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Clive Lewis MP Profile picture
@labourlewis
Jan 30, 2023 • 5 tweets • 3 min read • Read on X
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1/5 The attack on the freedom of workers in the Anti-Strikes Bill is part of a longer-term project.

That project aims to take political and economic power away from the many so that it is held only by the few.

This is why the Government is really attacking trade unions.
2/5 This legislation puts beyond a shadow of a doubt whose side this Government is really on.

It's not the side of the public. Because this Government is taking away the public's democratic rights. #RightToStrike
3/5 It's workers, not the Govt, who are defending public services.

Workers fight for safe and accessible railways, a strong NHS, and an education system with good conditions for students & teachers.

This Govt sides with the practitioners of poverty pay and a race to the bottom.
4/5 The Anti-Strikes Bill is just the latest addition to a long raft of anti-democratic legislation passed by the Tories.

It is part of a project to transfer power away from workers and citizens, and eliminate the limited rights and freedoms we have in the workplace and society.
5/5 This Government wants us to believe that there is no alternative.

That NHS crisis, water pollution, food banks, and political corruption, are inevitable.

This is a grim 50 year-old ideological experiment, and it is in tatters.

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Clive Lewis MP Profile picture
Feb 21
The House of Commons now supports a ceasefire.

However MPs arrived at this, whatever the scenes that unfolded, we must not forget the source of the suffering and anguish that has driven this fractious debate.

A thread on today's ceasefire debate.

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Whether in Israel or Gaza, the ultimate truth is that it is fellow human beings who have been killed in the most awful of ways these past few months.

That must end, and all remaining hostages must be released.

2/6
Without going into detail about today’s chaotic parliamentary procedures, the bottom line is this.

Around 30,000 people in and around Gaza have so far been killed by the Israeli military and many more are in imminent danger from a new potential Israeli offensive in Rafah.

3/6
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Feb 7
1. As someone with Grenadian heritage - I want to mark the 50th anniversary of the independence of Grenada.

A thread on the questions that remain unanswered. Maurice Bishop, the former prime minister of Grenada. Credit: Bettmann / Getty Images
2. To mark 50 years, I asked the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office a series of written parliamentary questions, one of which reads:

Whether his Department holds information on the location of the remains of Maurice Bishop, the former prime minister of Grenada.
3. To understand why I asked this question you need to know about the history of this Caribbean island.

This story starts in 1834, when Britain abolished slavery, paying the slave owners the equivalent of billions of pounds in today’s money.

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Feb 2
1. Instead of backing down, it is time for Labour to face down the Tories and win the case for public investment in the climate transition - of £28bn and beyond.

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2. The Conservative's failure on public investment and planning is writ large across our country.

Just look to the steelworkers and community of Port Talbot. They face the collapse of their livelihood due to the govt's failure to plan for or invest in the future of UK steel.
3. In this context, Labour should be boldly setting out its vision for government.

A vision about how judicious public investment will future-proof industry, revive our economy and make our homes, workplaces and communities safer, more pleasant places to be.
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Jan 27
Holocaust Memorial Day is the day for everyone to remember the millions of people murdered in the Holocaust, under Nazi Persecution, and in the genocides which followed in Cambodia, Rwanda, Bosnia, and Darfur.

But whilst we remember we should also reflect.

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My own reflection often centres on the time I was fortunate enough to be taken to Auschwitz by the Holocaust Educational Trust.

There is no substitute for the humbling effect of seeing a camp that has become synonymous with mass murder and humanity’s capacity for darkness.

2/8
Whilst there, one of the key lessons I learned involved a guided tour of various photo exhibitions.

Some were the confiscated photographs of inmates, many of whom were murdered there, showing smiling family scenes before the horrors of Nazi persecution.

3/8
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Jan 26
If the UK and US dismiss the ICJ ruling, this is those such double standards would play out across much of the world, according to the Chatham House Thinktank:

1. “The west cares about democracy, but not when it wants to install leaders it likes in other countries…
2. “It respects sovereignty except when it does not, as in Iraq. It argues for self-determination in Taiwan, not in Catalonia. It supports human rights, but not in countries from which it needs oil. It defends human rights except when it gets too difficult, as in Afghanist
3. “These accusations, if unanswered, give those countries that want to undermine the west a weapon even if their own hypocrisy is luminous.”

In this context, dismissal of the ICJ would compound the problem.
Read 4 tweets
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Jan 22
Whilst schools across the UK are doing a great job, the reality is they can never be a substitute for a genuine system of social security.

I visited West Earlham Infant and Nursery School and was humbled to see what systems have been put in place to nurture pupils.

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I spoke to headteacher Jade Hunter about the importance of breakfast funding.
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This is the same school featured in The Guardian last month.

Children here have such dire malnutrition they are developing bowed legs - a sign of rickets and vitamin D deficiency.

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I was told teachers know when the children are hungry from tell-tale signs such as eating sand.

The UK is the world's 6th biggest economy, the scourge of malnutrition should have been wiped out last century.

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