Jen Thornton
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He is not babysitting, he is parenting.
If you think you’re exhausted by the General Election, spare a thought for Labour candidate Joe Powell who is fighting London’s most marginal seat - Kensington & Bayswater.
He’s doing “double shifts” of babysitting and door knocking after his wife gave birth to twins last week
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Spare a thought today for the staff of losing MPs - they’re losing their jobs too, days before christmas, having spent the last six weeks setting aside their families and social lives to put all their energy into campaigning.
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Wait yes I do. Here. The priority for housing should be people who need to get to breakfasts and networking events?! Not the people who are paid much less to cook the breakfasts, serve drinks, clean venues, etc?
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@cardiffbites
This is a constant frustration for me too. I’m 32 so also definitely a millennial but too old for ‘young people’ stuff, too old for millennial railcard, etc. We become invisible in the stats when actually it’s our age group who had a huge early career impact from the 2008 crash
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Barely know where to start with this
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In the Thatcher years you had to wait week to week then until the next year for each episode of ‘government pushes country into further crisis’ but Liz Truss is of the Netflix era so she’s apparently bingeing through the lot in a fortnight
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@lucymooring
@harjxo
They are included in the baby boxes new parents receive in Finland, complete with little reflectors on the hood for when it gets dark early. The best of outfits.
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If lockdown happens I would totally pay
@NTLive
(or other theatre/performing arts orgs) for back catalogue streams of shows... is that a thing they could do?
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This week’s Time Out London -
@StFagans_Museum
is the museum to leave London for 👏🏻
#Cardiff
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I’m not suggesting we shouldn’t do our best to improve housing opportunities for young professional workers, of course we should, but that’s no reason to ignore the many other people who also need housing
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I think Sir John Curtice has hit the nail on the head on BBC News: it’s simply not possible to forget attending a funeral on zoom or saying goodbye to a loved one on an iPad, only to find out that the PM was partying
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Thrilled to see
@annamcmorrin
sworn in as Labour MP for Cardiff North in
@HouseofCommons
today
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Lots of praise for
@Keir_Starmer
and Labour’s plan for the country on the doors in West Lancashire this evening. My highlight was the woman who told me she’ll be voting Labour this time after 6 decades as a conservative voter 🌹
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So kind of TfL to open the northern line extension for my birthday 🎉
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Kay Burley: The pound has started tanking…
Farage: *laughs*
KB: well it’s alright for you, you’re a millionaire!
👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
#BrexitChaos
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Solidarity with
@ASLEFunion
members on strike today - great to be able to join pickets at Paddington, Kings Cross and New Cross Gate who are all standing united for a fair deal on pay
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CN: homophobia
How is there any need for this in the Sunday Times Culture magazine today? Disgusting comments by Camilla Long who should be utterly ashamed.
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@ChingfordChrisS
@JohnTheJourno
Yep staff do their day jobs (continuing open casework, for example) and use any leave/TIL to campaign as well as giving up all their evenings and weekends. The purpose of my tweet was compassion so perhaps we could stick with that rather than bringing negativity to the thread 👍🏻
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Thanks to the members of
@SurreyDocksLab
for selecting me,
@BethanRoberts06
and
@CMParrish1
to stand for
@SouthwarkLabour
in the May elections. Excited to get out campaigning! 🌹
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Great day on the doors in Kettering campaigning for
@rosie_wrighting
. So many people desperate for a change and getting behind
@UKLabour
🌹
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Bolton West ➡️ Leigh and Atherton ➡️ Wirral West ➡️ Clwyd East
Bank holiday weekend well spent!
#GE2024
#LabourDoorstep
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Diversity! One of them is wearing a jumper.
Coming to you on Sunday at 2.45 on BBC1 the
#bbcpoliticsnorth
debate between the five
#NorthofTyneMayor
candidates. Discussing poverty, jobs, what they can do for rural areas, pollution, transport and what they think they can deliver.
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On the doorsteps in sunny Newport West for
@RuthNewportWest
with
@JoStevensLabour
@MickWhelanASLEF
@stevecavalier
. Loads of support for
@UKLabour
#labourdoorstep
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We demand better!
Proud to march with my union
@GMB_union
and thousands of trade unionists today to send a message to the government that it’s time for action on the cost of living crisis.
#DemandBetter
#JoinAUnion
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At
@The_TUC
congress in Liverpool. Always proud to support
@labourunionsuk
and Labour’s New Deal for Working People which will strengthen rights at work and make it easier for workers to organise.
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My first ever Grand Central train. Will definitely be my last. Wish the alternative one hadn't been £112 🤬 (but tell me again how we don't need the extra capacity of HS2…)
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It is so important to remember that the reason so kids are hungry is because the Tories have spent the last decade driving down wages and capping benefits. Most parents would definitely prefer to be able to afford good food for their kids but when that's not an option, FEED THEM!
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Solidarity with
@ASLEFunion
members forced to take strike action today for a fair deal on pay. It’s time for the government to invest in rail - infrastructure and people
#InvestInRail
Solidarity with all our members taking strike action today - on picket lines from Glasgow to Ashford and everywhere in between
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I see Matt Hancock has reviewed the NHS contact tracing app…
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The legendary
@carolynharris24
pushing the PM to end child burial fees like
@welshlabour
govt has
#PMQs
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Dear cricket fans,
Welcome to
#boycotttheSun
#dontbuytheSun
. You are most welcome. Once again, we did say.
Yours,
The people of Merseyside
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Another brilliant
@UKLabour
woman - and even a mention of
@SpursOfficial
from
@FeryalClark
's maiden speech 🙌🏼
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These daily news briefings are very important but quite depressing. Can we petition to have them followed by 30 minutes of GoatCam Live from Llandudno? 🐐🐐🐐
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It’s sickening how many people from politics and the media are ‘heartbroken’ about a hate-fuelled attack but can’t see how their rhetoric, pandering to the far right and marginalising people and communities has created an atmosphere where these horrific things can happen
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I'm standing for election to
@LabourWomensNet
committee - and I'd be very grateful for your vote:
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Labour’s New Deal for Workers will improve the world of work for everyone across the economy.
Thanks
@labourunionsuk
@TULO_Wales
for this discussion at
#WelshLab23
on the importance of the Welsh Govt’s social partnership bill and what the next
@UKLabour
will deliver for workers.
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Absolutely delighted to see my friend and former boss
@JoStevensLabour
appointed to the cabinet 🎉
Jo Stevens MP
@JoStevensLabour
has been appointed Secretary of State for Wales
@UKGovWales
.
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A haiku for the tube on busy mornings:
Why are you standing
In the doorway of the train
With your backpack on?
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Campaigning today in West Lancashire for
@Ashley__Dalton
ahead of Thursday’s by-election. The message on the doorsteps is clear: people are fed up of this government and can’t wait to vote in a Labour one 🌹
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Tory on
#politicslive
saying it's not right to make a political issue of who has been awarded lucrative government Covid contracts and how. Nbf but I'm pretty sure the spending of public money is an *extremely* political issue and we all have an interest in this scrutiny.
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Nanna is 89 today 🎂 She got her first smartphone a few months ago and she’s getting good at joining in with the family WhatsApp group. Loves a selfie. Legend. ❤️
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Thanks to
@JoStevensLabour
and
@Ashley__Dalton
for joining team
@SurreyDocksLab
on the doorsteps this evening. Really enjoyed meeting residents and chatting about the difference Labour can make in our community.
#LabourDoorstep
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The people of Wales are thrilled that the Welsh Secretary has renamed a bridge. We definitely wouldn't have preferred the tidal lagoon pathfinder project or rail electrification to Swansea 🙄🙄🙄
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What a great place to be getting our vote out - I love living in this area!
Use all three votes for Labour in Surrey Docks on Thursday:
🗳 Amandeep Singh Kellay
🗳 Callum Parrish
🗳 Jen Thornton
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It wasn't a mistake. Why is a national newspaper encouraging harassment and stalking?
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Fantastic campaign by rail unions, disability and passenger groups to save railway ticket offices.
These plans were always unacceptable and it's right that the government has u-turned on them in the face of public pressure.
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What a refreshing joy.
#PMQs
with respectful debate, a few nice jokes, genuine questions and genuine answers about how to take the country forward. The grown ups are back in charge 😊
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Excellent from
@angelaeagle
"Will the PM now recognise that she made a catastrophic error when she decided to kowtow to the fantasy extremist belief of the Brexiteers in her own party instead of bringing the country together?" 🔥
#Brexit
#BrexitChaos
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Bet this is the first time the Woodville pub has been asked for cups of tea at 11pm ☕️
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Thanks so much to
@angelaeagle
for joining our
@BOSLabour
meeting this evening to mark
@LGBTHM
with a great discussion about the labour movement and our collective fight for LGBT+ recognition and rights. 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
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Going to enter my lunch today for the Great British Menu, it’s a dish I call ‘Joe Wicks can eat my butty’
#QuarantineLife
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It’s so great having
@surreydocksfarm
on our doorstep! Spring fair is on today 11-4 so head over to see the baby animals, watch the sheep shearing or buy some farm produce
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Great fun campaigning with friends from across the country today for
@Ashley__Dalton
in
#WestLancashire
. So much support for
@UKLabour
🌹
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Lovely evening campaigning for
@becky_gittins
in Clwyd East - great chats on the doors and loads of people ready to vote for change with
@UKLabour
🌹
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<cries in gay>
My cousin's primary school class had a Pride festival today. I can't even imagine how amazing and impactful this would have been when I was at school 😭
Section 28 has left such long legacies. We must never let that happen again.
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This is utterly vile. How can anyone believe it’s ‘unacceptable’ for local gov election candidates to keep their home addresses private? Particularly in a climate where barely-veiled threats on politicians’ lives are broadcast on the actual news. Grim.
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Standing at the Sky’s Edge was absolutely excellent this evening. Top quality in every respect from acting to lights. And I’m delighted that live music is so prominent and so visible throughout
#KeepMusicLive
@WeAreTheMU
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Don’t believe it’s possible to look at these pictures and not hear jump for my love
Downing Street has released some photos of Prime Minister Keir Starmer walking up the No 10 staircase, surrounded by the portraits of his predecessors.
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A Bend It Like Beckham sequel where it's 2019, the
@FIFAWWC
, Jules and Jess (now married, they ditched that confusing man, obviously) are turning 35 and about to retire from playing professionally...
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In early 2021, I went to a funeral on Zoom. If the Prime Minister thinks that's the kind of thing people forget, he is very much mistaken.
#Partygate
is still with us for a reason.
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Is it inconceivable to imagine that women might also enjoy football and cricket chat? What I would actually like is for men to stop assuming I don’t have an opinion on last night’s cup game or the merits of VAR.
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Lovely to be out in North Walworth ward this morning chatting with residents, and meeting a
#campaigncat
#labourdoorstep
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Took the day off and travelled from London to make sure I could see
#Tylwyth
at
@ShermanTheatre
yesterday, ten years after seeing and loving Llwyth. Absolutely no regrets, it was brilliant. So lovely and rare to be able to return to a world on stage ten years later
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On the doorsteps in Blackpool today with
@labourunionsuk
colleagues chatting to voters about Labour’s New Deal for Working People - the biggest upgrade of workers’ rights in a generation
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Least believable thing about Happy Valley so far: the TPE trains between towns in the north actually running to timetable so the characters can rely on them
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Happy becoming-an-MP anniversary to my Jo Cox Women in Leadership sisters
@RosieDuffield1
and
@PreetKGillMP
and
@WelshLabour
sisters
@ToniaAntoniazzi
and
@AnnaMcMorrin
🎉🎉🎉
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I think
@AngelaRayner
's accent is great. So frustrating people think it's a reason to insult her
#northernsolidarity
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2018 is the centenary of _some_ women getting the vote. It’s January 3rd and I’m already fed up of people missing out the ‘some’ from that sentence.
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Completely inspired by the brilliant women brought together this evening by
@FabianWomen
at the annual fundraising dinner 🙌🏻❤️
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Surely the next logical step in tonight's trending topic is a
@philipnormal
#IStandWithJackieWeaver
t-shirt 💁🏼♀️
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Catching up with some of the Jo Cox Women in Leadership programme sisters is always a highlight of conference
#Lab21
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“I’ve been through something”
Oh have you Matt Hancock?? Giving public cash to your mates and disregarding the rules that bound the rest of us while thousands died on your watch?
Still so smug and sure of his exceptionalism 🤢
#SASWhoDaresWins
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