Polly Toynbee @pollytoynbee
Polly Toynbee is a Guardian columnist, formerly BBC social affairs editor. Her latest book An Uneasy inheritance, my family and other radicals is out in June guardian.co.uk/profile/pollyt… London, UK Joined December 2010-
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'.. a Labour government that fails to restore living standards and public services risks opening the door to PopCon or Reform UK insurgents. That’s a reason to expect Labour will be far braver in power than it looks now.' @pollytoynbee in The @guardian theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
"We stand at a turning point" @pollytoynbee
"We stand at a turning point" @pollytoynbee https://t.co/dIfOgBATLx
It’s very important that in all the upcoming elections Tories are not just defeated, but their trajectory utterly repudiated. Please vote accordingly. It’s up to us, once Labour is in power, to give them a political case for the changes we want. The squeaky wheel gets the oil.
It’s very important that in all the upcoming elections Tories are not just defeated, but their trajectory utterly repudiated. Please vote accordingly. It’s up to us, once Labour is in power, to give them a political case for the changes we want. The squeaky wheel gets the oil.
@pollytoynbee is right. The more desperate and cruel the Tories become, the more voters reject them. This is our experience across Bedfordshire. Former Tory voters are saying enough is enough. They are switching to Labour to elect me PCC. theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
It’s Sunak’s doom loop: the more desperate and cruel the Tories become, the more voters reject them theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
Defections are rare …and are more significant than they seem whatever the inevitably conplex calculations of the defector…They reliably symbolise a wider direction of travel and further disturb the troubled party that the defector is leaving…while highlighting to voters deep…
"Young writers open up new vistas for us all..." Political and social commentator Polly Toynbee wants you to tell the judges something they don't know🧐 Don't forget to send in your final entry by 6th May 📆 Read more about Polly and our judging panel: orwellfoundation.com/the-orwell-you…
@pollytoynbee knows how to deliver a killer blow to @RishiSunak
@pollytoynbee knows how to deliver a killer blow to @RishiSunak
This is nonsense and dangerous from the GMC.
Am I missing something? Anyone heard/read Tory outrage at dangerous St George’s day protesters attacking police and a police horse? Tommy Robinson /Laurence Fox inspired rampage rather worse than peaceful environmentalists jailed for blocking traffic
Ben is 100% right. Numbers used in describing increase in defence spending are impenetrable, misleading & internally inconsistent. Committing to 2.5% of GDP on defence is big and important. There is no need for this profusion of overblown and inconsistent numerical claims.
Ben is 100% right. Numbers used in describing increase in defence spending are impenetrable, misleading & internally inconsistent. Committing to 2.5% of GDP on defence is big and important. There is no need for this profusion of overblown and inconsistent numerical claims.
Just to be clear - is @Ofcom pretending that the cast list from Farage to Rees-Mogg, Tice to Anderson who appear on G B “News” are in some way within “the highest standard of impartiality?” Perhaps the problem isn’t this dreary TV channel. It’s the regulator.
Just to be clear - is @Ofcom pretending that the cast list from Farage to Rees-Mogg, Tice to Anderson who appear on G B “News” are in some way within “the highest standard of impartiality?” Perhaps the problem isn’t this dreary TV channel. It’s the regulator.
This isn’t a watchdog but a miniature poodle with its teeth removed. GB “News” politician-presenters spew out propaganda but @Ofcom, after 29 focus groups, concludes “there is no clear consensus” for doing anything. Who decided to entrust broadcasting standards to focus groups?
This isn’t a watchdog but a miniature poodle with its teeth removed. GB “News” politician-presenters spew out propaganda but @Ofcom, after 29 focus groups, concludes “there is no clear consensus” for doing anything. Who decided to entrust broadcasting standards to focus groups?
"Labour refuses to use the #SureStart label for fear it suggests uncounted spending, but David Bell, a former chief inspector at Ofsted, is drawing up a report for them on the future of early years: it may look something like this" @pollytoynbee theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
@pollytoynbee You would have expected the tory press be full of the massive success of the 15 hour plan, but silence, I wonder why?
@pollytoynbee hitting the nail bang on the head here 🔨://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/apr/23/expansion-free-childcare-tory-labour-nursery-primary-school?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other
Here's @pollytoynbee on the trouble with current #childcare policy: theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
My piece in @guardian about St George's Day, efforts by @Keir_Starmer to plant Labour's flag on patriotism, and my new book written with @mds49 being published this week: "England, Seven Myths That Changed a Country -and How to Set Them Straight." theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
Have a rollicking good St George's day and a happy Shakespeare's birthday today too.
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The U.K. govt know this. All of this. Sunak, Hunt, Barclay all know that their refusal to fund the NHS properly through the winter will lead to people dying or suffering disability due to delayed treatment. They know this. For me this truly despicable!
They will instead be all about delivering the chance this county needs and which increased equality - and everything that flows from it - can offer. I should, however, warn that there aren’t three steps to this heaven. Something like twenty-five reforms might be needed.
Getting quite a bit of fan mail like this at the moment, but I do rather like the idea that I've gone "truly bonkers" over the last few years, I'll take that as a synonym for thinking the UK might do better than populism / reality denial.
‘Progressive liberal’ loses it ⬇️ By “it” I mean logic, perspective, critical-thinking, integrity, interpretation of facts, principled thought etc. etc. The man has gone truly bonkers over the last few years. Should have stuck to being a trade wonk. Ah well.
@CliveWismayer @kjk1954 Or a lot of green voters follow me.
Dodgy Bob Jenrick saved Richard Desmond £45m in taxes. Desmond owned the Daily Express while it was spewing out a torrent of Brexit hate and lies. Was Jenrick rewarding Desmond for his help with Brexit? #ToryCorruption
@HousewifePolish @pollytoynbee She lives right at the top of her Ivory Tower. I've always disagreed with her views and she certainly isn't mellowing with age.
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I don’t want to hear any more pitiful Tory excuses for shielding energy giants and putting all the costs onto public borrowing. There’s no time to waste. We need a proper windfall tax on energy giants’ extraordinary profits and we need it now. news.sky.com/story/cost-of-…
Who voted for trickledown Truss? Where is the mandate? Our democracy is broken by winner takes all voting system that allows the Tories to force feed policies that majority reject. @UKLabour must win big at next GE & then opt for fair votes to make first past the post history.
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This is pretty cool
A girls' school in Iran brought a member of the IRGC-run Basij paramilitary to speak to students. The girls welcomed the speaker by taking off their headscarves & chanting "get lost, Basiji". Teenage girls have been at the forefront of protests for days.
@jamestplunkett And even then - after introducing more effective prudential policies - would not be my 1st action. Leaving EU provides wider opportunity to introduce better regualtion in labour law. eg refocus 48 hr week entirely on HSE. Not vague social paternalism that jars with UK labour law.
@brexitblog_info Day 1 of a new administration. And @pollytoynbee has already made up her mind. Says it all.
CABINET 6 Mordaunt and Shapps not the only ones digging in. Lord Frost discussed the role of CDL/Cab Office but didn't want it. He was keen to be foreign secretary. I'm told he's totally behind Truss but won't have a govt role 6/