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9 May, 6 tweets, 2 min read
Here's my write-up that NO ONE asked for and a topic you all love-hate.

This shouldn't be complicated and doesn't need some detailed policy analysis.

Labour just doesn't know how to talk to people. A bit like me as a teenager!
sunnyhundal.substack.com/p/labours-prob…
TL;DR

Detailed policies are a good goal. But we are putting the horse before the cart. The leader of the Labour party needs to know how to connect with people before he can get their vote. That doesn't come through policy. It comes by earning their trust first.
I’ve not been saying this for ages because, as some may remember, I believed Miliband could win by being a nice guy with nice policies. It didn't work.

Blair's genius wasn't policy. He knew how to connect with people. Corbyn was good at connecting with some, but not enough.
Boris Johnson has now trounced this country's top left-liberals – my tribe – twice in our capital as Mayor, and twice across this country (the EUref and 2019).

We need to (grudgingly) accept he is good at connecting with people and start from there.😫
There are many on the hard-left use the centre-left as an excuse for their own failures. Now we’re seeing many on the centre-left use the hard-left as an excuse too. (yes, you Mr Peter Mandelson!).

The hard-left are not the reason Labour is still struggling.
Focus on the prize: the people of this country. Learn to listen to them. Show them some love, some personality, some charm.

Say something interesting and they might even listen. And only then will some of them vote for us. It’s really not that complicated.

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10 May
I'm going to be contrarian here, but I think the Labour Party, especially the centre left, need to chill out.

It's extraordinary that @Keir_Starmer is being judged against precedent, as if Britain just had a normal year.
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Britain just faced the biggest crisis since WW2 (and it's not over yet!), Boris Johnson could come out with post-9/11 Bush level ratings.

But.... he didn't.

So why is Starmer being compared to previous leaders when they didn't even come close to facing anything like this?
This election was framed by media from the start through the 'red wall' narrative.

But out there, it wasn't Brexit that dominated people's lives for the last year it was the pandemic.

In Wales, Labour was rewarded for managing the pandemic well. In Scotland, the SNP was.
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15 Dec 20
Ok, a quick thread on why "calling out" racism doesn't work - when that's exactly what the far-right are looking for.

See these tweets by a prominent White Nationalist YouTuber for a start. They'll give you a clue.
Here we have a White Nationalist explicitly saying:

1) Their strategy is to hijack radio / TV shows and "use your anger to create publicity".

This is literally their aim. We played straight into them

2) Amazed that the Left has fallen into the trap of seeing Nazis everywhere.
This was also always the strategy of people like Katie Ho**ins, Lau***ce Fox, David Van** and a whole range of other grifters:

- to provoke and anger people on social media
- get attention
- be seen as the culture-warrior taking on the left
- make money.
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15 Dec 20
Some quick thoughts on Keir Starmer and racism and *that* LBC interview yesterday.

This will apply a lot over the next few years, so consider them ever-green tweets.
There will be times when Starmer won't react to rows on racism to how I would react.

But he has to pull together a broad coalition of voters, not me. Labour needs focus, discipline.

Stay away from culture wars. Labour doesn't need a civil war everytime Owen Jones thinks so.
On racism, I'm not convinced that "calling out" works most of the time. Depends on who is doing it and language they use.

To me it's like howling in the wind.

More specifically, it doesn't work when far-right are explicitly *looking* to get a reaction out of us.
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15 Dec 20
So, the not-politically-correct Home Office review on grooming gangs, ordered by not-politically-correct Sajid Javid, finds:

- grooming gangs came from diverse backgrounds
- "links between ethnicity and this form of offending" could not be proven 🤔🤔

independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/…
I first wrote about CSE around... 2004 (wow, 16 years now)... and how we need a full investigation into this topic instead of brushing it under the carpet, after a C4 doc on the topic got shelved.

I've always believed we need a proper investigation regardless of sensitivities.
Here is the key paragraphs, from a report with a foreword by PRITI PATEL (so don't say its trying to be politically correct!)

Full report:
assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/upl…
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28 Sep 20
A thread on Andrew Neil and why I won't be celebrating his new broadcasting venture.

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In 2014, Andrew Neil saw a news story on winter coming early to Tennessee and retweeted it with a sarcastic, “Damn you, global warming!!!!”

Scientists might say climate change creates the extreme temperature swings he was railing against but it would be a waste of time.
Andrew Neil has poured scorn on the idea of climate change for at least a decade.

The Spectator, a magazine he publishes, has toed that line too.

He used his platform at the BBC to push this nonsense too. He is a part of the reason BBC needed to have ‘balance’ on this debate.
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26 Sep 20
Watched 'Kiss the Ground' on Netflix last night.

It's a really interesting doc on how soil could do far more to capture CO2 and reverse the climate crisis than any other measure.

Odd to me that more focus isnt behind this?
Basic premise: the soil and plant growth captures far more carbon than any other system on earth.

But we are ruining soil and increasing desertification with awful industrial farming techniques.

But this can be reversed, increasing yields for farmers AND capturing more carbon.
Most campaigns on climate change focuses on reducing emissions (via fossil fuels).

But improving soil actually *reduces* CO2 in air in quite striking numbers, and increases biodiversity.

Feels like a no-brainer to me. Am I missing something? 🤯
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