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Democratic Socialism 🌹 Anti Austerity, Green 🍀 New Deal, Workers Rights, Human Rights, International Solidarity 🍉✊️ + Giving You a Voice
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Dutch dockers refusing to load freight today onto @POferries ferry Pride of Rotterdam after vicious sacking of 800 British sea workers #Solidarity
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Tens of thousands march in Madrid today in support of publicly owned and provided health care - and against health service privatisation . You probably won’t see this in our media - it might give people ideas
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These also “worked long hours” Boris Johnson, but they didn’t party like it was Downing St
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P&O Sackings : Natalie Elphicke, Tory MP for Dover, being reminded today by protesters that she voted for fire and rehire.
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59% of seats counted & here is the media narrative :. • Labour 54% of Seats, +37, best since 1971 = bad night .• Tories 31% of Seats, -2 = good night .• Lib Dems 11% of Seats, +40 = amazing night. A narrative aided by a weak press and a blithering commentariat.
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Theresa May has just said in #PMQs that “we should celebrate the private involvement in the NHS” .The cat is out of the bag. Please retweet if you prefer a publicly provided, publicly owned NHS in line with the NHS founding principles, not with Tory ideology.
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If you haven't seen this interview that @SarahChampionMP gave then you are missing something. Please watch and share
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He doesn’t NEED to apologise. Jeremy Corbyn is OWED an apology. RT if you agree.
Should Jeremy Corbyn be allowed to stand as a Labour MP?. If he apologises in the correct way, then I am sure Sir Keir would be open to having the conversation, but the former Labour leader has made it clear that he won't apologise, says Stephen Kinnock.
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Trump says he has many fans in Britain. 250.000 people demonstrating against Trump on a weekday would disagree
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#bbcqt ‘is now a clear example of the failure of the BBC to live up to its charter & guidelines and should be either recommissioned with a company and presenter that is prepared to observe the rules and hide their prejudices or scrapped’: SNP spox.
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Whilst Boris Johnson is booed off the premises at Addenbrooke’s hospital, Jeremy Corbyn receives another rapturous welcome today, this afternoon in Filton, Bristol.
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Mick Lynch dispels the myth 👇 that workers pay demands are causing inflation. They are only trying to defend their wages from falling in real terms.✊️@RMTunion . "Its workers that are trying to catch up with prices, not prices catching up with wages".
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“Has no-one noticed the UK national debt has topped £2 trillion?”. Anyone remember that BBC debt clock ? . It’s quietly forgotten now it’s the Tories who have more than doubled the govt. debt .
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“The rich have never been richer, their profits are going through the roof & that money keeps going to the people at the top & it doesn’t go to where it’s needed”. “They are having a disco”: Eddie Dempsey @RMTunion @eiecampaign #EnoughIsEnough #MiniBudget.
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“Very few disagree that the austerity programme has gone too far. no one has actually addressed the fact of who has benefited from the last ten years of growth?" : @graceblakeley on #newsnight speaking about the UK's “staggering” wealth inequality.
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"Don't talk to us, get out of here!"."How dare you come up here!".- Boris Johnson gets an earfull during his visit to Bolton University after fire. 👇
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"There's no such thing as an isolated nuclear attack : it would kill millions on both sides of the border" J Corbyn
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Israeli army ‘arrests’ 5 year old #Palestinian child. Please share widely - people need to know what’s going on there.
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''Austerity was not an economic necessity, it was a political decision" .@EmilyThornberry calls out Theresa May's 'end of austerity' comments on #bbcqt as a load of nonsense .
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"Defiant May tells critics: The public want me to stay" .RT if you don't want May to stay !
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Fabulous news that the simply outstanding author of The Candidate, @alexnunns has got a job as a speech writer for The Leader of the Labour Party, Jeremy Corbyn. We wish him well.
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Jeremy Corbyn does 3 rallies today in Swindon, Bristol & Gloucester. Here he is at the first : cheered on and as popular as ever. Unfortunately you are unlikely to see this in the corporate media.
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Please would everyone have a read of this - and retweet if you feel some truth and balance are necessary #WeAreCorbyn
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Jermy Corbyn says he's in agreement with President Macron of France over the Irish border. The Irish Peace Process was an international treaty - it cannot be negotiated away by Boris Johnson
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Retweet if you consider the rise of intolerance and xenophobia in the U.K. may have links to headlines like this :
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Jeremy Corbyn’s handling of the Brexit situation has been brilliant, statesmanlike : Len McCluskey
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“Liverpool fans rename Margaret Thatcher square in Madrid” . “Fans have hung up signs that read ‘Jeremy Corbyn Square’, posting them over the Thatcher wording” 👏🏻👏🏻.
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“Whatever your politics, you can agree that punishing disabled and sick people for falling on hard times is absolutely morally wrong and they have blood on their hands” . @chessmartinez calls out Tory Lib Dem austerity on #bbcqt .
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Brexit voter explains why it’s so important for ordinary working people to vote Labour in this election. Don’t be conned by the establishment fraud that is Boris Johnson.
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Jamie Driscoll calmly rebuts Rachel Reeves for her recent comments about him and Ken Loach 👇
Shadow chancellor Rachel Reeves has hit out at North of Tyne Mayor Jamie Driscoll.
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Brave anti war protesters in St Petersburg, Russia .
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Germany has taken 180,000 Afghanistan refugees. The U.K. has taken 12,000.
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Today Lord Harris called for Jeremy Corbyn to resign. How disregarding of democracy can Lord Harris be when he thinks he is more important than the thousands who cheered Jeremy at Durham or the millions who voted Jeremy in 2017. Labour’s policy is to abolish the House of Lords.
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There was a 72 seconds silence at the Notting Hill Carnival today, to remember the victims of #Grenfell - each second representing a life lost.
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Sydney Morning Herald nails it : . “Biggest failure in a generation': Where did Britain go wrong?”. via @smh.
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As the unelected Sunak ‘inherits’ the job of PM : . “I think people need to be on the streets. We need to protest about everything thats going on. The country is being run on behalf of the wealthy, its not being run on behalf of the people" : Mick Lynch .
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Boris Johnson just said Labour will put taxes up for everybody. This is categorically untrue - please see Labour’s income tax calculator Those earning less than £80,000 a year will NOT pay more income tax under Labour.
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"Jeremy Corbyn vows to oust Theresa May 'within a matter of days'".
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See this 2017 interview in which Jeremy Corbyn confirms he was at a peace conference in Tunis 4 years ago to remember those Palestinians & Tunisians killed in an Israeli air strike in 1985. ‘My whole life is about the search for peace’
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Hearing rumours this eve that Chuka Umunna may resign the Labour Party Whip in a matter of hours. A man who said he opppsed a 2nd Referendum & opposed Freedom of Movement, now says he is quitting because he wants a 2nd Referendum. For him it has only ever been about hating JC.
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Kamala Harris: “We will restore aid to Palestinians, renew ties” - The Jerusalem Post
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“When a government collapses, the leader of the main opposition party is called upon to form a government” : Jeremy Corbyn . Jeremy says he is “disappointed” with Lib Dem leader Jo Swinson.
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"The last time I looked young people didn't get charged less in cafés and restaurants". Jeremy Corbyn says Labour would deliver an "equal pay" living wage, with young people paid a minimum of £10 per hour.
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Five years ago, The Gandhi Foundation International Peace Award was awarded to Jeremy Corbyn, MP. This was “in recognition of his consistent efforts over a 30 year Parliamentary career to uphold the Gandhian values of social justice and non‐violence” .
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Good time to remind folks about this : . “Labour would scrap rises in pension age”.
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A timely reminder of this Russian Embassy tweet - backing the Conservatives at the last election. Now what would be the reason for that ??
Strong & stable government for our transformative time + end of ideology – a welcome convergence/fusion across Euro-Atlantic.
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Jeremy Corbyn's sons issue defiant message slamming 'despicable' attacks on dad :. "We've never known a politician to be smeared and vilified so much".
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“Working class people have always had to fight” - says Mick Lynch of @RMTunion . He warns that if workers give up terms and conditions “we’ll be back. to a Victorian era”.
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So well put. Watch : . Sky Sports' Chief Reporter @SkyKaveh questions why Gary Lineker has been effectively suspended : . He raises the cases of Andrew Neil, Richard Sharp, ‘Sir’ Robbie Gibb, Tim Davie & Alan Sugar ….
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Rag’n’Bone Man: "I'll Be Voting Labour!"."I've seen a man that speaks with passion and I can relate to what he says.".#VoteLabour .
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A ban on zero-hours contracts - a victory for Irish unions . Time for the U.K. to follow suit.
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If you didn't hear this car crash of a interview by Boris Johnson, please do. He's finished.
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The day that Jeremy Corbyn absolutely owned Tory PM candidate Michael Gove - just see his look 😂.
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“The leaked Labour report should have been an explosive scandal - but the media buried it, because they were complicit”.
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“Jeremy Corbyn speech against Afghanistan war from 2010 resurfaces” 👇.
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It’s not called the middle management party it’s called the Labour Party - for a reason. Ash Sarkar demolishes the ‘Liberal Democrat with less charisma’ Keir Starmer.
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Labour Conference #Lab17 .last week : #ForTheMany.Conservative Conference #CPC17 this week : #ForTheFew
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The media refrain from reporting Jeremy’s words accurately on the #Salisbury attack, so here he is, in his own words putting the record straight : .
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Ed Balls reckons these 10 Jeremy Corbyn pledges are "Leftist Utopian Fantasy" :.Please RT if you support them
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“What the prime minister is doing now is not resilient, it's reckless, ploughing on without a plan, whilst the country lurches from one crisis to another . ” : @Keir_Starmer .
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“Jeremy Corbyn says mainstream press attacked him relentlessly because he wanted to break up media monopolies and redistribute wealth”
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Disney heiress tells what the 1% did with Trump’s tax cuts for the wealthy. Eerily similar to the Tory tax cuts for the wealthy over here .
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Margaret Hodge slammed for secretly taping and recording a private meeting last week with Jeremy Corbyn . It was “total breach of trust and privacy”.
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@campbellclaret @UKLabour *Cough* .This isn’t Leeds - it’s Peterborough, yesterday. With @jeremycorbyn campaigning for a *Labour* victory with our fantastic local candidate @LisaForbes_
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Huge applause and standing ovation here @TWT_NOW as @jeremycorbyn arrives on the platform to debate the #ClimateCrisis with @zarahsultana and @labourlewis Asad Rehman etc
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Keir Starmer’s Labour just a ‘slightly softer version of the Tory party’, says Paul Weller
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“Mark Drakeford secures ‘radical programme’ for Wales - containing many Corbyn policies”.
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Rallies for Corbyn tonight in Cardiff Manchester & Durham as ord. people make a stand against the Labour Plotters
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Those who were sold Maggie Thatcher's right-to-buy, will be selling their homes to pay for their elderly care under Theresa May.
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Just when you weren’t looking : . Sajid Javid actually cuts funding for knife crime programme .
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Labour members and supporters call for inquiry into Israeli interference in the Party
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Tears of joy as first ever Muslim Bangladeshi woman elected in Worthing : .Henna Chowdhury won a seat in the Worthing Borough Council election after receiving 1,213 votes and beating a long standing Tory opponent .
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Jeremy Corbyn doesn't offer sound bites or slogans -he offers hope & vision instead. But you've got to vote for it!.
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Landslide victory for New Zealand Labour’s Jacinda Arden 👍🌹
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Trying to get an appointment with MP Jeremy Hunt, no weekend appointments available either :
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"We're ready to form a govt if this govt collapses - we have a clear program" : Jeremy Corbyn
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“Liverpool’s 30-year boycott of The Sun is one of the most successful of all time”.
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“Finland's PM calls for shortening working hours” :. "The wealth brought about by the increase in labour productivity has to be split not only between owners and investors but also to ordinary employees," she said.
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Reports are now surfacing that Theresa May is now no longer afraid to call a General Election as she has the backing of The Spice Girls. 😂😂.
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“Jeremy Corbyn has been on the right side of history for 30 years. That’s real leadership” : Ronan Bennett
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“Jeremy Corbyn - Remembering Cable Street” .Please watch and share - to help combat the current smears of Jeremy Corbyn. via @YouTube.
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Jeremy Corbyn calls for a 'thorough investigation' on the nerve agent attack: ."The basis of an allegation has to be based on evidence."."We need cool heads. & we need people that don’t shoot from the hip”.#ISupportJeremyCorbyn .
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Say NO to a two tier Health Service - funds should go to building up NHS capacity NOT private profiteers’ pockets
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“Steve Bannon and these top Tories have been building a new ‘special relationship’. Here’s why you should be worried…”.
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“Fired-up Rachel Reeves takes her axe to Corbyn’s ‘magic money tree’” : The Sunday Times. - Except that Corbyn and McDonnell’s economic policies were fully costed. Nothing ‘magic money tree’ about them except in Labour Right’s minds.
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“This is the health service being run by the Daily Mail” : GP to Kay Burley today
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The rehashed smears about Jeremy Corbyn need some countering - please share widely :
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Jeremy Corby at the #CostOfLivingCrisis protest outside Downing St yesterday:. “Surely the answer isn’t to offer a tiny amelioration to the price rise people are facing…”. Indeed, we need fundamental change including nationalisation of energy companies .
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Theresa May says she was caught "off guard" by the snap election - which SHE called. You just couldn't make it up .
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Sad news as @LabourLeft has just learned that @MagsNews has passed away today. Mags was the Chair of Labour Left for many years & previously worked for a Labour MP. RIP Mags.
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“A medical student says her shifts have been cancelled after refusing to work in an area for confirmed coronavirus patients without a gown, visor and respiratory mask”.via @MetroUK.
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Labour to end students tuition fees from Sept 2018 & will reimburse fees from Sept 2017. Get registered students & young people & VoteLabour.
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