To kick off LGBTQ+ History Month, here's a 🧵 on our legal history in the UK. It all started with...

The Buggery Act in 1533... Passed during the reign of King Henry VIII, this act moved the issue of sodomy from the ecclesiastical courts to the state. The Act did not explicitly target homosexual acts between men as it also applied to sodomy between men and women, and acts between a person and an animal.

🚨| CANDIDATE DEADLINE DAY

⏲️ You have until 11.59pm tonight to apply to stand as a Breakthrough Party candidate in the local elections in May.

Here's how you do it 🧵 If you would like to apply to become a candidate, you first need to be a Breakthrough member 🟠🌤️

If you haven’t joined us already, you can do so here: breakthroughparty.org.uk/join

Following conversations with the @dontpayuk campaign and consultation with our members, we support Don’t Pay UK’s intervention into the cost of living crisis, which aims to mobilise 1 million pledges for a payment strike against extortionate prices.

Here's why 🧵 @dontpayuk End Fuel Poverty Coalition estimates that if the energy price cap is frozen at £2,500, 6.9 million UK households will still be in fuel poverty this winter - up from 4.6 million last winter.

It’s not a case of don’t pay, it’s can’t pay.

The UK is supposed to be a democracy - but everyone knows it's not really the people who are in charge.

Our electoral and parliamentary systems are outdated, and the ruling class face no consequences for their blatant corruption and greed.

Here's our plan for change 🧵 We need to build a flourishing democracy in which everyone can participate on an equal basis. This means creating a fair voting system, experimenting with new forms of decision making, and respecting and empowering all nations of the UK.

That’s why we will:

Low pay, poor work conditions and insecure employment plague our society.

While millions struggle, the rich continue to get richer, hiding their profits in tax havens rather than investing them in the things we need to build a sustainable future.

Here's our plan for change 🧵 To build an economy that provides security, dignity and opportunity for all, we need to redistribute wealth and power from the rich to the poor.

Working people should enjoy higher incomes and be able to spend time on the things that make life worth living.

That's why we will:

Not content with just making it even harder for refugees to reach British shores, Priti Patel has also snuck in some new anti-protest laws at the last minute.

Get ready for this, they're bloody grim.

A #PritiFascist 🧵

/1 New offences would impose up to a year’s jail on protesters who lock themselves to railings, gates or other objects.

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🚨WELCOME COUNCILLOR NO.3🚨

🟠🌤 A big welcome to Thorngumbald parish councillor Ben Munro, who has defected from the Labour Party to Breakthrough. 🥀 “Labour has lost its direction and is no longer effective in challenging the Government. There is too much looking back instead of looking forward and until that changes, Labour will continue to lose members.”

How qualified are the new and promoted members of the cabinet?

Let's judge some of them by their own words and actions.

Thread 🧵👇 Liz Truss - Foreign Secretary.

Truss, the former Women and Equalities minister & Secretary of International Trade, was a part of "Britannia Unchained" which called British workers lazy.

She also said that the "UK focuses on fashionable race, sexuality and gender issues."