Paul Foster MP
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Member of Parliament for South Ribble. Proud retired British Army Royal Engineer.
South Ribble, Lancashire
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Promoted by Matthew Tomlinson, on behalf of Paul Foster, 96 Hough Lane, Leyland PR25 2YB.
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@JohnnyMercerUK
No no no Johnny. You’re better than this. You worked alongside young men and women in the military day in day out and you’d never utter these type of words. Do Royal Marines utter the party chip?? No of course they don’t. It’s a cheap shot. Keir Mather is an elected MP. Show
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# Day One on my way to Parliament and guess what……
@AvantiWestCoast
go and cancel my train just as I get to Preston station. To make matters worse, the train actually pulls into the station! Utter shambles.
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Take a moment and read this. Great read and a wonderful article by
@piersmorgan
- I’ve just hugged my daughter with a tear in my eye - PIERS MORGAN: The cartoon that helped Joe Biden survive two tragedies via
@MailOnline
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URGENT UPDATE: Lancashire County Council confirm that it’s not safe to open our schools next week as the 5 tests have not yet been met. Just as we argued, so thanks for supporting us. This is about our kids safety and that of the staff......
@BBCLancashire
@southribblebc
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Day 1. Week 1. Representing the community of South Ribble. We’re getting down to business straight away………
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The Labour Party battle bus and
@AngelaRayner
visited us in South Ribble today 🌹🌹🌹great turnout and positivity 🌹🌹🌹
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Today, Wednesday 10 July 2024, I was formally sworn in as the Member of Parliament for South Ribble
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We urgently require improvements and so Labour summons bosses of worst-performing train operators to meetings - The Guardian
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Election Day!! Out and about supporting
@UKLabour
Blackpool South Parliamentary candidate
@ChrisPWebb
- Blackpool born and bred 🌹🌹🌹
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On Monday 29 July 24 I had the privilege of making my maiden speech in Parliament.
#southribble
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I genuinely think that the courts will now need to intervene. Political interference is costing lives - this is just utter madness!? Close the schools = supporting the NHS = saves lives!
@piersmorgan
@Peston
please help and challenge......speak out people.
Several Haringey primary school teachers have contacted me saying they are confused (and anxious) their schools are forced by
@GavinWilliamson
to open on Monday when prevalence of virus very high, and so much higher than in Kensington and Chelsea...
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Due to the total collapse of the Conservative Group in South Ribble and their boycotting of a critically important Council Meeting,
@SRLabour
tonight formed a minority administration. We won’t let anyone down
@southribblebc
#forthemany
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Sat in the Chamber ready for the Kings Speech shortly, confirming the priorities for our Labour Government. Let’s get started bringing the change we all desperately need.
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Lancashire so needs this as a matter of urgency and something Lancashire Labour Leaders fully endorse. Let’s do this
@MatthewBrownLab
@ChorleyLabour
So it turned up! 😅
The first ever
@BeeNetwork
service arrives at Farnworth Bus Station at 4.30am.
Greater Manchester is back in control of its buses. 👍🏻
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Really great to be at Chris Webbs Campaign launch in Blackpool South today. So much positivity! Also met up with Rachel and Jonathan who popped along to support 🌹
#GeneralElectionNow
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Errrr!? Direct trains do run from Preston to Liverpool Lime Street - they also stop in Leyland in the heart of South Ribble!!
“Direct trains from Preston to Liverpool don’t exist”. Katherine Fletcher MP (Con)?? There’s one leaving in about 45 minutes Katherine.
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It was an absolute pleasure to meet Jean, a team member at Tesco Extra in Leyland since it opened in 2002. As a Community Champion, she has tirelessly supported our local community. Today, her incredible dedication is being recognised with a prestigious British Empire Medal! 🎖️
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We only went and did it (with a little assistance!)
@johnmcdonnellMP
@AngelaRayner
thanks for your support 👍👊
Councillor Paul Foster is the newly elected Leader of South Ribble Borough Council.
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BREAKING: Great news for residents of
@southribblebc
- it appears we’ve managed to get a mass COVID19 vaccination centre to be established at our Leyland Leyland Centre. Watch this space for further updates......👊
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Applications are now open for 3 positions within my South Ribble Constituency Office. If you are passionate about helping people and thrive in a busy environment, apply now!
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Come wind and rain we need to ensure
@SRLabour
is controlling
@southribblebc
come May..........
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I was really proud to represent South Ribble along with the Mayor last night at the D-Day Beacon lighting ceremony in Lostock Hall.
This local event rounded off 2 days of national reflection, commemoration and remembrance, giving the local community a chance to pay their
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The track and trace is nowhere near, and the testing way behind where the Government would have you believe.
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Many, many thanks to
@waitrose
for gifting this fresh food to
@southribblebc
to assist in ensuring our vulnerable people are supported. You are a credit and we will all remember these kind acts 🙌
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Tomorrows huge match - Accrington Stanley v Barrow AFC is being sponsored by……..me! A life long Barrow fan I can’t get over how much the club has been transformed and in Pete Wild we have a brilliant manager who has pulled together an exceptionally strong team. Best I’ve ever
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It’s on! Huge turnout for
@KimSnape
as we officially launch the
#southribble
campaign......and then onto Fox Lane
#labourdoorstep
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Another great morning campaigning in Penwortham. South Ribble is desperate for a fresh start and a new MP……the doorstep is so encouraging 🌹🌹 - they all want a general election right now!
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UPDATE: Enforced school closures. The wonderful staff
@southribblebc
are working as we speak to ensure our kids get fed. These emergency rations being issued to local schools today - we will do everything we need to do to support you all. Staff are out buying more food now.....
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This wasn’t an easy decision, and it’s one I didn’t want to have to make. However, today I voted to means-test the Winter Fuel Payment. We must make these critical decisions correctly to bring about the economic stability and growth we all need.
I understand that this change may
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It’s time Test, Track & Trace was handed over to local authorities to administer. Enough is enough. We would sort this in days. Our communities must come before ideology.
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Very, very, interesting reading……..we are out on the doors in South Ribble almost daily and voters are genuinely desperate for a
#GeneralElectionN0W
🚨🚨🚨BREAKING: Today we can reveal the Tories are set for electoral oblivion, with our latest mega-poll forecasting their worst EVER election result, winning fewer than 100 seats. 1/9
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I’m thrilled
@ChrisPWebb
is Blackpool South’s new MP. A passionate, dedicated, hardworking MP is just what Blackpool needed. And my, oh my, have they got one!
3rd highest swing since 1945!
🌹👏🌹👏🌹👏🌹
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The reality of the current Tory party beautifully highlighted in this photo of yesterday............top one is what they want us to see, the bottom one.......the one they don’t want you to see.....
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Just popped in to Leyland’s brand new (temporary) market on its opening day!
It was nice to catch up with familiar traders and meet some new faces too.
The market is now at Kings Court for the next 12 months while the original building gets a much-needed makeover.
Well worth the
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Out and about in Longton today campaigning hard. The local community is certainly desperate for a reset and change 🌹
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I’ve just been in supporting the fantastic Officers
@southribblebc
who are still hard at work getting the emergency food packs ready for our local community.........whenever or wherever it’s needed. You are all a credit.....
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@John_Cotter
Believe it or not South Ribble is twinned with Kreis Schleswig-Flensburg in northern Germany. The special relationship was established on 18 April, 1980, with the aim of encouraging friendship, understanding and mutual benefit between the nations. We apologise for our MP.
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Great positive campaigning in Walmer Bridge this morning for the impending General Election. Special thanks to
@AshleyDalton_MP
who is a 🌟 on the doorstep! 🌹🌹🌹
#southribble
#LabourParty
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My beer hamper for this afternoons Barrow v Walsall EFL2 match. Quite an impressive effort from
@BBBeerBox
in Bamber Bridge 👊🍺
@BarrowAFC
@EFL
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Great night with
@AngelaRayner
and
@LindsayHoyle_MP
- great speeches and the most positive vibe I’ve felt in years.
#ForTheManyNotTheFew
Really happy to be guest speaker at the
@ChorleyLabour
and South Ribble CLP fundraising dinner tonight in Chorley. Always glad to support my pal
@LindsayHoyle_MP
and here to support our PPC for South Ribble
@KimSnape
We have raised lots of cash to fight the Tories. Love
@UKLabour
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So lost in the spin of the budget.......
@southribblebc
has secured the £25m Towns Fund investment!!! Well done to my colleagues
@SRLabour
worked wonderfully hard on this 👊👊🤝
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This is such a hugely important issue for us all and must not be permitted to happen. I can see absolutely no logical reason to push on with these closures……..it is a simple choice. Keep them all open
Proud to join
@SRLabourLeader
at Leyland Railway Station, protesting the plans to close the ticket office.
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Out and about campaigning in a wet and windy Eccleston & Croston again today with our
@ChorleyLabour
and
@LabourWestLancs
colleagues 🌹🌹🌹
@SRLabour
@LabourNorthWest
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Really pleased
@SRLabour
Cabinet has secured the long term future of our precious parks at Balcarres Green & Bent Lane after the Tory plans to build houses on them were formally shelved last night. We said we’d do it and have delivered.......
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As the Leader of South Ribble Borough Council I can confirm we will continue to support all our wonderful children during the summer - whatever
@BorisJohnson
decides, they will not go hungry. Keep it going
@MarcusRashford
- you are a credit.
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Cllr Ken Jones was a wonderful member of our team - compassionate, dedicated and a champion for his local community. He will be greatly missed. RIP Ken x
With profound sadness, we announce the passing of our friend & colleague, Cllr Ken Jones. Ken was a Councillor for St Ambrose ward in Leyland. Our love and thoughts are with Sue & their family. RIP
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Our South Ribble Labour Facebook posts have hit 25,000 people in the past 7 days with close to 15,000 engagements. I think the South Ribble community is most certainly ready to turn South Ribble red!!
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I’m totally biased I know, but this has to be some of the most passionate commentary you’ll ever hear. Get him signed up
@GaryLineker
@GNev2
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A fantastic interview with local Penwortham Labour Cllr
@wadams_19
- Will is a nurse on the front line and he candidly shares how this awful coronavirus is impacting the mental health of Lanc's nurses
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National Insurance is rising from 12% to 13.25%. If you want to describe its rise in percentage terms, it is rising by just over 10%, not 1.25%. Let’s be honest with one another - NI is increasing by just over 10%. That’s one big tax hike.
#justsaying
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This is a fairly accurate representation of the data on the doorstep we have been experiencing for quite a while now. When you have elected Tory MP’s opening admitting they are passing legislation that they know isn’t going to work but prevents an early General Election.
Westminster Voting Intention:
LAB: 47% (+2)
CON: 20% (-2)
RFM: 12% (+4)
LDM: 8% (+1)
GRN: 7% (-1)
Via
@YouGov
, tbc.
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It’s really disappointing to see the final Conservative leaflets launching personal attacks against Labour candidates. What’s this all come too - that desperate to win they launch into personal insults? I just hope we win tomorrow and clean this whole mess up
#enoughisenough
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Our communities come first.........Council turns down cash and opts to keep green space in South Ribble
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We said we’d reduce the tax burden and here is the start......
@southribblebc
is going through a fantastic transition with
@SRLabour
at the helm.......Garden waste charge slashed across South Ribble – with broken bins also to be replaced for free
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As you witnessed
@PaulFaulkner2
a number of Tories ‘boycotted’ the meeting hence
@SRLabour
has no option but to step in..utter chaos and a dereliction of duty. We won’t let
@southribblebc
down. Every elected Conservative Cllr that boycotted the meeting should immediately resign.
South Ribble Labour group leader Paul Foster is voted in as leader of the majority Conservative authority at extraordinary council meeting. Tory working majority is lost on the night due to series of absences.
@leponline
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So now
@SeemaKennedy
has quit South Ribble, could you please, please, tell us where the £25m for Leyland is coming from?
@southribblebc
has asked and asked - no one in local government knows?? Seema Kennedy to step down as South Ribble MP at next election
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It’s here! Big launch of the
@southribblebc
@SRLabour
Manifesto with our colleagues
@prestonlabour
and guest
@johnmcdonnellMP
#FortheMany
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The Community hub here at
@southribblebc
is still extremely busy. What a tremendous effort by all concerned 👊
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We must all support our local businesses during these challenging times. I will be collecting my Saturday beer hamper at lunchtime 👌👊👊
@BBBeerBox
🍺 OPEN TODAY🍺 from 1pm until 3pm for take out / collections, and FREE LOCAL DELIVERY available from 3pm for orders received by 3pm. Great beer to your door. Check out for full range and to place orders💻📱, or just drop into the pub 😷
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BREAKING: The pressure paid off. All grassroots football reinstated in
@southribblebc
with immediate effect.
The Lancashire FA has announced that all adult & youth grassroots football can immediately restart.
Grassroots football was suspended in 8 areas of Lancashire earlier this month.
Full statement:
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The entire county of Lancashire has been placed into Tier3 so lockdown continues. Shambolic from the Government - there was no need for all of Lancashire to be treated this way. Devastating for our local business community. Devastating.
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Ask your Tory MP about this. Appalling.......
I’ve seen this letter on our local FB page from the Totnes Tory MP who has obviously forgotten to remove the cut and paste instructions from Tory party Central office. Just shows how uncaring they are - do feel free to RT
#BorisJohnsonMustGo
#SackDom
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I think our MP’s need to grow up and prioritise the real issues within our communities.....
@southribblebc
will happily spend this money feeding our kids, fixing our school roofs, getting more nurses into our A&E, supporting those suffering.....
@UKLabour
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Standing room only at
@southribblebc
this morning for
@UKLabour
Local Government Day with Liverpool Metro Mayor
@MetroMayorSteve
as main speaker and South Ribble Parliamentary Candidate
@KimSnape
speaking on the real issues facing us all
#ForTheMany
@SRLabour
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It’s truly amazing that this is the first time the Rainbow Flag has been raised in South Ribble. A new administration with a totally different set of priorities - which includes an Equality Champion!!......Flag raised over South Ribble Civic Centre
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Trees are the lungs of our borough and we owe this to our kids. It’s a challenge but one that
@SRLabour
is up for.......
A tree is to be planted for every resident of South Ribble – all 110-thousand of them. 🌳🌳🌳
@southribblebc
made the pledge as part of a wider £2.8m “green links” plan.
The project's likely to take several years to complete and will be carried out with the Ribble Rivers Trust.
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Local Government Settlement - Delayed;
Social Care Green Paper - Delayed;
Most Trains in the North - Delayed;
Brexit - Shambles;
Theresa May’s resignation - Imminent....
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I’m ashamed. Totally ashamed.
@K_Fletcher_MP
please confirm how you voted? Rest assured - I give my word
@southribblebc
will feed our kids if the Government won’t.
NEW: Labour vote to extend free school meals over the holidays until Easter 2021 is defeated 322-261.
Government majority of 61.
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In the historic bus leading the
#LeylandFestival
- 1000’s have turned up - great stuff again from
@southribblebc
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This is an appalling abuse of power. This is ‘the establishment’ folks.......Boris Johnson puts own brother and billionaire donor in House of Lords for life
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South Ribble Labour has never been more ready for an election......in
@KimSnape
we have a wonderful, hardworking, local candidate who, with the support of a huge local membership, will be one of many
#labourgains
#generalelection2019
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Lovely heartwarming photos......now let’s get her mum home 👨👩👧
Late last night, Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe’s daughter, Gabriella, came home after more than 1300 days in Iran. She is now reunited with her dad Richard, but her mum remains a hostage in prison in Iran. The fight to
#FreeNazanin
continues.
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Great final push in Lostock Hall with the fab
@jreynoldsMP
who has been up supporting us all for months now……..South Ribble is most certainly ready 🌹🌹🌹
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Interesting that as the Leader of
@southribblebc
I find out about this via social media??!!........no one at the Council knew about it either......Pre-electioneering perhaps??!!
@SeemaKennedy
should have popped in whilst the photo was being taken.....??
🚨Leyland Town Deal🚨
Absolutely thrilled that
#Leyland
is one of
#100Towns
set to receive up to £25 million of
@Conservatives
Government investment to help support our local economy, innovative regeneration and boost productivity.
ℹ️
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Congratulations to
@LindsayHoyle_MP
from all your friends in South Ribble. Great news - chuffed to bits
#lancashire
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Out and about canvassing in Penwortham again this morning. General Election can’t come quick enough!
@LabourNorthWest
#LabourParty
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It’s confirmed. Those Councils in the North who have been in some form of strict lockdown for a number of weeks now, will only receive exactly the same level of financial support as those in the South - placed into lockdown today. North/South divide
@LGA_Labour
@LabourNorthWest
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So we are absolutely clear.
#southribble
welcomes with open arms Afghan refugees. We are already in discussions on how we can support these families in their greatest time of need
@southribblebc
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For the record it wasn’t an ‘ambush’ it was an attempt to keep local businesses afloat and provide families with cash to live on. The very people who are the blood of Lancashire and keep its heart beating. I will never stand criticised for that
@MatthewBrownLab
@SRLabour
County leader says the cash secured by Lancashire was the maximum on the table. But it seems there was a last-minute attempt to ambush the Prime Minister into dolling out more.
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A tremendous turnout by the good people of
#southribble
today - the young, the old, veterans aplenty. Well done to all
@southribblebc
for organising this hugely emotional and extremely Important event 👊
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@John_Cotter
Hi John. I’m the Leader of
@southribblebc
and we are appalled. Please understand we wholeheartedly distance ourselves from these comments. The MP was parachuted in, lives in Knutsford, and knows nothing of our local community.
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Lancashire leaders reject hospitality lockdown and demand millions from government to cope with tougher lockdown
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Fascinating........Tories are toast........let’s hope we’ve a UK left to save.......😤
Westminster Voting Intention (16-18 year olds):
LAB: 61%
CON: 20%
GRN: 7%
LDM: 6%
Via
@Survation
, 18-19 Aug.
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