Jack Saundrs   

@jack_saundrs

labour historian (post-war Britain, motor industry, NHS). Author: Assembling Cultures () (he/him)

London, England
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  1. 6 hours ago

    *Political scientists, behind them, taking notes* "... feels alienated by ... the, err ... globally-orientated London metropolitan elite... wants a more ... um ... cohesive community"

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  2. 6 hours ago

    *Labour politicians, listening intently* So, when you say "there's too many foreigners and dole scroungers", exactly how many buses an hour would make you consider voting Labour?

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  3. 7 hours ago

    What if... by voting for the "no policies except big nationalism project" party and not the "invest in stuff" party people wanted to send a message that they like nationalism but aren't that arsed about investment in stuff?

    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.
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  4. 9 hours ago

    Apart from anything else, I can imagine it might be pretty difficult to prevent this being overrun by far right groups?

    'Festival of Brexit' boss says £120m event will prove the cynics wrong
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    Black British History: A Conversation 23 Jan London South Bank University Southwark Campus London, SE1 0AA Seminar Prof. Hakim Adi & Marika Sherwood (Independent researcher) Southwark Campus -

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    when the deep commitment to liberal pluralism hits

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  7. Jan 11

    Lower case "c", lower case "p"

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    Jan 11

    The new series of seminars on black British history is kicking off on 23rd January with a conversation between 3 giants of the field: Hakim Adi, Marika Sherwood, and Carolina Bressey. Come, come, come!

    New seminar Black British History: Concepts, Geographies, Debates. 1st session on the genesis of the discipline with & Marika Sherwood & hosted by 23/01/2020 6pm. Full details: FREE all welcome!
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  9. Jan 11

    Easier, cheaper and likely more effective to just keep plugging away with the same attack lines about Labour hating Britain.

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  10. Jan 11

    And why the assumption that Conservative voters even want it very much? They voted for an incumbent government that offered Brexiteer patriotism and a partial reverse of some of its own cuts. Maybe they're not that arsed about the state coming to the rescue of their communities?

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  11. Jan 11

    Significant economic development targeted at "towns" will be expensive, difficult, likely beyond the expertise of those in charge of it and far from guaranteed to work. Most senior Tories would be ideologically opposed to almost all the simple/direct ways to do it.

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  12. Jan 11

    Aye, just like all the infrastructure spending Trump pretended he was going to do. Seriously, how many times do the Tories get to run this grift before you lot get a clue?

    So far... most Labour leadership candidates are talking about the Tory opponent they want rather than the one they actually face. Early days, but BJ isn’t a Thatcherite deregulator, he’s a Hesiltine-esque spender and interventionist.
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  13. Jan 8

    The "Remain movement" was smaller and less successful than the Stop the War movement.

    And then there is the big difference. The Remain movement is an unprecedented thing. There is nothing else like it in the history of the EU or Britain.
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    Jan 8

    Speaking at the IHR soon on drugs, sexuality and policing in 1980s London, a case study from our project. Come along if yr free! The paper will hopefully help contextualise discussions about chemsex renewed by events this week. The pic is a 1982 ad from Capital Gay

    Join us 28 January 5:15pm at Birkbeck for the next IHR seminar with discussing: Heart Medicine: & 's in the 1970s-80s
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    Jan 8

    But can one Working Class tell another Working Class what's good for them? Do Working Class disagree amongst each-other? We could hope for a journalist to ask gnostic (town) street mystic Lisa Nandy these epistemological questions. Or we could just ignore her and ask each-other.

    This weird fetishistic notion that the Labour party cannot disagree with anyone self proclaiming themselves working class is toxic, the party is not a mere cipher, it does have a educational and leadership role as well
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  16. Jan 8

    Do political comms people have some iron rule against ever contesting a question's premise? Cos surely at some point "why are you asking me these asinine hypotheticals?" is the most natural response

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    🎙️ Would you press the nuclear button? 🗣️ I couldn’t conceive of any circumstance where I would. Labour leadership candidate says Britain doesn’t need nuclear weapons, and that they are not a deterrent
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  17. Jan 7

    Includes another famous toolmaker - Derek Robinson - plus the biggest strike in the history of British Leyland

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  18. Jan 7

    I hear people are talking about toolmakers... 😎

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  19. Jan 2

    Why the determination to pretend that actually people are searching for that in Brexit or eternal Tory Government?

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  20. Jan 2

    Why the shock that some people might have come to accept that as reality? Particularly when the social institutions that might have made a case for the other side got utterly hollowed out.

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