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simon le vans Shadow Home Secretary retweeted
LGBT+ folks have been saying for years that the gender critical movement has not only been captured by the far-right, it *is* now inarguably far-right.
Once one minority has been effectively dehumanised, it’s inevitable others will be too.
I don’t know why you seem surprised.
simon le vans Shadow Home Secretary retweeted
I have never seen a politician more nakedly abandoning his principles to do corporate propaganda. And I write about propaganda for a living. What is wrong with you?
simon le vans Shadow Home Secretary retweeted
Yesterday, I was barred from entering the West Bank by Israeli officials, as part of a @ProgIntl delegation.
What's happening here in Palestine is unjust. We've just witnessed what Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch and many others have called a genocide unfold in Gaza.
We came here to show the world, and to show solidarity with the Palestinian people. The Israeli government didn't allow that.
simon le vans Shadow Home Secretary retweeted
I feel like Jared Kushner being at the center of the plot that ultimately led to an American journalist being dismembered via bone saw while he was still alive should be a much bigger deal than our billionaire owned news media is making of it.
simon le vans Shadow Home Secretary retweeted
It’s deeply disrespectful to us Brazilians, who spent 20 days mobilizing across the country, standing up to Big Tech and imperialist forces, to credit our victory as a nation to an American billionaire who said absolutely nothing about our elections. Delete this shit, @Variety.
Lula’s Election Win: How Taylor’s Swift’s Advice to Fandom Helped Him to a Historic Victory and Defeat for Trump variety.com/2026/film/global…
simon le vans Shadow Home Secretary retweeted
This is why your party is full of racists @Nigel_Farage
You don’t have the guts to call out racist language
You faff around with semantics instead of answering the question
You knew very well what the phrase infers
No wonder you’re tanking in the polls
The grift is over.
'Do you think it's racist'
Reform UK leader Nigel Farage was questioned on #BBCBreakfast after his former senior aide Raheem Kassam called Conservative Party leader Kemi Badenoch as a 'Nigerian scammer'
bbc.co.uk/news/topics/cp07jz…
simon le vans Shadow Home Secretary retweeted
Today marks 100 days since Andy Burnham became Prime Minister.
He could have stopped arms sales to the genocidal apartheid state of Israel on day one. He chose not to.
For 100 days, he has willingly continued selling UK arms that enable the genocide of the Palestinian people.
100 days of personal complicity.
Stop ALL arms sales to Israel NOW.
simon le vans Shadow Home Secretary retweeted
Imagina ser tan ignorante que los multimillonarios te han hecho creer que la atención médica y un salario digno son comunismo.
simon le vans Shadow Home Secretary retweeted
This Tufton Street front is campaigning to preserve gay conversion therapy. Recognising that they are wrong ‘uns who have done nothing for gay people and only exist to campaign against trans people really isn’t rocket science.
simon le vans Shadow Home Secretary retweeted
its actually quite refreshing to have a PM whose embarrassing history involves raising money for charity, rather than burning £50 notes in front of homeless people and shagging pigs...
Andy Burnham's 'Strictly' dance video, found by #BBCBreakfast
The PM said on TV show 'Gogglebox' for Stand Up To Cancer he has a "clang of anxiety" when discussing dancing - after taking part in a charity event for the Rob Burrow centre for MND
bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cm3w…
simon le vans Shadow Home Secretary retweeted
J.K. Rowling, a billionaire funding lawsuits against trans inclusion, says transgender activism is elitist. Apparently, using a public bathroom is a privilege, but bankrolling legal battles against marginalized people is grassroots activism.
simon le vans Shadow Home Secretary retweeted
Gay man here 👋🏻
The LGB Alliance does not represent me or any LGB person I know. Its work is overwhelmingly focused on attacking trans rights, and it aligns itself with those who oppose LGBTQ+ equality.
The government should not treat it as a credible voice for LGB people.
simon le vans Shadow Home Secretary retweeted
“Helen Joyce does not have any formal education or qualifications even in biology, let alone in gender, sex or law... she is not an expert at all. She has no recognised expertise in any of the areas in which she expresses an opinion."
— Federal Court of Australia
simon le vans Shadow Home Secretary retweeted
Democrats should realize that what Meta did in Brazil, they and other social media companies will do in the US in 2028 unless they are made to understand they will face criminal penalties for it
simon le vans Shadow Home Secretary retweeted
My right to live with dignity should not depend on whether a famous author approves of who I am.
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simon le vans Shadow Home Secretary retweeted
She’s doing a Boris Johnson and Nigel Farage, trying to portray herself as anti-establishment when she is the establishment. You can’t position yourself as an outsider fighting the system when you’re one of the most influential and privileged figures within it. @jk_rowling @jk_rowling10
simon le vans Shadow Home Secretary retweeted
I've been revisiting @UKLabour's 2024 manifesto, and some of the commitments are extraordinary given where we are today...
- Defend the international rule of law.
- Uphold international law in Gaza.
- Recognise Palestinian statehood as an inalienable right.
- Reject new oil and gas exploration because it worsens the climate crisis.
These weren't demands from protesters.
THEY WERE LABOUR'S OWN PROMISES!
The government shouldn't need reminding what the principles are. It already wrote them down and commited to them!
The question is why those principles become negotiable the moment defending them carries a political cost.
@andyburnham @ZackPolanski