Ralph Bennett-Richards 💫
@RalphB_R
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permanently exhausted @CEES_GlasgowUni student, nhs nightshifter, and parliamentary staffer. unison. long suffering cardiff city + england cricket fan. 53/193.
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An honour, a privelege and a pleasure to have been invited to Downing Street to meet the Prime Minister
@Keir_Starmer
and celebrate our general election win 🌹
Not enough words to describe how lucky and grateful I feel ❤️
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Mum arrives home from the hospital.
She wasn’t even supposed to work today but a major incident was declared
She was supposed be home by 6 but couldn’t find a bed for a patient - so she stayed with them until she could
Still smiling after all that
I love my Mum ❤️
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In Glasgow, I can’t get a bus after 11pm.
In Prague, I take the night tram at 2am.
Why do we settle for such crap public transport.
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Absolute honour to chat with
@Keir_Starmer
tonight🌹 such a genuinely nice guy who will be our next Prime Minister 💪
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I will never tire of saying how proud I am of my Dad! I am so so proud ❤️
Volunteered his time to vaccinate people this afternoon - starting with
@IanMcKellen
💪✨
Top work
@TowerHamletsNow
@THGPCareGroup
#MerryVaxmas
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Was very nervous but proud to point out that
@_KateForbes
and
@NicolaSturgeon
have rhetoric on climate change but the reality doesn’t match
Easy steps the
@theSNP
can take:
- Scrap plans to cut rail jobs and services
- Rule out Cambo
- End free parking for private jets
#COP26
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Down to earth, honest and genuinely friendly guy
@Keir_Starmer
Not the best photo I know but chuffed to have had the opportunity to have a chat with our next Prime Minister 🌹 Bring on a General Election
#ToriesOut
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Your boy is off to Glasgow uni!
Delighted to have got 3 As and to have benefited from smaller class sizes so the teacher prediction carried more weight...
Couldn’t have done it without the amazing staff at Bow - particularly these three ladies. The sixth form team was ace ❤️
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Four 👏 more 👏 years
Buzzing to have used my right as a student to vote away from home to re-elect
@SadiqKhan
,
@unmeshdesai
and
@CityHallLabour
AMs 🌹
The Tories have rigged it - you have to vote Labour to stop the climate-change denying, Trump-supporting, Boris-fanatic Tory
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Kind of in shock!!! Against all the odds a LABOUR GAIN in Glasgow 💪🌹
Scottish Labour is back and ready to fight for all our communities.
#GlasgowDeservesBetter
Hello councillor
@JillBGlasgow
😉
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Follow the rules, the NHS is cracking at the seams and we all need to play our part. Thanks to all our key worker heroes for keeping us going. Play your part now so we can see the light at the end of the tunnel.
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@alexgill_
God this is vile. Would you say this about someone from Poland, Pakistan or indeed anyone from anywhere other than England who didn’t support your divide nationalism?
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Tell me you’ve had a good day without telling me you’ve had a good day x
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Coming back from Glasgow to London at the end of the July. Cheapest one way ticket is £71.80
So I’m travelling Glasgow-Preston-Blackburn-York-London. Total cost £47.50.
Yes I like trains, and yes it’s a bit of a laugh, but something has gone seriously wrong with UK rail fares.
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Turns out hiring a Fiat 500, driving round Mallorca and stopping for as many sea swims (and patatas bravas) as I wanted, was the most perfect post-election holiday ☀️
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23:30 - found a job I liked.
23:35 - realised job closed at midnight.
23:59 - application submitted 😌😌😌
we move ✨
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Buzzing to announce that I’m running to represent young members on the SEC 🌹
Having been encouraged to stand from people across our party, and having been nominated by members from Ayr to Aberdeen, I’m really excited to be running 💪
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20 today. Refusing to recognise I’m no longer a teenager, and wearing my Barney the Dinosaur jumper to prove the point.
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🚨 Breaking News: Another Aspire councillor resigns from Lutfur’s failing administration!
💥 Aspire loses majority control of Tower Hamlets Council!
🌟 A new era begins for Tower Hamlets – big changes ahead!
🌹 Only
@TH_Labour
stands up for Tower Hamlets
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⬆️ 5 seats ✅
⬆️ 4% of the vote ✅
The legacy of an incredible leadership team for Glasgow Labour. A lot to be proud of, and a lot of hard work put in. Hope
@EvaCMurray
and
@Malcolm4Linn
are holding their heads high on an incredible result for our party and our city 🌹
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I did it! Delighted to find out that I will graduate from
@UofGlasgow
with a First Class honours degree in
@UofGlasgowESH
&
@CEES_GlasgowUni
🙌
Couldn’t have done it with all of my fab friends, family, tutors and lecturers - onwards to the future ✨
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mid-conference break for a session on the
#LabourDoorstep
with the one and only
@lisanandy
🌹
#ScotLab22
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And we’re off! Onto the next stage of my life...
Bye bye London 👋
Very very excited to arrive in Glasgow ☺️
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Finished my last lecture
@UofGlasgow
🥺
I’ve learnt about everything from condoms in the Soviet Union to colonial cocoa in Ghana and the collapse of Yugoslavia. But most of all I’ve become a critical thinker.
An incredible 4 years, in an incredible place.
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Nice to take a break from campaigning and observe how impressive this hula hoop is.
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here for my first night shift 🙌 let’s see if I’m as excited at 8am…
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Happy New Year from the Lanarkshire OOH hub night shift! Celebrate safely and let’s all hope for a better 2022 🥂
A reminder than the NHS is open 24 hours, 7 days a week too 💙
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Massively overestimated my ability to jump over streams 🌊
Bleeding knee and hand/face covered in seaweed 🤦♂️
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Only Britain and Iran have clerics in parliament. Britain and Iran.
#AssistedDyingBill
debate: Justin Welby says the bishops' bench is united in opposition to the Bill.
Outrageous that CofE bishops are given such a privileged position in our democracy entirely on the basis that they are CofE bishops. Scrapping the bishops' bench is long overdue.
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Was really nervous to speak as a first time delegate in front of thousands (completely off the cuff!)
Proud to say the SNP are not our friends, they are not our allies, and they are not progressive.
Time to turn Scotland red again and get
@AnasSarwar
&
@Keir_Starmer
into power.
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Really looking forward to this leg of the journey… Glasgow to London the scenic route via the Settle and Carlisle Railway. Worked out cheaper and doesn’t take too much longer!
@seatsixtyone
@AndyBTravels
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Here we go!
Moved in to halls ✅
Making friends ✅
Very excited for teaching to start next week ✅
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This man’s an MP and I couldn’t be happier 🌹
@MartinRhodes21
elected to take a clean sweep for Labour in Glasgow 6/6.
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Cracking response on the doors tonight in Cambuslang, lots of former SNP voters lending
@mgshanks
their vote this time round for real change instead of managed decline from Humza. Smiles all round with
@Torcuil
&
@elsieortong
🌹☀️
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My first ever general election vote.
I voted to end 14 years of chaos.
I voted to bring our country together.
I voted for a local champion in
@MartinRhodes21
.
I voted to make
@Keir_Starmer
prime minister.
I voted
@ScottishLabour
.
I voted for change. 🌹
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Cannot wait to take the fight to the SNP over their failing mismanagement of our great city.
Potholes everywhere, bins not collected, community facilities closing - and they have the audacity to say ‘delivering for Glasgow’.
Only a vote for
@Labour_GCC
is a vote for Glasgow.
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Beyond buzzing to have my candidacy confirmed by the Party! ✨
When ballots drop on the 28th January, send an active and experienced campaigner to be your strong, independent voice on the SEC 🌹
Make it Bennett-Richards for Better Representation 💪
#RalphForSEC
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Still kind of in disbelief that my uncles umbrella shop has gone viral...
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Gutted I didn’t win the opportunity to represent young members on the SEC, but I’m so proud of my campaign, supported by unions and members across the party and the country.
Massive congrats to
@MccailColl
@lxurenhh
on your mandate, you’ll be fierce advocates for young members🌹
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I never normally rise to this shite but it’s just so incredibly insulting to the thousands of Labour activists campaigning for real and radical change.
Enough proof pal? Perhaps my step count would be better.
Pipe down and start backing our movement and not trashing members.
We’re hearing a lot of pushback from Labour councillors and candidates, but literally no proof.
Come on, show us the photos! Surely you want everyone to see how much support you’ve got?!
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I have so much respect and admiration for my amazing Mum and Dad, working round the clock for our
#NHS
during the
#CoronavirusPandemic
Putting patients first ✊
Solidarity with all of our amazing
#NHS
staff 👊❤️
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After 8 months away its lush to be back in Scotland and on the
#LabourDoorstep
- buzzing to finally get out for
@mgshanks
after all the FOMO.
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Genuine question - have people noticed a huge uptick in cybernat trolling? Not only the volume but the nastiness? Never saw anything like this in the last couple years.
Is in response to labour storming ahead in the polls?
After 8 months away its lush to be back in Scotland and on the
#LabourDoorstep
- buzzing to finally get out for
@mgshanks
after all the FOMO.
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Cracking morning out in Cardonald for
@Alison_S_Taylor
with
@RachelReevesMP
and the Change Express🌹
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Sunny Blantyre giving a resounding yes to a
#FreshStart
on Thursday with
@mgshanks
and
@ScottishLabour
🌹☀️
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41 days to go. 41 days to make our case for change. 41 days to get Scotland & Britain’s future back.
Great to hear from
@AnasSarwar
and
@Keir_Starmer
this morning in the Gorbals 🌹
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Did you even have a lockdown birthday if you didn’t trek out to the
@RoyalMail
depot to collect the cake mum sent you that you missed...🎂
19 today! And the first birthday away from mum and dad - it’s been a hell of a year x
cheers posties!
@CWUnews
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there’s a big smile under this mask
I’m on my way home from my first shift as an
@NHSLanarkshire
employee working in a COVID-19 vaccine centre
if any loved ones are offered the vaccine, please encourage them to take it! there’s no worse feeling than seeing someone not turn up
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Feeling a bit emotional!
I’ve just voted for the first time! And I couldn’t be prouder to vote for
@JillBGlasgow
🌹
I want a Cllr who’ll stand up for our public services rather than spineless decline and division 💪
Time is running out if you want to elect a local champion ⏰
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your regular reminder than you can take (any!) cans or bottles back to Lidl and get 5p back for each one!
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Liverpool bound for
#Lab23
with
@PaulJSweeney
@declanmclean
! Transpennine train cancellations can’t keep us down ➡️🌹
Looking forward to catching up with everyone 🥳
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And that’s close of play for my 7th session today! 33,000 steps down for incredible candidates across Greater Glasgow 🌹
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Friday was my last day with Team Bibby - excited for what’s next but gutted to leave a job I loved helping people across Renfrewshire & the West.
Will always be grateful to
@NeilBibby
for taking a chance on a student looking for a first job in politics! I’ve loved every minute.
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After a disgraceful meeting last night, I have thought hard and am moving my membership away from Poplar and Limehouse
The final straw was someone describing the secretary as a fascist over an AGM date (yes, really)
When I challenged this I was then a victim of further abuse
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really disappointed with the actions of
@UofGlasgow
here
this policy now forces students to choose between coming back now, during a lockdown, to cut their losses on paying rent or to never come back at all
do better
don’t leave rent rebates ‘to be confirmed’
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Cracking response in Halfway this afternoon. Genuine enthusiasm for
@mgshanks
and Labours New Deal for Working people:
❌ banning zero hours contracts
💰 more money in people’s pockets
✅ making flexible working a right
Vote
@ScottishLabour
next Thursday for a
#FreshStart
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Good morning from the EC 151 ‘Emoma’
@_DiningCar
bound for Trieste from Vienna!
Restaurant cars are the classiest form of train travel…
@seatsixtyone
@AndyBTravels
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Some early morning democracy done before heading to work!
Three votes for
@LondonLabour
whizzing their way down the country now.
I’ve voted to re-elect our strong mayor
@SadiqKhan
, our wonderful constituency GLA member
@unmeshdesai
and more Labour AMs on the list 💪🌹
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The West End is turning red! Lots of positive conversations with residents keen to back a fresh start with
@ScottishLabour
🌹
@MartinRhodes21
has been a local champion before and is ready to stand up for Glasgow North against Tory austerity and SNP incompetence 💪
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Finished my Super Sunday out on the doors in Greater Glasgow for phenomenal
@ScottishLabour
candidates 🌹
4 sessions and 30,000 steps down, there’s a real feeling that under
@AnasSarwar
, people are ready to bin the SNP and elect local Labour champions 🗳
Now for night shift 😬
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Welcome to Britain, where instead of taking a direct train from Glasgow to Liverpool its cheaper for me to take a different train from Glasgow to Carlisle and then Carlisle to Liverpool. The train from Carlisle starts in Glasgow…
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So, I’m heading to school for the last time now.
I don’t recognise the person I was 7 years ago, and I’m so proud of how far I’ve come.
It’s going to be tough and I’m going to miss
@BowSchool1
*SO MUCH*!
Little me in 2013 had no idea it’d end like this!
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Absolute silence from
@jamiehepburn
and the SNP on the injustice facing university staff. Nothing from SNP Glasgow MSPs in support of the strike.
Only Labour has workers backs 🌹
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Let’s get counting 🗳 buzzing after our first result - LABOUR GAIN IN SHETTLESTON
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Dr. Kambale and I both came to our shifts in out of hours tonight, straight from a day on the Labour doorstep for
@MartinRhodes21
&
@JoaniReid
🌹🙌
Only Labour can be trusted to stand up for our NHS 🏥
#OneTeam
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Back on twitter just to share this!
Only a little bit embarrassed that my quote about having a sob made the headline!
Have a read further down for my quote... 👇
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Can we recognise that
@SadiqKhan
has beaten the Tories twice? He is no stranger to winning elections, and no stranger to making difficult decisions
He doesn’t pursue ULEZ because it’s a vote winner or a convenient choice, he does it because 4,000 people die a year from dirty air
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Double leaflet session today! Step count is certainly picking up 🏃
Had a lovely afternoon with
@elsieortong
sharing
@JillBGlasgow
’s message of more investment in public services not more division and decline from the SNP & the Tories 🌹
#VoteJillBrown1
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Back on board EC 151 ‘Emona’ heading for Trieste from Maribor, treated myself to this Schnitzel from the
@_DiningCar
😍
@seatsixtyone
@AndyBTravels
I think this is the best dining car in terms of value and quality!
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I had meant to post this before I went to sleep… but I collapsed into bed before I could do it! 💤
As I finished my night shift; here’s a few thoughts as SEC ballots start to drop 🗳
I’m standing to be your voice on the SEC and fight for what matters to you 👇
#RalphForSEC
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I never hide that I love a train trip… but this one is always extra special ✨
Off on the
#JourneyOfANightime
with
@CalSleeper
for £55 in a room! 🛌
@seatsixtyone
@AndyBTravels
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