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Jul 10, 2019 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
Going by this, only evidence in Panorama doc is an email from Milne saying something entirely correct, Formby challenging who would be on one disciplinary panel, and then a bunch of unverified claims from employees who just happen to hate Jeremy Corbyn 🤷‍♂️ bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politi…
So, ex-members of the Compliance Unit, who took months to deal with high-profile cases of antisemitism, and also happen to hate Jeremy Corbyn, reveal Corbyn once seconded aides to get through the backlog.

This is apparently worthy of BBC prime-time.. buzzfeed.com/alexwickham/le…
"What?!!! Some people working in an organisation with staffers devoted to toppling them via malicious leaks tried to tighten the security on their email accounts?? I'm cutting up my membership card as we speak!"
"How dare someone try to challenge who sits on disciplinary panels, they're supposed to be independent and sovereign!" cry people who've spent the last 3 weeks scrolling through the social media accounts of people on disciplinary panels and demanding the leadership overrule them
My major criticism of leadership on basis of these leaks is that Milne never followed up on the intentions expressed here. It summarises so much of the last three years, even if at times the 'muddling up' went in the other direction.

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Peake's statement was ill-judged & the specific claim she made untrue. Equally, this tendency to assume worst when anyone makes an error is problematic. Israel isn't just the world's 'only majority jewish state'. Its also the site of the world's longest running occupation (1/)
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The centre left have Labour back.

On both sides of Atlantic, it's been shown the populist left can't yet win majorities. But it does have the young, and will have the future.

For the meantime, the centre and left need each other to win. Let's hope @Keir_Starmer remembers that.
There will be many around him desperate to expunge any memory of Corbynism from the party, including by purging members. That's no route to victory, it's the reflex of a political tradition that hates the Labour left more than the Conservatives.
Starmer must show strength to stand up to them.

We have seen the failure of the Ed Miliband years. He was (like Keir, I hope) someone who saw the potential of uniting left and centre to rebuild social democracy, but lacked confidence and mettle to make it happen.
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"What we do know about the virus is that you're unlikely to be infectious when you don't have symptoms"

This is how the Deputy Director at @PHE_uk National Infections Service re-assured the public (of any age!) that they were safe go to weddings and pubs. How did this happen?
Many studies now suggest (and suggested before this statement was made!) that people without symptoms can spread the virus. With this degree of uncertainty - why would a public health official not err on the side of caution? buzzfeednews.com/article/stepha…
We should see deaths now in context of this reckless advice. This clip is from 21 days ago. Average time between infection and death from coronavirus is 23 days. The majority of the 3605 who have died from COVID-19 in the UK would have been infected *before* this clip was filmed.
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Why is the government's messaging on testing all over the place? [THREAD]
1 - The best way to limit human and economic costs of coronavirus is test-and-trace. The reason this wasn't adopted in UK was capacity constraints, but unwilling to admit this, the government made up bull about test-and-trace being unnecessary in a developed country.
2 - With test-and-trace impossible due to capacity, the government moved to "delay" phase. This means social distancing + increasing ICU capacity. Therefore testing only needed for healthcare workers and in-patients.
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You could write an entire PhD on how the medical officers in this crisis have been used to make political questions appear to be ones about science. The idea we aren’t mass testing because of ‘epidemiology’ is nonsense ->
Germany has a healthcare system far more capable of treating mass cases of COVID-19, yet they have decided to do mass testing because it’s better to contain virus until vaccine available. It also means they need less draconian distancing measures ->
Where countries have had the capacity for mass testing they have used it. Where the capacity doesn’t exist, as in U.K., Italy, France etc, extreme social distancing has had to fill the gap. That’s the right policy *given* lack of capacity ->
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