Born & lived on Awabakal & Turrbal land. Stapleford baptist church. Stapleford Town and Broxtowe Borough councillor. Broxtowe Alliance. Own opinions. He/him
Nottingham, England
Joined May 2010
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This is a beautiful, heartbreaking song that everyone should listen to. Please go to @khalidabdalla's account and share it widely.
I wrote a song, dedicated to the children of Palestine, past, present and future.
And to all children of genocide.
It’s called ‘A simple song’.
May it meet this moment in hope, while the tide of global consciousness is changing, so the child born now grows up in a world with a free Palestine, and what that will mean for every child everywhere.
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When it is too much for the Daily Express to stomach, what will it take for the government to act? @DavidLammy - sanction Israel now!
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A Public meeting to simply ask our Cllrs questions ✅
Lots of feedback from an engaged audience ✅
Our duty to be local, vocal & visible ✅
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This 👇
Shame on those that stay
I will never vote Labour again. Not in my lifetime. I will never forget the skeletal faces of starving children—cut off from food just beyond a sealed border. A border kept closed by choice. I will never forget the silence bought by political donations—or blind loyalty that bind Labour MPs to a policy over 100 charities and NGOs have called unconscionable. And I promise you this: as long as I live, I will never let the world forget. This is Labours greatest political miscalculation in my lifetime. Worse even than Iraq. It will destroy the Labour Party at the next election. Opening the door for Farage. The Prime Minister and Foreign Secretary belong in The Hague. This is a party complicit not only in genocide, but in the criminalization of peaceful protest—the cornerstone of democracy. Where words on signs are treated as more dangerous than bombs dropped on schools. On hospitals. On churches. All filled with children seeking shelter. This party are a true terror. For shame.
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And we are suppose to want to be merged with the City??
It ain't a bad gig being a commissioner.
Nottingham City Council's lead commissioner got £160k last year for 134 days work.
He's now taking on the same gig in Birmingham, which he'll do in addition to his Nottingham role and which could pay the same.
nottinghampost.com/news/nott…
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🚨Boycott Coca Cola and all its brands
Coca Cola operates in illegal Israeli settlements on stolen Palestinian land. Keep Coca-Cola and its brands such as Schweppes, Sprite, Innocent, Smart Water and Costa Coffee, out of your basket until it ends complicity in Israel's crimes.
This is a duplicitous, mercenary, traitorous move against people invited to the UK, now our friends, neighbours, & active community members.
There have been moves published to make gaining UK citizenship more difficult.
@GOVUK, publish reasons in full so they can be scrutinised.
This is utter madness
We have thousands of #HongKongers in the UK who face charges under #HongKong’s laws and whom the #CCP would love to extradite
Moreover I personally have been threatened with jail in #HK.
@DanJarvisMBE @CatherineWest1 @YvetteCooperMP @DavidLammy @Keir_Starmer - are you going to extradite me, and the many #HKers we guaranteed protection to?
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“The pressure has led to some tenants making decisions about jobs based on rent in the area, and parents who are helping their grown-up children with living costs.”
When rent dictates your career and your parents are your safety net - the system is broken. We need rent controls now.
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Broxtowe Alliance sends our unwavering and unequivocal support to university staff in the face of unnecessary job cuts.
We are with you every step of the way - @Greg4Broxtowe at the @UoNUCU @UnisonUon rally today
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So glad our council have being working with the family on this over the past few weeks.
The legal technicalities on have to be sorted out in terms of guardianship but they have been told they won’t need to leave the house.
Well done to BA Cllr Vanessa Smith for sorting this
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Today belongs to this man @Feargal_Sharkey
100% holding this government to account on their lies, untruths and gaslighting of the public about the Water Industry
“We were promised champagne, what we've actually got is sour milk”
Keep going 👏
With our Cllr @Greg4Broxtowe
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The principled MPs are starting to find their voices 👏👏
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No job cuts.
Simple message from the unions and @Greg4Broxtowe at the @UnisonUon & @UoNUCU lunchtime rally
The University & its workers are part of our community - we stand with you
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. @Feargal_Sharkey is a true leader speaks as someone who knows & passionately cares about what happens to our water, rivers & seas
No smokescreens
No gaslighting of the public
No politicians whitewashing
Just the truth 👏👏
Read it and weep what this government has become
Oh what have we become.
Apparently now so bereft of ideas and grappling childlike with how to deal with the water industry, in a speech later today govt will yet again make another attempt to claim responsibility for policies and ideas that were actually developed and launched under previous Tory administrations.
Examples.
1. "Record investment: with £104 billion." Had nothing whatsoever to do with this govt, it's the result of work started in Oct 2022, 2.5 years before the 2025 election. 👇
2. "Ringfence customers' bills for upgrades." Once again work which had been completed early 2024, before the election. Ofwat were due to make the announcement but were prevented from doing so because of purdah rules. 👇
3. "Reinvesting company fines into local projects:" Policy was actually announced by Tory govt on 9th April 2024, 3 months before the election. 👇
4. "The Water (Special Measures) Act: banned unfair bonuses."
The industry dealt with that idea with a rather contemptuous display of arrogance last Thursday. Southern Water is one of the 10 companies 'banned' from paying bonuses. What did the company do, why doubled the CEO's salary instead that's what.
Oddly govt were warned that's exactly what was going to happen by none other than the chairman of Thames Water. In fact the same TW that discussed, at a board meeting, how to get round the ban and then promptly paid managers £2.5 million in bonuses. 👇
Apart from destroying your credibility in a heartbeat by trying to claim responsibility for other people's work what leaves me totally baffled by all of this is that No10 signed off and approved it all. Or did they?
Either way, mind blown.
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Western governments crack down on civil liberties & freedoms of their own populations to protect this.
Its not just Gaza and the West Bank that's occupied
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Silence or Death.
The Israeli army is once again threatening journalists for exposing the truth from Gaza.
After I reported live on civilians collapsing from hunger, I was directly targeted with public incitement by the army’s spokesperson.
This is an attempt to silence us—and to cover up a genocide unfolding in real time.
I call on international officials, human rights defenders, and global media to speak out and share this message.
Your voice can help stop the targeting of journalists and protect the truth.
Please share.
#JournalismIsNotACrime #Gaza #PressFreedom
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TOMORROW! See you there! Let's make this a show of force so the university knows we will NOT let them threaten us like this!
With compulsory redundancies still on the table, were still going to push back.
On Monday at 11:45, let's show up in force, say NO to the university treating us as expendable, and show 'em what solidarity looks like!
#StopTheCuts #SaveHE
ALT A flier with a photo of the trent building that says: NO COMPULSORY REDUNDANCIES Rally 11:45 am Monday 21st July Trent Building UCU Unison