Martin Gannon
@MartinGannon002
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Labour Party Member. Former GMB Officer. Former British Gas Service Engineer. OU Graduate. Labour Leader of Gateshead Council. Views expressed are my own
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Gateshead Council has announced that it will support and back Gateshead schools that decide due to H&S concerns not to fully reopen next week
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And this is the much heralded expertise that the private sector brings to the running of our railways.
Virgin Trains blames cancellations on drivers' refusal to work on days off - and it doesn't go down well
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@SharonBarbour
@HSJnews
Please tell me this isn’t true. If it is, it’s an absolute disgrace. We have the best public health network/partnership in the country. Are they really going to penalise us for being the best
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Still waiting for the PS Pay Cap to be lifted. No Majority. No Mandate. "Same old Tories"
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Time after time the NE has responded magnificently to the challenge. Every time, the government has held us back. Tied both hands behind our back. This will not be forgotten
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Can you hear that deep rumbling? It's the sound of former Tory voters leaving them in droves over DUP Coalition
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Enough of the lies. Enough of cuts to our security capacity. Enough of the LIAR who was Home Secretary for 6 years. Yes, ENOUGH IS ENOUGH!!!
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I understand that labour controlled Ealing Council has had to step in to coordinate support in Kensington. Well done Ealing.
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Sunday politics shows are lining up critical tories. Having seen Kensington, they're petrified of another election. Get your popcorn.
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And the rest of us cried bucket that she and her party weren't completely beaten. Still, there's always GE2017 pt2
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The DUP bung demonstrates what we all already knew. That austerity was always political and was never economic. But to do it so blatantly!!
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My gorgeous daughter today got her results. 2 9’s, 4 8’s, 3 7’s and a 6. In old money, 2 A*’s, 7 A’s and a B. Well done Bridget X
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Lockdown aren’t a panacea. The virus remains a threat. LD’s are an opportunity to get TT&T system in place to control the threat. The NE has the labs/expertise to effectively test. We have the skills/experience to T&T. Sack the contractors, build the local PH network
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Our teachers are hero’s. In Gateshead every school has been open throughout the crisis supporting the children of key workers, visiting vulnerable children at home and delivering urgently needed food, even during the Easter holidays. They’re hero’s, all of them.
This is a disgraceful headline by the Mail, an obvious attempt to divide people & we mustn’t let that happen: all workers are entitled to safe workplaces. A rushed, unsafe reopening of schools affects us all. That’s what is at the heart of teacher’s concerns, not self-interest.
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Do you really not know what’s going on? Gateshead Council together with our schools, have supported our most vulnerable children throughout. We’ll of course do so again through this holiday. Just stop trying to score points and get behind supporting Gateshead
After the Government's refusal to support struggling families during these unprecedented times, Councils; including Newcastle & Portsmouth, are stepping up to help in the school holidays.
We ask
@MartinGannon002
and
@gateshead
to consider this.
#FreeSchoolMeal
#MarcusRashford
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Do you really not get it. That's the very purpose of the Tory Party. "There is no such thing as society, only self interested individuals"
Imagine applying this logic to the NHS. If we only pay for what benefits us as individuals, what happens to society?
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This parliament will go down in history. The bung parliament. The despised parliament. The cruel, arrogant, selfish, corrupt parliament.
Nurses and teachers pay the price for the DUP £1bn bung when the Unionists join the Cons to vote down Labour lifting the wage cap 323-309
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I see that TM has booked the band for the state opening of parliament
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Note for any Daily Mail readers. Our teachers are already hero’s. All Gateshead schools have been open throughout the current crisis, supporting children of key workers and regularly visiting vulnerable children at home. Hero’s all.
It's
#ThankATeacher
Day on Wednesday so if you know someone who'd like to thank someone from their school then our colouring pages may help.
Don't forget to share your coloured in pictures with us & your schools as we'd all love to see them
@UKThankATeacher
#GreatGateshead
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No sympathy. She knows what to do. If she's ashamed she should of voted for labour amendment or resigned. No excuses.
Ouch. Tory MP
@heidiallen75
in HoC: "I can barely contain my anger at the deal we have done with the DUP...distaste at use of public funds".
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Tory strategy is to ride the current storm of public anger over deregulation and cuts... and then back to normal business. Further cuts!!!
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@gatesheadlibdem
Unbelievable - 2017 General Election Result.
Ian Mearns (Lab) 27,426. 65%.
(Con) 10,076.
(UKIP) 2,281.
(Lib Dem) 1,709.
(Green) 611
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Need to listen very carefully to what I actually said. I and the other NE leaders genuinely care. We live here. We have vulnerable relatives and friends too. We need to win people’s confidence and support to the current measures which are beginning to work.
@MartinGannon002
Cases rising deaths rising although a lag. Hospitality showing as a major cause of spread as explained by the Chief Scientist you know best. Hope you can sleep at night, hope none of your elderly relatives have to suffer from this. Playing politics in a pandemic is disgraceful
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We're not too chuffed about it in Gateshead either. Let's face it, who wants to be ruled by witch burners and climate change deniers?
Gerry Adams: "We believe that any deal between the DUP and the English Tories will not be good for here."
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NYE Bevan call tories "lower than vermin". He was so wrong.... they're not that good!!!
I understand that labour controlled Ealing Council has had to step in to coordinate support in Kensington. Well done Ealing.
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LIVE: Jamie Driscoll named new North of Tyne mayor . Congratulations to Jamie. Gateshead looks forward to working with the North Tyne Combined Authority
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Fantastic day. Started with announcement at INVEST GREAT BRITAIN stand. Gateshead 1 of only 5, from over 80 applicants, awarded Furture Place support. Followed by presentation of progress on Gateshead Quays, Baltic Quarter and further development opportunities across GATEHEAD.
The Leader
@MartinGannon002
and Sheena Ramsey are presenting
#Gateshead
at MIPIM2019 this morning. The future is looking bright for our borough
#ThisisMINE
'
@InvestNEEngland
@Tynetoinvest
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What!!! She broke a promise. You'll be telling me next that she's been bribing homophobic bigots and voting down pay rises for PS heroes
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Gateshead Council in partnership with our schools has supported our most vulnerable children throughout the crisis. Including supplying packed lunches to FSM children self isolating. Our staff are working through the weekend to step up the service to all children on FSM
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Proud to join PCC Kim McGuinness in Gateshead to launch her bid for additional resources from government to make our streets safer
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If people needed proof that the tories will always put their own interests before those of the nation... you're currently witnessing it
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Just wondering. How many thought that tonight our PM looked at the top of his game. In control. Decisive. Clear leadership? How many thought he looked bewildered, without a plan or strategy, except for the one worked out on the back of a fag packet?
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Brilliant. I’ll tell that to the head teachers in Gateshead that can’t get their staff tested and the managers of our hospitals who are increasingly having the same problem. I’m sure we all feel much better
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Why is it that when the North gets locked down it’s 66%, when it’s the south it’s 80%?
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I didn’t choose for Gateshead to have £179m of cuts from central government every year. But the Lib Dem’s did whilst in coalition government with the tories 2010-2015.
@Neilcoram15
@DJB_1976
@Save_Leisure_GD
@CllrJAdams
@danhollandnews
@IanMearnsMP
@MartinGannon002
@LizTwistMP
Meanwhile, in the rest of the region, Morpeth & Berwick are benefitting from newly opened leisure centres, with Newcastle, Chester le Street, Bishop Auckland & Hartlepool soon to follow.
It's all about choices, the decision makers at Gateshead made theirs & it's theirs to own.
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When the DWP sanctions kick in they've always got the food banks to fall back on
So on £74k plus expenses & all bills paid Tory MPs who lost seats are in 'financial difficulties' BUT ppl at foodbanks 'Can't manage money'
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How dare you subject your betters to scrutiny? What do you this this is, a democracy?!!!
Rudd suppresses Saudi terror funding report. I tried to bring it up, in context of HSBC business, she shut me down …
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Stunning new photos of new Gateshead Quayside Arena unveiled
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Petition: End child food poverty – no child should be going hungry
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@KiMcGuinness
Thank you everyone for your kind words. I’m delighted to be asked by Kim. She’s a truely inspirational mayor with an ambitious programme. Can’t wait to get started. Love you all.
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They're loathsome, beyond contempt. They slavishly serve the interests of themselves and the privileged few. NYE Bevan, "lower than vermin"
HOW, in the light of everything that has happened, can you vote to freeze the pay of firefighters and nurses and...HELP MY BLOOD IS BOILING
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Resign!!! They should be sacked. They shouldn't be given the opportunity to quietly slip away. They need to be publicly held to account
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How thick do they think we are? Self seeking, arrogant and completely dishonest, the lot of them.
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You think this is booing? Imagine if she'd gone to Glastonbury
Prime Minister Theresa May is booed as she takes a walk about at the
#ArmedForcesDay
event in Liverpool
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Please, please don't let them get away with representing this as a bonanza for schools. Schools still face Tory funding crisis
Today's announcement is nothing more than a sticking plaster. Tories have already cut billions of pounds from school budgets in real terms
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Forming an alliance with the DUP needs to be right up there
Next time an interviewer asks "What's the worst thing you've done?" Theresa May will have a much better answer than "running through wheat"
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And women hit by pension age change suggest minister takes a takes a long walk off a short pier
Minister suggests women hit by pension age change 'take up apprenticeships'
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Thanks Alice. We all know that you, the public health team at Gateshead and the whole local public health network are doing a magnificent job.
My first duty of care is to the residents of Gateshead and, sadly, today has been another difficult day.
@MattHancock
please invest in NHS testing capacity - we have the local knowledge and expertise if you can provide resource
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Wonder if the sun and the mail will be highlighting their links with terrorists?
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The Lib-Dems in Gateshead know exactly why we’re investing in The Quays/Baltic Quarter. Investment, growth, income. Why at elections do they abandon all principles, misrepresent the truth, talk down Gateshead? Completely unprincipled.
Invest Gateshead - Development Opportunities via
@YouTube
. This is part of the reason why Gateshead has invested in a new car park on Gateshead Quays/Baltic Quarter. Lib-Dems know that, say they support investment into Gateshead. Prefer to misrepresent.
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Hell. I'm not even giving her the weekend now!!!
Initially gave her 3 months. Currently listening to radio 4 any questions. I'm now revising down. I give her to the end of June
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This makes my blood boil. Even with an extra £30bn, HS2 doesn’t come remotely near the North East. We need transformational investment in our transport infrastructure. East Coast Mainline, The Metro, buses, park&ride, cycle and pedestrian networks.
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Is there any chance they can clad it. Should make the job easier
Theresa May pushes for £300k Thatcher statue that'd 'insult the working class'
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TM thinks the worst thing she's ever done is to run through a corn field. So, cutting 20,000 police and threatening human rights is ok???
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And here's me thinking that building social housing was a means of providing homes for people in need. Stupid me
Tories refused to build social housing because it would 'create Labour voters', Nick Clegg says
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"There is nothing as powerful as an idea who's time has come". Victor Hugo
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What the hell has Emily been taking. Whatever it is I want some. She's absolutely nailing him!!!
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They're finished. Their brand has to be soiled beyond repair. Sit back, keep claim and enjoy every moment of their demise
The Tories are finished if they don't learn lessons from their failures on public services
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And... if you cherish life and public safety, never ever vote Tory
"Lessons2B learned" says Theresa May
Lessons already learned,Tories chose2ignore expert advice on
#FireSafety
#GrenfellTower
#Kensington
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Don't be fooled. Saying one thing and doing an other is the oldest Tory trick in the book. Remember, they tell lies!!!
Rumours, May is getting rid of the cap, cutting student fees, wow she is turning socialist, not a hope in hell, she is buying votes again,
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No purpose other than to drive the poor/vulnerable into zero hour contracts and minimum wages working for unscrupulous exploitive employers
Cruel Tory benefit cap dealt landmark High Court defeat as judge warns it causes 'real misery to no good purpose'
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Boris Johnson backs high-speed Leeds to Manchester rail route. Does he not know where the north east is? We need an urgent upgrade of the east coast mainline.
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Minister of completely missing the point
#WASPI
Women shout “shame on you” as Tory minister says they should get apprenticeships.
Via
@LondonEconomic
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Don't be fooled by crocodile tears. For tories, the victims of austerity, cuts and deregulation are nothing more than collateral damage.
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Yes!!! That's a result!!!
Boris & IDS could both lose their seats due to constituency boundary review promised in Tory manifesto.
Whoops!
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They can put it next to The Sun newsstand
Put that Margaret Thatcher statue in Liverpool. See what happens.
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You are welcome to give us your full and considered opinion on how to deal with the fact, unavoidable, that the Tyne Bridge by 2021 needs to reduce to one lane in each direction.
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Or vacant landlords pushing up property prices out of the reach of desperate working families
Weird isn't it. Those who rant on about 'foreigners' and 'taking back control' have no problem with foreign oligarchs owning most our media
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Please give my best wishes to rest of the inhabitants of your world when you return there.
So disappointing that
#glastonburyfestival2017
is selling itself out to politics.I thought they were above that
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@MayorJD
Sorry Jamie but this is shallow. Do you really want me to quote on here the disgraceful increase in child poverty on your patch (Newcastle, North Tyneside and Northumberland) during your time in office. I could. However, I’m intelligent enough to know that it’s not your fault.
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Tory Kensington Council has lost all authority. Government needs to urgently review contingency planning in all LA's. Particularly Tory!!!
A Labour-Controlled Council Says It Is Stepping In To Deal With The Grenfell Tower Fire Crisis via
@aishagani
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I went to the official opening on Friday evening. Absolutely fantastic resource for local people. Well done to everyone involved in the lottery bid and who’ve helped to make this project happen.
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Radio 4 this morning asked Karen Bradley "are there less specialist armed police officers"? Response... blah blah blah lies lies lies
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A Labour-Controlled Council Says It Is Stepping In To Deal With The Grenfell Tower Fire Crisis via
@aishagani
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Absolutely, whether male or female, the Tory only serve two things, their class and themselves
The same female Tory MPs that voted to cut £30 a week from a cancer sufferers benefits. Should we thank them? I'm with
@LauraPidcockMP
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The government needs to keep their word. They said they’d cover the additional costs and lost income caused as a result of CV19.
Councils are facing a £10bn black hole as the government is breaking its pledge to fund the cost of the coronavirus, and now face having to make in-year cuts of over 20% to local services and jobs.
Vital warning from
@SteveReedMP
and
@UKLabour
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It's what happens when swivel eyed loons, racists and small minded bigots run Govn. And when personal ambition comes before truth & honesty
What a cock-up! An entire society crucified by the delusional ambItions of Brexiteers chasing moonshine. An anniversary to mourn.
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Absolutely no conscience. No shame. No self respect. Tories are "Lower than vermin."
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A government united? The truth is that they loath each other with an all consuming passion. God help us in these negotiations!!!
Why has Foreign Secretary rung in to Today prog to give "my view" on Brexit negotiation, ten minutes after Cabinet colleague Gove on same?
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All the data for Gateshead is published online every day. Any member of the public can scrutinise the data. Just as every school can examine the data and determine what’s safe for their staff and pupils.
@MartinGannon002
what determines that it is safe? You can’t make statements like that without following it up? Show us the real numbers!
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Oh, with cranberry sauce. Delicious!!'
'Turkeys don't vote for Christmas'
Say's IDS
No, turkeys are running the show & there'll be another GE right B4 Christmas. Gravy anyone?
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Labour must put its programme before parliament. It's what the country wants and needs.
.
@johnmcdonnellMP
says Labour wants to form a minority government and challenges SNP, Green and LibDems to support it. Woooooo
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Shipping containers 'used to house homeless children'. In which alternative universe is this considered a reasonable way to treat anyone, let alone children?
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Whilst we’re on the subject. Boris, where’s our “world class test, track and trace system, you know, the one you promised to have in place by June?
I've emailed my council leader
@MartinGannon002
asking him to lobby the Govn for local funding to institute locally led
#TrackAndTrace
instead of the current failures of T&T by Serco and Sitel, who's contracts are due to end on 23rd August 2020.
Email yours too.
#ToryCorruption
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@MattHancock
@BorisJohnson
Thanks for the “enhanced support”. The mobile testing unit that you promised to Gateshead didn’t arrive this morning, despite apologies, no date when it will. Can I invite you to explain to the entire NE what exactly your “enhanced support” entails
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Boris Johnson prepared to say almost anything to become captain of the sinking ship
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I’m now beyond furious. Weeks of meaningless negotiations. They told us we’d find out what support we’d get this Wednesday, then it’s Friday. Today they put out a press release saying we’ll get something but we’ll not be told what it is until next week. It’s complete contempt.
FT reporting that government announcement of bailout for Tyne and Wear Metro (
@My_Metro
) imminent although a suggestion here by
@MartinGannon002
that it might not be the £10m Nexus asked for to help cover £900k-a-week losses:
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The majority of people support Labour's positive message of change. The only issue in dispute; will enough go to the polls to make it happen
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Says it all really
The public sector has lost 1 million valued workers since the Tories came to power. But it took one job at risk to bring the PM to tears
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Truly and utterly disgusted. Our Govn has been sold to religious, social and cultural bigots who deny reason, intelligence science and logic
Fears DUP will demand even more than £1bn in 'grubby' pact to prop up Theresa May
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And you voted for the bedroom tax, public service cuts, pay freezes, tax cuts for the rich and austerity for the rest of us. Shame on you!!’
Labour want to negotiate a Brexit deal, and they want to tear our family of nations apart.
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Congratulation Alderman Peter Mole. Well deserved honour for your service to Gateshead
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In other words, if you're rich and you don't care about anyone but yourself, the Tories are the party for you
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Clear message to government. “Levelling up means reopening the Leamside, thereby increasing ECML capacity and facilitating expansion, transforming the T&W Metro to the NE Metro. Economic growth and tackling congestion, air quality and climate change
@tobynhughes
@transport_north
@MartinGannon002
@PaulHowellMP
@SharonHodgsonMP
@LizTwistMP
@Transport4North
@NP_Partnership
@northeastlep
@NEEChamber
@henrimurison
I've lived in Washington for 41yrs now, feels like there's always been talk of reopening the line, here's hoping.
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Sure MR Corbyn said 30 million not 13 million? Because I'm absolutely sure MRS May said £1bn to the DUP when she should of said NOT A PENNY!
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Is she crying? Me thinks not
Foodbank crisis in TMs own constituency,what hope does rest of UK have under her govt?
#ToriesOut
via
@thecanarysays
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"5 cabinet minister urge Boris to topple May" Looks as though they're prepared to fight to the last drop of Boris's blood. Is he that stupid
@MartinGannon002
Poison chalice up for grabs, any takers, anyone, Boris, Ruth, Amber, come on 2 parties for the price of one.
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Coronavirus: Boris Johnson criticised over 'cowardly' care home comments. Well said Mark Adams.
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Hi Kim. Just listened to the BBC Hustings. Well done. Not an easy formate but you were very good. Have to say that outside of a friendly audience, that’s less gullible to his outrageous claims, he was floundering. Keep up the good work. You’re winning through.
On 2nd May, we’ll elect our first North East Mayor.
I love our North East, I know you do too.
Together, we can make our region the home of real opportunity, so everyone can thrive, not just those at the top.
Vote
@UKLabour
so we can build our own future, our way on our terms!
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