Silly Daddy

Groucho Marxist, Frozen Peach Advocate and Inadept of Pataphysics. He/him. Tweeting in an impersonal capacity.

[Politics UK @PolitlcsUK]

🚨 NEW: There have been no reports of riots tonight as thousands of anti-racist protesters significantly outnumber anti-immigration demonstrators across the country

[Hannah Al-Othman @HannahAlOthman]

Just wanted to share quickly how lovely yesterday felt in Southport; a total contrast to the night before. 🧵

The mosque and people’s garden walls were rebuilt by builders and bricklayers volunteering their time and labour:

[Billy Bragg @billybragg]

Imane Khelif is a female boxer who has been defeated 9 times by women opponents. Those claiming she's a man have the same aims as those who claimed that the suspect in the Southport stabbings was a Muslim asylum seeker: to stir up hatred against a marginalised community

[Emma Szewczak @EmmaSzewczak]

Can't believe there are people in sport with a physical advantage over others. That just isn't what sport's about

[mitch said is on the other site @said_mitch]

ok, in the name of procrastination, I overcame my laziness.

unburden yourself by what has been and make Kamala hold up the vinyl record of your choosing:
https://t.co/shupjg2ynX

[Stephanie Kelton @StephanieKelton]

Labour’s fiscal rules are a dead end for the party and for society. Being a good steward of public money isn’t about closing “fiscal holes” and “paying it back.” It’s about closing real deficits—health, infrastructure, education, etc—-and paying it forward for future generations.

[warrior cop @wyatt_privilege]

(date stirring drink and smiling) so then you got bored with the internet trend before other people?

[Keir Starmer @Keir_Starmer]

We must scrap the inhuman Work Capability Assessments and private provision of disability assessments (e.g. ATOS), scrap punitive sanctions, two-child limit and benefits cap.

[Zarah Sultana MP @zarahsultana]

I have been informed by the Chief Whip & the Labour Party leadership that the whip has been withdrawn from me for voting to scrap the two-child benefit cap, which would lift 330,000 children out of poverty.

I will always stand up for the most vulnerable in our society.

[Zarah Sultana MP @zarahsultana]

When people say there's no money to scrap the two-child benefit cap, they're not looking in the right places.

Me on why we need abolish this cruel Tory policy and immediately lift 300,000 kids out of poverty:

[Novara Media @novaramedia]

Novara Media’s north of England editor Craig Gent reports from Harehills, east Leeds, where residents fear miscommunication will inflame community divisions.

https://t.co/rlEI04GnIL

[Clare Hymer @ClareHymer]

Novara Media’s north of England editor @VivaHarehills reports from Harehills, east Leeds, where residents fear miscommunication will inflame community divisions.

https://t.co/gQYLKsQFPP

[Dr Ruth Alison Clemens @RuthieClems]

Just found out that Taylor & Francis has sold access to all @routledgebooks data to Microsoft to train their AI. This includes my publications. I get no payment for using my research labour, never mind the bigger problems of this energy-intensive extractivism...

[Gardening in Spain @sullivansa1]

Streeting won his seat by 528 votes. Afterwards he was known to have stated how brutal the campaign was.

A message to Streeting: You 'ain't see nothing yet.

You will be held to account. Everytime, on every move, and every piece of legislation, consultation you oversee

[India Willoughby @IndiaWilloughby]

For the attention of @wesstreeting @UKLabour . This is a typical story direct from those you are forcing to have a puberty they don’t want. For a gay man to be presiding over what amounts to an experiment to stop people being trans is grotesque. I don’t think Labour can ever repair its relationship with LGBT+. @Keir_Starmer #PubertyBlockers

[Dan Hind @danhind]

... if the workers and the materials exist, we can afford to do it: the means create the money and there is not reason to cede ownership of vital infrastructure. It's a political choice that the Greens, the Social Campaign Group and the rest of the left should loudly reject.

[Dan Hind @danhind]

Labour's plans to use public-private partnerships for new infrastructure will create endless chokepoints for rent extraction for large investment funds, raising the cost of living for the rest of us, for no other reason than a reflexive desire to serve the rich. As in health ...

[molly smith @pastachips]

oh no! bad news for the military budget I assume??