard60 @BlusteredFlush @KazzyAnnie1 @Lord_Prof_Dr @AaronBastani @lmharpin @RachelReevesMP Receiving emails doesn't make you a member. Do you get ballots in internal elections e.g. CAC last summer? | ||
| @BlusteredFlush @KazzyAnnie1 @Lord_Prof_Dr @AaronBastani @lmharpin @RachelReevesMP No. She was correct that it had been going down. But in last few weeks, for obvious reasons to do with national political situation, it has been going up. | ||
| @KazzyAnnie1 @Lord_Prof_Dr @AaronBastani @lmharpin There were about 50 other people in the meeting when these numbers were stated | ||
| @Lord_Prof_Dr If they have previously indicated support for a proscribed organisation, they get issued with a notice of allegations. They have the opportunity to respond to that and explain if they don't in fact support the organisation, and the panel deciding the case sees their response. | ||
| @BazMilligan @supergutman @aRtHuRoftheLeFt @PhillipsBarrie @gsjosan @Keir_Starmer @JohannaBaxter @AbdiDuale_ @CampaignJane Yes it did. It was 5 years ago though. I'm not sure that stopping me from doing membership admin and recruitment tasks for my local party was quite the win the left thought it was, but I guess they enjoyed their moment of vindictiveness. | ||
| @BazMilligan @aRtHuRoftheLeFt @PhillipsBarrie @gsjosan @Keir_Starmer @JohannaBaxter @AbdiDuale_ @CampaignJane Who is "Rodders"? | ||
| @aRtHuRoftheLeFt @gsjosan @Keir_Starmer @JohannaBaxter @AbdiDuale_ @CampaignJane You've just shared the antisemitic hashtag "it was a scam". | ||
| @watchitlad @AnnBlackLabour Disciplinary cases are heard by small quasi-judicial panels of NEC members, not at full NEC meetings. Their proceedings are confidential and as NEC members we can't pre judge cases by talking about them publicly. | ||
| @Fraserwtt @labtowin @gsjosan @JohannaBaxter @AbdiDuale_ @CampaignJane Slightly bizarre claim, where do you get that idea from? | ||
| @colinrtalbot This article is quite interesting on the legal position versus practical reality of fraktionsdisziplin (party caucus discipline) in the Bundestag - https://t.co/UvLD9MfgCB | ||
| More #labourdoorstep in Marston Ward today for @Vinni3Charlotte our @Oxford_Labour city council candidate, with Cllr @maryoxford | ||
| @unviableluvvie I didn't lose my seat. I moved from Hackney to Oxford so retired from Hackney Council. | ||
| @robertcp It's exactly what she said | ||
| @Socialistexpat Odd reaction. | ||
| @socialisttrue1 The article you are quoting talks about boosting growth through capital spending. That's Keynesian economics - the opposite of austerity. | ||
| @HadasAltwarg I can understand that. I think the issue is that most Labour MPs self perception is that they were victims of bullying and abuse by the Corbynites, rather than complicit in it. | ||
| @RichMcLoughlin We would need to sign up 274 people, as only 274 people have been expelled since Keir became leader. | ||
| @harrisbparker @kimjwhitehead @UKLabour The membership system is temporarily out of action due to a cyber incident in November. Is being sorted. Thanks for joining and I hope you get your card soon. | ||
| Former NATO Secretary-General George Robertson, who had a cordial relationship with the Russian leader, recalls an era when Moscow wanted closer ties with the West. https://t.co/f46SKUmcLI | ||
| @elbrun42 A new system is on the way. | ||
| Labour gain. Welcome! https://t.co/qjm8UpECjr | ||
| This is a Boris Johnson scandal that even the great trickster can’t blag his way out of | Andrew Rawnsley https://t.co/cMRPlADmyq | ||
| @jock_poo I'm not paid by the Labour Party as I'm not a member of staff. | ||
| @carbonlogix @RuariT @TBetter97 @labtowin @labour_first That's what we are trying to do. The first stage of winning an internal election is to actually stand candidates. | ||
| @RuariT @TBetter97 @labtowin @labour_first Can you drop me and/or Lloyd an email? | ||
| @carbonlogix @RuariT @TBetter97 @labtowin @labour_first Not true, we are hopeful for significant gains in the other parts of the region. | ||
| @IMusgrave Why interact with me then? | ||
| @IMusgrave Yes but that's their problem to deal with - they destroyed themselves by joining the coalition, they now need to make the political changes to recover. It's not the Labour party's job to help its secondary opponent to recover at the expense of its primary opponent. | ||
| When that poll was conducted https://t.co/93yDrKvSae | ||
| @mcashmanCBE @UKLabour @UKHouseofLords Good to have you back Michael. | ||
| @RobDMartin21 @LeftFootFwd @philbc3 No I don't. | ||
| @elbigfella @spellar It's also the idea that we would suddenly become aware of each other's positions on this issue after debating it for several decades. | ||
| @CorruptUKgovt @Socialist_Doggy @WTarbiat @willgeorgelloyd @MailOnline No. If we restricted ourselves to local candidates then no one who lived in an always Tory seat or whose seat already had a Labour MP would ever get to be a Labour MP. We need to balance a whole range of criteria, not least the need to have MPs capable of being govt ministers. | ||
| @mirabarhillel Five. How many people usually canvass in your ward party? | ||
| @JimmyHSands @forwardnotback All other CLPs are selecting candidates/reselecting MPs this year based on old boundaries but nothing can happen yet in Islington North as Corbyn's status is unresolved. | ||
| @21Fulcrum @BBCPolitics I would prefer there wasn't any such thing as private medicine but if it exists I would rather the NHS was buying up its capacity to cut waiting lists and serve NHS patients than it was just being accessed by the wealthy to jump NHS queues. | ||
| @Tosh_ag @UKProletariat @philwoodford You mean Starmer who is ahead in all the opinion polls? | ||
| @NathanYeowell @TorfaenLabour @leadertcbc Congratulations! | ||
| @JonPegasus @adamlangleben No, it's predictions by a former Tory MP who is also a noted psephologist | ||
| @adamlangleben I'd be concerned that this is deliberate expectation management, to make it look like a huge win if they hold either Westminster or Wandsworth | ||
| @Emma_Hoddinott @Uppo1963 you mean from poor to rich. East London is in south. | ||
| @PaulOli42003393 Labour has a 50% vote share among 18-24 year olds, compared to 40% in the population as a whole, according to the detail of the December YouGov poll. | ||
| @PaulOli42003393 It's my job. I explain my motives for it being my job in this interview: https://t.co/cR0Vj7eIaD | ||
| @AlexRMair @adrianhughes0 A) the numbers you cite are an exaggeration - you can check them all here https://t.co/OIHMH6CfYd B) polling methodology has been improved since then as pollsters now believe pre 2015 weighting flattered Labour unrealistically |
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| @Seatree12 @ShamaTatler @labtowin @carolynharris24 @jackiebmsp @MichaelPayneUK @DuddridgeLloyd @jmttholland @FrankieGrant @kira_millana @nathanneilburns @NathanYeowell It doesn't mention him? | ||
| @Futurewor1d Given I voted Labour in 2017 and 2019 I don't think it's too much to ask Corbynites to vote Labour now. | ||
| @Futurewor1d Yes, because the dividing line in the party nowadays is Corbynites vs everyone else. I've happily voted for loads of candidates, including for leader, who wouldn't score that well in what was in any case a tongue-in-cheek quiz. | ||
| @charliemansell @forwardnotback @REWearmouth @Samfr Here's the @labour_first submission to @Lord_Collins which argued for keeping an electoral college: https://t.co/ZmKJgJ6ydG | ||
| Real baseline cut to Hackney budget by Pickles: 44.273 million - 14.9pc (excl one off softening and NHS cash that involves new duties) | ||
| @Albal15699 These were satirical questions for candidates for Deputy Leader in a blog post in 2006. They are all now over 47 years old. | ||
| @CathyGreen67 Both. I don't think my rather hawkish views on foreign policy are a great secret but there is an element of self mockery intended. I was highlighting how far I was from the positions considered helpful in winning internal elections. | ||
| @kevpeel it's just before Christmas (shopping, parties) and freezing cold - those will have been signif factors | ||
| @theday2day I don't feel we made "major" mistakes, I'm proud of our record in govt and want us back in power delivering more of the same | ||
| @SanjayFBPEUK @Duncanthewegie @UB5simon And what limited stuff that was done in N Shropshire stopped the Labour vote being squeezed down to Chesham & Amersham levels- if we had done nothing then we might have finished behind the Greens. | ||
| @SanjayFBPEUK @Duncanthewegie @UB5simon I think if Labour had established itself as the main challenger early in the campaign then most of the people who voted Lib Dem or Thursday would have been just as happy to vote Labour- they went for the party they felt most likely to give the Tories a wake up call in that seat. | ||
| @SanjayFBPEUK @UB5simon If there was a deal I didn't get the memo about it and I would never approve or condone such a thing. | ||
| @MilneSeumas @SpaJw That's what happens at every general election anyway. Labour only ever targets national cash, staff and volunteers at the marginal seats it needs to gain. Any activity in non marginal seats is funded and initiated by the individual CLPs and candidates. | ||
| @MaxieAllen @SZaitschenko Your party was literally in a Conservative government. Lib Dems are so disinterested in removing the Tories from power they join them there and help them implement austerity. | ||
| @PoliticAl_0 @SZaitschenko They didn't stand aside for us in North Shropshire where we were in second place!!! | ||
| @docdave60 There isn't going to be an electoral understanding with the Lib Dems. There is no need for one as our list of target marginals we need to gain from the Tories doesn't overlap with theirs. | ||
| @TwoLegsBad2 No I mean the Lib Dem strategy will be to target maybe a dozen to twenty gains as they only have the resources to fight that many seats seriously. They are pretty ruthless about targeting. | ||
| @dbooth3 @GoodStratTweet No, because there is a script and you stick to it. | ||
| @WTuckfieldPR How can you possibly judge who is best placed to beat the Tories unless its on the objective fact of who came second to them last time? | ||
| @EdwinaLL Neither of those things are going to happen. | ||
| @Daveinthehills I've campaigned for proportional representation for over 30 years. | ||
| @edmundpw It matters in that he has a national platform as a columnist in a paper that over 6 million people read. | ||
| @RC_Garrioch Overnight. Result could be anytime between 2am and 5am. | ||
| @dbooth3 I voted and campaigned for Labour | ||
| @BeastofExmoor @Neal_Compass The only hope for the country is the Labour Party. | ||
| @noahbsimpson With a lot of Labour Party jobs the experience required can be built up doing voluntary roles in the party - eg most professional organisers get the job through having organised elections at a local level in their home CLP as volunteers. | ||
| @nick_pope Not if they lose it to the Lib Dems. They will just shrug and write it off as another in a long line of Lib Dem byelection wins that mean nothing for overall politics of the next General Election, just like Chesham & Amersham, or indeed Brecon in 2019. | ||
| Our job is to maximise Labour’s vote, because a high Labour vote, not an easy-to-dismiss Lib Dem by-election flash-in-the-pan, is what will really put Boris and the Tories on notice to quit. | ||
| @IanCLucas It's their standard tactics | ||
| Bit annoying as I have a whole stack of half read books I won't have time to finish https://t.co/tuJ733QesL | ||
| @gazzamc71 I don't know that is necessarily the case. The last distraction we need is a Lib Dem revival that means we have to fight them again in all the major cities where they were previously a threat to Labour. | ||
| @Samraby5 @sabartram That's a ridiculous exaggeration. There are only 10 seats in the South East where the Lib Dems could take even on a 10% swing: https://t.co/SJUu6Q4zjr. Only 15 seats in entire country where LDs are second and majority is under 5,000. | ||
| @dansumsion1 That's what everyone thought in 2010. | ||
| @robertcp @Lordofthevan If CLPs prioritise it, it could be debated again next year at annual conf and since conference Unite has changed its policy to supportive. | ||
| @rory_maclean @nathanneilburns Campaigning? Same way we would win any other seat. Better candidates and policies and more canvassing and leaflets and policies than our rivals. | ||
| @QuondamOptimist There are no details to negotiate as the Labour Party will not be entering into any pacts or alliances, good luck trying to create a progressive alliance without the party that almost every progressive voter supports. | ||
| @QuondamOptimist No I don't. I'm opposed to alliances and pacts. | ||
| @JoanneL46734720 @kevin23720470 Obviously I'd vote for and campaign for Labour in every constituency. | ||
| @other_mrs @kevin23720470 I don't understand why you would see having a Lib Dem MP as particularly better than having a Tory one, given their habit of joining Tory governments. There are plenty of leafy middle class seats that have managed to elect Labour MPs. | ||
| @kevin23720470 Only my party can get the Tories out. The others are irrelevant and just split the anti-Tory vote. | ||
| @MimiJ9 @EdwinaLL The Guardian has a long history of talking up the SDP, the Alliance, the Liberals and Lib Dems at Labour's expense. | ||
| @kevin23720470 1906. Gladstone/MacDonald pact. It led eventually to us replacing the Liberals as main opposition party, so we have no intention of returning the favour. We do not do pacts or deals. End of. | ||
| @EdwinaLL No, they just had no base of support in Old Bexley and Sidcup. Labour doesn't do deals, tacit or explicit, with other parties. | ||
| @JohnGower1 @KeirStitt @NChemGav Based entirely on their own assertion. This is just what they do in by-elections - confidently announce they are in second place and then rely on that and that alone to trick people into voting tactically for them. This is part of why Labour people detest them. | ||
| @whyohwhyfather @TheLadyWilcox @DJAHallam @btwodo They come from the Labour campaign, just like the other set of numbers came from the LD campaign. | ||
| @MarkSeddon1962 @DJAHallam From our campaign. David is former MEP for Shropshire and volunteer press officer for the campaign. | ||
| @docdave60 There hasn't been any polling in North Shropshire. | ||
| @SewarRat It's a statement of fact - here are all the previous results: https://t.co/gM0n8ZWL34 | ||
| @northnthat It's fine to be a revolutionary against an undemocratic regime, whether that's a racist one like apartheid South Africa or a communist one like Cuba. I don't understand why you wouldn't want democracy and freedom for Cubans as well as South Africans. | ||
| @AndyCharlwood @alexsobel we can't restrict recruitment nationwide cos of severe problems in handful of places - need to deal case by case | ||
| @AndyCharlwood @alexsobel basically if every LP member bought membership for 2 ppl as xmas pres we wd have 400k new mems +6 mil extra income | ||
| @DoreJayne @MattStevns @MSmithsonPB Because Labour has been in second place in almost every recent GE in N Shropshire (97, 01, 05, 15, 17, 19 - only exception was 10) | ||
| @CurtisDaly_ Only if they've paid no attention to anything I've said over the last twenty years | ||
| @MrhobanJames I'm quoting @AaronBastani | ||
| @CurtisDaly_ I'm not a Blairite. | ||
| @David__Osland There are 6, not 2: https://t.co/j9tTuR7tM6 | ||
| @UKProletariat I don't think that very many people align politically with Corbyn. They are a tiny and irrelevant fringe. | ||
| @WorthingWestCLP Unfortunately I have other commitments this weekend that I can't get out of. Hope you have a brilliant result to build on your recent amazing progress. | ||
| @SpaJw Next to the port? | ||
| @Daniel_Sugarman @PhilR_R Congratulations! | ||
| @Geordetroiter One of them I started in 3rd place and the other one is a part of Essex that was extremely anti-European and anti-immigration | ||
| @CharlieGBreen The clue is in the name "Labour Against the Witch hunt". That's dismissing Labour's action against AS as a witch hunt. They reject the IHRA definition of AS. Their website refers to "the false anti-Semitism smear". They promote a conspiracy theory about JLM links to Israeli govt. | ||
| @anonymous_left @REWearmouth The EHRC Report says that dismissing claims of antisemitism as smears is in itself antisemitic. | ||
| @rushmeadvillas @labtowin @LabourSouthEast It's about the same as it was three years ago as the number of people who have left is about equal to the number who joined during the leadership election | ||
| @spiralunbound @frederickchespy @labtowin @LabourSouthEast It's not an OMOV election - voting is by delegates | ||
| @s35ram 644 | ||
| @LeeJordan_78 If a party stands candidates against Labour, by definition it is our electoral and ideological enemy, whether that's Tories, Lib Dems, Greens or TUSC. | ||
| @Southallmatter2 @JewishChron Read the party rule book. | ||
| @BobBorsley @andrewspoooner Population 3,392. The parish council's responsibilities include the annual scarecrow trail. https://t.co/WVgnPKOiEF | ||
| @LiamThorpECHO Valley of Tears on More4 | ||
| @AndyCharlwood @alexsobel @markjsewards you were both wrong... | ||
| @CuriouslyQuiet1 @CoastKerry No, there isn't a significant chunk of the electorate who are Corbynites. It's a very marginal political tradition that accidentally and temporarily captured a major political party. | ||
| @adamlangleben Snap. Have just watched the first two | ||
| @Xpreseccodrink1 Yeah electing a Tory MP is a surefire indication they want more Corbynism. | ||
| @dougiedoings @Keir_Starmer No it doesn't. You can criticise Israel as vehemently as you like, just avoid antisemitic tropes when doing so. Read the IHRA definition: https://t.co/Dl0BlADIDX | ||
| @dougiedoings @Keir_Starmer From the IHRA definition of antisemitism: "Manifestations might include the targeting of the state of Israel, conceived as a Jewish collectivity. | ||
| @GuyLucasBhana Congratulations and good luck! | ||
| @geoff_fletcher And from a narrow internal viewpoint I don't want us to be morally compromised as a party by having the faction that brought antisemitism into Labour anywhere near control of our selections or disciplinary processes. | ||
| @AnneBarr2015 Can you explain why reporting the political outcome of a ballot at a conference is nasty, bitter or divisive? | ||
| @charliemansell Momentum had 7. They also lost 3 equalities posts that they had held. | ||
| @Shield_Writer That's literally what it says- that's how barristers' fees are paid | ||
| @MikeyB_Good @Imhavingthesoup @rory_maclean It wasn't the largest vote share since 1945. 2017 Labour share was 40.0% which is lower than the Labour vote share in 2001, 1997, 1970, 1966, 1964, 1959, 1955, 1951 and 1950. So it was only the 10th highest since 1945. | ||
| @earthygirl011 No, I am not and never have been a member of Labour's HQ staff. | ||
| @gsandhu @Penny_Gowland 25th Nov | ||
| @Penny_Gowland We will get an updated number at the November NEC. My NEC reports always state the number of members. | ||
| Join me and @hopenothate in celebrating the people who make life harder for the far right. Vote for your favourite #HOPEhero to help them be in with a chance of winning up to £5K for their project! ⤵️ https://t.co/XSsRR1DCJ1 |
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| @_JonathanQuin @TheoBiddle We did a survey to every household in entire borough of Hackney a few years back, with freepost return, didn't get any junk back, and got several thousand proper responses. | ||
| @Jackiew80333500 I'd never heard of either of them until today, but they both sound very impressive. | ||
| The middle number is quite a turn around https://t.co/n0SbyGjR13 | ||
| @rob_marchant we can - some r altruistic - but human nature means many rich will prefer a more free market, lwer tax for high earners party | ||
| @rob_marchant because the Tory party represents the class interests of employers? That's the basic economic reason. | ||
| @rob_marchant there's also a question of testing commitment - vol work for party demonstrates loyalty which we want in cllrs + MPs | ||
| @alexsobel @rob_marchant @alexsmith1982 @peterwatt123 sorry Alex guilty of that. Why wd I not work in the area I am interested in if can? | ||
| @rob_marchant I'm more concerned not enough of shadow cabinet have been councillors, agents or CLP officers | ||
| @rob_marchant they have govt experience though - surely that's more important? 2 acquire signif biz experience need to go back to older MPs | ||
| @peteyvv @rob_marchant revenue targets criteria qualifies all of us from world of PR consultancy | ||
| @rob_marchant @alexsmith1982 @alexsobel @peterwatt123 what's the percentage of biz ppl in general population? | ||
| @alexsmith1982 @alexsobel @peterwatt123 PLP has 26 lawyers, 14 school teachers, 21 HE/FE lecturers, 20 business people, 13 vol/charity work | ||
| @mygibbo @forwardnotback My memory of Annual Conference 2019 Brexit debate is all the Corbynites cheering because the composite favoured by LOTO beat the more pro EU one. | ||
| @andrewschramm4 What do you think my ethnicity is? A) I'm not Jewish, B) If you thought I was, best to avoid the antisemitic trope about a concept of "Jewish Supremacy | ||
| @RegJPF @TheoBiddle @M0kujin @excllrkennedy That's not how the Labour Party defines socialism. | ||
| @SP_Duckworth It's a parody | ||
| @suey2y @SamJRushworth No idea, it sounds made up. | ||
| @ProfTimBale A Lord Mayor instead of a Mayor | ||
| @alexsobel yes I've seen protest site at Westwood Cross (main out of town retail park for Thanet) | ||
| @kevinfins13 @d_lawrence89 @UKLabour Yes. All current MPs have to go through a trigger process and could therefore be deselected. | ||
| @graphicrust Everyone in the Labour Party is a self-identifying socialist | ||
| @cymrurouge @UKLabour I don't think there was a box on the form to ask whether you would join SCG. | ||
| @IWTheDarkPrince @UKLabour If I was, I wouldn't tweet about it! Parliamentary selections require narrowcast communications to the members in a single CLP. | ||
| @CharIotteHall Thank you. | ||
| Picking up Jed from school to take him to meet his new little brother for the first time. | ||
| @Nevererdofher @suzyquiquero @Days_Are_Gone Yes | ||
| @Layo_GP Probably in similar proportion - 25% Labour vs 5% "The Left | ||
| As usual some thought-provoking insights from Tim https://t.co/ZxvXVsL0XE | ||
| @Sebasti04049587 @labtowin For Labour to Win. The party is quite capable of doing its own fundraising. | ||
| @AndrewBoff and in 2012/13 was wider gap. You represent London on GLA not Wokingham Mr Boff. Start fighting our corner! | ||
| @suey2y French fries. You can dip them in it. | ||
| @revtimtom_ @lewis_goodall Reading my tweets? | ||
| @Paul0Evans1 ask @RichardAngell | ||
| @Paul0Evans1 qualifies as a blog as a) has lots of online only content and b) allows comments to be posted | ||
| Been a busy week for podcasts, here's the one about party conference I did for BICOM @BritainIsrael https://t.co/zrOXfOj6Ib | ||
| I did an interview with @lmharpin about the Israel debate at Labour conference for the @JewishNewsUK podcast. You can listen here: https://t.co/eQB2qUf2fr | ||
| @cymrurouge @TheMattWain @SolHughesWriter @underthenet88 It could be. Not my area of specialism so I'm wary of shooting from the hip without reading more about it. | ||
| @Chris_C_Lloyd Yes | ||
| Conference 2021: Keir’s courage and the hard work of grassroots activists paid off – via @LabourList https://t.co/STTiaoZvFI | ||
| @BobBoyle1 Which fellow members is it insulting? If they are Trotskyists they aren't supposed to be in the Labour Party. | ||
| @ianrobo1 www.communities.gov.uk/documents/localgovernment/xls/1796201.xls | ||
| Jewish voters have got to be given the space to come to their own decision about whether they are ready to give Labour any consideration or not. | ||
| Such people, argued Akehurst “are using this almost as tit for tat to say to Jewish members, well you are stopping us from this discourse, but we are going to push it right to the line, and wind you up with extreme delegitimising discourse about Israel.” | ||
| @l_attfield Turner can come on immediately if they instruct one of the other 2 to resign. The convention on the TU block is uncontested byelections if a union wants to replace one of their reps. | ||
| @Jackiew80333500 Nope, my only knowledge of your case comes from national media coverage like this: https://t.co/4df69s0DI6 | ||
| @Weston_Labour @IanBFAWU The proscription paper on LATW agreed at NEC sets out the evidence for LATW being an antisemitic organisation based on it's own statements, which include conspiratorial claims. | ||
| @AndrewBoff try 40% of the current cuts - based on Labour's shadow CSR. And guess wd have had formula that hit Surrey harder than Hackney | ||
| @brian_precious Maybe some of her friends on the NEC could have told her, as every NEC member received the CAC4 report with the results at 9.15pm, about 2 hours before I tweeted. | ||
| Congratulations to my friends @aliceperryuk and @JohannaBaxter on their election as the new Chair and Vice Chair of @UKLabour at the NEC AGM just now. | ||
| @oxfordgirl @LindaSmith75 @MomentumOx I was under impression husbands and wives were allowed to have different opinions in the 21st century | ||
| @geoffshumba @DwTenterden @Labour4PR @GMBGarySmith @labourlewis @UniteSharon @ASLEFunion @unisontheunion @sandyofipswich @Usdaw4Labour @fbunational @MakeVotesMatter Their policy is decided at their own conferences, which are comprised elected delegates from union branches. You need to win at the union conferences before being able to win an issue at Labour conference | ||
| @mafevema @DwTenterden @YeomanRuth @UKLabour @Labour4PR @sandyofipswich @MakeVotesMatter @electoralreform @AnthonyBarnett @AshfordLabour @labourlewis @CarolineLucas @Neal_Compass @ParkerCiccone @chilterns4 I'm pro PR but you can't blame the unions for following their own long standing policies on this. To win on an issue at conference you need to have already campaigned for it at each union conference & won them over, not just in the CLPs. | ||
| Well done @steve_mccabe on a brave and clear speech, best contribution on Israel/Palestine from conference floor for many years | ||
| @Idontmind64 @Mbx_1 @andrew_behan @labtowin @UKLabour The left of the party were not in charge in 1945, Herbert Morrison ran the campaign. | ||
| @Lauren_Crowley @richardangell was that one of the winnables though? Dover + Sheerness well organised when I've visited. | ||
| @lordisthisfree There's never been a vote on this before. If we had stuck to procedure would have just been done on acclamation. | ||
| @JonHegerty There's never been a vote taken before, so could be all of them for all we know. | ||
| @philashley2 Needs to win on conference floor tomorrow | ||
| Before anyone says, yes I know Friday to Wednesday isn't an entire week https://t.co/K5AxWlqqQv | ||
| @AllThingsProg Obviously not. It's nuts that a new member with no responsibilities in the party should have the same say in electing the leader as an MP. Makes no sense at all. | ||
| @Gerry_C1977 @JSkeaping @labour_first Yes, that tweet was after our submission had sadly been ignored! | ||
| @ihaterocket No we haven't. That article is about a group called Labour Together, not about any group I'm involved in. | ||
| @KatieCurtis @TomBlenkinsop That ruined a very good team dinner as well. | ||
| @FrankadderHall Because it's essential that any leader has the confidence of the PLP. They can't lead MPs who don't want to be led by them. | ||
| @seandsmyth Why? | ||
| Anyone elected as Labour Leader should be able to demonstrate they have a credible level of support from their colleagues in Parliament, from our affiliates and from individual members. | ||
| @JimMonaghan10 @BuildingOrderFC @tristangrayedi No, the @labour_first submission to the Collins Review argued for keeping the Electoral College. | ||
| @AnnelieseDodds Congratulations! | ||
| @_Matt_Buckley @simonjrogers @AlexJChampion @TheoBiddle @SocSecWhiskey The CAC doesn't make a value judgement - either today or last week - on the political content of motions and how important the issues in them are - it adjudicates on whether they have met the criteria the rulebook sets for being a valid motion. | ||
| @tcanham459 Yes | ||
| @AlecWilletts @Jackiew80333500 Not correct, lobbyists can be any interested party in a policy or issue. In this case Unite have a legitimate interest as they represent workers in the industry. They make representations to MoD whenever UK jobs might be affected by a procurement decision. | ||
| @REWearmouth The combined voting strength of those 4 unions is only about 17% of the conference, so they would need to win 66% of the CLP card votes (an extra 33% of the conference) to win this vote. | ||
| @Crim_sol_PH May her memory be a blessing. Sorry for your loss. | ||
| @light_da_boiler @Jennieformby1 I didn't actually. | ||
| Not a spoof https://t.co/gtgO7usAur | ||
| This GND motion did get approved by the CAC as it was properly drafted https://t.co/N1XAfSdsGj | ||
| @greg_herriett Yep Cuba Solidarity listed as speakers at rally | ||
| Sounds like a fun event https://t.co/hR4MoJ66r6 | ||
| @Obscurantistx @thomaswilliams the political makeup of the committee is 2 Momentum, 2 Unison, 1 each of CWU, GMB, Unite, Usdaw. | ||
| @tomwilliamsisme 10.10am. Usually a good idea to arrive early to guarantee a seat. | ||
| No comment. https://t.co/JDcDcNs9ax | ||
| @BaronVonDuncs @charliemansell @David__Osland The article says he was auto excluded for supporting the Labour In Exile Network, not for anything he said about Starmer. | ||
| @steven06639 None, NEC members are not involved in that stage of the disciplinary process. | ||
| @watchitlad @socialist1959 @BrianHTweed "Agreed in principle". They haven't actually sent it across yet. | ||
| @laureleccles The home demolitions tactic is actually one that Israel inherited from the British authorities of the mandate era. I don't support it, it's not possible to justify morally and it's counter productive as it just leads to more resentment. | ||
| @cymrurouge @CharMcew GMB is to the right of me, let alone Starmer | ||
| @CharMcew @cymrurouge And the right to be on the losing side if they push such a vote | ||
| @adamjamesdavis_ Didn't Naboo beat the Federation? | ||
| @CharMcew @cymrurouge They get to have a say via the NEC. That then implies a degree of collective responsibility for the running of the party and major decisions like appointment of GS. | ||
| @CeilNoyle You forgot Israel | ||
| @CharMcew @cymrurouge He was the GS choice of the NEC as a whole. Major affiliates shouldn't be reopening an employment recruitment process after it has been concluded and the post holder been in office for over a year. | ||
| @cymrurouge @CharMcew I had clients in the defence industry (among other sectors rom museums to councils to civil engineers) but that's who we provided consultancy to, they weren't my actual employer. | ||
| @cymrurouge @CharMcew Not since I graduated. I was lucky to be able to treat Politics as a vocational degree, having failed to pick a useful subject like Law. | ||
| @pauloCanning The fringe guide when published lists all the exhibition stalls | ||
| @Amusedrice @Keir_Starmer @YoungLabourUK @jewishchronicle Lee Harpin doesn't work for the JC anymore. | ||
| @Amusedrice @Keir_Starmer They don't "have me around" - I'm elected by Labour members to represent the membership on the NEC. | ||
| This sort of stuff is never far below the surface. https://t.co/uvKza1VyOP | ||
| @walshrac In my 33 years of membership it has always been people from the moderate wing of the party who do most of the canvassing | ||
| @davidiancollins @UKLabour In what way do we not have a youth wing? | ||
| @stfulibs Actually it's the 4th time there has been a conflict between the Labour Party and its youth section. The party previously abolished the Labour League of Youth, the Young Socialists, and the Labour Party Young Socialists when each of them got taken over by Trotskyist groups. | ||
| @alexnunns @lordisthisfree I haven't made any claim about Young Labour's position. It's odd though that they wanted to platform PSC, which doesn't explicitly support two states, rather than LFPME, which does. I look forward to all the key players in YL stating they support Israel's existence. | ||
| @SeemaChandwani They are named after the city of Nice, was part of the same Victorian passion for naming biscuits in honour of the Italian unification struggle that led to Garibaldi biscuits. So pronounced Neice. | ||
| @TimeNye I haven't said anything about Welsh Labour | ||
| Before everyone gets over-excited about ICM Tory lead, tomorrow's YouGov shows Labour with 8% lead. | ||
| The historical evidence of the 1980s is that expelling Militant, quite aside from being morally correct as revolutionaries have no place in a democratic socialist party, was the first step towards making Labour electable again. https://t.co/9ncxlRtk1V | ||
| Quality of candidates we are picking in early parliamentary selections is v high - @PollyB1967 latest example | ||
| @Penny_Gowland I'm not minded to engage with your personalised and rude comments. | ||
| @daneacross Ken Loach was auto-excluded for supporting Labour Against the Witchhunt - this is an organisation set up to suggest that tackling antisemitism is a "witchhunt". | ||
| @Keithr4wilson @Keir_Starmer Yes, Zionism is the national liberation movement of the Jewish people, formed as a response to antisemitism in the diaspora. I support their right to statehood and self-determination just like I do the same rights of the Palestinians, Kurds, Tibetans etc. I hope everyone does. | ||
| @abjakes I think the clue is in the words "by Al Jazeera". Was hardly a big gotcha, was it? Director of We Believe in Israel in supports Israel shocker. | ||
| @eskippy @LionelSedgewick To understand why the distinction is important, I'd urge you to read this: https://t.co/tQZHJa4B11 | ||
| @haunted_eggs It's a side effect of a life threatening neurological illness I had in 2009, which hospitalised me for 5 months and also caused my disability | ||
| @AHerber10065252 I'm not complaining | ||
| @Sully_EFC @JHMmmm0 Not necessarily. Historically lots of people have come and gone as party members but carry on voting Labour. | ||
| @JHMmmm0 Yes but gained 120k during the leadership election, so back where we started but with a much better, less Corbynite, membership. 120,000 Hard Left thankfully gone and replaced by 120,000 sensibles. | ||
| @philwoodford @Smithy0364 @PoliticsForAlI @thetimes @PeoplesMomentum NB the CAC has eight seats, this was an election for two seats that take office after this conference, the two incumbents were always going to be in office for this conference. | ||
| @reece_mtsm @adrianhughes0 I'm optimistic that conference will go well. | ||
| @prskcs @Labourpaul @estwebber The 2019 result meant the party lost £1.5m a year in state funding for policy staff and advisers | ||
| @DanGradyCool Funding was cut by £1.5m so spending on staff will have been cut by £1.5m. | ||
| @CarolinePenn2 @labtowin @MaryWimbury @ShamaTatler My understanding is will be announced as soon as counted | ||
| @Anfield39 If you open the box you can see all 24! | ||
| #ff @TomPrice80 Hackney cllr and adviser to Douglas Alexander | ||
| @StevePowers_ No | ||
| @David__Osland @DavidHirsh @GillianLazarus Have I? I missed that bit. Mainly thought it was a rather nice pen portrait of Chanie and Tony. | ||
| @ElectionMapsUK @YouGov Aren't these just marginal seats that are in the 4 southern regions? They aren't part of a previously safe "wall" of seats like Don Valley or Sedgefield were in the "Red Wall". | ||
| @HannahAlOthman Peter's, opposite the Turner gallery does the best fish and chips in Margate. Their pea fritters are a must. The Lifeboat is the best pub. Buoy and Oyster is a good restaurant. | ||
| @GeorgeHayes3264 Coyne is the moderate Labour candidate | ||
| Everyone in the country has friends, relatives or colleagues who are in Unite, as it's got over 1 million members. Now is a good time to remind the Unite members you know to find their General Secretary ballot and post it back with a vote for @gerard_coyne | ||
| @AdamAllnutt @DuddridgeLloyd All down to my colleagues esp @DuddridgeLloyd . I am just an impressed observer. | ||
| @MrsBurgin @_KerriPrince Or see aspects of both in their own politics | ||
| @daneacross @labtowin It's not really infighting, just member democracy. These are elections that always happen and have always featured slates. Important that members are supporting the direction the party is going in. | ||
| @Jessica06417705 @mish_rahman @UKLabour The main European governments set out a proposal for a disarmament for reconstruction peace deal in Gaza back in 2014: https://t.co/FpdwqvwqHA | ||
| @SpaJw The Greens going up wouldn't hint at tactical voting as there are no constituencies where they are in second place | ||
| @SimonWe63114983 Details are here: https://t.co/b7IXtvHL95 | ||
| @lmharpin @khayerc Only for cases relating to protected characteristics. NCC still exists to deal with other disciplinary cases. | ||
| @siennamarla The NCC isn't being scrapped. It will still exist but will only deal with the cases that don't involve protected characteristics. | ||
| @dooblayexpresso I tested whether my opinions were valued in a ballot of every Labour member and came top. | ||
| @BristolRed Ah... | ||
| @oxfordgirl @LauraPidcock @K4rmaRules We've all received the NEC papers with the arguments | ||
| @GeorgeAylett Trotskyism is a form of Leninism. All Trotskyists are Leninists but not all Leninists are Trotskyists. | ||
| @vanityhopes There are four organisations being recommended for proscribing. JVL is not one of them. | ||
| @zayamensch He didn't have a majority on the NEC a year ago so it wouldn't have been passed | ||
| @GeorgeAylett Because Militant abandoned entryism and they wanted to continue it. | ||
| @SkiffleRevival @OwenWMichael @steamedhamms No not difficult at all. You can debate against people at their events, and get on with them and even respect their views, whilst thinking they have no place in the Labour Party. | ||
| No one tell them it's an online meeting on Zoom... https://t.co/06OYxi2ajb | ||
| Oh. https://t.co/mtfAOUQff3 | ||
| @aranmlewis @UKLabour Can you explain what the position of power was you think I held during the 1997-2010 government? | ||
| Labour's budget surplus: http://t.co/lKeXbEK1 | ||
| @ElworthyStone There were over 270 people at a delegate based GC so no apathy on either side | ||
| 👏👏👏🍺 | ||
| @artymesia @hollygirl230 @philsmith1878 @mish_rahman It started last Thursday in Batley & Spen. | ||
| @TomMillerUK Doesn't seem correct - Communist Manifesto is in this 1st year reading list https://t.co/vSw5oO2JNV | ||
| I'm guessing this story was briefed and went to press before the byelection result. https://t.co/asRRhX7OJi | ||
| @pruneah Yes | ||
| @BORU882 Yes see my timeline today and yesterday | ||
| @stephane_ulrich That's as maybe, but he's not an MP so it's not very relevant. On same basis there could be polling done about Ed Balls. | ||
| @MrhobanJames Getting the internal stuff right is a precondition of winning externally. That's why Blair's slogan was "new Labour, new Britain". | ||
| @bresh671 @artymesia The voting system for CLP AGMs is the same one it always has been | ||
| @artymesia Fairly sure we are winning AGMs because more members are voting for us | ||
| @Ladyblues666 No I didn't have a seat to lose | ||
| @leftlibertar1an Losing an internal election isn't "being driven out of the party | ||
| @davelawson35 Odd reply to a tweet reporting the outcome of member led democracy | ||
| Coyne happy to be 'mainstream' candidate in battle for Unite https://t.co/LUqPoCRwsx |
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| @JohnEdwards33 @BoardofDeputies @Keir_Starmer Care to elaborate on what "my game" is? | ||
| @mirabarhillel The film doesn't show Al Aqsa. | ||
| @LabourAccel You've misunderstood my tweet. I want more people to become homeowners and that requires more new build housing. | ||
| @LabourAccel Where did you get that from? That's the opposite of my politics. I live in an area where Labour is fighting for large scale house building. | ||
| @stephane_ulrich Are these done using a 2 round system or PR? | ||
| @unionbrews The most leftwing strand of opinion in the Labour Party e.g. Tony Benn and Jeremy Corbyn, the Campaign Group, Momentum. As opposed to the "soft left", the other component of Labour's left (Foot, Tribune Group, Open Labour, Robin Cook, Prescott etc) Term has been used for 40 years | ||
| Clearly Galloway should follow Howard Beckett's example and withdraw https://t.co/FGUQUlH3Tj | ||
| @_KerriPrince Coyne. He almost won against Len last time. | ||
| @JohnRentoul cohen says fees have fatally contaminated LD's and Clegg's brand. Surely a reasonable claim given now on 8pc? | ||
| @moshuk1999 @CaitDoire @hrw The conclusion. | ||
| @moshuk1999 @CaitDoire @hrw Yes I think they are very wrong | ||
| @CaitDoire Or maybe your narrative is a load of old cobblers | ||
| Back at UCH A+E for wound review. Have brought a long book. | ||
| @PoliticoTeacher Which isn't achieved through financing Skwarkbox | ||
| @HamSand03827873 Yes Lisa Nandy has repeatedly called for sanctions | ||
| Congratulations @JamesAsser re-elected unopposed as Socialist Societies Rep on Labour's NEC https://t.co/j6wEebItSu | ||
| Great to have @LabourRoyall as guest speaker at @Oxford_Labour All Member Meeting this evening | ||
| @TVAddictStill @Falcon_Malteser I suspect not. | ||
| @KatieCurtis Only MPs have it. Embargoed until public release tomorrow | ||
| @barleymow1 @JeffRookerj Happy birthday! | ||
| @kw_stapleton_ @LeftieStats Correct | ||
| @Lawrenc22954893 @lmharpin @JewishNewsUK No it doesn't look like that will happen. More likely that @gerard_coyne will win. | ||
| I'm fairly certain @Siobhain_Mc has been a member of a trade union and of the Labour Party for rather longer than Johnny-come-lately Howard Beckett. | ||
| Book review: Vintage Red by John Kotz: http://t.co/4vThPqV6 | ||
| Last night's by-elections in full: http://t.co/C0Cf1Pnm Good results for Lab in Kent + Norfolk | ||
| @IanDunt @anthonyleahy They use BVRAAM - Beyond Visual Range Air to Air Missiles so can shoot down enemy aircraft before being seen | ||
| @Jeffrey62093861 They are inherited from the old white collar ACTS section of TGWU - Administrative, Clerical, Technical and Supervisory Staff section | ||
| @den_jw His administrative suspension has the effect of suspending all the roles he has in the Labour Party, including NEC. | ||
| At Hackney North Labour GC. Good turnout - @rita_krshn is going to be talking to us re. Future of education in Hackney post Learning Trust | ||
| @Bluesoulreggae @daveleplumber Northern Independence must be very popular in Frome, Somerset | ||
| And good morning to you too sir. Amazing how much anger people can summon up before breakfast. https://t.co/YMYXNYC8EE | ||
| @Priti_Shoes @Ermintrude2 The ZF? No, someone paid for a table and brought her as a guest. https://t.co/BbpmMWUlje | ||
| @Priti_Shoes @Ermintrude2 He wasn't made welcome, he was told to get lost. | ||
| Being a mellow person I have just stayed calm while another patient blatantly nicked my place in the blood test queue. Not impressed! | ||
| Sausage and egg mcmuffin to fortify me before morning of hospital appointments | ||
| @quiscustodis @SocialistVoice @helenmcollins1 By getting thousands more votes than any other candidate | ||
| @tooldtoroknroll The nominations have only recently started so no candidates have reached the threshold yet as far as I am aware | ||
| @ChrisHa19643440 @GarryCave @ssk85760565 @mrplannings @JohnEdwards33 @SimonAttwood @WeBelieveIsrael @labour_first Presumably you will distrust everything said by paid staff of PSC or any NGOs that criticise Israel on the same basis. | ||
| How I spent my evening. https://t.co/iBvuGvHrRs | ||
| @minesatreble99 @mrplannings @JohnEdwards33 @SimonAttwood @WeBelieveIsrael @labour_first Neither me nor the Labour Party believes Israel has any comparison to apartheid. For the record WBII does not take funding from any government or political party. | ||
| @markwhiley @charliemansell @NorthLancsGreen No Labour had only had an overall majority for 2 of the last 22 years. Rest of the time it has been a no overall control council. | ||
| @CorbynRed @ElectionMapsUK @SavantaComRes I retweet every national poll, otherwise people would accuse me of only highlighting the ones that I liked. | ||
| @WoodyLad8 @adehughes6 @Matt_Dean1994 The Lib Dem conference is tiny - about 10% the size of Labour's. | ||
| @adehughes6 @Matt_Dean1994 We've used Birmingham for smaller events like Spring Conference but it isn't big enough for Annual Conference. | ||
| @adehughes6 @Matt_Dean1994 It doesn't have enough hotels. Conference attracts over 10,000 people. | ||
| @charlesb1993 @Matt_Dean1994 Manchester and Liverpool have been used fairly recently | ||
| @PetaSteel @Matt_Dean1994 Blackpool the issue was quality not size. The Winter Gardens got very run down and TV journalists used it as a metaphor for state of whichever party was in town... | ||
| @ssk85760565 @GarryCave @mrplannings @JohnEdwards33 @SimonAttwood @WeBelieveIsrael @labour_first Sadly not. | ||
| @GarryCave @ssk85760565 @mrplannings @JohnEdwards33 @SimonAttwood @WeBelieveIsrael @labour_first No it's one of two part time paid jobs I have. | ||
| @GarryCave @ssk85760565 @mrplannings @JohnEdwards33 @SimonAttwood @WeBelieveIsrael @labour_first No I work for a network of British supporters of Israel | ||
| @ssk85760565 @mrplannings @JohnEdwards33 @SimonAttwood @WeBelieveIsrael @labour_first It's a network of British people who support Israel: https://t.co/oYTpzHQDZP. | ||
| @mrplannings @JohnEdwards33 @SimonAttwood @WeBelieveIsrael @labour_first I said most because some are non-Jewish Brits | ||
| @Mickey_Brennan @Ed_Miliband there was always a tension in Lab govt between supporters of industrial activism and not. | ||
| @mrplannings @JohnEdwards33 @SimonAttwood No the Labour party don't pay me. | ||
| @ToriesAreCunts @foster_dai It's a statement of fact about how international law works. People can disagree with things Israel does without incorrectly labelling them as war crimes. | ||
| @RDStalker no sorry, we don't have a website. Labour First is a network of traditional moderates in the party: pro-union link, pro-NATO. | ||
| @Empireoftruth1 @MeSlengTeng @raybestcreative @WeBelieveIsrael @BritainIsrael Correct | ||
| @JohnEdwards33 @SimonAttwood No I am not paid by the State of Israel directly or indirectly. My organisation has a rule that it doesn't take funding from any government or political party. | ||
| @Captain_Crell The journalists weren't attacked though, were they? They were all warned and evacuated the building. | ||
| @Empireoftruth1 @MeSlengTeng @raybestcreative @WeBelieveIsrael @BritainIsrael No | ||
| @KennethWPratt Yes. I'm Director of @WeBelieveIsrael . It says so in my Twitter biog. | ||
| @alexnunns https://t.co/MGnPf52xeR. | ||
| @socialist1959 @foster_dai I was asked about the specific case of the building that housed AP. There were no casualties there as far as has been reported. | ||
| @foster_dai And unless you have some inside track intel on the munitions and aircraft involved, what's your evidence of UK supplied kit? | ||
| @JohnFielder1 @Jackiew80333500 @whitbyemma I haven't said there have been any. Israel denies any use of WP. I just stated what the legal use of it is and which use is illegal. | ||
| @JohnFielder1 @Jackiew80333500 @whitbyemma All armies use smokescreens when they move around in battle, so that their movements are hidden from enemy snipers etc. They don't just march across a field in lines in bright uniforms like it was 1815. | ||
| @alexsobel @olvrtckr I prefer it when we agree on things | ||
| My friend and colleague @NathanYeowell doesn't mess around when it comes to putting together an amazing conference lineup https://t.co/5oCVG26y21 | ||
| @allforthanookie @MissLauraMarcus I'm literally not, but feel free to make stuff up. | ||
| @thehoff102 @nadinebh_ no a smaller faction | ||
| @dialecticious A) I didn't have a council seat I was fighting a seat that has been Green for 20 years B) The ward in question has only one street of social housing |
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| @JohnPHood The big local issue in the campaign was a plan to build new homes on a site at Iffley Meadow. We support it and the Greens oppose it. | ||
| @NM_Wilkinson @NathanYeowell @timesredbox It doesn't say anything at all about deprioritising the new base. It says we need to develop a pitch to people who currently vote Tory to add them to our existing coalition. That shouldn't involve pushing away or deprioritising existing Labour voters. | ||
| A) Lisa Nandy objectively knows as much about foreign policy as Corbyn; either of Rachel or Anneliese objectively know as much about economics as McDonnell B) The problem with Corbyn and McDonnell wasn't their subject knowledge it was their extreme stances https://t.co/zHq5rp7DiO |
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| @TobiasTaylor I didn't actually have a seat in the first place. | ||
| It is tribal to want to make the Labour tribe bigger by recruiting ex-Lib Dems to it | ||
| @LizGarland6 Those are candidates not strategists. And their campaigns were run by people who are presumably already Labour party staff. | ||
| @Siobhain_Mc Thank you! | ||
| @OwenJones84 Owen I didn't have a council seat. I unsuccessfully contested a seat that has been Green since about 2002. There's no need to exaggerate given you know Oxford politics and you know I've never been an Oxford councillor (yet). | ||
| @BlanezChil @_LFI That's terrible. I have been there over a dozen times, it is such a beautiful, serene and holy place. Disgusting that anyone would celebrate anything that would desecrate it. | ||
| @flibberygiblet @MichaelDugher Maybe I can actually do maths and have worked out that areas like the ones I've always lived in can't form a majority Labour government without areas that currently vote Tory switching? | ||
| @thebinjuice @VietdongSoldier @ComeWhatThey @LabourList No I'll have exactly the same amount of time | ||
| @mancbrad Correct this time | ||
| @derekthedogYoga I didn't have a seat. I was fighting a Green held seat. I've just spent six weeks speaking to hundreds of voters. | ||
| Looking forward to the Thames Valley PCC count tomorrow after today's Oxfordshire results. | ||
| @littleIckey @sammywrainbow @Oxford_Labour @bigdamo I wasn't a councillor anyway. | ||
| @LabLegalBlog @olvrtckr No they like the fact we are interested in what they are thinking. You usually front load the script with questions about local issues and whether they have any casework problems. | ||
| @olvrtckr Yes in the places I've lived. Every weekend in Oxford, every weekend except for a May-Aug off season break in Hackney. | ||
| Brilliant result for Oxfordshire Labour star @duncanenright https://t.co/yRAmR2ZRG1 | ||
| @helenopinion @JamieRouth Clearly we dont if those results are happening anyway | ||
| @anish_vk02 @Oxford_Labour @bigdamo We never held it. | ||
| @emiliancorneliu @Oxford_Labour @bigdamo The seat I stood in has had Green councillors since about 2002. | ||
| @N68Winstan Nope, in 2017 it was Tory with a 400 vote majority: https://t.co/trnwUk1TKq | ||
| @inducker @LeftWingSociety @UKLabour It wasn't even a Labour seat, has had Green councillors since 2002. | ||
| @HumanBrane Wasn't really a reshuffle as same party held the ward before and after the election. | ||
| @MHarris360 They were wrong. I haven't been a councillor for 7 years since I moved to Oxford, this year I stood but wasn't elected in a ward that already had Green councillors. | ||
| @choptiludrop @BigRich382 Definitely | ||
| @ClientJournoExp When and how? | ||
| My brilliant wife @LabLinda75 elected! https://t.co/JPKhrD7bdZ | ||
| The Brighton-isation of the politics of the areas west and east from it along the Sussex coast is really quite something | ||
| @sunny_hundal @gabrielmilland @anandMenon1 @chakrabortty If you have a full time organiser they need somewhere to work from! Also useful as a phone bank hub, meeting space, and to store boxes of leaflets and heavy equipment like risographs. | ||
| @liamlavelle9 @StreathamLefty @MarkDrakeford He isn't an antisemite and it sounds like you are - it's absolutely disgusting to use antisemitic tropes like "owned by the board of deputies". | ||
| @hobbs_aj Why is it more difficult in England? | ||
| @Anothergreen I doubt it given it's a good set of results for the Greens in other wards and across UK. | ||
| @Chris_P_Burke @AHerber10065252 @DonnyNCLUOB18 The two things are consistent. I voted 1st pref Yvette then transferred to Andy. | ||
| @Ley1974 It's nothing to do with policies and everything to do with attitude to the rest of the party. You can be incredibly leftwing on policy but if you don't join the right Momentum gang you are not considered leftwing by the Hard Left. | ||
| @scrapegroat Yes, the last dozen Police Commissioner counts don't start until Monday. Is to do with separating out the counts for the different elections so that they are less busy and more Covid safe. | ||
| @EstebanVerboten @LeninsLinguine I'm serious when I'm serious and joking when I'm joking. The political objective is the same in both cases. | ||
| @EstebanVerboten @LeninsLinguine Obviously I'm trying to infuriate the left. I want to break their morale. | ||
| @AHerber10065252 And your point is? I transferred to Andy after voting for Yvette. | ||
| @Joe74666745 @adrianmcmenamin The BBC vote share numbers are the only ones that enable like with like comparisons with every previous set of local elections | ||
| @CatDaddy_94 @timsykes3 I literally campaigned for Ed Miliband in the 2010 leadership election | ||
| @DonnyNCLUOB18 I didn't. I supported Cooper. | ||
| @spiralunbound Result is going be 4pm Saturday | ||
| @CamBeavanKing @CllrIanGilbert @MrsBurgin @_KerriPrince 5 part carbonated paper fed through a tractor printer. Narrow sheet for each street. You cross out people who have voted using numbers taken by tellers at polling station and do up to 5 knock ups using the 5 layers. Invented in Reading by Ian Mikardo MP. | ||
| @robertcp @David__Osland May 2017 | ||
| @ShaunsmithSKS Odd reply to a tweet saying they pride themselves on not having any | ||
| @David__Osland I would expect small net gains in numbers of council seats, particularly due to the county seats starting from the very low base of 2017. | ||
| @Layo_GP Spellar- Millwall | ||
| @JackTindale Mainly on Saturday actually | ||
| @robertcp And I don't. | ||
| @taru_sisko I didn't but I respect anyone who has the courage to change their mind about a political decision based on events and experience | ||
| @alexsobel Burton is not "very near London"! @RuthSmeeth | ||
| ... Supported by @ProgressOnline and Labour First | ||
| @anneliese_midge Ziegler | ||
| @dlandoncole can you give me a call? | ||
| @kevinadiamond The coffee shop was shut on the morning I flew from Dundee. Was like a very quiet bus station and then a very loud propeller driven flight to London like something out of the Dambusters. | ||
| Dundee https://t.co/q78ECjKcGE | ||
| @IamalrightJack I've literally just been canvassing with someone who isn't a councillor or candidate. | ||
| @djenkinfitness Thanks for your intelligent contribution to the debate | ||
| @Pete59803525 @Oxford_Labour Underneath a picture of people volunteering | ||
| @DavidWestcross Which party are you canvassing for? | ||
| @PoliticoTeacher How would that be legal under current Covid regulations? | ||
| Please add your name to this open letter about the crisis in adult eating disorder services: https://t.co/WrbPi0x20W |
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| @kevinadiamond @DavidHirsh @bobfrombrockley @lmharpin @YisraelChaiAdam No because an early special conference would consist of the mainly Corbynite delegates elected in 2019 and be impossible now due to covid restrictions | ||
| @TwoPabloAngel @BrokenHardie @PraxisCast @LabourList Can you link to that as I don't recall writing it? | ||
| @keith_egerton The local elections weren't at the same time as the General Elections in 2017 and 2019. My article is about performance in the May elections. | ||
| @grahphil It's a list of the local election results each May - the 2017 and 2019 GEs didn't coincide with local elections. | ||
| Terrible news. Chris made a huge contribution to Unison, London Labour (which he had chaired), and Waltham Forest (where he had led the council). RIP Chris. https://t.co/FlDfdZSDdL | ||
| @HindleyLancs @edballs Sometimes, eg 2015 and 2016 the membership gets it badly wrong. We sadly don't always have members who reflect the politics or demography of the voter coalition we need to win elections. Thankfully the membership is changing fast. | ||
| @_IanMoss I never knew we had this in common. | ||
| @OwenWMichael @tcanham459 But they are quite a bit better on defence policy than the British Greens. | ||
| @nannnoid @philbc3 They've prevented there ever being another world war, deterrence has saved millions of lives and in the Cold War ensured the survival of democracy and eventual defeat of communism. | ||
| @BlanezChil @Oxford_Labour I'm one of the candidates so we'll find out what voters think of me on 6 May. | ||
| @tr0tSkiii I retweet every national opinion poll, because I study polling and elections. It's not intended to indicate I'm pleased or displeased with them. It would be invidious and intellectually dishonest to selectively tweet the ones I liked. | ||
| Intriguing https://t.co/Mxm80REBr6 | ||
| @Gaudd It's possible to be a vocal advocate of Palestinian rights without supporting BDS or being anti-Zionist i.e. against the existence of Israel and Jewish self-determination. Lisa Nandy, former chair of Labour Friends of Palestine, is a good example. | ||
| @BidenWithKids @KlezmerRouge @RivkahBrown There is a strong history of UN bias towards Israel, some of it pushed by antisemitic governments. | ||
| @bongosaloon @curious_cat20 @eraso21 @gwynpw @RivkahBrown @mirabarhillel Nonsense, it's very public that I would support Israel's Labor party if I was an Israeli. | ||
| @CentristRule The commissioners who will put Liverpool back on track won't be Tories, they will be national or local government civil servants. | ||
| @RichardAngell soooo wrong. Saw it with Jed this afternoon and we both loved it! Kept 5 yr old entranced for over 2 hours. | ||
| @mjtriggs Yep the covering letter: https://t.co/RWaZjDNmlW | ||
| @RegisteredHere I actually work as a pro-Israel campaigner, it's literally my job (currently part time), to explain what's happening there. | ||
| @RichardAngell you been to see voyage of the dawn whatitsname? | ||
| @bentreyf @BritainIsrael That's the reason for this second graphic in the thread- the doughnut looks nice and is a familiar way of showing polling or election results but the new chart is better at showing the relative politics of the parties | ||
| @Penny_Gowland @WeBelieveIsrael No it's not a poll aimed at Israeli voters, it's a fun quiz aimed at educating people in the UK about Israeli politics and the diversity of parties in Israel. I created it in my day job role as Director of We Believe in Israel. I am obsessed about Israel - but in a good way! | ||
| @FionnaCSmyth Why would that be the case? There's nothing inherently better about the Tories that means they can win elections and Labour can't. We need to focus on understanding what is required to get people to stop voting Tory and SNP and start voting Labour again, then do it. | ||
| @robertcp @tomperry1997 I support electoral reform. I also believe we need to do what's needed to win now under FPTP. | ||
| @martinyuille1 @Phil_Brickell @modernuklabour They didn't. | ||
| @robertcp @tomperry1997 We can get Green votes elsewhere just by asking them to vote tactically. | ||
| @148SJ Really? The Lib Dems have so little in common with us that they were in coalition with the Tories and responsible for austerity. | ||
| @proco_uk People can just stop voting Lib Dem or Green. | ||
| @HuwJonesLabour Exactly | ||
| @themralex6 No. The Lib Dems were in coalition with the Tories. They aren't our allies. People need to stop voting Lib Dem or Green. | ||
| @thelibdemcon Politics. Unite recruits people who work in NGOs, charities, voluntary sector, public relations, parliament etc. Used to be part of the TGWU ACTS section when I first joined in 1993. | ||
| @ianincyaak Often because it's the most appropriate for their job. And there's a good chance @gerard_coyne could win the upcoming General Secretary election and put the union back on track. Unite incorporates through mergers what were among the most moderate unions: AEEU, MSF, Unifi. | ||
| @Matt_Dean1994 Worse | ||
| @geoff2009 @mckennaMFC @LabourGRT @gsjosan And I spoke against the bill and the way that it criminalises GRT communities at NEC Equalities Committee. | ||
| @Kruppp_ What are you on about? @labour_first was literally founded by the political officers of the moderate unions. As an NEC member I work with trade union colleagues every day. | ||
| @BertandBen @johnmp04 The public aren't interested in who serves on internal Labour committees | ||
| @BertandBen @johnmp04 People could cast 9 votes each last time I stood and only 1 transferable vote this time | ||
| @JordanGSmith25 The conference being elected now for the autumn is democratic. A recall conference of delegates elected in totally different political circumstances in 2019 is not. | ||
| I was pleased to speak for vast majority of Labour members who want to focus on campaigning for a Labour victory in May's against the ridiculous - and undemocratic - calls for a recall conference (of delegates elected 2 years ago!) - at today's NEC. | ||
| @JonathanSGlass Hampstead & Kilburn, Bristol West are the two highest profile ones out of a couple of dozen changes I have seen in the last month. Wins back that were lost more recently include Streatham, Enfield Southgate, Stevenage, Harlow, mixed result in Hornsey & Wood Green, Manchester C | ||
| @JonHegerty I'm guessing they are an extra, national leaflet CLPs can have to put out with local leaflets. The regional print package local leaflets are painfully local as I and every other council candidate is busy finding ward specific text, photos & endorsers for them. | ||
| Inside the ‘Covid Triangle’: a catastrophe years in the making | Free to read https://t.co/VZjDajSGaV via @financialtimes | ||
| @james_childs1 @MaxRobertFinch Welcome! | ||
| @Smallredstoat @JohnHowarth1958 @StephenMorganMP Population only 141,606 | ||
| @markwrightuk88 exactly - a revolution (October) that replaced the democratic revolution of Feb 1917 w a dictatorship that led to Stalin | ||
| @markwrightuk88 perhaps these guys will take over this particular argument: @JuliesThinkTank @blairsupporter | ||
| @markwrightuk88 not as sad as ppl that get their politics from a dead Russian communist general who murdered thousands and hated democracy | ||
| @CentristRule I refer you to the NEC ballot result. | ||
| @EstebanVerboten @watchitlad @BeckettUnite @Keir_Starmer Nope I think Starmer wanted to reach out to the left but they've chosen to pick a fight they can't win. | ||
| Local anaesthetic wearing off. This is excruciating. Ibuprofen time. | ||
| 👏👏👏 https://t.co/67WfPdh9hI | ||
| The little stick with acid on it stuck down side of nail was fairly weird | ||
| @BobBoyle1 @Smithy0364 I added an extra sentence to it | ||
| @BobBoyle1 @Smithy0364 What did I say that was disrespectful? | ||
| @bowen_james We don't have a single Tory councillor to fight in Oxford | ||
| @BobBoyle1 @Smithy0364 Respected enough to come top in the NEC election | ||
| @ElBo15270002 There aren't any Tory councillors left to go after in Oxford | ||
| @WTAFUK @CookinAsia There aren't any Tory councillors on Oxford City Council. | ||
| @On_The_Radar55 @CookinAsia There aren't any Tory councillors at all in the city of Oxford, they've all been ousted years ago. | ||
| @mjh0421 I can't as I don't live there any in local elections you can only stand in the authority you live in. | ||
| @clickoncopy It's a marginal two way fight between Labour and the Greens. The Tories only get 7% of the vote and have zero Oxford City councillors. | ||
| @Nattygriffiths8 @UKLabour @TheGreenParty There aren't any Tory seats on Oxford City Council. | ||
| @grahambsi The Tories aren't competitive here - they have zero Councillors in Oxford. In this ward 2019 result was Green 677 Labour 520 Tory 82 LD 60 |
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| @kestrelart1 There aren't any Tory councillors in Oxford. The ward is a marginal between Green and Labour. | ||
| @UOldfield a pleasure! | ||
| My @LabourList column: "My biggest worry about Labour’s future" http://t.co/FlEEQMY8 | ||
| @sameggnchips Much as I love spending time on Twitter, it's not very electorally relevant, just a bunch of us activists talking to each other. Facebook is where ordinary voters are and is an entirely different political space. | ||
| Image, candidate, ground & media campaign, perceived position near centre of spectrum, memorable sound bites, presentation, perceived competence and lack of risk are all as/more important to winning as detailed policies are. | ||
| We need policies developed so that we have a programme of government. They tend not to decide elections though, other than when the old adage "policies don't win elections, policies lose elections" applies | ||
| @josh4standrews @HertStortLabour @HSYoungLabour @EofELabour @EastYoungLabour @labourdoorstep_ Congratulations! | ||
| @jimmy_viz No. The figure published by Stats for Lefties turned out to be inaccurate. | ||
| @NoData74126027 Their concerns are not valid and not worthy of being addressed. They are a spurious conspiracy theory. | ||
| @NeilHartland @hohohocialism @AntonidaMK 2010 was a relatively good defensive result in an election where defeat was inevitable because we had been in power when the global crash happened. 2015 I analyse here, was the soft left's fault: https://t.co/OXK2Bk9x8q | ||
| @Spraindsquirrel @fascinatorfun Both. | ||
| @JohannaBaxter Brilliant | ||
| @nadinebh_ Ardbeg is similar but I think a bit cheaper | ||
| @AidanTurner93 WW1 was about defending neutral Belgium from imperialist Germany so hardly imperialist. Amazingly selfless actually. | ||
| @AidanTurner93 we will have to agree to differ. I support the UK state and all its wars in the last century. | ||
| @TheStevenThomas I'm always astonished when people assert "facts" that a quick google search debunks. It is particularly common around assertions about the 2017 General Election. | ||
| @AmmarKazmi_ Ann's report says the same thing that mine does. | ||
| Looking forward to working with @kira_millana on making @labour_first, @ProgressOnline and @labtowin an even more dynamic force for changing Labour into an election-winning party. Welcome to the team! https://t.co/rElAWE66lI | ||
| @mod_soc_dem @GdnPolitics City liberals and young people don't live in the seats that decide the outcome of General Elections | ||
| Sad news about Alan Keen. Condolences to Ann and the rest of their family. Gordon Brown's tribute to Alan: http://t.co/8kf9J2L1 | ||
| @salbags60 Yes it's a side effect of my medical condition. | ||
| @andrewdsweeney What's the relevance of saying that? | ||
| @Eiley_Kers https://t.co/K4iE8DChTn | ||
| https://t.co/7yPy1FZni5 | ||
| The Greens have lost half their yesterday 8% support in 24 hours??? That was a quick bubble to burst. Yes, before any one starts I do know it's a different pollster and all within margin of error. https://t.co/rEllDTZNHT | ||
| @RafaDavies Good luck | ||
| @niall_east @_AdamBarr @LabourGRT @alfiewm_ Set out in the speech today: https://t.co/49e0Z8PllX | ||
| @NigelUNI No seriously, how's communism going? The whole losing the Cold War thing must have been gutting for you. | ||
| @NigelUNI Hilariously your profile describes you as a "communist". Are you 12 years old? | ||
| @niall_east @_AdamBarr @LabourGRT @alfiewm_ Did you notice the big announcement today about insourcing public services? | ||
| @EdwardD01591653 Cool, if we can just pick any election as a benchmark, let's compare everything to 1997. | ||
| @Matt_Dean1994 @George_Tr0 They can't, the rulebook only allows MPs to stand for leader. | ||
| @ianrobo1 Labor is being treated by the voters more like a new party than a successor to the Peretz version that went into govt due to dramatic change of leadership | ||
| Have spent early evening playing Lego Clone Wars with my son Jed. He does the fighting I do the moving. We got Anakin as far as level 5. | ||
| @Antisocialsoc19 We still use the 1 to 5 strength codes in Oxford | ||
| @Livingstone_RJ @MrsBurgin It lacks the excitement of a standalone code! Need something where people run up to the board runner saying "I found a [insert symbol]" maybe a *? I.e. I found a star! | ||
| @oboe29 Sadly not | ||
| @hoxlottle53 @EdStern The same person came top in the actual OMOV ballot of every Labour member in the country. | ||
| I'm enjoying a fantastic Thai lunch at Vang Thong cafe in Stoke Newington High Street #n16 | ||
| @CreighMatt Indeed, that was Tony Blair's slogan during the Cool Brittania period. | ||
| @mak_down_under @NorthernLefty USA? | ||
| @JSkeaping whatever you want | ||
| @AnnielizzieSten @lynxxiv Twitter is not "the room" of UK voters. It's almost completely unrepresentative. | ||
| Waiting on the Hackney town hall steps with civic party for march past. | ||
| @PoliticoTeacher And surely Labour's "vision of patriotism is rooted in a progressive vision of the UK, rooted in a complex history of struggle against injustice. "? | ||
| @ferhermusic The Labour Party has a four year cycle democratic policy making process involving the NPF and each annual conference, designed to culminate just before the General Election year, not now. | ||
| @humbleetc Not referring to voters as dim is a good start to winning them back. | ||
| @MomentumHackney @labtowin Thank you for your comradely attitude. | ||
| @HuwJonesLabour @labtowin a) Neither of the terms Hard Left or Corbynite are pejorative or abusive b) I only use the term antisemitic if something breaches the IHRA definition c) I'm not about to start boycotting the writing of the political editor of one the country's two main Jewish newspapers |
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| @pickadaisy2 @SamuelBookerLAB It's an antisemitic insult sent to @supergutman whose show the t-shirts advertises | ||
| @pickadaisy2 @SamuelBookerLAB Why? | ||
| @HuwJonesLabour @JewishChron The article reads like John Mann has issued a press release ahead of formal publication. | ||
| @HuwJonesLabour @JewishChron Not if it hasn't been given to ministers yet | ||
| @HuwJonesLabour @JewishChron No, the article says it is called "Antisemitism and the alternative media" and will be sent to government ministers this week. | ||
| @RobLiverpoolLab No, join/stay in Unite so you can vote for a change of direction in the General Secretary election | ||
| @davidwhitelab It's split. Only 2 parties still in it. | ||
| This is a good sign that Israeli Labor is recovering from a very low ebb https://t.co/PiJZBCae0O | ||
| @HackneyAbbott they should do both. Peaceful demos are a legit part of mainstream politics. | ||
| @ariehkovler My 15 year old just asked for money to invest in GameStop... | ||
| Useful crash course in Canadian politics https://t.co/0EMiKk3R4X | ||
| @anthonyleahy ... Special focus on Labour enclaves in suburbs and safest Labour wards in inner city if have low contact rate | ||
| @anthonyleahy not quite sure what you think my view is! London Labour strategy for Mayoral election is to canvass everywhere but ... | ||
| @anthonyleahy in a London wide election you need to ID the Labour vote in safest wards to get it out | ||
| @anthonyleahy my ward is a target seat for May 2012 as defined by London Regional Party - safe Lab but w below average contact rate | ||
| Tory threat to our workplace rights – join the campaign to stop it https://t.co/i4sTlVIh0O | ||
| @Jwscullis11985 @OxfordHistory @treloars @UniofOxford Congratulations! | ||
| @LabourGRT @davesgould @tobykunin Don't be ridiculous. It was literally a cause celebre of the entire Thatcher period that Labour supported restoration of trade union rights for the intelligence and security staff at GCHQ. Intelligence officers protect us from foreign powers, terrorism & extremists incl fascists. | ||
| Capitol rioter plotted to sell stolen Pelosi laptop to Russian intelligence https://t.co/xquQpCS6f2 via @nbcnews | ||
| Anyone keen to do some #labourdoorstep on Saturday morning, Chatham Ward is meeting at 11am on Hackney Town Hall steps | ||
| If a 276 bus ever turns up outside town hall | ||
| Advice surgery done. Now home to ribeye steak and bottle of Graves | ||
| @HuwJonesLabour I was elected to the NEC because members want me to try to move the party in a particular political direction. There's nothing untoward or inappropriate about wanting people who share my politics to have as strong a position as possible in the party and my union. | ||
| Angles Defence League | ||
| Save the Dinosaur | ||
| Campaign for Longbow Disarmament | ||
| Banning of "Muslims Against Crusades" has got me thinking up other daft anachronistic political campaign names. | ||
| @JWoodcockMP @Mandytelford congratulations! | ||
| @DaCraik64 No. | ||
| @nathanneilburns @kira_millana Thanks for everything you did this year for @labour_first, @labtowin, the party, and for your help, support and advice. | ||
| No we were definitely not in the SWP, it's just a coincidence that we can remember its exact editorial position 33 years ago https://t.co/ZNxndfTqns | ||
| @JohnLukeGodard @LabourList Yeah there's only two ideologies in the world, Marxism-Leninism or neo-conservatism. Definitely the only two options. | ||
| @JohnLukeGodard @LabourList Just the minor downsides of the gulag, famine, millions of dead, violent repression of any dissent including rival brands of socialism, absence of personal freedom or democracy, economy that couldn't provide basic consumer goods. You can have schools & NHS without shooting people | ||
| @Timothy24245551 The multiple replies from people like you suggest you do care what I say. | ||
| @tom_watson Unanswerable without camembert | ||
| @Clintonscott10 @LabourList Odd reaction to a list of books | ||
| @JonHegerty @LabourList The clue is in the website being called @LabourList | ||
| @may0farmer I retweet every single UK national poll. | ||
| @Jackiew80333500 @EofELabour And I can see two people of colour in the front row. | ||
| @Jackiew80333500 @EofELabour Sorry do you think I choose the pictures on the Labour Party website? | ||
| @autolycus19 @luqmankhan555 @StevenW69808657 @Keir_Starmer Sorry that's bollocks, my day job has been in my Twitter profile for years, and there's a paragraph about it in my biog on my NEC campaign website. It's not a secret - something I am immensely proud of and that lots of my opponents constantly draw attention to. | ||
| @pembyfly The party has been legally found by the EHRC to have broken the law on antisemitism, so that bit of history is already very clearly written. | ||
| Does he mean the card with the bit about "democratic socialist" on it that was personally drafted by Tony Blair when he rewrote Clause IV in 1995, that hadn't been in the old Clause IV, that bit on the card? https://t.co/fs2MYpou0o | ||
| @deanbean10 The objective of these kind of schemes is to nudge people into giving up more of their time. Some people won't have extra time they can give up, due to other commitments. The scheme isn't aimed at them, it's aimed at the people whose behaviour it could influence. | ||
| @tallyanne1 Can you explain why you think my job is relevant to mention? | ||
| @joliddle4 I knocked doors in all weathers when Corbyn was leader. There are plenty of #labourdoorstep photos of me doing it. | ||
| @JorgeLu41328650 Canvassing for Labour, and sorting out all the leaflets and running the polling day HQ locally as I was ward organiser. | ||
| @ZeroAlphaMonkey I was in the group knocking on doors in all weathers! Did you guess correctly? | ||
| @steveguyettmil2 Knocking on doors and being my local ward organiser. | ||
| They're done it again "ruling class approach". Who talks like this? https://t.co/5R4FajOedT | ||
| @SkiffleRevival And I was directly quoting someone so wasn't my use of language | ||
| @SkiffleRevival I'm not a normal person | ||
| @malevin1974 I wasn't suggesting there are only those two types of member - my tweet was a reaction to people sneering today at the new rewards system for CLPs making the most phone calls. | ||
| @LeeCorby4 Council candidate in 1993, 1995, 2002, 2006, 2010. Parliamentary candidate in 2001 and 2005. Agent in 1993, 1994, 1997, 2002, 2006, 2010, 2014 and a silly number of council byelections, sometimes 6+ a year, from 2000 to 2014. | ||
| @southsidetips Odd reaction to a tweet that was about the unity between everyone on all wings of the party who gets out there and campaigns. Was the opposite of bitchy. | ||
| @EthicalRenewal As an NEC member I'm not allowed to comment on ongoing disciplinary cases as I may end up taking decisions on them at NEC Disputes Panel, and that's quazi-judicial so musn't pre-judge cases. | ||
| @EthicalRenewal Nationalising water, electricity, trains? Yes, if we can prove the cost will be outweighed by improved service. Increasing in-party democracy? I'm from the wing of the party that introduced OMOV in 1994 and STV so all wings would have a voice on NEC. |
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| @kevpeel no! | ||
| Just written quite a lively @ProgressOnline column... | ||
| @sukie_sioux @AbelNTomlinson @patrickamon @michaeljswalker Nah it's that communism was an inherently laughably bad economic system as well as an absolutely evil political one. | ||
| @sukie_sioux @AbelNTomlinson @patrickamon @michaeljswalker Agreed, my original tweet wasn't aimed at doing that, it was directed at people who try to present the USA's global role as negative when it's two major contributions - as a significant participant in WW2 and the significant victor in the Cold War, were hugely positive. | ||
| @NewUKPartyNow @patrickamon @michaeljswalker The current Gaza border is along the 1967 line i.e. it hasn't changed since the armistice in 1948. The Israeli villages immediately across the border were in most cases founded in 1950s. | ||
| I may have seen the haircut of the bloke with them in a zoom meeting I was in recently. Could just be a coincidence though. https://t.co/KTtFpiTTCU | ||
| @NewUKPartyNow @patrickamon @michaeljswalker There are fences between many sovereign states, it's quite normal for a border to include a physical barrier. | ||
| @AlexBathurst Pathetic that you don't tag people you are bad-mouthing. | ||
| @AlexBathurst Actually British involvement was about our treaty obligations to Belgium, a tiny country that the German army decided it could casually trample through. | ||
| @Mbx_1 @1988Fpl @OwenJones84 @patrickamon @michaeljswalker Odd reply to a factual answer | ||
| @feministaMK @DalzielAtkinson @patrickamon @michaeljswalker The objectives in western interventions have been about defeating dictatorships, removing destabilising threats, not propping them up. May have been naive and the outcomes may have been awful, but the motives weren't malign/selfish like Russia's are. | ||
| @ChrisCorney1 @patrickamon @michaeljswalker Labour already demands that. It's in the 2019 manifesto and has been reiterated by Lisa Nandy. | ||
| @george_bodie @patrickamon @michaeljswalker A clash between liberal democracy (Allende) and CIA backed totalitarianism (Pinochet)? | ||
| @michaeljswalker Which is why I would have been on the side of Allende in Chile and was on the side of the Sandanistas in Nicaragua (I was a member of Nicaragua Solidarity Campaign until the regime started shooting students). | ||
| @JDerklin @tessfrancesc It would be the General Secretaries that would need to do that. They take the decisions. | ||
| @JDerklin @tessfrancesc The union reps tend not to publicly comment about anything as they don't have a mass membership constituency to report to like we do. | ||
| @michaeljswalker And your argument about "ignoring" Palestinian demands makes no sense when the core offer from Israel at every round of peace talks has been a Palestinian state on 1967 lines plus land swaps. | ||
| @patrickamon @michaeljswalker Happy to rephrase "Hamas are exacerbating the suffering of the Palestinian people. If they weren't in power in Gaza a Palestinian state and a better life for both peoples would be far easier to achieve. | ||
| @patrickamon @michaeljswalker Nope it's that the cause of both Palestinian and Israeli suffering is Hamas. | ||
| @patrickamon @michaeljswalker I don't accept your world view that there is an extant force called "western imperialism" let alone that Israel is connected to it. What Israel and the West have in common is liberal democratic values. That's nothing to do with "imperialism". | ||
| @patrickamon @michaeljswalker Agreed. | ||
| @timdwelly @UKLabour @LabourAgainstAS @Gabriel_Pogrund Tim the reason why there is an EHRC Action Plan is because the EHRC judges the actions until now to be inadequate, so whatever the answer is, it's by definition insufficient action. The number doesn't matter as we all know the party hasn't until now got the problem under control. | ||
| @patrickamon @michaeljswalker The asymmetry in military power is because Israel had to invest massively in national defence because the neighbouring states repeatedly tried to destroy it as a state, with genocide as the implicit corollory. | ||
| @patrickamon @michaeljswalker No it's because Israel is a state shaped by the trauma of the Holocaust so they are never going to take security gambles that could put their people at risk of another genocide. | ||
| @JDerklin @tessfrancesc Every union rep on the NEC voted for it. | ||
| @wodgedean @michaeljswalker They are currently the core vote of the main party of government. | ||
| @timdwelly @AlanOlive1 @Labourpaul @gsjosan @LabourAgainstAS @DavidHirsh @antisemitism @Gabriel_Pogrund @laas Just a clarification - the readmissions following auto exclusion wouldn't be anything to do with antisemitism as it can't be dealt with by auto ex. They would be people who signed another party's nomination papers etc but argued it was innocent & they actually still support Lab. | ||
| @michaeljswalker I think the 50% of Israeli Jews whose families came to Israel from Morocco, Iraq, Egypt, Iran, Yemen etc, who have never had any connection to Europe whatsoever, and who would be seen in UK as people of colour, would be surprised by your take on their history and identity. | ||
| @timdwelly @AlanOlive1 @Labourpaul @gsjosan @LabourAgainstAS @DavidHirsh @antisemitism @Gabriel_Pogrund @laas These are stats from the final year of the previous Gen Sec. Control of the NEC and management of the party has since changed, and procedurally the NEC Disputes Panel is now processing a very large number of cases with very frequent meetings. | ||
| @timdwelly @AlanOlive1 @Labourpaul Except in auto exclusion cases no one can be expelled without first being suspended while the disciplinary process takes place. | ||
| @JDerklin @tessfrancesc There is a "significant antisemitism problem" in the union movement but that's not the same as your earlier statement that "all the unions seem antisemitic". Some are moderate controlled and have fought AS in Labour. They are divided and a battleground, just like Labour Party. | ||
| This is bizarre. Two people I know have died of Covid and another one has been in a coma for months, several friends have had long Covid and still got after effects, others were really scarily ill for a week. https://t.co/v34LN9AfNk | ||
| @JDerklin @tessfrancesc Not true, most of the major unions adopted IHRA before the Labour Party did, and Unison, Usdaw and GMB (3 of big 4) are broadly aligned with Starmer inside Labour | ||
| @Sans_culottes89 @ijb19662 @LabourList @UKLabour Mind explaining why the grassroots voted me top in the NEC election? | ||
| @DavidClem007 @LabourList Labourlist isn't a group within the party its a news and opinion blog for all points of view within Labour | ||
| A year after the General Election, reposting my take on the catastrophe Corbyn and his supporters led Labour and the country into. Some humility and contrition from them for this completely predictable disaster, entirely of their making, would be welcome. https://t.co/olD0DBUBDZ | ||
| @politicalfubol Their own behaviour in the 1980s? | ||
| @kickybarr The pre 2015 members are delighted by recent changes | ||
| Wrote this in June, it was spot on | ||
| @DavidMorris1984 Ignore it, the fact I came top in the NEC ballot shows it isn't representative | ||
| Hats off for commitment to the member making a silent protest on my CLP AMM Zoom by wearing a JC t shirt and gaffer taping shut his mouth. Unfortunately for the meeting this means he can't actually tell us what his opinions are. | ||
| Not quite sure why @LabourList is reposting my article from June, but seems rude not to share it again https://t.co/xZPt6clhx4 | ||
| @keith_egerton @GeorgeAylett @ShamaTatler No it means officers of CLPs are defined in law as agents of the party so the party is legally liable for their actions. | ||
| @AhoFrank Tridente. | ||
| @JDerklin @GeorgeAylett @ShamaTatler Not actually true, it's the NEC who employ the General Secretary. | ||
| @Simon_P_Hannah Patricia Hewitt was identified with the Soft Left in 1987. | ||
| @GeorgeAylett @ShamaTatler The person who has to lead on implementing the recommendations is the General Secretary, as head of paid service. Please stop undermining him when he is trying to obey a legal instruction from the EHRC. It looks terrible and the EHRC and country are watching. | ||
| @GeorgeAylett @ShamaTatler It's not up to me to decide whether a motion is in order. That power has been delegated to the General Secretary by the NEC, check with staff at Region before proceeding. | ||
| @GeorgeAylett @ShamaTatler If you aren't sure if a motion is in order, ask your Regional Director. | ||
| @GeorgeAylett @ShamaTatler This is what the GS has said today on this issue: "to be clear, the Labour Party was found guilty of breaking the law on anti-Semitism. We are now not trusted to run our own affairs until we satisfy the EHRC that we have fully addressed the issues that meant our Party ... | ||
| It isn't? https://t.co/EIJqxqPKZj | ||
| @LukasMukasPukas Easy mistake to make | ||
| @AdamLehey @BritainElects @RedfieldWilton Already tweeted it when it came out | ||
| @JohnWallcraft @David__Osland 1995 | ||
| @Jsorene @DHSCgovuk Well done! | ||
| Was really great to spend the evening with the fantastic team at @Somalis4Labour hearing about the issues affecting their community https://t.co/5gXkFlVfrD | ||
| @johnb78 Not sure about that. People born then in UK still had to endure 11+ education segregation that failed the majority, often left school at 15, and if men did two years tedium of national service. | ||
| @DaveMJo1 @suziegeewizz My complexion is a result of the life threatening nerve illness I suffered a decade ago, which also left me disabled. You ought to be able to attack my politics - which I chose - without attacking my appearance, which is linked to a medical condition I didn't choose. | ||
| @chewgnasher Please note that as an NEC member I am expected to take up casework on behalf of members, particularly if they alert me to bad practice in their CLPs. | ||
| @benneh1985 Labour is 3% ahead of the Tories | ||
| @SpitfireCC @LinRedford @LondonLabour That's probably not the funniest thing to tweet at someone disabled who can only move at walking pace because they need a stick and orthotic splints. | ||
| @ferhermusic I'm not. | ||
| Labour appoints standards adviser to implement recommendations of EHRC antisemitism report https://t.co/tGcXHFu0fE via @jewishchron | ||
| @JimmyHSands Legal_queries@labour.org.uk | ||
| @HannaFlint Agreed | ||
| @SmythLr So out of touch that I just came top in an OMOV ballot | ||
| @TitusPublius Guidance from the General Secretary of the Labour Party | ||
| Labour Party members shouldn't have to put up with divisive debates re individual disciplinary cases that have been ruled not competent business and make meetings an unsafe unwelcoming space. Please report incidents at party meetings to the national party so they can take action | ||
| @rupert_higham @gabrielquotes @alispins @daverich1 @NorthWestFOI It was his political stances on foreign and security policy. Those are deal breakers. | ||
| @rupert_higham @gabrielquotes @alispins @daverich1 @NorthWestFOI I didn't have a problem with the policies in the 2017 manifesto. I had a problem with the rhetoric, character and behaviour of the people leading the party at that time. | ||
| @rupert_higham @gabrielquotes @alispins @daverich1 @NorthWestFOI I am a Zionist, but given I've just been elected to the Labour Party NEC, I'm clearly not "right-wing". Boringly centre left is a more accurate description. | ||
| @AHizanidis @JohannaBaxter @gsjosan My response | ||
| I'm not able to comment on whether the Momentum slate are effective fighters or arguers for anything, as they only stayed in their first NEC meeting long enough to say they were leaving. It looked more like running away from their responsibilities than the "taking a stand". https://t.co/5P6ndrESjP | ||
| #BigSociety? You need to watch this: http://bit.ly/bigsociety | ||
| About to speak at Thanet South CLP's policy forum on education #NEC | ||
| About to attend my first NEC meeting since Annual Conference 2012. See you in about eight hours time! | ||
| @Neil_Watkins would be odd as 2591 of them voted for me a | ||
| @TasTasty @siennamarla @charliemansell Would be fairly difficult to analyse the results without naming the candidate who came top. | ||
| @K4rmaRules @josiephee111 @kirstym011 @janrules @SendShit @PostOffice @Iromg @PoundShopOwen Yes they said they did it and showed a photo of the payment page. | ||
| @AaronBastani I've been a supporter of electoral reform for over 30 years. | ||
| @ClareFKing Local members in that CLP have raised concerns with me repeatedly. The bulk of NEC members' casework load is about this kind of issue. | ||
| @KeirStitt @paulw56 That's why the meetings last 8 hours... meets at party HQ in non Covid times | ||
| @ankiisme Personally I am opposed to all member structures as they undermine the union link. In such a huge CLP AMMs are impractically large. | ||
| @ankiisme The delegates elected by local party members are heavily outnumbered by delegates appointed by a narrow range of affiliated organisations. | ||
| @AminMawaniUK @markhowell7 @SJG99 It just requires an alteration to the CLP's standing orders to give each party branch a lower member per delegate requirement. Doesn't require any rule changes and affilates still get same number of delegates. | ||
| Thank you Nathan, you have been brilliant. You made a decisive contribution to victories in April and last week that may have saved the Labour Party. https://t.co/fiVdXDkrQg | ||
| @markhowell7 @SJG99 Decrease the number of members required for each delegate on the party branch side. | ||
| @smokejack Maybe Twitter isn't very representative of Labour members' opinions | ||
| One of my priorities as an NEC member will be to ask party to deal with the inappropriate delegate structure of the Dulwich & West Norwood CLP. It needs new standing orders where branch parties representing local members actually have a majority on GC as a matter of urgency. https://t.co/kph2HUikF9 | ||
| @cymrurouge @DrStedx It just came conventional Royal Mail in a jiffy bag, then a gift wrapped plastic takeaway box. There was a printed note from the company included. | ||
| He "inspired millions" to vote Tory. https://t.co/GL1D8B8esW | ||
| @JHepplestone "innovative" included deep fried langoustine sandwiches and parnisse and fennel chips | ||
| @MSEPlanning @RhonddaBryant @BlaenauGwentMP No but both of us were also Chief Whip in Hackney | ||
| @gjoneill I'm the Director of We Believe in Israel so this isn't really a huge gotcha. | ||
| Just had great and very innovative tapas at Albarino, newly opened in Broadstairs, Kent | ||
| Just enjoyed a great evening debating Labour's immediate past and future with @FisherAndrew79 and @Hannah_O_Rourke at @OxUniLabour . Really good discussion conducted in an inclusive and comradely way. | ||
| @MarkSeddon1962 Sure | ||
| @MarkSeddon1962 Historically, we have had a formal Jewish affiliate for 100 years (Poale Zion, now @JewishLabour ). We also have a Christian affiliate (@ChrLeft) and I hope we will soon have Muslim, Sikh, Hindu etc affiliates are there are great Labour organisations connected to these faiths. | ||
| @MarkSeddon1962 The BoD isn't trying to "have influence over" Labour, it's trying to speak up in defence of the community it represents. It is simply asking Labour to stop the harassment, victimisation and discrimination of Jews that the EHRC has found the party guilty of. | ||
| This is an ignorant comparison. The Catholic church is a specific denomination and a faith organisation. The Board of Deputies is elected by Jews from synagogues of any denomination and secular Jewish organisations, it's specific role is a national representative body. https://t.co/t6wKhqkUyH | ||
| Thanks to the people spamming me with thousands of emails about restoring the whip to Jeremy Corbyn. I have no control over this as it is not an NEC matter but am using this medium to reply and tell you all that I wholeheartedly support the action that Keir Starmer has taken. | ||
| I endorse this action. https://t.co/Nyr7ddm2tW | ||
| @Gordon_sutt You know what my day job is? It's in my twitter handle. | ||
| @dlandoncole and her own work - she and all her siblings were active in Labour League of Youth | ||
| @garbonzo_the @ahhwhatishappen @hamasinpitta2 @GarySpedding @UKLabour Don't be absurd. You aren't calling for any of the other populations displaced in the conflicts of the 1940s to get their land back, including the half of Israeli Jews who were refugees from Arab countries. | ||
| @CopSiki @ahhwhatishappen @hamasinpitta2 @GarySpedding @UKLabour No. On settlements I'm in favour of land swaps as envisaged in the Clinton Parameters and the Arab Peace Initiative. Otherwise it won't be possible to get Israel to agree to a deal. | ||
| @Gordon_sutt I think the thing with spies is they are supposed to keep their job secret. They wouldn't actually run round saying how they supported Israel. | ||
| @Penelop11785074 No, GDPR and all that | ||
| @Northern_Left One of my favourite shows. | ||
| @7Oaksfamilycalm @UKLabour It was simply an attack rather than a complaint. It didn't contain any allegation of a breach of party rules. | ||
| @7Oaksfamilycalm There was no mention in the email of it being a complaint. | ||
| @7Oaksfamilycalm What is? | ||
| @7Oaksfamilycalm The person sending the email sent it to me as well as everyone else. | ||
| @ahhwhatishappen @hamasinpitta2 @GarySpedding @UKLabour Right of return to a new Palestinian state in the West Bank and Gaza, but not to pre-1967 Israel as best way forwards is to build two states for two peoples. | ||
| @ABLPoli Thanks this is very useful analysis | ||
| It's a special welcome to the NEC that someone has just emailed the General Secretary and all of my NEC colleagues about me with the subject line "Israel Spy". | ||
| @timspencer1 @edcrick @earthygirl011 It wasn't the language that made me retweet it, it was you saying no one in Labour liked me, when I've just come top in an OMOV ballot. | ||
| @timspencer1 @edcrick @earthygirl011 I retweeted your comment because it was hilariously silly. | ||
| @EmmaBurnell_ @PoliSciJack I meant I've never seen it published for any organisation's STV election, as it's theoretical data about where people's preferences might have flowed but didn't, so didn't in practice affect the result. | ||
| For stats fans, the full breakdown of the NEC count is now on Labour's website: https://t.co/K4iE8DChTn | ||
| Taking a while for Friday's results to sink in for some people https://t.co/DWFws6vfeD | ||
| Pizza restaurant I am in is playing Bella Ciao, PCI WW2 partisan anthem. One of my favourite songs! | ||
| @DaiLlDavies @CherryBaz Nah you don't understand STV or the composition of the NEC. And you can't spell divisive. Keir just secured a working majority on the NEC. I'm proud to be part of it. | ||
| @2015Jmr Luckily for you the NEC does not control policy making. | ||
| @DaiLlDavies Learn some manners. If someone wins an election it is customary to congratulate them. | ||
| @DaiLlDavies Bore off. | ||
| @DaiLlDavies I'm responding to someone insinuating the ballot was rigged. I topped the poll by a wide margin after 5 years of constant personal abuse and being told I was an unelectable hate figure. Both me and the people who voted for me are entitled to celebrate a bit. | ||
| @DaiLlDavies And your point is? | ||
| @jamesk74497814 @sammywrainbow The NEC has no role in policy development. | ||
| @MaccLabour @economyofheaven @bigdamo @labour @UKLabour You can be disgusted by the conduct of a war and still believe the cause was just. | ||
| @aptkiloaplha @LabourCID You realise that photo is photo shopped? It's literally fake news. | ||
| @shazzers14 Didn't know I was | ||
| @JefJC @thomasbowell @AlexBathurst @labtowin FYI Vietnamese people who live in the UK are almost entirely refugees from communism whose families supported the American/South Vietnamese side in the Vietnam War. | ||
| @mcash By the way whilst I agree with the theoretical point about the efficacy of vote equalisation in STV elections, in this case I don't think we could have got an extra seat through that tactic, we just had only enough 1st prefs for 3 quotas. | ||
| @woman_rage @soopagaz He's only 7 years older than me so that would be a bit of a biological stretch. | ||
| @hosta357 Yes, trade union Affiliated Supporters and also Registered Supporters can vote for leader but not for NEC. | ||
| How it started. How it’s going. | ||
| @JaneCanan @SebDance The 6,000 votes were cancelled figure is made up. | ||
| As a newly elected NEC member I want to meet with @LabourMuslims as early as possible to discuss their important report and how we can tackle Islamophobia: https://t.co/pIyWE8ClwX | ||
| This is NOT true. The 293,000 turnout figure is from April 2020 when it was same time as a leadership election. 96,000 of those votes were blank as only voted for leader not NEC. Turnout in 2018 was more like 143,000, almost identical to this year. https://t.co/ihzGfdIf0q | ||
| A new dawn has broken, has it not? | ||
| Starmer tightens grip on labour machine as moderates elected to ruling body https://t.co/gjbXNIZqkE | ||
| @stevecon88 @S1imN3ddy I was the election agent for Thanh Vu, the first Vietnamese origin Labour councillor in the UK and a "boat person" refugee, and I was a cllr for 12 years in Hackney which has the largest Vietnamese community in the UK. | ||
| @mptwyford Not happy, just realistic about level of engagement we can expect about internal committee elections. | ||
| Turns out that 21355 Labour members actually love Marmite | ||
| @Ed74663303 @Keir_Starmer https://t.co/CjSeMfTv2h | ||
| @PJHeneghan @PeterKenyon 27%, normal for an NEC election | ||
| Looking forward to being part of what now looks like a solid working majority for supporters of @Keir_Starmer on the NEC. | ||
| @ConallMcD Thanks! | ||
| @RevDubbleD @JonathanSGlass @Sean1934 @siennamarla I've never had any connection to BAE. | ||
| @HariSarasan 27% | ||
| @iainjwatson @UKLabour @LauraPidcock https://t.co/CjSeMfTv2h | ||
| @derek_rocholl @raceyemu @cooljool80 @siennamarla @JohannaBaxter @gsjosan gravy train? It's an unpaid voluntary role. | ||
| As I was saying before I was so rudely interrupted in 2012... | ||
| @ChrisHicks50 @anniepixeykeys @PilkoSpilko Sorry that's nonsense. If you resign in writing you have terminated your contract with the party and have no further rights. | ||
| @BallotBoxScot @CouncillorKerri @charliemansell @DannyFiler @timparamour Yep it's the system called "ERS 1997 STV". | ||
| Well this is a bit nerve-wracking. | ||
| @timparamour Highly unlikely as to get 6 of 9 seats you would need 2/3 of the vote | ||
| @d_r_ew No only the ones who voted after resigning | ||
| @CaoimheHaleLab Yeah I've fessed up. I assumed it was a public statement as nothing in the email suggested it was confidential. In any case it should be public, voters have as much right to the info as candidates do. | ||
| @lauren1995x__ Just on website. There's no verbal declaration, it's just publication of a set of results. | ||
| · Those who voted when they were members, but resigned subsequently, remain eligible. Their votes will therefore be counted. · Those who resigned from the Labour Party, but voted subsequently, are not eligible. |
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| We are aware that there has been speculation as to the eligibility of those who have recently resigned from the Labour Party to participate in the current ballot. We hope the information below will reassure you as to the integrity of the process: | ||
| For anyone wondering why the NEC results are taking a bit longer than expected, all candidates have been sent this email: | ||
| @wildernessyrs Not until end of the afternoon | ||
| @Red4Red1 Now 0 voters out of 0 members, what a massive advance for democracy. | ||
| @joshreidlabour Tomorrow, now looks like end of the afternoon | ||
| @DanielEales @michaeljbawden If I'm elected I would be delighted to engage with both of you in a postive forward looking discussion about what a new or rebooted national organisation should look like. | ||
| @DanielEales It's hardly "rushing" - it's already 4 academic terms since Jon's move. Abolishing the existing structure without having a replacement ready to start operating was irresponsible and destructive. It was about settling scores with people who had the temerity to oppose Corbynism. | ||
| Buried in Jon Lansman's labourlist interview is a justification for his abolition of Labour Students. I like Jon but I can't forgive him this act of vindictive destructiveness that has left Labour without a student organisation in a year when students face massive challenges. | ||
| @barleymow1 sure. akehurstluke@gmail.com | ||
| @Chris1966 No offence taken, in an STV election we need all our 6 candidates to be getting some 1st prefs | ||
| Only 20 minutes until NEC ballot closes. Vote now! | ||
| Not only has this motion not been yet passed by the CLP, it has actually been withdrawn and is no longer on the agenda for Friday's All Member Meeting. https://t.co/1xcupyr6vg | ||
| @stephen_latham You are against peace between Israel and the United Arab Emirates? Wow. | ||
| The more of our brilliant @labtowin team get on the NEC the more @Keir_Starmer will get the support he needs to move Labour on from the election losing extremism and morally repugnant antisemitism of the Corbyn era. Voting closes at 12 noon today! https://t.co/1DlU9qC04g | ||
| @autolycus19 I'm not, I'm "tomato faced" because of side effects of a life threatening illness I had. | ||
| 🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨Less than 3 hours until voting closes at noon for the NEC. Don't forget to vote for the @labtowin team. Search your emails for labourelections@cesvotes.com or ask for a replacement ballot via https://t.co/pLdiEvnhGx | ||
| @BilliardsCue Noon on Friday | ||
| As Tribune magazine has been praising the Millbank riot in 2010, here's what I wrote then: https://t.co/rhrC4sNcCe | ||
| @JonathanSGlass There are two Highgate wards, one in Camden, one in Haringey. | ||
| This isn't actually true, given that Oxford Labour Party's All Member Meeting isn't until this Friday night. Stop making stuff up. https://t.co/1xcupyr6vg | ||
| @OjwUk And also accessibility issues for people with disabilities who need to familiarise themselves with layout of the ballot. | ||
| @DanielEales It shows admirable ability to compromise | ||
| NEC election must be important, I just broke my lifelong ban on using emojis. 😀🚨 | ||
| Getting the excuses in early, very much a la Trump. If I get elected to the NEC these guys won't be able to cope with the idea that it will be because party members like what I stand for or think I will do a good job, they will spout conspiracy theories about order of the ballot. https://t.co/QBqzMpC5Fq | ||
| @lauren1995x__ It's a this year thing. British Legion are asking people to donate online then put a poster in window as selling poppies in public is not possible with Lockdown. | ||
| Good luck to my fellow @labtowin team members @JohannaBaxter @gsjosan @TerryPaul_NEC @MichaelPayneUK @ShamaTatler . It's been an honour to run alongside you, your friendship during the campaign has been a huge source of strength. | ||
| The NEC ballot closes at noon tomorrow. Don't forget to vote for the @labtowin team. Search your emails for labourelections@cesvotes.com or ask for a replacement ballot via https://t.co/pLdiEvnhGx. | ||
| @AdamDodson12 @labtowin Diana Holland | ||
| @panny_antoniou @DannyFiler We did. Labour got more seats in both 1997 and 2001 (418 and 413) than the Liberals did in 1906 (397). The map just looks more impressive because they won in bigger rural constituencies. | ||
| On way to Margate with my 6 year old singing along word perfect to "Bigmouth Strikes Again" on car stereo #smithsfansfamily | ||
| @blairsupporter another bunch of people who think if u say something is "illegal" enough times it makes it so. | ||
| @David__Osland CES | ||
| @merkerivan @AnishaFaruk No the colours don't have historic roots either way in US - as recently as 1980s some TV networks did use red for the Democrats | ||
| @iamhamesh My great aunt lived there | ||
| @AnishaFaruk The parties didn't come up with the colours, they were allocated by the TV networks less than 30 years ago. | ||
| @Smith1Niall Thanks! | ||
| How do we rebuild unity in the Labour Party? An article I wrote in 2016 sets out my approach: https://t.co/hIHWkofUUp | ||
| @Pickpricklypear A few years later | ||
| @Illumination100 Can you explain the reference to Assange? I think you may have confused me with someone else. | ||
| Statement by @Keir_Starmer starts here at 11.07: https://t.co/YyhF21Blxf | ||
| What I wrote in April 2016 when the media first started reporting a surge in antisemitism within Labour: https://t.co/XBjcEUXqcg | ||
| @tcanham459 It's idiosyncratic... | ||
| Not received your Labour NEC ballot yet? You can now ask for a reissue here: https://t.co/pLdiEvnhGx | ||
| @er_mean @labtowin @JohannaBaxter @gsjosan @TerryPaul_NEC @MichaelPayneUK @ShamaTatler Diana Holland | ||
| @kirkkathy Great | ||
| Ashamed of this disgraceful situation as a @BristolUni graduate. https://t.co/n9mSGaTaPB | ||
| @kirkkathy Thank you | ||
| @StrudleB @labtowin @JohannaBaxter @gsjosan @TerryPaul_NEC @MichaelPayneUK @ShamaTatler Thanks | ||
| @kirkkathy From Monday you can ask for a reissue | ||
| @owsturner Thanks! | ||
| @d_r_ew Complain to ballots@labour.org.uk | ||
| Thank you! https://t.co/Jfs3oU87lA | ||
| @edcrick Thank you | ||
| @Panicked_Future @MorganPaulett Yes to all three. | ||
| @richardmarcj I've only published three endorsements in this election and one of them was Ruth Smeeth, so you can deduce from that whether she sees me as an ally. | ||
| @LeftwingSophieJ @simon_watkins @RickfUk @jdblackhall @tom_watson @gsjosan @TerryPaul_NEC @MichaelPayneUK @JohannaBaxter @ShamaTatler Zionism is the national liberation movement of the Jewish people. It's inherently leftwing to want self determination for a people who suffered persecution and genocide. Many Zionists are also socialists, hence the kibbutz movement & Israel's very strong trade union movement. | ||
| @nickjuliusuk Arriving today onwards, take a few days to all come out | ||
| @relax792 @ollylaw @JohannaBaxter @MichaelPayneUK @gsjosan @TerryPaul_NEC @ShamaTatler Later today | ||
| @CllrMajid @wesstreeting @labtowin @TribuneMPs @OpenLabour @gsjosan @JohannaBaxter @MichaelPayneUK @TerryPaul_NEC @ShamaTatler @paulasherriff @LizMcInnes60 @TheresaEurope @AnnBlackLabour @JermainJackman No you can list 1 to 42 as there are 42 candidates | ||
| @CllrMajid @wesstreeting @labtowin @TribuneMPs @OpenLabour @gsjosan @JohannaBaxter @MichaelPayneUK @TerryPaul_NEC @ShamaTatler @paulasherriff @LizMcInnes60 @TheresaEurope @AnnBlackLabour @JermainJackman You can list as many preferences as there are candidates i.e. rank every candidate on the ballot from 1 down as far as you can go | ||
| @Middletonfox Being emailed from tomorrow morning | ||
| @DrFlob I hate the idea of anyone having their identity or sense of who they are questioned within the party, it must be completely alienating. | ||
| @NMac4288 Will do | ||
| I am a passionate fighter for the NHS having overcome a life-threatening neurological illness caused by a tumour, five months in hospital, and subsequent disability. | ||
| @PerfecWagnerite @stellacreasy Wait until you find out who the one in the middle is | ||
| @stephen_latham @Tpopularfront @LabourList Labourlist is publishing articles by all the NEC candidates on an equal basis, them publishing my article doesn't indicate support for me. Just a factual correction as well, John Mann is a member of the Labour Party. Like him I want to see antisemites removed from Labour. | ||
| @simonconroy @BrianHTweed @stellacreasy No. | ||
| @ontheleftwing @stellacreasy Yep being in the Labour Party implies you have shared politics. Every party member believe in fighting for a more equal society and properly funded public services. | ||
| @NCC170190958152 @JillyBrum @RuthSmeeth Errr no, Blairism was pro-European, socially liberal but economically centre-left. | ||
| @SyedHus00664001 @RuthSmeeth Thank you | ||
| @Anne_J101 Monday onwards by email | ||
| @NorwichLeft You can't put pictures into graphics that are copyrighted (unless you pay a lot to use them), which reduces the choices to not many! | ||
| @FoundLozzed Thank you | ||
| @FoundLozzed Correct! | ||
| It's reached that familiar point in an NEC election where fairly bland tweets elicit a response something like dipping your toe in a tank of piranhas | ||
| @DanielEales I thought because of covid the advice was not to press them? | ||
| @kam1nsk1 The party will send all members an email ballot starting next Monday | ||
| @samba87 Email on Monday. I am standing with the @labtowin team alongside @JohannaBaxter @gsjosan @TerryPaul_NEC @MichaelPayneUK and @ShamaTatler | ||
| @BlanezChil @WeBelieveIsrael Believe that it should exist and that the Jewish people have a right to a state and national self-determination. Sadly lots of people don't agree. Here's the organisation's core values: https://t.co/oQCKSvpu9P | ||
| @BlanezChil Because I've stood up to them. | ||
| @Wonkyclock007 I missed Keir's intervention in the NEC campaign. Can you point me towards it? | ||
| I'm retweeting this as it sounds like a challenge, "See how far you can read before you want to throw up" https://t.co/XiNijstL8z | ||
| Haven't done #FF for a while but please do follow my brilliant @labtowin fellow NEC candidates @MichaelPayneUK @ShamaTatler @TerryPaul_NEC @JohannaBaxter @gsjosan | ||
| @BrenTierney @TalOfer @LabourAgainstAS @UKLabour @Keir_Starmer That sounds like he was only ever suspended rather than expelled or resigned. | ||
| @kmflett and thanks to @HarrietHarman I can also now recite @edballsmp 's 5 point economic plan. | ||
| Have emerged dazed from 7.5 hour NEC meeting #informationoverload | ||
| @alidra821 2021 | ||
| @l_a_dunn @willuminare Watch this space | ||
| https://t.co/EUKxob17IE | ||
| @davidwhitelab yes marginally, with the other unions being the beneficiaries | ||
| @rachaelwrd No it only affects Unite's voting strength at party conference. Their voting strength in leadership elections is based on actual people who register as affiliated supporters, and isn't related to the paper affiliation total, which is arbitrary based on how much they want to pay. | ||
| @dylanmorchard @barneyfarmer Definitely not me, as this is what I think about the union link: https://t.co/fAeJSu3civ | ||
| @cliffjamester l've never heard of Anonymous. What is it? | ||
| Someone should tell occupy protesters that the Guy Fawkes masks just look sinister to vast bulk of people who haven't heard of V film/comics | ||
| @AnaOpp Never heard it used before 2015 | ||
| On my way to NEC away day to take strategic look at Labour's year ahead | ||
| @whocareswhatjew Yes also in pic are @AndyBurnhamGM @AnnKeen11 and Wendy Nichols of @unisontheunion | ||
| @D_B_90 @Keir_Starmer Because a narrow majority on the GC have completely different politics to me. | ||
| @willuminare It was @CouncillorKerri | ||
| @TimGMacpherson @labtowin It's an inevitable consequence of a proportional system. | ||
| This would be an excellent result if it happened, but it would require a big turnout from mainstream pro-Starmer members. At @labtowin we are taking nothing for granted, we know we are up against Momentum's big data and phone banks. https://t.co/NmMnTZfnkM | ||
| @gsandhu Yes | ||
| @TomLaing14 We've just helped three of their candidates with large numbers of CLP nominations so I don't view us as competing. | ||
| �We got 30% of the OMOV vote in 2018, which would probably have given us 3 of 9 seats under STV, these nomination figures are almost 3 times better than that year | ||
| �If there are examples of moderate candidates getting more than 200 nominations they are before 2008 when my records start, so Johanna and Gurinder have done better than any moderate candidates for at least 14 years | ||
| �In 2018 our candidates got between 23 and 68 nominations, this time we got between 108 and 223 •Johanna’s nominations have jumped from 67 in 2018 to 160 in the by-election this year to 223 now – the highest number she has ever had in 7 contests |
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| By region, my CLP nominations have come from: London 30 South East 17 West Midlands 16 North West 15 Scotland 12 Wales 11 Yorkshire 11 East Midlands 9 East 7 South West 6 North 5 Northern Ireland 1 |
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| @CaptainMeg Yes - 20 that I got in 2018 didn't nominate me this time, but 2 were inquorate, 10 never met, so in only 8 cases was it a switch of politics (mainly within our slate, can only see 2 examples of full switches of political control away from us). | ||
| Warley - HOLD Warrington North - GAIN Warrington South – GAIN Watford - GAIN West Bromwich East - GAIN Westminster North – GAIN West Worcestershire - GAIN Wimbledon – GAIN Witham - GAIN Wyre Forest – GAIN Wythenshawe & Sale East - GAIN York Central - GAIN York Outer - GAIN |
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| Salisbury - GAIN Sheffield Brightside & Hillsborough - GAIN Solihull – GAIN South Shields – GAIN Southampton Test - GAIN St Helens North - HOLD St Helens South & Whiston – GAIN Stoke-on-Trent North – GAIN Strathkelvin and Bearsden - GAIN Stretford & Urmston – GAIN Stroud – GAIN |
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| Jarrow – HOLD Knowsley - HOLD Leeds West - GAIN Leicester East – GAIN Lewisham East – GAIN Lewisham West & Penge – GAIN Llanelli - GAIN Manchester Withington – HOLD Mansfield - GAIN Merthyr Tydfil & Rhymney - GAIN Mid Sussex – GAIN Midlothian South, Tweeddale & Lauderdale – GAIN |
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| 141 nominations is net up 90 (!) CLPs from the 51 I got in 2018. It's the second highest total I've ever had, exceeded only by the 2012 contest when I was an incumbent NEC member. | ||
| @charliemansell @StaffordLabour @trudiemc @CLPNominations @LeftieStats @Discworld101 I think there will be 30+ additional results tomorrow | ||
| @KatieCurtis @LabourHWG @CastlePointLab Enjoy! Brings back good memories | ||
| @SunakwrecksUK Last time I was on NEC Ed Miliband described me as a "force for party unity". | ||
| @jruddy99 @GraemeMck_ @JohannaBaxter And STV | ||
| @hgmunns yes but might be a while B4 I can get down there - email me at akehurstluke@googlemail.com | ||
| Thank you @WantLabour ! @labtowin | ||
| @HuwJonesLabour @UKLabour It's not a good look to start making demands of a statutory body that is investigating us. | ||
| @Smithy0364 @GreenJamieS Also I only lost in Vauxhall by one vote | ||
| @adehughes6 Thank you | ||
| @charliemansell @SouthHackneyLab @LauraPidcock @gembolton @MizJama @Yasmine_Dar @mish_rahman @JermainJackman @TerryPaul_NEC @ShamaTatler @ellenlmorrison @DianaHolland_ STV - Hackney South used STV in 2016 and 2018 too | ||
| @PriestField1985 @cllrtrisosborne @RSLabour @vincemaple @AnnBlackLabour @gsjosan @JohannaBaxter @TerryPaul_NEC @JermainJackman @MichaelPayneUK @labtowin @OpenLabour There is no quota at nomination stage just in final ballot | ||
| Super Thursday underway. At least 56 CLPs nominating for Labour NEC tonight - though in some cases we won't get the result for 24 hours. | ||
| Leeds West - GAIN Leicester East – GAIN Lewisham East – GAIN Lewisham West & Penge – GAIN Maidenhead - GAIN Manchester Withington – HOLD Merthyr Tydfil & Rhymney - GAIN Mid Sussex – GAIN Midlothian South, Tweeddale & Lauderdale – GAIN Newcastle-under-Lyme - HOLD |
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| Aberavon – GAIN Aberdeen Central - GAIN Altrincham & Sale West - GAIN Arundel & South Downs – GAIN Barking – HOLD Barrow & Furness - HOLD Bassetlaw – GAIN Bermondsey & Old Southwark – HOLD Bexhill & Battle - GAIN Birmingham Northfield – HOLD Bracknell - HOLD |
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| @SteveGPScott Man of Kent | ||
| Tory LEA bureaucracies could be a good place to start cutting education waste | ||
| @Coisty_OB Same here, we were in Folkestone for the week in August that was really hot, and seeing my parents near Canterbury for first time since before xmas. Every time I go back I realise how lucky I was to grow up somewhere with such beautiful scenery. | ||
| @LeeCorby4 Potentially, eg if NATO got into a conventional conflict to defend the Baltic states. I wouldn't want a situation where they could threaten us and we couldn't deter them. | ||
| @LeeCorby4 Correct. It's pretty much the text book answer. | ||
| @bally968 Yes | ||
| @LeeCorby4 Not aware of any | ||
| 6)Luke was a key player as Chief Whip in the team that turned Hackney from a chaotic failing hung council to a flagship Labour council providing high quality public services for some of Britain’s poorest and most diverse communities. | ||
| 5)Luke has extensive experience of decision making in the party at every level: NEC, Regional Board, CLP officer, Council Chief Whip. In every role he has been praised from across the party for fairness and defending democracy in taking decisions, openness and accountability. | ||
| 4)Luke is a passionate fighter for the NHS having overcome a life-threatening neurological illness caused by a tumour, five months in hospital, and subsequent disability. | ||
| 2)Luke has vocally stood up to antisemitism and bullying over the last five years. We need people on the NEC who will have zero tolerance of behaviour that has shamed and damaged our party. | ||
| This is really a very strong speech, covering so many key issues. Well done @Keir_Starmer | ||
| @Eesy20 It's an OMOV ballot, all members will get an email ballot on 19 Oct | ||
| @FurnessGirl Due tomorrow | ||
| @VoteEsther @Fruitandvegdon @UKLabour @David__Osland @labour_first @LabourList Everyone had the same opportunity to have a fringe meeting. | ||
| @VoteEsther @Fruitandvegdon @UKLabour @David__Osland @labour_first @LabourList The same as any fringe meeting at any conference, you would have to hire a room if it was a physical conference and all wings of the party manage to. | ||
| @David__Osland @Fruitandvegdon @UKLabour @labour_first @LabourList Sadly that was all spent long before the current organisation existed, but good to know we come across as well funded | ||
| @David__Osland @Fruitandvegdon @UKLabour @labour_first @LabourList I think Momentum is about 10x better funded than us | ||
| @Fruitandvegdon @UKLabour @David__Osland @labour_first @LabourList All organisations were able to pay to book fringe meetings. | ||
| Aberavon – GAIN Aberdeen Central - GAIN Altrincham & Sale West - GAIN Arundel & South Downs – GAIN Barking – HOLD Bermondsey & Old Southwark – HOLD Bexhill & Battle - GAIN Birmingham Northfield – HOLD Bracknell - HOLD Brentwood & Ongar - GAIN Bristol West – GAIN Bury North – GAIN |
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| @Shaminakhtar Thank you! | ||
| @IlfordSouthCLP @labtowin Thank you | ||
| @TomLaing14 @CLPNominations @charliemansell My note of caution would be that in 2018 Momentum got 4x more nominations than the moderate slate but only translated into 56% of the vote at OMOV. Seems improbable they will be doing as well at OMOV this time given drop in nomination gap & changed membership. | ||
| @dmk1793 It wasn't OMOV so only GC delegates had a vote on the CLP side. | ||
| @HairyChestLover I'm sorry if anyone feels alienated by their CLP nominating me. I've been - I am now- in CLPs with vastly different politics to my own. The mark of a healthy local party is when people from the entire spectrum of Labour opinion can debate, campaign and socialise together happily. | ||
| @HuwJonesLabour Bizarre response to me complementing a piece of serious historical research, that has nothing to do with re-fighting anything, and was written by @AlfieSteer who is a Labour left-winger. | ||
| Will the new generation of trade union bosses help or hinder Keir Starmer? https://t.co/Ho9tZqxH96 | ||
| @mt_cj_rams @TheSocialistDad @UKLabour 50 out of 120 that have nominated | ||
| https://t.co/A8XfJWPj8p | ||
| @BenWill1973 @UKLabour We won't win those seats with a Momentum-led NEC - the internal politics affects the image and reputation of the party. | ||
| Lewisham West & Penge – GAIN Maidenhead – GAIN Manchester Withington - HOLD Mid Sussex – GAIN Midlothian South, Tweeddale & Lauderdale – GAIN New Forest West - GAIN North Warwickshire – GAIN Northern Ireland – GAIN Nottingham South - GAIN Plymouth Sutton & Devonport – HOLD |
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| Coventry South – GAIN Croydon North - GAIN Cunninghame North – GAIN Gedling - GAIN Harborough - GAIN Hertsmere - HOLD Houghton & Sunderland South -GAIN Ilford North – HOLD Ipswich – GAIN Leicester East – GAIN Lewisham East – GAIN |
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| Thank you @ASWLabour ! @labtowin | ||
| Thank you @wminsterlabour ! @labtowin | ||
| Thank you @WimbledonLabour ! @labtowin | ||
| @O_lloyd @DavidTaylor85 @heardougtweet Maybe because it's statistically improbable that any two Labour party members agree on every issue, and because "well known supporter" is putting a bit of spin on something I tweeted about once, in 2017. | ||
| @RicDes22 Thanks | ||
| @Lyndagee49 5 to get on the ballot, which is by one member one vote | ||
| Warrington North - GAIN Warrington South - GAIN |
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| @SteveInL0ndon I think Ann, Gurinder, Terry, Jermain then the rest were Momentum. | ||
| https://t.co/MGpkAMNw50 | ||
| Looking forward to chatting with @ayeshahazarika and my @labtowin NEC running mates on Wednesday, do sign up: https://t.co/7fyzSTTTKv |
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| @AlfieSteer Thanks! | ||
| @AlfieSteer Any chance I can read it? | ||
| Amazing to see Woodberry Down Estate regeneration happening at last - sat in fantastic new community centre overlooking West Reservoir | ||
| @JonathanSGlass Not yet | ||
| https://t.co/iTnuiPCyuw | ||
| @DPJHodges If it was an AMM I would have a chance, but unfortunately it is a GC with delegates elected a long time ago (lots of AGMs postponed due to GE and Covid). | ||
| I am winning NEC nominations in some quite surprising CLPs. | ||
| @RichWhiting Thanks | ||
| @JackEDeakin Not according to final list that Labourlist published: https://t.co/V245QRZPBk | ||
| @bsazzled @cooljool80 https://t.co/wnQyLpdbWb | ||
| Brexit happened on Momentum's watch. They failed to fight it. | ||
| But there a lot who will be deciding between say Momentum and Open Labour or Tribune candidates, who will be totally turned off by their negativity and driven towards the soft left. | ||
| @HuwJonesLabour I support @gsjosan 's push for proper registration and declaration of employment and any other interests for NEC members. Transparency and avoidance of conflicts of interest is essential to good governance, and as a former Chief Whip for 7 years I am experienced in policing this. | ||
| And the NEC has a role in setting and enforcing rules about behaviour in the party. Members need to look at whether candidates have a record of enforcing rules and fair decision-taking in complex disciplinary cases. | ||
| @patrickmoule It's lovely. The whole series is sublime. | ||
| @willuminare Looking forward to you preferencing me for NEC | ||
| I am feeling a great urge to either make a big political speech or do some karaoke. Maybe one after the other. | ||
| @AndyCharlwood @alexsobel shsh! Someone might notice which current in the Labour Party doesn't have a web site. | ||
| @TurnerLtc @sandyofipswich For a communist you seem very McCarthyite. It's none of your business who votes for me in internal Labour ballots. Go away and worry about the next ballot for the communist party NEC, I'm sure both members can have a debate about whether to vote for each other. | ||
| @whocareswhatjew Correct, that's a problem with the judgement of the people who shortlisted her though, not the rules | ||
| @whocareswhatjew They don't all choose. Late and byelection shortlists are done by panels of just 3 NEC members. | ||
| @YorkshireLad_87 "was | ||
| Post vote and riot morose thoughts: http://lukeakehurst.blogspot.com/2010/12/after-vote.html | ||
| https://t.co/xqZxJWc1wA | ||
| @jane4animals @DannyFiler Maybe 30 | ||
| @nigib1 @lmharpin @UKLabour @zarahsultana Your description of Israel is inherently antisemitic, as it denies the Jewish people the right to statehood and self-determination. | ||
| @DannyFiler So my estimate that if I got 50 nominations last time, being up 6 in a sample of 8 means I will get 200 this time might not be accurate? 😳 | ||
| Opened the evening's set of CLP NEC nominations with a win in Coventry South | ||
| @alidra821 Nominations close 27 September, final ballot is from mid Oct to mid Nov. | ||
| @HariSarasan Christina McAnea and Hugo Pierre | ||
| @_IanMoss Agreed | ||
| @mygirlruth Thanks | ||
| Council by-elections in one place: http://t.co/RoNQDeCg Great Labour results tonight |
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| @BrianBartonMK Good view of my receding hairline and bookshelf! | ||
| @stephen_latham It's from a website called, of all things, "Electronic Intifada". | ||
| https://t.co/0iYXp5P40B | ||
| Nine defence projects unions want prioritised to protect UK jobs - list in full - https://t.co/9CEEDehpfL | ||
| @RDStalker that's why Refounding Labour gives all CLPs a free delegate pass and pool fare, to remove financial barrier | ||
| @libellous I briefed them on the procedure which was wholly appropriate given I formally introduced them. Didn't discuss content. | ||
| Common myth that Labour constituencies are disengaging from Annual Conference but ... | ||
| Being accused of having "no real political viewpoints" makes a change, and is frankly a little bit of a surprising take. https://t.co/og5aG2zEgN | ||
| It's not "controversial" to compensate & apologise for libelling staff whistle-blowers who exposed antisemitism. It's common decency, the least that can be expected of a party committed to anti-racism and shocking that any socialist would object to it. https://t.co/bds05hJ4lF | ||
| @Andybettridge1 agreed, but support needed as well as targets and expectations | ||
| 4) I am a passionate fighter for the NHS having overcome a life-threatening neurological illness caused by a tumour, five months in hospital, and subsequent disability. | ||
| 2) I have vocally stood up to antisemitism and bullying over the last five years. We need people on the NEC who will have zero tolerance of behaviour that has shamed and damaged our party. | ||
| @mandaqu The event is on Thursday | ||
| @MissLauraMarcus No elected by the NEC | ||
| @PetercjacksonPj It's on Thursday next week | ||
| @LizJRRich Very open minded approach. | ||
| Looking forward to fielding your questions on Thursday https://t.co/yHUoGLgE0A | ||
| If I get elected it will be because the membership has voted for me. Obviously some other definition of "the membership" being used here. https://t.co/Q0e93HuXjt | ||
| @ewancwatt rather less impact on people's lives than current cuts. | ||
| @ronitwolfson @rickmuir1 Rick is one of your cllrs Ronit - Rick can u give Ronit details of ward mtgs and campaigning? | ||
| At full council. Introducing deputation from Banister House + Priory Court tenants in my ward vs Housing benefit cuts + fixed term tenancies | ||
| @AhoFrank No those decisions are taken by staff. Most politicians know the sum total of zero about how to run an election campaign. | ||
| @Michael_a_Boyle Allegations about insulting or discriminatory language aren't part of the allegation about "sabotage". | ||
| @AhoFrank Not true. Politicians take instruction from professional organisers and agents in an election campaign as the average candidate/politician doesn't have professional skills in campaigning, data analysis, targeting etc. The General Secretary runs the campaign not amateur MPs. | ||
| @EllieCumbo yes will reply tomorrow | ||
| Hackney resident sat next to me on 55 bus just asked to read my council agenda - first time that's ever happened! | ||
| @davidhmoffat @JamesEFoster Because of a medical condition. It's a side effect of a life threatening nerve illness I had which also caused my disability. | ||
| @Harryslaststand It's not about what we think, it's about what voters think. I like Ed's politics. Voters don't. | ||
| @MikeReigns4 He didn't at any point in the 2017 GE "take the lead in the polls". Not in a single poll. https://t.co/nLPMQe6H8Q | ||
| @SpawnOfDurin Thank you for the comradely interaction. | ||
| @David__Osland Happy to report I won £900 by betting on Labour gains. | ||
| @MarkSeddon1962 Labour was not "close to winning" in 2017. 262 MPs is not "close to winning", it's worse than 1992 or 1979 and almost same as 2010. | ||
| @mcdon_al I'm important enough to have been bad mouthed in shadow cabinet meetings. | ||
| @MnWthtQualities There's no evidence that their private views about the politicians leading the campaign influenced their professional implementation of the campaign. 2017 unlike 2019 was a very competently managed campaign. Oddly it was people who loved JC who let him down in 2019. | ||
| @StevePowers_ Fine if your objective is to transfer cash that could have been spent on campaigning vs the Tories to the bank accounts of the very same ex Labour officials named in the leak. | ||
| @ewancwatt this is about specific signed pledges by individual LD MPs used in leaflets and having major impact on student voting behaviour. | ||
| Stoke Newington as I remember it now "history"... https://t.co/a9wDDsyKyd | ||
| @KatieCurtis Excellent choice | ||
| @patrickmoule That really isn't how other people perceive you - everyone I know who knows you sees you as someone incredibly capable and more importantly a good person who consistently helps others | ||
| In the pub with Cllrs Kemp and Chapman for rare post scrutiny pints | ||
| Concious that I am jumping on the bandwagon a bit late | ||
| Hackney's Decent Homes funding cut by 30 million pounds by Govt says @PhilipGlanville | ||
| @alexsmith1982 in my day it had a rightwing majority and hard left minority convened by a certain Simon Fletcher. Now quite Compassite. | ||
| @alexsmith1982 scene of some of my most treasured political memories circa 1996-8. Great GC with a proud history. | ||
| @PhilipGlanville preparing to grill you | ||
| @LargeWlarge63 Tell these guys too https://t.co/Uvr6CcolWj | ||
| Already a Labour member and support the way Keir Starmer is changing Labour? We need to know who you are so we make sure you mobilise to win the NEC elections. Sign up to @labtowin https://t.co/nTz94ZbN4n | ||
| Three meetings into a six meeting day ... Flagging slightly. | ||
| @ChippyCatt @wesstreeting @IlfordNorthCLP @gsjosan @JohannaBaxter @TerryPaul_NEC @ShamaTatler @MichaelPayneUK @AnnBlackLabour @TheresaEurope @paulasherriff All set out here https://t.co/TWiqwG3NM3 | ||
| @caoilte_oconnor @BirdInitials Thanks for the patronising question. I've been a member of Unite and its predecessors for 27 years, represented TGWU on NEC Youth Cttee & at TUC Youth Conference, sponsored as a parliamentary candidate by AEEU and served a decade on Amicus London Political Cttee. | ||
| @CNDuk #demo2010 #solidarity #dayx3 stupid and divisive slogan, lots of us support proper funding of HE and defence | ||
| Remind me of Unite's recent track record in libel cases? https://t.co/npWL40z7f1 | ||
| @WirralLinda @mcdon_al We (branch secretaries) received this via our CLP Secretary @AnnBlackLabour . She can confirm its status. | ||
| @lewis_baston @DJSkelton @philipjcowley it was 69 and it was 1971 | ||
| @MouthOfTheUmber @LabourList no they should just live with the consequences from the whips. | ||
| @cr_celab 1975 was not a long time ago! It's since I was born and I've only just stopped being in Young Labour er 13 years ago er oops er .. | ||
| I'm pleased MPs and Voters in 1975 were sane and acted in UK's best interests by joining Common Market. Happy to defer to their judgement. | ||
| So annoyed by Tory Europhobic speeches I have written a pro-EU @LabourList column. Time for pro-Europeans to come out fighting. | ||
| @TomLaing14 The guidance only talks about BLPs and CLPs so you would need to check with party HQ | ||
| @gl_garry @BenJolly9 @Cornish_Damo I've never said that. Both sides were Vietnamese. It was a civil war between Communist North Vietnam (who had Russian support) and anti-Communist South Vietnam (who had US support). | ||
| @mathewhbenham United Left | ||
| @DanJCooke1 Yes the moderate challenger in 2017 only lost to Len by a small margin | ||
| Convoluted way of saying they messed up the slate negotiations. https://t.co/HZxIbPkYPJ | ||
| @JeffRookerj @Twitter Good luck! | ||
| For people pondering the politics of Unite, the United Left slate lost in 17 of the 27 contested elections for the union's Exec this June. | ||
| @the_bbq_bob it doesn't necessarily cause more coalitions as it is not a proportional system - hasn't in Australia | ||
| @jonwillchambers Nope. The GS election was competitive last time against an incumbent so why wouldn't it be competitive this time? | ||
| @JackEDeakin @JermainJackman @AnnBlackLabour @ShamaTatler @MichaelPayneUK @TerryPaul_NEC @JohannaBaxter Thanks! | ||
| The usual grossness is bubbling to the surface just in time for the NEC election. https://t.co/aihZGboCM5 | ||
| @ptjbarroso @damian_from @philbotski @UKLabour No I've got this complexion because it's a side effect of a life threatening nerve illness I had that also left me disabled. Maybe you could stick to criticising my politics rather than my appearance. | ||
| @TomMillerUK 40 is considered a strategic deterrent to any threat by the UK | ||
| @Calderbank The NEC doesn't have policy making powers and hasn't had since the 1990s. | ||
| And the follow up https://t.co/vGvePA6Di9 | ||
| @TomLaing14 @DylanBrownie1 I've lost the energy to bother | ||
| @charliebach @TerryPaul_NEC @JohannaBaxter @gsjosan @ShamaTatler Yes | ||
| I will support these policies if elected to the NEC https://t.co/gSRppvciWa | ||
| I was a key player as Chief Whip in the team that turned Hackney from a chaotic failing hung council to a flagship Labour council providing high quality public services for some of Britain’s poorest and most diverse communities. | ||
| @TomLaing14 @Charles68431225 @SeemaChandwani @Keir_Starmer Actually conference rejected the position Starmer wanted and voted for a fudge proposed by the leadership (or at least that was the result declared, no card vote was taken so we don't really know what the result was). | ||
| @ChrispLOL None of those are part of the function of the NEC, which is a about providing good governance to the Labour Party so that it's ready to win the next General Election. | ||
| @DurstApologist @ThorinHall @vampiretraums @DrMarcoMann Communist countries being famous buyers of British military equipment. | ||
| @ThorinHall @vampiretraums @DurstApologist @DrMarcoMann Have never suggested that, but no one we met there praised the regime whilst people did approach us - presumably at risk to themselves given it is a police state - to criticise the regime. | ||
| @ThorinHall @vampiretraums @DurstApologist @DrMarcoMann I went as a tourist to meet up with my now wife who was backpacking there before we had kids. It's an amazing country - beautiful, loads of history, amazing cities, and yes, the food is in my view one of the best cuisines in the world. I would recommend it for the food alone. | ||
| @pedwardsshea We put in rule change to do that but were defeated | ||
| @SeemaChandwani That's odd as well. | ||
| CLGA slate for NEC https://t.co/ObuYuLAcGQ | ||
| @willuminare @freresheureux There are 200 skilled security printer jobs at De La Rue in Gateshead being lost because of this decision, it's important that MPs are arguing to keep those jobs and the technology involved the UK. | ||
| Just finished great #labourdoorstep session in Dalston with @ClayeonMcKenzie @dannyjstevens @james_h_scott @carolewilliams + others | ||
| @LastBlairite @LabourList @siennamarla @lara_eleanor Yes it is Labourlist policy to give a platform to all NEC candidates | ||
| @patrickmoule Also why is Labour CND, which has lots of soft left support, affiliated to a specific faction? | ||
| @CarlGreatbatch @philbc3 And with a big bell for Hells Bells | ||
| My wife has accussed me of, due to lockdown hair, looking like Eric Heffer. After an hour she has now revealed she meant Simon Heffer. Either way not exactly compliment of the decade. | ||
| @TomWTheSecond You get an early look at my website as it answers both questions: https://t.co/Z6k5W3GXAD | ||
| Enjoying watching Hackney comrades Scottish country dancing but wishing my legs + balance wd recover enough to join in | ||
| We've run on opposite sides in 5 NEC elections. 4 of those times I lost! That's now history. The future is about people from across Labour working together to get us back where we need to be - in government and making this a fairer, more equal country. | ||
| We need an NEC where all currents of opinion in the party have a voice & that reflects the remarkably broad coalition that swept Keir into the leadership. We need to build party unity by working with people who we don't agree with on everything, but are people of goodwill. | ||
| @MoT53 @vellstells Yes, anyone who joins before 24 August can vote. | ||
| @Davieboy0906 Ball park that is size of our email list. They are not "members" though. | ||
| @PetaSteel @LabourList They have updated the article with the numbers | ||
| @Davieboy0906 We don't have members | ||
| Have the actual voting figures and turnout for the Momentum NCG elections been published? | ||
| @ilyas_nagdee Famously not because austerity has meant Tory cuts to policing, esp in London where the ward teams of six cops that Ken Livingstone funded have gone | ||
| @googlyeyecat Nowadays the ones in East Oxford, from 1998-2014, across Hackney. | ||
| @LynchianChicken @CorbynRed Ken Livingstone's most popular policy in Hackney as Mayor of London was putting designated community policing teams of six cops into each council ward. People were reassured by visible police presence on estates that had suffered from drugs and gangs. | ||
| Hackney Labour canvassing this Sunday is 11am from Dalston Junction Station. #labourdoorstep | ||
| @Parsifal2 New Labour MPs took on + beat left in their CLPs to genuinely transform party - Cameroons never confronted Tory hard right | ||
| @tarajaneoreilly What's wrong with you? | ||
| @0Calamity It's because I am a big fan of the Trident nuclear deterrent. Why wouldn't I know what it meant? | ||
| Why are unions trying to dictate the way CLP reps on the NEC are elected? https://t.co/KjCQIaz4WG | ||
| Why are they so afraid of member democracy? https://t.co/jPnwv0mRXY | ||
| @JeremyIClarke @GhostFraser @LabourList This is reducing the number by bringing two existing ones together | ||
| @TVAddictStill He's working with those people from the left who are happy to work with him. There are a number of ex-Corbyn LOTO staffers in senior roles in his office. | ||
| I think this means she is complaining that the Leader of the Labour Party votes in favour of things that advance his own agenda as leader. https://t.co/SkJbDxOamp | ||
| @M_Star_Online S | ||
| @jiminyhall We aren't interested in building networks that include apologists for antisemitism. | ||
| @lorintbc What a brilliant photo. | ||
| @OutriderTed @MettlesomeTeri @Keir_Starmer @BoardofDeputies I know the charedi community very well as I was a Hackney councillor for 12 years & spent 8 years on board of their main housing assoc. They may not be formally affiliated to BoD but they don't disagree with rest of community's stance on tackling antisemitism in Labour. | ||
| @charliemansell @Sabrina_Huck I thought it was a cynical transitional demand! | ||
| @EdwardoBankio The working class does exist, it's just not very leftwing on lots of issues. | ||
| @LeftyHemisphere That's the point, it's about perceptions. If voters perceive themselves as centrist, we need to stop banging on about how incredibly radical we are. | ||
| Dalston canvass sheets delivered by Cllr Katie Hanson. Looking forward to evening of highlighter pens, maps + road groups #campaigngeek | ||
| @TVAddictStill @Wkrs @pauloCanning @twlldun I can count six commissioners who I have seen attend Labour First annual meetings | ||
| @scatter56 Yes | ||
| @AshwinS03144734 I.e. a US official met Macron in London? | ||
| @CllrKaneDeffley @ElectionMapsUK We really should be on it on basis of military and diplomatic capability and economic . | ||
| @LabourGRT @David__Osland It's not in the Guardian | ||
| @SCynic1 The pattern from 1980s was that lots of Bennites matured politically and ended up on the other side of the party by end of decade. | ||
| @Northernbred1 @lmharpin @bbclaurak Teachers have been working in schools throughout this as vulnerable children and children of key workers have still been going to school. | ||
| Reasons to be cheerful https://t.co/OH7Z8BXjUL | ||
| @sarahcam3ron @shirleymush It isn't pejorative - it was adopted by the Bennite left as they considered themselves firm, unbending and principled compared to the compromising Soft Left. It's a specifically Labour Party term so not usually applied to the social movements you mention. | ||
| @SaulStaniforth He didn't resign from the PLP at that point. He just resigned as a shadow minister, exactly like a number of Corbynites did even before Starmer was elected. | ||
| @psreklaw_p @CouncillorBill Historically the divide between Hard and Soft Left is not about policy it's organisational - the Soft Left is open to cooperate with the party leadership and the Hard Left isn't. In recent years the Soft Left has been anti-Brexit and tough on antisemitism whilst Hard Left hasn't. | ||
| @RandomGooner @labour_first I think @patrickmoule actually enjoys his day trips to Oldbury | ||
| @molluscs_ @kira_millana We are friends. | ||
| @HuwJonesLabour Sadly there isn't an organised faction in this case | ||
| Got my Unite Exec Council ballot paper today. Here's a reminder of recommended candidates list that is circulating: https://t.co/94IMeRNL6Q |
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| @_jamesholland It was 15 years ago ... | ||
| @TomMillerUK @shirleymush @AnishaFaruk But that is also just a policy argument. You can be in favour of nationalising something for purely functional reasons that are nothing to do with whether it's a socialist thing to do. | ||
| @logoffmate @AnishaFaruk You obviously do as you bothering to reply to me. | ||
| @_translucid @TomMillerUK @shirleymush @AnishaFaruk Unfortunately there are people in the Labour Party who attack the co-op movement as not being socialist as it isn't about state ownership. Personally I find the idea of an economy with markets but lots of mutualism appealing. | ||
| @TomMillerUK @shirleymush @AnishaFaruk In practice surely all socialists are social democrats in the short term because no one is proposing abolishing capitalism right now? | ||
| @RichardBakerr @BlazeQuark @robokendall @NeilJIrving24 @AnishaFaruk It's why I'm politically active. | ||
| @visitingmartian @AnishaFaruk Yes it does | ||
| @JonHegerty No I think Labour is a social democratic = democratic socialist party with lots of social democratic democratic socialists and a few other socialists in it. It's really exceptionally rare to meet anyone in any party who seriously proposes abolishing capitalism. | ||
| @JonHegerty Tories wouldn't sign up to these bits: "by the strength of our common endeavour we achieve more than we achieve alone" "a community in which power, wealth and opportunity are in the hands of the many not the few" "a spirit of solidarity" "forces of partnership and co-operation |
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| @dxodato @AnishaFaruk Social democracy sounds fantastic to me. Why would anyone not like Keynesianism with progressive social policies? Are you saying that like it's a bad thing? | ||
| @dxodato @AnishaFaruk And socialism isn't a single clear ideology, there are dozens of variants of it, the most historically successful one of which, social democracy, says it can be built within a capitalist economy. That's a core belief of almost all socialist parties and socialist politicians. | ||
| @shirleymush @AnishaFaruk Here, two years old so some of the specifics may have been overtaken by events: https://t.co/5ALiCEAsGk | ||
| @dxodato @AnishaFaruk I'm not actually a Blair cheerleader, more of a Hattersley guy actually, but thanks for making up what my views might be. | ||
| @sensiblehuman96 @AnishaFaruk All of those things can be tackled without abolishing the economic system. | ||
| @bobbiQELD @AnishaFaruk All the countries invaded by the imperialist USSR, including socialist Georgia and anarchist bits of the Ukraine say hi back. | ||
| @charliemansell @wildernessyrs @UKLabour NB my memory is that Bermondsey was treated unofficially as a key seat by Terry Ashton and GLLP but was never designated as one nationally | ||
| @charliemansell @wildernessyrs @UKLabour My memory was that Brecon and Radnor was the only official key seat not to be taken | ||
| @SaulStaniforth Only a quarter of the number of students were able to go when it was free. The others got no higher education at all. | ||
| @SaulStaniforth Most people didnt go to university back then. The old grants system was when only 12% of 18 year olds went to uni, now it's more like 50%. | ||
| @LABIOND90794224 Yes I can. | ||
| @jwhandley17 Or SWP. Maybe best not ... | ||
| @Labourpaul Must have hurt when Meacher got 205 | ||
| @TonyBrannon You might want to sign up to our network https://t.co/PM6XHk5sWd | ||
| @jemgilbert It was in the context at the time of experimentation by Blairite CLPs like Enfield Southgate with AMMs instead of delegate GCs. Oddly this is now something Momentum pushes. | ||
| I prefer the red tie to the pink one last time #leadersdebate | ||
| feeling nostalgic about Bristol where I was a Labour activist for 5 years | ||
| News of the Bad Godesberg conference 1959, or indeed New Clause IV 1995, taking a while to filter through to all parts of the movement. https://t.co/oL8TVAV2TF | ||
| Predatory venture capitalists took over our care homes. This profiteering cannot continue by @spellar – via @LabourList https://t.co/P8fwZMIlhU | ||
| Just learnt from Newsnight that cats only have 7 lives in Italy, not 9 | ||
| @Dcrizzler Thanks | ||
| @mathewhbenham The NW regional seats were won uncontested | ||
| @mathewhbenham Yes if you are in a region or industrial sector where the election is contested - in London region for instance all 4 seats were won without a ballot as only the 4 United Left candidates got branch nominations | ||
| The Londoner: Will Momentum stall as rival factions fight it out? https://t.co/qtJMgdwthv | ||
| At Labour Group for detailed and serious debates on social housing and recycling | ||
| I was a governor at Parkwood Primary for the 16 years I lived in Hackney. Great to see this excellent school celebrating its 50th anniversary. https://t.co/Z8Mtl20xwS | ||
| @David__Osland You should, and it needs to be watched in chronological order | ||
| @LRCinfo "Labour's Resistance"???? What does that make people who support the leadership? | ||
| @jeevanjones @WillCross61 @SocialDemSheff @Gabriel_Pogrund @tamcohen @iainjwatson No | ||
| @SocialDemSheff @WillCross61 @Gabriel_Pogrund @tamcohen @iainjwatson The shortlist has now been done and looks fine | ||
| Hilarious seeing Hard Left brief against GS candidate David Evans for advocating AMMs instead of delegate GCs when they changed the rules in 2018 to allow a big push to ... abolish GCs and replace with AMMs. Consistency is their second name. | ||
| @SocialDemSheff @Gabriel_Pogrund @tamcohen @iainjwatson The whole NEC decides on GS but the NEC Officers + Shabana Mahmood are doing the shortlisting | ||
| @alexrubner Ploughman's lunch | ||
| @SocialDemSheff @Gabriel_Pogrund @tamcohen @iainjwatson The NEC numbers are already fine - the problem is the NEC Officers do the shortlist | ||
| @Gabriel_Pogrund @iainjwatson That's just standard in any job interview- if none of the shortlist are good enough at interview you don't appoint and you readvertise. | ||
| @PeterAttenborou @IainDale I think LBJ hated both the Kennedys | ||
| @IainDale JFK and LBJ | ||
| @michael_chessum Wine and buffet? We don't have bourgeois luxuries like that at @labour_first rallies. I must be going to the wrong fringe meetings. | ||
| @HuwJonesLabour I'm not sure which "left" that is, because the "left" members of the NEC have voted against everything Keir has proposed at 3 NEC meetings already. | ||
| @OwenJones84 @susanhebden Susan wants you to run for NEC to "dispatch" me | ||
| @susanhebden you seem to want to witchhunt moderates out of the Labour Party. | ||
| @susanhebden If @OwenJones84 were to run for NEC he would/should do it on his own merits not to "dispatch" me | ||
| @susanhebden I actually practice a broad church Labour Party both how I behave on NEC working with left as well as right | ||
| @susanhebden Whereas your brand of sectarianism is the way of the future? | ||
| @BrianFrancisRoy It gets better | ||
| @TomLaing14 @CamBeavanKing @l_attfield That would be constitutionally possible but I think it is quite optimistic to assume gatherings of thousands of people will be possible earlier than Sept 2021. | ||
| @TomLaing14 @CamBeavanKing @l_attfield No, only a conference can change the rulebook unfortunately | ||
| Sacrilege... https://t.co/hTQvHEuJrM | ||
| @KarenPollock100 Happy birthday! | ||
| @CamBeavanKing @l_attfield Only technically, it's a formality done by acclamation. All their powers and responsibilities kick in the moment they are appointed by the NEC. | ||
| @lukespencerPM Luke's Blog is taken | ||
| @iainjwatson @Keir_Starmer @LabourFirst You meant to tag @labour_first | ||
| @anthonypainter it just took 6 months to persuade TUs to give up 3% of their electoral college share. Primaries are not going to happen. | ||
| @anthonypainter only if you think breaking TU link, pissing off PLP and downgrading status of party members are prices worth paying. I don't | ||
| Delighted to hear Patrick Heneghan appointed by Labour as London Campaign Director. Could have big impact next May. | ||
| @alidogan_uk No. | ||
| @AlanScobbie He abstained in the vote on Trident renewal. | ||
| There's a host of Momentum faction names available in the titles of Marvel Cinematic Universe films. My starters: Momentum Civil War; Momentum End Game; Momentum Infinity War; Momentum Far from Home. | ||
| Oh great we now have a CND fellow-traveller as Defence Secretary. | ||
| @Lord_Sam1 It would be more worrying if I didn't | ||
| @nfliving @bevclack Momentum Internationalists are a faction inside a faction (Forward Momentum) inside Momentum | ||
| So is this the rightwing of the leftwing of the leftwing of the Labour Party? https://t.co/hsm8SqfTQe | ||
| @jruddy99 That's something Momentum itself does - what I'm puzzled by is a Hackney member running in SE not London | ||
| @cmmassey No I haven't seen it | ||
| @LionUnicornNews Not really. | ||
| @OwenWMichael It's described in detail in Peter's book. | ||
| @ElunedAnderson Sacrilege. | ||
| @mcdon_al Yes. They didn't need one. The moderate wing of the party didn't have a parliamentary sub-group between Solidarity winding up in 1988 and 2015. | ||
| Contemplating writing my @LabourList column about PS primaries in French. Probablement un idee merde. | ||
| Progress had influence in the 1990s because it supported the Leader. It didn't have an organised, factional caucus of MPs. https://t.co/Tkj7b1uRAc | ||
| @David__Osland Happy birthday! | ||
| Fascinated by the Open Labour elections. Do they have internal factions like Momentum does, or is it all based on who is best qualified for which role? | ||
| @maxshanly @d_j_frost I still have no idea how to pronounce "cadre" which is problematic as it's one of my favourite words | ||
| @MBellLabCoop @iamhamesh @OneLifeStand87 Yes | ||
| @PeterKenyon @Scarletstand @ProgressOnline It's not up for election until start of 2013 and having done 9 yrs on it b4, done my tour of duty | ||
| @ProgressOnline I'm in Unite | ||
| @djbeere There's an open letter going round suggesting it. Presumably the clergy, aristos and other members of the bourgeoisie will be next on the banned list. | ||
| It also says he believed in banning alcohol https://t.co/Y7f92bF0ba | ||
| @samuraislack @JimmyHSands I never had any problems winning selections and elections in neighbouring Hackney when that was my job - it hasn't been for nine years. | ||
| @LiamBaker_97 We have no idea yet where any vacancies will be and in the vacancies which would be AWS, so not much point speculating. Some CLPs want local candidates and others prefer to shop around. | ||
| @HarryHayfield Somewhere else. | ||
| @willuminare Not in Oxford! | ||
| @TomNwainwright @nfliving I think Martin may have had his tongue in his cheek. | ||
| @colinrtalbot @charliemansell @David__Osland @labour_first Yep my kids really enjoy the castle and tunnels | ||
| @colinrtalbot @charliemansell @David__Osland @labour_first Makes sense now. My family are from Dymchurch, Folkestone, Denton on my dad's side and Dartford and Gravesend on my mum's side so I know Dover well. | ||
| @colinrtalbot @charliemansell @David__Osland @labour_first The Barrow thing threw me because of your reference to Dover in your profile - have you got a Cumbria connection and a Kent one? | ||
| @dmk1793 @lloyd_rm @OpenLabour I think this may be a question of Open Labour being entryised by SCG not the other way round. | ||
| @KatieCurtis How come you don't have any at home? | ||
| @David__Osland One day you'll be doing webinars for @labour_first | ||
| @Falcon_Malteser @Phil_Brickell @colinrtalbot @labour_first @nathanneilburns You can watch it on the Labour First Facebook page | ||
| This is live on Facebook now https://t.co/QY7fTl8Ubv | ||
| @JackDuncton I enjoyed "How Far from Austerlitz?" by Alistair Horne and "Napoleon" by Frank McLynn. For the history covered by War and Peace, try "1812: Napoleon's Fatal March Book" by Adam Zamoyski or "Russia Against Napoleon: The True Story of the Campaigns of War and Peace" by D Lieven |
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| @Scarletstand oddly the spam DMs I get have a ring of truth to them "I've seen this bad blog post about u... | ||
| @BioMickWatson Exactly, I don't understand the point in doing that. | ||
| @thehoff102 @joemillis1959 @lmharpin No it was Lansman who proposed Alf | ||
| On way to chair Health in Hackney scrutiny meeting | ||
| @jwhandley17 Maybe I've misunderstood what a handshake meme is! | ||
| @jwhandley17 You should | ||
| @ashborgestweets Yes but the relations below LOTO level were unofficial not formal eg meeting individual Labour MPs who were on LFI delegations. Presumably even Jon doesn't want to ban UK Labour members from having dialogue with their Israeli counterparts. | ||
| @martindale53 one for work, one for personal use | ||
| @juliablunck1 It isn't in the leader's hands at the moment. The disciplinary powers sit with the General Secretary, NEC and NCC not the Leader. | ||
| OK, next problem. My other blackberry says "not connected to blackberry internet service". How do I sort that? | ||
| I've solved the i problem! Language was set to Turkish... N16 default? | ||
| @vriyait supporters network already recruıtıng on natıonal websıte | ||
| @vriyait local measures eg LCFs from next round of AGMs I thınk - ıe May/June | ||
| Anyone else have blackberry prob where lıttle "I" comes out as "ı"? How do I get the dot back? | ||
| @AHerber10065252 @d4nf0x According to the IHRA definition it is, because it is denying the Jewish people the right to national self determination. | ||
| @rudebwoyben1 @patrickmoule The democratic legitimacy was about to come from the results of the Constituent Assembly election, which clearly showed the Russian people preferred other more democratic versions of socialism to the Bolsheviks | ||
| Some good jobs going here: https://t.co/MJ3SLCLNbz | ||
| @patrickmoule The former. Coups against democratic progressive governments usually end in tears. | ||
| @jwhandley17 Ah! | ||
| @jwhandley17 I've never met anyone on the right of the Labour Party who has any interest in or knowledge about the Canadian Liberal Party, let alone see it as a model. | ||
| @patrickmoule Have a read of No Less Than Mystic by John Medhurst | ||
| @patrickmoule October 1917 | ||
| @SHSC1974 Because it keeps the cost down to share US technology, but doesn't affect control of the system. The French have to pay more for a similar system as they can't/won't use US tech. | ||
| @SHSC1974 No it isn't. https://t.co/oVfxMLVs6C | ||
| @CiaranD1990 No. | ||
| @CiaranD1990 That's what Ed Miliband said at my final NEC meeting | ||
| @bevclack Feels good, doesn't it? | ||
| @_kerriprince Definitely. I have friends still refighting the 1959 conference vote on unilateralism which they attended as teenagers. |
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| @thatinterlace @theoryashistory I think when people say that kind of stuff it would usually be about ill-defined groups of people not named individuals, so not libellous | ||
| @theoryashistory @thatinterlace When? I can't think of examples. | ||
| @MBellLabCoop Nigel Barton (candidate not MP in Dennis Potter play) | ||
| @LML96_ @KeejayOV2 @JoshuaGarfield @BenMcGowan_ @ObanMackie @DrRosena @FChamberlain44 @jamielewis016 @Keir_Starmer @lisanandy @gabemilne96 Wow good company | ||
| @RobDexES @LabourList Written by former MP David Clark | ||
| @kennyk4y Apology accepted | ||
| @David__Osland The concept of "Blairite" didnt exist in 1991. | ||
| @StreathamComics The current senior Labour officials are not the people named in the leaked document. They all left in 2018. | ||
| Raab is tried and found wanting by a masterful Starmer | John Crace https://t.co/7nU7Swr9Q4 | ||
| @kennyk4y Correct, my complexion isn't going to change as it's a side effect of a life threatening nerve illness I had in 2009, nor is the disability caused by the same illness going to go away. | ||
| @mandeldril Slogging? It's a great read. | ||
| @PolProfSteve If you want to do a webinar on Tawney then @labour_first would be happy to host it | ||
| Tagged by @David__Osland so 4 albums, no skips to @iMattPound @tom_watson @MichaelDugher @_IanMoss on basis they all know a lot more about music than I do | ||
| When you send an email update at 4pm saying the Israeli coalition deal hasn't happened... but by 5pm the deal is back on and nearly signed. Occupational hazzard of trying to keep people updated about twists and turns of Israeli democracy. | ||
| @_IanMoss @emmacpicken Yes so I think it is NOLS Conference 1992 at ULU | ||
| Labour Party could be 'bankrupted' by multi-million pound lawsuits https://t.co/mjmmnGIG3K via @MailOnline | ||
| @DeclanAgain @Davejackson9876 Some of the messages are clearly bad taste jokes/sarcasm e.g. the one that says "this isn't what I have been working towards for two years". | ||
| @bevclack Grim reading | ||
| @LBellCross Gaitskell meets Rabin | ||
| @brandysheri Have I correctly understood this means CLP or branch secretaries, or maybe councillors, are threatening staff - given the limited number of people who have access to the system? | ||
| The words "which if true" are doing some heavy lifting here. https://t.co/wy8jGgEYiu | ||
| @maxshanly Yet to develop | ||
| Let me see... https://t.co/OFncwwj9PB | ||
| A classic of the genre https://t.co/2A1IWvzzH4 | ||
| @NeilJIrving24 48 | ||
| @JagoCorry You need to study the internal politics of @HackneyLabour, 1998-2014, and the happy years of harmony at the end of that period, to understand. | ||
| @RAS___________ @thebigcashprize @sharonm72 @lmharpin Have you ever encountered the concept of sarcasm or jokes? | ||
| @RAS___________ @sharonm72 @lmharpin I'm not. This conversation has been friendly advice about avoiding getting sued by not sharing the "report". | ||
| @RAS___________ @sharonm72 @lmharpin In law, the burden rests on the publisher to prove that the statements were true, rather than for the claimant to show that they were false. | ||
| @David__Osland It made more sense when I had little wire NHS specs and ultra left politics, but I got over both while doing my GCSEs. | ||
| @VikCR1986 @jonburkeUK @rickmuir1 @HackneyAbbott Yes, I think you may lack some knowledge of where I'm coming from politically. | ||
| @David__Osland Why white collar? Party organising includes manual work lifting and carrying boxes of leaflets. (For staff reading this, this is not a serious commentary on your role or Ts&Cs). | ||
| @LWHead @AaronBastani @jemgilbert @CiaranD1990 @MissEllieMae No, it's that one is a precondition of the other, Labour can only beat the Tories if its own political positioning isn't extreme. | ||
| @DannyFiler The process is that a socialist society applies to the NEC and has to fulfil criteria about its purpose, a minimum number of members, accounts for a certain number of years, and internal democratic constitution. @JamesAsser may have a copy of the exact current criteria. | ||
| @DannyFiler Looking at the list I think LCID may be the most recent one: https://t.co/IjA16Dr3t2 | ||
| @BrummieAsif @DannyFiler They organised within the Labour Party in same way Momentum or Lab 1st or Progress does, and then moved away from that as they wanted to expand to include Greens and LDs. Open Labour has filled the gap they left. But never an affiliated organisation. | ||
| @220_d_92_20 @PolProfSteve @wildernessyrs @labour_first But the previous group with that name gave us permission to re-use it. | ||
| @IanWoodland @spellar He takes great pleasure in reminding me of the disastrous consequences of the two times I've ever disagreed with him. Seriously though Len was aligned with Tom at that time. | ||
| @VikCR1986 @Sedition1917 @stephenkb I do not believe that anyone "worked to do the opposite". The allegation is absurd. | ||
| This is text of the statement from the GMB London Region branch for staff at the Labour Party issued Wednesday 15th April 2020 in response to an internal Labour Party report leaked over the weekend of 11th April: https://t.co/G39fqrNRR3 |
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| @Sedition1917 @VikCR1986 @stephenkb Why would you have any interest in a Labour government when you have "1917" in your handle? I worked my socks off canvassing to get a Labour government. Would be surprised if you did. | ||
| @charliemansell @jamesgoldstone @siennamarla @stephenkb @AdamWagner1 @matbob @unitetheunion Indeed. Bottom line is she wasn't taking instruction from Tom. | ||
| @JosephC59476025 Stay well. Thanks for the conversation. | ||
| @JosephC59476025 Or the 2019 one. I'm available if the next General Secretary wants me. | ||
| @JosephC59476025 They both have marginal seats that need funding anyway, I'd be arguing they needed resources myself. Why would their politics or the personal views of staff be in any way relevant to a decision about targeting? That isn't how targeting is done. | ||
| @JosephC59476025 I believe the direct conversations are quoted accurately, I do not believe that anyone on the staff materially acted in ways that damaged the campaign. There is no evidence to suggest they did, not least, it was rather a good, well-run campaign. | ||
| @ayeshahazarika Good luck and a fast recovery to him and strength to you and your family. | ||
| @JosephC59476025 Nope but have prev been agent, PPC & NEC, & I know plenty of people who did and was asking them for targeting advice about where to send campaigners during the campaign. They were trying to get the best result possible for Labour. The idea they wouldn't is nonsensical. | ||
| @JosephC59476025 I'd be very careful about alleging factional resourcing, given what appears to have been done in 2019. | ||
| I think this manages to combine casual homophobia with antisemitism... https://t.co/MXBdtb14g3 | ||
| @JosephC59476025 There is nothing in the leaked report that suggests "sabotaging behaviour"; which is the kind of language used in 1930s show trials. | ||
| @nukk A lot actually. The party was very united when I was on the NEC. Division has largely been caused by Corbyn's leadership so should fade away soon. | ||
| @laith_alk They didn't try to lose the election, don't be daft. | ||
| @DannyFiler Like spinach. We are getting orichette pasta and doing a version of orecchiette con cime di rapa which is a Puglian dish, but with the nettles instead of the cime di rapa. Will report back. | ||
| @DannyFiler My tip for the day is that nettles with white flowers don't sting and can apparently be used to make nettle pesto | ||
| @DaveMJo1 I'm one of those unpaid activists who has been knocking doors for 30 years under every Labour Leader since Kinnock. | ||
| @Sue4AudleyWard @mcash I've read the whole report and there is no evidence in it of anyone working against the party. | ||
| @dmk1793 There's no actual evidence of "sabotage" in the report, and abuse is usually defined as comments you publicly aim at people, not commentary, however unpleasant, made in private. | ||
| Momentum splinters amid in-fighting over the future for left-wing group https://t.co/gOHaAXJ2N2 | ||
| @GlenisterIan He compared Stalin to the Devil in his most famous speech about him. | ||
| My 6 year old son's homework is to find out about Venezuela. Teacher trying to wind up anti-Chavez parents? | ||
| Join us for Hackney Labour campaigning in Chatham Ward tomorrow - meeting 10.30am on Hackney Town Hall steps #labourdoorstep | ||
| @Jamesdr63136314 @DannyFiler Umm there was a democratic regime in between the Tsar and Lenin | ||
| @TurloughADK Ditto | ||
| @DannyFiler The dividing line in the Labour Party is to your left not your right. Fundamentally we both have more in common as social democrats or democratic socialists than the most left wing democratic socialist does with a Leninist. | ||
| @SKillaire Pointing out that Lara is not by the wildest stretch of the imagination, a Trotskyist. | ||
| @asadfk @per_incuriam The document refers to emails naming me in 2015 and 2016. | ||
| @mcash Treat it with contempt. It's narrative is laughable. | ||
| @paulclayton9 As I was a big Ed Miliband fan you may have tagged the wrong person | ||
| @VikCR1986 We spent the election knocking doors like every other activist | ||
| @lara_eleanor Think you may have misread my tweet. | ||
| @per_incuriam Any email that refers to you is personal data about you. Correct the references are innocuous but shows they didn't send me all the data they had on me when I asked for it in Subject Access Request | ||
| @per_incuriam References to me in two internal emails. Nothing very exciting. | ||
| @joemillis1959 A double one. Data breach and failure to properly respond to a SAR. | ||
| @patrickmoule @aliceperryuk Thanks for the warning. @LabLinda75 just picked some to make nettle pesto | ||
| @veritynevitt @mattzarb It's not a report about the 2017 General Election as far as I'm aware. Why would the EHRC want a report about an election campaign? | ||
| @mattzarb That's a report on the competence with which the 2017 General Election was run? Odd subject matter to write for the EHRC. | ||
| @veritynevitt @mattzarb Where's the evidence for that? Anyone campaigning for Labour in both 2017 and 2019 knows from their own lived experience that 2017 was a more competently run campaign. | ||
| @mattzarb What's the point you are trying to make? | ||
| @nyebevan63 @AyoCaesar Sadly I'm a lot fatter than that | ||
| @LastBlairite @adamlangleben Some of the factional animosity was driven by an understanding of the centrality of antisemitic variants of anti-Zionism to their politics. | ||
| @jruddy99 @PickardJE @falklands_utd 1807 | ||
| Just done advıce surgery. All about parkıng ıssues. | ||
| @skybluejim @labour_first I think has already passed as will be 8 weeks before the NEC meeting that set the timetable and that's already happened. | ||
| @LukePagliaro @Ashley_Walsh That's an unusual arrangement, Chief Secretary was a full Cabinet member when we were in govt not just an attendee | ||
| @CllrAKelly That as well | ||
| 1 more follower to hit 2,500. Please RT if you think my ramblings are worth reading. | ||
| @mattzarb If I had £1 for every person on here that attacks me for using the words "Hard Left" I would be very rich. | ||
| A Tale of Two Parties https://t.co/ATVvY1JOpO via @aminterest | ||
| @divininglemmin1 @ForCoxford My candidate? I supported Starmer. | ||
| @nfliving @PickardJE Sacrilege ... | ||
| @ForCoxford It's not about what we might like as individuals, it's about a proper analysis of why we lost and what it would take to win. I'm sure some things I profoundly believe in are unpopular with voters and I might have to deprioritise them. | ||
| @jossmacdonald It says you should assess areas of strength and weakness and change the weak areas whilst building on the strong ones. I'd like to see the Hard Left assessing what their weaknesses were. | ||
| @jossmacdonald OK here's the basic summary of my post 2010 stance, which was "drop Blairism, vote for Ed M" https://t.co/Nd1ELLCcf7 and then this is what I wrote after 2015 https://t.co/OXK2Bk9x8q | ||
| @jossmacdonald Read the stuff I wrote after those defeats. | ||
| @_translucid Labour First doesn't have a programme or stances on policy, that's not its remit. But if you are asking about me personally, yes I shifted my political stances in reaction to the 2010 and 2015 defeats. | ||
| Slightly bizarre that debate on Hard Left is about internal factions - how to reform or scrap Momentum; not about what aspects of their political ideas or ideology they need to reassess or drop given comprehensive rejection by the electorate on 12 December. | ||
| Chag Pesach sameach to all my Jewish friends, hope you and your families are safe and well. | ||
| @kira_millana @nathanneilburns He's busy working for me until then isn't he? | ||
| @joemillis1959 @thehoff102 @YairWallach @WeBelieveIsrael Yes, with land swaps along the lines of the Clinton parameters | ||
| @grandmasforEU @murphyna @stephenpollard @Keir_Starmer He did make strong public comments in the media in 2018 and 2019. | ||
| @Kav_Kaushik It's what they were doing a few weeks ago that will have had the impact, death rate in 10 days time will still be reflecting pre lockdown patterns of social gatherings, use of transport etc. Then each tube commuter who caught it could also have infected ppl in their home area. | ||
| @Kav_Kaushik People that commute on the tube - the longer you spend on tube the more likely to get bugs. The pattern of seasonal flu also looks the same, w particular impact on ppl who interchange at big stations like Kings X where millions of ppl touch the escalator etc | ||
| @Nino19904 @Keir_Starmer @standardnews @JewishChron Read the IHRA definition and just avoid using language and tropes that are antisemitic when you criticise Israel for this or any other action or event | ||
| @Nino19904 @Keir_Starmer @standardnews @JewishChron As long as the way you criticise Israel doesn't breach the IHRA definition of antisemitism | ||
| @murphyna @stephenpollard @Keir_Starmer He would have been kicked out of the Shadow Cabinet and that would have meant he couldn't have won the leadership election and a continuity Corbyn candidate would have. That's the messy real-politik. | ||
| @SouthvilleRob @NewpPaul @UKLabour The national party could suspend from membership which automatically also suspends their candidature | ||
| @Planet_Pedro She and John McDonnell resigned so have not been included in the list attached to the party press release which is what I cut and pasted | ||
| @JaneHabib She and McDonnell resigned before the party compiled the above list. | ||
| @TimGMacpherson @JimfromOldham @jreynoldsMP @JoStevensLabour It's finely balanced. | ||
| @CllrNickSmall @JimfromOldham @jreynoldsMP @JoStevensLabour Ah forgot that! | ||
| @Labourpaul 3 appointees and 3 NEC by-election wins. And some other NEC members previously in the JC column who have publicly declared support for KS. | ||
| @mathewhbenham No that gets decided at first shadow cabinet meeting | ||
| @Sherloc43863463 She and McDonnell already announced they were retiring | ||
| @mcash @TomMillerUK @MrsBurgin @patrickmoule Those aren't existential threats. | ||
| @DaveEvans77 Hi Dave, throughout the history of the Labour Party members have had a right to group together if they feel they share particular positions or interests. I think that's a good thing, but that factions should know their place and not try to dominate internal life of the party. | ||
| @eralcbear He sent an email letter to every party member at 14.00 on Saturday. I'm astonished that anyone would begrudge making an early move to repair relations with the Jewish Community - it's clearly essential for Labour to mend that relationship and deal with antisemitism. | ||
| @mcash @MrsBurgin @patrickmoule @TomMillerUK We like having the country defended from existential threats, and Labour being trusted on defence enough to be electable. | ||
| @SmithSpeak The organisation I run just beat them in the NEC election so yes, it is reasonable for us to compare ourselves to them. | ||
| @orinoco99 Indeed i.e. not to factions. Actually technically he is accountable to the NEC he has to report to them. | ||
| @LWHead To members, not factions | ||
| @suemurphy37 To the membership through party democratic structures, not to factions which are in themselves not accountable. | ||
| @UmaarKazmi I was never conceited enough to claim he was accountable to me. | ||
| @jshpmm1 FYI Labour First was founded by @spellar when I was doing my GCSEs in 1988. | ||
| @nickicrossley As far as I am aware, you are an individual member, not the organisation Momentum | ||
| @MoulesStuart No, criticism and disagreement is fine, I just think it's extremely conceited for a faction with no formal standing in the Labour Party to claim the Leader is accountable to them. | ||
| @AudreyAurus1 He's accountable to us all as individual members. Factions don't need to get in between the membership and their elected representatives. | ||
| @AudreyAurus1 The membership, through the democratic structure of the party, not factions. I run a faction, I am not conceited enough to think the leader is accountable to me because of that. | ||
| @D4N13L84 Indeed, as members through the democratic structures of the party. Not factions throwing their weight around. | ||
| @Jwscullis11985 @labour_first Yes a local one. About Coronavirus stuff. | ||
| @RobbieScott100 They all publicly pledged not to cause NEC vacancies by becoming MPs. Then two of them did it anyway. | ||
| @babygapesyouju1 I'm not employed by the Labour Party, haven't been since 1998. | ||
| @DrRobertZands It's how I see myself. | ||
| @Robert58585858 Yes hence had to give up their NEC seats as MPs can't sit in the CLP section. | ||
| @Tony_McNulty The Tories and Lib Dems | ||
| @EOTierney @wordsbyana Labour First was created in 1988. In what sense is that recent? | ||
| @HarrietHarman @CouncillorBill Thanks for saying the truth, I'm fed up with history being falsely rewritten | ||
| I guess this is a compliment? https://t.co/aqoFpoWVSD | ||
| @KatieCurtis So sorry to hear this Katie, condolences to all your family | ||
| @Jwscullis11985 @labour_first Do, we have a nice local branch | ||
| @Eirenepacem @WeBelieveIsrael Labour. | ||
| @Jwscullis11985 All winners supported by @labour_first | ||
| IQBAL, Chaudhry Qamer 1.77% ALI, Shaukat 1.21% RAWF, Aram 0.88% DEINALI, Omide 0.53% |
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| OYEWUSI, Lola 3.44% AKHTAR, Fozia 2.66% WOOLLEY, Iram 2.63% DASGUPTA, Rohit K 2.15% SINGH, Rupinder 2.13% |
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| OWLADI, Peyman 2,459 | ||
| Now let's see what happened in the NEC byelections. ETA of results is 12 noon. | ||
| @doktordunc I'm quite honoured still to be followed. Famous last words. | ||
| @DAaronovitch @thetimes Love the Signorelli fresco from Orvieto illustrating this | ||
| @KarlBarnsley1 @gsjosan @JohannaBaxter @CWSewell On the party website at approx 1045 for leader and deputy and 12 noon for NEC | ||
| @charliemansell @gsjosan @JohannaBaxter @CWSewell I've heard the figure of 109,000 new members but don't know if that's post 12 Dec or post 12 Nov. | ||
| @charliemansell @gsjosan @JohannaBaxter @CWSewell You had to join before 12 November 2019 to get an NEC vote, as 8 weeks freeze date was counted back from 6 Jan NEC timetabling meeting, not from start of ballot. | ||
| Thoughts and prayers are with my friend Derek Draper. https://t.co/svc54Tgspg | ||
| Labour Party’s reality-show election https://t.co/rUpjjBT3Vc | ||
| @SoftLeftStan Why would you dislike Foot if you are Soft Left? | ||
| @MissLauraMarcus @Keir_Starmer You need to take it up with Keir's campaign then as this was sent to their list, the party won't have provided the data. | ||
| @AndrewBoff Hackney Labour Group hasn't met and decided its stance yet on nil policy | ||
| @MissLauraMarcus @Keir_Starmer It was sent to people who had registered as supporters of his campaign | ||
| @ianssmart Hi Ian, it's worth checking with your branch or CLP Secretary what email address the party has for you on the national membership system. Also try emailing leadership2020@labour.org.uk | ||
| @Insect_Nation Cuts both ways - also lots of people stuck at home with time to consider politics, and politicised by the crisis as it shows importance of NHS etc | ||
| @kayes67 Progress has policy in favour of electoral reform if my memory is correct, reflecting that New Labour's roots were partly in the Soft Left LCC. | ||
| @CatrionaMacL @PickardJE I agree about Wolf Hall. Found it an impenetrable trudge. | ||
| @PolProfSteve Tango & Cash | ||
| @MichaelDugher Yes all thankfully ok | ||
| @MichaelDugher As you know, I'm definitely not a football person, but it's heartwarming seeing pics of people with their friends and families doing something they really care about. | ||
| @wainstyle @ElunedAnderson Actually I think there is more risk of rigging with the current US system of "voting machines" than with paper postal ballots. | ||
| @alanbeattie @PolProfSteve The structure is clever - the nesting linked stories - and a couple of the individual stories are really good. Give it a go. The Bone Clocks is excellent too. | ||
| @alanbeattie @PolProfSteve The book of Cloud Atlas is rather better than the film. I've enjoyed all of David Mitchell's books. | ||
| @Bedeapk @jsevns Who is he? | ||
| @alidogan_uk @GeorgeAylett Sure that's the pre-80s model when BAE, Rolls etc were nationalised industries. But the UK armed forces market is too small to sustain alone the hi-tech industrial capabilities it needs, so either the nationalised firms would still need to export or we wd have 2 buy from overseas | ||
| @justa_numba @GeorgeAylett The core values of the Labour Party have been constant throughout its history. The policies proposed to enact them have changed over time. | ||
| @TheSinanKose How has he had any impact on that? He would have to win a General Election to take decisions about the use of military force. | ||
| @suey2y Soldiers don't know how to drive trains. The army has a lot of truck drivers but not train drivers. | ||
| Is Israel's Coronavirus Crackdown Going Too Far? https://t.co/NIQGAuts8Z | ||
| @ElunedAnderson They have never delayed one. Went ahead in middle of WW2 and Civil War. Guess they could mandate 100% postal balloting. | ||
| @KatieCurtis @jackamayorcas Who is thinking it is a good time to sell their house? | ||
| https://t.co/HsieeJLi6t | ||
| @HarryLangford what do you need to know? | ||
| Not a spoof account https://t.co/tHnY2Q2Wwe | ||
| @eleanorlondon Horrible Histories is bearable for adults as well as kids, and educational | ||
| @delsinger1 @ringwodian The full details don't seem to have been published yet | ||
| @RedSomerset @ringwodian No the employee takes the hit of 20% as they aren't working | ||
| @IanDunt Ticket to ride | ||
| @paulclayton9 Because over 90% of people already voted online. The substantive bits of the process are all done. These last few votes need to come in and then announce the result as planned on 4 April. | ||
| @lees1969 Definitely most - about 10% seemed to be delayed 2 weeks ago but that number will have shrunk. | ||
| At Homerton Neighbourhood Forum hearing from residents re riots, new secondary school, parking | ||
| @LauraSRobinson @northofcam That's my plan | ||
| @colinrtalbot You were very sensible to get into cover a week early. | ||
| @jruddy99 They changed the rules last year. Cost I guess. | ||
| @jruddy99 It was. That's what I call for in the article but they aren't doing. | ||
| Not sure I appreciate the advert for award winning funeral plans my local Co-op has just sent me. The reduced price wine may come in handy though. | ||
| RT @britainelects: Welford-on-Avon (Stratford-on-Avon) result: LDEM: 43.6% (+43.6) CON: 29.9% (+8.7) IND: 21.3% (+21.3) LAB: 3.8% (-1.5) G… |
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| But not over in sense that lots of people still haven't voted - reminder emails being sent out by the party on Monday. https://t.co/qbIwejxlxw | ||
| @smt49 @LabLinda75 Not the NEC one. | ||
| @smt49 My brother in law final got his at 7.30pm this evening | ||
| @teresamaryclark @politicshome It's Kevin Schofield's opinion and article not mine, so he is who you need to accuse of revanchism. | ||
| @teresamaryclark @politicshome What's it got to do with Labour First? It's a politics home article, Labour First isn't mentioned and hasn't commented about this. | ||
| @dancrawford85 @kira_millana @janwells2912 @JohnRentoul Done | ||
| @RabbiZvi Just had someone question the accuracy of a bit of it, so best to delete. Sorry! | ||
| Hampstead and Kilburn Labour chair thanks ex-member who was expelled for 'sickening' comments about Jews https://t.co/ZJEmsilbst via @jewishchron | ||
| @RaphaelHarris9 @philwoodford @make_trouble Israel lockdown is different to Italy one - Israel is restricting entry into country not stopping day to day public activities within country like Italy has had to. | ||
| @HuwJonesLabour @hal_westergaard The Labour selectorate in 2015 and 2016 wasn't some perfect demos though - it was mainly people who one of the campaigns had recruited, and in no way politically or demographically representative of Labour voters or potential voters. | ||
| @Socialist_Chris @LastBlairite Their allies control the NEC and key roles in the party administration overseeing the process. | ||
| @David__Osland @Lizdlabour @johnmcdonnellMP OMG I agree with Jeremy and John and Liz about something! | ||
| @RAS___________ @GaryCChambers Some of them did campaign, a lot of them didn't. It doesn't matter how much you campaign - and I say this as a #LabourDoorstep addict- if the politics you push on the party is extreme and turns voters off. | ||
| @RAS___________ @GaryCChambers What if the mass recruitment brought in new members who dragged the party into an extreme positioning that made it unelectable? Oh, that's exactly what happened. | ||
| @RAS___________ Administered by Civica based on decisions about eligibility and data about who gets which ballots from the party. Civica is nothing to do with people being ruled out on spurious grounds, or a hotline being under staffed and emails to a party address unanswered. | ||
| @Paul0Evans1 It's slowing things down so the health system doesn't collapse because 20% of the population turn up needing an isolation ward at the same time. | ||
| @fightingb4ck Only full members get an NEC vote as it's for the CLP section. JLM is represented through the Socialist Societies section of the NEC, which is isn't an OMOV ballot. | ||
| @lizzieedgerton Ok unfortunately only full members who joined before 12 Nov 2019 get an NEC vote. | ||
| @LPT1984 Try this https://t.co/PRCsf6QSkX | ||
| If so many highly active Labour members are struggling to get their leadership ballot, how many less active members r just being de facto disenfranchised because they don't know where to complain etc? It's a scandal. Members shouldn't have to fight to exercise their right to vote | ||
| @fightingb4ck When did you join? | ||
| Another morning on the #labourdoorstep in Lye Valley Ward https://t.co/gmUe0ePdZK | ||
| @lizzieedgerton When did you join? | ||
| @annesnelgrove @cjfaraway Actually the excuse they are using is that they are counting 8 weeks provisional membership back from 6 Jan when the timetable was set. | ||
| @DavidCarr2002 Unfortunately yes. | ||
| @Middletonfox The postal votes are still slowly arriving | ||
| Enjoyed running the board today in Lye Valley Ward #labourdoorstep - 90 contacts not bad for a weekday morning https://t.co/laVknr9jdu | ||
| @cjfaraway @charleswhite3 @thomasmessenger NEC chose to interpret rules that way, which removed 100,000 new members from the NEC ballot. | ||
| @Middletonfox Same closing date, different franchise, if you are entitled to vote in the NEC ballot it should have come in same email or envelope as Leader & Deputy. But some people entitled to vote in it have only had the leader and deputy ballot. | ||
| @Middletonfox That's correct. The NEC ballot franchise is full members who joined before 12 Nov 2019. | ||
| @charleswhite3 @thomasmessenger No, only full members who joined before 12 Nov 2019. | ||
| @_JonathanQuin @labour_first You should definitely have had an NEC ballot too at same time. Best to call the hotline 0345 092 22 99, Monday to Friday, 9am to 5pm to get the NEC one reissued | ||
| @_JonathanQuin @labour_first When did you join the party? | ||
| @PointlessBrexit Try asking for a resend via this website https://t.co/PRCsf6QSkX | ||
| @PointlessBrexit when did the 2 who got leader ballots join? | ||
| @YorkshireLad_87 Exactly. It makes no sense. And radically changes likely outcome of NEC ballot. | ||
| @YorkshireLad_87 sadly that's correct - you only get an NEC vote if a member since before 12 November | ||
| @CallumMair And you think banging on more about the Tories being rich was the missing component from our campaign? | ||
| @CallumMair It is when the Tories are hugely popular among working class voters, and Labour does well among the graduate middle classes. Class dealignment in party voting has been a trend since 1950s. The Tories just won Don Valley, Rother Valley, Sedgefield while we won Canterbury, Putney. | ||
| @CallumMair @Siobhain_Mc She's saying the public aren't bothered about the personal wealth or class background of Tory politicians so it is not politically productive to highlight it. | ||
| @CallumMair @Siobhain_Mc Disagreeing with, not attacking. | ||
| @pvp58 @DrRosena The FA has one - a panel of senior lawyers who are not otherwise involved in football hear disciplinary cases. | ||
| It gets tiresome explaining this, but I look like a "blood orange" as a side effect of a life-threatening neurological disease I had a decade ago, which also caused my disability. https://t.co/doCtMoIANj | ||
| @leechwaifu The wider electorate rejected Corbyn on 12 Dec and Bernie yesterday. | ||
| @Bryanoakley194 Fewer people than are voting for Biden. | ||
| @leechwaifu Then why are you responding to a joke about post grad Twitter Marxists? | ||
| @robert_exley I was too left wing. | ||
| @MorganPaulett It is a steely belief of mine that healthcare should be a universal right free at the point of service. If you bothered to check out my history you would know about my personal debt to the NHS for saving my life and teaching me to walk again, and my campaigning for it. | ||
| @Vdweller @BarnesyJohn @RedSomerset There is | ||
| @GeorgeAylett Yes you are. | ||
| @jroy35848 @lukelustigbruce Lisa Nandy has shown it's possible to be deeply involved in advocacy for the Palestinians without exhibiting hatred for Israel or Jews. | ||
| @criptheirvote Hi, I'm disabled. | ||
| @DavidAbstract the problems Lab left r nothing compared to what inherited in 1997. We left good public services and a fairer society. | ||
| @DavidAbstract yougov in Sunday Times week b4 last. TB highest rated Lab ldr and 39pc think good or great PM, 24pc average, 35pc bad | ||
| The Sanders revolution has stalled https://t.co/oiqiOVDNxY | ||
| Latest from Israeli election count. You need 61 seats to form a government. https://t.co/FEGBn3TOFP | ||
| @NorthernKitty69 @siennamarla I think it's quite likely that as a prominent lawyer he would be getting very many c£1k donations from other lawyers. Am also assuming Unison and Usdaw will be giving more to his campaign at some point. | ||
| @ringwodian @NathanYeowell @ProgressOnline @labour_first @ReclaimingLab Yes definitely still happening with me as speaker! | ||
| Great to see that Keir's biggest donor, far from being any sinister organisation, is actually Robert Latham -@robertjlatham , who I remember from my time as Frank Dobson's Agent as a brilliant grassroots Labour activist in what is now Keir's CLP. | ||
| @NeilProcter5 @paulclayton9 Not really. Just Brownite rather than Blairite. | ||
| @paulclayton9 He was leftwing but definitely nothing to do with the Soft Left of the Labour Party. If you think of Labour as having 4 quarters the most leftwing quarter is referred to as Hard Left and the next quarter to their right as Soft Left. That still leaves half the Labour Party. | ||
| Quality line-up. https://t.co/qp7B2MmizZ | ||
| @OwenLio @labour_first Try asking for a new ballot using this link: https://t.co/ZOEZCHhFi9 | ||
| @Jhomsie Great debating skills there. | ||
| @Doolan666 Experience and charisma. He did a good job as VP to Obama. My hunch is he has the best chance of beating Trump. | ||
| @KenosisKinesis @Calderbank I call myself a socialist but I'm not running for President of the USA. | ||
| @SeanOrr69 Written by Tony Blair. | ||
| @stephenwild @Calderbank Am I a socialist? Yes I am. | ||
| @Jackyboy1984 You appear to retweet Chris Williamson. That's all I need to know. | ||
| @spinningjoe What are you on about? Bernie is unelectable, it's not about being for or against his admirable theoretical policy stances, it's about whether you just want to gift the election to Trump. | ||
| @stephenwild @Calderbank We are not in the USA. The term is accepted here in a way it isn't there. | ||
| @jemgilbert @paulmasonnews I can confirm Labour First won't disappear, and I don't think Paul should give up advocating his politics either, but if we approach Keir's leadership in a spirit of unity we may all be pleasantly surprised to find plenty of things we agree on. | ||
| @cdarl67 @MissMojitoT @mac123_m Labour First's position is public - we aren't picking between Keir and Lisa and are urging our supporters to vote for both of them in either order. | ||
| @KatieCurtis Do any of you use the same email address? Party only sends a paper ballot if for instance, a husband and wife both use same email. | ||
| @johnebolt It only suggests 15% of population are | ||
| @YorkshireLad_87 There aren't 4% of them in the population though | ||
| @Dan_Dan_Dan___ @lindathomas_uk The ideological lexiteers who turn up to party meetings don't command anything like 4% public support. | ||
| @cliffjamester I supported the Iraq War, still do, and am proud to be a friend of Israel | ||
| @cliffjamester on crime I like the Blair formula of tough on crime + causes. I support ID cards, CCTV, Blair's anti-terrorism laws. | ||
| Conclusive proof that I didn't make up the term "hard left" and that it isn't pejorative. https://t.co/ieOdFvlV8P | ||
| @cliffjamester I agree but I prefer the @Ed_MiIiband approach to the @michaelmeacher one | ||
| @Nozzer29 After Monday | ||
| @pollytoynbee @horatioharry The party say they won't all be issued until Monday | ||
| @WendyPettifer @patrickmoule I imagine Hackney North meetings have become very dull in absence of double act between me and Graham Bash | ||
| @Peredyr1 @jruddy99 @SpaJw @BarnesyJohn It's what the rulebook says but I agree it's arbitrary and inconsistent. | ||
| @jruddy99 @SpaJw @BarnesyJohn Hi John I've checked with the party and unfortunately it's actually that you had to be a member 8 weeks before 6th Jan to get an NEC vote | ||
| @MattKerrLabour @FinnOBeyts Who is he? | ||
| This is sad news, he was a very effective Chair of the Defence Committee https://t.co/m9BS8VYZFT | ||
| This sounds like a proposal to nationalise the @ProgressOnline Political Weekend... https://t.co/pNja6aP1Zx | ||
| @frozenwarning Not possible given it is preferential voting. | ||
| @alidogan_uk @paulmasonnews @JoshuaYJackson @Keir_Starmer @iMattPound he is but he isn't "touted to be chief of staff". | ||
| @CllrKennedy @SpaJw Not until next week. | ||
| @SpaJw Next week | ||
| @DavidACAtHome @Keir_Starmer @lisanandy @IanMurrayMP @DrRosena @AngelaRayner @JohannaBaxter @gsjosan The image you posted neatly sums up my beliefs. | ||
| @RightHater @CMonehen @paulmasonnews @JoshuaYJackson @Keir_Starmer I'm pretty sure Paul Mason, Simon Fletcher and Laura Parker are not from the part of the Labour Party I agree with. | ||
| @CMonehen @paulmasonnews @JoshuaYJackson @Keir_Starmer We need leaders who can get support from across the party, not just part of it. | ||
| @Urban_Turbo @Oxford_Labour Best person to respond is @cllrsusanbrown | ||
| @David__Osland @DAaronovitch Surely there are variants of far left politics, such as Stalinism, that antisemitism is intrinsic to. | ||
| @Smithy0364 @MissLauraMarcus It wasn't OMOV though then, both CLPs and unions cast winner-takes-all block votes, and MPs had 30% of vote, hence the lop-sided result (cube law outcome of lots of narrow winner-takes-all Kinnock wins at CLP GCs) | ||
| @KeepsLeft I'm not an MP | ||
| @fascinatorfun You don't need to have received your membership card to vote. I'm a branch secretary and all the new members appeared on the system on the day they applied. There's a backlog on issuing cards just because of volume of printing needed. | ||
| @Semakaleng @HackneyLabour @sadiq @CarolineSelman @chrismylesk @SamPallis @kofo_david @KamAdams1 Wow lots of familiar faces! | ||
| @JackEDeakin @SpaJw @BenProcter @adamlangleben They applied and weren't shortlisted. | ||
| Spring is coming. | ||
| @Marro_Nick @maliharez Excuse me? | ||
| Oh FFS https://t.co/MbH4g7Bqc4 | ||
| @iamhamesh I nominate @Labourpaul | ||
| @dmk1793 Bespoke: @DrRosena DJing the @LabourStudents disco | ||
| @PALythgoe If you knew anything about me or even followed the photos I tag with #labourdoorstep you would know that throughout the last 4 years I have diligently campaigned for Labour at every level of election | ||
| @sir_dward @maliharez Same issue given Saddam had already used WMDs - chemical weapons- in Anfal genocide of Kurds - Halabja massacre | ||
| Returning from Chessington World of Adventures. Next task help Jed build Lego Queen Anne's Revenge (BlackBeard's ship from POTC IV) | ||
| @SpaJw @BenProcter @adamlangleben Only because all the moderates got constituency seats so are no longer available for the list. | ||
| @BenProcter @adamlangleben Correct | ||
| @adamlangleben If that is true it means there are no moderate candidates for the list as they won the constituencies they went for instead | ||
| Momentum front group in backing Momentum candidate shocker. https://t.co/i2GdbKcC4g | ||
| @David__Osland We really wouldn't have wanted a by-election in Dudley North in February 2019. | ||
| @Calderbank @maliharez An actual conspiracy theory. Tin foil hat time. | ||
| @Calderbank @maliharez Yeah because everything complex in foreign policy always has a ridiculously simplistic dogwhistle conspiracy theory explanation. Why would he risk his entire premiership for someone else's "capital accumulation"? | ||
| @andythepoi @Simon_Vessey Sure. Doing that now. | ||
| @dazzlepups @Tina4Colchester @PeoplesMomentum @UKLabour @JennieGenSec @JohannaBaxter @LabGrassroots @CLPD_Labour Apology for what? | ||
| @dazzlepups @Tina4Colchester @PeoplesMomentum @UKLabour @JennieGenSec @JohannaBaxter @LabGrassroots @CLPD_Labour Paranoid conspiracy theories are not a good look. | ||
| @Crashed7 @Tina4Colchester @dazzlepups @PeoplesMomentum @UKLabour @JennieGenSec I haven't interacted with it and don't intend to. | ||
| @dazzlepups @Tina4Colchester @PeoplesMomentum @UKLabour @JennieGenSec Following an account does not indicate support for it. I follow loads of accounts I profoundly disagree with. | ||
| @Jamesdr63136314 I disagreed with him but I thought we should be in the same party. | ||
| @Jamesdr63136314 No it's for it to be a broad church that stops at the boundary between Hard Left democratic socialists (people like Tony Benn), and communists. They have fundamentally non-Labour beliefs and their own parties. | ||
| @DavidPrescott yes. | ||
| @danielfirmanlfc @0161Jimmy @ModernLeftie @DougalMurphy @HerbertMkHughes @rheawolfson I've never been out. | ||
| @DavidPrescott principle was passed, detail of how will work to be sorted | ||
| @labour4empire What, by unilaterally withdrawing like he did from Gaza? | ||
| @KatieCurtis Was impressive close up too | ||
| @mandeldril @nathanneilburns The thing I posted is the same info presented a clearer way. Only candidates with support from big unions have a chance of winning as TUs have 50% of vote. | ||
| @SpaJw Try Porta 6, Majestic stock it, very quaffable regional wine from Lisbon | ||
| @GarySpedding @gabemilne96 @stephane_ulrich I'm old enough to have been politically active at the time of the GFA so don't ascribe bullshit imaginery positions to me that I didn't hold. | ||
| @GarySpedding @gabemilne96 @stephane_ulrich Any peace deal has to be negotiated with Israel and acceptable to the Israeli electorate. It's not about what I want it's about what the other party in the conflict can live with. | ||
| @19Averil Ministers need a couple of party political advisers to provide them with advice on the political implications of decisions and to do media relations in a political way - neither function is appropriate for civil servants to perform. | ||
| @JimmyHSands Yes. People who joined before 6 Jan can vote. | ||
| Johanna has gone up from 64 last time to 160 nominations this time, Gurinder from 65 to 122. Momentum, CLPD and LRC seem to be running at about 3/4 of their previous strength as a combined slate. | ||
| @cooljool80 @BenWill1973 @CamBeavanKing That's not true. She is JVL & LRC and Lansman and JVL & LRC detest each other. | ||
| @danny_golding She wasn't on it last night - see my tweet with list of nomination numbers then. | ||
| @barleymow1 That doesn't happen as it is a transferable voting system not FPTP. | ||
| CLPD not CPLD.... | ||
| Lots of other candidates on under 10. You need 5 CLPs to get on the ballot. 2 to be elected, by First Two Past the Post, at same time as leadership ballot but only members of over 8 weeks allowed to vote. Members get 2 votes. | ||
| So Mishra needs to win 62% of the BAME members - balloted at the same time as the leadership - to beat Sewell. | ||
| @SpaJw Ed M was backed by Unite in the pre Len era. Len only became General Secretary 2 months after Ed was elected as party leader. | ||
| Good to see lot of this combo! https://t.co/mOZZnXbUwV | ||
| @charleswhite3 @CLPNominations Correct they can but obviously there are legitimate arguments that they shouldn't | ||
| Watching LDs on TV realise no vitriol I have ever hurled at them was hype, I actually underestimated what cretins they are. Despise them. | ||
| @forwardnotback Sacrilege | ||
| @forwardnotback You missed out Scotch Broth | ||
| Richard Burgon's remarks show how deep Labour’s antisemitism problem runs https://t.co/4jCBbxTQCA via @jewishchron | ||
| @lizziegee55 The person who was mistaken for me isn't even a new face, he's a local town councillor | ||
| @HowlingPaolo Corbyn and Kinnock both lost two General Elections. Kinnocktook Labour from 209 seats to 271 whereas Corbyn took it from 232 to 202. | ||
| @catherhutch @JamesEFoster @Keir_Starmer I've been at home in Oxford all evening, never been to a Labour Party meeting in NE Somerset tonight or any other night, and not made any public statement of support for any candidate in this leadership election. | ||
| @JonnyR_Labour @CLPNominations @LabourBot Even better would be to publish CLP delegates elected to conference | ||
| @CJ_Appleby @RichardBurgon That's set out in the rules of the contest. All the campaigns have to give any unspent funds to the party. | ||
| @jroy35848 @economyofheaven @bigdamo @labour @UKLabour Why do you think Vietnamese people in the UK became refugees from Vietnam? It wasn't because it was a socialist paradise. | ||
| @djbeere @CLPNominations Hornsey and Wood Green and Lewisham Deptford have been given special dispensation to run more than one meeting. | ||
| @siennamarla Why not just have a website with some news and opinions on it? | ||
| @O_lloyd Disgusting comment. I hope you are lucky enough never to have to flee a dictatorship. | ||
| @Jackcantsleep1 @labour @UKLabour What you mean Labour principles? | ||
| Labour members are fed up with sectarianism - and are ready to win - by @NathanYeowell https://t.co/Ojvr71pyTk | ||
| @charliemansell @LeftieStats @labourunionsuk @RLong_Bailey @Keir_Starmer @lisanandy @CLPNominations No. My numbers are from 2017. | ||
| @NorretteM @charliemansell @LeftieStats @labourunionsuk @RLong_Bailey @Keir_Starmer @lisanandy @CLPNominations Unite affiliates to Labour at just over 600,000 members, each of Unison, Usdaw and GMB affiliate at just over 400,000, CWU at about 180,000. | ||
| @charliemansell @LeftieStats @labourunionsuk @RLong_Bailey @Keir_Starmer @lisanandy @CLPNominations Hi Charlie I make it affiliated strength of about 820,000 for each of Keir and RLB, and about 400,000 for Lisa. Unison + Usdaw is slightly bigger than Unite + CWU in party voting strength. | ||
| @NathanYeowell Who are you though? | ||
| @AlexanderXG Any deputy result yet? | ||
| @MrsBurgin The ones in historically left CLPs are close and the ones in historically moderate CLPs are often a walkover | ||
| @AvenueKeir From the BBC | ||
| @TraceyMHill @PavilionLabour What was the result? | ||
| Apparently using the phrase "Hard Left" is offensive, but directly calling me a "turd" is OK. https://t.co/4Ir0q20R37 | ||
| Correction 116 vs 97 | ||
| @docdave60 I only have the final round result after transfers | ||
| Did you know the Tories were winning the general election 2 weeks before polling day because of Early Voters? The most important thing we can do to help @SadiqKhan win on 7 May is register more Early Voters. Sign up for an #EarlyVote today here https://t.co/yMcYHlmO0s |
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| @CLPNominations @kayes67 I also heard they hadn't given 7 days notice | ||
| @MatFlusk This is 3 different Hard Left factions fighting each other. | ||
| @19Averil I only have the numbers for leader which Keir won by 6 votes | ||
| Carol Sewell @CWSewell, Chair of @unisontweets Black Members' Committee is definitely through to the ballot for NEC BAME rep having been nominated by @unisontweets @UsdawUnion & @CommunityUnion https://t.co/XnWogZhsdz | ||
| Labour and Jeremy Corbyn under fire from councillors' leader https://t.co/oFSp9sx8Hx | ||
| The Oxford West & Abingdon CLP win for @Keir_Starmer is a big surprise - it's by far the more Momentum oriented of the 2 Oxford CLPs - and they are not weak in Oxford East | ||
| @JackEDeakin @jackamayorcas @CLPNominations Over 50 | ||
| @jackamayorcas @CLPNominations Oh yes. | ||
| Who needs the Iowa caucuses when you can have @CLPNominations Super Thursday? We got better and younger candidates too... | ||
| Sharing my friend Stephen's story on #TimeToTalkDay https://t.co/h9crMh3PK1 | ||
| @MoleValleyLab Who got nominated? @CLPNominations | ||
| @EuanPhilipps @IlfordSouthCLP @Keir_Starmer It's not reciprocal. Tarry nominated and supports RLB not Keir. His supporters in the CLP got beaten tonight. | ||
| @GeorgeAylett No. | ||
| @GeorgeAylett George, this is utter cobblers. | ||
| @mocata13 If you are ever at party conference would be great to meet up. I'm not anti-Marxist by the way - I find Menshevik and other non-Leninist versions of Marxism very appealing. | ||
| @mocata13 Or this from 2018 https://t.co/kjmlshzYit | ||
| @mocata13 This is a good summary of what I believe https://t.co/Nd1ELLCcf7 | ||
| @nealvinay Yes you need 5 CLPs to get on the ballot. | ||
| @mocata13 I don't recall anything "anti-socialist" in any Labour First emails. We are socialists. We just don't think much of the Hard Left/Corbynite version of socialism, which leaves Labour unelectable. | ||
| @mocata13 I'm not aware of any candidates who are advocating "Blairite neoliberalism | ||
| Oxford East CLP nominated @AngelaRayner for Deputy Leader on third round | ||
| @ceejayqueue Hi! | ||
| @MrsBurgin @tobyperkinsmp @JohnRentoul About 585 now. Only one CLP has told me they don't intend to nominate. | ||
| @stephenkb @_kerriprince @forwardnotback But only on the RLB number, otherwise you would have had Keir going up by 20 something? | ||
| Clegg wants us left with no strategic defences - UK would have no nukes when Iran and North Korea would. | ||
| @kayes67 @CLPNominations We are expecting results still from Tonbridge & Malling CLP and Argyle & Bute CLP | ||
| Cameron appears to have been replaced by waxwork. | ||
| @Alexander_A1996 The left only won the parliamentary selection because the NEC kept popular local moderate @CoopCrofts off the shortlist- he was front runner. | ||
| @chrisrumfitt @LabLinda75 Good call | ||
| @kayes67 @IrateBen It was definitely last night | ||
| I am a European as well as a patriotic British person. I'm angry that my identity and my European citizenship and my dreams of a shared European future are being taken away from me. | ||
| I can't put into words how sad I feel that Britain isn't going to be part of building that European dream of nations in solidarity any more after today. | ||
| @TVAddictStill Yes it's normal for all formal Labour stuff like selections | ||
| @JackEDeakin It was last night | ||
| @charliemansell @forwardnotback @CLPNominations I'm reading it as implying you can't do the NEC ones at a normal meeting because you have to follow the same eligibility requirements as for the leadership one. | ||
| @mcash @CLPNominations I have dates for over 550 so I'm expecting very few not to nominate this time | ||
| @DanJarvisLeader @nathanneilburns @labour_first Thanks! | ||
| It has been a pleasure to work with @sjrbsimon over the last 7 years. He has been a very effective CEO of @JLC_uk at exactly the time of crisis over antisemitism when his community most needed strong leadership. https://t.co/jAtBEI9Iqk | ||
| @smithjj62 @tom_watson they did. Gerald Howarth was for a time on Defence Cttee and a shadow defence min | ||
| @kayes67 @lisanandy @labour_first @nathanneilburns Yes as far as we and @CLPNominations are aware | ||
| @kayes67 @lisanandy @labour_first @nathanneilburns Nathan pre prepares them for all the options for all the CLPs we know about. We didn't know that North Dorset was tonight. | ||
| Apols to @lisanandy, the @labour_first congrats for North Dorset nomination is on the way as soon as our digital wizard @nathanneilburns gets back from the pub! That one took us by surprise! | ||
| @Fgh22Gill How else would you describe Ted Knight? He ain't exactly Soft Left. | ||
| @MissLauraMarcus You won't have received a ballot if you only recently rejoined. The criteria are stricter than for the leadership ballot. | ||
| @charliemansell @CLPNominations There is no indication that they have on the party website | ||
| @duncanm @adrianmcmenamin I think that's unlikely given the trigger ballot results last year were a crushing defeat for Ted Knight et al | ||
| @thehoff102 @WasiqUK @MAAS_UK @UKLabour @stephane_ulrich @JewishLabour No just send the screen grabs and say you think the individual may be a Labour party member and can they investigate | ||
| @thehoff102 @WasiqUK @MAAS_UK @UKLabour @stephane_ulrich @JewishLabour Report to legal_queries@labour.org.uk | ||
| @iamhamesh No, George Brown resigned from it but stayed on as Deputy | ||
| @kayes67 @OneLifeStand87 Aslef may also be in play still https://t.co/OaGRTJB9Oe | ||
| @CarrieC1981 @HannahAlOthman Used to be/still is the steel workers union ISTC, merged with garment and shoe makers union KFAT, now a general union focused on all workers in the communities its old industrial base was in. | ||
| @AndrewWhitele18 It doesn't have to. Lots of supporters of Israel strongly believe in a Palestinian state alongside Israel as part of two states for two peoples. | ||
| My CEO at @BritainIsrael, @Jsorene has written to mark Holocaust Memorial Day about his family history. Please give it a read. https://t.co/A3Y7713Lv0 |
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| @BenSadler17 @celticchickadee @CLPNominations That isn't how it gets to 648... | ||
| @celticchickadee @CLPNominations 648 | ||
| @sm65557 @99DeadSquirrels @LiveHardMan It's never a good plan... | ||
| Also amazing news to find out via Twitter that I am "running Starmer's campaign". May come as a surprise to Keir. https://t.co/EYRUidaeXO | ||
| @katrinamurray71 @_kerriprince It's not a contested vote everyone just sticks their hands up and agrees. | ||
| @GlynisWinestein @wesstreeting Yes | ||
| @ajonpiet @strandedatsea @MrsBurgin @DrLeonBlack @lewis_goodall You have to be a democratic socialist - the rulebook says we are a democratic socialist party. Revolutionary communists don't fit into a party committed to democratic means and ends. | ||
| @John_Ferrett You are well aware that I have never excused any of the things my party or union has done that are wrong. | ||
| @RossGarrod @NathanYeowell @joannamont And her mum and uncle were Labour cllrs | ||
| @John_Ferrett Yes that's how organisations with collective, democratic decision making work. If you want to be in an organisation bigger than being a single person you sometimes are in a minority. | ||
| @niall_lilywhite @strandedatsea @MrsBurgin @DrLeonBlack @lewis_goodall I had the argument 4.5 years ago to defend people who were my political opponents - here's my article about it from summer 2015: https://t.co/2L2nINxqDF | ||
| @IanAustin1965 actually the NUS was way more serious than Unite is now when I was involved in it under people like @LornaFitzs @StephenTwigg and @glasgowmurphy | ||
| @anneliese_midge No | ||
| Who needs alcohol in January when you have @CLPNominations to get high on... I need to get out more .... | ||
| Banbury CLP nominations are @Keir_Starmer and @AngelaRayner | ||
| @alexcholmes OK can u message me the correct details | ||
| @CraigHackneyCub There is literally no hate in that tweet. | ||
| @CamBeavanKing Ah. When is it moved to? | ||
| Chesham & Amersham, Hertsmere, Wolverhampton NE, Hornchurch & Upminster | ||
| https://t.co/wdpUoAfrTl | ||
| @JohnReid51 @TomBlenkinsop They are saying vote Lisa 1, Keir 2 | ||
| I did wonder where their candidates were https://t.co/Odm0d3YmaH | ||
| @dutch85169 Thanks for the advice. My red complexion is a side effect of a life threatening neurological illness I had a decade ago, but it's always nice when random strangers draw attention to it. | ||
| @MrJackGrant @charliemansell @CLPNominations @EmilyThornberry @Keir_Starmer @RLong_Bailey No sorry it's info activists have given @labour_first so we can mobilise our supporters. | ||
| @charliemansell @CLPNominations @EmilyThornberry @Keir_Starmer @RLong_Bailey Far more than 400 are going to nominate - I already have 400 dates and venues logged. | ||
| @David__Osland Surely centrists will be voting for Sadiq? | ||
| @barleymow1 @philwoodford @UKLabour What sort of info? About the process or the candidates? | ||
| The various "Cool Daddy" accounts have delivered some of the worst antisemitism and personal abuse I've seen on here. Unbelievable that an MP would like this kind of tweet. https://t.co/57TM62h4co | ||
| @Davieboy0906 I don't use personal abuse aimed at individuals. | ||
| @ashmcgregor @Twitter @Chinese4Labour @UKLabour @Jessica_Asato @borakwon @SonnyLeong53 Don't forget Khanh Thanh Vu in Hackney, first ever cllr of Vietnamese origin, and a member of Chinese for Labour. | ||
| I'm in Barking getting ready to speak to Barking CLP all member meeting - one of Labour's most dynamic and regenerated local parties. | ||
| @MarkSeddon1962 @AnnelieseDodds Ignore the surplus "our" - typo | ||
| @shaunjlawson @Dan1763 @BoardofDeputies @BoDPres That's why I oppose unilateral recognition. It's a pointless gesture. But not an antisemitic one. | ||
| @gemmacdoyle You will be relieved to hear he will still be your Earl even when he quits as an HRH | ||
| @reesmf They are the representative voice of British Jews, Deputies are elected, mainly by synagogues. On antisemitism and Israel only a tiny minority disagree with them. | ||
| @l_borthwick @FauxWatch @BoardofDeputies @BoDPres 18th century! | ||
| BBC News - Lord Robert Maclennan: Tributes to former SDP leader and LibDem peer https://t.co/7w76JxsuZN | ||
| @ayeshahazarika @Jacqui_Smith1 He's still a Prince as well. Just not using the HRH bit. | ||
| @Davejackson9876 @labour_first @Keir_Starmer We are tweeting congratulations every time any mainstream candidate for leader wins a nomination. It's not limited to or an endorsement of Keir, it's just that he is winning the bulk of CLP nominations. | ||
| @BioMickWatson @labour_first Nor did I | ||
| @SarahRosemary3 @labour_first To join the party- 5pm Monday - https://t.co/oFZPWNPXtS | ||
| @PolProfSteve @labour_first @PeoplesMomentum I'm always up for debating with or speaking to audiences from the left of the party, have spoken at @workersliberty summer school | ||
| @mandeldril But not over all. Individual line items in the public budget aren't sacrosanct, governments and councils get to decide what is a priority even within an overall growth budget. | ||
| @oxojo The minimum wage. A Labour demand since the foundation of the party that wasn't delivered until Blair and is now entrenched. | ||
| @amy_t2019 Hang on in there. | ||
| @grahampointer72 @labour_first @Keir_Starmer Yes | ||
| @DamianGannon You need to send evidence of that to Compliance Unit | ||
| Not a big mandate | ||
| 20 minutes left if you want to pay £25 to vote as a Registered Supporter rather than a member for Labour leader https://t.co/QEMZM2ZNq0 | ||
| @colinrtalbot @dijdowell Numerically it's about the same, but a higher proportion of a smaller PLP. | ||
| @philipjcowley That bit I could explain to myself as the Devons having discovered faster than the rest of the line that the Germans across from them had pulled back. | ||
| @HullRePublic And I've now answered it. Your question casually insinuated I held a position that I didn't. | ||
| @forwardnotback The 5% can only be but is easily fulfilled by one of the five big TUs. | ||
| @forwardnotback It does because you also require 3 affiliates, 2 of which are unions, and there are only 12 unions available | ||
| @lindasgrant Correct | ||
| @lindasgrant Yes that's also correct. New members can vote in the final ballot but not at the nomination meetings. | ||
| @lindasgrant It is 20 Jan | ||
| @mollymulreadyj but a one state solution isn't the position of the Palestinians - you r in a more extreme position than ppl u support | ||
| @mollymulreadyj thanks | ||
| @lappypercival @stephenkb Most recent numbers I've seen Unite 550K, Usdaw, Unison and GMB about 400k each, CWU 150k, the other 7 are all under 50k, most v small. | ||
| @rtgrffn @helensclegel @edwardpoole1975 I'm not actually on any leadership team in any capacity but please do go ahead make stuff up | ||
| @RooftopJaxx @mollymulreadyj that's a really classy and tasteful insult even by your standards. | ||
| @mollymulreadyj the whole BDS and lawfare strategy seems to me designed to reduce chances of a negotiated peace by delegitimising 1 partner | ||
| @sellottie Will try not to give away any spoilers but the characters' mission very much fits into the bigger strategic situation. | ||
| @alidra821 @labour_first CLPs have only just had the green light to schedule nomination meetings so most haven't announced a date yet. | ||
| @sellottie I saw it yesterday and it's all about the pity and horror of war. Well worth seeing. | ||
| @David__Osland Saw it last night. It deserves a trip to the cinema. | ||
| @crooksontherun @PaulBrandITV Only if he formally drops out | ||
| @mollymulreadyj it's strange you have that attitude to ldr of israeli opposition - actual palestinians seem happy to negotiate with her. | ||
| @Labourpaul I can't read it as she is the only Labour MP who has ever blocked me | ||
| @SeemaChandwani @Keir_Starmer Simon was a director of the data arm of Momentum for 3 years according to Companies House. | ||
| @WeightliftingW @__Saran__ Yes - registering here https://t.co/gTzYkCKewW | ||
| @Fruitandvegdon Yes my memory Refounding Labour removed funds from larger CLPs to give every CLP free access to Contact Creator and the electoral register download and to make the 1st delegate pass to conference for each CLP free. @AnnBlackLabour is that the correct detail? | ||
| @iamhamesh Hardly any new members have yet. A friend who joined on 13 Dec just got his. | ||
| @John_Kenney @labour_first Both. | ||
| It's all the fault of Marlon and his promotional t-shirts. https://t.co/JsJtI6U9Lp | ||
| @blairmcdougall Same with mine, hence it still being around... | ||
| @redrain2311 @tf_wall @hapoelorient @jankarlow Labour First's entire policy platform is listed here: https://t.co/7yefk9Eurw. It doesn't include any of those things, all of which you've just made up. It's short because we don't exist to take collective views on policy. | ||
| 🤐 https://t.co/Qjx4HDUEJ4 | ||
| @SampsonDDMP Soft left. She's rooted in Unison rather than in any of the organised left groups. | ||
| @Calderbank @labour_first Not a lot more than him hiring @fletchersimon and @KatFletcher did. He appeals to the best organisers from across the party? | ||
| Not sure how to take this https://t.co/fKMyJTlcvq | ||
| @AliFosterRDG @DrSGClark @AnnBlackLabour @forwardnotback @iMattPound I'd stand by for the more detailed guidance. | ||
| @AliFosterRDG @forwardnotback @iMattPound @AnnBlackLabour the 8 weeks is what GLU are verbally telling CLP secretaries who ask | ||
| @forwardnotback @AliFosterRDG @iMattPound @AnnBlackLabour Which members though? It's not 100% clear who is eligible to attend. GLU are telling people there is an 8 week freeze date but this has not yet been put in writing. | ||
| @AliFosterRDG @forwardnotback @iMattPound @AnnBlackLabour That region say CLPs need to hold off sending notice of meetings etc until the more detailed procedural guidelines are available | ||
| @hpfarrell @labour_first If you filled in that form in 2016 the data rolls forward | ||
| @bawdynan @bectu They disaffiliated when they became part of @ProspectUnion | ||
| @jeevanjones I believe it is | ||
| @JamesDAustin @JoeSimms12 @CommunityUnion You need at least 3 affiliates incl 2 unions, and they have to have a total of over 5% of the affiliate voting strength - from memory that's about 2.1m of which Unite has 600k and each of GMB, Unison and USDAW have around 400k each, think CWU is 180k | ||
| If they are angry it's a good sign https://t.co/6kvqZONUXi | ||
| @KatieCurtis @craig_jones1989 They don't have ICBMs. | ||
| @John_Kenney The thing with climate change is we don't have blocks of five year delay we can throw away in impotent opposition because of ideological purity. The planet is cooking now. There is no "yet". | ||
| I missed the bits that they got right. https://t.co/yifCKKScVK | ||
| @Mary_Galbraith @IanDunt We don't know yet - will be in the procedural guidance sent to CLP Secretaries in next day or so. | ||
| @JohnReid51 Yes but only during the 48 hours that you can sign up in | ||
| @stellacreasy I never went to a gig there but it was where I spent election night in 1997 - I turned down my ticket to the Festival Hall in order to be with my Camden activists at the Camden Palace | ||
| @l_attfield Angela isn't organisationally part of their faction so it will never have crossed their minds that they could have backed her. Everything for them is about factional alignment not personal qualities. | ||
| @LiamBaker_97 I grew up in Kent. My family live there. I was parliamentary candidate for Castle Point in Essex (Canvey and Benfleet). My great grandad was Labour Mayor of Gravesend and the rest of my family are from Dartford and Folkestone. | ||
| @IrateBen If you pitch your national message at what Basildon wants you end up hugely popular in all the heartlands too. | ||
| To win a majority you need to win places like Basildon and Dartford and Medway and Swindon where people will laugh in your face if you bang on about your "unwavering determination to see democratic socialism in our lifetime. | ||
| @MarkieStuartie @philipjcowley She isn't factionally affiliated with the Corbynites. | ||
| @mcs27q It was the point at which I really got fired up about politics | ||
| @NickCohen4 I thought you write about your opinions? | ||
| @SpaJw Agreed. Need STV or regionalisation of CLP seats on NEC. | ||
| @JackSGAshton @AndreaDudding @OnnMel @ReclaimingLab @OpenLabour They have different functions - Open Labour is an ongoing network for party members, Reclaiming Labour is a one-off campaign whose only task is to get new members to join/rejoin so they can vote for leader. | ||
| @patrickmoule @aliceperryuk Alice it would be helpful if this was clarified in guidance to CLPs about nomination meetings. | ||
| @patrickmoule @aliceperryuk The rule book says this in model procedural rules for party units: "M. Ballot votes i. The election of officers and/ or representatives of this body shall be by secret paper eliminating ballot either in rounds or by preferential vote. | ||
| Don't stop believing! https://t.co/leJfLd6GdY | ||
| @TheWildeRobin @AnnBlackLabour It's for people who for whatever reason can't be allocated to a CLP. | ||
| @forwardnotback The NEC can't change the party rulebook. It can make extensive decisions where the rules are silent or unclear. | ||
| @MBellLabCoop No | ||
| @jgem1011 @JamesEFoster @YouGov @UKLabour @JennieGenSec Can you clarify the question? | ||
| @Poxo01 @CentreLeft_ @Shortland_red @Mandytelford @jessphillips The minimum membership length was abolished in a rule change in 2018. Now anyone who joins up to two weeks after the NEC sets the timetable gets a vote. | ||
| @RossPolitics @SpaJw @DavidHerdson That's assuming Lavery is the "official" candidate of the Campaign Group and gets 22 MPs/MEPs. | ||
| @RossPolitics @SpaJw @DavidHerdson You don't need both - you need either 5% of CLPs or 5% of voting strength of unions | ||
| @David__Osland Now I'm going to move on to collecting the whole set of David Butler "British General Election of 19xx". @LabLinda75 didn't seem impressed by the Times Guides | ||
| @EuanPhilipps @nicolelampert @lisanandy @EmilyThornberry I haven't watched it! | ||
| @TwitDinosaur @DanNeidle @Lee_One_Pen @TomBeattie2010 Yes this has happened at every General Election. It provides the parties with vital targeting information to deploy resources on polling day. There aren't 16 million postal voters in any case - total votes cast was 31m and I think only 20% voted by post. | ||
| @TwitDinosaur @Lee_One_Pen @TomBeattie2010 Sure, the more 50s you can sample the more accurate it gets. But first 50 you see is a perfectly large enough random sample to be representative of the whole. Parties go back on different days in case the pattern changes. Opinion polls were coming out every day of campaign. | ||
| @TwitDinosaur @Lee_One_Pen @TomBeattie2010 If party officials happen to see 50 random votes at the PV verification in each of the 50 key marginal seats, the national party will have a fair idea of the likely overall result of the General Election. Happened to be exactly what the opinion polls were saying too. | ||
| @TwitDinosaur @Lee_One_Pen @TomBeattie2010 Yes | ||
| @Lee_One_Pen @TomBeattie2010 You can still see them even when they count them upside down. | ||
| @colmuacuinn @PaulBrandITV I think her plan is to qualify through CLP nominations | ||
| @HuwJonesLabour I don't think the concept of Registered Supporters should exist. But it does. | ||
| @ArnoldLabour The latter. Personally I'm opposed to the entire concept of Registered Supporters. People should join as full members. | ||
| @crpodszus There was nothing in Stella's tweet to suggest that was her position | ||
| @northofcam @WindleshamRich NB you can only vote once, so most socialist society members will already be entitled to a vote as full party members. Ditto the most politically engaged trade unionists. | ||
| @huxley06 @RC_Garrick @MatthewBlott https://t.co/4cejD1cDW6 | ||
| @carbonlogix @John_Ferrett Who knows. I don't think MPs would walk as the GE proved there is no electoral life outside the Labour Party. | ||
| @DanHowells12 Why? | ||
| @JamesEFoster @YouGov @UKLabour @JennieGenSec No they do some basic due diligence like asking for a membership number, which non members don't know the format of. It would be a very odd thing to lie about. | ||
| @JamesEFoster @YouGov @UKLabour @JennieGenSec You need to sign up as a YouGov panel member to be asked to participate in their polls. They don't have a membership list they have just repeatedly asked their panel whether they are party members. | ||
| @PipsFunFacts @ProfTimBale @theobertram That wasn't a poll of members but of the wider public. Only YouGov has ever accurately polled party members. | ||
| @JoeDiego24 No it can't. | ||
| @ianrobo1 @stephane_ulrich No it's negative | ||
| @patrickamon @SianySE @iamhamesh @JadeFrancesAzim You don't think politicians with gravitas would want to tackle climate change? | ||
| @Hallemillerwil1 @MissLauraMarcus Anyone who joins before 21 Jan can vote | ||
| @patrickamon @JadeFrancesAzim @iamhamesh Do I look like a dictionary? | ||
| @bmarks45btinter @GrahamC13244441 @SkyNewsPolitics Were they already members of YouGov's panel? | ||
| @JadeFrancesAzim @iamhamesh Yvette Cooper has the "looks prime ministerial" thing- it's not inherently male it's about gravitas. | ||
| @MSmithsonPB Am I right in remembering seeing polling saying that over 80% of Labour members are Remainers? | ||
| @MimiJ9 Yes anyone who joins before 21 January will get a vote. | ||
| @dmk1793 @richardmarcj I do think Lavery would do OK. But probably not win. | ||
| @iamhamesh They don't have a grip on the unions- only on Unite until Len retires. And any incoming leader gets to change 3 seats on the NEC by personal appointment, with all 9 CLP seats up for election this summer. | ||
| @GrahamC13244441 @SkyNewsPolitics They asked panel members who claimed to be in the party for their membership number a while back | ||
| @TalOfer @joemillis1959 I'm no fan of Corbyn but I would expect the leader of a political party to be met by a driver at an airport, in fact it's not that unusual for anyone taking a long flight to have a car pick them up. | ||
| @EuanPhilipps @timteachtweet @RichardBurgon There is a non-disparagement rule in all Labour selections and elections - candidates themselves are formally banned from being negative about other candidates. | ||
| These are the questions Labour must answer if it is ever to win again | Martin Kettle https://t.co/jD2z9lL0te | ||
| @anthonyleahy @cousinsdan @LouiseEllman He did come out in defence of Louise - https://t.co/cL9WHWLSkE | ||
| @TomLaing14 @SeemaChandwani I'm guessing you get a better price if you book several years into the future at once. | ||
| This is another one where I have trouble telling if it is a spoof account https://t.co/rrW7w7fFM6 | ||
| @David_AC_Grant I'd always associated it with Cold War Soviet propaganda | ||
| @garyfair1976 The party stopped using the Winter Gardens because they got so tatty it was causing reputational damage | ||
| @Dorch_Janine @Vdweller The BIC is fine, the issue with Bournemouth is that the HQ hotel - Swallow Highcliff - is too small | ||
| @EuanPhilipps @Keir_Starmer Publicly disagreeing with the leadership line on IHRA is a tangible and demonstrable action- as he didn't have a vote on the NEC where IHRA was decided, it's the most significant thing he could have done. | ||
| @paulclayton9 No it was who they were and what they believed in. | ||
| @MrsBurgin But hotels for 15,000 people? | ||
| @ParburyWill Lost the contract because they didn't do up the Winter Gardens, which became so tatty that they were used as a metaphor for decline of party using them by all the TV reporters. | ||
| @simonevans117 We did hold the Spring Conference in both those places within last couple of decades, and should again, but neither has big enough facilities for Annual Conference. | ||
| @MarkJamesNE If you make it smaller it becomes a net money-loser for the party rather than raising cash. It also looks like you are in decline - an indicator we were near to power in 1990s was everyone wanted to be at Labour conference. It's a showcase - you don't make your showcase smaller. | ||
| If someone can identify a small town that has a conference hall and hotel accommodation to suit a conference with nearly 15,000 attendees, do let us all know. There was a reason we stopped holding it in Scarborough, Margate and Morecambe. | ||
| There's nothing incompatible between loving your own country and being an internationalist, and no need to qualify patriotism with the word "progressive". | ||
| @markpack Any chance you could scan and send my ones? I'm intrigued to know what I was saying then. | ||
| @alexhilton Yes | ||
| @Sharonavraham Not sure I see any sign that the party is set to elect a continuity candidate. The Corbynites seem to be in total disarray. | ||
| @bigdamo @UKLabour @OxLabourCllrs @Oxford_Labour Sadly you do have to be an MP | ||
| @Ken_Ferrett MPs and PPCs stand on their own election address. They are neither bound by nor have to agree with the national manifesto of their party. For instance in 2005 as a PPC I publicly attacked tuition fees and foundation hospitals and pledged to vote against the whip on both. | ||
| @MylesHSG @TomBlenkinsop They nominated Yvette in 2015 | ||
| @IanAustin1965 @SteveACooper Depends on the future composition of the NEC and conference both of which are likely to change rather radically if the leadership changes hands. | ||
| @SeanLaws6 I would be happy with any of the non-Corbynite candidates | ||
| @TexPat78 it's not unsolved, there is a guy in jail for it who has never appealed | ||
| @Ut_Humiliter_Op why is that remotely surprising? The guy that did it is already in jail. | ||
| Picked up loads of cllr casework issues at Trelawney Estate TRA AGM. Dog poo the main issue! | ||
| If you are at #LimmudFestival19 at 12 noon in Orange 15 I will be interviewing @MJCreighton and @hogan451, two of the Labour staff whistleblowers on antisemitism who appeared on Panorama | ||
| @iamhamesh @labour_first Agreed, the problem we have is our members are more southern and middle class than the voting coalition we need to win a GE | ||
| @SteveAkehurst @tomcopley @aliceperryuk What's wrong with The Cure? | ||
| @ArnoldLabour You carry on believing that. | ||
| Mr sanctimonious is back. https://t.co/t1bkUXvt6C | ||
| @ExStrategist Lansman. | ||
| @Ken_Ferrett @labour_first There are several | ||
| @anthonyleahy I don't think he's going to stand. It's a good sign that he is being vocally critical though. | ||
| The myth of the red wall https://t.co/dhV11coIi2 | ||
| @John_Kenney @Norma_Daiquiri @AndrejNkv He very clearly isn't organisationally connected to them. The priority is to break their malign grip on the party machinery. | ||
| @Insect_Nation There has been a steady pattern throughout my 30 years in the party that about 10% of members, new or old, become active campaigners. | ||
| @Ken_Ferrett @labour_first Cheer up. It can't be fun being such a miserable pessimist. | ||
| @JohnStrawson @labour_first @jeremycorbyn Not in the branch where I am Secretary they aren't. | ||
| @Janey_Davies1 @JohnArthey @labour_first We don't have "membership" per se - just an email list which you are welcome to sign up to | ||
| @danieljyates @forwardnotback He was representing the BYC at WFDY Congress and used his time there to undermine the declaration drafted by the Soviet organisers of the event - it wasn't a trip to cheerlead the regime. | ||
| @gphb @DanHeley1 @gsoh31 @guyshrubsole As many as there are candidates. If six people stand then you number them 1 to 6 | ||
| @garyfair1976 @RachelReevesMP You can vote. There is no minimum qualifying period in leadership elections, that was abolished in a rule change in 2018. | ||
| @mikemartintweet @vc61 Correct | ||
| @CraigHackneyCub @labour_first Grow up. | ||
| If you want to restore Labour to being a party of government, not extremism, start by getting networked - sign up for free to be part of @labour_first 's network: https://t.co/PM6XHk5sWd | ||
| @Bluesoulreggae @colinrtalbot Yes I was active in the party from age 16 in 1988. Sadly I expect to see a similar long slog this time. | ||
| @Bluesoulreggae @colinrtalbot I like 10 year projects | ||
| @vc61 Not true. That's the old rule from 2015 and 2016. The rulebook is absolutely clear that there is no minimum qualifying period of membership to vote for leader. | ||
| Easy part of the answer - @IainMcNicol and a competent experienced team were running HQ and regions in 2017 https://t.co/RQypxcF32J | ||
| @AnnBlackLabour Does the 8 weeks count from 6 Jan or from the date the ballot papers drop? Or is that less than 8 weeks away? | ||
| @ShowerAbsolute Only conference can change the rulebook. There is not going to be a party conference before the NEC meets on 6 Jan to start the process. | ||
| @CharlotDearling Registered supporter scheme this time hasn't been announced yet so you can't yet sign up to it. The Affiliated Supporter page on the website is an old one from 2016. Again you need to wait until the NEC meets on 6 Jan and authorises a new web page. Full membership u can do now. | ||
| @eelybaboon If this GE proved anything it is that there is no prospect of a new centre party or a revived Lib Dems. The choices are either recapture and rebuild Labour or put up with perpetual Tory rule. | ||
| @Jacqui_Smith1 We can expect PLP voices to lead but we need to understand they have no constitutional powers to take "action". | ||
| Blair put ordinary activists on the NEC in place of MPs and moved to an appointed Chief Whip. Ed M moved to an appointed Shadow Cabinet. It leaves MPs with only one real power in the rules, nominating for leader and deputy. | ||
| MPs could run in and usually took all 7 CLP seats and all 5 women's seats on the NEC, which was thus a double act between the PLP and TUs with no activist voices; and faced minimal threat of deselection. | ||
| @colinrtalbot They don't have any powers to do anything, except nominate in the leadership election. Members and Leaders have spent 40 years removing MPs' powers within the party. | ||
| @semperfidem2004 @whatsinitforme Leader of the Opposition's Office | ||
| @fascinatorfun @JaneScottPaul @mudjokivis @Bi99le5 @Ashworth101 @guse_guse They can't muck about with what is in the rulebook. It wasn't in the rulebook before 2018. | ||
| @Lauradavies2015 @kali_mountford Not cabinet experience but had been MP for 11 years, 5 of them in Shadow Cabinet incl Shadow Home Secretary, a big brief. | ||
| @laurab032 And look what he did for the country... | ||
| @SuttonCentral I've been on the NEC. Only six people from my wing of the party have won an OMOV NEC election in the last 15 years and I'm one of them. That's quite aside from taking Labour from 29 councillors to 50 as campaign manager in Hackney. | ||
| @bullrike @York4EU @Coisty_OB @northofcam @MimiJ9 @ayeshahazarika @lewis_goodall Personally I enjoy the internal struggle against them, but I understand it isn't for everyone. | ||
| @alidra821 @Coisty_OB @northofcam @MimiJ9 @ayeshahazarika @lewis_goodall That's bizarrely the rule for all other votes at local meetings etc the rulebook says no qualifying period for voting for leader | ||
| @chilcott_mark @IanDunt In that case you have been giving money to the Labour Party via your union fees | ||
| @philwoodford What's the significance of tomorrow? | ||
| @abekouta69 @ProfTimBale If you design a pitch that appeals to the seats you need to get to 326 it will usually appeal to the rest of the country too. | ||
| @mcneil_kl @marybootrixie @IanDunt No it just bought you a one off vote in 2015 not for other elections. | ||
| @marybootrixie @mcneil_kl @IanDunt Registered Supporter. It changed price to £25 in 2016, cost this time to be decided by NEC on 6 Jan. | ||
| @York4EU @bullrike @Coisty_OB @northofcam @MimiJ9 @ayeshahazarika @lewis_goodall Just join the party. If you want to be part of changing it, join it. | ||
| @mattfinished @GedWright2 @JohnRentoul No | ||
| @GedWright2 @JohnRentoul Exactly the same | ||
| We've also got to win back Remainers in the Central Belt of Scotland- potentially 40 seats | ||
| Only MPs can run anyway. https://t.co/Hn9v92gfRT | ||
| @fascinatorfun @Coisty_OB @MimiJ9 @northofcam @ayeshahazarika @lewis_goodall Top of page 22 is the new text about no qualifying period that was agreed at Annual Conference 2018. | ||
| @148SJ The Hard Left have 37 MPs. | ||
| @LeaningLeft46 @romanvince None of those things are actually possible. | ||
| https://t.co/LUmLZ0j7UQ | ||
| @mjrharris @supergutman You mean 21 Jan. | ||
| @TheStephenRalph @iMattPound @UKLabour @CoopParty Any of the socialist societies or unions listed on the party website. | ||
| @Cadoret @Yair_Rosenberg @AlfaDeltaUK They couldn't. They tried it in 2016 and failed. | ||
| @JonHegerty @labour_first Yes. The acting leader has to be neutral in the leadership election. | ||
| John Spellar MP: Responsibililty for Labour's epic failure rests with those at the top https://t.co/BvbUrUHBa1 via @PoliticsHome | ||
| @dtlevene @wesstreeting @jeremycorbyn How would that help? | ||
| I have no words https://t.co/tPRg8lYyLi | ||
| @kayes67 There were occasions when Labour First and CLPD both found themselves in post meeting drinks in the Lucas Arms after we had been at ISTC and they had been at NUJ | ||
| @TonyDowling @jeremycorbyn @ns_mehdihasan because that would have been polıtıcally helpful | ||
| @Misterjspencer You need 10% of PLP plus either 5% of CLPs or 5% of the voting strength of the affiliates, incl 2 TUs and 1 socialist society. | ||
| @colinrtalbot There has never been any chance of a wider realignment. | ||
| @c156ypp @DaCraik64 @JamesAsser There are points on the political spectrum between Corbynism and the scenario you present. | ||
| @Paul0Evans1 Two of them are already off the NEC. Sadly because they got promoted to become MPs. | ||
| @Misterjspencer Ballot where all votes have equal value - voters are all party members, Affiliated Supporters from unions and socialist societies, and ppl who pay to be Registered Supporters. It's transferable voting I.e. rank the candidates 1, 2, 3 | ||
| @DaveDalton42 The rhetoric and image was the problem. Someone who looks and sounds moderate can probably push quite left policies. | ||
| Yes, thanks for causing this. https://t.co/EBMNA9ESTJ | ||
| The problem with having a counter-cultural leader and supporters is that if you stand in opposition to the mainstream culture of a country you can't possibly win a democratic election. | ||
| @Worldcuptour @MartinWhelton The rule book says there is no freeze date for full members and that you can vote if you join up to two weeks after the election has been timetabled. The NEC will determine whether there is a freeze date for Affiliated Supporters & the price for Reg Supporter, was £25 in 2016. | ||
| @LGG1989 The individuals may well come round to a more sensible political view and have a useful future role. Many 80s Bennites became Blairites. The organisation is pernicious though and needs to be thrown in the dustbin of history. | ||
| @adrianmcmenamin I don't see circumstances where Unite disenfranchise their own members. Affiliated Supporters exist in the rule book so the only question is whether there is a freeze date and how far back it is set. | ||
| @adrianmcmenamin The people in that bus garage who were already Unite members six months before the start of the leadership election will have voting rights. | ||
| @adrianmcmenamin Last time my memory is that there was a six month freeze date for affiliated supporters. As there's no freeze date for full members it doesn't really matter as if you don't qualify through a TU or soc soc you can just switch to full membership. | ||
| @adrianmcmenamin The bit that is clearly in the rulebook is that you can join and vote for leader as a full member during the first two weeks after a leadership contest is timetabled. This makes the registered supporter category pretty redundant. | ||
| @ianrobo1 @TomBlenkinsop @PolhomeEditor They could trigger a challenge as per 2016. | ||
| @iancruise1972 They didn't though | ||
| @SiHarrisonMorse @forwardnotback It would be an odd way to report an election if you didn't try to assess who was winning and who was losing... | ||
| @TheWhittards Odd that those areas voted Labour all the time that Blair and Brown were leaders | ||
| @John_Kenney @HuwJonesLabour Only Gravesham was lost in 05. The other 7 were won by Blair in all 3 elections he fought as leader. | ||
| Charming insinuation "not let shadowy foriegn governments grease their palms to attack from the inside." https://t.co/R1sLoXMPoU | ||
| @NickMakin2 I'm not an MP | ||
| My little bets on individual Labour seats in Scotland look like paying out for me like they did in 2017. https://t.co/MsvmOG7D3i | ||
| @MatthewPWoods @Britain_Erects @YouGov thanks, have blocked it | ||
| @talktoharris1 @Britain_Erects @YouGov thanks, have blocked it | ||
| @MJAxworthy There was a Labour canvassing app in period around 2017/18 but I think it was withdrawn when GDPR came in. | ||
| As a board runner I appreciate this image. https://t.co/GEURXPLk8I | ||
| @tyskiesour @MrsBurgin He's a Lib Dem MP, he defected to them | ||
| @Louise_katz @philwoodford @philashley2 @UKLabour The maximum strength of Momentum in the new PLP will be about 56 MPs I.e. under 25%. | ||
| @EdmundGriffiths If you vote Labour you can enjoy the paradox of voting for the same candidate in the same constituency as me. | ||
| @mattyourmate Fine for you to make that case, but not for the Observer to include it in a list of tactical voting recommendations | ||
| @mattyourmate But the Observer says it's list is just how to stop the Tories. It doesn't make value judgements on any other questions as that isn't how tactical voting works. | ||
| @bigdamo @PolProfSteve @debmattinson And because the turnout is lower so any GOTV has a proportionately greater effect | ||
| @JonHegerty @PolProfSteve Better on visible canvassing and GOTV than the Tories but they may be stronger than us on under the radar contact. The LDs have an excellent canvassing, poster and leaflet operation but only in a limited number of seats. | ||
| @CraigHackneyCub What's hateful about my tweet? | ||
| @kayes67 @willuminare @RosieDuffield1 @EmmaWhysall I bet on both those a month ago when the odds were longer | ||
| @t_hodgkin The polling stations will be open and people can vote, it's just the local Labour Party that won't be campaigning. | ||
| @ArnoldLabour Polling day surely you stop at 9.59pm | ||
| Can't stop thinking about the marginal seat where I heard today that the CLP has decided to stop its polling day operation at 4.30pm because it will be dark. FFS. FFS. Same CLP sent me and visiting volunteers home early in 2011 locals for same reason. | ||
| @ImogenEllis__ @lewis_goodall @GuidoFawkes Treating is giving things to people who are electors in a constituency so ipso facto doesn't apply to transporting activists from elsewhere - though spend on that needs to be declared | ||
| @forwardnotback @Danielf90 Shouldn't need training to have basic good manners and react to members of the public with different views respectfully. | ||
| @Geruish The thought had crossed my mind | ||
| @kevshaw99 I'm suggesting making ourselves look like we want older people's votes, not antagonising younger people. We should be the party for everyone, not one generation. | ||
| @iamhamesh But only during 3/4 of the year (they want to cut the Trident subs from 4 to 3 and just pretend we have an at sea deterrent the rest of the time) | ||
| @harrytlambert @DeltapollUK The deadline for candidates to withdraw was 14 Nov | ||
| Feeling vindicated about my 7/2 bet on @StephenMorganMP winning... https://t.co/NDissVMJ3o | ||
| To celebrate start of October, I have put on factor 50 sun cream and heading down to Margate for a day by the sea. | ||
| @MattSingh_ @JewishChron @duncanrobinson @stephenpollard It says Populus | ||
| @VincentStops @FeryalClark Wish I could be with you all! | ||
| I've answered this but it's an odd response from someone with 0 followers to a tweet about antisemitism https://t.co/lxgqpqhp9l | ||
| @susanhebden it's your opinion that Blair lied. It is not a view shared by vast numbers of Labour members who respect his huge achievements. | ||
| @BenGartside @leonardocarella Not sure that's true, the 10% of PLP bit allows for up to 9 candidates but then you also need 5% of CLPs OR 5% of affiliate vote strength (ie one of the big five unions) which are both quite high hurdles (esp as the Corbynite candidate will hoover up Unite, CWU and a high % CLPs) | ||
| @davidwhitelab Ask @election_data | ||
| @IronicCheers @UKLabour Not in work time! | ||
| @SocialDemSheff @PolProfSteve The nomination threshold is 10% of PLP plus 5% of CLPs OR 5% of voting strength of affiliates | ||
| @TheRoundhead42 @whatsinitforme Not sure he sees me as one of his followers! | ||
| Union withdraws dishonesty allegation against Labour's Anna Turley https://t.co/ZXimH1Zk4x | ||
| REVEALED: The most deprived neighbourhoods in Oxfordshire https://t.co/434uyGQnD9 | ||
| @Insect_Nation No its always been the sole decision of the PM. The first thing they are asked to do on entering Number 10 is to write the letters of last resort to the sub commanders. | ||
| How does this work on either a) responding to a 4 minute warning of incoming attack, or b) writing the secret "letters of last resort" for each Vanguard submarine. Not tasks that can be done by committee. https://t.co/6qZJDxgXYk | ||
| @alexsmith1982 no way. Red Flag is an important part of our heritage, roots us in history of sacrifices of socialist pioneers. | ||
| @TimGMacpherson Says who? | ||
| @Nozzer29 @DAaronovitch They already had enough MPs to nominate for leader, only takes 10% nowadays | ||
| @BennPipe No my ideological framework is classical social democracy - revisionist Marxism. The Lib Dems are literally economic liberals, I'm not. I prize equality and liberty equally and as mutually reinforcing. They put liberty first and are indifferent to equality. | ||
| @AshleyJohn67 @BernardMcEldown 3 of those 4 people aren't in Labour held seats so not relevant to the stats I've set out. | ||
| Getting ready to chair Q+A on conference stage with panel of young cllrs | ||
| @lisa_calderwood all defeated - numbers are in CAC report | ||
| @crpodszus @stellacreasy She won't. I can't think of anyone less likely to defend his record on AS. | ||
| @John_Kenney @SeemaChandwani @TheGreenParty @sianberry @jon_bartley It was a joke .... | ||
| @John_Ferrett Zero tolerance means not leaving them to have their own way inside the Labour Party. | ||
| @SEvansAber You only need 10% of PLP now so that was never in question. | ||
| @SeemaChandwani @TheGreenParty @sianberry @jon_bartley Why did you know eleven Greens??? | ||
| @CraigHackneyCub Ok I'll let you off. Feel free to criticise my political views but not my commitment to Labour, as you'll look silly if you do that. | ||
| @220_d_92_20 That's why I'm expecting some of the Momentum people in this intake to end up to the right of me. | ||
| @afshinrattansi @jeremycorbyn @UKLabour I'm not a parliamentary candidate. | ||
| @LosCharruas @UKLabour @DerbyChrisW Mistaken identity mate, I'm not the parliamentary candidate anywhere. | ||
| @bexbailey @CamBeavanKing Deadline was 2pm today on party website | ||
| @hr_darren @CllrJoWhite @SallyGimson To help their preferred candidate. | ||
| @DanJarvisLeader @elliotttimes 5 points would be double the 2017 lead though | ||
| @anthonyleahy No that wouldn't have been the case even with the 2017 or 2015 PLPs under the new rules. | ||
| @MrSIowJam I'm not a Blairite. | ||
| @CJ_Appleby @78SoylentGreen Next to the QR code is a two letter 4 number electoral number so it shows it's been sent to all electors | ||
| @CJ_Appleby @78SoylentGreen It's clearly a letter to electors not members when you read the text. Political parties are legally entitled to the whole electoral register so no GDPR breach in mailing any elector. | ||
| Ed on Trident - "I am not a unilateralist". Correct answer! | ||
| @Northernbred1 @REWearmouth That just tells you the NEC fixed the shortlist to exclude Nick Crofts, the moderate, local, frontrunner. | ||
| Ed slaps down Neal Lawson/Compass maximum wage demand | ||
| @NeilOutOfTime @Gabriel_Pogrund Yes but he is not a Tory, he is a member of the Labour Party | ||
| @Callum_Munro is incredibly impressive and articulate rep for Young Labour on NEC. Giving great speech. | ||
| @Kokothecat2 @iMattPound @MaryWimbury @abenaopp @jeremycorbyn The opposite | ||
| @matt_t_davis We could have got any sitting MP across the line if they had chosen to restand. The Hard Left wanted to totally reshape the PLP, instead they will get between 10 and 20 more MPs on a base of 35. Their project has failed. | ||
| @jonlansman core values were in leaflet we put out at conference in previous years - @PeterKenyon has them in comment on his blog | ||
| @jonlansman I run the mailing list. | ||
| @EllieCumbo the thing is you see "left" as a positive label I see it as a dire insult meaning Bennite/crazy/unelectable | ||
| @jonlansman that's interesting! | ||
| ... This time saying I shouldn't have chaired conference. Comrades, you are obsessed. Get over it. | ||
| Delighted that sectarian hard left who produce "Campaign Briefing" have raised my profile with another personalised attack on me... | ||
| @ShabdaCloud @YvetteCooperMP @jessphillips Why would they say anything about Corbyn to voters? They'll be putting forward their own merits as candidates. This idea that candidates and canvassers have to sell the party leader to voters on the doorstep isn't how canvassing actually works. | ||
| @capbyrne Any suspended MPs will have their cases looked at by an NEC panel | ||
| @MaccLabour I don't have any constituents | ||
| Me in @fathomjournal on Labour's policy shifts on #Israel since 2015: https://t.co/fwuJkv27BL | ||
| @DominicTwomey @maxshanly @dannyjhmcgill @margarethodge @labour_first @Sidcup4Remain Moniba Khan is heavily involved in Newham Momentum | ||
| @terrympaul @AlanOlive1 @dannyjhmcgill @margarethodge @maxshanly @labour_first @Sidcup4Remain Yes | ||
| @steamedhamms They would have had a lot of outriders | ||
| @John_Kenney It was a jokey proposal. Sorry if my sense of humour is a bit opaque. | ||
| @edwardpoole1975 @jeremycorbyn @tom_watson @andydaisyfox @IanMurrayMP @DianaHolland_ @ClaudiaWebbe @AnnDHenderson Ian Murray isn't on the NEC | ||
| @John_Kenney I named Tom because he becomes Acting Leader in the event of a vacancy. | ||
| @Insect_Nation I don't. I have lots of personal friends who are on the Hard Left, difficult not to given I have been a member in CLPs where they are v strong - Canterbury, Bristol W, Hackney N, Oxford. If you see me leafletting alongside them at conference there is no personal animosity. | ||
| Happy to take up this role if offered... https://t.co/otwPCTWnAD | ||
| @ushistorytutor @BowkettMike @moules_tony @DianaJohnsonMP It's worse than that, some CLPs have postal voting and others don't, seems arbitrary. | ||
| @martin_clark1 There is nothing in the rulebook about it. | ||
| @GDokimakis @FloEshalomi First round: Eshalomi 165, Clark 156, Holland 117, Dogus 84, Beer 6. Final round Eshalomi 319 Clark 187. | ||
| @GDokimakis The brilliant @FloEshalomi | ||
| @wlarge63 @pault199 Yep the new members have stopped voting for Momentum as well now. | ||
| @AutoMarx3 @siennamarla No we don't endorse candidates for parliamentary selections at all. No one gets to run in a selection with our name or logo. NEC we do formally endorse candidates. | ||
| @JackEsq007 He's a real person on Hard Left but with a very sharp sense of humour | ||
| I love it when Dave does tweets that can be read both deadpan and as complete sarcasm and only he knows which it is https://t.co/2pCHzoUcgh | ||
| Best wishes to Jewish friends celebrating Rosh Hashanah. | ||
| @andimueller1 @fimbisj @JewishNewsUK @labour_first All of the people are my friends and allies. They are all brave for standing up for what they believe in. I don't divide or differentiate between them. | ||
| @andimueller1 @fimbisj @JewishNewsUK I refer you to the string of trigger ballot wins on the @labour_first feed | ||
| @TVAddictStill @gsoh31 She's not standing for parliament | ||
| @HannahAlOthman He hasn't necessarily been triggered. Only Unite voted against him so far. | ||
| @sowadally https://t.co/GCUtHD03EM | ||
| @sowadally The NDP was historically always in the SI. I'm guessing it left at the same time UK Labour downgraded to observer status. The Swedes, Dutch, Germans, Australians, Norway, NZ all walked out then. Over political and financial corruption allegations. | ||
| Great speech by my Hackney comrade @IvanaBartoletti | ||
| Putting finishing touches to speech vs primaries for @ProgressOnline fringe, 12.45, Baby Blue, Albert Dock | ||
| @Scott_Beamer @Gilofthepeople @reecewhayes Thanks! | ||
| @Gilofthepeople @reecewhayes Isn't the bridge thing about the American guy who bought old London Bridge and reassembled it in Arizona, thinking that he was buying Tower Bridge and that it would be a big tourist attraction? | ||
| @MistakeNot7 Happy to condemn Glenda Jackson any time as she publicly condemned me in 1999. Don't like her politics. | ||
| Slow hand clap https://t.co/MtdPnTGAXB | ||
| Odd comment when most people attack me for being ridiculously optimistic https://t.co/i86Dble5EI | ||
| @nicholas_till I actually quite like opera! | ||
| I quite like this one, it's almost poetic in its use of language, including the elegant comma https://t.co/EbSRS8Waqj | ||
| @IntJewCon The problem with leaving is that means these guys run the Labour Party, which has considerable brand value among 20% of voters despite their efforts to destroy it, for ever. That's not a good outcome. | ||
| @charliemansell @UKLabour @labourunionsuk I preferred it in 2015 and 2016 when it was more like 27%. | ||
| @LeicesterWorker @John_Kenney @andreaburford31 @Maria4CarmsEast @LindenLyn The companies house website will tell you whether something is a company or not. BICOM is my employer and is a limited company. WBII is just a trading name of BICOM. | ||
| @10yearsaway Underneath her tweet | ||
| @MatthewPWoods @wesstreeting @jeremycorbyn @EHRC Of course he won't put JC in his election address any more than JC put Blair in his or mentioned Blair - who he labelled a war criminal - while canvassing. | ||
| @LeicesterWorker @Maria4CarmsEast @LindenLyn Because it isn't an unincorporated association. It's part of BICOM which is a Limited Company. WBII doesn't have "members". | ||
| There are worse scenarios https://t.co/HBZnS15puS | ||
| @TocquevilleJnr @TheEconomist @Peston @BBCr4today @TheSun My understanding from the press coverage was that @JewishLabour were advised on the EHRC process by James Libson of Mishcon re Reya, so I assume they are getting robust professional advice | ||
| @Macca00 @rushmeadvillas Nope was in the Independent https://t.co/BRsbGjUKuT | ||
| @Normanjam67 https://t.co/BRsbGjUKuT | ||
| @AgainstHunting Exactly, I don't want it to happen. | ||
| @Chesterfield4EU @angelasmithmp Because members are sometimes motivated by sectarian political agendas or personal ambition or grievances rather than objectively assessing an MP or councillor's performance. | ||
| @stevesurrey1 @JohnMannMP A possible outcome where MPs are triggered so close to an election is the central party just imposes a new candidate. They are already stitching up all the selections where MPs like John are retiring. So it's nothing to do with local choice. | ||
| It really is playing with fire to exclude strong local candidates in seats like Bassetlaw and Rother Valley. These are not safe Labour seats post-referendum. They are being heavily targeted by the Tories. They are not baubles to be dished out to leadership insiders. | ||
| @David__Osland Enjoy it while it lasts. | ||
| @jruddy99 @theobertram Registered supporter fee I would expect to be set high both to maximise revenue and to drive people towards full membership instead. | ||
| @theobertram Yes they only need 10% of PLP but they also need 5% of CLPs OR 5% of the voting strength of the affiliates. This requirement could significantly narrow the field, esp if for instance UNISON, GMB and Usdaw all back one candidate. | ||
| @David__Osland Jim Fitzpatrick? | ||
| @David__Osland Mildred Gordon? | ||
| @iancruise1972 @jeremycorbyn @tom_watson That isn't my memory of 2015. | ||
| @nicolelampert Not really possible as the party doesn't disclose stuff like that due to GDPR | ||
| @John_Kenney Yes. I was on the NEC. | ||
| @HeidiBachram @EuanPhilipps No "entryist" is a term specifically only meaning members of a smaller political party, usually Trotskyist, who enter into a larger one, usually democratic socialist, in an organised way, to try to take advantage of it. | ||
| @dmk1793 @elihxrris And for CLPs to elect better delegates. | ||
| A blast from the NUS past, Elaine Jones Wirral S CLP delegate attacking world capitalism. Is she still an AWL/Soc Organiser Trot full-timer? | ||
| @lisa_calderwood for refoundıng Labour? CLPs 112286f 14842a, TUs 2459269f 11822a | ||
| Refounding Labour passed with 94pc support, 99pc in TU section, 88pc in CLP section | ||
| @RossPolitics @iamhamesh Getting nominated is the easy b bit. They have to win the members. Difficult when membership heavily anti Brexit and both Corbynite candidates that have been mooted are not. New members can join with voting rights for 2 weeks at start of any contest. Next ldr will be Soft Left. |
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| MP Chris Williamson loses bid to be reinstated to Labour https://t.co/MnJXRxnbtm via @JewishNewsUK | ||
| WTAF https://t.co/NGfiPUHBq3 | ||
| Please sign the petition calling for full democratic selections in all Labour seats before the General Election. https://t.co/Roy3dxpGGC | ||
| Details and forms here https://t.co/NtFCl9HJ6g | ||
| Deadline is 5pm this Thursday | ||
| @GantsBhill @MikeGapes No. In favour of speeding up the investigation first. | ||
| @GantsBhill @MikeGapes Speeded up but retaining local control of shortlisting and selection. | ||
| I've just signed a petition calling for full democratic selections in all Labour seats before the General Election. Please sign and share! https://t.co/mPPInaI7xx | ||
| It's very odd that after making party democracy central to their branding for 30 years, and having reshaped the membership in their image, the Hard Left have to resort to escalating dirty tricks to win selections. Almost like they have alienated a lot of members. | ||
| @MichaelLCrick aha. I think it would require a degree of intra-party conflict that might not be desireable to get big factional rallies back | ||
| Still time to make it to Liverpool Town Hall for 8pm debate on Refounding Lab with me, @JohannaBaxter @PeterHain and @alexsmith1982 | ||
| @ChrisBryantMP the count was delayed, results not out yet | ||
| @MichaelLCrick why do you keep putting "rally" in inverted commas? | ||
| New Forest West CLP "please vote for RL so we can have a little bit of cash". Speaking for smaller CLPs across the country. | ||
| @Marshajane maybe no one is against it? | ||
| @SpaJw @stephenkb Most of the big unions have always been quietly sensible and voted sensibly at NEC. | ||
| @lmharpin @LouiseEllman It's not connected to the reselection process. Every MP has to go through a trigger ballot as a matter of course. This is something separate - ugly, bullying gesture politics but no actual impact on Louise's reselection. | ||
| @SpaJw @stephenkb Changing the rules on reselections again requires 50% at a party conference, where the unions have 50% of the vote, and the moderate share in the CLP side is going up as the steam goes out of Momentum at local level. | ||
| @stephenkb @talktoharris1 That's my take. I think possibility there will just be a Unite/CWU candidate and a Unison/GMB/Usdaw candidate and no one else in a future leadership contest. | ||
| @SpaJw @stephenkb Read the article. The Hard Left are losing almost every trigger ballot. Their project has basically failed as they haven't been able to reshape the PLP. | ||
| @Northernbred1 @MaryCreaghMP No he wouldn't be toast, he would be delighted about being able to impose Hard Left candidates to replace the MPs who had left. | ||
| Dame Louise Ellman to face no confidence motion debate on eve of Yom Kippur https://t.co/rF4K3j7P1H via @jewishchron | ||
| @askwhybooks I've confirmed with local members that all 11 branches met and 6 voted for Margaret. | ||
| @mculbert76 I have no idea why he has his job title. It was ridiculous in 2015 and is ridiculous now. | ||
| Why? Does he even want to? https://t.co/ad8PgBx0KF | ||
| @David__Osland The IMG? | ||
| @EdDavie @AnnelieseDodds I try my best as Secretary | ||
| @BenedictL_ @beccy1988 There haven't been any non-wartime examples of Labour being in a coalition, because there haven't been many hung parliaments due to FPTP. | ||
| @BenedictL_ @beccy1988 No, just saying there is no obstacle in the Labour Party rulebook to accommodating her demand. | ||
| @hughster I'm not aware of George's record of service on any bodies interpreting the Labour Party rulebook. | ||
| @beccy1988 @BenedictL_ This is about getting the Tories out of power by having a temporary PM who all the non Tory MPs can live with until a General Election. Would you prefer we stayed in opposition? | ||
| @namomnetempus The issue is that the minor parties won't form a caretaker govt with us if it has a substantive rather than caretaker PM | ||
| @timdwelly @DAaronovitch I have a copy! | ||
| @LeftistDad And? Are you saying Laura isn't one of the left's options for next leader? | ||
| @Nickolarge It's exactly that kind of contest. It's completely personalised and negative. | ||
| @theabsolutetom The vast majority of members have voted for her. She got triggered by a minority of smaller branches | ||
| @publicluxury I am guilty of the sin of searching for my own name ... | ||
| @David__Osland Getting rid of Trident and replacing it with a cheaper but inherently riskier nuclear deterrent based on carrier based aircraft or cruise missiles from smaller littoral submarines | ||
| @katsop62 @patrickmoule Sorry should have said power or votes rather than seats | ||
| @SamMargrave The moderates won it. Katrina Murray from Unison. | ||
| @mcash not us! I was unsighted on it. | ||
| @mcash The NEC. It's the local government but of the Democracy Review, got delayed by a year. | ||
| @JAACable @tessmillsy They aren't actual votes - the voting is done by delegates at the conference who each cast a vote weighted to reflect the number of members in their CLP | ||
| @ankiisme I expect so. Check with Region. | ||
| If we build stronger moderate networks and elect better conference delegates in each CLP, we never need to see the farce of Monday's Brexit debate again https://t.co/PM6XHk5sWd |
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| @matt_isom And emailing it. Sign up here https://t.co/PM6XHk5sWd | ||
| @matt_isom OMOV elections for that next summer | ||
| @Kav_Kaushik @PhilipGlanville | ||
| 7% swing to moderates between NCC election at last year's conference and this one. Left down 10%, Labour First up 4%, Open Labour up 2%. | ||
| @ankiisme All rule changes take immediate effect, so next AGM of your LCF/LGC will be held with this new structure | ||
| @patrickmoule That seems to have disappeared | ||
| If the split left in CAC ballot solidifies, balance of CLP delegates = 43% CLPD+LRC; 27% core Momentum; 20% Labour First+Progress; 5% Open Labour; 5% others | ||
| Not sure many delegates spotted that conference agreed new rules for Local Government Committees that will in most cases increase the power of Councillors and trade unions and socialist societies at the expense of members/CLPs. | ||
| @meolscop1978 That's why we need a lawyer | ||
| That will really help us win a General Election https://t.co/iPDy727Gle | ||
| @frolix22 Not my position - please don't invent policy stances that I haven't actually expressed. | ||
| @Ned_Mul @mikekatz @JewishLabour @l_attfield This is about holding political decision making meetings on days that are accessible for all delegates. In Hackney we held no meetings on Fridays or Saturdays. | ||
| Labour Students had their delegate credentials removed after Tuesday's NEC decision so there is literally no representation for students on conference floor - no speeches, motions or voting power on issues students care about. But they haven't managed to ban the NOLS disco! | ||
| @FinnOBeyts I'm looking forward to seeing the turnout when the glorious new OMOV system comes in. I am dead sure there were 28,000 students just waiting for the chance to elect a national committee. | ||
| @CurtisHoward99 @michaeljbawden Maybe it would have been easier just to stick with a delegate vote at national conference. | ||
| @SocAgainstAS Excuse me, this is what @JewishLabour have said themselves https://t.co/D6hrX6bUGs | ||
| I'm not sure this is something I would be boasting about. https://t.co/gtV97eIMoK | ||
| @twuttter @Wkrs @ayeshahazarika @HarrietHarman It isn't up to the CLP. Whether to field a candidate is an NEC decision. | ||
| Bloke with Lenin in his profile picture complains about lack of democracy. Confused... https://t.co/aVXD3LV08n | ||
| @Insect_Nation @britainelects Last time it was a two member ward. The two cllrs elected were LD and Con in that order. The Con cllr resigned and the LDs, already top in the ward, picked up the 2nd seat. An Independent took 21% in May. https://t.co/5b8C7CG3UQ | ||
| @HeidiBachram @emmacpicken NB he isn't the candidate yet, he is up against the local council leader in the Labour selection | ||
| @katrinamurray71 @joedgoldberg Shamina Akhtar Abertay | ||
| https://t.co/NcgP4f1FQT | ||
| Labour student wing to fight party's decision to abolish organisation https://t.co/kCEBSRqiau | ||
| @JayDStaker Congratulations! | ||
| @herrweiss666 @PetaSteel @Telegraph We can't tell as the party, according to the Panorama whistle blowers, seems to be brushing most cases under the carpet. | ||
| @centristwonk Very retro | ||
| @PatriciaRober25 @BristolRed Really good people - in every sense- are funding @tom_watson if your list is accurate | ||
| @charliemansell @TomMillerUK @OpenLabour I hope none of us old gits is involved in talks about elections at a youth and student level. | ||
| Fascinating detail on voting patterns in Israel here from @LahavHarkov https://t.co/hyTyhKisJe |
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| @heardougtweet I think the starting point is for the leadership to stop doing disgraceful things | ||
| @charliemansell @TomMillerUK @LabourStudents @maxshanly @OpenLabour @ProgressOnline @labour_first Its more that the LCC became Progress. | ||
| @JournoStephen @LabourStudents @UJS_UK @JewishLabour I'm getting the impression you don't actually know anything about Labour Students. | ||
| @AhJayzis Don't be absurd. | ||
| Social democracy will always prevail in the long term because it is an infinitely more appealing ideology than Leninism. However long it takes we can't surrender. | ||
| @heardougtweet @MarkDJacks1 @abrownrabbit95 Given the only point of contention in the meeting was a motion on antisemitism, I'm intrigued that our stance would provoke a negative response. | ||
| @LastBlairite Only 8 of 39 people on NEC are MPs | ||
| @EmmaBurnell_ When Momentum comes to shut down any of the Labour affiliates or groups that you've ever cared about or been a member of, I hope everyone else has a better understanding of solidarity than you are displaying today. | ||
| @TomDeery_ We have East branch within Oxford East CLP | ||
| How come they still have time to oversee trigger ballots then? https://t.co/MUzU2GQfMh | ||
| Last evening of relaxing family life b4 maelstrom of conference | ||
| Another tube trip standing in discomfort while able-bodied folk hog priority seats #ismywalkingstickinvisibleorrujustvselfish | ||
| @miketomillar Blue Labour isn't a faction in the sense of organising in internal elections like the other ones do. | ||
| @ObanMackie https://t.co/PM6XHk5sWd | ||
| @Catus14 @AnnBlackLabour @TheRedRoar They find it wearisome that we stay... | ||
| @joannecooper56 Actually it is - there is no term limit or requirement to seek reelection, he can only be challenged if MPs get fed up with him and run an alternative. | ||
| @philip_burrows Tom Watson is a Blairite? Do you realise how ignorant that makes you sound? | ||
| @CathrynEveriss Why don't you understand that that's what the joke is referring to? | ||
| @miketomillar The Labour Party will do better in a General Election if the public think Momentum have less influence. | ||
| @caravans67 @labour_first Exactly, the Momentum lead fell from 37k to 15k even though we had less high profile moderate candidates | ||
| @DiscoverThee @NormalN7 @KevinPascoe Only Labour Party members can vote in trigger ballots, your membership is checked at the start of the meeting. | ||
| @jenkinsbrynmair @KevinPascoe I don't have any constituents - I'm not an MP or councillor. My loyalty to the party is demonstrated by the work I put in campaigning and as branch Secretary. I'm not loyal to the leader- I want him to stand down. | ||
| @timrollpickerin Oops | ||
| @mwarne There is no quorum for trigger ballot meetings. The membership increase has been in London, places with lots of retirees from London, and university areas, anywhere with Guardian readers, very limited in former industrial areas and social housing estates. | ||
| @ShowerAbsolute You are preaching to the converted | ||
| This isn't just the right thing to do, it's electorally best for Labour. If we fight a GE on single issue of Brexit we will lose. If a referendum resolves the Brexit issue and we can fight a GE on domestic issues we might win. https://t.co/y6WhA3FfmL | ||
| Not sure this worked out quite how they expected https://t.co/sIqU4Vpowj | ||
| @GrahamMoonieD @MrBreakspear @martinangus @PeoplesMomentum Pete Willsman was on the panel that picked Fiona. | ||
| @CSOL14441 @wesstreeting No | ||
| @ABCBetterWorld @H_HornblowerRN @SDoughtyMP @DianaJohnsonMP @jeremycorbyn ROFL | ||
| @hs75uk @TomKibasi @guardian Yeah they are wrong | ||
| @lidf2014 @paulsceeny @LabLinda75 @UKLabour Please name any MPs who were imposed as candidates during the period Campbell worked for Blair NB it was better then, we had a Labour government | ||
| Priti on #bbcqt illustrates this is a 3 party coalition: Tory mainstream, LDs and Thatcherite headbanger faction. | ||
| @stuartbruce that was Priti toning it down for TV! In real life she is nicer and funnier but even more rightwing... | ||
| @ashmcgregor and she will have been deliberately trying to horrify her real enemies - Cameroon Wet Tories and LDs | ||
| @cllrtrisosborne There is absolutely no need to move to NEC shortlisting or imposition until the final week or so between the election being called and close of nominations. We have possibly a month spare during which CLPs could do a local, speeded up selection process. | ||
| If it is too near the election for CLPs to have time shortlist candidates, how come the NEC says they still have time to conduct trigger ballots for sitting MPs? At least the logic behind stitch ups should be consistent. | ||
| @AaronPorter having spent 2 years canvassing an Essex seat I know it's true - and depressing | ||
| @emmacpicken @rob_marchant No, rules can only be changed by Annual Conference. | ||
| @AaronPorter unfortunately they will probably back their MP's view... | ||
| @charliemansell @PeterWatt123 Indeed | ||
| @RyanDevlin_ Not this time according to this https://t.co/cjQsmLr7WK | ||
| @kmflett She wasn't in the same group as those two | ||
| @599bt @EuanPhilipps I linked to her speaking about it on national TV | ||
| @emmacpicken @EuanPhilipps @jessphillips Here's the link to her speaking on national TV about it https://t.co/b1TxlKnvIN | ||
| @EuanPhilipps @Tweezerman7 @jessphillips I'm pretty sure she's been part of every substantive solidarity action asked of her, including physically accompanying @RuthSmeeth to the Wadsworth hearing. | ||
| @599bt @EuanPhilipps Untrue https://t.co/b1TxlKnvIN |
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| @JBickertonUK @0rientsupporter That's not correct https://t.co/b1TxlKnvIN | ||
| Minutes silence at GC in memory of Bert Karpin, party member since 1930s and veteran of Cable Street. Sadly missed. | ||
| Wearing my 1997 vintage New Labour, New Hope t-shirt to Hackney N GC tonight to entertain/provoke Left Briefing/Socialist Action comrades | ||
| @LeonLeonmi3 @PaulBrandITV No, Thursday is just a convention not a legal requirement | ||
| @jruddy99 @KatieCurtis No, I think it's an IMG/Socialist Action front organisation, hence Tariq Ali | ||
| Petition: Do not prorogue Parliament https://t.co/D8ONVWdodB | ||
| @frozenwarning @forwardnotback As Lord Hailsham said, UK is an "elected dictatorship | ||
| @frozenwarning @forwardnotback That's standard. The quorum is three and you have to be invited to the meeting by No10. Usually involves 3 or 4 ministers. The other x hundred Rt Hons are not informed or invited. | ||
| @philbc3 The quorum is three, according to briefing on Parliament website | ||
| @HuwJonesLabour Me. Details of how to submit are here: https://t.co/5RvTiAkO1H | ||
| Can someone who understands LDs explain the status of Presdt Farron vis a vis Leader Clegg? Powerful? Or court jester? | ||
| Curry night chez Akehurst and @LabLinda75. From Rice + Spice Stokey High St. Very good. | ||
| @alanrlaing I remember when they were all my colleagues at BSMG! Was that really a decade ago? | ||
| @DanCareyDawes me and about 400 other members. Merger not a land grab! | ||
| @whocareswhatjew @LJDLabour I represented Chatham Ward - now renamed Homerton Ward - and was Chief Whip 2002-09. https://t.co/G9zbcZG3WW | ||
| @AndyCharlwood guidelines for model of composition in new rulebook, local variations agreed with region I think. Flexibilty is there. | ||
| @labourjohnw @CorbynSuperfan It's a parody account | ||
| @LiamMcKee I said "part of | ||
| @GeorgeAylett It's logically consistent as Trotskyists are a type of Leninists. We are also in the odd situation where Stalinists and Trotskyists are both active within the Labour Party, superficially as allies. | ||
| @antoniabance possible | ||
| @antoniabance my understanding is that a priority is to safeguard existing posts | ||
| @frozenwarning What's over? | ||
| @frozenwarning "Hold them to account" means don't vote for them again if you don't like their decisions | ||
| @CraigHackneyCub I don't remember meeting you in Hackney. | ||
| @_kerriprince Correct | ||
| Second part of my article about trigger ballots https://t.co/hbuTEqfuxG | ||
| @MatthewBlott In that case they definitely do think you are still a member | ||
| @MatthewBlott Did you get a ballot for the CAC? If not they don't think you are a member, they are inviting non members to an event. | ||
| @TheGreenBenches thanks, pleased it was useful | ||
| @TheGreenBenches that looks familiar! | ||
| Interesting read https://t.co/BTKDbyigXI | ||
| @gabrielmilland No they haven't. They had one chance in 2016. The MPs did the right thing and challenged Corbyn. Not enough members voted the right way and not enough members of the public cared enough to join and vote. There has been no moment since then when a challenge would have worked. | ||
| @simoniswright I dare you to! | ||
| @PremMayo1 I'd rather Corbyn resigned now, so that Labour had a chance of beating Boris | ||
| @LabLinda75 yes | ||
| @gordongringo @adamlangleben @centralistlion @CushieBetter @multipolarspin @Hal9000_999 @supergutman @JewishLabour @UKLabour @redstarneil It is the same organisation as far as Labour's NEC was concerned in 2004 as they just rolled forward the PZ affiliation | ||
| Astonishing. I have a walking stick, Linda is heavily pregnant, no one on tube moves to give up seats for those less able to stand | ||
| @Sabrina_Huck @dmk1793 That was and is correct | ||
| @kmflett @JohannaBaxter I had a lot more lamb than JB, and mango ice cream #runes | ||
| @haykirstin @susan_nash staff oversee Labour Students conference and it is an affiliate. Useful to have neutral referee there. | ||
| Going to NEC dinner to thank Norma Stephenson + Ray Collins for work for Party and welcome @IainMcNicol as Gen Sec | ||
| @A_New_Politics @labour_first No it isn't. The leader isn't the party. Changing leader would help the party. | ||
| @JamesDAustin It's a proscribed organisation in UK law now - political and military wings. When was the picture taken? | ||
| @TobyChopra @vc61 @supergutman No | ||
| @vc61 @supergutman Yes there are. | ||
| @mark_carrigan nah, Militant had 5,000 members and over 100 full time staff. Dan's just Dan. | ||
| @SimonLivesey Yes but fighting politically does not need to be personally unpleasant. You just need to win more votes than people. | ||
| @TheEisaAli @dan_nailed @AaronBastani @MikeSegalov Here's the @JewishChron setting out the community's concerns about CW https://t.co/TgtzIqtfkg |
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| @KathlynGadd @0Calamity @SteveHilditch @coyleneil Clause XI of which chapter? | ||
| @samh411 @SteveHilditch @coyleneil Actually our best candidates should be fighting attack marginals held by the other parties. | ||
| @growsunday @SteveHilditch @coyleneil We need a leader who is acceptable to all the main stakeholders in the party - PLP, members and unions - and to all political wings of the party. | ||
| @growsunday @SteveHilditch @coyleneil A leader who was interested in party unity would have stood down when they lost a no confidence vote from their own PLP colleagues. | ||
| @PremMayo1 @SteveHilditch @coyleneil So what? 2016 was years ago. | ||
| @SteveHilditch @PremMayo1 @coyleneil Yes we need to come together, to do that we need a new leader who can both unite the party and be a credible opponent to Johnson. | ||
| @0Calamity @SteveHilditch @coyleneil So you don't think people should campaign within their party for their own ideas and a leader who reflects them? How bizarre. | ||
| @scottr0gers The burgers there are great. | ||
| @philwoodford @DavidHirsh @PeoplesMomentum The EHRC investigation was triggered in part by a submission from @JewishLabour I.e. people fighting from within. The remain movement includes @Remain_Labour who have successfully caused internal pressure. | ||
| @cwalters1927 When I say "NEC selects" in fact the panels that selected in England in 2017 consisted of a mix of NEC members and Regional Board members. I can't remember if the panels were wholly WEC and SEC in Scotland. @AnnBlackLabour will know! | ||
| @cwalters1927 Yes | ||
| @daviesneil275 @dannyjhmcgill @Sidcup_Labour @JewishLabour @mikekatz @l_attfield @JackLubner @Sidcup4Remain @LabourAgainstAS one for you I think | ||
| Who indeed? https://t.co/2yvyBQgwp9 | ||
| @RemgapcCairns What gravy train is it you think I am riding on? | ||
| @lordisthisfree If he was an impressive leader every Labour MP would have been behind him | ||
| @OwlyMcHoot @HuwJonesLabour I will be campaigning for Labour. I want Corbyn removed as leader before any General Election. | ||
| Didn't take long for Israel to get into the replies to a thread that was nothing to do with Israel. https://t.co/F0CRzuDidq | ||
| @grumpy_southpaw I am trying to increase Labour's chances of winning an election and implementing its programme by removing a leader who all the polling and any conversations with the public tell you breaks records for unpopularity | ||
| @IanBFAWU @wesstreeting All those things require a change of leader. We can't beat the Tories with JC acting as a lead anchor dragging down our poll ratings. | ||
| @dannyjbuckley Sorry no. He needs to quit so that there is a leader who we can all get behind. The responsibility sits with him to realise he is not the best person for the job. | ||
| @IanBFAWU @wesstreeting Thanks for your excommunication but my support for the Labour Party is very visibly recorded on the #LabourDoorstep I've earned the right to criticise an inept leader by knocking doors and delivering leaflets for over 30 years. | ||
| @IanBFAWU @wesstreeting It's not exactly like I'm the only person with this opinion. He has the lowest personal ratings of any major party leader ever, which was inevitable given his politics are the furthest from those of the average voter. | ||
| Kudos to NEC members @tom_watson @JamesAsser @nick_forbes @aliceperryuk and George Howarth MP for trying to bring in an independent complaints procedure. Why are other NEC members hostile to this? https://t.co/yHSJ9tGphS | ||
| @SpaJw Yes | ||
| This isn't going to get sorted out with the current political composition of the leader's office, senior staff, NEC and NCC. https://t.co/uSE9gyl5iC | ||
| @JonHegerty @royfello @HAL900062277140 @stephane_ulrich @UKLabour No Roy | ||
| @TweetForTheMany @ProfJeffKenner I certainly didn't try to "get Ed" I was one of his loudest supporters in the 2010 leadership election and on the NEC | ||
| @DavidSheardbook Why would I care? People map politicians' political stances. | ||
| @fightingb4ck Just added that | ||
| @MrsBurgin That's certainly what happened to me. | ||
| @underbedred @PolhomeEditor It's from @JewishLabour . They have every right and every reason to be forthright about this issue. | ||
| @odriscoll_colin No I didn't. | ||
| @socialist1959 @Karen08051451 @faz432 @relovedreams It wasn't. She has just made that up. | ||
| @relovedreams @Karen08051451 @socialist1959 @faz432 Yes obviously | ||
| @David__Osland It's a very good training ground for future moderate cadres. | ||
| @David__Osland I'm also guessing from your question that you are unaware of Gloria's time in AWL... | ||
| @kenr168 No, it's the promotional t-shirt for @supergutman show about antisemitic conspiracy theories. I recommend seeing it. | ||
| @caldyr99 @cllrtrisosborne @vincemaple @hopenothate As @MJCreighton said on Panorama there were virtually no racism/antisemitism cases before 2015 | ||
| @CraigHackneyCub @Oxford_Labour I know, I was the Hackney borough campaign manager for 12 years and led most of the sessions | ||
| @CraigHackneyCub We canvass on Sundays not Saturdays in @Oxford_Labour | ||
| Israel, Progress, and the Lib Dems (who really aren't very sound on Israel) all in one tweet. And a 8 digit number suggesting a bot. https://t.co/2Ru2qruoTO | ||
| @LeeMorgan239 If my own colleagues in Hackney hated me they had an odd way of showing it, electing me 7 times as as Chief Whip, 4 times as a scrutiny chair, 12 times as CLP Vice Chair, selected and elected 3 times as a cllr by huge margins, nominated & elected to regional board & NEC. | ||
| @JamesSorah @tom_watson It's a public statement that the signatories themselves put online. | ||
| @faz432 I don't know your locations! | ||
| @michaela_65uk @mynnoj Yes | ||
| @Satiresocialist @GnasherJew | ||
| @stephenmcgarty Yeah, side effects of a life threatening neurological illness I had in 2009. | ||
| @northofcam All MPs are automatically reselected in a snap election | ||
| @tashkimo @multipolarspin @DAaronovitch I had never heard of him before today. | ||
| @NeilOutOfTime @reecewhayes Why are you so obsessed with trying to discredit a polling company with a proven accurate record on polling Labour members? What would be their motive for polling inaccurately? They would lose commercial clients if they did. They were the 2nd most accurate for Euro election. | ||
| @NeilOutOfTime @reecewhayes By the way I won over £900 by successfully betting on which individual seats Labour would gain in 2017 so my predictions weren't all inaccurate or pessimistic | ||
| @pvp58 Belief in equality and social justice and burning anger about poverty. | ||
| @davidaslindsay @Danish_Karen He called Blair a war criminal. | ||
| @Davejackson9876 Oh I see. | ||
| @stevelapsl Sure, but that's just about the maths of the membership, not the "realness" of how left they are. | ||
| https://t.co/dgphyXaKzy | ||
| @MatthewRavenhil I wish I shared your optimism about that particular body of people | ||
| @valstevens24 They don't have that kind of budget! | ||
| @andy_kingdon @JackEDeakin @DAaronovitch @LibDems Like shit they did. Literally not a single active member in either Oxford CLP has gone from Labour to Lib Dem since 2015. | ||
| Two of Britain's biggest unions voice concerns over Labour's treatment of antisemitism whistleblowers. Tectonic plates moving... https://t.co/UBLWaqH6wt | ||
| @green_gatsby_ @georgeattherock Well they can vote at a club meeting for delegates to represent them at the conference who share their stances can't they? | ||
| @green_gatsby_ @georgeattherock All of those are part of the wider political process, & working life, though. They are not things you can avoid in life if you want to be politically active. You can't abolish debating and socialising from the political process because some people find them difficult. | ||
| @green_gatsby_ @georgeattherock Surely those costs are also involved in the average student's night out back on campus? | ||
| @georgeattherock @green_gatsby_ I'd be focusing on how to get more people to the conference/make it more accessible rather than trying to abolish it. | ||
| @green_gatsby_ @georgeattherock We were always trying to recruit people from the other factions rather than ignoring them - I used to be given a list of left delegates to buy drinks for. | ||
| @green_gatsby_ @georgeattherock But it comes into every student experience at a national level. Using same argument no one would ever do sports or other clubs and societies that cost anything and involved any travel. | ||
| @LizaRadley7 @JackEDeakin @DAaronovitch They don't control it absolutely. Where we organise, we can win. Loads of members have walked away from Momentum over Brexit and antisemitism. | ||
| @georgeattherock @green_gatsby_ Are you also campaigning for NUS to be OMOV and abolition of NUS national conference? | ||
| @HindChristopher It's Gavin who is now arguing for a leadership contest. | ||
| @JohnCar26240498 Once, in 2005. | ||
| @supergutman It also turned out not to exist. MPs have to declare trips where cost is above a minimum threshold and no such level of spending on delegations has ever existed. | ||
| @PaddySitsDown No I don't. The IHRA definition provides a very effective way of judging which forms of anti-Zionism are antisemitic and which are not. | ||
| @ajfuzz1 Generally best not to cook up conspiracy theories about the connections between Jews in a discussion about antisemitism. | ||
| @ajfuzz1 He didn't have a "cover". | ||
| @ajfuzz1 That's hardly surprising when I work as Director of one of the largest pro-Israel campaigns in the UK. | ||
| Labour can effect positive change, but not while its internal politics are so toxic | John Harris https://t.co/DZQDrpTnCb | ||
| I must have missed Pete fighting the Tories. Maybe he was too busy slagging off rabbis. https://t.co/bWeBHHOziw | ||
| Time to get back to the substance of @tom_watson letter to @JennieGenSec. Why isn't the submission by @UKLabour to EHRC being published? | ||
| @novasgran @3arabyAswad @AJIunit Ella Rose was not in the IDF and never said anything about killing anyone. Please don't make shit up. | ||
| @andimueller1 @TimWardCam @gsoh31 @TheStephenRalph We had our best results for 4 years in Oxford on Friday. | ||
| @greg_herriett @Lowfeller @DrAndrewKirkham @labour_trumpton @TobyBurnett247 @britainelects @Survation @UKLabour There was the small matter of Trotsky's leading role in the Red Terror. His main dispute with Stalin was over whether to build communism in one country or pursue revolutions globally. https://t.co/LSB6meE3jh | ||
| @greg_herriett @DrAndrewKirkham @Lowfeller @labour_trumpton @TobyBurnett247 @britainelects @Survation @UKLabour I see the 2 local CLPs' numbers as they are reported to meetings. I have friends in CLPs all over the country who report the same pattern. It was largely caused by our ambiguous position on Brexit. | ||
| @Shamils18 You really need to read about what antisemitism consists of. It's one of the oldest antisemitic motifs to acuse Jews of using their money to control politics. | ||
| @TheStephenRalph @TimWardCam @gsoh31 That's not my experience on the ground where we got our best mainstream turnout in 4 years at CLP meeting on Friday. People will go if they are organised and led. | ||
| @jamesk74497814 The Hard Left - Corbyn included - spoke out all the time under Kinnock and Blair. In fact Corbyn helped run the 1988 attempt by Benn to oust Kinnock as leader. People who opposed the Iraq War didn't hold their noses and shut up about their disagreement with Blair. I vote Labour. | ||
| I'm at this event in Liverpool. Both @lucianaberger and @LouiseEllman testimony on antisemitic abuse they have received horrifying to hear. Terrifying as well - lots of threats of violence. https://t.co/JzguEP5Tuz | ||
| @krustysghost No it's advice | ||
| @greg_herriett @labour_trumpton @DrAndrewKirkham @TobyBurnett247 @britainelects @Survation @UKLabour @LibDems I am both a Labour member and voter. I don't support Corbyn and resent either my vote or membership being used by you to imply that I do. | ||
| @EmmaBurnell_ And the extreme factionalism of the left turn has seen key committees and staff taking decisions on antisemitism cases dominated by people who either let off their factional allies, diminish the problem, or worst case are themselves antisemitic (6) | ||
| @AmandaF63400214 @timdwelly @Cadoret Yes they have been reported in the press. | ||
| @David__Osland As another former Watson flatmate I can confirm he never did the washing up. | ||
| @AmandaF63400214 @timdwelly @Cadoret There has been repeated polling of the Jewish community on this issue and all the main communal organisations and Synagogue movements have made their views clear, as has the JLM which is Labour's Jewish affiliate. | ||
| @nicolelampert @MissLauraMarcus The PLP does have the votes to trigger a leadership contest. But they need to be convinced they can win one. | ||
| @BristolRed Only just got home | ||
| @Oxford_Labour votes by 78 to 49 in favour of second referendum and remain | ||
| @bornwithatail_ @MaelVogue @rida_again No | ||
| @GregsonofAdam @UKLabour Those are better examples. The Malaya emergency was nothing to do with "racism" - it was a Cold War geopolitical struggle | ||
| @ajfuzz1 @EuanPhilipps There isn't a UK equivalent of AIPAC, which is a cross party $93m a year organisation that directly lobbies Congress. LFI, CFI, LDFI interact with MPs. BICOM deals w media, think tank work and I do grassroots campaigns. | ||
| These people need to be comprehensively politically defeated and re-marginalised | ||
| This will only get sorted completely when these people are removed from decision making roles in the Labour Party | ||
| And they have friends and allies who are part of the antisemitism problem - or in some cases are part of it themselves | ||
| @Mr_A_McSquiffy One of my main complaints about Blair is he went soft and let Ken back in in 2004 | ||
| @newatch @Samfr Jackie Walker describes herself as Jewish. | ||
| @NormanRides @CelloBellaClara @nicholasjenkins @Insect_Nation @margarethodge LFI was founded in 1957 | ||
| @ChrisPrice66 @Insect_Nation @margarethodge I blocked Harry Tuttle ages ago as found his tweets offensive. | ||
| @Insect_Nation @HenJenny @margarethodge Triesman is there because he was General Secretary of the Labour Party. Darzi and Turnberg because of services to medicine- Darzi is a world famous surgeon and Turnberg was President of the Royal College of Physicians. | ||
| @H_HornblowerRN @KMBraund @UKLabour Only means that if he is still leader. | ||
| @MaierViv No, part of my job. I don't work for the Israeli Embassy though. You should go visit the Golan, lovely scenery, great wine, lots of military history of the Syrian fascists getting beaten in 1967 and 1973. Easyjet to Tel Aviv is very cheap. | ||
| @Filly_Stein He won't be leader by the next General Election. | ||
| @DD1958 @maxim_lorr @JewishNewsUK Can you supply some kind of league table of brutal acts to evidence your absurd claim that Israel is "the most brutal state on earth"? | ||
| Labour Remain! https://t.co/8r0RCXYJ9F | ||
| @ArnoldLabour @JacksterD Yep either way it has to be run by the book as people can get litigious | ||
| @georgeattherock @LDNLabStudents If you don't want @ProgressOnline or @labour_first to be able to contact you then don't tick the box giving us use of the data. I think most people participating will want to be contacted about the broader campaign to save the Labour Party. | ||
| @markpaine1970 What a bizarre reply to a tweet praising Ellie for taking a political risk by doing the right thing | ||
| @cliffordharris1 @MikeGapes Sorry that's our of order. Yes Mike has guts but so do MPs who have chosen to fight this inside Labour. Neither is an easy path. And if you've got a problem with organisation, let me know what @labour_first should improve. | ||
| @timdwelly I haven't said that. I want MPs to speak out. I don't want to see what I saw on Thursday which was people snearing at them for "just signing a statement". | ||
| @Brian_Payne17 @SpaJw That's really not a good idea, leaving them in charge of something with (even now) the potent brand value, history, core vote and union support of the Labour Party. | ||
| I hope the story about Ellie Reeves will help people being sniffy about Labour MPs "just signing statements" understand that the atmosphere in some CLPs is so toxic that MPs "just signing statements" are showing considerable courage & putting their jobs on the line. | ||
| @DamCou I like it so much I commute on it twice a day. Beaconsfield is the best service station in the UK. | ||
| @ShabdaCloud @JackEDeakin Not happening so get on with the real world task of winning back Labour. | ||
| @wakeyrule @DanHeley1 I don't get many opportunities for it | ||
| @Insect_Nation What are you on about? | ||
| @Insect_Nation Members were involved too, using this https://t.co/HBbPDwDyNv | ||
| @IntJewCon @velvetrev44 I get that. My interest is in defeating this. There isn't a quick fix, people have all these fantasies about mass walkouts that would collapse Labour but that isn't going to happen, we need to deal with the political reality that Labour is here to stay so needs to be fixed. | ||
| @IntJewCon Step by step. | ||
| @velvetrev44 Yep it's going to take many years to clean out the Augean Stables. But we need a viable centre left party of government so it has to be done. | ||
| @KenJMunn Williamson re-suspended | ||
| Read this thread https://t.co/qtfDqN7RF2 | ||
| Exhausted. Been in almost continuous meetings 8am-9pm chairing 2 of them speaking loads at middle one. | ||
| @TomBeattie2010 https://t.co/FqzvxnvsPv | ||
| @CeriWhite Its translating into more mixed conference delegations in CLPs outside London | ||
| @CeriWhite There are quite a few places reporting that Brexit is causing movement away from Momentum. Other places where they are tightening their grip. | ||
| @John_Ferrett I'll buy you a drink when we've made Labour safe for you to rejoin. | ||
| @HindChristopher @labour_first I'm literally the national secretary of the main national anti-Corbyn faction and spend all my spare time organising to defeat Momentum. You would be welcome to get involved https://t.co/PM6XHk5sWd | ||
| @JonHegerty Better ask her why she voted to readmit Williamson then | ||
| @thehoff102 It's not going to happen though, so very little point speculating about it. | ||
| If you care about disgraceful decisions by the NEC or NCC you need to go to your CLP meeting and elect good conference delegates, nominate good NCC candidates. Deadline is this Friday and many CLPs meeting tonight and tomorrow. Change the decision makers. | ||
| @ZeObserver @DAaronovitch @peterkyle He has never wanted to be leader. He tried to resign in 2016 and was persuaded not to. If his allies give him a way to retire unvanquished he will go. | ||
| @DAaronovitch @PolProfSteve @jamiesusskind @peterkyle Corbyn did think Blair was a disaster, on Iraq, role of private sector in public services etc etc. | ||
| @DAaronovitch @PolProfSteve @jamiesusskind @peterkyle So why shouldn't moderate MPs do the same? | ||
| @jamiesusskind @DAaronovitch @peterkyle Most Labour MPs already clearly expressed their views by voting no confidence in JC and nominating Smith in 2016. | ||
| @DAaronovitch @peterkyle I think he will probably announce his retirement at conference, before Peter or any other MP has their trigger ballot. | ||
| @DAaronovitch @peterkyle Why would he have to say that? A) Corbyn probably won't be leader unless it is a snap election, B) there is no obligation on Labour candidates to say the leader would make a good PM | ||
| @hancockcjz @AntoineTinnion @FitzMP Actually only 2 MPs were imposed as candidates during the entire Blair and Brown era, compared to all candidates in the snap 2017 General Election. | ||
| Interesting rumour going round that @labourpaul is wanting to run for Police Commissioner for Sussex | ||
| Hooray! www.lukeakehurst.blogspot.com is still a top ten Labour blog: http://t.co/iiIxsHEc | ||
| @JonHegerty Russell used to be their national chair. | ||
| At Hackney Town Hall to chair 8am social services budget scrutiny panel | ||
| @mail32186551 Yes that's the point I am making | ||
| @imvotinglabour No I go to Israel, and take other people on study tours, as part of my day job as Director of @WeBelieveIsrael | ||
| Blow for Scottish Labour leader Richard Leonard as key ally ousted from top role https://t.co/297rC2ApwV |
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| @imvotinglabour I was there at same time on a different trip - he took staff with him | ||
| Tom Watson set up Progress????? Wow. https://t.co/Lx4A7NNsD0 | ||
| @donpaskini really? Not that surprising! | ||
| @Lokivandam @mattzarb @JolyonMaugham I might be a "knobhead" who talks like that but I'm not a former adviser and I've never spoken to Jolyon about anything. | ||
| Great to hear @CoopClaire speak about the work of the @CoopParty at @Oxford_Labour All Member Meeting | ||
| @David__Osland Sorry to be pedantic but there were defections from Liberal Unionist to Liberal and vice versa in Edwardian era and from Liberal National to Liberal and vice versa in 1930s. Arguably also Kennedy & MacLennan from SDP to LD unless mergers don't count. | ||
| @timdwelly @BulawayoStaines Good luck doing it without him. Who do you think will lead this if you have disqualified Tom? | ||
| @DavidHirsh @JewishLabour No he wasn't. He did not go to Peterborough after the antisemitism emerged. He was in Manchester on polling day. | ||
| @BulawayoStaines One example - the organising I do every year for party conference delegate elections helped stop Chris Williamson get on the NCC, where he would have been taking decisions on antisemitism disciplinary cases. | ||
| @Insect_Nation @MarkDJacks1 It's not about the individuals it's about the way the faction treats everyone else in the party, and about getting the Stalin fan boys out of LOTO. | ||
| @Insect_Nation @MarkDJacks1 I'm primarily interested in ending the current internal sectarianism and lack of pluralism. That requires Momentum to lose control of the levers of power in the leader's office. | ||
| @Insect_Nation @MarkDJacks1 I don't know who would be acceptable to you. I would be happy with anyone from outside the Campaign Group tradition. | ||
| @Insect_Nation @MarkDJacks1 I spent 5 years being Ed Miliband's biggest fan, so I'm less ideologically choosy than you might think | ||
| @ted_pen @gapesology Turns out there wasn't much planning involved | ||
| @CarlXBMC That is exactly the point I am making. | ||
| @bluecatsarah It's because I want a decent Labour government that I want a change of leadership. | ||
| @Discworld101 @MalachyPakenham @UKLabour Aldershot | ||
| @ClareFKing @MikeDawson28 @DavidHirsh Getting her name wrong, which I apologise for. | ||
| @ClareFKing @MikeDawson28 @DavidHirsh Actually it's Onasanya so we both got it wrong though I accept in my case I mis-spelt it more than you did. | ||
| @jenrebhen123 That's a good thing right? | ||
| @KevinEwert1 My 2017 campaign was pounding the streets of Oxford East to get the brilliant @AnnelieseDodds elected as our Labour MP. | ||
| @uncle_honka A) I'm not a Blairite B) I've continued to canvass, leaflet and run polling day operations for Labour at every election and all year round since 2015. |
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| @uncle_honka In 2010 I was campaign manager for the council elections in Hackney which were on the same day, and was up for reelection as a councillor myself. We gained 6 council seats. | ||
| @PaulAdams72 That's not an accurate description of our work... | ||
| @ArnoldLabour Is he an MP? | ||
| @MikeDawson28 @DavidHirsh That lets the NEC off the hook. An NEC panel chose Olusanya without consulting the CLP. An NEC panel shortlisted Forbes in 2019 (though not in 2015 when she was picked by a wholly local process). | ||
| @AFVFI @markpaine1970 That isn't going to happen | ||
| @wesstreeting @LabourFirst You mean @labour_first ... | ||
| @janis_garbutt @psreklaw_p It isn't. | ||
| @reecewhayes And B) deselecting Soft Left MPs and cllrs. In return the right fell in behind Kinnock (from Soft Left) as leader. The pattern in almost all CLPs and on regional boards & NEC is Momentum vs everyone else ... people like me are happy to vote for Soft Left candidates 2/2 | ||
| @reecewhayes Hi Reece I guess I am basing my assumptions on the model of the 1980s when the Soft Left started out allied to the Hard Left, then realigned and allied itself with the right because it realised the Bennites were a) making the party unelectable .... 1/2 | ||
| @sunny_hundal @DamianBailey13 I'm not in favour of a re-run. | ||
| @Marklamar20 I'm proposing the members be given that decision again | ||
| @Marklamar20 Yes, if there are 500,000 members then 26,000 is a bit pathetic | ||
| @DamianBailey13 @sunny_hundal I was literally implementing different policies, not just being loud about them. In Hackney we sacked the private contractors on services like revenues & benefits and refuse collection, and brought them back in house. In the early 2000s. | ||
| @DamianBailey13 @sunny_hundal No and I was a supporter of in-sourcing public services and opponent of marketising them as a cllr back in the Blair era, so maybe you have me confused with someone else. | ||
| @actpsy @Lokivandam @adrianmcmenamin There are basically 4 strands in the Labour Party: Hard Left = Benn, Corbyn, Momentum Soft Left = Ed M, Robin Cook, Foot, Bevan, Open Labour Old Right = Brown, Healey, Hattersley, Labour First New Labour = Blair, Progress But each overlaps with the ones that are next to it. |
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| @sickstringer I am director of @WeBelieveIsrael. I work for British people who support Israel, not "for Israel". I'm guessing that I will have more work not less... | ||
| @logical4ever If Corbyn resigned it could be | ||
| @sickstringer What do you think my job is and how do you think a general election result would impact it? | ||
| @michaeljbawden @MrMutantes @dannyjhmcgill @stevelapsl @pbffreeman It's the only part of the Labour Party that has demonstrated an ability to win a General Election in the last 45 years. | ||
| @ne_grant There has only been one challenge, it was years ago in 2016. | ||
| @sunny_hundal When I go to Progress events they are entirely focused on new policy ideas, to the frustration of people like me who want to discuss organisation! More seriously though its Labour Together which is the vehicle for policy development. | ||
| @jameschough2017 No. They wouldn't be the candidate. | ||
| @mattbooth88 No that wasn't a serious challenge... | ||
| @psreklaw_p Not looking at the current leadership of my party or wider UK and global politics, no. I'm filled with fear. | ||
| @MSEPlanning Branches have no input. In theory CLPs can object to membership applications but most never look at them. | ||
| @MaxWorrall @ringwodian @stuart_nimmo The fight to remove Corbyn is an essential precondition of beating the Tories. | ||
| @_PoliticsWill The composition of the membership would change if there was a leadership contest, just like it did in 2015. | ||
| I thought that the NCC elections last year were about people of good will trying to keep Labour's national disciplinary structures in the hands of people who would take tough action against antisemitism. | ||
| @NiclasReddish I am in favour of a challenge this summer. | ||
| @NiclasReddish You mean the internal elections that actually decide whether the NEC and NCC have people who take antisemitism seriously on them or people like Willsman? | ||
| @hurryupharry @carlgardner @78SoylentGreen @tom_watson @EHRC Its only possible in the rules to challenge during the summer when annual nomination papers have been issued to MPs. I'm not even sure if that has happened yet. | ||
| @DavidCarr2002 @LastBlairite You have to trigger a contest as in 2016 but this time sign up the extra 120000 new members/registered supporters needed to beat him - which is possible if the election is fought around Brexit policy stance | ||
| @DavidCarr2002 @LastBlairite That's the opposite of how it works | ||
| @78SoylentGreen @hurryupharry @tom_watson We can't get rid without hundreds of thousands of people joining. | ||
| @vincegraff To elect someone else instead of him as leader. His leadership may be in its final days or weeks. | ||
| @Bloodclouds @kcldav43 @atomiumlondon @labourleave @labour_first Apology accepted | ||
| @themounts @suey2y @election_data Yep though a major factor in their local elections was opposition to a local plan that involved permission for new housing including that needed by the city council just outside our own boundary. | ||
| @suey2y @themounts @election_data I'd prefer not to discuss the details of local electoral threats to us in public on here. | ||
| @suey2y @themounts @election_data There is literally nothing in common politically between Oxford City Council and South Oxfordshire. | ||
| @Bloodclouds @kcldav43 @atomiumlondon @labourleave I am secretary of an organisation- @labour_first - founded by trade union political officers and with support for the union link as a core principle, so you must have me confused with someone else. | ||
| @WoyHattersly @UwinsStephen @Legalbeagle1978 We wouldn't ever publicly set out our strategy... | ||
| @Ken_Ferrett @UKLabour To change it | ||
| @GlynisWinestein That wasn't for a byelection though | ||
| @alstewitn I can recommend the section of this on antisemitic anti-Zionism https://t.co/rxjTE2lssl | ||
| @velvetrev44 @Ken_Ferrett @AlanOlive1 Yes it will. Dealing with the problem requires political control of the key decision making structures - leader, NEC, NCC - to be held by people who want to take tough disciplinary action. | ||
| @PremMayo1 Why not? | ||
| @DPJHodges @SpaJw For leader, but qualification to vote in NEC ballot to replace Willsman is 8 weeks | ||
| @Legalbeagle1978 Well you wont be able to contribute to getting it to share your values again. Hopefully enough of us will, and we will welcome you back once it is sorted. | ||
| @JimmyHSands I think @campbellclaret 's lawyers are about to establish that that isn't a breach of rule | ||
| This fight is happening now. Conference delegates are being elected at CLPs b4 28 June. NCC candidates are nominated on same timeline- they decide the antisemitism cases. CAC OMOV ballot is this summer. | ||
| We will only get better disciplinary decisions by the NCC when we vote the Hard Left off the NCC | ||
| We will only get better decisions by the NEC when we vote the Hard Left off the NEC | ||
| @Robert58585858 Self declared from their wider pool of poll takers. They ask for your membership number etc to check you actually are a member. Their polling of members was accurate in the 2015 and 2016 leadership contest. | ||
| https://t.co/LRP20FP6Hu | ||
| @LewisAtkinson Friday is best | ||
| @SoftLeft @BritainIsrael | ||
| @suey2y @UKPoliticsLive @John_Ferrett When CLPs are suspended the individual members still get to vote in leadership and NEC elections. | ||
| @suey2y @UKPoliticsLive @John_Ferrett "Whole CLPs were suspended from voting"? When? | ||
| @suey2y @UKPoliticsLive @John_Ferrett No that's untrue. People were rejected as incoming members or registered supporters because of their past history. | ||
| Abolishing what you can't control. The Young Labour Hard Left cosplaying Thatcher shutting down the GLC. https://t.co/CrAUn4gHNI | ||
| Has anyone in Labour's high command taken responsibility for the election disaster last week or the EHRC inquiry and resigned yet? | ||
| @CharlieMower99 No because he didn't call for a vote for another party. He just answered honestly about the way he had personally voted. | ||
| @scottr0gers Campbell didn't "call for support for another party", he just said what he had personally voted | ||
| So what was the answer? https://t.co/6Qh3ljgKHb | ||
| @timdwelly @SpaJw Yep noted. | ||
| This aged well. https://t.co/O7fNluQObV | ||
| @YouGov @suey2y I know you were sceptical about YouGov but they called it accurately | ||
| @AnneMcGarryMars No we need a new leader who can walk and chew gum at the same time, and isn't advised by hard core Stalin fans. | ||
| @StevePerrin2 From what? | ||
| @MichaelNFreema1 @TomBlenkinsop This explains it https://t.co/pnpFKwO9GL | ||
| @AnneMcGarryMars Yes - take a look at the 5 June post here: https://t.co/xCsB4tQ6Ew | ||
| @MichaelNFreema1 @TomBlenkinsop My recent calamity down under??? I've been to Australia once, in 2004, for a family holiday. No connections to antipodean politics sadly. | ||
| Yeah how dare I express my opinions publicly https://t.co/vjCylooLct | ||
| What does he think I should resign from? https://t.co/iDn7nlJxqp | ||
| @ReesMoggy You are | ||
| And a very good evening to you too https://t.co/Vw22B0tNEn | ||
| Comradely evening https://t.co/KEEZe3OIun | ||
| @HuwJonesLabour @AnnaYearley You are too deadpan for me Huw | ||
| Hmmm. https://t.co/VmD9O7SvyZ | ||
| @PatrickElliot_ @supergutman No that's the requirement to vote as a full member. There is no freeze date for registered supporters. So in 2016 members who joined less than 6 months b4 the vote were disenfranchised but could get their vote back by paying extra £25 to be a registered supporter. | ||
| @jeff_wode I think we lose a seat down in SE London too. | ||
| @jeff_wode party will be. | ||
| @HinmanMark It's every two years actually. | ||
| @WTarbiat @JT7062 @steamedhamms I don't think £25 fee and 48 hour window will put off all the Remainers | ||
| @timdwelly @barleymow1 That's why we need an internal Labour election | ||
| @joedgoldberg @EmmaBurnell_ She shouldn't be. She would have a good case for overturning it in the courts. | ||
| @EmmaBurnell_ Exactly. You have to cross the line to break the rule. It has to be an explicit endorsement of another candidate or party. | ||
| @EmmaBurnell_ She didn't say "don't vote Labour". Read the actual words she said. She has also been very publicly campaigning for Labour. | ||
| @election_data Was it on same day as local elections in 2014? | ||
| @jonlansman @labour_first Your Twitter skills are OK | ||
| @ringwodian That was the pattern in my little bit of Oxford | ||
| @suey2y I will be very pleasantly surprised if we get anywhere near that vote share. That wasn't what the GOTV sheets I was seeing yesterday said. | ||
| @AntoineTinnion @SebDance @JulieOwenMoylan If an individual candidate says they support Remain, then they do. They are not robots controlled by party HQ. Manifestos do not determine how individual MEPs or MPs vote if they say they have a different position. | ||
| @ariehkovler @SebDance @JulieOwenMoylan It helps determine who out of S&D and EPP gets to be President of the Commission. | ||
| @David__Osland Ed Miliband? | ||
| @janis_garbutt She didn't say that. Read the actual words she said | ||
| @Exp13Sa She hasn't broken the rules. | ||
| @EmmaBurnell_ @redstarneil A careful measurement of her words against the wording of Chapter 2 of the rulebook shows there is no case for auto-exclusion. She didn't express support for any other party or candidate. Members have made vague utterances about tactical voting in every election for decades. | ||
| @ShneurOdze BDS? I would dispute your claim that there are many Labour MEP candidates who support it. Most of the candidates are from same wing of party as me. It isn't Labour Party policy, whatever the clique around the leadership may want. | ||
| But I understand why some members are so angry about the party's failure to clearly support a second referendum or Remain that they won't campaign for or vote Labour this time. You reap what you sow. | ||
| @CoffeeandCave @MaryWimbury @Remain_Labour @Patphoenix29 @JackieJonesWal1 @MatthewDorrance @Mark_Whitcutt Manifestos aren't binding on candidates. | ||
| Busy evening ahead: Progress column, Labourlist column, Labour 1st email, Hackney Labour campaign email | ||
| @adam_rose I don't think the Labour Party will be led by Corbyn at the next General Election. If it is I am likely not to be a member of it. | ||
| @Britestoan @WTarbiat @willuminare There are clearly huge problems with Wavertree CLP as a whole. It's not normal for relations between a CLP and MP to break down to extent the MP leaves the party. | ||
| @RobTanner83 @MissLauraMarcus @HeidiBachram @emmacpicken Agreed. There is no short cut. This is going to take a very long time, but needs to be done. | ||
| @HeidiBachram @emmacpicken The institutional racism has happened because people with bad politics hold key positions where they take the wrong decisions about antisemitism cases. You can only deal with the antisemitism if you change the key personnel who have let it enter into the party. | ||
| @HeidiBachram @emmacpicken It's also to contest and win internal elections. The primary problem is that people with bad politics hold the key decision making positions, therefore the primary solution is to remove them next time they are up for election. | ||
| @Paul0Evans1 @WTarbiat Completely agree | ||
| @Paul0Evans1 Unfortunately the fact that joining rather than leaving a political party is what will change it doesn't seem to have a lot of traction | ||
| @Paul0Evans1 Not yet. It would need to happen in the context of a leadership contest. | ||
| @IanAustinMP @JewishLabour Sorry for your loss Ian. May his memory be a blessing. | ||
| @Edwalsh82 @David__Osland @wesstreeting Virtually no one was deselected or lost the whip in the Blair era. | ||
| @Labourpaul I remember an Economist editorial after that election that said we had 4 social democratic parties (Lab, SLD, SDP, Green) and that was 3 too many. Some similarities to now. | ||
| @Chetkayable Odd response to a tweet about a second referendum on Brexit | ||
| @EuanPhilipps @woolfywoofwoof @jeremycorbyn @PSCupdates No not Community https://t.co/EHocccEquK | ||
| @MrTCHarris @JohnRentoul He would never have said he would respect it in the first place | ||
| @lewis_goodall In Oxford we have had the Green Freepost but not the Brexit Party one, so some targeting or prioritisation of which areas get given to the Post Office first going on | ||
| @timdwelly Well spotted | ||
| @LeightonAndrews @lewis_goodall Exactly | ||
| @bevcott Legally very difficult to abolish the existing contracts- you would have to pay millions to terminate them early | ||
| @arachnochist https://t.co/FWnprLOBBT | ||
| Today's PSC demo isn't calling for peace and justice though - its core demand is incompatible with peace & 2 state solution https://t.co/FWnprLOBBT https://t.co/CTCUwwEf7U | ||
| @northernheckler @JewishChron My understanding was he left CPB at point he started working for JC in 2016 | ||
| @DamCou @johndavidblake That doesn't make any sense given the levers of power were all in our hands but they managed to get hold of them | ||
| @alexcruik @rayman3412 @_LFI @WeBelieveIsrael @TimesofIsrael They've never been to pre-1967 Israel either, with the exception of a small number of now very elderly people. The "right of return" is a call for all 7m descendants of 1948 refugees to return to Israel, not those among the 700,000 who left who are still alive 71 years later. | ||
| @5CarbonSugar @_LFI @WeBelieveIsrael @TimesofIsrael If you are implying all Israeli Jews are "white", you are remarkably ignorant. | ||
| @debbiesimone123 @StopCityAirport Correct. The data on all electors is equally available to all the registered political parties otherwise it wouldn't be a level playing field. In certain elections they also get a freepost delivery by the Post Office. | ||
| @EmmaBurnell_ @election_data @ProfTimBale The LDs are still quite strong in Canterbury itself and some of the villages, and the Greens in Whitstable, so Rosie could win again if she can get tactical voting support. | ||
| @EmmaBurnell_ @election_data @ProfTimBale We gained 7 seats in Canterbury but the Tories still won more votes than us across the bits of the council that are in the parli constituency. | ||
| @enigmajx @MartinWhelton @LabourList It's not an article about why Labour did badly. It's an article about how badly it did. I might write one about why next week. | ||
| Comet have just beaten PC World to selling me a netbook at Tottenham Hale. Next door shops but diff planet 4 customer service | ||
| Well that was a far better Game of Thrones episode than last week. | ||
| I had a look back at what I wrote for @LabourList about the equivalent set of council elections in 2011. Even though we gained 26 councils & 800 cllrs, and 37% national vote share, it was self critical... | ||
| @SteveAkehurst No don't think so | ||
| Read this https://t.co/RQTqOfHAbi | ||
| @Oliver_Viles @AaronBastani @JamesDMorris The 100k is excluding London | ||
| @AaronBastani @JamesDMorris Exactly but explain that, why is Corbyn more able to recruit members in South than North? | ||
| @Zinovest That implies there was something wrong with our candidates in Midlands and North, which I don't think was the case | ||
| @DermotKehoe The Kent and Essex ok results include gritty places like Basildon, Harlow, Dartford, Gravesham. They look like normal results in an OK year whilst northern ones are awful. We gained back 16 seats in Thanet which had been UKIP. | ||
| @suey2y @pedantka Congrats! | ||
| Results for Labour in the south are really quite good. | ||
| @danrhodesuk Nope, some of the other wards are 3 member eg Barton | ||
| @danrhodesuk It's only a two member ward | ||
| Commiserations to my friend of over 35 years Simon Warley who has lost his Canterbury City Council seat just as his Labour colleagues make a break through in other parts of the city. Politics can be a random and tough business. https://t.co/ELlKVSmGgb | ||
| @vc61 Serious answer - candidate for Labour already selected- Lisa Forbes who fought the seat in 2015 | ||
| @PolskiHipis @LabourList My articles before and after the local elections are analysis of the stats, not opinion pieces. | ||
| @PolskiHipis @LabourList Since 2011 when I started writing these reviews. | ||
| @kenaidel @AnasSarwar Ah I see... | ||
| @rheawolfson How come the chair allowed a vote on the TSSA amendment then, and 11 NEC members voted for it. The conference resolution was sufficiently open to interpretation for it to have been interpreted more robustly by the NEC. | ||
| @jobellerina @Daniel_Sugarman @KarenPollock100 No I don't think that's the case. It's mistaken to assume that everyone who joined and voted for Corbyn in 2015 and 2016 is that wedded to Hard Left in general. Lots of them could easily vote for a non Corbynista and had very little knowledge of what Corbyn actually represents. | ||
| @jobellerina @Daniel_Sugarman @KarenPollock100 It's not very likely that "one of his clique will replace him". If they had a strong Hard Left candidate who could win a leadership election they would have let him retire by now. Almost certain next leader will be from the Soft Left. | ||
| @kenaidel @AnasSarwar Yes Anas has: https://t.co/baPxDVUh97 | ||
| This says all nine CLP reps on the NEC voted against @TSSAunion proposal that should be a 2nd referendum in all circumstances. Members need to be reminded of this in 2020 NEC ballot. https://t.co/bhemPda6sD | ||
| EXCL Labour failed to act for 10 days over member who called for 'march on synagogue' https://t.co/OES32lLa4m via @PoliticsHome | ||
| @SteveHilditch If people tweet abuse at you it is a "pile on". Not if they just ask you to vote a particular way at the NEC. | ||
| @sjb1954 You don't have to form a coalition with a Cortes majority to form the govt in Spain. If you can't get an absolute Cortes majority then you can win on a second round with a simple majority I.e. abstentions by the separatist parties. | ||
| @Smithy0364 It's a PR system so doesn't really work like that | ||
| @AlunEphraim @steamedhamms New Statesman is more than a political magazine- the culture reviews in the back half are excellent | ||
| @steamedhamms Doesn't that depend on whether the purpose of the magazine is analysis or trying to promote a particular strand of politics. | ||
| @jobellerina @VictoriaPeckham The Israeli authorities actively stop people from taking prayer materials up into the Al Aqsa compound - border police check you on the way up. And as you say, it's against Ultra-Orthodox beliefs to set foot there. | ||
| @AnnelieseDodds @Oxford_Labour | ||
| @daneacross @patrickamon I opposed two of them as a parliamentary candidate myself. I was not required to sign any kind of loyalty pledge or speak in favour of the manifesto. | ||
| @Paul0Evans1 Nominations have closed, notice of poll published etc but they can be cancelled at any point up until polling day if a Brexit deal is passed | ||
| @greg_herriett @paulwilkinson4 @redstarneil @frederickchespy @jonlansman @UKLabour No that wasn't the role Falconer was looking at taking | ||
| @patrickamon Academy schools, foundation hospitals, tuition fees, ID cards | ||
| A) the line on Brexit for the Euro elections hasn't been set yet - it's being decided at the NEC on Tuesday B) Nominations have now closed so Adonis can't be removed as a candidate and can say whatever he wants to https://t.co/gBwDKLlKho |
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| @jonlansman I can't name any of the previous post holders. | ||
| @d4nf0x It was very entertaining | ||
| @gusbbaker I'm not sure that's true - surely the LDs have the seats Lab needs to win control of the City, so need to keep fire on them? | ||
| @ljwnorth @therubykid @stevelapsl @AnaOpp @labourvsbrexit @UKLabour Yes you have to be able to see who paid for and published everything otherwise groups who can't legally campaign such as foreign govts could do so. | ||
| @patrickmoule I think someone who worked for the party previously would be fine, if they were seen as a neutral party civil servant and not having an alignment in the party's internal politics. | ||
| @PeterHain @ken4london? | ||
| @JimmyHSands @CCriadoPerez No you only need to vett the accounts of the 70 you plan on running as candidates. | ||
| @Jessica_Asato eh? Was about stopping redeveloping WMD in future, not what he had in 2003. | ||
| @gordonlyew1 I'm not known for my avoidance of controversy. | ||
| @_DaveTalbot there was none then but it would have developed by now if saddam had not been removed | ||
| Heading to Chatham Ward Labour to give councillor report | ||
| @GeorgeAylett No you were. | ||
| @TomDoesHistory Agreed | ||
| @SocialDemSheff @PolhomeEditor Not sure. Laura Parker is very pro-European. | ||
| @TomDoesHistory He was 4th last time | ||
| @simon_sidekick @KatieCurtis You can't honestly think Jeremy is a better leader by any objective criteria than Yvette would have been. | ||
| @simon_sidekick @KatieCurtis It is a shame. | ||
| @simon_sidekick @KatieCurtis Actually I would prefer a Brownite leader.... | ||
| @davidwhite1972 Thank you | ||
| @PeterKenyon @JohannaBaxter @RefoundLab LP Treasurer + the 4 CLP reps who sit on Organisation Cttee | ||
| @PeterKenyon @JohannaBaxter @RefoundLab it's about membership + CLP finances | ||
| @ArnoldLabour There's a difference between arguing that the Jewish people should choose not to exercise their right to self determination and arguing that they shouldn't or don't have a right to self determination. | ||
| @silner @ArnoldLabour It varies within the UK. The figures I've found show 56% of Jewish households in UK are observant enough to hold synagogue membership. Where I was a councillor in Hackney there was a large and growing ultra-Orthodox community. | ||
| @silner @ArnoldLabour Neither concept - race or religion - fully captures what Jewishness is about- it's about peoplehood - a people with a shared culture and experience. | ||
| @ArnoldLabour Correct that's exactly what I have been trying to say. But there are also Zionists who are passionate activists for the rights of the Palestinians and for peace. | ||
| @ArnoldLabour If there is discrimination it's in favour of a group of people- Jews - who are subject to racism and in the recent past genocide - having the right to flee to a lifeboat state where they are sovereign and protected by their own military. | ||
| @AmissPaul I'm director of one of the UK's largest Zionist organisations and I have never met anyone here or in Israel who "is intent on slaughtering every Palestinian man, woman and child it thinks it can get away with". | ||
| @andrewadams99 It says "all peoples" and by definition any people that wants self rule and doesn't have it is being ruled over by another people. The Zionists perceived themselves to be an anti-colonial movement ousting British rule in Palestine. | ||
| @andrewadams99 Yes there is, it was adopted by the UN in Resolution 1514 in 1960: "All peoples have the right to self-determination; by virtue of that right they freely determine their political status and freely pursue their economic, social and cultural development. | ||
| @SerjGartner I'm sure they do, hence my reference to ignorance. You wouldn't condemn the existence of a Palestinian national movement, or the possibility of a Palestinian state, on the basis say of terrorism by Palestinian extremists. | ||
| @mollymulreadyj if u read comments carefully Belton is condemning Tory leadership of Wandsworth | ||
| @Art4PalestineUK https://t.co/Vm9J2GD3AK | ||
| @ella_akehurst @noa_landau @naftalibennett @Ayelet__Shaked The most extreme right party didn't get any seats. | ||
| @LeftieStats @SarahCh04794317 Sure. It just doesn't reflect the leap forward in party membership, which has been particularly pronounced in some of the rural areas where we have often failed to field full slates of candidates. I didn't hear any big push being made on this in the way we did when I was on NEC. | ||
| @francesbarber13 I'm not sure she is left-wing enough to be a Lexiteer. As far as I know she opposes the EU for similar reasons to Tories, not for left reasons. | ||
| @LeftieStats @SarahCh04794317 1995 was part of this series of elections - there weren't councillors who served an 8 year term from 1991 to 1999. 1995 was also a year when there was a specific, successful focus on fielding candidates in as many seats as possible. | ||
| @mculbert76 If that's austerity then you need to look at p10 of the 2017 manifesto, "balancing the books", because it reads remarkably similarly. | ||
| @mculbert76 I'm struggling to find anything that looks like austerity in our 2015 manifesto: https://t.co/LrbPNNmoAa if I'm happy to canvass now you should have been happy to canvass for Ed Miliband. | ||
| @nikkihack Better ones | ||
| @_kerriprince @LabourList I'm not rising to the bait! | ||
| @dmk1793 @LabourList No elections in Oxford this year | ||
| @HuwJonesLabour Thanks | ||
| @jo_publik @Shambles151 @GreigCorner @tom_watson @margarethodge Who is it that you think I work for? | ||
| @djbeere Sadly not | ||
| @SCNathan It's been falling for about a year. My guess is 20% down on the peak based on those CLPs that I have seen numbers for. | ||
| @Wi11TheBear @LabourList Try reading it as I make no comment about number of candidates at all, and say the benchmark is just to hold steady at our 2015 level as that was on a General Election turnout and this won't be. Don't make lazy assumptions about what I write. | ||
| @WHHarding Better result than the real thing | ||
| @Gaz_Spurs1882 Some freedom of speech issues there | ||
| @MaraLeverkuhn Yes | ||
| @CurtisHoward99 That's why it needs to come as an instruction from HQ not a local decision. To make this work we sometimes had to send professional organisers in over heads of CLPs to get members nominated and on council ballot. | ||
| @CurtisHoward99 Agreed money isn't a factor at all. | ||
| @vc61 @lmharpin It isn't but the evidence on abuse still needs to be catalogued for use if and when there are people at the party prepared to take action. If it reaches a high enough threshold should also be given to police or media as appropriate. | ||
| @EuanPhilipps @LBofHounslow @CllrSteveCurran @UKLabour @JewishLabour @EveningStandard Chief Whips in local government are elected by the majority group, not appointed by the leader | ||
| Worth reading this piece by @joedgoldberg OPINION: JLM must step up in the fight of our lives https://t.co/YtX5kvTBzb via @JewishNewsUK |
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| @unofiatu No I'm not confused at all. Lots of people like Ben Bradshaw and Lisa Nandy advocate powerfully for the Palestinians without ever using antisemitic imagery. Other people sadly use antisemitic imagery to attack Israel e.g conspiracy theories about Jewish power. | ||
| @NaeemChaudhry3 You know that image is photo-shopped? - it's from the Labour First annual meeting and the actual banner reads Labour First and Putting Labour First. | ||
| @DavidHirsh If I come to the judgement that it is impossible to democratically recapture Labour, there is no logical reason to stay a member. We haven't reached that point yet but might do in the next 12 months. | ||
| @SuheylaTopuz @PaddySitsDown I said antisemites in Labour. There are many other people in the Labour Party who advocate for the Palestinian cause without ever going near antisemitic language. Good examples are Ben Bradshaw and Lisa Nandy. | ||
| @kayes67 @dmk1793 That's why I said "can be created". | ||
| @kayes67 @dmk1793 Other slates both exist and can be created. | ||
| @tonymc39 I will happily campaign for my local Labour MP. | ||
| @NostalgicLiber1 Exactly. I want him removed as leader. | ||
| @Earlsfield_Al Who said anything about defending Israel's actions? It isn't people who criticise Israel in proportionate terms who are antisemitic it's people who demonize Israel and deny its right to exust. Many critics of Israel never breach IHRA definition. | ||
| @MikeBerkoff @ElephantEager But in 1980s ex Bennites often flipped to very intense denunciation of their former path e.g Hewitt, Milburn, Byers | ||
| @AFVFI @Legalbeagle1978 No it is the PLP who can trigger a leadership election, not the NEC. | ||
| @PaddySitsDown I don't believe the people involved in antisemitism in the Labour Party care about the Palestinians other than in a wholly theoretical sense. Their motivation is ideological hatred of Israel as an expression of Jewish self-determination. | ||
| @Dan1763 @suey2y It's European law since 2002 to ban dual mandates | ||
| @suey2y It's talking about former MPs not current ones | ||
| @francesweetman What's the problem you would have with Sienna? Her politics are not a million miles from yours. | ||
| @rachaelwrd Because the union full timers and MPs want to do the meetings during work time is my guess | ||
| @rachaelwrd The whole thing is designed around the days when every member was an MP or a TU full timer. | ||
| @dmk1793 @WTarbiat The Israeli one you mean. | ||
| @ragnorakishere @ProfJeffKenner Alan is the Editor of https://t.co/Rk642MEolo | ||
| @NathanealSansam @dmk1793 Good for internal elections but a nightmare for public ones as it creates competition between rival candidates from same party | ||
| @NathanealSansam @dmk1793 I've been an electoral reformer for 30 years, was Youth & Student officer of Labour Campaign for Electoral Reform in the 1990s. More a AMS guy than a list system one though... | ||
| @BevaniteEllie @CalumSSherwood Or the brand new room w en suite that I had in the new quad at Wills in first and second years... | ||
| @BevaniteEllie @CalumSSherwood Nothing like my wood-pannelled room in the old quad at Wills Hall... | ||
| @NathanealSansam @dmk1793 Given in the UK we have no separation of powers, an unelected head of state and upper house and a less democratic electoral system than Israel, we are not really able to criticise from a position of strength. | ||
| @GayLabourYorkie Not sure why publishing a horrible view on one issue would preclude it from running the long standing credible index on democracy. Happy to be pointed to an alternative league table if one exists. | ||
| @Democracy_A2 @kenaidel @francesbarber13 @IanAustinMP @JournoStephen @UKLabour I think the party will split if Corbyn continues as leader, whether that's with or without a challenge. At least a challenge gives some possibility of avoiding that by removing him. | ||
| @francesbarber13 @IanAustinMP @JournoStephen @UKLabour I think that's hugely unlikely. None of the people with a good chance of being next leader are from the Hard Left. | ||
| @kenaidel @francesbarber13 @IanAustinMP @JournoStephen @UKLabour Have a leadership election. | ||
| @JWoodcockMP @IanAustinMP @francesbarber13 @JournoStephen They don't know that because they haven't tried it with a credible candidate or since the membership (and a pool of millions of potential registered supporters) became seriously pissed off about Corbyn's stance on Brexit. | ||
| @francesbarber13 @IanAustinMP @JournoStephen @UKLabour That's why we need a change of leader. | ||
| @francesbarber13 @IanAustinMP @JournoStephen No. Why would you assume the only time that mass recruitment of registered supporters can happen is for Corbyn in 2015? It's open to other movements and candidates to mass recruit registered supporters as well. | ||
| @francesbarber13 @IanAustinMP @JournoStephen I advocate a leadership election being triggred before a General Election. | ||
| @BillyBremners @IanAustinMP @JournoStephen @UKLabour Eh? 9 MPs just left the party. One of them is tagged in this conversation. | ||
| @BillyBremners @IanAustinMP @JournoStephen If lots of MPs are deselected the party will split. That choice sits with the leadership. Maybe it's what they want. | ||
| @_IanMoss @IanAustinMP @JournoStephen In which case Stephen's article is not informative. I was highlighting the contradiction between it and his usual stance. | ||
| @IanAustinMP @JournoStephen He's referring specifically to the power the PLP will have if Labour is in govt I.e. you can't pass legislation without your own MPs supporting it. | ||
| @GlynisWinestein This is the bit that rejected both the merger with the Liberals and David Owen's later decision to wind up the party | ||
| @mynnoj @EdmundGriffiths I've deleted it | ||
| @davidwhite1972 @britainelects @DeltapollUK I retweeted it last night | ||
| @444blackcat anything else we should be sorry for? War crimes in the 100 Years War? Excess Spanish navy deaths in Armada due to fire ships? | ||
| @stevelapsl They can't stand as Labour candidates unless the NEC rescinds the suspension | ||
| Combining exercise bike ride with phone call to @labourpaul. Multi-tasking. | ||
| @hastingschris @michael_chessum @ChukaUmunna How do you imply that from me saying I hope the other winners share Michael's politics on two issues I care about? | ||
| @suey2y @Samfr Sue don't be deliberately simplistic. It harms Labour almost as much if those voters switch to Green, LD or a new TIG type formation. | ||
| @PeterWatt123 @anthonypainter I wish Gordon Brown was still Chancellor AND Tony Blair was still PM. #best10yearsinUKhistory | ||
| @DanielConor2 @iamhamesh None of those things are anything to do with neoliberalism, which is an economic doctrine not a foreign policy one. | ||
| @BrenTierney Let's do that then | ||
| Petition: Revoke Article 50 and remain in the EU. https://t.co/WfjDvPW4A6 | ||
| @TripeUK @lara_eleanor It means what it says, lots of former NOLS activists are happy to donate to an organisation which we view as by a country mile the best part of the Labour Party. | ||
| @DHewson @JuliesThinkTank @rob_marchant @blairsupporter what exactly is your evidence for that rather trite and hyperbolic assertion? | ||
| @jonnyw71 The Secret World of Whitehall | ||
| @lara_eleanor I doubt paying would be a problem for them. There are plenty of us who would chip in. | ||
| @MogsyMorg @MissLauraMarcus 5 year plans delivered in 4 years | ||
| @GlenMitchell1 It's made even more disappointing by the fact he is a centrist MP himself. He opposed Corbyn in both leadership elections. | ||
| @SueHorsley7 Generally well received. One new attendee who wanted to critique who my employer was, and one who made an eloquent case for BDS, but mainly thoughtful questions about peace process etc | ||
| @Archimbaldo @OwenOver @Lafargue Here's me critiquing triangulation and urging members to pick Ed Miliband as leader back in 2010 https://t.co/GhQ0jK0N2I | ||
| @Archimbaldo @OwenOver @Lafargue No I was publicly critical of aspects of Blair's domestic agenda that I thought brought in too much marketisation. On balance I thought he was a very successful PM but I'm from a more old fashioned tradition - more Hattersley and Healey. | ||
| @Archimbaldo @OwenOver @Lafargue Can you elaborate on anything I've ever said or done that is neoliberal? I spent my time in power as a Hackney councillor as part of an administration taking outsourced services back in-house. | ||
| @David__Osland I'm already sufficiently wound up. | ||
| @David__Osland But if they are both in practice advocating social democratic policies, then surely the social democrats are unintentionally starting the job as well? | ||
| @TSSALabourGroup That's what I am questioning about the Trickett article | ||
| @Vdweller @PickardJE No, independent since 1975 | ||
| @lmharpin @tom_watson You mean reverse rather than prevent. | ||
| Not provocative at all.. https://t.co/zxpfzjb7bM | ||
| @PeterKenyon happy to listen to representations but ultimately I have to make judgement and be held accountable for it at next NEC poll | ||
| @DPJHodges still don't get what you are getting at in saying RF dead. What else was ever going to be in it? | ||
| @PeterKenyon I haven't seen a final proposal yet on that issue. Will decide when I know what is being proposed. | ||
| @DPJHodges do I take it you thought/wanted RF to be some kind of attack on the TU link? | ||
| @PeterKenyon where/what is suggestion of diluting members' rights? | ||
| @debgardiner @hopisen @DPJHodges yes they are doing projects in number of CLPs in "rural sticks" - ask @blairmcdougall | ||
| At the AGM of @Oxford_Labour representing the mighty Greater Marston Branch Labour Party | ||
| @TimGMacpherson Clearly not as they actually won. | ||
| @stuartbruce can't LGC overrule that? | ||
| @ArnoldLabour @stevelapsl I'd say for instance that arguing Israel = apartheid is wrong and bad politics but not antisemitic; whereas arguing Zionism = racism is antisemitic. Calling for a one state solution by democratic consent of both peoples is OK, calling for it by force/pressure is antisemitic. | ||
| @stevelapsl The IHRA definition says "Denying the Jewish people their right to self-determination" is antisemitic. | ||
| @Sarah_Hayward None. | ||
| ... Brown deserves much credit for not repeating MacDonald's behaviour in '31 of heavy cuts leading to split Party | ||
| Former PM Tony Blair: I'm staying in the Labour party https://t.co/JnKQdQYm0c | ||
| @tp_johnstone @Labourpaul Yep I forgot that it had been Gate services. I grew up on Chartham and went to school at Kent College, Canterbury. My family are farmers in between Barham and Denton. | ||
| WTAF https://t.co/EeiVolGPAY | ||
| @SeemaChandwani Yep I'm good, congratulations on your win yesterday | ||
| @TomBracey @Jacqui_Smith1 No only one so far. | ||
| @BrenTierney @MissLauraMarcus @JimmyHSands @patrickmoule @CST_UK @LabourAgainstAS @JewishChron @JewishNewsUK @tom_watson @JewishLabour It wasn't a starting point of zero - the Hard Left NEC candidates got over 100 CLP nominations each in pre-2015 internal elections. And it's not growing- they have been losing ground because of the debate inside the party about Brexit. | ||
| @BrenTierney @MissLauraMarcus @JimmyHSands @patrickmoule @CST_UK @LabourAgainstAS @JewishChron @JewishNewsUK @tom_watson @JewishLabour It would completely change it. These people are not all going to hang around under a moderate leader. | ||
| @BrenTierney @MissLauraMarcus @JimmyHSands @patrickmoule @CST_UK @LabourAgainstAS @JewishChron @JewishNewsUK @tom_watson @JewishLabour Momentum control one third of CLPs. I've got hard data on their strength from across the entire country. It's one third more than I want them to control but not an unrecoverable wipe out. | ||
| @BrenTierney @MissLauraMarcus @JimmyHSands @patrickmoule @CST_UK @LabourAgainstAS @JewishChron @JewishNewsUK @tom_watson @JewishLabour What's your qualification for making any assessment about the internal politics of the Labour Party? If you read my thread from earlier you ought to be able to grasp that I'm a long way past any tribalism. | ||
| @BrenTierney @MissLauraMarcus @JimmyHSands @patrickmoule @CST_UK @LabourAgainstAS @JewishChron @JewishNewsUK @tom_watson @JewishLabour I refer you to my thread earlier today. | ||
| @patrickmoule @JohnJLindsley @CST_UK @LabourAgainstAS @JewishChron @JewishNewsUK @tom_watson @JewishLabour Yep the dividing line on AS as on Brexit runs down the middle of Momentum. | ||
| @JimmyHSands @MissLauraMarcus @patrickmoule @CST_UK @LabourAgainstAS @JewishChron @JewishNewsUK @tom_watson @JewishLabour I guess MPs will have a think about it once we are past 29 March and the 2 May local elections. | ||
| @patrickmoule @CST_UK @LabourAgainstAS @JewishChron @JewishNewsUK @tom_watson @JewishLabour | ||
| @brumsongsben @IainMcNicol @AnnBlackLabour Yes I do. I'm very proud to have voted for him to be General Secretary when I was on the NEC. | ||
| @frozenwarning @TheIndGroup It's not my problem, I don't lead the Labour Party or support the people who do. | ||
| @GrantyHamster Why did they applaud Chris Williamson? | ||
| @AlanOlive1 @labour_history What a great campaign. My secondment there was a highlight of my time as an organiser. | ||
| @emmacpicken @Daniel_Sugarman 100% agreed. Everyone already knows what is at stake. | ||
| @anne_goldgar They can't help themselves | ||
| @baeckford On their letter- it's on their Twitter feed | ||
| @arachnochist Why has he been suspended then? | ||
| Mildly amused that one product of today is a list of "soft left" Tribune Group MPs, several of whom are objectively to my right. But good for them for speaking up. | ||
| @timsykes3 Shorter as they will want to let him back in in time to run in next GE | ||
| @TheGreenBenches being a sensitive soul I prefer to interpret it as conceited and uncomradely | ||
| @MrTCHarris Mirror says 9 more Lab and 4 more Con MPs in pipeline. This fits with what I've been hearing. | ||
| @PGreen1963 @IanAustinMP @wesstreeting No I want him removed as leader | ||
| @GBlue1999 @mrssarahmead @wesstreeting @jessphillips How would leaving en masse deal with the antisemitism? It wouldn't. | ||
| @NoMoreExperts @mickymoovernon Exactly my point | ||
| @mickymoovernon A leadership contest | ||
| @gardencourtman @adamlangleben I specifically say in the first tweet that I empathise with people who have effectively been driven out. | ||
| @ileford Personal experience of speaking there as an NEC member and the delegates and NEC candidates it has elected or nominated. | ||
| @dawnquorus The Labour Party is going to continue even if me and every single moderate leave. My judgement for the moment is that I have a moral obligation to try to change it from within. But I respect other people feel that they have to leave. It's a tactical dispute not a moral one. | ||
| @RoperCarl @MattChorley @PaulOnPolitics Neoliberal | ||
| @SamJRushworth and unlike 2015 and 2016 Brexit has meant that there are civil society networks with an interest in getting a pro-EU leader and very large networks of supporters | ||
| @jemgilbert He only lost the AMM vote by 7 so my guess is he would have won any confidence vote - there would be at least 7 people who support the principle of AMMs but had no grievance with Chuka. | ||
| @_grammar_ Sorry for the typo! | ||
| @_petermason @CathyAshley You mean cathartic | ||
| @colinrtalbot @SophyRidgeSky He is a member of Socialist Appeal - Ted Grant faction that quit Militant to continue entryism | ||
| @IanMartin55 @jeremycorbyn The foreign policy stances, the personnel, and the behaviour. | ||
| @daveh100100100 @rspiercy @0Calamity @jeremycorbyn There have only been 12 expulsions from over 600 cases | ||
| @chrisrumfitt It was tried a long time ago (2016) in completely different circumstances regarding levels of anger about Brexit, with the wrong candidate. And you've misread the position of most of the major unions. | ||
| @cliffordharris1 It isn't just current members who vote in a leadership election | ||
| @ProfJeffKenner @jeremycorbyn I'm in favour of a leadership challenge | ||
| @TimGMacpherson We don't know that. Why would it produce the same result in totally different circumstances with a different candidate? | ||
| It doesn't even need to be an MP - there are volunteers who have turned their CLPs into moderate fortresses where Momentum are crushed every month, through smart politics and hard grind organisation | ||
| @simonevans117 @John_Ferrett It isn't just current members who have a vote. People can sign up as registered supporters. | ||
| @John_Ferrett There should be a leadership challenge. | ||
| @MsDayglo @YouGov Don't be ridiculous. | ||
| @Gallifreyambyth @benp7777 @tom_watson What way is that? | ||
| @grandboyjoe thanks Joe. I wish the same. | ||
| If you were a bit distracted by new party launches in the UK yesterday, have a listen to my @WeBelieveIsrael podcast today to catch up on Israel saying "hold my beer" and having more new parties launch than you would think possible: https://t.co/KJHjENNLqg | ||
| CLPD manages to be "appalled and disgusted" without actually mentioning that Luciana was driven out of the party by antisemitism. https://t.co/XtCGmHK34R | ||
| @SamJRushworth @MailOnline @ChukaUmunna I literally did join the Labour Party in 1988 to spend my life fighting inside it. | ||
| @CllrKennedy He's Socialist Appeal I.e. Ted Grant faction of Militant | ||
| @RedRobertino @TonyLangham @bbcnickrobinson They do, this is quite deliberate | ||
| @capbyrne @vc61 Though there was more physical violence/threat of it then than now. | ||
| @Stehughes1878 It's a quote from Clem Attlee | ||
| David Blunkett: Labour could be unelectable for a generation https://t.co/Xd38w81wnK via @MailOnline | ||
| @djbeere @martinangus @UKLabour https://t.co/5D5Df2a6qC | ||
| @gusbbaker he must have got more votes for UBU President than he did for LD cand for mayor | ||
| @AdamWagner1 Sorry yes you are right, only applies if A custodial prison sentence of a year or less—longer sentences automatically disqualify MPs; Suspension from the House ordered by the Committee on Standards; A conviction for providing false or misleading expenses claims. |
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| @northofcam @AdamWagner1 There is a mechanism - recall petition by 10% of electorate | ||
| @Ut_Humiliter_Op were you 1 of Lembit's 252 votes? | ||
| Astonished but delighted BBC2 running entire documentary about role of Cabinet Office. | ||
| How many votes were cast in London Lib Dems candidate ballot? Anyone know? | ||
| @DaCraik64 @DraycottDave Yes seen it, it's horrific | ||
| @DaCraik64 @DraycottDave An article criticising him but being accurate about it. https://t.co/aVdvaViYHi | ||
| @DaCraik64 @DraycottDave There is nothing in that article that says the order was given by Churchill. PMs don't take decisions about company level military units. | ||
| @robert_exley We know what Attlee thought about Churchill because he said it: the ‘greatest citizen of the world of our time’ in full: https://t.co/htqxsbuVES | ||
| @stephane_ulrich @EuanPhilipps It wouldn't cross my mind- despite being a passionate Remainer - to consider an MP's views on the EU as material to promoting them unless I was putting them into a brief directly related to Brexit | ||
| Despite the meltdown nationally, in local government up and down the UK Labour councils are just getting on with doing good things. https://t.co/jAgomj9OD5 | ||
| @BlazeQuark @versaysea You need to tell Jeremy Corbyn, because he is proposing a social democratic agenda, not the destruction of capitalism. | ||
| When. You. Are. In. A. Hole. Stop. Digging. https://t.co/jqpZ8oGFMS | ||
| Thinking of a single word description of John McDonnell. | ||
| @C_Slomski @versaysea But you apparently are? | ||
| @Gallifreyambyth I'm a member so they represent me on the NEC | ||
| @versaysea Well I say it is and so do the Socialist International and the Party of European Socialists. | ||
| @WoyHattersly @versaysea It depends whether you accept that the words socialist and social democrat have been used completely interchangeably in Western Europe for about 100 years. I'm a socialist if socialism is actually social democracy and vice versa. | ||
| @Edwalsh82 Can you explain why you included the word "racist"? I may be juvenile but I'm no racist. | ||
| @RoyAndrew6 You've literally put that underneath a picture of Attlee. | ||
| @jono_abrams @ringwodian Actually Attlee was famous for using the 13000 soldiers in place of striking dockers to break the 1949 dock strike. | ||
| Is it OK to use the word chutzpah in this context? https://t.co/bKYS2Yk3EJ | ||
| @lara_eleanor Forts cafe. The Lifeboat pub. Roost. Radio Margate (coffee place w a radio station) Hooked on books. It's a great place. We have a flat there we are trying to rent out if you are still looking. |
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| As people are looking at the LRC, here's my 2011 look at the flotsam and jetsum who were affiliated to them: https://t.co/9qMWRm7pLW | ||
| @RoddyFor @AndrewGilbert1 @tom_watson @lucianaberger I'll be the one to judge when and if it is lost thanks. The data I'm seeing from across the party suggests we are advancing. | ||
| @RoddyFor @AndrewGilbert1 @tom_watson @lucianaberger Well may be you should spend some time tweeting at potential defectors urging them not to do it then. | ||
| @RoddyFor @AndrewGilbert1 @tom_watson @lucianaberger You could have written all these things about the situation the Hard Left faced inside the party before 2015. They didn't wallow in defeatism, they worked out how to win. I know from reports around the party that we are in a stronger position than we have been for 3 years. | ||
| @RoddyFor @AndrewGilbert1 @tom_watson @lucianaberger Why won't we get back control? That seems mathematically unlikely. There are more moderates in the country than extremists, so at some point the moderates will clock that they need to sign up to vote in Labour internal elections and beat the extremists. | ||
| Thread https://t.co/B1RFE5K2dY | ||
| @conradlandin I thought Keith was still politically aligned with the left, he has a column in Shawcroft version of Labour Briefing. | ||
| @Stehughes1878 @barnyskinner @OldknowPhilip No I can't. Only MPs can. | ||
| @redtache Oddly enough when I left the NEC Ed Miliband publicly praised me for being a force for party unity. | ||
| @TomLondon6 Thank you! | ||
| I'm in the hall and @nick_forbes is on fire. Great speech. https://t.co/gMFUeDjpMm | ||
| Important read. If Labour has a future it will be because of the courage of young members like Jack speaking out. https://t.co/NER4clfZ6a | ||
| Great self own https://t.co/S0g0PjDpqx | ||
| . @Oxford_Labour voted tonight in favour of an emergency Labour Conference to decide policy on Brexit | ||
| @iMcKenzied @djbeere Not if it had a different more popular leader | ||
| @PaulEmbery The LRC was clearly intended to be the readymade breakaway party - it has its own constitution, NEC, affiliates, conference and branches. | ||
| @Cadoret @TheSecretCLP They only control about one third of CLPs. | ||
| Good job there weren't loyalty pledges for MPs before 2015 https://t.co/zognNadxCf | ||
| I'm not a fan of breakaway parties but some folk have short memories about their own plots in the recent past https://t.co/iZvR1rUpnt | ||
| @mt_vesuvius Yes. I don't agree with leaving. | ||
| @MargaretRHallid It wouldn't be just the current membership who could vote. People would be able to sign up as registered supporters. | ||
| @James56842463 I was thinking maybe it was someone else's turn. | ||
| Alarming coverage of Iranian proximity to Israel's northern border. Bizarre that Emily Thornberry condemned Israel for taking action against this threat: https://t.co/wcC9nHCPSW |
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| @RedRobertino @mcleodjon Wow. What year was that? | ||
| @SamJRushworth @ayeshahazarika If there was a leadership challenge people would rejoin as registered supporters. But basically people shouldn't leave, it's a completely self defeating gesture and exactly what the Stalinists want. | ||
| @my_name_is_joeb We can debate policies to our heart's content once the existential threat to the party's future is defeated. | ||
| @MaccLabour @UKLabour No it's the only way we will get a Labour government | ||
| @northofcam @Falcon_Malteser No. That actually still exists any way- now Independent Labour Publications | ||
| @AnneMcGarryMars @HeidiBachram Why would you want to use a metaphor that was offensive to Jewish people? It's not that difficult to find a different metaphor. | ||
| @OldCaptainNick @blairmcdougall And? | ||
| @OldCaptainNick @blairmcdougall I'm not referring to the recent poll or headline party support- I'm referring to his personal ratings which are far weaker (e.g I would tell a pollster I vote Labour but I would also tell them I don't approve of Corbyn as leader) | ||
| @OldCaptainNick @blairmcdougall What you are saying all the data in that article is invented? | ||
| @Livingafloat The polling suggests there is an even bigger group behind them with the opposite opinion though. | ||
| @OldCaptainNick @blairmcdougall The full membership numbers for Scotland, CLP by CLP, have been leaked and show a 20% drop https://t.co/GX1ecTADQg | ||
| @LabourDanPlym Everyone on my side of the Labour Party. | ||
| @OldGreenJacket Good idea @Vernon_Coaker | ||
| @MatzoBalling @Lifeonacanal I made that choice when I looked at the SDP and Labour in 1988 as a 16 year old and chose Labour. | ||
| @Daniel_Sugarman @whatsinitforme Why wouldn't it happen- there are already hundreds of thousands of people signed up to the various anti Brexit email lists? | ||
| @Lifeonacanal @MatzoBalling Personally I get off on spending the evening winding up shouting racists and bullies. It's the eternal battle for the soul of the left that I spent 30 years training for. We win when we meet their level of commitment with its equal. | ||
| which nurtures families, promotes equality of opportunity, and delivers people from the tyranny of poverty, prejudice and the abuse of power |
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| @PeterKenyon Yes I'm happy with the definition of democratic socialist in new Clause IV I.e. social democracy. For about 100 years most people describing themselves as democratic socialists have actually meant that to mean social democracy. | ||
| Our manifesto wasn't some foundational document that can never be changed - it is two years old & would be replaced by a new one if we have a GE. If something in it needs ditching because circumstances have moved on, or members have changed their minds, that is OK. https://t.co/X1DUoeC2Lg | ||
| @u3akfd7f @MHarris360 @LindaSayle @StephenWadswor2 I never attack the party, just the faction of buffoons who have temporarily hijacked it. | ||
| @u3akfd7f @MHarris360 @LindaSayle @StephenWadswor2 I'm talking about actual political activity in real life, campaigning in elections, not talking to a handful of other political obsessives on social media | ||
| @u3akfd7f @MHarris360 @LindaSayle @StephenWadswor2 I'm guessing I do a lot more campaigning for Labour than you do | ||
| @MHarris360 @LindaSayle @StephenWadswor2 I'm quite happy being a branch Secretary, which is about the level Corbyn should be at too. | ||
| @RegisteredHere @SherbetK13 @LindaSayle @StephenWadswor2 I don't think he's very good at the job and I don't agree with his strategy for the party or his views on foreign and defence policy. | ||
| @Jeffrey62093861 Parliament sits all day several days a week. CLPs have 2 or 3 hours a month. | ||
| @wakeyrule @Stehughes1878 That's because affiliates represent more people than party branches do - e.g. the millions of trade union and co-op members. | ||
| @Ali_Doolally @TomBlenkinsop Yes it has. Branch delegations to GCs are 50% women by rule. In an AMM nothing to stop the meeting being 100% blokes all from one ward as it is just based on who turns up not on any principle of collective representation. | ||
| @TyronWilson @Smithy0364 @Daniel_Sugarman He also spent the first two years of WW2 on the same side as the Nazis. | ||
| @JGMooney007 @SLATER589 @dji45 You don't think the vast majority of members disagree with Jeremy on Brexit? | ||
| @JGMooney007 @SLATER589 @dji45 Mass recruitment is only ever going to happen during a leadership campaign. I would suggest there is a rather big current issue where there are already grassroots movements with a different position to Corbyn. | ||
| @Yah_Reed I'm not trying to become Prime Minister | ||
| @PlainLincoln Actually I've been a guest speaker in a debate at Streatham CLP in, I think, 2014. | ||
| @CallumMair No it won't, it deletes the direct representation of BAME Labour. | ||
| @SLATER589 @dji45 You have to do what they did and recruit a large new cohort of members | ||
| @SpaJw There is no chance of John being deselected. Anyone suggesting there is doesn't know much about Bassetlaw CLP. | ||
| @LindaSayle @StephenWadswor2 PS different election but I've won a nationwide OMOV ballot too, and did it without swamping the party with £3 fanatics. | ||
| I would suggest that the overwhelming vote for Europe in 1975 had quite a lot to do with that generation having seen the price of nationalism and wanting desperately to bring Europe together; sadly their boomer descendants are not so enlightened. | ||
| @portraitinflesh @vc61 It's disgusting but the account is not an actual branch of Labour. There is no such body within the Labour Party as a "Labour Surrey Movement" - it's just some individual who happens to live in Surrey. | ||
| @firemanlala My government? | ||
| @BBollies @TSSALabourGroup Correct, Maduro lies saying he is a socialist when he acts like a fascist. | ||
| @MaccLabour @UKLabour This isn't an official Labour letter. It's a bunch of people some Labour some definitely not Labour e.g. Ken Livingstone, expressing their personal opinions. | ||
| @PremMayo1 That's quite logically difficult as the Maduro government is the regime. You are either in favour of ending their rule or leaving them in power. | ||
| @David__Osland You are comparing Corbyn to Thatcher? Bit harsh! | ||
| New Swedish govt - all ministers are from the Social Democrats (S) or Greens (MP) https://t.co/MzArymkJ8t | ||
| @JohnRentoul @pjm1kbw That's not my memory of the views of young members in 1994, given Youth Conference the next year was the first bit of the party to back new Clause IV | ||
| @baeckford I'm talking about the introduction of OMOV in 1993 by Smith which the left bitterly opposed. Before that only GC delegates could vote for NEC and leader, and CLPs only had 10% of vote at conference. The left also opposed Ed M version of OMOV in 2014, though in that case I agreed. | ||
| @baeckford And vice versa though. And in this case the views of Labour members and Labour voters are aligned. | ||
| Well the involvement on their side of someone expelled for their leading role in Militant convinces me this person must have been completely OK to stand as a Labour candidate. https://t.co/vG91z5rKww | ||
| @WelshGasDoc I've retweeted a screen grab | ||
| @TobyJPeacock @MikeGapes That could be arranged | ||
| @PaulSandars @JewishChron It's a sort of tradition for them to troll like this. | ||
| @fghays22 In which case the answer may be to revoke A50 and then have a second referendum. This is a bit too important to rush. | ||
| @fghays22 I've never imagined that a second referendum could be held by 29 March. I always assumed it had to involve an extension to Article 50 and the EU has indicated it would be happy to extend to allow a referendum to take place. | ||
| @fghays22 Why would a 2nd referendum not be feasible? | ||
| A more balanced article would have said he could face resignations if he doesn't back 2nd ref as well. There are Labour MPs facing acute electoral pressure or with strong view on what is right for the country & party on both remain and leave sides. https://t.co/uJqDLlljSY |
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| @LadyBrainSueMcC How are you going to get the DUP to vote with us in a no confidence motion then? We can't win one and get the Tories out unless they vote with us. | ||
| @oddjob588 @MaGaTa76 @BBCPolitics @tom_watson No he has done interviews implying support for second referendum | ||
| This is an unlikely scenario as half the shadow cabinet actively want a second referendum and the other half will do whatever Jeremy tells them to. https://t.co/yBvjCN8zNF | ||
| No it doesn't. I'm in favour of a General Election to change Govt to Labour AND a referendum to cancel Brexit. They are both vital to the lives of the most vulnerable in society. https://t.co/129aEedUhw | ||
| @francesbarber13 @djbeere Yes - Another Europe is Possible is people like AWL and Paul Mason. | ||
| @suey2y @JFr4ser @PolhomeEditor @malcpowers Why not? What would be stopping us from advocating Remain when that's what 3/4 of Labour members want? | ||
| @djbeere @francesbarber13 Trots are mainly pro second referendum. | ||
| @sahilkapur The number of UK MPs expelled from Commons is a lot higher and some of the reasons a lot quirkier: https://t.co/Zn1495WJhi | ||
| @thucydiplease Why are you a member of the Democratic Socialists then? Isn't the clue to their ideology in their name? | ||
| @CliveDavies98 @DucksCourage Actually Engels wrote about socialism being achieved democratically in western European countries that were moving towards democracy. At the time that Marx was around there weren't any European countries with universal suffrage hence the emphasis on revolution. | ||
| @DrJulianWells @DucksCourage @AyoCaesar Yes. | ||
| The Blair Supremacy: A Study in the Politics of Labour's Party Management The Labour Party Conference: A Study in Intra-party Democracy The Contentious Alliance - Trade Unions and the Labour Party all by Lewis Minkin |
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| Fightback!: Labour's Traditional Right in the 1970s and 1980 - @HayteratLords The March of Militant - @MichaelLCrick Hammer of the Left: Defeating Tony Benn, Eric Heffer and Militant in the Battle for the Labour Party - John Golding |
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| Torn Out by the Roots: The Recollections of a Former Communist - Hilda Vitzthum The Left's Jewish Problem - Jeremy Corbyn, Israel and Anti-Semitism - @daverich1 |
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| Choose Freedom: The Future for Democratic Socialism: Future of Democratic Socialism - Roy Hattersley The Future of Socialism - Antony Crosland |
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| @commiedarling The Mensheviks would have achieved rather a lot if they hadn't all been murdered or driven into exile. | ||
| @philbc3 @DThrumblestick Yes. I retweet every poll and on the Survation one I commented on Skwawkbox's misinterpretation of the second referendum numbers. | ||
| @Vdweller No but my family in Kent did. | ||
| @andy_till Yes she asked people to name works of fiction. If she had asked for a list of biographies or history books I would have named some. | ||
| @debbiesimone123 It isn't the current membership who vote in leadership elections, it's also all the people who join as Registered Supporters to back candidates. The unrealistic bit is that he isn't an MP so he can't stand. | ||
| Because they think Labour is in a holding pattern and hasn't yet declared it's final position on Brexit so are giving us the benefit of the doubt. The public who don't follow this closely assume Labour is pro Remain as it has been for 30 years. https://t.co/Yoq8sIlman | ||
| @DominicTrounce No it says the worst outcome is if we don't. Every poll shows all Brexit choices damage Labour but second referendum is least damaging, just a couple of % | ||
| @JimmyHSands I get round that by running the board when I go canvassing. | ||
| @s8jep No I'm assuming a second referendum is a mechanism for getting Remain which is what I want. I don't care what deal Corbyn comes up with as I don't want to leave the EU. | ||
| @MaraudingWinger @LordGammonB You guys started it with a 40 year campaign to overturn the outcome of the 1975 referendum - which was a lot clearer than the 2016 one. | ||
| @nlpedwards Correct | ||
| @PeterNimmo1 I'm an outspoken Remainer and advocate of a second referendum because that's the right thing for UK. As a Labour Party activist I can see a collateral benefit that backing a second referendum would be in the party's interests electorally and in avoiding losing MPs and members. | ||
| Why aren't we calling for a General Election (to get a Labour government) AND a second referendum (to resolve the impasse on Brexit and hopefully stop Brexit) - the two are not mutually exclusive and this approach would be best for party unity. | ||
| @newatch @dr_d_allington No it isn't. | ||
| The Corbynistas replying to this with details of the 2015 leadership election - when that was the point I was making - are quite something. https://t.co/A1rUF0iDmo | ||
| @phillipxprince1 @anthonyjwells As I have a close relative suffering deeply from disability benefit reassessment process I don't feel comfortable watching a dramatised version. | ||
| @graham_budden We are the actual left. | ||
| @BrightonBoydy @labour_first Please feel free to email us with any changes you think are necessary | ||
| @crashingbore123 @IanAustinMP Attlee had pretty similar politics to Ian Austin. | ||
| @francesweetman @Really_Robbie @Catus14 @georgeeaton It's not an explicitly socialist policy though. I'd genuinely never heard of it. | ||
| @francesweetman @Really_Robbie @Catus14 @georgeeaton Sorry what does MMT mean? | ||
| @Really_Robbie @Catus14 @georgeeaton The manifesto was social democratic, so why do Corbyn's supporters disparage social democracy? | ||
| All answers gratefully accepted. https://t.co/GNAFmpK4fN | ||
| @palamospete @ripplecabin @labour_first Except the 43000 who voted for me for the NEC... | ||
| @CllrMickWall @ripplecabin @labour_first That's not true anymore. There is a trigger process for councillors now, not mandatory full reselection process. | ||
| @georgeeaton If it's the latter what's being proposed in terms of property ownership, ownership of the means of production etc, who gets to determine wages and prices and quantities of production of goods and services? | ||
| @georgeeaton Hi George what does "democratic socialism" mean if it's something different to current Nordic models of social democracy? Something more social democratic than the Nordics but still with a market economy, or a different economic system with capitalism abolished? | ||
| @CairnsAlistair @LynVenables How will you know when you haven't got a General Election? When is the deadline? | ||
| @LynVenables Yes but a) what if we can't get a GE, it seems more likely that we could muster a Commons majority for a second referendum than for a GE; b) what's our policy on Brexit in the manifesto if we do get a GE? | ||
| @ProfTimBale @ESRCPtyMembers @SeemaChandwani this also answers some of your questions earlier today | ||
| @adrianmcmenamin @SeemaChandwani this may answer some of your questions earlier today | ||
| @Stehughes1878 @AlanOlive1 We also need to take Remainers with us given the two groups are nearly same size. I accept it creates tactical dilemmas. | ||
| @iMcKenzied @RossPolitics I thought he lived in West Dorset and very publicly voted tactically for the Lib Dems. Remember him wearing a toga and calling himself Tacticus on a Newsnight or similar debate in GE 01 | ||
| @RJ_Phoenix16 @laurensam @SusanDipsue2003 @JohnEdwards33 @JennieGenSec @skwawkbox @JVoiceLabour The people who do represent the Jewish Community and speak for them are Zionists because the vast majority of the Community are too. | ||
| @zen_mckenzie @UKLabour @ChukaUmunna Here's a scientific paper that says Labour voters were more likely to vote for Remain https://t.co/pwrTqlzxcK | ||
| @BeavenLinus @zen_mckenzie Labour voters were 65% in favour of Remain https://t.co/o5IBRaB8aL | ||
| @milton_mick We have access to natural gas imports already from Norway and Qatar. What advantages would there be to switching to Venezuela, a more distant and politically unstable supplier? | ||
| @HenryBamford4 It does matter when it is legal entities - unions - not individuals- taking the action and if they conduct an illegal strike they can be sued for damages by employers or other people affected. | ||
| @fish_in_a_hat Unfortunately I'm not an MP so I can't trigger a leadership contest | ||
| @MPEllis_ @DPJHodges Because I disagree with it. Politics doesn't work on the basis of one-off irreversible decisions. If it did then we ought to have respected the outcome of the 1975 referendum and not held the 2016 one. | ||
| @parsifel43 No idea, why would I know? | ||
| @Calderbank @ianrobo1 @anthonyleahy @SpaJw But most people didn't realise that and assumed based on history that voting Labour was a pro Remain vote. | ||
| @Calderbank @anthonyleahy @SpaJw No, but why do you assume pissed off Labour leavers would waste their votes on UKIP rather than sticking with Labour even if we upset them on Brexit? They all voted for us during decades when we were wildly pro EU. | ||
| @Calderbank @anthonyleahy @SpaJw Sorry I don't understand? Who said anything about sticking with a Tory government? Let's resolve Brexit with a referendum and then have a General Election on all the other issues facing the country. | ||
| @Calderbank @anthonyleahy @SpaJw But they can piss off 48% of the population including 2/3 of our own voters? | ||
| @Calderbank @anthonyleahy @SpaJw NB Labour First doesn't have a collective position on this. I'm personally pro 2nd referendum but your allies on this issue include Spellar, Mann, Flint, Smeeth, De Piero, Snell, Austin - some of my favourite MPs | ||
| @trotty_jj Where does it say that? It says the opposite. | ||
| @Calderbank @anthonyleahy @SpaJw Maybe I'm being obtuse but won't the stance of the new Labour candidate in Peterborough be quite important too - and in gift of local selectorate/NEC shortlisters. I.e. they might pick a candidate with outspoken views on Brexit opposite to whatever line Jeremy ends up taking? | ||
| @Calderbank @SpaJw Why not also use a referendum to check this is still what people want to do? | ||
| @RMJewell @MattSingh_ @PickardJE @ronanburtenshaw It's run by Gordon Brown's former pollster so describing it as "Blairite" is obtuse to say the least. | ||
| @ijb19662 I'm presuming that is part of achieving either a second referendum or a renegotiated deal | ||
| @dyfededwards @NickCohen4 Yep it says that | ||
| @heroicpeachh @Paul_Burgin @jessphillips @CCriadoPerez https://t.co/cvELyZkYX7 | ||
| @lbrooksie101 Also last I checked expressing opinions on Twitter was open to every Labour Party member not just the 39 members of the NEC... | ||
| @HardmanWil @Paul_Burgin @jessphillips @CCriadoPerez Here is where the data is from https://t.co/cvELyZkYX7 | ||
| @HardmanWil People have lots of other reasons for their views on Corbyn beyond his stance on Brexit. | ||
| @morris1_k "The number of people sleeping rough has more than doubled since 2010 to 4,751 according to the government’s own figures. | ||
| @Paul_Burgin @jessphillips @CCriadoPerez The polling says that it has less negative impact on Labour than other Brexit choices | ||
| @kieronturner95 Yes. | ||
| @kieronturner95 It's not a "claim" it's the results of an opinion poll. | ||
| @BillyJWells @David__Osland We always win in the end. | ||
| @Oooh_Matron @David__Osland The battle not the war. | ||
| @kayes67 As I said, I think the rules stipulate you can't hold new elections, you have to recall the 2018 delegates | ||
| @Saggydaddy @David__Osland That's what I just offered- I'll accept their surrender | ||
| @kayes67 I think the rules say that delegates to a special conference have to be the ones from last year's annual conference. They were pretty slatey... see how they voted for NCC ballot. | ||
| @David__Osland I am happy to accept the unconditonal surrender of all Corbynite forces if you have had enough. | ||
| @LucyMPowell we have annual passes ... So this is 6th visit of year | ||
| Heading to Legoland with Jed and his cousin. Looking forward to Laser Raiders ride! | ||
| @EtonTaxDodger There is very little point having power if Brexit has trashed the economy | ||
| @EtonTaxDodger @strafer_jack @velvetrev44 I was assuming Angela might be the moderate candidate vs a Corbynista | ||
| @SocialDemSheff She is never going to be their candidate as too close to Unison. | ||
| @martinyuille1 Generally I am a fan, hence my surprise at how negative she was | ||
| @strafer_jack @velvetrev44 I'm not talking about the impact on a GE I'm talking about the internal politics of the party | ||
| @matbob Not many party members did vote for Brexit. I'm talking about the balance inside the party not about what might or might not be a sensible electoral strategy. | ||
| Interesting how many times Lansman et al lost votes at last NEC meeting- picking and losing fights with the unions https://t.co/QRc0lIKU8T | ||
| @JAGPearce OMG | ||
| Spread the word - Labour for a People's Vote https://t.co/xJ1O80uLWH | ||
| @profpatpending @ExSpAd I'm literally stating a fact about Labour's rules. The leader appoints the shadow cabinet so if Corbyn was replaced the new leader could create a new front bench team that reflected their stance on key issues. | ||
| @profpatpending @ExSpAd The leader appoints the shadow cabinet... | ||
| @closely_watched It isn't Labour Party polling, it's from here https://t.co/cvELyZkYX7 | ||
| Day off work so heading in to 39 Vic St for meetings with London Labour, @suemacmillan and @Markfergusonuk | ||
| @IanWoodland @ChasIskra He hated losing the Constituent Assembly elections so much he abolished it. | ||
| @AlanOlive1 Margaret McDonagh and John Braggins? | ||
| @adrianmcmenamin @AlanOlive1 After 1994 due to presence of byelection victors from that year but before 1997 | ||
| @AlanOlive1 1996 | ||
| @SpawnofJustice @BrenTierney He is very definitely not a Corbynista. I don't know what sort of house he grew up in but he is state school educated and grew up in Pontypool in the Valleys seat he represents. | ||
| Thank you @RichardAngell for being an amazing comrade and friend to me personally and to @labour_first during times that have been tough, indeed surreal. https://t.co/8mOQPgsCqU | ||
| @LastBlairite @tom_watson @alexsobel answered this yesterday | ||
| @_Monty200_ @LastBlairite @ripplecabin @tom_watson @skwawkbox 2 coups? | ||
| It's the way they tell 'em https://t.co/ppzKQjYfoG | ||
| @colinrtalbot https://t.co/cvELyZkYX7 | ||
| @GNaomiMartin https://t.co/cvELyZkYX7 | ||
| Gross. Cuba is a dictatorship in action and has nothing to do with any type of democratic socialism or Labour values. https://t.co/mB7fUsXfEO | ||
| @nediaross A) it's MPs that count for winning not vote share B) yes we would be better off as we've lost all our individual major donors C) I've campaigned for Labour for 30 years and it was as good if not better in past D) the idea that Ed Miliband was a Tory tribute act is hilarious |
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| There clauses in this tweet, all of them outright lies. One of them also antisemitic. https://t.co/yRmdUyhSp3 | ||
| @jackieschneider In net terms no, they elected Jeremy Corbyn twice, which has put the party at an immense strategic disadvantage and is the most self-harming and absurd decision any British political party has ever made. Of course, there are individual new members who are great though. | ||
| @GeneRuane @David__Osland I don't use the term "far left". | ||
| @David__Osland The 2016 candidate - who I like so I don't like saying this - wasn't strong enough to attract large numbers of new registered supporters. | ||
| @drwitty Please show me all those stats. They don't exist. | ||
| @David__Osland I was correct- we did need to do that. We lost because we failed to do it. | ||
| @JamesBower93 "Now"? I've been saying this since 2015. | ||
| @ripplecabin @labour_first Tell Momentum to back off from deselecting MPs and councillors and then we won't need to organise to stop them. | ||
| @HuwJonesLabour @LabourFirst @labour_first Yep and some of my closest political friends are reconciled to Brexit. I respect them having a different view. | ||
| @HuwJonesLabour @LabourFirst @labour_first My personal position is strongly in favour of remain. Labour First includes people with all kinds of views on Brexit. I'm not into bullying MPs into voting in line with my views on Brexit. In practice I think the PLP will be united in opposing May's deal. | ||
| @IainCrawford It isn't the "usual suspects" who are expected to rebel. | ||
| @HuwJonesLabour @LabourFirst Yes obviously. By the way it's @labour_first you meant to tag. | ||
| @IainCrawford No I'm in favour of not having double standards. If he was able to exercise his conscience when deciding how to vote, he should give the same latitude to backbenchers now. | ||
| @ClareFKing @charliemansell @WTarbiat @jg_ccpress @stephenkb @jruddy99 GC where nominations happened. Then a month later the AGM went back in opposite direction. | ||
| @MsMacSee @letitbeta @Daniel_Grigg @OwenJones84 @francesweetman @graceblakeley Person X has obnoxious view on issue X. They like a tweet about unrelated issue Y by person Y, thereby making both associated with their view on issue X. That's not actually how politics works, people often agree on one thing but not on another... | ||
| @LeftMarks @David__Osland I don't accept that social democracy is a fixed idea or practice, given both our 1997 Blair and 2017 Corbyn manifestos were social democratic. | ||
| @DavidHirsh @thehoff102 I'm guessing that in Chingford she invited herself as she is or was the CLP Chair. | ||
| @ripplecabin I don't think they will. I'm expecting the PLP to almost unanimously oppose it. | ||
| @ripplecabin @David__Osland That's what I'm asking Dave. When I say socialists I'm including social democrats. Is he? | ||
| @AudreyAurus1 She's going to lose by about 100 anyway, and it won't remove her as PM. MPs definitely should vote against it, but because it is a bad deal. | ||
| @JamesDAustin @jg_ccpress @WTarbiat @stephenkb @jruddy99 I think @SeemaChandwani cited the number of CLPs that had delegates in one of her CAC reports, Seema how many was it? | ||
| @quiscustodis @MartinLarner @Tim_Hayward_ I don't get briefed on security news, I've been to RUSI about twice since I changed job in 2011, I'm not a security expert. I am listed on wikispooks but the profile doesn't say any of those things. | ||
| @graceblakeley @AJogee I'm always happy to debate but you need to join the queue behind @jonlansman (scheduled for @limmud in Dec) and @maxshanly (always promised never quite scheduled). Would prefer a live audience eg Momentum conference or a neutral media outlet rather than @novaramedia | ||
| @whoisjosh24 @graceblakeley Seamus Milne and Andrew Murray are posh Stalinists. Everyone in AWL and Socialist Action is a Trot by definition and some of them are posh. | ||
| @whoisjosh24 @graceblakeley All. Plenty of blokes who I would also describe as Posh Trots or Posh Stalinists. | ||
| @CianIreland3 Will be in most university libraries. | ||
| @johnthegasrobb But that's exactly what Corbynistas are saying to us. | ||
| Nice. https://t.co/eDEkxfkpyJ | ||
| @DentonJez I'll be campaigning and voting for Labour at the next General Election just like I did in 2017 and every previous one. It's a ridiculous question. | ||
| @Oooh_Matron Of course. No one ever wants to be in a minority in their own party. The Hard Left want to run the show, but so do the moderates. | ||
| Why the Hard Left will lose Labour - their enthusiasm for Brexit. https://t.co/pcu0tgCdM1 | ||
| @andrewmweller @Du_Navet @Tpopularfront @graceblakeley It's not massively helpful to the party to rehearse all the reasons publicly. | ||
| @Mxv021 Yes it is. Someone has to hold the leadership even in a pluralistic organisation. No one wants people they disagree with to lead them. | ||
| @Du_Navet @Tpopularfront @graceblakeley I'm happy to have you in the church, just as long as you aren't defining the theology, choosing the hymns, controlling the synodd or being appointed as Archbishop. | ||
| Amused by posh Trot @graceblakeley trying to patronise Alan Johnson with reheated 70s Bennite anti-Europeanism on #bbctw | ||
| @Carefulthought @LabourStudents The Labour Party didn't win it's largest vote share since 1945 in 2017. It got a higher vote share than in 2017 in 2001, 1997, 1966, 1964, 1959, 1955, 1951 and 1950. | ||
| @OwenWntr @CJTerry Surely the primary answer to that is the relative performance of the second placed party. Labour was 7.5% behind in 1992 whilst the Tories were 12.5% behind in 1997. Labour also performed very well in key marginals as did the Lib Dems in Tory seats they targeted. | ||
| @TomMillerUK How many roads must a man walk down Before you call him a man? |
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| @TomMillerUK How soon is now? | ||
| Eh? https://t.co/k94RRmbE7G | ||
| So no Brexit is possible. I thought someone said it wasn't? https://t.co/r218VG16bT | ||
| @KarlBarnsley1 @MatthewStadlen Result would all depend on who ran and their ability to recruit large numbers of new members. It's not something I am advocating but it always exists as an option. | ||
| @StuartDodgson No that's my whole point. What are we going to do to get older voters to stop voting Tory and start voting Labour? | ||
| @DeForis66 @StuartDodgson That's odd because I remember the Hard Left constantly slagging off Blair | ||
| @1liesalot @mtpennycook Because they were already not members and in any case are in EFTA so economically part of the EU single market, just not the political structures | ||
| @1liesalot @mtpennycook About half as divisive as leaving the EU would be. | ||
| @brumsongsben @StuartDodgson The generation coming behind will benefit from house inflation when we all die and they inherit our houses... | ||
| @willuminare It's an election for a disciplinary committee not a policy ideas one. We are fielding people who will expel antisemites and entryists. | ||
| @aidanskinner @JadeFrancesAzim @pbffreeman @UnionisedDavid @DannyFiler @jonlansman Yep that would be good | ||
| @pbffreeman @UnionisedDavid @JadeFrancesAzim @DannyFiler Sure, I was a CLP officer in Hackney for a decade on a mixed team with Briefing & Socialist Action so I am fine with comradely coexistence. I just don't want them running the Labour Party. | ||
| @antnyrly I welcome that being clarified. | ||
| @DannyFiler I welcome that being clarified. | ||
| @michaeljswalker That's fine but they need to say that. If they have picked a side then some people will not want to follow that jump. | ||
| It's the complexity and nuance of their arguments that always floors me. https://t.co/dpne5XGD6l | ||
| @sdjackson1954 @AaronBastani My experience of the RBL is growing up involved in its fundraising because my dad was a member, rather than reading about it on its website. | ||
| @michaeljswalker The clubs play a big role in selling the poppies and other fund raising for the charity eg sponsored walks etc. and club members are usually the core of the veterans who participate in local Remembrance Day parades and services. | ||
| @Calderbank Whether they even can will depend on how their charitable objects were drafted - if narrowly written back in the day then they may not legally be able to comment. | ||
| @HawkeyeSoames It attacks the Royal British Legion, which is an association of veterans - it's branches act as social clubs for veterans and veterans parade past the Cenotaph behind the flags of its branches. | ||
| The RBL is an association of veterans. If 13000 veterans are homeless we should attack the Tory government for that, not the veterans themselves! https://t.co/EDjR7DCruJ | ||
| @WoyHattersly @angrysigh @ElliotBidgood Keith's thread is based on premise some do. | ||
| @WoyHattersly @angrysigh @ElliotBidgood I'm just making the point that Labour moderates shouldn't assume that because Momentum is interested in his campaign techniques that he is some US version of a Corbynista who they should steer clear of | ||
| @angrysigh @ElliotBidgood As Beto is a member of the New Democratic Coalition, a caucus that describes itself as moderate and pro-business, I think everyone in the Labour Party should be looking at his campaign. | ||
| @SeemaChandwani @PaulJGlossop Full lyrics incl: "To the left, to the left... And keep talking that mess, that's fine.. You must not know 'bout me I can have another you by tomorrow So don't you ever for a second get To thinking you're irreplaceable So go ahead and get gone ... replacing you is so easy |
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| @AspieOu Can you give me an example of Labour First's "neoliberalism"? | ||
| @GOsborneGenius @Jennifrazer I'm not sure that's the case. Her speeches at BICOM policy conference, LFI lunch and the relevant bits at party conference have been fairly helpful. I say that as someone who isn't a supporter of her. | ||
| Speaking at yesterday's @BoardofDeputies @JLC_uk @WeBelieveIsrael seminar for London councillors with @UJS_PRES @EdwinShuker and @StevenJaffe1 https://t.co/lUdupSrLw6 | ||
| @WotzThatSound Yep a centre left Labour one | ||
| @lester_hickling @David__Osland I don't think things being in the manifesto in 1997, 2001 and 2005 ever stopped Jeremy Corbyn voting against them | ||
| Reading about wine instead of drinking it tonight. | ||
| @JrussoUK @aidanskinner He resigned about an hour ago | ||
| @NiallFinn No "He admitted three charges of possessing drugs with intent to supply and a fourth charge of possession | ||
| @korkythecat "He admitted three charges of possessing drugs with intent to supply and a fourth charge of possession | ||
| @itsme3636 @James4Labour Only if she knew about his offence when she allegedly nominated him to be a councillor. | ||
| @CllrKennedy Good reason | ||
| @TimSwain14 Communists do | ||
| @1977220174U @HovellingHermit @lfi I had never heard of this person until seeing your a tweet, let alone "support" him. I have no hesitation in saying he appears to be an idiot with repulsive views. By the way it is @_LFI not @LFI. | ||
| @jabberwock951 Anger about poverty - in my case the experience of my own family- is why I support Labour. But I joined and became active over the specific circumstances of Kinnock trying to make Labour more electable through improving its defence policy. | ||
| @LaurenceBarrett @JonTheEgg No I only support the right of democracies to defend themselves. Regimes that are not democratically elected are clearly illegitimate. | ||
| @Fabian_Newt @CPBritain @UKLabour I retweet every opinion poll and council by-election result and have done since 2009. I'm not picking ones with either a Tory or Labour lead, that would be ridiculous. You need to come to terms with what the polls are saying. | ||
| @maxshanly @SeemaChandwani @GMB_union Yep it was meant as a compliment. You feel like part of the architecture of the party. | ||
| @SeemaChandwani Ouch | ||
| @maxshanly @SeemaChandwani So recent! I thought you had been around for at least a decade. | ||
| @DAaronovitch I wouldn't mind so much if they meant any kind of democratic socialism. They don't. | ||
| @oly_lister @CPBritain @UKLabour OK I disagree. In my experience I have weaned lots of individuals off Hard Left politics by engaging in debate about the historical and ideological stuff around Bolsheviks vs Mensheviks, malign nature of Leninism. If you don't engage in it they get to rewrite history. | ||
| @rida_again So why didn't she stay in the SPD and support the Ebert government? | ||
| @oly_lister @CPBritain @UKLabour What is the JCU? | ||
| @Lokster71 @CPBritain @UKLabour The overthrow of Weimar would have involved communists murdering a lot of people, just like they did in Russia. | ||
| Bastani confirms he would like democratic Weimar Germany, led by a democratic socialist Marxist, Ebert, to have been overthrown in 1919 by a communist dictatorship. A valid position if you want to be a @CPBritain member but not if you are a @UKLabour one. https://t.co/MQ04U2dOeB | ||
| https://t.co/hemRNDvm73 Not very centrist... |
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| @Aaron_Kiely if Libyans had waited 4 a local solution would still be waiting now | ||
| @ThoughtForm2020 @SeemaChandwani My 1st email: " Hi there is some dispute on social media about whether the NCC ballot papers will be sent to CLP secretaries or conference delegates. Please can you confirm which of these is correct. Best wishes, Luke Akehurst |
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| @ThoughtForm2020 @SeemaChandwani Second email says "As this election is a continuation of Conference business, only CLPs which registered a delegation to Conference will receive a ballot. Nominations will be accepted from all CLPs. | ||
| @ThoughtForm2020 @SeemaChandwani First email says "The ballot will be sent to CLP Secretaries who will cast the vote following consultation with the Conference delegates, as agreed by the NEC at the close of Annual Conference. | ||
| @ThoughtForm2020 @SeemaChandwani I did. I posted it within 3 minutes of receiving it and tagged Seema. | ||
| @ThoughtForm2020 @SeemaChandwani It's not "special treatment" to send an email with a straight forward procedural question to party HQ and get a reply. Any member can do the same. | ||
| @ARICHTALL @mail32186551 @britainelects We didn't win Hackney in 1998 - it was a hung council with a Tory mayor and wards like Victoria had Lib Dem councillors. I was the campaign manager when we won it back and took 14 seats off the LDs in 2002. | ||
| @SeemaChandwani I already publicly shared the info I had as soon as I got it yesterday, and tagged all the people who had been discussing the topic | ||
| @AndysPolitics84 @Dungwit1 @rachaelwrd People that have come into the Labour Party from the tankie "Straight Left" faction of the old CPGB or from the breakaway CPB are literally Stalinists. People from that tradition, with a public record of whitewashing Stalin's crimes, hold a couple of key posts under current ldr | ||
| @Dungwit1 @rachaelwrd Not many but they shouldn't be in the Labour Party if they believe in communist rather than democratic socialist or social democratic values. | ||
| @tanzley1 The NCC isn't the NEC. It doesn't decide rules for internal elections etc, it's like a court for deciding disciplinary cases. | ||
| @Dungwit1 @rachaelwrd No I don't think revolutionary communists who don't believe in parliamentary democracy, and hence have a lot in common with fascists, should be members of a democratic socialist/social democratic party. They have their own parties they can join. | ||
| @Dungwit1 @LondonJafari No I don't think he's that impressive as a leader. Don't mind his social and economic policies but don't like his image, ideology, foreign and security policies, allies or factional behaviour within the party. | ||
| @Dungwit1 @LondonJafari None | ||
| @Dungwit1 @rachaelwrd Self identification | ||
| @rachaelwrd They will win not because of the politics but because the voting system guarantees they will win by limiting the franchise to a set of people where they already have dominance | ||
| @LondonJafari Old Labour Right | ||
| @SeemaChandwani I'm not. | ||
| @rachaelwrd My main concern is that no one is getting expelled at all. | ||
| @SeemaChandwani They answer queries from any individual member of the party who asks them. | ||
| @Carole5736 I didn't come last. | ||
| @SeemaChandwani That isn't what the ballot office told me yesterday. They wrote "CLP Secretaries who will cast the vote following consultation with the Conference delegates". I actually don't care either way, the process is a farce! | ||
| @ripplecabin @UKLabour @SeemaChandwani @AnnBlackLabour @HuwJonesLabour @iMattPound No only the pass for one per CLP not the travel or accommodation. | ||
| @SeemaChandwani @HuwJonesLabour @UKLabour @AnnBlackLabour @iMattPound You have a sick friend! | ||
| @charliemansell @AnnBlackLabour @SeemaChandwani @labour_first @LondonLabour @LabourList I think the problem is that the truncated timetable means not all CLPs have had any opportunity to consult about this. Monthly AMMs or GCs are norm in urban areas but not everywhere. | ||
| @HuwJonesLabour @UKLabour @AnnBlackLabour @SeemaChandwani @iMattPound How is sharing this information "obsessively manipulating for perceived factional advantage"? | ||
| Clarification received today from @UKLabour about how the NCC ballot will work @AnnBlackLabour @HuwJonesLabour @SeemaChandwani @iMattPound | ||
| @AnnBlackLabour @SeemaChandwani @labour_first @HuwJonesLabour | ||
| @HuwJonesLabour Wow, bizarre response to me trying to share factual information about a ballot process. Information that I got not from a faction but from my own CLP Secretary, @AnnBlackLabour | ||
| @SeemaChandwani Compliance Unit have repeatedly told @labour_first when we have rung them that it will be CLP Secretaries. You may be right, but I'm going to ask them again (in writing). Secretaries makes more sense than delegates logistically and in terms of not excluding 100 CLPs w/o delegates | ||
| @CJ_Appleby They don't have to. The way they vote will be published on the party website though. | ||
| @philbc3 @charliemansell @maxshanly @UKLabour And a suggestion I implemented when I was Membership Secretary in Hackney North CLP | ||
| @fitzcaraldo1917 @maxshanly @UKLabour Yes all the published data about the class composition of party members. And looking round the room at party meetings. If they all went and recruited to unions would be a great boost to UCU and NUT. | ||
| @maxshanly @UKLabour Yeah but most Labour Party members only know middle class people, so the net impact would just be middle class capture of another part of the labour movement | ||
| @Black19Andrew @kernewek61 @CLPD_Labour @PeoplesMomentum I've spoken at the main orthodox synagogue in Edinburgh and that isn't what the local community told me | ||
| @Black19Andrew @kernewek61 @CLPD_Labour @PeoplesMomentum It's a direct quote from his Twitter feed | ||
| @Black19Andrew @kernewek61 @CLPD_Labour @PeoplesMomentum What about addressing what Mr Menear actually said, rather than who reported it? | ||
| Interesting that @kernewek61 pulled out of the NCC contest in @CLPD_Labour / @PeoplesMomentum deal. I had forgotten he once said that Mossad was funding my NEC leaflets, just the guy to have sat on all the antisemitism cases. https://t.co/pdBkZmq0yl | ||
| @JosephOMarcus OK look at the election results in Hackney council and see which party wins Springfield and Stamford Hill West wards (where the Charedi Jewish community lives) compared to rest of the borough. | ||
| So what happened to Martin Menear? Why was he dropped? https://t.co/1HvIb4O6CB | ||
| @JosephOMarcus OK @ifyoutickleus is a Twitter account from that community and can verify what I am saying | ||
| @Ut_Humiliter_Op yes let's talk soon | ||
| @JonHegerty @marklazarowicz How does that work in an era when everyone with a pension benefits from the performance of stocks and shares? | ||
| @davidberens A very good question and one I ask myself several times a day. I stay because I currently believe the process might be reversible and it would be in the national interest to have a Labour Party that returned to its senses. | ||
| @Fabian_Newt @Jimmybob19731 @TomBlenkinsop Been there 3 times. | ||
| How many of these candidates are also on the @CLPD_Labour slate? All very confusing. https://t.co/PFp21EIDoe | ||
| @PolProfSteve @decmchugh75 2001 election was dull until Prescott thumped someone | ||
| @Hoopsdips @Jamin2g Actually not. She's my local MP and is admirably sensible and focussed on the issues facing her constituents. | ||
| @Jaduk99 All MPs have always gone through a trigger ballot | ||
| @SP_Duckworth Surely that depends who runs against him? | ||
| @Jaduk99 We don't have open selections. Conference reformed the trigger process instead. | ||
| @Black19Andrew @petergates3 We don't know whether they are or not. I have asked the party to investigate. | ||
| @RangerGambie @supergutman It's calling out antisemitism - it's an example of the antisemitic abuse @supergutman received | ||
| @Rhobyngoch @Marnerbanana A lot of Bolsheviks. About 150 at every NUS conference I went to. A good dozen in the leaflet tunnel with me outside Labour Party conference. | ||
| @Rhobyngoch @JoeGrowling No all those were features introduced by Lenin | ||
| @petergates3 For the record I have never attacked the Labour Party. | ||
| @David__Osland @BillyJWells I thought the government acquired a huge share holding in it | ||
| @ChanceRchance From @supergutman | ||
| @David__Osland @BillyJWells Which was pretty sensible given it enabled us all to carry on being paid and taking money out of our bank accounts. I thought you agreed with nationalisation, which is what happened to RBS etc? | ||
| @Black19Andrew @supergutman You need to go see the play, then buy one of the t shirts | ||
| @BillyJWells @David__Osland No he didn't. He spent historic amounts on schools, hospitals, local govt and transfers to the poorest people and areas. When the crash came in 2008 Labour responded with massive Keynesian spending increases. | ||
| @Black19Andrew @supergutman Eh? It's calling out antisemitism. | ||
| @BillyJWells @David__Osland No he never said anything remotely like that. | ||
| @69jayh @Cadoret @Lee_One_Pen @JPCherr The Telegraph isn't and has never been owned by Murdoch | ||
| @AP_Doramaqueen And isn't "many not the few" exactly the language Corbyn uses? | ||
| @Alistair1965 Actually I spent my Saturday night watching Lord of the Rings on DVD with my 6 year old and now eating steak and chips with my wife. Tweets in the gaps. The Lenin and Trotsky debate was started by my former Hackney N CLP comrade @David__Osland | ||
| @gabrielquotes @Mendelpol Maybe it commemorates the 1939-1941 period... | ||
| @JoeGrowling No, it's my answer to your other question | ||
| @logical4ever @Rhobyngoch No one is proposing Blairite policies. That's a straw man. | ||
| @Rhobyngoch Sound great | ||
| Witty repartee is still alive https://t.co/zT2MDeEEAT | ||
| @andyjameshicks Their politics are just as annoying as Momentum. | ||
| @Rhobyngoch @crowfather1 Gross. | ||
| @Jordan_SP1 4 losses and 1 win. Accuracy is important. | ||
| @tommy54w Moderates want a more electable Labour Party so we can get the Tories out rather than shouting platitudinous slogans at them. | ||
| @BernadetteB1961 @JulietB270880 @c156ypp @SuttonCentral If someone says they are voting Lib Dem the script says to ask them if they had to choose would they prefer a Tory govt or a Labour govt. That then determines the direct mail they get. | ||
| @RickVictory67 @BernadetteB1961 Virtually anyone. | ||
| @ItCorbyn It's not pejorative. | ||
| @SoodabehB @BernadetteB1961 Which friend? | ||
| @c156ypp @SuttonCentral @BernadetteB1961 Yes, as even a cursory look at my campaigning record during the 2017 General Election would show. What a ridiculous and offensive question. | ||
| @c156ypp @SuttonCentral @BernadetteB1961 I'm professional enough to express the party's position rather than my own opinions. | ||
| @BernadetteB1961 @c156ypp @SuttonCentral That's why the Labour Party has called it Voter ID rather than canvassing for nearly 30 years. I'm old enough to have done it b4 that change in approach so use the old name. | ||
| @davelawson35 @BernadetteB1961 It's not a pejorative term. If anything "soft left" is the pejorative term. It's difficult to describe the two parts of the left wing of the Labour Party without using it, and has been used since the split between the Tribune and Campaign Groups in the 1980s if not b4. | ||
| @c156ypp @SuttonCentral @BernadetteB1961 It depends what they say. If they say they love Jeremy I would just say "that's fantastic" and mark them up as L. If they don't like him I would talk up the merits of our local record or candidate or policies. | ||
| @c156ypp @SuttonCentral @BernadetteB1961 I'm not their to express my own opinions when I'm canvassing, I'm there to accurately record people's voting intentions and any issues or casework they raise. If you are expressing your own opinions you don't know how to canvass. | ||
| @SocialistSki My record on masterminding elections is taking Hackney Labour from 29 councillors to 50. How many Labour gains have you been responsible for as a candidate or agent? | ||
| @DrBenWhitham @naadirjeewa I'm taking seriously the words Len said. It's irrelevant which publication has drawn attention to them. | ||
| @m00m00p00 @0Calamity Members can't set reselection process in motion. It happens on a timetable set by the NEC, and won't start anywhere until after the boundary changes happen or are stopped by parliament. If there is a snap election there won't be a reselection process. | ||
| @petergates3 How is that vitriol, which means "bitter criticism or malice"? | ||
| @ClareFKing @iMattPound @hudaelmi_ So what? | ||
| @ClareFKing Not according to the compliance unit when @iMattPound spoke to them yesterday. The CLP's vote can't be split so in multi delegate CLPs who would they send it to? | ||
| @ivorcaplin @johnmcternan Already done all the stats here after the GE https://t.co/5ox9qZPb8S | ||
| Luke Akehurst: The hard left railed against stitch-ups for 30 years. Now they’re at it https://t.co/uMGwJBxVTj | ||
| The hypocrisy of this being in AWL @Clarion_Mag is that @workersliberty are 1) As anti Brexit as @ChrisLeslieMP 2) Solid critics of anti-Zionism and antisemitism 3) capable of sarcasm about Jeremy 4) Literally until 2015 a rival political party that is now trying entryism https://t.co/ipzAGE0zRW |
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| @RegisteredHere @David__Osland @suey2y @patmcfaddenmp @ChrisLeslieMP What if the MPs are more in touch with voters than the members are? Labour's members are not demographically or politically representative of its voters. | ||
| @AnneMcGarryMars @Calderbank Because Trotsky said that was what his followers should do. | ||
| @AnneMcGarryMars @Calderbank No, they were entryists attempting to infiltrate Labour | ||
| @AnneMcGarryMars @Calderbank Yes, or to give it its real name, the Revolutionary Socialist League | ||
| @Calderbank Nellist and Fields were members of another political party. | ||
| @Card007Teri @JohnBar47942001 @patmcfaddenmp @ChrisLeslieMP No she was at odds with the local hierarchy in Reading, particularly the other MP, Martin Salter, who can best be described as Soft Left. I'm Facebook friends with her and used to work with guy who deselected her, so familiar with the detail. | ||
| @Card007Teri I'm not an MP and never have been. | ||
| @nediaross I'm not an MP. Most MPs have sucked up to Corbyn or kept their heads down. | ||
| @Card007Teri @JohnBar47942001 @patmcfaddenmp @ChrisLeslieMP Jane Griffiths was a Blairite | ||
| @Card007Teri @patmcfaddenmp @ChrisLeslieMP The article you are linking to was speculative. The deselections it speculated about never actually happened. | ||
| @Card007Teri @IanAustinMP You are quoting a speculative article that claimed there was a plan by Blair to do that- but in fact he didn't. There were a total of about 5 deselections in entire period of Lab govt, all mainly to do with performance issues or local falling outs. | ||
| @David__Osland @UKLabour You need to update it to include the new rule change... | ||
| @johnebhome @labour_first I am happy with the 2017 manifesto. It isn't the one we will fight the next election on though. I keep my views about Jeremy to myself as it wouldn't help the party for me to put them in writing. | ||
| @johnebhome @labour_first I campaign for the Labour Party most weekends, do you? | ||
| @SeemaChandwani No not all CLPs have branches. Some just have AMM at CLP level with nothing beneath that. | ||
| @RichardAngell thanks | ||
| @ClareFKing You should have said hello! | ||
| @anniepixeykeys I am not sure the leadership of allied organisations who I was sat with would appreciate that description. | ||
| @max170981 @PeoplesMomentum @CLPD_Labour Different bits of Labour. | ||
| @OllieJD98 Why does that photo - wearing t-shirts promoting @supergutman show about the antisemitic abuse he has encountered - make you say that? | ||
| The Brexit debate saw the leadership have to make significant concessions on a second referendum, against the pro Brexit instincts of Corbyn and the Tankie wing | ||
| Conference disaster- snapped ankle foot orthotic. Better than a snapped ankle and luckily I brought spare pair. | ||
| @charliemansell @SeemaChandwani @labour_first It got remitted so there won't be a card vote on it. | ||
| @dartmoorradical @realjonconnor @ProgressOnline @Conorpope @LabourFirst You mean @labour_first | ||
| @AaronBastani It wasn't, it was 10% ahead and polling 41% 6 years ago today. | ||
| @fergus_costello Good luck. | ||
| @kmflett And down in Margate | ||
| @watchitlad @2smartmonkeys Jane Griffiths was a Blairite who was deselected for local reasons. Wareing spent more time in Belgrade than in Liverpool. | ||
| @suey2y @Black19Andrew It happened because we backed the no vote in the Scottish referendum. | ||
| @watchitlad @2smartmonkeys An idea that was floated and Blair himself vetoed it | ||
| @JohnLowe56 It's mid term now and we are 4% behind not 10% ahead | ||
| @polizone No the algorithm is promoting tweets that lots of people you follow have replied to etc | ||
| @petedigger No the pre 2015 terms | ||
| @petedigger The question would be leaving with no deal vs stay in EU | ||
| Who is Tara Reid? (genuine question, am watching #cbb and not a clue who she is) | ||
| @DarrellGoodliff quality of ideas and argument in submissions is as important as quantity/weight of them | ||
| @DarrellGoodliff the clue is in the name "consult" means ask for views. "Decide" is up to NEC to recommend + Conference to do final vote. | ||
| @DarrellGoodliff @PeterKenyon @RefoundLab consultation not a sham as ideas from it are going in to the final document | ||
| @DarrellGoodliff many CLPs do not mandate their delegates as they expect them to listen to the debate at conf before deciding how to vote | ||
| They are really, really unhappy. Huda Elmi: Labour’s grassroots have three days to be heard – or forgotten https://t.co/q5zWlnsNHF via @labourlist |
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| @RossPolitics @gsoh31 Clearly they don't control Labour as comprehensively as people have been saying, as they can't actually get their rule changes through the NEC. | ||
| @rurallabouruk Personally I prefer to identify with the Menshevik tradition | ||
| @GeorgeAylett All the commentators who want to write off my wing of the party. | ||
| But I thought Momentum had hegemonic control of all the power nodes in the Labour Party? That's what everyone was saying last week. https://t.co/0jZxIsF5qn | ||
| @michaeljbawden The intention isn't to win people over, we would use different messages for that, it's to get people who are already on our side onto our email list so we can organise them, and to persuade them not to quit the party. | ||
| @charliemansell @Calderbank @Open_Selection I don't think TULO and LOTO are proposing the same models for reforming the trigger ballot. I suspect they will negotiate a common model between now and Saturday. | ||
| @europechris @labour_first The leadership lost most of the votes at the NEC yesterday | ||
| @PolicyPAR Unless they revisit the 3 year rule they won't be able to change rules in the areas covered this year again until 2022. | ||
| @UmaarKazmi Pleased to help | ||
| @PolicyPAR Rules can only be changed at a conference. And the unions were in a common position on most of this. | ||
| @DarrellGoodliff @PeterKenyon @RefoundLab In favour of debate. Do not believe RL has to reflect submissions. Can't as they say diff things. | ||
| Well, well, well... https://t.co/UPnAqWkClz | ||
| EXCLUSIVE: Emergency new plans drafted to prepare Labour for sudden resignation of Jeremy Corbyn https://t.co/oph4lfU7iH | ||
| Now being told I shouldn't explain my illness or disability. Apparently I'm not allowed to articulate the issues that changed my life. I didn't choose to talk about it, I've had to because idiots made an issue of me having a walking stick. https://t.co/NLfIKMevlh | ||
| @BazzaInTheLoft That wouldn't be good for party unity either. | ||
| @Black19Andrew I'm not aware of any Labour MPs who "don't do much for their constituents". | ||
| @dithreabhach @Rhobyngoch @KhaledElawadi @_tony_c_ I'm sure he thought it was banter, but banter shouldn't extend to mocking someone for having a walking stick. He should just say sorry. | ||
| @WTarbiat Let's see what happens at NEC this week. Unions will usually vote together and then stick with whatever the agreed NEC position is. They lose a lot of power if mandatory reselection is agreed. | ||
| @BazzaInTheLoft They tend to rather like the ones they put in there "he might be a shit, but he's our shit" is how I've heard it described. | ||
| @edwinmandella @BenC42 That isnt the point that is being debated. I am defending the right of MPs to dissent, like Jeremy did, without being deselected. | ||
| @edwinmandella @BenC42 If you think he was right, it shows it is a good thing for MPs to be independent minded. | ||
| Lovely reply https://t.co/BOwfSwHolp | ||
| @Curious_Chak I'm just saying that if you sack MPs don't be surprised if they jump ship rather than meekly accept unemployment. | ||
| @emailtimw @choctaw @David__Osland No it's the public nowdays because anyone can sign up as a registered supporter | ||
| This is a very odd way to characterise a summer dominated by antisemitic remarks by people close to the leadership, and the leadership's foot dragging on signing up to the IHRA definition. I saw people at end of tether about racism, not "scabbing". https://t.co/CbDeyoqqjo | ||
| @jgordon5 @David__Osland @choctaw I'm fairly well known for not changing my allegiances | ||
| @David__Osland @choctaw No, but politics is pretty fluid. | ||
| @choctaw @David__Osland What and you don't think there are any people in the UK who would find a different candidate and message inspiring? | ||
| Content after foie gras, confit de canard, 5 types of cheese and eau de vie de mirabelle | ||
| @PeterKenyon they won't. This is a long game until 2015, | ||
| @Saggydaddy He could just say "I don't want any MPs deselected or no confidenced. You don't do it in my name. | ||
| @scottr0gers I might have voted for them if they had been | ||
| @CurtisHoward99 @iamhamesh Simple - travel costs and lack of large enough & right quality venues and sufficient hotel rooms. Cities bid competitively to host the major conferences. For instance Blackpool no longer gets them as didn't invest in doing up the Winter Gardens. | ||
| Despicable. https://t.co/kEplNAn831 | ||
| @JimCognito2016 I'm not an MP | ||
| @DenisMacShane @stephenkb @PCollinsTimes 18 MPs were deselected in run up to 1983, in several cases boundary changes meant they had to compete with another sitting MP. 7 were deselected in 1983-87 parliament. | ||
| Shana Tova to all my Jewish friends and comrades. I hope the coming year is a lot sweeter than the last one has been. | ||
| @hopisen OMOV was rather more clearcut than any of issues at stake now. Was clear democratic case TUs shd poll their mems b4 ldr votes cast. | ||
| @hopisen for the record I believe the method is the only way to get desired result in case of AWS | ||
| @TomSG92 Bizarrely yes. | ||
| @luqmankhan555 Aren't Jews politically black? | ||
| @MissLauraMarcus @EastUpper3 @DPJHodges @timteachtweet Fine but that doesn't mean Labour is over. Presumably the leader could change and you might start voting Labour again. | ||
| @MissLauraMarcus @timteachtweet @DPJHodges It ain't over til it's over. | ||
| @HelenGibson86 @MulreadyMolly Facts and evidence are important but so is demonstrating empathy for people. | ||
| @camposaurus1 I am a colleague of Ann in same CLP and have huge respect for her independent voting pattern on NEC but a) she was literally the candidate of a faction, Open Labour and b) in previous 10 NEC elections she was a candidate on the left's GRA factional slate | ||
| @MissLauraMarcus @timteachtweet @DPJHodges In 1931 only 15 or so MPs defected to National Labour with Ramsay MacDonald. They put the Tories in power for rest of decade, destroyed Labour electorally and implemented savage cuts and oversaw mass unemployment. Not a precedent that really sells this. | ||
| @stephenkb @matt_young I'm assuming to enthuse hundreds of thousands of people to join they would need both an attractive personality and exciting policies. | ||
| @BoltZaumgartner We should but neither will be in place by next General Election | ||
| @OwenJones84 We need a retail offer to middle England swing voters who are currently Tory, and for high turnout older voters as powerful as the one we had to students with tuition fees. I don't pretend to have the answers off the shelf, but we have to try to appeal to those groups. | ||
| @skip_oke That rule change will probably go through at conference | ||
| @dylanhm Humour. Apologies if you didn't get the joke. | ||
| @NathanealSansam @AlexC93 Yes they would have lost some but net terms they would have gained, which in Eddie's case would definitely have put him across the line. It wouldn't have been a Progress/LF slate if they & @OpenLabour were part of creating it. It already has independents like Johanna Baxter on it | ||
| @CushieBetter @peterhalsey 80% | ||
| @Curious_Chak I was rather supportive of the leadership when I was on the NEC, and got on very well with most of the left members | ||
| @atwriley We are not going to disappear so either you need to work with us or with Momentum. I'm up for working with you and already work with Ann in our CLP. Make your mind up. | ||
| @atwriley That her level of support - which to a large extent was tactical voting by people with my politics - suggests there is no great constituency for the approach which you are trying to claim is so much more appealing than ours. | ||
| @atwriley She got almost exactly the same number of votes as me. | ||
| @peterhalsey Under 30% | ||
| @martinangus @UKLabour I don't | ||
| @SmithKoala @Insect_Nation Based on these elections, all 9 of the candidates we supported got at least 35000 votes | ||
| @JulietB270880 He only needed another 3k votes. We had 35k who just voted out slate line. So unless Eddie would have lost 32k by being associated with us, he would have won with our support | ||
| @WillNelson1981 I like Eddie so much I'm saying he should be on same team as me | ||
| @laugh_at_Forest I go out canvassing at weekends to get a Labour government elected. | ||
| @DanHeley1 No it's just maths. If you have a 9 seat election you need 9 candidates. | ||
| @Insect_Nation If it came to it, I would have withdrawn in his favour or Ann's. It wouldn't have been problematic to make space for them. | ||
| @jamesanstee Everyone who voted our slate would have voted for him if he had been part of it. | ||
| @PolProfSteve 140k voted but only 55% was for Momentum candidates | ||
| @David__Osland Thanks, I'm very chuffed to have got 43k. It's about double what I expected. | ||
| Eddie would have got elected if ran on a team with all of us who share same values. Next time hope we have a united team against the Hard Left, not bullshit about "independence". https://t.co/OpEteEFVQY | ||
| @PolProfSteve No it was 70-80k | ||
| @David__Osland A pedant writes: there are about 650 parachutists in 2 Para and only a few dozen byelections in period in question. Tactic was usually to field local candidates in by-elections, you are confusing them with late selections. | ||
| @Insect_Nation That isn't how swing works. It measures the change in relative position of the 2 main groups. | ||
| @theincaredibles Yep | ||
| @irenebernard2 My manifesto for the NEC elections https://t.co/IyAo9GW2uO | ||
| @Fevs101 @BenWill1973 @jessphillips @peterwnikolic @DavidWestcross Another two what? | ||
| @Saggydaddy They don't have to. Trigger ballots now exist for councillors too. | ||
| @LukeBozier it's at Westfield | ||
| @ClaudiaEHyde Monday lunchtime | ||
| @GayLabourYorkie Just for clarity I hold no office or role in LFI. The organisation I run is @WeBelieveIsrael which is not party political. | ||
| @new_art_riot I avoided tweeting each cream tea I had | ||
| @missyprissy126 Deselecting me will be difficult as I don't hold any public office | ||
| @Williamos6 @gabrielquotes Many states are nation states - national homes for a people - historically that has been the norm. Jews were treated as second class citizens in Arab states pre 1947 The Palestinians want a nation state alongside Israel - most support 2 state solution. |
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| @UrbaneSlave Yep | ||
| @Rhobyngoch It's nothing to do with me - article is written by @JadeFrancesAzim from Soft Left @OpenLabour - go argue with her if you don't like her analysis | ||
| @jonewilson Agreed, but Corbyn himself is the epitome of the old hard left... so they need to become disillusioned with him as well. | ||
| @ECarlssonBrowne yep accept that and open to ideas (by email!) about how to address | ||
| @alexsobel @thistle8blower @OpenLabour @AnnBlack4NEC @JadeFrancesAzim @TomMillerUK Not so sure about that, I don't think I'm on the right of the party on domestic policy issues. | ||
| @CllrAngela @gsjosan @AlanOlive1 @LisaBanes_ @JohannaBaxter @Jasmin_Beckett @EdaCaz @MariannaMasters @heatherisone @MaryWimbury Thanks! | ||
| @LukeBozier if Mo Mowlam hadn't got ill many ppl thought she was a potential successor to Blair | ||
| @SeemaChandwani My memory of the numbers is that 40 or 50000 people joined in 2010, a one third increase. Nothing compared to 2015 surge but at the time in Hackney there was a similar sense of a whole new wave of activists joining, who in our case were running the CLP within 2 years. | ||
| @tigerfish4 @Gazereth Council meetings are usually broadcast, but Labour meetings are usually considered private. NEC meetings are supposed to be confidential due to nature of the discussions e.g. party finances, election strategy. | ||
| @tigerfish4 I was never able to claim expenses when I was on it before, though this may have changed. | ||
| @Gazereth @tigerfish4 There is a move to stop people joining in by conference call because of the recording of Pete Willsman's remarks at the last meeting | ||
| @LabourConnected No idea, I'm not on NEC so not privy to details of the cases | ||
| @GaiusCa1igu1a It combines both - 2 antisemitic tropes in one statement, | ||
| @AmySupranova @AlanOlive1 Sign up here for updates https://t.co/PM6XHk5sWd | ||
| @GayLabourYorkie I tried to do it using the current trigger ballot system. There's no hypocrisy here as I continue to support trigger ballots and not mandatory reselection. For the record by the 4th time Diane came up for reselection when I was in Hackney, I didn't vote to trigger her. | ||
| @le_bassett Ali, with his JC9 profile pic, just disparaged social democracy. I didn't mention Corbyn. | ||
| @theo_barclay Paging @LabourAgainstAS | ||
| @MrFrannieH @gsjosan @JohannaBaxter @EdaCaz @MaryWimbury @eddieizzard @Jasmin_Beckett @heatherisone @AnnBlack4NEC @nickygavron @unmeshdesai @jhoward87 Hang on in there. Things can only get better! | ||
| @pedwardsshea @ripplecabin @iMattPound They are just about to ban that because of the recording of the Willsman remarks | ||
| @ripplecabin @iMattPound @pedwardsshea Agreed. They have had meetings in Glasgow and Cardiff in recent years. | ||
| @ripplecabin @iMattPound @pedwardsshea There are 6 full meetings per year and 6 days when all the sub committees meet so one day a month. Fares weren't reimbursed when I was last on NEC but they may have changed that. | ||
| @pedwardsshea I would use the term occupied, but Israel would say disputed. | ||
| @korkythecat @iMattPound Next time the moderate candidate(s) will be recruiting too. | ||
| @korkythecat @iMattPound They were only registered for one leadership election. In a new leadership election recruitment of registered supporters reopens. | ||
| @CoffeeandCave @MartinWhelton No they delayed the shift back | ||
| @Chrisdobson59 Thanks | ||
| @SirBasilBrush @viewsfromme @DPJHodges I'm not leaving the Labour Party under any circumstances except death or expulsion. I already campaigned for Diane Abbott in 3 General Elections because I lived in Hackney so no qualms about campaigning for a "Corbyn person". | ||
| @jamesanstee @iMattPound My article is asking MPs to do that. I run a national organisation in my spare time, my skill set is nuts and bolts organising, I don't have the bandwidth to develop detailed policies or be the next Tony Crosland on ideology, I need other people to do that. | ||
| @jamesanstee @iMattPound Set out here: https://t.co/IyAo9GW2uO | ||
| @hx_06 @DPJHodges The whole article is demanding the MPs step up to the plate. If they can't do that inside the party it is delusional to thing they could achieve anything outside it. | ||
| @jamesanstee @iMattPound Matt and I aren't from the 1997 was great wing of the party (though it was). We are not Blairites. | ||
| @jamesanstee @iMattPound The article is challenging our MPs to develop the ideas, policies and platform rather than quit. They'll also need those things, and a lot more besides, if they are daft enough to create another party. | ||
| @johnmac201 @gsjosan Thanks | ||
| I got: Labour First/Progress. https://t.co/YnXR27AgRx | ||
| @crooksontherun @stephenpollard No, not for decades! | ||
| @RufusTFirefly61 @morethandivine @mickswales @wesstreeting @ChukaUmunna @margarethodge I was running the board. Most people we canvassed wanted to talk about litter, not national issues. | ||
| @morethandivine @RufusTFirefly61 @mickswales @wesstreeting @ChukaUmunna @margarethodge I spent my morning canvassing in the rain for Labour? Did you? | ||
| @iarentspartacus @labour_first @RichardAngell That was funny the first time you tweeted it | ||
| @dascott66 @EdaCaz @RhonddaBryant I got the following votes: 2010 - 30,825 2012 - 17,475 2014 - 21,115 2016 - 48,632 |
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| @dascott66 @EdaCaz @RhonddaBryant How come "again"? I've never secured "least votes" in an NEC election. 2010 - I won and was on NEC (6/20) 2012 - I was highest runner up, missing out by only 246 votes (7/19) 2014 - I was 9/13 only 3,000 off winning 2016 - I was 12/15 |
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| @Au_ShiRa @ProgressOnline @LisaBanes_ @JohannaBaxter @Jasmin_Beckett @EdaCaz @gsjosan @heatherisone @MariannaMasters @MaryWimbury None of those actions against BDS are based on the IHRA definition. | ||
| @Jimi_Zine Kinnock gained 42 seats in 1992, Corbyn only gained 30. Kinnock got 271 Labour MPs elected, Corbyn got 262. | ||
| @Au_ShiRa @ProgressOnline @LisaBanes_ @JohannaBaxter @Jasmin_Beckett @EdaCaz @gsjosan @heatherisone @MariannaMasters @MaryWimbury No they absolutely wouldn't. There is no mention of BDS in the IHRA definition. | ||
| https://t.co/jR4M5CTBG7 | ||
| @Jimi_Zine You mean the same number as Jeremy Corbyn has won too? | ||
| @David__Osland Mini is owned by BMW, the Cowley plant is screwed by Brexit because it relies on just in time supply of components from across EU. Sorry to be boring but 8000 of my Oxford neighbours could lose their jobs. | ||
| @drcfhussain @JohnRentoul @PeoplesMomentum I don't think the gap is as big as you think it is. There's a broad consensus across the party - members, cllrs, MPs - on economic and social policy and public services. | ||
| @drcfhussain @JohnRentoul @PeoplesMomentum How about a bit of pluralism rather than factional winner-takes-all? We all share the same values and every Labour MP was happy to run on the 2017 manifesto. | ||
| @drcfhussain @JohnRentoul @PeoplesMomentum No, we already have a trigger ballot so people can replace MPs if they want to. We need to move back to trust and affection between MPs and CLPs, not animosity. | ||
| @drcfhussain @JohnRentoul @PeoplesMomentum Can you evidence that statement at all? For instance I backed OMOV when the older people on the Momentum slate opposed its introduction by John Smith. | ||
| @Williamos6 @RichardAngell If that is the case then the same accusation could be thrown at Palestinian nationalism. As long as all peoples have an equal right to self-determination & minority communities have full citizenship, there is nothing racist about nation states. | ||
| @nicholasball @David__Osland @CJFDillow I have a strong personal empathy with democratic variants of Marxism. I would never use the word communism to describe them though. | ||
| @ripplecabin I prefer to just say what I believe. If I wanted to climb the greasy pole by saying what people want to hear I would have done it years ago. I didn't do it under previous leaders either. | ||
| They seem to be oddly nervous about the NEC ballot. https://t.co/xSH1jBV9jo | ||
| @Jimi_Zine How many elections have you won? | ||
| @sportmankayaker @EdaCaz @JohannaBaxter @MariannaMasters @gsjosan @MaryWimbury Nine votes this time | ||
| @JackEDeakin Big cities have hotter microclimates due to lack of vegetation, tarmac that absorbs heat, glass that reflects it, millions of people, machines and vehicles emanating heat. Sorry for dull serious answer... | ||
| @snoopdogtanian No, I'm here until death or expulsion | ||
| @andimueller1 @iMattPound When we are old and telling stories of the battles against Momentum, youngsters will feel they missed all the excitement. | ||
| @andimueller1 @Falcon_Malteser @iMattPound The thing with inner city and university CLPs with large Momentum demographic is they also have a large demographic of pro-European centrist dads if you can get them organised to turn up... | ||
| @andimueller1 @Falcon_Malteser Didn't we come within 5 votes of winning the entire conference delegation a couple of months ago after @iMattPound came down and did some organising? I was a CLP officer there in early 90s & CLP was known for vicious Hard Left factionalism back then too. | ||
| @Aidancb87 No problem. | ||
| @Aidancb87 I retweet every council byelection every Thursday night, I'm not picking out particular ones. | ||
| That's a shame. Well done @Simonottinotwit on a good campaign. https://t.co/vOKIlxRTc1 | ||
| @adam_rose @NoraMulready @iMattPound Yes obviously, I'm Labour. | ||
| @NoraMulready @freddybinyusuf @iMattPound No but they should join trade unions, the Co-op, student unions with BDS policies to change them. It's literally my day job to train and organise people to do that. | ||
| @CarolineMack18 @Smithy0364 @JournoStephen @NoraMulready @iMattPound I campaign for Labour in all elections, with no illusions. | ||
| @CarolineMack18 @JournoStephen @NoraMulready @iMattPound I already did in 2017 so have crossed that bridge, and have a great local Labour MP who is not a Corbynista and deserves my vote and my campaigning. | ||
| @CarolineMack18 @JournoStephen @NoraMulready @iMattPound None. | ||
| @NoraMulready @adam_rose @iMattPound It's never over, it's an eternal battle for the soul of the left that has been going on for over 120 years. | ||
| @adam_rose @NoraMulready @iMattPound No I would campaign to destroy it, as it is a precondition of winning back Labour that all moderates are inside the party not outside it. | ||
| @JournoStephen @NoraMulready @iMattPound Your analysis founders on the fact that thousands of people like me and Matt, and millions of voters, and hundreds of MPs, are never leaving Labour though, so the critical mass an alternative project needs will never be there. | ||
| This still makes a lot of sense too, from 2015: https://t.co/FcZ8N8Be0i | ||
| @michaelbranniga @margarethodge Hilarious. I'm the Director of @WeBelieveIsrael | ||
| @michaelbranniga @margarethodge What do you think my job is? | ||
| @jchittybangbang @coyleneil No the people who wrote it are very clear that the examples are an intrinsic part of the definition | ||
| @cazziemacca @jchittybangbang @coyleneil BDS is not covered by the IHRA definition. | ||
| @FromSteveHowell Minor point but wasn't Tom Baldwin an Ed Miliband spin doc not a Blair one? He's raising it because he is trying to sell books. The actual story he has told doesn't even support his book's argument about banning political Facebook ads. | ||
| @marksimoo Obviously. | ||
| @PerrierCommuni1 @maxshanly And here are all the examples on the IHRA website: https://t.co/LYYVyMEXKR | ||
| @PerrierCommuni1 @maxshanly That isn't true. Multiple people who were at the meeting confirm whole thing was adopted incl examples, and here's the guy who actually wrote it: https://t.co/0GbPEx2qaT | ||
| @TJA1972 @manek43509 @DavidHirsh @jakegoretzki @EuanPhilipps @wesstreeting @MikeGapes @stellacreasy I'll emigrate and join a Labour or social democratic party in another country. | ||
| @jakegoretzki @EuanPhilipps @TJA1972 @wesstreeting @manek43509 @MikeGapes @stellacreasy Why would we want a new party when there is an old one we feel deep connection to that as recently as 8 years ago was a hugely successful govt for 13 years? | ||
| @TJA1972 @EuanPhilipps @jakegoretzki @wesstreeting @manek43509 @MikeGapes @stellacreasy What if you are not a Tory and don't agree with anything they stand for? | ||
| @Michael_Coupe No but they have a great interest in preventing us from supporting the small democracies in their "near abroad". | ||
| @Michael_Coupe Largely untested? Tell that to the Syrians whose homes have been flattened by the Russian air force. | ||
| @GregClinker @Tron1993 @hannah1_rose @hannahweisfeld No it isn't it literally deletes 4 of the IHRA examples. | ||
| @maxshanly @johnmcternan US troops are deployed in Europe because Europe faces military threats and needs the help as we have weak militaries. There is no need to deploy UK troops in US as it is protected by 2 huge oceans. | ||
| @GregClinker @Tron1993 @hannah1_rose @hannahweisfeld No it's not. You can be as critical as you want about Israel, just don't use the language and tropes historically used for antisemitism to do it. They are helpfully listed in IHRA definition so you can avoid them. | ||
| @manek43509 @jakegoretzki @TJA1972 @wesstreeting @MikeGapes @stellacreasy It's more confusing even than that as most voters are confronted with a name on the ballot paper who isn't Corbynite. | ||
| @GregClinker @hannah1_rose @hannahweisfeld Read Hannah's article. | ||
| @GregClinker @hannah1_rose @hannahweisfeld No the party has tried to remove key bits of the IHRA definition. | ||
| @manek43509 @jakegoretzki @MikeGapes @wesstreeting @stellacreasy I can't imagine how it feels not to be a Labour Party member so not to be able to influence the direction the party goes in. | ||
| @Michael_Coupe @Williamos6 @JewishChron Labour and the Tories both did in December 2016. | ||
| @stephenpollard We were still going to the Margate branch until it shut in April. | ||
| @Michael_Coupe @Williamos6 @JewishChron And it's not me doing the labelling- IHRA was agreed by over 30 govts, written by the world's leading academic experts on antisemitism, has backing of all major Jewish Community organisations. | ||
| @Michael_Coupe @Williamos6 @JewishChron The context is whether Labour should adopt the IHRA definition. I would expect members of a political party not to use "ignorance of current affairs" as a defence for antisemitism. | ||
| @simon_watkins @roadto326 I don't remember you being an NEC member in 2012... | ||
| @GOsborneGenius @trotty_jj In this case it was a response to a speech Ed Balls had made about public spending. | ||
| Me, talking, to @Paul_Burgin https://t.co/DjPRh3jaW2 | ||
| @LabourInColour You see this @SteveHartUnite ? | ||
| Great to hear that @aliceperryuk and @nick_forbes have been re-elected unopposed as NEC reps for Labour's councillors. | ||
| That was the first football match I have watched for about 15 years. Wasn't a great choice. | ||
| A reminder - Labour First's Submission to the Democracy Review 2018 https://t.co/8GFQLT5Pnf | ||
| @NickCohen4 Not every one who voted for Brexit was hugely emotionally committed to it. For some - enough to decide the outcome- it was a marginal decision taken at last minute, just like swing voters do in a General Election. | ||
| @therubykid There will be the same number of flights without Heathrow expansion- they will just land in another European hub like Amsterdam instead, so the environmental argument on this is spurious. | ||
| @maxshanly Presumably as a mate of Len's, you are pro Heathrow expansion like I am. | ||
| @SCFCJosh96 How will we fund the social justice and increased public spending we want to see if the economy goes into a nose dive? | ||
| @Peegabear We had huge social progress from 1997 to 2010 without causing a run on the pound. | ||
| Great to be at #jewishmidlands event with cllrs from across Midlands learning about Jewish Community concerns from @JLC_uk and @BoardofDeputies | ||
| @DaveOnMyBoat @humbleetc You are talking to someone who was a huge public supporter of Ed M in the 2010 leadership election and throughout his leadership so please don't try to imply I was complicit in Blairite critiques of him. | ||
| @DaveOnMyBoat @humbleetc So people voted Tory because we were too centrist. Sounds unlikely and not the reason given in any of the 2010 or 2015 polling. | ||
| @pheonixclb You can't do anything for people if the economy collapses. | ||
| @humbleetc No it didn't - the US sub prime market gave us the financial crash, and Brown's response was opposite of austerity - he massively increased public spending to reflate the economy | ||
| @trexfan2 It's a verbatim quote from Jon Lansman. | ||
| Maybe we could think about changing our key players and policies to ones that wouldn't cause a run on the pound, then we wouldn't have to worry about this... https://t.co/JnYNqZqxPm | ||
| Thanks for drawing attention to huge EU funding a key UK industry gets. Surely that's a good thing - unless you are a Boeing shareholder? https://t.co/nDXCVA2qYB | ||
| @GawainKeates @labour_first @RuthSmeeth It's an antisemitic trope. Stop propagating it. Stop defending it. Delete it. | ||
| @GawainKeates @labour_first By the way it doesn't make any sense as a jibe at Labour First as, whatever my personal politics on Israel, Labour First is neutral on the issue and is supported by many people who have the opposite views on Israel to me. | ||
| @GawainKeates @labour_first Accusing Jews of putting Israel first before the country they are a citizen of is a traditional antisemitic trope - there's a Jewish MP - @RuthSmeeth - in the picture. It's defined as antisemitic in the IHRA definition. | ||
| @GawainKeates @labour_first I don't think retweeting photoshopped antisemitic tropes is really very clever. | ||
| Thank you Rutherglen CLP for nominating me for Labour's NEC! https://t.co/Z6k5W3GXAD | ||
| @jadedoswelll @labour_first You have linked to an article that is 11 months old. | ||
| @jadedoswelll @labour_first Please give an example of us publicly undermining Jeremy. Or alternatively don't make stuff up. | ||
| @frances_lilley @labour_first I'm literally smiling in the profile pic you are replying to. | ||
| @JTaylorSE15 @PolProfSteve No not STV in case of Withington, finely balanced GC where some swing voters went for a mix off both slates. Quite common for CLPs to nominate the highest profile names off both slates. | ||
| Thank you Old Bexley & Sidcup CLP for nominating me for Labour's NEC! https://t.co/Z6k5W3GXAD | ||
| @LonglandsLabour @Sidcup_Labour Thanks. Also need to know conference delegates. | ||
| @LonglandsLabour @Sidcup_Labour Great, who else got nominated there? | ||
| Thank you Manchester Withington CLP for nominating me for Labour's NEC! https://t.co/Z6k5W3GXAD |
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| BBC News - Len McCluskey's coming for me, says Tom Watson https://t.co/bkmh4eMJKf | ||
| Thank you St Helens North CLP for nominating me for Labour's NEC! https://t.co/Z6k5W3GXAD | ||
| @BarryCrombie No because "entryism" means people from another political party staying in it but covertly infiltrating Labour. It doesn't mean recruiting people who genuinely support Labour. | ||
| If you want to vote for me to be a strong voice standing up to Momentum's antics on Labour's NEC, you need to be a party member by 22 June. Join/re-join here: https://t.co/oFZPWNPXtS | ||
| @PeterWatt123 easier said than done. V few Army units near London or trained for civil disturbances role. | ||
| @JohannaBaxter not in London this week | ||
| @BrianHTweed Yes of course, whether as an incumbent or as a challenger. | ||
| Thank you Plymouth Sutton & Devonport CLP for nominating me for Labour's NEC! https://t.co/Z6k5W3GXAD | ||
| @Callum_Munro @Jasmin_Beckett @EdaCaz @MaryWimbury @MariannaMasters @JohannaBaxter @gsjosan @LisaBanes_ @heatherisone Thank you! | ||
| Thank you Bexleyheath & Crayford CLP for nominating me for Labour's NEC! https://t.co/Z6k5W3GXAD | ||
| Worth a read https://t.co/SOPCf8poiZ | ||
| @Calderbank @RichardAngell Because the rule change to make antisemitism an offence hasn't been passed at the time he committed the offence? | ||
| Job opportunity working with me in my day job at @WeBelieveIsrael https://t.co/Dwd5vMpLep | ||
| Tory proposals threaten thousands of shipbuilding jobs https://t.co/Tas7sJC7JU | ||
| Just caught 4 mackerel in St Ives bay. Lunch sorted. | ||
| From Oct 16 but still worth a read https://t.co/SvcJgw4UbT | ||
| @CultOfIntegrity Yes I want more party members not fewer | ||
| Thank you Derby South CLP for nominating me for Labour's NEC! https://t.co/Z6k5W3GXAD | ||
| Just hit 20 CLPs nominating me for NEC- or 21 if you count Northampton Borough as 2! https://t.co/Z6k5W3GXAD | ||
| @HinmanMark Neo-liberal? | ||
| @HinmanMark I've never been at the bottom of the list. 48000 people voted for me in 2016. | ||
| @HinmanMark Nominations can only be obtained through votes. | ||
| Thank you Torfaen CLP for nominating me for Labour's NEC! https://t.co/Z6k5W3GXAD | ||
| Thank you Orpington CLP for nominating me for Labour's NEC! https://t.co/Z6k5W3GXAD | ||
| @cato_theelder @John_Ferrett SPGB are not Leninists by the way! | ||
| @Alex_Historian1 Nope, Marxists are very welcome in Labour as long as they are not Leninists. | ||
| @Sabrina_Huck @rachaelwrd The NEC election is an opportunity for members to put pressure on the leadership on this issue. It's one of the few times that members have power to change direction of party. |