Matthew Gilson

“Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must live.” Charles Bukowski

[Paul Nowak @nowak_paul]

Why doesn’t Farage sit down with a low paid care worker, look them in the eye and tell them the truth.

He voted against a ban on zero hours contracts.

Against sick pay from Day 1.

Against protections from fire & rehire.

He’s not a friend of workers - he’s a political fraud.

[Tymofiy Mylovanov @Mylovanov]

Zelenskyy: We are targeting the logistics, fuel and infrastructure that help Russia militarize Crimea.

Russia must feel the cost of this war. Victory comes when Russian society recognizes that war is a tragedy for themselves, and we are getting closer to that moment. 1/

[Angelica Shalagina🇺🇦 @angelshalagina]

According to russian propaganda,

Ukraine is finished.

Meanwhile, another refinery is on fire🔥🔥

[Zoe Gardner @ZoeJardiniere]

Dress it up however you like - this racist violence has been deliberately whipped up by far right politicians & their cowardly wannabes in the supposed mainstream.

You are either fighting against the anti-migrant narrative or you are with these thugs.

[Sangita Myska @SangitaMyska]

Far Right thugs are using another tragedy to riot. Disgusting.

[Kate from Kharkiv @BohuslavskaKate]

In Dagestan, Russia, 3 large explosions occurred on a 1,200 mm gas pipeline 🔥🔥🔥

[Damian Low @DamianLow3]

Voted against scrapping zero hour contracts

Voted against banning fire and rehire.

Voted against day one sick pay for workers

Says minimum wage is too high for young people

Don’t believe the lies

[Michelle O’Neill @moneillsf]

Groups of masked men burning families out of their homes is nothing less than disgusting cowardice.

This has nothing to do with community.

This is outright thuggery.

The attack in North Belfast was heinous and wrong.

But there are dangerous attempts to exploit that to target and attack innocent people who are simply trying to live, work and raise their families here.

Racism, intimidation and violence are wrong wherever they occur.

There can be no excuse and no justification for these attacks tonight.

No one wants to see this on our streets and I again appeal for calm.

[Matthew @MatthewTorbitt]

Unless you renegotiate the 1951 Refugee Convention, you can leave what you want, it’ll have no impact. The ECHR says nothing about asylum or small boats. You could scrap it tomorrow and the boats would still come

Since 1980, just 13 deportation or extradition cases have been overturned by Strasbourg. Braverman is selling people a nonsense silver bullet that won’t work.

[Lewis Warner @LewisJWarner]

Ex-Reform UK councillor Charlotte Kelly admits she’s embarrassed to have ever joined the party.

She defected to the Conservatives yesterday - claiming she was bullied and faced sexism.

Reform UK says she was the source of ‘disharmony’ within the Staffordshire group.

[The Labour Party @UKLabour]

Reform would see women's rights stripped away without a clue as to what they'd replace them with.

You can't trust Reform.

[Harry Eccles @Heccles94]

There are only 8 Reform MPs and they have a combined wealth of over £70,000,000.

They have consistently voted against every single improvement to workers rights and plan to scrap legal protections left right and centre.

They are funded by the bosses to rip up your rights.

[Farrukh @implausibleblog]

Mehdi Hasan slams Elon Musk, "He is obsessed with finding these cases where he can then amplify far right voices"

"He doesn't just do it in England with Tommy Robinson, he does it in German with the AfD, obviously he does it in the US with Twitter"

Victoria Derbyshire, "What is he seeking to do?"

Mehdi Hasan, "He's seeking to embolden some of the worst far right voices in the Western world"

"That's why he's funding so many people all over the place"

"This is his agenda. It's a very racist agenda. We see that in the US with the Republican party"

"Elon Musk amplifies some of the most neo-nazi voices on Twitter"

"You can take the boy out of apartheid South Africa, can you take apartheid South Africa out of the boy?"

[Brendan Cox @MrBrendanCox]

An horrific stabbing in Belfast.

The person responsible must be held to the toughest justice.

In case it’s not obvious - the attacker doesn’t represent Muslims, Sudanese people or refugees any more than he represents all men.

Please keep the blame where it belongs.

[Andy Burnham @AndyBurnhamGM]

Just finished a three-hour discussion with 50-60 undecided voters covering everything from cost-of-living and immigration to Wigan Roller Rink!

People are really engaged in this by-election and it is brilliant to see.

Thanks for coming along, everyone. 🙏🏻

[LabourList @LabourList]

Union leaders have been quick to brand Nigel Farage an "enemy of trade unions" and claimed he would launch "worse attacks on workers' rights than Thatcher" https://t.co/hVyrDSsTLo

[Wes Streeting @wesstreeting]

Farage has the audacity to vote consistently against the rights of workers and then claim he’s open to trade unions.

The Labour movement needs to take the threat from this snake oil salesman seriously.

We don’t need polls. Look at election results last month…

[Jessica Elgot @jessicaelgot]

Spent Monday in parts of Ashton and Orrell where Labour are targeting around 16% still undecided voters in Makerfield by-election.

Some observations

- Many who voted Reform only weeks ago are prepared to vote for Burnham. There is a *big* gender divide and QT was a big factor

[Kate from Kharkiv @BohuslavskaKate]

Fly little birdies, return russian war back to sender!

[OSINTtechnical @Osinttechnical]

Massive Russian gas pipeline explosion reported in Dagestan this evening.