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2 May

@Thelma_DWalker

I live in London. BUT if I lived in Hartlepool, I would vote for @Thelma_DWalker of the @FreeNorthNow
Here’s why in a thread
1.The candidate
2.Why I would not vote Labour anymore after a lifetime of doing so
3.Ten reasons from the Northern Independence Party Manifesto

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I've met Thelma Walker and believe we badly need people like Thelma in Parliament

Thelma spent decades as a teacher and a headteacher and was an MP from 2017 to 2019. She is clear-thinking, passionate and persuasive about Green issues, education, Social Justice and much more!

I resigned from Labour after 30 years. As a left-wing Jew, supporting social justice in UK and abroad, including the human & civil rights of the Palestinians, I felt very unwelcome in Starmer’s party

I saw Starmer break multiple promises to members & felt I could not trust him

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1 May

MUSIC by Raymond Carver

Franz Liszt eloped with Countess Marie D'Agoult,
who wrote novels. Polite society washed its hands
of him, and his countess-novelist whore.
Liszt gave her three children, and music.
Then went off with Princess Wittgenstein.

1/2

Cosima, Liszt's daughter, married
the conductor, Hans von Bülow.
But Richard Wagner stole her. Took her away
to Bayreuth. Where Liszt showed up one morning.
Long white hair flouncing.
Shaking his fist. Music. Music!
Everybody grew more famous.

2/2

"It's strange. You never start out life with the intention of becoming a bankrupt or an alcoholic or a cheat and a thief. Or a liar"
- Raymond Carver

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10 Apr

Extracts from COMMON SENSE by Thomas Paine, 1776

Mankind being originally equals in the order of creation, the equality could only be destroyed by some subsequent circumstance. No truly natural or religious reason can be assigned to distinction of men into KINGS and SUBJECTS
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[Monarchy] was first introduced into the world by the Heathens, from whom the children of Israel copied the custom. It was the most prosperous invention the Devil ever set on foot for the promotion of idolatry. The Heathens paid divine honours to their deceased kings,
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and the Christian World hath improved on the plan by doing the same to their living ones. How impious is the title of sacred Majesty applied to a worm, who in the midst of his splendor is crumbling into dust!
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8 Apr

She Was Poor But She Was Honest by Anonymous

She was poor, but she was honest,
Victim of the squire's whim:
First he loved her, then he left her,
And she lost her honest name.

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Then she ran away to London,
For to hide her grief and shame;
There she met another squire,
And she lost her name again.

See her riding in her carriage,
In the Park and all so gay:
All the nibs and nobby persons
Come to pass the time of day.

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See the little old-world village
Where her aged parents live,
Drinking the champagne she sends them;
But they never can forgive.

In the rich man's arms she flutters,
Like a bird with broken wing:
First he loved her, then he left her,
And she hasn't got a ring.

3/?

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22 Feb

"Happiness is an imaginary condition, formerly often attributed by the living to the dead, now usually attributed by adults to children, and by children to adults"
- Thomas Szasz

"The stupid neither forgive nor forget; the naive forgive and forget; the wise forgive but do not forget"
- Thomas Szasz

If you talk to God, you are praying.
If the dead talk to you, you are a spiritualist.
If God talks to you, you are a schizophrenic.
- Thomas Szasz

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5 Feb

“The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them”
- Karl Marx

“The ideas of the ruling class are in every epoch the ruling ideas”
- Karl Marx

“If anything is certain, it is that I myself am not a Marxist”
- Karl Marx

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