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Not on here so much nowadays...

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@alexnunns Unacceptable - hope everything turns out okay for your Mum Alex.

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@owenjonesjourno Wish you success with this Owen, but can't help being reminded of the Alan Partridge pulping scene. Lol. 😬😅

[Michael Rosen 💙💙🎓🎓 NICE 爷爷 @MichaelRosenYes]

You must be horrified to see where some people in this country were born. Did you ever ask your parents where they were born?

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Classy response. 🤒

[Boy George @BoyGeorge]

@zarahsultana MP? Who would allow you a political voice? Careful printing misinformation because I have lawyers. Ugly witch!

[Alex Nunns @alexnunns]

Keir Starmer must apologise, suspend himself, investigate himself, expel himself, call in the EHRC, dissolve the Labour membership, proscribe the Labour Party, bomb Iran, bomb Lebanon, bomb Gaza, resign as prime minister and visit Israel to beg for forgiveness and join the IDF.

[Aditya Chakrabortty @chakrabortty]

From the BBC's own review of its economics coverage, published 2022:

National debt "is not like a credit card... Household analogies are dangerous territory, intensely contested, and can easily mislead."

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No words.

[Owen Jones @owenjonesjourno]

This is Reshit, a young Israeli who is the daughter of an Israeli soldie deployed to Gaza and now Lebanon.

She went to yesterday's Israeli conference on colonising Gaza.

She told Sky News what should happen to Gaza's inhabitants:

"We should kill them, every last one of them."

[Owen Jones @owenjonesjourno]

Just listen to this.

Out and out, loud and proud, unapologetic genocidal mania.

Served up by Israel's longest-running English podcast.

They mean what they say. Listen to them. Take them seriously.

[Zarah Sultana MP @zarahsultana]

Voting to scrap the two-child benefit cap and lift 330,000 kids out of poverty = Labour whip withdrawn

Renting out properties that have mould and ant infestations, with tenants threatened with eviction if they complained or claimed housing benefits = Labour whip intact

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This. 👇.

[Owen Jones @owenjonesjourno]

That said, what is the political purpose of this @ByDonkeys stunt?

Do they see their role as "speaking truth to power"?

It's just Liz Truss hasn't been prime minister for a long time, and we have a new government in place. Are they going to hold them to account, not the past?

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[Alan MacLeod @AlanRMacLeod]

When they do it vs. when we do it, BBC edition. 🇷🇺🇺🇦🇮🇱🇵🇸

[deffonottom @Altymcaltalt3]

Oh it was only a video of Apsana Begum talking about how labour blackmailed her with offering support for legislation around domestic violence if she abstained on the two child benefit cap amendment

[Owen Jones @owenjonesjourno]

OK, this is important.

Two MPs tell me that this incident involves Labour Whip @AnnaMcMorrin.

It is reported that, on the day of the vote on the two child benefits limit, Apsana Begum mentioned to McMorrin that the general election campaign was difficult, in part because she had to be escorted to the count.

It is also reported that the general election campaign was difficult because her ex-husband was standing against her.

McMorrin then reportedly said that in order to be supported, Begum needed to be a Labour MP - that is, not defy the Whip over the two child limit vote, and thus lose the Whip.

It is also reported that Apsana told colleagues afterwards that she was shaken, and felt her request to not talk about this issue in this way was not respectful, and the whole thing had been wholly inappropriate.

Now, it's important to stress that Labour MPs have repeatedly emphasised that the problem with Labour's Whipping operation is systemic - not a 'bad egg'.

I put these allegations to the Labour party, who tell me:

"We do not recognise these allegations.”

[Farrukh @implausibleblog]

Sally Nugent, "Did you know you would be kicked out if you rebelled?"

Zarah Sultana, "No, I wasn't informed that was going to happen if I rebelled"

SN, "How does that feel now then?"

ZS, "I'm disappointed the party has taken the decision.. They should be able to tolerate a difference of opinion.. Actually a lot of the parliamentary Labour party want to scrap the two child benefit cap"

SN, "You have just won a general election on a manifesto that did not contain scrapping the two child benefit cap"

ZS, "The manifesto I stood on committed to reviewing universal credit and causes of poverty, and having an ambitious strategy to tackle poverty, which includes the two child benefit cap"

"All eleven of the trade unions, support scrapping the two child benefit cap.. This is also supported by the TUC, which represents 6 million workers.. As well as Keir Starmer himself for his 2020 leadership bid.. Also charities like Save the Children.. The Archbishop of Canterbury."

"The cap is seen as a key driver of child poverty in this country.. If the Labour party have a moral mission it should be to eradicate child poverty"

SN, "Do you feel you have achieved anything?"

ZS, "10,000 children live in avoidable poverty in my constituency.. 1/3 in are facing this reality.. Going to sleep hungry at night, learning on an empty stomach, going back to cold homes.. And long term impacts on health, well being and life expectancy"

SN, "Chancellor Rachel Reeves says no unfunded commitments will be made, so you accept there just isn't the money?"

ZS, "Fiscal responsibility at this moment in time means that 330,000 children are living in poverty.. We are the sixth largest economy in the world.. We have enough wealth"

"UK billionaire wealth tripled to just under £700 billion under the Tories.. A 2% wealth tax on assets over £10 million would raise £24 billion.. Equalising Capital Gains with Income Rate thresholds you'd raise £16 billion.. When people say there isn't the money to fund this, they aren't looking in the right place"

[Zack Polanski @ZackPolanski]

It's been three weeks of this Labour Government.

Super rich multi millionaires and billionaires still aren't being taxed more.

And children are still starving as a result of their political choices.

That's all anyone really needs to know.

[Aaron Bastani @AaronBastani]

“The UK will also reportedly *withdraw* its objections to the International Criminal Court (ICC) issuing arrest warrants for Israeli leaders including PM Benjamin Netanyahu.”

Rather significant (!) story by ⁦@rivkahbrown⁩ for ⁦@novaramedia⁩ https://t.co/Cmo7tVoJBc

[Owen Jones @owenjonesjourno]

Keir Starmer dropping a solemn pledge he made to get elected?

That is so unlike him! Can someone check up on him? Must be something seriously up with him to behave so out of character!

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Celebration picture.

Just wow.

Well done Starmer's Labour.

You've won; you're the winners.

And definitely the good guys here.

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[Rivkah Brown @rivkahbrown]

Joshua Garfield once served as cabinet member for education and children in the London borough of Newham, an area with one of the highest levels of child poverty in the UK.

He may be regretting this selfie now.