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January 15, 2026 at 11:33 AM
4/4:
“…every person whose in work, whose no longer on benefits, not only has a better life for themselves, but it’s better for the public purse too. Our pledge is to pay for better chances in life rather than just paying people to survive”
September 29, 2025 at 3:17 PM
3/4:
“…Conference, fighting for opportunity is an act of rebellion against people’s fate being decided by their circumstances. And I know that some you quite like a bit of rebellion.“
September 29, 2025 at 3:17 PM
2/4:
“…[we believe in] A Britain where no child should go without food, no disabled person should live without dignity, and no worker should labour without decency.”
September 29, 2025 at 3:17 PM
14:40 Pat McFadden (Secretary of State for Work and Pensions) at the Labour Party Conference (1/4):

Impressively, he manages to give a 10-minute speech and dedicates precisely seven words to disabled people.

#TakingThePIP #WelfareNotWarfare
September 29, 2025 at 3:17 PM
“heard you’re a trotskyite bruv”
July 16, 2025 at 4:37 PM
3/3:
July 1, 2025 at 5:43 PM
2/3:
July 1, 2025 at 5:43 PM
16:18:03, Dr Marie Tidball (Lab, Penistone and Stocksbridge), who has a congenital disability, rises (1/3):
#TakingThePIP
July 1, 2025 at 5:43 PM
2/2:
July 1, 2025 at 4:59 PM
16:12:17, Jeremy Corbyn (Ind, Islington North) rises (1/2):
#TakingThePIP
July 1, 2025 at 4:59 PM
3/3:
July 1, 2025 at 3:58 PM
2/3:
July 1, 2025 at 3:58 PM
15:55:28, Richard Burgon (Lab, Leeds East) rises (1/3):
#TakingThePIP
July 1, 2025 at 3:58 PM
2/2:
July 1, 2025 at 3:11 PM
15:43:09, Marsha De Cordova (Lab, Battersea), who is registered blind, rises (1/2):
#TakingThePIP
July 1, 2025 at 3:11 PM
2/2:
July 1, 2025 at 2:44 PM
15:21:36, Rebecca Long-Bailey (Lab, Salford) rises (1/2):
#TakingThePIP
July 1, 2025 at 2:44 PM
June 24, 2025 at 1:52 PM
called himself a Menshevik and Morrissey the "world's greatest living singer-songwriter"; just a bit funny innit.
May 19, 2025 at 5:48 PM
Tweeted in 2019 that he "preferred" when Labour "focus[ed] on gaining 8 seats in Kent rather than defensive battles to save former coalfield strongholds." The seat he now holds, North Durham, is a former coal mining area which has voted Labour at every election since its creation in 1983.
May 19, 2025 at 5:48 PM
made a quiz to determine whether someone is a hard-left extremist (fewer points) or a normal pragmatic moderate (more points) where you gain points for supporting "leftwing" US intervention in Vietnam or British involvement in Iraq, and lose points for supporting Harold Wilson or the CND.
May 19, 2025 at 5:48 PM
said Nye Bevan was a part of a "dismal run of MPs" and a "serial rebel and national hate figure who kept Labour out of power for most of the '50s with his sectarian antics", but graciously conceded that "set[ting] up [the] NHS" is a "mitigating factor" in his distaste.
May 19, 2025 at 5:48 PM
said he could "justify arms for Saudi Arabia"
May 19, 2025 at 5:48 PM
where to even start with the pro-Israel shilling... (taken from nitter because elon only lets you see tweets if you make an account)
May 19, 2025 at 5:48 PM