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Remembering the Lancashire Cotton Famine on International Workers’ Memorial Day: A Thread 🧵

I am sick to death of Reform UK leading in the polls. How haven’t people realised they will roll back workers rights, renters rights, and entrench us further in Thatcherite economics?

Today, UNISON leafleted Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood’s constituency, urging residents to ask her to reconsider her plans on doubling the years required for “earned settlement” for “low skilled work”. This will only embolden division, rather than the cohesion Mahmood thinks it will bring.

On the morning of his election, Kier welcomed the endorsement of the Sun.

If anybody is interested in what a Band 2 student loan looks like… this is it! I am having around £2,000 a year added at 6.2% in interest. We really were misled, and ultimately sold out by successive governments, paying an extra 9% tax than everybody else.

I do find the left’s relationship with the far-right interesting. Many won’t work with eachother but will be happy to form alliances with people like Tucker fucking Carlson 🤣

Celebrate now but beware… Tidesz are a centre-right party, meaning they won’t solve inequality, and what we know about populists is that they can get reelected despite poor records in office because living standards continue to fall. A consensus to reform the neoliberal EU is a solution to this!

Hungary has chosen Europe. Europe has always chosen Hungary. A country reclaims its European path. The Union grows stronger.

🚨 NEW: Keir Starmer has congratulated Magyar Péter after Viktor Orbán lost Hungary’s Parliamentary election "This is an historic moment, not only for Hungary, but for European democracy"

Big up the people of Hungary 🇭🇺

The problem with the UK’s left is that they are deluded. They are not deluded in the sense that we deserve to publicly own natural monopolies, or that we deserve better pay. They are deluded because they think still we live in a democracy, ruled by governance. We are not; we are ruled by markets

Pedro Sanchez, Spanish PM, "And I say to the right and the far-right, that they cannot be supporting those who set the world on fire and then complain about the smoke caused by that fire" "You can't have your cake and eat it too"

A reminder that this is the same "unhinged" war and President the Daily Mail has spent weeks berating Keir Starmer for not joining and following

If reform ever do get in, I’m going to ask all people I’m seeing saying “Labour are just as bad as reform” if they still believe it.

Just a simple reminder that this is the second time they made him president

Translation: Net Zero threatens the value of our proprietor's investments. The world must cook for the sake of his portfolio.

@garyseconomics.bsky.social pointed out his uni thesis in one of his videos so I thought I’d give it a read. I found it quite compelling. For anybody trying to claim he is “not an economist”, I’d encourage them to read it too… www.wealtheconomics.org/unithesis/

Karl Marx critiqued socialism in the communist manifesto, arguing that it was not revolutionary. He argued Owen, Fourier, and Saint-Simon laid the groundwork for a “utopia” in socialism, but lacked a method to achieve it, discrediting unions in the process. I ask: is there another way?

James Cleverly trying to justify Nick Timothy’s blatant Islamophobia would be comical if it weren’t so divisive. #LauraK

He didn’t even get to meet the suspected peadophile, a sex offender, criminal and adjudicated rapist… As if it couldn’t get any more embarrassing😂

I may just have solved Labour’s dire communications crisis!🌹 My essay is available now; all critiques welcome. 🙌🙌 www.jacobbarclayevans.com/bringing-bac...

@lbc.co.uk James’ call in can be solved with one word. Why are the papers warmongering? Answer: Nationalism

James O’Brien tends to treat people spreading bilge fairer if they have posh accent; it sounds like he’s having an intellectual joust. If that man calling from Dubai had a regional accent he would treat them like an idiot, which that caller was. @lbc.co.uk @lbcwatchuk.bsky.social

I've never observed a wider gap between self-confidence and lack of any actual understanding than in Badenoch. On other topics it can be comical, but when it extends to undermining gov't on matters of national security, in breach of established conventions, it is profoundly dangerous. #PMQs

The UK’s right wing media are currently lambasting a UK prime minister for not waging an illegal war in the Middle East… they have learned nothing from Iraq have they? The likelihood is, one of your grandparents are digesting this bilge on their television every morning with their cup of tea

Every time Nigel Farage's parties have lost an election he has blamed it on "cheating" by ethnic minorities and every time he receives huge amounts of media attention for doing so. The only problem? No evidence of cheating is ever found bylinetimes.com/2026/03/02/n...

I hate people talking about “regime change”. People really should look up the definition of what a regime is.

All of a sudden moving to Dubai because you can’t be arsed to contribute to society doesn’t seem so attractive. I wonder where the first place these “expats” will seek refuge when Dubai international airport opens again?

Great news. This must not now be about “regime change” by putting the shah in place for the purpose of the Americans extracting oil for their own financial gain. A proper transition towards democracy must be put in place to give the Iranian people the right to self determination.

🚨BREAKING🚨 Robert Jenrick has defected from Reform to the Greens.

Being pushed to third in Gorton & Denton, one of our safest seats, is an indictment of the government’s current approach. Unless we get back to core Labour values, we are heading for disaster.

What really annoys me about this is that Kier Starmer is going to ignore this result and head towards May on self destruct. What also annoys me is that up and down the country, local CLP’s are going to be on radio silence. Labour are no longer the only party to defeat the far right.

Reform UK are questioning the integrity of the Gorton and Denton by-election. They sound very Trumpian and conspiratorial here. It would be a very dangerous place to be in if Farage erodes a significant minority of our electorate’s trust in elections.

Gorton an Denton’s lesson for Kier Starmer: do not cut off one’s nose to spite one’s face.

Stunning and historic result in the Gordon and Denton parliamentary by-election in the UK. The anti-genocide Green Party led by Zack Polanski has won the seat from Keir Starmer's governing Labour Party. Nigel Farage's Reform UK and its odious candidate Matt Goodwin beaten.

Will exit polls come out at 10pm

Great to see the Conservatives wanting to reform student loans. Would like to see an account for Osborne replacing maintenance grants with loans in 2015. This has left poorer students with bigger debts vs richer ones for a whole decade, compounding inequality between rich and poor. It’s scandalous.

The betting markets have the greens odds on to win the Gorton and Denton by-election. Reform must not win this seat

Daily Mail front page today: GRRRR SCARY SCARY GREENS WANTING TO GIVE PEOPLE HOUSING AND GET THEM IN JOBS!!!

🌹🚨 Energy bills set to reduce by 7% from April (£117 a year)- Ed Miliband is on his way to meeting his target this Parliament. Red Ed is one of the only members of the cabinet who really wants to deliver for the working class!

Small boat crossings in the last 7 days.

Aaaaand James O’Brien is currently doing a phone in about the damage to the monarchy.

Gordon Brown says he has submitted a five page letter to UK police forces, providing new information about the Epstein files, in order to help "secure justice for trafficked girls and women"

“Would not be right for me to comment further on this matter” Or in other words “I am not opening myself up to scrutiny despite being a public figure”.

Now is NOT the time to be talking of how the “monarchy is in trouble”. No IS the time to be talking about justice for the victims of child sex trafficking and the people who suffered from the effects of the 2008 financial crisis, while these people were having a disco at poor people’s expense!

Ramadan Mubarak to all those who are participating

Nigel Farage lashes out at a FT journalist and refuses to answer the question. Is this how Reform UK would ignore media questions if they got into government?