Rev’d Robin Arthur Hanford

@UKUnitarians Minister at @HinckleyGreat. Christian. Communist. PGDip in Theology from @HMCOxford. Bi. Autistic. (He/Him). 🏳️‍🌈✝️ ☭ All views are my own.

[Rev’d Robin Arthur Hanford @RobinHanford]

@CrossCountryUK Thanks. Now on the bus, but it is only going as far as Coleshill. I take it there is a connecting bus from there to New Street?

[Rev’d Robin Arthur Hanford @RobinHanford]

Hi @CrossCountryUK, any news on when the rail replacement bus from Hinckley to Birmingham is meant to arrive? It was scheduled for 11:47.

[Rev’d Robin Arthur Hanford @RobinHanford]

@CrossCountryUK There is absolutely no signage at all. Needs fixing ASAP

[Rev’d Robin Arthur Hanford @RobinHanford]

@CrossCountryUK So the rail replacement bus has been stopping where the rail station isn't?!

[Rev’d Robin Arthur Hanford @RobinHanford]

@CrossCountryUK They definitely haven't. We've all been waiting at the front of the station!

[Rev’d Robin Arthur Hanford @RobinHanford]

@CrossCountryUK As it is now over an hour late, would I and the other passengers waiting here be able to claim the cost of a taxi to New Street?

[Rev’d Robin Arthur Hanford @RobinHanford]

@CrossCountryUK Thanks, AD. Any updates? It still hasn't arrived yet

[Rev’d Robin Arthur Hanford @RobinHanford]

There is no signage about the rail replacement buses at the station, and no staff to ask

[Trade Union Coordinating Group @TUCGinfo]

Solidarity with @RMTunion @RMTLondon members taking strike action on London Underground today ✊✊✊

Time for @TfL to get serious

[Ash Sarkar @AyoCaesar]

I was supposed to chair the @hasanthehun discussion at SXSW this week, who's been banned from entering the UK by Shabana Mahmood. First of all, @sxsw must facilitate a way for Hasan and Cenk to contribute remotely, as a bare minimum refusal to comply with government censorship.

[Trades Union Congress @The_TUC]

Reform-led Durham council cut off funding to the annual Pride celebrations.

So trade unions launched a fundraiser to save it, eventually raising more money than was cut.

Which means this year's Pride will be bigger than ever.

In the 1980s, the LGBT+ community raised thousands of pounds to help striking miners and their families.

When we stick up for each other, we can achieve anything.

[Alonso Gurmendi @Alonso_GD]

This conflation between “asylum seeker” and “illegal migrant” is a huge part of how the British public is constantly misled about immigration. An asylum seeker that is denied asylum is not an illegal migrant

[Rev’d Robin Arthur Hanford @RobinHanford]

I am completely astonished at this. One of the functions of a political party is to have a branch structure, where people become familiar with concepts such as what an amendment is and how motions, debates, and procedures work, etc. How could anyone be active enough in a party to be selected to be a candidate in a local election and not know this basic stuff?

[Rev’d Robin Arthur Hanford @RobinHanford]

I think the quality of political discussion in this country would be far higher if political parties prioritised the education of their members in political theory as much as they do training in canvassing.

[Rev’d Robin Arthur Hanford @RobinHanford]

I personally believe this “conspiracist thinking on the left” is a direct result of Labour having pretty much abandoned the task of ensuring the political education of its membership decades ago.

My Dad can remember even the Mid Sussex LP branch having its own dedicated library and hosting regular discussions on political theory.

By the Blair years, this work was all but abandoned, leaving dodgy conspiracy theories on the internet to fill the vacuum.

[Owen Jones @owenjonesjourno]

The Greens' membership has exploded in size in a very short space of time.

But they desperately need to prioritise sorting out their vetting.

The other thing is that we need to deal with conspiracist thinking on the left.

It's not socialism and leads to very dark places.

[Zarah Sultana MP @zarahsultana]

Please retweet.

[Trade Union Coordinating Group @TUCGinfo]

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[Owen Jones @owenjonesjourno]

You're either upset at people being slaughtered - or at killer drones being damaged.

Your answer defines who you are as a person.

[Alonso Gurmendi @Alonso_GD]

No, Piers, journalists should discuss the reality of being a trans person in the UK, the discrimination and hate they receive. All of that gets erased when you insist on talking about other people’s genitals as a prerequisite

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

Yes. Nor does the UK. Otherwise Scotland wouldn’t have been able to have an independence referendum to break up the UK. Borders and governments and governing regimes change all the time.

People have a right to exist, not states.