Ash Sarkar

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If we get relegated, I'm walking into the sea.

Hello, Dignitas? One please 😩

@breadandposes No idea - but my understanding is that there isn't a process that members get a vote on, there's basically an internal committee made up of the bigwigs who choose candidates for by-elections. Which is why I think Goodwin was set up to fail!

@AyoCaesar Was there a local candidate equivalent to this guy for Reform in Gorton? Doesn't have to be any deeper than "alright, fuck it all the embarrassing stuff about him must have come out already, he'll do"

In many ways, Makerfield is what both Labour and Reform should've done in Gorton and Denton: 1) Keir Starmer shouldn't have blocked Burnham, and not just for the obvious reasons. Gorton made Burnham a martyr; better to give your rival a chance to lose.

Augustine’s Confessions

Wild. Literally arguing it’s enabling antisemitism to vote for the “soft left”. This constant weaponisation of antisemitism for cynical political ends really has to stop.

Specialises in defensive strategy. Builds entire plan around nullifying opponents advantage. Favours asymmetric system. Calm for long periods then becomes insane. Mourinho’s haramball is grounded in his distant Iranian heritage.

This is absolutely gross. These people claim they’re marching to “protect our girls”

A great pleasure to flit back to Novara Towers to sit down with Aaron and have a chat about the whole British mess. And I like this promo shot, on which I resemble a slightly supercilious librarian.

The man who ran a secret campaign to target and smear journalists says anonymous accounts on social media are polluting our public conversation.

HOW TO BEAT REFORM: BY @dai_alectic Nigel Farage’s Reform succeeds because it gives words and ideas to people, which they can use to feel they better understand what is happening to them and the country, and can plan action to make it better: the elite did it, because they are stupid lefties who don’t understand the traditions which have served us well; stand by them, raise a flag, vote Reform and do your duty as part of the resistance. That political argument has been developed and propagated online for years, and applied by hundreds of thousands of people to all kinds of issues and local experiences. For me the twin issues are understanding Reform’s base and understanding why said people are voting for Reform. Labour seem to understand neither. Firstly, the Morgan McSweeney strategy of winning over the working class (in the abstract) seems to have alienated Labour’s new progressive base while also not winning over said “working class”. Tony Blair and Margaret Thatcher understood that the “hero voters” are not the working class but the petty bourgeoisie: the lower middle classes who are being squeezed and broken by the current economic settlement. Labour have thus far totally alienated this group through minimum wage hikes, the national insurance burden, and increasing bureaucracy across the board. Nigel Farage understands this and much of Reform’s pitch is to this group. Labour have to win that group back over. newstatesman.com/symposium/2026…

Saddam style majority incoming 🤣

Nigel Farage failed to become an MP SEVEN TIMES. And yet he could be this country’s Prime Minister before the end of the decade. The point is he didn’t give up. That’s what it takes. I don’t understand this argument. Sometimes in politics you lose, yes.

@PunishedDraxx I've never been to Singapore. So, either that's a glitch of some kind - or I'm doing the world's most insane commute between Tottenham and Southeast Asia on a regular basis. Your choice!

@AyoCaesar er, yeah

Errr - Singapore?

@henrydodds It's the street food I'd be after...

@AyoCaesar Disney Asia. Well worth a visit.

@KernowNeg Skilled? All it would take is dragging your foot through the leaves. And while you might be desperate to make things up for attention, not all of us are that sad.

@AyoCaesar The is a 99.9% chance you did it no way kids just randomly do something that skilled and you happen to just come across it