Stew Abel retweeted
NHS staff are not failing, they are being failed, by successive Conservative Governments.
Please RT if you agree.
Stew Abel retweeted
This, ladies and gentlemen, is the story that should be leading the news. And which the police should be involved in. An attempted cover up of woeful decisions that helped contribute to loss of life. And the media in the main couldn’t give a toss. Because Huw Edwards. Ffs
Stew Abel retweeted
This is about stopping Sunak’s government using a Ministerial decree to overturn a vote in the Lords. Its the first time ever the government has tried to use secondary legislation to directly overturn the will of Parliament. It’s an unprecedented abuse of power & MUST BE STOPPED
13,000 HAVE NOW SIGNED the petition calling on @LabourLordsUK to back the fatal motion tabled by @GreenJennyJones to stop Sunak’s Government restricting our right to protest through an unprecedented abuse of power
Plz keep signing & sharing
change.org/p/ask-labour-peer…
Stew Abel retweeted
CRITICAL
Baroness @GreenJennyJones has tabled a rare "fatal motion" to stop a Tory amendment to Public Order Bill.
Tories are changing ‘serious disruption’ of other people’s day-to-day activities to mean ‘anything more than minor’.
Lords opposed it. Tories using secondary legislation to get it back in without change.
If they win, imagine authoritarian Britain in a short space of time
greenworld.org.uk/article/ba…
Stew Abel retweeted
Rail Fares:
🇩🇪 Germany: €1.40 unlimited daily (monthly ticket)
🇱🇺 Luxembourg: €0.00 cost. Free travel
🇪🇸 Spain: €0.00 cost. Free rail travel this year
🇦🇹 Austria: €3.00 cost for unlimited cross country daily travel
The UK has raised prices 59% since 2010
Renationalise Rail
@DaveGorman Bull in a china shop -> Bowl in a china shop -> Bomb in a china shop!
Stew Abel retweeted
Yes, I know he’s changed his tune since his North Korea comment, but isn’t that what you want?
Don’t you want people to change their minds according to facts and the world around them?
And credit to him that he calling out the impact on youths, when youths want Rejoin:
Stew Abel retweeted
When UKIP won 166 councillors (but no councils) in 2014 the BBC called this a "political earthquake".
@TheGreenParty just gained 200 councillors, taking the total to 737, took control of a council & became the biggest party in several others.
But 0 Green guests on #bbclaurak.
Stew Abel retweeted
🔥 East Anglia Bylines discovered 3 polling stations where staff confirmed they’d been instructed that voters without voter ID were to be sent away, if possible, before entering the polling station, so they wouldn’t have to have the rejections recorded. eastangliabylines.co.uk/excl…
Stew Abel retweeted
The UK has lost its way and everyone knows it.
We need to overhaul our corrupt politics, rejoin the EU and in doing so, regain our focus on standards, responsibility, environment, regional investment, and opportunity for our youth & small businesses.
independent.co.uk/news/uk/ho…
Stew Abel retweeted
What it comes down to again and again:
Nobody had a real plan for Brexit.
Unbearable lies were told.
Impossible promises were made.
And now the people in the UK are paying a high price for these irresponsible politicians.
Economically and politically.
Stew Abel retweeted
“Voters said they'd seen elderly people turned away for not having the right ID”
What this government has done, out of pure anti-democratic self interest and nothing else, is shameful. mirror.co.uk/news/politics/v…
Stew Abel retweeted
“Greeters” are rocking up outside polling stations to tell voters not to bother going in if they don’t have ID. If the voters turn away THEN and don’t even TRY to vote, they’re not counted as having been rejected and the govt can pretend fewer people were disenfranchised…
Stew Abel retweeted
THREAD: EXAMPLES OF VOTER SUPPRESSION
Here are just a handful of examples of people being denied their vote today because of Tory voter suppression.
There are already more examples within this short thread than the total number of cases of voter fraud over the last few years.
Stew Abel retweeted
If someone *outside* a polling station asks you if you have ID…
…the correct answer is “none of your business”.
Stew Abel retweeted
Now we find out that 15% of applications for Voter ID were rejected - so voter suppression and prevention began with the application process
#Toriesout300 #SunakOut191 #GeneralElectionNow
metro.co.uk/2023/05/03/one-i…
Stew Abel retweeted
Don't forget that you can get an #EmergencyProxyVote until 5pm today if you forget your photo ID. And if you encounter any problems, please send a polite email to:
[email protected]
Craig Westwood(Electoral Commission) tells #KayBurley that if you don't have any photo ID you won't be able to to get a ballot paper at this election.
but
you can get an emergency proxy vote up to 5pm on polling day.
Stew Abel retweeted
#MyMaskMyVote Not allowed to vote once inside, despite bringing ID & video of me putting on mask, as no options for reasonable adjustments for those who are #immunosuppressed. Recorded as turned away with reason: no guidance for those with Disability.
