A reminder:
You can love Britain AND want refugees treated like human beings.
You can work hard AND support a strong welfare state.
You can run a business AND believe workers deserve decent wages.
You can be patriotic AND think billionaires should pay more tax.
None of this is radical.
It’s called having a society.
It’s worse than that . Finch said he was acting on “a number” of complaints from local people. So Labour MP Rachel Taylor asked the council for the actual figures. There have been no complaints. If you lied like this in a normal job you’d be sacked. Why are our journos who’ve🧵
I never met Jason Arday, and know nothing about him beyond what I have read, seen and heard in the media.
As the debate around him raged in recent weeks, I stayed out of it, precisely because it struck me as one of those occasional frenzies in which facts get lost and humans cease to be treated as humans. I now wish I had reached out to him, tried to encourage him that “this too shall pass.”
Many people today, those who knew him above all but also many like me who didn’t, will be feeling sadness and anger that this has all led to his death, a family suddenly without a father, parents without a son. None of us will ever know exactly what was going through his mind, but it is hard to disagree with @MayorofLondon that Jason Arday faced “an unacceptable public hounding and campaign of abuse … pernicious public shaming that other people in his position wouldn’t have faced.”
Whatever the truth of the allegations against him, would he have suffered such a hounding had he been white, with short hair? I doubt it. The zeal with which the Trumpian anti-DEI brigade in the U.K. leapt on this story to try to push back the wheel of progress towards genuine equality was horrible.
Again, Sadiq is right to say “His death was a tragedy but it should be a wake-up call for all of us.”
RIP Jason. And to all of us, if ever you think someone you know may have cause to be suicidal, reach out to them.
Just a matter of time before he delivers his nasty, vengeful rhetoric about Burnham. He’s a Tory, employed by Tories, promoting the interest of Tories who want Labour out.
Chris Mason descending into nasty, vengeful rhetoric regarding Starmer. He can’t muster any grace or respect.
Disgraceful “journalism”
@LBC@BBCNews@SkyNews
How can she run the #NHS when she couldn't even handle a 37 BILLION £ SPREADSHEET!!!!
She's got a proven record of making 37 BILLION DISAPPEAR - THAT must be what our politicians are after, eh?!
@andyburnham@andyburnhamHQ
A thoroughly decent man, betrayed by the media and his back stabbing MP’s! The media could never pin sleaze or lies on him, so they made it up. Thanks for your service @Keir_Starmer. For me, a lifelong @UKLabour member and supporter, I find myself politically homeless. #PMQs
Sir Keir Starmer left our country in a better place than when he found it.
His record is lifting 500,000 children out of poverty, reducing NHS waiting times by 400,000, introducing the Hillsborough Law, improving the rights of millions of workers and private renters, and leadership on the world stage, including on support for Ukraine.
History will look kindly on his record in office, and I thank him for his service.
'This the end of my political journey' says it all for me. Sounds like he will not stand at the next election. What a huge loss for the country and for parliament. I hope he will be offered a post on the international stage, where he will be a tremendous asset. Our loss.
I've said many times that I'm not interested in whether Farage avoided £40k in stamp duty on the Clacton house. I think it's a given that he's a tax dodger and probably has been all his life. It's money laundering that matters & for which he'll go to prison.
Companies that had no money, that had just been incorporated, that no history at all in PPE, were paid up front so that they in turn could buy dodgy, shit, cheap PPE, that they then marked up to make massive profits. It is crooked, corrupt and criminal.
Conservative government more corrupt than any banana republic. Not just through VIP lanes for dodgy PPE but also test and trace c.£36b, HS2 around £90b, migrant hotels. Public money wasted and in many cases, gifted to Tory chums and backers.
Binface has gone global. If he wins the by-election, Hollywood will make a film about it, Clacton will be back on the map and people’s house prices in the area will rise. Just one of the 5 million reasons to vote @CountBinface on Aug 13th 👊🏼