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Alex Holmes
@alexcholmes
Labour Councillor for Valentines Ward, Ilford 🌹 | @IlfordNorthCLP Secretary | Got casework? - get in touch at alex.holmes@redbridge.gov.uk
Ilford, London
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    Alex Holmes
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    Jan 13, 2020
    Tonight was the worst Labour party meeting I have ever attended. A member accused me and others of being 'agents of a foreign power' as they proposed a motion attacking the Board of Deputies of British Jews. Me and a Jewish member spoke against the motion, but the motion passed.
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    Alex Holmes
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    Apr 2, 2024
    Wow... Conservative Party political broadcast just now: Ben Bradley says that in Labour-run Councils "you're more likely to have to wait behind non-British nationals for social housing" They're not just the nasty party, they're now sourcing their attacks lines from the BNP.
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    Alex Holmes
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    Jan 13, 2020
    Replying to @alexcholmes
    For the most part the Labour party needs to come back together and re-unite, but for people intent on being racist and supporting racists, there is only one answer: Racists of any kind have no place anywhere near the Labour party, nor any other mainstream political party.
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    Alex Holmes
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    Apr 2, 2024
    Replying to @alexcholmes
    And that's before we even begin factchecking the rest of the video. Channel 4 fact-checked the Council tax claim and confirmed that actually Labour Councils charge £329 less per dwelling than Conservative Councils.
    FactCheck: do Labour or the Conservatives charge lower council tax in England?
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    Alex Holmes
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    Apr 2, 2024
    Replying to @alexcholmes
    I remember a time, not so long ago, when if a Conservative Party candidate used this kind of dog-whistle rhetoric, CCHQ would distance themselves from the candidate. Now they're putting it in the script for their national party political broadcasts.
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    Alex Holmes
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    Jun 18, 2018
    So apparently my opinion that Labour Live was a success is irrelevant because someone of the opposite opinion (who didn't go) was in the Labour party 'before I was born'. No better way to demonstrate the Labour party's problem with attracting young people. I won't be silenced.
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    Alex Holmes
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    Apr 2, 2024
    Replying to @alexcholmes
    Foreign nationals account for only 8% of new social housing lettings in the UK. A foreign national is far more likely to be building a new council house than getting one. In London for example, foreign nationals account for 40% of the construction of buildings workforce.
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    Alex Holmes
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    Jan 13, 2020
    Replying to @alexcholmes
    Their motion claimed that there was 'no antisemitism in the Labour Party' and the proposers used multiple antisemitic tropes to make their point that the Board of Deputies is a 'Tory organisation' 'illegally interfering in the Labour leadership contest'
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    Alex Holmes
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    Aug 13, 2020
    The worst recession in recorded history is beginning. The job market is non-existant. Rent is unaffordable and unregulated. A level results have been an unmitigated disaster. And Brexit means we no longer have freedom of movement to escape. My generation have been failed.
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    Alex Holmes
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    Apr 10, 2021
    Disappointing that Shaun Bailey isn't observing the suspension of campaigning in respect of Prince Philip. I've received a leaflet through my door this morning, and been promoted a Facebook ad by his campaign. It would take only a few seconds for Bailey to pause his ads.
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    Alex Holmes
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    Apr 6, 2021
    Replying to @LordBikebot
    Also, Brentwood isn't in Greater London. It's in Essex. Nobody in Brentwood who went on this hypothetical journey can even vote in the London Mayoral elections.
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    Alex Holmes
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    Jan 14, 2020
    The most creative conspiracy theory I've seen about me on twitter so far this morning is one that includes a claim that @wesstreeting sent me on an 'all-expenses paid holiday' which made me 'right-wing'. Where's my free holiday Wes?
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    Alex Holmes
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    Feb 23, 2020
    It is completely inappropriate for an official Labour Party twitter account to publish material like this in defence of someone reportedly suspended from the party over serious accusations of antisemitism. This looks a lot like institutional antisemitism.
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    West Ham Labour
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    Feb 23, 2020
    Solidarity with Mehmood Mirza our nomination for NEC and vice chair. He's been suspended just before the NEC election where he is clear favourite for the BAME post Sign letter of support docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI… Joint statement from LRC, JVL & Red Labour jewishvoiceforlabour.org.uk/statement/a-jo…
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    Alex Holmes
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    Sep 25, 2019
    Last night at a meeting of my local Labour Party, someone told me that I 'have an agenda' for calling out an incident of antisemitism and that 'antisemitism exists no more in the Labour party than in wider society'. Denial of antisemitism is an institutional problem in our party.