TV writer, author, campaigner. My Whitstable Pearl crime books are now a 6-part TV drama series starring Kerry Godliman, Howard Charles & Frances Barber.
I'm not a politician, just a writer, and I campaign on local issues, mainly environmental, but I worked hard with others to win a victory for Corbyn in Canterbury in 2017 & we found our MP was working against him by being allied to his enemies. We should all speak truth to power.
PLEASE BEAR WITNESS to a new VICTIM of shameful LABOUR PARTY McCarthyism: my friend & fellow
#kent
campaigner
@AnneBelworthy
thrown out of
@UKLabour
after 65 YEARS of active membership!
Anne is 84 & has fought racism all her life. Pls send solidarity to her. More news soon. ❤
PLEASE BEAR WITNESS to a new VICTIM of shameful LABOUR PARTY McCarthyism: my friend & fellow
#kent
campaigner
@AnneBelworthy
thrown out of
@UKLabour
after 65 YEARS of active membership!
Anne is 84 & has fought racism all her life. Pls send solidarity. More news soon. ❤
#hernebay
A young Whitstable mum came to my house this wk to pick up some Vote Green posters I've been delivering. When I thanked her, she said: "No problem. I can't have a TERF as my MP." Trans Rights are human rights. Women in Canterbury constituency aren't fooled by Rosie Duffield.
Rosie Duffield then broke lockdown regs to meet her married lover.. Admitted to me in an email she had 18k unanswered constituents' emails in her Inbox..Her expenses were the highest in Kent...I could go on but it's the reason I wrote this - it's all here:
So, my MP Rosie Duffield who felt too unsafe to go to
#Conference
in Brighton then changed her mind & said she didn't feel threatened at all but didn't want to gain attention...but has somehow ended up in Brighton after all...gaining attention. So sorry I ever campaigned for her.
Canterbury constituents are livid that Rosie Duffield showed no security fears while schmoozing in public yday with celebrity Feargal Sharkey all over
#Whitstable
- after bailing out of a hustings event the night before, claiming she was too fearful for her safety.
#DuffieldOut
Proud of being a Labour Party member right now? Read this from my friend
@AnneBelworthy
- an 85 year old
@UKLabour
member who was expelled after 65 years of active membership - then weep.
#starmer
@AngelaRayner
Although leaving parliament herself, here is Margaret Hodge out campaigning AGAINST Jeremy Corbyn in Islington North today. Does the woman's hatred know no bounds? But look who she also campaigns FOR! Peas in a pod....
#Duffieldout
#transrightsarehumanrights
I am now deeply ashamed of ever having campaigned for my MP Rosie Duffield. As
@dianelangford
says “Breath-taking ignorance, or genuflecting to Trump-Netanyahu?" And/or blatant careerism?
@georgegalloway
The Labour MP I, & many others, campaigned for in Canterbury does not speak for me with her statement to the Daily Mail today. We voted for
#Corbyn
. Duffield was just the candidate. Pls read this blog from a
#Canterbury
constituent: Pls RT
@georgegalloway
For those who received an entirely wrong impression following Rosie Duffield's interview with Andrew Neil for Times Radio, THESE are my choices. I'm making an official complaint to
@UKLabour
& taking legal advice re what she said on her QT's using my X feed while I was blocked.
Christine Tongue: "I was at the Zoom launch of the Kent Labour manifesto questioning how members were going to counter the awful rep
@UKLabour
has for suspending socialist activists. The host expelled me from the meeting! The speaker was Labour MP
@ThangamMP
"
@Rachael_Swindon
Ah, I see my MP says she's "considering her future in the Labour party carefully?" I & lots of other constituents have been doing that for years & hope she isn't part of
@UKLabour
's future.
Seems Rosie Duffield has imaginary abusive convos with me on the X page she blocked me from years ago for daring to take issue with her for being a terrible constituency MP. She knows I can't see her tweets so I can't respond there. She's an abusive coward, as below.
#DuffieldOut
My Whitstable Views piece about Hastings joining forces with Whitstable's Southern Water boycotters. There's now interest from United Utilities & South West Water customers too. 😉Pls read & RT. Thanks.
#sewage
#sewagedumping
@GreenJennyJones
Taken in Palace Street Canterbury and it says it all - Tories for a Tory. Vote Green for some progressive policies and
#LGBTQ
+ rights!
#DuffieldOut
#Canterbury
4 of us (
#Whitstable
residents) have withheld payment to
@SouthernWater
re
#sewagedumping
. Others are following but NB: you could incur a poor credit rating, CCJ &/or bailiff visits. Read our letters in full on this link:
(
@itvmeridian
may report tonight)
Indeed. Sadly, Thangam Debonaire, Polly Billington,
@Keir_Starmer
& my own MP Rosie Duffield are all "empty chairs" at hustings which shows contempt for local people & way too much confidence in being elected. Give your votes in protest to an Independent or a Green 💚 instead!
I'm happy to debate the Labour candidate anytime, anywhere.
It is beyond disappointing that he isn't willing to do the same.
If you're running to be an MP, you’ve got to be prepared to face questions from your community. Otherwise, don't do it.
Canterbury constituents feel abused that Rosie Duffield showed no security fears while schmoozing in public yday with celebrity campaigner Feargal Sharkey all over
#Whitstable
- after bailing out of a
#hustings
event the night before, claiming she was too fearful for her safety.
Live in
#Whitstable
? Want a
@TheGreenParty
poster? DM ME & I'll get one to you! I vowed NEVER to vote
@UKLabour
again after what Rosie Duffield &
@Keir_Starmer
did to
@jeremycorbyn
. A Labour vote endorses that but we can change things. We got Duffield in. NOW the Greens! Pls RT
The WHOLE story...a journey of disillusionment...
Why I campaigned for Rosie Duffield in 2017.
Why I refused to vote for her in 2019.
Why
#Labour
supporters refuse to stay silent any more...
Feel free to RT
#RosieDuffield
#Canterbury
@DerbyChrisW
Indeed! Jeremy
#Corbyn
's legal fund will soon have more donations than the whole of
@UKLabour
Party - thanks to red Tory Rosie
#Duffield
tweeting that no-one should give to it as it is... "obscene" - I know what's "obscene" - having
#Duffield
as my "Labour" MP! Keep giving! Jx
Canterbury constituents feel abused that Rosie Duffield M showed no security fears while schmoozing in public yday with celebrity campaigner Feargal Sharkey all over
#Whitstable
- after bailing out of a hustings event the night before, claiming she was too fearful for her safety
@JessicaLBarnard
Duffield admitted she had 18,000 unanswered emails from constituents in her Inbox & I've recently had to ask questions of her, Starmer & Evans about potential interference in the selection process of a
#TransRights
council candidate - now suspended. Read:
From 2019 - and
@johnmcdonnellMP
's prophecy came to pass with smears of antisemitism conjured out of
@jeremycorbyn
's support for Palestinian human rights, perpetuated by right wingers like Rosie Duffield & her pals - the
@UKLabour
MP I will ALWAYS regret having campaigned for.
MANY in
#Whitstable
left shocked they cannot question
@UKLabourMP
Rosie Duffield on her transphobic comments & her lack of voice on
#Gaza
. I never doubted she would pull out of hustings. She prefers to live in an echo chamber of her own making - & hustings means work.
#votegreen
Thanks
@OborneTweets
for this article:"The truth is that no modern politician has been more consistent or more prescient when it comes to Putin than Corbyn. Far from being pro-Putin, Corbyn warned against him when others didn’t."
#Putin
#ukraine
#Corbyn
NB "wording of the new amendment has still not been published & MPs are due to vote..in only 4 days’ time (8/11). This makes campaigners very suspicious. The exact wording is critical but the government is keeping it a secret.."
#Sewage
@Feargal_Sharkey
I'm very proud to have co-authored this piece with Rosie Duffield's ex-staffer Libby Bradshaw. See "...an abuse of power & privilege... I do not think Rosie Duffield is afraid of what local people will do, but what they will say."
Pls RT
@CaptainLibatron
Thank you very much. I appreciate that. Despite her abuse and cry-bully tactics, I'm not going to stop speaking out about Rosie Duffield. This is democracy at work. She's not fit for office.
So if Jeremy
#Corbyn
is meant to be a Russian stooge, isn't it ironic that "still these xxxxxx Russkies give all their ill-gotten gains to the xxxxxx Tories?" (and the words in those quotation marks are from Andrew Neil - not me....)
@georgegalloway
I was wrong. She let 18k emails go unanswered while swanning around for the press. Was a liability for
#Corbyn
- & for
#Starmer
after breaking lockdown regs to meet her lover. "Outed"
#LGBTQ
staff & victimises the
#trans
community while claiming victim status herself
#DuffieldOut
I've just returned from a rally in
#Canterbury
calling for a ceasefire in
#Gaza
and heard Naomi speak out, bravely, for truth and justice for the Palestinians and for all innocent victims of war. We held 2 minutes silence for the thousands who have died in Gaza.
@JVoiceLabour
Noone should be taken in by Rosie Duffield. I campaigned to get her in, in 2017, then discovered who she was. I wrote the following after she broke lockdown regs to meet her married boyfriend.
I take great exception to the term "anti-semitic" as I have Jewish heritage - and there's only one form of bullying going on here - it's from those giving out that abuse...to me. Shame on them.
Our payt boycott of Southern Water due to
#sewagedumping
hit page 3 of the Times. Note: if you send "debt collecting thugs around I will have no alternative but to call the police." Southern told one of us that 100s had boycotted payment even BEFORE Bob Geldof's support! Pls RT
A charming comment to me from Rosie Duffield's campaign manager, Mike Bland, the man who tweeted the campaign photo claiming "so much support" from local people but which featured only himself, Feargal Sharkey (not local) 2 Labour activists, 1 bloke & 4 statues in the background.
My MP - the Nadine Dorries of Labour. Maybe if/when
@Keir_Starmer
withdraws the whip due to the damage she inflicts on him she can enjoy her MP's pension & do I'm a Celebrity Get Me Out of Here? How many other
@UKLabour
MPs say Johnson has "nailed it"???
Where is the outrage at the mass slaughter of dozens of women and children attending a wedding in Yemen? Where are the emergency statements in parliament ? Where are the tears in the media? Shame on you hypocrites.
Canterbury constituents feel abused that Rosie Duffield showed no security fears while schmoozing in public yday with celebrity campaigner Feargal Sharkey all over
#Whitstable
- after bailing out of a
#hustings
event the night before, claiming she was too fearful for her safety.
Very exciting! Filming begins THIS week in
#whitstable
of the
#TV
series, Whitstable Pearl, based on my crime novels of the same name & starring the fab Kerry Godliman. If you see the crew around town, do be nice and make them feel welcome. They're here for some weeks. ❤️
#books
But when I write a factual account of what "power" does -in the form of MP, Rosie Duffield - I get dubbed an "anti-semitic bully" - and a "vile woman" who should not have a "platform" for my "bizarre ramblings" - as well as being blocked by her so this goes on behind my back?
I'm very proud to have co-authored this piece with Rosie Duffield's ex-staffer Libby Bradshaw. See "...an abuse of power & privilege... I do not think Rosie Duffield is afraid of what local people will do, but what they will say."
…
I went to hear
@georgegalloway
speak out against the
#Iraqwar
when he came to
#whitstable
. His was the most powerful voice against conflict and
#Blair
and his govt would have done well to listen
Pls sign/RT this petition.
And I still await a reply to my letter to Rosie Duffield, Keir Starmer & David Evans asking valid questions about potential political interference in the suspension of a local Labour candidate in Whitstable - and seeking legal advice.
@JamesEFoster
Agreed
@georgegalloway
. Had ordinary people presided over what the Blair govt did, they would rightly have hidden under a rock forever more but
#Campbell
,
#Blair
& so many former cabinet members of that govt have no shame. The media should be shamed for giving them profile.
It is utterly intolerable to see the propaganda hand-maiden of murder
#AlastairCampbell
all over the
#Guardian
and
#Peston
as if he was a regular citizen rather than the dry-drunk psychopath that he is.
I have co-authored an article which will be out soon on why I am seeking legal advice about comments made by Rosie Duffield on Times Radio and remarks made to her followers. She has claimed I am "fixated" with her - but the only thing I am fixated about is the truth.
Many thanks for inviting me to speak about our independent payment boycott of Southern Water. When it comes to community protest
@SOSWhitstable
is TOPS! Gr8 to get to talk to Ashley from
@WindrushWasp
too! Onwards! Jx ❤️
@natalieben
@GreenJennyJones
My thoughts for 2018 (inspired by the brave fight that so many continue to put up against the toxic industry of
#fracking
) is that whoever we vote for, the Government always gets in. Nevertheless, it's PEOPLE who change the world - NOT political parties - so let's keep fighting!
My piece for the
@M_Star_Online
on our payt boycott of Southern Water due to
#sewagedumping
! "There's nothing like people power to send a powerful message to companies like Southern Water. “Can pay – won’t pay — until Southern Water cleans up its act!” RT
Yes, "
#Labour
must investigate claims of antisemitism.' But never forget "we have a Foreign Secretary who described black people as piccaninnies with watermelon smiles"... My BBC interview last night about
#Corbyn
& antisemitism smears.
@georgegalloway
Rosie Duffield courts the Tory media, running to the likes of Times Radio whenever she fancies punishing
@Keir_Starmer
. It gains Tory votes but it's unprincipled. Only a Tory is promoted by Tories. Don't be fooled about who Duffield's standing for - it's not you or me,
#VoteGreen
A chance to schmooze with a celebrity &
#rosieduffield
couldn't resist - in front of local people & after bailing out of
#hustings
the night b4 - due to safety fears? It's we in Whitstable who are being abused - by her. Read/RT my piece here:
#crybully
Today
@RosieDuffield1
told
@AyoCaesar
she wouldn’t bother defending her next time she suffered racist abuse because she joked about her policy.
Shallow commitment to anti-racism is now all too common in our party.
Rosie Duffield is now so scared for her safety she can't even appear by VIDEO LINK this wk here at
#hustings
at
#Canterbury
Christ Church Uni. A "frit"? "Lazy", or as Starmer's also an empty chair at hustings with
@AF4HSP
- maybe they're too cocksure of getting elected.
@afneil
Strange how so many people, including Noel Gallagher seem happy to kick away the ladder once they've climbed it...... Listen to
@georgegalloway
here. 😎👌📚🖌️
@georgegalloway
Thanks for the RTs! Those of us who worked hard to oust the Tories in Canterbury did not expect this of a Labour MP. I also think there are questions to be asked about how our former Lab candidate, Hugh Lanning, was removed. Hugh is Chair of the Palestine Solidarity Campaign.
Odd how Rosie Duffield could think this piece (penned by a long-standing
#Kent
@UKLabour
member putting info that's come his/her way re our MP allegedly moving to N Wales, "abusive" or "harrassment")? Could it be the term
#triggerballot
?
@Rachael_Swindon
The KM Online editor has added an IMPORTANT UPDATE with statements from Libby Bradshaw & myself (at the foot of this piece) challenging remarks made by Rosie Duffield within it. The article Libby & I co-authored is also included. Pls RT.
@CaptainLibatron
Much 'Double Think' going on today on
@GMB
with talk of a lack of "critical thinking" by
#Russians
in the face of propaganda &
#Abramovich
having "blood on his hands" - but when have you EVER reported our part in the humanitarian disaster of the war in
#Yemen
? We ARM the Saudis.
IMPORTANT! A message of thanks from my 85 year old friend
@AnneBelworthy
to ALL who sent solidarity to her on being kicked out of
@uklabour
after 65 years of active membership. Pls RT Many thanks.
@DerbyChrisW
To allthe many on Twitter that have given me such kind support, thank you. I truly believe that when we are thrown out of the LP we should not be silent as they order us to be.
@juliewassmer
Proud to have co-authored this article with Rosie Duffield's ex-staffer Libby Bradshaw. "...an abuse of power and privilege... I do not think Rosie Duffield is afraid of what local people will do, but what they will say."
@AaronBastani