When powerful interests relentlessly attack:
- teenagers like Greta Thunberg for asking the world to listen to science
- leaders like Jeremy Corbyn for wanting to create a fairer, kinder society
... Be very suspicious of those they promote as 'trustworthy' and 'electable'.
@DMiliband Really. Funny that the one she's supposed to represent don't agree with you. Could it possibly be you and neoliberal representation that has so raised the hackles of the population. Try some self analysis for a change. I know why your brother beat you and so in honesty do you.
@DMiliband That’s not how democracy works David. Sounds more of a defence of enlightened despotism.
Then again, I suppose it’s to be expected from a gentleman who had a contact rate of less than 0.5% as an MP. Politics has decisively changed.
Lib Dems may be faced with a choice this week -
EITHER No Deal with Johnson
OR a time-limited, task-limited government under Corbyn which will
1. Stop No Deal
2. Have an election
3. Have a Second Referendum with Remain an option, if Corbyn wins election
Easy choice, surely?
Christopher Eccleston slams BBC's Who Do You Think You Are? for snubbing and dropping him from the show because they decided his working class family roots was not good enough TV.
https://t.co/K75QBArlHg
SNP MP Angus MacNeil has just made clear on LBC that they are willing to support Jeremy Corbyn as a temporary Prime Minister, to remove Johnson and stop no deal.
He pointed out the Lib Dems have a choice. Johnson or Corbyn.
What’s it to be @joswinson?
How dare Barking CLP exercise their democratic right to choose a parliamentary candidate who actually wants Jeremy Corbyn to become PM? It's madness.
"I'm not going to give up until Jeremy Corbyn ceases to be leader of the Labour Party." ~ Margaret Hodge
https://t.co/OZHLQvjpSR
Margaret Hodge today:
"At a vital time for the country, with a general election looming, we should be focusing our efforts on holding Boris Johnson and the Tories to account"
Margaret Hodge 6 days ago:
“I’m not giving up until Corbyn ceases to be leader”
When Margaret Hodge initiated a vote of no confidence in Jeremy Corbyn in 2016, I don't remember Tom Watson blaming a "hard-right faction" for undermining Labour's election chances. Quite the opposite, in fact. He tried to get Corbyn to resign. Hypocrite. https://t.co/5PJogQG6ux
I am Jewish
I am a member of the Labour Party
I hope Hodge's local party deselect her
I believe her intemperate attacks on Corbyn over antisemitism have been
1 Untrue
2 Bad for the Labour Party
3 Bad for the necessary fight against actual antisemitism, which is a real concern
Apparently the best thing for your “psychological health” is to get Brexit done, according to Johnson.
Personally, the best thing for my psychological health would be to get Johnson out. #Marr
Th BBC allows anyone including their own journalists to refer to Jeremy Corbyn as anti-Semitic. So we know what they call non-racists. But their journalists can't call out a white supremacist like Donald Trump for his racism. So what do you call a racist at the BBC?
I've been an anti-racist all my life. As a young bricklayer in the 1970s, I risked my well-being by regularly confronting the casual racism that was prevalent on building sites at that time. I nearly got my head kicked in, on more than a few occasions, as a consequence. 2/4
I was also an active member of the Anti-Nazi League, and I physically confronted racist thugs on the streets in an attempt to stem the rise of the fascist National Front. 3/4