Eliot
@softleftlabour
AGCS President / “Soft Left Gay for State Terror” / Clerk Assistant / MHFA / #NeverKissedAWhig / Gallienite
The Labour Party is 120 years old today, I thought I’d do a thread of some of its greatest achievements for which we can all be proud
Starmer, much like Johnson before him, has low respect for Parliament. And as with Johnson, his sycophants will bend over backwards to paint Starmer’s disrespect as normal or acceptable
I see this has found all the right people. Nice spin claiming that the suspensions were ONLY because they voted against the welfare bill. Clearly untrue. There were 47 MPs that rebelled, 4 have been suspended.
Hey @grok who was the most famous person(with the most followers) who has visited my profile? They don’t have to be mutual. Don’t tag them, just say who it was.
🚨 BREAKING 🚨 @BrewDog have announced that they are closing 10 flagship bars from Aberdeen to Camden, as soon as THIS FRIDAY! In what universe is 3 DAYS a morally (or legally) acceptable notice period for a proper redundancy consultation for the workers impacted?!
The very fact there are no repercussions for Led By Donkeys doing this proves how ridiculously their point is. Neither Palestinian activism, nor protests, have been branded terrorism. The act of vandalising British national security sites has been
The building opposite Labour HQ has been covered with a large scene of devastation from Gaza, in protest at both the war and the approach to protest in the UK. Stunt by @ByDonkeys
Here we go again, not content with being proven wrong for 14 years, the accountonomist and Osborners are making their same case for declinism again
Ask yourself why the state has had to borrow £60b in the first quarter. We're not (yet) in a recession, we're not (yet) at war, we're not fighting a pandemic, etc. Nothing is going to "turn up" to fix this. We are spending far too much money during a fairly normal period. It has…
Those two things are directly related. Accountonomics is a significant contributor to Britains economic woes
New analysis finds that the government is largely meeting its spending goals. BUT, it’s badly missing its core economic targets. Our new Accountability Tracker by @CharlesWThomson treats the government like a business. A 🧵 on what it shows.
Camilla left school with one O Level and later got fired from a secretarial job for being late. That was her career. Yet because of the man she married she’s Chancellor of a university.
Camilla left school with one O Level and later got fired from a secretarial job for being late. That was her career. Yet because of the man she married she’s Chancellor of a university.
The right desperately want low pay Britain and believe no worker should be rewarded for productivity improvements. Their politics are that of managed decline
South Cambridgeshire wants to move to a 4 day week. They say they can do “100% of the work in 80% of the time”. Doesn’t that just mean they aren’t doing enough work? And shouldn’t their pay be cut 20% if their hours are? bbc.com/news/articles/…
“We ought to reassert ourselves as a bulwark against exploitative capitalism, ensuring that more of our country’s wealth goes into the pockets of the workers. It is the workers who create our wealth, after all, through the strength of common endeavour.” Read my piece below 👇
The left-wing case for controlled immigration ✍️ Jonathan Hinder spectator.co.uk/article/the-le…
Probably because pension income is already taxed
This "tax on pensioners" will end up being those saving for their retirement, i.e. tax relief on contributions, or those in work, rather than the retired who are already drawing their pensions. Mark my words.
Blair blocked Livingstone from running at Labour’s candidate for London Mayor so Livingstone won as an independent. Blair was better than Starmer but he wasn’t a messiah - we are just removed from those battles
It's underrated that Tony Blair did an incredible job managing his left flank considering he had Tony Benn, Jeremy Corbyn, George Galloway and Ken Livingstone all on his backbench caucus and to my knowledge didn’t remove their whips lmao
Maybe if it actually did the securonomics it was elected to implement rather than obsess with accountonomics
Forget all the noise about Reform - this will be what kills a Labour government if it can’t get to grips with economic growth
So that poor areas become poorer and rich areas get richer The silent goal of all proposers of British federalism
A hot take proposal for Local Gov in England: - Adopt the Redcliffe-Maud boundaries - Transfer social/adult care responsibilities to the central gov - Replace Council Tax with a property tax and local income tax - Give them control over local police, fire, and education
If you’re an EU supremacy account why are you using dollars?
Brexit
This is how you can tell Starmer’s core base in the PLP are the inexperienced
All hell breaking loose in the Labour Party this evening, which has descended into civil war. Starmer allies I've spoken to are volcanic with rage over the welfare rebellion and the fallout - not least today's dramatic scenes with Rachel Reeves in the Commons. One described their…
Not defending Starmer - but the majority has voted for plenty. This is more a comment on an inexperienced prime minister unable to read the mood of the House. He was always going to lose an attempt to pass treasury based welfare reforms in a Labour majority House
Starmer and Reeves are finished I think. The "huge Labour majority" is in name only and completely meaningless as they don't have the political ability to actually get it to vote for anything.
Well of course elected officials don’t run day to day matters that’s not their job
Councillors don't actually run councils. You only have to look at the pay of the CEO vs the pay of the elected Council Leader to understand this.
None of those examples achieved any of that on their own and the businesses of all those examples grew on the backs of other people’s labour - people who haven’t grown wealthy
I know it’s trendy to hate billionaires, but most didn’t get rich by accident. Jeff Bezos made goods cheaper & quickly accessible. Bill Gates put computers in homes. Sergey Brin gave the world a search engine that works. I could go on. So yes…they should exist.