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Jane Byrne

@JaneLabour

Independent Cllr @NewcastleCC, https://t.co/BNM0zgDe9r "The first revolution is when you change your mind about how you look at things" Gil Scott Heron

Newcastle Upon Tyne, England Katılım Nisan 2017
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Jane Byrne
Jane Byrne@JaneLabour·
Goodbye @UKLabour: A 🧵Under Keir Starmer it's no longer the party of ordinary people. It serves big business & billionaire donors; demonises the poor; slashes support for the disabled; & says the answer to the housing crisis is to allow developers to destroy our environment.
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Amnesty UK
Amnesty UK@AmnestyUK·
What a difference a few years makes. FYI: The new ‘peace plan’ is still inconsistent with international law and human rights protections.
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createstreets@createstreets·
If this is the @InstituteGC vision for the future of cities then we're against it. Time to study what makes people happy and neighbourhoods flourish.
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Palestine Solidarity Campaign
The Labour Party has attempted to block debate on the Gaza genocide at conference but MPs, trade unions and ordinary delegates are trying to break that silencing as @johnmcdonnellMP explains at Liverpool march for Palestine.
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Sharon Graham
Sharon Graham@UniteSharon·
What are the choices that Labour are making? Picking the pockets of pensioners and leaving the totally rich untouched, having two oil refineries close with no plans for jobs. People are starting to leave @uklabour in their droves. #LabourPartyConference
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NUFC Fans Against Sportswashing
NUFC Fans Against Sportswashing@NoSaudiToon·
At the time of the Saudi state takeover of @NUFC in 2021 Labour led @NewcastleCC floated the idea of setting up a forum to monitor sportswashing & Saudi human rights abuses. This has not happened. It's time for other parties & councillors to make this happen. It's long overdue
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Difference
Difference@differencenorth·
NORTH EAST DISABLED COMMUNITY: Your 15 mins Needed. Take our survey to: ✅ Fuel evidence-based campaigns ✅ Reveal what’s working/failing ✅ Make decision-makers LISTEN Ends Aug 31! Need Word/phone version? Reply/DM! RT to reach more people! differencenortheast.org.uk/your-voice-sha…
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Common Wealth
Common Wealth@Cmmonwealth·
💰 How much public wealth do you think was given away for free via Right to Buy?  1bn? 10bn? 100bn?  Try 200 BILLION pounds.  🧵 Here's how Britain’s most infamous housing policy became its biggest housing disaster — and near the largest privatisation in British history.
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Dr Steve Taylor
Dr Steve Taylor@DrSteveTaylor·
As a GP, I am not allowed to receive a pen or post-it note pad from a pharmaceutical company rep Govt banned them in case I was influenced to prescribe medications This should also be banned Influence being bought in Govt Patients should influence not the healthy & wealthy
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Jane Byrne@JaneLabour·
Please support the @MSF_uk petition to UK government to uphold international humanitarian law msf.org.uk/petition-deman… & , if you can donate to their work in Gaza & all the other places where people are victims of the brutal system we live in. msf.org.uk/article/gaza-m…
Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières@MSF_canada

In the last four weeks, Doctors Without Borders has provided essential support for the survival of the people in #Gaza. Amid Israeli forces' destruction of the healthcare system, our teams have worked tirelessly and adapted to the lack of medical supplies due to the siege.

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John McDonnell
John McDonnell@johnmcdonnellMP·
A year ago today I had the Labour whip suspended for voting to scrap the 2 child benefit cap. Scrapping the cap would lift 350,000 children out of poverty & reduce poverty for another 700,000. Would I vote again to scrap it? Too right I would.Definitely, I will every chance I get
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Feargal Sharkey
Feargal Sharkey@Feargal_Sharkey·
To be clear about this the £100 billion to nationalise the water industry being branded about by govt this morning does indeed come from a think tank report commissioned, bought and paid for by; @AnglianWater, @stwater, @SouthWestWater and @unitedutilities It also uses a calculation that tries to claim that @thameswater is worth an earth shattering, gobsmacking £21,008,425,000.00. Utterly delusional. Why on earth ministers would want to be out there quoting any of this madness I've no idea.
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Dan Jackson
Dan Jackson@northumbriana·
Some exquisite sinking of pints here back in 1971 as Reece Elliot from Birtley in Co. Durham - 52 years a pitman - sings the satirical miners' ballad 'The Celebrated Working Man'.
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Jane Byrne@JaneLabour·
The @unitetheunion interim report is essential reading for every leftwinger. Real socialists don't do financial favours for their mates.
Sharon Graham@UniteSharon

When I was elected @unitetheunion GS, I promised to uncover the truth about allegations of historical corruption, particularly in relation to the Birmingham Hotel and Conference Centre. I can now provide information from the independent inquiries I commissioned, through this interim report: 👉 tinyurl.com/bdhm43aw

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Clive Lewis MP
Clive Lewis MP@labourlewis·
He’s right. This isn’t a broken system. It’s working exactly as designed: extract, pollute, reward. If the boss of a water company can rake in £3.2m while rivers are poisoned, it’s not just a scandal - it’s a case for public ownership.
Feargal Sharkey@Feargal_Sharkey

"Severn Trent boss paid £3.2m despite rise in sewage spills." Everything you need to know about the water industry in a single headline. telegraph.co.uk/business/2025/…

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Prem Sikka
Prem Sikka@premnsikka·
Pockets picked Big pharma made £12bn excess profit from just 10 NHS drugs; profit mark-ups up to 23,000%. Energy companies £514bn operating profit since 2020. England Water companies £85bn in dividends, dump sewage in rivers. Corporate abuses continue. leftfootforward.org/2025/07/taming…
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Jane Byrne@JaneLabour·
@karlspage @NewcastleCC Cllr Samad said he would check the figures and get back to me about the events questions. Cllr Maines said she didn't think you could bring in a scheme targeting poor housing conditions, which is a bit worrying: gov.uk/government/pub…
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Jane Byrne@JaneLabour·
It's @NewcastleCC Council meeting tonight. I want to ask for evidence that the MOBO Awards were worth £330K of public money; how much the Mercury Prize event is costing residents & why the council chose not to bring in a licensing scheme to tackle poor private sector housing
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