Andy Furlong

Director at Cogent Content. Swansea Labour & Co-op party activist. GMB member, Tweets about comms, footie, politics, tech and rock n' roll.

[Andy Furlong @SpiritofJD]

Looking on the bright side @SpiritofJD is back! My twitter name is dedicated to John Durkin, one of the bravest guys I ever met. This picture is from 2007 and the day he told me he had MND. Six years later he was gone.

[Luke Akehurst @lukeakehurst]

Mainstream parties need to maintain a firewall against antisemitism. The Greens have put themselves on the wrong side of it through their grotesque decision to define Zionism, which is simply the belief that Israel should exist and that Jewish people have a right to national self-determination, as being racist. I hope the electorate will react by pushing them into political oblivion, but there are no circumstances where Labour or any other mainstream party can share power with a party professing an ideology that breaches the IHRA definition of antisemitism.

[Andy Furlong @SpiritofJD]

Steady as she goes there

[electionmapsuk @electionmapsuk]

Westminster Voting Intention [London]:

LAB: 32% (+1)
RFM: 18% (+2)
CON: 18% (-1)
GRN: 16% (-2)
LDM: 10% (=)

Via @Savanta_UK, 10-17 Aug.
Changes w/ 30 Jun - 8 Jul.

[Andy Furlong @SpiritofJD]

Grifters gotta Grifters!

[BBC Breaking News @BBCBreaking]

Reform UK deputy leader Richard Tice being investigated by parliamentary standards watchdog https://t.co/i001nqOKr4

[Andy Furlong @SpiritofJD]

Nigel Farage, Rupert Lowe, Nick Griffin, John Tyndall, Oswald Moseley, Adolf Hitler…

Your boys took one hell of a beating!

#clacton

[Andy Furlong @SpiritofJD]

@CountBinface @tpearce003

[Andy Furlong @SpiritofJD]

@RachelReevesMP @steveracemp

[Andy Furlong @SpiritofJD]

So I had a play with @ChatGPTapp and it came up with this!

#Binface #Farage #Clacton

[Andy Furlong @SpiritofJD]

Don’t you just love it when a sharp and savvy woman takes down an opinionated, arrogant man!

Bugger off @labourlewis we can manage without blokes like you.

[Peston @itvpeston]

“Have you been [to Makerfield], Clive?”

“I’m going up tomorrow”

“Come up, I’ll happily take you for a pint”

Culture Secretary @lisanandy calls out Clive Lewis’ ‘breathtaking arrogance’ for assuming what voters in Makerfield think

#Peston

[Keir Starmer @Keir_Starmer]

Thank you, @KenSkatesMS for stepping up to provide leadership for Labour in Wales and the Senedd as we begin a period of necessary reflection and rebuilding.

Ken is a talented and experienced MS. I know he will do a fantastic job bringing Welsh Labour together and holding the new Welsh government to account for working people.

[Andy Furlong @SpiritofJD]

@WelshLabour Nationalism and Socialism is never a good look!

[Welsh Labour @WelshLabour]

He dodged 5 questions.
Because the real answer?
Plaid = risk Wales can’t afford.

[Andy Furlong @SpiritofJD]

#smokeandmirrors

[Jamie Kay @TheRealJamieKay]

Here’s Councillor Craig Ward of Reform in an absolute car crash of an interview.

No clue whatsoever.

[Chris Bryant @RhonddaBryant]

So the new Reform leader in 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 is, wait for it, a Tory. And former leader of a London council. They’re just laughing at Wales. Time we all woke up

[lee harpin @lmharpin]

Something sensible in the NS https://t.co/tiRcaLC1dS

[Mike Tapp MP @MikeTappTweets]

Hilarious to see Zack Polanski trying to hypnotise the public about voting intentions in Gorton and Denton.

Dodgy.

[Labour to Win @labtowin]

🌹 NEC LOCAL GOVERNMENT REPS 🌹

It's fantastic that Claire Holland and Peter Wheeler are re-standing to represent Councillors on the NEC

If you're a Councillor, please ask your CLP Secretary to add nominations for NEC to your next Labour Group meeting agenda

[Labour to Win @labtowin]

📣 INTRODUCING YOUR NEC CANDIDATES FOR 2026 📣

We're delighted to announce that Angela, Abdi, Peter and Jane will be re-standing as your NEC CLP reps this year

Please ask your CLP Secretary to add nominations for NEC to your next CLP meeting agenda