Kirsty McNeill MP
@kirstyjmcneill
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@ScottishLabour and @ScotCoopParty MP for Midlothian. We have a lot to get done, so let’s get started.
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LABOUR GAIN MIDLOTHIAN. Thank you for choosing change. We’ve got a lot to get done. So let’s get started.
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Parties at No 10 in the old days.
@GordonBrown
would hand out very thoughtfully chosen books and tell some jokes. There would be some singing. He’d say “thanks for all you do” and we’d wish each other Merry Christmas and think it was the greatest honour of our lives to serve.
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Don’t let anyone tell you campaigning doesn’t work or you don’t have any power. Here’s a little thread of campaigning wins so far in 2022. 💫
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I feel like my universe is cleaved in two - most of the men going about their business on just another day and many of the women holding our breath and praying for a woman we’ve never met but feel we know.
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We are going to work night and day to hear the magic words: LABOUR GAIN. As I said today, I love our party with my whole heart - I couldn’t be prouder to be our standard bearer in magnificent Midlothian. Change is coming. So let’s get started.
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The breathtaking, heart-bursting kindness of strangers. Jo's fund has topped £1.5 million .
#MoreInCommon
#LoveLikeJo
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Things are really tough right now but it doesn't have to be like this. I'm applying for the East Lothian and Midlothian selection because I want to see
@ScottishLabour
facing the future and fighting for families. Change is coming. So let's get started.
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A thread for everybody interested in whether
@BorisJohnson
and
@RishiSunak
are intent on breaking a manifesto promise from the
@Conservatives
to both the country and some of the poorest people in the world and cutting our life-saving, world-changing
#UKAid
.
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Loved hearing
@serenawilliams
own her talent, her ambition and her choices. Brilliant new podcast.
#Archetypes
#DontBelieveTheType
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If you’re a young person who has just won your first campaign and changed things for you and your mates I hope you always feel as powerful as you do right now. Never forget what you can do when you stand together.
#ALevelsResults
#HonourTheOffer
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We shared the love through our Save with Stories campaign, bringing together inspiring storytellers to help us all escape through imagination. Huge thanks to the Duke and Duchess of Sussex for sharing Archie’s first birthday with us. 🎂
"Duck! Rabbit!" with Meghan, The Duchess of Sussex, and Harry, The Duke of Sussex (behind the camera!) read to their son Archie for his 1st birthday ❤️💛💙 Happy Birthday Archie! ❤️💛💙
Watch the full story & donate to our
#Coronavirus
appeal here 👉
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In case you're hunting for expert opinion in favour of the FCO taking over DFID, let me save you some time. The evidence is below. This isn't a policy decision but a political one, made during the biggest humanitarian crisis for 100 years. Ask yourself why.
‘This is bad value for money for taxpayers, bad for the poor, inconsistent with the manifesto which needs a
@DFID_UK
to deliver
@BorisJohnson
’s commitments to children’.
@KevinAtSave
on
#R4Today
on potential DFID / FCO merger.
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If the glass ceiling gets shattered tomorrow it will be because of all the women who kept smashing their heads on it. Here's to you sisters.
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💔 today for many reasons but also reflecting, for the same ones, on how much politics matters. So tomorrow we start again, campaigning for policies rooted in our love for and belief in one another, wherever we are in the world. Here, there, everywhere:
#MoreInCommon
.
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Anyone who thinks there is even an ounce of complacency in
@ScottishLabour
should have a conversation with the hundreds and hundreds of folk who can barely walk today. This was a hard fought win as they all will have to be. Let’s go.
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Change is coming - to the UK, to Scotland, to Rutherglen and Hamilton West. Just a few of the candidates out in force today to hear from
@Keir_Starmer
and
@AnasSarwar
and support
@mgshanks
.
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Seven lessons about social change from 2021. We need big ideas, our job is to end culture wars not win them, defending democracy comes first, we need to organise, those with the best stories win, invest in infrastructure, start a leadership revolution.
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Alistair Darling, like all the best people, combined devotion to duty with being really good fun. May his wonderful family be enveloped in love from everyone he worked with and on behalf of today.
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It doesn’t have to be like this. We can build a better Britain. We’ve done it before. We will do it again. Happy
#MayDay
everyone - especially this guy.
When people try and tell you New Labour achieved nothing in power....
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This isn’t the Britain I love. Red Nose Day, Volunteers Week, the Disasters Emergency Committee, Christmas Jumper Day - that’s who we are. Millions of people doing their best and doing their bit. ❤️🇬🇧
#UKAid
Friday's Express: "Time to slash foreign aid bill" (via
@AllieHBNews
)
#bbcpapers
#tomorrowspaperstoday
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He's got it all: a clear ask, an evidence base, a moment of leverage, an unanswerable moral case, a broad constituency of support and a plan.
@MarcusRashford
is a *world-class* campaigner. Children are so lucky he's on their team. We
@savechildrenuk
are so proud to be on his.
Paying close attention to the Commons today and to those who are willing to turn a blind eye to the needs of our most vulnerable children, 2.2M of them who currently qualify for Free School Meals. 42% newly registered. Not to mention the 1.5M children who currently don’t qualify.
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If you want to see the best of our species look for all the health and social care workers going to work today not because they think this isn’t serious but precisely because they know it is. That is what love and duty look like. We are in awe and in your debt.
#Covid_19
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If you rely on a food bank to feed your family, you haven't failed your children. We all have.
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Labour has a plan to make work pay. Two things you can do to help us get this done 1)
#VoteLabour
2)
#JoinAUnion
.
@LabourUnionsSco
@labourunionsuk
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“It’s not good intentions that will end poverty but a progressive government with a plan backed up by the resources of the whole UK” - this is what’s at stake.
#StrongerScotland
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There are many unsung heroes in our movement but tonight I'll raise a glass to the
@UKLabour
staff - the people who never expect to take the credit when things go right but without whom they never would.
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I wouldn’t have predicted at the turn of the year that I’d spend February thinking about leadership lessons from Mitt Romney and Sajid Javid but here we are.
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It is clear that
#UKAid
rebels would have won with at least 9 votes to spare today. Don’t ever let anyone tell you all politicians are the same or they are all out for themselves. Today we learnt a lot about principled politics and what parliament can be at its best.
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Thank you to each and every MP who voted with their conscience today on
#UKAid
. Every single person who believes promises should be kept when lives are on the line. Every single parliamentarian who will get back up tomorrow and start making the case for
#GlobalBritain
anew.
BREAKING Govt wins overseas aid cut vote by 333 votes to 298. Big Tory rebellion
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What kind of country creates and nurtures something this remarkable and ensures it belongs to all of us?
#ThisIsOurBBC
❤️
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“Is that you back again?” - the most common reaction on today’s doors for
@mgshanks
. Zero complacency from
@ScottishLabour
and our team from
@LabourFalkirk
and
@lothian_yl
. We are out working for every single vote. Nobody taken for granted, nobody left behind by our
#FreshStart
.
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The creed of all good organisers at the entrance to Save the Children Norway.
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I see absolutely everybody's an expert on Scottish politics once again. 🙄
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If you voted for the first time today, campaigned for the first time today, shifted your vote to Labour for the first time today, you have my whole heart today. I hope you always feel as powerful as you do right now. We achieve more together than we do alone. Today and always.
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This is an important win from
@BootstrapCook
that will see changes to how inflation is calculated.
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Loads of people are starting shifts, opening night shelters, answering calls on helplines or in danger and far from home helping those caught up in war or disaster. Love and thanks to everyone serving those who are ill, alone, afraid, or mourning tonight.
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Campaigners won the first stage of their fight to see British Sign Language recognised in law.
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Some people say there are no great causes left. But making work pay is a cause worth fighting for. Rebuilding our public services is a cause worth fighting for. Ending child poverty is a cause worth fighting for. All of them are on the ballot.
#VoteLabour
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Do you know what, Britain? This is who we are. We show up for each other. We believe in each other. We care for each other. Don’t let anybody ever tell you different.
#ClapForOurCarers
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Here is our new boss. 🌟
PRESS RELEASE: NHS Paediatrician to chair
@savechildrenuk
. Dr Tsitsi Chawatama, 42, who grew up in Zimbabwe, has worked in Ethiopia & is now based at Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust in London, joins
@savechildrenuk
today.
Read more:
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Voting. Changes. Things.
Don’t ever let anyone tell you different.
Thank you to everyone who voted for hope this week. You’re more powerful than you know.
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🥁 If I’m lucky enough to become your MP alpaca lot in. Thanks to the Loanhead Gala organisers and my new woolly pal DJ.
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#UKAid
Amendment tabled by the Honourable Members for
#GlobalBritain
.
.
@BorisJohnson
is facing his first ever Commons defeat since his 2019 landslide.
On Monday, Tory MPs want to vote on an amendment forcing the govt to meet its 0.7% aid pledge
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For those of us who spend our lives defending politics and what it can be at its best, this was a moment when the blood ran cold. Both the British public and the people of Yemen deserve much, much better than this.
#YemenCantWait
This is genuinely astonishing from the Prime Minister. With 400,000 children at risk of dying of famine in Yemen and 2 days after the UK has cut its aid there by more than half, he lambasts the leader of the opposition for thinking it's worth questioning him on.
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This is just one of the ways my mum dedicated her life to children and young people. That she had so much love to go around is why so much is coming back to us now.
It is with great sadness that
#RangersFC
confirm the sudden passing of our long-standing
@RFC_Youth
Academy landlady Morag McNeill:
#AbsentFriends
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Happy 70th birthday to the great son of Scotland, citizen of the world, Mr
@SarahBrownUK
. Most people would be relaxing. GB is, predictably, working away on global education, malnutrition, child poverty and the future of our democracy and it’s not even noon. 😅🥳
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Children shouldn’t go hungry in 2020. We know where we stand and that’s with our friends at
@UNICEF_uk
. 💙
For the first time in its 70 year history
@UNICEF_uk
will feed children in the UK. In May, a
@yougov
/
@food_foundation
poll found that 2.4 million UK children were in food insecure households. We stand with
@UNICEF_uk
as they provide this vital support to children in the UK.
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‘This is bad value for money for taxpayers, bad for the poor, inconsistent with the manifesto which needs a
@DFID_UK
to deliver
@BorisJohnson
’s commitments to children’.
@KevinAtSave
on
#R4Today
on potential DFID / FCO merger.
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If you’re lucky enough to be waking up safe in a democracy today please remember that we have so much more power than we know. If you think this is a time for intellectually and morally serious people then stand together, organise, campaign, vote, donate.
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“Our enemy is not sitting across from us in a political chamber, however much we disagree. Our enemy is poverty, that’s what we are out to defeat”.
@AnasSarwar
at
#CoopConf21
, calling for a “real progressive alliance” of co-operators, trade unionists and community activists.
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Quick trip over the water to chat about the future with the person who has taught me most about how to fight for things that really matter.
#ThanksForAllYouDo
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Campaigning forced Boots to drop their mark-up on the morning after pill.
Huge congrats to
@RoseStokes
,
@BPAS1968
and others who campaigned for this! The morning after pill is essential medication and £10 is still a steep price, but this is undoubtably a very important step in the right direction
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New member, young member, first time campaigner? You’re always welcome in Midlothian. 💕
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Things we absolutely love to see. Thanks to everyone in Midlothian who already has a poster up. If you’d like to join them get in touch and we will do our best.
#VoteScotLab24
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My most popular campaigner by some margin. Juno thinks it is high time for a
#NewDeal
for Working People.
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“Enough to eat, freedom from the haunting terror of unemployment, the knowledge your children will get a fair chance … and short enough working hours to leave you with a little energy when the day is done” - Orwell’s good life basics. Too many still don’t have them 80 years on.
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What’s a wee bit of rain between pals when you’ve got your braw new jumper? Come rain or shine
@ScottishLabour
is on the doors. Thanks to everyone who has spoken to us today.
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Together we can put an end to the chaos and division of these last few years.
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Even if - especially if - you’ve never voted
@ScottishLabour
before, we are so grateful you’ve joined the push for decency. The people of Rutherglen and Hamilton West deserve a
#FreshStart
and
@mgshanks
is the one to deliver it.
For weeks I have been hearing how desperately the people in Rutherglen and Hamilton West want change.
It is time for a fresh start here, and I am ready to hit the ground running.
#FreshStart
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Sisterhood is our superpower. Thanks to
@bphillipsonMP
for joining all these incredible
@ScottishLabour
women for a day of training, campaigning and feminist solidarity.
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Have spent a week trying to put into words that for which there are none but remember nobody in the depths of their sorrow needs our ‘takes’ - just our solidarity, our love and, if we say them, our prayers. If you can’t relieve the agony of others please don’t add to it. 💔
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The young leaders at
@BiteBack2030
won their
#SpillTheBeans
campaign.
CAMPAIGN WIN FOR
#SpillTheBeans
Today the Government has announced a plan for a fairer school food system for all children, no matter where they live 🎉
School food standards will be monitored and checked. Congratulations everyone involved in this fight for better child health ❤️
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There is a graveyard lapping at the edges of our country. This is not who we are. This is not what we want. This is not how it has to be.
Two children, aged five and eight, among four dead after boat carrying migrants sank in the English Channel, French officials say
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Thanks to
@RhonddaBryant
I now know this is Melanoma Awareness Month so we have added sunscreen to our
@ScottishLabour
box of materials for volunteers so we can keep each other safe. Take care folks. 😎
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So this happened a year ago today. We have three mottos in the Midlothian campaign. ⭐️ Build leaders ⭐️ Test everything ⭐️ Make it fun. If you want to join a growing and happy team you’re always welcome in Midlothian.
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Some thoughts for everyone leading or funding social change efforts right now. Not quite 'rules for radicals', just 'advice for activists'. We need to do our best ever work right now - this is where we should start.
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Please remember that the women trying to organise this vigil are like the rest of us - scared, exhausted, furious, heart-broken - but taking on this work as volunteers in the midst of their sorrow. I am in *awe*. We can never say thank you enough.
#ReclaimTheseStreets
We have an update from our High Court case earlier today, please see the statement attached.
#ReclaimTheseStreets
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This is why I think we need a leadership revolution in social change work and what I think it could look like. Notes from last night’s
#WineAndWotsits
/
#PolesApart
book launch.
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The trouble with accepting offers like this, if indeed anyone did, is that neither your allies in the causes you betray nor the people who realise you can be bought respect you in the end. As some very naive people may be about to find out.
"Jobs" were dangled in front of rebel Tory MPs to persuade them to vote to keep aid spending lower than 0.7%, Damian Green suggests on
@TimesRadio
. I hear the same. Did Boris Johnson, in effect, carry out part of his Government reshuffle in private this afternoon?
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People are brilliant, aren’t they? Giving up time to knit beautiful things just to cheer folk up. Cracking day in North Middleton with the team.
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Find the people you love. Tell them. Hold them. Right now.
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In the
@telegraph
asking
@UniofOxford
to
#HonourTheOffer
with past
@OxfordStudents
Presidents
@ruth_hunt
@joshbell
@lewisiwu
@MMackenzie74
@martinmccluskey
@DTBarclay
@AnishaFaruk
@kathrynmcole
@ssbaskerville
@JackHam23052209
@Becky_Howe7
@HelenaPuigL
@tomrutland
@AlanStrickland
.
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REMINDER. It doesn’t have to be like this. On July the 4th you will get the chance to vote for change. On July the 5th you can wake up knowing you were part of it.
#VoteScotLab24
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I'm normally among the first to say that there's an organising response to anything, always something we can do together. Tonight I've got nothing. Find the people you love and tell them. That's all I can think to do. 💔
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It’s meeting so many people switching to
@ScottishLabour
that makes being out chapping doors such a joy, even when it’s raining hard enough to be streaming down my face. ❤️🤩
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People died - and families grieved - alone. Workers went to shifts not knowing if their jobs might kill them. Take every bit of rage you feel and turn it into action - we can all do our bit. Register, volunteer, donate. Today.
EXCLUSIVE: First ever Partygate video revealed as Tories drink, dance and laugh at Covid rules
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Make sure the people we love know about it. Let the people who live a life of service know we appreciate it. And be grateful for every bit of joy that passes our way each day. That’s all I can think to do today. Maybe tomorrow we can do better but this is where I’ll start.
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Gift bags at the media centre are always an interesting indication of what the host country wants journos to pick up subliminally. For
#G7UK
it seems to be 1) there is still a pandemic on, 2) we love our coast and protecting the planet and 3) we like to drink tea. Quite right. 🇬🇧
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It’s incredibly sunny today, you meet more dogs than cats in Rutherglen and loads of people are turning to
@mgshanks
for a
#FreshStart
. More news as we have it. ☀️🐶🐱
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This year we've answered the call of a 23 year old football player and a 100 year old soldier. This is our country, not the angry, divided place conjured up by the clickbait and the choreographed fights on TV. Most of us are doing our best and doing our bit. We show up. ❤️
To the campaigners, charity workers, volunteers, teachers, care workers, key workers, that have fought for this level of progress for years, thank you. This is YOUR victory. Never underestimate the role you have all played. I’m just honoured to be on this journey with you ♥️
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☀️💥 What a summer. Thanks to every single person who has joined our happy and growing campaign in Midlothian. This is just the start.
#ChangeIsComing
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Well done everyone, we’ve made it through some truly awful things. Recently
@TFletcher
’s book introduced me to Edith Wharton’s advice to be “interested in big things and happy in small ways” to fend off sorrow and despair. That’s my hope for all of us this Easter.
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Scotland is missing Robin Cook, Donald Dewar and John Smith tonight more than ever.
#bbcindyref
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Reading
@RefugeeAction
’s new strategy and loving the language of giving power to those who are ‘experts by experience’. Not ‘walking case-studies’, ‘beneficiaries’, ‘clients’, ‘service users’ or ‘people with lived experience’. Experts. ✊🏽
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Beautiful sentiment from
@rabbisacks
on
#Newsnight
: 'The kindertransport didn't save six million, but it lit a light in the darkness'.
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‘Her mantra was that each child mattered’. This is what it looks like to fully, fiercely love other people and to live like their troubles are your own. Am so proud to be her daughter.
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The 4th of July is our chance for change. Vote
@ScottishLabour
and let’s get this done, together.
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Gordon Brown on
#R4Today
making the case for employment protection that gives families in the UK the same certainty as comparable countries. In his view SSP and
#UniversalCredit
reform are key, but the priority has to be protecting jobs.
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BREAKING: 3.9 million kids live in poverty. Some of them will go to bed cold or hungry tonight regardless of who got a new job today.
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Lots of people who never met her have cause to thank Glenys Kinnock for her steadfast commitment to ending extreme poverty and promoting the values of solidarity, equality and social justice. An internationalist to her core, our hurting world needs more of her spirit.
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If you’re a first-time voter, candidate or activist today I hope you always feel as powerful and as hopeful as you do right now.
#GE2019
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