I’m old enough to remember when the governing party’s conference was an opportunity to report on progress made rather than about what was being scrapped, cancelled or delayed.
The Conservative Party is losing support like never before because so many of their leading MPs are totally bonkers
Even traditional Tory voters know it’s time to put the national interest first
They are unfit to govern
I find it absolutely incredible that Nottinghamshire’s Police Commissioner pleaded guilty in court, after being caught speeding 5 times in 4 months…
…yet remains in post on full pay with no action whatsoever by the Conservative Party
Clearly the example is set from the top
A few reasons why I’m
#votinglabour
today:
✅to end rough sleeping
✅to properly fund & protect the NHS
✅to renationalise our trains
✅to properly fund local services like libraries, parks & children’s centres
✅to give back the pensions that were stolen from WASPI women
Dear voters who live in Tory seats,
Please go to your local polling station and vote them out before 10pm
You can help make history tonight and show them that taking the public for fools has consequences
#ExitPoll
#ToryWipeout
When someone tells you so directly what they’re about in a relaxed, unprepared, conversational style like this, they really mean it
Listen to the words, think about what they mean & don’t forget them
#BBCLauraK
#Ridge
The nation’s nurses are forced into strike action by a Government that won’t negotiate or play fair
Remember at the height of Covid our nurses slogged their guts out for us while Conservatives in Govt racked up the fines for breaking the law
Nurses👇 Tories👇
@PeterStefanovi2
It goes against the natural instincts of the modern Tory MP
They want to ask “how much money have you got?” rather than “do you need our help?”
@BBCPolitics
Did you ask Boris Johnson’s sister to take part on this panel as a journalist or the family spokesperson?
Why is the BBC harming its reputation like this?
It’s so sad to see
I’m not sure that Conservatives in Government can tell the difference anymore between when they’re lying, when they’re covering a lie up by lying or when they are telling a lie to take attention away from a different lie.
Dear
@BBCBreakfast
and
@nickeardleybbc
,
Lee Anderson’s Ashfield constituency is in the East Midlands, not the North of England.
The Midlands and The North aren’t the same place.
Thanks.
Pretty devastating
Out of 39 richest countries the UK has suffered the biggest rise in child poverty (by a long way) between 2014 & 2021
Ministers should be ashamed of their record
@MichaelMarmot
consistently drawing attention to an issue that is woefully under-reported
Some numbers for context. Government offers just £1.6billion over 7 (SEVEN) years for towns in the Midlands & North
💰EU funding in the UK has been £55billion since 2014
💰Crossrail in London costs £17.6billion
💰economy already £23billion smaller than was forecast due to
#Brexit
Honestly the King should step in and tell Truss that a General Election is required.
The reputational damage and financial cost is off the scale.
They are making the UK an international laughing stock.
#GeneralElectionNow
Good talkers the Tories
Problem is the difference between the talk and the reality
After 12 years there’s a raft of evidence to demonstrate the vast gulf between what they say and what they do👇
“The public health advice is to self isolate”
But the £500 isolation payment for people on low incomes will end this week and increased statutory sick pay will end in one month
Millions of people won’t be able to afford to follow the UK’s own public health advice
What a mess
Dear Conservative Party training department,
Please can you hold some training days for your MPs on the topic of ‘Nolan Principles in Public Life’ because very few of them seem to have any awareness about how they should behave in elected office.
Yours sincerely,
The public
@mrjamesob
I’m not sure this attack ad works on any level
A working class, northern woman who’s made her own way, that’s the kind of Deputy PM our country desperately needs
It seems that the Tory Housing Minister is well qualified in how to maximise tax-payer-funded housing benefits.
Sunday Times says he’s claimed £100,000 from tax payers for his constituency home in Notts, but he now says his family home is in Herefordshire🤔
I’m not sure that Conservatives in Government can tell the difference anymore between when they’re lying, when they’re covering a lie up by lying or when they are telling a lie to take attention away from a different lie.
Never forget that the Conservative Party made policy choices that led to life expectancy in some of the UK’s poorest communities actually falling
That’s people getting sick & dying younger
PS this isn’t happening in other comparable countries
#BBCLauraK
Mark Harper looking completely defeated when reminded that his Conservative Party has forced Council Tax up by 51% since 2010 by cutting funding to local areas…
…and their manifesto assumes £10billion more in Council Tax increases over the next 5 years
#BBCLauraK
After 12 years of proactively Levelling Down, Mr Gove now wants you to believe he’s going to be
#LevellingUp
Judge them on their record
Since 2010
🔷1200 children’s centres closed
🔷800 libraries closed
🔷schools in poorest areas targeted for the biggest funding cuts
The UK’s governing Conservative Party has been taken over by lunatics who no longer listen to facts
The damage they’re doing will take decades to recover from
I’ve listened to this message from
@patcullen9
, Chief Executive of the Royal College of Nursing
@theRCN
several times
Compelling, concise & from the heart
Our Government shouldn’t be picking fights with the nation’s nurses, teachers & ambulance workers
After 12 years of proactively Levelling Down, Mr Gove now wants you to believe he’s going to be
#LevellingUp
Judge them on their record
Since 2010
🔷1200 children’s centres closed
🔷800 libraries closed
🔷schools in poorest areas targeted for the biggest funding cuts
As
#Nottingham
is refused a single penny of new
#LevellingUp
money by Government here’s the Prime Minister in his own words
They are not for us, they are working against us
As a British citizen I’m ashamed to be led by a governing party that STILL has millions of pounds in Russian money swilling around its coffers.
#StandWithUkraine
🇺🇦
From clapping to sacking
The Conservatives have no shame
As the nation’s nurses & ambulance workers slogged their guts out for us all, Conservatives in Government were racking up the fines for breaching Covid laws
They’re not fit to govern
Nurses👇 Tories👇
Best of luck to the Nottingham Forest staff, players and fans for the big day🤞🏼
We’ve got everything crossed for the win we all so desperately want🏅
The players have done Nottingham proud already this season.
We’ll be with you every kick of the ball tomorrow ⚽️
#YouReds
🔴
Judge them on their record rather than their rhetoric
Since 2010, in England, under the Conservative Party
🔷1200 children’s centres closed
🔷800 libraries closed
🔷schools in poorest areas targeted for the biggest funding cuts
Nottinghamshire’s Police and Crime Commissioner Caroline Henry faces sentencing today after she pleaded guilty to
🚨5 SPEEDING OFFENCES IN JUST 4 MONTHS🚨
Caroline Henry was elected as a Conservative commissioner in May 2021
Today it is time to do the right thing and resign
It’s absolutely astonishing to me that despite the Notts Police Commissioner being caught speeding…
🚨5 TIMES IN 4 MONTHS🚨
There has been no action by the Conservative Party
So she remains in post, on full pay (£76,500)
It’s absolutely astonishing to me that despite the Notts Police Commissioner being caught speeding…
🚨5 TIMES IN 4 MONTHS🚨
There has been no action by the Conservative Party
So she remains in post, on full pay (£76,500)
What I see is Government Ministers goading nurses, railway workers, fire fighters, paramedics & teachers into taking industrial action
Ministers *should* be doing all they can to prevent strikes, instead they’re picking political fights with the country’s key workers
Why is Reform UK all over the BBC when they won just TWO council seats in real elections 3 weeks ago
#BBCBreakfast
Yet the Greens are nowhere to be seen despite winning 181 council seats on 4th May
*ps I’m not a
@TheGreenParty
supporter, but where’s the fairness and balance?
Abdicating responsibility for
🔹decimating neighbourhood policing
🔹closing sure start & youth centres
🔹cutting council budgets by unprecedented amounts
🔹endless austerity making towns & cities poorer
🔹increasing child poverty
📢YOU’VE BEEN IN GOVERNMENT FOR THIRTEEN YEARS!
“I’m sure he’ll answer any questions”
“Well he hasn’t answered them”
“I’m sure he’ll answer any further questions you have”
“But he hasn’t answered any of our questions”
“I’m sure he’ll answer the questions”
Even Grant Shapps couldn’t bring himself to back Caroline Henry, former Tory Police Commissioner for Notts
Caught speeding 5 times in 3 months!
Tory Party did nothing, Notts people voted her out
Now Tory candidate for Nottm North 😱
@MichaelLCrick
🔵
Jarnail Singh, former senior lawyer at Post Office has just told the Post Office Horizon Inquiry that he didn’t know how to save documents on his computer and never saved a document during his time at Royal Mail Group!
Pretty hard to believe to say the least!
#PostOfficeInquiry
Strong words from
@Daily_Record
as they come out full tilt for Labour
Damning of Conservative rule
Spiralling mortgages
Soaring bills
A crashed economy
Broken public services
Dodgy contracts
Partygate
Corrupt
Poverty
A failed Brexit
Vote
#Labour
, for
#Change
they say
#GE24
Things you never hear Conservative Party members ask the 2 candidates about
🔹child poverty
🔹climate change
🔹homelessness
🔹raw sewage
🔹social care
🔹rail services
🔹inequality
🔹mental health services
🔹vocational education…
Funny that in the Gullis film clip about how bad life is in Stoke after 13 years of his Conservative Party being in power, he didn’t mention that bus services had been ‘slashed in half’
He’d better get another petition going
James Cleverly says that 18 year olds could volunteer (mandated) to be emergency health responders 🙄
Back of a fag packet stuff to say the least
#BBCLauraK
It’s another of Boris’s
▶️broken promise◀️days today
The Office for Budget Responsibility now forecasts that the overall tax burden as a proportion of GDP will rise to its highest level since the late 1940s🔺
It isn’t compulsory for wannabe PMs to make promises they can’t keep
It was always going to be the case that eventually the Conservatives would have no one left to blame other than themselves
Can’t blame the EU, can’t blame Labour, can’t blame ‘foreigners’
Their policies lead to broken public services, a less healthy population & high inequality
In terms of vote share, the Conservatives are at the moment heading for their worst performance since the First World War.. The Conservatives may not even quite reach their lowest ever number of seats in the House of Commons which was 156 all the way back in 1906.
Off out for a bite to eat so a quick test at home, mask at the ready😷
It’s no big deal, it’s just good manners at the moment 🦠
#Level4
#OmicronVirus
#WearAMask
Well, I can’t wait for the restored
#Nottingham
Castle to re-open next year and I can’t wait to see our great city welcoming hundreds of thousands of new visitors.
Lee Anderson wants us all to share our plan for Election Day with him.
Our plan is to make
#Nottingham
a Conservative-free zone for the first time.
On Thursday 4th May tell Lee he’s not winning here ❌
#VoteLabour
✅ to secure a Conservative-free Nottingham ⛔️
🚨IT’S OFFICIAL🚨
The City of Nottingham is a Conservative-free-zone for the first time!
There are no elected Conservative Councillors or Members of Parliament in Nottingham
The people of Nottingham have spoken in the democratic process and they have voted 62% Labour
51 of 55 elected Councillors are Labour, a net GAIN of 1 from the 2019 elections
Proud of my city and my party
Congratulations to all those elected to serve
The dream team that is destroying the Conservative Party and doing immense damage to our country
🔹Liz Truss
🔹Jacob Rees Mogg
🔹Lee Anderson
🔹John Redwood
🔹Andrew Bridgen…
Sensible people are deserting the Conservatives in the national interest
One of the most disgraceful things about this 12 year old Conservative Government is the appalling way they’ve treated the education system.
They’ve gone through 5 Secretaries of State in 5 years.
Imagine if your local school went through head teachers at such a rate.
At the very moment Boris Johnson resigns for disgracing the office of Prime Minister & Member of Parliament,
@Keir_Starmer
honours Dame Margaret Beckett for her integrity throughout 40 years of dedicated public service
As
#Nottingham
is refused a single penny of new
#LevellingUp
money by Government here’s the Prime Minister in his own words
They are not for us, they are working against us
As a British citizen I’m ashamed to be led by a governing party that STILL has millions of pounds in Russian money swilling around its coffers.
#StandWithUkraine
🇺🇦
Things you never hear Conservative Party members ask the 2 candidates about
🔹child poverty
🔹climate change
🔹homelessness
🔹raw sewage
🔹social care
🔹rail services
🔹inequality
🔹mental health services
🔹vocational education…
It really is no way to treat committed and dedicated Labour members
By that I mean Greg himself and his supporters in Broxtowe
My party, the Labour Party should be better than this
Those involved should quite simply put right this wrong
#Nottingham
’s growing outdoor seating areas.
The Council has fast tracked over 40 pavement licences for cafes, restaurants & retailers during July & August.
We’ve pedestrianised specific city centre locations to allow more on-street trading.
If you hadn’t already twigged - Conservative MPs are hijacking a very complex & serious humanitarian issue to be divisive & inflammatory for the sake of some votes
Sinking so low with statements like it’s not our responsibility “to re-house everybody in the world”
Truly cynical
I'm utterly shocked by the SoS's comments in the media.
He's never specifically asked UNISON for a national contingency agreement.
In our meeting yesterday, he acknowledged that NHS staff - our local unions - have negotiated detailed, appropriate plans for their areas.
These foul people want to weaponise & confuse issues of asylum and migration to sow division and fuel hate
They are dragging debate to the extreme far right at times & it’s dangerous
Decent Conservatives should denounce it & act
Evil & hate thrives when decent people stand by
Before & after - a bit of pressure from the Council, utilities contractor returned, decent reinstatement of our heritage stone on Low Pavement. Happy Councillor 😁
I’m looking for a graffiti artist to potentially design/paint some murals for outdoor walls.
Email me if local to Nottingham & interested, with images of work you’ve done in the past - sam.webster
@nottinghamcity
.gov.uk