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What has Kelly Tolhurst been up to today?
Kelly Tolhurst is MP for Rochester and Strood and a member of the Conservative party.
Kelly Tolhurst has 15572 followers on Twitter.
Great campaigning across #Medway with #George Clarke & Tolga Sirlan for #Rochester East & Warren Wood and #Saboor Ahmed for #Gillingham South ahead of By-Elections. Residents have clearly been taken for granted by #Labour . 6th February #VoteConservative for a positive change
Pleased to get out with the team supporting our brilliant candidates for the By-Elections in Rochester East & Warren Ward Ward and the Gillingham South Ward. They are working hard to gain the support of local residents vote #Clarke #Sirlan #Ahmed on the 6th February @MedwayTories
Great team out on the doorstep in Rochester East & Warren Wood Ward with ✅George Clarke ✅Tolga Sirlan talking to residents about their local priorities. 20 years of Labour, time for a change. Thanks to the brilliant @HelenGrantMP for helping today. 6th Feb Vote Clarke & Sirlan
Great team out today with George and Tolga campaigning in #Rochester with @tracey_crouch @NathanGamester #voteconservative on the 6th February, for the candidates who actually live in the ward
75th memorial service of the tragic accident of HM Truculent where 64 Naval & dockyard personal lost their lives on the 12th Jan 1950 on the Thames at the mouth of the Medway. Thank you to Medway Towns Branch of the Submariners Association for remembering those lost #submariner
Today Labour have been forced to make a panicked attempt to reassure the markets on the economic mess of their own making.
But Rachel Reeves is missing in action - instead wheeling out her deputy to defend her loss of control of the public finances.
Great day campaigning with our brilliant @MedwayTories candidates for the Rochester East & Warren Wood by-election on the 6th February. Great guys who live in the ward & would be a breath of fresh air after years of neglect by #Labour councillors 👉https://rochesterandstroodconservatives.org.uk
Medway Conservatives announce candidates for February 2025 by-elections ⬇️
Wishing you all a very Merry Christmas and hope you all have a peaceful and happy few days x🎄🎅
Totally miserable for residents in #Strood who’ve been without water from @SouthernWater since yesterday. In the absence of anything from #Labour Councillors, I’ve been told a water station is open at Keystone Medical Centre open until 10pm & open at 8am Christmas Day if needed.
Fantastic #HooPeninsula Tractor Run, well done to all who made this happen, donation for @yellowwelliesuk - https://www.christmastractorrun.co.uk celebrating our rural community & our local farmers who produce our food & look after our countryside #LoveOurHooPeninsula #backbritishfarmers 🎄🚜
Appalling service from @Se_Railway tonight, only 4 coaches for the service & packed like sardines! Suppose this is what happens when you have a #Labour government who give in to their union paymasters without any reform
Thieves Reeves has got her sums wrong on Business Property Relief: it will COST more than it raises.
Which is no surprise to anyone to anyone who remembers the story of killing the golden goose.
Family businesses are lifeblood of their communities. Labour must change course.
wonderful evening with the #ChathamRoyalMarineCadets at their annual presentation. Always fantastic to hear about the achievements of the cadets during the year. Wonderful young people, with amazing volunteers who make sure our young cadets get so many great opportunities 👏
RT @UKGeorgeP: Wonderful to welcome a great friend, @LordJohnson_, Co-Chair of @Conservatives, to Medway yesterday.
Pleased to update him…
Delighted to welcome @Conservatives party chairman @LordJohnson_ to Gillingham & Rainham & visiting dynamic local family business MEMS power generation which recently opened its new state of the art Headquarters employing over 130 people.
🙏 to Colin for welcoming us.
Huge turnout today from farmers protesting against the Family Farm Tax - yet still Labour won’t listen.
The speed this petition has picked up signatories is showing the strength of feeling towards #Labour’s budget, scrapping winter fuel allowance, tax on family farms & tax on jobs for working people. hopefully they see the anguish their decisions have caused
Fantastic #Rochester Christmas light switch on tonight with @ErikaNorth organised by the Christmas Light Legacy Fund team. Our community always comes together. A huge thank you to everyone who made it happen. Remember a “Bauble buys a Bulb” & you can buy one in the High Street🎄
Only “the very wealthiest farmers” affected, says Farming Secretary @SteveReedMP - this shows just how out of touch you are
#stopthefamilyfarmtax some of our Local Farmers are protesting today at Westminster against the #Labour attack on our family farms - we need to back our Local Farmers not just for food but for our landscape - good luck to all attending with #NFU today
Unfortunately Lauren Edwards is currently missing in Medway Council and as reported this evening by @MedwayPolitics will shortly lose her seat as a councillor as she hasn’t bothered to show up to a single council meeting in six months.
A special day here in our towns as we remember all those brave men & women who have fought for our country, never forgetting those who have paid the ultimate sacrifice. So pleased to be at Chatham Naval Memorial & in Rochester today for services #wewillrememberthem #neverforget
This cut to funding for cadets is so wrong - RT if you think DFE should change their minds!
Great afternoon at the Artisan Market helping to sell the #Rochester Christmas Lights Legacy Fund Baubles, following our community coming together last year to save the Christmas Lights on our High St - EVERY BAUBLE BUYS A BULB you can buy in a number of outlets #loverochester
Labour Government fail to intervene to @savechathamdoc1 and the jobs of local “working people” not so long ago the Prime Minister backed the campaign but now in No10 decides to back the developer over local people and their livelihoods -
Remember this ? @savechathamdoc1 now along with #LaurenEdwardsMP they are falling over themselves to support its closure. I suppose this is what you get when #Labour are in power what we say and what we do are 2 different things
#Labour have shown their true colours yet again! They say they’re for working people yet back a housing developer over working people & saving high skilled Jobs! It’s a disgrace @MedwayLabour u-turned on support & the new MP failing to back or support local people #shameonlabour
Staggering that #Labour doesnt think that Small Business owners are working people. Are they oblivious to their communities or is it just ignorance. What planet is this Government on! - Minister refuses to class small business owners as ‘working people’
Shadow Cabinet Member Cllr @HabibTejan was pleased to join The Lord Mayor of London, the Shadow Secretary of State for Wales, the Leader of the Opposition in Gravesham, and @KellyTolhurst at a service of thanksgiving for the 30th Anniversary of the Maritime Volunteer Service.
I’ve been starting/growing businesses for over 40 years and this is the first time I’ve ever thought, “would I do it today?”. The Employment Rights Bill (debated today in Parliament) will be bad for jobs and wages (@ifs @fsb_policy @CBItweets @The_IoD @UKHofficial) but…
We will fight the removal of the winter fuel allowance all the way.
Last night, we brought forward a motion on securing the Council’s support.
Not even one Labour councillor was willing to support. 🥀
Sign our petition ✍️ http://medwayconservativegroup.org.uk/winterfuel
A special evening @DockyardChatham in the 40th year since closure for the Trafalgar night dinner, our dockyard where HMS Victory was built. A 200yr old Naval tradition celebrating those who fought at the battle of Trafalgar & honouring the death of Vice-Admiral Horatio Nelson🇬🇧
Great news for residents to hear the Local Government Ombudsman have ruled that @medway_council were wrong to remove these residents parking permits. What a shame @MedwayLabour #Strood councillors & cabinet failed to stick up for residents at the time, but made them go to the LGO
Honour to attend the @RoyalNavy Fleet Air Arm awards at the @HouseofCommons Recognising the achievements & work of our men & women who serve our country. Poignant this year with their operations in the Red Sea keeping our shipping safe & the tragic loss Lieutenant Rhodri Leyshon
As we approach the cold weather I think about our vulnerable & older residents & how it will affect them. The appallingly experience & service I’ve received from @edfenergy is worrying. I’d like to hear from residents about their experiences of these companies #rochesterandstrood
Great to be back out & about with the @MedwayTories in Rochester East & Warren Wood Ward. Great campaign session urging residents to sign the 👉 http://www.keepwinterfuel.com petition. Hearing from lots of residents who are clearly not happy with #Labour’s first 100 days in Government
@MedwayLabour MPs & local councillors voted to scrap fuel allowance for 1000s of Medway Pensioners - @MedwayTories are fighting their cruel decision that’s targeting our older community at Medway’s full council next week 👉https://www.medwayconservativegroup.org.uk/news/medway-conservatives-table-motion-save-winter-fuel-payments
Medway Conservatives table motion to save Winter Fuel Payments ⬇️
During Aveling200 and the inaugural Hoo Peninsula Heritage Festival last month, our Chairman Michael Pearce was joined by Jools Holland OBE DL (Deputy Lieutenant of Kent) to present two Thomas Aveling Society Certificates of Appointment.
Fantastic evening at Boris Johnson’s book launch of #unleashed last night. I served as a Minister and his last Deputy Chief Whip when in Government. Looking forward to reading the bumper book
This winter, pensioners will have to choose between heating and eating.
And that’s on Medway Labour MPs.
Sign our petition: http://www.medwayconservativegroup.org.uk/winterfuel
Super few days in Birmingham for @Conservatives Conference with @MedwayTories group colleagues, @HabibTejan and Cllr Mark Joy. Lovely to be with wider members of the Medway family @KellyTolhurst and @CraigLiddell7 too!
With all the discussion about Labour changing the fiscal rules to borrow billions more money (so much for 'fully funded' commitments), it's worth noting that the Chancellor explicitly ruled out doing so last year. My advice from HMT officials was always very clear on this: more…
An honour to attend the Memorial service of @Proud_Sappers at @RochesterCathed we are so proud to be the home of @1RSMERegt with a fantastic freedom of Medway parade as we give thanks & remember all the great men & women who have served & serve our country #RoyalEngineers
Quite shocking from #Labour not surprised, but stagger by their hypocrisy, when they were in opposition all they cared about was impact assessments now they couldn’t care less
Absolutely disgraceful-no wonder Ministers didn’t admit this to @MelJStride & myself & at the box in @HouseofCommons on Tuesday or PM Starmer at PMQS to @RishiSunak on Wednesday lunchtime-but it’s ok to slip this out as conference recess commenced. Calculated & callous behaviour
So our #Labour MP voted to take away #WinterFuelPayment from pensioners in #Rochesterandstrood Not what they promised & totally unnecessary, when they gave in so quickly to their paymasters unions demands. What will be next? send a clear message to Keir 👉 http://www.keepwinterfuel.com
The two @MedwayLabour MPs that were present at today’s vote voted to make a combined 28,475 pensioners poorer this winter.
Support our campaign ⬇️
https://www.whatlaboursaid.com/winter-fuel-payment
Our Leader @UKGeorgeP has written to Medway’s three Members of Parliament in relation to the winter fuel allowance vote later today.
We are clear, support the @Conservatives motion in Parliament to protect pensioners.
Support us at http://keepwinterfuel.com - will Labour listen?