Thank you to everyone who placed their trust in me to be Norfolk's PCC. I'm extremely happy to have been elected, though this is tempered by a great sense of responsibility to help improve the policing and crime responses across the county.
There's one slight problem with the PM saying the "anti growth coalition" doesn't want the same thing as working people.
We are working people.
We are ordinary people who are sick of the status quo and are taking action to change things in various ways that make sense to us.
Dear
@AldiUK
please:
1. Remove the wheelbreakers
2. Relocate the Sheffield stands approx 400mm further into the shelter
3. Remove wheelbreakers from your store spec & mandate sheffield stands
This would make even occasional cyclists to your stores very happy
Thank you 🤓💙
@Kit_Yates_Maths
@marklarkin1
@Peston
Also, from one pedant to another... "exponentially" used here is metaphorical as the OP definitely is not talking mathematically or scientifically. And it's likely a dead metaphor, so in the same category as "really" and "iconic" and, our fellow pedants' favourite, "literally" 🙃
@RevRichardColes
Hendos isn't appreciated to the extent it should be... it's not the poor cousin, veggie version, of Worcestershire but a stand out star of Sheffield 😁
I'm in
@labourirish
fringe event on defending the Good Friday Agreement. I'm sat on the floor alongside several dozen other people because every last chair is taken up with attendees. The current UK government may not be overly concerned about this issue but
#lab22
certainly is.
Canvassing this afternoon for Thursday's by-election in Breckland with
@DrAdrianHeald
for
@UKLabour
candidate Kendra Cogman. Matishall and Yaxham had an unusually specific vibe today given this evening's confidence vote...
@MikefromLFE
@AldiUK
@ShowMeASignBryn
@PlanningShit
Yep, I think this too. But also the location was likely identified by marking x on a plan without taking any account of what was there. And then the contractor doing *only what was specified* not bothering to check whether the Sheffield stands were to stay or go...
I spent yesterday afternoon at Great Yarmouth Town Board, listening to presentations about the work that has been done so far to create a long term, 10 year plan for the town. This Plan will unlock funding from central government to deliver more for communities in Gt Yarmouth 🧵
I'm looking for good examples of liveable streets type schemes in rural locations. If you know of any works to prioritise walking, cycling or horse riding, or make them safer in rural lanes please let me know 🙏
@ShowMeASignBryn
I meant what I said...
@Kendracogman
and I really are fired up to do this role justice for the people of Toftwood... and along with our colleagues
@horatioharry
and Ray O'Callaghan,
@mnlabourparty
has made quite a dent in the Tory majority in Breckland🌹
So, I've just had a report that after years and years of seemingly almost total inaction, a decision has been made and responsibility taken for keeping the Middlemarch Rd underpass flood free.
I don't say this lightly... As a transport planner and a trustee of Mencap locally, this is outrageous. Not hyperbole. At £251M for less than 4 mile length of road, this has surely got to be one of the most wasteful pieces of road infrastructure on the go in the UK 🧵
@NorfolkCC
Norfolk Council's lack of a contingency plan for the Western Link project shows their recklessness with public money. The arrogance on display is astonishing!
Thanks to everyone (all teenagers) who stopped for a chat while I was out this weekend on the Dereham beat. Seeing my home town through the Police's eyes was a really useful exercise and a good starting point before I head out in Norfolk more widely.
PCC, Sarah Taylor, was out and about in Dereham over the weekend with Beat Managers from
@BrecklandPolice
checking on potential hotspot areas for ASB. Sarah was interviewed on
@BBCNorfolk
today about this issue - listen here approx. 25 mins 11 secs in>>
One of the best ways of spending a Bank Holiday! We had some great chats on the doorstep, and with passers-by in the street, and the weather held for us too 👍
@mrlabouruk
@mnlabourparty
Out in sunny Necton today with Mid Norfolk Labour helping deliver newsletters with
@mrpcc2021
though I was sorry to miss
@horatioharry
and local Cllr Joe Sisto. Next time! 🌹
Thank you to
@lorraine_bliss
for welcoming me this week to the Joe Dix Foundation. The Foundation does remarkable work to address child criminal exploitation. The scale of the challenge is shocking. 🧵
Shocking levels of surface water flooding in
#Toftwood
today. It looks as thoughcurrent Norfolk flood alerts relate to river flooding so we will be raising a question about this with NCC which leads on flooding. Do get in touch with me or
@Kendracogman
we'll help where we can.
Spent some time this morning with my fellow Dereham Labour Councillors looking at the remains of a pond. What is now almost entirely silted up is actually a critical piece of infrastructure for Dereham and is essential to stopping flash flooding in Toftwood...🧵
We are absolutely delighted that
@mrlabouruk
has been selected as our parliamentary candidate. Michael has a long relationship with Mid Norfolk and we know he will be a thoughtful and active public servant for all of us who live here in Parliament.
I was at the inspiring and very informative Join the Dots conference today. With a focus on road safety and how data can be used to reduce the number of people killed or seriously injured on our roads.
Adopting the Safe System approach to road safety has to be a priority 🧵
My first accountability meeting with the Chief is coming up. During my campaign people consistently told me they would like answers to their questions about how policing responses - especially in our rural communities. Please get in touch with questions you'd like to be asked 👇
Don’t forget to submit your questions about crime and policing to PCC Sarah Taylor ahead of her accountability meeting with Norfolk's Chief Constable. Deadline for questions 5pm Sunday, 7 July. For more info >>
Our Police & Crime Commissioner should be talking with our communities and using that feedback. Let me know your experiences of policing and crime in Norfolk, and these will inform my priorities from day one if I am elected on 2nd May.
Hi
@RupertLowe10
yes, your letter is received. I'm on leave but I will respond properly to you of course. It looks as though you may not have clocked that my priorities in my campaign included women and girls' safety & creating safer streets for all of us. This hasn't changed.
As far as I can tell, this underpass has flooded regularly since 2003 and it was a major priority for me when I was elected in May. I'm delighted that this is finally being given the serious consideration it deserves.
Popped out to Middlemarch Road this PM to check the underpass. It will surprise no one to see stagnant water and a shopping trolley still very much present. Flooding might be a County matter and I might be a District Councillor, but this is on my list of things to get sorted.
I will support the
#CEBill
into law if elected as cllr for Toftwood. I have pledged to do so as it aims to:
» Reduce GB emissions by 1.5°C
» Reverse nature's destruction by 2030
» Deliver climate-nature plan that leaves no one behind.
@cebill_now
Despite the rain we had a great afternoon in Toftwood - got hundreds more leaflets delivered with
@mrlabouruk
and
@horatioharry
plus two 10 year olds who decided to help on the spur of the moment- with their parents' permission.
Many of us are worried about yesterday's announcement on early prisoner release. The safety of our communities will always be the Force's number 1 priority. My office will continue to work closely with partners to address the problem.
If you have access to it, I would urge you to watch
#FrozenPlanet2
The tragedy that is the island extinction of Adelie penguins, should be enough to compel us to do more. We must.
Off the back of International Women's Day yesterday this seems appropriate. If you are a Transport Planner please consider completing this student survey, in relation to gender analysis of travel survey data.
UWE Data Science student completing research around women's travel habits in the UK at night-time, looking for Transport Planners to complete a <5 minute survey to aid our research:
@TransPlanSoc
@UWE_CTS
@CTS_UWE
I'm looking forward to doing my first 'proper' Instagram Live, with the rather marvellous
@DrTimKinnaird
. We'll likely be talking cake, trees, and local politics. Find us on my Instagram account (sarah_taylor_uk) this Friday, from 630pm 👍
@RussInCheshire
I suspect this is because they thought the pollsters meant Martin Lewis who, a not insignificant proportion of the UK population likely feel, they know and actually should be PM.
This makes for deeply troubling reading. Not only does it give credence to the deep mistrust of our Police felt in parts of our society, it adds more weight to the idea that sexual violence can and does escalate, and can and must be taken seriously.
Lively conversation with North Norfolk Labour tonight, discussing a wide range of policing and crime issues. As a member of
@LabourCC
I was particularly happy that my first Labour talk as PCC candidate should be in Cromer 🌹
@GaryPau72646490
@PippaCrerar
Tbf it wasn't the removal of 45p rate that was the problem. It was the unfettered, uncosted borrowing on an epic scale to pay private energy co. for our energy bills, with no plan to pay down the borrowing. The U turn may lull people into thinking the problem is over. It is not
Lots of opportunities to catch up at today's
@NewAngliaLEP
Clean Growth conference. Pushing my luck in trying to do justice to the problem of mode shift in 10 minutes. It does feel as though a day's conference could be valuable on this too...
My initial thoughts on yesterday's flooding. Thanks to those who have messaged me on this. I've been working with Cllr
@Kendracogman
to better understand NCC's work on
#Toftwood
flooding so far.
I hope everyone is safe and dry as the rain continues today 🤞
@DavidDjward
kicking off
#JTD2022
with, among other things, a run down on the need for GSR, the
#50by30
challenge and the "spineless fear" in UK politicians wrt Brexit.
Huge thanks to
@Perran4CRH
for helping make this happen. This was something of a career highlight for me and it was superb to help get so many donations to charities in Cornwall 👍
Honestly... this lurches from issue to issue. What was a sure fire thing yesterday has been put on ice today... As
@SteveMorphew
notes, cllrs were previously told, when inflation was lower, that each month of delay added around £250,000 to the scheme's cost - nearly £3m a year.
9. I'm known for being articulate. But on this, I'm struggling to find a word that adequately conveys my strength of feeling. It's absolute carnage 😡😡😡
2. As an elected representative for people in the town, attending these meetings is a useful way of getting insight to how, if opportunities arise, my own office could commission services and projects which help achieve those ambitions.
3. The idea that local politicians feel it is not only acceptable to consider it but ACTUALLY VOTE TO APPROVE reducing the budget for social care, children's services and other vital services while prioritising this unnecessary and environmentally damaging road is appalling.
It might have been reasonable to think that the excitement around smart motorways would be enough for National Highways to learn that just because they have the power to do something, doesn't mean they should...
More gently provoking writing from Kat Lister. She's easily one of my must-read writers. Change of life diagnoses can be start of life catalysts if we can let them. Even so, if we can let the idea of our finite lives in just a little, we can live bigger lives for it.
A few weeks ago, I met the extraordinary
@WendyPMitchell
to talk about her third and final book for
@ObsMagazine
. It’s a conversation that will stay with me for many years – full of love and courage and hope:
@lukeakehurst
You forget, she's most concerned about those pesky "militant" unions. Which just serves to prove it's not just her views on economics which are stuck in the 1980s.
@mrpotholeuk
@JCBmachines
Given potholes' safety/ access impacts on pedestrians, wheelers, cyclists, motorcyclists, plus costs to drivers & fleets, it would be good to see this hazard taken seriously and meaningful help provided to authorities to address the issue - whether it's this or other options...
3. I was disappointed not to meet Great Yarmouth's Rupert Lowe MP at the Board, but happy to have the chance to catch up with Magdelene ward's Cllr Trevor Wainwright in the Town Hall and I'm looking forward to a meeting with the Leader soon.
Fun in Manchester today tapping into my inner
#kerbnerd
. I have so missed these in person workshops it *almost* makes the challenge of travelling by train bearable 🤓
There is a school of thought that deaths resulting from domestic violence should not be called "isolated incidents". Evidence would seem to support that view, and this law would go some way to acknowledging and providing the swift response that is needed. Very welcome news.
1/On the night Raneem & her mother Khaola were killed, she called 999 four times yet no one came.
For several months she’d sought police help more than 10x yet nothing was done.
No one should ever be failed like this - Labour will bring in Raneem’s Law
@ShowMeASignBryn
I know a lot of people share that particular view... She seems oblivious that her views are insulting the majority of the population. The idea that economic growth, and all the good that comes of it, is exclusive to her particular brand of Tory is for the birds
Today's taken a turn for the unexpected... 🚗💰😐
Broke down at 230pm. My best guess is the alternator has given up so I'm going nowhere without help. Estimated arrival time for breakdown recovery 1957 - 2257hrs.
4. And for a cllr to state that the council did not need a policy for failure because the authority believes it will be built and it could raid reserves if needed speaks to a level of arrogance with respect to the consenting process.
@natalia_barbour
Respect isn't contingent on smarts. I could have not a single qualification to my name, but common courtesy would still be a minimum requirement.
6. And people who rely on social care will likely have to make do with even less care as the number of carers continues to fall, as people are understandably attracted out of the care sector and into other sectors like retail because of better pay and better working conditions.
@GlennLyons2
@Phil_Goodwin99
I would really like to see some work on this. In particular the trade off between the classic politician's need for legacy and society's need for all aspects of its infrastructure to be duly considered. Maybe a PPE PhD in there for someone?
2. The thoughtful submission to the Transport Select Committee by
@Phil_Goodwin99
and others, challenges the need for exactly this type of infrastructure. It's 2023 and given climate change obligations and cost of living we should not be pursuing this.
OK, I know this is an unpopular opinion but I like that it is dark at 5pm. Makes me feel festive and that pumpkins, sparklers, gingerbread men smoking clay pipes (IYKYK), advent calendars, sweets in shoes, and baubles are imminent. In that order.
@StephenHosking
@carlafrancome
It was "urban" when SUDS first became a thing but this was dropped as the obvious fact that these aren't just for urban settings became clear. So now it's SuDS...
Dear
@BBCBreakfast
. Any chance that when discussing the conditions at Manston, your team could be more accurate and less othering... Instead of referring to "migrants" every other word, try "asylum seekers" out for size or (and I know this is radical...) "people"?
I can understand the public not being alive to the need for party unity on communications from a Transport minister at a picket line. But for an ex-Shadow Chancellor to wilfully ignore that issue is nothing but damaging.
@RoadsignReport1
@novaecosse
@ShowMeASignBryn
Use the pod point app to find nearby locations as not all Tescos have charge points. This is part of a partnership with VW. You have to be a Tesco customer to use it
Quick trip to the Capital today for a round table on cycling and active travel. Several hours of technical discussions followed by comparing our cycling themed attired. As you do. 🚲🌷🚴🏼♀️
Looking at the nominations in Breckland is fascinating. Not a single Conservative Party Candidate to be seen but lots of "local Conservatives". Looks a lot like a low level case of
#ToriesDeletingTory
🤔