Wish there was a reverse deposit scheme for tenants, like imagine we could claim back rent money for shitty things our landlords do. Didnโt fix the mould? ยฃ160. No heating in winter for two weeks? ยฃ95. Ignore emails about living situation? ยฃ55.
I am 17 years old & working class. No political party has ever truly represented me in my life.
Apart from Labour under Corbyn. For the first time I have hope that things will get better for people like me.
#IStandWithCorbyn
#GTTO
#forthemany
#jc4pm
#TheIndgroup
Found a picture of a 27 year old receipt which came to ยฃ27.96.
While I couldnโt find every item on the Tesco website I could make educated guesses so by my estimation this would cost you ยฃ79.64 today.
@RMTunion
I missed my stop past midnight the station staff made sure I was safe. When they noticed a car watching me for over fifteen minutes on cctv they came out again and stood and the car drove off almost immediately when they noticed I wasnโt alone. For all I know they saved my life.
To the Labour
#FBPE
cult thatโs attacking Corbyn let me remind you:
The media called Clement Attlee unelectable and they treated him with the same disdain as they do
@jeremycorbyn
. Because of Attlee our country is better off.
Remember itโs true labour not new labour
#GTTO
Hi everyone Iโve tried to reply to as many of your kind tweets as possible but my notifications are going wild atm so replying to everyone is hard.
I just wanted to say thank you all for your kind words in what is a really difficult time for me it is very much appreciated.โค๏ธ๐น
Curtis is 100% correct. Labour owes our victory not to a huge increase in votes but to reform gaining votes from conservatives.
Tonight is no centrist victory, the country is sliding to the far right. We on the left have to be organised lest the country sleepwalk into fascism.
This is so vile. In a cost of living crisis when students are on the breadline
@stirlingunion
are advertising โvolunteeringโ hospitality posts. No mention of pay either, with voluntary implied to be unpaid.
Hospitality is already so underpaid but the UNION wants free labour?
Iโm Labour because I care just as much about the starving children in England as I do those in Scotland.
Humza is fully willing to force families across the country into deeper poverty to further the independence cause.
โWe would make life very difficult for themโ
Scottish FM Humza Yousaf says that if a minority Labour government didnโt support an independence referendum, his party could vote against their legislation or budgets
#BBCLauraK
Micheal Shanks (a Scottish MP) going against the democratic wishes of Scottish conference.
Shanks claimed on multiple occasions he would go against Starmer on key issues. He lied to the electorate and Labour grassroots electorate on multiple occasions, heโs unfit to be an MP.
Labourโs motion today calls for an immediate ceasefire but seeks to strengthen the SNPs position on other matters. Not clear why they are so implacably opposed to it being called unless today is actually just about the politics of it.
The UN called poverty in the UK a โPolitical Choiceโ
Austerity has lead to 120,000 deaths.
People are going hungry, schools are in decline and the NHS is crumbling.
The Tories are not strong and stable they are cruel and callous
#SocialistSunday
#ToriesOut
#JC4PM
In a cost of living crisis itโs not fair that hospitality workers are forced to spend 2-3 hours of our wages just to ensure our safety.
Duty of care does not stop when the shift ends.
Iโm delighted to support the
@unitetheunion
@FairHospitality
campaign to get me home safely.
The ofcom investigation of BBC bias just proves that our countries media is ran by the establishment to keep the rich, rich and the poor, poor.
The BBC is state run propaganda that only serves to keep the Tories in power. It is in need of massive reform.
#BBCBias
#GTTO
#JC4PM
@Zoompad
@RayLoveJr_
@Pixar
@LenaWaithe
Literally every other Disney movie with a relationship features a heterosexual couple. Itโs not being shoved in kids faces, itโs stopping children growing up to be full of hate. If your socialism doesnโt include everyone then youโre no socialist and certainly no comrade of mine.
For legal reasons they chose not to print that my ultimate reason not to attend was the way I was treated and spoken to by the chair and other candidate.
But that would change the narrative of the article, and we wouldn't want that.
"The left of our movement is in serious trouble if its young activists cannot differentiate between racism in the UK and debates on foreign policy.โ
@mikekatz
of
@JewishLabour
on a student hustings row over a question on antisemitism and Israel:
@ReadytoglareYT
my favourite things about having pink hair are the the Old ladies who are super enthusiastic about it or the little girls who get rlly excited asking their mums if itโs real and if they can have pink hair
@ElunedAnderson
@ObanMackie
Itโs so lovely to know that I โdonโt belongโ in a party which I have spent countless hours campaigning for. Itโs worth remembering the compromises in our principles that some of us make to be able to campaign for Labour in the hope that less people die.
Obesity is a class issue. It doubles in the most deprived areas compared to the least.
From 2021-22 the price of healthy foods rose by twice as much as unhealthy foods.
Policies like this put the blame on families trying to survive rather than on the profiteering of business.
Friendly reminder that the most basic tenant of trade unionism and socialism is solidarity.
If youโre watching Eurovision this year despite Palestinian calls for a boycott, youโre failing in showing your solidarity and youโre not a socialist.
This gives me a perfect opportunity to announce that Iโm now secretary of
@GlasgowUnite
.
Especially looking forward to turning up to bars that have union busted me and asking to speak to their staff about conditions.
Top ten moments of the decade:
10. There
9. Arenโt
8. Any
7. Enjoy
6. Every
5. Moment
4. And live
3. Life to
2. The fullest
1. Margaret Thatchers death.
I obviously am glad that Assange has not been charged for journalism.
However, Iโm disappointed that in the celebrations of the left there is a failure to recognise he got away with rape. I hope he rots in hell for that.
If your man suspends 13 students for demanding greater funding to campus mental health services and affordable rents while occupying management in solidarity with the UCU strikes.
Im sorry but thatโs not your man. Thatโs principal of
@StirUni
Gerry McCormac.
I love that Anna Soubry said โmy constituents are allowed to change their mindsโ on
#bbcqt
Did I miss something or is there going to be a by-election in Broxtowe?
#GTTO
#JC4PM
Worth remembering that itโs international working womenโs day; the day was born out of the socialist movement for womenโs rights in the workplace.
Also worth remember that women are still paid less in many industries and in hospitality the gender pay gap is growing.
Iโm going to miss corbyn. He got so many great young activists involved in Labour for the first time, and there was actual hope behind him for a good while. Itโs the end of an era tbh.
The sad thing is, if over 5 million people signed a petition against austerity maybe 120,000 people wouldnโt have died, maybe foodbank usage wouldnโt have reached its highest rate on record, or maybe there wouldnโt be 320,000 homeless people...
#GTTO
#JC4PM
#JC4PMNOW
If the govt wants people to be cooking healthy nutritious meals they should be shortening the work day. Nobody wants, or even has time, to spend the rest of their day cooking after working for eight hours.
Itโs kinda gross how having no money and being broke is romanticised as โstudent life โจโ when most students are living just on the edge of poverty
While the SEC results are not the ones I had hoped for they display that the left is still organised & strong in the youth of Scottish Labour.
I would like to personally thank
@tillotson_will
who has been an amazing running mate. Young members lost out not having him elected.
Labour needs to formally apologise to Jovan and Faiza. We are a party with racism so entrenched that we handed seats to two of the worst people in British politics.
I like to buy my philosophy books second hand because if theyโre annotated you can pinpoint the exact moment they gave up. If youโre really lucky you can still see tear stains
My face in the back of the Uber when my driver when on separate rants about lesbians, vegans, halal meat/Muslims, the supposed โde-Christianisationโ of the uk, and last but not least why Thatcher was a misunderstood victim.
When I was in first year and didnโt go to any seminars I went to one just so I could announce my intention to the class that I would not be attending the next one out of solidarity for the strikes. Which was a bold move bcus theyโd literally never seen me before
It should be a scandal that we have a former Scottish Labour staffer effectively admitting the party will pick who they want to run.
Labour is supposedly a party which values membership democracyโthis goes against our partyโs values. Disgusting and shameful.
No candidates isnโt a risk, it means the party gets to pick folk who are more loyal to leadership (with a few concessions to key stakeholders). Given some of the howlers that have been voted up by members in years gone by, it could be a huge positive.
This is downright infantilising towards women and I do not appreciate it. The misogyny I have faced in this party by men who hold positions of power in SYL and SLS is outreaching. Please stop this.
Scottish Young Labour would like to congratulate
@BrookeHRitchie
and
@lxurenhh
on being elected as SEC Youth Reps in what is a moment to celebrate for our movement as both positions are held by inspirational women! ๐ช๐น
Yeah the reason we donโt have a Labour govt is my twitter, not because of people like Qais lending the sun, a paper which harassed Corbyn, validity by writing in it.
In the three years leading 2018 there were at least 700 cases of domestic violence by police officers recorded in the UK. Itโs sadly no surprise how the police are treating women in Clapham. Pigs protect other pigs.
@ElunedAnderson
@ObanMackie
Additionally if we can allow blairites and landlords to be a part of the Labour Party then we should surely allow communists. Considering the soft left likes to go on about how we are a broad church when it concerns them and Labour was initially founded as a socialist party.
Absolute shame on Keir Starmer capitulating to big business on the new deal for working people - on May Day.
Bigger shame on those in the youth wing who talk about what committed trade unionists they are when running for internal positions but stay silent on issues like this.
@lukeakehurst
70% British public supports a ceasefire, youโre out of touch.
Starmer and his politics are unpopular in Scotland. If Labour are to truly win power we need to win for *our* ideas not by capitulating to the right, as Starmer has done.
Massive props to
@Jay_Sutherland_
, today he got dragged out by the neck by security after demanding justice for all of us Stirling students who have been suspended.
Disappointed by the amount of โanti-racistsโ falling for blatant disinformation based on Islamophobia.
Support of Ukrainians right to defend themselves but not that of the Palestinians who are facing ethnic cleansing and illegal military occupation youโre just racist.
Since I became womenโs officer last year Iโve always made clear that we will include anyone who doesnโt identify as a man who wishes to join in in our caucus.
Itโs a safe place for all who have suffered from misogyny. This always includes our non-binary comrades, if they wish.
George Galloway late to the by-election announcement causing the results to be delayed.
Rumour has it that there was some really tasty tuna and a red laser on the wall that HAD to be attended to.
Iโm taking part in the
@StirlingTenant
#endthecoronafee
protest. Management should not be charging students extra to leave their accomodation in the middle of a pandemic.
Tom Watson to do list:
๐ฒ support Corbyn
๐ฒ support democracy
๐ฒ listen to party members
โ Undermine the party at every opportunity
#SackTomWatson
#GTTO
#JC4PM
The assault against Jeremy Corbyn today was cowardly but also the result of a wider problem in our society.
The mainstream mediaโs continuous smear campaign against Corbyn are to blame for todayโs events. We must hold them to account.
#GTTO
#JC4PM
#IStandWithJeremyCorbyn
An absolute pleasure to announce the candidacy of myself and
@MccailColl
for the SEC youth rep positions.
Planning the campaign with Coll and others over the past few weeks has been a blast. We have lots of exciting ideas and I absolutely cannot wait to share them.
๐จ๐ข Delighted to announce weโre standing to be Youth reps on Scottish Labourโs Executive Committee.
We want to build a radical, refreshed and energised young Scottish Labour โ but we need your backing.
Vote
@MccailColl
and
@lxurenhh
when your ballots drop! ๐น
Dear lord, what a sad little life,ย
@JennyMarra
. You ruined my night completely so you could have the money and I hope now you can spend it on lessons in grace and decorum!!
Excl in tomorrowโs
@thetimesscot
: Jenny Marra calls on Richard Leonard to quit as Scottish Labour leader as firing gun starts on a campaign to oust him.
Comes as
@paulhutcheon
reveals resignation of James Kelly, who has also said Leonard should go, as chief whip.
If it wasnโt so sad it would be funny to watch all the men who, only a week ago, were โsupportingโ womenโs issues now celebrating Sturgeon being cleared. Survivors were failed by Sturgeon and the Scottish government, you celebrating isnโt a good look.