Thread by @shaunjlawson

If you think someone who:

- Stood with the print workers at Wapping
- Stood with the dockers at Dover
- Gave free legal advice to poll tax protesters
- Sued the Tories on behalf of the NUM
- Fought for Greenpeace against Shell
- Warned that the Iraq war would be illegal

https://twitter.com/UmaarKazmi/status/1214416789280567297

- Prosecuted expense cheat MPs
- Prosecuted phone hackers
- Got justice for Stephen Lawrence
- Wants the Green New Deal, economic redistribution and constitutional reform

Is a 'centrist', you're not just an idiot. You're an absolute embarrassment.

Tell us about your record Umaar. Tell us what you have actually done in your life to help workers, the poor, victims of injustice, families of murder victims.

Pro tip: writing tweets on Twitter doesn't count.

I have long wondered whether we'd reach the hysterical point whereby literally anyone to the right of Corbyn - whose ideas haven't won a majority since 1966 - would be called a 'centrist'.

Apparently, that point has arrived.

Keir Starmer - CENTRIST
Sadiq Khan - CENTRIST
Gordon Brown - CENTRIST
John Prescott - CENTRIST
Robin Cook - CENTRIST
Mo Mowlam - CENTRIST
Barbara Castle - CENTRIST
Hugh Gaitskell - CENTRIST
Ernest Bevin - CENTRIST
Stafford Cripps - CENTRIST
Clement Attlee - CENTRIST

And no, I'm not being facetious. Attlee came from the right of the Labour Party, and governed in a totally conciliatory, committee-based way.

Good job for him Twitter wasn't around back then. Or he'd have been told to sod off and join the Tory Party too.