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Redistribution ✊️ Nationalism 🤬🤮 Spurs 🤢😱 Labour 🥴 Mostly losing; not giving up! London-born, SW-based, 20 happy Midlands years. España en mi corazón
Jul 24, 2023 • 12 tweets • 2 min read
Thoughts on the Spanish general election the day after the night before … 🧵 1. Pedro Sánchez remains the single, dominant, colossus of Spanish politics, having delivered PSOE’s best vote in percentage terms since 2007. Only PSOE of the national parties exceeded expectations. This is a personal triumph for him …
Apr 27, 2021 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Sorry to keep going on about this, but people are losing all sense of perspective and sense over current events. They will end up hugely disappointed because of course Johnson will get away with it. I genuinely do not understand how anyone can think otherwise. A short thread ... Take a step back and look at the reality of what the Tory-leaning part of the population is seeing and experiencing at the moment:
* A hugely successful vaccine roll-out.
* The permanent easing of the lockdown after a long, hard 14 months.
...
Apr 30, 2019 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
Owen Jones, Paul Mason and countless others on the UK far left went to Catalonia and took the side of the ethno-nationalists. They wrote and spoke breathlessly about a popular uprising against a central government that had failed to cast off the shadow of Franco and the Falange. In doing so, they failed to notice that the people they were offering support to were a privileged elite who had controlled Catalonia - politically, linguistically, socially and culturally - for close to 40 years, and whose leaders were nepotistic and often deeply corrupt.
Jan 14, 2019 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
I am on the left. I do not consider calling out anti-Semitism to be a campaign against me or any of my comrades. I consider it a duty to call out racism - wherever it occurs and whoever does it. I will not make special allowances for people whose politics I otherwise share. The reason why so many on the left opposed Jeremy Corbyn's Labour leadership bid in 2015 and continue to oppose his leadership now is because he has spent decades standing shoulder to shoulder with anti-Semites without once challenging them or their views.
Dec 22, 2018 • 9 tweets • 2 min read
For Corbyn, Milne, Murray, McDonnell, McCluskey and Murphy Brexit is a matter of ideological conviction. They could not change their minds even if they wanted to. But those who want Labour to win general elections should read this and get very worried:
whatukthinks.org/eu/a-nation-of… Put simply, whether you voted Leave or Remain in 2016 has become more important to people than party affiliation. Remainers feel this even more deeply than Leave voters. And, as we all know, most Labour voters backed Remain.