Matt Kerr @_Matt_Kerr Twitter profile

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Matt Kerr

@_Matt_Kerr

4 years

A note to comrades elsewhere in the UK that fawn over the SNP. Today, the SNP teamed-up with the Tories to block support for tenants, block collective bargaining in private social care, and to vote against further support for women seeking contraception. Reality.

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Matt Kerr

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4 years

Branson likes to present himself and Virgin as being the cuddly face of capitalism. Let’s get this straight - he’s a billionaire union-buster who’s sued the NHS, and is now looking for a £6.5bn handout from the government whilst not paying his employees for 8 weeks. Classy.

Sky News

@SkyNews

4 years

BREAKING: Virgin Atlantic plans to cut about 80% of flights each day by the 26th of March, grounding 75% of planes by then. They are also asking staff to take 8 weeks of unpaid leave during the next three months. More on #COVID19 here:

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Matt Kerr

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1 year

I still stand with @jeremycorbyn This is an unprecedented act of vindictiveness that comes borne of weakness, not strength. You don’t need to support Corbyn to know this is outrageous. Speak up.

iain watson

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this is ⁦ @Keir_Starmer ⁩'s motion to ⁦ @UKLabour ⁩ NEC to debar ⁦ @jeremycorbyn ⁩ as a candidate

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Matt Kerr

@_Matt_Kerr

4 years

Yesterday I announced that I could not vote for any cuts budget being proposed for the city that I represent. I have had enough, this city has had enough and we owe it to the people we represent to put up a fight.

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Matt Kerr

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3 years

The Home Office needs reminded every now and again that Glasgow welcomes refugees. We came together today in solidarity, and proved that it works. Well done @AamerAnwar in negotiating it, and to everyone who stood by their neighbours.

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Matt Kerr

@_Matt_Kerr

4 years

Saddened to hear of incidents where some governments systematically improverish, humiliate, and demonise working-class people.

Vicky Ford

@vickyford

4 years

Saddened to hear of incidents of some parents using free school meals vouchers for alcohol & non food products despite clear restrictions & also threatening supermarket staff. Am speaking to all supermarkets on what more can be done to protect staff and make sure kids get food.

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Matt Kerr

@_Matt_Kerr

1 year

SNP literally just voted through the biggest cuts to Glasgow City Council in its history, and this is the chat. I don’t what they’re stronger for, but it’s not Glasgow.

Alex Kerr

@AlexKerrSNP

1 year

Looks like the Labour party in Glasgow have decided they don't need to show up to Glasgow's city budget. It's no wonder the people of Glasgow no longer trust them to run our city - an absolute dereliction of their duty as councillors.

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Matt Kerr

@_Matt_Kerr

4 years

Proud to call ⁦ @LabourRichard ⁩ a friend and comrade - solidarity with him today and into the future. Those looking to depose him aren’t fit to lace his boots.

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Matt Kerr

@_Matt_Kerr

4 years

Time to put my money where my mouth is. Here’s why I’m standing to be the next Deputy Leader of the Scottish Labour Party.

Renewing Scottish Labour

Glasgow councillor Matt Kerr explains why he’s running for deputy leader of Scottish Labour - to empower a new generation in the party's grassroots and ensure that Labour fights for real democracy,...

tribunemag.co.uk

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Matt Kerr

@_Matt_Kerr

2 years

2 years ago I ran for deputy leader of the Scottish Labour Party. Many of us predicted the present situation and argued that Labour needed to define a mandate for a ref, and what to do about it. If we didn’t deal with it then, we’d be forced into it later. It’s now “later”.

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Matt Kerr

@_Matt_Kerr

5 years

Health minister for 7 years, and first minister for 5 years. Unable or unwilling to give an honest answer to a straight question on the drug death crisis we face. Frightening.

ITV News

@itvnews

5 years

'You were warned that reducing the funding for addiction services would lead to an increase in deaths' ITV News Scotland Correspondent @PeterAdamSmith presses Nicola Sturgeon on the Scottish Government's record tackling the drug crisis in the country

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Matt Kerr

@_Matt_Kerr

1 year

Nice pic of an SNP councillor doing their job, voting through the biggest cuts in the council’s history with a tug of the forelock.

Cllr Ruairi Kelly

@RuairiKelly_

1 year

Selfie with all the Glasgow Labour councillors doing their job

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Matt Kerr

@_Matt_Kerr

3 years

That’s a novel idea, but probably better sticking it in your arm.

Gordon Dimmack

@GordonDimmack

3 years

Some in the crowd chant, "You can stick your f-ing vaccine up your arse!" #londonprotest

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Matt Kerr

@_Matt_Kerr

4 months

A speaker that can be so easily turned over cannot stay in post. Someone who’s willing to threaten a speaker in such a way shouldn’t be either. There’s a pattern of behaviour here, you’ve been warned.

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Matt Kerr

@_Matt_Kerr

4 years

3 years ago, 72 people died and a community was devastated by a fire fuelled by profiteering and negligence. Not one person has been charged. The language of priorities. #GrenfellTower

robert shrimsley

@robertshrimsley

4 years

10 years is more than many first offenders will get for rape.

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Matt Kerr

@_Matt_Kerr

3 years

If you can get there, please get along to Kenmure St and help!

Stand Up To Racism

@AntiRacismDay

3 years

Community response in the southside of Glasgow stopping a Home Office dawn raid right now. A family inside the van. An activist is under the van to stop them moving

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Matt Kerr

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5 years

The SNP can’t find £4m to end the benefit cap in Scotland and can’t find that extra £5 a child for child benefit. Today they announced £150m of cash to inflate house prices. The language of priorities indeed.

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Matt Kerr

@_Matt_Kerr

4 years

This afternoon I met with 13 students from the University of Stirling who have been suspended for occupying a building in support of the UCU strikes last year. It is unacceptable how these students have been treated. We should be behind them every step of the way ✊ #Matt4Deputy

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Matt Kerr

@_Matt_Kerr

4 years

No-one is illegal. Though sometimes I wish this scumbag was. People are dead and injured, and this is the first thing that pops into what passes for his brain.

Nigel Farage

@Nigel_Farage

4 years

Horrible tragedy in a Glasgow Hotel housing illegal immigrants. All over the UK, hotels are filling up with young men who are coming across the Channel every day. It is a massive risk to our wellbeing — yet the government does nothing.

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Matt Kerr

@_Matt_Kerr

4 years

Well done to all on the Trade Union movement who fought for and won the extension of the furlough scheme - excellent result. What’s next? @The_TUC @ScottishTUC @CWUnews

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Matt Kerr

@_Matt_Kerr

4 years

B...b...b...but that’s cOmmUisM!

The Guardian

@guardian

4 years

Give 1m UK children reliable broadband or risk harming their education, MPs say

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Matt Kerr

@_Matt_Kerr

4 years

A boy has lost his life trying to get to a place where he hoped to find safety, security, and maybe to build a future. It’s the biggest compliment imaginable that he saw this land as a place to do that, and a murderous insult to him that we don’t recognise it. #RefugeesWelcome

Lizzie Dearden

@lizziedearden

4 years

Breaking: A 16-year-old Sudanese boy has drowned in the English Channel while trying to reach the UK French authorities announced the death with "immense sadness" after his body was washed up on Sangatte beach

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@_Matt_Kerr

4 years

20 years of decline put down to one guy that was hired a few weeks ago, another that’s barely a year in position, and a third that was elected 3 years ago. That’s some take.

mike elrick

@elrick1

4 years

The General Secretary of the Scottish Labour Party is a Corbynista, the party's head of comms used to work for the Morning Star and new spinner is an ex John McDonnell staffer. Make no mistake, the shitfest that Scottish Labour now finds itself in, is very Corbyn Labour.

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Matt Kerr

@_Matt_Kerr

3 years

After almost 14 years of SNP cuts to council budgets that directly led to the cuts in music tuition... This pledge is beyond belief - literally.

Kenny Farquharson

@KennyFarq

3 years

SNP promises free music tuition in schools. My exclusive news story in ⁦ @thetimes ⁩ today.

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Matt Kerr

@_Matt_Kerr

4 years

The co-ordinated attacks on @LabourRichard from his own side are selfish and literally self-defeating. The thing about co-ordinated attacks, is that someone is doing the co-ordinating. Rooting out the culprits is a job for the deputy leader, don’t you think @jackiebmsp ?

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Matt Kerr

@_Matt_Kerr

1 year

This is utterly disgusting. A gutter-trawling dog-whistle-fest. Whoever signed this off should be expelled.

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Matt Kerr

@_Matt_Kerr

4 years

Two parties of government in a p***ing contest over who is the least incompetent. Utterly pathetic.

The SNP Media

@theSNPMedia

4 years

While deaths in care homes are deeply troubling for all of us, this is not unique to Scotland. A study by the London School of Economics found that Covid related deaths in English care homes are likely to be severely underestimated.

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Matt Kerr

@_Matt_Kerr

4 years

72hrs later, I’m on the ballot to stand to be the next Deputy Leader of ⁦ @scottishlabour ⁩ Thank you everyone who encouraged me to have a crack at it, and all those who nominated me. Looking forward to the next few weeks!

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Matt Kerr

@_Matt_Kerr

4 years

Having. None. Of. It.

James McEnaney

@MrMcEnaney

4 years

I am never, ever going to understand people who think Glasgow is a beautiful city.

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Matt Kerr

@_Matt_Kerr

4 years

Its often said that you can predict exam results on the socio-economic status of the family. Quite another thing to actually make that policy. Bold from the @theSNP

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Matt Kerr

@_Matt_Kerr

4 years

To avoid having to share the S*n, here’s Alyn Smith’s letter. “...equalities are close to my heart, but not as close as independence” Hard to know what’s worse; that he made that statement, or that he felt he had to...

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Matt Kerr

@_Matt_Kerr

4 years

Very sad to lose a friend and comrade this morning. Maria Fyfe was an inspiration to so many - a socialist, feminist, and a tireless worker for a better world.

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Matt Kerr

@_Matt_Kerr

2 years

Great at turnout at parliament from CWU comrades on strike for your service and their jobs #StandByYourPost @cwu_scotland @CWUnews

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Matt Kerr

@_Matt_Kerr

8 months

It’s just staggering that that the Labour “leadership” figures are now asking for humanitarian aid to be permitted through a siege they supported a few days ago in the full knowledge it would spark a humanitarian crisis. “Pathetic” doesn’t really do it justice.

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Matt Kerr

@_Matt_Kerr

3 years

Attlee helped depose an incompetent PM during a world war, but demanding the resignation of an incompetent Health Sec found to have acted illegally is somehow beyond the pale during a public health emergency. This is absurd.

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Matt Kerr

@_Matt_Kerr

5 years

That's me just arrived down in Brighton for Labour Party conference. Looking forward to a week of bold socialist policies to take us into a General Election! ☀

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Matt Kerr

@_Matt_Kerr

4 years

Not illegal. Unhelpful language here from @GlasgowCC . There’s a difference between not having legal protection (poor as it is) to strike, and breaking the law. The right to withdraw labour is a human right.

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Matt Kerr

@_Matt_Kerr

4 years

Yer da needs to pay more tax too. Ffs @PeoplesMomentum

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Matt Kerr

@_Matt_Kerr

4 years

. @LabourTogether report sums up the party in Scotland - all evidence points to the need to win working-class SNP voters back, big wigs chase Tories anyway. Absolutely crazy.

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Matt Kerr

@_Matt_Kerr

4 years

A modest proposal - sign here to call for rent cancellation 👇

To: The Labour Party

cc: Thangam Debbonaire MP, Keir Starmer MP On the Subject of Rent and COVID-19: Across the United Kingdom, in every single one of your constituencies, there are private renters. These private renters...

docs.google.com

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Matt Kerr

@_Matt_Kerr

1 year

Tell you what, if you don’t like Kate Forbes’ views on social issues, just wait until you hear her views on economics…

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Matt Kerr

@_Matt_Kerr

11 months

Utterly disgusting.

Saul Staniforth

@SaulStaniforth

11 months

Starmer running to be leader: "We must scrap the... two-child limit" Starmer now: We're not scrapping it.

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Matt Kerr

@_Matt_Kerr

5 years

As the Scottish Leaders’ debate was taking place tonight, patients at the Southern General were waiting 2.5hrs to get out of ambulances. It’s now down to 1 hour to get out of the ambulance and 8 hours to get a bed. This is totally unacceptable.

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Matt Kerr

@_Matt_Kerr

5 years

Absolutely delighted at this announcement - the next Labour government will compensate 1950s women denied their pensions. No other party will do this. #WASPI #VoteLabour2019

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Matt Kerr

@_Matt_Kerr

2 years

Gee whiz, what a commitment that is, eh? 3 months of no compulsory redundancies? They must think posties zip up the back of the head. @CWUnews @cwu_scotland #StandByYourPost

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Matt Kerr

@_Matt_Kerr

4 years

That’s some volley.

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Matt Kerr

@_Matt_Kerr

4 years

I stand with Corbyn.

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Matt Kerr

@_Matt_Kerr

4 years

It’s a beautiful thing.

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Matt Kerr

@_Matt_Kerr

5 years

The campaign is going great so far, and it's humbling to be backed by such amazing activists ✊Let's win this for the many!🌹

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Matt Kerr

@_Matt_Kerr

3 years

To anyone who was at the Kenmure St today - the megaphone being used was @StrathclydeUCU ’s and they’re going to need it again (and again, and again). Does anyone know where it ended up? 😂

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Matt Kerr

@_Matt_Kerr

9 months

This is bizarre. Talking about the rate of spending of the last Labour government in glowing terms, then committing to cowing to an unelected organisation explicitly set up to prevent spending like that again. Osborne created the OBR to bake-in austerity.

Keir Starmer

@Keir_Starmer

9 months

Labour is the party of economic stability.

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Matt Kerr

@_Matt_Kerr

4 years

If the site goes bust, the state can buy it for a knock-down price just as he did. No bailouts for this man or this industry without assuming control of it.

Rob Edwards

@robedwards53

4 years

The Ineos refinery at Grangemouth is reported to be seeking a loan of up to £500m from the Scottish and UK governments to help cope with the slump in oil demand caused by @coronavirus .

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Matt Kerr

@_Matt_Kerr

3 years

A new year, and time for a new, activist, parliament.

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Matt Kerr

@_Matt_Kerr

4 years

On the appalling S*n front page... Why the shock? This is the pond-life level they’ve operated at for decades. Don’t buy it, don’t share it.

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Matt Kerr

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4 years

NEC has overstepped its powers. Whatever your view of voting systems, this is an appalling precedent.

Sienna Rodgers

@siennamarla

4 years

NEW: STV has passed – Labour's next NEC elections will be conducted under the new voting system favoured by the leadership.

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Matt Kerr

@_Matt_Kerr

4 years

This is the same guy that went down a zipwire waving two union flags in his suit in front of the national press corps. No, definitely not into gestures.

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Matt Kerr

@_Matt_Kerr

3 years

Wrong. Again.

Keir Starmer says safe consumption rooms are not answer to Scot's drug deaths

The Labour leader left supporters of the plans to cut the death toll dismayed.

www.dailyrecord.co.uk

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Matt Kerr

@_Matt_Kerr

1 year

I hope at some point we can progress to the question - “why the hell are we locking up vulnerable women in the first place?”

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Matt Kerr

@_Matt_Kerr

4 years

Solidarity with Richie Venton, and with the workers he was fighting for. @IKEAUK must reinstate him now. @ReinstateRV #ReinstateRichieVenton

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Matt Kerr

@_Matt_Kerr

4 years

You don’t get to just renounce white privilege and if you think you can, you don’t understand what it is. This may be well intentioned, but it’s profoundly ignorant.

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Matt Kerr

@_Matt_Kerr

3 years

When will @scottishlabour learn? Covid, a drugs death crisis, countless thousand living in precarity unable to feed their families - while for some the priority is to feed the gutter press. Time to get real.

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Matt Kerr

@_Matt_Kerr

5 years

Great to have Jeremy Corbyn over at the office this morning, talking about how a Labour government will transform the fortunes of people across Glasgow South West. More pics to follow!

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Matt Kerr

@_Matt_Kerr

1 year

£15bn in benefits go unclaimed. Ignore scum like this, who lie about the extent of fraud to stigmatise and discourage you. Claim what you’re due.

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Matt Kerr

@_Matt_Kerr

11 months

I can’t emphasise enough how farcical this prosecution was. This took nearly 2 years and 3 cancelled starts to bring to trial, wasting countless hours of court time, police time, jurors’ time, and for what? It’s hard not to conclude this was political.

Young communist found not guilty over Cop26 protest

morningstaronline.co.uk

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Matt Kerr

@_Matt_Kerr

5 years

This is the same @joswinson and @LibDems who were perfectly happy to enter into a coalition delivering lethal welfare cuts for the princely sum of a 5p tax on a plastic bag. Risible.

Mirror Politics

@MirrorPolitics

5 years

Lib Dems reject plan to make Jeremy Corbyn PM to block no-deal Brexit as 'nonsense'

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Matt Kerr

@_Matt_Kerr

6 years

A tragic low for @thetimes Their regurgitated smear against a dead man - Michael Foot - who took them to court over it and won, is incredible. Literally not credible. In the rush to smear this great fellow journalist, they only undermine further the trade itself.

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Matt Kerr

@_Matt_Kerr

2 months

Human rights lawyer tells the world he’s willing to use illegal weapons of mass destruction to kill them.

Keir Starmer

@Keir_Starmer

2 months

The changed Labour Party I lead knows that our nation’s defence must always come first. That's why today I was the first Labour leader in over 30 years to see Britain’s nuclear submarines being built in Barrow-in-Furness. Labour backs Barrow, and we back our nuclear deterrent.

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Matt Kerr

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4 years

Not for the first time, I can’t help but wonder what planet this guy is on. Around 80% of council funding is controlled by the parliament he’s sat on for the past 9 years - and every year he’s voted to cut his city’s budget.

John Mason

@JohnMasonMSP

4 years

@rebel_debt_dude I think the Council feels that money for communities should go into communities rather than to advice services. If CABx are to get more money, other community organisations will have to be cut.

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@_Matt_Kerr

4 years

It’s fitting that the union that has backed me all my working life has delivered the nomination that puts me on the ballot paper for Scottish Labour Deputy Leader. Our Party needs a fresh future and I intend to help deliver just that. #Matt4Deputy

The Red Robin

@redrobinscot

4 years

Exclusive: Matt Kerr first to secure required support for Scottish Labour deputy leader ballot

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4 years

Somewhere in the middle of all of this there are two families who are being dragged through hell as a result of his actions.

BBC Scotland News

@BBCScotlandNews

4 years

BREAKING Derek Mackay has resigned as finance secretary on #scotbudget day

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@_Matt_Kerr

4 years

After my news last night about being the first candidate on the ballot paper, I'd like to give another huge thanks to my union @CWUnews @cwu_scotland for their nomination for Scottish Labour Deputy Leader #Matt4Deputy

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Matt Kerr

@_Matt_Kerr

4 years

Yes, @GlasgowSNP have failed on this, but the root cause lies with a @scotgov who’ve been merrily outsourcing cuts to councils for 13 years. If only there was a prominent MSP in that gov that would stand up for their city, eh?

Citizens Advice Scotland

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4 years

Our Chair Rory Mair has warned that cuts and closures to Citizens Advice Bureaux in Glasgow would be a ‘devastating blow’ to the city.

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Matt Kerr

@_Matt_Kerr

4 years

I was first elected as a councillor in 2007 and became a father a few weeks later. My daughter will soon reach her 13th birthday having only known austerity — that must change. As deputy leader of the Scottish Labour Party I will fight for that change. #Matt4Deputy

Morning Star

@M_Star_Online

4 years

Time to break with a Scottish government that doesn't work for us: We need to consider withdrawing our co-operation and showing the SNP we'll no longer accept a regime of cuts and austerity, writes MATT KERR @MattKerrLabour @scottishlabour #Scotland #SNP

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Matt Kerr

@_Matt_Kerr

7 years

Full Council today, but it's going to be very empty indeed without my colleague, comrade, and friend Alistair Watson.

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Matt Kerr

@_Matt_Kerr

4 years

Absolutely delighted to have been nominated by Unite the Union #Matt4Deputy

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Matt Kerr

@_Matt_Kerr

5 years

Absolutely delighted at the 97.1% yes vote for industrial action turned out by @CWUnews in defence of our 4 pillars agreement. Well done to everyone who delivered this #WeRiseAgain 🦁

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Matt Kerr

@_Matt_Kerr

4 years

What’s Cummings got on the Prime Minister?

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Matt Kerr

@_Matt_Kerr

4 years

I’d urge anyone with a vote in this to back Lara. Strong, principled voices like hers are exactly what we need on the NEC.

Lara McNeill

@lara_eleanor

4 years

After speaking to comrades from across the labour movement, I’m pleased to announce that I will be re-standing to be the Youth Representative on the Labour Party’s NEC. ✨ Read my launch statement here:

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Matt Kerr

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4 years

This is tragic, but the circumstances around this - ambulances queuing for hours with staff and patients effectively trapped - is happening on a regular basis now. I don’t want to hear about Wales, I want this sorted.

Scots patient suffers heart attack while waiting hours in massive A&E queue

Concerned ambulance staff told how, at one point on Monday, 15 ambulances were queued up outside Scotland’s showpiece hospital, the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital in Glasgow.

www.dailyrecord.co.uk

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Matt Kerr

@_Matt_Kerr

5 years

Tomorrow at @GlasgowCC , I will attempt to table this emergency motion, ably seconded by @ChristyMearns I hope the urgency will be recognised - we have an opportunity to take public transport in Glasgow into public control again - let’s @GetGlesgaMoving

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Matt Kerr

@_Matt_Kerr

4 years

Correct position.

Glenn Campbell

@GlennBBC

4 years

“I cannot see anybody ... who would make a better leader” Richard Leonard ⁦ @LabourRichard ⁩ says attempts to oust him as ⁦ @scottishlabour ⁩ leader are an “act of sabotage” But he confirms to ⁦ @BBCScotlandNews ⁩ he is prepared to fight a leadership challenge

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Matt Kerr

@_Matt_Kerr

5 years

It's amazing to welcome @jeremycorbyn to Govan. Local groups like @CCG_Comunity and others have been left to pick up the pieces after almost a decade of Tory austerity. We need a new Labour Government committed to fighting hunger, poverty and inequality #ForTheMany #ByTheMany

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Matt Kerr

@_Matt_Kerr

4 years

Stunned.

Patrick Maguire

@patrickkmaguire

4 years

Ian Murray, now shadow Scotland secretary, was the eighth original member of the Independent Group before pulling out at the eleventh hour. Here he is rehearsing their launch:

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Matt Kerr

@_Matt_Kerr

4 years

If the SNP could at least agree to stop voting down proposals for rent controls, that would be progress.

The National

@ScotNational

4 years

Should rent controls be introduced across Scotland?

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Matt Kerr

@_Matt_Kerr

9 months

It’s always a laugh reading that Labour controls the trade unions. It really is trumpian mince.

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Matt Kerr

@_Matt_Kerr

5 years

The provost earns twice the average Glaswegian’s wage, and thinks these are reasonable claims to make. She is wrong.

The Daily Record

@Daily_Record

5 years

Glasgow's Lord Provost billed the taxpayer for 23 pairs of shoes as part of an £8000 spending spree on clothing and beauty products.

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@_Matt_Kerr

3 years

Delighted to see @MonicaLennon7 stand for leader of @scottishlabour Someone with a sensible approach to the constitution and someone who demonstrates her belief in public services not just with words but with deeds.

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Matt Kerr

@_Matt_Kerr

7 months

Like the teacher who could never work the VCR in class learning the difference between ‘pause’ and ‘stop’.

Keir Starmer

@Keir_Starmer

7 months

The end of the cessation of hostilities in Gaza is deeply concerning, I urge all sides not to squander progress made over the last week.

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Matt Kerr

@_Matt_Kerr

4 years

A piece wot I wrote.

Tribune

@tribunemagazine

4 years

Scottish Labour declined because it failed to use its position to tackle the country's deep inequalities. Its path back runs through learning those lessons – not hardline positions on independence, argues @MattKerrLabour .

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Matt Kerr

@_Matt_Kerr

4 years

I attended a demo outside the Stirling University campus today, protesting against the suspension of 13 students for supporting their lecturers during the UCU strikes last year. Solidarity with the striking UCU staff. Solidarity with the suspended students! ✊🌹

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Matt Kerr

@_Matt_Kerr

5 years

A commitment to put Labour values into action. We know private schools perpetuate inequality. Those defending them on grounds of “choice” forget the overwhelming majority for whom these schools add no choice at all. #Lab19

Paul Hutcheon

@paulhutcheon

5 years

No doubt about it. This is Labour’s most left wing position ever on private schools

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Matt Kerr

@_Matt_Kerr

3 years

Delighted at this - five years ago the Crown Office and Police were consulted about doing this in Glasgow. This result moves beyond the private sympathy for the policy we found then - this is a real step forward. Well done @PeteKrykant_OPC

Drugs activist Peter Krykant won't be charged over overdose prevention van

The Crown Office has told Peter Krykant he will not face court action after he refused to accept a caution relating to the running of his drugs van in Glasgow.

www.dailyrecord.co.uk

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Matt Kerr

@_Matt_Kerr

5 years

Good luck to comrades in the @CWUnews team today as they appeal the ridiculous injunction preventing postal workers from exercising their human right to withdraw labour. Luck shouldn’t come into it though. #WeRiseAgain 🦁

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Matt Kerr

@_Matt_Kerr

4 years

It’s time we got our act together on this. We are democrats as well as socialists, and we need to listen. Labour must sort out its position on indyref2 | The Scotsman

Matt Kerr: Labour must sort out its position on indyref2

Our constitution is a complete dog's breakfast, says Labour's Matt Kerr.

www.scotsman.com

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Matt Kerr

@_Matt_Kerr

2 years

Being caught on the hop in politics happens, but seeing something perfectly predictable coming down the track and doing little to prepare isn’t a good idea.

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Matt Kerr

@_Matt_Kerr

4 years

The General Election result was devastating, Scottish Labour needs a fresh future, and a new generation to rebuild our Party. 🌹Vote for Matt Kerr for Deputy Leader of the Scottish Labour Party🌹

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Matt Kerr

@_Matt_Kerr

4 years

Delighted to stand alongside @MonicaLennon7 as we rally outside Parliament for her #PeriodPoverty bill. I am happy to support such a brilliant bill which will help provide free sanitary products for all! 🌹

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Matt Kerr

@_Matt_Kerr

4 years

"The students of Stirling University should be applauded for standing shoulder to shoulder with working people who are trying to fight casualisation and fight marketisation" #Matt4Deputy

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Matt Kerr

@_Matt_Kerr

4 years

It’s not even as if a 2 year rent freeze is a remotely radical step. The Scottish Government and Parliament itself has been consistently pathetic on this.

Ben Wray

@Ben_Wray1989

4 years

Some numbers on private sector renters in Scotland from JRF poll: - 45% have seen a drop in income - 71% have cut back on spending - 58% borrowed or used up savings - 42% worried about ability to pay rent Explain to me again why @ScotParl voted against a 2 year rent freeze?

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Matt Kerr

@_Matt_Kerr

4 years

I'm a proud lifelong trade unionist, it's time for a fresh approach for the Scottish Labour Party #Matt4Deputy

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