The Government's links to Knife crime so far:
Grime music = Knife Crime
Drill music = Knife Crime
Video games = Knife Crime
Stormzy = Knife Crime
And now....Fried Chicken = Knife Crime
But not:
Poverty
Lack of opportunities
Closed youth clubs
Cuts to Youth Sevices
🙄
After a year of feeling demoralised with the direction of the Labour Party, I spoke with their Membership Department this morning to confirm the termination of my membership.
2009 - Joined the Labour Party, aged 14
2023 - Left the Labour Party ✌🏿
#CeasefireNOW
I've been so depressed recently by the period of recessive, backward facing politics. But when I stood and spoke to room filled with comrades & when I heard
@UKLabour
plan for a better Britain, I was filled with hope!
Honoured to have introduced the Leader
@jeremycorbyn
🙌🏾
@ChrisLeslieMP
I believe this is in your constituency. You need to write to the head of this uni demanding that they expel these racist students! There's no place in our society for racism or any other form of hatred and racial intimidation.
Clapham Common tonight, was another example of the heavy handed, violent & inappropriate policing tactics that the MET use on communities like mine, on a daily basis.
So full solidarity with all those at the vigil. I will continue to call for Cressida Dick's resignation!
I don't know about everyone else on the TL but Keir has already shown me his true colours & time after time his masks slips.
So whatever statement LOTO intend to put out, I want to be the first to say... Save it! We already know how you feel about Black people and Black members
So here's the pic!🙈
I won a prize at a dinner and Dame Barbara Windsor hugged me to congratulate me. As we hugged she whispered in my ear
"pick me up and spin me"
So I did and this was the pic of that moment😂
❤RIP to the legendary Landlady🙏🏿
Your voice on the NEC.
Let’s smash this concrete ceiling and elect the first black man to the NEC in Labour Party history.
Support
#JJ4NEC
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STOP THE COUNT! Lol I'm joking!😂
We fought a great campaign and I just want to talk this opportunity to thank each and everyone of you for your support throughout it.
I want to congratulate the new NEC Members. I hope you can all work together towards a radical Labour Govt 1/2
I want to put together the biggest zoom call of all the prominant and up and coming young black leaders in the UK!
Put their @ in the reply & let's connect!
It's time we organise, mobilse and act - UK's Young Black Leaders Emergency Summit!
Please RT
I knew standing in Party elections as a young Black man would never be an easy ride. I hope campaigning to get onto the NEC will mean my experiences are not repeated in our strides for greater representation.
Find it ironic that conservative mps were quick to call out antisemitism in the Labour Party but have suddenly become blind, deaf and silent when it comes to the nasty racism and Islamophobia with their own party.
@ShaunBaileyUK
@JamesCleverly
@KwasiKwarteng
any comments?
I’m mad as hell to see how a party I was once proud to be part of, disrespects and unfairly treats
@HackneyAbbott
- I’m sick of it!
Between the Forde report, the abuse & experiences of Black members, nothing separates
@UKLabour
from other institutionally racist institutions
As a Black woman, and someone on the left of the Labour Party, I have unfortunately been forced to reach the conclusion that I will not get a fair hearing from this Labour leadership.
In the 80’s the Labour Party disrespected Diane and made it difficult for her to first stand as an MP
37 years later, the Labour Party continues to disrespect her and make it difficult for her to stand as an MP.
I have no words.
Complete solidarity with Diane.
Over the last few days, I have been talking to members and representatives across the Party and I have decided to stand for the CLP NEC Rep. ✊🏿
See my statement in plain txt here:
My cousin just called me in tears after being racially profiled at
@manairport
by security. As a result she has now missed her flight back to London.
She has a traditional Arabic/Muslim surname and we already know the disgusting level of Islamophobia in airports around the world
I wonder what could be the difference between them and Rolf Harris? 🤔
Rolf Harris is AUSTRALIAN!
He SEXUALLY ASSAULTED 4 Girls!
Received 6 YEARS but only did 3!
He currently walks free down the streets of Berkshire!
Oh & P.S. WE DO NOT TAKE LECTURES FROM BULLIES
Tomorrow, we are hoping to deport a number of foreign national offenders from our country.
I have replied to the
@UKLabour
MPs who are trying to stop this flight.
So disappointing to see how
@Labour_Trans
and our trans siblings continue to be marginalised.
I've made my position clear. Trans rights are human rights and they have my full support and solidarity - it's just a disgusting shame certain MP's can't do the same
It reminds me when David Cameron offered to build a prison in Jamaica to send its foreign prisoners.
Jamaica said: 🖕🏿
Shame on Rwanda for allowing themselves to be used by this disgusting Govt for it's far right pandering project.
It's cruel, inhumane and illegal.
Theres not many books on Guyana's slave & colonial past so despite the anger it envoked, this was an interesting read. Scotland was built through the exploitation of Guyana's resources & off the backs of slaves.
How Scotland erased Guyana from its past
I was asked this week, if I were to be elected on to the NEC what will be among the first things I raise...
Me: The disgusting level of Transphobia and the lack of action from our party to stamp it out!
🌹So excited to announce that I'll be running for
@UKLabour
NEC BAME Rep🌹
Its important that the NEC not only reflects but empowers the communities they represent, thats why I'm standing✊🏾
For those upcoming CLP meetings, please consider me for your nomination
Statement below
Really angry about Keir's comments this morning but based on his inability to address the concerns of Black Labour members and tackle the issues Black people face, i am not surprised - he's never really cared about us or our voice.
🤨👇🏾... really Keir?
#Bandwagonjumping
18 Labour MPs voted against the Second Reading of the
#OverseasOperationsBill
.
Abbott, Begum, Blake, Burgon, Ian Byrne, Corbyn, Lavery, Long-Bailey, McDonnell, Osamor, Osborne, Ribeiro-Addy, Russell-Moyole, Sultana, Trickett, Webbe, Whittome, Winter.
Over the moon to announce that we're on the ballot!!
Huge thanks to the CLPs that have nominated me so far and the members around the country for their continued support!
The hard work continues!
#JJ4NEC
We're seeing Transphobia raise it's ugly head yet again and honestly its unacceptable that its going unchecked
As a party we do a lot of talking about how to better our movement but when the opportunity to do so arises you all turn the other way and that ain't right.
1/3
It's VERY telling when members are upset that a Black person dares to speak out about the Party's and leaderships handling of racism faced by Black members.
But let's not forget about the journey we must take inorder to get there.
For a party that speaks on equality and fairness, its disappointing that we are yet to see a Black man on the NEC. I hope it doesn't take another 120 years to try and achieve it.
Government minsters are actually out here using burner phones discussing and transfering £millions of our money to their mates.
The biggest criminals in this country are the ones who walk through the corridors of Parliament
So proud to launch the first ever Young Black Leaders Summit! Bringing together current and upcoming aspiring young Black leaders from across different sectors and industries under one digital roof!
#YBLSummit
We're proud to be supporting
@JermainJackman
in hosting the first-ever Young Black Leaders Summit in response to the death of George Floyd
#YBLSummit
✊🏼✊🏾
Im not surprised at the attempt to brush this parliamentary report under the carpet by releasing at 1AM, the UK government have continously brushed the inequalities Black people face under the carpet for decades. That's why in 2020 we're still having to say Black Lives Matter
If this Govt is so passionate about ensuring we don't erase history I have a few suggestions:
1. Place them in a museum where historical artifacts belong
2. Sort out the British Education system because that biggest erasure of British history.
We’re about to face the biggest crisis of homelessness since the Second World War. There’s 230K people at risk of being made homeless & 2.7 million people now dependent on out of work support. Despite this, the Govt lifted the ban on evictions & furlough is due to end next month
Ladies and gentlemen this lying Conservative Government in a nutshell
1.Rishi Sunak said those in the creative should forget their passions, retrain and find new jobs
2. Then he lied & intimated ITV to withdraw their article
3. The Govt then releases Fatima's story
I'm not going to share the video but its absolutely disgusting to see the abuse thrown at the Mayor of London - it is never acceptable and has no place in London nor anywhere else.
Standing in complete solidarity with
@SadiqKhan
✊🏿
On the same day we learn of 900+ dead from Covid, Govt announce schools to open next week
Close the schools. Close the schools. Close the schools. Close the schools. Close the schools. Close the schools. Close the schools. Close the schools. Close the schools. Close the schools.
The Government and
@metpoliceuk
wanna talk about Drill Music and it's link to violence but remain quiet on big brands for releasing and advertising items like this.
#CapitalisingOnCrime
.
@Keir_Starmer
@UKLabour
SERIOUSLY!? I'd expect these insulting & ignorant comments from a Tory, not a Labour frontbencher
And you wonder why Black members feel voiceless, isolated & ignored yet you want us to stay?
This party is feeling less like home, something needs to change
I believed in the direction, values and vision of the movement. But not anymore.
I don’t know what they stand for? I don’t know what values they’re rooted in and I don’t know their vision for communities, or the country
I’d rather put my money into causes that I believe in.
I wonder if the Metropolitan Police will now harass, stop and search the homes of all its white officers, seeing as they're more likely to have neo-nazi membership? 🤷🏿♂️
@metpoliceuk
, your logic. Not mine.
It is no coincidence that in the same week of Andrew Neil announcing the creation of a right-wing 24hr news channel, we hear the potential appointment of Paul Dacre, former editor of the Daily Mail, to run Ofcom & former editor of The Telegraph, Charles Moore to run the BBC
Trans and non-binary Labour members have come together to launch the Labour Campaign for Trans Rights; we are fighting for trans rights and liberation through the Labour Party. We urge all trans Labour members and allies to sign our pledges here:
Some of the highlights from yesterday's social distancing community concert.
Neighbours watched from their windows and balconies, while 200+ views watched live
#N4CovidConcert
With the push of a button, University is over!
😭What a journey! But being able to press submit on this piece of work last month, means more than you'll ever know!
#Thankful
Proud to be able to join some of my inspirations as a SOAS Alumni
Now to take on the world😅✊🏿
"We must empower the disempowered“
Let’s make Labour Party history this week and elect me to be YOUR voice on the NEC.
#JJ4NEC
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Today marks a huge step backwards in an already set of regressive moves by this Government.
This useless doc is actually a work of fiction
A waste of time.
A waste of paper.
A waste of taxpayer money.
I am proud to announce my University exams are officially over and i can go back to living again 😭🙌🏾
Hello social life! 🤪
Hello love life! 😈
Hello Summer! 😎
Am I the only one who thinks we should just forget Christmas this year?
The Govt should then give us some extra Bank Holidays next year 👀
Or is that just a stupid idea? 😬🤷🏿♂️
@JessicaLBarnard
@lara_eleanor
Really disappointing from the Labour Party and its leadership to deny young members the right to organise and discuss issues that matter most to them. Especially when we're living in and time where it's young people who are leading the calls for change around the world.
Do not be mistaken, what we are seeing in America can happen here too!
We've already seen the fascists and racists protest on Whitehall fighting police officers last year
It can happen here too.
Anyone else got this weird mix of chest infection/cough/flu/head cold that doesn’t shift for WEEEEEKS!!!!
I’ve had rounds of antibiotics and this thing isn’t shifting AT ALL!
Goosebumps moments hearing
@jeremycorbyn
talk about the memories and stories of campaigning, protesting with his friend, the late, great Bernie Grant.
@BGTrust
This morning people across the country will be prevented from reading their newspaper because of the actions of Extinction Rebellion.
This attack on our free press, society and democracy is completely unacceptable.
THE CAMPAIGN BEGINS!!
I’ve still got so much planned for this NEC campaign, so to keep up to date with it all, I am pleased to announce the launch of my website
Let's break this concrete ceiling together
#JJ4NEC
We have an 100 year old war veteran rasie money for the NHS, reality stars delivering PPE and food parcels to the vulnerable and a footballer campaigning to end food poverty.
This is should not be our reality. Its the result of failing Tory Government!
Footballer
@MarcusRashford
has visited a new foodbank depot named after his mother, Melanie Maynard.
He gave
#BBCBreakfast
his reaction to the recent government rejection of his campaign for free school meals to be extended over the holidays in England.