In 2021 I owed £61,586 on all my student loans. I am pleased to announce that 3 years later in 2024 I have managed to get that number down to...
£61,757.
Yes, after paying £300 out of my salary every month I now owe the
@SLC_Repayment
£200 more than I did 3 years ago.
If someone pushed a refugee off a boat into the English channel and they drowned that person would get between 2-10 years for manslaughter. But if an RNLI boat showed up to rescue that refugee then the crew could get 14 years in prison under the new Nationality & Borders Bill
@JamesDeroest
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They sell you the loan at cheap interest then sell it into private companies who jack it up to 8%. I’d take a serious hit having to match that let alone start to make a dent into it. I work in the public sector our wages have been slashed since 2010 in real terms.
I was in Gaza in 2002 with the International Solidarity Movement, we tried to fix a water pumping station to supply clean water near Khan Yunis. The IDF came and threatened us. The next day we went back and they had demolished it. That’s the reality.
#FreePalestine
@JamesDeroest
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Thanks for the financial advice, complete stranger on the internet who knows nothing about my financial situation. Very helpful!
@RobYeldham
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Though I’m in favour of abolishing student debt
at this point I’d rather be paying a graduate tax - at least the money would go to the government not some private company.
@botty72115155
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Some people in the private sector get huge wages for trading derivatives. Others get scraps for doing essential work like social care. The entire economy is pitched wrong
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There's a few people replying to this who just don't get it. Wages have been stagnant. In my public sector job we have had a 25% real terms pay cut since 2010. Rent is expensive. Food is more expensive. The price of everything has gone up. The economy sucks and debt sucks.
Since some people are liking this. I have a book coming out in November on ecosocialist participatory planning as an alternative to capitalism that some of you might be interested in. Yes free education is part of it 😉
People going after Jack Monroe is a great example of how “the right looks for allies but the left looks for traitors”. Political purity tests more prevalent than COVID ones.
Luke forgets that this escalated from the soldiers storming into the Al-Aqsa mosque and shooting unarmed worshippers and the seizure of
#SheikhJarrah
by Israeli settlers. Palestinians fought back with stones. Israel is “defending” its own right to violence against Palestinians
Calling for arms to be denied to a state that is currently defending its civilians from an unprecedented barrage of terrorist rockets is pretty dumb and morally confused.
Tower Hamlets managers called the police because the Unite bin workers refused to cross the UNISON picket line.
The sight of a Labour Council, a LABOUR COUNCIL, etc etc
#Solidarity
According to the most recent figures, 20% of over 65s are millionaires. Collectively they own 36p in every pound, Gen Xers own 10p and Millennials own 3p. Under 54s have seen their share of national wealth decline since 2006.
All of this criticism of the 'woke left' costing Labour votes is just a rehash of the old Labour right social conservatism. As Patricia Hewitt said in 1987 “The "Loony Labour Left" is now taking its toll; the gays and lesbians issue is costing us dear amongst the pensioners”.
@PeoplesMomentum
Socialism is when the working class controls the means or production and exchange. It is when the capitalist class have been removed from economic power. It is NOT higher taxes and more state spending. That’s social democracy.
RLB supporters: you remoaners lost us the election you fucking dipshits! Fuck off and die!
Most Labour members who also opposed leaving the EU: oh ok I’ll support Starmer then. He doesn’t palpably hate me.
RLB supporters: you fucking dickheads!
[Starmer wins on first prefs]
@Toffeeman100
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Since I’ve had a real terms 25% pay cut to my wage in the public sector since 2010, thanks to the Tories, none of this “sounds good” to me
Also this book by the late David Graeber on the history of debt is worth reading to understand how debt is also about power and control and who owns property and who really profits from class inequality.
@AbdiDuale_
Ed Miliband also got a bad vote, Gordon Brown lost the election and got Labour out of government. Will they also have action taken against them? Should Brown have been banned from being an MP?
Rest in Power comrade Neil Faulkner
He believed totally in the revolutionary power of the working class to change the world. It was only a few months ago he was actively engaged in politics, writing and speaking at meetings. Now he’s gone. Cherish your comrades
@edandersen
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Again, why can other countries provide this but not England? (Noting that Scotland does) Are we just so wretched post Thatcherism that can’t do the basics?
Nikita Khrushchev had a tense meeting with Zhou Enlai “I am the son of coal miners,” he said. “You are the descendant of feudal mandarins. We have nothing in common.” “Perhaps we do,” replied Zhou “We are both traitors to our class.”
The real story here isn’t how Change UK aren’t vetting their candidates properly, it’s how mainstream racism is, even far right tropes and viewpoints are common currency among people who consider themselves ‘centrists’
The government approving a new North Sea oil field is all the proof you need that they will never break from the death cult logic of fossil capitalism. We need a mass revolutionary movement to change everything and we need it yesterday.
@misslucyp
He also didn’t have a backpack with wires sticking out of it like the police claimed.
They also said he refused police instructions to stop - but other witnesses said the police didn’t say anything. Just walked up to him on the tube and shot him in the head 9 times
So many leftists on twitter saying they don’t want a general election, implying they hate Starmer more than the Tories (?) - it sounds radical but it’s totally demobilising and useless.
@JamesDeroest
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The Labour government when they brought in tuition fees in 1997. Then Tories and Labour when they tripled costs in 2010 then sold the debt off to the private sector who jacked up the interest rates. It’s still free tuition in Scotland, but not in England and Wales.
Israel isn’t “retaliating”. Israel was formed by the expulsion of Palestinian Arabs and the formation of a majority Jewish state. The Arabs feel dispossessed, their lands no longer theirs, their literal homes taken from them.
The idea that working class people voted Leave and Middle class people voted Remain is not only lazy analysis, it is an outright pernicious politically motivated lie designed to further a reactionary project
In the 1980s Labour bureaucrats warned that the party was “losing the working class vote” because of its “focus on lesbians and gays”. All this current rubbish is just a repeat of that old rubbish from 30 years ago.
Woke 👏 issues 👏 are 👏 class 👏 issues 👏
@jjobrien29
@anna_sky9
@elonmusk
@dogeofficialceo
@GadSaad
These people questioning science are acting as if they are doing peer reviewed research and drawing up empirical data. Instead they are just saying they don’t want to get vaccinated based off a YouTube video they saw
@Frank_Figures
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The government sold the debt off to private companies and changed the interest rates, hiking it to 9%. Please read up on UK student loans before making further comments as research will prevent you making ill informed comments. Have a good day.
How do you define the “soft left” in Labour?
For me it’s people who agree with you in the pub but then in their political actions just go along with whatever the right tell them to do.
Thanks to everyone who liked and shared this tweet - please research & get involved in organising against the following anti-Democratic and authoritarian bills
Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill
Nationality and Borders Bill
Elections Bill
Judicial Review and Courts Bill
I don’t care what your politics are, NO ONE should have to put up with rape threats. Carl Benjamin should be charged & imprisoned for his threats. People attacking Jess Phillips for “making it all about her” are being idiotic in the face of the real threat, alt right thugs
Excl: West Mids Police investigate UKIP candidate Carl Benjamin after saying in a video ‘he might rape’
@jessphillips
. The Labour MP tells us she cried in the street when she saw his words, +blames herself for not doing more to change the law to stop abuse. Full int 10am
@BBCTwo
"Let's remember who the real enemy are. It's not Brussels that closed the mines and it's not migrants driving down wages." 🔥💯👏
Incredible speech at
#Lab19
by
@labourvsbrexit
activist
@Simon_P_Hannah
. Vote for motion 13!
The argument that people shouldn't be living in council flats if they are earning an alright wage is based on the idea that council estates should be ghettos only for poor people. Rubbish, they should be communities for all working people (and no one should be poor obvs).
@RhodriOwen
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I did a mix of politics, history and teacher training. But I think we also have to defend the idea that learning and education is a good thing in itself and is worth doing, and doesn't have to/shouldn't be only linked to work and career. That is neoliberal thinking.
Laura Parker: “Labours failure to properly campaign around the EU elections handed victory to 29 Brexit MEPs who each get loads of money for political organising. We might as well have done a fundraiser to give them £3million”
#freemovement19
Rebecca Long-Bailey says we need to support Angela Raynor because she gets on with her and trusts her. Raynor is her flatmate. Do you know who else used to be flatmates? Len McCluskey and Tom Watson. Take home message: Don't trust your flatmates!
(apols to my flatmates)
@MarxianDialogu1
Institutional racism means that even if the people on the ground are black they still have a racist antagonism towards black people because of the institition they embody
Just so we are clear.
Any human being who earns a living doing an important job like cleaning toilets has incomparably more worth to our society than Laurence Fox.
Just so we are clear.
I would rather scrub toilets for the rest of my days and retain my dignity.
Than shill for cash and opportunity, only to compromise absolutely everything which really matters in life.
I’ve made many millions over the years and I gave them up to fight a
Ruth Cashman is standing to be the Greater London rep for the National Labour Link committee: “What happened at Labour Conference today is shocking. UNISON delegates should back our union policy and they should be promoting more democracy and socialism in Labour not less.”
@DeSkereStudent
@ellegist
She didn’t accuse him of anything. She’s seen a lot of things from women about go bags so she made one and he’s freaking out about it. He could have said “keep the bag and I’ll prove to you every day you never need to use it” or something comforting and nice. He didn’t.
Just been reading an article about how strikes aren’t effective anymore because machinery has replaced workers to the point when the best thing workers can do is pool their resources and set up cooperatives.
The article is from 1845. Plus ça change!
Wow the hottakes on Twitter today of 'socialists' calling for immigrants from poor countries to not come to Britain because it is better for them to stay in where they are and build a life for themselves there and passing it off as left wing is peak degenerate red-brown alliance.
On the anniversary of Cable Street it’s worth remembering that the Labour Party actively opposed any street presence to oppose the fascists and threatens to expel any LP members found on the demo
#CableStreet
The TV license fee is the last poll tax in Britain and it hugely discriminates against women who might be single parents living in poverty. 30% of all convictions against women are for non-payment of the license fee. The system needs radical reform
@esjesjesj
Robocop was also about corporate take over of America, privatised police force, unaccountable executives. In the second movie they literally have the OCP logo like a fascist banner
@kymmytha
@guerrillagoth
@LA_Res_Tourist
@JBomb11
@MarisaKabas
Yes wasn’t that woman trying to make an anti racist point about how few people care about the large numbers of black people with AIDS? But it was ham fisted and poorly worded and she lost everything because of it
The “Labour should be 20 points ahead by now” thing used by both the Labour right and the Labour left to criticise different leaders also just points to a deeper existential problem - what if Labour just can’t win elections any more?
@ChardineTaylor
How has Black Lives Matter been co-opted by anyone? It’s used for BLM protests and as a general anti racist statement? Unless they mean how fascists say White Lives Matter but that isn’t cooption that’s just fascists trying to propagate fascist ideas 🤔
This attempt to make south=posh and north = authentic working class is a sinister right wing trope that sadly some people on the left go along with. It’s rubbish and don’t fall for it.
"For many who live in London and the south of England, things like the opera house and the ballet will be the heart of their culture, but in the north... it is our local football club"
Tory MP Jake Berry calls for government to help "save" local clubs
If Labour is the party of the trade unions then they should include a commitment in their manifesto to scrap all the Thatcherite anti-union laws dating back to 1980, the most repressive anti-worker laws in Western Europe
#FreeOurUnions
@juliefr88667164
Democracy which is hideously biased towards the right-wing? Labour hasn’t won a sizeable majority in Parliament since 1966 unless it was led by Blair. Bourgeois democracy is a shallow husk manipulated by powerful capitalist forces. Rioting is the rhyme of the unheard
I hope the left is united in saying THIS IS NOT SOMETHING TO CHEER! The existence of an unelected head of state who can seek to undermine elected politicians is the kind of manoeuvres that will be used against a radical left prime minister as well.
Queen 'sought advice' on sacking Prime Minister, source claims
The monarch reportedly asked aides for first time in her reign just how and when should could dismiss a PM
Just to be clear I think Starmer is a Kinnock who will pose left then pull the party to the right. My point is that RLB supporters screaming at majority of Labour members, who still aren’t that happy about Brexit, because they “lost us the election” isn’t going to convince them.
@Bigglesdaf
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Good money if that's the kind of work you're into! I hope she does well. In the public sector we have lost 25% of our pay in real terms since 2010 due to austerity so we are all hurting.
@botty72115155
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What about public sector workers delivering an essential service who live in cities and cannot grow food or build wind farms?
@animebuche
The working class has no capital, all it has is it’s labour power to sell. As soon as you start to make money from profits of a business or pay yourself wages from the profits of your own business you are leaving the working class
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Senior Conservatives reacted with fury when it emerged that Prof Priyamvada Gopal, a Left-wing Cambridge academic, who had made offensive remarks about Priti Patel, the Home Secretary, had been invited to deliver a lecture at the Home Office last month
@josephattard02
@OwenJones84
Directly comparing Ukraine to Serbia 1914 is a classic example of socialists who are not thinking but instead scrabbling around for historical examples that fit how they think things are. That’s not Marxism.
The Palestinians have no army, they have no sovereign state. They are called “militants” whereas Israel is called a “state responding to defend itself”.
Biden’s being heralded by the liberal press for his first act of (re)signing the US back up to the Paris Climate accords, an agreement that was fundamentally not sufficient and isn’t working to stop global warming, is a case study in the weakness of centrist politics.