Ever since Brexit I’ve wanted to write this book. Very excited that this time next week it will finally be published! We need better stories about who we are than the exceptionalism & imperial nostalgia of the Right. This is hopefully a start https://t.co/2aPOPtQcAA
The sheer cruelty of @DWP is off the charts - and against unpaid carers of all people. One of my constituents inadvertently went over payment threshold at an extremely traumatic time, offered to pay it back and had to pay £1300 fine on top or be prosecuted. Absolutely shameful.
🚨BREAKING: World leaders have just TWO YEARS to save the world, warns UN climate chief.
Current climate plans will BARELY cut emissions AT ALL by 2030.
When will the leaders of wealthy nations WAKE UP and take REAL climate action?
This week they are kicking off about the colour of a flag
Next week it will be how many cadbury's products don't contain the word 'Easter' on them.
Meanwhile... Millions of kids are starving and going without meals and our NHS is crumbling
WELCOME TO THE UK!
So you know those headlines we’re reading about the NHS wasting cash on agency staff?
Well…
The NHS once had its own in-house agency managing 90k workers
It saved millions
But…
When Jeremy Hunt was Health Secretary
He privatised it!
Unbelievable.
https://t.co/HNoIgiHDTR
Rishi Sunak has claimed that voters are fine with him spending £50,000 a day on this ridiculously large RAF jet.
If you aren’t fine, RT and tell him to spend his own £730,000,000.
Where is his pay restraint?
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300,000 more UK children fell into absolute poverty at the height of the cost of living crisis.
The Government could solve this problem. They've chosen not to.
Only the Green Party would scrap the two-child benefit cap and boost Universal Credit to lift people out of poverty.
The climate and nature emergencies are indivisibly linked and simply cannot wait. That's why I'm co-sponsoring the Climate and Nature Bill, which was introduced in the Commons yesterday, to push for urgent action and ambition. #CANBill
Sunak's continued attacks on Starmer's role as Chief Prosecutor is an attack on our courts, an attack on the legal right to a defense, an attack on the foundations of our democracy and it has to stop #pmqs
⚠️ The UK is failing to meet WHO international air quality standards.
🤯 But the Government continue to neglect the environment and invest in dirty fuel and new roads.
💚 More Green MPs in Parliament will continue the campaign to make clean air a human right.
Today is World Down Syndrome Day
I’m celebrating my 26 year old son Jack and every other person with DS. He has made the world a happier, brighter place and I hope he continues to put a smile on peoples faces because that’s his gift to the world ♥️
#WDSD24
Just after this, the Mayor tried to accuse me again of getting a clip for social media. And he's right.
I want as many people as possible to see how Labour constantly defend the wealth of super rich multi millionaires and billionaires.
We need a wealth tax.
I really wish I'd been proven wrong. But we must keep on fighting to undo the damage of Brexit. Today I'm asking everyone to join @euromove's campaign for the UK to rejoin Erasmus - click here to write to your MP https://t.co/ynqKuJLqGd
Obviously going to make money for Sunak+his rich mates!The UK Government just approved the biggest oil field in the North Sea: Rosebank. Join me in signing the petition: https://t.co/a2iqU6rYd5
The last American slave ship docked illegally in Mobile, Alabama, in 1860, carrying about 160 West African captives.
Among them was Cudjo Lewis, who recognized how his birth culture might be erased while toiling in this new land.
So when he was freed, he purchased two acres and started a self-sufficient community of survivors of the last slave ship.
Known to outsiders as Africatown, Lewis' neighborhood was modeled on his West African home, where extended families lived together, members conversed in their regional languages, and partook in traditions that might otherwise be lost to them in America.
Today, Africatown still exists and houses the descendants of the nation's last slave ship community.