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@suziegeewizz

26 Dec

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@DrAdrianHeald @foggybrain This is a really unfair and sadly rather ignorant response to the thoughtful, carefully explained messages you're getting, none of which you're engaging with. 😟

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@DrAdrianHeald @foggybrain I was a member for ten years, campaigned hard in three elections, fundraised, leafletted, door knocked, donated my own money. Am on the left but was ready to support Starmer based on his ten promises. But since he became leader....

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@DrAdrianHeald @foggybrain leaked report revealed bulling, sabotage, misappropriation of funds by right wing staffers on an eye watering scale, RLB sacked for no reason, local parties taken over & funds seized by unelected bureaucrats, Corbyn whip removed for stating the truth...

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@suziegeewizz

18 Nov

I've always been an activist. I've got an extensive criminal record across several counties & two countries to prove it. 10 yrs ago as a "respectable" parent & teacher I thought my direct activist days were over, so I joined the Labour party as a place to channel my energy(1)

I knew it wasn't really my bag but I can't stand doing nothing, so I thought this was better than nothing. It was something. I felt bad for Gordon Brown. I didn't share his politics, but could see he was never judged dispassionately, fairly. Obvs that got worse for Miliband (2)

Miliband had leftist leanings so I began to actively campaign. I just found 2015 old leaflet in which I featured, helping the right wing PPC of my constituency to push austerity-lite message. Pic of me & her, drinking tea, in earnest discussion about need to cut the deficit😆(3)

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@suziegeewizz

12 Sep

Does Owen Jones ever stop to wonder why the media has permitted him to become the "voice of the UK left"? I'll give him a little hint, it's because he's a nice, safe pair of hands.

If the best hearing the left can hope for is Jones popping up on newsnight to respectfully disagree with Caroline Flint then we're fucking doomed.

We spent years buying his books, retweeting him, backing him against the far right, I know someone who physically intervened when he was being targetted irl. When it really counted he let us down. That's why I'm almost more angry with the likes of him than with right wingers.

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@suziegeewizz

21 Aug

So journalists like Owen Jones, & to some extent Michael Walker, have, undeniably helpfully, carved themselves a place in the mainstream media & are working hard to try to make left politics respectable after the concerted right wing & liberal project to delegitemise socialism(1)

Their politics are largely actually not radically different from the vast majority of the so-called "crank left" (anti imperialist, anti war, pro public ownership, etc.) but it helps them to be able to fabricate & perpetuate the existence of so-called "disreputable" leftists (2)

against whom they can define themselves, & in doing so reassure the mainstream that they are the respectable, optics Left that won't frighten the horses and know which fork to use at dinner parties (3)

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@suziegeewizz

16 Jul

So has the Labour south west regional office just stitched up the West of England Mayoral ballot? Left wing candidate got most CLP nominations by mile but interview board of REC, NEC & Shadow Cabinet put only 2 most right wing candidates onto the ballot. Labour party democracy?💩

Mhairi Threlfall was deemed good enough to be a PPC & Lesley Mansell good enough to be mayor candidate before. They're experienced, got lots of CLP noms, are popular/well known across SW CLPs. I conclude they were left off ballot cos they're Left & would have won members' vote.

So now we get to choose between Blairite relic Dan Norris who has grubby hands from expenses scandal & a person few seem to know outside her own area, except she's been a councillor for less time than Threlfall. & the only PoC has also been passed over. Equal ops recruitment? 🤔

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