Dan Marr

Proud @Conservatives Member. @CWACTory Davenham, Moulton and Kingsmead Councillor & Moulton Parish Councillor. Comms Manager. Opinions posted my own, etc.

[Looking for Growth @lfg_uk]

POV: You're a Labour cabinet member checking your LinkedIn notifications this morning.

[CWaC Conservative Councillors @CWaCTory]

Thank you to the residents of Christleton & Huntington for their support in electing Stephen Mosley as their new councillor. A fantastic result - welcome to our team, Stephen!

@CCACllrs @KemiBadenoch @kevinhollinrake

[Weaver & Cuddington @weavercudding]

Thank you @AphraBrandreth @BackBen4Mayor @lynn_cllr Stocks & @CWaCTory for helping out this weekend on Patrick Melody’s By-Election campaign for Weaver & Cuddington, due 2nd July. #Weaverham #Cuddington #ActonBridge #Crowton #Norley Join our campaign: https://t.co/3BEM6YCsZQ

[BBC Question Time @bbcquestiontime]

“You have got the right… to vote people out when they don’t do what they have said to do”

Conservative Michael Winstanley says we should be “judging politicians on their actions” not promises, and claims Andy Burnham is putting “party first”

#bbcqt

[Kevin Edger @KEdge23]

Last year in the locals 2025, it was:

Reform 32% of the vote.
Tories 15% of the vote.

This year in the locals 2026, it was:

Reform 27% of the vote.
Tories 20% of the vote.

That’s massive progress for the Tories, more than halving the gap.

By next year we should have crossover with Kemi Badenoch’s leadership.

[CWaC Conservative Councillors @CWaCTory]

We are saddened to learn of the passing of our friend and colleague, Cllr Stuart Parker MBE (Christleton and Huntington Ward). Our Conservative leadership team Cllr @AdrianWaddelove and Cllr @simonjveardley pay tribute to him via the article below. https://t.co/2vJ1e0QJoO

[CWaC Conservative Councillors @CWaCTory]

We've issued a statement around our reasons for calling an Extraordinary Council meeting to consider this important subject with comments from Cllr Martin Loftus and Cllr Adrian Waddelove. You can read it here: https://t.co/MmVyBOrTVs

[Ben Fletcher @BackBen4Mayor]

Monday is Cheshire Day!

A chance to celebrate the most magnificent county in Britain.

The history of Cheshire is the history of England. And I relish the chance to advocate for the place I’m proud to call home…with enthusiasm, and a bit nerdily!

[Stephen Pollard @stephenpollard]

Here's my @Telegraph column on that foul @jonathanliew piece, 'Gail’s derangement syndrome is getting out of hand'

https://t.co/tBEKLApUJs

It is entirely possible to be in favour of a Palestinian state, to vilify Benjamin Netanyahu, to regard the presence of Itamar Ben-Gvir and Bezalel Smotrich in the Israeli government as appalling and to oppose Israeli policy generally – and also to be rational, decent and not in any way anti-Semitic. Of course it is; that’s the position of many Israelis, after all.

But it’s striking how many of those who espouse such positions take things to another level altogether. Not only do they start to see the Palestinian cause in every walk of life, they see the malign influence of Jews – or Zionists, as they usually put it – everywhere. Even, as we learned this weekend, in cake.

On Saturday the Guardian published an article by one of its sports writers, Jonathan Liew. It could hardly be bettered as an example of this “Palestinianism”, the obsession among so many Western progressives which treats the cause as the great moral issue of our time – indeed the only truly consequential moral issue – and at the same time uses many of the most virulent historic antisemitic tropes to explain why Palestine is such a core moral issue.

Liew takes the opening of a new branch of the bakery chain Gail’s as an example of the perfidious behaviour of the Zionists. You may have read in recent days how this new café in Archway, north London, has been repeatedly vandalised by self-described Palestine activists. Protestors have tried to enforce a boycott, standing outside with placards such as “Boycott Israel for genocide and war crimes in Gaza”. On its opening day, the local Islington branch of the Palestine Solidarity Campaign posted an Instagram message saying: “This morning, Gail’s tried to quietly open up in Archway and we made sure to give them the welcome they deserve.”

Gail’s has no Israelis involved in its management. I have no idea if it has Jews involved, since – for now, although if the boycotters had their way I’m sure this would change – we Jews are not forced to identify ourselves as such on legal documents. But it was founded, years ago, by an Israeli (who is no longer involved), and its owner is the US private equity firm Bain Capital, which has investments in Israel. That is enough to damn it in the eyes of the obsessives.

Liew contrasts the opening of Gail’s with an existing café nearby, which is owned by two Palestinians. For Liew, this is deeply symbolic, with one deserving support and the other deserving to be treated as villainous. pariah status. They have, he writes, “two almost entirely separate clienteles”.

The “almost” does all the work in that sentence, because it is nonsense. Unless you are, like Liew, an obsessive, you do not ask your barista for his or her stance on Gaza before ordering, let alone finding out if they are sufficiently Palestinian to serve you. Indeed, I have been into that very “Palestinian” cafe many times, just as I have been into other branches of Gail’s. I didn’t check on the political or ethnic background of the pastry chef in any of them before ordering.

If that was Liew’s only argument it would be ludicrous but amusing, albeit unintentionally. But it gets a lot worse. He describes the “Palestinian” café as “a fixture of the north London social scene, a source of comfort and community in troubling times”. That may be true. I have no idea as the only comfort I have ever sought from a barista, whether in Archway’s community or elsewhere, is a double espresso. But Gail’s, on the other hand, is the epitome of nasty, corporate, Zionist evil: “its parent company, Bain Capital, invests heavily in military technology, including Israeli security companies.”

For Liew, Gail’s is the Zionist chain, expanding its way through innocent communities and brooking no opposition to its might: “its very presence 20 metres away from a small independent Palestinian cafe feels quietly symbolic, an act of heavy-handed high-street aggression”. Heavy-handed, indeed – Liew’s use of oh-so-hackneyed tropes of greed and power is about as heavy-handed as it gets.

I did actually wonder if Liew was high when I read this: “And so somehow these two north London cafes, from two entirely separate worlds, with what we have to assume are two almost entirely separate clienteles, have found themselves on the frontline of a war. A deeply asymmetric war, defined by gross imbalances in power and resources and platforms, but a war nonetheless, and one that simultaneously feels more distant and more local than ever.” War? He is talking about two cafes competing for customers, as happens on most high streets in most towns in most countries. But when one is a Zio café – in the mind of Liew and his compadres, rather than in reality – then it is really about Palestine rather than cinnamon buns.

Which means, for Liew, that the vandalism and the protests are not only right but, he implies, the only moral course to take: “Palestinian activism has arguably never been less capable of exerting a meaningful influence on global events, and so is increasingly defined by small acts of petty symbolism. A smashed window. A provocative sticker. You can’t lay a glove on the US-Israeli military-industrial complex, and you can’t get your local council to boycott Israeli goods, and you couldn’t stand with Palestine Action and the protest march on Sunday has been banned by the Metropolitan police. So some people then direct their ire at the bakery with distant links to Israeli security funding.”

No one will be surprised to see such a piece in the Guardian. But when a mainstream newspaper publishes a screed attacking the arrival of a business on the grounds of the most tenuous linkage to Israel, it’s clear that the rise of anti-Semitism has a long way further to go.

[CWaC Conservative Councillors @CWaCTory]

🗣️ CWaC Green Party: “Introduce ‘3 weekly black bin collections’ locally.”
🗣️ Local Conservatives: “Not now, not ever!”

At the Budget Council the Greens proposed that the Council introduce 3-weekly ‘black bin’ collections for ‘residual waste’.We are entirely opposed to this.

[Festus Akinbusoye @FestAKINBUSOYE]

In 2016, the then Conservative Prime Minister, David Cameron, commissioned the then backbench Labour MP, David Lammy to conduct a review and investigate racial bias in the criminal justice system of England and Wales.

The report known as the Lammy Report was published in 2017. It's proven to be quite a significant report in many ways in shaping government policy, information collected by institutions in our CJS, and areas of focus.

Ironically, one of the key findings of the report was that black people were disproportionately more likely to be negatively impacted in non-jury trials as they were in jury trials. Judges were overwhelmingly older, white, public school educated, middle class men. In his view, jury trials provided greater protection against the structural issues he found in his own report.

Fast forward to 2026. The same David Lammy is now a Rt. Hon. Justice Secretary, proposing to create MORE non-jury trials. Some of the reasons are to save money, clear backlogs, and get faster justice for victims.

Watch this fantastic speech by former Justice Secretary and King's Counsel, Sir. Geoffrey Cox MP. When politicians are willing to destroy core tenets of our democratic and liberal society to save money (which never happens), etc. we don't have leaders - we have institutional saboteurs.

[CWaC Conservative Councillors @CWaCTory]

Would you believe this? Two weeks ago, Labour said they’d support Storyhouse in #Chester. Tonight, they voted to CUT its budget substantially. Local Conservatives voted AGAINST this major funding reduction. #YouCannotTrustThem

👀 @katrinakerr55 @BenWalkerUK 👀

[Dan Marr @DanMarr14]

@RicHolden @CllrMikeJones Thanks for coming by! Lots of great ideas that will only be realised by backing @BackBen4Mayor in #CheshireandWarrington and the local @CWaCTory team!

[Richard Holden MP @RicHolden]

Good to stop off in #Chester to speak about all things transport ahead of elections next year in #CheshireandWarrington with Cllr @DanMarr14 & @CllrMikeJones

Some superb ideas coming through to deal with potholes, and improve local trains, buses and roads too

Look forward to hitting some doors with our great candidate @BackBen4Mayor soon too!

[CWaC Conservative Councillors @CWaCTory]

🆕 A statement from the Conservative group condemning @cwaclabour councillors for their ‘misleading’ social media posts. People like @BenWalkerUK

[Dan Hitchens @ddhitchens]

I’d missed these noteworthy comments from Tory chief whip Rebecca Harris:

“I was the Government Whip in charge of Private Members Bills for 7 years and I can categorically state this system is not designed to deal with legislation of this importance and magnitude.

“This Bill alters the foundations of our NHS, the relationships between doctors, their patients and their families and would leave much of the actual practical implementation to Ministers, codes of practice and regulations years in the future with little Parliamentary oversight.”

[Dan Marr @DanMarr14]

Congratulations to my new colleague Cllr Sion Roberts! A great win and well deserved by a fantastic local campaigner.

[Britain Elects @BritainElects]

✅ Conservative HOLD

Willaston and Thornton (Cheshire West and Chester) council by-election result:

CON: 53.8% (-7.1)
LAB: 17.2% (-9.3)
REF: 16.1% (+16.1)
LDEM: 7.1% (+2.4)
GRN: 5.8% (-2.2)

+/- 2023

Estimated turnout: ~45% (+1)
https://t.co/QSSdXxbUXt

[CWaC Conservative Councillors @CWaCTory]

When you see @cwaclabour councillors and candidates claiming that they will 'protect' their communities from developers, it is worth examining their voting record. Do NOT trust them. If you want to protect your local neighbourhoods, you need to vote for local Conservative Cllrs.

[Adrian Waddelove @AdrianWaddelove]

Huge support for the superb Sion Roberts, our candidate for #Willaston and #Thornton by-election happening next Thursday!

And what a team to be out with!