This week alone Mahmood has been endorsed by the far-right. Not because they are playing some genius game of 4D chess to discredit her, but because she is selling what they are buying. The language, the policies, all fit the far-right's pitch, but still won't go far enough for them. 6/

Labour isn't losing supporters to Reform. Conservatives are but Labour isn't. Labour is losing to them to the Lib Dems and Greens, and that is entirely on Labour if they cannot even try and come up with policies which would encourage people to support them. 5/

You'll see voters who don't want to see another anti-rights, anti-marginalised groups party in power, vote for someone else, someone who won't spend their entire time punching down. Nobody "owes" Labour their vote, and it isn't people not supporting them who are the issue. 4/

If, as someone still supporting Labour, you genuinely want to avoid a Reform government, stop complaining about people calling out Labour's inhumane policies and start challenging those policies. Otherwise, first off, all you are doing is increasing the salience of Reform's arguments. 3/

Reform's called for mass deportations. At least they're honest. Labour's policies will cause mass deportations and they'll still claim they are "progressive".
Level of deflection by some Labour supporters is huge. These are still discriminatory polices, even if it's Labour pushing them. 2/

Once again: Maugham's First Law: nothing Wes Streeting ever says turns out to be true. bsky.app/profile/good...

I'd add that the International Criminal Court won't be particularly invested in a comment about a racist mural on Facebook, whereas...