🧵Well worth a RE-READ: the late AA Gill's pre-#Brexit Ref words (abridged)

"It was the woman on .@bbcquestiontime that really did it for me. She was so familiar. There is someone like her in every queue, every coffee shop, outside every school in every parish council in 1/ the country. Middle-aged, middle-class, middle-brow, over-made-up, w/her National Health face & weatherproof English expression of hurt righteousness, she’s Britannia’s mother-in-law. The camera closed in on her & she shouted: ‘All I want is my country back. Give me my country 2/

Short 🧵 [Please RT] Former #ANC #MP & #AntiApartheid campaigner w/ Archbishop Desmond #Tutu, .@andrewfeinstein, powerfully shreds .@Keir_Starmer & his amoral party’s record on #Apartheid in this #DDN video:
1/4 Some brief quotes:

“It is incredibly hypocritical of our political leaders to praise Desmond Tutu, the person who fought & overcame #Apartheid in the past while, at the same time, they are stifling & trying to prevent us from halting #Apartheid today. 2/4

[Thread] I’ve done a quick bit of research on #Starmer’s funders using the .@SocialistVoice link to the Parliamentary Register of Members’ Interests. The total amount donated was £470,900. The largest donors were: Waheed Alli (Baron Alli of Norbury) £100,000; Martin Taylor (Hedge

https://twitter.com/socialistvoice/status/1251114172848447495

Fund Manager) £95,000; Trevor Chinn (Businessman, Philanthropist, political activist) £50,000; Clive Hollick (Baron Hollick of Notting Hill) £25,000; Peter Coates (Fmr Chair of Stoke City FC & Director of Bet 365) £25,000. I’ve dug out some info on each of the above as follows: