Lee Brown

Labour Left. Still struggling for a world for the many, not the few. Expect tweets on Latin America.

[Lee Brown @leejamesbrown]

@lmharpin This didn't happen 👆

This did happen 👇

[Lee Brown @leejamesbrown]

The Greens got 0.7% in Makerfield

Yet some on this site claimed the Greens could win.

We face a serious task to stop a Trump-style government here.

Progressives will have to work together to stop that.

That requires serious politics based on reality - not wishful thinking.

[Lee Brown @leejamesbrown]

@KathrynDW59 @RichardBurgon @liberteguernica The point of the tweet is that they have been sentenced for "terrorism", something they were *not charged with*. Do you support the increasing use of terrorism legislation for things that clearly are not terrorism? Including people holding up signs?

[Lee Brown @leejamesbrown]

"I was brought up by women therefore I'm not sexist" is one hell of a stretch.

Yeah mate most sexists were.

[BBC Question Time @bbcquestiontime]

“I’ve got nothing but respect for women… I’ve said things years ago that I wouldn’t say now”

Reform UK’s Robert Kenyon says he “won’t accept” being labelled as “sexist”, but admits he “made mistakes” with comments he made “15 years ago” that have been “dragged up”

#bbcqt

[Wes Streeting @wesstreeting]

The concerns I raised about Gaza - including distressing eyewitness accounts from UK medics - were a result of moral urgency, not 'mid life crisis'.

It felt like hitting a brick wall at the time - now I know how casually those concerns were dismissed.

https://t.co/Q1EKotzCUW

[Lee Brown @leejamesbrown]

You wouldn't know it from the media coverage, but Colombia's left increased its vote compared to the first round at the last election - when it won!

It won't be easy to win the Second Round runoff, but everything is still up for grabs.

Three weeks is a long time in politics.

[Lee Brown @leejamesbrown]

@lukeakehurst Luke, Google Northern Soul and Wigan Casino and stop embarrassing yourself.

[Lee Brown @leejamesbrown]

@AlexDemSoc_161 I very much agree that anything can happen. Obviously a difficult picture for the left - despite its vote going up- but the second round cannot be assumed to be a simple addition of the different right-wing blocs. Three weeks is a long time in politics.

[Lee Brown @leejamesbrown]

@Heccles94 Are you doing a competition for how many factual errors someone can put into 280 characters?

[Lee Brown @leejamesbrown]

@SteveNickSmith It may happen. It may not happen. But why do you take what The Sun political editor says as the truth. It's The Sun for god's sake.

[Lee Brown @leejamesbrown]

@joshsimonsmp You were pretty "radical" when organising for journalists to be spied on and all the other stuff that's starting to come out about Labour Together.

[Lee Brown @leejamesbrown]

@HespeChris34466 @RichardBurgon Out of interest, where does it say that?

[Lee Brown @leejamesbrown]

@ShippersUnbound They're honest and sensible as long as they agree with you. Cool.

[Lee Brown @leejamesbrown]

@AaronBastani This is not a poll of Makerfield though.

[Lee Brown @leejamesbrown]

@PrfChrisPainter @tugsandtost It was a conference about the North of England

[Lee Brown @leejamesbrown]

@owenjonesjourno And surely that's ±3% when you consider margin of error 😉

[Lee Brown @leejamesbrown]

@GreenJennyJones @GuidoFawkes You don't often retweet a site that was set up to boost the hard right. Except when it suits your political interests.

[Lee Brown @leejamesbrown]

Millions of progressives will be looking at what the Greens do in Makerfield.

So they’ll need an explanation justifiable to millions - not the false claim they can win there.

That’s like Jo Swinson in 2019 refusing to choose between Corbyn and Boris by claiming she’d be PM!

[Lee Brown @leejamesbrown]

@tomwhx An MP was murdered. Your dismissing of that is sickening.

[Lee Brown @leejamesbrown]

@kevin_ovenden Analogies are never perfect and this one especially so. But one role for the greens could be to put left pressure on him in office like Podemos/Sumar do in Spain on Sanchez. Obviously that would reflect a certain vision for the party. But one I suspect most members would back.