Fortescue to Chowns on Greens4Palestine: "This group obviously has a big influence over your partys direction... do you think they should be kicked out of the party?" Can you imagine a journalist asking, should Labour Friends of Israel be kicked out of Labour? Of course you cant

Ellie Chowns is right, saying zionism is racism is not antisemitic but conflating Jews with Israel is. And conflating Jews with Israel is exactly what Tory peer Ed Vaizey did. And he did it deliberately to attack & smear political opponents.

"... people were like, f**k that, we do not want the Bolsonaro family coming back to power, recognis[ing] this fascist project not as some high abstract concept but as an existential threat to life & livelihood for them" @davidrkadler on @novaramedia on the result in Brazil

.@davidrkadler: "I have never seen a country rally the way that Brazil did between these 2 rounds. I've worked in countless countries & electoral contests & never once in my life have I seen people wake up to the threat, the menace of the far right & try to do something about it"

"Capital Gains tax, have you won that argument.. you've pushed hard not to see it equalised to income tax" Reynolds, from the party that proclaims iself the party of work, explains why unearned income should be taxed at a lower rate than income earned by people going out to work

Nigel Farage is asked if comments by Raheem Kassam calling Kemi Badenoch a Nigerian scammer are racist. Farage: "... he's Indian, he's of Indian heritage" "Does that mean he can't be racist?" "I don't know. You tell me"

#BBCBreakfast's report on the Israeli election mentions Netanyahu 5 times But you know what isn't mentioned? The fact that he's wanted for using starvation as a method of war, intentionally directing attacks against civilians, & extermination/murder as a crime against humanity

#GMB on the banks: "£45.9bn profit in 2024. They've already generated £21.4bn in the first half of [this] year" "And on a personal level.. executive bankers are earning in 2 days what it takes a lot of people a year to [earn]"

Jon Kay to Reynolds: "You're planning to remove import taxes from products like chocolate, gherkins, marmalade. Your own figures say that will save the average household 40p a week. At a time when [bills] are going up, do you really think people are going to notice 40p a week?"

"This is a complete shutdown of all aspects of life, of education, employment, even patients can't go and get medical treatment.. making the situation unliveable for Palestinians" Ubai Aboudi on Israel locking down Hebron in the occupied West Bank for the past 4 days.

.@Neal_Compass: "I couldn't live on the meagre benefits people are getting. To suggest that we have to cut those.. actually that's where the engine of growth is, that's the people who spend.. how do you get people out spending.. not by cutting benefits of people at the bottom"

"He promised change, he promised something very different from Keir Starmer, & if he doesn't deliver eventually something very different from Keir Starmer then he's going to be in trouble" @Neal_Compass on Andy Burnham & next weeks budget

The ex director of communications for David Cameron pushing the narrative that the welfare budget is out of control. Not true of course.

The UN found Israel killed 35 Palestinian kids during the 2018 Gaza protests. At the time @lisanandy asked how the govt could continue justifying arms sales to Israel For 2yrs Nandys been part of a govt thats armed Israel while its killed tens of thousands of Palestinian kids

3 years ago today. People can't pretend they didn't know what was happening, because it was clear from the start.