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Leviathan Wilde @leviathanwilde.bsky.social · 14h

“Five survivors invited on to the child sexual exploitation inquiry panel have written to Keir Starmer and Shabana Mahmood to say they will continue working with the investigation only if the safeguarding minister Jess Phillips remains in post.”

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Five grooming gang survivors tell PM they will stay on panel only if Jess Phillips remains in post

Exclusive: In fresh controversy, the women write to Keir Starmer and Shabana Mahmood to speak up for safeguarding minister

www.theguardian.com

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Dan Snow @thehistoryguy.bsky.social · 15h

Next time your mate is deep in a reverie about the immutable, exceptional nature of English identity, you might want to show them this picture and remind them that 300 years ago this would have been enough to send the entire kingdom into a revolutionary, effigy burning, chapel torching frenzy

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Zoë Grünewald @zoegrunewald.bsky.social · 15h

Governments love to promise they’ll listen, but real listening means staying in the room when the truth is uncomfortable

Good intentions are not enough if the govt doesn't understand the decades of hurt that shape this inquiry

Me for @theleaduk.bsky.social

national.thelead.uk/p/grooming-g...

Courage is needed to ensure grooming gangs inquiry stays the course

There are good intentions from Labour, but Jess Phillips must rise to meet this challenge as weaponisation ramps up.

national.thelead.uk

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Henry Mance @henrymance.ft.com · 15h

The Conservatives would not deport as many people as Idi Amin.

They would deport *more*. www.ft.com/content/9a1d...

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Leviathan Wilde @leviathanwilde.bsky.social · 14h

This is more my fear… there are too many Weimar Republic fall echoes going on right now for my liking. Tho knowing the past can help to divert from similar mistakes.. but then again Katy Lam hasn’t been kicked out for saying stuff further right than Enoch Powell when he was kicked out of the Cons. 😳

Leviathan Wilde @leviathanwilde.bsky.social · 14h

No it hasn’t 🥹 it’s shitty…& I imagine it is not what the majority of people who voted Labour want. But unless something changes I imagine Overton window will shift so far right b4 next election that if Reform & Cons get in we’ll be thinking of this as ‘the good old days’ bsky.app/profile/sund... 😔

Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 17h

Stephen Bush on the extraordinary draft legislation which Shadow Home Secretary Chris Philp, Matt Vickers, Katie Lam and backbench colleagues have proposed in parliament

It is a proposal that would seek to deport around 5% of the resident population, including over a quarter of a million with ILR

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 17h

Stephen Bush on the extraordinary draft legislation which Shadow Home Secretary Chris Philp, Matt Vickers, Katie Lam and backbench colleagues have proposed in parliament

It is a proposal that would seek to deport around 5% of the resident population, including over a quarter of a million with ILR

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 17h

This is literally what is in the Bill as a definition.The Shadow Home Secretary may not remember & LOTO were saying it does not say this yesterday, so there are some mistakes in deporting pensioners, and they may notice the mistaken proposal to deport the Syrian vulnerable refugees if somebody asked

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 17h

Philp said Farage went too far so must be unclear about his own bill

There are a small group (people who earn £38k-60k) who Reform would kick out who the Conservatives might keep. But the draft bill would kick most of them out too, and most spouses, parents because of the state support definition

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 21h

As drafted
* identical expulsions even if married to British citizens/with UK-born children
* no cut off as to how far back Cons want to go pre-2019 (eg 15-20-30 years). Should accept not go back beyond 2020 arrivals
* no exclusion of pensions.Nor child benefit for UK-born child
* maternity leave

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Leviathan Wilde @leviathanwilde.bsky.social · 15h

Recognition of this hierarchy of bad isn’t being happy at where we are or the options ahead! For me it’s a recognition of the difference between what “ought” and what “is” under FPTP. At next election I’ll be supporting tactical voting - Lib Dem, SNP, PC, Labour, Green, progressive independents. 😊

Leviathan Wilde @leviathanwilde.bsky.social · 15h

We are going to have to agree to disagree on this one 😊Labour are a disappointment on many issues, awful on some, & brilliant on others, & still overall better to what we’d be getting from Tories or Reform. Eg Katy Lam & Jenrick are talking about deporting ppl w ILTR & Badenoch hasn’t sacked them 😳

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Leviathan Wilde @leviathanwilde.bsky.social · 15h

Yes I totally agree 👍 - well, not tomorrow.. it would take a while to draw up legislation & get through HoL, but on the principle I am with you on this one. I have written to my MP & campaigned to try to change FPTP to PR (plus Aussie style compulsory voting w option of ‘none of the above’)

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Quakers in Britain @quaker.org.uk · 15h

Quakers in Britain have long called for a just transition, which puts justice and equality at the heart of climate solutions.

We welcome the first ever national plan to recruit the workers needed for clean energy, which aims to train 400,000 people by 2030.

Clean energy jobs a step in the right direction, Quakers say

Quakers in Britain has welcomed the first ever national plan to recruit the workers needed for clean energy.

www.quaker.org.uk

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Leviathan Wilde @leviathanwilde.bsky.social · 2d

see the stakes that are facing the west of the rise of authoritarianism & ethnonationalism, & UK is also at risk, & embrace the art of the possible & work together, utilise tactical voting, there is a chance to get a hung parliament/centre & progressive coalition. But I am always up for new ideas! 😊

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Leviathan Wilde @leviathanwilde.bsky.social · 2d

However, if anyone thinks Labour is exactly the same as Reform, I think they would be surprised how much worse it would get if Reform got the predicted majority 😳 There are 4 years-ish, but even Zack P is saying he doesn’t think Greens cld get a majority or be ready to govern. I think if ppl can

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Leviathan Wilde @leviathanwilde.bsky.social · 2d

There are Labour policies I don’t like, ones that I’m not happy with but understand, ones that are brilliant and give me hope, ones that I am very sad & angry about & ones I can’t understand for the life of me why they aren’t shouting about from the rooftops because they are excellent..

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Leviathan Wilde @leviathanwilde.bsky.social · 2d

Hello! 👋 that’s an interesting conclusion, how did you get to that assumption? 😊 If you don’t think tactical voting wld be a good idea in FPTP I am genuinely open to hearing alternative realistic & achievable plans for preventing a Con/reform govt in the UK, w current predicted voter intention👍

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Leviathan Wilde @leviathanwilde.bsky.social · 2d

Labour should be shouting about this investment on a daily basis - Labour MPs should be pushing out the message locally on social media and in person. It’s another instance of Labour hiding their best and most equitable actions under a bushel.

www.newstatesman.com/politics/202...

Exclusive: Starmer outspends Johnson on levelling up in first year

Labour invested £2bn more on Levelling Up in its first year

www.newstatesman.com

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Leviathan Wilde @leviathanwilde.bsky.social · 2d

“In fact, Starmer’s government has already committed funding the equivalent of 70 per cent of the entirety of Johnson’s “Levelling Up” allocation in just 14 months in office. It is on track to invest £36bn in such schemes: three times the levels under Boris Johnson.” 👇

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Leviathan Wilde @leviathanwilde.bsky.social · 2d

“Investment in the North East will be seven times higher than under Johnson, and five times higher in the North West and Yorkshire and Humber by the end of the parliament, based on current trends identified in this analysis of 46 government programmes and funds.” 👇

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Leviathan Wilde @leviathanwilde.bsky.social · 2d

This is good news 🎉🎉😊

“In its first year in office, Keir Starmer’s government has invested £2bn more than Johnson did in his first year – with £4.5bn allocated to regional investment programmes in Labour’s first year compared with £2.5bn spent in the equivalent period under Johnson”

Link 👇 🧵

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Leviathan Wilde @leviathanwilde.bsky.social · 2d

Politics is the art of the possible😊if we’re in a future where *not* tactical voting can keep out Farage, then that will be great 👍😀But if the options are tactical voting for Labour in a LA where green & Lib Dem would lose or letting in ‘PM Farage’..dying on a hill of purity will not help migrants 🥹

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Leviathan Wilde @leviathanwilde.bsky.social · 2d

Tactical voting will be the friend of anyone who doesn’t want Reform or Tories. Polling to date shows how marginal Reform lead is in majority of areas, & how votes are split across liberal/green/lab letting reform or tories in. Stopping Reform means voting for the least worst most possible option

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Leviathan Wilde @leviathanwilde.bsky.social · 2d

At the next election, tactical voting will be your friend. & if you’re at all progressive & don’t want Nigel Farage to destroy uk healthcare, cut tax for millionaires, take away PIP from your disabled loved ones, or deport you or yours, then tactical voting to stop Reform IS upholding your ethics

Henry Mance @henrymance.ft.com · 2d

Latest YouGov opinion poll:

Reform + Conservatives: 43%
Labour + Lib Dems + Greens: 50%

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