Chris Johnson retweetledi
Enough evidence to refer Keir Starmer to privileges committee #Echobox=1777061600" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">thetimes.com/comment/the-ti…
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Chris Johnson
@ChrisFDSJohnson
Tewkesbury CLP Treasurer and Youth Officer | @UKLabour Candidate for Swindon Village | @OpenLabour @mainstreamlbr | 18
Tewkesbury, England Katılım Eylül 2025
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Chris Johnson retweetledi
“Starmer’s so-called special relationship is more of a danger than what Putin is doing in Ukraine”
Not just unserious but dangerous. And you don’t have to be a fan of Donald Trump to think that. For god’s sake.
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Chris Johnson retweetledi
I don’t doubt the humane motives of #AssistedDying campaigners. Or that public opinion is sympathetic. So why did the Bill fail?
Short 🧵
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Chris Johnson retweetledi
The Labour party doesn’t whip conscience issues because of our history: Catholic, CofE & nonconformist workers found a home with us - today many Sikh, Muslim, Hindu, Jewish and no-faith-in-particular workers do too
Pls remember that we are a pluralist party - the broad church
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Chris Johnson retweetledi
HE IS COMMITTING GENOCIDE IN UKRAINE YOU IDIOT
zack polanski is a complete fucking mouthbreating moron
id like to see any green member defend this. literally doing apologia for the moskals
Politics UK@PolitlcsUK
🚨 NEW: Zack Polanski suggests Donald Trump is worse than Vladimir Putin “As horrendous as Putin is… I’ve never seen him threaten genocide. I've never seen him threaten to wipe out a civilization… Starmer’s so-called special relationship is more of a danger than what Putin is doing in Ukraine” [@antoguerrera]
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There is not a single conceivable reason why any Labour MP should vote against this.
dave lawrence 🐟🐟🐠@dave43law
Labour should be whipped to vote for Starmer facing Commons vote on inquiry into Mandelson vetting scandal next week Exclusive: MPs from across the House have written to Sir Lindsay Hoyle asking for an investigation into whether Starmer misled parliament independent.co.uk/news/uk/politi…
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@LabourBerry @Telegraph I think "We need to lose every councillor in the country" is probably too high a line to draw to remove a leader
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@Telegraph NO SUCH THING AS "A SWIFT TOPPLING" OF A LEADER IN LABOUR
BTW
Labour are only defending 2,320 seats...and they have 5,836 Councillors at this point.
Even if they lost every single seat they're defending - [highly unlikely] that still leaves 3,516.
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🔴 Labour MPs are plotting to topple Sir Keir Starmer swiftly in the aftermath of their party’s predicted May 7 local election wipeout.
The party is braced to lose hundreds of council seats across England and, for the first time in its history, control of the Senedd in Wales.
🔗: telegraph.co.uk/politics/2026/…
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Donald Trump is an evil man, a cruel and unstable idiot who fundamentally dislikes democracy but an objective analysis of the facts from the last few years will show that Putin is responsible for far far more human suffering. No politician should be saying stuff like this
Politics UK@PolitlcsUK
🚨 NEW: Zack Polanski suggests Donald Trump is worse than Vladimir Putin “As horrendous as Putin is… I’ve never seen him threaten genocide. I've never seen him threaten to wipe out a civilization… Starmer’s so-called special relationship is more of a danger than what Putin is doing in Ukraine” [@antoguerrera]
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@ox_anna29 Apparently Labour can't publish what Reform politicians have said in case it causes offence, which seems a bit like their problem tbh
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Struggling to understand why this has been banned?
Politics UK@PolitlcsUK
🚨 WATCH: Labour has released its banned party political broadcast containing quotes from Reform UK politicians
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@sargo_dy Depends who you mean by "they", if it's the Commons then that's ripe for abuse for obvious reasons, but it's not inherently a bad idea so long as you do it well. Second idea is good, some Commons stuff works like that from what I remember
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@ChrisFDSJohnson I think the easiest thing would be whenever an Assisted Dying or any other very controversial Bill next comes to the Lords, they set a strict limit on the number of days in Committee and on Report. And give the Lord Speaker/Clerks the power to select amendments and set groups.
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I think assisted dying could have got a lot further if its proponents were willing to engage with critisisms, compromise, and amend the bill accordingly, rather than just dismissing everyone who opposed it as "unelected zealots".
Kit Malthouse MP@kitmalthouse
The House of Lords has disgraced parliament. Their existence is based on trust, now roundly abused by a small group of unelected zealots. Time for a serious look at who these people are, and how they are allowed to govern us. The X trolls will be jubilant, but we will be back.
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@sargo_dy There needs to be a change to the rules that balances:
1) the primacy of the Commons
2) the right of the Lords to scrutinise
3) prevents filibustering
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@ChrisFDSJohnson I think the filibustering was antidemocratic, I don't think people are exaggerating when they say that. But you are right in saying that some supporters have just seen every single amendment as a filibuster which obviously isn't true.
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@mexicola25 @sargo_dy Oh sorry, I was talking about Commons committee stage, not Lords. The Lords should have dealt with this differently and it's a shambles that the rules allowed this but my initial point was that the way supporters talked about it didn't help (and I am a soft supporter of it)
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@ChrisFDSJohnson @sargo_dy Opponents tabled tabled over 1,200 amendments at the committee stage, with hundreds of them going unaddressed, it has been sabotaged from the start.
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@sargo_dy The Lords should have just rejected it at second reading rather than messing about - there needs to be a change to the rules to stop this happening again. My initial point was more about how supporters tend to speak about opponents of the bill and how it was unhelpful.
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@ChrisFDSJohnson But the bigger problem I have here is not necessarily on the issue of Assisted Dying, or on the tactics the opponents of the Bill chose to use - it's that the rules of the House of Lords even allow this sort of filibuster.
The Commons rules wouldn't let it happen.
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@mexicola25 @sargo_dy Like what? The committee was disproportionately favoured towards supporters of the bill, the High Court safeguard was removed, and just one amendment was passed, that being preventing doctors raising it with under 18s, which is pretty minimal.
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@ChrisFDSJohnson @sargo_dy This is untrue, they did listen to criticism and bend and compromise all throughout the committee stage, how the bill ended up the jumble mess it is, which then opposition parties in the lords used to kill the bill even more as a reward for compromising. x.com/ChrisFDSJohnso…
Chris Johnson@ChrisFDSJohnson
I think assisted dying could have got a lot further if its proponents were willing to engage with critisisms, compromise, and amend the bill accordingly, rather than just dismissing everyone who opposed it as "unelected zealots".
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@sargo_dy I also say this as someone who doesn't inherently oppose assisted dying but think the bill had weak safeguards - I'm disappointed it failed but think a substantial reason was because supporters were silly in how they advocated and weren't willing to amend it to make it safer.
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@sargo_dy The Lords played a part and there were stalling tactics used. However, I also think a non-insignificant factor was that proponents repeatedly refused to reasonably engage, leading to an attitude, particularly in the Lords, that it had to fail, because amendment wasn't an option
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@sargo_dy @joerichlaw Even then, there's only be one proper "caretaker government" in British history and that was because the preferred candidate for PM was in Sardinia at the time. All other British governments have been formed with the intention that they last indefinitely.
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@ChrisFDSJohnson @joerichlaw Very much. Interim leaders are for if they die unexpectedly or something not just normal politics.
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Supporters of David Lammy as interim PM tell me the elected Deputy Leader of the Party (currently Lucy Powell)
‘… does not automatically become acting leader or interim PM. That automatic rule only applies if Labour is in opposition’ instituteforgovernment.org.uk/article/explai…
Joe Rich@joerichlaw
There’s a behind-the-scenes battle taking place over who will serve as Prime Minister when Keir Starmer is removed after the May elections. Will it be his chosen successor, Justice Secretary David Lammy, or the Labour Party’s elected Deputy Leader Lucy Powell?
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Chris Johnson retweetledi
Labour's UNCENSORED Broadcast: the version they couldn't air 👇🏽
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