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A fair few notable anniversaries today for the Left. I’ve put them on this Thread.
We need to acknowledge and mark our history, mainstream media never will.
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Lewisham 1977
Working class suffragette Mary MacArthur
The murder of Jewish anti fascist organisers
Karl Liebknecht
John Mcinerney
#Onthisday in 1831, Dic Penderyn was executed at the age of 23 for his role in the #Merthyr Rising. He became a working class folk hero.

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1/ Thread on Starmer and the mess he's got himself into (1/11)

The thing about the #LabourLeaks fiasco is that it didn't have to be fiasco. That it is, is down entirely to Starmer.
2/ All he had to do is what Corbyn did, stay out of party squabbles, leave it to due process via the General Secretary and/or NEC to sort out. The same way PM's stay out of legal cases. Something you think a QC like Starmer should know by instinct.
3/ Yet he got involved from the start; not allowing due process to take place, eg suspensions pending investigation of the allegations in the leaks; starting an inquiry into how the leak happened not the allegations.
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1/ Kleptocracy: a society whose leaders make themselves rich and powerful by stealing from the rest of the people.
(from the Cambridge English dictionary)

2/ Kleptocracy: government by those who seek chiefly status and personal gain at the expense of the governed.
(from the Merriam-Webster dictionary)
3/ Kleptocracy is a government with corrupt leaders (kleptocrats) that use their power to exploit the people and natural resources of their own territory in order to extend their personal wealth and political powers.
(from wikipedia)
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BE CAREFUL major distraction attempt being led today by the BBC’s Laura Kuenssberg. She’s pushing the story fed to her by a source that the Government are “close to a solution on #socialcare”
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If you listen to her, she’s selling hot air. She’s saying the Government had “90% of a solution” before #COVID hit and they were planning to launch the policy in the autumn. This is based on one source telling her this and is based only on a handful of meetings..
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..Andrew Dilnot had with the PM, the Chancellor and Health Secretary.

None of this stands up to analysis. The Tories had no plan for social care in their manifesto in December. When pressed after the election they said their plan was..
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