Speaking at @bathnes full Council meeting last night, local constituent, Emma Owens had a stern warning for #Bath & NES politicians on the “wrong side of history”, choosing to “play it safe” and “block debate” on the Green Party’s Peace Motion on a Gaza ceasefire.

She talked about the immorality of standing by “as people are killed on an industrial scale, are starved or forcibly displaced”

“Your children, your grandchildren will want to know, where were you? What did you do when the Palestinian People were being so cruelly exterminated? If you are wise, you will prepare your answer now!”

@CllrKevinGuy @BNESLabourGroup @bathnesld @BathCA @clrjoannawright @BathNESGreens @john_wimperis @bathlive
#FreePalestine 🕊️🇵🇸 The words and powerful delivery of @BathCampaigns Jane Samson’s speech was so electrifying, it left most councillors in the chamber visibly uncomfortable in their own skin:

“Do you not understand international law? Do you not follow what is going on at the International Court of Justice? Do you not realise that those politicians who do not act to do everything in their power to stop this slaughter are complicit and culpable?
If you don’t want to table a ceasefire motion because it’s ‘complicated’, understand that it really is not. Go away and do your homework! Wake up! Get out of your comfort zone! Stop being so intellectually dishonest!
Shame on Bath and North East Somerset council.
Shame!”

#FreePalestine 🕊️🇵🇸
#CeasefireNOW #SilenceIsViolence
@CllrKevinGuy @BNESLabourGroup @bathnesld @BathCA @clrjoannawright @BathNESGreens @john_wimperis @bathlive

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🕊️🎤 Highlights of Ken Loach’s powerful speech at #Bath's Peace March for Palestine today, where he unequivocally condemned atrocities on both sides, called for peace in #Gaza and justice for Palestinians.
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Ken Loach on Sunak and Starmer:

“These are war crimes. And if you collude in the crime. You’re a criminal yourself.”

#Bath #FreePalestine 🇵🇸✊

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“The primary focus of an NHS trust should be to provide services on the basis of need, not ability to pay. This is even more important in the middle of the current public health emergency when those in dire need are not able to access care." - David Rowland @CHPIthinktank Encouraging queue jumping in this way runs counter to the founding principles of our NHS, yet that is what NHS England is encouraging trusts to do - in breach of their stated values of “promoting equality and equity” and “ensuring .. that no community and group is left behind”.

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At inaugural meeting of new Integrated Care Board (ICB), I raised concerns about integration w private sector, referencing analysis published in Lancet that outsourcing health care services to private sector had increased treatment mortality. #Bath
thelancet.com/journals/lanpu… I stressed that the priority of private companies is to make a profit and that Integrated Care Systems (ICS) are a scheme that incentivise reduced care, referencing Panorama’s documentary about Operose Health exposing use of cheaper less qualified staff.
independent.co.uk/voices/health-…

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It's increasingly apparent that some staff at my CLP'S regional office are ignoring and bypassing the officers democratically elected by our membership and instead briefing and prioritising communications with *non elected members*. I've had a guts full of this factional authoritarianism being falsely branded as ‘unity’. I want transparent democracy!

Members must be able to trust that staff employed (paid with our subs) support membership democracy and fair transparent processes, *not unelected factions*.

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The absolute state of @guardian
and our MSM.

For those who want to know what the situation in UK would have been if Corbyn had been in charge, compare New Zealand under socialist Jacinda Arden with the inept and corrupt approach of capitalists Johnson and Trump.
1/6 ▪️Corbyn would have prioritised COBRA meetings over holidays and finishing a book.
▪️Corbyn would *never ever* have considered ‘herd immunity’.
▪️Corbyn would have closed borders and imposed a 14 day quarantine for those returning home.
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Latest update re Mark Howell case vs Iain McNichol / Labour Party.

Seat pairing pattern emerges:

UK-wide, grassroots reports of pairs of neighbouring seats in 2017. One safe Labour, the other the Leader's marginal target seat that it was the aim to gain.

1/3 It’s alleged that there was ‘misdirection’ of activists, digital advertising and resources to such pairs of seats across Britain, especially England and Wales.

Instead of being sent to the marginal of the pair, people were allegedly sent to the safe one.

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Leaders should be judged on whose interests they represent. So how does Keir Starmer stack up?

▪️Will he defend ordinary people, especially the most vulnerable in the face of powerful corporate and establishment pressure? ▪️Will he protect the democratic rights of Labour members, and society more generally? 

▪️Does he have the courage to do what's right especially in matters of war and peace?

These qualities are the essence of Jeremy Corbyn’s popularity.

Everything you need to know about an interim #GovernmentOfNationalUnity.

STEP ONE: no confidence vote - VONC

A vote would be held in the Commons. If majority of MPs vote in favour of Boris Johnson, he'll remain PM.

If they vote against him, he will be expected to resign.
1/6 STEP TWO: Commons coalition

After a government is dissolved in a VONC, there’s a two week grace period for former government or opposition MPs to unite to form a alliance that can command the majority of the House.
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Labour’s #NationalCareService
will end the national scandal of our Social Care sector.

Nearly £8bn has been taken from council budgets since 2010.

“It is right to end the care lottery and provide security and dignity in older age.”
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independent.co.uk/news/uk/politi… “As the first building block in our #NationalCareService, the next Labour government will include personal care free at point of use in England.

Funded not through the Conservatives’ gimmicky insurance schemes, ...
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UK MUST accept US food standards if wants post-Brexit trade deal, because Donald Trump will not risk the fury of rural voters by excluding agriculture, claims American farming chief.
1/6 Nearly all America’s chicken farmers are under contract with big producers who supply them with chicks 🐣, feed and equipment.

The firms dictate what the farmers can do and are paid according to a ‘tournament system’ they pit farmers against each other.
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I am appalled at @joerayment91 bringing Bath Labour Party into disrepute, by accusing the 75% who supported this motion of “denying the lived experience of Jewish people in our party in favour of blind loyalty", inferring that we are racist.
jewishnews.timesofisrael.com/bath-labour-mo… 2/8
The motion was *not* denying antisemitism. It is #Panorama who denied the "lived experience" of the many Jewish people in Labour who didn’t fit their narrative. And Joe Rayment sought to do the same by voting against the motion.

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Some people have been asking questions about why Tom Watson is accused of potentially being in breach of the 2010 Equality Act for Harassment & Discrimination, in relation to his treatment of Labour's Gen Sec @JennieGenSec

I thought I'd explain in the simplest terms.
1/5 You produce and share a report and offer to make yourself available to discuss queries.

A colleague who has received this report and declined a meeting, publicly and repeatedly makes a series of false statements to your boss, other managers, employees ...
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@JennieGenSec @johnmcdonnellMP @IanLaveryMP @EmilyThornberry

An open letter to the Labour Party. (Please RT if support)

1. We write as Labour Party members or supporters to ask what is happening with the investigation into interference by the state of Israel into UK politics. 2. In January 2017, Al-Jazeera broadcast a four-part documentary, The Lobby, into a senior political officer of the Israeli Embassy in London plotting to “take down” Foreign Office minister Alan Duncan and discredit the then chair of the Foreign Affairs Select Committee