#Starmer

Ellie Mae O'Hagan 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

elliemaeohagan

Here are some unsolicited initial thoughts on the Starmer shadow cabinet. WARNING these thoughts contain positive reflections on Corbyn's Labour, so look away now if you find that too unbearable.

Anna Orridge🌱🌍🖋

orridge_anna

1. Logged on to find lots of people saying there are lessons to be learned from Hartlepool. But, quite honestly, I don't think there are. Flag-waving Tory-aping doesn't work. But

Pete 🇬🇧

post_liberal

The great irony of the inept response to this pandemic by the British government - a government inaccurately & tendentiously conceptualised by ultra-Remainers as ‘populist’ - is not that

Jon Davids

JonesDavids

Grooming gangs exploit thousands of vulnerable girls every year in the UK, and for decades government has done little to nothing about them. Now we have a man, @Keir_Starmer, who

Sienna Rodgers

siennamarla

NEW: Keir Starmer and Angela Rayner are commissioning an urgent investigation into the internal report. Joint statement: “We have seen a copy of an apparently internal report about the work

ALASTAIR CAMPBELL

campbellclaret

I have never wavered in my view that @jeremycorbyn becoming leader would be a disaster for @uklabour and that the country was never, ever going to put him in Downing

Paul Waugh

paulwaugh

.@MattHancock just warned that all exercise outside the home could be banned unless more people start following the current rules more strictly. Story:https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/outdoor-exercise-could-be-banned-in-stricter-coronavirus-loc

philwoodford

philwoodford

Parallels with the 1980s are always front of mind with @UKLabour's predicament. When Kinnock took over in 1983, he had broad support from sections of the left, but he soon

Rabbil | রাব্বিল

RA_Sikdar

Lisa Nandy, since the leadership election, has been deliberately treated excessively bad when it comes to certain issues People know her heritage, how unacknowledged it is, and they deliberately play

Oz Katerji

OzKaterji

Lisa Nandy as Shadow Foreign Secretary is a solid appointment. Looks like the days of having Russian state agitprop repeated from the front bench are over.https://twitter.com/lewis_goodall/status/1246829775416692739 Lisa Nandy voted in

dasPost-CV

dasvee

1/ Labour's pivot, and I would argue their strategy on Brexit since 2016 has relied on assuming Different Interpretations of the same Rorsach ink-blot test.They want remainers to see a

Shaun Lawson

shaunjlawson

There's two pretty obvious golden rules which Keir Starmer is following. This thread sets out what those two rules are - and why they're both very important (and no: neither

NY SOCIALIST JEW IN UK אֶסְתֵּר✡️🌹🔯

leftyjew

READ THIS THREAD ABOUT FORENSIC STARMER. ITS VERY EYE OPENING. @davidgraeber @BenJolly9 @simonmaginn @TheMendozaWoman @HavetStorm @DerbyChrisW https://twitter.com/leftyjew/status/1250376122749116416 @DanielFooksArt @LouiseRawAuthor

Sinan Kose

TheSinanKose

This is pretty shoddy analysis all around, but mainstream political analysis needs to get out of the trap of viewing voting Conservative as a "default" or "natural" state. It does

Lester Holloway

brolezholloway

Doreen Lawrence is an inspiring symbol the struggle against institutional racism & the centre in her murdered son's name is great. But even she wouldn't pretend she's an expert in

Roger Awan-Scully 💙

roger_scully

A few details that people might have missed from last week's Welsh Political Barometer poll (thread)... 1/ 2/Westminster voting intention:Lab 37% (+2 from March)Con 33% (-2)Plaid 18% (+1; the highest