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@LindseyAGerman Tldr: I've made a massive compromise myself, to accept bourgeois democracy. But I'm going to strictly purity-test everyone else's positions.

Why the Green Party is not the new party of the left counterfire.org/article/why-th…

@CompassOffice @JonCruddas_1 The 'soft left' - well, obviously we don't LIKE genocide, but being in government means that you have to make those 'hard choices'

🎙️OUT NOW🎙️ There's been much talk recently about the 'Soft Left' - but what exactly is it? And can even it be pinned down? To discuss this and our new publication on the subject, we're joined by former MP & Labour historian @JonCruddas_1, and former Minister Clare Short. 👇

@PippaCrerar Wes Streeting has a 500 vote majority and is currently tied with 'Someone Else' in the polls. Seriously, stop trying to make Wes Streeting happen, it's never going to happen.

EXCL: Wes Streeting insists he can win over Labour left, as he launches shadow campaign for party leadership, saying he has “beaten the odds” throughout life and can do so again. Former health secretary warns Labour MPs that drifting on with Keir Starmer in charge risks a Joe Biden moment that would usher in a Reform government. Although there is no official leadership contest – Starmer is still in Downing Street and the favourite, Andy Burnham, is campaigning to win a byelection – Streeting says it’s “inevitable” the PM would stand down. For his policy plans and more, read on 👇 theguardian.com/politics/2026/…

@gorbalsgoebbels You need to change your picture.

Difference between a career politician like Burnham & someone who came into politics to serve like Starmer cannot be emphasised enough. Burnham is all fake & ego. Starmer is dull but worthy. Plodding yet sincere. Starmer is a safe pair of hands & is getting it right slowly.

@andy4makerfield @AndyBurnhamGM youtu.be/UDfAdHBtK_Q?si…

What’s @AndyBurnhamGM listening to on the campaign trail? 🤔

@novaramedia @harriepw We're investigating Wes Streeting, currently polling at 2%, rather than the favourite Andy Burnham. Because Burnham is the Establishment candidate. Our job is to frame Burnham as the 'progressive' choice for (sad-face) neoliberal voters.

Wes Streeting is currently setting out his stall to replace Keir Starmer as prime minister – but who is funding the former health secretary? Spoiler alert, the sums ain't small. @harriepw takes a look.

@novaramedia @AaronBastani Bookmarked for the next time anyone describes Novara as a voice against the Establishment. Burnham is endorsing Reeves' fiscal rules and Mahmood's policies on immigration. He's moving Right not Left, yet you're trying to gaslight voters that he's on a progressive journey.

Progressive voters are unhappy that Andy Burnham voted for the Iraq war – but few remember that leftwing icon Tony Benn prepared to use troops to break a strike whilst he was a minister. “If that kind of archive existed in the late 70s, early 80s,” says @AaronBastani on Downstream, “I doubt [Benn] would have been the standard bearer of the Labour left. But people didn’t know about things that happened 20 years earlier in the way they now do.” James Butler (@piercepenniless) says that it’s “democratic” that politicians should be held accountable for their past choices – but it also feels like “people can’t change positions” anymore. “The whole communicative regime has changed, and I don’t think politics has caught up with it at all,” he adds. Watch the full episode of Downstream on our YouTube channel.

@algorecrave Tell us more about this change

@freddiejh8 Published in @NewStatesman - an unquestioning cheerleader for Starmerism until about 5 minutes ago. And will be an unquestioning cheerleader for whichever (sad-face) neoliberal replaces him.

@NicholasTyrone Don't let the facts get in the way of a good story...

It is amazing watching the Labour left assure themselves that if only the party had gone more progressive and more woke, it wouldn’t be in the electoral predicament they are in now. Shows again how anyone can believe anything if they want to enough.

@lyrasie The line starts behind Paul Mason 😅😅😅

as a communist, i will be joining the labour party to vote for keir starmer in the leadership election.

@beanietheonly Ignore the haters, acknowledging you were wrong is much more than the majority of Twitter users would do.

I'm not gonna pretend I wasn't once swayed by the narrative that Burnham would be better than Starmer - I was - but this weasel is making it very clear to anyone paying attention that he is going to change nothing but the optics

@SangitaMyska Is it Burnham's keeness to continue Reeves' austerity or Mahmood's harassment of immigrants that you're really impressed with? FFS! How to trash your brand in one easy tweet.

This is the perfect opportunity for The Greens to reconsider its decision to run in Makerfield. Will they take it? Should they take it?

@BigIssue @AngelaRayner The reason why people need the Big Issue...

"You provide the dignity of a hand-up" At Big Issue's 35th Anniversary Dinner, @AngelaRayner shares why she supports the Big Issue, and why second chances matter.

Going for a spray tan tonight, the woman is brilliant, but she makes you stand there naked while she rubs you with an exfoliating glove.

@LeftieStats @FindoutnowUK Wes Streeting tied with 'Someone else' 😅😅😅

🌹LABOUR MEMBERS | Leader preference: 🔴 Keir Starmer – 40% 🔴 Andy Burnham – 40% 🔴 Wes Streeting – 2% (Source: @FindoutnowUK, 15-16 May)

@luxemiaa So, how much do you normally charge for the 'girlfriend experience'?

@PhillAndry86 Same goes for strip clubs - male customer gets fresh with a female stripper they're getting thrown out; female customer gets fresh with a male stripper no consequences

Funnily enough, numerous gay men have told me that women in gay bars are the ones who lack an understanding of consent.

@martha_dacombe @ArguablyMag So, it's 'risk taking' to continue Reeves' fiscal rules, Mahmood's immigration policies and bring back Josh Simons as policy adviser?

NEW for @ArguablyMag : Andy Burnham's Makerfield gambit is the kind of political theatre Starmer's managerialism has conspicuously failed to produce. Risk-taking is a democratic virtue. Thatcher knew it, Blair knew it and Burnham seems to. Read in replies

@SJP74 @PolitlcsUK @CarolineLucas Tell us more about the Greens being 'Reform enablers'

@PolitlcsUK Shameful from the Greens. Even @CarolineLucas hoped that they would not stand a candidate. GREENS = REFORM ENABLERS

🚨 NEW: Chris Kennedy is the Green Party's candidate in the Makerfield by-election He is a nurse of 18 years and now holds leadership roles in child safeguarding