Sean Halsall - Your Party UK

[Sean Halsall - Your Party UK @HalsallSean]

Before it even exists a party to the left of Labour is polling at 10%. Before a door has been knocked, before a party has been launched it is a credible force. People are crying out for meaningful change, we need this now @wearecollectiv_ @jeremycorbyn @corbyn_project

[Election Maps UK @ElectionMapsUK]

Westminster Voting Intention (🟣 Incl. Hypothetical Left-Wing Corbyn-Led Party):

RFM: 27% (=)
LAB: 20% (-3)
CON: 20% (=)
LDM: 14% (=)
🟣 JC: 10% (New)
GRN: 5% (-4)
SNP: 2% (-1)

Changes w/ regular VI.

[Sean Halsall - Your Party UK @HalsallSean]

For one person to have a trillion, a fuck load of people need to have nothing

[Sean Halsall - Your Party UK @HalsallSean]

That someone is a trillionaire means there is a lot of extra people with fuck all

[Sean Halsall - Your Party UK @HalsallSean]

Working class people imagining a different world and being told by the powerful: no.

The idea never died. It never will.

Hate has to be taught. This is what we look like without it.
7/7

[Sean Halsall - Your Party UK @HalsallSean]

In 1976, workers at a Birmingham arms factory were told their jobs were being cut.

They didn't strike. They did something nobody had ever done before.

The Lucas Plan.

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[Sean Halsall - Your Party UK @HalsallSean]

The plan is 1,200 pages. It is nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize in 1979.

The company rejects it. The government rejects it.

The workers who could have saved 3,000 lives a year are made redundant anyway.
6/7

[Sean Halsall - Your Party UK @HalsallSean]

Working class women, alone, in wartime, taking on landlords and the law and winning.

A statue of Mary Barbour now stands at Govan Cross.

Hate has to be taught. This is what we look like without it.
7/7

[Sean Halsall - Your Party UK @HalsallSean]

Their husbands were dying in the trenches. The landlords raised the rent.

So the women of Glasgow went to war on the home front.

Mary Barbour and the Glasgow Rent Strikes, 1915. A thread.

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[Sean Halsall - Your Party UK @HalsallSean]

The government caves. The Rent Restriction Act freezes rents at 1914 levels for the rest of the war.

Mrs Barbour's Army had won.

6/7

[Sean Halsall - Your Party UK @HalsallSean]

The village buried its dead and filled the seats again.

Every year on 19th December, Mousehole turns its Christmas lights off for an hour.

Nobody made them go. Nobody made the next crew step forward.

Hate has to be taught. This is what we look like without it.

7/7

[Sean Halsall - Your Party UK @HalsallSean]

Communities at their best send their best people into danger for strangers. Knowing the cost. Going anyway.

Penlee, Cornwall, December 1981.

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[Sean Halsall - Your Party UK @HalsallSean]

Eight volunteer fishermen. Eight strangers saved and lost again when the ship went down too. Sixteen dead.

Two days later, a new crew of volunteers came forward.

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