Basit Mahmood (@BasitMahmood91) / X

Basit Mahmood

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Basit Mahmood

@BasitMahmood91

Labour Party Councillor for Challney Ward, Luton. Editor of @leftfootfwd. Passionate about tackling poverty and inequality and promoting social mobility.

Joined May 2016

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Basit Mahmood
@BasitMahmood91
Dec 30, 2023
To those who say politics doesn't matter, or who think that it doesn't matter who you vote for, 'everyone's the same', watch this video of Gordon Brown list the last Labour government's achievements. Labour in power transforms the lives of those most in need.
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Basit Mahmood
@BasitMahmood91
Dec 13, 2022
Mick Lynch to BBC: "Why are you pursuing an editorial line that I could read in the Sun or the Daily Mail, or any of the right-wing press in this country and you're not pursuing the fact that working people, millions of them, are being impoverished by the attitude of this govt?"
Basit Mahmood
@BasitMahmood91
Aug 4, 2022
The TUC has pointed out that it would cost around £2.8bn to buy the big five energy retailers at their current market value – that’s about the same amount the Tory government has spent bailing out just one failed provider, Bulb.
Basit Mahmood
@BasitMahmood91
Dec 17, 2022
It cannot be right that while MPs meals were subsidised to the tune of £17 million, the government refuses to find enough money to extend free school meals to 800,000 children living in dire poverty.
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Basit Mahmood
@BasitMahmood91
Nov 21, 2023
A group of UK millionaires have projected a message on to the Treasury building and the Bank of England which says: “Tax our wealth” A 2% tax on those with more than £10 million could raise £22 billion a year, enough to pay for the average salary cost of more than 600,000 nurses
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Basit Mahmood
@BasitMahmood91
Sep 23, 2022
Let this from Gordon Brown sink in: "Things are so bad that @Human_Relief which has spent 30 years focused entirely on aid to the world’s poorest countries, has opened a food bank in Birmingham."
Basit Mahmood
@BasitMahmood91
Aug 11, 2022
The only chart you’ll need when the Tories tell you they want to level up and all people need to do progress is work hard.
Basit Mahmood
@BasitMahmood91
Oct 15, 2022
Eton received £3.3 million of rental income from its real estate portfolio and £5.8 million from selling commercial property. Why then does it have charity status allowing it tax exemptions? Isn't it about time we took a more detailed look at charity status in the UK?
Basit Mahmood
@BasitMahmood91
Dec 13, 2022
Replying to @BasitMahmood91
Tells the @BBCr4today: "I find this a shocking stance that the BBC will take, you're just parroting the most right-wing stuff that you can get hold of on behalf of the establishment and its about time you showed some partiality to your listeners and to working-class people"
Basit Mahmood
@BasitMahmood91
Dec 16, 2024
Eton claims that VAT on private school fees means it will have to slash its bursaries budget by more than £1 million. A reminder that Eton is sitting on a £553 million endowment fund and in 2022 received £3.3 million of rental income from its real estate portfolio as well as...
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Basit Mahmood
@BasitMahmood91
Oct 24, 2022
Rishi Sunak has donated more than £100,000 to Winchester College, his former school and one of the most expensive private schools in the country, while at the same time presiding over real-terms cuts when it comes to state school budgets. Man of the people?
Basit Mahmood
@BasitMahmood91
Oct 24, 2022
The ‘rise of Rishi Sunak’ is not a sign of how we’re some great meritocracy. It’s a sign that class privilege, going to elite private schools, knowing the right people and having obscene amounts of wealth work in your favour. The exact opposite of social mobility and meritocracy.
Basit Mahmood
@BasitMahmood91
Dec 24, 2022
As postal workers take strike action today, worth remembering that last year Royal Mail made £758m in profit and handed out £400m to shareholders. When it came to the workers who created that profit, Royal Mail’s leadership pleaded poverty, offering a pay rise of just 2%.
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Basit Mahmood
@BasitMahmood91
Nov 20, 2022
I still find it mind boggling that we can subsidise MPs meals to the tune of £17 million but the government can’t find enough money to extend free school meals to 800,000 children living in poverty.