Tanbir Siddique

Foodie, Ahlus Sunnah, Sufi, Orwellian, anti-imperialist, left-wing, socialist, lexiteer, republican, @unitetheunion rep, @blue_labour, @ManUtd fan. RTs ≠ ENDT.

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

He walked backward so perfectly, the world looks reversed

[📹 robinchanning]

[Culture Updates @Cultureupdates_]

"You Stupid Fool" 😂, Kills me every time

[Jesus word✝️ @Rurema011]

Terrible moment😂

[Kunwar Abhishek Parmar @kunwarabhi7]

William Regal looked like he’d waited his whole life for this… while Vince was fighting for his life trying not to laugh. 😭😂

And then Ron Simmons hit the “DAMN!” at the end. 😂🫡

Absolute cherry on top. 🤣

[Jack @FFS_WhatNow]

British piss taking is unparalleled.

[Instablog9ja @instablog9ja]

Viral moment a lady’s wig got st%len has stirred reactions online

[KARMA IS REAL @KarmaUnl0cked]

He Takes Every Punch Until All Hell Breaks Loose!!

[Strike Map @strike_map]

Deliveroo strike - 10 years on.

​It has now been ten years since the first strike of Deliveroo workers!

​Join us on Saturday 29 August for a walking tour at 3pm (starting location to be confirmed in central #London).

1/3 #StrikeMap

[General Federation of Trade Unions @GFTU1]

🚗🫸Stand with @ADCUnion against driverless cars

Join our affiliate:
📅 Tuesday 4 August
🕦 From 11:30 AM
📍 Outside @Waymo, 5-9 Willen Field Road, Park Royal, London, NW10 7BQ

Full ℹ️ here: https://t.co/nkxDp2spK4

#GFTU #ADCU #DriverlessCars #Waymo #London

[بو تالا 📊 @10AbuTala]

كيف تريد رونالدو يحقق كأس العالم وهو لا يحترم زملاؤه ولا المدرب !!

شوف كيف بهدل مارتينيز مدربه !!

هذا قائد ؟!

[ITV Football @itvfootball]

End of an era 😔

Ronaldo and Modrić shared an embrace that may have been their final meeting in international football

[Sharon Graham @UniteSharon]

If I had a pound for every politician who said they are the party of workers I’d be a rich woman. Reform have shown absolutely no evidence that they are friends of workers. 1/3 https://t.co/IhxClchYeZ

[Glenn Hoddle @GlennHoddle]

This was such fun doing !!😂. Teddy on the bike at the end kills me !!!!😂😂😂.

[Al Jazeera English @AJEnglish]

A video of a Dutch policeman throwing a heavily pregnant woman to the ground has caused outrage. The woman says police attacked her at a migration centre where authorities had detained her Palestinian husband.

[Sharon Graham @UniteSharon]

Almost five years ago, together we began to change our Union.

We took our Union 𝐁𝐚𝐜𝐤 𝐭𝐨 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐖𝐨𝐫𝐤𝐩𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐞 - back to our reps and members.

We uncovered the truth around the wrongdoing and alleged fraud surrounding the Birmingham hotel and conference centre.

And we have redefined our relationship with Labour. 𝐍𝐨 𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐛𝐥𝐚𝐧𝐤 𝐜𝐡𝐞𝐪𝐮𝐞𝐬.

And together we have delivered hundreds of millions of pounds back into the pockets of members from successful disputes alone.

Profiteers exposed.

Cash to politicians cut.

Winter fuel campaign won.

Billions secured for steel.

Government contracts won for British aerospace.

𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐦𝐢𝐬𝐞𝐬 𝐦𝐚𝐝𝐞. 𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐦𝐢𝐬𝐞𝐬 𝐤𝐞𝐩𝐭.

We are only just beginning.

𝐓𝐨𝐝𝐚𝐲 𝐈 𝐚𝐦 𝐚𝐧𝐧𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐜𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐦𝐲 𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐭𝐨 𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐫𝐞-𝐞𝐥𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧. 𝐓𝐨 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐮𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐞 𝐰𝐞 𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐨𝐠𝐞𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫.

To continue to win. To deliver on 𝐉𝐨𝐛𝐬. 𝐏𝐚𝐲. 𝐂𝐨𝐧𝐝𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬.
Workers will always be my priority.

𝐈 𝐰𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐟𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐲𝐨𝐮.

Solidarity, Sharon ✊

➡️ https://t.co/b1ozFM8u9F

[The Heartlands Tribune @HeartlandsTrib]

Michael Foot was right.

“We didn’t fight for the vote to give it away.”

That was the whole point of #Brexit. Not fantasy. Not nostalgia. Not flag-waving theatre for careerists in Union Jack cufflinks.

It was about sovereignty. Democracy. The basic right of the British people to hire and fire those who make their laws.

That was all Brexit had to achieve.

The rest was down to Parliament. Down to government. Down to the political class who spent years pretending to “respect the result” while doing everything possible to blunt it, bury it, sabotage it, or turn it into another managerial stitch-up.

So when #Starmer now dresses up closer EU alignment as some grand rescue mission, let’s be honest about what is really happening. He is not fixing Brexit. He is exposing the failure of the politicians who never wanted to carry it out in the first place. His latest speech pledged to put Britain back at the “heart of Europe”, while Downing Street still claims the red lines on rejoining the single market and customs union remain in place. That is not leadership. That is triangulation with a Brussels postcode.

Brexit did not fail because ordinary people voted wrong.

It failing because the same political class that hollowed out our towns, sold off our industries, crushed our unions, privatised our utilities, and shipped power upwards and outwards was suddenly asked to return power downwards to the people.

And they hated it.

The people voted to take back democratic control.

The shower of parliamentarians handed us delay, deflection, bad faith, managed decline, and then blamed the voters for the wreckage.

That is the oldest Westminster trick in the book: fail the people, then accuse the people of failure.

Michael Foot understood what Starmer never will. Democracy is not an ornament. It is not something to be admired in speeches and surrendered in treaties. It belongs to the people, or it belongs to nobody.

We did not fight for the vote to give it away. And we certainly did not fight for it so Keir Starmer could hand it back wrapped in a focus-grouped bow that told him it will win back support.
Here is the hard truth Starmer needs to face: he never had that support in the first place.

He became Prime Minister by default, carried into Downing Street on the wreckage of a collapsed Tory Party, not on a great wave of public belief. There was no national love affair with Starmerism.

No working-class uprising for managerial politics. No mass demand for grey men with donor-class instincts to tell the country what it really voted for.

He mistook Tory collapse for Labour consent.

And now he wants to mistake that thin mandate for permission to unpick Brexit by stealth.

#JustResign

[Jeremy Corbyn @jeremycorbyn]

Voters have sent a message to this government: enough is enough.

[Tanbir Siddique @tanbircdq]

@DevRitual

[Saul Staniforth @SaulStaniforth]

"When these appalling attacks happen to the Jewish community, we have the correct response. When it happens to other communities.. not the same urgency is applied"

Natasha Devon with some facts.

[The Heartlands Tribune @HeartlandsTrib]

In Croydon, 2 long serving Labour councillors, (both black) were deselected & "Keir Starmer's NIECE " selected to stand.

It's Labour’s 2nd safest Cllr seat in Croydon. This is grim.

Great work by @InsideCroydon on this piece. Please read the full article.

https://t.co/b21wbIDbJu

#cronyisim #nepotisim