Resistance is never futile #UCU member #NoMoreFreeLabour The views expressed are my own and not those of my employer, obviously. @maryellenlarge.bsky.social
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Since we all very busy and don't have much time for reading about politics, here's some handy rules of thumb:
1. Don't vote for parties that very rich people like
2. Don't vote for people with Lord or Sir titles
3. Do vote for a party that the UK press clearly hates.
Mary-Ellen #TU_Rep retweeted
"The UK's copper wire landline system - which would work even in a power cut - will be switched off on 31 January 2027." Incredible.
There's a link to the govt messages that will be broadcast if the internet goes down.
What happens if the internet goes down? BlackSky - the UK's emergency backup plans bbc.in/4BLDC3u
Mary-Ellen #TU_Rep retweeted
It’s true… kinda crazy that THE Abdul El-Sayed came to one of my campaign events in South Woodford! I remember him telling me about the Governors race. So pleased that at least one of us has succeeded in politics!
"Now you get all the Labour MPs saying.. Abdul El-Sayed is so good. You would have 100% blocked him"
Yep! @michaeljswalker remembers how El-Sayed was in the UK in 2019 campaigning for Labour candidate Faiza Shaheen. Who was subsequently blocked by the Labour right leadership.
Mary-Ellen #TU_Rep retweeted
Many of the issues Stuart Holland was grappling with—on regional and spatial inequality, planning, on the state as entrepreneur and industrial strategy—need to be revisited in our current predicament. He also advocated for a Social Europe that was made impossible by the treaties.
Rest in peace Stuart Holland, one of Britain’s finest radical left economists whose like we don’t see these days. uc.pt/feuc/destaques/falecim…
Mary-Ellen #TU_Rep retweeted
This is a huge, huge moment.
When, in three years of genocide, has an important politician in an important western country spoken so clearly?
Nous agirons frontalement au secours des Palestiniens, à la fois contre le génocide à Gaza et contre l’annexion progressive de la Cisjordanie.
Les navires français, s’il le fallait, escorteront les flottilles de citoyens mobilisés pour faire valoir leurs droits.
Nous n’acceptons pas l’annexion progressive de la Cisjordanie, ni du Sud-Liban, ni du plateau du Golan.
Nous organiserons concrètement la mobilisation contre l’extension des cruautés aux communautés chrétiennes assiégées, persécutées en Palestine et au Liban.
#Melenchon2027 #JLMBourget
Mary-Ellen #TU_Rep retweeted
Rightoids live in a fantasy world where Labour letting some train operating licences expire 18 months ago caused the consequences of over a decade of underfunding, understaffing, and infrastructure cuts compounded by an unfathomably hot Summer.
⏱️Before nationalisation, 94% of c2c trains arrived on time. Now, it is just 71.5%.
Is anyone surprised? 🚆
thetimes.com/uk/transport/ar…
Mary-Ellen #TU_Rep retweeted
In case anyone out there is looking for economists who championed affordability before it became cool, this is a pretty good list: Economists in support of Zohran Mamdani‘s primary campaign.
CONGRATULATIONS TO @ZohranKMamdani!
This is a win for an anti-fascist economics that deserves the name; that puts people, their dignity, their life first; that dares to go up against the powers ready to pave a slippery slope into the abyss.
Mary-Ellen #TU_Rep retweeted
Grateful to @DalrympleWill for choosing “Anti-Zionism” as one of his books of the year: “brave, passionate, thoughtful, moral, and humane.”
The only thing better than praise like that is seeing it in the anti-Palestinian @spectator. Will @michaelgove be inspired to check it out?
Mary-Ellen #TU_Rep retweeted
Here again, Jon Ossoff manages to explain Don Jr's sudden personal wealth through complex corporate juggling in simple language to a mass audience. His talent is a reputational nightmare for the Trump circle.
This is why Jon Ossoff won in a landslide in Georgia. He took the gloves off and didn’t pussyfoot around the truth.
Putting aside the fact I wrote about what he said here when many were silent, he’s making the case for why Democrats MUST now hold these monsters accountable.
This isn’t about retribution, it’s about ensuring what Trump and his puppet masters have done NEVER happens again THAT is what the American people voted for.
Of course legislation is a priority it was a priority they didn’t address in 2024, when they failed hard pressed American families who were screaming for help, while they were chasing upper middle class voters who were NEVER going to vote for them.
Then, when they were punished for it at the ballot box, they blamed the American people for rejecting them, and then stayed silent for almost a year while Trump dismantled democracy and tore down the government.
If Democratic leadership can’t walk and chew gum at the same time, then step the fuck aside and let someone who can deliver justice to the American people get the job done. I’d go even further and suggest they step down anyway, because they don’t have the integrity or the trust required for this mission critical moment.
This is NOT the time for more of the same old same old, and that’s what this current leadership represents I’m afraid. It’s why they went into this election with popularity ratings underwater.
This landslide was NOT about a ringing endorsement of the Democratic Party, it was a repudiation of a broken political system.
It’s time for a PEOPLE FIRST REVOLUTION. This is a once in a generation opportunity to deliver transformative change. GET IT DONE.
Oh and before I finish, why does Hakeem Jeffries put full stops in the most odd places in his totally irritating sentences? An orator he is not I’m afraid, yet in a comedic twist of irony, he’s about to become Speaker of the House. Democrats can and MUST do better.
They need to listen and READ THE ROOM, otherwise 2028 will be a repeat of 2024. It’s hard to hear I know, but sometimes the truth hurts and someone has to say it.
🎥 TikTok - vm.tiktok.com/ZGdXhb6VE/
Mary-Ellen #TU_Rep retweeted
Late stage capitalism:
A supermarket throws perfectly good food in the dumpster, pays its workers so little they can barely afford groceries, then asks customers to donate to the food bank at checkout.
And we're supposed to admire how fucking efficient this system is.
Mary-Ellen #TU_Rep retweeted
Zohran Mamdani just did what most Democrats and Republicans are too gutless to do.
He looked straight into the camera and said the quiet part out loud:
Republicans called Obama a socialist every single day for 8 years. It didn’t stop him.
Now they’re trying the same tired red-baiting on anyone who wants a New Deal instead of the raw deal working people have been force-fed for decades.
People are hungry for something real. Not more corporate welfare dressed up as “moderation.” Not more “public-private partnerships” that somehow always privatize the profits and socialize the losses.
Mamdani is right. The socialist smear is a dead tactic.
The only question left is whether the Democratic Party has the spine to actually deliver for the people who keep electing them… or if they’ll keep protecting the same donors who’ve been extracting wealth from this country for 40 years.
Keep going, Mayor.
The old guard is terrified for a reason, the midterms have certainly proven a new worth. – at District of Columbia, USA
Mary-Ellen #TU_Rep retweeted
BREAKING NEWS: EIS have voted to join UCU’s National Day of Action!
We’re thrilled that more colleagues across Scotland will be joining UCU and Unison members on the 20th of November.
The more voices we have, the louder we can be.
Together, let’s demand an end to the crisis in post-16 education.
#NationalDayOfAction #EducationItsOurs
Mary-Ellen #TU_Rep retweeted
Please support this important campaign: megaphone.org.uk/petitions/s… via @megaphoneuk
Mary-Ellen #TU_Rep retweeted
So Palantir buying a Labour Lord was good value for their money after all.
Cash for access. Stinks.
Palantir’s Tom Watson, ex-Labour MP, wrote to Yvette Cooper last month saying the controversial US company could help boost the UK’s tech sovereignty, letters show. Weeks later, sources say the UK is extending its NHS contract for two more years
bit.ly/4zrbMYF
Mary-Ellen #TU_Rep retweeted
We have a 20 year infrastructure deficit, a skills crisis, and an unemployment crisis all at the same time.
This only happens when you have successive Governments who don't believe it's their job to deliver anything, and merely have to facilitate "the market".
Key advisers to the Labour government’s industrial strategy have warned that university finances pose a “material strategic risk” to delivering its goals, urging ministers take “radical action”
timeshighereducation.com/new…
Mary-Ellen #TU_Rep retweeted
If people are wondering why the BoE is raising interest rates, even though there is nothing they can do about the Iran war.
Well, it's because they fear workers will start asking for higher wages as a result. So they are trying to slow down the economy to prevent that.
Mary-Ellen #TU_Rep retweeted
If only there was a party that already had this as policy...
Join.greenparty.org.uk
Labour members are urging the Government to take decisive action against Israel by:
✅ recognising the genocide in Gaza
✅ imposing wider sanctions on Israel
✅ ending all arms sales
✅ supporting an immediate and lasting ceasefire
Agree? Sign here: mtm.is/gazapetition
