Our migration system is broken: We can only fix it through kindness
Today, Dawn Butler and I are speaking out against the hateful rhetoric and policies that seek to divide us. Let’s put the kindness I know and love about Britain back at the heart of this conversation.
Standing in solidarity with workers in dispute
As a proud trade unionist, the Labour Party has always been my natural home. After all our party was founded from the trade union movement with the core principle: to represent ordinary working-class people in Parliament. That principle is something I have and will continue to uphold. It is why I will always support workers in dispute and stand in solidarity with them on picket lines.
Time to Scrap the Two Child Benefit Cap and Lift Children Out of Poverty
The two-child cap on benefits payments is as cruel as it is ineffective. Currently, 1.3 million children across this country are losing out under the cap, with their families losing on average £3,235 directly out of their pockets. The government claims this policy helps to push parents back into work, yet, they still can’t provide a single shred of evidence that this is actually the case.
Justice for Chinese Seafarers’ Families
Liverpool is proud to be the home of the oldest Chinese community in Europe, a community built from long-standing maritime trade links connected to Shanghai, Hong Kong, and other ports of the Far East by the Alfred Holt and Company shipping conglomerate founded in the mid-nineteenth century.
On the anniversary of the National Police Race Action Plan, just what has changed?
That the police have spent the past year cracking down on peaceful protestors while doing nothing to prevent discrimination scandals is proof that the force cares more about protecting the powerful than ending institutional racism.
The case for Universal Free School Meals
One simple way to help struggling families, facing the worst cost of living crisis in over 40 years, is to provide universal free school meals. Some 800,000 children living in poverty are ineligible for this because the cap on earnings outside of Universal Credit is so low. Providing children with a hot, nutritious meal at lunchtime helps their concentration - and thus allows them to achieve their full potential.
The L8 Uprising at 40
In 1981, a working-class community in Toxteth, Liverpool rose up against police racism, unemployment, and Thatcher’s neglect. For Black History Month, we remember the L8 Uprising.