Two press stories today highlight the grotesque inequality we face in our country:
▪️ Rishi Sunak has had the electricity grid in his area upgraded to heat his private pool
▪️ England has lost almost 400 swimming pools since 2010, with more health-deprived areas losing out most
This week the pay packets of the bosses of Shell & BP were both released.
They had doubled their pay packets to £10 million each.
But the Tories have everyone focused on refugees. A distraction tactic to allow profiteering & fat cat pay to continue.
516 days since the Taliban BANNED girls from going to school. Afghanistan is the ONLY country on earth that forbids women and girls from getting an education.
To deprive the women & girls of Afghanistan the basic human right of an education is a grave crime against humanity.
This is Nargis Sadat. She is a women’s rights protester in Afghanistan.
She was ARRESTED by the Taliban yesterday for protesting against their restrictions on womens rights.
The right to peaceful protest is a basic human right. Speak up & call on her immediate release 📣
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This is Sumaya. She has been locked up at home for 491 days, banned from going to school or university by the Taliban.
She pleads the world to listen. She begs Afghan girls to try & learn any way they can at home, so that they can rise and stand up for their basic human rights.
Just a reminder that Lester Pigott was sent to jail for tax evasion of £3 million in 1987. @nadhimzahawi did exactly the same thing. Nothing will happen to him. Because he’s a Tory. They’re criminals.
"I'd like to invite Alex, the Tories and the government to strike immediately, because we could absolutely go without your service."
Lady in #BBCQT audience speaks for the nation.
"Brambridge: sewage flows into iconic Hampshire chalk stream."
Doesn't matter if you're one of the rarest ecosystems on earth, @SouthernWater clearly doesn't give a flying ****.
https://t.co/6zJCTHSE0T
“Afghan women with internet access will now be able to access over 1,200 free courses on the FutureLearn platform from the best of British higher education, for the duration of the Taliban’s ban on female higher education”
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A day after of the Taliban BANNED female university education, women & girls have come out on the streets of Kabul protesting against the decree.
They chant —“Either for everyone or for no one. One for all, all for one”
Amplify their voices.
When we criticise Qatar's appalling human rights record, let's not forget the Conservatives have licensed them more than £3,400,000,000 worth of arms since 2010.
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!