Claudia Webbe MP Profile picture
🌹Member of Parliament for Leicester East| Former Chair Op Trident| Socialist| Feminist| Leicester born & reside |she/her | Email claudia.webbe.mp@parliament.uk
Sep 17, 2022 5 tweets 1 min read
Like many Leicester East residents, I am concerned by ongoing reports of ‘hate-filled clashes’, including those which emerged today in Leicester. It is vital that we work together to share the message of tolerance so that we can bring our communities together. I am also aware of far right elements who are intent on using social media and other online communication to incite religious and racial hatred, deliberately designed to cause fear, alarm and distress and in order to provoke a reaction.
Sep 1, 2021 7 tweets 1 min read
John Pilger: On July 3, 1979, unknown to the American people and Congress, Carter authorized a $500 million “covert action” program to overthrow Afghanistan’s first secular, progressive government.  This was code-named by the CIA Operation Cyclone. John Pilger: The $500 million bought, bribed and armed a group of tribal and religious zealots known as the mujahedin
Apr 13, 2021 5 tweets 2 min read
Earth is overpopulated; there are too many rich people

To solve the climate crisis; the rich must be abolished Here is the story:

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Jul 24, 2020 20 tweets 8 min read
I am grateful for the support of a cross party group of MPs who’ve joined me in writing to the Prime Minister calling for urgent action to end worker exploitation in parts of Leicester’s Garment Industry

Billionaires wealth is built on the exploitation of workers

#FastFasion ImageImage Holding back tears constituents have bravely shared their experiences of worker exploitation describing how their bosses seek to avoid detection by making their factories appear closed whilst workers’ file through back entrances; fraudulent payslips disguising actual hours worked