Labour City Council Candidate for Headington, Oxford
Likes: Small Business, Transport, Housing, Community Policing
The Future's Bright, The Future's British
When a football team's doing well, a whole city lights up. Had so many great conversations about
#OUFC
today, bumped into so many people wearing shirts, sharing memories from good times gone by and better times still to come
Candidates in this election must answer for their own campaigning. I'm finding Bristolians' reactions to the latest from a political party with a particularly poor track record quite funny ⬇️
People are proud to be voting for hope & real change with Labour in Bristol Central 🌹
Big Headington canvas for Inka Oshodi in Lye Valley for
@Oxford_Labour
People want change on crime and vanishing community policing too -
@TimLabour
is the man for that
May 2nd!
Out with
@JamesSBTaylor
in Headington Quarry for
@Oxford_Labour
Make James and Chewe the Dream Team on May 2nd!
Oxford Labour also have a manifesto, unlike certain other parties we won't name!
Out for the dapper
@JamesSBTaylor
in Risinghurst for
@Oxford_Labour
We talked potholes, affordable housing, community policing, recycling and casework casework casework
Turns out Sure Start and the Minimum Wage have been two of the most important policies in British history for reducing inequality
Labour in power is better than Labour at protest
NEW: Sure Start, England’s first large programme to provide holistic support to families with children under five, greatly improved disadvantaged children’s GCSE results.
Read
@nridpathecon
@Sarah_Cattan
@carneiro_econ
’s report, funded by
@NuffieldFound
:
A big thank you to all the activists who came out for me in Headington for
@Oxford_Labour
We braved the elements. We spread our message of national renewal. We didn't stop and we'll keep going
Out for
@Oxford_Labour
with
@JamesSBTaylor
and the co-main man
@CheweMunkonge
in beautiful Quarry and Risinghurst
Vote for James on May 2nd for someone who is active and visible ALL YEAR ROUND
Another brilliant day speaking to residents in Chipping Norton. So many say they're ready for change.
Thanks to
@AnnelieseDodds
and everyone else who came out this weekend.
A combination of 74 years of Tories, some deeply dodgy former MPs and a massively dedicated bunch of local Labour campaigners means that South Norfolk is in play. Dare to dream
🌹
As an aid to Oxford East candidates who seem to be having difficulty finding their constituency and are campaigning in other towns, we have produced this helpful map.
(Where are they campaigning instead? Our election diary reveals all: )
Thanks to these warriors who braved the rain in Headington for
@Oxford_Labour
,
@AnnelieseDodds
,
@TimLabour
and me
May 2nd for City Council and Police & Crime Commissioner!
(Not pictured: Joe Hart, charming, hard-working, mysterious)
Out canvassing in Headington for
@Oxford_Labour
with crack team Simon and Joe
No-one here's seen the Lib Dems
Have you?
(Pictured - failing to find the Lib Dems)
This is the response of a Labour council candidate to me supporting the Green candidate Carla Denyer in Bristol.
This form of liberal identity politics is gross.
So let's play this gruesome game:
Why are you trying to replace the first Asian PM with a white man?
Fantastic atmosphere here in Marston for the Holi celebrations at the key ceremony for the Hindu temple project
Thank you to Cllrs
@LabLinda75
and
@LubzStaProperty
for their hard work in bringing the city closer together!
A vote for
@TimLabour
in Thursday’s PCC elections will be a vote for improved safety for all road users with stronger enforcement to protect cyclists from speeding and close passing.
Out in Quarry and Risinghurst with
@JamesSBTaylor
for
@Oxford_Labour
We talked about potholes, rubbish, our crumbling NHS and parking
(Unfortunately my camera has entered Ingmar Bergman Persona Mode and can't take full on pictures)
Today, we’ve set out plans to submit to government, for a tram running from Leeds to Bradford!
This would be just the first phase of a mass transit system to connect the whole region - helping our communities thrive and our economy flourish.
Learn more:
Out with Inka Oshodi and
@LabLinda75
in Lye Valley for
@Oxford_Labour
Inka is your City Council candidate for May 2nd!
Ready to listen. Ready to act. Ready to work
Great
#LabourDoorstep
team out in Blackbird Leys this afternoon having lots of good conversations with residents about reasons to vote Labour on May 2nd.
New week, new poll. Only Labour with
@BicstrWdstckLab
with the brilliant
@v_oakeshott
can beat the Tories in Bicester & Woodstock. Looking forward to getting more of our brilliant leaflet into doors this week.
Was listening to Shostakovich all morning so I am ready for some high-tempo
#LabourDoorstep
action!
I am also ready to establish an ice bridge for the relief of Leningrad but this matter should not come up in Quarry & Risinghurst
Super majority latest!
Labour have stopped bothering campaigning in Tory seats with a majority of 3,000 or less, I am told.
They are assumed to be going Labour.
They're saying every Sunak event in the General Election will be like this: stage managed, plastic, smiling bused in Tory activists (can't even trust the local ones...), no questions from press
I'm tired already
Rishi Sunak came to Calder Valley today. Sadly he didn’t speak to residents. If he had they’d have told him about the failure of the government from GPs to schools.
There must be an election coming because tories forget our communities priorities the rest of the time
17yrs ago, my little boy & I were sofa surfing, squatting, homeless. SG council helped me back on my feet
I’ve worked hard to turn my life around, bought a house for my family, become a carer for Nan & now embark on my new chapter, Councillor for the same council who saved me
An excellent canvas session. It's still too close to call in Banbury. Canvas, call, volunteer in the office - let's get Oxfordshire its second Labour MP! 🌹🌹🌹
Every time Labour loses an election,
@OwenJones84
gets a six figure book deal
Are you a POC progressive who's tired of being spoken about, spoken for and spoken over?
Join
@UKLabour
and let's leave this vulture with a paper thin CV in the 2010s where he belongs
First
#LabourDoorstep
of the day in Lye Valley Ward this morning. We had lots of quality conversations with residents about the importance of voting Labour on May 2nd to give
@Oxford_Labour
a majority and avoid a coalition of chaos on the city council.
Absolutely fantastic AGM for
@Oxford_Labour
- the highlight was the incredibly warm tribute to Ann Black for her long service to Labour in Oxford
From 25 member meetings to 200! Incredible
Unlike the other parties,
@Oxford_Labour
actually has to *govern*
We balance principle and practicality while the others only offer a croquembouche of cr*p
A chaotic and, at times, fractious Oxford City Council meeting last night saw a Labour amendment calling for Low Traffic Neighbourhoods to be amended, only where there is “clear and sustained local demand”, passed by the chairman’s casting vote alone.
The situation from Muzaffarabad to Mirpur is extremely, extremely tense right now. This is an issue that affects millions of British people - there's zero coverage of this in any our papers
#AndhraPradesh
: A voter questioned the incumbent
@YSRCParty
MLA Annabathina Shiva Kumar fOR skipping the queue in
#Tenali
. Irked by the questioning, the MLA was seen slapping the voter.
In return, the voter slapped back at the MLA, and his supporters stepped in, hitting the
Inka Oshodi picking up litter and listening to voters in Lye Valley for
@Oxford_Labour
Ready to get his hands dirty, ready to listen, ready to get stuck in
Shout out to the 8 year old who could not help but ask as I talked to his dad 'Are you Rishi Sunak?' and had his dad's eyes pop out
(For future reference, yes I am)
@JamesSBTaylor
and Simon Ottino
Knocking every door in Quarry & Risinghurst for
@Oxford_Labour
If you see them, say hello
They were too busy to stop for me...
We've had hundreds of Police Officers taken off our streets in Oxford since 2010
Our Community Policing is broken, trust is fraying and the recruitment process has been trashed by our workshy Tory PCC
There's only one choice for Thames Valley -
@TimLabour
on May 2nd
🔴THIRSK & MALTON: Lisa Banes imposed as Labour candidate by Yorkshire regional office, and it seems the executive of the local Labour Party are furious about it.
The chair of Oxford’s new anti-LTN party posted a series of tweets which cast doubt on climate change, suggested ivermectin as a way to “beat Covid”, and claimed “there is a push to centralised dystopian control”.
Full report:
There's only 1 more day left for you to have your say, on our Corporate Strategy consultation.
In January, we published our draft Corporate Strategy 2024-28.
We've worked with local partners, organisations, community groups and businesses to develop the strategy.
Neighbourhood policing stops criminality and chronic antisocial behaviour turning into something that kills communities and destroys trust
I've dealt with so much of this in Headington - bike thefts, phone thefts, people being afraid to go out at night - in the last week alone
Our communities can only thrive when people feel safe.
That’s why Labour has a plan to bring back neighbourhood policing, with 13,000 more neighbourhood police and PCSOs back on the beat.
Wilfred Frost should follow in his dad's footsteps and pitch Through the Bigot's Keyhole, where viewers have to guess which Tory MP/lord/funder/councillor lives in which house with the ah purely academic Enoch portraits and the um er family heirloom slave manacles
Absolutely excruciating interview with govt minister Graham Stuart just now on
@SkyNews
with
@WilfredFrost
- asked
if the Tory party should return the money given to it by Frank Hester who said looking at Diane Abbott made you “want to hate all black women” and that she “should
NEW: Mandelson once said aim during Blair era was to put the left in “sealed tomb”
One Labour left MP says of Starmer leadership: “Now they’re not just sealing the tomb but incinerating it as well”
My big read on the Labour left's future 👇
I'm in a Cotswolds farm shop cafe, taking a break from boardrunning, reading the LGA's new Local Government White Paper
Exciting times lie ahead, as does a BBQ venison sausage roll
It was great to take some of our members, who have all been working so very hard over these last few weeks to deliver a Labour government, out for dinner. Thank you to our Mid Beds Labour members!
Labour is planning a secretive event with Keir Starmer and a “special guest” in Essex on Thursday.
I’m told it’s been long in the planning.
Sources suggest it’s viewed as a key pre-manifesto moment, with Starmer to flesh out his five missions and launch a 1997-style pledge
Fantastic time with
@YuanfenYang
in Earley and Woodley today.
People here in Whitley want change from endless chaos with the Conservatives.
Yuan is running a hugely positive campaign and would make a great MP.
I'm also going to the Oxford Wine Cellar. To support local businesses and spread the word of what Labour will do for entrepreneurs the city and country over. Only for that reason. Certainly not to try their salchichón serrano meat board with a zesty and vibrant manzanilla sherry
It was fantastic to join
@ExperienceOx
recently in supporting Oxford's tourist businesses.
I also had the great pleasure of visiting a new venture, the Oxford Wine Cellar, and hearing about the challenges and opportunities for businesses like it.
Have you booked your lido swim? 💦🏊
The whole pool is open for 2 hour sessions throughout the day until the end of the summer holidays ☀️
BOOK YOUR SESSION NOW➡️
🔴I feel slightly dishonest announcing all these Labour candidates for hopeless seats, as many of them aren't serious. Many Labour candidates in seats roughly beyond target 200 have had to sign contracts pledging to campaign in more promising seats most of the time.
We had lots of good conversations with residents in Balfour Rd in Blackbird Leys today, with plenty of support for Oxford Labour's plans for more affordable housing and investment in community facilities such as the new £7million Blackbird Leys Community Centre
#LabourDoorstep