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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Thread.. 1. Britain’s colonial legislative history is not deeply buried. It lies just beneath the surface. Successive governments have made that clear with 70 years of racialised immigration legislation. This week’s #Windrush u-turn is just the tip of that iceberg.
2. Tory Home Sec 1962 Immigration Bill “We must recognise that, although the scheme purports to relate solely to employment & to be non-discriminatory,its aim is primarily social & its restrictive effect intended to & would, in fact, operate on coloured people almost exclusively”
3. Lab Home Sec Jim Callaghan on his 1968 Immigration Bill: “We need, as a matter of urgency, to introduce a Bill extending immigration control to Citizens of the UK and Colonies who do not belong to the UK”
The obsession with GDP helps evade questions of distribution while promoting infinite expansion on a finite planet.
Only in the warped reality of our current growth obsessed economic model is expansion without end seen as a virtue. In biology, it's called a cancer.
To successfully face the key challenges of this century – inequality, democratic erosion, and ecological breakdown – we need to centre new tools that measure public and planetary wellbeing, democratic health, and the ecological cost of economic activity.
Find out more by following the All Party Parliamentary Group on the Limits to Growth @appg_L2G hosted by @CUSP_uk.
Recent work includes examining the growth dependency and predatory financial practices in the now largely privatised social care sector.
Today, provisions in the Health and Care Act 2022 come into effect which sees decision-making about local health services handed over to democratically unaccountable third parties, including private companies.
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I've written about problems with the Integrated Care System model being rolled out. Simply put the issue is this:
The ICS model "will not guarantee my constituents' right to access the healthcare they need, when they need it.” @thepublicmatters
Sorry to @NorwichRMT that I can't join you on the picket line today. A number of factors (including no trains!) prevents me from being there. I did join the closest @RMTunion picket line to me to support striking workers, alongside @CWUnews members who were there in solidarity.
No rail workers wanted to strike; wanted disruption for the public they serve every day; wanted to lose pay.
@RMTunion members simply wanted a wage packet they can lived on and decent working conditions.
Ultimately, this Government wants to turn the public against rail workers.
This is why they tell the public you believe yourselves to be ‘special’, when the whole country is suffering. This is utter drivel with which I see two problems.