Benjamin Morel-Allen

OCC election candidate for West Witney & Ducklington 🔶Liberal Democrat 🔶

[Benjamin Morel-Allen @BenjaminMorel]

@LabBeyondCities @n_equals_42 Yup. And a union member and former union chapel chair. So someone who you might think to ally with against the far right, if you really are what you claim to be in your bio. Unfollowing you and blocking after that comment, though

[Benjamin Morel-Allen @BenjaminMorel]

@Harry_W25 @n_equals_42 @LabBeyondCities I agree but that's part of the reason it came about. Like "national socialist", which evolved a few hundred miles north at around the same time, it's a term that was designed by its proponents to mislead people

[NUJ @NUJofficial]

The NUJ has responded to Reform's refusal to speak to Nottinghamshire Live by affirming journalists’ right to report without fear or favour.

Media scrutiny of elected politicians is fundamental to the functioning of a healthy democracy.

https://t.co/RmJoqNnQcF

[Benjamin Morel-Allen @BenjaminMorel]

@n_equals_42 @LabBeyondCities No denial about the point, then

[Benjamin Morel-Allen @BenjaminMorel]

@n_equals_42 @LabBeyondCities That's true. "Us" as in "a bundle of sticks which together are weak but when bound to one cause are strong". What the Romans and, later, Italians might have called a "fasci".

[Oxford NUJ @OxfordNUJ]

"We're here to say that killing journalists is a war crime and we want to see Israel held accountable" Anna Wagstaff, secretary of @oxfordnuj speaking at the Oxford protest today @NUJofficial

[Paul Mason @paulmasonnews]

6/ I know GenZ "don't want to hear about the 1930s" but sadly we are back in a pre-1941 world. States can be dismembered in an instant, unless there is a multilateral order... the politicians look alarmed because they see the intelligence...

[Benjamin Morel-Allen @BenjaminMorel]

@createstreets They would look a heck of a lot nicer than those windows, too

[Benjamin Morel-Allen @BenjaminMorel]

@danbarker Like all of these people she's not a "patriot". She's a money grabber. She's someone who wants her name in the history books. And she doesn't care about the damage she does to everyone else while she's getting there.

[Benjamin Morel-Allen @BenjaminMorel]

"It rarely achieves anything more than discontent."

I think that's the point, @RhonddaBryant

[Chris Bryant @RhonddaBryant]

Stoking up grievances based on false or misleadingly partial accounts of events is a classic political manoeuvre for avowedly populist parties. It rarely achieves anything more than discontent. It���s corrosive and impedes progress which is why it’s such false patriotism.

[Benjamin Morel-Allen @BenjaminMorel]

@EdConwaySky Bought for Kindle. I've been intrigued by your posts about this - especially after seeing the massive digger - so I look forward to coming out of my usual non-fiction focuses for the last few years to read this

[Benjamin Morel-Allen @BenjaminMorel]

This is why the far right is winning. They are united in their vision and their methods while those of us who want the world to progress fall to bickering about what another flavour of progressives did fifteen years ago.

We have to change.

[cxoxo @corbinsupremacy]

@BenjaminMorel I’m sure billionaires were devastated with what Cameron and clegg did from 2010-2015…

[Benjamin Morel-Allen @BenjaminMorel]

@corbinsupremacy I doubt it, especially given the expanding reliance on private companies the Tories pushed.

But the Lib Dems did hold Cam and co back and did much for those of us who aren't billionaires.

It is possible for both to be true.

[Benjamin Morel-Allen @BenjaminMorel]

"Billionaires already have three parties fighting for them. It’s time the rest of us had one."

The Lib Dems. It's called the Lib Dems.

[Zarah Sultana MP @zarahsultana]

THANK YOU - and this is just the beginning.

Soon we’ll share all the ways you can get involved.

Billionaires already have three parties fighting for them. It’s time the rest of us had one.

Join us: https://t.co/g0Ua1vOsEI

[Benjamin Morel-Allen @BenjaminMorel]

@tadhg_2002 100 percent. And which party's influence as the junior partner in the government for the first few years massively reduced the cuts being made in the name of austerity, especially in areas where they could take direct action like support for trade?

The Lib Dems.

[Benjamin Morel-Allen @BenjaminMorel]

@Otto_English @_ronniethompson @antmiddleton I'm suddenly picturing the scene in Blackadder III where Baldrick becomes a politician.
"Any history of insanity in the family? Tell you what, we'll cross out 'in'"
"Minimum bribe level? One turnip"

[Benjamin Morel-Allen @BenjaminMorel]

@AvaSantina Oh I agree. My mind then jumped to what the poster and people like them would do if a Native American ran for president. Based on the last election and the recent Jubilee debate, they would think it's a very bad idea.

[Benjamin Morel-Allen @BenjaminMorel]

Would this be such a bad idea?

[Ava-Santina @AvaSantina]

If you applied this to the US they’d have a Native American for President

[IFJ @IFJGlobal]

#Palestine🇵🇸: [UPDATE 31.07.2025] We mourn the killing of photojournalist and @InfoPJS member Ibrahim Mahmoud Hajaj, who lost his life as a result of Israeli shelling in Gaza City. He is the 175th journalist killed in #Gaza since October 2023. ENOUGH!
➡️ https://t.co/r0RRvCdt2I

[Benjamin Morel-Allen @BenjaminMorel]

Fun fact: Jac Morgan is also Wales' worst player of the series

[RugbyInsideLine @RugbyInsideLine]

🦁 Who is each nation's player of the series so far?

🌹 Genge / Curry
🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Russell
☘️ Beirne / Sheehan
🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Morgan