It was unions who fought and won us a minimum wage, maternity and paternity rights, pensions, holiday and sick pay.
Retweet if you support unions and their right to strike
We are appalled by the pictures coming out of London this morning where peaceful anti-monarchy protestors are being arrested and having placards confiscated by police.
Solidarity with
@RepublicStaff
and others exercising their democratic right to protest.
Stay safe everyone.
Jeremy Hunt is going to lift the cap on bankersโ bonuses tomorrow.
Meanwhile Rishi Sunak says that nursesโ pay demands are unaffordable.
The Toriesโ priorities couldnโt be clearer.
Centrica PLC, who owns British gas, reported a ยฃ14.74bn profit for 2021.
Yet 6 million homes are facing a decision whether to heat or eat.
Time ๐ To ๐ Take ๐ Our ๐ Utilities ๐ Back ๐
Jeremy Hunt will invest ยฃ230 million in the DWP to "crack down on benefit fraud".
The Tories can always find more money when it comes to harassing the poor and disabled.
Fracking causes earthquakes.
Fracking can contaminate drinking water.
Fracking uses between 3 and 6 million gallons of water per well.
Keep fracking banned.
The NHS has been deliberately starved of funds for a decade, and we now have over 6 million people on waiting lists.
We must end the privatisation of healthcare, and ensure our NHS has the funding it needs.
Antisemitic abuse directed at Jews in Golders Green & elsewhere are totally unacceptable.
British Jews are not responsible for the policies of the state of Israel.
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Neil Coyle is already having a pretty bad day, but we're just about to make it worse...
We will be standing in Bermondsey & Old Southwark at the next General Election.
#PAL
Of Johnson's Cabinet, only 5 out of 22 are willing to declare that they (or their family) do not benefit from tax havens or non-dom status.
Wonder why ๐ค
We have a government that refused to spend ยฃ20 million on extending free school meals, but is happy to spend the same amount of money on a New York party house to entertain diplomats.
Let that sink in.
The Tories plan to cut off Universal Credit for 500,000 people after only 4 weeks of job-hunting is nothing short of disgraceful.
With food and energy costs already rising, the decision to force people into short-term, unreliable employment is cruel and callous.
For those at the back:
๐ข THE COST OF LIVING CRISIS HAS GOT ABSOLUTELY NOTHING TO DO WITH RUSSIA'S INVASION OF UKRAINE, IT'S A RESULT OF POLITICAL DECISIONS MADE MONTHS AGO.
When MPs of colour ask the Tories reasonable questions about Covid deaths, NHS workers, or even racist abuse, they're consistently told to 'watch their tone' - this isn't acceptable and the speaker needs to address it!
It's 'know your place' racism.
Liz Truss promising to cut the pay of public sector workers including teachers and nurses during a cost of living crisis is simply evil.
We need a general strike and we need it now.
RT if you agree.
The Bank of England is raising interest rates for a 14th time in a row.
It didn't control inflation the 1st time, the 2nd, or the 13th, it just pushed the burden onto ordinary people.
We need:
๐ Price caps
๐ฐ Corporate profits taxed
๐ Rent controls
๐ Free public
Germany has announced plans to nationalise its largest gas company Uniper.
France is in the process of fully nationalising EDF.
Nationalising energy companies is just common sense.
Energy bill increases since 2021:
๐ฌ๐ง: 215%
๐ฎ๐น: 77%
๐ช๐บ: 41%
๐ฉ๐ช: 23%
๐ซ๐ท: 4%
It doesn't have to be this way.
Let's take to the streets โ๏ธ
The Public Order Bill has now received Royal Assent.
Activists won't even be able to post about a protest, let alone go to one.
People look at fascist countries and say โweโre never going to end up like themโ.
Weโre already there.
Remember when Tory MPโs said Marcus Rashford โshould stick to footballโ?
Will those same Tory MPโs now say that Ian Botham should stick to cricket?
Doubt it.
๐จ| ANNOUNCEMENT
๐ค The Peopleโs Alliance of the Left
#PAL
is delighted to announce that a memorandum of understanding has been agreed between
@BThroughParty
,
@FreeNorthNow
,
@TUSCoalition
&
@LeftUnityUK
.
This Alliance will work together on a future electoral strategy.
Boris Johnson claimed ยฃ164,148 last year
Therese Coffey claimed ยฃ177,622
Rishi Sunak claimed ยฃ149,300
Priti Patel claimed ยฃ182,329
Michael Gove claimed ยฃ166,818
But the govt can't afford to give universal credit claimants ยฃ1,000 a year?
Tories are the real scroungers.
Suella Braverman refused to sign off on hotel bookings for refugees at Manston last week because they were in "Tory areas".
She went to the camp on a ยฃ30 million pound helicopter. She could've gone by train for ยฃ11.30.
Do us all a favour and just get rid of her.
Who'd have thought that Rishi Sunak, a privately educated, former hedge fund manager, son-in-law to a billionaire, multiple home-owning, Tory ex-chancellor would funnel money from 'deprived, urban areas' to wealthier communities? ๐ฒ
"Poverty exists not because we cannot feed the poor, but because we cannot satisfy the rich." - Anon
This has never been more true.
It's time to fight back.
With energy bills set to rise to ยฃ6,000 in April, 45 MILLION people are going to be thrown into food poverty.
We can't continue to sit back whilst people struggle to eat.
Is it time for a general strike?
Yes Yes Yes
๐ ๐ ๐
Nadhim Zahawi claimed more in expenses to heat his horses' stables than nurses are asking for as a pay rise.
Just let that sink in.
The Tories only serve themselves and that will never change.
You could end rough sleeping in the UK with an extra ยฃ82m a year.
Instead, the government are spending ยฃ250m on a new Royal Yacht.
With that money you could end rough sleeping for over 3 years.
Rough sleeping is a political choice.
Energy bills are set to rise again in October by roughly ยฃ629.
That'll then cost us ยฃ2,600 a year for gas and electricity.
The question is, what are we going to do about it?