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Fomer General Secretary of the Labour Party now voting for @TheGreenParty is pretty huge.
Thank you very much for your vote!
It's been amazing to see so many new voters & members in this election joining the people powered movement:
Join.greenparty.org.uk
John Ellsum retweeted
Michelle Mone is innocent until proven guilty and subpostmasters are guilty until proven innocent. That's how the British legal system works.
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Mick Lynch: "There hasn't been a wage price spiral. There's been a price spiral without wages going up at all"
Oh, and you'd think the City AM editor would know NHS pay doesn't impact on inflation because the services they provide are free at the point of use.
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Today, @TheGreenParty launched its manifesto.
Here's my run down of the 10 most exciting policies set out in it. 👇
bright-green.org/2024/06/12/…
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Rishi, your 2-child-benefits cap has plunged millions of children into poverty.
It is a disgrace that both major parties refuse to scrap this cruel and immoral policy. Rest assured, I will be speaking up in Parliament to abolish it for good.
We will end the unfairness of the child benefit system, cutting taxes for 700,000 families across the UK.
We’re ready to take the bold action needed for a secure future for you and your family.
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
The High Income Child Benefit Charge (HICBC) was introduced by the Conservatives.
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Carla Denyer is the favourite to win the seat of Britstol Central that'd make her the 2nd Green MP.
She'll be a huge voice in Parliament to oppose the upcoming Neo-Liberal Starmer-led Gov't.
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Audience at the #BBCDebate applauds @TheGreenParty co-leader @carla_denyer for making the case for taxing the rich to fund public services.
leftfootforward.org/2024/06/…
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Nigel Farage is Oswald Mosley. It’s actually disgraceful that the BBC give him a platform. #LeadersDebate #BBCDebate
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.@ZackPolanski responding to accusations of antisemitism directed at Green Party candidates.
And well done to Zack for making it clear the right wing are attacking & smearing the Greens because progressive Green policies are challenging power and wealth.
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It very much looks like PM has breached the Ministerial code which says “Ministers must uphold the political impartiality of the Civil Service”. The code also requires honesty among other prinicples. PM is wrong to think people don’t care about standards. Voters want integrity.
As I told @KevinASchofield, dragging the civil service in to a row about overtly party political assumptions on tax & spend by pretending this is somehow ‘independent’ only threatens the impartiality of the civil service - which ministers have a duty to protect
John Ellsum retweeted
Nigel Farage is a privately educated stockbroker who could not give a damn about the working class. You'll never hear him talk about poverty or workers' rights. He's not standing against the elite — he's a member of the elite. A poundshop Enoch Powell trying to stay relevant.
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Grim - Farage's views & methods are pure Trump. He’s spent his political career whipping up nasty, racist, populist division & rather than simply trying to push Tories even further to the right, he’s now setting up an even more extreme alternative power base. Profoundly dangerous
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Nigel Farage (Dulwich), Richard Tice (Uppingham), Ben Habib (Rugby) and Isabel Oakeshott (Gordonstoun) don't 'stand against the elite'. They are the multimillionaire elite.
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Very powerful from Michael Crick. Ian Mikardo said that Labour needed 'two wings to fly'. It may, in the not so very distant future, find itself flapping around uselessly with just one.
"I'm a Labour right-winger, a bit of a blairite. I won't be voting for Labour at this election."
@MichaelLCrick explained the appalling nature of candidate selection processes under Starmer's Labour on tonight's #NovaraLive
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FWIW, I've resigned from the Labour Party
averypublicsociologist.blogs…
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I think we all need to appreciate how difficult it will have been for Jeremy Corbyn to decide to stand against the party he has loved and worked for all his life. Labour have created this situation and they will find him more of an electoral threat out of their party than in it.
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"Starmer is abandoning so many pledges, it’s sending a message to people on the left... they’re no longer the party to improve child benefit policies, control rents. Only Green MPs will be arguing for these things" Spot on from @sianberry! #Brighton 👇
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Personally I'd keep the cap on bankers' bonuses and end the cap on benefits for children. But hey, that's just me.
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As someone who grew up in a large family I know how difficult it can be. As a party we must put tackling child poverty at the heart of everything we do. Scrapping the two child limit would lift hundreds of thousands of children out of poverty, it's that simple.
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“Raymond Williams: ‘To be truly radical is to make hope possible, rather than despair convincing.’ If Starmer & team fail that test, they will deserve all the noise & disruption that will be let loose. So far the signs are not good” Spot on @johnharris1969 theguardian.com/commentisfre…
