Steve

Mainly tweets about Music, being hungover and how boring my life is...

[Farrukh @implausibleblog]

Jamie Raskin, "They only want to protect free speech that they agree with"

JR then demolishes Farage, ending with

"You might want to think twice before you let Nigel Farage Make Britain Great Again"

[Madoc Cairns @MadocCairns]

Ahead of the expected proscription of Palestine Action - the first time a protest group has been legally redefined as terrorist - I went through the Hansard of the 2000 Act they're being banned under. Turns out MPs were assured the law wouldn't be applied this way. Thread 🧵🔽

[Clive Lewis MP @labourlewis]

Watch: I spoke in parliament today to oppose banning the direct action protest group Palestine Action under UK anti-terrorism laws.

We shouldn't confuse dissent and terror.

I understand what terrorism is. I was in London on the 7th of July in 2007, and I watched this city being attacked by real terrorists. I decided I was going to Afghanistan to fight the terrorists because I love this country. And I love our democracy, and I want to see it protected. I think today's proscription of Palestine Action undermines our democracy.

It feels like, to me and many other people, we could be creating a bridge over which future authoritarian governments will travel and have unintended, dark consequences that no one in the Labour Party or this government actually wants.

[Led By Donkeys @ByDonkeys]

We just dropped in on Liz Truss’s pro-Trump speaking tour with a remote-controlled lettuce banner. She didn’t find it funny. 🥬

[Ash Sarkar @AyoCaesar]

"I'm proud to be working class, and I'm proud to be anti-racist working class as well!"

Love this woman - interviewed by @novaramedia in Barnsley today ❤

[Philip Proudfoot @PhilipProudfoot]

5 years for attending a zoom meeting for Just Stop Oil

Two months for rioting

And you want to talk about “two tier?”

Absolute joke.

[j @jrc1921]

Starmer in 2019

[insane moments in british politics @PoliticsMoments]

Nigel Farage is milkshaked in Clacton (2024)

[Politics UK @PolitlcsUK]

🚨 NEW: Tory Deputy Chairman Jonathan Gullis has been pictured campaigning with a convicted heroin dealer

[@NatashaC]

[Mick Whitley @MickWhitleyMP]

Natalie Elphicke’s values are not the values of the labour movement.

It’s outrageous that she should be allowed to join the Labour benches while principled socialists like @HackneyAbbott and @jeremycorbyn still haven’t had the whip restored.

[Adam Bienkov @AdamBienkov]

Keir Starmer just welcomed hard-right, anti-migrant Conservative MP Natalie Elphicke into the Labour party.

Some highlights from her recent record

[UK Politics Hub @politicshub_uk]

Suella Braverman being presented the Dick of the Year award. #thelastleg #isitok

[Mukhtar @I_amMukhtar]

"The OBE means  Order of the British Empire.. I've been fighting against Empire all my life, I've been fighting against slavery and colonialism all my life.. so how can I then accept an honour that puts the word Empire onto my name? "

-Benjamin Zephaniah

[Saul Staniforth @SaulStaniforth]

James Cleverly refuses to condemn Israel cutting off water, power & food to the people of Gaza.

A reminder that collective punishment is a war crime. There are one million children living in Gaza. Our government supports Israel starving them

[HENRY MORRIS @mrhenrymorris]

Life comes at you fast...

[Aaron Bastani @AaronBastani]

An unelected PM, with no mandate, overseeing a massive policy u-turn at odds with his party’s own manifesto which won an 80 seat majority.

What @RishiSunak is doing today completely undermines the idea of democracy & popular sovereignty in this country. He can’t go soon enough.

[Carla Denyer @carla_denyer]

Sunak's #NetZero u-turn speech is chillingly Orwellian

He stands at a lectern that says "Long-term decisions for a brighter future" to abandon what limited long-term thinking the Govt had, in favour of short-term efforts to chase votes from climate doubters at the next election.

[Ash Sarkar @AyoCaesar]

We have one political party, the party of capital, distinguished only by two colours of rosettes.

[Steve @Joboffal]

@LeeAndersonMP_ Did they find legionnaires on the barge when oil workers were using it? Did they cram more than double the amount of oil workers it was made for on it? You’re a stupid fuck.

[Farrukh @implausibleblog]

Uxbridge & ULEZ

1. ULEZ was initiated by Boris Johnson long before Sadiq Khan.

2. The Conservative government under Grant Shapps made expanding ULEZ a condition of providing financial support to TFL during covid.

3. The Conservative government have provided funds to cities such as Birmingham (with a Conservative mayor), but not to London (with a Labour mayor).

Clean air is good, we need more of it.

Underfunding from the Conservative government which has caused the ULEZ charge is the problem. - Billions given to bankers in tax cuts, billions wasted in PPE/covid fraud, billions wasted on refugee bargees.

We need a different and better government. A pity the people of Uxbridge voted for more of the same.