Michele Martin

Passionate about fairness, creativity, science, art, history, culture & making the most of the rest of my life thanks to the NHS.

[Marina Purkiss @MarinaPurkiss]

I’m so excited about the benefits of this new trans-Pacific trade deal…

It’s going to bring in a whopping £1.7bn!

Over 10 years!

Or in other words…

…the amount we just spent on a tunnel under Stonehenge.

https://t.co/zP7Dp04Msu

[roomey95 @roomey951]

@MarinaPurkiss @EuropeanPowell This lovely depiction!

[Jamie Driscoll @JamieDriscollNE]

I’ve decided to resign from @UKLabour and serve as an Independent Mayor.

People are tired of being controlled by Westminster and Party HQs. They want someone to stand up for them. Let the people decide. £25k by end of Aug & I’ll stand as North East Mayor👉https://t.co/WuDEGd3xxJ

[Grumpy Dino. On the verge of leaving X every day @dcbcherrygate]

@LucyWoodslucy70 I wouldn't want to meet any tory MP if one turned up for a photo at the trust I work for.

[Prem Sikka @premnsikka]

@spicymutant I visited a food bank this morning and A&E at my local hospital. The agony and suffering is intolerable and inexcusable.

Labour ought to be ending agony not prolonging it. Like the Atlee govt, it needs to give people hope.

[Prem Sikka @premnsikka]

Them and us.

Bank of England handed out £25m in staff bonuses, while telling ordinary workers not to ask for more money.

Average pay at the bank is already £62,189.

429 officials given annual "performance awards" in excess of £10,000 each.
https://t.co/sOpyM3jzYf

[Marina Purkiss @MarinaPurkiss]

These “low value” degrees that Sunak wants to stop students studying…

No one from Govt wants to name one

I’m hoping @JamesCleverly can help clarify…

James, your degree was in Hospitality Management

You did alright

…any thoughts?

[Tory Fibs @ToryFibs]

UK Debt to GDP in 1945 was twice as bad then as it is now.

It didn’t stop Nye Bevan building 1 million homes for working class lads returning from defeating fascism.

It didn’t stop Nye Bevan building the best health system on the planet.

The idea Starmer can’t afford £1.3bn to put some scran on bairns plates is utterly fraudulent. And dishonest. If Nye can build our NHS, Starmer can lift his ban on feeding & clothing the third child in ordinary peoples family homes.

[That Civil Service tweet twice a day (fan account) @ThatCivilTweet]

Arrogant and offensive. Can you imagine having to work with these truth twisters?

[Carol Vorderman @carolvorders]

First They Came For

A critically important poem written by German Pastor Martin Niemöller, arrested in the late 1930s by the Nazi regime & released by the Allies in 1946.

He was describing the step up of the Nazi regime to persecute varying sections of society, & how the population didn’t speak out to defend those groups because ….they were not them.

🖤

[Jamie Driscoll @JamieDriscollNE]

Apologies for anyone who tried to donate recently and got an error message. The whole Go Fund Me site stopped working. We may have crashed it! It’s back up and running again now

https://t.co/WuDEGd3xxJ

[Richard Murphy @RichardJMurphy]

From the Guardian this morning, one chart to tell you all you need to know about for whose benefit the economy is now run:

[Jeremy Corbyn @jeremycorbyn]

If lifting 250,000 children out of poverty isn’t a priority, then what is?

[Prem Sikka @premnsikka]

Tory Minister says cost of sending a child to private school is the same as a family holiday abroad.

Average fee is £16k. Do you spend that much on your holiday?

After lifetime of work, many don't have savings of £16k.

Tories live in a parallel world.
https://t.co/Ifm2xupMuS

[Dr Dan Goyal @danielgoyal]

The UN have just released a statement about the govt’s migration bill passed last night…

They call for the U.K. to reverse it, as it effectively treats those fleeing war and persecution as sub-human.

Just when you thought this govt couldn’t sink any lower!

[BladeoftheSun @BladeoftheS]

In 2022 the Conservatives ’lost’ £219bn to fraud.

That‘s enough for

2.19m Doctors trained at £100k each
8m Degrees at £27k each
6m Train Drivers at £38k after tax
2.190 New Hospitals at £100m each
50m people on Universal Credit at £4.4K each

That’s where the money went

[Socialist Voice @SocialistVoice]

Why does Sir Keir Starmer hate young people?

• He’s u-turned on his green economy policy - this will adversely affect today’s young people and future generations

• He criticises young environmentalists

• He won’t back universal free school meals

• He’ll keep the Tories’ welfare cap that has pushed children into poverty

#SirKidStarver

[Beth Winter @BethWinterCynon]

We've got over four million children living in poverty. 5,000 children in my constituency.

That's why I was very proudly elected on a manifesto where we were going to scrap the two child benefit limit.

I spoke to @nicholaswatt about the #TwoChildLimit for @BBCNewsnight.

[John McDonnell @johnmcdonnellMP]

This is truly shocking decision. I’m calling for the recall of Forde Inquiry team to investigate the party’s attitude to racism eg yesterday the party adopted a candidate allegedly using racist anti GRT language & today has blocked Mish, one of our most prominent black activists.