Tom Miller
@tommilleruk.bsky.social
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NEW: Labour's CAC has reversed its decision to block motions on ending the two-child benefit limit.
Without an end to the two-child benefit limit, the Government's Child Poverty Strategy is doomed to fail.
A statement from Mainstream's Interim Council below👇
Without an end to the two-child benefit limit, the Government's Child Poverty Strategy is doomed to fail.
A statement from Mainstream's Interim Council below👇
September 22, 2025 at 5:18 PM
NEW: Labour's CAC has reversed its decision to block motions on ending the two-child benefit limit.
Without an end to the two-child benefit limit, the Government's Child Poverty Strategy is doomed to fail.
A statement from Mainstream's Interim Council below👇
Without an end to the two-child benefit limit, the Government's Child Poverty Strategy is doomed to fail.
A statement from Mainstream's Interim Council below👇
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There's overwhelming support amongst Labour's membership for a more radical offer on democracy, the economy, child poverty & more.
We believe the voices of radical realists, the vast majority of the Labour Party, must be heard and heeded.
Join us: mainstreamlabour.org/get-involved
We believe the voices of radical realists, the vast majority of the Labour Party, must be heard and heeded.
Join us: mainstreamlabour.org/get-involved
September 9, 2025 at 9:12 AM
There's overwhelming support amongst Labour's membership for a more radical offer on democracy, the economy, child poverty & more.
We believe the voices of radical realists, the vast majority of the Labour Party, must be heard and heeded.
Join us: mainstreamlabour.org/get-involved
We believe the voices of radical realists, the vast majority of the Labour Party, must be heard and heeded.
Join us: mainstreamlabour.org/get-involved
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Mainstream is serious about winning a democratic socialist future.
We stand for:
⚡ Redistributing power and wealth
⚡ Defending rights and dignity at home & abroad
⚡ Creating a new political economy
..and much more.
Our platform and our plan: www.mainstreamlabour.org/about
We stand for:
⚡ Redistributing power and wealth
⚡ Defending rights and dignity at home & abroad
⚡ Creating a new political economy
..and much more.
Our platform and our plan: www.mainstreamlabour.org/about
About | Mainstream Labour
Mainstream is the home for Labour’s radical realists - united by values, driven by change
www.mainstreamlabour.org
September 8, 2025 at 10:28 AM
Mainstream is serious about winning a democratic socialist future.
We stand for:
⚡ Redistributing power and wealth
⚡ Defending rights and dignity at home & abroad
⚡ Creating a new political economy
..and much more.
Our platform and our plan: www.mainstreamlabour.org/about
We stand for:
⚡ Redistributing power and wealth
⚡ Defending rights and dignity at home & abroad
⚡ Creating a new political economy
..and much more.
Our platform and our plan: www.mainstreamlabour.org/about
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All governments are imperfect but they are NOT "all the same".
The lazy trope that "it doesn't matter who you vote for" isn't just false; it feeds the nihilism on which the radical right prey.
It's like a burning tyre, coating everything in acrid smoke, choking off any meaningful democratic choice
The lazy trope that "it doesn't matter who you vote for" isn't just false; it feeds the nihilism on which the radical right prey.
It's like a burning tyre, coating everything in acrid smoke, choking off any meaningful democratic choice
Compare and contrast the plutocratic US government's grotesque help for the richest... with social democratic Britain. Like night and day.
June 14, 2025 at 8:43 AM
All governments are imperfect but they are NOT "all the same".
The lazy trope that "it doesn't matter who you vote for" isn't just false; it feeds the nihilism on which the radical right prey.
It's like a burning tyre, coating everything in acrid smoke, choking off any meaningful democratic choice
The lazy trope that "it doesn't matter who you vote for" isn't just false; it feeds the nihilism on which the radical right prey.
It's like a burning tyre, coating everything in acrid smoke, choking off any meaningful democratic choice
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🚨NEW PUBLICATION 🚨
Though people have moved on from Brexit, they still vote in line with their Brexit preferences - with age/education still separating voters.
Voters now back party blocs, which matters greatly for Labour's current appeals to Reform voters.
🧵
academic.oup.com/pa/advance-a...
Though people have moved on from Brexit, they still vote in line with their Brexit preferences - with age/education still separating voters.
Voters now back party blocs, which matters greatly for Labour's current appeals to Reform voters.
🧵
academic.oup.com/pa/advance-a...
The Brexit realignment amid electoral volatility: The role of party blocs in the 2024 General Election
Abstract. Brexit accelerated the long-term realignment of how demographic groups vote in Britain. However, Europe is no longer salient to voters, support f
academic.oup.com
May 12, 2025 at 10:23 AM
🚨NEW PUBLICATION 🚨
Though people have moved on from Brexit, they still vote in line with their Brexit preferences - with age/education still separating voters.
Voters now back party blocs, which matters greatly for Labour's current appeals to Reform voters.
🧵
academic.oup.com/pa/advance-a...
Though people have moved on from Brexit, they still vote in line with their Brexit preferences - with age/education still separating voters.
Voters now back party blocs, which matters greatly for Labour's current appeals to Reform voters.
🧵
academic.oup.com/pa/advance-a...
"Our £5bn disability benefits cut will stop welfare state collapsing, says Kendall"
Social security has been collapsing for years. This accelerates the trend and supports the politics.
Social security has been collapsing for years. This accelerates the trend and supports the politics.
May 20, 2025 at 10:10 PM
"Our £5bn disability benefits cut will stop welfare state collapsing, says Kendall"
Social security has been collapsing for years. This accelerates the trend and supports the politics.
Social security has been collapsing for years. This accelerates the trend and supports the politics.
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A lot of things in politics make me think of this song m.youtube.com/watch?v=Gxd2...
May 20, 2025 at 9:46 AM
A lot of things in politics make me think of this song m.youtube.com/watch?v=Gxd2...
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So the strategy of trying to out-Farage Farage on immigration is going about as well as expected
May 20, 2025 at 9:48 AM
So the strategy of trying to out-Farage Farage on immigration is going about as well as expected
It's a disaster that they haven't fallen to zero, or close to that.
Looking at private school pupil numbers in the ISC census and they've fallen back to where they were in..... 2022. Not exactly the disaster many predicted....
May 20, 2025 at 9:50 AM
It's a disaster that they haven't fallen to zero, or close to that.
We need serious changes on this, and we need them yesterday. Quick win for the government, if they want it. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
Slot machine firms target UK’s poorest areas and channel funds to billionaires
Exclusive: Politicians including Andy Burnham call for councils to be given powers to stop new sites opening
www.theguardian.com
May 18, 2025 at 1:37 PM
We need serious changes on this, and we need them yesterday. Quick win for the government, if they want it. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
Huge amount of this immigration stuff is hyperbole. I think the concentration should be on how we integrate people and get public services to work. In the meantime though, this is instructive and shows how the political context is set.
this is not an exaggeration
May 12, 2025 at 7:08 PM
Huge amount of this immigration stuff is hyperbole. I think the concentration should be on how we integrate people and get public services to work. In the meantime though, this is instructive and shows how the political context is set.
If it's hurting (them), it's working.
The most prominent figure supporting the UK's decarbonization efforts is Energy Secretary Ed Miliband. Predictably, the UK's right-wing media has launched a full-scale blitz to discredit him.
Analysis: Attacks on Ed Miliband in UK newspaper editorials have already exceeded 2024 levels - Carbon Brief
UK newspapers have already launched more editorials attacking Ed Miliband in the first four months of 2025 than they did during the whole of 2024.
www.carbonbrief.org
May 6, 2025 at 7:41 PM
If it's hurting (them), it's working.
Indeed.
A question that I haven't heard a good answer to: if cutting migration by a third in a year hasn't changed the narrative on it at all - what would make you think cutting it by another third (or half] would?
Immigration fell by a third in the 9 months after General Election. (From 1.2m visas to 800k in year to March 2025). The new lower headline migration figure (the 12 months of 2024) will come out 10 days after the white paper. Saying net migration is 700k (last stat: year to June 2024) is out of date
May 6, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Indeed.
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Reform UK’s new councillor for Redditch South, Worcestershire.
Sue Eacock
What’s her first priority going to be?
Maybe reducing the number of Black people on TV.
Or cancel the ‘gay parades’.
Or ban the Muslim ‘ideology’ from your Christian country.
That’s what you’ve voted for #Worcestershire.
Sue Eacock
What’s her first priority going to be?
Maybe reducing the number of Black people on TV.
Or cancel the ‘gay parades’.
Or ban the Muslim ‘ideology’ from your Christian country.
That’s what you’ve voted for #Worcestershire.
Susan Eacock Reform UK candidate for Redditch South, Worcestershire.
Seriously Reform UK, how did you not pick this one up in your vetting?!
Seriously Reform UK, how did you not pick this one up in your vetting?!
May 5, 2025 at 6:12 AM
Reform UK’s new councillor for Redditch South, Worcestershire.
Sue Eacock
What’s her first priority going to be?
Maybe reducing the number of Black people on TV.
Or cancel the ‘gay parades’.
Or ban the Muslim ‘ideology’ from your Christian country.
That’s what you’ve voted for #Worcestershire.
Sue Eacock
What’s her first priority going to be?
Maybe reducing the number of Black people on TV.
Or cancel the ‘gay parades’.
Or ban the Muslim ‘ideology’ from your Christian country.
That’s what you’ve voted for #Worcestershire.
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New post from me about the elections of the last week, where the 'peak populism' hypothesis stands, and what lessons the Labour Party should be drawing. 1/n
benansell.substack.com/p/labour-is-...
benansell.substack.com/p/labour-is-...
Labour is Learning the Wrong Lessons
Centre-left incumbents are staying in power by aggressively pushing back on populists, not by aping them
benansell.substack.com
May 5, 2025 at 7:34 AM
New post from me about the elections of the last week, where the 'peak populism' hypothesis stands, and what lessons the Labour Party should be drawing. 1/n
benansell.substack.com/p/labour-is-...
benansell.substack.com/p/labour-is-...
This is a sign of government not being able to deliver what people support and want.
When we published the 'fiscal rules', those on the right of the party told me, to paraphrase, that members should blind faith it. Power first, policy later.
Well, this is what happens without brave electioneering.
When we published the 'fiscal rules', those on the right of the party told me, to paraphrase, that members should blind faith it. Power first, policy later.
Well, this is what happens without brave electioneering.
And even among others who backed their platform there was doubts they were the answer. The same cynicism affecting other parties seems to be hitting reform as well among the more disillusioned - there’s little hope Reform are the answer, just a sense they may as well try.
May 4, 2025 at 3:37 PM
This is a sign of government not being able to deliver what people support and want.
When we published the 'fiscal rules', those on the right of the party told me, to paraphrase, that members should blind faith it. Power first, policy later.
Well, this is what happens without brave electioneering.
When we published the 'fiscal rules', those on the right of the party told me, to paraphrase, that members should blind faith it. Power first, policy later.
Well, this is what happens without brave electioneering.
Good thread, and the quoted thread is really good too. Some useful bits on Farage and his base in there.
There is an idealised Proper Working Class, who is heavily implied to be straight, white, working in manual labour and socially conservative with it. With no aspirations for their kids but to be the Same As Them.
It exists predominantly in the minds of Blue Labour and post-liberals.
It exists predominantly in the minds of Blue Labour and post-liberals.
A problematic aspect of Blue Labour is its simplistic narrative of "Red Wall" towns like Chesterfield or Doncaster as homogenously provincial when in reality they also have businesses and people immersed in the global economy.
Blue Labour uses elite caricatures of the North to attack rival elites
Blue Labour uses elite caricatures of the North to attack rival elites
May 4, 2025 at 1:50 PM
Good thread, and the quoted thread is really good too. Some useful bits on Farage and his base in there.
What an amazingly divided ward. Don't see his much!
The lowest winning vote share in the local elections was a mere 18.9%...
Truro Moresk & Trehaverne (Cornwall) Result:
🔶 LDM: 18.9%
➡️ RFM: 17.4%
🌳 CON: 17.0%
🌍 GRN: 14.1%
🙋 Ind: 13.3%
🌹 LAB: 11.4%
🙋 Ind: 7.9%
Truro Moresk & Trehaverne (Cornwall) Result:
🔶 LDM: 18.9%
➡️ RFM: 17.4%
🌳 CON: 17.0%
🌍 GRN: 14.1%
🙋 Ind: 13.3%
🌹 LAB: 11.4%
🙋 Ind: 7.9%
May 4, 2025 at 1:47 PM
What an amazingly divided ward. Don't see his much!
Numbers suggest that the biggest 🇦🇺 Labor win in decades now delivered by a PM from the left faction.
ALP left is way more collegiate than UK Lab traditional left; party relationships are better, and formalised.
Still - this should be food for thought for our members and MPs. 👊
ALP left is way more collegiate than UK Lab traditional left; party relationships are better, and formalised.
Still - this should be food for thought for our members and MPs. 👊
May 3, 2025 at 2:22 PM
Numbers suggest that the biggest 🇦🇺 Labor win in decades now delivered by a PM from the left faction.
ALP left is way more collegiate than UK Lab traditional left; party relationships are better, and formalised.
Still - this should be food for thought for our members and MPs. 👊
ALP left is way more collegiate than UK Lab traditional left; party relationships are better, and formalised.
Still - this should be food for thought for our members and MPs. 👊
Excellent news.
May 3, 2025 at 2:08 PM
Excellent news.
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Reform Amateur Hour begins.
Having been on the Executive of a local authority I can confirm it is extremely hard work and extremely long hours.
There’s going to be so much whining when the wake-up call hits.
Having been on the Executive of a local authority I can confirm it is extremely hard work and extremely long hours.
There’s going to be so much whining when the wake-up call hits.
@vicderbyshire.bsky.social @chadbourn.bsky.social
Winning reform candidates in emotional meltdown post count in #rugby #warwickshire
Winning reform candidates in emotional meltdown post count in #rugby #warwickshire
May 3, 2025 at 1:50 PM
Reform Amateur Hour begins.
Having been on the Executive of a local authority I can confirm it is extremely hard work and extremely long hours.
There’s going to be so much whining when the wake-up call hits.
Having been on the Executive of a local authority I can confirm it is extremely hard work and extremely long hours.
There’s going to be so much whining when the wake-up call hits.
Good to get a bit of coverage for some proper local government stuff. Read more here: www.mylondon.news/news/north-l...
'Morally fraudulent' gambling 'loophole' used again in North London
A local councillor has called the plan to open another adult gaming centre an 'insult to the integrity' of the Planning Committee
www.mylondon.news
May 3, 2025 at 1:50 PM
Good to get a bit of coverage for some proper local government stuff. Read more here: www.mylondon.news/news/north-l...
This stuff is all going to end up being about unions in the tech and engineering sectors.
Oh dear you’re going to want to read this. Looks like DOGErs were caught exfiltrating NLRB data, likely on unions, for private (seemingly Elony) use. This is must read. What we’ve all suspected. But now details. www.npr.org/2025/04/15/n...
A whistleblower's disclosure details how DOGE may have taken sensitive labor data
A whistleblower tells Congress and NPR that DOGE may have taken sensitive labor data and hid its tracks. "None of that ... information should ever leave the agency," said a former NLRB official.
www.npr.org
April 15, 2025 at 1:49 PM
This stuff is all going to end up being about unions in the tech and engineering sectors.