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24 Feb, 4 tweets, 1 min read
The Labour leadership is now positioning itself to the right of the Tories on economic policy and refusing to rule out opposing Rishi Sunak hiking taxes on big businesses - and specifically those who have profiteered from the pandemic.

Farcical. Grotesque. Indefensible.
Who on earth is this supposed to be appeal to?

Lost Scottish voters? lol

The Red Wall? The polling consistently shows Labour to Tory voters are to the left on economics - which the Tories are adeptly exploiting.

So even by crude political logic, what on earth is the strategy
There's growing frustration among shadow ministers about this, who fear the Labour leader's office lack politics and veto any talk of Labour supporting tax rises, even if it means being outflanked by the Tories from the left.
Neither do they, which is a bit of a problem

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It's exhausting debating lockdown sceptics who point to economic damage to prematurely cut restrictions.

We have one of the world's worst death tolls AND recessions because we repeatedly locked down too late.

The virus is the threat to the economy. How has this not been learnt!
When people say "It's easy to support lockdown measures when it's not your business or job you're worried about."

But not locking down quickly means infections spiral out of control, so you have to impose longer, harsher restrictions which cause more damage to businesses or jobs
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Nothing but respect for MY President!
one thing you really have to admire about right-wing is their sense of humour

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One of the reasons Britain has one of the worst death tolls on earth is that senior journalists not only actively defended our government's catastrophic strategy in March 2020 - they actively ridiculed anyone who challenged it.

Dan Hodges' own tweet more than applies to him.
It goes on and on and on.

The government only got away with its catastrophic handling of the pandemic because so much of our media is servile to power, and will swallow anything the government feeds it.
Genuinely painful to read.

COVID-19 is the most lethal example of what happens when you live in a country where so much of the media acts as the propaganda arm of the Conservative Party.
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Here's a thread about how completely impossible it is to have a rational conversation about Brexit.

In the 2016 referendum, I campaigned for Remain. Here's a speech I gave 3 and a half weeks before the referendum. A clip of it appeared in TV drama 'Brexit: The Uncivil War'.
I'm now told that actually I'm not a Remainer, despite campaigning for Remain in the referendum campaign in rallies in, say, Wolverhampton, London and Greater Manchester, arguing for Remain on Question Time, and writing multiple columns supporting Remain.
Here's a viral video I made before the referendum result, warning about the consequences of Tory Brexit.

It was pretty prophetic if you watch it.
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Diane Abbott was wrong to share an online platform with apologists for China's atrocities against Muslim Uighurs. But this saga again underlines the grotesque double standards applied to a) the left and b) a Black woman.
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1) Direct apologism for Chinese atrocities in Xinjiang province

2) A relationship with China's regime
In 2014, in an interview with a mouthpiece of China's regime, Blair made common cause between the West and China's "counter-terrorism" drive in Xinjiang, and denounced "double standards" applied to China which "is facing the same problem as we are facing." globaltimes.cn/content/866551…
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