@NadiaWhittomeMP Nadia is 100% right, but Labour is no less the establishment than Reform are. Starmer's party is backed by the same billionaires, I'm not convinced Burnham's won't be as well.
This is exactly why we have Pride.
Because a few years ago this would have just been a hateful fringe figure - but this is where our politics is heading with a Government that kertows.
We will resist. And bring hope (*and* electing progressive politicians.) We will win.
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There’s a lot of talk about Andy Burnham being bad news for the Greens.
But without the Greens taking Gorton and Denton, and battering Labour in the local elections, Burnham would not be on course to become PM on this platform.
Whether he delivers is another question entirely.
I just want effective government that relentlessly squeezes rentierism, builds trams and houses, gets us to below £4 a pint and makes shareholders in G4S and Serco miserable. I’m ambivalent about the rest.
Bored of this stuff now.
Gushing statements from Labour MPs re Starmer are bewildering.
He’s going for a reason: he’s dislike-able, spiteful, mendacious, completely lacking honour.
At next GE you’ll be trying to sell Burnham on the doorsteps, and opponents can just say “hold on, you liked this guy!”
Starmer isn’t a ‘decent man’. He’s a nasty liar who has the temerity to now say his greatest achievement in office was scrapping the two child benefit cap, something he removed the whip from his MPs over! He’s comically dishonourable and malevolent.
The most emotion Keir Starmer has shown is over losing his job, not enabling the genocide of the Palestinian people.
Good riddance.
His next stop should be The Hague.
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@ToryFibs Truth will hit you hard when Burnham fails to live up to expectations. Unless of course you adjust your expectations. He's very much signalling more of the same and if he is, his popularity will not last long.
Vote Green in Makerfield for change.
The far right needs to be stopped and we asked which version of Burnham is going to show up. He’s told us. More trying to out Reform, Reform. No change to failed 40 years of neoliberalism.
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Against the Iraq War, yet was perfectly content to back the UK government arming Israel’s genocide in Gaza.
Wes Streeting seems to only care about brown lives when there’s something in it for him.
Absolutely do one.
What's really striking about this clip is that I laid out some of the nonsense against me - and why it was disproportionate.
Journalist agrees some of it is "overcooked."
But none of my explanation nor the danger around my personal safety has made the cut....!