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.

[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

[Queen Bee @KingBobIIV]

I just spent £61 in @NewLook and was told I had to give my email address to get a receipt. That is completely false and totally unlawful.

A receipt is a legal requirement when a customer asks for one and it cannot be made conditional on handing over personal data.

UK GDPR is very clear that consent has to be freely given and necessary for the service. An email is not needed to print a receipt.

What makes this worse is their target demographic is younger people who often do not know their rights.

The girls (all of them) behind the till lied straight to my face, then got shitty when I challenged them.

When she realised I was a nasty mean old bird, she finally printed mine, and everyone else in the queue suddenly asked for printed receipts too.

That tells you everything. Customers do not want this.

I will be reporting it, because this kind of data-grabbing is out of control and companies like New Look know exactly what they are doing. It is shocking behaviour.

[David Hume Tower @DavidHTower]

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[Andy Furlong @SpiritofJD]

@MikeUns_Swansea @BNHWalker Or who joins the Swan Squad when we are on tour…

[Andy Furlong @SpiritofJD]

Good to meet you brother…

[Ben Walker @BNHWalker]

Labour's Swansea activists (featuring heavy in today's Labour GOTV operation in Caerphilly) have pins! "Always campaigning"

[Labour to Win @labtowin]

A massive thank you to everyone who attended our Conference Rally yesterday 🌹

The message from our speakers was clear: we must unite to fight Reform and campaign, campaign, campaign to stop the hard right and win in Scotland, Wales and English Councils next May

[Luke Akehurst @lukeakehurst]

‘We need street-fighting social democracy to beat Reform’ – my article via @LabourList https://t.co/gDBieSmBhP

[Andy Furlong @SpiritofJD]

Switch of X says @EdwardJDavey on @BBCr4today

I switched off the @LibDems joke leader instead!

[Andy Furlong @SpiritofJD]

@JamieDriscollNE @BethWinterCynon @andrewfeinstein No one gives a toss about your petty squabbles - the grown ups left student politics behind decades ago.