Tim Windle

Cllr for @Clapham and @LambethLabour Cabinet Member for Healthier Communities. Works in lung cancer screening in the @NHSEngland cancer team. Opinions my own.

[Aaron woodford @AaronWoodford]

Here you go @SkyFootball @SkySportsNews

You can amend your original post making Matt Targett out to be the innocent party. You can now correct your narrative.

[Tim Windle @TimWindle]

@L1minus10 I love the warping gun/walkie-talkie

[Politics In The U.K. @politixintheuk]

Times columnist Fraser Nelson pointed out over the weekend that new Home Office statistics paint a striking picture: net migration has fallen dramatically since Labour entered government, now sitting around 80 per cent below the record highs reached under the Conservatives.

And it is not just the headline figure shifting. Remove international students from the equation and long-term immigration levels are now “probably at a multi-year low”, Nelson wrote on his Substack — a remarkable turnaround after years of Tory chaos, broken promises and soaring numbers.

The asylum backlog is also being rapidly reduced under Labour. After ballooning in the aftermath of Covid while successive Conservative ministers appeared paralysed and unwilling to grip the crisis, Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood has begun making serious progress in clearing the system.

Away from the Westminster psychodrama and endless Reform stunts, an uncomfortable reality is emerging for Labour’s opponents: the Government may quietly be delivering results where the Tories failed for years.

Source: The London Economic

[James @jamesgoldstone]

So much wrong here.

Owen appears to be saying that every party has this problem and it’s only because of scouring through social media that the Greens are in the spotlight right now.

What this of course misses is the leadership’s response to these cases which has been woeful.

[Caroline Lucas @CarolineLucas]

Statements that have now come to light from a handful of @TheGreenParty candidates are totally unacceptable & require immediate action. There’s no place for anti-semitism or any hate speech in the party. This is a society-wide problem & needs to be rooted out wherever it’s found

[Tim Windle @TimWindle]

@jon_bartley Jonathan, I thought you were better than this.

[Luke Tryl @LukeTryl]

Coming back from a series of focus groups in West Yorkshire. Notable how often the Golders Green attack and worries about the safety of Britain’s Jewish community were raised across most of the groups in a way I haven’t really had (outside of London) after previous incidents.

[Tim Windle @TimWindle]

@Martin_Abrams @LambethLabour @clairekholland So this means you agree with Sabine Mairey's belief that attacks on Synagogues aren't antisemitic? You think they're revenge? Do you also believe attacks on mosques after 9/11 were justified? Please, I really just want a statement on Sabine's post and why she's still campaigning.

[The Telegraph @Telegraph]

🔴 Green candidate campaigns in London after being arrested for alleged anti-Semitism

https://t.co/mq9ATPUqu4

[Darren Johnson @DarrenJohnson66]

Still the most read story UK in the Guardian this Bank Holiday Monday. If the Greens thought it would be just Mail and Telegraph readers who'd be repulsed by the extremism of Green candidates and the party's failure to get a grip, they've made huge blunder
https://t.co/sNd0IH3tba

[The Labour Party @UKLabour]

This needs to be called out.

[Ben Kind @benkind]

Whatever your politics, Lambeth deserves better than this. Hate and fringe politics should be rejected, not normalised. This latest reporting raises serious questions about whether Lambeth Greens meet basic standards of judgment. On Thursday, reject this.

https://t.co/FfzLWECO8z

[hehe @ShrodingerzJoo]

@rachelmillward @ZackPolanski Antisemitism has poisoned the Greens. You literally have like 10 sitting candidates who are under investigation for racism against Jews. Mark Adderley, Saiqa Ali, Tina Ion, Tracey Roberts, Sabine Mairey, etc. It’s an utter disgrace. Clean up your own backyard you vile bigots.

[London Labour @LondonLabour]

.@ZackPolanski said this morning these candidates aren’t welcome in his party.

So why is Sabine Mairey - arrested for antisemitism on Thursday - still out campaigning with them in Lambeth?

https://t.co/IEgQOVlHsx

[Tim Windle @TimWindle]

I've seen Green Party members saying this is a smear campaign. Does that mean @Lambethgp's position is these comments were never made in the first place? Or are the Greens waiting for a successful prosecution before they decide whether these comments incite racial hatred or not?

[Tim Windle @TimWindle]

I'm increasingly rattled and outraged that @lambethgp has yet to comment on it's two candidates reportedly arrested for spreading racial hatred. Has support for these candidates been withdrawn? Do all @lambethgp candidates stand by these comments? https://t.co/Et6APvsSuh

[teresa smith @treesey]

Lambeth Green Party haven’t really suspended candidates - as of 2.5.25.

Lambeth Greens are still delivering leaflets featuring their candidates who are accused of anti-semitism - Sabine Mairey and Mark Bittlestone

[London Labour @LondonLabour]

This is a lie.

Antisemitic Green candidates across London have been exposed for weeks.

They haven’t acted, they’ve backed and promoted them.

[Politics UK @PolitlcsUK]

🚨 NEW: Two Green Party candidates have been arrested on suspicion of stirring up racial hatred for allegedly posting antisemitic comments online

One of them posted a placard that read "ramming a synagogue isn’t anti-Semitism, it’s revenge"

[Daisy Eastlake @daisyeastlake]

🟢 EXCL: The deputy leader of the Greens has encouraged legal action against his own party over dismissal of local election candidates accused of antisemitism

Mothin Ali said at a private meeting of the Greens for Palestine group that they needed to seek “serious legal advice” and put the “party on notice straight away” over the handling of candidate suspensions

A number of members have been officially suspended from the Green Party over alleged historic antisemitic comments that have resurfaced in the run up to the local elections - ranging from one candidate suggesting the victims of the October 7th attacks were “not innocent” and another who said it took “real effort” not to be antisemitic

Ali told other Greens for Palestine members that he was “very worried” about the suspensions and how they were being handled by the party

He also accused the national party of circumventing the traditional disciplinary process and using a “fast track to expulsion” intended only for “extreme cases” to suspend candidates accused of antisemitism in media reports

& advised members of the group on how to continue campaigning despite being suspended, and told them to leave the Greens for Palestine groupchats – or “the public ones anyway”

“Please be careful,” he said, adding: “In terms of campaigning, you are not allowed to use any Green Party logo, attend any campaigning events. So if you are going to campaign, then you campaign with maybe just a blank Green headed leaflet, a leaflet that has a Green banner with just your name.”

A Green Party spokesman said: “The comments were an appeal for people to stay in the party and continue to participate in its internal democracy, seeking legal advice about their individual circumstances, if they wished to.”

Full read in @thetimes 📰

https://t.co/NM63qh1STp