Alexander Mangan

@AaronBastani @lewis_goodall "We've had weeks of discussion" They literally think that means the issue should just go away now. Lets not think about actual accountability.

Excellent from @lewis_goodall If a retweet can disqualify someone from leading a political party - nobody would qualify. Voters are going to see through this - and be reminded of Starmer’s record as PM. Labour ministers should keep saying it!

@PhilipProudfoot @ZackPolanski You forgot tackle commercial rents!

Good from @ZackPolanski; confirms that only the Greens have a correct diagnosis of our sluggish economy. 1. Tax wealth locked in non-productive sectors 2. Use that to reduce tax burden on SMEs 3. Increase worker pay = More money in real economy.

@PhilipProudfoot Perhaps stronger unions would be more effective - restore workers bargaining power.

@PhilipProudfoot It’s fascinating that universal credit was brought in to put and end to Brownite tax credits that effectively topped up low pay and now it effectively does the same thing. I do wonder though if the minimum wage system is the best way to raise wages though…

Pro tip: if you want to oppose this by saying “x” business will collapse if it has to pay workers … enough money to live on… then maybe first ask if “x” is a viable business? The state must stop subsidising bad bosses with universal credit.

Straight up to full 2019 screeching and flailing here, it’s even the same cast of abysmal shitehawks.

@william50847854 @VoteGreenNorth Even if it is apocalyptic for Labour next week, they will still be in the top two overall in local government.

@VoteGreenNorth A planet where basic research skills are in vogue.

What planet does this newspaper live on? An entire article dedicated to a question that everybody knows the answer to: No, they couldn’t. theguardian.com/politics/2026/…

@AllyFogg True though the less said about that time she proposed an all-female emergency cabinet, the better...

People like Brendan and his followers generally speak very fondly of Caroline Lucas, they like her, because she's got a nice smile & a posh voice. But from all her years in Parliament you'd struggle to find a single issue on which Lucas voted/argued differently to Corbyn.

Richard Burton reciting this piece from Hamlet ("I have of late but wherefore I know not...") is definitely worth your attention.

@NoJusticeMTG Aside from a small number of debates like this - they literally dominate control of the Parliamentary calendar.

You have a giant majority. If you want to prioritise what people care about just fucking legislate. Opposition parties are using commons time in the only way they can given the numbers in the chamber, which is to hold the PM to account for misleading us and compromising natsec

@ThatTimWalker @andrewfeinstein His showbiz credentials… 🤣

Thing about this fella is he has no background in broadcasting — and, apart from a short spell writing on economics for the FT — can’t really call himself a journalist, so all this sort of begs the question why he’s got this gig.

@AaronBastani You interviewed one in your Wales segment. She claimed to be a socialist, but I she certainly seemed to have trouble advancing any kind of offer... x.com/Mangan87/statu…

When I hear ‘soft left’ I just think: aversion to leadership, aversion to multi-decade political strategy, going with the wind, boring. Beyond that, though, it has no real purchase within a particular section of British society and has no vision for the future.

@AaronBastani @novaramedia I thought the interview with Dawn Bowden was particularly telling. When a self-described socialist can’t describe their political offer beyond nebulous terms like “stability” and “progression building on that stability” - so dull that people have stopped listening.

The BIGGEST Winning Streak In Political History Is OVER! My report for @novaramedia from Cardiff and Merthyr. youtu.be/TLa8DSaQF78?si…

@AaronBastani “overrun with a bunch of people who made the Labour Party unelectable” That’s why Labour are doing so well in the polls and the Greens are floundering. 🤡

I wasn’t planning to vote Green next week. They have no presence in my ward, & the Labour councillor is excellent. Worst case I might not have voted. But the more I see of this garbage the more I’m repelled. Every time these guys talk they’re losing councillor colleagues votes.

@NoJusticeMTG @leerivers94 @LeftieStats @FindoutnowUK Its Murray time!

@leerivers94 @LeftieStats @FindoutnowUK Never change Liverpool

‼️POLL | Reform lead by 4pts ➡️ Ref: 25% (-1) 🟢 Grn: 21% (+1) 🔵 Con: 16% (-1) 🔴 Lab: 15% (-1) 🟠 Lib: 11% (-1) – Seats – ➡️ Ref: 317 🟢 Grn: 129 🟠 Lib: 77 🟡 SNP: 47 🔵 Con: 35 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Plaid: 10 🔴 Lab: 9 Poll: @FindOutNowUK, 22-23 Apr (+/- vs 15 Apr)

@tomhfh Excellent interview here about it... youtu.be/L_UNBh9AFXw?si…

@tomhfh We have largely let our own domestic capabilities atrophy in the service of the alliance. We buy American arms, kowtow to American policy priorities, and American investment in Britain ends up being a route via which the wealth of Britain is siphoned across the Atlantic...

Anglo Gaullism is short sighted. Reject the French way. Don’t push off the Yanks. The strange unreliable unpredictability of Trumpism ends in November, as DJT becomes a lame duck, Congress goes Blue, and attention in DC turns to succession. Predicating decades of British foreign policy on the next seven months is not wise.

@PronouncedAlva Labour; "How dare he rewrite the history we rewrote!"

Zack Polanski's "rewriting of history" is "downright offensive" and "completely wrong," Labour says. Anna Turley MP, Labour Party Chair, said: “Labour has a proud tradition as an anti-racist party. But under Jeremy Corbyn’s leadership, we endured the most shameful period in our history and the equalities watchdog found that we had acted unlawfully in our discrimination and harassment of the Jewish community. “For Polanski to dismiss that as ‘propaganda’ shows his own determination to court the worst of the worst into his own ranks. “Keir Starmer booted the antisemites out of the Labour Party when he became leader. The Greens have now opened their arms to them. The contrast could not be clearer.” Ends

Zack Polanski comments on Jeremy Corbyn and in particular on antisemitism causing a big reaction this morning. I will post the Labour party official response in a moment but here is what he said - although do read the full interview! When Corbyn was opposition leader in 2018, Polanski tweeted that as “a pro-European Jew” he had “two reasons I couldn’t vote for Labour under Jeremy Corbyn”. Polanski now regrets this remark. “I’ve apologised to Jeremy privately about that,” he tells me. In fact, he now believes complaints of anti-Semitism were weaponised to damage Corbyn. “I say this now as a Jewish party leader where there’s constant accusations of anti-Semitism [towards me],” he says. “I take anti-Semitism really seriously, and so where there is anti-Semitism that needs to be dealt with robustly. [But] I’ve undoubtedly seen lots and lots of examples, particularly reported in the press, where it’s very clearly criticism of the Israeli government and the ongoing genocide in Gaza, and isn’t anti-Semitism.” Polanski says Corbyn could have handled the situation better than he did, but it’s not his job to “relitigate history”. He says he feels some guilt for being, as he puts it, “another voice that, I think, was being unfair at that time. When I see a man who’s been an anti-racist campaigner most of his life, and I just don’t think it passes the smell test to believe that he’s an anti-Semite”. “I think if I knew what I knew now – you can only do the best with the information you have at the time – then, yes, I would have supported Jeremy Corbyn at that time,” he says. He says he was “lost in the propaganda” around the Corbyn era - referring to the era in general and economic messaging in particular. He says there is a risk that “actual cases of anti-Semitism don’t go challenged” on the left, he says, “because we’re fighting back against the weaponisation of criticism of the Israeli government.” His aim is “to make sure that [the Greens] push back against false allegations of anti-Semitism, but also make sure that actual anti-Semitism is also being dealt with”. He says the idea Green members or supporters are anti-Semitic "doesn't pass the sniff test".

@AaronBastani Pride in Place sounds like gambling. Put 20 million on x!

@AaronBastani They are still addicted to the nonsense that “government doesn’t pick winners” but government has always done so - it’s called governing.

The more I learn about the ‘pride in place’ programme, the more the cash seems a huge waste. Near me *one part of one ward* is going to get £20m! Ditto another part of another ward. £40m altogether. I think, for £100m, you could reinvigorate Portsmouth and its economy: fix 3-4 major streets, fix the train stations - and catalyse development around them - have local authority owning some space as an anchor landlord, conservation work, invest for tourism and SMEs. But that is too much like a plan. So instead we get Whitehall looking for disadvantaged places on a map and putting a pin in them “send £20 million there!” For what? They don’t know. It’s confusing national leadership for a spreadsheet. I BELIEVE in effective state investment. But when it’s scattergun, like this, and a poor social and economic return inevitably ensues, you undermine credibility of social democratic and socialist politics.