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Proudly Sussex - we wunt be druv!

[UNITE Brighton 🚩 @UniteBrighton]

@oi_tillymint @BtonHoveSUTR @AntiRacismDay @BrightonHoveTUC @uaf @southeastFBU @BrightonUCU @Unite_BH It’s not our fault that there were so many of us the police wouldn’t let them through 🤷

[UNITE Brighton 🚩 @UniteBrighton]

@BrightonPSC @BtonHoveSUTR @GMBSussexBranch @BrightonUCU @sussexucu @ACORN_Brighton @brightonargus @BrightonStopWar @BrightonHoveTUC @BHGreens @bhlabour @FatboySlim

[UNITE Brighton 🚩 @UniteBrighton]

Victory against the far right, we wunt be druv!

[UNITE Brighton 🚩 @UniteBrighton]

@oi_tillymint @BtonHoveSUTR @AntiRacismDay @BrightonHoveTUC @uaf @southeastFBU @BrightonUCU @Unite_BH We have a right to protest people’s views!

[UNITE Brighton 🚩 @UniteBrighton]

@BrightonStopWar Whoops I’ll repost!

[UNITE Brighton 🚩 @UniteBrighton]

@BrightonPSC @BrightonHoveTUC @BrightonRad @BrightonUCU @ACORN_Brighton @BrightonStopWar @BtonHoveSUTR

[Nigel Farage MP @Nigel_Farage]

Reform is now the party of workers.

Today I am inviting trade unions to apply for affiliation with Reform UK.

We also welcome union leaders to attend our national conference in September and engage in discussions about the policies of a future Reform government.

[RMT @RMTunion]

@BellaWallerstei We do apologise for any inconvenience.
Sadly, withholding one’s labour is the only voice workers have.
Every right we currently enjoy comes on the back of generations of trade unionists taking strike action.

[Brighton & Hove SUTR @BtonHoveSUTR]

Many thanks to @ZackPolanski and @DrJoGrady and @SabbyDhalu for backing the call to counter protest the far right when they try and march in Brighton on Saturday 13 June - join us 11am at the front of Brighton train station that day! @AntiRacismDay @uaf https://t.co/94WwR5lGp3

[UNITE Brighton 🚩 @UniteBrighton]

Football fans across London chant “F*ck Tommy Robinson today in opposition to the #unitethekingdom rally 🇬🇧 #utk

[Brighton and Hove Stop the War @BrightonStopWar]

Hundreds & hundreds from Brighton & Hove travelled to London & joined hundreds of thouands to demand #FREEPALESTİNE #StandUpToFascism #stopbombinggaza #refugeesarenottoblame @UniteBrighton @BHSeagullsAA @BtonHoveSUTR @Bestfootmusic @BrightonPSC @BrightonHoveTUC @BrightonUCU

[Strike Map @strike_map]

Today marks one year since our first #Megapicket in #Birmingham — and exactly 100 years ago today, the #GeneralStrike entered its sixth day.

Workers struggles connected through time.

Workers Make History. UP THE WORKERS.

#GeneralStrike100 #StrikeMap #BirminghamBinStrike

[Diane Abbott @HackneyAbbott]

There is no denying that these election results are going to be very bad for Labour.
Yes, Keir Starmer is very unpopular.
But it is the policies that drive that unpopularity.
Simply changing the leader without changing the policies will not avert disaster in 2029.

[The Green Party @TheGreenParty]

BREAKING: First Ever Green Mayor Win 🎉

Zoë Garbett has been elected Mayor of Hackney – huge congratulations!

[UNITE Brighton 🚩 @UniteBrighton]

@Keir_Starmer

[Daniel Kebede @DanielKebedeNEU]

Labour has so far held on to just 13% of the seats it contested.

Now a far-right party, pledging mass detention, deportation, and hyper-austerity in public services, is on course to take the keys to No.10 - with a vote share ahead of every other party.

The idea that Keir Starmer can simply “turn this around” is a nonsense.

There is no credible path for a government led by him to recover from this politically or morally.

He should resign.

[Jumbo Chan @JumboChan]

After serving as a Labour councillor for over a decade, I have been blocked the party’s NEC from restanding tomorrow because of my role in co-authoring a pro-trade union open letter, and coordinating hundreds of Labour colleagues urging Starmer to call for a ceasefire in Gaza.

[Kevin Maguire @Kevin_Maguire]

Nigel Farage secretly accepting a FIVE MILLION POUNDS gift from a Thai-based crypto tycoon is one of the biggest political financial scandals of this or any era.

Farage, for himself not the many.

https://t.co/fFvC77xqYt

[UNITE Brighton 🚩 @UniteBrighton]

“There was a time when these jobs were done by kids, perhaps on the weekend, paid a lower wage, no holiday and no silly employment rights”

‘I want cheap child labour’ isn’t a great advert for capitalism

[Peter McCormack 🏴‍☠️🇬🇧🇮🇪 @PeterMcCormack]

A minimum wage of £15 would end my coffee shop, it would have to close, as would many other businesses.

I’ll explain for the economically illiterate.

Staff costs are currently half our costs, a £15 minimum wage is actually more than £15 an hour for the company, because you have to add:
- 12.07% holiday
- Sick pay
- Maternity pay if and when required
- National insurance
- Pension contributions

These costs would mean the shop loses money because remember, energy costs are up, rates are up, regulations are up.

Now you can pass these costs onto the consumer - that would mean charging a lot more for coffee, people won’t pay it. The likes of Starbucks and Costa can, because they have economies of scale. The independent doesn’t.

Now the little socialist will say well this is your fault, if you can’t run a business that can afford to pay its staff properly, but the little socialist has never run a business and does not understand the dynamics.

Now I could pay some staff off and fill those hours myself or reduce us to one staff member during certain periods - but this proves the point that a minimum wage costs jobs.

There was a time when these jobs were done by kids, perhaps on the weekend, paid a lower wage, no holiday and no silly employment rights. Perhaps they were even paid cash. The dynamic worked and small businesses like this could operate. It was also a great first job. Sadly now it isn’t worth employing entitlement youngsters at this level of pay.

So alas, I don’t need the stress, the business would close, a number of jobs would be lost.

Economics is about understanding these dynamics, no vibes.

The cost of living is not solved through passing on inflation to the business, it is solved by ending high inflation and creating prosperity. This is what socialists don’t understand, they can’t create prosperity, they can only destroy it.