Lynn Morris
@warriorlynn.bsky.social
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Lynn Morris
@warriorlynn.bsky.social
· Oct 15
Privatisation broke our water system.
@labourslewis.bsky.social has a people-first, evidence-based alternative, and I’m backing it.
Add your name to the People’s Plan for Water: https://actionnetwork.org/forms/water-belongs-to-all-of-us-back-the-peoples-plan-for-water?source=bluesky&
@labourslewis.bsky.social has a people-first, evidence-based alternative, and I’m backing it.
Add your name to the People’s Plan for Water: https://actionnetwork.org/forms/water-belongs-to-all-of-us-back-the-peoples-plan-for-water?source=bluesky&
Privatisation broke our water system.
@labourslewis.bsky.social has a people-first, evidence-based alternative, and I’m backing it.
Add your name to the People’s Plan for Water: https://actionnetwork.org/forms/water-belongs-to-all-of-us-back-the-peoples-plan-for-water?source=bluesky&
@labourslewis.bsky.social has a people-first, evidence-based alternative, and I’m backing it.
Add your name to the People’s Plan for Water: https://actionnetwork.org/forms/water-belongs-to-all-of-us-back-the-peoples-plan-for-water?source=bluesky&
October 15, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Privatisation broke our water system.
@labourslewis.bsky.social has a people-first, evidence-based alternative, and I’m backing it.
Add your name to the People’s Plan for Water: https://actionnetwork.org/forms/water-belongs-to-all-of-us-back-the-peoples-plan-for-water?source=bluesky&
@labourslewis.bsky.social has a people-first, evidence-based alternative, and I’m backing it.
Add your name to the People’s Plan for Water: https://actionnetwork.org/forms/water-belongs-to-all-of-us-back-the-peoples-plan-for-water?source=bluesky&
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🌹 "By not tackling the far-right head on, Labour is allowing the hostile anti-migrant rhetoric and narrative that led to the horrifying events of last summer to fester and grow."
✍️ Nathan Phillips on how Labour should take on Farage:
labourlist.org/2025/01/wes-...
✍️ Nathan Phillips on how Labour should take on Farage:
labourlist.org/2025/01/wes-...
‘Streeting’s right we must take on Farage – but wrong on how to do it’ – LabourList
Last week Wes Streeting was interviewed by Lewis Goodall at the Fabian Society Conference, and he had a lot to say. The part I agreed…
labourlist.org
January 29, 2025 at 2:31 PM
🌹 "By not tackling the far-right head on, Labour is allowing the hostile anti-migrant rhetoric and narrative that led to the horrifying events of last summer to fester and grow."
✍️ Nathan Phillips on how Labour should take on Farage:
labourlist.org/2025/01/wes-...
✍️ Nathan Phillips on how Labour should take on Farage:
labourlist.org/2025/01/wes-...
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Nigel Farage sang the Village People hit — and Trump anthem — at the event in Mayfair, where guests had paid up to £25,000 for a ticket
Read the full story ⬇️
Read the full story ⬇️
Reform’s £1m fundraiser: Dom Pérignon, bagpipes and YMCA
www.thetimes.com
January 30, 2025 at 12:31 PM
Nigel Farage sang the Village People hit — and Trump anthem — at the event in Mayfair, where guests had paid up to £25,000 for a ticket
Read the full story ⬇️
Read the full story ⬇️
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'Labour won a stunning victory and a landslide majority, but we did so with the support of just one in three voters.'
New Labour MPs @andrewranger-mp.bsky.social and @annadixonmp.bsky.social make the case for electoral reform ahead of a debate in the chamber.
labourlist.org/2025/01/news...
New Labour MPs @andrewranger-mp.bsky.social and @annadixonmp.bsky.social make the case for electoral reform ahead of a debate in the chamber.
labourlist.org/2025/01/news...
Labour MPs: ‘We shouldn’t exploit broken electoral system – we need PR’ – LabourList
Last month, the House of Commons voted for Proportional Representation for general elections for the first time ever. Following a very brief debate, a symbolic…
labourlist.org
January 30, 2025 at 10:47 AM
'Labour won a stunning victory and a landslide majority, but we did so with the support of just one in three voters.'
New Labour MPs @andrewranger-mp.bsky.social and @annadixonmp.bsky.social make the case for electoral reform ahead of a debate in the chamber.
labourlist.org/2025/01/news...
New Labour MPs @andrewranger-mp.bsky.social and @annadixonmp.bsky.social make the case for electoral reform ahead of a debate in the chamber.
labourlist.org/2025/01/news...
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Auschwitz was at the end of a long process. It did not start from gas chambers.
This hatred was gradually developed by humans. From ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder.
Auschwitz took time.
This hatred was gradually developed by humans. From ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder.
Auschwitz took time.
January 27, 2025 at 10:00 AM
Auschwitz was at the end of a long process. It did not start from gas chambers.
This hatred was gradually developed by humans. From ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder.
Auschwitz took time.
This hatred was gradually developed by humans. From ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder.
Auschwitz took time.
That’s what a Labour government is about!
Landlords will be banned from asking tenants for more than a month’s rent in advance when the Renters’ Rights Bill comes into force this year ⬇️
Will reforms be the final nail in the coffin for landlords?
www.thetimes.com
January 18, 2025 at 1:03 PM
That’s what a Labour government is about!
Indeed, UTTERLY DISASTROUS!
"Politically, it would be utterly disastrous"
Labour MPs urge Rachel Reeves not to cut welfare spending in response to recent market moves
@nadinebh.bsky.social reports
Labour MPs urge Rachel Reeves not to cut welfare spending in response to recent market moves
@nadinebh.bsky.social reports
Labour MPs Warn Rachel Reeves Welfare Cuts Would Be 'Utterly Disastrous'
The government faces a backlash from Labour MPs if it decides to cut spending in areas like welfare in response to recent rises in borrowing costs.
www.politicshome.com
January 18, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Indeed, UTTERLY DISASTROUS!
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🚨 The leader of Oldham council, whose grooming inquiry request sparked current debate, speaks out on it for the first time via LabourList today.
She warns "political opportunitists" have made Oldham a far-right target again - when the voices that matter are survivors.
labourlist.org/2025/01/groo...
She warns "political opportunitists" have made Oldham a far-right target again - when the voices that matter are survivors.
labourlist.org/2025/01/groo...
Oldham council leader: ‘Grooming gang survivors are the only voices that matter’ – LabourList
The ‘grooming gangs’ scandal is one of the darkest moments in Britain’s recent history. In 2022 a national inquiry into child sexual exploitation was commissioned…
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January 10, 2025 at 8:54 AM
🚨 The leader of Oldham council, whose grooming inquiry request sparked current debate, speaks out on it for the first time via LabourList today.
She warns "political opportunitists" have made Oldham a far-right target again - when the voices that matter are survivors.
labourlist.org/2025/01/groo...
She warns "political opportunitists" have made Oldham a far-right target again - when the voices that matter are survivors.
labourlist.org/2025/01/groo...
That’s it, roll your sleeves up and come out fighting, it’s the only way to deal with a bully like Musk.
⚡️🔥JUST NOW: British PM keir starmer defends his record and responds to Elon Musk & the “poison of the far right” attacks on him and jess Phillips re: “grooming gangs”, saying they don’t care about the victims or the facts, they just want attention.
Full: www.instagram.com/share/BAajam...
Full: www.instagram.com/share/BAajam...
January 7, 2025 at 10:40 PM
That’s it, roll your sleeves up and come out fighting, it’s the only way to deal with a bully like Musk.
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So, the Tory manifesto did not include an inquiry into grooming gangs and the Tories ignored ALL recommendations from the 2022 report, but they attack Starmer for smearing “those concerned” as “far right”. Which he didn’t.
They’re just the most repulsive bunch of arseholes.
And far right apologists.
They’re just the most repulsive bunch of arseholes.
And far right apologists.
January 7, 2025 at 10:55 AM
So, the Tory manifesto did not include an inquiry into grooming gangs and the Tories ignored ALL recommendations from the 2022 report, but they attack Starmer for smearing “those concerned” as “far right”. Which he didn’t.
They’re just the most repulsive bunch of arseholes.
And far right apologists.
They’re just the most repulsive bunch of arseholes.
And far right apologists.
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Sir Keir Starmer was singled out for praise in the 2022 report.
The far right singularly fail to mention this fact.
The far right singularly fail to mention this fact.
January 7, 2025 at 5:57 AM
Sir Keir Starmer was singled out for praise in the 2022 report.
The far right singularly fail to mention this fact.
The far right singularly fail to mention this fact.
Let’s hope he means it!
🏥 Health Secretary Wes Streeting has hit out at critics suggesting on social media he wants NHS privatisation, saying it “boils my blood”.
Streeting warned it would happen “over my dead body”, saying he wants a public NHS "free at the point of use".
labourlist.org/2024/12/nhs-...
Streeting warned it would happen “over my dead body”, saying he wants a public NHS "free at the point of use".
labourlist.org/2024/12/nhs-...
Wes Streeting: Social media trolls saying I want NHS privatisation ‘boil my blood’ – LabourList
The Health Secretary Wes Streeting has hit out at critics suggesting on social media he "wants NHS privatisation", saying it "boils my blood" more than…
labourlist.org
December 22, 2024 at 6:49 PM
Let’s hope he means it!
I have full sympathy with the WASPI sisters, but I also know there are other areas requiring critical funding, not just institutions like the NHS, but improving the lives of those living in poverty. Maybe it should be means tested, I don’t know.
Scottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar has become the latest party figure to speak out over WASPI women pension compensation, with around two dozen Labour MPs attacking the government's decision
WASPI women pension compensation: Full list of Labour MPs speaking out as Anas Sarwar joins growing backlash – LabourList
Scottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar has become the latest party figure to speak out over the plight of WASPI women, with around two dozen Labour…
labourlist.org
December 22, 2024 at 6:40 PM
I have full sympathy with the WASPI sisters, but I also know there are other areas requiring critical funding, not just institutions like the NHS, but improving the lives of those living in poverty. Maybe it should be means tested, I don’t know.
Whilst reform of the HoL’s is a Labour objective in the long term, it’s heartening to see Labour appointments of leaders in their field who will voice their opinions in the Lords, indeed they will insist on voice. The best the Tories could do was Toby Young, oh deary me. 🙄
We've just had confirmation of a string of peerages set to be awarded - see the full list of new peers set to join the House of Lords here:
www.labourlist.org/2024/12/house-of-lords-peerages-labour-full-list
www.labourlist.org/2024/12/house-of-lords-peerages-labour-full-list
Full list of new Labour peers set to join House of Lords – LabourList
Labour leader Keir Starmer is set to appoint 20 new peers to the House of Lords, with a number of former MPs and short-lived ex-Downing…
www.labourlist.org
December 22, 2024 at 6:34 PM
Whilst reform of the HoL’s is a Labour objective in the long term, it’s heartening to see Labour appointments of leaders in their field who will voice their opinions in the Lords, indeed they will insist on voice. The best the Tories could do was Toby Young, oh deary me. 🙄
Sad that she had to resign over something that took place 11 years ago and which she declared before she even took up a shadow post. The media wins again.
Louise Haigh has resigned as transport secretary after news emerged she had a past conviction over a phone she had wrongly reported to the police as stolen.
labourlist.org/2024/11/news...
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Louise Haigh resigns as transport secretary after decade-old conviction revealed – LabourList
Louise Haigh has resigned as transport secretary after news emerged she had a past conviction over a phone she had wrongly reported to the police…
labourlist.org
November 29, 2024 at 3:43 PM
Sad that she had to resign over something that took place 11 years ago and which she declared before she even took up a shadow post. The media wins again.
Good appointment
Heidi Alexander has been appointed Transport Secretary.
The Swindon South MP was previously deputy Mayor of London for transport, serving as deputy chair of Transport for London too.
More to follow here:
labourlist.org/2024/11/heid...
The Swindon South MP was previously deputy Mayor of London for transport, serving as deputy chair of Transport for London too.
More to follow here:
labourlist.org/2024/11/heid...
New Transport Secretary Heidi Alexander unveiled after Louise Haigh resigns – LabourList
Heidi Alexander has been appointed Transport Secretary, after the resignation of Louise Haigh over a decade-old conviction for wrongly telling police a work phone had…
labourlist.org
November 29, 2024 at 3:41 PM
Good appointment
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234 Labour MPs voted for the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill, with 147 against
November 29, 2024 at 2:31 PM
234 Labour MPs voted for the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill, with 147 against
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MPs have given their backing to Kim Leadbeater’s assisted dying bill at its second reading, with 330 MPs voting in favour of the motion after a morning of emotional debate in the House of Commons.
labourlist.org/2024/11/news...
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Assisted dying bill: How many Labour MPs voted for, against or didn’t vote – LabourList
MPs have given their backing to Kim Leadbeater's assisted dying bill at its second reading, with 330 MPs voting in favour of the motion after…
labourlist.org
November 29, 2024 at 2:34 PM
MPs have given their backing to Kim Leadbeater’s assisted dying bill at its second reading, with 330 MPs voting in favour of the motion after a morning of emotional debate in the House of Commons.
labourlist.org/2024/11/news...
labourlist.org/2024/11/news...
The right decision. MPs will now have the opportunity to discuss their concerns about the bill at committee stage and will hopefully amend it so more MPs can support it.
Great to see the debate taking place in a respectful manner, wish it was like this all the time.
Great to see the debate taking place in a respectful manner, wish it was like this all the time.
Keir Starmer is among the 234 Labour MPs to have backed assisted dying.
See how your individual local Labour MP, the cabinet and other MPs voted here:
labourlist.org/2024/11/assi...
See how your individual local Labour MP, the cabinet and other MPs voted here:
labourlist.org/2024/11/assi...
Assisted dying vote: See if your Labour MP voted for, against or did not vote – LabourList
A majority of MPs have voted to legalise assisted dying for the terminally ill in England in Wales, in a landmark vote in Parliament today.…
labourlist.org
November 29, 2024 at 3:39 PM
The right decision. MPs will now have the opportunity to discuss their concerns about the bill at committee stage and will hopefully amend it so more MPs can support it.
Great to see the debate taking place in a respectful manner, wish it was like this all the time.
Great to see the debate taking place in a respectful manner, wish it was like this all the time.
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November 29, 2024 at 2:58 PM
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🚢 Government spending on Royal Navy recruitment increased by a fifth last year as the Ministry of Defence tried to tackle personnel shortages
MoD Spending On Navy Recruitment Jumps 20 Per Cent
Government spending on Royal Navy recruitment increased by a fifth last year as the Ministry of Defence (MoD) tried to tackle personnel shortages, ...
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November 29, 2024 at 3:28 PM
🚢 Government spending on Royal Navy recruitment increased by a fifth last year as the Ministry of Defence tried to tackle personnel shortages
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1/9 Jacking up interest rates to bring down inflation hits people on moderate incomes harder than the better off. Bluntly, it's a ridiculous, outmoded way of trying to bring down prices...
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
UK inflation rises to 2.3%, increasing pressure to delay interest rate cut
Figure is above Bank of England target after energy bills push up prices
www.theguardian.com
November 20, 2024 at 6:15 PM
1/9 Jacking up interest rates to bring down inflation hits people on moderate incomes harder than the better off. Bluntly, it's a ridiculous, outmoded way of trying to bring down prices...
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
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This is the truth about Labour's Budget and farmers.
November 19, 2024 at 6:54 PM
This is the truth about Labour's Budget and farmers.
My heart goes out to the proud people of Ukraine, they have fought so hard, only for a man with no morals to be the one they depend on.
Zelenskyy: War with Russia will ‘end sooner’ with Trump
Zelenskyy: War with Russia will ‘end sooner’ with Trump
Zelenskyy: War with Russia will ‘end sooner’ with Trump
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November 17, 2024 at 9:40 PM
My heart goes out to the proud people of Ukraine, they have fought so hard, only for a man with no morals to be the one they depend on.
No First Lady in the White House it would seem!
November 17, 2024 at 9:38 PM
No First Lady in the White House it would seem!