Jimmy Shannon

Socialist Independent Councillor for Whitby Groves
Ellesmere Port

What's the story, don't vote Tory✊

[Ellesmere Port Social @eportsocial]

Our good friends @OranjSon on @Dave_Monks show tonight. Listen again on Saturday 💙

[Jimmy Shannon @JamesSh96]

An exciting time for our town with the regenerated Market Warehouse on the 12th September. Portite @IanProwse will be performing alongside other local gems. Big shout to @eportsocial. 🔊🎵🥳

[Ian Prowse @IanProwse]

The new venue is about 500 yards from where I played my very first show at the Youth Club in 1982.
Gonna be a special night.
BOOK HERE:
https://t.co/a2HAVFQfKj

[Charl Hennessy @charlhennessy1]

For those supporting our work for a Public Office Accountability Bill, there is STILL no update.
It has been 19 weeks since the report stage of the Bill was cancelled and 4 weeks since we had any correspondence with the PM.
We have repeatedly asked the PMs team for a meaningful update, with a specific ask on any progress that has been made with the Bill and sadly have been met with no response.
What was a good working relationship is now depleting
Campaigners who have been good enough to share their lived experience and trauma, travelling up and down to London, giving evidence at the Bill committee and working with Ministers to get this right are no longer being updated.
This whole process is extremely frustrating and incredibly insulting to those who have offered up their time and expertise!
Twice this Bill has been pledged in the King's speech!

Our position remains the same - a Public Office Accountability Bill in its entirety!
Candour should not be optional for those in positions or trust or power!

We are close to Parliament breaking for summer recess - please do think of us whilst you all holiday and our lives remain on hold!
How much more pressure and convincing does this government need to fulfil a promise that was in its manifesto!!

#PublicOfficeAccountabilityBill
#HillsboroughLaw #HillsboroughLawNow #DutyofCandour

[Ellesmere Port Social @eportsocial]

Jack the Ripper, representing Ellesmere Port.

[Jimmy Shannon @JamesSh96]

@IanProwse @jeremycorbyn It will be interesting to see who, if any, will be welcomed or even want to go back to that cesspit. I was ostrisized for speaking up on behalf of disabled residents and speaking against zionism. I haven't looked back.

[Jimmy Shannon @JamesSh96]

@charlhennessy1 @Nigel_Farage Absolutely spot on! 👏

[Jimmy Shannon @JamesSh96]

Looking forward to having @IanProwse back in the port alongside other local artists for launch of EP market. Will be a night to remember ✨️ @eportsocial

[Ian Prowse @IanProwse]

**NEW SHOW ANNOUNCED **
So happy to help Ellesmere Port launch a new venue this September.
Got our full 7 piece Ian Prowse & Amsterdam artillery out for this one.
My first show in the town for 14 years and in all likelihood my last.
❤️💛💚💙
BOOK HERE: https://t.co/a2HAVFQfKj

[Jimmy Shannon @JamesSh96]

Expelled people or pushed us to the point where we were strangers in our own home. The Starmer Project! How's it working out for you? @Keir_Starmer @UKLabour

[Saul Staniforth @SaulStaniforth]

Sophy Ridge: "There is an argument that the Starmer project started with a political project, which was to expel what they would describe as the far left from the Labour party, right?"

When its safe to start noticing things.

[Ellesmere Port Social @eportsocial]

#throwbackthursday

The Market Warehouse first event in the Flea Market.

Soon to be reopened ⏳👀

Follow below for updates.

https://t.co/43v0e22wTe
https://t.co/rZACFpGD5G

[Jimmy Shannon @JamesSh96]

@merseyrail once again, probably the most expensive shelter on the wirral line not in use for paying customers. @justinmadders. Only station on the wirral line without a rain shelter. 🫩🌨🌩

[Jimmy Shannon @JamesSh96]

One rule for them.......@peterkyle @Keir_Starmer

[Declassified UK @declassifiedUK]

🇮🇱"You've messed up haven't you"

We asked the minister responsible for arms exports to Israel about his undeclared membership of Labour Friends of Israel earlier this year👇

[Jimmy Shannon @JamesSh96]

@charlhennessy1 @NowHillsborough @Keir_Starmer We'll have to agree to disagree on that one I'm afraid. Looks like it may be Andy Burnham taking the lead now. Let's hope they stick to their word. Proud to support you however i can.

[Jimmy Shannon @JamesSh96]

In July 2025, I presented a motion to @Go_CheshireWest full council instructing the administration to write to the Government to introduce the Hillsborough Law with a full duty of candour. It's May 2026 and still nothing. @justinmadders @IanByrneMP @ElizabethMacgl1 #Hillsborough

[Charl Hennessy @charlhennessy1]

When I opened the Labour Party conference in September, I did so for every single member within our @NowHillsborough campaign group.
To give them a voice, to tell every person in that arena who we are and what we have been through.
Im not denying that things have moved far too slowly, and it is frustrating, but Keir gave us a voice, and this was 1 of the most empowering moments of my life ❤️
So, this is a reminder of that incredible moment and a reminder of the promise made.

#HillsboroughLawNow

[Jimmy Shannon @JamesSh96]

@SimpleSocial1st @Keir_Starmer the human rights lawyer who lied his way into power and thinks it's acceptable to cut off power and water to Palestinians. I don't think he's in any position to lecture @ZackPolanski on leading anything or anyone.

[lan Byrne MP @IanByrneMP]

Last night I welcomed the Hillsborough Law carry-over motion, which means we can keep the fight for the Hillsborough Law alive in Parliament.

But it shouldn’t have come to this.

Two anniversaries, a full Parliamentary session but still no Hillsborough law - it’s not good enough.

We knew there’d be resistance from those who oppose transparency & accountability - and that’s why political courage and leadership matters.

The PM promised, now deliver:
Adopt my amendments.
No carve-outs.

No one is above the law.

Get it done PM - we have waited long enough.

#HillsboroughLaw
#JFT97

[Jimmy Shannon @JamesSh96]

@IanByrneMP @labourlewis Keep on fighting. JFT97

[Saul Staniforth @SaulStaniforth]

Sorcha Eastwood with a Q for the PM "What was it about the twice disgraced paedophile adjacent self styled prince of darkness that you found so attractive to put into this job?"

Starmer is the frontman for a faction Mandelson was a key part of, he wanted the job, so he got it

[Charl Hennessy @charlhennessy1]

On the 19th April 1989, just 4 days after the #Hillsboroughdisaster, this was the headline that The S*n chose to release.
Some of the dead had only been formerly identified for less than 72 hours, their bodies still lying in mortuaries, the bereaved completely broken, and around 766 survivors were beyond traumatised & injured.
The headline was approved by the then editor Kelvin Mackenzie, who argued that his only mistake was trusting his "source," conservative MP Irvine Patnick. Mackenzie originally wanted to use the headline "You Scum," but apparently, others convinced him to change it!
The headline led to protests and a boycott in Merseyside.
Sales of the rag dropped all over the UK, but they still refused to apologise and withdraw their disgusting allegations.
Around 20 of the rags "journalists" were sent to Liverpool and Sheffield to find negative information about Liverpool fans and victims of the crush.
▫️Some "journalists" impersonated concerned family members, priests, and social workers to gain access to the hospital bedsides of the injured and obtain information from hospital staff
▫️Some entered the home of Anne Williams, uninvited
▫️Some blackmailed the family of a deceased teenager, telling them that if they didn't give a photograph of him, they would use an image of him in hospital on life support against their wishes
▫️some "journalists" harassed families like mine, waiting in our street for us to leave the house. Hiding behind cars, which meant I had to be taken to school late and be picked up early to avoid them getting my photograph.
I was 6 years old.
▫️other "journalists" photographed funerals despite being asked not to.

Whilst we know the lies started with Duckenfield as he watched the disaster unfold from the police control box, The S*n enabled South Yorkshire Police Force to continue to lie.
It enabled West Midlands Police force
to continue to build on those foundations for the Cover Up.

Although a majority didn't believe it, some did, and others continue to do so today.
This headline tarnished families, survivors, Liverpool fans, the city, and more appallingly, it tarnished the dead.
It is 1 of the direct causes for tragedy chanting and death mocking.
It enabled "professionals" to lie and cover up within their own organisation, and it was directly responsible for torment and mental suffering of bereaved families and survivors.
It is my understanding that disgusting headline, cause some survivors to take their own lives.
And yet NOBODY from Whites News Agency, Sheffield, nor Mackenzie, nor Patrick Irvine or any of the "journalists" who went to disgusting measures to intrude on other peoples suffering or grief, have ever been held to account.

This is one of many reasons for @NowHillsborough
We have recently seen at the Nottingham inquiry that the police force response for abhorrent failings tried to silence the media to stop the exposure of their grossly negligent failures.
A Hillsborough Law would have seen the "journalists" from the S*n, held to account for their misleading information.
It would have given Mackenzie & Irvine a legal duty of candour.
Hopefully a Leveson 2 may come......
But until then this your reminder of the power of lies, misinformation and why we #DontBuyTheSun

#JFT97 #HillsboroughLawNow