Green/Lib Dem voters - For the first time the Mayoral elections in the WM is First Post The Post, meaning if you don't vote for either Labour or Conservative, your vote is wasted.
You'll be putting shy Tory Andy Street back into power! Please lend your vote and stop this.
West Midlands mayoral voting intention (12-29 Apr) - contest is too close to call
Andy Street (Con): 41%
Richard Parker (Lab): 39%
Elaine Williams (Ref UK): 9%
Siobhan Harper-Nunes (Grn): 6%
Akhmed Yakoob (Ind): 3%
Sunny Virk (LD): 2%
@MartinSLewis
Grants, yes. Loans, no. If they want the full amount for a loan which they pay back over time, that's their choice. A grant should be means tested.
With £6.1BILLION secured & major progress made since 2021 - I’ve UPDATED my 2040 transport map 🗺️
But what’s next?👇🏻
✅Hagley Road to Dudley
✅Digbeth to Solihull
✅Brierley Hill to Stourbridge
✅Wednesbury to Walsall
✅A38 along to Longbridge
✅Wolverhampton to New Cross
@robertshrimsley
Rubbish! Those people pandered to a xenophobic and backward looking ideology about the country they wish is still was, as oppose to the country it actually is.
@robertshrimsley
I have no success to acheive. A Tory government probably serves me better and in reality changes little about my life. However, I passionately reject *everything* about the Tory campaign, lack of manifesto substance and complete fallacy of a one nation Tory party.
I'll probs be in my 50s by the time a tram comes down the Hagley Road to Bearwood. Stop dithering
@RichParkerLab
and get these key infrastructure projects moving now, not defer defer until 2027.
If you want growth, projects like this will provide it.
@WestMids_CA
@BhamCityCouncil
THIS is the station that everyone will be using if travelling by train to the Commonwealth Games. It's a metal shed. Bland, uninspiring and half baked. Do better!
@andy4wm
@Seyiomooba
The Lord giveth and the Lord taketh. Justice has been served. How you can work in musical theatre with your outdated/homophobic views is astonishing.
Sir Softie opposed tougher sentences for violent criminals.
He voted against greater protections for emergency workers.
He failed to give police the powers they need.
Soft on criminals. Soft on crime.
#PMQs
🚨 BREAKING NEWS 🚨
GB Holdings (UK) and The Nightingale (UK) have both filed a notice of intention to appoint administrators.
That means The Nightingale, The Village, The Loft and Birmingham Pride are all at risk.
Today is the Firefighter Day in
#Russia
. We extend our sincerest congratulations to all those who risk their own lives to save others from devastating power of fire. We wish you all the best & every success in fulfilling your duty
#FirefighterDay
@theousherwood
"Exposed" - As if it's a disease or one could become contaminated.
@andrealeadsom
lacks any moral standing, political prowess or mental aptitude to pass comment on a gamut of issues that this country is dealing with.
@CarolineLucas
If only the UK was building a new high speed rail line that would encourage and hopefully replace equivalent UK domestic flights when built in full??? Oh wait.....
From this Thursday, you will be able to track your bus in real-time via the
@BeeNetwork
app.
It applies to all bus services in GM.
Your feedback prompted us to speed up the introduction of this feature. 🙏🏻
Just been listening to this. Really interesting. Lots I did and didn't know - the prevailing theme is how Birmingham has consistently forged ahead or moved 'Forward' despite life and central government doing its best to stop it.
'Birmingham - The City they couldn't kill'
Ep 1 - Before becoming Prime Minister, Neville Chamberlain returns to Birmingham having failed to make is fortune in the Caribbean. He sets out to clear the slums of poverty and gangs like the Peaky Blinders.
📻
@jonsopel
@trussliz
I'm no Johnson fan, AT ALL..... However. Had he still been Prime Minister for this moment, I think he would have delivered a far more grandiose speech than this weak showing from Truss.
Birmingham looking great from the
@BBCSport
studios. Including that amazing bull from the opening ceremony last night, now in Centenary Square.
Oh, and the first 🥇gold of the Commonwealth Games goes to 🏴England in the Triathlon. Congrats
@Lixsanyee
!
So fucking proud. The WM showed The Tories that we're over their bullshit. No matter how hard Andy tried to pretend he wasn't a Tory.
We've sent a resounding get fucked to Westminster.
If you're watching
#Gogglebox
, HERE are the *real* figures: EU budget: Who pays most in and who gets most back? Germany pay the most and Poland receives the most.
@Victorialolaimo
@jeremycorbyn
Congrats for what, exactly? A privileged man-child for a getting a job which less than 0.5% of the electorate chose 🙄 Sure, hun.
It'll be pretty pathetic if Uxbridge & South Ruislip choose, after 13 years, to continue with a Tory MP because they are against having their fucking cars charged if they are too old and too poisonous to the air quality. They value having a none compliant car over public health.
@thismorning
@soniasodha
Where are the trans or pro-trans voices in this? This is dangerous and does nothing but pushes extreme narratives and creates unfounded fear. If a man wants to walk into a woman's changing room and "flash", as Sonia fears, he can, and this law will do nothing to help enable this.
WE ARE SOOOOOOOOOO READY 🏳️🌈 🏳️⚧️
We are almost ready to open the
@VillageBrum
Underground PROPERLY for the first time in 15 LONG MONTHS!!
And the amazing MBSL Sound & Light have upgraded our lighting system and they look amazing!!
Back open NORMALLY from Monday at 5pm!
Just voted for
@RichParkerLab
to be the
@UKLabour
candidate for West Midland's Mayor. Andy has had too long to do too little. He's a lapdog for the Government and we *need* change.
@Adamb00
@MotoThePup
@FattButcher
Why would the community, which you seem to care about, be inclusive of hateful politics? When Fatt simply list the awful opinions and actions of the current Government and how that makes being Queer unsafe, you take offence and feel outcast? That's on you, not Fatt.
AT LAST - The Green Party seeing some sense around HS2. It's happening, you can't stop it, so make sure the environment promises are delivered and joined up thinking around cycle and bus links are met.
📢 BREAKING NEWS FROM GREEN PARTY CONFERENCE! 📢 We're delighted to announce that our motion (D15) to recognise that
#HS2
enables the delivery of several key GPEW policies has received majority support at the workshop stage. 75% of attendees voted in favour.
#GPConf
#GPC21
1/n
I love this video about the restoration of the Jewellery Quarter Clock - Smith of Derby should be proud of the skilled work they did. Congrats to the JQ BID and JQTH team too in getting the funding for this and for providing new context of the clock and of Chamberlain himself.
***BREAKING***
Everyone ready for some VERY good news?
The Crown Inn — widely regarded as the birthplace of heavy metal music — has been listed at Grade II by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport, on the advice of Historic England.
It is best known for being the venue
So if you didn't see
#MeAndMyPenis
last night, you should. Everyone should. No, it won't "Make you gay" if you're a straight man watching it. It talks about body image, self harm, sexual abuse, depression, first times, fatherhood, masculinity and sexuality.
“I liked him because he was a bit different to the David Cameron, Eton-educated typical Tory. There was something about him that made him a bit more personable to me. It’s gone now, because we’ve lost that trust in him. Now he’s just a buffoon.”
“He can’t be trusted.” (3)
An announcement about The Crown. We’ve been working hard to secure a future for The Crown and save the iconic heritage asset from commercial redevelopment. However, we’re disappointed to share that we are unable to progress. Read our full statement 👉🏼
@georgeeaton
@NewStatesman
Wait, is the out of the entire population? Surely it should only be from those eligible to be vaccinated, otherwise what's the point?
Great to see
@VillageBrum
receiving money from
@ace_midlands
@ace_national
Culture Recovery Fund - Hopefully helping to protect the future for a vital asset to Birmingham's queer community.
@scullyp
@wesstreeting
It's not actually going to be 40 new hospitals though is it..... and in fact, the only 2 actual new hospitals set to open we're already in place before the 2019 pledge.
Managed to get tickets for the athletics on Saturday 6th August, 2022 for
@birminghamcg22
- Which includes the Men and Women's 200m finals, 400m Hurdles Finals and the Men's Pole Vault Final. 😁🏃🏻♂️🏃🏻♀️🏃🏼♂️🏃🏽♂️🏃🏿♂️
Really important read of the whole Station Street saga.
Seems clear now that forces behind the scenes favoured the developer who wants to demolish the lot and build a tower, even if in public the opposite is being said.
Very mucky stuff!
Twice we asked a developer rumoured to be planning a tower on Station Street about a meeting in which they showed off their plans.
Twice they denied it. "No meeting has taken place,"
@Glenbrookprop
told us.
Then we found an email thanking attendees of that meeting for "making