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Richard Davies retweeted
Policy Committee...
New Whitley Wood Community Centre confirmed 👍
421 new Council homes up to December 2025, including new homes at Wensley Road & our acquisitions programme. Our LANB programme will deliver a further 362 Council homes by 2029 (this does not include acquisitions)
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Richard Davies retweeted
Don’t be misled by other parties’ cherrypicked bar charts. Stopreformuk.vote are backing me as the candidate best placed to keep Reform out of Thames Ward. See for yourself 👇 stopreformuk.vote/
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Apr 16
The greatest trick the super-rich ever pulled was convincing the world that they'd move abroad if we taxed them properly.
More of this in the UK please @SadiqKhan
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Next week our new Public Spaces Protection Order comes into effect to make Reading a better place for you by clamping down on dog control, dog fouling, begging, street drinking and the anti-social use of e-bikes and e-scooters. Here's what you need to know about the begging condition, which will be overseen by Thames Valley Police...
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Mar 13
I don't know who are the most uttely opportunitist charlatans, LibDems or Greens.
Mar 11
Winston Churchill helped defeat fascism in Europe. He deserves better than being replaced by a badger 🦡
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Reading’s first fleet of 24 high-spec battery electric buses started carrying passengers in early February.
The new double-deckers offer a smoother and quieter ride on the busy 24/7 Reading Buses purple 17 and claret 21 routes. They also have heating and air conditioning using heat pumps, comfy high back seats, two multi-use wheelchair and buggy bays, free WiFi and wireless phone charging.
The Council worked with Reading Buses to secure £4.7m government funding to help buy the new fleet and install charging stations at the bus depot. Another eight electric buses are due to start operating on the yellow 26 route in the summer following a further £1.3m of funding from the Department for Transport.
Reading Buses already has one of the most eco-friendly fleets in the country and these additional electric buses will support the Council’s aims of reducing carbon emission and improving air quality in the town.
We attended the electric buses launch event at Great Knollys Street in early February.
#rdguk
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Richard Davies retweeted
Feb 20
National borrowing is falling faster than expected.
Inflation is down.
Interest rates are falling.
Real wages are improving.
And the U.K. is the fastest growing of the wealthiest countries in Europe.
Step by step, we’re getting our economy back on track.
Today’s public finance figures show borrowing is falling, and falling even faster than forecast back in November.
This is important: the Chancellor’s plan for meeting her fiscal rules is predicated on borrowing falling significantly this year and next.
ALT Chart shows cumulative monthly public sector net borrowing this financial year and last year, £bn. Title states: "Total borrowing over the course of this year is now lower than last year, and has fallen faster than was expected at the November budget."
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Richard Davies retweeted
Feb 19
Campaigning for Angeliki Stogia in Gorton and Denton.
Politics goes through phases. This phase is of stark choices: here a choice between a Tommy Robinson-backed Reform candidate who thinks people born here aren't British, and a Labour candidate bringing communities together.
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Richard Davies retweeted
Feb 11
UK Tax paid by Jim Ratcliffe in 2025: £0
UK tax paid by immigrants in 2025: £17,000,000,000
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Richard Davies retweeted
'Act Now' flood warnings in place as Reading properties could flood ift.tt/zdDC3bs
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Supercharged legacy Labour-hating media (Express, Mail, Telegraph) plus certain socials (this one is the worst obviously) plus story-hungry political editors whose appetite for drama grew during Tory leadership changes and now must be sated.
So just me and Keir Starmer's mam that don't understand the public's PURE HATRED for him. I get the u-turns and the winter fuel mess were annoying, but after 14 yrs of tory I find it hard to dislike this govt, I think a lot of the hate is fuelled by the media...🤔? Just me then😬
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Richard Davies retweeted
Global firm moves its UK head office to Reading town centre ift.tt/F03Yk8u
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We enjoyed chatting with residents of Queens Road in Caversham today. Great to have a bit of sunshine after all the rain too.
ALT Thames Ward Labour Councillors at Hills Meadow in Caversham.
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Richard Davies retweeted
Jan 29
Kallas: "No great power in history has ever outsourced its survival and survived."
Damn right.
I'd rephrase it slightly: "No great power in history has ever outsourced its survival, period."
Kaja Kallas:
Europe needs to adapt to new realities. Europe is no longer Washington's primary center of gravity.
The shift has been ongoing for a while. It is structural, not temporary. It means that Europe must step up. No great power in history has ever outsourced its survival and survived.
These developments put the severe strain on the international norms, rules, and the institutions enforcing them that we have built over 80 years. The risk of full-blown return to coercive power politics, spheres of influence, and world where 'might makes right' is very real.
Canada's Prime Minister Mark Carney hit the nail on its head in his own speech in Davos. It's time also for Europe to take down its sign, to acknowledge that this tectonic shift is here to stay and act with urgency.
When I was a schoolgirl in Estonia, before anyone had mobile phones in their pocket, many schools used the bell system to tell you the time. The first bell was a signal to go to the class, the second bell was a warning, and the third bell meant that you were late and there would be consequences.
We are now dangerously close to the third bell. Before that third bell actually rings, we need to inject a sense of urgency into our efforts in defense.
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Richard Davies retweeted
Jan 23
🚨 BREAKING: Keir Starmer has called on Donald Trump to apologise for his "insulting and frankly appalling" comments about British troops in Afghanistan
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Richard Davies retweeted
Jan 21
At least the Beatles knew how to defend a free kick properly 🤣🤣
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Jan 18
The latest from Lord Haw-Haw News.
'These tariffs are a massive slap down for the globalists from President Trump.'
Ben Leo reacts to Trump’s new 10% tariff on goods from the UK and several European countries.
'President Trump is trying to save the West from itself.'
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Richard Davies retweeted
30 Dec 2025
The biggest developments that were approved in Reading in 2025 ift.tt/SRO5bBc
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Richard Davies retweeted
23 Nov 2025
❄️🚄 BREAKING NEWS: Rail fares frozen❄️🚄
We’re freezing rail fares at the Budget.
Our historic intervention will keep travel costs down for hardworking families.
Commuters on the most expensive routes will save hundreds of pounds.
bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cwyg…
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