Green MP Carla Denyer says she is taking a leave of absence due to suffering from "burnout".
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Gerry Hassan
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Gerry Hassan
@GerryHassan
Writer commentator academic. Hon Prof of Social Change; Books Editor @BellaCaledonia; Editor, 'Britain Needs Change: The Politics of Hope & Labour's Challenge'.
Katılım Kasım 2010
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I urge people to read Hope Not Hate article, though they'll find it shocking - maybe the most astonishing sexual fantasy ever publicly described by a British politician. If Hope Not Hate have got it wrong, and it's a mistake or fake, then Kenyon & Reform should say so at once.
Michael Crick@MichaelLCrick
If this is all true, then Robert Kenyon, the Reform candidate in Makerfield, in clearly bonkers & deeply unpleasant, and it's no wonder he was Facebook friends with the self-declared fascist Gary Raikes. Reform's vetting processes seem about as effective as a chocolate teapot.
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Maybe the Burnham Bounce will prove as elusive as the Starmer honeymoon which never happened after Labour were elected in 2024.
Election Maps UK@ElectionMapsUK
Westminster Voting Intention [Burnham as Leader]: LAB: 28% (+8) RFM: 27% (-1) CON: 15% (-2) GRN: 10% (-3) LDM: 9% (-2) SNP: 5% (=) Via @DeltapollUK, 15-18 May. Changes w/ Standard VI.
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The not so strange death of Tory and Labour England. Reform in 1st place and the Greens in 2nd place on 21%.
Stats for Lefties 🍉🏳️⚧️@LeftieStats
🗳️English voting intention for #GE2029: ➡️ Ref: 28% (+12) 🟢 Grn: 21% (+14) 🔵 Con: 19% (-7) 🔴 Lab: 16% (-18) 🟠 Lib: 13% (-) – Seats – ➡️ Ref: 280 (+275) 🟢 Grn: 101 (+97) 🟠 Lib: 74 (+9) 🔵 Con: 66 (-50) 🔴 Lab: 16 (-331) Poll: @YouGov, 22 April - 5 May (+/- vs GE2024)
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@WavejumperOne He probably has slightly more chance than the nutters who have taken the 'Scotland is a colony' argument to the UN.
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@Stephen70Do @celticfcfinance @GrahamSpiers What a strange take. I do not despise any Scottish football club, I do detest the Old Firm's stranglehold on the Scottish game. BTW: Celtic & Rangers have jointly copyrighted the OF so take it up with them!
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@celticfcfinance @GerryHassan @GrahamSpiers Gerry absolutely despises Celtic. That much is crystal clear. And that's okay. But its laughable the way he attempts to hide behind the "old firm" bollocks!
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So we can now say - which we haven’t been able to say openly for days - that Derek McInnes told match officials he wanted Celtic v Hearts ended the moment Celtic went 3-1 up and fans invaded the pitch.
Scottish FA@ScottishFA
Scottish FA Statement | Celtic v Heart of Midlothian
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@BraidenGB Entitlement personified. And not that different from the arrogance of the other half of the Old Firm.
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@GerryHassan It's as credible as the pish peddled across the past week by folk who expect the world to otherwise take them seriously.
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Derek Macinnes blew the whistle.
Scottish FA@ScottishFA
Scottish FA Statement | Celtic v Heart of Midlothian
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England is NOT the UK. English football is NOT British football. Yet an article in @TheEconomist supposedly abt "British football" is entirely abt the English Premier stating: "The Premier League is one bit of Britain that still rules the airwaves."
economist.com/britain/2026/0…
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Who would have guessed that Nigel Farage's finances are shady & not transparent? And that he refuses to answer simple questions abt the £5m donation, how he bought his £1.4 million house & now court compensation of £10k. Just a straight-dealing ''man of the people." #c4news
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Hearts have spent all week fanning the flames knowing this audio existed. Absolutely classless.
STV News@STVNews
BREAKING | SFA release audio of final moments of title decider - Hearts boss Derek McInnes informed match officials his team were “happy to finish” the game as Celtic fans streamed onto the pitch. news.stv.tv/sport/sfa-rele…
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@celticfcfinance @GrahamSpiers You really think it completely vindicates what happened in the chaos of Saturday?
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@GerryHassan @GrahamSpiers It was Gerry read the SFA statement
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@GerryHassan @GrahamSpiers Read the feckin' SFA Statement ya zoomer!
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@strochgarngad @GrahamSpiers That's me telt! Was just like to see a level playing field rather than the same old OF biases.
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@GerryHassan @GrahamSpiers Silly boy. Hearts were involved in decision making process. Had they declined the offer, the pitch would be cleared and the remaining 30 seconds of the game played. It’s quite simple really. Don’t let you bias affect your view.
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Keir Starmer is openly trying to derail Andy Burnham's election chances by campaigning for him. Who would have thought Starmer could be so devious: all to save his own skin?
Politics UK@PolitlcsUK
🚨 NEW: Keir Starmer says he'll be travelling to Makerfield to campaign for Andy Burnham “I want everybody to be involved in the campaign, whatever other discussions are going on”
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@MikePicken57 @michael195919 @Nick_whelan_ Get your point. You mean February 1974 followed by October 1974. 1951 is the only time a party won an overall majority while losing the popular vote.
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@michael195919 @Nick_whelan_ @GerryHassan Wilson won 1 million more votes than Heath Oct election followed 7.5 months later. Turnout fell 6pc but Labour held on to most of vote, while Tories fell by 1.4M. Lab majority 3, had to do deals w/ SNP & Libs later in parliament as they suffered defections & lost by-elections.
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Winston Churchill was UK PM for nine years. But in all three UK general elections against Labour's Clement Attlee he never once won the popular vote. Labour won all three in votes: 1945, 1950, 1951.
Ramin Nasibov@RaminNasibov
What historical fact sounds fake but is true?
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Here is an uncontestable fact: landlords do not for the most part build homes. They rent out existing properties. The UK needs to build new homes of the scale it did in the 1950s & 1960s when governments turbo-charged council house building.
Kirstie Allsopp@KirstieMAllsopp
Surprise, surprise @wesstreeting is on @BBCr4today bashing landlords. I’ve got news for you mate, we can’t have a “productive nation” without people having homes, so if you want to tax Landlords to hell, I’d build some alternative accommodation first ‘cos you’re going to need it.
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Gerry Hassan retweetledi
More proof if needed of the shambles of Starmer's Downing Street operation. A briefing to papers on capping supermarket prices produces predictable backlash from supermarkets followed by govt retreat. Basic incompetence from the Starmer Govt.
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