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Blogger on News, Discussion on Stoke On Trent/Staffs Regeneration Projects. Also covers Politics/Opinion/News/Reviews. Promoting #TransportForNorthStaffordshire
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If growth is equal everywhere, we will remain equally behind…
North Staffs needs immediate, serious, transformative regeneration.
Transport, skills, leisure, health, homes, environment and jobs.
We need a local plan, with investment and change behind it…
Take note…
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So the enemies of Britain are…
David Attenborough
Chris Packham
Carol Vorderman
Feargal Sharkey
Marcus Rashford
Justin Welby
National Trust
RSPB
RNLI
Civil Service
Barristers
Teachers
Doctors
Nurses
Posties
Refugees
Strikers
Voters
...and probably you
🤔
Perhaps it’s them?
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❌ heritage is on fire
❌ museums closed
❌ no hs2 link
❌ no council ran buses
❌ no arena
❌ cancelled investment zone
❌ stoke & Longton station building
❌ trentham/meir station
❌ stoke to leek line
❌ demolished a statue
❌ no arena
❌ no tram network
✅ new car park
Today I have received, and accepted, the resignation from
@SoTCityCouncil
cabinet of my colleague
@DanielJellyman
Dan has led a number of important projects over recent years, including being a champion of heritage, and he will leave a powerful legacy.
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🪡🧵Best examples of Stoke not in Stoke…
I’ll go first…
Mintons tiles…on the floor of the United States Capitol no less…
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If you don’t like these proposed cuts to our museums.
You have to exercise your rights. You have to fight.
Let them hear you…
>>> budgetconsultation
@stoke
.gov.uk <<<
Tell everyone who cares about the history of this city.
Melt the inbox.
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Advertising for levelling up in Newcastle Under Lyme…
Only it’s advertising Newcastle Upon Tyne…
This government are a joke…
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Stoke Conservatives Manifesto 2019.
For Once.
I’d like the local press to hold the politicians to account for the promises they have clearly made in black and white.
Don’t make promises and think we forget
Actions have consequences
@SoTConservative
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Leek to Stoke train line WILL reopen after 66 years as HS2 scrapped
Considering our MPs, Network Rail or CVR had no idea about any of this. There is no planning permission or designs in place
The use of the word “will”, is doing a lot of work…
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Our pottery and history, is now based in London, owned by the V&A on show for free to Londoners and Tourists.
Ran by our former MP, Who got a better offer elsewhere!
Whilst our museums are closed, and the staff sacked. For pittance
It’s plain wrong.
Use your vote
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When this isn’t a thing, I’ll know something going right in the country
All day, directly & indirectly, people from Stoke are told their worth less than everyone else, made to feel less than & mocked for the place they were born.
No politician has had an answer for 40 years
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No HS2 connection
No local enterprise zone
No levelling up
No Stoke to Leek line
No Longton/Stoke station improvements
Closed tax office
Closed home office buildings
Heritage on fire across the city
@Conservatives
You had you chance & blew it
Pack your bags & be quiet
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I like avocado.
And I’m from Stoke On Trent.
Current & former members of my family work in the pottery industry and they’re concerned about the environment.
And using trains isn’t so bad either.
I’m afraid it’s time for the 🤡 to grow up, stop acting, and pack his bags
Avocado's and chai lattes, the new insult of choice of simple dog-whistling idiots?
#Gullis
#GullisOut
#ToriesOut287
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History made on June 1st as the first train goes through this tunnel since 1970, taking some rail for the last leg to Leek!
An amazing achievement, we’re so close!
Alton and Endon next!
Well don’t everyone at
@CVRofficialsite
Trains are…nearly back to Leek
#StokeToLeek
🚂
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Josiah Wedgwood, born in Burslem created this in his factory.
It went around the world (including to Benjamin Franklin) as a solidarity symbol for abolishing slavery.
It was supported by a minority of people at the time.
Tell your kids.
That it came from Stoke On Trent.
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Oh my…
Oh my oh my…
@JEGullisnotMP
has had his arse handed to him, on the record
Stoke on Trent North (Kidsgrove & Talke 😉), you need better than this
And you need to ask where your missing money is?
🔥from
@lisanandy
Jonathan Gullis tries to challenge Lisa Nandy on the levelling up record in Stoke-On-Trent. It doesn't end well. 🔥
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Stoke levelling up fund £56m
British library expansion fund £500m
🤔
Are you getting it yet?
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Heard something today, the contrary to most news in the press, the afghan families moving to the area have on arrival asked what they can do to contribute and give back to North Staffordshire.
We should welcome these families with open arms and stokie kindness
#VisUnitaFortior
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Track…is…coming…to Leek
Trains are finally coming back to Leek, this is how quick things can get done.
Its time get Leek to Stoke approved and get Leek, Endon, Fenton, Milton back on the railway
#StokeToLeek
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A pensioner in Longton could pay up to 80k of their property for care. This could 80% of their home.
The same pensioner in Kent could spend up to £80k but because the average house price is £350k this will be 23% of their home.
This is fundamentally unfair & wrong.
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If you ever wanted a metaphor for how this city has been treated by politicians, economics and wider society.
This was it
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Whenever the Sentinel or
@Sotlive
wants to tell you they are “local & proud” again, just show them this...
Maybe if the same paper held the powerful and elected officials to account, this wouldn’t be as big a problem. Instead it fetishise’s poverty and despair for its own gain.
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Wow wow wow
@robpicheta
@stilotta
have said more about our city in a connection of tweets than our local press have said in 20 years
Please read this thread.
Extraordinary for on out of town who’s not made a visit before, to hit the nail so well…
Please come back one day
I went to Stoke-on-Trent, and spoke to its MPs, voters and community organisers.
This is the city that sums up the 14-year Tory project: austerity, Brexit, Levelling Up, all of it.
And it's been left broken.
🧵 (with incredible pictures by
@stilotta
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Bus cuts: How a Stoke On Trents bus service was quietly cut in half - BBC News
Right where’s Gullis?
Any journos going to ask the question?
Where’s our money going?
#BusBackBetter
and
#levellingup
my arse
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Ladies and gentlemen…
There is always…
A…
Tweet…
RT
Tory councillor Abi Brown criticises decision to close Gladstone on Sundays, saying that's when her family visited museum
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A true blueprint for “levelling up”…the Potteries Metro.
We need a devolved Transport for North Staffordshire!
Politicians, do your thing
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🚂 are coming back to Leek! A little bit closer!…and a proper path for people to use too
Now let’s get Endon reconnected!
And then back to the mainline
This is real levelling up…
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Superb
👇🏻
#FridayFeeling
: A message to the
@Conservatives
on behalf of the British people.
#ThankYouTories
🙏🏻
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M6 shut, A34 unfit for purpose. Well over an hour to get from Stafford to north of the city. Our transport infrastructure isn’t capable. We deserve better
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So that’s:
North
Klay
The Orchard
The Quarter
All closed in Piccadilly within the last 12 months, with The Corner seemingly not far behind
We had a real shot at making a great independent culture scene in Stoke and we blew it
Learn the lessons for Spode
We need drastic change
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No sympathy. No nuanced discussion about poverty. No debate about addiction. No mention of cuts to public services. No humanity. The
#LocalAndProud
local rag should be ashamed of itself. It should be supporting those locally with no voice. This is the worst of us
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New £72k boss to run Stoke-on-Trent's museums a year after budget slashed
So we’ve cut staff, cut £500k budget, reduced opening hours but the museum manager still gets the same money?
WHEN ARE THE SENTINEL GOING TO START ASKING DIFFICULT QUESTIONS?
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£1.3bn travel plan for Coventry.
Population: 430k
Stoke & NUL: 510k
£29m for Transforming cities fund
We’re getting short changed.
This is not levelling up investment.
It’s some expensive canopies
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You know what really makes me despair about the bet365. They had a blank piece of land. Completely empty to pit in whatever roads/car park layout necessary. It has a dual carriageway on 2 sides. It has a railway 1000 yards from the ground and every week it remains utter chaos
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Nobody ever told me what the last northern train Manchester to Stoke is like
😳
Oh my days
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Kids from stoke need to know
You are in a very special club
You’re from an amazing city, where these people, your people, will support you…no…matter…what
With everything they have
So you can achieve great things
Just like
@NathanHeaney
🥨
“United strength is stronger”
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It would be great to hear Stoke City fans stand up for Gary Lineker being “cancelled” tonight
No government should decide who is on your TV based on who they like.
Unless you want us to end up like Russia and China?
They’ve overstepped the line
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ScotRail
45 minute open return journey £9
Glasgow to Crewe. Approx 4hrs. £18
Meanwhile in England…
Stoke to London. 1hr 34mins. £115
This cannot come soon enough.
We’re being robbed
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“Hanley skyline set to change forever with new arena, hotel and 192 homes”
It actually says…
1) It is only outline planning for an arena/hotel with no funding
2) There is planning for homes but with no funding
3) There is funding for a car park
🤡🥳
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I don’t want to see this in my city ever
To say I’d feel utterly dejected would be an understatement
This city is known for the warmth, strength and pride of its people
It might not be perfect
It might be a shithole
But it’s our shithole
Together
The place set alight last night was Citizens Advice, Sunderland. Its manager this morning told me they’re devastated and now trying to figure out how to help the people they were supposed to see
#sunderland
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“Nothing lasts forever”
Fuck me you couldn’t make it up
At least this attitude explains everything else
Sell off Spode
Sell off the town halls
Set the heritage on fire
Enough is enough
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An entire city is getting gaslit.
This really is something
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Have I really just switched onto
@bbcmtd
and they’ve opened with
Re: Stoke On Trent…“the city has been under going major regeneration.”
🤔
What on earth are they on about? Where is this?
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You know where is great to go in winter?
Museums
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So, what transport infrastructure does north Staffordshire get in place of HS2?
Also why spread this fund nationally?
(I expect we’ll get a bus stop and told Stoke is on the up)
#HS2
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Holy shit it’s real…
Wow. Just. Wow
Couldn’t we of got the dept for transport instead like Wolverhampton?
Discuss…
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This is Coventry’s very light rail network. It is a similar size to North Staffordshire.
It is being funded as part of the £15 billion (£15,000,000,000) in transport funding for the West Midlands.
They have already developed the trams & track.
All I’m asking is we get the same
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I know it doesn’t mean much but I was immensely proud of the people of this city after hearing this last night.
I thought every question was great and it’s great to hear people discuss points we’ve all been discussing for years!
I actually cheered my TV!
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Oh dear oh dear
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It does make me laugh, the one place in the city we desperately need a car park, the hospital!
There doesn’t seem the be one forthcoming at all, and it would make a fortune and relieve a lot of stress for all of us
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1) someone just tell him it’s Stoke On Trent North ffs
2) we shouldn’t really need to celebrate reopening a leisure centre austerity closed
3) THERE ARE NOT 500 NEW HOME OFFICE JOBS IN STOKE ON TRENT
4) Bus back better? Seriously?!
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The proposals. Facts:
- Gladstone Pottery Museum is set to CLOSE for November to March. And have associated redundancies
- The Potteries Museum is set to CLOSE for 2 out of 5 days a week. And have associated redundancies
There it is. Black and white.
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I know I keep saying it, but it’s really really important. Spend your money with locally owned or ran businesses! Dig them out, talk to them, share them! Find an independent coffee shop, clothes shop, bakery, restaurant, games shop! Support the Staffordshire economy!
#ShopLocal
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❌ Meir station
❌ Trentham station
❌ Stoke to Leek line
❌ Local very light rail system
❌ Local control of buses
❌ Integrated transport system
❌ Stoke station redevelopment
❌ Kidsgrove station redevelopment
❌ M6/A50/A500 improvements
❌ Night buses
Shall I go on?
🚅 Better transport means better access to better jobs.
👷♀️ We're committed to growth and real levelling up.
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This is your new weekly reminder of the “free” bus system that operates in Manchester between the station and lots of key sites.
Operating 7am-11pm most routes.
A Potteries area, First bus, weekly ticket is £19.
We’re being robbed.
Demand more.
Our kids deserve equality.
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A list of those helping out in North Staffordshire...please RT
#VisUnitaFortior
#UnitedStrengthIsStronger
@thecafefenton
Slamwich Club, Hanley
Pabna, Leek
The Milehouse, NUL
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Support local choices!:
❌ Pizza ✅
@klaypizzeria
❌ Beer ✅
@BottleCraftSOT
❌ Magazines ✅
@DUCKmagstoke
❌ Records ✅
@StrandRecords
❌ Cocktails ✅
@BloomHanley
❌ Cinema ✅
@StokeFilm
❌ Food/Drink ✅
@thecornercq
❌ Podcasts ✅
@CQHPod
❌ Clothes ✅
@Terraces_Stoke
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Wouldn’t it be great if we could re-use the kings hall for a monthly question time with our local politicians and civil servants in the new year?
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Keep the receipts
WATCH | "I've never seen such utter tosh in my life... There are over 100 active ports in the UK, there won't be food shortages. It's utter rubbish - Project Fear Mark 2... it should be utterly, completely, totally disregarded!"
@Nigel_Farage
nails it!
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Plan to transform Burslem's dilapidated indoor market into £5m food hall
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“Coventry Railway Station undergoes £82m transformation”
More spent on just the station than our entire levelling up fund.
Coventry are also getting a new very light rail tram system.
And city of culture.
Our politicians are massively underperforming
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We need to stop faffing with the issue of Stoke Station being so far from the city centre and have a free rapid bus now. Station > City Centre > Cultural Q/Smithfield > Potteries > Bus Station > University > Station. With a 2nd route including Spode/Stoke Town. Runs 6am-Midnight
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You know what would be great, if we could turn Spode into a creative factory able to support our musicians, podcasters, artists, directors, designers, YouTubers, photographers with local capital/advice/space/kit instead of always needing to go to MCR/Brum etc
#SpodeStudios
🤔🥨
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Wouldn’t it be great to say we were able to start the Leek to Stoke section of the North Staffs Metro.
Let’s get on with it!
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Reform UK - 0
UKIP - 0
Get the hint yet lads?
Maybe the country doesn’t want you?
Or are we all woke?
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Keep trying…
They don’t like being told they’re in Stoke On Trent you know…
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Trains are coming back to leek. Once this is finished early 2023 we need to get Leek reconnected to the mainline
Then we can offer better transport options for people in the moorlands and Stockton Brook, Endon, Fenton.
#StokeToLeek
🚂🚂🚂
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Irreparable damage has been done to our city centre by poverty, people with no cash in their pocket, bad planning/no investment and worst of all the local press
This is the consequence
The city centre isn’t and doesn’t need to be a “no go zone” but the status quo can’t go on
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It’s pretty simple…
Written off by
@RishiSunak
:
£4,300,000,000,000!
Spent on “levelling up” in SOT:
£56,000,000…
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@sotlive
If you care about this city.
Do your job.
Inform the public.
Get this on your front page.
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Jon Gullis levelling up the area…
The man’s an embarrassment to the area and becoming more desperate, unhinged and divisive as we get closer to an election
Don’t fall for it
He’s not one of us
There is another way 🥨
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Street brawls, passed out junkies and aggressive beggars - Disturbing scenes you've witnessed as Hanley goes 'down bank'
LOCAL PAPER DESTROYS CITY CENTRE AND WONDERS WHY NOBODY GOES
#localandproud
I hope it’s worth the clicks…the rest of us live here
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Ignore the bullshit.
You have to ask yourself one question.
Since this government has been in power for 12 years…
In that time has your standard of living or the city gotten better?
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A block of flats
A car park
More new paving outside the station
They’re laughing at us
Fiona Bruce, "Where's all of the levelling up in Stoke-on- trent?"
#BBCQT
Conservative MP Nigel Huddleston, "These things take time"
*laughter erupts*
Fiona Bruce, "You've had 14 years, someone shouts out"
Nigel Huddleston waffles then says, "It's really important we invest
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Potteries First Day Pass (Bus) - £5
MCR Metro Day (Tram & Bus) - £3.50
And Manchester own, operate and control their transport!
Enough is enough
We’re not even asking for more, just equivalency and equal opportunities for local people
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Will the last person in
@sotlive
please turn off the lights…
It’s such a shame what’s happened to our local paper
Both commercially & for local representation
We need a strong local press to hold people to account, raise awareness of issues & entertain
Its lost its way
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The message is loud & clear, either
@EnvAgency
@EnvAgencyMids
suspends dumping & caps the site or this will continue.
The people of North Staffordshire will no longer accept unclean air, misery & being ignored.
If you don’t stop it, we will, together
@StinkStopthe
@Cap_it_off
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