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5 Apr, 4 tweets, 1 min read
It's extremely insulting to LGBTQ people to be completely dishonest like this. Keir Starmer didn't just visit the church, he made it the centrepiece of Labour's Easter campaign video. What is achieved by knowingly twisting reality like this?
It would be better all round if Labour just said "Sorry, we didn't google it, if we'd realised, we wouldn't have used this particular church as the centrepiece of a campaign video".

But they're so scared of being labelled incompetent they gaslight LGBTQ people instead
Labour's problem is this incident comes on top of not addressing rampant transphobia in the party and parachuting into Hartlepool a candidate who lauded Saudi Arabia after its gay murdering dictatorship paid to fly him over there.

It looks like two fingers up to LGBTQ people.
Hold on. How is Rachel Reeves going on national television to make these false claims reconcilable with the private apology the Labour leadership supposedly made, which they have certainly refused to do publicly?

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3 Apr
I was going to ignore this, but actually it needs to be addressed.

A gay father who co-parents children with a lesbian couple celebrated having kids, I expressed an interest in also similarly co-parenting, and our timelines are now full of anti-trans activists screaming at us.
The utter obsessive poisonousness of the anti-trans cult on this website is certainly something to behold!
246 retweets for someone dismissing a gay father's co-parents as "reproductive workers" and his children as "human commodities".

I love this website!
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25 Mar
Glad to hear that police officers in Bristol did not suffer broken bones or a punctured lung - and given this was widely reported to underline the violent nature of the protests, it's important that these details are publicised.
Avon and Somerset Police reported as fact that their officers had suffered broken bones and a punctured lung. Thankfully, this did not happen.

Why did they state this as fact? The truth matters in a climate in which our authorities seek to suppress our rights and freedoms.
Claims that Bristol police officers suffered broken bones and a collapsed lung formed the basis of horrified headlines in national media outlets.

That's used to justify demonising protesters and clamping down on the right to protest.

But these reports were entirely false.
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22 Mar
Fascinating to see how "merciless purge of the Left" is absolutely fine and acceptable language, but "kill the Bill" - the same slogan as the trade union campaign against Ted Heath's anti-union legislation in the 1970s - makes you "fascist-adjacent". Image
Might I politely suggest that calling for "a merciless purge of the Left" makes you sound rather more fascist-adjacent than being part of a campaign to stop a right-wing government crushing peaceful protest by law.
Might I also politely suggest that if you have a record of writing disgusting racist articles for a hard right newspaper, you've lost any right to call anyone else "fascist-adjacent". Image
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4 Mar
This is worse result for Labour than the 2019 election.
Ok, all the people who said opinion polls must be taken very seriously 2015-2019 are now saying that actually opinion polls are irrelevant. Glad to know the rules have now in fact changed.
For all the people pointing to the vaccine rollout.

This is the the result of the failure to pin one of the world’s worst death tolls, death rates and economic hits on the Tories.

Instead Labour bet the house on competence rather than vision - a strategy the vaccine destroyed.
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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.
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22 Feb
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
It's ridiculous that I still find myself debating this on TV after nearly a year of this total nightmare. How is it not completely obvious that not suppressing the virus leads to a worse economic shock in the medium and long term?

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