Holy moly! Extraordinary documentary with much more to come.
Very poor timing for the @UKLabour Party to set itself on fire. But this is where it now is.
#TheLabourFiles.
The Labour Files: The Purge I Al Jazeera Investigations via @YouTube
Very poor timing for the @UKLabour Party to set itself on fire. But this is where it now is.
#TheLabourFiles.
The Labour Files: The Purge I Al Jazeera Investigations via @YouTube
My initial reaction when I started watching was: “well internecine nastiness like this on the left is not that unusual.”
But this documentary is going to far darker places than that - and it’s implications are far bigger.
@keirstarmer has a raging inferno to deal with here.
But this documentary is going to far darker places than that - and it’s implications are far bigger.
@keirstarmer has a raging inferno to deal with here.
The dumpster fire representing the current state of the UK’s social democratic history, just exploded.
It is now obvious there are powerful dark forces at work within both the great houses of UK politics. And it’s not clear that either party has the capability to tackle them.
It is now obvious there are powerful dark forces at work within both the great houses of UK politics. And it’s not clear that either party has the capability to tackle them.
Is this the ultimate political fallout from a #brexit schism which split the nation cleanly apart?
"A house divided against itself cannot stand."
What if that’s several houses.
Completely different circumstances obviously, but this from Abraham Lincoln seems apposite.
"A house divided against itself cannot stand."
What if that’s several houses.
Completely different circumstances obviously, but this from Abraham Lincoln seems apposite.
On one side we have a new unelected Govt that’s setting fire 🔥 to all norms related to economic management to line the pockets of the super wealthy whilst imposing a crippling generational debt burden on the people.
Yes it’s United in this , but it’s inherently unstable.
Yes it’s United in this , but it’s inherently unstable.
On the other side we have an opposition which has been riven for years, and is now self-immolating itself, exactly when it’s opposition and coherence to address compounding crises is most important.
Meanwhile the scavengers are circling.
Meanwhile the scavengers are circling.
“I do not expect the Union to be dissolved - I do not expect the house to fall - but I do expect it will cease to be divided.
It will become all one thing, or all the other.”
- Abraham Lincoln
It will become all one thing, or all the other.”
- Abraham Lincoln
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