Mel Poole

Co Durham born. Raised in Yorkshire. Live in Birmingham.
Socialist. Ex-Labour. Sunderland AFC

[Aaron Bastani @AaronBastani]

‘We’ve only ever won 3 majorities’

Labour has won 8 majorities since 1945.

The guy is a terminal liar. It’s pathological, everything is spin in a court room.

[Richard @ricwe123]

The war in Ukraine began when the government in Kyiv unleashed violence on its own citizens, slaughtering 14,000 in the Donbass.

Putting Russia in a position it couldn't stay passive...

(Luc Ferry, former French Minister)

[Paul Holden @pauleholden]

I wholeheartedly agree. Following Electoral law is the absolute minimum we should expect of our representatives, especially if the benefits they received had a material impact on their political career. There is no democracy without transparency. If Farage hasn't reported donations in line with the law he shouldn't be an MP.

Now maybe you can ask your colleagues Steve Reed and Lisa Nandy why, as Company Directors of Labour Together, they failed to ensure that Labour Together was properly reporting donations for two years? You know, the money that was used to help get Starmer elected leader of the Labour Party?

[Arjun Sethi @arjunsethi81]

FIFA won’t intervene when Iran is forced to relocate to Mexico and banned from training in the U.S., but they’ll break their own rules to reinstate a U.S. player.

[Lowkey @Lowkey0nline]

Open corruption.

[BladeoftheSun @BladeoftheS]

FIFA just effectively cancelled a US player's Red Card because Donald Trump asked them to.

It's time for an end to the corrupt FIFA they are now fixing the games and disgracing the sport.

[Saul Staniforth @SaulStaniforth]

Starmer was the front man for a project that ruthlessly purged its opponents, hollowed out the membership, stitched up selections, lapped up freebies & gave a top govt job to a billionaire paedophiles best pal

Thats what Blunkett means by dealing with the toxicity in Labour.

[Dr. Serge Zaka (Dr. Zarge) @SergeZaka]

Il y a trois jours, j’avais publié un message que j’ai finalement supprimé. Je le trouvais trop émotionnel, et pas assez solide face aux incertitudes sur l’intensité de cette troisième canicule. J’ai eu tort.

Les modèles convergent désormais clairement vers une nouvelle canicule durable et exceptionnelle.

Le scénario de juin 2026 se reproduit : une goutte froide au large du Maroc, une masse d’air brûlante remontant du sud, et un blocage sous un dôme de chaleur. Des températures supérieures à 40°C pendant plusieurs jours, correspondant à un niveau de vigilance rouge, sont à nouveau très probables sur un large quart sud-ouest. Copier-coller.

Cette fois-ci, je ne veux plus masquer mon inquiétude. Ce qui se profile est une catastrophe pour nos écosystèmes. Dans un contexte de sécheresse déjà extrême, les impacts vont s’accumuler : mortalité, brûlures, avortement floral, arrêt de croissance, défaillance des cultures. On repart sur les mêmes bases qu’en juin. Et, très honnêtement, les bras m’en tombent.

[Dr. Allison Wiltz @queenie4rmnola]

Never forget that America is a country built on stolen land with forced labor

[Jeremy Corbyn @jeremycorbyn]

I am gravely concerned by reports of a severe deterioration in the condition of Dr. Abu Safiyah.

We reiterate our demands for his release, along with all other doctors being held without charge.

[Yugopnik @Yugopnik]

The President of the United States still talking about the threat of Marxism 27 years after the end of the cold war and the “end of history” should be an inspiration to us all. They’re still scared, we’re still relevant, and the Spectre of Communism is still haunting.

[Daniel Mayakovski @DaniMayakovski]

Un 4 de julio de 1766, se declaraba la creación de EEUU, una tierra que fue robada a los nativos americanos, edificado con la sangre de las tribus indígenas y con el esclavismo de los africanos, mantenida con el saqueo imperial al mundo.

La población nativa en Norteamérica pasó de entre 5 y 15 millones a menos de 238.000 personas a finales del siglo XIX debido a las masacres, la limpieza étnica, el desplazamiento y el genocidio de los colonos blancos, que bajo el gobierno de EEUU autorizó cientos de campañas militares contra las tribus hasta exterminarlas casi al completo.

Estados Unidos desde su creación en 1776 ha pasado 230 de sus 250 años de historia en guerra, directa o indirectamente, es decir, más del 92% de su existencia han estado en guerra contra otros países para poder mantener su imperio genocida.

Los nativos americanos perdieron el 98% de sus tierras ancestrales y el 96% de su población... pero en sus películas supremacistas los indios siempre son los malos y los buenos son los colonos genocidas... ¿a que me suena 🇮🇱?

[Power to the People ☭🕊 @ProudSocialist]

Trump: “Communism is the greatest threat to our country…including World War I, World War II, Pearl Harbor, September 11th.”

Five points of rebuttal:

1. Communists defeated the Nazis in WWII and the West has never forgiven them for it.

2. The United States propagandizes its own people to be afraid of communism (worker ownership of the means of production and using resources for the benefit of all) so they will obey a capitalist system that privatizes everything and concentrates the majority of the wealth in the pockets of a few billionaires.

3. If communism didn't work the U.S. would just let it fail on its own. The truth is it works for the working class, which is why the U.S. has to sanction socialist nations and spend trillions of dollars on endless wars to constantly overthrow socialist nations.

4. In the past 40 years, the Communist party of China has lifted 800 million people out of poverty. Meanwhile, in the U.S. capitalism is turning billionaires into trillionaires while 70% of American can’t afford basic needs like housing, health care, and groceries.

5. Get more curious about communism and start questioning the capitalist system that you’ve been indoctrinated to obey since birth.

[The Heartlands Tribune @Labourheartland]

Andy Burnham says Britain is paying too much for the basics and promises “more public control” over water, energy and transport.

That sounds fine until you remember one rather important fact.

The price of water and electricity is already controlled by the state.

Ofgem sets the energy price cap. Ofwat sets price controls for water companies. Regulators already decide what private monopoly utilities are allowed to charge, what returns they can make, what investment plans they can claim for, and how much of the burden gets pushed onto households and businesses.

So what exactly does “more public control” mean?

Because if Burnham means more regulation, we have already tried that. It has failed. Bills are still too high, rivers are still polluted, infrastructure is still creaking, and private investors are still extracting from assets the public cannot live without.

The problem is not a lack of public control.

The problem is ownership.

You cannot properly control a monopoly utility while leaving the monopoly in private hands and pretending the regulator is a substitute for democracy.

This is where Burnham’s fiscal confusion matters too. He talks about giving people breathing space, but refuses to say the obvious: a sovereign government is not a household. Within the real limits of labour, materials, energy, skills and inflation, Britain can build and own what it needs.

The real fiscal rule should be simple. If the public pays, the public owns.

Not “public control” while private firms keep the pipes, cables, profits and ransom note.

Public ownership. Public investment. Public accountability.

Anything less is just the same failed model wearing a northern accent. #weownit #andy

[Matt Kennard @kennardmatt]

Julian Assange is 55 today

The British state took 14 years out of his life for doing award-winning journalism

2010-12 - house arrest
2012-19 - 'arbitrarily detained' (UN) in Ecuadorian embassy
2019-24 - Belmarsh maximum security prison

History will damn all those involved

[Nick Cruse 🥋 @SocialistMMA]

In a civilized society Alex Karp would be imprisoned for aiding and abetting war crimes while Palantir would be seized and dismantled

[Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald]

Absolutely nobody on earth is more petulant or self-involved than UK Labour politicians. They genuinely believe that the worst problem the world faces is that social media forces them to hear from their peasants who are angry with them, and they never stop whining about it.🇬🇧

[Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla]

1) It’s *literally* your job to regulate this platform.

2) If you can’t, what does that mean? Tell us.

3) The Dept of Culture is not ‘your’ department, it’s ours. You’re its temporary custodian

5) But Facebook is ok? Really?

[Richard @ricwe123]

That revealing moment in 2016 when Victoria Nuland was bragging to the US Congress about how thoroughly Washington had taken over Ukraine after the 2014 coup.

She spelled it out without shame:

🔴 US operatives embedded in a dozen Ukrainian ministries.

🔴 US-trained cops patrolling 18 cities.

🔴 US Treasury gutting 60 Ukrainian banks while sparing depositors to keep people quiet.

🔴Hundreds of millions of dollars funneled into molding Ukraine’s military.

This wasn’t "assistance", it was a takeover dressed up as aid....

[Paul Holden @pauleholden]

An extremely important, devastating story. Starmer and Streeting have colluded to produce a US-UK pharma trade deal that experts say will siphon billions from the NHS and cause huge numbers of avoidable deaths. Disgraceful.