Pamela Fitzpatrick
@pamelafitz4HW
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Independent Parliamentary Candidate for Harrow West. Proud socialist, trade unionist and mum. Tired of corruption, hypocrisy and injustice.
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Joined February 2015
In answer to a question I get asked a lot. Yes I believe now is the time for a new party. I have been working alongside many grassroots groups for the past year to do so. For it to succeed however, it must be democratic and can’t be top down or based around any one personality.
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To the 90k people who signed up to host a Ukrainian refugee but say they can’t find anyone. There are Refugees from Yemen, Syria, Afghanistan, Sudan, Palestine, Iran, Iraq already in the UK who are living in appalling accommodation. They are just as traumatised.
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A very belated shout out to the H14 bus driver who noticed my niece running along a lonely stretch of road from a man and stopped the bus to ask if she was ok. She told him the man had tried to assault her. The driver told her to hop on the bus and took her to safety. Thank you.
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My energy provider has contacted me wanting to increase my monthly payments from £80 per month to £323. How are people going to cope? We need nationalisation of energy companies not a windfall tax. If MPs had to survive on an average wage nationalisation would happen immediately.
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The Criminal Bar are on strike next week. Don’t believe what you read in the media and by politicians. These are legal aid lawyers. For some their income is below minimum wage. The picket lines are on Monday 27th and Tuesday 28th as follows.
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When first salaried the rate of pay for MPs was £400 per annum. The value of this today would be £50,188. Their basic salary in 2022 is £84,144. MPs should not be lecturing anyone about pay restraint. Solidarity with @RMTunion.
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It’s simple. Don’t buy the Sun, don’t read the Sun, don’t write for the Sun.
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Families in Harrow have been evicted the night before their child sits their GCSEs then had to sleep in cars or friends floors. But out of touch over privileged Starmer says he needed £20k donations ‘for son to revise for GCSEs' to protect his life chances
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I have intervened in several cases of police stopping young people. One was a schoolgirl being searched by a single male police officer with a machine gun on the streets of Harrow. The response in all these has been hostile, unless and until I disclose I am a local Councillor.
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Dear @JamesCleverly I work in a centre advising people every day on benefits and housing. Although a brilliant film the reality is actual worse than portrayed. I suggest you spend a day at a citizens advice bureau or law centre to understand the impact of your policies.
You do realise that it’s not a documentary, don’t you. Don’t you?.
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In respect of the Labour Party threat to auto exclude me from the party for giving an interview in 2020 to Socialist Appeal. I have now instructed Solicitors who have today written to the Labour party to put them on notice of potential legal proceedings.
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I have just received a letter from the Labour Party threatening me with auto exclusion because I was interviewed by Socialist Appeal in May 2020 on why I was applying for the position of General Secretary. I explained to SA I wanted fair procedures followed in the party.
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Celebrity chef Tom Kerridge has visited a local food bank filming a cook on a budget programme. Perhaps well intentioned but hugely patronising. People know how to cook. They don’t have the money to buy or cook food and it is not by accident but deliberate government policy.
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Still trying to process recent surreal events. An anonymous Labour Party panel met without my knowledge or attendance and expelled me for breaking a rule which did not exist at the time I ‘broke’ it. The offence being I talked to a socialist group about the Labour Party.
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We need a massive programme of nationalisation. From care homes, energy, transport, health, housing and energy. These basic services, the bare necessities of life should not be a tool for the already obscenely rich to profiteer further. Haven’t we all had enough of this nonsense.
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Some people seem to have forgotten the Labour Party was set up by trade unions to allow working class people representation in Parliament. If you are trying to distance Labour from the unions and ordinary members in favour or wealthy donors you are probably in the wrong party.
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The Labour Party late last night expelled a 76 year old woman who is in poor health. A former councillor. Her crime. Attending a meeting of a proscribed group before it was proscribed. Can any labour member defend this conduct. You should be ashamed, this is done in your name.
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The latest allegations made against me by the party are that I spoke at a zoom event over a year ago to an audience of 600 which contained some expelled members. My own complaints of harassment by a group of men over a 5 year period still have not been investigated.
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I am sick of hearing rich white politicians/former politicians agreeing with rich white journalists that Labour is back on track after the terrible Corbyn era. What they mean is their privilege is now not at risk and the poor can be kept in their place. We need radical change.
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Just a warning. The next horror that is to befall us ordinary people which the mainstream media and our politicians are largely silent. Charter Cities and Freeport’s.
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Prior to 1989 renting in the private sector was regulated. People had security of tenure spanning many years and rents could not be increased as now. Thatcher deregulated the private sector whilst also allowing council homes to be sold off. The housing crisis is a Tory creation.
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Uxbridge & South Ruislip: . Corbyn's Labour .2017 18,682 votes.2019 18,141. Starmer's Labour .2023 13,470 . (2019 two weeks before Christmas non stop rain all day).
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Are any of the mainstream media interested in reporting on the fact that people are being arrested for peacefully protesting today? Are any MPs raising concerns about this?.
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The Lib Dems had a choice in 2010. Form a coalition with Labour or Tories. It chose the tories and embarked on the most devastating destruction of our Welfare state, legal aid and public services plus introduced £9000 student fees. Their legislation remains in force.
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Australia has suffered 70 COVID-19 deaths. Ireland 764 deaths. The UK 15464. We are currently set to have one of the highest number of deaths in the world. The high number is due to the incompetence of our Tory government. It’s not just Boris that has to go.
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The start to another week and yet another letter from the Labour Party. I am instructed not to disclose the matter raised though I am allowed to consult the Samaritans. Whilst I am grateful for the suggestion I think probably my solicitor is more appropriate at this time.
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Starmer’s apparent obsession by @jeremycorbyn and anything Jeremy does or who he associates with is increasingly bizarre. It clearly displays a deep insecurity about his own abilities.
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I am happy to confirm that I will be standing as an independent Parliamentary Candidate in Harrow West at the next General Election. It’s where I live, work and where I was a councillor for 8 years. Follow this account for more details of how to get involved. #Changeiscomingsoon.
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A mural created by Sam Collins painted on a pub in Archway. - The face of honest politics. Very rare today.
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Stella Creasy is wrong. Not being able to parade your baby in Parliament is not what puts women off politics. It’s the institutionalised bullying, misogyny, racism and daily defamation of socialist women such as @ApsanaBegumMP whilst Creasy et al turn a blind eye that does that.
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John Major always refused to rely on DUP as he realised the consequences for Ireland. Tories today put their career before peace in Ireland.
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It seems that 43 members of the House of Lords have investments worth millions and hold senior roles in oil and gas companies. Two sit on the Lords regulatory committee which heard evidence on zero climate policies. Three are Labour.
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Maxwell needs to name perpetrators. We currently have a number of men in powerful positions who were frequent visitors to Epstein. We need to know why Mandelson, Clinton, Prince Andrew and others were doing there. They must account for their behaviour. Does anyone care?.
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The Epstein/Maxwell case revealed child sex abuse on an industrial scale. Hundreds of wealthy men linked to the pair including members of the UK Lords and royal family. Public figures we pay for. Yet no police investigations and silence from most politicians.
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I am absolutely appalled at things I am reading tonight. @jeremycorbyn deserves an immediate apology. @Keir_Starmer.
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I am a director of a charity. If a report was brought to me with prima facie evidence of horrendous abuse bullying, racism, sexism and ableism. My response would not be to commission an investigation into why the report was written.
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The level of hatred and abuse being directed at a Jewish female pensioner for having the audacity to be democratically elected to Labour’s NEC should be a cause for concern for the Labour leadership. But no doubt once again the victim will be the one that is punished.
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Tory MP on Question Time says we have agreed no compulsory redundancies and waves a document around saying it’s here in black and white. Lynch reads it says it doesn’t say no compulsory redundancies. Tory MP says well no one can guarantee no compulsory redundancies.
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After 30 years or more as an avid listener I have finally this morning switched off @BBCr4today and the silence is rather lovely.
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A windfall tax is not the answer. I am hearing of people in 2 bed flats being asked to pay £400 a month. The only answer is nationalisation. Why can’t labour say that?.
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I hear at one branch meeting tonight the chair wasn't sure if he could allow a vote of no confidence in David Evans so it was agreed that the branch would write to David Evans asking if they were allowed to pass a vote of no confidence in David Evans.
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I should not really need to point this out. But. If the only way you can win a ballot is by suspending or expelling those who might vote against you, rather than persuading with your ideas. It doesn’t bode well for the next general election.
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A year ago today. She was just walking home. But she met a police man who brutally murdered her. We were told it was one bad apple. But that proved to be untrue. Remember her name - Sarah Everard.
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We definitely need to get rid of the honours system. The most honourable of people seem to be those that have turned down an award.
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One resident I spoke to today a former Tory voter said “Every thing has got worse the last few years. Everyone knows it. The cost of everything has gone up. Everyone is struggling. The press don’t care about important issues they just attack Corbyn. Do they think we are stupid?”.
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On this socialist Sunday I pay tribute to @jeremycorbyn. The reluctant leader who has come to represent the hopes of so many for a fairer society. Every day he faces abuse yet remains polite, dignified & resolute in his aim to make the world a little better for us ordinary people.
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If you voted Tory are you not embarrassed? If you were one of the labour Leaks people who undermined Corbyn at every turn allowing a Tory government are you not ashamed? You should be. People have died.
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Who would have thought, 40 years after Greenham Common, the Labour Party will chuck you out if you attend a peace rally and the Government will have you locked up for 10 years for protesting. We really need better politicians. Ones that act for us occasionally, not themselves.
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Surely no genuine Labour leader would ever suggest that the May Day bank holiday which celebrates the working class struggle for fairer pay and better working conditions should be replaced with one celebrating the king. Surely not during the cost of living crisis.
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I have had an email from Kier Starmer to tell me if elected as leader he wants to give me and other councillors more of a say in labour policy and how the party is run. Thing is I am a socialist and I think all members should have an equal say in how our party is run.
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The MSM including the supposedly liberal @Independent are running smear stories attacking @jeremycorbyn to deflect from the fact they are all failing to report on the biggest political scandal of our time @AJEnglish Labour files. This is why our country is in this dreadful state.
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When I was a parliamentary candidate in 2019 we had many reports on the doorstep that some senior labour representatives were telling people NOT to vote Labour. Complaints with names were made. Nothing was done.
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This threat was posted by Luke Akehurst after Labour councillors signed a letter in support of then labour leader @jeremycorbyn. I am on that list. No one who conducts themselves in such a way should hold any office. Yet he sits on Labours NEC.
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We have a Conservative government engaged in corruption on an eye watering scale. Enabling the obscene profiteering of their donors whilst ordinary working people are losing their jobs and homes and are forced to food banks. And the media? They are Complicit.
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The Labour Party has expelled members for allegedly associating with socialists but appears to have taken no action to investigate Peter Mandelson’s and his alleged links to those involved in trafficking children on an industrial scale.
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I can say categorically without any hesitation @jeremycorbyn would never try to take credit for something someone else achieved.
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The Labour Party appears to be making 90 of its staff redundant whilst at the same time recruiting 50 staff on temporary contracts for 6 months. What’s that called again….?.
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Before Jeremy stood as leader of the party he was described as the nicest person in politics without a single enemy. Look at what the establishment did to him. Many fell for the smears. Whoever becomes the next leader of our party be prepared for the same.
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It’s not the poor that need to be taught how to budget, they are already experts at that. It’s the rich and privileged that need some budgeting skills because no matter how much they have it is never enough to satisfy their greed.
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I have been contacted by so many people this evening, members and non members, who have read the leaked report and are so upset and angry. Where are all those in the PLP who were so constantly ready to criticise @jeremycorbyn. The sound of silence is deafening.
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On this day two years ago we had reports from people on the doorstep that Labour councillors were telling people not to vote Labour. At the count the same councillors could not hide their happiness that we lost. Those councillors were reported to the party and nothing was done.
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We should never forgive the Labour MPs and councillors who worked so hard to ensure that we did not get a labour government in 2019. Some even boast about it! The level of poverty and hardship so many now face is just as much their fault. But all they care for is themselves.
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The Queen choosing to give such a prominent role to Andrew at a public event today shows exactly what she thinks about the sexual assault and trafficking of children. Poor children don’t matter.
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Amazing atmosphere tonight at support for Palestine event in Camden.
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The Labour Party had a duty of care to its members. Sending emails late at night expelling a long-standing member aged 76 and in poor health displays a lack of any care or even common decency. Imagine if an employer did this. And those standing silently by. Shame on you.
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Imagine how different things could be if we had Labour MPs more like Sharon Graham, Mick Lynch and Dave Ward. We certainly would not have food banks, poverty pay and slum housing. The unions do have powers to ensure we have more genuine trade unionists as MPs. It’s time to do so.
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The person who leaked the report is a whistleblower and should be treated as such. They have protection in law from victimisation. They are exceptionally brave in coming forward and should be commended. Thank you.
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Why oh why did Labour abstain on a crucial vote that would delay the Migration Bill by over a year and probably forever. This is a Bill that breaks international law and will prevent people claiming asylum in the UK. If you are a Labour representative can you explain? Justify?.
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11 Labour MPs voted against the appalling anti boycott bill: Apsana Begum, Dawn Butler, Jeremy Corbyn, Barry Gardiner, Ian Lavery, Andy McDonald, John McDonnell, Ian Mearns, Grahame Morris, Mick Whitley, Beth Winter. Some were paired but all the rest abstained.
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Imagine how society could be if all wanna be MPs and Councillors had to prove they wanted the role for altruistic reasons rather than for ego, power, greed. Imagine if they were not allowed to be landlords or have second jobs. Imagine if they had a similar salary to most. Imagine.
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I keep seeing on social media right wing labour members thanking other right wingers for ensuring we didn’t get a labour government in 2019. They don’t even feel they need to pretend anymore. So don’t give us your crocodile tears about this government. You put it there.
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This is quite funny. Labour organises a Race Equality Act launch. Fills the room with union jacks. And bans all the race equality campaigners from getting into the room.
Labour excluded some campaigners from race equality act launch event. Read more 🔗
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The sole reason I was expelled from the Labour Party is I gave an interview to Socialist Appeal in 2020 on what I would do if Gen Sec of the Party. Labour can’t tolerate members associating with socialists but has yet to form a view on those associating with child traffickers.
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I would really like to know who on earth thought it appropriate to put on a session at labour women’s conference on the need for us women to be ‘grateful’ and for us to practice the habit of gratitude. Grateful women didn’t get us the vote, revolutionary women did.
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I think @AaronBastani and @michaeljswalker at @novaramedia are to be commended for their recent reporting on the crisis within the Labour Party. The leadership appear completely oblivious to the anger of members. The silence of the mainstream media of course speaks volumes.
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So there are no Lateral Flow Tests to be found anywhere and now no PCR tests either. Surely this is not only the most corrupt government we have ever had but also the most incompetent.
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If Labour believes it acceptable to punish people by introducing rules and applying them retrospectively we urgently need clarification on their plans if in government for our justice system.
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I have applied for the position of General Secretary of the Labour Party. I was contacted by many members over the last few weeks who have been distraught at the revelations in Labour and GMB leaks who have asked me to apply. They want an end to a culture of bullying and abuse.
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The Labour party has put more resources into getting me expelled for breaking a rule that did not exist at the time of my ‘offence’ than it has to force Johnson to resign for breaking an actual law. The Met says it won’t investigate retrospective crimes. Kafka would be baffled.
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You abstained. You had the opportunity to put your constituents first but put your career first. Means testing is never the answer and now many pensioners will go.without heating. How dare you on a salary of over £92,000 make a decision to cut the income of those on £12,000.
As I walk into Parliament, I find myself deeply reflecting on the decision I made yesterday. Choosing not to support the Government was not easy; it’s a choice I wrestled with until the very last moment. I also could not vote for Rishi Sunak’s motion either. I genuinely
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So 2019 was the year I was privileged to stand in the General Election with @jeremycorbyn as leader with the best manifesto and most inspiring activists. In the words of the much missed Bob Crow If you fight you won’t always win. If you don’t fight you will always lose.
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I have never known a time like this. It feels as though anyone with power is intent on abusing that power, is deeply corrupt and rotten to the core.
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The MSM spent 5 years trying to convince us @jeremycorbyn, a fundamentally decent person, was a dangerous monster. We now have a government responsible for the deaths of thousands of citizens, corruptly allowing its mates profit out of the pandemic rather than protect us. Crooks.
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You have to judge people by what they do when they gain power. Corbyn and Mcdonnell formed a shadow cabinet from all parts of the party. That was thrown back at them. They went on to form the most dynamic shadow cabinet the party has had in decades. We could have done so much.
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Telling people it is their patriotic duty to celebrate the jubilee is not only wrong it reveals a fundamental failure to understand the hardship so many people are enduring. Many parents can’t afford to celebrate their child’s birthday. We so need an end to performative politics.
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The practices now adopted by the Labour leadership; retrospective application of rules, presumption of guilt till proven innocent, proscribing & banning are measures you expect to find in oppressive regimes not in OUR party.#IStandWithPamelaFitzpatrick *.
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The way that Starmer is running the Labour party genuinely fills me with horror that he was ever the DPP. How many injustices took place over that time to that we are not aware of.
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Labour are on a wave of dubious expulsions again. Why? Because it’s time to vote for NEC candidates. It shows contempt for the Forde report and the members money spent on it. Contempt also for democracy and fairness. Things have been far worse in the last two years. Not better.
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A few years ago I witnessed some thugs abuse a Muslim woman shouting ‘letter box’ at her. I viewed the incident as a hate crime & came to her assistance. In Tory Britain today Boris Johnson thinks such abuse is acceptable, even funny. Seems most MSM do also. Astonishing.
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It’s a sad day when a Labour leader, yes a Labour Leader, bans Labour MPs from supporting trade unionists in their industrial struggle. An even sadder day when so many Labour MPs meekly follow such orders. Really need to decide. Which side are you on? Solidarity with @RMTunion.
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A disastrous result both for Johnson and Starmer in North Shropshire. Labour came 2nd in the last 3 general elections but has dropped back to 3rd place. Preventing the candidate who was runner up three times from standing was a huge mistake. It should have been a labour gain.
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I intend to keep telling my story until those responsible are held accountable. I made a complaint to the Labour Party of harassment and stalking of me and my family in 2018. It started in 2016 but escalated when I was selected as a PPC in 2017. I had written evidence.
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“The Establishment decided Thatcher's ideas were safer with a strong Blair government than with a weak Major government. We are given all these personalities to choose between to disguise the fact that the policies are the same.” Tony Benn.
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How not to do canvassing. Hilarious and difficult to believe it’s real. .
Brilliant! Holding Sir Keir Starmer's Labour Party to account!
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How any Labour MP has the audacity to go on TV today and blame @jeremycorbyn for the thousands of deaths caused by Johnson and his crooked government is beyond belief. Do your job or let someone more competent do it.
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Starmer destroyed democracy in the Labour Party and is now doing the same in the democratic election processes as numerous Labour candidates refuse to take part in hustings on the pretext of security concerns. This should be a huge warning to how Labour will act in government.
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The Prince and the Prime Minister between them are doing a marvellous job of revealing to us all just how corrupt and morally bankrupt most of the establishment are. Now is the time of monsters and we await the new world still struggling to be born. It’s time for radical change.
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