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Ben Habib
24, May #BrokenSystem

Ben Habib: Everyone is panicking about @RestoreBritain_…

Everyone is panicking about @RestoreBritain_ splitting @reformparty_uk vote and allowing Burnham to win. The panic is misplaced. The worst political outcome would be Restore stepping aside to allow Reform a victory. With its current direction of travel, Reform offers the country no redemption. By stepping aside, Restore would concrete in Reform’s hopelessness. Restore must fight this election and do the best it can. If it were to gain 7% of the vote, as predicted, that would send an earth quake through Reform. Reform might then correct its ways. A Burnham victory makes not a blind bit of difference to the country. Labour has a 156 seat majority. Whether Burnham or some other idiot from Labour becomes PM makes no difference. And for those worried about an early general election - turkeys do not vote for Christmas. It is not happening. Restore and Rebecca Shepherd must fight this by election tooth and nail. I know @_AdvanceUK supporters are already in Makerfield campaigning on their behalf. I will help where I can.
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Pouria Zeraati
24, May #WarSpillover

Pouria Zeraati: He doesn't like being compared to Obama…

He doesn't like being compared to Obama :)) Trump's post: 'If I make a deal with the I.R., it will be a good and proper deal; not like Obama, who gave them a ton of cash and left a completely open path for them to get nuclear weapons. Our deal will be exactly the opposite of that, but no one has seen it yet or knows what it is. It hasn't even been finalized. So don't listen to the losers who criticize something they have no clue about. Unlike the people before me who should have solved this problem years ago, I won't make a bad deal!'
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Liz Webster
23, May #BrokenSystem

Liz Webster: Daniel Hannan accidentally gives…

🤡 Daniel Hannan accidentally gives the game away here. He admits: 👉 Brexit imposed major costs and disruption 👉 Britain still hasn’t settled into a workable relationship with Europe 👉 the debate is frozen in a permanent culture war 👉 and many practical UK-EU arrangements now work worse because everything is viewed through ideological lenses But then insists rejoin is impossible bc changing course would involve disruption 🤡 “We’ve already paid such a high price for this decision that we must keep paying it forever.” And the irony? Even Hannan ends up describing some form of closer economic European framework as the logical long-term solution. Bc geography, trade and interdependence didn’t disappear in 2016.
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Liz Webster
23, May #BrokenSystem

Liz Webster: David Miliband is spot on…

✅ David Miliband is spot on. Starmer’s current UK-EU reset is doomed to fail! We need a much bolder approach, starting with a single market for goods and building from there. Brexit has cost us economically and the government must now find ways to fix it without pretending otherwise. Time for realism on need for Europe🇪🇺 https://theguardian.com/politics/2026/may/23/uk-eu-european-union-reset-david-miliband-single-market-goods
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Chris Williamson
23, May #BrokenSystem

Chris Williamson: Nine years ago today…

Nine years ago today, @NewhamIndParty were part of the Labour Party led by Jeremy Corbyn. Some of them travelled up from London to campaign for me in Derby North, which I successfully contested as the country's most Corbyn-centric candidate in England's most marginal seat. Less than two years later I was suspended from the Labour Party for challenging the anti-Semitism scam and for defending grassroots activists who were being traduced by the genocidal Zionist lobby. I was also criticised for defending high profile victims of the witch-hunt like Ken Livingstone and Jackie Walker. Two and half years after that photograph was taken, the Corbyn project lay in tatters and the path had been cleared for the Starmer regime. Starmer and his cronies have been so appalling that they've cleared the way for the political spivs and fraudsters in Reform. Tragically, those days of hope that were exemplified in that 2017 campaign, were squandered by Jeremy Corbyn and the liberal left inside the Labour Party who bent over backwards to appease a bunch of Zionists who were hell-bent on destroying Jeremy's leadership. That experience should serve as a cautionary tale to @ZackPolanski and the Green Party, who seem to be making the same mistakes that Jeremy Corbyn and the liberal left made by seeking to appease the Zionist lobby. That strategy is doomed to fail. The only hope that Polanski and Greens have is to confront the Zionists head on and never make any concessions to these bad faith actors. If you give Zionists a millimetre they will always take a mile.
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Alex Wickham
23, May #BrokenSystem

Alex Wickham: NEW: Bloomberg Saturday read…

NEW: Bloomberg Saturday read Is Andy Burnham Labour’s saviour, or is it just… vibes? — The last week has been fascinating. Burnham has had a bumpy start. He’s boxed himself in by committing to the fiscal rules and Labour’s manifesto on tax. It significantly limits his room for manoeuvre to deliver his promise of change. — Some in Labour worry he’s already trapped by the same political and economic constraints that hampered Keir Starmer. While there’s no doubt he polls better and has more energy, they stress he isn’t a messiah who can fix all their problems. — Burnham performed 5 u-turns this week: on rejoining the EU, on the fiscal rules, backing a hardline immigration policy, reversing his trans views, and ditching a 50p top rate of tax. An MP on the left says he looks inauthentic. Another compares it to Starmer’s safety-first Ming vase strategy. — More clarifications are coming. Allies say it’ll be difficult to drop Starmer’s Brexit red lines on the single market and customs union before an election, and that it’ll be hard to fully nationalise energy and water. Ambitions are being scaled back. — A supporter says he’s being sensible and scraping the barnacles off the boat. But it shows he knows he has the same problem as Starmer losing votes both left and right, and he has a similar response: picking policies that appeal to each side. — So what’s different? Tax rises on capital sound likely, but that won’t raise much money and he’s now ruled out touching the big taxes. Some in Labour worry about the impact on growth and investment of a virtue-signalling tax policy. — One MP warns that by loudly promising “real change” but not giving himself the room to deliver it, Burnham could quickly see the public turn on him, just as they did on Starmer. The criticism doing the rounds is that he is just Starmerism with vibes and a northern accent. — There are growing concerns about the lack of serious planning Burnham has done for No10. His policy platform is erratic. His political operation is threadbare and largely consists of Ed Miliband’s team. MPs are appealing to Burnham to quickly expand his circle to avoid the sort of factional warfare that did for Starmer. — Some MPs also worry Burnham might immediately enter an economic downturn and new cost-of-living crisis just as he becomes PM, which the public will inevitably blame him for, preventing a honeymoon period. Some think he made a strategic error going so soon and should have let Starmer take the pain coming in the next six months. — Some MPs also want Burnham to stop getting into fights on Twitter, which he has been doing all week, raising eyebrows. His supporters say he’s a unity candidate who can attract voters from across the political divide. This campaign is already putting that to the test.
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