“There are so many ways of being despicable it quite makes one’s head spin. But the way to be really despicable is to be contemptuous of other people’s pain.”
James Baldwin
Make a list of the workers facing attacks on their terms and conditions today: binmen, carers, bus drivers, British Gas engineers.
The very people who were out during the first lockdown putting their lives on the line.
"Key workers"? Our elites never believed a word of it.
Today we lodged a complaint with the BBC about Laura Kuennsberg
In a report she falsely claimed Jeremy Corbyn said AS complaints "had all been exaggerated" and used impartial language to discredit his supporters.
RT if you think BBC should take action!
https://t.co/6wAHe1nzeo
This is totally scandalous and should be on every newspaper's front page.
The fire test for Grenfell foam cladding panels was "intended to mislead".
72 people died in the fire. Those responsible must be held to account.
https://t.co/8JCtlov2sg
31 MPs including Jeremy Corbyn demand change to pay Tier 3 workers minimum wage
Labour left-wingers have written to the Chancellor, Rishi Sunak, demanding a floor in his Job Support Scheme from 1 November to ensure no one is left on less than minimum wage https://t.co/HdiNb06SX2
If you took the profits made by private foster care and children's homes (more than £100 million a year), you could go a LONG way towards ending child hunger in the UK.
Btw ...most of this money ends up in offshore tax havens.
Cost of feeding 1.4 million disadvantaged kids = £20M
Cost to the State of subsidising private school fees for kids of officers & diplomats to attend Eton etc = £100M a year.
#FreeSchoolMeals@MarcusRashford
It is a special kind of sadness to watch the very people we warned would be fucked over by the Tories if they voted for the Tories be fucked over by the Tories after voting for the Tories. And before anyone shouts at me, it’s not “I told you so”. It’s “I was terrified of this”.
This evening I voted against the Covert Human Intelligence Sources Bill.
I can't support legislation that could give undercover state agents the licence to murder, torture and commit sexual violence.
“How a government treats refugees is instructive – it shows how they would treat the rest of us if they thought they could get away with it.”
- Tony Benn
In Parliament this morning the Conservative MP for Kensington, Felicity Buchan, asked the Government to put into law the Grenfell Inquiry Phase 1 recommendations.
There was a vote on exactly that question earlier this week. She voted against it.
Shameless.