Aydin Dikerdem
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Labour Councillor for Shaftesbury & Queenstown. Cabinet Member for Housing. Battersea born and bred. Please email casework to: cllr.a.dikerdem @wandsworth .gov.uk
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All the money we spend on weapons & bombs... feels like a bad choice when you only have 5000 ventilators for a population of 66 million during a pandemic.
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'This was a criminal offence. Now it’s an option for business.'
Never has a phrase summed up this Government so well.
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It pisses me off so much that we have an economic system literally burning the planet to death just so a tiny group of people can accumulate vast sums of wealth
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Israel can kill a man waiving a white flag live on film, it can be broadcast on
@itvnews
at 10 to millions and still none of our politicians are calling for a permanent ceasefire.
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They used the Shamima Begum case to expand the Borders & Nationality Bill, effecting everyone with mixed heritage in the UK.
And yet it turns out a NATO state security asset smuggled her out of the UK, and the British state knew about it.
Disgusting.
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The smears against Mick Lynch are going to get worse. We know how this works. It happens everytime there is an effective popular left-wing voice.
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I gave half my 20s to try and make
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How deeply detached from the real world do you have to be to not know how to use a hammer…
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Douglas Murray, Nigel Farage, Laurence Fox… all spouting off on our TVs, meanwhile the kids dance them into the dustbin 👌🏽😎🎉
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After the 2008 crash, we had a decade of record low interest rates. It was a golden window to create jobs & reboot the economy. We could have insulated all our homes, built hundreds of thousands of council houses, turbo charged our renewable energy sector. Instead we cut benefits
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Peace activists from XR laid out the names of the 4100 Palestinian children killed in Gaza & the 26 Israeli children killed. They placed 100s of children’s shoes on the steps & held a silence for armistice & children. Then the thugs arrived. My Mum is one of those attacked.
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There are 82,000 homeless children in London. This sh*t is gross.
Luxury estate agent Daniel Daggers is coming to Netflix with his team of ambitious agents to navigate London's Super Prime property market.
BUYING LONDON, coming this May.
#NextOnNetflix
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If there is one group you cannot blame our problems as a society on, it’s the under 25s.
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So the anti-Vaxxers are out demonstrating in Clapham Common today... They’re shouting ‘what’s happening in China is going to happen here ‘ ...
... which from an epidemiological perspective one can only respond ‘I hope so’...
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I see the sky-pool in my ward is trending. So a good opportunity to talk about Nine Elms and the role Wandsworth Tory Council and the then Mayor, Boris Johnson, played in shaping this part of London/ (thread)
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I feel like I’m losing my mind that it’s seen as too lefty to call for a ceasefire. A ceasefire is literally the softest bare minimum that should be demanded. In any other circumstances progressives would be calling for arms embargoes, sanctions, international arrest warrants.
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If you can give Christian Wakeford the whip, you can damn well give Jeremy Corbyn the whip.
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The bad faith misrepresentations of the decision by Sally Rooney to turn down the publishing house Modan as boycotting an entire language are a deliberate smear to vilify someone taking a principled stand in support of the people of Palestine.
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I know people will get mad but I fully support banning disposable vapes.
Imagine the future generations living in climate change Mad Max learning that we took this insanely precious metal (Lithium-ion) that was essential for renewable tech… and used it for disposable elf bars.
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My Dad tonight. He would always tell me about 1973. Viva Chile ✊🏽
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‘If you elect Corbyn there’ll be a run on the pound…’
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Anyone involved in the Rhodes Must Fall campaign learnt that it didn’t matter if you won the moral argument, had democratic legitimacy, or majority of students supporting.
What mattered was a bunch of very wealthy old racists threatening to take the university out of their wills
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Nothing like a national TV presenter calling for me and hundreds of thousands of others like me to be given ‘a good kicking’ for our political beliefs a week after an MP has been murdered.
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‘A graduate earning £35,000 a year pays almost double the average tax of someone with the same income from rent on property, according to a study of inequality in the UK tax system…’
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This is a blatantly discriminatory political decision used to attack freedom of expression and scare students into submission. I hope she can challenge this in the courts.
The UK government has revoked the student visa of Dana Abuqamar, a Palestinian law student and leader of the Friends of Palestine Society at the University of Manchester, following her speech in a university demonstration. Abuqamar said that her visa was revoked on the grounds of
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How many politicians can you name that would have their constituents and community come out for them like this.
"I'm sure that Keir Starmer will do the right thing."
MP Diane Abbott tells
@symeonbrown
she thinks 'Starmer will do the right thing' and restore the Labour whip to her after alleged racist comments she received.
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This clip is from 2017. We knew this crisis would one day come, and we tried to change it. During that time, for the first time in decades, young people got active and excited about party politics. We were labelled every insult under the sun.
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We are watching ethnic cleansing live on our screens and people are still trying to pretend this isn’t happening I want to scream
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Before this turns into a culture war argument, it's worth pointing out that the UK is the world's largest producer of legal cannabis for medical & scientific use (we export it)
Those who get to profit are people like Theresa May's Husband, while young Londoner's get criminalised
The illegal drugs trade causes huge damage to our society and we need to further the debate around our current drug laws.
As part of my time in LA, I'll be meeting with experts and seeing first-hand the approach they have taken to cannabis here.
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A decent man, who tried to make Britain a better and more just place.
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So tonight I find out that a candidate who proudly didn’t vote Labour in 2019, and who has an endless stream of publicly available abusive content directed at Labour MPs and members, made it through the selection process. This is political corruption plain and simple.
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Stormzy speaks for a generation of us:
“It was really disheartening. I just thought so highly of him and still think so highly of him… I mean if he’s the villain in the grand scheme of things, then sh*t’s madder than I ever thought.”
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Where are the front pages about beheaded babies now? Because I’ve seen the video of these ones, they’re all over our timelines (rather than the invention of a propaganda unit to legitimise a genocide). When it’s Palestinian babies we just say nothing?
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I genuinely can’t think of one major policy that has improved peoples lives or made something better in the entire 12 year period of these Tory governments.
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This is going to be the worst of all worlds, house prices fall but nobody can get a mortgage.
First time buyers will not benefit only incredibly wealthy cash-rich investors, who will eat up large swathes of stock. London is going to be owned by Blackrock, & other asset managers
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The new voter ID rules have the sole purpose of excluding communities more likely to vote Labour, specifically ethnic minorities and poorer voters. It’s a direct attack on democracy in the vein of US voter suppression.
There needs to be a huge public campaign to stop this
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Tbh
@JustineGreening
was a governor at my school when her government cut all the funding for its refurb. She supported the selling off of our playground to build luxury flats & then turned it into an academy run by hedge fund managers. I joined the Labour Party shortly after.
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British liberals comparing Corbyn to Trump (when Boris Johnson is literally our PM) not only shows how incredibly dumb our political discourse is, but also why liberalism has so often been the enabler of the far-right.
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1 in 50 Londoners is now homeless. On average at least one child in every London classroom is homeless.
This is an absolute scandal & should be front page news. The number of homeless residents in temporary accommodation in London is now just under 170,000. 83,500 are children
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Today the Northern Line extension opens in Nine Elms. Increased public transport is always a good thing, and as someone born and raised in Battersea there is something exciting about finally making it onto the Tube map. But… (there’s always a but isn’t there)
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Worth saying that the ‘hipster analysis’ comment was a direct dig
@novaramedia
- who went on to produce by the far the most rigorous and astute coverage of the pandemic. Everything in Dominic Cummings testimony was being methodically called out at the time by
@michaeljswalker
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I love the replies that are like, ‘they don’t own it, they are just humble buy-to-let & luxury homes YouTube influencers’ … 🤣
Dunno if I’d pick buy-to-let landlords as my levelling up help-to-buy scheme ambassadors tbh. It’s like cigarette salesmen fronting asthma awareness 😭
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Great to join the huge Palestine Solidarity demonstration in central London today. We cannot stay silent in the face of such injustice 🇵🇸 ✊🏽
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I don't think I will ever get over or forgive the response by Sodha (or the fact the Observer published it) to the Trojan Horse Affair podcast - a mainstream media series that for the first time in my life I felt had captured the experience of institutional Islamophobia.
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Been marching for 5 hours and not even made it over Vauxhall bridge. This is historic.
#CeasefireNow
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I'm proud to have been raised by my Mum, anyone who tries to stigmatise single Mums like this is not fit to be an Assembly Member let alone Mayor.
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It is a historical crime that we let a decade of low interest rates pass bye without major government investment in council housing.
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It's horrifying to hear of the assault on Jeremy. The shift from 'I don't think he's a good leader', or 'I don't like his policies' to this man is a danger/evil/terrorist/national security threat etc. is a historic stain on our political discourse. It's over, leave the man be.
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For more info you can read
@ollywainwright
piece on Nine Elms here, which includes the voices of residents we’ve worked with.
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I don't remember the same urgency of the rules based international order when the Saudi led naval blockade of Yemen caused one of the worst famines of the 21st century.
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Stop inviting Guido Fawkes onto TV. And certainly stop describing them as centre-right.
They are a political project explicitly designed to protect the power, wealth and interests of a small elite by creating a culture of cynicism and hatred.
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Spot on. A system that downgrades human beings based on what school they went to and their previous attainment, is a system we have always had. We are just witnessing a more brutal form of it.
Algorithimic class war makes sense when you understand that these people actually believe social inequality is a good thing.
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Want to vent but will hold back. All I’ll say is solidarity to my comrades in the community organising unit who were treated like scum for 2 years just for trying to do the job we were given. The most diverse team the Party ever hired, & the most attacked & maligned. Go figure.
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There was once a world where you could build riverside council homes. If you look across the river from Battersea Power Station you’ll see the post-war Churchill Gardens Estate, a testament to an era in which council and key worker housing was prioritised and invested in.
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Labour got more votes than the Tories in Wandsworth - 122,129 vs 120,227. Another painful figure but one that gives us a mandate to be a fierce opposition and a sign of how many Wandsworth residents are fed up with the Tories policies.
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The treatment of Corbyn and the nasty briefings today reflect the behaviour of the insecure bully. This has nothing to do with standards and everything to do with control.
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The entire premise of Corbyn’s suspension is that to question the independence of the EHRC is tantamount to abuse. This was enforced by the Party through threats of suspension. Given the now overwhelming evidence of prejudice regarding gender this position is totally untenable.
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The last week has felt particularly bleak as a socialist in Labour. Big love to all the comrades who lived through what Forde has exposed. Never lose hope.
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I don't think the people on here wildly celebrating a return to 'Bevinite internationalism' actually know what the Foreign Office got up to between 1945-1951.
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This former industrial area in the heart of London was an incredible opportunity for a city facing a sever housing crisis. Yet from its inception, Conservative politicians have prioritised the private gain of developers over the public good.
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Why is the Labour Party trying to shift the Overton window to the right on nationalisation. It's an incredibly popular policy amongst the demographic they have thrown every single other member of their coalition under the bus to win over.
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I love how during the pandemic many of us discovered how beautiful our coastline, rivers and waterways are and realised we should visit them more…
…and then the Tories response is like ‘yeah, let’s dump raw sewage here’.
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That’s why what’s happened here is so upsetting. We’re never again going to have all this abandoned industrial space which could’ve transformed the lives of people in a borough where thousands are statutorily homeless or spending half their income on private rent.
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We want to use public land for the public good. Only 14 out of the 41 homes being built on Kersfield were going to be for council rent. Now all 41 will be. Part of our ambitious and exciting 1000 homes programme.🌹
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And they use Bell’s pic in the damn story about confusing Marsha and Dawn... The UK media is institutionally racist.
.
@BBCNews
@BBCPolitics
I love my sister
@MarshadeCordova
but we are two different people. Marsha is amazing and deserves to be called by her own name. Diversity in the workplace matters it also helps to avoid making simple mistakes like this.
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This is crucial to understanding the decision around the BBC. Johnson is saying to Murdoch, the Barclay Brothers, Harmsworth etc - if you stick with me I’ll destroy the thing you’ve wanted destroyed for decades. It’s a gift to the media barons who decide our politics.
It's obviously not about winning back the public, it's about winning back the support of the owners and editors of the right-wing press
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The treatment of Jeremy Corbyn by sections of his own Party, from the day he was elected leader to this final grubby act, is a stain on the Labour movement. The entire political establishment has been hell bent on crushing the spirit of 2017 forever. Don’t let them.
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Tory MP's, who own multiple homes that they rent out as a side hustle, claiming their own rent on expenses (the tax payer). & doing this whilst at the same time freezing London Housing Allowance which will squeeze poorer Londoner's further. Risible stuff.
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The sexual assault of Palestinian prisoners is neither new nor an isolated incident. One of the most terrifying parts of the Israeli war machine are its torture internment camps. The western media has dehumanised Palestinian male life to the point these are rarely mentioned.
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Just remember that for basically four years Jeremy Corbyn & John McDonnell have been slandered, smeared and portrayed by the establishment, mainstream media and certain wings of the PLP as dangerous, radical, dictators in waiting.
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A site that would usually require 33-44% affordable housing was reduced to 15% in a bid to ‘attract investors’ and to facilitate the transfer of £266.4m in section 106 money - that would otherwise have been spent on affordable housing - going into the new Northern Line.
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Ostensibly then, this is a huge taxpayer subsidy to improve house prices in a luxury development to pay for a piece of infrastructure Wandsworth residents have no public ownership over at the cost of the desperately needed social housing that makes regenerating the area worth it!
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Your reminder that Hotovely thinks Jewish people shouldn’t marry non-Jewish people (which I take personally as I wouldn’t exist). She’s a far-right ethno-nationalist who denies the Nakba took place & supports the current one to the hilt. A decade ago she would have been a pariah.
Israeli Ambassador claims "Mowasi" is a safe haven in
#Gaza
that civilians can take refuge in,
Followed by a wide camera shot of Mowasi
A deserted wasteland.
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It was a NATO backed military coup - and its NATO backed generals - that imprisoned and tortured my grandfather during the 1980s. It's embarrassing and insulting watching all the bravado on here today.
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This is why I’m voting for
@SteveT_Unite
- because I want my Union to stand up for workers and their conditions, not denigrate them.
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Rosie Duffield decided today to bully and denigrate someone who put in countless hours of work here in Battersea helping us get
@MarshadeCordova
elected. If Pride month means anything it’s calling out this kind of bigotry. Solidarity Mika.
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If you turn housing into a financial asset beholden to market forces, this is the kind of social psychopathy that will emerge:
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What’s happening in Jerusalem is horrific, and cutting through to people who don’t usually follow news about the occupation. But this isn’t new, its been going on for decades. It is the reality of ethno-nationalism, from the Nakba to the current settlement expansion.
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Imagine living in London under siege from one of the most powerful militaries in the world. For over a decade. You’re starved, bombed, can’t access clean water, living in an open air prison you cannot leave. Yesterday a whole tower block was bombed.
You’d expect resistance.
Imagine living in London while terrorists indiscriminately fire 1000s of rockets at your family’s neighbourhood.
You’d expect the government to do everything in its power to find and target those attackers.
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This thread is wild.
Sunak's recent NI tax changes cost the median household £500
So 9,000 median households cover the Sunak's tax avoidance (£4.5million)
So for 9,000 median households, NI increases don't fund health, social care etc. They fund the household of the Sunak's!
How many standard rate tax payers need to pay the additional 1.25 pp NI to cover Sunak’s wife’s avoided tax?
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Good to see this is doing the rounds again on social media. It’s an entrance exam question for Eton from 2011. This is how the ruling class are trained to think.
Explains quite a lot really...
@AbolishEton
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The picture on the left is from 2012. The picture on the right 2022. A decade that shows the changing skyline of North Battersea.
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Today is my last day as a staffer for The Labour Party. It’s been a wild two and a half years! Learnt a hell of a lot and had the privilege of working with some truly phenomenal people (including the indefatigable
@BethFosterOgg
). Now for the next chapter 🌹
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Turning 29 on the 29th...
I’m lucky enough to have my birthday on the UN Day of International Solidarity with the Palestinian People.
I pray one day I’ll be celebrating the end of the occupation and the right of return 🇵🇸
#PalestineDay
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The establishment have been attacking Stop the War because they want revenge. For years the organisation has been an uncomfortable reminder of when they too used spurious grounds to legitimise an illegal invasion and occupation of a sovereign country.
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Regardless of what you think about Venezuelan politics, can someone please tell the BBC that when the U.S tries to decide who is and who isn't the President of a country by just declaring it, this isn't a good or democratic thing. This mornings coverage is farcical.
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You can’t be a proud trade unionist AND go to Rupert Murdoch’s cocktail parties. Just saying.
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If Maurice is not fit to be a Labour MP then nobody is. He is exactly the kind of person any decent social democratic party would be encouraging to stand for them in an election, not blocking. They have done this because he is popular with members & left-wing.
Last night, I was blocked from standing to be the next Labour MP for Camberwell & Peckham.
I'm gutted. The Party is saying it has no place for an anti-racist socialist like me in Parliament.
Thank you so much to all those who supported & worked on my campaign.
My statement:
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The meltdown liberal pundits are having because some writers decided they didn’t want to speak at events sponsored by oil & arms funders is the same meltdown people had about the South Africa boycott. It’s just these people like to think they would’ve been on the right side
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The thing is, we all know that if the US called for a ceasefire then Labour would in an instant. Which goes to show this has literally nothing to do with the reality on the ground or any kind of humanitarian principles and everything to do with geopolitical posturing.
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Just listened to a
@BBCRadio4
report on Nick Boles MP splitting from his local Tory branch. The word deselection was not used once. It was reported as a reasoned policy based disagreement. Local members were not demonised.
We are beyond bias, it’s much more sinister
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It is pretty incredible how Boris Johnson burnt to the ground a project that could have seen him governing for a decade just so he could get pissed with interns.
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The BBC gave these organisations free reign. If you aren’t transparent about who funds you, you should not be allowed on a public broadcaster.
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Like don’t the ruling class even watch cartoons as children???
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Phenomenal! In our hundreds of thousands, London stands against bigotry, hate and corporate greed ✊🏽🔥🎉
#TrumpProtests
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