I will put heart and soul into this fight. We can win! Don’t forget Labour are by far the strongest challengers to Andrew Mitchell. Lib Dem and Green are way behind in Sutton Coldfield so there is only one way to beat the Conservatives here! Get in! Let’s go!
Many thanks to everyone who gave me such amazing support. I'm sorry we just fell short. But we did get by far our best ever result, a 16.5% swing to Labour, and Sutton Coldfield is now a knife edge marginal!
#YesWeCan
next time...
Nominations now closed so am finally the official
@UKLabour
candidate for
#Sutton
#Coldfield
. As your MP I will bring change to Sutton Coldfield - you can be sure of that!
Regret to announce that my bid to stand in Sutton Coldfield
#GeneralElection19
has been rejected by Labour's National Executive. New candidate will be announced shorty. But never fear, I'm still sticking round! Fghting for my party as Councillor for
#Sutton
Vesey
#VoteLabour2019
!
No secret I was deeply disappointed not to be selected by
@UKLabour
to fight for
#Sutton
this time. But there are bigger things at stake - putting and end to the devastating cuts, the divisiveness, the corrosion of our society. That's why I'm still saying
#VoteLabourDecember12
!
Leafy Little Aston was once a diehard Conservative stronghold - but there are no no-go areas for
@UKLabour
's
@SarahEdwardsTam
! Out at the weekend pushing Sarah's message of hope and change.
So tonight was the official
#hustings
for the candidates in
#SuttonColdfield
and it was very clear that
@RobPocock1
won the arguments and put forward a positive agenda & plan to renew our Royal Town!
Vote
#RP4MP
🌹to unseat Mitchell as it’s very close and tactical voting 🗳️wins!
Lisa Nandy will be a brilliant cabinet minister in the next
@UKLabour
government. Really enjoyed my chat with her at
@SarahEdwardsTam
campaign event today!
So tonight was the official
#hustings
for the candidates in
#SuttonColdfield
and it was very clear that
@RobPocock1
won the arguments and put forward a positive agenda & plan to renew our Royal Town!
Vote
#RP4MP
🌹to unseat Mitchell as it’s very close and tactical voting 🗳️wins!
Kath Scott and Rob Pocock retain their Sutton Vesey seats for Labour on the city council. That corner of Sutton is red against the tide of blue elsewhere in the town!...
#brumvotes2022
Installation starts next week! New pedestrian crossing at long last on Monmouth Drive to help safe route into Sutton Park. Many thanks to
@Manish_Vesey
who raised 2 petitions in campaign for this!
Breaking news at today's City Council meeting - plans for parking charges at Sutton Park now scrapped! Cabinet member
@CllrMajid
to announce details shortly.
The latest vote projection this evening shows Labour winning Sutton Coldfield! Again the same message. Only
@UKLabour
can take this seat from the Conservatives.
Sutton Coldfield is also included in these restrictions, there are spikes here as elsewhere. For example 25% more cases in the last week here in Sutton than Erdington. There is no stereotype of area exempt from these risks. We are one community and we stick together.
Scandalous to hear a Park Ranger was attacked in her vehicle and pelted with bottles while trying to clear troublemakers from Sutton Park last night. What level of people do we have festering out there now? Despoiling our environment, assaulting those trying to protect us.
Bright sun this afternoon outside
@littlesub75
Litte Sutton Primary - here's to a brighter future for
#Sutton
Coldfield and for the whole UK with a
@UKLabour
government - just a week away!
Recent pavement restoration work in Britwell Road includes an important new feature - special porous flexisurface around the trees. Gets rainwater to the roots and stops asphalt buckling with root growth. Things you learn as a community councilor...!!
Another one in the bag for my good mate
@gerard_coyne
a true honest trade unionist whose first concern has always been the practical needs of his members. Best future for
@unitetheunion
!
Another session out campaigning for the unstoppable
@SarahEdwardsTam
in the Little Aston neighbourhood. Even spotted Sarah's posters in windows here too!
Yes it’s
@JeffRookerj
back on the campaign trail! First fought alongside Jeff in 1979 in Perry Barr. Still the best street campaigner in the business, I learned a lot. Thanks Jeff for helping turn Sutton Coldfield red!
We had the pleasure of
@JeffRookerj
joining us campaigning today. Residents were delighted to see him out supporting
@RobPocock1
More sunshine and smiles in Sutton Coldfield. People want change. People want a Labour government.
So tonight was the official
#hustings
for the candidates in
#SuttonColdfield
and it was very clear that
@RobPocock1
won the arguments and put forward a positive agenda & plan to renew our Royal Town!
Vote
#RP4MP
🌹to unseat Mitchell as it’s very close and tactical voting 🗳️wins!
Sutton tip site flowing well under new booking scheme and only 6 vehicles in the queue. Congrats
@BhamCityCouncil
and
@VeoliaUK
on getting this right now!
Stunning news ... as
@Kathscott102
elected at AGM today to Chair major City Council Scrutiny Committee on Children's Care Services. From
@BoldmereMums
campaigner to top level City Councillor in 7 years - meteoric rise and totally deserved!
This is what we want our Parks to look like. Well done to the vounteers and
@BhamCityCouncil
Parks Dept for the massive clear-up. Tighter controls coming up to combat these desecrators
More confirmation that
#SuttonColdfield
is retaining local police station. As was always stated. Despite years of lies, rumours, scaremongering by local Conservatives. Shameful manipulation of public fears. But that’s basically what their party has become.
CWG
@birminghamcg22
coming to an end and Triathlon already a week behind us - but the flower yarnbomb still flourishes at Highbridge Rd thanks to
@friendsofWGts
!
.. interesting below that
#Sutton
Coldfield's Andrew Mitchell is one of the last remaining loyalists for Boris Johnson! I would love to see a poll of whether his constituents agree ...
You wouldn't think drivers would need reminding not to park on double yellows by a school - but many thanks
@boldmerepta
for getting these little new traffic wardens out on duty!
This is a massive new job. The City Council needs to change, to improve, to update and sort out its historic longstanding problems. Big challenge, tough task, I will give my all to help get this done!
Yes showing tonight on
@ElectionMapsUK
screen - it's the result we have always dreamed to see on election night - and deadline day is now just months away!
#LabourWinningSuttonp
Heading into one of our top local community events - the
#Boldmere
Summer Festival! Stalls, crafts, live music, street food, kids entertainment - congrats to all volunteers who do the work.
Let's stop the squabbles about who runs Sutton Park. Here's a better way - create joint partnership between City and Town councils; share cash investment; and put Park Users in the front seat, whoever they are and wherever they're from! A people's plan for a people's park!
Tonight’s mega
@YouGov
poll shows Sutton Coldfield on a knife edge! Con 40% Lab 36% LDem 9%. Click the link to see detail. We can win this! And
@UKLabour
once again by far the strongest challenger. Just one way to stop the Conservatives!
#RP4MP
One thing for definite after today's shopping centre tour - Sutton Coldfield's Conservative supporters are mightily fed up with their Government! Time and again the same quote "totally fed up with them"
#TimeForChange
And a stonking big win on Sutton Town Council too, now hold 4 of the 5 seats here, with
@Kathscott102
,
@Manish_Vesey
and myself retaining seats, with new candidate
@maxhatton
winning at his first attempt! Took me 10 years....
Labour take four seats and Conservatives one in Vesey ward on Sutton Coldfield town council. Jan Cairns for the Tories joins Labour newcomer Max Hatton, and three Labour town councillors Rob Pocock, Kath Scott and Manish Puri. Alison Jolley loses her Tory seat ...
#BrumVotes2022
Shock for
#SuttonColdfield
residents as Town Council proposes over 60% increase in its Council Tax Precept! They can’t even spend the money they’ve got (over £4 million just sitting in the bank for over 4 years). Failed strategy of political leadership. There IS a better way.
This money (for new bus interchange) was announced in 2019 and then again in 2020, 2021, and 2022. Now the same promise is announced again. Repeated boosterism announcements, while year on year in the real world nothing actually happens....
Shocked to find out latest stats today - scores more Sutton families having to use Erdington's Bethany Food Bank. Referrals rising from the 'royal' town. "Austerity is over"? Not here in Sutton Coldfield!
Big congrats to Nick and Anja and all Friends of Boldmere Spinney on new community noticeboard launched today! Funded by
@BhamCityCouncil
CWG award, installed by
@SuttonParkNNR
team, great
#Sutton
#Vesey
community project!
City Council agreed last week a further £280,000 package to improve the pools in Sutton Park. That’s over £1million for the Park in 12 months including Boldmere Gate car park. Sutton Town Council leadership claims to care for the Park but has actually spent precisely ... nothing!
Bumped into this band of supporters last night after they were "celebrating" (?) the
@EnglandFootball
match. Looks like odds on
@UKLabour
winning Sutton now higher than England winning the Euros!
Shocking discovery! Turns out Sutton Town Council CBSO concert deficit is now DOUBLE what was budgeted. Residents paying £118,144 subsidy not £60,437. Time to call time on this - there are bigger priorities.
Sutton Town Council official accounts published tonight - total £2,657,132 unspent at 31 March 2019. That's almost half of the entire precept raised in its first 3 years just sitting in bank. Not acceptable. How should it be best spent?
Welcome sign that Sutton Town Council about to scrap the £100,000 concert in Park extravaganza. Nice idea but grew into a monstrous vanity project. Has common sense now prevailed?
The Conservatives in
#Sutton
#Coldfield
will be loaded with cash for their campaign. But we have more passion, more energy, more enthusiasm, more determination. We may not have more cash but click here, you can help bridge the gap!