Ben Cobley

Portsmouth, Plasterer, try to reduce any negative aspects my lifestyle has on others (including animals) unless there’s a greater good or an unavoidable need 🫡

[Ben Cobley @BenCobley_]

@TheKavernacle @AaronBastani Punch down? If anything people like you are the reason Arday got to where he was. They basically elevated him naively without thinking about the consequences. He was the perfect target for the media and the perfect bait for the uncritical and gullible.

[Farrukh @implausibleblog]

French economist Thomas Piketty to Zack Polanski,

"This neoliberal turn of the 80s has not been a huge success for the middle class and for average living standards"

"The big promise that was made in the 80s by Reagan and Thatcher was, look, we are going to kill off progressive taxation, maybe inequality will rise, but the size of the pie is going to grow so fast like you've never seen."

"Average wages, average income are going to grow like you've never seen. And so everybody will be happy."

"30 years later, 40 years later. When I look at Brexit or when I look at the Trumpist United States, I don't see, very happy people."

"And I think partly because of the failure of this promise and this is why right wing parties in these two countries, the Republican in the US and the Conservative and now Reform Party in Britain, have turned anti migrant toward identity politics because they have not delivered on the economic front and on living standards"

[Ben Cobley @BenCobley_]

Far right newspapers are trying to run a smear campaign against Misan Harriman. We can't let them.
Add your name to the open letter, and stand against hate and division. https://t.co/I4Ml9SN4FQ via @goodlawproject

[Aaron Bastani @AaronBastani]

BBC Radio 4 didn’t bother to check any of this either by the way.

[Ben Cobley @BenCobley_]

@ToryFibs Unfortunately my friend, Labour have done this to themselves. Throwing your toy's out the pram.

[Ben Cobley @BenCobley_]

@AaronBastani Is that Terrance or Phillip? The glasses

[Furkan Gözükara @FurkanGozukara]

Green Party Leader Zack Polanski extremely bravely defends pro-Palestine marches on Sky News.

He confirms many Jewish people actively protest the occupation and genocide.

The establishment will use any distortion to silence opposition to their complicity in war crimes.

[James Meadway @meadwaj]

A slow burn disaster already. Food prices are going to dominate the economic news over the next few months. We need serious proposals - including price caps and regulations - for supporting households in the face of shocks.

(Link to article below.)

[Harriet Williamson @harriepw]

NEW: Green insiders claim Steve Reed has been put in charge of a ‘toxic and divisive’ smear campaign against the Greens

[Aaron Bastani @AaronBastani]

This is Ghost Pitùr.

An anonymous counter-cultural street artist in Brescia, Italy he….removes pointless tags and visual crap on otherwise attractive buildings. Otherwise known as cleaning up other people’s mess.

Let a thousand Ghost Pitùrs bloom!

[Clash Report @clashreport]

Pete Hegseth quoted a fake Bible verse from Pulp Fiction during a Pentagon sermon.

[James Meadway @meadwaj]

Some news - I’m running as a Green Party candidate for Bromley North ward in Tower Hamlets! It’s a tight race but the Greens can win - make hope normal again, and sign up to help with the campaign here: https://t.co/bJYSWeqgzg

[Aaron Bastani @AaronBastani]

Superb political ad. One of the best you’ll see.

This is better, and resonates more, than anything coming from Labour or the Tories.

[Furkan Gözükara @FurkanGozukara]

The UK government is desperately trying to hide this from you. They are literally putting up tarps on the fences of RAF Fairford so the public can't see the massive stockpile of US 2,000lb bombs being prepared to drop on Iran.

[Lowkey @Lowkey0nline]

"It was a deliberate attempt to silence us..."

British journalist Steve Sweeney talks about surviving Israeli bombing.

[Aaron Bastani @AaronBastani]

“Judeo-Christian” isn’t real.

It’s a foreign policy term by people who want to put Israel first and don’t view religion as an expression of the sacred.

Britain is a country built on Christian beliefs and values, certainly.

[Aaron Bastani @AaronBastani]

This is literally the dumbest war in human history. No hyperbole.

[Aaron Bastani @AaronBastani]

The only explanation was they were trying to kill a journalist. There’s nothing else there.

Hundreds have been killed by Israel in the last several years.

[Zack Polanski @ZackPolanski]

Amused how many friends & old colleagues (actors, waiters, night club staff) keep getting in touch to say press keep phoning them or turning up at their door for stories.

They can't stand the growth of our movement - lower bills & take on power & wealth.

https://t.co/0qbagSvIYp

[Saul Staniforth @SaulStaniforth]

"... as soon as you shift the frame to, these are politicians who've been bought & paid for by oil & gas, arms trade companies, private healthcare companies, gambling companies, their behaviour makes absolute sense"

@ZackPolanski on Labour. Spot on.