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Since 2010, almost 800 libraries have closed and Arts Council funding has been cut. Labour will invest £1 billion to upgrade & build new libraries, museums, galleries & arts venues across the country. #VoteLabourDecember12th
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Arts should be for all. Our Charter for the Arts states that every child should have the opportunity to learn an instrument, engage with the arts and develop their creativity.
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‘In every child there is a poem, in every child there is a painting, in every child there is music’ @jeremycorbyn
Our Arts Charter pledges a £160 million arts pupil premium for primary schools. #VoteHope. Vote for Arts for All. Vote Labour tomorrow.
#VoteLabour2019
Our Arts Charter pledges a £160 million arts pupil premium for primary schools. #VoteHope. Vote for Arts for All. Vote Labour tomorrow.
#VoteLabour2019
Thank you Potrika for this! With 61% child poverty in parts of #Poplar & #Limehouse we cannot take any more cuts. We need #RealChange. I am ready to fight like George, and Minnie, Lansbury if elected to parliament this week. #VoteLabour2019 #GetTheToriesOut #SocialistSunday 
The #LabourParty manifesto commits to measures towards genuine equality. I met with Dr. Laura Schwartz, to discuss Minnie Lansbury, the suffragette movement in #Poplar & #Limehouse, and our hopes for the future. #Feminism2020 #VoteLabourDecember12th
Policies for #RealChange
🌹Reverse cuts to Sure Start and open 1,000 new Sure Start children's centres
🌹150,000 additional early years staff, including SENCos, employed on a national pay scale
🌹A new Workers Protection Agency to address gender and racial pay gaps #VoteLabour
🌹Reverse cuts to Sure Start and open 1,000 new Sure Start children's centres
🌹150,000 additional early years staff, including SENCos, employed on a national pay scale
🌹A new Workers Protection Agency to address gender and racial pay gaps #VoteLabour
This is the most hopeful, radical, practical and achievable programme for national economic transformation put forward by a major political party in a generation. #VoteLabour2019 labour.org.uk/wp-content/upl…
The UK helped lead the way into the long nightmare of neoliberalism. Now we can help lead the way out.
“You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep Spring from coming” — Pablo Neruda
#VoteLabour12December
“You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep Spring from coming” — Pablo Neruda
#VoteLabour12December
History says, don’t hope,
On this side of the grave.
But then, once in a lifetime,
The longed-for tidal wave
Of justice can rise up,
And hope and history rhyme.
On this side of the grave.
But then, once in a lifetime,
The longed-for tidal wave
Of justice can rise up,
And hope and history rhyme.
As @UKLabour announce free #broadband for all - or "#BroadbandCommunism" as Tory government propaganda service the @BBC prefer to call it, here's a short THREAD on privatisation in the UK.
Privatisation has been central to the neoliberal project for decades. The 'market' goes deep into spheres of society previously insulated from business: private firms, their owners & senior managers profit from services that should be provided publicly, on the basis of need.
The objective of Thatcher's privatization was to turn British people into a nation of shareholders. It failed. Before Thatche, almost 40% of the shares in British companies were held by individuals. By 1981, it was less than 30%. When she died in 2013, it was under 12%.
@Conservatives 200,000 dead from austerity
14.3 million in poverty
4.6 million are children
In work poverty
1hr of work counts as in employment
4 million trapped in deep poverty
1.5 million destitute
Get the Tories Out
#VoteLabour
14.3 million in poverty
4.6 million are children
In work poverty
1hr of work counts as in employment
4 million trapped in deep poverty
1.5 million destitute
Get the Tories Out
#VoteLabour
@Conservatives Mark Wood, 44. Found fit for work by Atos, against his Doctors advice and assertions that he had complex mental health problems. Starved to death after benefits stopped, weighing only 5st 8lb when he died.
@Conservatives Paul Reekie, 48, the Leith based Poet and Author. Suffered from severe depression. Committed suicide after DWP stopped his benefits due to an Atos 'fit for work' decision.
1. When I was at school I had a teacher who said that everyone should take 10 years off between school & higher education. I didn't quite do that as I trained to be a nursery nurse after school but after 8 years of work (as NN & in clerical positions) I started a degree aged 28.
2. My undergraduate (and post-graduate) studies were both fee-free and supported by grant/bursary. I've been teaching & mentoring in HE for nearly three decades now and that those I teach & support have not had such advantages makes me ANGRY. I get frustrated too when students...
3. ...are unable to concentrate because they are tired from doing the jobs they need to do to survive.
When I studied, and first began to teach, there were many mature students. There are hardly any now.
SO: how exciting, how very needed are @UkLabour's plans for a...
When I studied, and first began to teach, there were many mature students. There are hardly any now.
SO: how exciting, how very needed are @UkLabour's plans for a...
My Priorities continued
ENDING POVERTY IN THIS CONSTITUENCY, WALES & BRITAIN – The gap between rich and poor grows ever wider in this country due to years of Tory enforced austerity and cuts to devolved budgets and local authority funding.
In-Work Poverty – People work hard &
ENDING POVERTY IN THIS CONSTITUENCY, WALES & BRITAIN – The gap between rich and poor grows ever wider in this country due to years of Tory enforced austerity and cuts to devolved budgets and local authority funding.
In-Work Poverty – People work hard &
yet still cannot manage.
Child poverty stands at historic crisis levels. 4.1 million children are now living in poverty in the UK.
Hunger: In this CLP and across Wales and Britain people are having to use foodbanks to feed their families.
Child poverty stands at historic crisis levels. 4.1 million children are now living in poverty in the UK.
Hunger: In this CLP and across Wales and Britain people are having to use foodbanks to feed their families.
I want to live in a society where people are NOT going without the most basic of human needs, food, clothes and shelter. Do you?
#Time4Change #VoteLabour2019 #Hope
#Time4Change #VoteLabour2019 #Hope
*THREAD* I’ve been giving some thought to who should want to vote Tory. It took me bloody ages but please stick with this thread because I found out in the end.....
#VoteLabour2019
#VoteLabour2019
A Nurse shouldn’t vote Tory google.co.uk/amp/s/amp.theg…
‘What happens if and when we get there? As the left is just now beginning to realise, this achievement would be the start and not the end of the story. Relatively speaking, getting elected may prove the easy part...’ #VoteLabour2019 tribunemag.co.uk/2019/05/what-a…
But the biggest danger facing the left today is no longer a shortage of ideas or a lack of positive vision. The biggest danger is lack of preparedness—that we are not yet ready for the hard work of turning that vision into reality.
If the left has been unused to being propositional, it has been even less used to holding and wielding power. If we are serious about fundamentally transforming our economy, we must rapidly build our understanding of the scale of the challenge ahead.
