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[thread] What would higher wages do for your local economy? In Preston, the @UKLabour council introduced the Real Living Wage to its workers & procured services from local companies who agreed to pay it too.(1/4)
Living wage employers in Preston range from multinational giants to SMEs; public sector institutions to charities. As a result of this investment in local business & the local workforce, the employment rate grew faster than in neighbouring towns and than the UK average.(2/4)
Last year, @PwC_UK & @Demos named Preston as the most improved city after it experienced growth in a wide range of areas. That’s the impact these simple, but innovative policies had. (3/4)
Want a taste of this? In Government, @UKLabour will introduce the Real Living Wage for everyone & make sure public sector contracts only ever go to fair employers. This is the way we achieve #RealChange for our communities. #VoteLabour (4/4)
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[thread] There’s been some discussion over @UKLabour’s tax policy in the last 24 hrs, given a bit of prominence by #bbcqt. An audience member said that, though he earned over £80k, he was nowhere near the top 5% of earners & went so far as to say he wasn’t in the top 50%. (1/8)
This is clearly false, but it has given rise to an interesting debate about tax, high pay & low pay. bbc.com/news/50517136 (2/8)
Whilst I get that those earning good incomes may not feel ‘rich’ for a variety of reasons (e.g outgoings, especially housing costs), the focus should really be on some very stark figures on low pay. That what’s often lost in any discussions about tax bands & top rates etc. (3/8)
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Laura Pidcock
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[thread] On Sunday, @UKLabour announced we’d be introducing a £10 Real Living Wage, regardless of age. Many welcomed this policy, but some questioned the impact that it would have on employment. Here is the recent history of commitments to the minimum wage / living wage: (1/6)
👉 In 1997, when the Labour government announced the introduction of a minimum wage, some employers & right–wing parties said there would be job losses en masse. (2/6)
🤔 What happened? Unemployment fell and there was no evidence that the minimum wage had any negative impact on employment. (3/6)
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Laura Pidcock
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[thread] This Parliament has ended & it’s time for the people to decide who they want to put in the next one. I am going to give the campaign everything I’ve got. I just wanted to offer some personal reflections before I get on with it. (1/8)
Since that election in 2017, I have become a mother & lost my father & those two intensely personal experiences were met by the people I represented with love, patience & compassion & for that I will be forever grateful. (2/8)
The thousands of conversations I have had with people in this community - the very personal & painful things you have shared; the stories you have told; the hours we have sat together through laugher & tears, I carry with me. You have taught me so much. (3/8)
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Okay, STOP.
I'm going to point out a rather large fallacy in this sort of thinking that Lauren and the rest of the @BernieSanders / @ewarren Socialists seem to be completely ignorant of, or they know it but don't want YOU to think about....
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The generation of envy-politics should be thankful we have billionaires. Why?
Start with the lie: They want you to get a picture in your mind that people like Jeff Bezos' have HUGE safes with BILLIONS of dollars stashed in it, and swim in the gold coins like Scrooge McDuck.
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Nothing is further from the truth. Anyone who has that kind of wealth is making that money work, not only for them, but for the economy. When you have $billions, you invest in things like start-ups, technology, R&D, things that you believe will give you return on investment.
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[#Thread] Welcome to night of the long threads part two, this one's on #Algeria. A few of you got in touch (@fatenaggad & @OpenAlgeriaOrg) to ask about the trend #كلنا_زغماتي , which translates as "we are all Zeghmati". Belkacem Zeghmati was appointed Attorney general earlier
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#thread So this is another of my favorite local stories from Sendai, which I call "The Kids Find Bishamonten a Home." Intersection of military history, #japanesehistory, and folklore, in this story from the part of Sendai where I attended school.
Once upon a time, Date Masamune was laying siege to Kitanome Castle, in Miyagi County of Mutsu Province, where he was expanding his power northward from his original lands on the southern side of Mutsu.
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(Bishamonten, at right, as depicted by an artist in 1866)
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Make I put disclaimer before dem do meeting for my head.

CAVEAT!
1The stories I tell are 'factions'; a mixture of facts & fiction. What is fact & what is fiction is only known to me, this a creative enterprise using humour & plain story-telling to entertain, teach &
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Today is an exciting day for this campaign as we will be sharing the most important issue in our ambitious plan for Nigeria that shows our readiness to govern from Day One. I will be telling you how we intend to lift 80 million Nigerians out of poverty. #Fight4Naija
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