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Jun 18 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
Some GMB scab on the TUC stage talking about how they helped uber drivers.

They've done no organising, undermined IWGB, got a sweetheart deal with the bosses and now on a stage getting cheered.

#tucdemo
Sharon Graham's speech has been the best one so far and got the most cheers.
A cleaner organising with RMT atm is best speech so far now!
Jo Grady from UCU saying Tories are rightly terrified of the RMT.
Dave Ward from CWU doing what I believe is called a "barnstorming speech"

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"No-one on the liberal left seems to accept my loaded, reactionary & illiterate framing of political issues" Image
If you intentionally create a system where there are barely any safe & legal routes, most forms of migration will be "illegal".
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The Norwegian government in its reports on the policy itself has literally admitted that the legislation creates a "buyers market".

You're placing more power in the hands of johns, Julie.
Sex workers cannot screen clients effectively in this model. They are forced to lower prices. They find that their boundaries are being pushed, that they have to do more things like condomless sex in order to get money. Buyer's market. That's what it results in.
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Jun 17
So they're passing a law that will result in sex workers having to do more dangerous things to get money in order to pay rent? Gotcha.
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People often reference Starmer's involvement with the McLibel case to showcase his left-wing credentials, but it's worth noting that the person who helped write the leaflet which the libel case concerned itself with was a spycop infiltrator named Bob Lambert.

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David Lammy's repeated insistence on using Churchill - a man who had striking miners shot ("fill their bellies with lead") - in numerous speeches of his as a symbol of human rights & civil liberties, is continually repellent.
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Jul 7, 2021
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