Independent Cllr @NewcastleCC, https://xitter.cf/t.co/BNM0zgDe9r "The first revolution is when you change your mind about how you look at things" Gil Scott Heron

Newcastle Upon Tyne, England
Joined April 2017
Goodbye @UKLabour: A 🧵Under Keir Starmer it's no longer the party of ordinary people. It serves big business & billionaire donors; demonises the poor; slashes support for the disabled; & says the answer to the housing crisis is to allow developers to destroy our environment.
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bom dia gente, se esse tweet passou por vc comente com #SoMaisUmVotoProLula para que o lula seja reeleito AMANHÃ
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Jane Byrne retweeted
meu presidente Lula, que honra poder votar em você pela última vez. tenho muito orgulho dessa história. independentemente do resultado, você jamais estará sozinho! ❤️
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Replying to @NUFC
@NUFC Chairman Yasir al-Rumayyan is a sitting minister in the Saudi government which executes child 'offenders'. @itvtynetees never mention this fact and what is more issue disclaimers when NUFCFAS list the human rights abuses committed by the dictatorship.
تقرير | خبراء أمميون يدينون إعدام حسن الفرج ويحذّرون من خطر الإعدام الوشيك ليوسف المناسف ومحمد لباد cutt.ly/zyTImjwa #أوقفوا_المذبحة @UN_SPExperts @profbensaul @SRfreedex_LMG
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Jane Byrne retweeted
Trabalhador merece respeito, dignidade e direitos! Aos 17 anos, perdi um dedo trabalhando à noite, quando ainda era menor de idade e precisava trabalhar para não passar fome. A minha história é a realidade de milhões de brasileiros que enfrentam jornadas exaustivas, acidentes de trabalho e condições precárias, colocando a própria saúde e a própria vida em risco para garantir o sustento de suas famílias. Transformar uma marca dessa trajetória em motivo de ofensa é desrespeitar não apenas a minha história, mas a luta, a dignidade e a resistência de milhões de trabalhadores e trabalhadoras deste país. Minha cicatriz não é motivo de vergonha. É a marca de uma realidade que o Brasil precisa enfrentar. Trabalhador não pode ser alvo de deboche por carregar no próprio corpo as consequências de uma vida inteira de luta.
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What a difference a few years makes. FYI: The new ‘peace plan’ is still inconsistent with international law and human rights protections.
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If this is the @InstituteGC vision for the future of cities then we're against it. Time to study what makes people happy and neighbourhoods flourish.
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Better Off Back In-House The truth is simple: services are always better off back in-house. xitter.cf/RMTunion/status/197220…
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The Labour Party has attempted to block debate on the Gaza genocide at conference but MPs, trade unions and ordinary delegates are trying to break that silencing as @johnmcdonnellMP explains at Liverpool march for Palestine.
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What are the choices that Labour are making? Picking the pockets of pensioners and leaving the totally rich untouched, having two oil refineries close with no plans for jobs. People are starting to leave @uklabour in their droves. #LabourPartyConference
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I'm calling for a #EmploymentRightsBill2 ✅ Repeal anti-union laws ✅ Ban fire & rehire ✅ End zero-hours ✅ £15ph min wage ✅ Collective bargaining 4 all ✅ Universal rights & TU access ✅ End strike restrictions Sign>actionnetwork.org/forms/empl… @strike_map @ctufevents
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Visit of Saudi minister / @NUFC Chairman to Newcastle an opportunity for @NewcastleCC leader Karen Kilgour & MPs to contact Yasir al-Rumayyan to make it clear we in Newcastle oppose the execution of minors and that all pending executions be stopped. nufcfansagainstsportswashing…
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At the time of the Saudi state takeover of @NUFC in 2021 Labour led @NewcastleCC floated the idea of setting up a forum to monitor sportswashing & Saudi human rights abuses. This has not happened. It's time for other parties & councillors to make this happen. It's long overdue
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NORTH EAST DISABLED COMMUNITY: Your 15 mins Needed. Take our survey to: ✅ Fuel evidence-based campaigns ✅ Reveal what’s working/failing ✅ Make decision-makers LISTEN Ends Aug 31! Need Word/phone version? Reply/DM! RT to reach more people! differencenortheast.org.uk/y…
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💰 How much public wealth do you think was given away for free via Right to Buy?  1bn? 10bn? 100bn?  Try 200 BILLION pounds.  🧵 Here's how Britain’s most infamous housing policy became its biggest housing disaster — and near the largest privatisation in British history.
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As a GP, I am not allowed to receive a pen or post-it note pad from a pharmaceutical company rep Govt banned them in case I was influenced to prescribe medications This should also be banned Influence being bought in Govt Patients should influence not the healthy & wealthy
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Please support the @MSF_uk petition to UK government to uphold international humanitarian law msf.org.uk/petition-demand-p… & , if you can donate to their work in Gaza & all the other places where people are victims of the brutal system we live in. msf.org.uk/article/gaza-mass…
In the last four weeks, Doctors Without Borders has provided essential support for the survival of the people in #Gaza. Amid Israeli forces' destruction of the healthcare system, our teams have worked tirelessly and adapted to the lack of medical supplies due to the siege.
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A year ago today I had the Labour whip suspended for voting to scrap the 2 child benefit cap. Scrapping the cap would lift 350,000 children out of poverty & reduce poverty for another 700,000. Would I vote again to scrap it? Too right I would.Definitely, I will every chance I get
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To be clear about this the £100 billion to nationalise the water industry being branded about by govt this morning does indeed come from a think tank report commissioned, bought and paid for by; @AnglianWater, @stwater, @SouthWestWater and @unitedutilities It also uses a calculation that tries to claim that @thameswater is worth an earth shattering, gobsmacking £21,008,425,000.00. Utterly delusional. Why on earth ministers would want to be out there quoting any of this madness I've no idea.
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Some exquisite sinking of pints here back in 1971 as Reece Elliot from Birtley in Co. Durham - 52 years a pitman - sings the satirical miners' ballad 'The Celebrated Working Man'.
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The @unitetheunion interim report is essential reading for every leftwinger. Real socialists don't do financial favours for their mates.
When I was elected @unitetheunion GS, I promised to uncover the truth about allegations of historical corruption, particularly in relation to the Birmingham Hotel and Conference Centre. I can now provide information from the independent inquiries I commissioned, through this interim report: 👉 tinyurl.com/bdhm43aw
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