Article from the Washington Free Beacon by Natalie Johnson.
U.K.-based activists aligned with the Labour Party are lobbying House minority leader Nancy Pelosi to support nationwide, single-payer health care across the United States.
The cofounder of Momentum, a hard-left political group born out of the election of U.K. opposition leader Jeremy Corbyn, announced plans Tuesday to organize a phone bank in London, where activists will call Americans in California’s 12th Congressional District to urge them to support “Medicare for All.”
“I’m going to be hosting a phone bank next Wednesday, the 3rd, in my house in Tottenham in London and I’ll make some cakes,” Emma Rees said in a video posted to twitter by National Nurses United, the largest union of registered nurses in the United States.
Emma Rees, a @PeoplesMomentum founder, shares the details of the phonebank she has planned.
U.K. activists are supporting the struggle across the pond by phone banking people in @NancyPelosi's district to urge her to fight for #MedicareForAll. Solidarity! #TWT2018 pic.twitter.com/UwhgO5wKDM
— NationalNursesUnited (@NationalNurses) September 25, 2018
Rees’s event appears to be part of a coordinated campaign across the U.K. to pressure Pelosi to back universal, single-payer health care. Several activists shared plans to host similar events during the 2018 Labour Conference in Liverpool.
Read the entire article at the Washington Free Beacon.
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Take a vote on Kavanaugh already! Spineless GOP at work here! If it were the Demoncrats they would of told the GOP that elections have consequences! So f**k off girly men! Freaking Deep State RINOs!!!!
Communism makes as much sense as Ocasio-Cortez does! That’s why it fails every time it rears its ugly head! Liberalism is a mental deranged disorder. Pelosi, Waters.Vote Republican in Nov. to save our great country from being another Venezuela!
How the hell does a UK politician have the gall or the bad manners to solicit such a thing from a United States Senator? That’s outrageous and should be smeared all over the press like the ridiculousness of the Kavanaugh “hearing”.