Scott Brerton 🌹

Hi 👋 🌹@UKLabour @MainstreamLbr NPF candidate. @Coopparty. CIHCM.

[Scott Brerton 🌹 @ScottBrerton]

https://t.co/QXOVE3ynda

[Scott Brerton 🌹 @ScottBrerton]

Less than one month left to nominate Mainstream’s NEC and NPF candidates!

CLP nominations must be reported to the party by 26th June.

If we are to change Labour, we must make sure @mainstreamlbr values are represented at every level of our party.

Candidate info below 👇

[FBUManchester @FBUManchester]

GMFBU met last week and formally endorsed @andy4makerfield MP ✊🏻

@AndyBurnhamGM has shown consistent solidarity and support for firefighters and FBU members since being Mayor of Manchester
His support for the @fbunational should he be successful will continue 🚒
#VoteAndyForUs

[Scott Brerton 🌹 @ScottBrerton]

Love is love.

When hate is loud, love must be louder.

Happy Pride Month everyone 🏳️‍🌈❤️

[Scott Brerton 🌹 @ScottBrerton]

Labour members across the country have a chance to help reconnect our party with its core values by nominating @mainstreamlbr candidates for the NPF.

In the NW, I’d be grateful for CLPs to consider nominating myself, Scott Brerton (L1150299), alongside Liz Grey (L0138116).

[Steve Rotheram @MetroMayorSteve]

I have been loyal to every Labour leader since I delivered my first leaflet as a 12 year old. But, like many colleagues, I’ve been expressing concerns for some time about the direction of travel of our party in government. Last week’s local election results brought such concerns into sharp focus.

Our party is the greatest organ for social change this country has ever seen but, if we carry on down this road, we face an existential threat and risk letting down the very people we are here to represent.

Through the unstinting work of Labour Councils across the country, we have delivered some remarkable things. Last week hundreds of them lost their jobs because people on the doorstep told us that they didn’t feel the government was on their side. Many of them specifically blamed the Prime Minister for failing to deliver. We ignore the electorate at our peril.

In July 2024, my party was elected with a mandate to deliver change. When the country voted for it, they did not expect tinkering around the edges or business as usual; they expected meaningful change that would begin to reverse more than a decade of decline.

Let’s be clear: our government has delivered some transformational things. Stronger rights for working people. A genuine shift towards putting more power closer to the people. Real attempts to tackle some of the injustices and inequalities that have held communities back for too long.

But too often, significant achievements have been overshadowed by chaos, drift, and a lack of clarity about who we are and what we’re here to do.

People don’t expect perfection from politicians. But they do expect purpose.

They expect leadership and vision. And right now, too many feel they’re not seeing either.

Our party and our country are at a critical moment.

We need a serious contest to decide Labour’s future - and that means widening the field, not narrowing it.

Andy Burnham should be allowed to stand in the Makerfield by-election.

I’ve known Andy a long time. I’ve seen how he leads, how he connects with people, and how deeply he believes politics should not be transactional but focused on improving lives.

At a time when we’re losing support in all directions, he is someone who can bring people together. Someone who understands our country, who connects with communities beyond Westminster, and who knows how to turn Labour values into practical change.

The Labour Party has always been at its best when it has been bold, rooted in the lives of working people, and confident enough to have the arguments that matter.

This is one of those moments.

If we’re serious about rebuilding trust, reconnecting with the country, and delivering the kind of change people voted for in 2024, then we have to seize it.

It is the chance to elect someone who can take the country forward and deliver the genuine, progressive change that areas like mine are crying out for.

It is about hope and not despair.

Politics is crying out for leadership that feels grounded, authentic and rooted in people’s day to day lives rather than Westminster psychodrama.

Andy has shown that kind of leadership in office.

Labour shouldn’t be afraid of that contest. We should welcome it.

[Mainstream @mainstreamlbr]

There has never been a better time to be part of the movement to secure Labour's future.

Join Mainstream now: https://t.co/cNh5UrQDqx

[Mainstream @mainstreamlbr]

A statement from Mainstream's Interim Council after today's developments in Parliament.

[Scott Brerton 🌹 @ScottBrerton]

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[Mainstream @mainstreamlbr]

After this week's devastating results, we must prove that defeat is not inevitable - and make sure that change is.

Join the movement for Labour's future.

Become a member of Mainstream today.

https://t.co/NEfZyygrMY

[Scott Brerton 🌹 @ScottBrerton]

I just signed a @mainstreamlbr petition for an asylum and migration system rooted in mainstream Labour values.

Sign here: https://t.co/tkQTCfDOlN

[Scott Brerton 🌹 @ScottBrerton]

Reform’s biggest economic success in Lancashire so far?
Tyre repair shops. 🛞💷😬

[Sam Rushworth MP @SamJRushworth]

Context: Reform runs our council. This is what happens when you put populists in charge of something- their easy answers and false solutions to complex challenges get exposed.

[Scott Brerton 🌹 @ScottBrerton]

Wishing a very Happy Holi to Hindus celebrating across Great Harwood, Hyndburn and beyond. May your day be filled with colour, joy, and celebration. 🙏

[Andy Burnham @AndyBurnhamGM]

Tomorrow we lift the 9.30am restriction on bus passes, letting older and disabled people travel whenever they want.

It was good to thank the GM Older and Disabled People’s Panels for pushing for it.

A positive change powered by the people - exactly how politics should work! 🙌🏻

[Scott Brerton 🌹 @ScottBrerton]

All set for tonight's Hyndburn Borough Council Full Council Budget Setting meeting.

[Scott Brerton 🌹 @ScottBrerton]

Over 80% of 16 to 24-year-olds would vote to rejoin the EU in a new referendum says a new ITV poll, and a recent survey by YouGov found that 63% of the UK population would vote to rejoin the EU

This should be the direction of travel for Labour now.

https://t.co/ZrPJjNKyvt

[Scott Brerton 🌹 @ScottBrerton]

Braverman has just announced Reform UK will REPEAL the Equality Act.

Awful. We can never let this lot anywhere near government.

[Scott Brerton 🌹 @ScottBrerton]

The changes we need to make aren't difficult.We don't need fantasy politics or to out‑Reform Reform.We need our roots: Labour is the party that created the NHS, the welfare state, and lifted millions out of poverty, bold, believable, and focused on the big changes Britain needs.

[Scott Brerton 🌹 @ScottBrerton]

Hyndburn is outperforming Lancashire and national business birth rates, showing what a Labour🌹controlled council can do when in power.

🚀 Determined entrepreneurs
🤝 Strong partnerships
🏛️ A council backing growth
💪 A borough defying stereotypes

📈 Onward we go!