Vanessa Smith: EAP tutor, feminist, Broxtowe Independent Councillor for Beeston Central, portfolio holder for housing, knitter, sewist, odd'un (she/her)
Joined December 2013
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17 Dec 2025
I have made @PSCupdates's Councillor Pledge for Palestine!
I am committing to advocate for Palestine and to combat complicity in Israel's crimes.
Follow this link to ask your local councillors to do the same: palestinecampaign.eaction.or…
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You don't need a big party machine with lots of money to run a decent campaign. Just hard-working, dedicated people who focus on their community and the issues that mean the most to them.
Progressive, community politics beats hatred and division. 🧡💚
4 Dec 2025
Yeesssssss!!
We won by 144 votes.
Unbelievable result
Provide an alternative to Reform
Thanks to the @TheGreenParty @ZackPolanski & the other independent for stepping aside to beat Reform
@councilsUK @ElectionMapsUK
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30 Oct 2025
If anyone is in any doubt how the Labour Party treats its Cllrs the take a look at this
This is the Labour official who has been watching over our every move and controlling the Labour Group
We walked away from this - they cannot control us anymore
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30 Oct 2025
Mass Labour exodus on Nottingham City Council - me and Dalia Gebrial for Novara Media
V📺 Video link in replies 📺V
30 Oct 2025
🚨BREAKING: Mass defections from Labour on Nottingham City Council
6 councillors have left Labour to form the Nottingham People's Alliance - citing Labour failure over local and national policy, Labour's central control of local direction, and council reorganisation
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30 Oct 2025
Welcome to the family @NottmPA
30 Oct 2025
BREAKING: Six former Nottingham Labour councillors have quit the group to form a new party.
The defectors say Labour has been complicit in a genocide in Gaza and that the city council's leadership has become a "small clique".
More on @nottslive.
nottinghampost.com/news/nott…
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30 Oct 2025
SIX CLLRS RESIGN 🥀
‘Today we end decades of Labour stranglehold on our City
Starmers Labour takes ordinary people’s votes for granted in our communities, our City & the Country
There are now progressive alternatives
This is the beginning of the end for Labour in Nottingham
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29 Aug 2025
We are now the Progressive Alternative in Broxtowe 👇
Worst Labour result here in living memory
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2 May 2025
BREAKING: Labour group leader Kate Foale loses her seat to @broxtoweindys
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18 Mar 2025
If anyone was believing the hype, this is the view of a recent senior Nottm City Councillor who sees #Broxtowe as a rotten borough and Beeston, Stapleford, Kimberley and Eastwood as “meaningless suburban towns”. It is a remarkable insult and shows what the City thinks of us.
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4 Feb 2025
So proud of @broxtoweindys delivering our @broxtowebc budget to cabinet tonight.
• No cuts to jobs & Services ✂️⛔️
• Building new council houses 🏘️
• Lowest rent in East Mids 💷
• ethical investments 🌳
• 100 Broxtowe events free play days
• Sound finances for Broxtowe ✅
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17 Feb 2025
RT @broxtoweindys: Help us fight the National Party machines and let us,our residents & our communities have a voice & a seat at the politi…
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30 Jan 2025
So many passionate, community minded people (familiar faces and new) coming together to share ideas about how we can have positive impact in Broxtowe and beyond. Feeling really grateful and inspired 😁
30 Jan 2025
Not even a month old and what a crowd for our first members meeting.
Give people hope, agency & a sense of community & they will turn up
The revolution starts in the back room of the local British Legion ✊
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23 Jan 2025
She’s listened to the ‘non -dom community’ but not the WASPi women, the pensioners, the charities demanding a rethink on the 2 child benefit cap, the working class communities left behind.
It’s astounding that this is the LABOUR Party, a LABOUR government!
23 Jan 2025
Rachel Reeves says she'll amend the finance bill to soften planned changes to the non dom tax regime after intense lobbying from wealthy UK residents 🤨
The govt will increase the "temporary repatriation facility" which allows non-doms to bring money instantly to UK without paying significant taxes.
“We have been listening to the concerns that have been raised by the non-dom community,” she says.
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24 Jan 2025
Sink the Bill?
The Climate & Nature Bill?
This Bill?
🏭reduce greenhouse gases
🌎reverse damage to natural world
🙋♀️launch climate citizen assembly
When will backbenchers get a backbone and show some leadership & courage?
Where is the fight back? What will it take?
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24 Jan 2025
Absolutely! You have to get out there, and we will be doing the same in Beeston on 11th Feb at Middle St Resource Centre 6:30pm. Come and join us.
24 Jan 2025
Nobody is ‘hard to reach’. We have to make our methods of communication reachable.
Another example of small politics 👇
Regular Community Meetings 👇
Bringing the local Cllrs, the Police and Council Officials out into the heart of the Community.
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20 Jan 2025
No-one voted for this. We expected it from the Tories, but not from @UKLabour. Make no mistake, this is a choice and they’re “choosing” not to rebuild QMC until 2037 🏨💔
20 Jan 2025
NEW: @nottmhospitals Chief Executive Anthony May says the Trust is “very disappointed” at delays to the redevelopment of QMC and City Hospital
He says it will “considerably impact our patients and staff for the coming years”
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21 Jan 2025
Build from the grassroots up
Get back into your communities
The political systems have failed us
Rebuilding a genuine civil society means constructing & supporting organisations deeply rooted in communities & built around people
This is what our Cllrs do 👇
Our Broxtowe ❤️
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19 Jan 2025
Always have a great time at these events, and yesterday's was no different. It's so lovely to see everyone working together to help stuff last longer.
The next café is on Saturday 17th May. Look out for booking details closer to the time. 🙂
19 Jan 2025
The Power of Small Acts 👇
While individually they may appear inconsequential, collectively they form the fabric of our interactions and contributions to society
Our Cllr at the local Repair Cafe yesterday simply mending other people’s clothes. Community- minded actions matter
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18 Jan 2025
Keir Starmer has turned his back on the working class.
It’s not the Party we campaigned for or the Party he promised.
Our Cllr explaining to ITV News why we had to make the difficult decision to leave, we needed to focus on the people in Broxtowe not the people in Westminster
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