Female Activist/Campaigner: Environment & Biodiversity & Animal rights; Save our NHS, Human Rights Act, Women/Children’s/Refugee Rights wanting Peace & Justice
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Andrea CareyFuller retweeted
May 21
A closed season to protect pregnant hares was promised – where is the legislation?
“In the King’s Speech last week, the government quietly dropped a bill that would have finally given legal protection to hares after centuries of persecution”
Why????
Such a simple thing to save beautiful hares and their families
#madness
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The Times seem to think it’s a coup that Andy Burnham is funded by trade unions. Of course he is. Trade union funds are the cleanest money in politics. The movement was founded by the trade unions.
May 21
EXC: Andy Burnham received tens of thousands of pounds from trade unions in a month as he began to shore up his bid for Labour leadership
The Manchester mayor had not received a union donation for two years before he was paid £20,000 by a series of unions between March 24 and April 24
Burnham is standing to return to parliament in Makerfield and has long been touted for Labour leadership. Affiliated unions — including the three which have donated to Burnham — called for Sir Keir Starmer to stand aside as prime minister last week, saying that “at some stage” Labour will have to plan to elect a new leader
Burnham received £10,000 on March 24 from the Fire Brigades Union, £5,000 on April 10 from the Communication Workers Union, and £5,000 from Unison on April 24
It is unclear from official Electoral Commission records what the donations were exactly for - it is understood that the Unison donation was to cover some of the wider Labour party’s local election expenses in Greater Manchester, rather than directly to support Burnham
Full read in @thetimes
thetimes.com/article/6d8e5a4…
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Andrea CareyFuller retweeted
Apr 25
VAR is serving no useful purpose. It kills spontaneity in the ground and doesn’t get decisions right. Get rid.
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Longtime supporter of Palestine & visited it in 2012. Called for a ceasefire in 2014 before other colleagues & decried BN return in 2015. Supporter of Palestinian Statehood. More recently, he pressured KS to back a ceasefire. standard.co.uk/news/politics…
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An Andy Burnham victory in Makerfield and success in Labour Leadership election would put the first person with a moral compass inside No.10 Downing Street since Gordon Brown.
In the event of a likely hung parliament, left parties would be much better negotiating a supply and confidence deal with Andy Burham than Wes Streeting who is to the right of all Labour leaders there have ever been.
In foreign policy, we’d have fewer wars that the UK would be involved in. We’d have been investment in schools and a publicly owned NHS. We’d have council housing and more public control of utilities.
We have an increased chance of proportional representation and less hostile treatment of Muslims by government.
In my view, this is a once in a generation chance to put a decent human in Downing Street. History won’t judge us kindly if we botch this.
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It was John Prescott who described Andy Burnham best.
He said Andy had “the human touch”. He is genuinely relaxed and at his happiest when he is the company of ordinary people.
Politics needs the human touch back more than ever.
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Andrea CareyFuller retweeted
May 16
Greater Manchester Mayor Andy Burnham has set out his views on Labour's path forward and the policy challenges facing the country.
Speaking to Channel 4 News' Andrew Misra, Burnham said he wanted Labour to become “a party that they can believe in again, a party solidly on the side of working class people.”
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Andrea CareyFuller retweeted
May 22
Great to be at the launch of @AndyBurnhamGM’s campaign for Makerfield. A fantastic atmosphere of hope and change, with a promise to deliver what really matters for working people. #VoteAndyForUs
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Andrea CareyFuller retweeted
May 20
Just to be clear, because it's going to be a long by-election. I know Andy Burnham and like him. I hope he wins in Makerfield, because I don't think the current situation with Keir Starmer is sustainable (as I've written on several occasions). But the crucial thing is that at the moment I think he will win. So I'm going to write about why. Others can get excited about Brexit and Plucky Plumbers. But I think to date Burnham's perfectly framed his campaign as the local, anti-establishment insurgent. When I was in Gorton no-one ever mentioned a single current or historic policy position for any of the candidates. I expect it to be the same in Makerfield. If that changes, I'll write about that too. If people find that problematic other outlets are available. Like Socialist Worker. Or Bloomberg...
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Andrea CareyFuller retweeted
May 22
Full speech of Andy Burnham's campaign launch in Makerfield
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Andrea CareyFuller retweeted
May 22
At the launch of his by-election campaign in Makerfield today Andy Burnham had time to catch up with local group coordinator Janet Fulster, and WASPI Chair Angela Madden.
Andy has stood with WASPI women from the start and today he made clear that his support remains as strong as ever. We appreciate his commitment to working with us as we continue our campaign for justice. #JusticeForWASPIWomen
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Andrea CareyFuller retweeted
💥 Great to see this from Andy Burnham:
" I do think there needs to be reform to the electoral system to enable less point-scoring, more problem-solving. Less short term, more long term.”
👏👏👏
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Andrea CareyFuller retweeted
May 22
#C4News "Earlier this year I heard you say Brexit does your head in, it's been a disaster"
"Would you take us back into the EU if you had the power to?"
Andy Burnham, "I don't think it has, ten years on, been good for this country"
"We've got a smaller economy, and weaker control of immigration"
"The facts do not stack up in Brexit's favour"
"I've said I wouldn't re-run the argument"
"My position is a clear one. This country has spent too long arguing with itself"
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Andrea CareyFuller retweeted
May 20
"Exclusive: Potential investors fear Andy Burnham could push to bring utility companies into public ownership."
And so he should.
theguardian.com/uk-news/2026…
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