Jeremy Gilbert (@jemgilbert) / X

Jeremy Gilbert

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Jeremy Gilbert

@jemgilbert

Cultural theory, political analysis, dance party politics. Latest book: Hegemony Now (Verso 2022) bsky.app/profile/jemgil…

London, England

Joined April 2009

Jeremy Gilbert
@jemgilbert
Sep 15, 2025
If you're wondering why leftists are gleeful at Starmer's problems, it's important to understand that the way he treated Corbyn, dozens of left MPs, hundreds of aspiring parliamentary candidates and thousands of members has been despicable, and 100% unprecedented in UK history.
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Jeremy Gilbert
@jemgilbert
Sep 16, 2025
It's great how the media are prepping the ground for Starmer to have lost his job because of Peter Mandelson and nasty emails from staffers ten years ago, rather than because his entire political strategy has demonstrably failed by being far too right-wing.
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Jeremy Gilbert
@jemgilbert
Sep 10, 2025
It's staggering that Mandelson hasn't resigned.
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Jeremy Gilbert
@jemgilbert
Oct 25, 2025
I think the real significance of Caerphilly is that once centre-left voters start accepting that they might have to vote for parties to the left of Labour in order to block Reform, then the entire basis for centrist political strategy since the 1970s is out of the window.
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Jeremy Gilbert
@jemgilbert
Sep 11, 2025
Imagine being a grown adult whose literal job is UK politics and apparently not knowing that Peter Mandelson was a liability.
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Jeremy Gilbert
@jemgilbert
Jun 20, 2025
Every single time Adam Curtis tells you that nobody predicted a thing, somebody on the Left definitely predicted that thing.
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Jeremy Gilbert
@jemgilbert
Jan 31, 2025
I'm slowly, resignedly writing my assessment of Starmerism as of Jan 2025 for @MarkPerryman's book (due September). The conclusion I'm coming to is - until the unions get that they must never again endorse a leadership made up of aspiring consultants, we're fucked forever (1/2).
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Jeremy Gilbert
@jemgilbert
Jun 14, 2025
So I've watched ep. 1 of the New Adam Curtis, and here's the thing. Thatcher did not destroy British manufacturing industry by mistake. That is all you really need to know to understand what's wrong with this way of telling the story, but I'll elaborate a bit. (1/?)
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Jeremy Gilbert
@jemgilbert
Sep 6, 2025
Replying to @jemgilbert
Every idiot who can read a poll knows that if you wanted to beat Reform, you would put in place a fairly radical social democratic programme. But that isn't their priority. Their priority is is demonstrating loyalty to the City, Wall Street, Silicon Valley at all costs (2/2).
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Jeremy Gilbert
@jemgilbert
Sep 6, 2025
I really can't stress enough the extent to which you've totally missed the point if, like every single liberal commentator, you assume that the Labour leadership are conducting themselves like this because they mistakenly believe that doing so will help them defeat Reform (1/2).
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Jeremy Gilbert
@jemgilbert
Oct 21, 2025
One thing to be cheerful about is that 5 years ago, I was still having to convince centrist dads that the 'Labour Right' actually existed, but now everyone knows they do and hates them and they're going to be the most despised political tendency in living memory for decades.
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Jeremy Gilbert
@jemgilbert
Feb 16, 2025
This is great. We also need this level of propaganda explaining to people WHY even a Labour government won't tax the rich, which means explaining the ugly nitty-gritty of how the party works and who's hijacked it. But that's someone else's job. This is great political education.
Gary Stevenson
@garyseconomics
Feb 16, 2025
Why Labour and Trump will both fail
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Jeremy Gilbert
@jemgilbert
Feb 12, 2025
All true. Thing is, I think they know that a left turn would be the only way to beat Reform, but they’d regard that as a defeat in itself. And they’d always rather lose to the right than to the left.
Aaron Bastani
@AaronBastani
Feb 12, 2025
Reform are now beating Labour in the polls. Labour are losing a member every 10 minutes. Reform could soon overtake them there too. But on WhatsApp Andrew Gwynne cheered on members leaving. Labour is heading for annihilation because it has hundreds of idiots like him as MPs.
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Jeremy Gilbert
@jemgilbert
Sep 16, 2025
Your Party deciding to really go for it with mass assemblies, mass canvassing, sortition conference and online voting is a very brave experiment in popular democracy that should be welcomed by anyone who doesn't want us to be governed directly by Elon Musk by 2035.
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