Christabel Cooper

Very excited to officially join the brilliant team at @LabourTogether, as Director of Research. I've been a political nerd since aged 9, and I've been a data analyst for the last 17 years. Finally the two strands come together! 1/

🗳️Labour Together's General Election Review (Monday 13:00-14:00) 🗳️ Discuss Labour Together's review of the General Election with @ShabanaMahmood, @ChristabelCoops, @Samfr, @AnushkaAsthana, & @matthewrupton eventbrite.co.uk/e/labour-toget…

More positive for the new government - there's also a predictable divide in the views of those who voted Labour in 2024 and those who voted Tory. Labour's voters are younger and more likely to rent, and consequently more open to housebuilding.

The principal worry for MIMBYs is around adequate provision of local health services for any new housing development - hardly surprising given the state of the NHS at the moment. An improvement in public services could therefore lead to increased support for housebuilding. 3/

@LabourTogether research on housing covered in the Guardian today. The housing debate is characterised as a binary conflict between NIMBYs and YIMBYs - we show that NIMBYs opposed under nearly all circumstances to local housing - are in a minority. 1/ theguardian.com/politics/2024/…

This is an excellent and honest thread about the problems with polling at the last election and what @Moreincommon_ have done to look into the overstatement of Labour's vote. Highly recommended read.

Women are not allowed to "talk too loudly"? I would last approximately 45 seconds under that godawful regime.

@GayTory How absolutely fascinating that that's what you imagined I was implying.

@ChristabelCoops In your original post you implied that Kemi and/or her children, cannot hold more than one idea in their heads. That’s effectively calling them less intelligent than you, or “you’re a Tory”.

Oh good grief. I'm mixed race. I found the BLM protests inspiring - empowering me to celebrate a part of my identity I had been reticent about. It didn't impact the connection I have to my white family. Because most people can hold more than one thought in their heads at once.

@GayTory You know what. If someone from another political party comes out with an opinion I disagree with, if I'm going to reply I don't just say "you're a Tory" because that's really quite pointless and a waste of everyone's time. I'd actually try to engage with the argument.

@GayTory So that's a no, to having a substantive objection.

@GayTory Do you have any more substantive objection to my point of view, or is that it?

@ChristabelCoops You also work for Labour Together.

@robertwoolley @t0nyyates Very good!!

@t0nyyates @ChristabelCoops Surely a culture war with her morning yoghurt? #sorrynotsorry

@MatthewBlott Well I found it very easy personally.

Huge thanks to @ChristabelCoops and @p_surridge for their insights at our Election Results Review evening yesterday. 📊🗳️ Big thank you also to the audience for such an interesting Q&A, we look forward to seeing you again at at one of our upcoming events! 👋#ElectionAnalysis

So the far right riots which are deliberately trying to terrorise selected communities the rioters don't like, are the fault of... *checks notes*... the liberal elite because they suggested the 2011 riots might be linked to (tho not justified by) austerity. Right. Got it.

For some on the mainstream right to implicitly blame ethnic minorities and their failure to integrate, for the racism directed at them - in a country which is something of a success story on integration - is actually pretty upsetting.

The far-right thugs started rioting because their inherent racism led them to falsely conclude that a foreign-born Muslim was responsible for murdering kids. That they have gone on attacking Muslim targets despite this being disproved says everything you need to know. 3/

Those on the right seeking to excuse the violence of extremist thugs by claiming there is a failure of integration in the UK, need to revisit @samfr excellent post showing that Britain has - by international standards - done a good job on integration. 1/ x.com/Samfr/status/1…