@Femi_Sorry @BarryGardiner No. I told you why, on the day all your Tory Rebel heroes stabbed you in the back. You are so damned arrogant, Femi, to assume you have all the answers. If the Tories won't even support their own motion, how in hell do you think they will support a People's Vote? 1/ @Femi_Sorry @BarryGardiner 2/ And even if they did, what do you think Remaining would be like if the Tories were still running the shop til 2022? You might, like me, come from a cushy background, so it won't affect your life. Meanwhile 20% of the population is living in poverty while we are still in the EU

@davidschneider I'm going to say something you won't like, but someone needs to say it. I am a 56 yr old professional woman who has fought racism all her adult life. And the abuse I and thousands like me have had, just for being Labour members, has been obscene. 1/ @davidschneider 2/ I've had someone email my workplace saying they should think about employing me because I am a "supporter of the antisemite Ken Livingstone" (which I'm not, now). I have seen every effort I have made to try and reason and build bridges thrown back in my face.

1. Well there's interesting. The self-defined representatives of the Jewish community absolutely silent on twitter about the Tories' MEP voting against censuring Orban yesterday. The BoD? Nowt
(in fact they were schmoozing with Brokenshire and Grant) 2. The CST? Nowt. (but they were meeting with David Morris MP, you know the Tory who was shouting across the floor of Parliament that Labour were racist in PMQs yesterday)

1. A little story for #SocialistSunday. In 2015, Portugal had a general election. The party with the largest number of elected officials and, thus, under their electoral system, would form the government was the Socialist Party headed up by António Luís Santos da Costa. 2. The EU weren't happy about this at all. Costa was elected on an anti-EU ticket, Portugal's finances were in total disarray after years of austerity, and they were so terrified of a Socialist government that they tried to stop him becoming PM: telegraph.co.uk/finance/econom…

1. I will caveat my thread, like I always do on this subject, with my personal view that there is evidence of antisemitism in the Labour Party and it must be stamped out. I will now show a few things I have discovered over the past few days. 2. I discovered, first of all, just how easy it is to make fake facebook statuses and tweets, download them and present them as a screen-shot. They're very convincing. (Crafted by my own fair hand!)

1. Time for another thread (stop yawning at the back). The latest accusations of what is being described variously as Corbyn being a "f***ing antisemite and a racist!" and "institutional racism" in Labour stem from the fact that Labour have not adopted an IHRA document verbatim. 2. Allegations are made that Labour have not adopted the "definition of antisemitism" contained in the document. This is untrue. The working defintion is set out, in the IHRA document, thus: holocaustremembrance.com/working-defini…

Getting grumpy again. A lot of people are claiming that the Labour Policy document on Antisemitism has dumped 4 key aspects of the IHRA definition. This is not true. I will list the claims and highlight what the document actually says: 1. Denying the Jewish people the right to self-determination:

@JolyonMaugham Ok. I'll bite.
1. Respecting the result of the Referendum is what any democratic socialist party should do. Otherwise it is undemocratic. You may call it a matter of choice if you wish. Some would call it acknowledging that a vote was had and we Remainers lost. @JolyonMaugham 2. There is a wealth of difference between what Labour would like to achieve from Brexit and what May and her cohort want to achieve. To boil it down to basics, Labour's is jobs-first and people first; May's is corporations first and tax-breaks first.

@OFOCBrexit I said early, I feel really, really bad for you. I'm a remainer with ex-family in France, so I have "skin in the game". But I have watched as you have been charmed and manipulated in a concerted effort to undermine Labour by trying to take the youth support away from Corbyn 1/ @OFOCBrexit 2/ The main people who fund you hate the idea of an anti-austerity, pro-peacebuilding democratic socialist government more than they hate Tory Brexit because the former will see a great many gravy trains hit the buffers.

A properly-threaded series of tweets on why Kinnock, Umunna and the Usual Suspects are not only wrong about their stance on the Single Market and Brexit, but could lead to an Eternal Tory Government and a fundamental, and dangerous, shift in the Constitution and Balance of Powers 1. Without serious defections from the Tories - and I have yet to see Tory names on any amendments to the Withdrawal Bill other than the "final vote" in Dec 17, which was a matter of retaining parliamentary sovereignty - the numbers simply are not there.

Time for another thread: very irritated at people deliberately taking out of context a line from a statement made by Corbyn in relation to EU agency workers and claiming it is "anti-immigration" or "anti-Free Movement". It isn't. I will break it down here. The issue is not assisted by STV deliberately twisting what was said in this tweet, which has been picked up by everyone wishing to denigrate Corbyn, Labour or both. (I will post below the transcript as a whole)

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Thread: One of the biggest myths ever perpetrated, not just by the Tories but by those in Labour who wanted to get rid of Corbyn as leader in 2015, is that he didn't campaign for Remain because he was secretly a Leaver. Virtually a soon as he was elected as leader there were plots to oust him. First of all it was going to be when we lost Oldham West by-election on 02.12.15. Unluckily for the disgruntled MPs labour won with a resounding majority
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#Marr #Peston - in a week when a far-right extremist was convicted of murdering a Muslim, injuring several others, and announced in court his intention was to kill Corbyn & that if he could kill Sadiq Khan too, it would be "winning the lottery", you run with "members abuse"? It has really got well beyond @ggreenwald 's stage 7 and is entering into the arena of total panic melt-down. Any old crap at all will do to ensure there is no anti-austerity government in No. 10. theintercept.com/2016/01/21/the…

I am genuinely bemused by the toys-out-of-the pram outrage being expressed by those on the centre-right of the Labour Party today. What did they think would happen, after years of vilifying Corbyn supporters, using members' money to launch legal challenges, purging members, suspending CLPs and splitting them up based on false "evidence", calling us "trots", "rabble" and "dogs", parachuting new members into the NEC for Scotland and Wales to redress the balance to the right after left-wing members won elections, setting up Saving Labour,