Cllr Benali Hamdache
@greenbenali
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Migrant & refugee support spokesperson for @thegreenparty 🌍 Highbury Councillor and leader of the opposition on Islington Council 🗳 he/him 🏳️🌈
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I’m running for the London Assembly again! This is the mandatory electoral statement
Promoted by Danny Keeling on behalf of Benali Hamdache, all c/o PO Box 78066, London, SE16 9GQ
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Landlord has just asked for a 30% increase of our rent - £600pcm
My salary increase this year was 5%
Rent controls now!
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Hi Janice.
I grew up with a virulently homophobic Dad.
Online spaces gave me some solace and the chance to be happily gay.
Once I didn’t close a window quick enough. The end result was being punched in the face and my glasses broke.
An exit button isn’t grooming.
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Imagine being a migrant doctor and hearing Keir Starmer say there’s too many of you
After Covid. After austerity. After everything
NHS workers deserve our gratitude, not dogwhistles
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These were the Guardian headlines when UKIP won 163 seats at the local elections in 2014
For context the Green Party just won 241 seats, but no talk of a "political earthquake"
Media bias is crystal clear
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The
@Telegraph
publishing that Hitler was left wing is deeply offensive to the very many social democrats, socialists, communists and trade unionists he murdered.
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The only thing Rishi Sunak should be doing at a homeless shelter is apologising
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I feel this really deeply. As a young gay man in a Muslim household I was denied important information. I was castigated and isolated.
We shouldn’t be failing another generation. All kids deserve LGBT+ inclusive education at school.
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@ShayyStayFly
I dunno. I thought getting vaccinated so I didn’t kill someone’s grandma seemed quite important
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Rishi Sunak’s constituency is receiving £19 million worth of levelling up funds
Islington is receiving nothing
43% of children in Islington live in poverty
It’s under half that in Richmond
This isn’t levelling up
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Hastings Labour have made a deal with Reform UK to take control of the council
Why is Keir’s Labour making deals with the extreme right instead of the Greens?
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If you tweet in support of trans rights you get barraged with abuse
You get called a paedo. You get threatened with violence. You get called all manner of names
Solidarity with Graham Norton
Let’s get rid of this false narrative trans people and allies don’t get abused
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So
#CurfewForMen
caused outrage amongst a load of men
But telling women to stay home for safety didn’t
And that’s the problem isn’t it?
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6 refugees have been found dead in the Mediterranean. Including two infants
We could save lives with authorised safe routes and a restored aid budget. We could do it tomorrow
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If your fiscal rules don’t include saving the planet, your rules are wrong
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This
@IpsosMORI
poll really does make you think how much bigotry kept our elders in the closet
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I once sprained my leg quite badly. It took me an hour to get back with the shopping.
Had to sit down three times.
Taping up benches makes journeys for many elderly and disabled people impossible. Councils should rethink
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Labour has suspended 7 Councillors across London for backing Green motions in support of ceasefire
Unbelievable that the party won’t allow elected representatives to stand up for peace
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Remarkable! Looks like young LGB people are not being erased at all
@ALLIANCELGB
when are you shutting down?
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LGB Alliance are a hate group
Cyberstalking charity workers is gross
The moral panic around LGBTIQA+ people is grotesque
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🇩🇪 In Germany uni tuition is free
🇳🇴 In Norway they tax wealth
🇺🇸 Biden put £370bn into green energy
🇫🇷 France banned short haul flights
🇩🇰 Denmark has rent controls
@TheGreenParty
ideas are mainstream. They’re successful across the world
We just need to vote for them 💚
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What would have Germany's election results looked like under First Past the Post?
⚫️ 143 - CDU/CSU
🔴 121 - SPD
🟢 16 - Greens
🔵 16 - AfD
🟤 3 - Die Linke
🟡 0 - FDP
FPTP would have put conservatives in first place with only 24.1% of the vote!
PR makes sense
@MakeVotesMatter
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Show me a headline that encapsulates modern England
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Priti Patel was not telling the truth
They’re refugees on the boats crossing the channel
Refugees who should be treated with fairness and due process
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The Tories got 56% of the seats with 43.6% of the vote.
Remain supporting parties got over 50% of the vote.
First Past The Post keeps the Tories in power.
It’s time for
@UKLabour
to WAKE UP. Back Proportional Representation.
@MakeVotesMatter
.
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There’s drought, heatwaves & what is
@trussliz
’s plan?
- Cut green levies
- Back fracking
- Cut aid for tackling climate crisis
- Oppose solar farms
- Increase North Sea fossil fuels
- Clamp down on climate protestors
It’s a Climate Emergency. We need more
@TheGreenParty
MPs
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Rent Controls?
Labour ❌
Lib Dems ❌
Greens ✅
Wealth tax?
Labour ❌
Lib Dems ❌
Greens ✅
Renationalise utilities?
Labour ❌
Lib Dems ❌
Greens ✅
Scrap tuition fees?
Labour ❌
Lib Dems ❌
Greens ✅
The choice is clear 💚
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Maybe Labour is the reason Labour didn’t win in Uxbridge
Maybe spending the week saying you’re not going to tackle child poverty isn’t inspiring Green minded voters
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You can’t feed your children with sovereignty
Did you vote to be poorer for 30 years?
This Brexit Party Candidate thinks you did.
#EuropeanElections2019
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Suella Braverman is racist
The Home Office is racist
This government is racist
Breaking Windrush pledges is institutional racism
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There’s nothing wrong with being an “economic migrant”
Escaping poverty is not a crime
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This is horrifying.
@fairplaywomen
want staff to police changing rooms.
They want and expect people to carry birth certificates to prove right of entry!
The end result is anyone who is gender non confirming will face harassment.
This is an attack on the Equality Act.
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Keir Starmer's Labour Party
❌ Won't renationalise our utilities
❌ Backs private companies in the NHS
❌ Won't back Proportional Representation
@TheGreenParty
✅ Supports nationalised utilities
✅ Opposes NHS privatisation
✅ Backs PR
The choice is obvious 💚
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Ukrainian refugees taken in by each country:
🇵🇱 Poland - 1,028,000
🇭🇺 Hungary - 180,000
🇸🇰 Slovakia - 128,000
🇲🇩 Moldova - 83,000
🇷🇴 Romania - 79,000
🇩🇪 Germany - 30,000
🇮🇪 Ireland - 1,200
Bottom of the table - UK on 50 🇬🇧
@PritiPatel
step up and take action
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Greens largest party in
💚 Barbegh
💚 East Hertfordshire
💚 East Suffolk
💚 Folkestone & Hythe
💚 Forest of Dean
💚 Lewes
💚 Mid Suffolk
💚 Warwick
We lead the opposition in many more. Winning action on climate & social justice
It’s a great time to join
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The Green Party is calling on UK government to use its powers to stop attack on Rafah
But mainstream media won’t cover - can you share?
We demand:
- An end to arm sales
- Stop military collaboration
- Boycott, Divestment & Sanctions
- Release of hostages & political prisoners
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For the Home Office to
#StandWithUkraine
it must:
🇺🇦 Follow the EU’s lead & grant asylum to ALL
🇺🇦 Open safe routes for people to come here
🇺🇦 Join the EU wide plan for resettling refugees
🇺🇦 Scrap the
#NationalityAndBordersBill
which would criminalise Ukraine’s refugees
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The transphobia around Eddie Izzard’s candidacy is truly terrible
Opponents have made it crystal clear that in their view you’re not allowed to run for office and be trans
Solidarity with
@eddieizzard
and the entire trans community. It’s truly revolting bigotry on display
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To the “never did me any harm crowd”
I was hit a lot. It was miserable, demoralising and we know it doesn’t work.
Children shouldn’t have to face violence dressed up as discipline
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Things we should normalise after the pandemic:
✅ Working from home
✅ Staggered and flexible working hours
✅ Hand sanitiser everywhere
✅ Menus via QR code
✅ Booking spaces in beer gardens
✅ Lunch at local independent shops
✅ More walking and cycling everywhere
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Keir Starmer is in the Sun saying that refugees crossing the Channel is akin to terrorism
I’m proud instead
@TheGreenParty
is fighting for a fairer and kinder asylum process
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"No magic money tree"
"Maxed out the national credit card"
"Mum showed me how to balance the books at the kitchen table"
We get it
@UKLabour
. You absolutely love austerity. The cuts that are devastating this country
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Keir - says something awful and right-wing
A Green - that’s not good is it
Average Labour member - YOU LIARS. You Corbyn loving commie scum. YOU want a Tory government 😡 You’re so ThIcK, yOu GrEEns. Do you even care about the environment #!*~@
You’ve been totally taken over
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I've never lived in Algeria and as a gay man my mere existence is a crime there
The power of government to strip me of my British citizenship is really rather chilling
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The Green Party to do list:
Sack this Tory government
Renationalise public utilities
Introduce a Universal Basic Income
Welcome refugees
Bring back 0.7% aid budget
Rent controls
Green New Deal
Insulate every home
Tax the wealthy & the corporations
Fund our NHS & schools
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You know what? I don’t think the Tories were ever planning to give that £350m a week to the NHS.
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Over last week we’ve had:
- Keir praise Maggie
- Labour back down on ending austerity
- Support splitting up migrant families
- Weaken support for green investment
- Not back a ceasefire in Gaza
There’s a Green alternative to this dross. Don’t let him take your vote for granted
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The Green Party got over 10% in the Somerton and Frome by-election
But it's funny how that wasn't fussed over in the same way the Reform results were today
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Caroline Lucas voted with the SNP to stand up for trans rights and Scottish devolution
Labour overwhelmingly abstained
I'm crystal clear that the Green Party is the best progressive option in England
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They’ll feed your nan. Wash your grandad. Take them to the shops. All for pittance pay
In return the Tories will separate them from their kids and partner
It’s deeply unjust. It’s nothing to boast about
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Hello
@grantshapps
Not sure how long you’ll be in place as Home Secretary - but here’s some ideas for your new role:
1. Scrap the hateful Rwanda deal
2. Open safe routes for refugees
3. Let asylum seekers work
4. End indefinite detention of refugees
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So many people are joining the Green Party right now
They’re inspired by the huge Green wins. From Mid Suffolk to East Herts
If you want to help the party win even more seats next year - now is the time to join 💚
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Some children are orphans
Some children have two mums
Some children have two dads
Some children have stepparents
Some children are looked after
Some parents prefer parent
For decades we’ve been using parent/guardian
Being sensitive to kids’ circumstances is right thing to do!
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I’ve written an honest piece in
@MetroOpinion
about learning not to be transphobic
I’m sharing this story because I want to make it clear
It’s okay to learn. It’s okay to ask questions
I believe we can help people understand and be trans inclusive
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Right to Buy is simply a charter for landlords
A pipeline to turn a social good we all paid for into private profit
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This is a virulently homophobic and misogynistic government
Sack Suella Braverman today
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Keir Starmer crystal clear that people with left wing politics don’t have a place in his party
The amount of people blocked from becoming MP for spurious reasons is simply unbelievable
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During the Bosnian War the UK failed to step up for refugees
Countries like Germany, Switzerland & Hungary welcomed 10 times more people
This Conservative government has to learn from the mistakes of the last
Let’s open the door to Ukrainians in need 🇺🇦
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Hands up if you think feeding hungry refugees is a good thing actually
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We’re all voting Green now right?
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Starmer and Labour seem determined to push voters towards
@TheGreenParty
❎ He won't back striking workers
❎ He doesn't support renationalisation
❎ They're supporting privatisation of the NHS
❎ He's given up on freedom of movement
Don't let Labour take your vote for granted
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Really proud of
@sianberry
&
@CarolineRussell
’s hard work on the London Assembly
Finally the Assembly has backed calls to trial a Universal Basic Income
#LetsTryUBI
Really shows the power of having Greens elected to City Hall
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Stop staying Londoners didn’t care about the North
I worried about my Mum when Nottingham was hard hit
We all cheered on Andy Burnham
We all castigated the government for cancelling Eid
Don’t let the Tories divide and rule us all
Westminster isn’t the same as London
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❌ No rent controls
❌ No universal free school meals
❌ No renationalised utilities
❌ Won’t let asylum seekers work
❌ No freedom of movement
❌ Won’t rejoin
❌ Won’t stop Rosebank oil fields
❌ Won’t restore aid .7% budget
🥀 Labour won’t stop disappointing
🌍 Vote Green ✅
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I’m so proud of
@islingtongreens
and I’m so grateful to the voters of Highbury for electing me as a Cllr
It’s been an honour to be our Election Coordinator and
@DevonMOsborne
has been a superstar as our Campaign Organiser
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Suella Braverman’s reappointment as Home Secretary shows that Sunak’s government is more of the same
Devoid of humanity, compassion and common sense
#GeneralElectionNow
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For the last year have been deeply concerned for child refugees
Green Cllrs have been raising alarm that they were being abandoned in hotels
That they were going missing
Home Office didn’t listen
Now it’s confirmed children are being trafficked
Resign
@SuellaBraverman
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@ALLIANCELGB
This violence was against LGB AND T people. The fact you can’t even stand in solidarity against violence exposes you for the anti-trans hate club that you are
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@MKarnitschnig
@k2twoi
@ARDWashington
This is really embarrassing that you wrote this down and then pressed send
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List of shame:
Jonathan Gullis MP
Paul Bristow MP
Tom Hunt MP
Publicising hotels hosting refugees is reckless
The far right are targeting hotels
How dare Tory MPs endanger refugee lives
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Labour are twenty points ahead
Keir is doing this Tory cosplay because he believes it, not for some political advantage
Don’t vote for his party
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It’s
#TransAwarenessWeek
Let’s shine a spotlight on the UK
🏥 It’s too hard to access healthcare
🗞 Media bigotry is out of control
🗳 The lack of representation in Parliament is unacceptable
🗣 It’s still too common to experience hate crimes
Let’s keep fighting together
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However amusing UKIP are I don’t understand why the BBC keeps covering them.
This is a party with:
🟣 0 MEPs or MPs
🟣 Fewer than 30 Councillors
🟣 0.1% of the vote at GE2019
🟣 Is in a state of collapse
We don’t cover the BNP anymore. Why UKIP?
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Labour could have voted down the Illegal Migration Bill in the House of Lords last night
Instead they abstained
Proud we have
@natalieben
and
@GreenJennyJones
voting the right way
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V looking forward to Labour government 🥀
🏦 No bankers bonus cap
🏥 NHS “reform” over investment
⁉️ Some green investment, dunno
⛽️ New oil & gas in North Sea
👧 Continue 2 child benefit cap
💰 No wealth taxes
🇵🇸 Inaction over war crimes
Maybe time for a Green alternative?
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59 people drowned in the Mediterranean
Many are Afghans fleeing the Taliban. People we promised to help
With safe authorised routes we could start saving lives
#WelcomeRefugees
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A load of braying men making trans women the punchline
The Tories are the nasty party, and Rishi is the bigot in chief
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Policies you hear at Green Party conference that you won’t hear at Labour Party conference
#lab23
💷 A wealth tax
🏘️ Scrap right to buy
🚰 Renationalise utilities
🏳️⚧️ Self ID of gender
👨👩👧👦 Scrap 2 child benefit cap
🇪🇺 Work to rejoin the EU
🗳️ Giving migrants right to vote
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I was campaign manager for this great Green result in Keir’s constituency
I’m so proud of the campaign we ran.
@lornajane2
will be a great Highgate Councillor
We won because of:
1️⃣ Hard work
2️⃣ Accountability
3️⃣ Labour’s shortcomings
A 🧵
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Love angry Starmer fans angrily sharing Owen Jones backing Greens and Independents
Please continue to engage and share! Together we can reach every Labour voter 💚
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THE GREEN PARTY WILL FORCE CLEAN AIR ON YOU! 😱😱😱
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Join a trade union
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8% of the vote can equal 48 MPs for the Lib Dems or 1 MP for the Greens
Ever feel like our democracy is broken?
🗳️ Poll points to LAB majority of 358 📈
🟥 LAB 43% (+3)
🟦 CON 20% (-1)
🟪 REF 16% (=)
🟧 LD 8% (-2)
🟩 GRN 8% (=)
🟨 SNP 3% (=)
Via
@YouGov
, 2-3 Apr (+/- vs 26-27 Mar)
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10 reasons to vote Green
🔥 Climate Emergency
🗳️ Elect Green MPs
👨👩👦 Welcome refugees
➡️ Resist politics rightwards turn
💧 Renationalised utilities
💷 Fair taxes on the wealthy
🏥 Our NHS
🏠 100k+ a year council homes
🌈 LGBTIQA+ rights
🚌 Affordable public transport
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The Green Party has passed a new migration policy chapter
#GPC23
I’m so proud of our values
🗳️ The right to vote for all migrants
👨👩👧👧 Family reunification rights
🚫 Abolish the Home Office
🛑 Scrap No Recourse to Public Funds
💷 End rip off fees for migrants
✋ End detention
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I guess Keir’s Labour are going to let the Public Order Bill “bed in”
They’ve refused to back
@GreenJennyJones
’ bid to see the bill rejected by the House of Lords
This dreadful attack on our rights. Concocted by the Tories, enabled by Labour
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Fascists are attacking a refugee hotel in Liverpool tonight
This is a really dark night for England. We have to rally together and kick out the far right
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IT IS NOT NORMAL TO COMMUTE FROM EXETER TO THE NETHERLANDS
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If Australia had our electoral system the Liberal-Nationals would have been the biggest party
🔵 Coalition - 73
🔴 Labor - 71
🟢 Green - 2
⚫️ Independents - 4
🟤 KAP - 1
@UKLabour
needs to understand First Past the Post is a rotten system that keeps Conservatives in power!
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Keir Starmer: Crack down on refugees crossing the channel
Priti Patel: Crack down on refugees crossing the channel
@TheGreenParty
: We need safe routes for people to claim asylum. Welcome refugees!
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