Sam Hackney

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[ellen🍸 @algorecrave]

let’s be true to britain.

[Nadia Whittome MP @NadiaWhittomeMP]

Alongside colleagues, I have tabled a motion to disapprove the Equality Act 2010: Draft Code of Practice for Services, public functions and associations. We cannot support it, and we have a responsibility to our trans constituents to resist it.

This motion is currently the only available mechanism through which Parliament can reject the EHRC’s Code of Practice; if it is debated and passed within the 40-day scrutiny window, it would prevent the Code from being issued by the EHRC and coming into force.

Please email your MP asking them to sign EDM 240. 

The Code will exclude trans people from services and facilities that they have long used without issue, putting them at increased risk of harassment and violence, and effectively pushing them out of public life. 

It ushers in an era of enforced segregation for trans people, the policing of which will be outsourced to service providers, including businesses, charities and public bodies. 

In the statement to the House of Commons yesterday, the Minister even suggested that where members of the public are unsure of someone’s gender within a single-sex facility, “most people will have the common sense to step in where necessary or, if they are concerned, to alert a member of staff.”

Meanwhile, this guidance does not give clarity and confidence to organisations that want to be trans-inclusive. Its impact also extends beyond the rights of trans people. The government’s own Equality Impact Assessment warns that “women who are considered masculine may face greater scrutiny” and that disabled people could face adverse impacts.

The Code represents a profound rollback of rights, which will affect trans people directly and erode the principles of inclusion, dignity and equality upon which all our rights depend.

This guidance must not become statutory; the government should withdraw it and instead legislate to clarify and protect trans people’s rights, privacy and inclusion.

https://t.co/odTmOAIejk

[Lucy McDaid @LucyJMcDaid]

NEXT WEEK: Student loan inquiry will kick off on Tuesday, hearing from Universities UK, IFS, Prospect Union, NUS + campaigners 'Rethink Repayment'

Comes after the Treasury Select Committee released some of the evidence it has received this week, with Chair @Meg_HillierMP describing it as an issue of 'intergenerational fairness', with 'misleading' advice given to prospective students about the loan scheme

[Politics UK @PolitlcsUK]

🚨 NEW: The Government has announced 300,000 new training and work experience placements across construction, social care and hospitality to tackle youth unemployment

[bolshevik-menshevik swing voter @polemicpingu]

I'm not even 30 and I can tell this is a different climate, a different world, to the one of my childhood. there's no excuse for the boomers/Gen Xers to blithely dismiss the fact

[Ed Miliband @Ed_Miliband]

4/ As we face the second fossil fuel crisis of this decade, we must learn the right lessons.

The way to get bills down for good and avoid these price spikes is to go further and faster with our drive for clean homegrown power that we control.

[Cllr Alisha Lewis @Alishacmlewis]

I know it’s very British, but we can’t keep having moral panics about computers every time we don’t want to admit we’ve torn the social contract to shreds

Why, we cry, are they at home! There are abundant Saturday jobs, graduate schemes, and home ownership is but a skip away!

[Labour For Trans Rights @Lab4TransRights]

Labour for Trans Rights can in no way support the Equality and Human Rights Commission’s draft Code of Practice. The text differs minimally from the draft version that was leaked last year. (1/3)

[Heidi Alexander MP @Heidi_Labour]

Kids will go free on buses across England this summer!

Schemes like those run by @WestofEnglandCA & @KiMcGuinness have shown what can be done.

Parents can plan days out, visit family and make the most of holidays without added financial pressure.

https://t.co/z6LVrBtuFW

[Jon Trickett MP @jon_trickett]

I’ve raised the crisis in job vacancies especially in former coalfield areas like mine multiple times in Parliament. In my constituency there are over 20 people seeking work for every vacancy. The govt needs to urgently act to create jobs not penalise people for being unemployed.

[Andy Burnham @AndyBurnhamGM]

Politics isn’t working for places like ours.

I will change that.

#AndyBurnham #ForUs

[Natasha Clark @NatashaC]

The Andy Burnham Manifesto:
- More council homes
- Max devolution
- Cost of living help on rents, bills and fares
- More transport expansion of franchising
- Re-industrialisation to bring modern manufacturing back
- make technical education the equal of university routes
- transfer of more civil servants north

ON BREXIT

- The last thing we should do is re-run those arguments
- Time surely to bring people back together
- Not proposing we rejoin the EU
- Respect the decision to leave

[Andy Burnham @AndyBurnhamGM]

I can confirm that I will be requesting the permission of the NEC to stand in the Makerfield by-election.

I grew up in this area and have lived here for 25 years. I care deeply about it and its people. I know they have been let down by national politics.

Ten years ago, I decided to leave Westminster. Why? Because, after 16 years, I came to the conclusion that our national political system does not work for areas like ours. I learnt this fighting its failure to invest in the Wigan borough, for justice for the Hillsborough families and against its treatment of Greater Manchester during the pandemic.

Over the last decade, I have been challenging this failure from the outside and building a new and better way of doing politics. We have built Greater Manchester into the fastest-growing city-region in the UK and put buses back under public control, introducing a £2 fare cap to help people with cost-of-living pressures.

However, there is only so much that can be done from Greater Manchester. Much bigger change is needed at a national level if everyday life is to be made more affordable again. This is why I now seek people’s support to return to Parliament: to bring the change we have brought to Greater Manchester to the whole of the UK and make politics work properly for people.

Millions are struggling and they need the Labour Government to succeed. It has already made changes to make life better for them in its first two years. After this week, we owe it to people to come back together as a Labour movement, giving the Prime Minister and the Government the space and stability they need as the by-election takes place.

I want to recognise the difficult decision taken by Josh Simons and the sacrifice he and his family are making. I have worked closely with him as Mayor on issues like flooding and illegal waste dumping and have seen first-hand how effective he has been. He has put the communities of Makerfield first, made a real difference for them and should take great pride in that.

Finally, I truly do not take a single vote for granted and will work hard to regain the trust of people in the Makerfield constituency, many of whom have long supported our party but lost faith in recent times. We will change Labour for the better and make it a party you can believe in again.

ENDS

[Ali Fortescue @AliFortescue]

🔺Excl: Reform UK leader Nigel Farage bought a £1.4 million property in cash shortly after receiving a £5 million personal gift from billionaire donor Christopher Harborne, according to property records seen by Sky News. Reform spox: "The offer and process for purchase of this property commenced before the gift".

Full story 👇
https://t.co/A4l77ayimL

[Adam @adam_f23]

It’s exhausting the ban hasn’t been delivered yet. If the draft Bill doesn’t appear this session we can only conclude it’s been stalled again & that the Government will not deliver it.

Other countries have done it! Get on with it!

[Ed Miliband @Ed_Miliband]

After the second fossil fuel crisis in five years, it's clear that clean power is the only route to energy security.

The Energy Independence Bill is the next step in our mission: tackling the affordability crisis, creating thousands of jobs and delivering energy security.

[Sam Hackney @samhackney9]

This is really the speech to save his leadership? It sounds no different to literally any other speech he’s given and none of them have ever been particularly inspiring. He’s got to go it’s embarrassing

[Charlie Davies @cgdav135]

We're not getting any radical change from someone who doesn't believe in it.

[Angela Rayner @AngelaRayner]

Our party has suffered a historic defeat.

Many good Labour colleagues have lost their seats despite working hard for those they represented. We have lost good Labour administrations and lost the chance for more.

What we are doing isn’t working, and it needs to change. This may be our last chance.

The Labour Party must now live up to our name: we must be the party of working people.

We’ve heard the same on the doorstep as we’ve seen in the polls - the cost of living is the top issue for voters of all parties. People have turned to populists and nationalists because we have not done enough to fix it.

Living standards are barely higher than they were a decade and a half ago. People feel hopeless - that the cost of living crisis will never end, and now they see oil and gas companies use global instability to post record profits.

Once again, ordinary people are paying the price for decisions they didn’t make. It’s no wonder that across the UK, working people feel the system is rigged against them.

Things can be so much better than this. Countries including Spain and Canada have shown that economies can grow and people can thrive when governments stay true to labour and social democratic values and put people first. We need to learn from that.

In London, we lost young people who fear they will never afford a home. In my patch and across the north, we lost working people whose wages are too low and costs too high. In Scotland and Wales, people do not currently see Labour as the answer. 

We are in danger of becoming a party of the well-off, not working people.

The Peter Mandelson scandal showed a toxic culture of cronyism. 

Decisions like cutting winter fuel allowance just weren’t what people expected from a Labour government.

For too long, successive governments have allowed wealth and power to concentrate at the top without a plan to ensure the benefits of economic growth are shared fairly. The result is an economy that does not work for the majority, with wealth concentrated in too few hands. This level of inequality, alongside squeezed living standards, is the outcome of a model built on deregulation, privatisation, and trickle-down economics.

But we have the chance to fix this. 

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[Frank @FrankFWJH]

He’s 300x the man Farage ever be lol