Tower Hamlets Momentum

Momentum members in Tower Hamlets and Socialists in the Labour Party. RTs not necessarily an endorsement. TH Lefties: stay in touch with us - click on the link!

[Apsana Begum MP @ApsanaBegumMP]

We demand a full arms embargo on Israel.

We demand aid to support the starving, the injured and the dispossessed.

We call for justice, transparency and accountability.

[Tower Hamlets Momentum @THMomentum]

So much more dirt on this scumbag… but genuinely interested in what all his ‘mates’ in the RW labour camp in Tower Hamlets Labour are thinking. Huge shame one hopes.

[Gavin @alivesince1968]

Kevin McKenna, former nurse, now MP, states "healthcare voices are important in politics". Pictured here in Israel celebrating a genocide that has slaughtered 1000s of healthcare workers in Gaza.

[Gavin @alivesince1968]

Hey @RNBlake and @Dan4Barnet (@jrf_uk alumni) still time! We all want to know that you have the tinniest vestige of respect for the leading anti-poverty charities urging the government not to go down this brutal, repressive route.

https://t.co/iHWTOsYzIL
https://t.co/09AwDPLyB3

[Gavin @alivesince1968]

Has @PSCupdates or @twinjenin made any statements about the Israeli incursions into Jenin?

[Tower Hamlets Momentum @THMomentum]

"It is therefore more than uncomfortable that the Second Reading of the Terminally Ill Adults Bill comes in the same week of the confirmation of even more welfare cuts."

[Apsana Begum MP @ApsanaBegumMP]

Full text of my statement on the Terminally Ill Adults (End if Life) Bill being debated today:

I always recognise the serious nature of my duty as an elected representative. Over the past weeks, I have been meeting with constituents to hear their views.

I have the utmost empathy and compassion for people who live with pain and wish to make informed choices over their lives.

However, I believe that the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill poses a danger to those who may feel that dying is the only viable option due to a lack of available care or financial constraints.

I am very conscious of the institutionalised nature of the assisted dying being proposed by the Bill. There are serious uncertainties surrounding the safeguarding and the technicalities of the Bill which are still being digested and debated by the very institutions that will be expected to enact them. I am concerned at the speed by which this Bill is progressing and at the need for greater transparency around its wider support base and drivers.

Crucially, the Bill does not ensure the right to palliative care or social care or welfare support or mental health services. Nor does it address the systematic discrimination and inequality which – after years of brutal austerity – continue to damage our health and wellbeing and leaves no doubt that some lives are valued more than others – economically, politically, democratically, and socially.

The crisis in social care and palliative care means that people in the final stages of their lives are being failed terribly. Many people are dying not only without the care they need but in inadequate housing or freezing from fuel poverty or without enough food to eat. The United Nations has identified that Disabled people in the UK are having their human rights breached on a daily basis and there is still yet to be any sense of closure – never mind justice – at the obvious way in which certain people were treated as being of lesser value during the pandemic.

Horrendous damage has already been committed during fourteen years of social security cuts and sanctions. This is despite the extensive evidence about the serious harm caused to people subjected to dehumanising assessments and sanctions, including reports of deaths directly related to the despair and hopelessness fostered by the regime. I fear that the brutality of austerity and inequality can mean that many feel as though they are a burden to those around them. It is therefore more than uncomfortable that the Second Reading of the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill comes in the same week of the confirmation of even more welfare cuts.

Choices do not exist in vacuums – and are dependent on what there is to choose from.

I believe that it is crucial that everybody can live with dignity and respect, and that the unique contribution that every individual makes is valued and cherished. Sadly, that this is not currently the case, is an indictment on our society.

I will be voting against the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill.

[Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt @FranceskAlbs]

Conflating critiques of the State of Israel or Zionism (a political ideology) with antisemitism is preposterous and dangerous. It turns legitimate poltical speech into prihibited speech, leading to chilling effects on freedom of expression.
The Gaza crisis has so become a global freedom of expression crisi
Read the powerful report by @Irenekhan, SR Freedom of Expression.

https://t.co/mK8fgxbW6e

[Apsana Begum MP @ApsanaBegumMP]

Money can and must be found.

I've signed this letter, calling on the Government to introduce taxes on extreme wealth to raise the public funds we need.

This is money that can then be invested in services and infrastructure and lay the foundations for a more fair & just society.

[Tower Hamlets Momentum @THMomentum]

@TH_Labour You are literally clowns.

[Tower Hamlets Momentum @THMomentum]

Ludicrous stuff from a group of Labour Cllrs who celebrate Starmer's leadership and have utter no words of condemnation about the Labour Governments cuts to WFP, (nor the continuing 2 child cap). Utterly shameless opportunists the lot of them.

[Apsana Begum MP @ApsanaBegumMP]

I can vouch for the hard work & effort of @mish_rahman as a member of Labour’s NEC over 2 terms. Not re-elected this time but it won’t be the last we hear from him! He deserves our full appreciation! Congratulations to @JessicaLBarnard @Yasmine_Dar @gembolton on your re-election!

[Tower Hamlets Momentum @THMomentum]

🎯Demand that Tower Hamlets Council divests its Pension Fund from companies that profit from genocide, occupation, death and destruction. Sign the petition NOW!

https://t.co/EP7TZjdQE9

🇵🇸🔊Disclose: Divest: We will not stop, we will not rest!🔊🇵🇸

[Cardiff Transformed 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿✊ @CardiffTWT]

Tickets now on sale for #CardiffTransformed2024
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2024 marks a new Labour government, genocide in Palestine, facsists on our streets. 100 years since Lenin's Death, we ask his Question: WHAT IS TO BE DONE?
https://t.co/2J09E6mox1

[Tower Hamlets Momentum @THMomentum]

The only position that a Labour MP should be taking. ✊🏽

[Apsana Begum MP @ApsanaBegumMP]

I am clear about my politics, what I stand for and that I will continue to step up for the people of my constituency who sent me to Parliament.

I cannot abstain on the matter of austerity.

I will be voting against tomorrow’s motion to means-test Winter Fuel Payments.

[Mish Rahman @mish_rahman]

🗳 NEC and NPF Ballots have dropped!

If you think things should get worse before better and pensioners should suffer austerity this winter - Don't Vote for me.

If you think the leadership should be challenged on this - Vote for me, @JessicaLBarnard @gembolton @Yasmine_Dar

[Apsana Begum MP @ApsanaBegumMP]

Ballots for Labours National Executive Committee will be arriving today.

Vote to re-elect the #Grassroots4 @JessicaLBarnard, @mish_rahman @gembolton and @Yasmine_Dar👇�

[Apsana Begum MP @ApsanaBegumMP]

The students and youth of Bangladesh are key to its future.

There must now be justice and accountability, which can begin with the release of child detainees and ending communication shutdowns.

Free & fair elections will also crucial, to having a democracy led by the people.

[Tower Hamlets Momentum @THMomentum]

‘Country first, party second.’

That is unless you’re a victim of domestic abuse and violence or a kid living in poverty, where you can be horse-traded for votes like a disposable irrelevance.

Starmer’s @UKLabour and his mealy-mouthed apologists really are disgusting.

[Chłoddy @OfSymbols]

Labour whips leverage the safety of women to maintain party discipline!

Sky have deleted the clip from their twitter (currently X) account.

We are lucky @SaulStaniforth has a copy.

[Tower Hamlets Momentum @THMomentum]

The fight against the repressive inhumane policies of Starmer’s Labour have started from the inside of Labour. All solidarity to @ApsanaBegumMP

[Apsana Begum MP @ApsanaBegumMP]

I voted against the two-child benefit cap which has contributed to rising and deepening levels of child poverty and food insecurity for many East End families.

I have now been informed that I have had the whip withdrawn.

[Tower Hamlets Momentum @THMomentum]

Thank you @ApsanaBegumMP. You put the other two Labour MPs in Tower Hamlets to shame.

[Apsana Begum MP @ApsanaBegumMP]

I’m supporting this amendment to the King's Speech, which calls on our new government to suspend arms sales to Israel and uphold international law:

[Apsana Begum MP @ApsanaBegumMP]

All evidence shows that the 2-child cap on benefits has contributed to rising and deepening levels of child poverty, and food insecurity for larger families.

It needs to be scrapped.

I’m supporting this amendment from @KimJohnsonMP to the King’s Speech: