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Professor of Sustainability in the Built Environment 🇪🇺💙

North East, England
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Tracey Crosbie
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I received a letter from my family’s NHS dentist which I thought would be yet more admin related to my husband’s death on the 11th of July 2024 but it isn’t. It is a beautiful & heart felt letter of sympathy truly reflecting the man my husband was❤️
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I have COVID. My husband had Chemo last week.I am hiding in the spare room unable to care for him, praying he doesn’t test positive & trying to understand the incomprehensible information about how to access antivirals. How would it hurt people to wear a mask & social distance?
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I am caring for my husband at home in the late sages of terminal cancer. I would give anything to be having a tiff with him about how much food he has bought for Christmas as we did every year for over 30 years. I am lucky to have had all those wonderful arguments!
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Hartlepool’s MP Jill Mortimer abstained from the universal credit vote. In her constituency more than 25% of children in are living in poverty & levels of income deprivation are more than 1 & 1/2 times the average. I think Jill is busy doing what is best for Jill 🤷🏽‍♂️
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No masks, no tests, no social distancing insanity !!!!🤷🏽‍♂️ Anyone else anxious because people seem to think that the pandemic is over ?
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As Tony Benn said ‘ the way a government treats refugees is very instructive because it shows how they would treat the rest of us if they thought they could get away with it.
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Am I the only one that thinks bottled water is a massive marketing confidence trick? As far as I am concerned we don’t need it & we never did 🤷🏽‍♂️
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Not surprising: UK government’s ‘world-beating’ coronavirus response ranked the worst globally
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Am I the only one more likely to avoid public transport, restaurants, bars & shops than I was before so called ‘freedom’ day?
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3 years
We all know that the Brexit policy is a massive fraud designed to save the Conservative Party from imploding. What I don’t understand is how we let it happen 🤷🏽‍♂️
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Visa-free touring possible in 17 EU countries post-Brexit, says Dowden but pre-Brexit visa-free touring was possible in all 28 EU countries I reply 🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬
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Looking at the Hartlepool by-election results I now know Johnson is going to sell the NHS and there is no one to stop him.
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@petemorristwit RNLI volunteers, unlike you, don’t pretend that refugees are somehow less than human & argue they should be left to drown 🤷🏽‍♂️
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It is my birthday & I want to say something profound but I can’t think of anything. So I will simply say think about spending less of your life striving to buy stuff you don’t need & spend more time with the people you love ❤️
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What is going on with our democracy? Over 15.5 million registered voters didn’t use their vote in 2019, that’s more potential votes than any of the major parties received. 58% of Hartlepool constituents didn’t vote in the recent by-election 🤷🏽‍♂️
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@SimonClarkeMP Simon Clark you abstained on the vote to cancel cuts to Universal Credit. In parts of your constituency 75% of children, many with parents in work, are living in poverty. How can you claim to be working in the interests of your constituents?
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@Azeem_Majeed My husband saw a Nurse Practitioner in Nov 2020 & was diagnosed with constipation, he saw a Nurse Practitioner in March 2021, & was diagnosed as pre diabetic, in Sept 2021 he saw a GP & was sent for scans & diagnosed with metastatic prostate cancer, he wont make it to 2025.
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58% of constituents did not vote in the Hartlepool 2021 by-election. Just over 20% of constituents voted for the Conservative Candidate. Rather than focusing on the 20% shouldn’t we be asking why the 58% feel so disenfranchised that they think there is no point in voting 🤷🏽‍♂️
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@ElunedAnderson Banging on about what the previous leader of the opposition party did or didn’t do to cover a Government u-turn is as desperate as it sounds. #BorisJohnsonMustGo #BorisHasFailedUK
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This is what happen to the cost of healthcare in a country that allows the pursuit of profit to drive the provision of essential medicines
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Insulin was invented ~100 years ago, and its patent sold for $1. “Do you know the reason why [insulin is] $1,000 with insurance?” ~ @AOC There is no reason for insulin to cost $21 in Canada for a 10 ml bottle, while it costs a mortgage payment in the US.
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HM Government is looking for the benefits of Brexit: Answers on a postcard please to 10 Downing St, London SW1A 2AA
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@florelst @Delna_42 You can appeal to have your mock exam grades reinstated.
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@ThatTimWalker It seems Max Hastings is in complete agreement with you. I don’t know Johnson personally but I can assure you I have nothing but contempt for him.
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@John_Dabell My husband’s prostate cancer is now in his bones (among other places) & I find his ability to endure the pain & continue to enjoy every good moment in life truly inspiring. I hope you like my husband enjoy your life despite what cancer is doing to your body.
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In the light of Boris Johnson backing Dominic Cummings do you think corruption is preventing the UK government from organising an effective response to the COVID19 pandemic?
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@AdeDicksonSL Could the Brexit gang be a bit pissed off because of this🤷🏽‍♂️
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@Sarf_London @Adrian_Quark I have found myself tweeting this quote from Tony Benn quite a lot. Image from @LukewSavage
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You couldn’t make this up😡
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BREAKING Boris Johnson warns of new Covid-19 surge this winter bringing more deaths
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@RedJohnBounds It is called the NHS test and trace system because our government is trying to hide the fact that test and trace is yet another extremely lucrative contract given to their mates at SERCO that have failed to deliver on so many current and previous lucrative government contracts.
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@AndyGJBurge My husband couldn’t get an appointment with his GP, after months of trying he saw a nurse (no GP available), she did bloods for diabetes. Over a month later he had a telephone appointment with a GP, who saw him the same day. He has terminal cancer !
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What is happening to Democracy in the UK? 😳 😳😳😳😳😳😳😳😳
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A reminder that if the #Tories plans against protest go through, everyone in this crowd would be facing 10 years in jail.
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I live in Hartlepool and I will be voting for Dr Paul Williams a frontline doctor in the Hartlepool by-election.
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Anyone else nervous about being forced to mix with people without social distancing & masks at work?
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Staff at British embassy in Ukraine not offered refuge in UK: My shame at the behaviour of my government is overwhelming
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@KateWilton1 @djohnson188dj Kate there are millions of older people that didn’t vote for Brexit. Why not stop driving tribalism and talk about something relevant ?
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@Jenny_1884 People said the same about the suffragettes & I am very pleased they didn’t give up!
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@crimlawuk Originally proposed by Winston Churchill and drafted mainly by British lawyers, the Convention was based on the United Nations' Universal Declaration of Human Rights. It was signed in Rome in 1950 and came into force in 1953.
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How can people vote Conservative in an election for any office in the UK ? 🤷🏽‍♂️ 🤷🏽‍♂️🤷🏽‍♂️🤷🏽‍♂️🤷🏽‍♂️🤷🏽‍♂️🤷🏽‍♂️🤷🏽‍♂️🤷🏽‍♂️🤷🏽‍♂️🤷🏽‍♂️🤷🏽‍♂️
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Hands up if you are from the UK and didn’t vote for Johnson’s government. I need reassurance that we are all still here!
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@NeilHarding @jly1960 Academic analysis of the treatment of Corbyn by the media shows that he was thoroughly delegitimised as a political actor from the moment he became a prominent candidate and even more so after he was elected as party leader, with a strong mandate.
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If I had to describe the current UK Conservative Government in one word it would be repugnant. Which single word would you use to describe our current Conservative Government?
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Today husband made me a cup of coffee. He is in the late stages of terminal cancer & was almost totally bedridden at Christmas. He might not be able to stand up tomorrow but he has taught to enjoy every good moment & it was the best cup of coffee I have ever tasted.
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@claraeuro The blame lies with the dishonest politicians 👇
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Hartlepool has been Labour since the constituency was created in 1974 until now. The previous Hartlepool constituency was also mostly Labour from 1945. Hartlepool hadn’t returned a Tory since 1959 but many in Hartlepool feel their loyalty to Labour didn’t get them very far 🤷🏽‍♂️
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‘Mendacious, intellectually limited hustlers' NY Times, 17/1/2019.
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@DrAsifQasim The deskilling of healthcare roles kills patients. In 2021 my husband tried for weeks to see his GP in the end he agreed to see the prescribing nurse. She told him he was constipated 6 months later he was diagnosed with metastatic prostate cancer. I will loose him before 2025 😢
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@JolyonMaugham I am scared 😦 Johnson is worse than May and May was worse than Cameron. The question is: How bad can Tory PMs get ? 😨😨😨😨😨
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@JonathanTod_TFP This isn’t the cost of housing refugees our government is ‘swindling’ us & blaming refugees for the ‘theft’ of our money
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@BradBeauregardJ @garygilligan Cordal's sculpture is actually called “electoral campaign” & it's part of a street art installation called “Follow the leaders.” The tiny cement figures, arranged in bleak scenes of urban disintegration, represent the faceless businessmen who run our capitalist global order.
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In the FPTP electoral system the only way to get the Tory party out of government is to vote for the candidate most likely to beat the Tory candidate in the constituency you live. Voting otherwise is merely supporting the Tory Party🤷🏽‍♂️
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@JamesWoodfield @SteveBoland1 @IsabelOakeshott The pain of that failure on a personal level is so very hard. I have Covid. my husband has terminal cancer. I am wearing a 😷 & literally holding my breath while I deal with his nursing care.
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@CelticNick93 You would end up looking like this and leaving with nothing 🤣🤣🤣
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@tinypotager @ZoeParamour When I was a child we had a large garden. It had the magic swing 👇the impenetrable wood (a small rose garden), fairyland (a small rockery with alpine plants), the oldest tree in the world (a gnarled old Hawthorn Tree) & the garden of Eden (dad’s veg patch) among other things
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If you agree with this sentiment please retweet #brexitisashitidea
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@Spanglish51 She does come across as a rather ‘super duper’ self satisfied type and anyone who claims that the chronic under supply in housing can be solved by smoothing conveyancing needs their head examining.
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Morally repugnant & deeply insulting to all Christians: Priti Patel’s Christmas card depicts her as fairy magicking up deportations to Rwanda.
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The Prime Minister of the United Kingdom is a compulsive liar that is damaging our country beyond repair. Does anyone have the power and the integrity to stop him?
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@Azeem_Majeed Nurse practitioners are very knowledgeable healers but they don’t have the same diagnostic ability as a GP that has spent 10 years studying medical science. A patient should see a GP first & then be passed on to a nurse practitioner for ongoing treatment.
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Remember tomorrow is imprisonment day for many vulnerable people. Please ignore our self serving PM & wear a mask & keep your distance from others if you can.
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Prof Steven Riley from the Spi-M modelling group, said the rollout of vaccination did not mean coronavirus controls can be dropped & we could face another wave as big as the current one if lockdown restrictions are all lifted. Do you think the UK Govt. will follow the Science ?
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@narkovian Rees-Mogg is the ‘poster boy’ for a warning of what will happen if you don’t engage in politics and use your right to vote wisely.
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In the light of Johnson’s warning of a further surge in COVID-19 this winter while telling people it is fine to hug & opening pubs indoors I couldn’t resist retweeting this👇
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Officially the worst PM that could have been plucked from 66million humans
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@drjanaway The treatment of doctors is designed to deskill clinicians in the NHS ready for privatisation. Less qualified staff is one reason why hospital privatisation is linked with worse quality care for patients – new research via @ConversationUK
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@ThatTimWalker Johnson is one of the malign politicians that expertly exacerbated the divisions in our society for their own ends to the detriment of the UK’s economic, political & social stability. Isn’t it time we stopped dancing to their tune ?
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Facebook blocks and bans users for sharing Guardian article showing Aboriginal men in chains
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@ThomasJ58805552 We spend our lives working to buy things we do not need. It is time for a change.
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@JanjuaAdam My husband has stage four terminal cancer which is now in his spine. He has been discharged from the community palliative pain team because his pain is currently well managed. The GP tried to overturn this as my husband needs specialist pain management but failed 🤷🏽‍♂️
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@SueWats14918189 @cakeylaura White surfaces reflect UV radiation, which degrades many materials over time, so wind turbines are white because it extends their lifespan.
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Starmer is offering us the same kind of centre left Labour government as they have in New Zealand. Regardless of your usual political affiliation this has to be a better option than the most dishonest PM and the most rampantly right wing government I have known in my lifetime.
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@AmySprongle69 @stnmarika @chrischirp If, as you say, you went out every day it is not possible for you to know where or when you caught COVID 🤷🏽‍♂️
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@PennyGarnett1 I strongly condemn the fact that Children in Need is required in a country as rich as ours but I don’t condemn people for trying to do something about the needs of children that are not met.
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@RichardAScott The UK EU referendum was conceived to heal a catastrophic rift in the Conservative party it did so while creating a catastrophic rift in the social economic and political stability of the UK. The Conservatives party alone is to blame for the entire catastrophe.
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@BarristerNF One simple message demands another
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@danwootton @MailOnline @danwootton Do you wonder what you could achieve with your life if you spent your time doing something worthwhile?
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Have you ever noticed a spelling error in your tweet deleted it intending to rewrite it correctly but decided you couldn’t be bothered?
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@pedromakee @AllanGPaterson @grahambsi These Daily Mail headlines should be illegal because they are deceitful & incite racial hatred 🤷🏽‍♂️
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I feel extremely apprehensive about going into the office this week and working in an environment with thousands of students from all over the world. Do you think I am being too circumspect?
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@MartinRemains New Zealand COVID-19 deaths = 25 UK COVID-19 deaths = > 80,000. It is extremely obvious which countries’ government has the best response to the Pandemic🤷🏽‍♂️
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Historical evidence from the 1918 flu shows that extending public health measures to prevent the spread of a virus does less economic damage in the long run than letting it ravage the entire population.
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Nurse who cared for Boris Johnson resigns over ‘lack of respect’ for NHS workers and who can blame her ?
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@cheryllynmartin I strongly dislike tattoos and I would not consider having one. I don’t understand why people want to disfigure themselves and pay for the privilege of doing so. I suspect many others dislike tattoos too but it is not ‘cool’ to say so.
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To counter the mainstream media’s biased coverage of Johnson & the Tories we need millions of positive messages on social about what a difference a Labour government could make to our lives. Why not give it a try & say something positive today ?
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@tinypotager @ZoeParamour I am the one in the shorts. I used to tell my siblings stories about the adventures in the garden. The swing took us to magical worlds where anything is possible. I now tell similar stories to my grandchildren. Perhaps one day I will write them all down
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@IanDunt There are a lot of people trying to beat their addiction to alcohol. If you are one of these brave people I say a dry forever is the most sane thing you will ever do and good luck 🤞
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@DanielJHannan Our government is pretending that Covid-19 has disappeared despite the advice of the World Health Organisations. I find it unfathomable that people would refer to this action as giving us freedom🤷🏽‍♂️
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@SkyNews
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The UK has reported 37,578 new coronavirus cases and 120 virus-related deaths in the past 24 hours
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@MattHancock Matt Hancock are you going to reopen Hartlepool General Hospital’s A&E. After all a town with a population of 90,0000 needs one & your colleagues did promise they would find some money for Hartlepool.
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@timolarch In England we don’t have a functioning track & trace system. We paid for 100 of them but we didn’t get one. The Govt. gave the money to their friends & they didn’t know how to set one up, then they gave their friends more money & so on. It could have happened to anyone really🤷‍♀️
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@markpalexander @dlhmarketing £12 billion to run a test and trace system using Microsoft excel is very easy money if you can get it. To do so a member of your family has to belong to the Eton old boys club.
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@Shivajihimself By far the largest proportion of the electorate in Hartlepool didn’t vote for Jill 🤷🏽‍♂️
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@KarlTurnerMP @BrummieGran 58% of constituents did not vote in the Hartlepool by-election. Just over 20% of constituents voted for the Conservative Candidate. Rather than focusing on the 20% shouldn’t we be asking why the 58% feel so disenfranchised that they think there is no point in voting 🤷🏽‍♂️
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@KarlTurnerMP @BrummieGran 58% of constituents did not vote in the Hartlepool by-election. Just over 20% of constituents voted for the Conservative Candidate. Rather than focusing on the 20% shouldn’t we be asking why the 58% feel so disenfranchised that they think there is no point in voting 🤷🏽‍♂️
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