maureen griffin

Lifelong (now remote) fan of Crystal Palace FC. Love The Who & Southside Johnny. Hate animal cruelty. Labour Party & Co-op Party member. Retired nurse

[maureen griffin @brimaureen]

@TheRealJamieKay Formula 1

[maureen griffin @brimaureen]

@TheRealJamieKay definitely the latter

[Mark Cockerton @CockertonMark]

In case you had any doubt about who encouraged the bigots and racists to pile on to the RNLI.
His usual approach. Light the touch paper, retreat to a safe distance and wait for the gullible to do your bidding.
Meanwhile, you delete the post so you can say ‘not me guv.’

[Michael Rosen 💙💙🎓🎓 NICE 爷爷 @MichaelRosenYes]

Zia's little joke, presumably, because the truth is:

[Count Binface @CountBinface]

I came first in the Clacton by-election! Of the candidates who bothered to turn up for the results. Here is my victory speech!

[OldishBird @oldishbird1]

It’s the first time in 45 years that a winning MP didn’t bother to turn up to the count. Farage lied about a ‘credible threat’ - the police stated nobody was advised not to attend. The truth is he didn’t want to be photographed with the bin that won a third of the votes.

[Jenny Jones @GreenJennyJones]

Good luck to @CountBinface (and @jondharvey).

[maureen griffin @brimaureen]

@BBCNews trying to listen to piece on prison overcrowding & don't understand why there is music playing when the reporter is giving piece to camera. It is very distracting

[Senior Lieutenant Zandi Sussex @ZandiSussex]

Saw this brilliant post on LinkedIn and thought it was worth sharing here. 🤔

[Politics UK @PolitlcsUK]

🚨 NEW: President Zelenskyy has gifted Keir Starmer the Ukrainian 'Order of Freedom' - the highest award for a foreign person - during his final visit as PM

Starmer says he will "treasure it forever"

[Deborah Meaden 🇺🇦 @DeborahMeaden]

I was with him yesterday amongst so many who he has supported by challenging the system and introducing laws to prevent and protect…I observed total respect and a sense of loss and I observed his humanity, dedication, and grace in Departure. I believe my eyes, ears and those who actually know above the Tittle Tattle and name calling of foreign influence and those who simply serve to bring down. We have lost a good man with good intent, We will know that too soon,

[maureen griffin @brimaureen]

@GordonFielden Unfortunately as a member I have not been allowed to give my opinion on Andy Burnham.

[Gordon Fielden @GordonFielden]

Melanie, your right to nominate Andy Burnham is beyond dispute. What is very much in dispute is your assertion that the Labour Party has somehow united behind him. That is not a statement of fact. It is a political opinion, and one that a vast number of Labour members simply do not recognise.

Louise Haigh has now publicly confirmed that planning for Andy Burnham's return began just over a year after Labour entered government and continued over the following year. That is an extraordinary revelation. It makes clear that this was not a sudden response to recent events, but a carefully developed process that unfolded over many months. Yet throughout that entire period the membership, the very people who give the Labour Party its strength, were never consulted and were never afforded any meaningful voice in determining the future leadership of their own party.

Thousands of members have already resigned. Many thousands more remain because they still believe the Labour Party is worth fighting for, but they do not recognise the picture you seek to paint. There is no great unity. There is a widening gulf between the Parliamentary Labour Party and a substantial section of its membership, and no amount of carefully chosen language can disguise that reality.

You entered Parliament only in 2024. With respect, that affords little authority to lecture the wider Labour movement about unity, democracy or the settled will of the membership. Many of those whose concerns you dismiss have devoted decades of their lives to the Labour Party, campaigning in difficult times, delivering elections, raising funds and sustaining the movement long before you took your seat at Westminster. They have earned the right to be heard, not ignored.

The Parliamentary Labour Party is not the Labour Party. It is one part of it. The membership are not an inconvenience to be managed, nor a backdrop to be acknowledged only at election time. They are the foundation upon which the party has always stood. To claim that the party has united, while so many members feel excluded from the very process that determined its future, is not merely premature. It is a profound misunderstanding of the movement you now claim to represent. History has shown that political parties which lose the confidence of their members rarely recover it by pretending the division does not exist.

[Just Dave now @justdavenow89]

Can one single Reform voter please answer this question for me??

thanks

[Brendan May @bmay]

Clacton now has no MP representing it, which is exactly the same as it’s been for the last two years.

[Clare Hepworth OBE @Hepworthclare]

Listened to Burnham’s speech.
Not the speech of a PM in waiting
It was the speech of an inspirational community activist with political aspirations but ignoring 21st century global complexities
Has all been said before.
But Michael Foot, Neil Kinnock (& Bevan)said it better.

[Clare Hepworth OBE @Hepworthclare]

Andy.
It's not about your competenc or your vision.
It's about HOW you came to power.
It's about the normalisation of cynical below the radar manipulation of the democratic process.
Subverted by your rampant ambition.
Straight out of the Steve Bannon playbook.
And
It is NOT ok.

[Deborah Meaden 🇺🇦 @DeborahMeaden]

In case we have forgotten who is PM and what he is doing..

[Graham Lambert 💙 @100glitterstars]

Only in Britain can you have someone speaking with the accent of Joanna Lumley, behaving like Vicky Pollard, while using the vocabulary of a back street yob.

#KemiBadenoch

[Hold The Line @LabHoldtheline]

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