Leo Gibbons

@Layo_GP

Labour and Co-Operative Party Councillor. Fighting for Forest Hill and campaigning to change the political Left. AFC Wimbledon supporter. Also do

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    5 hours ago

    Had a few queries about this. Young Labour’s next committee meeting is in a little over a week. I’ll be arguing that Young Labour National Committee should not make an official leadership endorsement as I don’t think we are able to consult members. I argued the same in 2016.

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    7 hours ago

    Can’t stop watching this video, which encapsulates the nature of the Iranian state—a totalitarian state which requires such bizarre acts of collective performance (think Two Minutes Hate in Orwell’s 1984)—and also shows how ordinary people find ways of resisting and refusing.

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    Today, the crowd in an Iranian university refused to trample US and Israel flag . These IR ideologies, like forced hijab, are falling one by one.
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    6 hours ago

    Very excited to have finished work on the first episode of my new podcast Corbynism: The Post-Mortem, and I can't wait for you all to listen to the show next week once we're ready for launch. I created a little sneak peek for you too! via

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    14 hours ago

    Listen to this from about restoring power and wealth to local communities. This is how you win back trust & also create radical, lasting change. 👇

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    13 hours ago

    If connecting is the question, neither of these policies can be the answer, because - and here's the clue - they're both in the 2015, 2017 and 2019 manifestos.

    Big campaign messages this weekend: Lisa Nandy: Here's another idea to improve bus services in towns. RLB: Get rid of the House of Lords. Which is going to better connect with people's lives, I wonder? 🤔
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    16 hours ago

    I wonder if this says more about the Labour membership than RLB: everything you've ever done has to have been *for the cause*, you can't have just been a normal person doing a decent job for a while. Still weird to try and mislead about it obviously, if that's what she's done.

    EXC 🚨 Rebecca Long Bailey said: "I became a solicitor for the NHS to help defend our health service” and even "give something back" However, she exclusively worked for a corporate firm doing routine work and won't say how she defended NHS Also wasn't a solicitor for "10 years"
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    17 hours ago

    I see Aaron has come over all Edward Burke all of a sudden. COINCIDENTALLY when his faction could be stymied by democracy. What *are* the odds

    Don’t agree with this at all. Momentum has an elected secretariat. Authority is delegated to them to make decisions. Like it or lump it same applies unions and affiliates. Candidates can’t be primaried by the membership of every affiliate, socialist society and union.
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    18 hours ago

    After a period of reflection I now realise what is needed is a different kind of ill-thought through sweeping policy on an issue normal voters don’t care about.

    Labour leadership contender Rebecca Long-Bailey would scrap House of Lords
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    18 hours ago

    The leadership hopeful ⁦⁩ tells it was a 'disaster' to go for an election rather than a referendum on Boris Johnson's deal

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    Jan 11

    “instead of seeking the deselection of MPs who dare to warn a leader may not be on a guaranteed path to government or who overwhelmingly sign a motion of no confidence in him, those MPs should be listened to like canaries in the mine” ⁦⁩

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    17 hours ago

    Without hesitation or qualification, I sign up to every one of these pledges.

    Today we release our , identifying 10 key points we believe Labour needs to sign up to in order to begin healing its relationship with the Jewish community. We would expect candidates for Labour Leader or Deputy Leader to publicly & unequivocally endorse these in full
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    21 hours ago

    1. This AM I woke up to dozens of messages from family/friends in Iran Right now, Iran is a tinderbox internally. As some of you know, there are protests mostly around the anger that Iranians feel towards the gov after they admitted IRGC shot down the Ukraine Airlines aircraft

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    Jan 11

    The absolute red line should be: do not nominate anyone you wouldn’t be happy to see winning.

    Let me appeal again to PLP members & party members. It’s not much to ask that the spectrum of members’ views within our party are reflected at least in the deputy leadership ballot. Please let Richard Burgon, Rosena Allin Khan and Dawn Butler have their chance to put their case.
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    Jan 11

    People sometimes need to have jobs that don’t represent their politics. Rebecca Long-Bailey worked as a lawyer facilitating public-private NHS contracts. RLB’s not anti-NHS or pro-NHS privatisation, just as Starmer isn’t nor are his campaign staff.

    Today a I went to Keir Starmers launch event in Manchester. I asked a question about how he thought he’d be able to defend the NHS when he recently hired Ben Nunn - a lobbyist for private healthcare companies.
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    Jan 11

    Labour source says there is a huge lobbying effort underway to get Richard Burgon on the ballot "Jeremy is calling around... McDonnell is lobbying people very hard" Rumours Claude Moraes may be promised a peerage for nominating him

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    Jan 10

    remove william’s hairline then too since that stepped back ages ago

    Meghan Markle & Prince Harry’s wax figures have been removed from the Madame Tussauds royal family display following their announcement to step back as senior Royals.
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    Jan 11

    Good grief. I had no idea how much of this shit she’d put up with - and I have to follow the news for work.

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    Jan 10

    1/ If you know, you know. There are so many stories like this.

    Will the CLP finally do something now? I got told I was being paid by Israel for my ‘smears’, loved Palestinian children being killed, was in a ‘moral void’ for calling out antisemitism and I’ve been consistently attacked by members after I left.
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    Jan 10

    I imagine it's an unpopular opinion but the fetishisation of "the membership" - a group which could hardly be less representative of the general public - as the final arbiter of right and wrong has to be one of the biggest mistakes the Labour Party has made in recent years.

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    Jan 10

    Rebecca Long-Bailey, like Keir Starmer, is a working class kid who worked hard, did well and fulfilled her potential. Neither of them have forgotten where they came from. This is to be celebrated. Labour should embrace such aspiration and success.

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