Basit Mahmood
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Labour Party Councillor for Challney Ward, Luton. Editor of @leftfootfwd . Passionate about tackling poverty and inequality and promoting social mobility.
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To those who say politics doesn't matter, or who think that it doesn't matter who you vote for, 'everyone's the same', watch this video of Gordon Brown list the last Labour government's achievements. Labour in power transforms the lives of those most in need.
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Mick Lynch to BBC: "Why are you pursuing an editorial line that I could read in the Sun or the Daily Mail, or any of the right-wing press in this country and you're not pursuing the fact that working people, millions of them, are being impoverished by the attitude of this govt?"
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The TUC has pointed out that it would cost around £2.8bn to buy the big five energy retailers at their current market value – that’s about the same amount the Tory government has spent bailing out just one failed provider, Bulb.
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It cannot be right that while MPs meals were subsidised to the tune of £17 million, the government refuses to find enough money to extend free school meals to 800,000 children living in dire poverty.
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A group of UK millionaires have projected a message on to the Treasury building and the Bank of England which says: “Tax our wealth”
A 2% tax on those with more than £10 million could raise £22 billion a year, enough to pay for the average salary cost of more than 600,000 nurses
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Let this from Gordon Brown sink in: "Things are so bad that
@Human_Relief
which has spent 30 years focused entirely on aid to the world’s poorest countries, has opened a food bank in Birmingham."
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The only chart you’ll need when the Tories tell you they want to level up and all people need to do progress is work hard.
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Eton received £3.3 million of rental income from its real estate portfolio and £5.8 million from selling commercial property. Why then does it have charity status allowing it tax exemptions? Isn't it about time we took a more detailed look at charity status in the UK?
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Tells the
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Rishi Sunak has donated more than £100,000 to Winchester College, his former school and one of the most expensive private schools in the country, while at the same time presiding over real-terms cuts when it comes to state school budgets. Man of the people?
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The ‘rise of Rishi Sunak’ is not a sign of how we’re some great meritocracy. It’s a sign that class privilege, going to elite private schools, knowing the right people and having obscene amounts of wealth work in your favour. The exact opposite of social mobility and meritocracy.
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As postal workers take strike action today, worth remembering that last year Royal Mail made £758m in profit and handed out £400m to shareholders.
When it came to the workers who created that profit, Royal Mail’s leadership pleaded poverty, offering a pay rise of just 2%.
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I still find it mind boggling that we can subsidise MPs meals to the tune of £17 million but the government can’t find enough money to extend free school meals to 800,000 children living in poverty.
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We shouldn’t let this be buried by other news today. Foodbank charity Trussell Trust says that the need for foodbanks has outstripped donations for the first time. It has distributed 46% more emergency food parcels in August and September than at the same time in 2021.
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As nurses take further strike action today, a few things to bear in mind:
-Nurses earn £5,000 a year less in real terms than in 2010
-1 in 3 are struggling to afford food and heating
-14% of nurses have turned to foodbanks in recent months
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Keir Starmer responds to attacks from Rishi Sunak over Angela Rayner's tax affairs:
"We've got a billionaire prime minister whose family used schemes to avoid millions of pounds of tax smearing a working class woman"
#pmqs
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‘If they’re so poor why do they have a smartphone’ is a ridiculous argument. You can’t apply for benefits, jobs or contact your family without internet and for many in poverty, a phone is the most affordable internet access they have. It’s a lifeline.
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Rishi Sunak is being portrayed as the 'sensible' candidate, the 'moderate and slick' candidate. This is the same man who boasted about how as chancellor he took money away from 'deprived urban areas' to help wealthy towns.
Such policies aren't sensible or moderate.
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If a politician, by virtue of their wealth and privilege, refuses to use the same state healthcare facilities as the majority of the population and chooses to go private, if they think the state schools the majority of us attend aren't good enough for their children, then...
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I see that the Labour Party is being accused of waging 'class war' for wanting to remove the charitable status of private schools. It's not class war, nor it is it the 'politics of envy'. Schools like Eton who received £3.3 million of rental income from real estate portfolio...🧵
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You’re 24x more likely to become a doctor if your parents were doctors, compared to those whose parents did any other type of work. Similarly, you’re 17x more likely to become a lawyer if your parents are lawyers. Here’s how it varies among the elite professions.
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it's perfectly legitimate to ask whether they truly understand the struggles faced by ordinary people.
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A historic moment as Rishi Sunak becomes PM of the UK. What's also record-breaking, is that child poverty is forecast to hit 5 million next year. Sunak who boasts about taking money away from 'deprived urban areas' and transferring it to wealthy areas will make it worse.
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RMT’s Mick Lynch: “Private companies that run our railway are still making profit, their profits are at record highs…they made profits during these disputes, they don’t lose any money. We’ve got a perverse system where rail fare increases are coming up to nearly 6%."
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Ian Lavery points out to Simon Thompson, chief exec of Royal Mail that he earns 23 times the average posties salary, and earns a bonus of £140,000.
“Are you really worth that amount of money Mr Thompson”, asks Lavery.
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Keir Starmer is applauded during leaders debate when he says: "Every parent has aspiration for their children whether they go to private school or not"
#SkyDebate
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Tory MP Bob Neil, tears into his own party over Rwanda bill: "The day a Conservative Party thinks the ends justify the means, that any single policy objective overrides the checks and balances of our constitution, it has ceased to be a Conservative Party"
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Mick Lynch on TalkTV this morning: "The train operating companies haven’t invested a penny in the railway in 30 years, we’ve subsidised them the whole time, while they’ve taken approximately £10bn out of the system in profit, so the whole thing has been a disaster.”
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Keir Starmer tells Sunak: "I’ve prosecuted more people smugglers than he’s had helicopter rides and that’s a lot"
#pmqs
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On strike today:
300,000 teachers
133,000 civil servants
70,000 university staff
50,000 junior doctors
Amazon workers (Coventry)
London tube workers
BBC radio journalists
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Liz Truss says trade unions are part of an 'anti-growth coalition'. A reminder that without them we wouldn't have:
• A minimum wage
• Annual leave
• Sick pay
• A two day weekend
• Maternity leave
• Protection from workplace discrimination
• Health and safety in workplace
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An MPs salary of £84,144 places them in the top 5% of earners in the UK. Yet Tory MPs have raked in a total of £15.2 million from second jobs. That’s equivalent to almost £100,000 every week
To then tell ordinary workers to show 'pay restraint' is insulting.
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US Senator
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Are not charities. Nor is this about the 'politics of envy', it's about fairness and making sure that the fate of our young people is not determined by the wealth of their parents or type of school attended but by their own hard work and talent.
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56% of people in poverty in the UK are in a working family and 7 in 10 children in child poverty are in a family where at least one parent works. Facts that those who are keen to push the mantra of 'work is the best route out of poverty' are keen to ignore.
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So why is online voting good enough for Tory members to choose the next PM but banned for Trade Unions. Make it make sense?
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I find it astounding that rather than portraying child poverty which is due to hit a record-breaking 5 million next year, as an emergency which needs tackling, columns and airtime are instead given to commentators and politicians who question whether poverty exists 🧵
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Just a reminder that Eton received £3.3 million of rental income from its real estate portfolio and £5.8 million from selling commercial property. Why then does it have charity status allowing it tax exemptions?
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A graph showing the sheer scale of class inequality in the U.K.
I don’t think language of ‘class war’ is helpful, but why are sections of our press so calm about the lack of opportunities afforded to those from working class backgrounds. Why isn’t this considered a ‘scandal’.
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As for the claim that charity status is deserved because of bursaries and scholarships given to the disadvantaged, only 4% of private school turnover is devoted to bursaries, and only 1% of private school pupils get to go for free.
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Mick Lynch of
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If a politician, by virtue of their wealth and privilege, refuses to use the same state healthcare facilities as the majority of the population and chooses to go private, if they think the state schools the majority of us attend aren't good enough for their children, then...
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Bursaries and grants are relatively low in value and distributed to only one in five of families outside the top 10% richest families, according to the research by University College London’s institute of education.
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Tory MPs rake in £15.2 million from second jobs while telling striking workers to show pay restraint. An MPs salary of £84,144 places them in the top 5% of earners in the UK.
To then tell ordinary workers to show 'pay restraint' is insulting.
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Will a Sunak win change lives of young people from BAME backgrounds? To use one e.g. more than half of British Pakistani and Bangladeshi children live in poverty. Sunak boasts of taking money away from deprived urban areas to help wealthy towns, which will disproportionately...
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Shocking stats in the New Statesman: Since the 1990s, investment by the 10 largest water and sewage companies has fallen by 15%. Over the same period, these firms have paid £72bn in dividends, accruing £60bn of debt.
Water bills meanwhile have risen by 363% since privatisation.
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Child poverty in the UK is due to hit a record 5 million next year, in what is one of the richest countries in the world. It's a political choice to allow this to happen. Just as it was a political choice to give banks an £18bn tax cut this year.
I hope the govt takes action.
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‘If they’re so poor why do they have a smartphone’ is a ridiculous argument. You can’t apply for benefits, jobs or contact your family without internet and for many in poverty, a phone is the most affordable internet access they have. It’s a lifeline.
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Mick Lynch: "It is clear ministers are more interested in protecting bumper profits made by bus companies, than protecting and providing a vital service to passengers."
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Mick Lynch of the
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'We won't accept the removal of more guards from trains'
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There was a rather revealing moment at PMQs today, when Rishi Sunak, the richest MP in Parliament, rose to answer a question about child poverty which is due to hit a record 5 million next year in one of the richest countries in the world. It revealed much about 🧵
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Starmer tears into Sunak over Williamson: "He’s a pathetic bully. But he would never get away with it without people like the Prime Minister handing him power” he says.
#PMQs
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While average private school fees rose from £11,100 to £13,600 between 2009-10 to 2020-21, during the same period state school spending per pupil in England dropped from £8,000 to £7,100.
That’s a spending gap of around £6,500 or over 90 per cent. So much for levelling up.
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Just because you can't afford to send your children to private school, doesn't mean you lack aspiration or don't work hard, as Rishi Sunak suggested at
#PMQs
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