Alan Gibbons
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Liverpool Community Independent councillor for Orrell Park. Speaker- Transform Party. My private account. Does not express the views of Liverpool City Council.
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Nadine Dorries posts a tweet showing her outside Liverpool landmarks and says: 'There's something about this amazing city and its people that makes it so unique.'
There is indeed. It is our unique ability never to elect a single Tory councillor or Tory MP.
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Imagine what would happen to a benefit claimant who 'forgot' to register £52,000 of income.
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Kirstie Allsopp, daughter of Charles Henry Allsopp, 6th Baron Hindlip, privately educated at Bedales has wondered why young people don't buy a house at 21, as she did.
Maybe they weren't born with a silver spoon in their mouths.
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When a man hit Jeremy Corbyn over the head with an egg, the right wing commentariat said lighten up, it's just an egg.
When a woman scatters confetti over George Osborne, it is the end of the world.
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A wealthy pensioner with a million pound house will have 90% of assets protected.
My mother, with a little terrace worth about £80,000, will lose just about everything.
We need a National NHS Care Service, free at the point of use, funded by a wealth tax.
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Matt Hancock said last night: "Four doctors have died and some nurses."
I will leave that statement there to sink in.
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Unintentionally comic moment on Sky News.
Kay Burley to Dominic Raab: "Can we talk about the intelligence?"
Dominic Raab: "You know I don't talk about intelligence."
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I am appalled by the torrent of hostility towards Meghan Markle, Prince Harry and Ngozi Fulani.
This is an orchestrated, virulent and irresponsible campaign, both conscious and mischievous and orchestrated by the New Right media outlets.
They are fanning the flames of hatred.
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For friends who have not heard, my beautiful son Joe died in a motorcycle accident on the way to work yesterday.
RIP Joe.
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Gaza is beginning to resemble hell on earth, Mr Lammy, because politicians like you gave Israel the green light to massacre thousands.
Shame on you.
Gaza is beginning to resemble hell on earth.
We need an immediate ceasefire now.
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Sajid Javid talked a lot about integrity today.
Javid applied for non-domicile status for six years during his banking career to avoid paying tax in the UK on his overseas earnings.
Integrity?
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Utter hypocrite.
He could have voted for a ceasefire months ago.
He didn't.
The
@UN
Security Council’s call for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza is vital and must be a turning point.
The British government must urgently apply diplomatic pressure for it to be implemented in full.
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How come people who get really angry about desperate asylum seekers never get upset about hedge fund managers, bankers, Covid company fraud, PPE rip-offs, Serco, Dodo, Johnson's lying, public sector cuts....
(I could go on).
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If Owen Paterson thinks politics is a cruel world he should try raising a family on Universal Credit.
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Matt Hancock 'didn't do it for the money' but gave ten grand to a charity and kept £330k.
So he did do it for the money.
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Priti Patel tells people not to attend Black Lives Matter. Does anyone know if she made a similar statement about Cheltenham, Liverpool v Atletico Madrid, the Stereophonics gig? Did she warn Johnson not to shake hands? Did she condemn Jenrick and Cummings over ignoring rules?
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Just a reminder from the city of Liverpool.
Refugees are welcome.
Farage is not.
I hope that is clear.
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When
@jeremycorbyn
mouthed 'stupid people' in the Commons there was a manufactured media furore lasting a week.
Now Dominic Raab has mouthed the word 'wanker' at Starmer and there is hardly a peep.
#mediahypocrisy
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Proud to have been re-elected as an independent socialist.
Thank you to Orrell Park residents and everyone who supported me.
Alan Gibbons (
@mygibbo
) elected in Orrell Park by a landslide.
LCI - 1428
LAB - 360
LIB DEM - 40
CON - 27
#LiverpoolDeservesBetter
#LocalElections
#LocalElections2023
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My oldest son Joe would have been 36 today.
He died in a motorbike accident two years ago.
Always in our thoughts and in our hearts.
#bemorejoe
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I am no student of things Royal, but I can agree with Prince Harry on one thing.
Much of the British press is toxic.
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This is the Prime Minister.
He played tennis with a former Russian minister's wife in exchange for a £160k donation.
So what does our courageous media do?
It doorsteps....Jeremy Corbyn!
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Labour's 2019 manifesto committed to stopping MPs having second paid jobs.
What was the name of that guy who was derided by the media and sabotaged by some in his own party and keeps being proved right?
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My monthly state pension is £648.08.
To Tory and Labour politicians with gold-plated pensions who are thinking of ditching the triple-lock, I would say try living on it.
It is a pittance.
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I find it instructive that Lammy puts his evasion of the question in the context of his career.
"I'm hoping one day to be foreign secretary and a chief diplomat, so it's not a 'yes or no' [question]"
Shadow foreign secretary David Lammy will not say whether he supports the order for civilians in north Gaza to be moved south
#BBCLauraK
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This is Michael Rosen speaking in support of libraries at a demonstration I helped organise a few years ago.
Sadly, Michael has been subjected to some hostile nonsense on social media.
Solidarity always.
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Today I received a letter informing me that my administrative suspension from the Labour Party has been lifted.
I am delighted with this news.
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Sky journalists have just said it is worrying that Russian cyber attacks could expose scandals concerning UK and US politicians.
Surely it is worrying that there are scandals concerning UK and US politicians that journalists have not exposed themselves.
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For one so young I find the lack of empathy disturbing.
The lack of empathy when talking about benefit cuts is terrifying
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There was a hell of a lot less money left in 1945 and a not very left wing Labour government established the NHS, had a mass housing programme, undertook public ownership and established the Welfare State.
Don't tell us what you can't do.
'There just, frankly, is no money left'
Shadow culture secretary Lucy Powell says the Labour Party can't make promises it 'can't afford to keep' as she defends Keir Starmer's plan to keep the two-child benefit cap in place
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The most telling moment in the debate wasn't from either leader. It was Tories in the audience booing because Corbyn showed empathy for poor people in less developed nations.
#WinForCorbyn
,
#ITVDebate
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In my fifty-odd years as an active socialist I have encountered some pretty nasty elements within the Labour movement, but never have I come across a worst group than Starmer's Labour.
That tweet today is beyond obnoxious.
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Keir Starmer says it is our 'patriotic duty' to celebrate the Jubilee.
I respect people who want to celebrate the monarchy, but 28% of the population are republicans and have every right not to.
It is not the Labour leader's job to tell people what they should think.
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Solidarity from the dockers’ picket line at the Port of Liverpool.
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46,566. Official UK coronavirus death toll.
£180 million. Value of contracts government has given Tory donors.
£130 million. Cost of binned masks purchased by private equity company.
151. Number of asylum seekers arriving in small boats yesterday.
Which does media lead on?
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James Cleverly - "We are going to repair the country that we inherited from Labour."
When you've been in power for ten years- even if you believed the spurious excuse in the first place- it wears a bit thin.
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This is what shoppers at the Walton Vale community hub can take home for £3.50.
Are you listening Chartwells, HM Government?
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The booing at yesterday's England-Romania game wasn't about 'keeping politics out of the game.'
It was a vocal minority's rejection of anti-racism.
As such, it is shameful.
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Just a thought. I am 65 this summer. I have been attending vigils, protests and demonstrations against racism and anti-semitism since I was in my teens, about 47 or 48 years. I have never met a Tory on a single one of those events. Not one.
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Thérèse Coffey claimed £200,000 on expenses while cutting your benefits
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Two stories today:
*Jeremy Corbyn demands an end to veterans being left homeless.
*Jeremy Corbyn's coat has a hood.
Guess which the media highlights.
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Tory MP Desmond Swayne says 'Britain is full.'
268,385 homes in England had been empty for at least six months.
Many rich people have more than one home.
The problem isn't Britain being full, it is the corridors of power being full of profiteers and landlords.
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“I don’t want to see the Labour Party tied up in court proceedings. I want to see the Labour Party out there campaigning,” Keir Starmer told Sky News yesterday.
I agree so let's return the whip to Jeremy, reinstate the suspended CLP officers and get on with fighting the Tories.
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Thanks for all the kind wishes and gestures of solidarity on my expulsion from the Labour Party.
I will continue to campaign for socialist policies and ideas and support all friends doing the same whether inside or outside the Labour Party.
A luta continua.
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All of us who love Michael and his poetry, broadcasting, articles and inspirational activism will be so relieved to receive this news.
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I decided to watch Michael Palin's documentary about North Korea so I made a brew, watched all this stuff about the Great Leader, cultism, an uncritical media that doesn't even mention the biggest news of the day then I turned over and watched Palin as I planned.
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I have just sat through a news bulletin that- unless I blinked and missed it- failed to mention that a thousand people died today.
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Hey Johnson.
A message from Liverpool.
You won't break us.
Ever.
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I lived in Manchester.
I live in Liverpool.
These two great cities should be as one in solidarity against the Tories who starve working class communities of resources and pour billions down the throats of their chums.
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This is the fifteenth march for Palestine through the streets of Liverpool.
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The attacks on Labour's black women members must stop. First it was Dawn Butler and Zarah Sultana. Now it is Bell Ribeiro-Addy and Diane Abbot. There is a disturbing pattern in these attacks. Solidarity with our BAME members.
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Big march addressed by Len McCluskey and Jeremy Corbyn in Liverpool this afternoon.
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This is ignorant.
The slogan dates back to the 1960s and referenced hopes for a multi-ethnic, multi-faith state in Palestine.
Hamas wasn't founded until 1987.
‘From the river to the sea’ is a slogan used by Hamas to express their desire to wipe Israel off the face of the earth by whatever means necessary.
Why was this terrorist slogan allowed to be projected on the Houses of Parliament, from where Winston Churchill delivered his most
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Al Jazeera's Labour Files is a huge story....
....which explains why the billionaire-owned media hasn't said a word.
Not a sausage.
Not even a chippolata.
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Lots of xenophobes asking where we can put the 4,000 asylum seekers trying to cross the Channel this year.
According to The Empty Homes Agency, there are an estimated 870,000 empty homes in the UK and enough empty commercial property to create 420,000 new homes.
There.
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@Nigel_Farage
What's upsetting you?
That he told the truth in this interview?
He shouldn't have gone to Doha, but at least once he was there, he has stuck up for workers' rights and our NHS staff.
While you use racism to distract.
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"What have the unions ever done for me?"
•Maximum working hours
•Paid annual leave
•Forced employers to abide by contracts
•Paid parental leave
•Tackling discrimination
•The Minimum Wage
•And gave you the weekend
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Jeremy Corbyn would have nothing to do with the sycophantic welcome for Trump in this country.
He is on the right side of history again.
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I have asked the Labour Party for an explanation regarding my suspension.
All I know is that it relates to my role as CLP Secretary.
I can only assume that this is the reason ⬇️
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The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists was published on this day in 1914.
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David Lammy reference Cathy Come Home on his LBC show this morning.
I wonder if he knows it was made by dangerous Leftie Ken Loach.
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Trying to stop Young Labour tweeting about Jeremy Corbyn, trying to prevent the FBU's Ian Murray becoming NEC chair, suspending CLP officers....
....is this unity?
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CNN calls the pro-Trump mob storming the Capitol an insurrection.
The BBC's Laura Kuenssberg calls it a 'scuffle.'
I know which news outlet has it right.
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Labour votes this century...
2019 GE: 10.3M (Corbyn)
2017 GE: 12.9M (Corbyn)
2015 GE: 09.3M (Miliband)
2010 GE: 08.6M (Brown)
2005 GE: 09.5M (Blair)
2001 GE: 10.7M (Blair)
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I was disgusted when
@CllrAnnaRothery
was arbitrarily and bureaucratically removed as a Liverpool Mayoral candidate.
After watching the Al Jazeera documentary and seeing how a leading Labour right winger in this city facilitated this attack on democracy I am doubly incensed,
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Can I just say, to help out Keir Starmer, yes,
@jeremycorbyn
would have been a million times better leader than Johnson.
Dedicated to public service, serious, internationalist, ambitious in his plans for housing, the NHS, pay and the environment, Corbyn was the man.
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The Labour Party should not be abstaining on prosecuting war crimes.
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Labour's withdrawal of support for Rochdale candidate Azhar Ali has unleashed a wave of ribald humour across social media, but the issues are serious.
I can't think of a more disastrous election campaign and I have been a political activist for over 50 years.
cont.
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Two-faced Starmer now claims Margaret Thatcher did 'terrible things' in Scotland.
So she is good or bad depending whose vote he is after.
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Any normal person who had lied over Hillsborough like Murdoch's liar-in-chief
@kelvinmackenzie
would stay silent.
Now he smears life-saving doctors who dare defend their living standards and fight for the NHS,
My 93 year old mother is in hospital and I back the junior doctors.
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So politics is reduced to this.
You can lie your way through a leadership election campaign and immediately dump the entire platform on which you stood so long as it gets you into No 10.
Question is: if you are that unprincipled, what do you do when you get there?
'Those pledges were to get him through that leadership election and job done'
On the fourth anniversary of his leadership election win, Politico UK Editor, Rosa Prince, says Sir Keir Starmer sometimes changes his plan based on his goal.
#Newsnight
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In 2010 Gordon Brown got 8,609,527 votes, 29% of the vote, a swing to the Tories of 6.2%.
In 2017 Jeremy Corbyn got 12,878,460 votes, 40% of the vote, a swing to Labour of 9.6%.
The media say Gordon Brown is a statesman and Corbyn is a no-hoper.
Go figure.
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@Ben_Rosenthal
@metpoliceuk
@MetCC
As the Met has said in a message it is not an ISIS flag.
It is the shehada declaration of faith.
Do your homework before tweeting disinformation.
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Thanks to the people who voted for me yesterday and, to those who didn't, I will do my best to work for every Warbreck resident regardless of political affiliation.
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