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Simon Weller

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ASLEF (UK train drivers' union) Assistant General Secretary - former train driver. Member of the TUC General Council.

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Simon Weller @simonweller.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
Really proud that my branch Brighton has donated £1,600 to the ASLEF fighting fund in support of our striking comrades on Hull Trains. #HullTrains #SolidarityInAction #solidarity #ASLEF
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ASLEF @aslefunion.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
Congratulations to Eddie Dempsey. We look forward to continuing our work together to win the best possible future for our railway and all rail workers. Thank you to Mick Lynch for your lifetime of work for our movement and your comradeship with all ASLEF members.
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TUC Global @tucglobal.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
We're pleased to add our support to this. As our Congress policy states, we need the immediate withdrawal of Russian troops and a peaceful end to the conflict. Solidarity with Ukraine and all workers affected by Russia's illegal invasion. 🇺🇦✊
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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 27/12/2024
Unless I’m missing something, Badenoch has tweeted herself into a situation where she is either spreading falsehoods about Reform (i.e. Farage may have a case for libel) or she is saying “CCHQ or someone connected to me broke the law”:
ft.com
Farage and Badenoch trade claims of fake party membership figures
Reform UK says it has surpassed the Conservatives with more than 135,000 members
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Simon Weller @simonweller.bsky.social · 23/12/2024
Completely missing the point, why have the private train operating companies been allowed to run down staffing levels to the point of being utterly reliant on overtime to run a bread and butter service. I expected better from Heidi. #aslef www.lbc.co.uk/news/christm...
lbc.co.uk
Christmas travel chaos made worse by train staff pay rise, transport secretary says
The government’s pay rise for rail staff who now have less need to work overtime has worsened travel chaos for commuters this Christmas, the transport secretary has said.
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Paul Nowak @paulnowaktuc.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
My 2024 lowlights… Tax-dodgers cosplaying as farmers. Public school boys saying they’ll stand up for hard working Brits…then voting against improvements to workers rights. ‘Entrepreneurs’ defending their right to unfairly dismiss people.
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Simon Weller @simonweller.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
I bloody had one. It was great. #daimler #jag #jaguar #jaguarrebrand
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General Boles @generalboles.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
"I like the pink Jag"
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General Boles @generalboles.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
oh when will the BBC stop talking about Gregg Wallace
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Simon Weller @simonweller.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
"shocking pink, might indeed appear more familiar to [...] than the traditional owners of a Jag." Nonsense, I had a pink Jag in 1990. It was a badge engineered Daimler but it was an XJ6 in a frock. #jaguar #rebrand www.theguardian.com/business/202...
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Simon Weller @simonweller.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
That the Treasury didn't know is absolute nonsense. The Treasury were involved in the negotiations. I know. I was one of the #ASLEF negotiators at every stage. #louhaigh #rail www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/202...
telegraph.co.uk
Labour ‘hit job’ against Louise Haigh had been brewing for months
Insiders believe Left-wing MP had a target on her back since ‘going rogue’ with unauthorised pay deal for train drivers
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Torsten Bell @torstenbell.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Here’s a short story about who wins and loses from the status quo of our inheritance tax rules - and about, what you might politely call ‘sub-optimal’ journalism🧵
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Finn Brennan @finnbrennan.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
This can not be allowed to stand. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
theguardian.com
Anti-racism campaigner’s London book events cancelled amid threat of far-right violence
Freedom of speech groups alarmed after events to promote book by Hope Not Hate employee are called off
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Phil Burton-Cartledge @philbc3.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Don't remember Beth Rigby framing questions in this way when the Tories froze wages and benefits, introduced the bedroom tax, tripled tuition fees, and curbed workers' rights.
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Paul Nowak @paulnowaktuc.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Headline translation: Multi-millionaire who bought farm to take advantage of tax break, upset he will lose tax break. 🤷🏻‍♂️ The same newspapers who scream increases in the NMW will damage the economy, are happy to go to the barricades for a tax break for Clarkson, Dyson & friends.
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Toby Earle 🇺🇦 @tobyontv.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
for some reason I’ve remembered what Jeremy Clarkson, who said he bought land to avoid inheritance tax, said on live TV about striking public sector workers (extra marks for use of ‘us’)
• Mr Clarkson went on: "Frankly, I'd have them all shot. I would take them outside and execute them in front of their families. I mean, how dare they go on strike when they have these gilt-edged pensions that are going to be guaranteed while the rest of us have to work for a living?"
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Pippa Crerar @pippacrerar.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
As farmers descend on Westminster today to protest against inheritance tax changes announced at Budget, this is a very thoughtful explainer by ⁦#HelenaHorton 🚜 www.theguardian.com/environment/...
theguardian.com
What are the inheritance tax changes affecting UK farmers?
Farmers to protest in central London as they say changes will destroy family farms
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Torsten Bell @torstenbell.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
So much misinformation around today on who will be affected by changes to inheritance tax - and lobbyists pretending the data isn't clear to obfuscate. We have detailed data on estates so the truth is in fact very clear if you care to look 🧵
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John Rentoul @rentouljohn.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Fancy dress day in Westminster: I’ve never seen so many Tory MPs dressed up as farmers
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Torsten Bell @torstenbell.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Tax due if parents hand on £3m house: £940k Tax due if parents hand on a £3m farm: £0 A reminder of significant tax advantage to farmers vs everyone else AFTER these changes
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Kevin Maguire @kevmag.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Landowners and farmers will still enjoy gold-plated Inheritance Tax terms. Three times the allowance of other people then half the rate with 10 years to pay instead of months is a bloody good deal, whatever they say.
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Kevin Maguire @kevmag.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
With all these tractors and farmers outside Parliament this must be a day Neil Parish is sad to miss #tractorporn
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
If you bring central London to a halt in order to campaign against catastrophic climate change then you're a "barmy" eco "fanatic" who deserves to be locked up. If you do the same to hang on to your multimillion pound inheritance tax exemption then you're a brave freedom fighter defying the odds
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Antonia Bance MP @antoniabance.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Today marks the 1000th day of Putin’s illegal invasion of Ukraine. Slava Ukraini 🇺🇦
This Labour government stands with Ukraine on a Ukraine flag
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John Crace @mrjohncrace.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
Let me think. Our biggest trading partner or Donald Trump www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
theguardian.com
UK must choose between EU and Trump, trade experts warn
Pascal Lamy, former head of the WTO, says Britain will have to take sides if new US administration slaps hefty tariffs on imports, as fears grow over possible trade war
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