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Alan Gibbons (
@mygibbo
) elected in Orrell Park by a landslide.
LCI - 1428
LAB - 360
LIB DEM - 40
CON - 27
#LiverpoolDeservesBetter
#LocalElections
#LocalElections2023
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Five of us who were suspended for voting against deep spending cuts in Liverpool City Council’s annual budget have resigned the Labour whip this morning.
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Gutless, spineless, two-faced and cynical.
Yes, we mean you, Keir Starmer.
We remember when you said you wouldn't have anything to do with the lying S*n.
Now you're 'delighted' to have its endorsement.
Despicable.
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Repeat after us.
There is no money. We are all in it together.
There is no money. We are all in it together.
Images of the royal dinner at the Palace of Versailles.
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Sam Gorst (
@CllrSamGorst
) and Lucy Williams (
@LucyHWilliams1
) elected in Garston.
Gorst, LCI - 1470 ✅
Williams, LCI - 1159 ✅
Connor, LAB - 1022
McLean, LAB - 832
Millea, LIB DEM - 579
Bell, LIB DEM - 430
Santamera, GREEN - 145
#LocalElections2023
#ElectionResults
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@LBC
@mrjamesob
Did Labour roast the Tories for the same practices? Yes.
Have they continued those practices in office? Yes.
Have they taken money from a tax exile-based hedge fund? Yes.
Are they complete hypocrites? Yes.
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As you watch film of the bombing of Yemen remember that this government tells us there is no money for essential public services.
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Starmer, Streeting and Lammy write for the S*n.
Never forget.
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This is the renamed Twitter account of Cllrs Clarke, Heron, Calvert, Gorst, Hincks, Morton, Rothery and Gibbons.
News of the developing group will be posted here.
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This is the account of Liverpool Labour councillors suspended for voting against the annual budget on March 2nd, 2022.
Follow us to find out about us.
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Labour rebel storms to landslide victory as independent.
This is what community-rooted, socialist politics can achieve.
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Poetic justice after Liverpool Labour's disgraceful smear campaign.
The people of Garston have rejected gutter politics and put their faith in two brilliant, community-rooted socialists who ran a clean campaign.
#LiverpoolDeservesBetter
Sam Gorst (
@CllrSamGorst
) and Lucy Williams (
@LucyHWilliams1
) elected in Garston.
Gorst, LCI - 1470 ✅
Williams, LCI - 1159 ✅
Connor, LAB - 1022
McLean, LAB - 832
Millea, LIB DEM - 579
Bell, LIB DEM - 430
Santamera, GREEN - 145
#LocalElections2023
#ElectionResults
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Great result for the Blackburn Independents, winning all nine seats they contested.
Gaza was at the heart of their campaign.
They are now the official opposition.
There is a political space to the left of Labour.
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The notion that Eurovision is non-political is for the birds.
Russia was banned and the Liverpool event turned into a festival of blue and yellow.
So why is it suddenly wrong to exclude Israel when it is carrying out genocide?
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Liverpool Community Independents group leader Anna Rothery addressing today's
@RMTunion
solidarity rally at Lime Street.
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Well done, Ian.
Damned shame the other Liverpool Labour MPs didn't vote the same way.
Labour tried to deselect this MP for campaigning against food poverty.
Today, he will defy his party whip and vote to end the two child cap.
That is why we will always love Ian Byrne MP. He is one of us.
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Liverpool Labour is keeping very quiet about their leader Keir Starmer plastering ads all over the S*n website.
You were there when he promised to have nothing to do with the lying rag.
Why are you supporting him?
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A Sky reporter has just said it is 'not Starmer's style' to discipline members.
Sorry, was that a joke?
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Rachel Reeves says older people not in receipt of pension credit or other means tested benefits will no longer receive winter fuel payment from this year.
Is that the change you voted for?
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We asked the Labour Party to give us a straight answer. What are you doing to do about our decision to break the whip?
There was no response so we have now joined three former Labour colleagues to establish a new independent group on the council.
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People like Ed Balls yelled 'no excuses' and 'zero tolerance' when the spotlight fell on Labour members on the left of the party.
They sing a different tune when it turns on staunch right wingers in the party.
Double standards.
"Lets stand back here and gets some facts... Graham Jones, I know him really well. He's not a Corbynite.. not hard left.. absolutely not anti Israel... you could all imagine saying expletive America.. Graham Jones is not an antisemite"
Ed Balls rushes to defend Graham Jones
#GMB
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Labour's Lucy Powell recently said: "Frankly, there's no money left."
This week Labour's Keir Starmer supported the bombing of Yemen.
That costs money.
Frankly, Labour doesn't give a damn about public services but cares deeply about militarism.
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So Rachel Reeves 'winces' at her bank balance at the end of the month.
The shadow chancellor blamed mortgage, gas and electricity and food bills for leaving her 'increasingly short'.
Ms Reeves earns more than £86,000 a year as an MP.
She is out of touch.
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Anyone appalled by David Mencer's mealy-mouthed defence of Israel's actions today should remember he was Director of Labour Friends of Israel.
Let's repeat that, Labour Friends of Israel.
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Our socialist values have not changed.
The annual budget fell short of those values.
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Our candidates for Fazakerley East (Alfie Hincks), Old Swan West (Craig Pearson) and Michael Williams (Croxteth Park) all came a strong second.
Across the city, we are establishing a credible socialist alternative to Labour.
#LiverpoolDeservesBetter
#LocalElections2023
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“Israel has gone too far.”
-Wes Streeting.
After giving political cover to the deaths of 30,000 people, Labour’s front bench is trying to claw back some claim to morality.
People will not forget its earlier complicity in a humanitarian disaster.
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BREAKING NEWS
Labour has replaced the old slogan 'Get the Tories Out' with 'Get the Tories In.'
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Many of our supporters were in the hall in 2020 when Starmer said he wouldn't have anything to do with the S*n.
Now he says: "I'm very happy to work with The Sun, to write for The Sun, to do interviews for The Sun..."
You can't trust a word from his mouth.
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We will meet this week and discuss how the new group will work.
We are committed to the development of a budget next year that meets the interests of the people of this great city.
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The Tories can't win in Garston so vote according to your head and your heart.
Labour is the local establishment and it has failed you.
#gorst4garston
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Angela Rayner, who once masqueraded as a socialist, spoke on the anti BDS bill, making it clear the Labour party opposes boycotts and sanctions against a state that has massacred 23,000 people, mainly women and children.
Labour: always on the wrong side of history
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Labour is endorsed by the Sunday Times, Guardian Financial Times, Mirror and now the despicable lie rag, the S*n.
Still think Labour means change?
For real change vote independent socialist.
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@prafulnargund
Did you say this when Christian Wakeford crossed the floor from Tory to Labour?
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During his leadership campaign, Keir Starmer promised not to speak with the S*n because of its Hillsborough slurs.
After being elected, he wrote for the S*n and said he would do it again.
Treating our city with contempt.
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In Fazakerley East, Labour's vote share plummeted from 67% to 41%.
While we were the pick of the opposition in second place we were unable to motivate enough voters to defeat failing Labour.
We have to learn the lessons why we couldn't muster the vital 93 votes to win.
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Councillor Sam Gorst on why he is standing for Liverpool Garston at the General Election.
#CEASEFIRE_NOW
#Garstondeservesbetter
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Macron's Centrism invited the far right to take power.
Melenchon's red-green alliance slammed the door in Le Pen's face.
The lessons for the UK are there to be learned.
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A good second is not good enough for the people of Fazakerley East.
The cycle of decline and neglect will continue under failing Labour.
We fight on.
LAB – 350
@Lindependents
258
LD- 148
Ind 87
CON - 12
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Labour won't say it, but we will.
#CeasefireNOW
A compilation of how senior Labour figures refused to support the upholding of international law as Israel killed 10,000 Palestinians in a month of bombing. 👇
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Whoever the Labour canvassers were who attacked the
@LIndependents
candidate Jean Martin because she is older than the Labour candidate should be ashamed of her or himself.
Jean is the only candidate living in the ward and has done 26 years' community work.
#votelocal
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Is this like the one he made about not writing for the S*n?
Sir Keir Starmer makes Liverpool promise if he is elected Prime Minister
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To people not happy that the train drivers have a decent pay deal....
don't get jealous....
....get a union.
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Keir Starmer, the cornflour powder paint on Stonehenge will wash off, the blood of Gazan children never will.
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An unelected Prime Minister who refuses to call an election condemns an MP elected with a convincing mandate.
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We asked
@CllrSamGorst
why he is standing in Liverpool Garston constituency.
#Gorst4Garston
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The indications are that the seven Labour rebel MPs will seek reintegration into the party after the 6-month suspension.
We believe that is a route to being politically neutered then, at a time of Starmer's choosing, deselection.
It is time to help create a new Left alternative
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Keir Starmer can't claim he wants to clean up politics when his consigliere Morgan McSweeney failed to declare £730,000 of spending by the shadowy Labour Together.
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Over a century ago Keir Hardie proposed an end to landlordism.
In 2024 44 Labour MPs are landlords.
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Fantastic support for Diane Abbott.
Labour has created a formidable rod for its reactionary back.
The message at the rally in support of Diane Abbott tonight from the Black community and Hackney residents was No Diane, No vote!
Labour need to think very clearly about their next steps!
The community is itching to mobilise against Labour 💛
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Channel 4 News has aired a substantial report this evening alleging IDF torture and abuse.
Anyone who didn't see it should access the clips on the C4 website.
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Desperate people are boarding small boats to cross the channel because there are, as Braverman once admitted, no safe routes.
Keir Starmer does not accept there should be safe routes.
We have no words.
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Tonight we received the highest number of pledges in a single evening, a very encouraging 49 commitments.
The last three evenings we have seen an average of forty people an evening backing our campaign to win the seat from failing Labour.
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"If we cannot afford it, we can't do it."
Rachel Reeves.
Should that apply to some things Labour has done in recent times?
👉 bail out failed banks
👉 fund Trident
👉 keep the rich immune from wealth taxes
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Public money will be used to compensate victims of the Post Office scandal.
Why isn't the culpable and hugely profitable Fujitsu not coughing up?
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This is priceless.
The appalling Esther McVey's clueless husband Philip Davies placing an 8k bet that he will lose his seat.
He will now.
In comparison
@CllrSamGorst
will donate half his MP's salary to community causes in the constituency.
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Watch the body language here.
While Owen Jones tries to make a point about the morality of the Israeli bombing, Ed Balls tries to play linguistic games....and smirks.
Shameful behaviour from a shallow man.
Yes
@Keir_Starmer
is complicit in this genocide. He will not be forgiven neither is his party
@UKLabour
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Maria Eagle MP and Paula Barker MP have not signed the MPs letter urging the UK government to suspend arms sales to Israel.
Another reason why
@CllrSamGorst
is standing against Eagle in Garston and Ann San is standing in Wavertree against Barker.
Give them your support.
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@LastBlairite
A woman challenges canvassers for a party that gave political cover for a massacre.
She wants to ask those canvassers a perfectly reasonable question.
How the hell is that a 'threat?'
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@MetroMayorSteve
Buzzing about what?
Winter Fuel Payment cut.
Keeping 2-child benefit cap.
Social rents rising above inflation.
Refusal to implement arms embargo on Israel.
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Still no statement from
@Keir_Starmer
on the ICJ judgement.
How can he aspire to high office if he fails to comment on such a significant political moment?
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Who cares if Starmer's dad was a toolmaker?
Who cares if Rayner's family wasn't well off? That goes for most of us.
What matters is what Labour does now.
And it is keeping the 2-child benefit cap.
Shame on them.
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Good luck, Jeremy.
I am standing as an independent candidate for the people of Islington North.
As your MP, I will continue to be an independent voice for equality, democracy and peace.
Please join our campaign at . Let's prove that when we come together, we can win.
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Starmer pitches Labour as the real Tories.
We don't remember seeing that on Liverpool Labour election material.
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The count in Liverpool for
#LocalElections2023
is underway.
A win for
@lindependents
would mark the first time a true independent (without standing as a variation of 'Labour') has been elected in the city for 50 years.
We are hoping to make history.
#LiverpoolDeservesBetter
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"The spiritual home of citizens' money pouring down the drain."
At the
@lpoolcouncil
Budget debate,
@mygibbo
tore into Liverpool Labour's shameful record of incompetence, waste and corruption scandals.
#LiverpoolDeservesBetter
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Some people will say, oh, don't vote
@LIndependents
in Fazakerley, you'll let the Tories in.
There are no Tory councillors or MPs in Liverpool so do the right thing. Vote against Labour's bad governance and waste.
Vote for an independent socialist candidate in the community.
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Wes Streeting this morning: "We are making hard choices. We make no apology for that."
Well, you should apologise to 250,000 kids you will leave in poverty because of the 2-child benefit cap.
Hard choices are hard for the poor, not the rich.
#Gorst4Garston
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OK, who can name Starmer's 'five massive missions?'
No Googling.
Over to you.
“You can’t really say ‘we don’t know what you stand for’ unless you’ve really not paid very much attention.”
Labour’s
@Keir_Starmer
shuts down criticism that his New Year speech lacked substance as he points to his ‘five massive missions’ laid out in speeches last year.
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For those people still hoping Starmer in office will pull a left-wing bunny out of the hat, this should be a wake up call.
(thread)
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@tom_watson
He got more votes in those defeats than Starmer got in his landslide built on sand.
One reason is that the Brexit Party stepped aside for Johnson in 2019 and Reform stood against the Tories in 2024.
You could do some research before embarrassing yourself.
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Andy Burnham opposes the 2-child benefit cap but thinks Labour needs more time.
Labour think children need more time in poverty.
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Liverpool’s Labour Mayor, Joanne Anderson and Labour Councillors voted on inflicting £24 million pounds worth of cuts to local services, including an £11.7 million cut to the adult social care budget, which will massively effect the city’s most vulnerable.
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One racist rioter has 9 convictions for 39 offences, including theft, criminal damage, possession of drugs, supply of class A drugs, threatening behaviour, breach of a Domestic Violence Protection Order and robbery.
And he wants you to think migrants are the problem!
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"We've lost control of our borders and we need to do something to stop the boats."
No, not Farage, Tice or Bolton.
This is Keir Starmer speaking to Laura Kuenssberg.
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@paulmasonnews
Simple rebuttal.
A Labour vote is not a Left vote.
Nobody remotely left-wing would keep the 2-child benefit cap and remove the cap from bankers' bonuses.
Do you not have any pride?
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Angela Eagle says local government has been underfunded.
Jo Coburn asks if Labour will fund it.
Angela Eagle says Labour will have to look at where the economy is.
Don't say something is wrong unless you want to put it right.
That is impotent grandstanding.
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Reform UK, the media's darling and an ever-present on the news channels, won two seats in the local elections.
Greens, Independent Socialists, WPB and others outside the established parties won 457.
Why the wall-to-wall coverage of a party with little electoral success?
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Will
@LiverpoolLabour
condemn former councillor Alan Dean's letter, exposed in Al Jazeera's Labour Leaks documentary.
@CllrAnnaRothery
was arbitrarily removed as Mayoral candidate because of Dean's fabrications, slurs and untruths.
An apology is overdue.
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We welcome
@MayorJD
's decision to stand as an Independent.
Labour is determined to exclude socialists, indeed anyone who will not tow the increasingly right wing line.
Good luck to
@MayorJD
in his campaign for re-election.
I’ve decided to resign from
@UKLabour
and serve as an Independent Mayor.
People are tired of being controlled by Westminster and Party HQs. They want someone to stand up for them. Let the people decide. £25k by end of Aug & I’ll stand as North East Mayor👉
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Rachel Reeves had a choice.
👉 Attlee- NHS, Welfare State, public ownership
👉 Thatcher- privatisation, benefit cuts, privatisation, union-busting
She chose to reference Thatcher.
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Statement by
@cllrsamgorst
👇👇👇
"Politics for me is not the careerist gravy train so I will take 50% of the MP's salary.
"The other half will be invested in constituency projects.
"Community not a cushy Westminster lifestyle."
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Labour stands with Israel.
After at least 41,000 dead, many children, more under the rubble.
Film of IDF throwing people off buildings.
Invasion of Lebanon.
Bombing of Yemen.
And Labour stands with Israel.
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Strong showings for our candidates in Speke (Paul Theobald), City Centre North (Maria Toolan) and Kensington and Fairfield (Steve Faragher).
All in all, that's 3 seats on the council and very positive results elsewhere across the city.
This is a platform to build on.
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Liverpool MPs Kim Johnson and Ian Byrne addressing the
@RMTunion
rally at Lime Street today.
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Notice anything missing here?
Starmer placated the unions by saying his commitment to workers' rights is unshakeable and at the heart of Labour's plan.
So why is it not in this list?
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In 2018 Labour had 83.17% vote share in Fazakerley East ward.
When we stood our first candidate in the ward Labour were down to 57.55% and we recorded 29.90%
Now Labour is on 40% and we are on 30%
There is an audience for community-based socialism and we fight to win next time
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Sky presenter: "How many of the new houses built... what percentage should be council houses?"
Shadow Housing Minister Matthew Pennycook: "It doesn't work like that I'm afraid."
It worked like that in the Attlee and Macmillan post-war governments.
Why not now?
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This level of chumminess with the party that has wrecked the NHS and other public services, made the UK a byword for sleaze and corruption and seen homelessness soar is sickening.
You don't need to be rude to demonstrate a studied distance from the party that ruined the country.
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Anyone like Starmer who can watch the industrial slaughter of 26,000 people and turn the other way, lips sewn together by uncritical idolisation of the Israeli state, failing to even acknowledge the ICJ judgement is not fit to be a MP, never mind Prime Minister.
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Labour under Corbyn did not 'argue with itself.'
The undemocratic right wing around Starmer sabotaged a twice-elected leader.
Glad to clear that up.
Starmer: Labour under Corbyn argued with itself instead of facing the country
Like when the Lab right tried to force JC out in June 2016, plunging Lab into civil war just when the UK had voted to leave the EU, the govt was in disarray & the country was crying out for leadership?
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We will be putting out our first Liverpool Garston constituency wide leaflet after Easter.
Gaza will feature strongly because solidarity with the Palestinian people is a litmus test for all who want to see peace and socialism.
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The Liverpool Community Independents group does not have the resources or membership of the main parties behind them.
If you can help our members get our newsletters out to the community, please DM your email here or contact any of the eight members directly.
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The next two episodes of the Labour Files on Al Jazeera investigations air in the next few days.
9pm this evening (Saturday).
9pm Monday.
Unmissable TV for any socialist, indeed anyone interested in democracy.
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If you are sick of the established parties supporting genocide in Palestine and austerity in the UK, join the campaign to elect
@CllrSamGorst
in Liverpool Garston when the General Election is called 👇👇👇👇👇
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The racist mob has gone.
The people of Southport have to clean up their community and mourn those they have lost.
To the people who want to exploit these terrible murders for their own purposes, the response is simple.
Stay away.
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