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    There is no consolation. You can't even enjoy in anticipation the battering Labour will get at the polls from looking the other way as the Hard Right remake our country. Because, basically, we need a decent left wing government. And we're not going to get one.

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  2. Corbyn owns the intellectual ground on the Left like Rees Mogg owns it on the Right. Believing he does might comfort those who can't or won't think for themselves. But Corbyn's personal polling in the electorate exposes it weekly as myth.

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  3. I advised this Shadow Chancellor and the one before, fight unpaid for workers' rights, draft Bills for Labour MPs, am a trade unionist, am suing Uber for £1bn in dodged tax, was encouraged by a key frontbencher to stand for Labour but replies to this tweet agree I am right wing.

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  4. In this briefing for MPs I aim to address all the difficult questions: can we revoke and reconsider, can we revoke by a motion, does Wightman help an application to extend time, and so on. Likely to sell out fast.

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    Jan 3
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  6. Jan 4

    Bastani is a chancer. But if we allow him to poison the well, to create disagreement on the Left where there should be none, that's also on us.

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    Jan 4

    'I hate to worry you, PM, but...' 😉 Ooh, should say it's not only my fault but and m'colleagues () and Monica Poletti ()

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  8. Jan 3

    The FT now says, rightly, that Andrew Neil has not apologised for his misogyny. . Which must mean they think the BBC's Director General Tony Hall was (at best, inadvertently) peddling when he claimed this. Any response, ?

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    Jan 2

    "There is no legal obligation on refugees to claim asylum in safe countries and if they decline to do so it does not disqualify them from refugee status in any way." Excellent plain English explainer from via

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    Jan 3

    RT: Going to write a thing on actually affordable no/low plastic alternatives for people on small budgets, as a lot of the zero plastic movement feels a bit exclusionary. Would love to hear tips from other working class/low income people on small inexpensive changes you make.

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    Jan 3
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    The intersection of 'green' behaviour and social class would be so interesting to look at. Ppl on low incomes have lower carbon footprints and will suffer most from climate change yet are least able £-wise to make green personal choices...

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  12. Jan 3

    Only if Member States agree. And it's needed to combat tax dodgers. I can quite see why the spivs who funded leave hate it.

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  13. Jan 3

    (Hat ).

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  14. Jan 3

    In 2017, Italy, which has roughly the same population as us, received about five times as many asylum applications as we did.

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  15. Jan 2

    By seeking to ensure Brexit via the same run-down-the-clock tactics as the ERG, Corbyn is advertising how a Govt he led would balance ideology and the national interest. Level heads will ask whether a man prepared to do this should be trusted with power.

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    Jan 2
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  17. Jan 2

    Of all of those ground-breaking cases to enforce minimum wage entitlements against gig-economy employers, how many did HMRC bring? Precisely none.

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  18. Jan 2

    Much truth in the allegation that HMRC prioritises prosecuting technical breaches by large employers over genuine attempts to protect exploited workers.

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  19. Jan 2

    A "crisis" says the FT, from whom you expect better than feeding this hysteria.

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  20. Jan 2

    Another excellent thread setting out with admirable (and sadly necessary) clarity what is possible under EU law when it comes to extending Article 50.

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  21. Jan 2

    If you look at the evidence, set out in my replies to Matt, you'll see this isn't about prioritising a Labour Government. It's about subsuming your rationality to Corbyn's wish. It's about paying intellectual fealty. It's about putting loyalty to him ahead of *everything* else.

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