As a Black woman, and someone on the left of the Labour Party, I have unfortunately been forced to reach the conclusion that I will not get a fair hearing from this Labour leadership.
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Dominic Cummings complains at his Downing Street press conference that there had been a long string of inaccurate stories about him. Welcome to my world.
Branson has not paid tax in this country for 14 years. On no account should he get a taxpayer bailout, loan or otherwise #virginatlantic
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So, when Meghan likes avocados, they fuel human rights abuses, drought and murder. But, when Kate likes avocados, they are just a nice snack.
Just realised that today is #DianeMojitoDay Thanking you all for your kind thoughts and raising a glass to everybody🍹
A photo of me drinking from a can of M&S mojito on the Overground has been circulated. I'm sincerely sorry for drinking on TFL.
Officials at the very top of said stuff like “Abbott is truly repulsive” “Abbott literally makes me sick” and conspired with media against me. Now claiming remarks taken out of context. So let’s have full publication of all communications #LabourLeaks
This is Glen Owen the Mail on Sunday journalist who wrote the ridiculously misogynistic story about Angela Rayner and her legs. Interesting that he feels entitled to judge female MPs by their looks.
Ian Austin, 1 year as a junior minister at DCLG, says he won't vote for Labour.
Wall-to-wall coverage.
Ken Clarke, 9 years as Secretary of State, including as Chancellor, says he won't vote for the Conservatives.
Silence.
Balanced election coverage?
Just want to say a big THANK YOU for all the kind messages here on Twitter today, marking the 33rd anniversary of my first election to Parliament. The struggle continues!
Another year older. Thanks to everyone for the birthday good wishes 🥂
Humbled to receive an increased majority of over 35,000 in Hackney North & Stoke Newington.
A vote for hope and a better Britain.
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The term "coloured", is an outdated, offensive and revealing choice of words.
My mother was a member of Windrush generation. Important to remember the courage it took to travel thousands of miles from your home to help rebuild this country after the war #WindrushDay2020
Touched by all the messages of support. Still standing! Will rejoin the fray soon. Vote Labour!
Memories. And how great that my mum was there that night t.co/8CDyaxFgXk
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Crushing defeat for Labour in Hartlepool. Not possible to blame Jeremy Corbyn for this result. Labour won the seat twice under his leadership. Keir Starmer must think again about his strategy #HartlepoolByElection
How on earth can 2 people having an affair be more newsworthy than almost 30,000 people dying?
Unless you don't want the public to focus on who led to the disaster of almost 30,000 people dying
So thinks toppling the statute of slave trader Edward Colston is utterly disgraceful. The real disgrace and the horror which echoes down the centuries is the slave trade itself #BlackLivesMatter
House of Lords has defeated Suella Braverman’s cruel and unfair Illegal Migration Bill. A victory for human rights
.@AmberRuddHR Heard you were asking for me? This was a leaders debate. My leader respects the British public enough to show up #BBCDebate
This man repeatedly posts "disrespectful & offensive" msgs & photos of me. This is "targetted harassment". He has a history of "abusive" tweets about me i.e. sexist poetry. I reported him to hoping they take all complaints seriously, no matter who the twitter user is.
It is against international law to make someone stateless, and now an innocent child has died as a result of a British woman being stripped of her citizenship. This is callous and inhumane
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I will be voting against Priti Patel’s anti-democratic policing bill today. It will: legalise seizing Gypsy & Traveller vehicles; impose 10 year sentence for damaging statues & criminalise peaceful protest #PoliceCrackdownBill
So is Emily Oldknow seriously going to be pick for General Secretary? Surely she should never be employed by the Labour Party in any capacity ever again?
How can the Met Police possibly justify arresting a 12 year old at gunpoint, handcuffing him & putting him in a police van? This after dozens of armed police officers raided his home at 11.00 at night. All over a toy. Is this what they call community policing? #BlackLivesMatter
Michael Gove is completely wrong to say people from EU are accessing the NHS without 'paying in'.
EU workers pay taxes.
The NHS is not a contributory system.
This is how it begins - the Tory project to undermine the NHS, by bashing and blaming migrants first.
The BBC needs to stop treating Jeremy Corbyn and his Ministers as if we are not legitimate political actors and give us the respect that they automatically give to Tory Ministers and Labour MP's on the right
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This is clearly a bad night for Labour, which requires careful analysis.
But it could be much worse than a bad night for all those who rely on our public services and the NHS.
Which means we still need a leadership that fights for the many, not the few.
Lord Mandelson says people responsible for toppling Edward Colston statue in Bristol should be arrested, says “I find mob rule very disturbing ...that’s the law of the jungle, isn’t it?” But he should recognise that the real barbarism was the slave trade itself #BlackLivesMatter
Solidarity with the anti-racist campaigners who protested peacefully, and in a socially distanced way, all over the UK. Meanwhile thugs in central London “defended statues” #BlackLivesMatter
This is me and my mother on the day that I was first elected the 11th June 1987. Thinking of her this Mother’s Day
So Keir will make Britain the best place to work - unless you work for He has made 90 staff redundant. But is also recruiting workers on insecure temporary contracts with worse employment conditions #FutureOfWork
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Today we're launching a campaign to make Britain the best place to work.
Family incomes have stagnated, millions are in insecure work and in-work poverty is at a record high.
Covid has brutally exposed the injustices that have been growing for years.
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“Taking the knee” began in 2016 with American athletes refusing to stand for US national anthem. They were protesting police brutality and racism. But thinks it comes from Game of Thrones!!!
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had to listen back a few times to check Dominic Raab really said this
"On this taking the knee thing, I don't know maybe it's got a broader history, it seems to be taken from the Game of Thrones, feels to me like a symbol of subjugation and subordination"
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Prince Charles is quite right to call Boris Johnson’s policy of dumping asylum seekers in Rwanda “appalling”
This is horrific. An ordinary man, with no criminal record, driving home perfectly normally but getting his car window smashed in by police who claim to think he is concealing drugs. He is, of course, a black man.
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Watch the police smash in the window a man’s car after he was wrongly accused of concealing drugs.
He was driving home from a TV interview about institutional racism in the police.
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This week a British baby died from pneumonia in a Syrian refugee camp. A tragedy that might have been avoided. If the mother & baby had been brought home, the mother Shamima Begum would have faced British justice, but the baby might have lived. has behaved shamefully
Rishi Sunak still does not get it. The issue is not the leak. The problem is that he and his wife thought that they could get away with dodging UK tax in the first place.
Labour now has the most anti-racist leader in its history. But exactly at this point it is suggested Labour is institutionally racist? This isn't fighting racism. It's fighting Jeremy Corbyn.
Pleased to get a chance to tell my own story
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In 1987, Diane Abbott (@HackneyAbbott) made history as the first elected Black female MP in the UK. Since then, she has campaigned tirelessly for a better future for Britain.
We are proud to announce we'll be publishing her powerful memoir, A Woman Like Me, in 2022. #IWD2021
As I previously announced, today I step down as Shadow Home Secretary. I want to thank all those members and affiliates, all the NGOs and stakeholders, and my loyal staff for all their wonderful support - and to pay a special tribute to . The struggle continues
This is the woman who refused to condemn people booing this same England football team for taking the knee. Hypocrite #PritiPatel
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Strange experience but not unique. Invited by to speak on immigration policy, yet only 1 question, repeated 3 times. Main questions simply a string of attacks on Jeremy Corbyn. This is not public service broadcasting.
Divided parties don't win elections.
I oppose the decision to suspend Jeremy Corbyn from the Labour Party and will work for his reinstatement.
For us the fight against antisemitism and all forms of racism is central to the struggle for better world.
Tory nonsense on “high-skilled” or “low-skilled”. It’s really high-paid and low-paid. To say that everyone who earns below £50k is “low-skilled” is an insult to the hard-working people of Britain.
"If you're in a hole, stop digging", is generally sensible advice. The idea that Labour should carry on the same path, just pick up speed is just nonsense.
We need a change of strategy.
No temperature screening at Heathrow, no quarantining, no ability to track and trace if anyone later shows signs of infection, and no PPE for airport staff. Where is the Home Secretary in all of this?
Proud to be one of 166 MPs calling for UK to stop teargas and rubber bullet exports to America. We should not be helping Donald Trump repress his own people #blacklivesmatter #LDNBLM
Instead of investing in a public health approach to violent crime, the Home Office have opted for yet another crude, offensive and probably expensive campaign. They would do better to invest in our communities not demonise them.
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We are rolling out our #KnifeFree chicken boxes in over 210 chicken shops in England and Wales, including Morley’s, Dixy Chicken and Chicken Cottage. They use real life stories to show people how they can go #KnifeFree.
One of the greatest policy scandals of all in this pandemic- among many to choose from - is the richest countries' refusal to waive vaccine patents. This could save millions of lives. But governments including the British government have chosen to support drug makers, not lives.
She was groomed by Isis as a schoolgirl and buried three babies in the killing fields of Syria. Of course she should be allowed back to the UK, the country of her birth, to face justice and stand trial.
If you challenge racism where ever you see it, why you have never challenged the disgusting racism against me by senior Labour Party officials exposed in the Forde report?
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Antisemitism in the Labour Party was a shameful period that caused so much pain. Today marks an important step forwards and a reminder there is never room for complacency. When we say never again, we mean it. We will challenge racism wherever we see it especially in our own party twitter.com/Keir_Starmer/s…
Gross hypocrisy by Boris Johnson to talk about need for “a cross-governmental commission to look at all aspects of inequality” Black people don’t need another commission. They need action on existing reports and reviews #BlackLivesMatter
So takes unilateral decision to exclude as a Labour MP. But no notice, no consultation, no right of appeal, no redress...no due process at all. And Starmer was a human rights lawyer #IStandWithJeremyCorbyn
Shipping asylum seekers 5000 miles to Rwanda for “processing” is both cruel and bizarre. And at a cost of up to £100,000 per asylum seeker, it is a ridiculously expensive way to pander to racists.
Some people on Twitter seem to think that Michael Gove is poised to take over from Matt Hancock. But are they confident that Gove’s private life is beyond reproach? Maybe Sarah Vine can shed some light on this #BacktoBasics
I have been going on for over 30 years. I have never known a presenter interrupt a panellist as often as Fiona Bruce (salary £405,000) did with Mick Lynch. Crudely partisan.
I did not know that there was a whites only recruitment policy for train guards at Euston as late as 1966! But this brave man challenged it #BlackLivesMatter
After the appalling scenes in Clapham Common last night here’s hoping Keir Starmer will change his mind on abstaining on the policing bill this week which would further facilitate police cracking down on peaceful protest #PoliceCrackdownBill
If I had known Boris was having all these parties at Downing St. I could have got him a sound system to borrow
Today's claims I defended the hurling of petrol bombs at Police! Here's their headline vs what I actually said. I am disgusted
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Today in Parliament, I called on the Government to impose sanctions on Israel as part of the international pressure needed to force the Government of Israel to end its war on the Palestinian people.
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Top Labour party officials messaged each other on WhatsApp to say I was “hideous”, “truly repulsive”, “literally makes me sick” and “a very angry woman”.
To this day Starmer has never apologised to me personally
In his New Year speech Rishi Sunak urges us to “sacrifice and hard work” What exactly does millionaire Rishi and his billionaire wife know about sacrifice?
The government that fought tooth and nail to block free school meals....now wants to claim it is the champion of 'white working class kids'!
It is simply pitting communities against each other, all of them failed by the government, as a distraction for the effects of its failure.
Today, read a letter from Gillian, whose mother died because of GP shortages. Boris Johnson showed no empathy. He started talking about Russia.
Today, Jeremy wore a green tie for Grenfell. Tory MPs laughed & jeered.
The choice in this election couldn't be clearer.
Fiona Bruce was clearly repeating Tory propaganda that Labour were behind in the polls. If she had said behind in one poll, that would have been different matter.
This👇🏾is not an apology and does not address all of the issues that have been raised.
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We've reviewed what was said re polling on @bbcquestiontime. A YouGov poll published on the day of the programme suggested a lead for the Conservatives. Diane Abbott was also right that some other polls suggested Labour either as ahead or tied, & we should have made that clear.
Presumably why she illegally detained or deported so many of them
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I am proud to be a supporter of #BlackHistoryMonth – and to celebrate the immense contribution of African and Caribbean people without whom our country wouldn’t be the country it is today.
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This is what Julian Assange and Wikileaks are 'guilty' of, exposing the murderous outcome of the US military assault on Iraq. States don't have the right to kill willy-nilly. Whistle blowers do us all a service
Thirty years since the racist murder of Stephen Lawrence, and the Met police is no better now than it was then #racism
Keir Starmer has joined the right in calling for the “reform” of the NHS. And we all know what that means.
So Guardian columnists want drastic change. Curiously, when they had the most radical Labour leader since 1945, they attacked him mercilessly
We have an obligation to offer safety in the UK to men and women fleeing from violence and persecution in Afghanistan.
UK support for the US-led invasion played a key role in creating the turmoil and upheaval we are now witnessing.
The Government must not turn their backs.
There is no truth to any rumours that I am about to retire. I am committed to fighting for a better life for the people of my constituency and across this country, and those fights will go on.
I missed TBT yesterday but given it's my birthday today here's a photo from when I was a just a little bit younger...
Anyone else who is pinged by the app is required to self-isolate. Everyone, from bus drivers to shop workers, to NHS workers. The Duchess of Cambridge had to do it. But Johnson, Sunak and Gove before them all dodge it.
One rule for us, another rule for them.
It seems like yesterday. But it is thirty four years today since I and my colleagues in that first group of black Labour MPs were elected. Onwards and upwards✊🏾
We have to take the time to analyse the EU vote. But, when we come in third after the Brexit party, that is a clue something is wrong with our strategy. We need to listen to our members and take a clearer line on a public vote.
So on making it clear she would only go into coalition with if was removed as leader. I suppose that would be to make it easier for her to push the neo-liberal policies she backed in coalition with the Tories.
There is no question that the cause of our current food and petrol shortages is Brexit. The Brexiteers refuse to admit it. But nobody can say that we were not warned
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I was watching Health Questions. Absolutely nothing wrong with your tone. It reflects and reverberates with the reality of what yourself and other NHS workers are experiencing. Hancock very unwise to be so dismissive #coronavirus
In this country we have protections for whistle-blowers, those who take personal risk to disclose wrongdoing in the public intrest. Julian Assange is not being pursued to protect US national security. He is being pursued because he has exposed wrongdoing by US administrations
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So sad that my friend Emma Dent Coad, who was deeply rooted in the Kensington community and a wonderful MP, lost because of the intervention of carpetbagger Sam Gyimah.
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Kensington: CON GAIN FROM LAB #BBCElection #GE2019.
Full results: bbc.co.uk/news/politics/
Well done Marcus Rashford! You have forced the government to provide free school meals over the summer. Brilliant campaign and we are all proud of you #schoolmeals4summer
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BREAKING: Government U-turns on free school meals following Marcus Rashford campaign huffp.st/e3vJGWh
The “squad” of progressive US congresswomen have been re-elected #Election2020
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Sad to think of the African & Asian soldiers who fought for this country in the war who didn’t even get a decent burial
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Jo Swinson and LibDems supported Cameron and Osborne in government for 5 years. Implementing all the worst of austerity. But now they have 'principles' which mean they won't support Jeremy Corbyn even as a caretaker PM to block No Deal Brexit. Shameful
My mother came over with the Windrush generation. She came to this country in the 1950s as a pupil nurse.
Immigrants contribute so much to this country and we should thank them, not blame them.
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The idea that welfare payments should reflect ‘what you put in’ is just a step away from the notion of the “deserving poor”
When he campaigned for the leadership in 2020 Starmer “pledged” to put up income tax for top 5%, reverse Tory cuts to corporation tax & suppress tax avoidance. Now he is silent on income tax & tax avoidance. And he OPPOSES putting up corporation tax. The membership were conned.
Pleased to have voted against the government’s #spycops bill. Abstention would have been wrong. Labour Party has to stick to its values. Can’t be neutral on undercover policing abuses.
So was too left wing for the Party machine. Machine was so patronising and arrogant. Ultimately despised the Labour Party members. Terrible.
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Yes, Ben, seems right to me. Always felt like the Party machine opposed my pro-public NHS & social care policies between 2010 & 2015. Not sure I had even-handed treatment from them in either the 2010 or 2015 leadership elections. twitter.com/_benbeach/stat…
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BREAKING: The NHS will run out of gowns within HOURS & will ask doctors & nurses to work without full-length protection - @guardian.
This is outrageous, @MattHancock - you've spent all week insisting there's enough PPE for frontline medics. Where is it???????????
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A couple of years ago my staff stopped me opening my own mail in order to hide from me most of the racist & abusive stuff. But I know they have been reduced to tears by some of the stuff they have seen.
Ian Wright says about racist abuse online “these messages still hit me so hard" I know how he feels
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If I lose just six seats I will lose this election and Jeremy Corbyn will be sitting down to negotiate with Europe: facebook.com/TheresaMayOffi
If his own brother has no confidence in Boris Johnson, why should anybody else? #BrexitShambles #StopTheCoup
