Councillor Matt Stanton

All views my own. #Autism. #WestHam and #Boxing fan.

[Harriet Spoor 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 @harrietspoor]

Domestic Abuse reports increase by 38% in English homes when England lose

If you need support please contact the National Domestic Abuse hotline: [phone] (lines open 24/7)

[Margaret Mullane MP @Margaret4DR]

You will be hearing a lot from me on this issue. 👇

[Margaret Mullane MP @Margaret4DR]

So proud to be at the armed forces parade today . We owe our armed forces so much.

I am pictured with Councillor Stanton from Beam Park Ward. The other photograph is Dave Ainsworth a veteran. Thank you from us all.

[Councillor Matt Stanton @MattyThePadMan]

@richgroves77 @Margaret4DR Pleased to say - finally done

[Margaret Mullane MP @Margaret4DR]

This week @AmandaMartinMP and I launched the APPG for Tradespeople. Honoured to be elected Vice Chair on such an important group. We’ll be looking at a wide range of issues affecting trades, including tool theft and silicosis. Watch this space! 🛠️👀

[Councillor Matt Stanton @MattyThePadMan]

@monkey_kaworu @QuinnRod @moultano What’s wrong with the traditional method of playing until someone’s mum says their dinners ready and then declaring ‘winning goal next’?

[Sinéad Whelan @sineadwhelan88]

Great visit to Westside Youth Centre Ealing, doing fantastic work supporting young people, lovely welcoming talented staff, loads of great summer activities and specialist support @EalingLabour @supportingyouth @communityheroes

[London Assembly Labour 🌹 @CityHallLabour]

"Change must be felt by the people who were there before and during the transformation, not just those who arrive when it's done."

@unmeshdesai has written about the legacy of the London 2012 Olympics - read the full story in the Barking and Dagenham post 🥇

[Voices of WW2 @VoicesofWW2]

On the night of June 5, 1944, Eisenhower stood on a tarmac in England and watched 13,000 paratroopers board their planes.

He already knew what Air Marshal Leigh-Mallory had told him in private: up to half of them might not survive the night. 6,500 men. Dead before a single soldier touched the beach. Eisenhower had approved the mission anyway, called the decision "soul-wracking," and said nothing to the men.

Instead he drove out and visited them.

He chatted. Laughed. Asked where they were from. Shook hands. Cracked jokes. Not one of them knew their general had just signed what might be their death warrant.

When the last plane disappeared into the dark sky, his driver Kay Summersby looked over at him.

There were tears running down his face.

He drove back to Telegraph Cottage in silence. Then he sat down, picked up a pencil, and wrote a note he prayed no one would ever read.

"Our landings in the Cherbourg-Havre area have failed to gain a satisfactory foothold and I have withdrawn the troops. My decision to attack at this time and place was based upon the best information available. The troops, the air and the Navy did all that bravery and devotion to duty could do. If any blame or fault attaches to the attempt it is mine alone."

Look at what he edited.

He had first written "This particular operation." He crossed it out and replaced it with "My decision to attack." Then he pressed the pencil down hard and drew a long, firm line under the words "mine alone."

He misdated it July 5 instead of June 5.

He was so consumed with dread he had forgotten what month it was.

He folded the note and put it in his wallet. He carried it there as 156,000 men stormed the beaches of Normandy. When word came back that the beachhead had held, he took it out, crumpled it, and threw it in the trash.

An aide quietly pulled it out and saved it.

That note is now behind glass at the Eisenhower Presidential Library in Abilene, Kansas. You can still see where the pencil pressed hardest.

Right under the words "mine alone."

82 years ago tonight.

[Andy Burnham @andyburnham]

@Nigel_Farage Are you getting desperate, lad?

Maybe keep your crypto millions for something else. 😂

[Keir Starmer @Keir_Starmer]

I promised we would fix our broken railways.

Today Southern, Thameslink, Great Northern and Gatwick Express return to public ownership. Run for the public good, not private profit.

This Labour government is putting passengers first.

[London Assembly Labour 🌹 @CityHallLabour]

.@SadiqKhan is lobbying for @TfL to have the right powers to regulate dockless e-bikes. @EllyBakerAM is pushing for:

🚲a cap on fleet sizes, so that there's not too many bikes in one area
📈 providers to share ride data with TfL, so that e-bikes complement public transport

[Londonist @Londonist]

ICYMI: new 'Weekend Hopper' fare will allow unlimited bus and tram journeys inside a day, for six weekends this summer https://t.co/8pi6KOFbd3

[Ed Miliband @Ed_Miliband]

Contract signed 🤝 between Rolls-Royce SMR and @GBNgovuk to start building our first small modular reactors.

SMRs will deliver clean, secure, homegrown energy for millions of homes and support thousands of jobs.

A major step forward in our golden age of new nuclear power.

[Sadiq Khan @SadiqKhan]

Great news for east London that plans for a new station at Beam Park have taken an important step forward after years of delay under the previous government.

A new station will unlock thousands of homes, boost jobs and bring new opportunities for businesses and the community.

[Councillor Matt Stanton @MattyThePadMan]

@richgroves77 @Margaret4DR Further update - following a meeting with Tesco, LBH and SEGRO, the works will be done after the Easter rush, and SEGRO will ‘open up’ the central reservation in the industrial area to aid movement of vehicles.

[Councillor Matt Stanton @MattyThePadMan]

@richgroves77 @Margaret4DR To update you further, Highways have notified the affected businesses about the proposed road closure, but Tesco (apparently 300 lorries leaving site on any given day) have made legal reps against it. There’s a meeting of Havering and Tesco next week about it.

[Sunday League Footy @SundayChants]

If Leo Messi did this, everyone would be in meltdown on social media. But because it's Postman Pat, no-one will say anything. 😂🔥

[D&R WR Strategy @DRWRStrategy]

This #InternationalWomensDay some members of our working group have reflected on how women’s social and legal rights globally are still disproportionate.

Fantastic organisations such as @UNWomenUK and more are supporting the calls this year for equal rights everywhere

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[Councillor Matt Stanton @MattyThePadMan]

#InternationalWomensDay #EleanorRoosevelt