Astounding to see how #Labour has acted in three prejudicial ways that challenge law: 1. Timing. Many cases take *years*. One day if you're privileged. 2. Case subject. This case clearly about #antisemitism, even if technically not. One rule *again* on this, another elsewhere.
3. Treatment. This a bit more arguable, but there are signs of backroom dealing.
They have just been found to have *broken the law* *multiple times* on all these fronts. Yet they do it again!
These people are just total amateurs with no understanding of how even a medium-sized public body or private company would act in three circumstances. Just burning through reputation, credit and cash. Hopeless.
How's this case going to look up before the EHRC again, or (worse) in a courtroom, or when the new indy complaints body looks at all the emails? You complete jokers. Speaks to a fundamental unseriousness. Should be nowhere near power. /END
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It's hard to get the tone right on this, but let's remind ourselves of why #Corbyn is having to go: he was a complete disgrace from start to finish. /THREAD
First and foremost, he made #Labour a frightening and unsafe place for Jews. He was so arrogant he invented a new meaning for the word 'Zionist' and then divided Jews into good and bad. Sinister and frightening.
He turned Labour into a site of hatred, threats and misogyny. His staff covered up and lied, and then covered up and lied some more.
Not on strike today because my branch did not reach the turnout threshold, but solidarity to all those taking action today in the #UCUstrike. It's complicated, but hear me out.
Let's leave the pensions dispute to one side, because it's complicated. I am hopeful of some sort of settlement here. More important are:- (1) Casualisation. Universities are making up for their real terms funding crunch with vastly exploited hourly-paid teachers. Got to stop.
Then there's (2) Pay. Here I've got my own issues with my union's approach. I don't need more pay. Across-the-board % rises in themselves regressive. But the same people being casualised (and everyone 'below') SL needs a big uplift to make the profession competitive.
So often I've thought that he's a very clear-minded and cynical actor, which is great in my book. 👍 That's what politics is about. He waited to resign in summer 2016, then wrote a more-in-sorrow-than-anger letter. That miner in his video was a masterstroke of cynicism.
He gradually eroded Labour's Euroscepticism until he got what he wanted. He appealed to Conference delegates to make him unsackable. I like it. Highly intelligent.
God, this 'on the one hand this, on the other hand that' equivocation from some Labour MPs. Shocking. Look, your party has been occupied at the top by people who hate it. /THREAD
They hate its grassroots trade unionism (which is why they have to stitch up its elections). They hate its liberalism, and all those Liberal MPs who helped to make it in the interwar.
They hate its Methodism. They hate its Christian socialism. They hate its debt to Catholic Social Teaching. They hate its outward-looking pluralism. They hate its commitment to the common corps of Europeanism.
Last point for now, but for all the rejoicing about polls, British politics can drift into a very difficult place from here. I call it the Death Zone, and the heatmap of probable results is drifting perilously close to it. Here's what I mean. /THREAD
Death Zone (1) tiny Con working majority, or just short. Enough to pass the WAB, get #Brexit, not enough to pass all the critical enabling legislation or extend transition. Risks of crashing out of transition rise sharply.
Death Zone (2) Cons on say 314, enough to cling to office but not to pass the WAB. Have to extend #Brexit again, have another GE in early spring perhaps. Still pretty deadly threat to all the political parties.
So as the #UCUstrike comes to an end, I thought I should say that I was totally in support. My branch wasn't out on strike, but with a (tiny) public platform here, I thought it important for Professors to say. /THREAD
For that majority of you who don't know, the dispute focuses on (1) pay, (2) casualisation, (3) workload, and (4) pensions. Controversy rages around this, but on (2) and (3) in particular English and Welsh HE is in a state of deepening crisis.
I am fairly paid for what I do. I work hard, but sometimes I choose to. But for junior and mid-ranking colleagues, the system is on the brink of collapse. Some lecturers are working 50, 60 hour weeks and more.