#Tories

Yardley Yeadon

MichaelYeadon3

In large measure, I’m telling you this so that you should be in no doubt that:MANY MPs NOW SHARE THE VIEW THAT CLARE CRAIG FRCPath & I ARE DAILY SUMMARISING

John West 🕯

JohnWest_JAWS

This might turn into a wandering thread - bear with me, it’s still early.In 2016 the Vote Leave campaign essentially pushed on the basis of funding the NHS.The big red

Arthur Snell

SnellArthur

If progressive parties have a horrible night, a tiny electoral division in #Stroud might give us some ideas why.THREAD1/6 Since 2009 @StroudGreens have held Stroud Central (different names at different

Mitten d'Amour

MittenDAmour

Why the Tories win among the average British public - an observation. In the course of my social media expertise (yes, someone actually pays me to do this shit), I

PG

ItWasJustBanter

Voted for Keir Starmer, so pleased he won. Unfortunately politics over the last couple of decades has become more than ever a marketing exercise rather a debate over the merits

CrémantCommunarde#ActivistLawyer 🕊️⚖️ 🟠⬆️

0Calamity

1. Reading this article again (sub-tweeting my thread with another thread, here... soz folks!) and my first overwhelming feeling was "How are the Left ever going to win against such

Duncan Hothersall

dhothersall

Seems I've annoyed a few people by criticising the STUC's stance on #indyref2. Well I'm pretty annoyed too, to be told that rather than assess the likely impact of independence

Michael Govern Ready

mikegove12

Goveller’s TravelsMonday 14th September 1727 We had not travelled twenty leagues on the RMS Brexcusitania when Captain Johnson slipped into a coma after a freak getting dressed accident involving clothes.

Shaun Lawson

shaunjlawson

Starmer now has a problem. His and Angela Rayner's joint statement won't satisfy anyone on the left. Nor, from an emotional/anger point of view, should it. It's classic Starmer in

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DaftLimmy

Is this true? Is this proof that cabinet politicians are using public money to make their pals rich, pals who will make the politicians rich?If this is proof of corruption,

Mike Hind

MikeH_PR

Two other features support this reading of power as an end in itself - incompetence & corruption.I don't really know what the Trump & Johnson administrations *stand for*. Nor, I

Cory Doctorow

doctorow

The Toronto Star is Canada's largest-circulating newspaper, a venerable institution that was the inspiration for Superman's Daily Planet. They're a partisan paper in the British tradition, well understood to be

Cllr Hannah Perkin 🔶

HannahPerkin

The truth is that when I get called a "yellow tory", which I do, a lot, it hurts. My mum is disabled (MS) and my little family has seen the

Cory Doctorow

doctorow

In the early days of the pandemic, the UK pursued a plan that was developed for a less contagious, less lethal flu pandemic, which proposed deliberately allowing the disease to

Matt Carr

MattCarr55

Absolutely extraordinary to see how the ‘Northern Powerhouse/Level Up’ Tories have forced northern mayors into a de facto alliance against the government because of the government’s high-handed, arrogant, and grossly

SHoW

SocHistoryWar

#NVHOW20 Introducing Mike Sewell @Mike_Sewell @Uni_of_Essex ‘Using the British Civil War in Colchester in the early nineteenth century’ - how the Civil War was used by Whigs and Tories to