"Burnham can...deliver public ownership. He can force the companies - water, energy, Royal Mail - to deliver massive investment out of their own pockets or go bust. When they fail there's legislation he can use -the special administration regime - to take them back without compensating shareholders"

We have a massive opportunity right now to make the case for Public Ownership. But we won't be able to take that opportunity if Andy Burnham keeps talking about Public Control. vist.ly/58ksb

There is clear water between Greens and a Burnham Labour. I'm genuinely surprised at how similar Burnham is going to be. Just making a "No 10 in the north" isn't different enough

Director of a Gaza Hospital, Dr Hussain Abu Safiya is in horrific danger to his life. The Foreign Secretary must demand Israel provides urgent treatment and releases him. He's been detained by Israel without charge since 2024 and reported to have new life threatening injuries.

Stella Creasy's amendment is a limit of £100,000. That still locks out most ordinary people and the rich get to buy democracy at a bargain price.

MORE ARRESTS Following the arrest of Rev Sue Parfitt, police confiscated the megaphone 📢 But that didn’t stop people speaking out! This brave woman followed a number of arrests and defied the unjust ban on Palestine Action on its one year anniversary. www.wedonotcomply.org

MORE ARRESTS Marji was arrested a year ago today for holding an “I oppose genocide - I support Palestine Action” sign. On the anniversary of her arrest, she was arrested again under the UK Terrorism Act outside New Scotland Yard. Join the Escalation - www.wedonotcomply.org

Well, what did you really expect? Giving up a safe Labour seat had to have a price tag.

Reform’s line on this on broadcast today is that the Sunday Times is a Labour paper 😂😂😂

Cap political donations at £100k. 🤦‍♀️ Get real Stella Creasy, that's far too much. It still allows the rich to buy democracy.

As you'd expect, defender of democracy Lucy has turned off quote posts and replies. If only she was part of a government that could actually do something about the toxicity of platforms like X. The sooner these bullshitting charlatans are as far away from power as possible, the better

The sheer speed of this transition is unreal. Simons gets pushed out by a corruption probe, #Burnham wins the by-election, and Starmer resigns days later. No outside forces or foreign plots here—just a textbook House of Cards play by a party apparatus ruthlessly moving its chess pieces. ♟️

With Keir Starmer resigning, a new PM is moving into No.10 soon. Let's make sure a message from us is waiting on their desk on day one! We need a wealth tax on the super-rich to fund housing, health, and our communities. Add your name so they can't ignore us you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/de...

"The sort of flags on lampposts we can get behind! Activists from Take Back Power, a non-violent civil resistance group, took to the streets of Frinton-on-Sea in Nigel Farage’s constituency of Clacton to raise 'Tax the Rich' flags, while removing England flags and Union Jacks" via London Economic

Reform keep telling us that the poorest people are getting too much money so that we won't focus on the richest and demand #TaxTheRich "Next time you hear UK politicians and the media say we can't afford welfare, remember it is smaller as a share of the GDP than it was 15 years ago, not bigger."

Starmer's showing early signs of Blair levels of delusion. Blair's legacy is Iraq. Starmer's will be the Gaza genocide. Both are war criminals.

The Democrats and Labour really are sad sack parties, aren't they? Just the worst entrenched, entitled liberals chasing the Overton window over a cliff.

Great to talk about the early evidence on Andy Burnham on BBC breakfast just now. Won't nationalise water companies. Sticking to Rachel Reeves disastrous fiscal rules. Refuses to recognise genocide. King of the North? Different latitude. Same politics. Join.greenparty.org.uk

Her speech to this gathering is, apparently, on ‘shame and honour.’

This is exactly why we have Pride. Because a few years ago this would have just been a hateful fringe figure - but this is where our politics is heading with a Government that kertows. We will resist. And bring hope (*and* electing progressive politicians.) We will win. 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

Awww, who buried this good news?.

Reform are where they are thanks to Russian and US money, but principally the moral void that has been the Starmer Project, conceived and executed by Blairites.

Haters got to hate. Here’s a cool song from 54 years ago about being who you are. Holly came from Miami, F.L.A. Hitch-hiked her way across the U.S.A. Plucked her eyebrows on the way Shaved her legs and then he was a she She says, "Hey babe, take a walk on the wild side" youtu.be/oG6fayQBm9w

When trans people are under attack, "don't be political" is not an option. And we'll never be silent when a Labour Government are making life impossibly hard for trans people. We see you. And we stand with you. 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

Blair has risen from his tomb again. Somebody put him back in and seal it. Please.

Today we've launched our new Homes for Greater Manchester plan. Green Mayoral candidate Geraldine Coggins pledges to deliver 20,000 genuinely affordable homes within 10 years, end Labour's developer rip off, and put the people before profit. Vote Green for affordable housing 🏠️

The Labour party bloody shower of nothingness, has gone international.

Starmer doesn’t have a legacy to look back on.

I reduced young people's rights, took away their social media, made them poorer, sold their future jobs to AI, & sacked MPs who disagreed they shouldn't go hungry. Champion of the youth, me

This is Andy Burnham Reposted with alt text

"If the next prime minister wants change from the broken politics-as-usual, they should recognise that keeping things behind closed doors and poorly managing conflicts of interest are recipes for disaster." I don't want to spoil the party, but... www.opendemocracy.net/burnham-aide...

No, I've tried twice to listen to this and can't get past 31 seconds. Not much longer now and we won't have to even try to endure a sermon from Starmer.

• The poor don’t have paid lobbyists • The weapons corps do That’s why our defence budget is ballooning and our welfare budget is standing still while all the time the papers write the opposite is the case. Paid lobbyists.

Part of a 🧵about Palantir. 👇👇

Starmer says he finds it tough that his political career has ended. It's been a long career that started when he was parachuted into a safe Labour seat in 2015. That's 11 years. He's expelled and driven away thousands of members, some with 30, 40, 50+ years working for Labour. Stop whining

13.4m Britons, including 4m children, live in poverty. 25.3m, including 14.9m working adults and 7.7m children, live below minimum income standard. Work doesn't pay enough, benefits are low, tax system is regressive. Can't banish poverty or get sustained economic growth without redistribution.

So many excellent points - too many to include in one post. Read this article, be aware of what and who we need to oppose 👇

Look people. welfare bill does not need to be cut. It needs to fall in line with similar countries. We have the lowest state benefits for retired than any other similar country (France, Italy, Spain, Germany). State benefits for unemployed or sick? Lowest. Look at facts not these fools.

Is the triple lock unaffordable? No And the group who it's most in the interest of to maintain it is young people Speaking to BBC #PoliticsLive earlier this week

Watching Starmer on BBC today I was going to post a critique of him Then I read George’s thread below - it says everything I wanted to say and more Thoroughly recommended reading

A Falmouth University lecturer has publicly declared his support for Palestine Action, despite the group being banned and proscribed as a 'terrorist organisation' by the UK Government. www.falmouthpacket.co.uk/news/2625266...

Farage has been rumbled, so the establishment needs another right wing shythawk to throw down our throats.

Worth looking at this stuff and cross referencing it with the sudden consensus opinion being that we need to dismantle the NHS and use the savings to buy missiles from the USA, I'd say.

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Important. Im not the only one who has watched a loved one die and suffer from some horrible incurable disease and I dont claim this ground. But my experience with my Mum taught me that palliative end of life care is a car crash in the UK. We will all be here. It should be on the agenda.

Post WW2, British envoys went all over the Commonwealth, begging people to migrate to the UK, to keep Mother Country Britain's hospital & social care, manufacturing & farming, cleaning & transport systems going ... "Lest we forgot: To be a welcoming and hospitable nation" via The UK Against Hate

Another early indication that a Burnham premiership will not be breaking with the tried & tested formula of "Fuck you swine, you'll get what you're given, so sup up your pigswill & look grateful for it"

With thanks to my colleagues @greenbenali.bsky.social and @carolinerussell.bsky.social for proposing the motion. www.london.gov.uk/who-we-are/w...

Yes,but they don't have to bore the fcuk the rest of us.