Former Labour MP | Trade Unionist | Labour Party Activist 🌹Podcast: Next Week in Westminster: tinyurl.com/27tawaf6
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Thank you to Ilford, my hometown of forty years, the place that made me who I am.
Thank you to my staff and all my supporters in Ilford and across East London.
My work for the people who need a transformative Labour Government is not done.
Now to win a Labour Government. 🌹
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Elon Musk held up a chainsaw, fed USAID into the wood chipper, and at least 600,00 people have already died as a result - two-thirds of them children.
History's first trillionaire.
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21. Threats to the State, Safer Skies, and the Invisible Disease
What's going on in the Houses next week? The National Security State Threats Bill, the Civil Aviation Bill, and a debate on severe Myalgic Encephalomyelitis and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
🎧 A new episode out later
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RT @MayorofLondon: Complaining about nightlife when you *checks notes* choose to live in Soho is like living in South Kensington and compla…
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The many takes flying around about John Healey, resignation gossip and national security spending miss a fundamental point.
In Finland, where people have a strong social safety net and a real sense of shared national purpose, around 80% say they would be prepared to defend their country. In the UK, that figure is closer to 30%.
That should tell us something.
Until we change the financial architecture of our economy and bring the essentials of life out of the grip of corporate extraction and into public ownership, we will always be told to choose between bombs and butter.
But the reality is we need both.
Modern hybrid warfare means every public service is part of our national resilience. Energy, water, housing, health, transport, food security and social care are not separate from defence. They are defence.
If we want people to defend the country, we have to build a country people believe is worth defending. A thriving state. A fair economy. A society where everyone feels they have a stake.
I spoke about this on Peston on Monday night.
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RT @melanie_ward: Funding illegal Israeli settlements is not charitable activity. It is extremist activity.
Working with Israeli human res…
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60-day maximum payment terms and fines for repeat late payments.
@emmaljones, Small Business Commissioner (sb_commissioner), breaks down what the Commercial Payments Bill means for small businesses.
🎧 Listen now on all good podcast platforms.
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Today I raised an urgent question in parliament about the systemic failures in the water sector.
The constants disasters of privatised water are not the symptoms of market failure. This is the market working as designed: profits out, sewage in, cost of living up, security of supply, decimated. You can no more regulate privatised water companies than you can the tide.
So I asked the Minister for Water: how many more failures, how many more inquiries, how many more deaths - before the Government accepts these problems are systemic – and gives the public the option of taking their water back?
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38 small businesses are closing every day.
On Tuesday it's the second reading of the Commercial Payments Bill.
@tinamckenz, Policy Chair of @fsb_policy, speaks about the problem that needs solving and the economic cost of inaction.
🎧 Listen on all good podcast platforms.
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RT @melanie_ward: Together with almost 140 fellow Labour MPs, I have written to the Foreign Secretary to call for a ban on trade with illeg…
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New episode: 20. Small Business, Saving Steel and Cyber Security
Hear the experts @tinamckenz, UK Policy Chair @fsb_policy, and Small Business Commissioner @emmaljones on the Commercial Payments Bill.
SUBSTACK: substack.com/@nextweekinwest…
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It was terrible Mr Vice President what happened. And lessons will be learned. But here’s a thought - maybe concentrate instead on why 44000 Americans died last year from gun related deaths, and what can be done about your dreadful disease before you start lecturing others
Henry Nowak died the same way a civilization dies: abandoned, handcuffed by authorities who neither trusted nor cared for him, and accused of hate crimes he did not commit. His murder is as tragic as it is enraging. He should still be alive today, and he would be if the last few generations of European elites had stood their ground against the politics of self-hatred and the mass invasion of migrants, many of whom despise the West and the people who love it.
Henry was far from the first to so needlessly lose his life, and I fear he won’t be the last. Each time a life like his is lost, the proper response—the only response—is righteous anger. One of the most important things the Trump administration has proven to the world is that stopping the flow of mass migration and defending national sovereignty is a matter of political will and leadership. Anything else is an excuse.
It is because we love the West that we want to preserve it. We love our civilization. We love our country. We love our children. And nobody—nobody—should ever die the way that Henry Nowak died. May God comfort those who loved him, and may God rest his soul.
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20. Small Business, Saving Steel, and Cyber Security.
The Commercial Payments Bill, Steel Industry Nationalisation Bill, and Cybersecurity and Resilience Bill all face key Commons and Lords votes this week.
🎧 Out later today
@marcus4nuneaton @samtarry
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As an economist, former FT journalist and now Labour MP, l don’t think the bond markets have to fear a change of Labour leadership.
The biggest problem for gilt investors and MPs alike is inflation – & it remains our common enemy. My @FT op-ed 👇 (1/5)
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Do you know how long small businesses have to wait to be paid?
Find out everything you need to know about the Commerical Payments Bill in our new video!
đź“ş Watch now on YouTube and let us know what you think.
youtu.be/pQlCjtGfjOM
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Is UK democracy broken? @samtarry and @marcus4nuneaton discuss the topic ahead of Lord Wallace's oral question in the Lords on Wednesday. What is the the guidance for government formation in the event of a hung parliament?
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176,000 children in temporary accommodation. Charlie Berry, Policy Officer at @Shelter says the Social Housing Bill falls short: the UK needs 90,000 social rent homes a year for 10 years and councils building 2,000 a year won't cut it.
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The Health Bill hits it's second reading today. @swoolnough, Chief Executive of @TheKingsFund, warns that scrapping Healthwatch removes independent patient feedback from the system and there's nothing confirmed to replace it.
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Health, Houses and Hung Parliament: Next Week In Westminster hears why the Chief Executive of the @TheKingsFund , Sarah Woolnough @swoolnough feels her heart sink every time there is another announced NHS reform. on the NHS Modernisation Bill. With the Social Housing Renewal Bill in the Lords, Shelter’s @Shelter Charlie Berry laments the amount of council housing that has been lost in the past forty years And Lord Wallace of Saltaire tells Next Week In Westminster that the civil service and political parties are not ready for the possibility of a multi-party coalition. As always presented by the wonderful Rt Hon Sir Marcus Jones @Marcus4Nuneaton and Sam Tarry @SamTarry.
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