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Ibrahim Sani

ibrahimsaninet

On minimum wage, Interviewed a business owner yesterday, company has about 50 employees, PBT about rm500k. Decent.He was arguing vehemently against raising min wage. Says that’ll destroy his business. Says

Nnayelugo

Eloka51

Canada made me appreciate all the nannies that stayed with us better. If you can’t do chores, Canada is not for you. Just stay in Nigeria because as a Man,

Capel Lofft

CapelLofft

Thesis: the urban w/c & farmers have both been screwed over by the political economy of Whiggism since Corn Law repeal. Capitalists lower food prices, which squeezes farmers AND allows

Barry Richards

barry_richards

And this is the big problem with Drakeford’s & UK Labour’s new found federalist pose: they can’t deliver it anytime soon, and probably never.They need England to vote Labour in

Steve Hudson🔻 #BLM

RoteSockenSteve

My CLP secretary - an incredibly hard-working, decent and committed man - just resigned from @UKLabour. I feel so angry: the anti-democratic diktats from the top of the Labour

Black Autistics

BlackAutistics

I've been thinking about things that make me feel inadequate as an Autistic person. One thing is the lack of evidence I have to show for the internal labor I

Matt Singh

MattSingh_

Lord Ashcroft's report on Labour, based on a poll of 10,000 and 18 focus groups in seats Labour lost. Nothing in these two paragraphs is unexpected, but it's great that

George Peretz QC

GeorgePeretzQC

This article by Jim Spellar for @LabourList misses the point about why Labour needs to think seriously about constitutional reform - and have a programme for it ready for government.https://twitter.com/labourlist/status/1359877510994026497

Carl Shoben

CarlSurvation

This broadly correct, not the only cause but the primary. There were no good options but Labour ended up taking the worst, telling voters they were wrong. There is no

Chris O'Kane

chrisokaneutrgv

Hot take: much of the literature on social reproduction that draws on Lise Vogel only draws on her abstract model of reproductive labor in class societies, not the abstract dynamic

Daniel Finn

DanFinn95

It's now a week since Jeremy Corbyn was suspended from the British Labour Party for telling the truth. Let's remember some of the episodes that didn't merit suspension from this

Imran

imran_1

SHORT THREADLots yesterday and today about Keir Starmer's speech today. @POLITICOEurope helpfully provides a link for the speech expected at 1107am https://labour.org.uk/keir-starmer-speech-securing-the-economy-for-families-during-lockd

Mark Jones

alargevat

THREAD: Yesterday’s example of egregious behaviour displayed by Cllr Alasdair Ross reminded me of the numerous times this “hard-working Labour councillor” operates freely as Ipswich Labour’s very own thought police

Rob Ford

robfordmancs

Maybe, maybe not. Case for: Votes Lab has won since 2010, & particularly 2015, tend to be younger, more socially liberal, more concerned about environment & (crucially) have much lower

Yair Wallach

YairWallach

The EHRC report is a vindication of the struggle of Jewish activists who rightly called the Labour party on antisemitism. But it couldn't have been won without the struggles for

Pseudoerasmus

pseudoerasmus

Some comments on this Bloomberg article about India's farmer protests, and its use of historical analogies as well as concepts from development economics.https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2021-02-10/india-s-farm-protests-have-p

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