In 2019 while door knocking for @UKLabour I was told by a disabled lady that
"If the @Conservatives win again
I'll kill myself,
They make you feel like your life is worth nothing"
Do you see it yet England?
"The former chancellor, George Osborne, has said that money printing by the Bank of England has made the rich richer and that interest rate cuts have hurt savers."
2019 England gave an 80 seat majority to @Conservatives to "Take back control/freedom"
2022
We have
Untreated sewage pumped into our water
People choosing between heating&eating
NHS being privatised
Petrol we can't afford
Protest is illegal
How can any of you call this "freedom"?
'I used the government plane. That is why we have a government plane'
@TrussLiz says 'every government decision is based on value for money' after confirming she flew to Australia on the government's private jet - a trip estimated to be worth around £500,000
Apr 25 • 6 tweets • 3 min read
"The Top 1% of Americans Have Taken $50 Trillion From the Bottom 90%—And That's Made the U.S. Less Secure."
From 2020
time.com/5888024/50-tri…
"The US went into the COVID-19 pandemic wracked by preexisting conditions.
A fraying public health infrastructure, inadequate medical supplies, an employer-based health insurance system perversely unsuited to the moment."
From September 2020
"Rapper&activist @Lowkey0nline is facing down a campaign by pro-Israel lobbyists to get his music taken off Spotify
He speaks to @tribunemagazine about the censorship of pro-Palestinian voices–&the outpouring of support he's received in response" @Taj_Ali1tribunemag.co.uk/2022/04/lowkey…
"With more than 50 million views on YouTube, British rapper and activist Kareem Dennis, better known as @Lowkey0nline, has been lauded for his contribution to UK hip hop.
He’s known in particular for lyrics exploring issues like racism.." @Taj_Ali1
I can't believe how far and how quickly this country has fallen.
"This isn't a place like Iraq or Afghanistan,
This is a relatively civilized, relatively European where you wouldn't expect that."
Jan 30 • 8 tweets • 6 min read
"They just came in firing,
There was no provocation whatsoever..."
"We filmed you carrying a white handkerchief for a party who were carrying a young boy who was dying...?"
I don't find that funny,
The fact he knows he can get away with this says a lot.
"Starvation diseases seen in poor countries have almost trebled in Britain under the Tories.
Malnutrition cases treated by the NHS have risen from 2,893 to 8,537 since 2009..."
What's the name for a country where there's
1 rule for the rule makers & another for the rest of us?
A country that claps for #nhsheroes but can't pay them
A country that hates babies fleeing our bombs, not the people selling them
A country with 1.8 million destitute children?
A tale of 2 #Covid UK
England has:
- 10 million adults /4.2 million children in poverty
-10 million "precariously employed"
-5.5 million paid below living wage
-4.7 on furlough
- 22,000 fewer NHS beds
-4.5 million waiting for treatment
1,000 Billionaires made
£2.7 TRILLION
Jan 12 • 98 tweets • 55 min read
"We lost that Gen Election under a barrage of media attacks..
We also lost because of the activities of the right in the Labour movement &elsewhere that undermined a Labour campaign that was about transforming our society&challenging elitist control of the media"
Facts.
Thread:
" @UKLabour party officials opposed to @jeremycorbyn worked to lose the 2017 general election in the hope that a bad result would trigger a leadership contest to oust him, a dossier drawn up by the party suggests..."
"At its height in 1922, the British empire governed a fifth of the world's population and a quarter of the world's total land area."
independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-n…
"In 1947, Cyril Radcliffe was tasked with drawing the border between India and the newly created state of Pakistan over the course of a single lunch." 2/
Believing Palestinians are human beings/ deserving of every human right and being against the Israeli government apartheid against them?
Is not anti semitism,
No matter how many times disingenuous people conflate the two.
"For centuries there was no such conflict. In the 19th century the land of Palestine was inhabited by a multicultural population – approximately 86% Muslim, 10% Christian,
and 4% Jewish – living in peace."
Babies are born til this day with defects caused by our dirty bombs
He's rewarded & knighted for his war crimes
As Assange is murdered for exposing them
#Blair#Iraq
The document was seen as clear evidence that the decision to go to war had been made fully eight months before the invasion, and that making the case for war came later, as the “facts were being fixed.”
"UK police use restraint on black people four times as often as with their white counterparts, and whilst black people only make up 3.3.% of our population, we account for 12% of police altercations in which officers use force."
From June 2020
huckmag.com/perspectives/o…
"When it comes to direct killings at the hands of the police, black people are also more than twice as likely to die in police custody than white people. Across demographics, there have been 402 deaths in @metpoliceuk police custody since 1990, and no convictions. "
Dec 29, 2021 • 20 tweets • 13 min read
A few facts for the people like @DavidLammy.
Because there is plenty he& @UKLabour should be apologising about,
Voting for a man of integrity isn't one of them.
"Corbyn was very popular with the actual membership of the party:.."
1/
opendemocracy.net/en/opendemocra…
"People wanted a change,& Corbyn represented that. He also represented integrity, selflessness, consistency& commitment in a profession increasingly notable for their absence. But the backroom boys and girls in the Labour party had made up their minds that they knew better.."
2/
Dec 11, 2021 • 8 tweets • 5 min read
All you "patriots" obviously missed history,
Fascism rose in Germany because of austerity.
Make people poor & angry.,
Then blame their misery on people with no power
Babies drowning at sea.
Our vunerable being murdered.
This isn't freedom,
It's Fascism draped in a Union Jack.
Special rapporteur on extreme poverty Philip Alston said "ideological" cuts to public services since 2010 have led to "tragic consequences"
The UK's social safety net has been
"deliberately removed&replaced with a harsh and uncaring ethos", a report commissioned by the UN said.
Oct 23, 2021 • 23 tweets • 17 min read
Keyworkers & #NHS heroes who got us through 2020 despite @Conservatives not providing PPE are in poverty & going to foodbanks
Billionaires buds of @BorisJohnson like Serco have made Billions.
Our NHS is on it's knees as the bodies "pile high"
How is this
"taking back control"?
"Rising levels of fuel and child poverty rightly hit the headlines but they are not the only struggles people face in 2021.
Food poverty, which is a shortage of money to put the basics on the table, is a shameful indictment of modern-day Britain."
