Alan Spencer

General Secretary - National Union of Mineworkers. Nottingham Area. All tweets = own views.

[Alan Spencer @AlanSpencerNUM]

We belong on picket lines, with placards - speaking up for the most vulnerable in our society! #ENDCHILDFOODPOVERTY

[Broxtowe Alliance Councillors @broxtoweindys]

We regret to announce that the CLP selection committee has resigned from the process following the NEC overreach in this matter.

Statement below👇

[Richard Burgon MP @RichardBurgon]

The Tories will throw everything at nurses over the coming weeks. They've already started their propaganda war.

But the public knows who's to blame for the NHS crisis - and it isn't nurses.

The Government should end the smears, open talks with nurses and then pay them properly.

[John McDonnell @johnmcdonnellMP]

To put in context multi millionaire Nadhim Zahawi threatening nurses & ambulance paramedics with bringing in soldiers to break their strike, it’s worth remembering his expenses claim which included heating his horses’ stables was more than a nurse on starting pay is asking for.

[Richard Burgon MP @RichardBurgon]

The Spanish Government has now announced that train journeys will be free on short and medium journeys until the end of 2023 to help with the cost of living crisis.

And it's pushing ahead with a Windfall Tax on the profits of banks.

Let's fight for that here too!

[Richard Burgon MP @RichardBurgon]

On the future of the NHS, Tory MP James Cartlidge has just told Parliament to “embrace” increasing reliance on private health care as a “policy opportunity”.

“The post-Beveridge Revolution” is here, he says, and the government must support it.

The Tories - a threat to our NHS.

[Alan Spencer @AlanSpencerNUM]

@suerobin46 @RMTunion No disrespect just a bit of banter it’s just when I hear that name

[Alan Spencer @AlanSpencerNUM]

@suerobin46 @RMTunion Totally agree all mick is doing is look after his members . On another note can you change your profile ( silver birch ) as a striking Nottinghamshire Miner in 84/85 that name represents one of the biggest scabs in Nottinghamshire lol

[Richard Burgon MP @RichardBurgon]

So Rishi Sunak (of the government that has pushed NHS privatisation) boasts on tonight’s Sky debate that he is determined to push through a process of “reforming” the NHS and “doing things differently” in the NHS.

We have been warned.

[Richard Burgon MP @RichardBurgon]

Your energy bills are so high because gas and oil giants are making such huge profits.

BP profits have tripled in the second quarter of the year to £6.9 billion - the highest in 14 years.

Remember that the next time you're told workers are greedy for wanting fair pay rises.

[Richard Burgon MP @RichardBurgon]

Solidarity @SamTarry. Of course Labour's Transport Minister should be on the picket line in support of transport workers facing pay cuts and job losses. Standing with workers over the bosses - that's the whole point of our party!

[Richard Burgon MP @RichardBurgon]

Whenever you hear Government Ministers today telling railway workers to be "realistic" and to accept pay cuts, remember that the rail companies are making at least £500 MILLION a year in profits. Cut profits - increase wages! Solidarity with the @RMTunion ✊

[Saul Staniforth @SaulStaniforth]

Eddie Dempsey from the @RMTunion: "If workers wages are not keeping up with inflation, they are going to be made poorer. That is not a pay rise, that is a pay cut, and we're not going to have it!" 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽✊🏽

[Richard Burgon MP @RichardBurgon]

So Rishi Sunak is standing to be Tory leader.

The Sunak family is worth hundreds of millions - but avoided taxes.

And while millions are struggling to heat their homes, Sunak reportedly spent £13,000 on heating his new pool.

The Conservative Party is laughing at you. Again.

[Richard Burgon MP @RichardBurgon]

So Boris Johnson is going. We now need a General Election to kick this whole government out.

It wasn't one man that created record foodbank use, ripped apart our public services and handed out dodgy contracts to the super-rich.

It was 12 years of rotten Tory government.

[Richard Burgon MP @RichardBurgon]

Whenever you see Tory MPs telling railway cleaners and maintenance workers to accept lower pay, remember that the rail companies are making at least £500 MILLION a year in profits.

[Richard Burgon MP @RichardBurgon]

I just voted for a parliamentary motion to clean up our politics.

After a year of corrupt contracts and of Boris Johnson dragging politics further into the gutter, this should have been an easy motion for the Tories to have backed.

Not a single Tory MP voted for the motion.

[Howard Beckett @HowardRBeckett]

On a day of Jubilee celebrations, that will cost £50ml, for a family worth hundreds of millions, who we give £87.5ml of tax payers money to each year; it’s worth remembering there will be 17 year olds forced to work today on a minimum wage of £4.81 an hour.

[Richard Burgon MP @RichardBurgon]

School dinner portions could be cut because Government funding isn't keeping up with higher food prices.

This won't be happening at Eton. It shouldn't happen to children in state schools either.

We should guarantee free and decent school meals for every single child.

[Richard Burgon MP @RichardBurgon]

Our energy system - just like our NHS - should be publicly-owned and run for the public good and not for private profit.

[Nottinghamshire Mining Museum @Notts_Mining]

Brass Bands and coal mining history return to Berry Hill Park, Mansfield, the Notts Miners' Park, this summer.

Mansfield District Council and Nottinghamshire Mining Museum are inviting you to join us for a joyous return of Brass Bands to the Notts Miners' Park at Berry Hill.