On the eve election - please have a thought for MPs staff. Many will lose their jobs and their livelihoods tomorrow due to no fault of their own. Politics is a brutal game but for many this is their first job.
Big shout out to any SpAds who read my tweets today. As I know all too well reshuffle day, whilst exciting for some, is hard for you. If anyone needs to chat afterwards always happy to do so. I am always grateful to those who did that for me.
Many of my fellow remainers on here are hilarious - always the UKs fault negotiations are stalling never Europe’s fault. The country voted to leave. We lost. Europe is not always right!
Son in hospital today. All fine - small operation. But the anger from the nurses who are getting a 5.5% increase compared to the doctors who are getting 22% is incredible. One just said "they think we are mugs" There maybe trouble ahead.
Took the annual pilgrimage to Southend to see my mum today. 24 years since she left us - never gets easier and now taking the boys it feels even harder to stand there and talk to her without crying. She has missed so much.
Another year since the passing of Sir David Amess. How can it be three years already. I noticed this on the last day of Conservative Party conference which made me smile. I still think about him lots.
“I sat next to an elected member of the British National Party, an explicitly racist political party, elected into London government by the voters… That would never happen now”
@JamesCleverly
says we should not deny the UK’s “positive steps” in tackling racism.
#bbcqt
At what point do we say, these people, whilst we all safely working from home, where travelling into London to keep the country running, put them and their families lives at risk and had a few drinks and snacks together .. end of story?
NEW: Cabinet Office source admits virtual quiz w/ drinks & snacks DID take place in Simon Case's private office on Dec 17, 2020, but insist it wasn't a party.
They say Case took "no part" in event but was aware of it as he walked past on way to his office & spoke briefly at end
I’m sure there will be lots of jokes but I don’t really care. This afternoon I’m taking my son to see an Arsenal game at the Emirates for the first time. Its going to be a very special moment for me. I still have vivid memories of the first time my father took me to Highbury.
I'm at the London Mayoral count. Any predictions from any party on what is going on at the moment is mad. I can tell you some people have voted Labour, some Conservative .. very few for the Lib Dem's and Greens!
I just want to take this opportunity (before what could be the worst night of my life) to thank
@arseblog
for keeping me sane this year with all his blogs and podcasts - it’s hard at time following my team but he has helped!
Due to COVID rules, I've heard that if you have visitors or relatives drop by unexpectedly over Xmas,the police have the power to come round and force the people to go home.
Is there a website where you can register/apply for this service and is it free or do you have to pay?!
I can confirm there are no security guards outside the
@HolocaustUK
reception at
#ConservativeConference
unlike the three there were at the Labour equivalent
Started my
#Passover
shopping today - I bought 1/4 of what I need for the week & it has already cost me double my usual weekly shop. If the community wants young families to keep kosher over this period something has to change soon.
@BoardofDeputies
@JewishNewsUK
@JewishChron
1 year old son falls over and starts crying.
I pick him up.
4 year olds son runs and gets his doctors set - stands next to him and announces
“Daddy I’m really sorry he has the virus!”
Looking through old emails this evening I came across this letter from
#DavidAmess
. I had dropped him a note, as I’m sure thousands of others did, when he was Knighted. I know its a standard response but I just love the tone of it. You can hear him saying it as you read it!
A week ago today Ethan Louis Rams joined the Rams clan - it’s been an incredible week and so excited for the future. My wife was amazing through everything.
🕎 Today we celebrated
#Chanukah
in the office, learning about the traditions and lighting the Chanukah Candles. We also enjoyed some donuts! 🍩 Thanks to Robert, Ben and Reuben for organising
#OneABI
It would have been my mother's 73rd Birthday today. It's been many years since her passing but a day does not go by where I do not think about her and what she is missing.
In all the kerfuffle over the
#reshuffle
please don’t forget the spads who lost their jobs today. If you are a cabinet member and get kicked out today you have your MPs salary to full back on - Spads have nothing.
Me and my wife seriously weighed up whether or not to risk sending our kid to his Jewish school today. And every other parent I know has been asking the same questions. That's the level of nervousness right now in the UK Jewish community.
I visited City Hall earlier today. Will probably be the last visit I ever make there. I have ten years of work memories wrapped up in this building. A real shame to see the Mayor and GLA leave.
I find this heartbreaking - I have never been a Labour supporter but for this great party to have a leader like this just makes me want to cry he cant even promise that labour MPs shouldn’t share platforms with people expelled from Labour for antisemitism
@Rosa_Doherty
@DPJHodges
The worst part of this is the penultimate line “An eyewitness said Ms Abbott, the shadow home secretary, was present at the meeting and failed to speak against the motion.”
As Israel moves forward with the annexation of the West Bank, and mainstream British politics is gagged of the right to critique Zionism, and Israel’s settler colonial pursuits, we loudly and clearly stand beside our Palestinian comrades.
FREE PALESTINE.
Yesterday
@DannyStone1
and I sat down with
@Mercedez_Blaze
to chat
@ThisIs_Progress
Chapter 104. To read Part 1 of the interview titled "Millie “If this is her farewell match .. I will send her off in a good way!” join my new Progress Fans Facebook group!
If you are standing today - Good Luck. Just don't be an idiot like me. If you do lose stay to go on to the stage to hear the result. Others did it for me when I beat them but I did not have the decency to do it when I lost. I have always regretted that.
#LocalElection2023
Working for the
@GLAConservative
is one of the best political jobs you can have. I spent ten wonderful years being their Head of Office. They are looking for a new Senior Researcher - more details below
I don't get why students are being asked to study maths until they are 18. I stopped studying maths at 16 and don't see what difference an extra 3 years would make!!
Just had my first experience of a Labour Party Member tell me that the antisemitism is all made up by the
#msm
(I have only just arrived and she was the first person I talked to)
#LabourConference2018
#LabourAntisemitism
Mike Freer standing down is big for me. My first political mentor was Lynne Hillan. No one on here will remember her but was close to Mike and me. She passed away many years ago and feels like Mike stepping down is an end of an era. I think about her lots.
Hard to believe it’s been 10 years since the passing of
#AmyWinehouse
- so many memories of crazy times with her around but don’t let certain people try and re write history.
Hi
@OwenJHurcum
I see you have deleted the tweet calling for the destruction of Israel but can’t see an apology ... or shall I just put a standards complaint straight into the council?
First time I ever went campaigning was with
#DavidAmess
. We were followed by a man dressed up as a chicken and saw his posters graffitied to say “David is Amess”. I loved every second of it and it is where my love of politics really started.