setholner

Labour member 🌹 | South Wales 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 | Fighting for peace, human rights and socialism | 19

[The Labour Party @UKLabour]

Congratulations to @AndyBurnhamGM - Labour’s candidate for Makerfield.

[Steve Rotheram @MetroMayorSteve]

I have been loyal to every Labour leader since I delivered my first leaflet as a 12 year old. But, like many colleagues, I’ve been expressing concerns for some time about the direction of travel of our party in government. Last week’s local election results brought such concerns into sharp focus.

Our party is the greatest organ for social change this country has ever seen but, if we carry on down this road, we face an existential threat and risk letting down the very people we are here to represent.

Through the unstinting work of Labour Councils across the country, we have delivered some remarkable things. Last week hundreds of them lost their jobs because people on the doorstep told us that they didn’t feel the government was on their side. Many of them specifically blamed the Prime Minister for failing to deliver. We ignore the electorate at our peril.

In July 2024, my party was elected with a mandate to deliver change. When the country voted for it, they did not expect tinkering around the edges or business as usual; they expected meaningful change that would begin to reverse more than a decade of decline.

Let’s be clear: our government has delivered some transformational things. Stronger rights for working people. A genuine shift towards putting more power closer to the people. Real attempts to tackle some of the injustices and inequalities that have held communities back for too long.

But too often, significant achievements have been overshadowed by chaos, drift, and a lack of clarity about who we are and what we’re here to do.

People don’t expect perfection from politicians. But they do expect purpose.

They expect leadership and vision. And right now, too many feel they’re not seeing either.

Our party and our country are at a critical moment.

We need a serious contest to decide Labour’s future - and that means widening the field, not narrowing it.

Andy Burnham should be allowed to stand in the Makerfield by-election.

I’ve known Andy a long time. I’ve seen how he leads, how he connects with people, and how deeply he believes politics should not be transactional but focused on improving lives.

At a time when we’re losing support in all directions, he is someone who can bring people together. Someone who understands our country, who connects with communities beyond Westminster, and who knows how to turn Labour values into practical change.

The Labour Party has always been at its best when it has been bold, rooted in the lives of working people, and confident enough to have the arguments that matter.

This is one of those moments.

If we’re serious about rebuilding trust, reconnecting with the country, and delivering the kind of change people voted for in 2024, then we have to seize it.

It is the chance to elect someone who can take the country forward and deliver the genuine, progressive change that areas like mine are crying out for.

It is about hope and not despair.

Politics is crying out for leadership that feels grounded, authentic and rooted in people’s day to day lives rather than Westminster psychodrama.

Andy has shown that kind of leadership in office.

Labour shouldn’t be afraid of that contest. We should welcome it.

[Saul Staniforth @SaulStaniforth]

@ShabanaMahmood Hope the ministerial car was worth it.

[setholner @setholner]

Have you ever seen anything so self-indulgent, shallow and quite frankly pathetic??? No, me neither.

[Politics UK @PolitlcsUK]

🚨 WATCH: Nigel Farage's Christmas message to Britain

"I'm here in the Clacton constituency delivering gifts to kids in the homes. And oh boy. If you've got problems in your life, think of some of these youngsters and what they've gone through.

"Then of course we've been out and collecting gifts from the butcher so the ambulance crews can have a really good meal on Christmas day. And just going out around the community and feeling very much that they were actually pleased for the local MP to make the effort to come to see them.

"And to FC Clacton where lots and lots of screaming kids were looking forward to a really big sit down meal. A lot of those kids - foster kids - etcetera. And for them to all be together. And wasn't it joyous? And that's what Christmas really, I think for many of us, is about.

"Well we've now retired as the daylight begins to fade to the Three Jays pub in Jaywick and it's a happy Christmas to everybody here in the Clacton constituency and around the rest of the country too"

[The Labour Party @UKLabour]

This is the difference with Labour.

✅ A ban on exploitative zero hours contracts
✅ Sick pay from day one
✅ A ban on fire and rehire
✅ Stronger family leave

[Alun Davies 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇪🇺 @AlunTredegar]

I am deeply ashamed of the language and the tone as well as the policy.

[setholner @setholner]

Sometimes the Labour Party reminds me of our purpose. Our party is about more than our leadership. Thank you @tonyvaughanMP 🌹❤️
Absolute solidarity ✊

[Tony Vaughan KC MP @tonyvaughanMP]

As I said to Channel 4 yesterday, the UK isn’t a “soft touch” on asylum.

UK asylum seeker benefits £49.18 per week – similar to European neighbours (£48 in Denmark)

No right to work before 12 months (it’s 6 months in France, Spain, Belgium, Netherlands)

UK settlement after 5 years (it’s 3 or 4 in Germany, a 10 year residence permit in France).

Let’s cut out the alarmist rhetoric. It doesn’t help us explain to the public what needs to change.

#channel4 #channel4news

[setholner @setholner]

If you oppose today’s Asylum and Returns Policy, please do consider signing my petition. It needs only 5 signatures to go live. #RefugeesWelcome

https://t.co/BOPraJcjbc

[setholner @setholner]

Quick question Lindsay…

Which party made this possible? Which party made sure there was affordable housing in our valleys? Which party made sure “council house boys” could get an education and enter the top echelons of governance?

It wasn’t Plaid Cymru. It was @WelshLabour🌹

[Plaid Cymru 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @Plaid_Cymru]

“I’m a council house boy and I’m proud to call this home”

This historic victory gives huge momentum for Plaid Cymru to deliver positive change in May 2026.

Lindsay Whittle and Plaid Cymru will work tirelessly for the communities of Caerffili, and the whole of Wales.

[setholner @setholner]

For the people in the back…

HOW CAN YOU NOT RECOGNISE AS FASCIST SOMEONE WHOSE PRIORITY WITH POWER IS TO MAKE REFUGEES POORER, LESS SAFE, AND LESS WELCOME???

THESE ARE NOT OUR VALUES. OUR COMMUNITIES SURVIVE BY SOLIDARITY.

REJECT HATE.

EMBRACE YOUR NEIGHBOUR.

[Llŷr Powell MS @LlyrPowell]

If you want Reform, vote for it TODAY.

Polls are open until 10pm.

[Sharon Graham @UniteSharon]

🚨Unite refuses to nominate any candidate in @UKLabour deputy leadership election

Britain needs change, not more of the same. Workers are leaving labour in droves and tinkering will not stem the tide. Unfortunately, this election does not offer the alternative that Britain needs. For everyday people, it is irrelevant.

[ALASTAIR CAMPBELL @campbellclaret]

I bet this leads the BBC all day … I bet the media will be chasing Farage all around the place demanding the facts …

[setholner @setholner]

Thank you, @jamie_raskin 🇬🇧🇺🇸

[cinesthetic. @TheCinesthetic]

Dead Poets Society (1989)

[Jeremy Corbyn @jeremycorbyn]

I am sickened by the relentless demonisation of refugees.

No refugee underfunded a school.

No refugee closed a hospital.

No refugee took away support from the sick and disabled.

We need solutions not scapegoats. Stop blaming refugees and tax the rich instead!

[Ben 🇬🇧 @BenInRushcliffe]

If the Telegraph want to interview a real political prisoner, with a sentence made worse by a PM...

[cinesthetic. @TheCinesthetic]

A24 films was founded 14 years ago today.

[Taj Ali @Taj_Ali1]

If you hold a placard saying you support Palestine Action, you get nicked.

If you hold a banner saying 'Kill 'Em All' outside a hotel housing asylum seekers, the police look the other way.

[screencaps @screenscaps]

materialists (2025) dir. celine song

[setholner @setholner]

I can’t believe what I just watched. Straight out of the Trumpian playbook. These are human beings. They are not criminals. Labour is supposed to be the party of love, fraternity and human rights. I fear we may have lost our way.

[Keir Starmer @Keir_Starmer]

I said that if you enter this country on a small boat, you will face detention and return.

I meant it.