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[crow lands @crow_lands]

Then I have to ask, how was "Brexit" (whatever the fuck that is) seen through this prism, whilst party politics cannot be? (the answer, I am afraid, is that the UK's political class, incl many on the left, tend to be both anodyne and facile on intl political questions)

[James Meadway @meadwaj]

Anoosh Chakhelian has written a brilliant essay in the @NewStatesman on class, and perceptions of class, in modern Britain that cuts through a great deal of the sentimental old crap on all sides. A must read, with some dramatic polling figures - link to whole article below.

[crow lands @crow_lands]

to be clear: I'm glad he's doing it; he'll clarify certain things irt the Greens, he'll get some ppl thinking in terms of public goods, he'll enrage ppl in Labour who deserve it etc

[crow lands @crow_lands]

if true ... he doesn't have anyone better, as advisor, mentor, theorist. Which speaks volumes, as to the depth of this project.

[crow lands @crow_lands]

@tothcsabatibor kindof feel trolled by this massive politics geek tbqh

[crow lands @crow_lands]

aside from this - much to like, some to dislike - there's something disingenuous I think about her depiction of that period in Vienna as refugee rather than student at an extremely elite private school

[Dr. Ellen Walker @EllenFWalker]

A panel from Persepolis I particularly enjoy.

[crow lands @crow_lands]

@lmartods eehhh uhhhh not every- especially if you have bad luck with job or disability ...

[crow lands @crow_lands]

alternate reality: where Meacher hadn't died, had become a shadow minister of authority, where Burnham had stuck it out & become the link-contact between Corbyn & PLP, had headed off the chicken coup. Thereby making Jeremy stronger but also more incorporated ...

[crow lands @crow_lands]

i mean he may be playing for time etc, but that contradicts his pitch.

[crow lands @crow_lands]

if true ... he doesn't have anyone better, as advisor, mentor, theorist. Which speaks volumes, as to the depth of this project.

[Politics UK @PolitlcsUK]

🚨 NEW: Andy Burnham is expected to keep Rachel Reeves as Chancellor if he becomes PM

A Labour MP who lobbied for such said: "It’s a done deal. The last thing Andy will want to do is spook the markets"

[@theipaper]

[crow lands @crow_lands]

most positive take on AB I think is if he decides to choose excellent
- exceptional and radical advisors - then it would be significant to have him in a leadership role. tbh, outside of one or two areas (housing?) I don't think these people exist within a modern Labour milieu

[Ailbhe Rea @PronouncedAlva]

EXCLUSIVE Andy Burnham interview in this week's New Statesman

- wonders whether we would still be in the EU if he had been elected Labour leader in 2015
- declines to defend Ed Miliband on North Sea oil and gas “I’ve got something of an open mind, you know. I don’t have a sort of fixed position.”
- responds to Joshi Herrmann piece ("I've not read it" - "he's not sympathetic") and criticism that he is vague on his plan for the country and 'Manchesterism'
- tells a voter he will "possibly" challenge to become PM
- much more in the piece. As ever, please actually read it
https://t.co/pwB9I4jFUY

[crow lands @crow_lands]

correct take imo

[Richard Watson Straw @RichardStraw10]

@DoctorWhoWorld_ Much more fun as the random vagabond of Season 24 than as the galactic game-player of the latter two seasons.

[Politics Theory Other @poltheoryother]

This documentary on Red Vienna looks fascinating -
features historians, housing activists, architectural critics, and relatives of some of central figures in the 1920s and 1930s:

https://t.co/5sI5WalAfx

[crow lands @crow_lands]

some ppl taking a criticism of this a bit far imo. For me it's the sortof half-truth which we need sometimes as starting point: positive aspects, declares labour mvmt open to all; negative - as @Tom_Gann correctly points out, sanctifies paid work in a way which can make a crater

[Labour Heartlands @Labourheartland]

Being working class isn’t about manners or accent.

It’s about whether you depend on your wages to maintain your lifestyle, says British trade unionist
Mick Lynch : “If you have to get up when the alarm clock rings and go out and do a job, and you depend on your earnings, rather than your assets, you are working class,”

[crow lands @crow_lands]

- never assume being a member of a union will help you ever - it *might do* if you're right place, right time

- never assume Robert Wyatt's line about Martin Jacques, Robert Maxwell and 'Rio Tinto ink' doesn't still hold true when it comes to the uk's progressive left

[Dan Evans @dai_alectic]

Utterly damning. A disgrace. This is what happens when the union bureaucracy becomes severed from the rank & file, reduced to an arm of the Labour Party and career opportunity for labour spads

[crow lands @crow_lands]

@dai_alectic giving Hungary pre-2010 Orban landslide tbh

[crow lands @crow_lands]

I think the thing about Mandelson is that he's a little bit like Viktor Orban - both of them went that bit further against their opponents, disregarded previous rules of engagement and, well, broke things. In Petie's case, he was always most effective against *internal* opponents

[crow lands @crow_lands]

@piercepenniless its a painful fact but if you want to see the future from the early 1990s, we basically live in Robert Kilroy-Silk's world, more or less, not PM's very smooth, airlounge boutique hallucination

[crow lands @crow_lands]

@WestHam_Central @heatworld leave them alone!

[crow lands @crow_lands]

if an incomes policy were properly installed & showed success against inflation & also deflation, then wider corporatist management of the economy would also be tacitly accepted, with grudging accommodation from most of the institutional left

[crow lands @crow_lands]

I agree on cultural questions: we can see the limitations of a normative approach to this currently. It's less clear on political economy: a 1979 Callaghan govt with significant left input from Foot, the new left might have been able to install a more resilient incomes policy

[bread and poses @breadandposes]

Actually disagree with them on this- if they'd managed to win 83 and take over as the North Sea oil money flowing and the miners were willing to be paid off with moving for jobs and pensions then think it's pretty feasible pathway for social democracy to soldier on.

[crow lands @crow_lands]

@piercepenniless its a painful fact but if you want to see the future from the early 1990s, we basically live in Robert Kilroy-Silk's world, more or less, not PM's very smooth, airlounge boutique hallucination

[crow lands @crow_lands]

@piercepenniless but he was never especially sharp or perceptive and misread the public mood many times back in the day - eg on joining the Euro, on the 'nowhere else to go' view of the left (which deviated from the Old Right to some extent), on 'fat cats' which helped determine the Tories fate

[crow lands @crow_lands]

@TreborRhurbarb the Chiles one on Sat am R4 - because it's him - is basically a reboot of Housewives' Choice