What has Barbara Keeley been up to today?
Barbara Keeley is MP for Worsley and Eccles South and a member of the Labour party.
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I’m sorry to read this news
Sally Greengross was indeed a kind and supportive person and she will be missed
Rest in Peace Sally
Quite rightly, there’ll be a lot said and written about Sally Greengross’s many professional achievements over the next few days, following her death earlier today, but I want to say what a very kind & supportive person I found her to be too. RIP.
Good luck today to our Labour candidate @simonlightwood
With the eyes of the country on Wakefield, a defeat for the Conservatives here could boot Boris Johnson out of Downing Street.
Today is a once in a lifetime opportunity. The power is in your hands. Use your vote. Vote Labour.
This is by far the best commentary on the Government's new Bill of Rights that I've seen anywhere. It's clear, calm and cuts straight to the heart of the issues. Not for the first time, we are all indebted to @ProfMarkElliott. https://publiclawforeveryone.com/2022/06/22/the-uks-new-bill-of-rights/
When will a Tory mouthpiece realise that they cannot best Mick Lynch on the subject of railways
Here’s Robert Jenrick complaining about public money being wasted, the same Jenrick that allegedly charged public purse £100K for a third home
This is fantastic news from @MrsArcticride on #probono legal surgery advice from @irwinmitchell to support autistic people and people with a learning disability who are detained in an #ATU #inpatient units
#Homesnothospitals 👇 https://twitter.com/mrsarcticride/status/1539559144822292480
Proud to announce we are launching a #probono legal surgery to support those who are #autistic and/or have a #learningdisability and detained in #ATU #inpatient units (or threat of) as part of our commitment to #homesnothospitals @irwinmitchell - see below
This is fantastic news from @MrsArcticride on #probono legal surgery advice from @irwinmitchell to support autistic people and people with a learning disability who are detained in an #ATU #inpatient units
#Homesnothospitals 👇
Proud to announce we are launching a #probono legal surgery to support those who are #autistic and/or have a #learningdisability and detained in #ATU #inpatient units (or threat of) as part of our commitment to #homesnothospitals @irwinmitchell - see below
The Prime Minister’s answer to my question could not have been clearer. Much like his answers on #PartyGate. And PPE contracts. And proroguing Parliament. Watch this space 👀 #PMQs
The theme of this #LearningDisabilityWeek is Living Life with a Learning Disability.
But thousands of people with learning disabilities and autistic people are not being given the support they need to leave inappropriate inpatient care.
This scandal must end.
#LDWeek2022
Lovely to join my friend and colleague @kimleadbeater yesterday to support the @great_together to spread the message of Jo Cox that we have #moreincommon than that which divides us
Hope there are some Great Get Together events near you this weekend see
https://www.greatgettogether.org/2022
Congratulations to the Learning Disability Team at #SalfordRoyal for making the #NHSParlyAwards COVID Response Award shortlist 👏👏
I am proud to support your nomination
Good luck for the finals 🤞 @NCAlliance_NHS https://twitter.com/DodsEvents/status/1537111406549540864
Who has been nominated for the Covid Response Award for #NHSParlyAwards? This will be awarded to the individual or team who has met the challenges of the pandemic with creativity and innovation. https://bit.ly/3NZvAKU @NHSEngland
The Govt’s ill-thought out & dangerous #BillOfRights is the first law in a 1000 years that TAKES AWAY rights you have
Good people made enormous sacrifices, even lost their lives, for these rights
That’s a legacy worth fighting for
Last week I had the total honour of watching my buddy Professor Sara Ryan (I will never tire of using that title) giving her inaugural lecture @HPaC_MMU
The recording is available here https://mmutube.mmu.ac.uk/media/Prof+Sara+Ryan+Inaugural+Professorial+Lecture+-+15+June+2022/1_obu50rn4?st=166 and this thread is some cherry picked highlights
1/25+ https://twitter.com/GeorgeJulian/status/1537102289340616705
This is it, the sole tweet from Professor @sarasiobhan’s inaugural lecture from me; can’t live tweet this one, just going to sit back and enjoy #JusticeforLB
A V&A trustee who is also a Tory co-chair spoke at a Tory fundraising event which used his charity's resources to raise cash explicitly to fight marginal seats
V&A continue to insist there isn't even a risk that this could represent a conflict of interests
Report from Mirror
. @V_and_A gets the Led by Donkeys treatment
https://twitter.com/ByDonkeys/status/1538813667306782720
Tonight the @V_and_A museum is hosting the Conservatives’ lavish summer fundraising party. It shouldn’t be happening.
🚨Scoop🚨 More pressure on the V&A - experts question the board's efforts to manage links between trustees and the Conservative Party, on the day the charity hosts a Tory fundraiser
V&A says event is a normal commercial deal
https://www.thirdsector.co.uk/v-a-trustees-not-discussed-tory-fundraiser-held-its-premises-despite-conflict-interest-fears/governance/article/1790217
How well Brits think the govt is handling… (net)
Inflation -64
Immigration -62
Economy -54*
NHS -51
Housing -49
Tax -47
Transport -36*
Benefits -36
Crime -35
Brexit -33
Environment -21
Education -16
Unemployment -5
Defence +13
Terrorism +29
*Lowest since tracker began Jun 2019
This technique of just explaining to the viewers what the Tory MP is doing rather than engage with it as if were a good faith is undeniably effective. https://twitter.com/Haggis_UK/status/1539211930828668928
Jonathan Gullis(Tory MP) - 3% with modernisation is a very good offer..
Mick Lynch(RMT) - Jonathan should apologise for talking nonsense, as none of that is true... I can't settle this dispute with a backbench MP who is just reading of a script.
#PoliticsLive
diary of former Foreign Office minister Alan Duncan, April 2018:
"apparently Carrie Symonds, head of press in Conservative HQ, is due to become a SPAD in the FCO...."
It seems he didn’t know why she had been picked. But this indicates there will be a paper trail in the FCO. It should be published. It is manifestly corrupt to appoint your lover as a SPAD https://twitter.com/pickardje/status/1539241380245028869
diary of former Foreign Office minister Alan Duncan, April 2018:
"apparently Carrie Symonds, head of press in Conservative HQ, is due to become a SPAD in the FCO...."
No pay restraint from rich Tory donors last night at a V&A auction to fund Johnson’s party:
£30,000 wine tasting
£37,000 shooting weekend
£65,000 safari
£120,000 dinner with Cameron/May/Johnson
In other news, rail pay strikes start as Johnson slashes workers’ living standards.
The Government plans to allow agency staff to replace experienced workers who are striking, putting the safety of the public and the workforce at risk.
Rather than resolving the conflict, Boris Johnson and Grant Shapps want to prolong it.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/rail-strike-agencies-boris-johnson-b2105134.html
Congratulations to the Learning Disability Team at #SalfordRoyal for making the #NHSParlyAwards COVID Response Award shortlist 👏👏
I am proud to support your nomination
Good luck for the finals 🤞 @NCAlliance_NHS
Who has been nominated for the Covid Response Award for #NHSParlyAwards? This will be awarded to the individual or team who has met the challenges of the pandemic with creativity and innovation. https://bit.ly/3NZvAKU @NHSEngland
Ukrainian musicians due to perform in the UK are facing prohibitive visa costs & delays
After writing to the Prime Minister and Home Secretary to ask that they expedite their applications and waive the fees - I am glad the Minister has now agreed to meet me to discuss this 👇
Today’s rail strike is disrupting the lives of people across the country.
The Tory government didn’t spend a single second in talks to avoid it.
This evening the Tories’ summer fundraising party is being held at the @V_and_A museum. We have some questions…
Headlines like this are unhelpful 🙅♂️
Ridiculing construction workers for talking about their feelings only serves to further stigmatise mental health and self-care in an industry where people are three times more likely to take their own lives. (1/4)
I asked why the Transport Secretary is busy making TikTok videos instead of negotiating with workers to avoid the #RailStrikes & making contingency plans to help school pupils
In Labour-run Wales, train staff are not on strike, with all sides working together to manage change🚅
Ukrainian musicians due to perform in the UK are facing prohibitive visa costs & delays
After writing to the Prime Minister and Home Secretary to ask that they expedite their applications and waive the fees - I am glad the Minister has now agreed to meet me to discuss this 👇
Respect to Jamie & my union @GMB_union for this sensible message about mental health of construction workers and how "talking to each other saves lives"
@DailyMailUK take note 👇
FAO: @DailyMailUK
This is what our construction workers at Hinkley Point think about your "woke" builders story 🙄
✊ VICTORY ✊ for residents at Astley Court 👏
Councillors, @salfordmayor & I stood with the community of #IrlamandCadishead & ensured:
🏠 Home security for residents at Astley Court, incl vulnerable people
⚕️ Job security for Care staff who work hard to look after residents
We are pleased to now announce that Astley Court and Monica Court extra care schemes will continue to operate in the future, taking new tenants and ending uncertainty for residents.
This is an absolutely vital Bill which has my full support 👏
The rules and regulations around #ivf & #fertility are outdated and are not fit for purpose.
I hid my infertility from my employer for fear of what it would mean for my job and career - this shouldn’t be the case. https://twitter.com/twocitiesnickie/status/1538440905971097602
Thanks to @AVMikhailova for highlighting my Bill to give women undergoing #ivf same employment rights as antenatal. I’m tabling my Bill in the Commons tomorrow! #ivfjourney
NHS staff given time off for fertility treatment as IVF law is heard
https://mol.im/a/10930943
Under the Conservatives:
- 350,000 children are on NHS waiting lists
- 12,000 of them waiting more than a year
- Almost 500 for two years!
Rising child poverty has seen the return of Victorian diseases and massive health inequalities.
Read more 👇🏻
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/wes-streeting-fighting-pull-children-27276111.amp
Join us today (Monday) for Salford’s Armed Forces flag raising ceremony at 10.30am on the front steps of Swinton Town Hall. Read more in the link 👇
#ArmedForcesDay #SaluteOurForces
http://www.salford.gov.uk/armedforcesday
Our launch/fundraising event on Saturday in support of Black kidney patients with No Recourse to Public Funds (NRPF) and Kidney Research UK was well attended and lit. Not bad for the first Black kidney charity in the UK. Official pictures coming soon but here are some highlights.
Three months after calling on the public to boycott P&O, the Government want to change the law to allow striking workers to be replaced by agency staff.
They are willing to risk the safety of millions rather than get round the negotiating table.
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2022/jun/20/great-britain-faces-biggest-rail-strike-in-30-years-starting-on-tuesday
🚨 Time is running out for the Tories to avert the rail strike.
The Government has just 24 hours to stop the grandstanding and fix the mess it has created.
Add your name to tell the Tories to avoid the strike. ✍️
https://action.labour.org.uk/page/108149/petition/1?ea.tracking.id=tw-organic-post
Two members of the East Essex Hunt will appear in court on 22 June, charged with Hunting Act and animal cruelty offences. Footage, filmed on 4 December 2021, caught the two carrying out the most horrific animal cruelty, using both a dog and a pitchfork to murder a fox.
Great programme charting the evolution of @glastonbury This year will be my 20th Glastonbury (I’ve worked out), first going in 1993. It’s certainly evolved a lot in that time, as have I, and my experience of it!
Can’t wait for this year 😉 https://twitter.com/glastonbury/status/1538609986279964673
📺 Starting shortly on @BBCTwo! Glastonbury: 50 Years and Counting
Any sensible government would be trying to get world leaders round the table to deal with the impending economic crisis and creating a plan for growth.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jun/19/gordon-brown-urges-boris-johnson-global-action-cost-of-living-crisis
Suicide is the biggest killer of men under 50 in the UK, and tradesmen and male labourers are 2-3 more likely to take their own life.
There’s nothing embarrassing or woke about guys talking about their mental health. It literally saves lives. Ditch the stigma and toxic headlines
Absolutely this 👇 https://twitter.com/mennewsdesk/status/1538618342063362048
Tomorrow's Manchester Evening News front page: "THINK AGAIN TO KEEP OUR FUTURE ON RIGHT TRACK". #TomorrowsPapersToday
Another Boris Johnson allegation of “get a job for Carrie” after “favours for Arcuri” & countless others
This time whilst his then wife was undergoing treatment for cancer & Carrie was his “mistress”
Curiously, @thetimes appear to have since ‘disappeared’ the story
I wonder why?
Thanks to Dr Enid Noronha for this 👇
Dr Enid Noronha hosted @NGSOpenGardens for Salford Families in need Meals Project - we will receive £600 & have now more than smashed our original £30k target. A deep thank you & to our supporters Julie Larkinson @KeeleyMP @RLong_Bailey @GlynYOGIPotts @MarsdentTom @mrsunsworth35
Britain is facing the biggest rail strike in a generation but @GrantShapps hasn’t spent a single second in talks to avert it since March.
Time is running out. The Tories must get round the table and sort this out.
Glad to join my colleague @EmilyThornberry & nearly 100 female Labour MPs in a letter urging him to block new rules which threaten the rights of rape victims
#keepcounsellingconfidential
I am one of almost 100 Labour women MPs who have written to Boris Johnson today urging him to block new rules which threaten the rights of rape survivors to seek counselling before their attackers go on trial. No survivor should ever have to choose between therapy and justice.
Huge waits for passports and driving licences.
Huge queues at airports.
Huge waiting lists for healthcare and court dates.
Welcome to Boris Johnson’s Backlog Britain.
The cat is out of the bag.
The @Conservatives would rather provoke this dispute than lift a finger to resolve it. https://twitter.com/paulwaugh/status/1537847979121467393
Exclusive: National rail strike chaos set to deepen - because ministers won't let train firms negotiate pay deal with @RMTunion
Train Operating Companies sources say their hands are tied by lack of full mandate in talks.
https://inews.co.uk/news/train-strike-chaos-continue-ministers-rail-firms-rmt-1693370
I oppose the plans to close Astley Court in Irlam
On Monday I am attending a meeting with @ForHousing officers @salford_mayor & Salford Cllrs
We stand united as a community. I will fight for residents & their homes
Residents say they are 'scared for the future' after plans to close two specialist housing developments in Salford.
https://www.itv.com/news/granada/2022-06-15/residents-scared-after-plans-to-phase-out-specialist-homes
I’m leading on the exciting development of a new hub at the Peace Centre - transforming services for Warrington’s young people aged 16-25 with SEND. It’s all about supporting them to thrive - living independent and happy lives - as they transition to adulthood.
Read more below. https://twitter.com/WarringtonBC/status/1537435668745293824
A dedicated space at the Peace Centre is to be created for young people aged 16 and over with Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND). The exciting project was approved at a meeting of the council’s cabinet on Monday 13 June, for more visit https://orlo.uk/XJh9l
Bus fares across the whole of Greater Manchester are being capped to offset the rising cost of living. The Mayor wants passengers to pay no more than £2 a journey or £5 a day. Children's fares will be no more than £1.
Andy Burnham says it's part of his bus reforms.