Ian Walters

You can vote for me if you are a member in City of Derby, City of Leicester, East Riding, Hull, Leicestershire, Lincolnshire, North East Lincolnshire, North Lincolnshire, Northern Derbyshire, Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, Rutland or Southern Derbyshire.

I am delighted to be standing in the #NEU National Executive Elections for District 3. The postal vote is now open and members will receive their ballot papers in the next few days. Please vote Ian Walters #1 to elect me to the national Exec.

⚠️The Spring Forecast is TOMORROW⚠️

Watch this space: we’ll be giving you updates on what Chancellor Rachel Reeves announces about school funding tomorrow.

Rachel Reeves' Plan To Cut Welfare Spending Reveals Labour's Twisted Priorities, Green MP Says Writing for HuffPost UK, Carla Denyer says the government is making all the wrong choices.

I wrote for @huffpost.com on why the government's plans to slash welfare spending are a cruel, unnecessary choice. Time to start taxing wealth fairly instead of stripping away support from those who can least afford to lose it.

www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/green-...

Over Three Quarters Of Universal Credit Recipients Go Without Essentials Over three quarters of benefits recipients have gone without essentials in the last six months, according to polling shared exclusively with Politi...

Over 75% of people receiving Universal Credit and disability benefits have gone without essentials in the last 6 months, polling shared exclusively with PolHome shows

43% have skipped meals to keep up with other costs

The new @trusselluk.bsky.social research comes ahead of reported welfare cuts

Eddie Dempsey elected as RMT general secretary Transport union RMT, today confirmed that Eddie Dempsey has been elected unopposed as the union’s new General Secretary.

Eddie Dempsey elected as RMT general secretary

Transport union RMT, today confirmed that Eddie Dempsey has been elected unopposed as the union’s new General Secretary.
rmtunion.org/43ocx7V

Today I joined staff and parents outside Highbury Quadrant and St. Jude’s primary schools, both facing closure.

This would be devastating for our community. Well done to all those who are campaigning to keep them open — you have my full support.

Save our schools!

“If you don’t know your rights, you have no rights.”

Learn and know your rights ✊🏾

We have got to stop kidding ourselves that appeasing Trump & trying to please him gains us any leverage, any guarantees, any reliable favour.

Trump has chosen Putin and the oligarchy. We must cancel his state visit. @ukstoptrump.bsky.social

*No Other Land* airs on *Channel 4 at 11.15pm, Tuesday 4 March.* Please share widely so as many people as possible can witness how Israel steals Palestinian land and destroys homes and lives, shown through the eyes of Basel, a Palestinian filmmaker, and Yuval, an Israeli journalist.

Strike action on the table as NEU launches pay ballot The biggest union’s indicative ballot asks whether teachers would be willing to take strike action over a recommended 2.8 per cent pay rise

“The government was elected in the hope it would value education, but a 2.8% pay award without funding does the opposite. Like the Conservatives before them, they are forcing schools to make more cuts.” - Daniel Kebede, NEU general secretary.
www.tes.com/magazine/new...

A brilliant Banksy.

Today, we have launched our preliminary ballot on pay and funding.

The government’s unfunded 2.8% pay rise will mean schools have to make cuts to staff, resources or both.

It’s time to act – vote now 👉 NEUActivate.com

#FundFairPay #SaveOurSchools

Petition: Cancel Trump’s state visit Stop Trump Coalition

stoptrump.org.uk/petition-can...

If even the Mail is saying it...

Musk tanks Tesla share value.

The price of being a Nazi.

Regardless of whether you support increasing defence spending, this - and indeed any policy - should never be paid for by the poorest, either in the UK or overseas.

This is a political choice, not a necessity, and it is the wrong one.

Shameful.

Labour talk about difficult decisions and tough choices.

The choice this time? To cut the foreign aid budget.

Why are the 'difficult choices' never taxing the wealth of the super rich?

The ballot opens this Saturday! With schools already facing a funding crisis, please vote. Our union is member-led; we cannot do anything without you sharing your thoughts and feelings. Make your voices heard✊🏻

Many are asking what lessons the Labour Party can learn from the rise of the far right in Germany.

The answer? When social democratic governments fail to deliver, they open the door to extremists.

We need common-sense socialist policies to tackle inequality, not scapegoats.

A message from Leicestershire’s branch secretary, Tim Clamp. The indicative strike ballot opens on Saturday (1st March)- make sure your voice is heard! #neu #leicestershire #ballot #vote #fundfairpay

The @Telegraph, @thetimes, @MailOnline & @TheSun publish corrections to their scaremongering on undocumented migrants in London.

Imagine between them the reach & power of these papers.
The fact is they are using that power to instil Trumpist hate & we are ill-equipped to resist.

Absolutely right Rory Stewart

January 11, 2023 Just before PMQs we get a call to say one of our MPs, Andrew Bridgen, has made a Twitter connection between the vaccine rollout and the Holocaust. No 10 is initially inclined to “demand an apology” but due to Bridgen being an utter knob, we agree the more decisive and meaningful course of action is to suspend the whip with “immediate effect”. The antivaxers go spare; to them our move confirms the Deep State is at work. The reality is he is a malevolent creep whom nobody likes, and we really don’t need him in our party. A massive cheer goes up in the whips’ office when I tell them.

How Andrew Bridgen lasted 14 years as an MP is utterly astounding.

From Rishi Sunak's former chief whip Simon Hart's diary 👇
thetimes.com/uk/politics/article/egos-fights-sex-scandals-confessions-chief-whip-0xjwb6kgt

It feels like we're one bad round of golf away from America joining the Ukraine war... on Russia's side.

Feels a bit like Jan 6, except this time without the naïve belief that everyone would abandon Trump once his depravity became undeniable.

It’s a coup. It’s a strategic alliance with Putin. It’s the end of the post-war international order. It’s the triumph of lies over truth and in Putin’s case, evil over good. We are through the looking glass & we all now have to decide who we are & what we stand for

I regret to say there has been a lot of foolishness on some sections the left about #Ukraine, echoing Russian and far-right talking points. (Just as shamefully, the same people supported Assad in Syria). Now is the time to put that foolishness aside. We should all stand with Ukraine.

REAL HOPE. REAL CHANGE. Rachel Reeves meets with Britain's top investment bankers as she scrambles for economic growth Mail Online STOP CHATTING TO THEM. START TAXING THEM. (THE SUPER-RICH) Green Party Promoted by Chris Williams on behalf of The Green Party, both at PO Box 78066, London SE16 9GQ

Rachel Reeves is off to chat with investment bankers about how to boost ‘economic growth’.

We’ve got an idea! Instead of chatting with super-rich bankers, how about we tax them fairly and use the money to invest in decent public services for everyone 🤔