Ash Sarkar

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Our economic system is broken. The climate crisis is accelerating. Inequality is deepening. But what if we did things differently? For our next Downstream IRL at @EartHackney, @AaronBastani will sit down with visionary economist @MazzucatoM. They'll discuss what it means to radically reimagine the economy around the ‘common good’ and whether it’s possible - or indeed desirable - to fix capitalism. To kick the evening off, @ayocaesar will be speaking to long-serving Labour MP and former Shadow Chancellor @johnmcdonnellMP about whether Britain is ready for socialism in the next decade. Get your tickets here: novara.media/4wrrQZD

I ask the House: how many more kingdoms must fall before the PM acts against Bonaparte?

A Labour source texts: “Cannot wait to be walking round Makerfield telling everyone to vote Labour to stop Starmer.”

Certainly is risky, but might as well get on with it. If reform win a by-election here, against Burnham, Labour would struggle to get double digit MPs in a GE. Win, and you get a plausible leader - and put a dent in reform brand.

Labour Together plot twist:

No, it wasn't there on my way - which is why I said it was there on my way back!

@xannon199 What do you mean?

@AyoCaesar Why are you doing this

Just walking back after lunch through my local park, and saw this. Pretty sure it was kids, rather than hardened Nazis, but still utterly disgusting behaviour (and yes, me and my husband scuffed it up before leaving).

girl, FINALLY

@nvw0819 Just tell me yes or no: can tenants distribute the wealth of the property that they live in?

@AyoCaesar Again missing the point and the irony

Piers Morgan's communist turn is something to behold – a thorn in the side of landlords, he now thinks that tenants living in house-shares should own the value of the property!

@nvw0819 Do tenants normally have the power to distribute the wealth of the property they live in? Answer quickly.

@AyoCaesar Again you miss the point. The person saying wealth should evenly distributed lives in a house share in a property worth £2m. As a Brit, you would have thought you’d understand Irony

Consensus! Two parliamentarians, Baron Gove of Torry (Tory) and Baroness Hazarika of Coatbridge (Labour), both agree that the march on Saturday commemorating the Nakba & opposing Israels apartheid & genocide, should be banned You might ask, who elected these people? Who indeed.

@cristo_radio @Heccles94 Have they been sworn in yet? If not, it's still Labour-controlled no?

@Heccles94 So the council controlled by the Green Party, issued a statement which helps the leader of the Green Party. This is a huge surprise

BREAKING 🚨 Zack’s council have issued a statement to say that council tax is confusing and they themselves need help on knowing what should be done!!!

This is a fun, nerdy read while we're all waiting for the other shoe to drop.

Catherine West has the opportunity to do the funniest thing.

As Black Rod knocked on the door, someone in the Commons shouted 'not now, Andy'

Labour is bleeding progressive voters — and they won't win them back with Wes Streeting as prime minister, argues @AyoCaesar on LBC. As it stands, Reform look likely to win the next general election, with no path to victory for Labour or the Greens under first past the post.

@SkyNews Fewer than. Fewer!!!

BREAKING: Wes Streeting has left Number 10 after his meeting with Sir Keir Starmer. He was inside the building for less than 20 minutes. trib.al/Z65kUmJ

That's about the average time it takes to measure curtains...