Connor Shaw

Neoliberalism’s biggest hater, Green Party candidate for Test Valley Central, Woke af, SEGP Co Chair, he/him

[Connor Shaw @connoreshaw]

I’m exciting to have beeen nominated as the Green candidate for Romsey + Southampton North! I hope to serve my constituency well and I’m grateful to have the opportunity!

[Connor Shaw @connoreshaw]

@HugoPap2 3 is a great destination, coast, county, city, what more could you want!

[Connor Shaw @connoreshaw]

“Think my politics could work as a press strategy”

[Connor Shaw @connoreshaw]

@sallonsax We had some southeast members kicked out of the party 2 years ago for endorsing the Lib Dems, does this not breach party constitution?

[Connor Shaw @connoreshaw]

Bring back BREL

[Ash 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇨🇼 @theashrb]

Fun fact: the technology behind tilting trains comes from British Rail engineers — imagine the great things BR could have done if it was allowed to become a statutory corporation and compete globally?

[Pandemos @ThePandemos]

You guys better be extra annoying this year.

Piss off a homophobe for me

[Connor Shaw @connoreshaw]

18% (basically 1 in 5 people) in Stockbridge voted Green

[Connor Shaw @connoreshaw]

Reminder that in the test valley, including in this area, Stockbridge, the Green Party saw vote growth.
Is a 0.0% Muslim area full of “sectarian Islamists” too?

[Connor Shaw @connoreshaw]

This is the fault of Tory austerity and the lack of hope in this country.
Young people are leaving in droves and it’s your ideologies fault.

[Robert Jenrick @RobertJenrick]

246,000 Brits left last year.

Net, 136,000 went. A city the size of Watford.

Many are entrepreneurs, investors, small businesspeople.

It’s the Starmer Exodus.

Reform will Bring Brits Back.

[Connor Shaw @connoreshaw]

@thelefttake I’d like a full investigation into corruption, now I’m not alleging there’s any corruption but how do you piss all this money down the drain without any???

[Connor Shaw @connoreshaw]

We like to blame the costs of HS2 on tunnelling (myself included) but look at the amount of tunnels THROUGH MOUNTAINS that France and Italy built.
Instead of subcontracting bs firms why don’t we just pay the French govt at this point 😭

[Domhnall (Cogito) @CogitoEdu]

$537m per kilometer. The French and Italians built rail through the Alps for a 1/3rd of the cost.

[Connor Shaw @connoreshaw]

@neheritagelib What is rail twitters take on sectorisation? From what I can tell (as someone born almost a decade into privatisation) is that sectorisation started to see real progress

[Connor Shaw @connoreshaw]

Excessive profits tax on essential goods, either make less profit from struggling people or pay more in tax
Greedflation must end.

[Politics UK @PolitlcsUK]

🚨 NEW: The Government is pushing for supermarkets to voluntarily cap food prices

[@FT]

[Lewis Bergen ( == Rail == ) @railLKB]

You have to read the room, GBR, this is horrible.

Hopefully this will be the only one, a sort of "promotional" train, while we rethink our design strategy.

Until then, GBR, don't waste anymore money!

[Connor Shaw @connoreshaw]

I think we need an investigation into hs2 overspend.
How do costs balloon so much unless there’s corruption involved???

[Aaron Bastani @AaronBastani]

No HS2 to Euston until maybe....2043?!

Better than the Tories - who simply weren't going to build it, but still....

CALL XI!

https://t.co/9xtXzjfKu2

[Connor Shaw @connoreshaw]

Oh it’s so…
Different

[Politics UK @PolitlcsUK]

🚨 NEW: The first Great British Railways train has been spotted

[Connor Shaw @connoreshaw]

I’m a single issue voter and my single issue is HS2 in full by the end of the decade

[Connor Shaw @connoreshaw]

This is what happens when you over rely on subcontractors and destroy all state-owned firms
Just build the fucking train man

[Politics UK @PolitlcsUK]

🚨 NEW: The Government says HS2 is now set to cost up to £102.7bn

The first trains from Birmingham to west London are expected between May 2036 and October 2039

Services from Euston to the North West and Scotland are expected between May 2040 and December 2043

[Connor Shaw @connoreshaw]

Zoe bread is genuinely the reason I dislike burnham, her reporting is more cutting edge than anything the bbc do

[sarah 🇵🇸 @sazza_jay]

‘Manchesterism’

[Connor Shaw @connoreshaw]

We have concrete evidence why this doesn’t work why are we doing this bullshit again

[Mark Kleinman @MarkKleinmanSky]

EXCLUSIVE: Rachel Reeves will next week scrap parts of the bank ring-fencing regime introduced after the 2008 financial crisis, with reforms aimed at freeing up billions of pounds of extra lending as the government urgently seeks ways to boost the economy. https://t.co/yBDHHH76kp