Laura Swaffield
@lswaffield1
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Public library activist, chair of The Library Campaign and Friends of Lambeth Libraries. Clapped-out old journalist. Mad about theatre, books.
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Joined March 2012
Tonight Downing St protest banned by police! Now meeting outside the Ministry of Justice (102 Petty France SW1H 9AJ) 6pm. Very close to St James Park station. Incredible. This is UK - 8 people imprisoned without trial for opposing genocide, starving. Govt reaction: ban protest!
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I have no words anymore. States. Must. Intervene. This isn’t genius, it’s leadership. 1. Impose an arms embargo and cut trade. 2. Break the blockade with your humanitarian navies. 3. Send a protective presence to Palestine to ensure Israel dismantles its occupation NOW.
Israeli snipers screaming of joy after murdering a child: "YAAAS! Son of a b*tch" "Wow. Hit him in the head" "What a legendary video" "He flew in the air & his leg was" This was 7 YEARS ago, during protests against the siege, when Israeli snipers deliberately shot 940 children!
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One not insignificant difference between Nye Bevan and Wes Streeting is that Bevan wasn't funded by private equity firms with investments in private healthcare providers
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Auditors unable to sign off Lambeth council accounts... Homes for Lambeth were loaned £102m (but they might get less than half of that back). And more! Shocking report, with handy quick guide to (some of) the worst bits
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“In our audit report we will say we are not satisfied arrangements are in place for the council to secure economy, efficiency and effectiveness in its use of resources” – Forvis M…
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Brilliant to see this statement from @Andrea4GS new General Secretary of @unisontheunion “Wes Streeting? Anybody that thinks he’s going to try and save the NHS, I’ve got some magic beans for you, because he’s not. He is privatising the NHS now.” 💯🎯🔥 https://t.co/0e7jYPb7Bg
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Interview with Andrea Egan, the challenger to Unison incumbent Christina McAnea, who talks about her own plans for the union, favouring Andy Burnham for the Labour leadership, and working in childr...
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Jim Ratcliffe’s company Ineos gets £120m govt subsidy to help save the UK’s last ethylene plant at Grangemouth. Ratcliffe is worth $14.7bn (£11bn). Can he not invest? Will he be back for more? Govt is not taking any equity stake. £120m is not repayable. https://t.co/448pXHPSrR
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Funding for billionaire Jim Ratcliffe’s Ineos plant in Scotland will help safeguard 500 jobs
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🚨 The BBC compiled evidence that Israel has been deliberately sniping children in the head & chest. *Over 60% of murdered children revealed this pattern of injury.* There is no justice in this world until lsraeI is put on trial at The Hague
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BREAKING: Nigel Farage’s biggest donor - who’s just bankrolled Reform UK with £9 MILLION - is financially tied to a platform that continues to carry Russian state propaganda and a Kremlin intelligence-linked influence operation @BylineTimes reveals /1
bylinetimes.com
Reform UK's biggest donor is profiting from ties to a pro-Kremlin platform that hosts a Russian intelligence-backed influence operation
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I will just point out the Doctors have asked for a maximum of £800m, that's for 71,000 doctors who run all the hospitals. That's 'too expensive'. But when the Water Companies asked for £5bn, they were given it. Broken Britain, money for thieves, no money for you.
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Care work is a vital job. They should be paid properly for the important work that they do - austerity is destroying people's lives. Both Reform & the Labour Government refuse to recognise the investment needed for peoples care and dignity.
🚨🚨PLEASE SHARE 🚨🚨 Lancashire care workers and residents face vicious attacks by the new Reform UK council. Five care homes and day centres are ‘under review’. If these vital care services close, 300 people could lose their jobs and hundreds of people may lose their homes.
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All in service to Israel! David Lammy is a liar - no ifs no buts. Atrocious levels of abrogation of duty by David Lammy & dereliction of responsibility by Keir Starmer’s govt treating the Pro-Palestine hunger strikers like terrorists! Letting them starve, keeping them in prison
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Maybe not a good thing to let hungerstrikers die???? https://t.co/AUxQFGMzTc
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Palestine Action hunger strikers are days from death. He must urgently intervene to prevent their deaths.
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🚨 FINALLY. Direct. Action. Works. Now we wait 🙏 #ukpolitics #news #palestine #hungerstrike #protest @zarahsultana @Prisoners4Pal @owenjonesjourno @ZackPolanski
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We spoke to Olivia - an A&E doctor with years of experience who says HMP Bronzefield are being utterly negligent in their treatment of Qesser Zuhrah @Prisoners4Pal @zarahsultana @NicolaCJeffery
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8 young anti genocide 🇵🇸 campaigners are in prison on remand They face up to 2 yrs in jail before any trial They are on hunger strike For up to 45 days 5 have been hospitalised Jeremy Corbyn asked the Minister to meet their lawyers The Minister gave a flat ‘No’ & MPs laughed.
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We were promised 'cheaper food after Brexit'. It now costs £5 for a bar of Cadbury's Dairy Milk, £8 for a jar of Nescafe and £12 for a bottle of olive oil.
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Democracy, Lambeth-style: Half the votes, nearly all the seats – new report calls for a reform of the voting system ahead of the 2026 local elections in the borough
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How patriotic is it to side with a foreign President over one of our most treasured public institutions @TiceRichard? Especially after all of that Question Time air time your party gets...
Trump files $10bn lawsuit against the BBC for defamation over its Panorama edit. Reform UK's Richard Tice says: "They frankly deliberately misinformed everybody about the Capitol Hill speech that the president gave, and there have to be some serious consequences to that."
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Homes for Lambeth now costs residents £500 each – as Lambeth claims it can’t afford £1m Country Show. Council ignored criticism for years, went on pumping in money even when the disaster was made public, still haven't closed it down after being told to.
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