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🌹Constituency Support Manager to a Labour MP
🧡Proud GMB Union member
🎩Trustee, Clayton Hall Living History Museum @claytonhall.org
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Jacob Mason @jacobmason.bsky.social · Jan 17
A year ago today, we lost a very dear friend and colleague in Tony Lloyd MP.

@triciaayr.bsky.social and I were very grateful to have been given the opportunity to write this obituary for Tribune Magazine at the time 👇

tribunemag.co.uk/2024/02/tony...
Tony Lloyd, Labour’s Conscience
Whether Tony Lloyd was opposing attacking Iraq and Gaza or supporting trade unionists and local people, it was never about a parliamentary career — it was about, in his words, 'that human solidarity t...
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The destructive 2 child cap on universal credit has been scrapped 👏

Well done Rachel Reeves and to all who campaigned hard on this. Absolutely the right thing for a Labour Government to do. Will benefit 1.6 million children, and lifts c.500,000 children out of poverty #Budget2025
November 26, 2025 at 6:33 PM
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📰Read my latest newsletter, which looks at:
🔴Taxing Extreme Wealth
🔴Council Tax Exemption for the Terminally Ill
🔴Two-child limit
🔴State Pension Inequality for Women
🔴Asylum Reforms
🔴Awaab’s Law
🔴Regent Retail Park Development

🔴And much more👇
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November 20, 2025 at 12:24 PM
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I have co-signed a cross party letter calling on the Chancellor to make this year's Budget a turning point. Our tax system asks too much of working people and too little of extreme wealth. [1/2]
Britain’s tax system places too much pressure on working families while extreme wealth continues to grow. A fairer approach would ensure those with the broadest shoulders contribute properly, ease the burden on workers, and provide sustainable funding for the services we all rely on. It is time to tax wealth more and workers less so that everyone has a fair chance to thrive.
November 19, 2025 at 2:54 PM
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I spoke in Parliament about global tax justice. Multinationals shifting billions through tax havens deprive our hospitals, schools and care services of tens of billions every year. It’s time for transparency, fairness and change.
November 12, 2025 at 2:52 PM
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Today we remember those who gave their lives fighting fascism and defending our freedom and democracy.

We will remember them.

#RemembranceSunday
November 9, 2025 at 12:28 PM
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Very moving Remembrance Parade and Service in Swinton this morning with members of the community and our Armed Forces, paying our respects to the brave men and women who made the ultimate sacrifice to give us our future.

Photos: Salford City Council
November 9, 2025 at 2:44 PM
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Bloody good question!!
adambienkov.bsky.social Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · Oct 23
Why is a Labour Home Secretary perpetuating this myth in The Sun?

Asylum applications in the UK are significantly below the average for all European countries. The only person helped by spreading this falsehood is Nigel Farage
October 23, 2025 at 8:45 AM
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We’ve lost 260,000 social rented homes in the last decade. If we’re serious about ending homelessness, Councils need the power, funding and freedom to build social homes at scale, homes at true social rent, not unaffordable “affordable” rents.
October 23, 2025 at 8:02 AM
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Wealth taxes are not only sensible – they are urgently needed. They are the key to unlocking the funds required to build an NHS fit for the future, deliver schools that inspire, create green jobs, & ensure no child grows up in poverty.

Read more 👇
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Wealth Taxes Are Sensible and Urgently Needed – Rebecca Long-Bailey MP
We need wealth taxes now, writes Rebecca-Long Bailey.
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October 8, 2025 at 9:58 AM
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Patricia's journey with GMB Credit Union is one we're proud to share. 💛
October 6, 2025 at 9:24 AM
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Clayton Hall Living History Museum and the Friends of Clayton Park express our deepest condolences following the tragic events at Heaton Park Hebrew Congregation Synagogue on Yom Kippur. 👇
Clayton Hall Living History Museum and the Friends of Clayton Park express our deepest condolences following the tragic events at Heaton Park Hebrew Congregation Synagogue on Yom Kippur. At this most sacred moment in the Jewish calendar, our thoughts and prayers are with those victims who have lost their lives, those injured or affected, their loved ones, and Jewish communities in Greater Manchester, and far beyond. Antisemitism, along with every form of hatred, must be confronted wherever it is found. Together, we must stand firm to ensure that violence and intolerance have no place in our society.
October 3, 2025 at 2:33 PM
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Our thoughts are with the Jewish community after yesterday’s horrifying attack. Antisemitism has no place in our society, and we must stand together to root it out.
October 3, 2025 at 10:33 AM
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Pleased to co-sign this letter urging the Prime Minister to scrap the cruel two-child benefit cap. The Poverty Strategy Commission shows its abolition would lift millions out of poverty. Families should not be punished for their circumstances.
September 23, 2025 at 5:39 PM
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📰Read the latest news, events and updates in my latest newsletter, including:
•Protecting Our Communities and Key Workers
•Salford Red Devils
•Campaign for homeless children’s bus pass
•Investment in Fire and Rescue Services

And much, much more👇
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August & September Newsletter
Protecting Our Communities and Key Workers The Government’s new Immigration White Paper has caused real fear among many people in Salford who have built their lives here. Constituents have told me …
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September 23, 2025 at 12:03 PM
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Big crowd, big impact! 💥

Council keeps hybrid model, protecting Ards workers ✅

But Bangor & Holywood stay outsourced ❌

Thanks to all unions, clubs & locals who stood with us.

We’re not done yet; the fight for public leisure goes on! 💪

Full story 👉 www.gmb.org.uk/news/mass-pr...
September 19, 2025 at 11:07 AM
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Big thanks to our staff and activists who’ve been out across the region today — speaking to people and recruiting new members into the movement. 🌟

Your dedication is what drives us forward 💪
September 17, 2025 at 3:14 PM
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⚖️ Hillsborough Law enters Parliament today.

Families and campaigners have fought for decades for truth and justice. ✊🕊️

🔗: www.gmb.org.uk/news/hillsbo...
Hillsborough Law welcome afters decades of campaigning
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September 16, 2025 at 12:56 PM
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When things get ruff at work, you can always count on @gmbnwi.org.uk to have your back.

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Lord Blunkett's hard working guide dog given honorary GMB union membership
Ahead of the Trades Union Congress which started today in Brighton, the union has given hard-working Labrador Barley a membership card, and a membership number of "K900000".
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September 7, 2025 at 1:15 PM
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📰Read the latest news and updates in my newsletter, including:
🔴UC & PIP Bill
🔴Nuclear Test Veterans
🔴Standing Up for 1950s-Born Women
🔴Salford events

🔴And much, much more!👇
July Newsletter
Universal Credit and Personal Independence Payment Bill I voted against the Universal Credit and Personal Independence Payment Bill. While the Government made some welcome concessions, the Bill sti…
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July 17, 2025 at 1:48 PM
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I'm pleased a statutory inquiry into Orgreave has finally been announced. This is long overdue. Solidarity with the miners, campaigners and trade unionists whose relentless determination made this possible.✊
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Government launches Orgreave inquiry, 40 years after clashes at miners’ strike
Move follows decades of campaigning over violent policing and collapsed prosecutions at South Yorkshire coking plant
www.theguardian.com
July 21, 2025 at 1:42 PM
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🌈 Fantastic afternoon at Weaste Pride — free entry all day at Weaste & Seedley Social Club!

🎧 DJ Fat Britney, Daytime Disco with DJ Connor, DJ Tasha & Disco Doyenne 💃
🎶 Live music, food stalls & good vibes all round!

👏 Huge well done to Ian & everyone involved!
July 12, 2025 at 4:37 PM
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“Our strength lies not in enforced uniformity of Party doctrine. It is based on tolerance, and argument, on the ferment of political ideas and political passion—not regimentation. I do not want to lead a Party of zombies.” - Prime Minister Harold Wilson, 1975.

Just saying.
July 16, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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I spoke to The Guardian’s Kiran Stacey on the Politics Weekly UK podcast about the Universal Credit & PIP Bill. 100+ MPs now oppose it. These cuts could push 400,000 more into poverty—incl. 50,000 children. We must scrap them.

🎧 Listen: tinyurl.com/UCPIP
June 26, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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Sadly the UC & PIP Bill as it stands will still impose brutal cuts, pushing huge numbers of people who desperately need support into poverty.

It is clear that the Bill must be withdrawn. 👇
I welcome the fact that some concessions have been secured, and the proposals to support those who can work with a little help are welcome, but the numbers it will help are nominal and sadly the Bill as it stands will still impose brutal cuts, pushing huge numbers of people who desperately need support into poverty. It is clear that the Bill must be withdrawn and a genuine consultation take place with disability groups on how the welfare system should be reformed to truly provide support. I simply can not support a piece of legislation that I know will push thousands of my constituents into poverty. The concessions made—whilst welcome—will ultimately create a two-tier system. The amount of support someone receives will now depend on when they made their claim. That’s simply not fair, especially as those who need help, find themselves needing this support through no fault of their own. A proper consultation should have taken place with those most directly affected. Their voices should have been central to this process but sadly they were not and this needs to be urgently addressed. Further, the Government has yet to publish any impact assessment on the impact of these proposals on future claimants and the number of people, including children who will fall into poverty or experience worsening mental or physical health as a result, nor how many carers will lose carers allowance. And whilst I recognise the financial challenges facing the Government—challenges that are the direct result of 14 years of mismanagement and underinvestment by the previous Government, there are alternatives. One of these, which I’ve long championed, is to introduce higher taxes on extreme wealth in order to properly fund our public services and strengthen the safety net. And this isn’t just the view of ordinary working people—many millionaires themselves agree. A recent Survation poll found that 68% of people with over £1 million to invest, support a wealth tax on individuals with more than £10 million. Rather than punishing those in need of support, the Government must look seriously at fairer ways to bolster the public finances. Wealth taxes are a fair, practical, and popular solution. That is what I will continue pressing for. REBECCA LONG-BAILEY MP
June 27, 2025 at 2:30 PM