Alastair Mellon SDP
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I am standing as the SDP's candidate for Coventry South in the general election because I am not willing to accept the country we are leaving for our children.
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Long🧵I'm standing as the SDP's Candidate in Coventry South. I grew up in Earlsdon in Coventry before qualifying as a Civil Engineer. I’ve built railways, factories, skyscrapers, thousands of apartments as well as 12 centres for 25,000 refugees in Bosnia during the Civil War./1
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@JohnSimpsonNews
I only met Jeremy Bowen once while I was having a meeting with the Mayor of Zenica in Bosnia-Herzegovina in 1993. He burst into the room with his camera crew and started haranguing the mayor and accusing him of firing mortar shells into the town square killing his own people. I
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@JohnSimpsonNews
Judging by the performance of the Afghan army vs the Taliban I’m not convinced. When you say they are highly motivated, highly motivated to do what?
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What is it like running for Parliament? I’m a first time candidate standing for the
#SDP
in the constituency of
#CoventrySouth
i’ve taken six weeks off work and I’m entirely self funded. I sleep in a 12 m² student accommodation room and haven’t seen my wife for 2 weeks. My
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@chriscurtis94
How does shutting down the North Sea Oil & Gas industry end our reliance on foreign Oil & Gas? Surely it increases our reliance on imports? You know Wind & Solar require full back up for night/wind free operations, right? This is like unilateral disarmament
#feelsgoodbutfoolish
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@TheMistressRox
@HJoyceGender
This is the single most insightful observation on the whole gender dysphoria issue. Somewhere in an organisation where this ideology is being promoted relentlessly is a woman (or man) who will have transitioned her own son or daughter and cannot face the horror that they have
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@BBCNewsnight
This is clearly correct. Critical theory has jumped out of the universities and into the mainstream and from its strongholds in the HR departments is having a chilling effect on freedom of speech. According to studies conducted by LinkedIn Britain has the highest number of DEI
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@ginadavidsonlbc
So the old trope of the gender pay gap is wheeled out to cover up for the fact that labour leader cannot tell you what a woman is. How can there be a gender pay gap if we don’t know how to define what a woman is?
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@josiahmortimer
Has anyone researched Chris Braddon (Coventry South) no-show on the campaign trail & no-show at the count
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Some reflections on the 2024 campaign. Like many of you, I’ve bemoaned the capabilities of many of our MP’s. The nadir for me came in 2019 when Jeremy Corbyn parachuted a young lady with several years experience working at Primark into the safe Labour seat of
#CoventrySouth
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My message to the SDP ‘troops’ in Coventry this morning;
“It’s been a pretty wild trip the last six weeks. It started out with just Paul and I and now there are 12 of us plus more prospects in the pipeline.
We got 334 votes more than the last election and the SDP is now widely
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@ZackPolanski
Care to explain the apparent dichotomy between encouraging more mass immigration and your apparent opposition to a mass house building programme?
#SDP
recognise that you can’t have mass immigration and solve the housing crisis. Simple.
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That didn’t take long. If British companies can simply poach staff from abroad there’s no incentive to train our youngsters. Similarly the NHS steals trained doctors from poor countries rather than train enough of our own even though our medical schools are x6 oversubscribed
Labour have dropped manifesto pledges requiring UK companies to train and recruit British workers rather than importing foreign labour.
That didn't take long.
The indifference continues...
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@wesstreeting
While you’re at it, why don’t you demand that the BMA stop limiting the number of new doctors being trained at British medical schools as part of a quid pro quo? My understanding is that medical schools are six times oversubscribed but the BMA insists on limiting the numbers
#SDP
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Five weeks ago, the
#SDP
did not exist in
#CoventrySouth
outside myself and my agent, Paul Crilly. Today we have 14 volunteers and are growing daily. At the next election we’ll field candidates in
#CoventryNorthWest
#CoventryEast
&
#MeridanandSolihullEast
#AlastairMellonSDP
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@zarahsultana
By the way, weren’t you suspended from the labour party? Why are you representing yourself as a labour MP?
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FedEx lost 10,000 of my 62,000 leaflets and tonight we discovered the post office are delivering my leaflets all over Coventry North. BUT… We talked to 200 to 300 Coventry voters every day and today was our best day ever in terms of the positivity of the response.
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@Ed_Miliband
Tsunami of money from the poorest families using cards in their meters with highest cost/kwh going to wealthy investors/landowners via subsidies & still requires fossil fuel back up. No way to run an industrial society…. Unless of course that is not the aim?
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The central plank of my campaign is to focus on bringing high skilled high value added high paying jobs back to the city of Coventry because “a rising tide lifts all boats” Our current MP, Ms Sultana, has used the platform afforded to her by the voters of Coventry South to focus
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@hzeffman
I’m a member of the SDP but this is an inspired appointment. Good Luck Lord Timpson
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@LeoHickman
The cyber truck just became the best selling electric pick up truck in North America. Are you sure of your facts?
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Today we held the inaugural meeting of the
#CoventrySDP
at the Open Arms in Daventry Road. Our conversation ranged from the deindustrialisation of Coventry and the UK more generally to the problems of gaining traction in local authority elections.
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Having two parents who love you is the greatest privilege imaginable. It doesn’t matter if you’re rich or poor, growing up feeling confidence in other humans is of incalculable value. Campaigning in Willenhall this afternoon I can see the terrible effects of the loss of trust
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#Breakingnews
“The SDP saves Bambi” - Driving back from the Gigafactory to pick up former SDP leader Peter Johnson I managed to stop in time and avoid this baby deer (‘Bambi’) Despite trying to put him back into the verge three or four times, he insisted on running back into the
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Thank God David Owen didn’t join the Liberal Democrats and preserved the seeds of the
#SDP
to regrow and stand apart from this pathetic display of a grown man leading a national party indulging in what can only be described as
#playdates
.
He should come to
#CoventrySouth
and see
Ed Davey hitting the Tories where it hurts in Yeovil
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@CarolineLucas
@ChrisGPackham
Because they are entitled unserious people who scream at you when you try to debate with them. They need to understand that our tolerance for their self righteousness has limits.
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Having held nearly 2000 individual conversations, not one single person has raised this issue with me in Coventry South. The local BBC radio station is only interested in talking to me about Gaza despite me pointing out to them that BBCQT in Coventry on the first day of the
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#BreakingNews
#CoventrySouth
#AlastairMellonSDP
in a surprise turn of events our lost 10,000 leaflets emerged from the FedEx distribution system and arrived at Coventry Royal Mail. so we are back in business and focused on delivering our message of Hope to the people of Coventry
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Some of my volunteers struggle with the level of anger and frustration expressed by voters. It can be very raw and very real and not everybody can cope with it. I am absolutely convinced that the mass of elite opinion especially in London is totally disconnected from the majority
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@zarahsultana
Or we could focus on growing the economy of
#CoventrySouth
& avoid driving the wealthiest one percent offshore where they would pay zero tax. At some point the Labour Party (I assume that includes Ms Sultana?) need to focus on growing the pie rather than arguing over the crumbs
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People in
#CoventrySouth
ask me, “Isn’t a vote for the
#SDP
a wasted vote?” My answer is that it depends on the context in which you see your vote. If you see it purely in terms of this election and the chances of an SDP candidate winning outright in a single constituency then
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Day 29 of campaigning in
#CoventrySouth
I’m taking a break in the car park of
@MidAirMuseum
after a 4 hour stint campaigning at the Airport Retail Park with our newest member, Michael Newton, who joined the SDP five days ago. # AlastairMellonSDP
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THANK YOU COVENTRY FROM THE BOTTOM OF MY HEART❤️ We’ve held more than 4,000 individual conversations over 33 days of campaigning and made some great friends and met some amazing people
#CoventrySouth
#AlastairMellonSDP
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@BBCNewsnight
This is an argument for polytechnics. Some of our universities are selling courses so devoid of real academic rigour or utility in the real world (anything involving critical theory, queer theory etc) that they deserve to be shut
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@RafHM
The study conducted by the Amsterdam School of Economics, part of the Faculty of Economics & Business at the University of Amsterdam is one of the most explosive pieces of research in Europe. Read it for yourself here 👇👇 👇
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@LeoHickman
The model Y is the best selling car in the world. Not the best selling electric car. The best selling car. Are you sure of your facts?
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@zarahsultana
@zarahsultana
has taken two weeks to go from the government benches back into opposition proving she has no taste for exercising real power.
At the first opportunity to demonstrate she understands the choices that come with governing she has tripped.
Knowing her protest was
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@Serena_Partrick
Correct - Michel Foucault, Gayle Rubin, Pat Califa and Judith Butler who provide the foundations of Queer Theory all wrote extensively defending Paedophilia - No doubts: no equivocation - they were definitely in favour of normalising sex with children.
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With an awful lot of help from several SDP colleagues we got 65,000 leaflets ordered with delivery arranged by the Royal Mail to every home in the Coventry South constituency starting from the 13th of June.
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So I was just handed a lovely note from one of the voters in Tile Hill outside the Beechtree Fish Bar where we are canvassing this morning.
#AlastairMellonSDP
#CoventrySouth
it’s moments like this that make the effort worthwhile
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Bit by bit, we have put together a group of volunteers who join me at weekends and evenings after work to support my campaign. I Spend 10 to 12 hours a day in one-to-one conversations throughout the constituency of Coventry South and I think I have a good feel for voters want
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If you want an MP who will stand up for
#CoventrySouth
and focus on the problems of our city then vote
#AlastairMellonSDP
on July 4th
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@I_Dont_Know_Her
I hope the police in Leeds will arrest this man and make him pay for the cost of replacing this bus
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Reform is on the lips of almost every white male over 45 years old. Nigel Farage has tapped into and reflected the anger of voters but has no compelling answers. The SDP are committed to a long march across three electoral cycles to build a mass national party that can offer
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We are seeing the breakdown of societal norms. Cocaine consumption amongst the middle classes in London are responsible for these battles and the deaths of hundreds of youths each year. They are utterly indifferent and callous. No demand = no need for battles in the supply chain.
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We both believe that natural monopolies belong in the state sector as regulatory capture is unavoidable given the asymmetry of resources (I.e. accountants & lawyers) between the owners and the regulator.
Begging the French to build our nuclear power stations is embarrassing
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This royal throne of kings, this sceptred isle, This earth of majesty, this seat of Mars, This other Eden, demi-paradise,
This fortress built by Nature for herself
Against infection and the hand of war,
This happy breed of men, this little world,
This precious stone set in the
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@Miatsf
You should start by building a new fleet of British designed manufactured and regulated nuclear power stations.
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@OliverKamm
@Ofcom
This is a conversation that could easily have taken place on the BBC even five years ago so, genuine question Oliver; what specifically in this package did you object to? It seems reasonable & balanced and their guest presented an alternative position to the presenter?
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@Keir_Starmer
looks bereft of ideas & exhausted. His first 6 weeks have been disastrous with his unpopularity growing daily. Even Boris Johnson wasn’t this ham-fisted. The government looks simultaneously weak & authoritarian. If
@Ed_Miliband
isn’t stopped soon the UK will rapidly
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We have the privilege of meeting some fantastic people; when you get feedback like this, it makes it worthwhile
“You moved me emotionally and at last I can support someone competent who can get things done & whose focus is on Coventry! Be assured of my vote.”
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In 2023 I met
@WilliamClouston
of the
#SDP
and over the next 12 months we had dozens of conversations & I became convinced that standing on the sidelines was no longer an option. My wife was concerned about potential reputational damage as UK politics appears like a piranha tank.
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Our politics were moderate. We both believed that if you worked 40 hours a week 46 weeks a year you want to be able to afford a modest home of your own. We felt that the government should be competent and not expand its scope beyond what it was capable of delivering successfully.
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@LoftusSteve
A useful heuristic- Solar works well if there is 2000 hours of sunshine per annum (payback time for carbon embedded during mining/processing of polysilicates & manufacturing) and if the array is within 500km on a conurbation (transmission losses become too large if further away)
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And that brings me back to our representatives who are, in aggregate, simply not up to the job. Would you hire our current MP for any serious job? I doubt it? We may not win this time, but we will put down the roots of a winning organisation having gone from 0 to 15 volunteers.
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The public has responded positively to our common sense proposals. The British people are fair minded and generous but they have limits and those are being tested. They want cheaper housing, cheaper energy, more training, better paid & higher skilled jobs
#SDP
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I’d encourage everyone to examine Labours disastrous energy policy. In the Industry people say that they haven’t yet recovered from Ed Miliband’s last jaunt as energy secretary but this time what he is proposing will undermine our status as an industrial economy.
#SDP
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We’ve both experienced terrible healthcare with the NHS but continue to believe in the principle of a single payer, free at the point of use health service. Neither of us care if it’s a black cat or a white cat so long as it catches mice - we hold no theological views on the NHS.
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I discussed with a friend today how many people could take six weeks unpaid leave?
Assuming there are 35 million voters we figured that maybe 3% maximum which gives a figure of 1,050,000. We then calculated that may be 5% of these remaining people could afford the estimated
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#RoyalMail
what the hell is going on in Coventry South? We are getting reports that our leaflets, clearly marked for Coventry South, are being delivered all over Coventry North. Our EL-1e forms are impeccable - Does anybody know how to run a Postal Service in this country
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@TimesRadio
@montie
@CalumAM
The
#SDP
have been highlighting this indifference for 6 years now. Our manifesto is full of ideas and policies to address these very points
@montie
@WilliamClouston
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@AllisonPearson
@adhib
The Ottomans allowed different ethnic groups to be ruled by different sets of regulations in order that they didn’t riot so that the piece could be maintained throughout the empire and into ethnic tensions reduced
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Politics which offers cheap energy through a new fleet of British designed, British built nuclear power stations regulated through an ‘underwriter certification’ system rather than the unfit for purpose ALARA principle will lay the groundwork for a renaissance of UK manufacturing
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Campaigning on Quinton parade Daventry Road. The great thing about being in the SDP is that as soon as they find out about them, people agree with our policies - you don’t really need to persuade them. For example, let’s look at housing.
#SDP
#AlastairMellonSDP
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Our 122 Candidates represent a 500% increase from 2019 and we aim to field 350 Candidates at the next election. I know that Solihull next door to Coventry will be the next centre for the SDP growth in the West Midlands as we have three volunteers coming almost daily to help us in
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As we experienced construction professionals, neither of us can wrap our heads around the ludicrous costs and time delays of major UK Infrastructure projects like HS2 & Hinckley C. We are convinced we can do better. We see massive waste on big sites which no politician discusses.
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There’s a small army who toil diligently on our behalf to keep
#CoventrySouth
livable and clean. I bumped into Adam removing graffiti in the subway. I know in construction no one ever thanks you so on behalf of the people of Coventry:Thank you Adam!
#AlastairMellonSDP
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@FUDdaily
I campaign in Coventry daily speaking to at least 200 people every day and almost nobody is talking about labour - it’s extraordinary
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@tomhfh
This interview will not get the attention deserves, but this is terribly worrying. We are being warned about the de-industrialisation of our continent. Let’s pray that our leaders are paying attention.
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@zarahsultana
One day there will be a reckoning for people who supported and encouraged the brutal medical transitioning of what in many instances were young homosexuals struggling to come to terms with their own sexuality. Your name will be on that list of shame.
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Having held more than 4000 one-to-one conversations my assessment is that the public want an effective state that can get things done & struck off the ‘to do’ list. They are sympathetic towards LGB rights but reject broader identity politics & don’t want to be told what to think.
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After the holidays, we’ll start to build for the next phase. We’ll build our social media presence across all four major platforms. We’ll create a Coventry wide SDP structure, contribute in the creation of national policy and locally we’ll recruit & start to train our members.
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“Much of the social history of the Western world over the past three decades has involved replacing what worked with what sounded good.”
Thomas Sowell, born 30th June 1930
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@CharlotteCGill
You need to make clear the name of the perpetrator and if it gets classified as a 'mental health' episode (code) and also the charges levelled.
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We are proposing that a new school of Nuclear Engineering, Design & Regulation is established at
#WarwickUniversity
in
#CoventrySouth
to lead our efforts to deliver rapidly on this urgently needed capacity. We need to treat this like the Mulberry Harbour or the Manhattan Project.
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@LeoKearse
I’m sorry, but he has to set an example. He’s got to be suspended pending an investigation. This is totally unacceptable behaviour from the most senior police officer in the country.
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@NewCultureForum
@prwhittle
The application of two tier justice and politically motivated aggressive prosecutions of some whilst soft peddling on others is intolerable in a free society.
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I got into this because I’m not willing to accept the country we are leaving to our children. I hope and pray we are not too late.
#AlastairMellonSDP
#CoventrySouth
#CoventryStrongerTogether
God bless Coventry!
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Standing for parliament is a trip! This week I’ve started to receive dozens of different manifesto from organisations and pressure groups seeking my endorsement. I have been absolutely clear that my overwhelming focus is to drive the economic well-being of Coventry.
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9:27pm outside the Miners Arms in Ernesford Grange in
#CoventrySouth
the voters are few and far between but we have so little time left and our message is really connecting so it feels worth every last conversation.
#AlastairMellonSDP
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Whenever I speak to our leader
@WilliamClouston
he ends every conversation with the phrase, “Keep on Trucking!”
So, fuelled up with a Full English we enter the home straight with renewed vigour and enthusiasm
#alastairmellonSDP
#CoventrySouth
#CoventryStrongerTogether
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#CoventryCathedral
in
#CoventrySouth
is a modern masterpiece and represents the resilience and determination of the people of Coventry to build back better. Our campaign has focused on bringing high-skilled, high-value add, high paying jobs to support the City’s recovery
#SDP
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Just last week Britain’s richest man and our leading industrialist
@RatcliffeUtdEra
warned of the deindustrialisation of Europe due to costly energy . We can’t run an industrial society without cheap dispatchable energy & if its not to be fossil fuels, then it has to be nuclear.
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Consequently, I am being very sparing with my responses as I do not want to dilute my message. When our family returned to Coventry in 1969 wages in Coventry were significantly above the UK average and they are now significantly below. House prices were four times average
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Shout out to S&P snacks on Sibree Rd for the best sausage and egg roll I’ve had in a long time.
#SDP
#AlastairmellonSDP
For my next trick I will eat a
#baconsandwich
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