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🧵 about ambulance waiting times.
On Sunday morning at around 5.30am, I was awoken by a commotion outside. A woman (let's call her Sharon) had collapsed on the paving and was gasping for air. Some other neighbours were already trying to assist her.
On Sunday morning at around 5.30am, I was awoken by a commotion outside. A woman (let's call her Sharon) had collapsed on the paving and was gasping for air. Some other neighbours were already trying to assist her.
It took 13 minutes on a call with 999 to find out that an ambulance would be 'at least an hour' and that no other emergency service could come either.
Sharon's breathing was deteriorating, she was losing consciousness.
I got my car keys.
Sharon's breathing was deteriorating, she was losing consciousness.
I got my car keys.
Three people carried her in to my car. A woman had Sharon's head in her lap, a man had her feet in his. Another man sat next to me in the front.
I drove, very fast, towards St Thomas' A&E.
Over Lambeth Bridge, Sharon appeared to stop breathing.
I drove, very fast, towards St Thomas' A&E.
Over Lambeth Bridge, Sharon appeared to stop breathing.
At #Lab22 conference, Keir Starmer promised to introduce a “points-based immigration system”.
A short thread on why this is a bad position for Labour to have 🧵 👇
A short thread on why this is a bad position for Labour to have 🧵 👇
Firstly, the term “points-based system” doesn’t tell us very much. Without any more detail, it’s almost meaningless.
It’s more of a dogwhistle than a policy announcement. It’s meant to invoke being “tough” on immigration and only letting in the “good” migrants.
It’s more of a dogwhistle than a policy announcement. It’s meant to invoke being “tough” on immigration and only letting in the “good” migrants.
What a “points-based system” does signal is an immigration system targeted towards the needs of business, not ordinary people.
It implies visas for the rich and those workers who are particularly useful to capital, closed borders to everyone else.
It implies visas for the rich and those workers who are particularly useful to capital, closed borders to everyone else.
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What we need in this country, and many others to be fair, is to stop treating immigration as a negative and start actually creating policies which benefit people, and the country. This isn't it. 1/
mirror.co.uk/news/politics/…
What we need in this country, and many others to be fair, is to stop treating immigration as a negative and start actually creating policies which benefit people, and the country. This isn't it. 1/
mirror.co.uk/news/politics/…
Before coming up with any policy you need to look at where public attitudes are. That doesn't mean just looking to your membership or what the most vocal shout. It's about seeing where attitudes in general are, and on immigration they're softening. 2/
bsa.natcen.ac.uk/latest-report/…
bsa.natcen.ac.uk/latest-report/…
Immigration currently ranks at fourth on voter priorities, behind, understandably, the economy, health and the environment, with only 24% of people surveyed counting it is a core issue. 3/
yougov.co.uk/topics/educati…
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To #LabourConference2022 - a #ProgressiveAlliance is a process for defeating Tories at the next critical GE. It does not depend on policy pre-commitments. Parties agree to work together to encourage tactical voting and who will stand, depending on local voting behaviour.
To #LabourConference2022 - the next GE will be very tight. Handfuls of votes may make the difference between win/lose. A #ProgressiveAlliance reduces risks of lose. It increases the value of every vote. Makes every constituency competitive. Ensures no safe Tory hiding place.
To #LabourConference2022 - Tories pose an existential threat to our democratic way of life. They have to go at next GE. Not the one after. A #ProgressiveAlliance will consign them to political outer darkness for a generation. Join forces. #ProgressiveAlliance
BREAKING: Labour conference just voted to support Proportional Representation.
Labour has committed to:
đź’Ą PR for general elections in the next manifesto.
đź’Ą Reform in next Labour government's first term in office.
#Labour4PR #Lab22
đź’Ą PR for general elections in the next manifesto.
đź’Ą Reform in next Labour government's first term in office.
#Labour4PR #Lab22
Thank you and congratulations to mover @DwTenterden, seconder Carissma Griffiths, and all the brilliant, passionate delegates who spoke in favour during the debate.
Thanks and solidarity also to @ASLEFunion @fbunational @WeAreTheMU @TSSAunion @unitetheunion @unisontheunion
Thanks and solidarity also to @ASLEFunion @fbunational @WeAreTheMU @TSSAunion @unitetheunion @unisontheunion
Labour conference has voted for policies including:
Public ownership of rail, Royal Mail, "utilities + essential industries"; ÂŁ15 minimum wage; free, public social care; "unequivocal support for workers taking strike action"; support for joining pickets including by MPs.
#Lab22
Public ownership of rail, Royal Mail, "utilities + essential industries"; ÂŁ15 minimum wage; free, public social care; "unequivocal support for workers taking strike action"; support for joining pickets including by MPs.
#Lab22
Motions still to come on climate; violence against women and girls; health; workers' pay; early years and childcare.
All this is after an incredible degree of bureaucratic stitch-ups by the Starmer leadership + party machine, keeping many left-wing motions / demands out.
Motions by themselves obviously aren't decisive. But the left and labour movement should use these as platforms to campaign.
Motions by themselves obviously aren't decisive. But the left and labour movement should use these as platforms to campaign.
Despite the exclusion of multiple motions, expulsion of delegates, resulting right-wing victories in the priorities ballot and then open exclusion of CLP delegates from compositing, Labour conference will still vote on multiple left-wing policies, including:
#Lab22
#Lab22
At-least-inflation pay rises; a ÂŁ15 minimum wage; "unequivocal support for workers taking strike action"; a suggestion of joining pickets; public ownership of rail + Royal Mail; and "of utilities and essential industries"; free, publicly funded and provide social care...
Plus "job security and proper sick pay"; "reform of the welfare system to protect dignity and provide adequate
income"; "affordable, good quality childcare"; CEO-worker fair pay ratios...
A lot of it is vague, admittedly, but not all.
income"; "affordable, good quality childcare"; CEO-worker fair pay ratios...
A lot of it is vague, admittedly, but not all.
15 minutes to our live event! 🚨
How would a Labour government level up?
Join us with @lisanandy , @danny__kruger @Will_Tanner , and @JenWilliamsMEN at our event #Lab22 #labourconference2022
You can watch the live stream right here: 👇
How would a Labour government level up?
Join us with @lisanandy , @danny__kruger @Will_Tanner , and @JenWilliamsMEN at our event #Lab22 #labourconference2022
You can watch the live stream right here: 👇
@lisanandy @danny__kruger @Will_Tanner @JenWilliamsMEN First up we're hearing from Onward Director @Will_Tanner. He says opens by saying that only Poland and Romania are more geographically unequal than us.
He sets out three ways to tackle this...
đź’ĄNEW: Huge support for electoral reform and our #CantWait campaign from Labour heavyweights @AndyBurnhamGM and @johnmcdonnellMP. After 12 years of Tory failure, Britain desperately needs change. #Lab22 #CeriCantWait
bestforbritain.org/britain_can_t_… 1/
bestforbritain.org/britain_can_t_… 1/
At the last election, the Tories won 56% of the seats with only 43% of the vote.
Research suggests if the share of seats matched the share of votes they received, the Tories would've only won 2 of the last 21 elections & even Thatcher would have failed to secure a majority. 2/
Research suggests if the share of seats matched the share of votes they received, the Tories would've only won 2 of the last 21 elections & even Thatcher would have failed to secure a majority. 2/
“Britain can’t wait another 5 years for Labour to acknowledge reality, that the current system unfairly keeps them out of power and silences the progressive majority in the UK. They must endorse proportional representation when it is considered in Liverpool.” @pimlicat 3/
#LabourConference2022 delegate from Edinburgh Vijay Jackson quotes Keir Hardie on why the labour movement should oppose the #monarchy
#QueenElizabethII #KingCharlesIII #NotMyKing #Labour #Lab22
#QueenElizabethII #KingCharlesIII #NotMyKing #Labour #Lab22
This is what Hardie said:
"Even under a representative system of government it is possible to paralyse a nation by maintaining the fiction that a reigning family is a necessity of good government. Now, one of two things must be – either the British people are fit to govern
"Even under a representative system of government it is possible to paralyse a nation by maintaining the fiction that a reigning family is a necessity of good government. Now, one of two things must be – either the British people are fit to govern
themselves or they are not. If they are, an hereditary ruler who in legislation has more power than the whole nation is an insult. Despotism and monarchy are compatible; democracy and monarchy are an unthinkable connection.
