Jemima Laing
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@PlymouthLabour Cllr, Dep leader @plymouthcc , PFH Culture + Children's. Writer, ex-solicitor. Poems,film,theatre. LGA CTS board,SW Arts Council. Parent. Short
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This is standard behaviour from Mercer, has been for years. Challenge him on something and he responds with a personal attack. It's not behaviour befitting of an MP but is symptomatic of this current iteration of the Conservative party + will no doubt get worse as GE approaches
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I honestly don't know what Johnny Mercer was trying to achieve on
#BBCQT
tonight. He was rude, entitled, completely lacking in compassion and empathy and, at some points, appeared quite deluded. The general election can't come soon enough for people in Plymouth Moor View
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The funny thing is that if you could commit postal voter fraud on the scale which Guiliani is currently ranting on about then Trump, surely, would have done it
#Election2020
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Bit rich Mercer complaining about people who don't live in Plymouth campaigning for Labour when he doesn't live here himself. Fred does live here and his campaign is inspiring people from all over to help.
It's clear Mercer is not inspiring much in anyone
#VoteLabour
🌹
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@mrnickharvey
I am the very model of a president improbable
My journey to the White House has been seemingly unstoppable
I know some things of England, I think free healthcare is risible
I just pretend the poorer sick are really quite invisible...
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@mrnickharvey
I'm very well acquainted, too, with matters self-dramatical,
I understand relations can be both simple and problematical
Headlines when I see 'em I'm steaming over fake news
Then I simply grab my favourite iron and climb into my golfing trews
#stablegenius
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Why was I, I hear you ask
In a hospital without a mask
Because, as the world must agree,
The rules should not apply to me
Rules of any type or kind
Are for those of lesser, lower mind
So I am eternally exempt
Because I hold you all beneath contempt
#JohnsonMustGo
#WearAMask
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If you completely refurbish your kitchen can you say you have a new house?
A rebuilt A&E is enormously welcome and needed but it is not a new hospital. Just stop.
It's not about people being 'reasonable', it's about Mercer being honest. This is bordering on delusional
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Watch your tone
Know your place
Stay in your lane
Kindly shut your face
Calm down, dear
I'm aware of your ability
But if you must speak up
Employ the requisite servility
No matter your achievements
Mind you tug your forelock
Before you even think about Addressing a Hancock
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So
@jamesmartinchef
is talking to Cliff Richard about when he was young - I love this pic of my mum with him. She'd interviewed him for a newspaper in Wales in 1962
@sat_jamesmartin
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🌹Glad to be out supporting
@FredThomasUK
this morning
❌️ Mercer only has lies to rely on now
🗳 If you live in Plymouth Moor View and you want to see the end of Mercer and his gutter tactics your vote has never mattered more
#VoteFred
#VoteLabour
Straight back out on the doors this morning after last night’s deeply disappointing hustings.
People in Plymouth want change, not more political point scoring.
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Eldest sent me this beautiful pic of today's
#RightToRoam
protest on Dartmoor. As the photo demonstrates Dartmoor is such a special place which should be open to all
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After the shortest of breaks after the local elections - which it spent relaxing in our hall - the sign is back up 🌹
#VoteLabour
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A laudable aim which I am 100% behind and which we are all working hard to achieve. But I'm still genuinely baffled why, when Mercer neither lives here (or anywhere near) or raises his family here himself, he keeps on about it. It will be so different when
@FredThomasUK
is the MP
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I have a million thankyous to make but for now I'm having a G and T and reflecting on the fact that I'm now a
@PlymouthLabour
councillor. What a day!
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On Thursday me, my older brother, my sister-in-law and my eldest nephew are all up for election as
@UKLabour
councillors. Hoping for good news for all of us, just so sorry my dad won't be here to share in it 🌹
#LabourFamily
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Just going to sleep after an incredible night for
@PlymouthLabour
of which I am so proud to be a part. We stick together when things don't go our way then we get to celebrate victories like tonight.
It's astonishing to me Mercer didn't turn up to support Tory candidates tonight
Plymouth Council Result
#LE2024
:
LAB: 15 (+10)
IND: 2 (+2)
CON: 1 (-13)
GRN: 1 (+1)
Council Now: LAB 42, CON 7, IND 6, GRN 2.
Labour HOLD.
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I find Johnson unwatchable. Insincere, so focused on making a 'clever' quip and hyped up on his own bon mot.
Hair specially ruffled - he's a charlatan and I'm actually embarrassed by him. Who believes a word he says?
#LevellingUp
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'Live, work and raise a family in communities like theirs...' for those who don't know Mercer lives nowhere near Plymouth, he lives in a different county, doesn't raise his own family here. A hypocritical, graceless and spiteful response, which is par for the course for him
The skipfire that is Johnny Mercer welcomes the newest and youngest MP, after a historic victory in Selby & Ainsty, with the sort of grace we've come to expect:
"We mustn't become a repeat of The Inbetweeners. This guys has been at Oxford longer than in a job." ~AA
#ByElections
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Even more angry about this today. Sunak caught talking - with glee - about the very thing which means our Health Hub funding has been pulled. On the dental waiting list? Struggling to see a GP? We had part of the solution, the Tories pulled it. That's what they think of Plymouth
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What an incredible night for
@PlymouthLabour
! And what can I say to the people of Stoke but an enormous, enormous thank you - I'm so grateful I'm going to get the chance to carry on being your councillor with
@PlymouthSally
+
@briarsdelve
It's the best thing I have ever done 🌹
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Nurses at foodbanks
'There are complex grounds..'
Says the woman whose trousers
Cost one thousand pounds
#nursesaregoingtofoodbanks
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Thank you very much to the
@PlymouthLabour
group for electing me as deputy leader. A huge honour and responsibility - looking forward to the year ahead 🌹
I’m delighted to have been re-elected
@PlymouthLabour
Group Leader at our AGM. I’m also delighted the Group has elected
@jemimalaing
as our Deputy Leader!
Thank you
@sue_dann
for your support and good luck as Lord Mayor!
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It's handy to have this graphic to hand when knocking on doors. Showed it to people this morning and they were shocked to see how much local government funding we've lost under the Conservatives since 2010. Didn't find 1 solid Tory voter this morning
Vote
@FredThomasUK
#MercerOut
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@MichaelWarbur17
My dad worked with him a lot when I was very small and he would send us letters, drawings and postcards from all over the place 😍
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Another day, another puerile insult from Mercer. This time calling us 'Labour loons'. I want to be able to say something like I thought he was better than this, but I don't and I fully expect him to get worse the closer the election gets
#PlymouthDeservesBetter
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🥫If you're a food bank user Mercer says that's a budgeting choice
🗳 If you're a politically engaged young person Mercer doesn't rate you
🗣 If you disagree or challenge Mercer you're a political 'pygmy' or a 'bedwetter'
Plymouth Moor View deserves so much better than this
When Johnny Mercer compared the new Labour MP for Selby to an Inbetweener
“We don’t want parliament to become like the Inbetweeners” he told
@skynews
Then this:
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The
#bbcdebate
has provided me with poetic inspiration.
This is called May's Magic Money Tree
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I know it's a diminishing pool but anyone not blocked by Mercer do share this. His despicable comments about Luke, the constituency MP, and a council officer reach the bottom of a barrel I didn't think even he would scrape. It just shows, day by day, how desperate he is becoming
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I’m thrilled for
@LukePollard
that he will back representing Plymouth Sutton and Devonport - we need him more than ever
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The disingenuousness of this is really irritating. Until a few weeks ago he was a fully-paid up member of the Tory government, loses his role, sees the polls and now he's about sticking up for those with the least in Plymouth. He's had seven years to do this. Seven.
Former Conservative minister
@JohnnyMercerUK
refuses to rule out defecting and standing as an independent at the next general election.
#AndrewNeilShow
|
@AFNeil
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I hope the people of Plymouth Sutton and Devonport will reward
@LukePollard
with a third term.
He's extremely hard-working and exceptionally committed to our city and an exemplar of what an MP should be.
#VoteLuke
on 4th July
🗳🌹✔️
#VoteLabour
#GeneralElection24
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A joint effort to make
@Nigella_Lawson
's Chicken with orzo as in: I barked instructions while Seb carried out my orders. And - even with fresh tarragon and the wrong kind of parsley (ingredient buying operator error) - it is completely delicious and all done in one pot
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Standing on my own two feet... not quite ringing on bells yet but getting there.
Thanks to incredible paramedics, nurses, doctors, healthcare assistants and physio
@UHP_NHS
and my trusty Zimmer frame
#ThankyouNHS
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@ruskin147
It isn't really difficult is it
If you pay your mum a visit
You might unwittingly infect her
Thanks to the infection vector
You might not have a single symptom
Still please adhere to this dictum
The best gift you can give on
#MothersDay
Is to protect her & stay away
#Covid_19
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V happy to have been re-elected as deputy leader of the incredible group of councillors who make up
@PlymouthLabour
which means I'll have the incredible honour of being (I think the first woman) deputy leader of
@plymouthcc
Looking forward to what's ahead with
@CouncillorTudor
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An integral part of the shape of modern television, a lovely person, a truly wonderful father, a peerless grandad/ grandpa who was loved hugely & will be missed enormously.
My darling dad Paul Stewart Laing 1939-2023
I talked about him a lot on here so wanted to share this too💔
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'Collective bedwetting', the inverted commas around starving.
This man is so unserious, when there's a chance to apologise, he doubles down instead.
Plymouth Moor View deserves so much better than this flippant, recalcitrant posturing
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Still not able to knock on doors very much but I was absolutely determined to get out in Plymouth Moor View today in support of
@FredThomasUK
- found a flat,no-step bit + had a few lovely conversations with voters who can't wait to vote for Fred + see the back of Mercer
🗳🌹✔️
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This has set me off 😪 Was telling my husband the other day about the 'library' my mum made for me when I was little. People (my family!) could check out the books + I had a box to file the cards (made from Readybrek boxes) and a date stamp. Didn't realise I still had one of them
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My mum died just before Christmas 27 years ago ,- I had a properly terrible Christmas that year but very many wonderful Christmases since.
I'm so sorry for everyone whose plans have been upended by this late decision- but wonderful Christmases are waiting in all of our futures x
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Sorry to see Johnny Mercer 'dreads' going back to work representing the people of Plymouth Moor View, a huge privilege.
Mind you, I can see how it would be terribly dispiriting to be back working in one of the worst governments ever. He won't have to do it much longer...
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This is part of the speech I made at full council today
#EndVawg
I was proud to second this motion at full council today
@plymouthcc
and honoured to hear speeches from women across the chamber sharing their experiences. We have to shift the narrative - things have to change
#EndVawg
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🗣Now we can say:
🗓The
#GeneralElection
is next week
🗳 You can re-elect
@LukePollard
as an MP next week
❌️ You can ensure Mercer's last day as an MP in Plymouth is next week
✔️ You can vote for
@FredThomasUK
to become Moor View's MP next week
🌹Vote
@UKLabour
next week
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We stood up for Plymouth and council tax will be frozen thanks to
@PlymouthLabour
's amendment in this most difficult of years. Proud of what we did today and thank you to the independent councillors who supported our amendment
#CostOfLivingCrisis
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@MooseAllain
At A & E years ago. 'That's an unusual name' the woman behind the glass said, quizzically. I'm used to this- so I just said my usual, something like 'ha ha, yes - just call me Puddleduck'. It took a couple of seconds before she said: 'Oh my god - I thought you said vagina...'
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Bizarre line of questioning from
@krishgm
there of
@cyclingkev
about whether teachers will deliver online learning. You need to direct that level of ire
@GavinWilliamson
to ask why he hasn’t used this nine months to ensure the online learning infrastructure was in place for ALL
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This is just so daft. Fred is neither 'jealous' nor a 'copycat'. Does she think noone should stand against him?! It's Plymouth's choice,as she says,and we take nothing for granted and will work tirelessly to show people in Plymouth Moor View why Fred is the right choice for them
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An absolute pleasure to meet
@Feargal_Sharkey
today, in Plymouth to support
@FredThomasUK
and
@LukePollard
and meet
@PlymouthLabour
supporters. I admire him enormously for the way he is using his profile to change things for the better. Thank you for coming to Plymouth Feargal 🌹
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Turning my phone off for a bit. Going to sit in my dad's porch with a hot water bottle where I will be given cake, told I'm 'not looking after myself', advised to try not to be so angry with the government +, when I leave, be reminded to be careful crossing the road (I am 49) ♡
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I can't stop thinking about Jenrick and that mural. I think his instruction is bordering on psychopathic. Why would you deny traumatised young people a sliver of joy. How does he look himself in the mirror? It's loathsome
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AGM done. It's not every day you get to become the (1st woman I think!) deputy leader of the council in the city which has been your home for more than 30 years. Couldn't be more proud or honoured. We have a brilliant
@PlymouthLabour
group + we are going to
#BuildABetterPlymouth
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My thoughts on an extraordinary few days here in Plymouth and the incredible power of local government to step up and care for its residents when it's required.
Proud to be the deputy leader of
@plymouthcc
today and every day I get to do it
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I have a brother who is a
@UKLabour
councillor, a sister-in-law who is a
@UKLabour
councillor, a nephew who is a
@UKLabour
councillor
Imagine if I wake up on Friday with a husband who's a
@UKLabour
councillor! 🤞🌹
#LabourFamily
Good luck to Seb in the elections tomorrow and all standing for
@PlymouthLabour
🌹🗳️❌
#VoteLabour
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Morning
@bbclaurak
can you tell me why Labour manifesto pledges are described by you on
@BBCr4today
as 'free stuff' and Tory promises of tax cuts etc have no such caveat attached? You are promoting a misleading narrative and I wish you'd be more even-handed
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Been thinking about Mercer's no-show. If I'd been one of the Tory volunteers pounding the streets of PMV in all weathers, I think I'd have second thoughts about doing it again at the GE if my MP couldn't even be bothered to turn up to the count - good result or bad. Poor form
Just going to sleep after an incredible night for
@PlymouthLabour
of which I am so proud to be a part. We stick together when things don't go our way then we get to celebrate victories like tonight.
It's astonishing to me Mercer didn't turn up to support Tory candidates tonight
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Another afternoon spent delivering a load of posters for
@LukePollard
and
@FredThomasUK
with
@Giveitago1
someone even requested one online while we were out and had it within the hour!
#WellOiledMachine
#VoteLabour
🌹
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At
@plymouthcc
we’ve lit up the Guildhall as part of tonight's
@ReclaimTS
doorstep vigil remembering
#SarahEverard
and all the women lost and the women who carry the pain of
#ViolenceAgainstWomen
#EnoughIsEnough
#SheWasJustWalkingHome
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Johnny Mercer is on this list and I'm glad about that. He doesn't live here, he talks a lot but doesn't actually do anything about the very real and growing problems the residents of this city are facing. He's had his turn.
@FredThomasUK
is who we need now
17 Cabinet ministers on course to lose seats in Tory election wipeout - full list
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Here's mine
@WillBlackWriter
#writeapoemaboutbrexit
Imagine if we're all just collateral
In an Eton schoolboys' spat
If it really is Boris wanting to crush Dave
Just imagine if it's that
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I do not understand why Mercer persists with this fiction. Unless Launceston has suddenly sprouted a coastline, this is Plymouth pictured here.
Which is not his home, he has chosen very deliberately not to make it his home.
I'm proud to live here.
He can't say the same.
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Worth another outing of this pic of my dad with last week's birthday walnut whip cake made by my youngest, gawd but it was delicious
#gbbo
My dad was pretty happy with his walnut whip cake - was rubbish not to be able to give him a hug but hopefully we'll be able to by the time he turns 82 🎂
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Very proud and pleased to continue in my role, I feel very fortunate to be the deputy leader of the
@plymouthlabour
group of such talented and committed councillors and of
@plymouthcc
, the city I love so much 🌹
The
@PlymouthLabour
group has chosen
@CouncillorTudor
Evans OBE and Cllr
@jemimalaing
to continue in their roles as Leader and Deputy Leader for the next year. They will be nominated for the same roles at the Council at the AGM on 17 May 🌹
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So pleased that
@PlymouthSally
had such a brilliant result. Along with
@briarsdelve
the three of us really love working together to represent the ward we all live in - I'm very privileged to be part of
@plymouthlabour
's Team Stoke🌹
So proud and pleased to be re-elected in the place that has been our home for over 30 years. Thank you to the communities of Stoke, Ford, Millbridge and Milehouse. Brilliant result for
@PlymouthLabour
Thank you to my fantastic colleagues
@jemimalaing
and
@briarsdelve
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We said goodbye to my wonderful dad today, a surprisingly lovely day ending with us throwing flowers into the sea. Blown away by the kindness I've been shown, my dad would've been comforted by the support I've had from so many people. It's what's got me through.
Thank you ❤️
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I would like to tag Mercer in this but I'm blocked. I'm not sure he's aware how deluded he appears when he repeats the Tory mantra on this. We are not stupid, we can see that a welcome, needed A & E is NOT a new hospital. I wish he'd stop pretending that it is 🤷♀️
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I love you very much
You to me are dear
I hope you never find a decomposing snail
In your ginger beer
#legalvalentines
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It's so important to tackle the endless lies and falsehoods being trotted out with alarming regularity by the increasingly desperate, current Plymouth Moor View MP
Just sent this to our factually challenged Tory MP who doesnt live here. In fact.
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This is really shocking - I don't want this woman anywhere near my city
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50 years ago I entered the world nearly 2 months early and my dad used to say how he vomited when he saw me (though he maintains that was because he'd been told I might not survive) yet here I am watching the sunrise with the best people I know - lucky, lucky me ♡♡ 🥂
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An evening celebrating 33 years together, four years since I became a councillor and just a general marking of not driving each other completely round the bend. He's not on Twitter so I can say I'm extraordinarily lucky to have him still 🥰(thank you to our incredible NHS)
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That Mercer felt it necessary to attack Luke and Tudor in such a vile way in this week of all weeks is genuinely shocking to me.
For someone who loves to go on about integrity he is demonstrating how very little he, himself, possesses on an alarmingly regular basis
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Another helping of that integrity Mercer is so keen to see in others but so bereft of him himself
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Here are the 3935 soy beans I used in my seconding at speech at full council
@plymouthcc
to demonstrate the number of Plymouth children's teeth removed under anaesthetic in 2019-20. It's a complete scandal+ v glad our motion to write to
@MattHancock
+
@ChildrensComm
passed
🦷🦷🦷
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If you want a laugh do read Mercer's latest nonsense where he says he wants 'high standards and professionalism in public service'. He needs to start with himself. Carl's point about Derriford is right - it's not a 'left-wing trope' to want a hospital that works for everyone
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I'm asking for your view
Of the MP for Moor View
And his marked inability
To locate his own constituency
I know it's quite a long haul
All the way from Cornwall
So the good folk of PMV
See little of their MP
Perhaps we can help the sorry chap
And buy the man a map
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Bit stunned by this beautiful obituary of our dad in
@guardianobits
A huge thank you to
@harrogateant
for writing such a wonderful account of PSL's wonderful life. He'd really love it
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I see Bob Monkhouse is trending - here are two of my most treasured possessions, cartoons he drew me when I was little
#SuperJemimaBird
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I'm so glad this day is here. It's not going to be easy but I know we will fight for every vote to ensure we see the back of Mercer and get an MP for Plymouth Moor View in
@FredThomasUK
who lives here and will put Plymouth, rather than himself, first
#VoteLabour
🌹
It’s time for change 👇
🗳 You can register to vote here:
✉️ You can apply for a postal vote here:
📸 If you need photo ID apply here:
Vote Labour on 4th July 🌹
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My daughter has made her grandma a cake for her birthday and I think it's pretty fantastic 🎂 🎂 ❤
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It's official! Signed my declaration and I'm officially continue to be a
@plymouthlabour
councillor in Stoke ward. Very chuffed and ready to crack on 🌹
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I've heard from teachers and support staff all across the city that this has been a term like no other. You have been incredible and I hope you are going to be able to rest a bit and recharge. Thank you for everything you do for Plymouth's children and young people ❤
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An hour is a long time in politics...Mercer went from self-pity to self-regard in less than 60 minutes.
Can't wait til we have another Labour MP in Plymouth
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Just imagine if you actually lived in Plymouth - you wouldn't have to 're-engage' with anyone because they'd be your neighbours, your fellow parents at the school gate, people you bump into at the supermarket. Moor View needs an MP like that- they'll get one with
@CharlotteHollo
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Declaration of acceptance of office all signed. I'm a
@plymouthlabour
councillor - thank you to the voters of Stoke :)
And thank you to the
@plymouthcc
Democratic Support team for an excellent, informative (and really enjoyable) induction afternoon
#hittingthegroundrunning
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Struggling to picture exactly what the 'amazing journey' Mercer describes here could be. Perhaps the travelling he has to do between his home in Cornwall to here in Plymouth?
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This is my speech following my re-election on Friday morning. I do lose my composure a bit towards the end because I'm talking about my dad but I am, in fact, incredibly happy and still a bit stunned that 2041 people voted for
@PlymouthLabour
and me in Stoke ward. Thank you 🌹
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I know it's not intellectual
But it does gladden my heart
That the words
#maytrump
Can also mean 'might fart'
#PoemsAboutTrumpAndMay
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He can't really have done this can he? Undermining the very rules his government is telling us we are undermining and threatening to make more restrictive as a result ? Going to a park 7 miles from his home and observing how full it was? What the hell?
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The perfect cake for a 16-yr-old
@drmartens
fan. Lucky to have such clever friends and a mother-in-law like
@suesoper
http://t.co/FsEC0QiJBd
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I want to say a huge thanks to all teachers, support staff and governors in Plymouth who have started or are about to begin their holidays. You have been incredible through the most difficult time most of us can remember and I want you to know it's not unseen +it's appreciated ♡
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Marking 30 years without my mum. An incredibly gifted and complex individual - here she is interviewing Cliff Richard (she was quite skinny, luckily, so I can see why he agreed to the photo)
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