⚫️ EssexLibraryUser

Love books, Love Libraries - Libraries should be there for everyone with trained and qualified staff.

[Elizabeth Taylor @ElizabethJTayl]

Nigel Farage walks into a pub and says, I'll have a pint of beer please. The barman pours a pint, then throws it all over Farage.

'What did you do that for?' says Farage, drenched to the skin.

'Because you're in a metaphor which illustrates the stupidity of asking for...

[⚫️ EssexLibraryUser @EssexLibraryUs1]

@jdavidclifton @MPIainDS @mehardware References?

[⚫️ EssexLibraryUser @EssexLibraryUs1]

@mehardware @Laura4Harlow @cllringall Because it’s an office block and not fit for housing?

[SOLE_SaveOurLibrariesEssex @SOLE_Essex]

A councillor @Essex_CC who is withdrawing staff and services from our libraries complained that these passionate children were wrong to hold hands and hug their library in protest. She told children that people don’t read books anymore too! @CressidaCowell @MichaelRosenYes

[SOLE_SaveOurLibrariesEssex @SOLE_Essex]

How is any group going to get a library building, computers, staff, stock etc with @Essex_CC offer of £8000. ECC are insulting the people of Essex. This is the kind of community library they point to as successful ... a corner in a hall. @CressidaCowell @MichaelRosenYes @BBCEssex

[Libraries Deliver UK @libdeliverUK]

#Libraries ensure everyone has free access to books and literature regardless of age, disability, wealth or education.

[Liz @Liz_Miles]

Yes @SOLE_Essex weremember the hug so well. These children were ignored ... @Essex_CC are now pushing public libraries into a volunteer based model without public funds, professional staff or services @CressidaCowell @bbckirstylang @MichaelRosenYes

[National Literacy Trust @Literacy_Trust]

Singing songs and rhymes with your baby is really good for them and helps them learn language. We have a library of nursery rhymes over on Words for Life: https://t.co/wndYSbu2lp

[National Literacy Trust @Literacy_Trust]

This is a fantastic interview with our ambassador and Children's Laureate @CressidaCowell - "If a child doesn’t have a public library and they don’t have a library in their primary school, how on earth are they going to be able to read for pleasure?" https://t.co/zGearukxxI

[Libraries Deliver UK @libdeliverUK]

Public #libraries represent a phenomenally cost-effective multiplier for local economic activity at between 5.5 and 7.5 times the cost of provision

[Led By Donkeys @ByDonkeys]

Westminster Bridge Road

[Nicholas Poole OBE Hon. FCLIP @NickPoole1]

Why does nobody I speak to in the real world know that you can download magazines to your device for free with your #librarycard? It's like the best-kept marketing secret in #libraries?!

[Liz @Liz_Miles]

@SOLE_Essex @CressidaCowell @LittleMissB_NQT @ConfessionZima @JDLiteracyTrust @NickPoole1 @chrisriddell50 @malorieblackman @MichaelRosenYes @frankcottrell_b @Literacy_Trust @Essex_CC The children of Essex have marched, held hands in a hug round their library, spoken at events, written letters, made campaign videos, done read-ins, book raids but STILL @essex_CC are trying to cast off our libraries into a pit of unsustainability @bbckirstylang @thebookseller

[SOLE_Wivenhoe @SoleWivenhoe]

So many authors, literacy and literature experts, creators and teachers have been at the forefront of saving #Essex libraries @MichaelRosenYes @davidwalliams @Writerer yet @essex_CC refuse to hear! ECC are determined to destroy our libraries. @alisonflood @EssexToryGroup

[Josefine Starlight Backman Juliff @Pevelyne1]

Josefine is so not giving up her fight to Save Our Libraries Essex! Thank you @CressidaCowell for your wise words!

[Libraries Deliver UK @libdeliverUK]

#Libraries are one of the few remaining places where people from different backgrounds or generations can come together to learn from and appreciate each other

[⚫️ EssexLibraryUser @EssexLibraryUs1]

@halfon4harlowMP Please could you outline your actual role / contribution? What did you actually do & what did the officers / councillors @HarlowCouncil do? #creditwherecreditisdue

[Nicholas Poole OBE Hon. FCLIP @NickPoole1]

Have just inadvertently tuned into a radio station to hear the questions "what is wrong with populism?" and "what is wrong with nationalism?" How dare they disregard the untold deaths & suffering caused by both in the last 110 years? And the litany of callers phoning in to agree!