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Ray Ellis
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CWU National Officer. All posts in a personal capacity. Join a union.
London, England Beigetreten Mayıs 2015
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Almost 40% of people on Universal Credit are in work and there are only 700,000 job vacancies in the UK.
Don’t listen to the media and political class who tell you people on UC just need to go “get a job.”
GB Politics@GBPolitcs
🚨NEW: The number of people on Universal Credit has hit 8.4 million, up 63,000 in a single month, according to DWP data published today
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BREAKING: EVERYONE NEEDS TO HEAR THIS.
Senator Mark Kelly just completely torched Donald Trump:
"When Donald Trump was driving the Taj Mahal casino into bankruptcy, I was getting shot at over Iraq and Kuwait. In 2001, after Donald Trump said that the collapse of the Twin Towers now meant he now owned the tallest skyscraper in Manhattan, I was carrying flags honoring 911 victims into space on a rocket ship. In 2003, when Donald Trump was writing birthday greetings to the monster, Jeffrey Epstein, I was the first on the scene to recover the bodies of my fellow astronauts who died when Space Shuttle Columbia exploded during re-entry. In 2011, when Trump was hosting a reality show, and peddling conspiracy theories against President Barack Obama, I was sitting next to my wife’s hospital bed as she recovered from a gunshot wound to the head."
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Sky News exposes the horrifying reality of Israel's war on Lebanon. A 12-year-old girl named Zainab lies in a hospital bed with severe burns, completely unaware that her entire family, including her 5-year-old brother, was wiped out in a single Israeli airstrike. Pure evil.
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SICK of people saying they want the old UK back. We ALL do. WE want same day GP appointments, ambulances within mins, dentists, a decent police force, good education, affordable food, clean water ways, BUT it’s not migrants who caused this. It was 14 YEARS of Tory austerity!
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“My life has become a rollercoaster,” she says in reference to the death threats and sanctions. “I never imagined living without a bank card, but I do. People help me. My freedom is stronger than my fear. You are defeated the moment you stop fighting.”
theguardian.com/law/2026/apr/1…
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The Prime Minister’s backbenchers oppose it, his professional colleagues oppose it, and, in a previous life, he himself opposed it - and to be clear the government has absolutely no mandate for this - Labour never mentioned in its manifesto that it planned to undermine and restrict this fundamental cornerstone of our democracy - a move which will place us on a path toward authoritarian justice
Peter Stefanovic@PeterStefanovi2
🚨KEIR STARMER IS SPEARHEADING ONE OF THE MOST SHOCKING ATTACKS ON CIVIL LIBERTIES IN MODERN TIMES The government has absolutely no mandate to do this. Labour never mentioned in its manifesto that it planned to undermine and restrict a fundamental cornerstone of our democracy - the right to trial by jury - a move which will place us on a path toward authoritarian justice. But it’s not too late for the government to listen to the thousands of voices of victims, judges, barristers, other legal professionals and academics who oppose this blatant act of constitutional vandalism. CONTACT YOUR MP NOW and ask them to step up and protect this cherished and precious cornerstone of our democracy
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It came to this because the faction that has captured the Labour Party under Starmer is utterly intolerant of dissent, debate, free speech and democracy. They run the state like they run the Party, as a blunt instrument to advance the interests of their mega-rich donors and the seething mass of mediocrities who are happily selling their political access to whichever corporation pays best.
Peter Stefanovic@PeterStefanovi2
Jeez. Labour MP’s have just voted to give police unprecedented powers to ban recurring protests turning a fundamental freedom into a privilege granted by the state. No protest movement has ever brought about change through one single march or action - it’s precisely the cumulative nature of protest that has resulted in progressive change and held governments to account. More than 40 civil society groups including the TUC joined forces to oppose this draconian crackdown by the government on our rights to freedom of expression and assembly but the government has driven it through anyway. How did it come to this?
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Jeez. Labour MP’s have just voted to give police unprecedented powers to ban recurring protests turning a fundamental freedom into a privilege granted by the state.
No protest movement has ever brought about change through one single march or action - it’s precisely the cumulative nature of protest that has resulted in progressive change and held governments to account.
More than 40 civil society groups including the TUC joined forces to oppose this draconian crackdown by the government on our rights to freedom of expression and assembly but the government has driven it through anyway.
How did it come to this?
Peter Stefanovic@PeterStefanovi2
🚨THIS WEEK MP’S WILL VOTE ON A BILL TO GIVE POLICE UNPRECEDENTED POWERS TO BAN RECURRING PROTESTS TURNING A FUNDAMENTAL FREEDOM INTO A PRIVILEGE GRANTED BY THE STATE We cannot allow this government to create a society where protest is treated as a privilege granted by the state rather than a right held by the people. The right to protest is precious and must be defended. ITS NOT TOO LATE to stop this shocking and shameful attack on our fundamental right to protest. More than 40 civil society groups including the TUC and Greenpeace have joined forces to oppose this draconian crackdown on our right to freedom of expression and assembly - and you can help too by CONTACTING YOUR MP RIGHT NOW - tag them to this film and and ask them to oppose this
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The world watched as Israel razed Gaza to the ground.
Now, the world is watching as Israel razes Lebanon to the ground.
War crimes beget war crimes — and the failure to bring Israel to justice for genocide has emboldened it to destroy human life with total impunity.
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Gunners take home the Football Black List honours ❤️
Ebs has been recognised for his foundation which dedicates to empowering south London's youth through education and sport, while Mich has scooped the Cyrille Regis award, for her contribution to the game on and off the pitch.
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Hi James Bembridge (@TheBembridge), are you going to put your views of the NHS on your @reformparty_uk campaign flyers?
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The High Court ruled in February that the proscription of Palestine Action was unlawful...
The MET rightly said it would stop making arrests...
But after the government launched an appeal, on Saturday the Police arrested over 500 protesters - with Amnesty observing the use of handcuffs on multiple peaceful protesters.
If you think this is plainly disproportionate and absurd, you’re not alone.
Thousands of Amnesty International Supporters have signed a petition calling for all prosecutions against these protesters to be dropped. Add your name today: amn.st/6012B6NuGk
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We still talk about the British conquering India, but that phrase disguises a much more sinister reality. For it was not the British government that began seizing chunks of India in the mid-eighteenth century, but a dangerously unregulated private company headquartered in one small office, five windows wide, in the city of London. Bringing together decades of meticulous research and masterful narration, William will tell us the remarkable story of how the Mughal empire, which then generated just under half the world's wealth, disintegrated and came to be replaced by the East India Company—an aggressive colonial power in the guise of a multinational corporation.
Do not miss the remarkable story of India and empire as it has never been told before, unfolding a timely cautionary tale of the first global corporate power.
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🚨Breaking: MPs pass draconian laws restricting repeat protests
"Policing by consent is a deeply held British custom. Today the Government has upended that tradition.
By empowering police to stop protests on the basis of "cumulative disruption", which can include the impact of totally unconnected events, the government have hollowed out a fundamental right.
The police have a ration book for public spaces, and protestors can only hope for coupons.
The right to protest is protected under Article 10 of the Human Rights Act. We urge the police to think carefully about their legal obligations, about the role they want to play in British public life, and about ever using this power in practice.
We hope the Government will, or a future government, will think again. "
- Jack Coulson, Head of Advocacy
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Just like the vote on proscribing Palestine Action the government prevented a specific vote on the right to protest & grouped this issue in one vote with many amendments that were supportable. Nevertheless I voted against the government plans to restrict right to protest.
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April 12, 2026, I visited Marwan Barghouti in my capacity as his lawyer.
What I confirmed through this visit is deeply alarming. In recent weeks, Marwan Barghouti has been subjected to three violent assaults. On April 8 in Ganot Prison, he was severely beaten and left bleeding for more than two hours. He requested medical care and was denied treatment. On March 25, he was assaulted during his transfer from Megiddo to Ganot. On March 24, in Megiddo Prison, guards entered his cell with a dog, forced him to the ground, and the dog repeatedly attacked him. 
These are not isolated incidents. They form a clear pattern of escalating abuse: violence, medical neglect, and treatment that places him at immediate risk.
He had a great deal to say. Above all, he wanted to know more about his family and the Palestinian people, What is happening in Palestinian and Israeli scene I tried to tell him everything I know.
But even that conversation took place under absurd conditions: the phones did not work, so we had to shout through the glass just to hear each other.
For five hours, I sat there without food or water, trying to make sure this visit meant something.
This is what a legal visit looks like today: basic conditions denied, communication obstructed, and even the most elementary human and professional standards ignored.
And still, despite all of that, his mind was sharp, focused, and deeply engaged with everything happening outside those prison walls.
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Killing negotiators is a Zionist tradition (violating millennia of civilized customs). The problem is that they imposed the practice on the Trump administration.
Furkan Gözükara@FurkanGozukara
The UN mediator proposed that Palestinian refugees had the right to return to their homes in 1948. The very next day, Zionist operatives ambushed his motorcade in Jerusalem and assassinated him. They literally murdered a UN official to stop peace.
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🚨🇬🇧 They’re not documenting London’s “decline.” They’re manufacturing it.
New GLA research found that:
🔺“London in decline” narratives have surged by 150–200% in just two years.
🔺Migration-related content is up 350%.
And this isn’t happening organically. The push is being driven by coordinated networks:
🔺UK far-right ‘patriot’ accounts
🔺Russian and Chinese state-aligned bot operations
🔺MAGA-adjacent outrage merchants like Tommy Robinson and Adam Brooks
One Vietnamese network reportedly used AI-generated imagery and fake local news branding to build an audience of more than a million followers.
Meanwhile, London’s homicide rate is at its lowest level on record.
So no, this is not fearless truth-telling or “citizen journalism.”
It’s narrative engineering, disinformation dressed up as reporting.
[SOURCE: GLA/BBC, April 2026]
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