@yanisvaroufakis Hey Yanis, remember when you made a bunch of unachievable promises to Greece and wrecked their economy even further, forcing them into even deeper austerity and killing thousands of people? I remember xx
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Dean
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@DeanFoley2
he/him This place sucks but the others are boring. I like science, economics, video games, animation, fantasy. 🏳️🌈
Manchester, England Joined Ekim 2011
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Keir won't like it - and we care not a bit! Join us at the Troxy this Tuesday evening in London if you can get hold of the few remaining tickets. I shall be there to welcome you with Brian Eno, Zack Polanski, Jeremy Corbyn, Grace Blakeley, Francesca Martinez instagram.com/reels/DWMb5tbN…
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@thomasforth @CityFibre Me paying twice that for this in a semi-central area of Manchester. DESPAIR.
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It is genuinely astonishing to me how little I pay for 900Mbps internet that is 100% reliable and always delivers at least 800Mbps. Thank you @CityFibre (and my council for permitting it, all those who operate on your fibres, and the private equity people subsidising my internet)
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has this been happening, London oomfs? asking for research
Ruth Husko@dank_ackroyd
Never forget
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💚 Zack Polanski has just brilliantly answered his critics
“I’m not an ideologue,” said @ZackPolanski, “I’m a pragmatist" - and he proved this with ease in his latest speech says @JamieDriscollNE
thecanary.co/opinion/2026/0…
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@JoStevensLabour Yet another Labour MP freaking out because people don't support the slop they're serving.
Telling on themselves with every post.
Join.greenparty.org.uk
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@JoStevensLabour I'm a Labour member but I really wish we could stop with these desperate looking cringe attack lines. The Green Party is utter slopulism and Zack Polanski is an intellectual void, they'd send us into a massive debt crisis. We don't need clips of him singing.
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@labourball literally the only semi ( and I mean *semi* ) serious party left and yet they have to be *so cringe*. I'm in Gorton and Denton and was genuinely embarrassed to campaign for them even when the other options were vacuous populists.
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Labour frenetically posts a few poorly-designed graphics on their achievements in Government, with no seeming strategy or overarching narrative.
We have to do better.
Amanda Litman@amandalitman
Zohran has internalized a rule of politics too many Dems have forgotten: You can’t assume people know about the good things you’re doing! You have to tell them about it, over and over again.
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@JoannaBiddolph The NIMBY rallying cry:- "I support more housing, but..."
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Housing: This is true in Hounslow. "What we need is proper family houses - four and five bedroom properties - to stop overcrowding”. I, too, am not a NIMBY. I support sensible development. We need family homes, built in the right places, at the right price: not overdevelopment.
Wandsworth Conservatives@wandsworth
🏗️ Labour’s plans for the Ashburton Estate mean cramming in tiny flats, even building over play areas, with zero regard for the people who already live here. This isn’t regeneration. It’s overdevelopment.
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Having a sovereign wealth fund would require fiscal discipline that people like you would condemn as heartless austerity. I can already imagine people saying how dare we invest the surpluses in big tech instead of giving it the NHS lol
Mike Galsworthy@mikegalsworthy
I do think it’s Thatcher that you should be blaming… We could have had our own domestic oil and a £1 trillion fund by now.
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@fionasins_ The Blairite neoliberal ghouls when the incoming left takeover purges us all
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@fionasins_ Me, an ( economic ) Labour Right member fighting for my life out here ( who also just got a Green MP and is probably gonna get a Green councillor it's cooked )
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There are about three archetypes of British YIMBY:
Labour Right: the only one who actually does YIMBY stuff in practice
Nick Clegg was right Lib Dem: just one more think thank and fringe event bro
Tory: we're totally YIMBYs bro just ignore every single council we run
Cassie Pritchard@hecubian_devil
Do they even have YIMBYs in the UK? Like obviously things are bad here in the US but there’s lots of signs that we might turn things around on housing. Over there…am I just not seeing it? Or does it not exist?
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@charliejblake_ As a Brummie living in Manchester I'm having a lot of conflicting feelings in this thread.
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Notice how by urban population Manchester is the second city.
We must stop the lie that Birmingham is Britain’s second city
George Marshall@GJMarshy
One way to visualise the UK's largest cities: 👉London is by far the most dense (and huge). 👉Manchester has the densest "core" 👉Birmingham retains high-densities into the suburbs more than Manchester. Other cities notably poly-centric.
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@DisasterAreaPP @Tweets_of_Oscar This is conventional wisdom but isn't true. The construction of council houses was in freefall before RTB ( which doesn't mean RTB was good either )
Housing is a regulatory failure, not a market one.
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My sweet and beautiful Cambridge... Top 5% housebuilder Cambridge......🥲
Zack Polanski@ZackPolanski
I've seen literally thousands of people today alone. Labour are done. People aren't just excited by the Green Party - they're out on the streets campaigning to win. Hope and a plan. Join.greenparty.org.uk
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@PeverellTom @ObserverUK I mean what are they supposed to do? Most governing is boring, most achievements incremental, and even the more radical overhauls like planning reform can be unpopular and/or uninteresting.
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The problem seems to be neither the Labour party nor the LibDems actually seem to stand for anything. All their posts are against other parties or for pathetic things like breakfast clubs. We live in an era of hot wars and economic turmoil. Offering a bowl of cheerios is not it.
Ppl like the Greens and Reform because they have definite views (even if their policies are bonkers).
The Tories seem to be slowly realising this.
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Britain’s only way out of this mess is a shift to the centre, writes Philip Collins
Voting intentions are split five ways, so politicians must plan for a coalition. Can anyone make space between the left and right?
bit.ly/4bE9ElD
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It’s time to join greens if you are not a Reform mug and you don’t want them to get in. Tactical voting will matter in all of your constituencies in the May election. Make sure you register to vote and get your friends and family to do the same 🇬🇧🏴☕️🫖
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@DisasterAreaPP @Tweets_of_Oscar They've literally begun the analysis during the COVID years, when the Greens made gains to get a majority and some pluralities *after* lockdown. Cez is BSing *hard* because he rides hard for the Greens.
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@DisasterAreaPP @Tweets_of_Oscar Oh, addendum to this:- The data going back to 2020, when the Greens took over Mid Suffolk in 2023? Very convenient for them, because there was a little world altering event that basically halted construction for a couple of years in the early 2020s. Also affects Green plurality.
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@DisasterAreaPP @Tweets_of_Oscar Look I'll give you this, LVT is based, actual Green Party policy W right there ( though proportional property tax probably easier to implement, hell I'll settle for a council tax valuation update at this point lmfao )
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@DeanFoley2 @Tweets_of_Oscar there's definitely some nuances to be had with this. I'm open to things like planning reform (it is too easy to block developments). Land value tax would realise the cost of car parks etc. and lead to more of those becoming high rise properties too.
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