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Stephen Smith retweeted
Labour now briefing young people won't get the same minimum wage uplift.
Even Starmer didn't break this pledge. Workers rights mean same rights, pay & conditions, same rate for the same job.
What does this Labour government have against young people?
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Muito obrigado pela mensagem, presidente @sanchezcastejon. O Brasil seguirá ao lado da Espanha na defesa da democracia, da justiça social, do multilateralismo e da paz. Somos aliados no progressismo global!
¡Gran victoria de @LulaOficial!
Lo que ha pasado en Brasil, pasará en España.
La remontada del progresismo global acaba de comenzar.
Stephen Smith retweeted
Reading the Western reporting from the campaign trail in Israel, you can see the return of a fantasy: that our wayward ally might become a normal country overnight by ejecting the one man who caused all the trouble. For @equatormag, I asked @NathanThrall how to read the result:
Stephen Smith retweeted
Whoever said the 2028 Democratic presidential candidate should run on extraditing Zuckerberg to Lula’s Brazil deserves an award.
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“Flávio has given up,” an adviser to the Bolsonaro family told me. “He’s terrified. He is worried his father will die in jail, that he himself will be jailed this week and that he may have a long prison term ahead.”
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Our petition for a public inquiry into Britain’s role in Gaza has hit 10,000 signatures.
Now, let’s get it to 100,000 to force a debate.
The public deserves to know the full scale of Britain’s complicity in genocide.
Sign here: petition.parliament.uk/petit…
Stephen Smith retweeted
"Other than 2018, the Workers’ Party is six for six. You start to understand why the Brazilian right longs for a return to authoritarianism. They can’t win."
Stephen Smith retweeted
Burnham has bottled his second deadline on collapsing local council coalitions with the Greens. Someone with a title send him a letter- the people of Sheffield need to know if they have a government or not.
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Just Rishi Sunak earning £6265/ hour advising Goldman Sachs and £7729/hour consulting to Microsoft... while sitting as a backbench MP.
The median UK salary is £41k/year. Sunak earns that in just over five hours consulting for Microsoft.
What service is he providing, exactly?
Stephen Smith retweeted
Jack Antonoff criticizes Ed Sheeran’s response to Macklemore’s “Free Palestine” comments in new @Guardian interview:
“[Ed Sheeran] missed a massive, beautiful opportunity there: just cancel the whole f*cking tour, then play for free outside each venue, raise a bunch of money, rather than let a f*cking billionaire tell you what to do. The reason it’s not an anomaly or niche issue is because we all live in a world where billionaires are constantly telling us what to do. So stand the f*ck up.”
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Again - most polling merely illustrates what buttons the press are hammering.
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The former Deputy Leader of the Labour Party Lord Tom Watson is now a highly paid lobbyist for Military & Health Tech firm #Palantir whilst simultaneously making and scrutinising laws on health and milarity policy
We deserve better politicians than this
Very worthy letter and all power to it but realistically the last chance of stopping Rosebank disappeared when Labour won the Holborn and St Pancras by-election
Pleased to sign this cross-party letter opposing Rosebank and Jackdaw licences.
The long term costs of new drilling far outweigh any short-term gain.
We cannot credibly urge other countries to leave fossil fuels in the ground while greenlighting new oil and gas projects.
ALT Official House of Commons letterhead and signed parliamentary letter urging Britain not to approve new fossil fuel fields and calling for stronger climate action, concluding with multiple MP signatories and contact details at the foot.
Stephen Smith retweeted
Pleased to sign this cross-party letter opposing Rosebank and Jackdaw licences.
The long term costs of new drilling far outweigh any short-term gain.
We cannot credibly urge other countries to leave fossil fuels in the ground while greenlighting new oil and gas projects.
ALT Official House of Commons letterhead and signed parliamentary letter urging Britain not to approve new fossil fuel fields and calling for stronger climate action, concluding with multiple MP signatories and contact details at the foot.
