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Han🌹🏳️‍🌈 @ceremonialgeek.bsky.social · Sep 5

Angela Rayner's legacy will be bigger than anybody in the media who has been after her head since day one. Against all odds she has helped bring about a huge uplift to workers' and renters' rights. Meanwhile, journalists spend their days snipping women. Thank you for everything you've done, Angela.

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Han🌹🏳️‍🌈 @ceremonialgeek.bsky.social · 1h

I used to be a Corbynite in 2017. I would describe myself as a mix of Brownism, Blairism, with a greater emphasis on green infrastructure.

Han🌹🏳️‍🌈 @ceremonialgeek.bsky.social · 1h

I would be lying if I said I liked everything this Government does, but I do not accept the narrative that the delivery is going badly. Facts and figures say otherwise. If they could be a tad more liberal on immigration, I would appreciate it, but there is much to celebrate.

Han🌹🏳️‍🌈 @ceremonialgeek.bsky.social · 2h

Keir Starmer, replace Lisa Nandy with Angela Rayner, and then let her regulate the f*ck out of the media.

Han🌹🏳️‍🌈 @ceremonialgeek.bsky.social · 2h

Populist?

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Han🌹🏳️‍🌈 @ceremonialgeek.bsky.social · 2h

Where is Lisa Nandy? Can she not do something about this? Misinformation is a danger to our democracy.
www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

BBC airing false claim about Euan Blair blamed on young producers ‘marinated in social media’

Broadcaster apologised after Have I Got News For You falsely said former PM’s son had won digital ID contract

www.theguardian.com

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Han🌹🏳️‍🌈 @ceremonialgeek.bsky.social · 3h

As always with Corbyn, his activism is selective.

Han🌹🏳️‍🌈 @ceremonialgeek.bsky.social · 3h

I'm not sure whether you are being sarcastic or not.

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Han🌹🏳️‍🌈 @ceremonialgeek.bsky.social · 3h

Once again, Ed, your initial claim was that they hadn't started to implement any policy at all, which is objectively false. They won't have achieved everything in fifteen months; anybody who believes any Government can do so is delusional. Manifestos are a multi-year plan.

Han🌹🏳️‍🌈 @ceremonialgeek.bsky.social · 3h

You can't fix a sewage problem overnight. Things take time.

Han🌹🏳️‍🌈 @ceremonialgeek.bsky.social · 3h

It would have been much easier for you to say this outright, Ed, rather than claim they have binned their manifesto, which evidence refutes, regardless of whether you like the policies or not. At least then I would have known who I was dealing with.

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Han🌹🏳️‍🌈 @ceremonialgeek.bsky.social · 3h

"Based on the expectation that they would have started implementing policies". Christ on a bike, what part of achieving over fifteen pledges already do you not appear to understand? I am afraid you are just being silly now, Ed.

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Han🌹🏳️‍🌈 @ceremonialgeek.bsky.social · 4h

Whoever wins the Labour leadership contest, I hope they remind Keir Starmer of this. We need the Starmer we saw at conference every day.

Han🌹🏳️‍🌈 @ceremonialgeek.bsky.social · 4h

I am also not happy with everything this Government is doing. I regularly write to my MP to discuss problems I have, but resorting to hyperbole only adds toxicity to the debate. I am always open to discussion, Ed, but hyperbole is the mark of unintelligent discourse and divisiveness.

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Han🌹🏳️‍🌈 @ceremonialgeek.bsky.social · 4h

I think you are right about that, but the Government have got a few more years to go. To accuse them of binning their manifesto this early, based on the unrealistic expectation that everything would be complete by now, is unfair. It is possible to debate without resorting to hyperbole.

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Han🌹🏳️‍🌈 @ceremonialgeek.bsky.social · 4h

No, it doesn't, Ed. Here is an example.

Han🌹🏳️‍🌈 @ceremonialgeek.bsky.social · 4h

That wasn't your original claim, though, Ed. You are moving the goalposts now because you cannot accept that your initial claim was ridiculous hyperbole.

Han🌹🏳️‍🌈 @ceremonialgeek.bsky.social · 4h

I'll trust an independent fact-checker on this issue.

Han🌹🏳️‍🌈 @ceremonialgeek.bsky.social · 4h

House building has gone up since Labour came into power. No Government can deliver one hundred per cent of its manifesto, but it can strive to, and that is what the Government is doing. They haven't binned their manifesto, which is what you initially claimed.

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Han🌹🏳️‍🌈 @ceremonialgeek.bsky.social · 4h

"In Progress" means that work on the pledge has already started.

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Han🌹🏳️‍🌈 @ceremonialgeek.bsky.social · 4h

An independent fact-checker verifies their pledges, so I'm afraid I will take their word over yours.

Han🌹🏳️‍🌈 @ceremonialgeek.bsky.social · 4h

You call this binning a manifesto?

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Han🌹🏳️‍🌈 @ceremonialgeek.bsky.social · 4h

I'm sure she did. Stay petty, Rach.

Han🌹🏳️‍🌈 @ceremonialgeek.bsky.social · 4h

They haven't binned it, that is an outright lie.

Han🌹🏳️‍🌈 @ceremonialgeek.bsky.social · 5h

I don't like Polanski at all.

Han🌹🏳️‍🌈 @ceremonialgeek.bsky.social · 6h

Green supporters getting excited over a single FindOutNow polling figure, reminds me of the time myself and others on the left were convinced that somehow, a Labour candidate would be able to unseat Boris Johnson in the 2019 election.

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