Retired @UKLabour & @CoopParty City Councillor โ€ข@LUFCโ€ข@Leedsrhinosโ€ข Now politically homeless

Joined April 2012
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Maybe Mark Rowley should spend less time doing the media rounds, swigging tea and shilling for big tech, and more time doing his job.
'London will be less safe', says Sir Mark Rowley, after London mayor Sadiq Khan blocked a contract between Palantir and the Metropolitan police โฌ‡๏ธ
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Weโ€™ve reached peak stupidity in this cabinet. Obviously ministers should not be backing alternative visions, if you no longer believe in Starmerโ€™s- resign!
Andrew Marr reports that Peter Kyle has asked whether he'd be able to stay in post while supporting another leadership candidate. A Wes Streeting ally told me this week that No 10 should "do the decent thing" and allow ministers to back challengers โ€“ and that not doing so shows the leadership is aware it wouldn't have many on-side in that scenario...
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Whoever this is, weโ€™d appreciate your help on the 19th of June as weโ€™ll have about 650 stakes to take down, but could you give it a rest for now ๐Ÿ‘
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Calvin ๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡ง๐Ÿด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ฅ๓ ฎ๓ ง๓ ฟ retweeted
Saying allegedly after someone brings up something YOU said about YOURSELF is top tier comedy tbf
๐Ÿšจ WATCH: An audience member tells Reform candidate Rob Kenyon that she'd "rather have a career politician than a plumber who's a sexist" "I won't accept that label... I was brought up by women. I have nothing but respect for women" #BBCQT
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When Metropolitan Police officer Wayne Couzens kidnapped and murdered Sarah Everard, Nigel Farage released a five-minute video urging people not to attack men or the police. Today, in response to the murder of Henry Nowak, he called for "pure cold rage."
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Calvin ๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡ง๐Ÿด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ฅ๓ ฎ๓ ง๓ ฟ retweeted
Mr @christiancalgie has been busy putting out a partial version of events these last few days, amplified by yourselves. I think itโ€™s time all your readers had the whole story. They were all out of order and, if they had any decency, would now hold their hands up and apologise.
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๐Ÿšจ BREAKING: Net migration to the UK fell to 171,000 from 331,000 in the year to December 2025 - the lowest point since 2012
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People were hootin and tootin for Reform in Makerfield?
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I know exactly what he means in the context, but I like the idea of Richard Tice and Nigel Farage in full cowboy get up throwing a hoedown
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Politics isnโ€™t working for places like ours. I will change that. #AndyBurnham #ForUs
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Calvin ๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡ง๐Ÿด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ฅ๓ ฎ๓ ง๓ ฟ retweeted
Heโ€™ll stand anywhere. Heโ€™ll say anything. Andyโ€™s in it for himself, not Makerfield.
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๐ŸšจNEW: Betting activity on the Makerfield by-election since markets opened shows the following shares: - Restore Britain: 51% - Labour: 23% - Reform: 23% - Green: 2% - Conservatives: 1%
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Said all that with complete chest, just to follow it up with โ€œ#IStandWithStarmerโ€
Andy Burnham is not the "King of the North" He isn't even the "King of the North West" He is just the Mayor of the GM sub-region, which lost 108 Labour seats in the local elections. Hardly a winner for Labour. #IStandWithStarmer
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Privately educated London lawyer believes Nottinghamshire is in the north of England.
The true King of the North ๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡ง
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This you?
Andy Burnham is using Makerfield to advance his own career. Only Reform will put the people of Makerfield first.
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It feels nice to be telling people to vote Labour again.
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Calvin ๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡ง๐Ÿด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ฅ๓ ฎ๓ ง๓ ฟ retweeted
I am proud and humbled to have been selected as Labourโ€™s candidate for Makerfield. These proud working-class communities represent the very best values of our country and they deserve so much better. It would be my honour to work for them every day, if elected as their MP, to achieve that. Many people here feel Westminster isnโ€™t working for them and they are right. I am standing to change that and get the voice of these communities heard loud and clear. I am glad that this by-election has finally put the places that make up the Makerfield constituency into the national spotlight. They have been neglected by national politics for too long. It is a good thing that all political parties are now on the hook to tell the voters here what they are going to do for them. More than anything, people need life to be more affordable again. As Mayor, I have brought in changes which are helping, such as the ยฃ2 fare cap, free bus travel for our 16-18 year-olds and removing the 9.30am restriction from older and disabled peopleโ€™s bus passes. But there is only so much I can do from Greater Manchester. If elected, I will have a relentless focus on reducing peopleโ€™s everyday costs and bills and well as securing the investment these communities need. I have been an elected representative in Greater Manchester for 25 years. Throughout that time, I have fought for the people of the North West of England on so many fronts. I am now ready to bring the whole weight of that experience to fighting for the communities of the Makerfield constituency and would be privileged to be given that opportunity.
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I swear Matt Goodwin just says the first thing that comes to his head
๐Ÿ—ฃ๏ธ 'Andy Burnham's positioning in this by-election is going to be all over the place.' Coming up on today's Daily T, Camilla and Tim sit down with Matt Goodwin, political commentator and Reformโ€™s ex-Gorton and Denton by-election candidate, to discuss Andy Burnham's bid to return to Westminster, and why entertaining any idea of rejoining the EU is a big mistake for the UK. ๐Ÿ‘‡ Let us know your thoughts below ๐ŸŽง Listen to the full episode from 5pm here: linktr.ee/thedailytpodcast
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๐Ÿšจ WATCH: Reform UK Mayor of Hull Luke Campbell says he thinks Andy Burnham would be a champion for the North as PM "He seems like a really nice guy to me"

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