The Broff

On a darkling plain

[The Broff @mark_brophy]

@markbrophy They don't allow them in the name

[The Broff @mark_brophy]

In the lifeboat : @markbrophy at the sky blue

[The Broff @mark_brophy]

Some spiral ramp #SanSiro

[The Broff @mark_brophy]

"One of these days these boots are gonna walk all over you"

[The Broff @mark_brophy]

@ewangibbs And the first act giving the state the power to refuse entry was the Aliens Act of 1905 https://t.co/3JPcZ8E0zg

[The Broff @mark_brophy]

People able to return to work get half as much as those who will never be able to, because they are being starved as a means of coercion to work. Reducing payments to the same level for those who can't work is a deadly idea.

[The Economist @TheEconomist]

People deemed unable ever to return to employment now get twice as much as in welfare payments as those expected to go back one day. This gives them a strong incentive to never look for a job again. Politicians should tighten the system https://t.co/JIgVDGO6uN

[Stats for Lefties 🍉🏳️‍⚧️ @LeftieStats]

➡️ 12 SEP ~ Angela Rayner gives a "cast iron" guarantee that Labour will ban zero-hours contracts.

➡️ 15 SEP ~ Labour says it will not actually be banning zero-hours contracts.

[The Broff @mark_brophy]

@simonmaginn @TweetForTheMany Livingstone and Bromley brought the case, not the EHRC. The EHRC get to keep their report as is and can stop spending money on the issue. I don't understand why Livingstone and Bromley agreed to end the case unless their legal fund was getting low.

[Daniel Fooks @DanielFooksArt]

The death of the Labour Movement this week has released me from any lingering desire to try and redirect their energies or help them in any way.

The TUC position on Ukraine proved that they are beyond help.

For me, it is like the last act in a break up .... I no longer care

[The Broff @mark_brophy]

I agree with all this but I don't understand why Unite can't also represent themselves politically outside of Labour too

[Novara Media @novaramedia]

Her 'back to the workplace' platform is paying off.
https://t.co/FnfIydXcij

[Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah]

The key to peace in Ukraine would be a willingness to seek it, especially among those countries which simultaneously stand aside from it and fuel it with arms and money. I see no such willingness in Washington DC, or London, and the UN seems to have got locked in the lavatory.

[The Broff @mark_brophy]

@Geordetroiter @STWuk It was meant as a reply to Andrew Fisher but I messed it up. I don't consider many in the PLP to be of the left tbf. It applies to the recent TUC vote on Ukraine also

[The Broff @mark_brophy]

I find it incredible(in both senses of the word) that people "of the left" think now is the time to shut down a grassroots anti-war movement, @STWuk. This is one of the most dangerous situations in world affairs since the Cuban missile crisis.

[The Broff @mark_brophy]

@johnmcdonnellMP No he won't - they have spent the last 3 years positioning themselves as the antidote to his evil , there is no way back from that and I don't believe you can't see it. This is a cynical attempt to boost your own support among people who can't bring themselves to face reality.

[The Broff @mark_brophy]

@flying_rodent It was striking *at the time* that there wasn't a single policy from Cameron/Osborne meant to actually improve things for ordinary people; every last one was a trap for Labour, an exercise in machiavellian electoral strategy. Especially so as everyone talked about it all the time

[The Broff @mark_brophy]

@ChrisCorney1 @BeckettUnite @AgnesPoole15 I think we have to assume the idea here is a temporary withdrawal of funding to get Labour to be more supportive. Which is never going to happen as their whole strategy is to scrape the votes of a few disillusioned Tories and you don't do that by standing up for the unions.

[troovus @troovus]

What the Guardian / Observer said in 2018 when they used the IHRA issue to attack Jeremy Corbyn's Labour leadership vs. what they are reporting now
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[The Broff @mark_brophy]

@doddsy1975 I joined GMB some years ago in this situation but they weren't much help when I needed them and I got a bit frustrated with them politically so I joined Unite. They have a general regional branch for workers in each field who aren't in a workplace branch

[The Broff @mark_brophy]

If wet weather caused our economy to shrink this would historically be one of the poorest countries in the world

[The Broff @mark_brophy]

Not the main point but has this video been stretched vertically?

[Trades Union Congress @The_TUC]

SHOCKING: Millionaire CEO calls for 40% rise in unemployment because workers are too 'arrogant'.