Dad, Husband, Trade Unionist, @TheGreenParty Cllr for Streatham Hill East, Leader of @Lambeth_Council, Birdwatcher, Junglist, Bundist

Joined February 2011
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It is an honour and a privilege to have been elected Leader of @Lambeth_Council After 20 years of Blairite entrenchment and decline with Lambeth Labour this is not going to be easy but we are up to the challenge and have exciting plans for our Borough👇🏼

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We've heard these pledges before from prospective Labour Prime Ministers and they are not worth the paper they are written on but also the language Burnham's team is using here is very important: 'Public Control' is NOT 'Public Ownership' and any journalist worth their salt would scrutinise exactly what Burnham means by that. theguardian.com/politics/202…
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The FIFA hydration break is pure capitalism.
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Didn't realise but the clock keeps on running during these corporate hydration advert breaks. Do the refs then add that time on or not? This is madness
The World Cup in the USA has split each match into four quarters to accommodate the advertising industry and sponsors completely disrupting the flow, momentum and energy of the game.
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My favourite GBNews moment from the last 5 years, was when your colleagues mocked your AI slop book live on air!

HAPPY 5th BIRTHDAY TO GB NEWS 🎉 If it wasn’t for the People’s channel there would be so much we wouldn’t know about and the Silent Majority would not have a voice. It’s SUCH an important channel and long may it continue ❤️📺
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These words speak for themselves. On the eve of Grenfell’s 9th Anniversary Sums up how many feel.
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I expected this episode to be both vital and really grim. In reality - it's vital and really uplifting. I sat down with 3 carers to hear about their direct experiences of an utterly broken system. youtu.be/HbJJYl898rY?is=uG27…
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The World Cup in the USA has split each match into four quarters to accommodate the advertising industry and sponsors completely disrupting the flow, momentum and energy of the game.
🚨 𝗡𝗘𝗪: During Mexico vs South Africa, the referee had to keep the players waiting during the cooling break because FOX was still on a commercial break. The match eventually resumed while FOX was still showing advertisements. These cooling breaks are not related to player health, but are instead used to accommodate commercials. — @Romain_Molina
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We've heard these pledges before from prospective Labour Prime Ministers and they are not worth the paper they are written on but also the language Burnham's team is using here is very important: 'Public Control' is NOT 'Public Ownership' and any journalist worth their salt would scrutinise exactly what Burnham means by that. theguardian.com/politics/202…
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'Public Ownership' means the government or a public body holds the legal title and assets of an organisation or industry. 'Public Control' means the government regulates or directs how an organisation operates, even if it remains privately owned. So Burnham's 'Public Control' pledge could easily just mean keeping the criminal, polluting privatised Water Companies in place but just beefing up regulation. Not good enough @We_OwnIt
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"His paternal Grandparents were Central European émigré intellectuals who brought Marxist, anti-fascist and Continental philosophical traditions to Britain." A not-at-all antisemitic sentence.
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The enormity of the Filton 4 outcome is hard to overstate. 3 of the 4 were found guilty of criminal damage, and that alone. No terror-related charges were involved. But they have, for the first time, been *sentenced* as terrorists. I suspect this will become more & more common.
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This Labour Government has put in place the state architecture to criminalise protest against war and genocide as terrorism. Keir Starmer, David Lammy and Yvette Cooper are laying the foundations for fascism in the UK
🚨BREAKING -- The Palestine Action defendants have been sentenced for a combined total of more than 25 years. Charlotte Head - 6 years Leona Kamio - 6 years Fatema Zainab - 5 years and 8 months Samuel Corner - 8 years and 8 months
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The government just accepted Lord Mann's review. Palestine badges are now being banned across the NHS. The same trusts that lit up their buildings in blue and yellow for Ukraine. Sign the petition the.organise.network/campaig…
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Feel the rhythm, taste the culture & celebrate community💃🎶 Join us this Saturday, 13 June, for a music and dance-filled evening on Wilcox Road📍 Lambeth’s Big Shift Lambeth Portuguese Wellbeing Partnership are bringing the vibes from 6pm to 10pm 🇵🇹 orlo.uk/SbQcs
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This man is a threat to our democracy. He backs violence and extremism. Blaming a group of people for the awful actions of an individual leads us to a very dark place. Musk, Lowe, Farage, Robinson - these men don't give a shit about this country, they want to rip us apart.
Murderous migrants beheading innocent people in their home town is what’s making people angry, not “social media”!
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Let's be honest. There is a political hierarchy of racism in this country where shocking attacks on one Community get widespread condemnation and COBRA meetings whilst violent programs and attacks on other communities get next to no response. Shocking

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Meet the new Leader of Lambeth Council! @Martin_Abrams has big plans for the borough... 📖 Opening up the council, listening to resident voices 🏠 Tackling the housing emergency 🌎 Putting climate and social justice at the heart of everything we do 👀 Watch this space
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RT @Taj_Ali1: It’s worth remembering that while racist thugs were setting homes on fire last night in Belfast, ordinary citizens were runni…
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CALL FOR EVIDENCE: THE LABOUR TOGETHER PARLIAMENT Please share widely and help us expose the hyper-factional remaking of the Parliamentary Labour Party by the Labour Together/Morgan McSweeney project. Submissions to be made to research@shadowworldinvestigations.org Shadow World Investigations (SWI) and Paul Holden - author of The Fraud: Keir Starmer, Morgan McSweeney and the Crisis of British Democracy – are today announcing a new investigative project about the transformation of the Parliamentary Labour Party (PLP) under the Labour Together Project. This long-germinating project is soliciting evidence about how Labour Party processes were used (and abused) to manipulate the selection of Labour MP candidates who now make up the majority of the PLP. Sir Keir Starmer was the frontman for a scandalous political project that spent the best part of a decade remaking the Labour Party along rigidly factional and exclusionary lines. The most consequential transformation was of the Parliamentary Labour Party. Two thirds of the Labour MPs currently sitting in the House of Commons were selected through a process tightly controlled by Morgan McSweeney and his allies, allegedly with direct (albeit informal) input from Peter Mandelson. Labour Together, and its key donors, then spent over £2 million on getting this intake of MPs elected. The selection process that McSweeney oversaw was beset by allegations of misconduct and irregularities so widespread that veteran journalist Michael Crick warned of potential ‘corruption’. One MP selection has resulted in criminal charges being filed against Labour officials. These are the MPs that not just determine the future of the country but will play a key role in either making or breaking the political fortunes of whoever next succeeds Starmer. In a follow up to The Fraud, SWI, Paul Holden and Jessica Murray will be embarking upon ‘The Labour Together Parliament’ project to examine the legitimacy of the process that resulted in the current Parliament, upon which any Labour government will rest. What we need as a first step is information. We would like evidence of any wrongdoing or stitch-ups during the selection process. We would like to build a collection of evidence about the ways in which bureaucrats forced through or manipulated the selection process, including in the finalisation of longlists and shortlists, and, where it happened, the decision being removed from local democratic decision making altogether. We are particularly interested in the vote tallies from every Labour candidate selection between 2022 and 2024. These have not been routinely published. We are particularly interested in tallies that distinguish between postal/online/and in-person votes. These different vote tallies would have been provided to losing candidates. Sometimes they were only read out in selection meetings. We are not only looking for results that seem ‘dodgy’ – but all vote tallies, including those that are not in the least suspicious. This will allow us to build a holistic database and rigorously test different hypotheses. We would also like tallies from candidate selections in seats that weren’t Labour targets and didn’t result in any MP. Ideally, it would be great if we could be provided with contemporaneous evidence of these vote tallies – such as a screenshot of a message or email relaying the result. We would also be interested in narrowing down which CLPs used Anonyvoter for MP selection, even if the vote tallies are not available. Please send any information you think is relevant to the selection of the current PLP toresearch@shadowworldinvestigations.org. And please share this call for evidence widely!
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