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25 Jun, 4 tweets, 2 min read
Solidarity with Kim.

We should be clear who this is - I've interviewed him myself:

He's the leader of the Birmingham anti-LGBTQ education protests. He's not even from Batley.
This is the ringleader you can see in the footage,
Shakeel Afsar: twitter.com/ShakeelAfsar8
I'm happy to repost this but George Galloway needs to do a far more thorough clarification than this, and I'll be talking to journalists on the ground, too.

George Galloway has since issued this condemnation of Shakeel Afsar, the ringleader of the Birmingham anti-LGBTQ protests.

As an aside, @kimleadbeater responded brilliantly and I'd be proud to vote for her in Batley & Spen.

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Why I'm supporting Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions against Israel - and why you should too.

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It is in fact a rampantly racist and bigoted newspaper, which its leading figures such as @DAaronovitch deny but should be held accountable for.

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The Times constantly publishes articles claiming anti-Muslim hatred is a "fiction".

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There’s not enough discussion about how Israeli apartheid and the racist oppression of the Palestinian people is cheered on by the far right, up to and including Trump, who mixed antisemitism with smearing women of colour like AOC as antisemites for supporting Palestinian justice
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Responsibility for the Hartlepool catastrophe - and it is a catastrophe - belongs with the Labour leadership.

In 2015, Labour won 35.6% of the vote, less than 2019.

In 2017, Labour won 52.5%.

Even in the 2019 disaster, Labour won 37.7%.

In 2021, Labour won *28.7%*.
The argument "Labour only won because the Brexit Party split the vote in 2019" is completely disingenuous.

In 2015, UKIP won a higher share of the vote than the Brexit Party in 2019.

In 2017, many of those UKIP voters defected to Labour, hence Labour won over half the vote.
If people who voted UKIP in 2015 could vote Labour in 2017, why did Labour fail to win over Brexit Party voters in 2021 - especially given Brexit is no longer the main issue?

It gets worse - Labour has *lost* many of the people who voted for it during the 2019 disaster.
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This is just diabolical.

Labour won 52.5% of the vote in Hartlepool in 2017. They won nearly 5 points more than the result below in 2019.

Labour isn't just failing to win back 2017 Labour voters who voted for the Brexit Party in 2019 - it's bleeding support to leftwing parties.
All Keir Starmer's very loud and well connected cheerleaders are currently doing is making excuses.

If this poll is right, Labour under his leadership are doing considerably worse than 2019, when Brexit dominated all of British politics and Corbyn was undeniably very unpopular.
Labour didn't win in 2017, as we are all told a lot. But given it did win 40%, won seats for the first time since 1997, had the biggest surge in votes since 1945, *and* won thumping majorities in seats like Hartlepool, lessons have to be learned from that - or Labour is sunk.
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