WE NEED CHANGE NOT CUTS
Austerity mk 2 is not the answer to the UK’s problems

💬 A bleak vision of Britain is not what we need now. It is time to see the change that @UKLabour promised.

#Labour

🧵1/6 ⬇️ The chaos of the previous @GOVUK is clear but we can make different choices to fix our nations. Britain can't wait for growth. Our industries can't wait for investment. #Labour

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UNITY NOT DIVISION

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Without unity the working class cannot make change. Division and blame are the bosses game. It’s time to look up, not down. 👇 2: It wasn’t the migrant who crashed our financial system in 2008. It wasn’t the migrant who imposed austerity. It wasn’t the migrant who revelled in Downing Street while people couldn’t bury their dead or who let corporations profit while workers had their pay cut.

🧵1/5: All the warnings Unite made about the dangers of @UKLabour rowing back on its pledges for the 'New Deal for Workers' have been proved right. This new #Labour document on the New Deal, issued to the unions on Monday, is a row back on a row back.
unitetheunion.org/news-events/ne… 2/5: It is totally unrecognisable from the original proposals produced with the unions. UNRECOGNISABLE! Workers will see through this and mark this retreat after retreat as a betrayal. #Labour @UKLabour

.@unitetheunion statement: Britain's leading trade union today refused to give its backing to an important @UKLabour document for government at the National Policy Forum gathering in Nottingham. 🧵1/4 #NPF @labpolicyforum .@unitetheunion was unable to back the document in full as it crossed the union's red lines including around workers' rights in collective bargaining, an area which needs root and branch change, not just tinkering around the edges. 🧵2/4 #NPF

The case is being made before our own eyes that selling off our energy sector to the private profiteers has ended in tears. A piecemeal approach won’t work. 1/5 Days ago BP announced that from April - June this year it had made almost £7 billion in profits. On the same day, it was being openly contemplated that household energy bills in the UK could rise to £3,600 a year. 2/5

If @grantshapps had his way we would all still be in the workhouse.
His intervention is just the latest in a growing list of political attacks on trade unions and the most fundamental rights held by working people. 1/6 Whilst this outbreak is clearly framed by a pony parade within the @Conservatives, it is also deeply serious and shows just how out of touch our political class are.

The @GOVUK has miscalculated. People can see behind the usual narrative of “Union bad, boss good". 2/6

.@trussliz has declared war on the trade union movement and working people.
Let’s be clear, her mad-cap proposals are an attempt to all but ban strike action and outlaw effective trade unions. 1/4 This manifesto is nothing but a charter of discontent.
The rights of working people have been put on the chopping block by an ambitious politician, hawking for the votes of a tiny minority. 2/4

1/5 - I am honoured to have been elected as General Secretary of @unitetheunion by our members, and I understand that the trust that they have placed in me brings with it tremendous responsibility. 2/5 - Our members expect their union to be in their corner so I was proud to stand on a manifesto that pledged to put our members and our workplaces first. I will deliver on those promises.