Cllr Martin Brooks OBE 🇺🇦
@martinibrooks
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🌹Labour & Co-op Councillor for Harborne / Chair, Birmingham City Council Planning Committee / former UN Field Officer 🇺🇳/ LGB🏳️🌈 #FreeAfghanistan 🇦🇫
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Sober reading for all involved in child safeguarding. Treatment included “an extreme medical intervention as the first-line treatment to hundreds of distressed young people who may or may not turn out to be “trans””
@BrumLabour
@BrumTories
@brumlibdems
@KarenInSellyOak
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Quite remarkable that I’ve been taken to task by
@BrumLabour
Chief Whip for tweeting my opposition to the closure of
#Harborne
Library and challenging the highly flawed consultation process. Apparently I can’t now speak without authorisation - a damaging culture of control.
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Just received an email from the
@BrumLabour
Chief Whip
@Raymondg1969
telling councillors that we now can’t speak to the media without his permission. The entire social fabric of the city is under threat, yet our leadership believe it’s acceptable to silence local representatives
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Proud that my Birmingham
@edgbastonCLP
voted to Keep Prisons Single Sex
@NoXYinXXprisons
at its meeting last night.
@Labour
must protect all women’s spaces.
@BrumLabour
@LabourWomensNet
@LabWomenDec
@PreetKGillMP
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Much of
@BhamCityCouncil
problems relate to poor governance and poor political oversight by the City leadership. Attempts to silence backbench
@BrumLabour
councillors is entirely the wrong approach and suggests lessons have not been learned.
@UKLabour
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Learned today that I’ve been “administratively suspended” by
@UKLabour
and
@BrumLabour
allegedly for social media posts “which may bring the party into disrepute” To be clear, I’ll continue to campaign against cuts which will damage the life chances of many people if implemented
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@EllieCumbo
Full support from another Labour Councillor. and sorry that women still have to deal with such misogyny
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Harborne Library is one of the best used in the city, a valuable resource for four of our local primary schools and a great asset right in the middle of our local centre.
@BhamCityCouncil
proposal to downgrade it to a part-time library in a “co-location” is a poor substitute
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This guy, now the biggest (slum) landlord in the House of Commons, introduced a licensing scheme when he was a council leader which he ignored himself.
@UKLabour
needs to crack down on this behaviour by its MPs and councillors- and fast!
@BrumLeader
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Looking forward to the challenges ahead as the new Chair of the City’s Planning Committee.
@BhamCityCouncil
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Libraries can really enhance the life chances of young people. The proposals are about managed decline of the library service, will inevitably lead to further cuts and closures and should be resisted. Go along to the consultation meetings, but also lobby your MP and councillors.
🗣️ We are currently consulting on future options to delivery library services. Have your say.
Take part in the survey and join one of our in-person consultations.
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Srebrenica Memorial Day: this afternoon Birmingham City Councillors will be remembering the victims of the 1995 genocide, and pledging to combat hatred and intolerance
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Significant to see local MPs
@larry_turner
and
@AyoubKhanMP
now speaking out against
@BhamCityCouncil
cuts that will devastate our city.
@PreetKGillMP
@jessphillips
@TahirAliMP
@AlistairCarns
@ShabanaMahmood
@AndrewmitchMP
@liambyrnemp
@PauletteHamilto
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A poorly run consultation, and proposals which will lead to managed decline for the service across our city. Community libraries help improve the life chances of our young people, and it’s time for our elected representatives to speak out in support.
@RichParkerLab
@PreetKGillMP
Campaigners have slammed the city council’s proposals for the future of Birmingham’s libraries
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@ERCOBham
Thanks. I intend to do so. Many of
@BhamCityCouncil
problems have been caused by poor political oversight and lack of scrutiny of the Executive. not by backbenchers questioning poor decisions
@BrumLabour
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Deeply moving to hear Dr Emir Suljagic,
#Srebrenica
survivor & director of Srebrenica Memorial Centre speak at
@FCDOGovUK
tonight
@SrebrenicaUK
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This kind of crude political manoeuvring should have no place in our public affairs. This is not the normal ‘ rough and tumble’ of political life. It’s the deliberate undermining of our own institutions of local self-government and is beyond unacceptable
Today, I and my fellow West Midlands Council Leaders and Portfolio Holders have written to Andy Street to publicly declare our loss of confidence in his ability to lead our region.
We need a Mayor that will stand up for local authorities, not undermine us for political gain.
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Are our other Birmingham MPs planning to follow the lead given by
@larry_turner
in seeking help for our city? Whatever the cause of the crisis, the cuts being implemented by
@BhamCityCouncil
will devastate the lives of many residents.
@AlistairCarns
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Complimentary tickets today for Birmingham residents - T20 cricket Sunday 31 July
#GiftOfTheGames
@birminghamcg22
#B2022
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There’s no room for complacency from senior
@UKLabour
politicians regarding the crisis at
@BhamCityCouncil
The cuts will undermine the health and wellbeing of many across the city, and politicians need to speak up and put Birmingham’s case directly to government
“I think there is an opportunity to review the current approach the commissioners are taking”
West Mids Mayor
@RichParkerLab
reacts to calls from campaigners for “bankrupt”
@BhamCityCouncil
to be bailed out by the government
#PoliticsMidlands
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Quite incredible that
@WMPolice
has put
#harborne
police station up for sale without any apparent consultation with the local community or elected representatives as to how policing will be delivered locally or where the
@HarborneWMP
team will be based.
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Phenomenal collection in Harborne yesterday with over 60 crates of food and toiletries collected for Quinton Foodbank. Thanks to Harborne residents for your generous support, to all our volunteers who worked so hard, and to
@Waitrose
Harborne for supporting our collection.
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Proud to be at launch of
@BrumLabour
Manifesto with
@Harborne_Jayne
. Key cycling commitments include two new cycle ‘superhighways,’ segregated cycle routes on main commuter corridors and continuing
@WMCycleHire
scheme. We’ll give every child in the city access to cycling!
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Great to join
@BrumLabour
councillors today on the Birmingham march and rally in support of
#Cease_fire_In_Gaza_Now
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Political & institutional leaders need to take ownership / responsibility for delivering solutions. Otherwise declaring a ‘Road Safety Emergency’ will prove to be little more than the grand gesture that
@BhamCityCouncil
‘Climate Emergency’ has sadly proved to be.
@BrumLeader
Senior Birmingham city councillors have written to West Midlands Police asking for an "urgent meeting" after 10 fatalities on city roads this year.
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I do think that
@UKLabour
and other parties should have rules preventing elected representatives holding ‘dual mandates’ - the potential for conflict of interests is always there. In any case given the problems facing
@BhamCityCouncil
its political leadership should be full-time
I’m delighted to have
@Ms_SThompson
join me as Deputy Mayor.
She shares my vision of giving young people in the West Midlands the best start in life.
It was great to introduce her to the team and some of our brilliant interns working at Summer Lane.
I look forward to working
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Proud to be part of an all-party initiative at next week’s Birmingham City Council meeting, when we will remembering the victims of the
#Srebrenica
genocide,and pledging to combat hates and intolerance.
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This is now a daily occurrence in Harborne - any thoughts
@LizClements
?
Footage from today. Kids walking to Chad Vale are having to breath in all of the crap from these idling engines
@martinibrooks
@Harborne_Jayne
@MoorPoolHT
@PreetKGillMP
@bhamconnected
@for_harbquin
@for_birmingham
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Whatever problems are facing
@BhamCityCouncil
overflowing litter bins are a health hazard and completely unacceptable. This is not a “one-off” - it’s happening every day across
#Harborne
and I guess many other areas.
@CllrMajid
@BrumLeader
@BCC_Help
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Birmingham Edgbaston CLP passed motion last welcoming party’s adoption of IHRA definition of anti- Semitism and calling on party to take zero-tolerance approach to perpetrators
#antisemitism
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Really insulting to see this when local councillors are being inundated with complaints about missed collections week after week. Also horrified that you’re asking residents to place the bins in this way - you’d have to stand in the road to do that.
@BhamCityCouncil
@BrumLeader
🗑️ Reminder for this week! 🗑️ Make sure your bins are out early in the morning on your collection day to ensure a smooth collection.
Place bins at the curb with the handles facing the road. Together, we can make a big difference! 💪🌍
#BinDay
#CleanerBirmingham
#KeepBrumTidy
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Important that as Birmingham City Councillors and ‘corporate parents’ that we understand the conclusions of Cass Review. Never again must evidence-based medicine give way to ideology and the consequent damage to vulnerable young people.
@BhamCityCouncil
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A real privilege to join the community tree planting event at Welsh House Farm
#Harborne
on Saturday, expertly organised by
@welshhousefarm
and supported by
@NTmidlands
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Wow! According to
@PreetKGillMP
@BhamCityCouncil
is already negotiating around the closure of
#Harborne
Library and downgrading it to a part-time ‘co-located ’ one. Yet the consultation process is only part way through! Is this true
@BrumLeader
@Cllr_suleman
???
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Impressed that
@larry_turner
is down to ask a Question today on the crisis facing
@BhamCityCouncil
Time for our other MPs to start showing their support for our city.
@AlistairCarns
@jessphillips
@PreetKGillMP
@TahirAliMP
@liambyrnemp
@ShabanaMahmood
@AyoubKhanMP
@AndrewmitchMP
Are our other Birmingham MPs planning to follow the lead given by
@larry_turner
in seeking help for our city? Whatever the cause of the crisis, the cuts being implemented by
@BhamCityCouncil
will devastate the lives of many residents.
@AlistairCarns
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More cuts on the way for Birmingham residents following failures in this project costing £320M. Some humility wouldn’t go amiss, not arrogant statements about how “this deal will now deliver better housing choices for local people”
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Sad to hear of the death of Tim Brighouse, an inspirational educationalist who worked to improve the life opportunities of many thousands of Birmingham young people
@BhamCityCouncil
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He’s a convicted rapist, and the very last place he should be is in a womens’ prison
Convicted rapist Isla Bryson should be given the support necessary to 'transition safely,' says Paulette Hamilton, Labour MP for Birmingham Erdington.
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Moving to join
@CllrJohnCotton
@CSuptMatShaer
Anes Ceric
@waqarazmi
and others at today’s tree planting ceremony in Birmingham to commemorate the
#Srebrenica
genocide.
@SrebrenicaUK
@bhuknetwork
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Few buildings have such an association with the creation of our modern city as Highbury. Home of Joseph Chamberlain, whose vision made Birmingham “the best governed city in the world, ” and built by J H Chamberlain, renowned architect and disciple of the “Civic Gospel”
An update from the trust
To read the statement in full head to our website
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Over 120 residents turned out last night to a meeting to save
#Harborne
Library. Young and old spoke passionately about a service that’s at the heart of our community.
@BhamCityCouncil
Libraries Consultation must properly reflect community value.
@BrumLeader
@Cllr_suleman
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Not convinced that this consultation is in good faith. Limited options presented, with respondents being channelled in a particular direction. As the consultation runs until 17 July it makes sense for people to delay responding so that we can have a wider debate
@BhamCityCouncil
The consultation into the future of Birmingham’s libraries is now open.
Have your say:
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Our youngsters know how precious our library service is. Let’s not let them down. Attend the public consultations - Harborne library’s is on 24 September, (10.30 - 12.00) snd reject
@BhamCityCouncil
proposals which will close Harborne and other libraries.
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@heatherbarr1
@antonioguterres
I’ve also been contacted by UNAMA national staff who are in fear of their lives, some of whom are being hunted down by the Taliban . The UN needs to act immediately.
@DeborahLyonsUN
@UKUN_NewYork
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@PreetKGillMP
There does absolutely need to be an independent inquiry, but what happens in the meantime to protect our public services? It’s time that Birmingham MPs came together to press the government for exceptional support to prevent the whole social fabric of our city being destroyed.
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Great to meet
@Vanessa010816
at
@welshhousefarm
childrens' Community Cycling event today. Plenty of young cyclists here - now we need to create some safe routes around Harborne and beyond.
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A pleasure to join
@NooralhaqNasimi
and colleagues
@CllrJohnCotton
and Chaman Lal at the Birmingham launch of the Afghanistan & Central Asian Association 🇦🇫
@BrumLabour
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Such a shame that
#harborne
residents’ efforts to dispose of litter properly are not being matched by an effort by
@BhamCityCouncil
to empty litter bins frequently. This is a health hazard and we need to do better!
@CllrMajid
@BrumLeader
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Myself and
@samatquinton
joined carers at Harborne Day Centre who are fighting its closure. This centre provides an absolute lifeline for its highly vulnerable users and families from across south Birmingham.
@PreetKGillMP
@larry_turner
@AlistairCarns
@BrumLeader
@RobPocock1
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Not surprising that
@BhamCityCouncil
has one of the worst recycling rates in the country when recycling collections are missed week after week, and residents are forced to put their recycling into the general refuse.
@BrumLeader
@CllrMajid
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Great to join local residents and
@welshhousefarm
in litter-pick on footpath between Welsh House Farm and Northfield Rd - a great route through golf course
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Really poor
@BhamCityCouncil
that not a single consultation is being held at a time when most working families could attend.
@BrumLeader
@Cllr_suleman
@BrumLabour
@BrumLibraries
@BrumLibraryZine
🗣️ We are currently consulting on future options to delivery library services. Have your say.
Take part in the survey and join one of our in-person consultations.
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Great to join other riders from the
@bigride4pal
cycling to Victoria Square in support of
#FreePalestine
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This really does highlight the inability of
@BhamCityCouncil
to address the damaging culture in the organisation. That and the failure of
@BrumLabour
to address its own culture of bullying and secrecy makes me pessimistic that the City Council can survive in its present form.
Today’s Birmingham Mail front page. Keen to hear from any bin workers and council staff who can shed more light on what’s going on, or perhaps you have a different take? Get in touch in confidence jane.haynes
@reachplc
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@Clare_Jennifer
@UKLabour
@BrumLabour
I’ll continue to speak out, but I know colleagues who don’t feel able to, as they fear they’ll be deselected.
@BrumLabour
unfortunately has a culture of bullying and intimidation of its members:
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Overflowing litter bins are a health hazard, particularly for young children - toxocariasis can cause blindness. Yet this is now a weekly problem in
#harborne
and other areas.
@BhamCityCouncil
please sort it out!
@CllrMajid
@BrumLeader
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The forced displacement of 1.1 million civilians in Gaza is a humanitarian disaster and a crime. Sad to see governments and politicians in the democratic world being complicit in this outrage.
A statement from the Birmingham Labour Group on the events in Israel and Gaza.
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We collected 707.6 kg of food and several crates of toiletries last Saturday for
@FoodbankOldbury
on
#Harborne
High St. Thank you local residents for your amazing generosity and to volunteers from
@harbornelabour
for all your work!
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Pleased to join
@BrumLordMayor
and others from
#Birmingham
at the UK National Srebrenica Memorial Day ceremony hosted by
@FCDOGovUK
Heartrending account of the
#Srebrenica
genocide by survivor Sara Hukic, and a powerful speech by Bosnian President Denis Becirovic (pictured)
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Great to join
@David4BKH
at the
@for_birmingham
‘York Road Summer Stomp’ celebrating their achievements and looking forward to further successes.
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A pleasure to join
@BrumLordMayor
@_waqarazmi
and others at the 24th meeting of the Bosnian Supplementary Schools, hosted by the Bosnian community in Birmingham. Great to see the youngsters celebrating their culture, language, music and history together.
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@danielspaniel5
It’s an utterly inappropriate way of dealing with a minor incident in a school
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Uncollected refuse/recycling bins strewn across Harborne yet again. This has been going on for weeks now, but with the warmer weather the smell is awful. Don’t know of any other local authority that provides such a poor service
@BrumLeader
@CllrMajid
@BhamCityCouncil
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The proposed cuts to children’s services will irretrievably damage the life chances of so many of our young people. This cannot be.
@BrumLeader
@BrumLabour
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Some piercingly probing questions for myself and
@BrumLabour
colleagues from
@JaneRockHouse
- we need to respond with honesty and humility if we’re to regain the trust of the people of Birmingham
ICYMI: My long thread about why Brummies need an urgent inquiry, in public, before they bear the consequences of multiple failures and rising demand for services. Story here:
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Getting the
@welshhousefarm
bikes ready for our first community bike ride of the season today
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Great to see
@PreetKGillMP
add her voice to the campaign to save Harborne Day Centre from closure. It provides vital support to users and their families coming from across south Birmingham.
@larry_turner
@AlistairCarns
@samatquinton
@RobPocock1
@BhamCityCouncil
Harborne Day Centre is a lifeline for so many people in my constituency and beyond. That’s why I’m campaigning to save it from being closed.
Today,
@Harborne_Jayne
and I met with Cabinet Member
@RobPocock1
to explore options to keep the centre open.
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@Trafficwmp
Your Twitter headline is the easy bit. We’ll see your record on enforcement in the coming days and months.
@SimonFosterPCC
@for_birmingham
@for_harbquin
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@JackEDeakin
@Michael_Thawe
@BrumLabour
Treating antisemitism as a factional weapon is wrong. Have you learned nothing from the Forde enquiry?
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@BhamCityCouncil
Many people will spot the irony of a city promoting the
#InvictusGames2027
while cutting services to its most vulnerable disabled citizens
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I’ve lived in Harborne for forty years and I’ve never seen the area so neglected. Litter bins unemptied, refuse and recycling left uncollected for weeks and green bins collections missed. The Council’s complaints process is also utterly dysfunctional.
@CllrMajid
@BhamCityCouncil
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The usual obstacle course right across Harborne this morning. Difficult for walkers and dangerous for people with buggies, wheelchair users and others. Come on
@BCC_Help
- get it sorted!
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Our Foodbank collection on Saturday in
#Harborne
collected a massive 1361kg of food items, and many crates of toiletries. Thanks again to local people for such generosity!
@Harborne_Jayne
@samatquinton
@PreetKGillMP
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@ninser
@Lachlan_Edi
We’ve got to confront ‘no debate’ and other mantras imposed on us by the ideologues. When these are discussed openly, they fall apart.
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Concerning that
@BhamCityCouncil
appears to have reneged on its commitment to hold face-to-face consultations for each of the community libraries under threat. Councillors are now being told that the “final phase of consultation” will only be for feedback on the “proposed model”
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@WMRailExecutive
This is what public bodies that are serious about
#ActiveTravel
/modal shift provide at stations. Shame an opportunity was missed at the new University Station
@for_harbquin
@for_birmingham
Today
@AmsterdamNL
Central Station opened a new bike parking facility, which was not built on or underground, but underwater.
As city's largest such facility, the Stationsplein bike garage was built under the Open Havenfront and can store 7,000 bicycles.
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@AlexanderJBrock
There needs to be an independent inquiry into
@BhamCityCouncil
with at least an interim report published before the 2026 local elections - Birmingham people have a right to expect this.
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@CllrMajid
@BhamCityCouncil
@laurenrainbow
@samatquinton
@PreetKGillMP
@RobPocock1
@Kathscott102
@AndrewmitchMP
How does this square with our Active Travel priorities?
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@David4BKH
A shame that users have been let down at such short notice. If there were ‘huge issues’ why didn’t
@WestMids_CA
identify them before the pilot started?
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Many thanks to the residents of
#Harborne
and around for giving generously to our
#Quinton
Foodbank collection yesterday. We collected an amazing 61 crates of food items and toiletries. Grateful to Waitrose Harborne for their support.
@Harborne_Jayne
@samatquinton
@PreetKGillMP
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Great to support the amazing
@BarbaraDring
and community activists campaigning against the closure of Warren Farm Urgent Care Centre
@Jane4labour
@BrumLabour
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@Harborne_Jayne
and I were pleased to welcome
@adamtranter
and
@LizClements
to
#Harborne
yesterday, joined by
@PreetKGillMP
. Some good discussions around Active Travel locally, and lots more work to do!
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@brumcyclist
@LizClements
We need safe cycle routes in
#Harborne
, particularly linking us to the
@unibirmingham
QE Hospital and the A38 Blue Route. The Harborne Walkway should not be seen as a primary cycle route.
@for_harbquin
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Very sorry to hear of the death of Hugh McCallion, a long time Birmingham City Councillor, including Housing Committee Chair for many years. A kind and generous person, with a lovely sense of humour.
@BrumLabour
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This article illustrates the horrific consequences for service users and their families of the day centre closures. Harborne Day Centre and others provide a lifeline for highly vulnerable people together with much-needed respite for their carers.
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Great to have
@brigidjones
and Cllr Michael Edwards (Nottingham) join our local
#Harborne
team today. Strong support from local residents for our
@BrumLabour
policies
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The Mobile Household Recycling Centre is back in Harborne next week:
🗓️ Thursday 18 May
📍 Ravenhurst Rd, B17 9DP
⏱️ 7am - 12.45
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This decision by
@BhamCityCouncil
is so short-sighted and makes us unworthy successors of those people.
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I’m one of the councillors who signed the letter to Keir Starmer. Labour needs to speak out unequivocally on the humanitarian catastrophe that’s engulfing the people of Gaza.
@BrumLabour
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Great discussions at the meeting. Looking forward to working with
@for_harbquin
to make
#Harborne
and Quinton streets safe!
It was fantastic to see so many faces tonight - and hear so many people passionate about making safe streets in Harborne and Quinton. Thanks to
@samatquinton
and
@martinibrooks
for coming too!
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Liz is right. As the majority party our leader is the leader of the City Council. To take away councillors’ rights and responsibilities to elect that person will weaken democratic accountability and must be challenged vigorously.
I oppose NEC's decision to impose leader on Birmingham Labour Group. Labour is a democratic party. As Bham Labour cllrs, we have the right to elect our leader. Anyone who thinks they can do better job than Ian Ward should challenge him in an election, he will stand on his record.
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Greetings to Birmingham’s Ukrainian community on your Independence Day. Slava Ukraini!
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Happy to support such a great initiative by
@welshhousefarm
Now we need need to get some safe cycle routes!
@for_harbquin
Over the last month Harborne Councillor
@martinibrooks
has supported over 50 young people get out on the road and cycle with Welsh House Farm Community Cycling. We go out again in a few weeks time to Woodgate Valley.
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