Sue Lukes 🌹🌹🌹🌳
@SueLukes
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Expert on local services esp housing, migration, migrant communities, community safety, human rights. First UK councillor migrant champion. she/her/auntie
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Joined February 2012
https://t.co/qNqMivOr16 My long read on what’s been going off with the Cllrs forming a new group in Nottingham. Trying to tell it how it is, warts and all. Honest debate is the best solution.
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💬 0 🔁 0 ❤️ 0 · Is the Labour Party splitting? · Nottingham made the political news last Thursday (30th Oct) when 5 city councillors left the ruling Labour Group to form a new group/party called t…
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I’ve participated in the monitoring of the flotilla. The volunteers on the ships are heroes. I am urging the government to intervene to protect them from the Israelis. The Global Sumud Flotilla INTERCEPTED By Israeli Navy - YouTube
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This was my view about how we overcome the divisions that some are creating in our society over the issue of asylum seekers. It’s partly about politicians showing proper leadership that unites our community & does not divide it.
"We’ve got to stop dancing to Nigel Farage's tune…we need a rational dialogue." Former Shadow Chancellor @johnmcdonnellMP is calling for MPs to demonstrate they can unite and solve issues like the asylum system. #PoliticsHub
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Anyway, here's the story - what is clear is that Christian leaders aren't likely to get on board with Farage's vision https://t.co/8MTfCI7TCy
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The Archbishop of York, Stephen Cottrell, told The Mirror it has long been the British way to meet those asking for help with 'compassion and understanding' as he said Nigel Farage's plans are...
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The Archbishop said the asylum system must be fair to all, including those who live near hotels. He also said: "‘Send them all back’ is not a sensible or compassionate response, and is beneath us as a nation."
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The Archbishop of York said: "It is the Christian way to meet those asking for help with compassion and understanding, and it has long been the British way to give shelter where we can to those escaping violence and conflict abroad. It should remain that way.”
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In today's @DailyMirror, the UK's most senior bishop says Nigel Farage's deportation plan is 'beneath us as a nation' https://t.co/8MTfCI7TCy
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The Archbishop of York, Stephen Cottrell, told The Mirror it has long been the British way to meet those asking for help with 'compassion and understanding' as he said Nigel Farage's plans are...
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This is such a huge political, economic & especially environmental mistake that sadly I fear it will inflict an irreparable scale of damage on the government. “Rachel Reeves confirms backing for third runway at Heathrow – UK politics live”
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Prime minister faced MPs in Commons after chancellor backed runway expansion at Heathrow
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Post-banking crash, Gordon Brown said: “All the complaints I was getting from people was, ‘Look you’re regulating them too much’... The lesson he drew: “You don’t listen to the industry when they say, ‘This is good for us.’ You’ve got to talk about the whole public interest.”
"When we talk about regulation, regulations really good. Better regulation would have stopped Grenfell from happening. Better regulation would stop all the sewage in our seas & rivers" @FisherAndrew79 on Starmer likening his govt to Margaret Thatchers as he promises deregulation
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I'm shaking too now. Marlene, in my opinion is one of Australia's great artist. She tells me that things have been hard but she's ecstatic that a bro from Fiji knew who she was. Now the tears are flowing. We get back to the car and I break down. I was overwhelmed with emotion.
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🧵I saw an Aboriginal aunty busking in Newtown last night. She plays the saxophone & it was special. I listened for 20mins, dropped $50 into her case & said "You remind me of Marlene Cummings, the great blues & Jazz artist from way back." She looked up, crying: "I am Marlene."
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Cummins is a jazz blues singer, saxophonist, songwriter, artist, activist, broadcaster, dancer, and actor. Many activists consider her to be Australia's Angela Davis. A founding member of the Australian Black Panther Party, which was inspired by the American Black Panther Party.
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We know now that what they're coming after is not one form of thinking. It's not Black history, it's not intersectionality, it's not critical race theory. They're coming after the entire infrastructure that has been created from the civil rights movement.
Kimberlé Crenshaw emphasizes why the current attacks on diversity, equity & inclusion aren’t new, “Just like the fire seemed like the devastation came from nowhere, & they might think that what we're looking at right now came from nowhere. The conditions have been set for years.”
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Pedro querido, hoy ya se cumplen 10 años desde tu partida y tu memoria sigue aquí muy presente con nosotros, tus letras agudas, esas que nunca transaron, siguen revoloteando en nuestros corazones. Pedro Lemebel presente!
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📢 ¡Encontramos a la #nieta139! 🤍 🎙️Conferencia de prensa: hoy, 21/1, a las 14 hs 📌 Casa por la Identidad del Espacio Memoria y DDHH ex Esma (Av Libertador 8151, CABA) 🔗 https://t.co/vMr52h7eWU 🤗 Bienvenida a la verdad, #Nieta139 🥹 #AbuelasEsIdentidad
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Just a reminder for all you "British" MAGA types, the Nazi were our actual enemies. You know, just in case you forgot.
Elon Musk does a Roman Salute, the common greeting of Nazis, at the Trump Presidential Parade
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"Saviour of the common man" Isabel Oakeshott (went to same school as King Charles) has moved to tax haven Dubai, such is her love of UK. Give me strength Boyfriend Tice's property developer family built skyscrapers there! Reform UK Ltd aka RICH KIDS fooling those who have
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The average annual charge for a child in a private equity-run care home is £281,000. That's five times the cost of being a boarder at Eton.
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