dormerplanthire

[Cllr Matt Dormer @cllrmattdormer]

A very special night for Redditch ❤️

Jordan and Cian Adams have been formally admitted as Honorary Freemen of the Borough of Redditch — the highest civic honour our Borough can bestow.

Two sons who turned the devastating impact of frontotemporal dementia on their family into something positive through extraordinary challenges, fundraising and awareness raising.

They are Redditch lads — and Redditch is incredibly proud of them.

You did your mum proud.
You did yourselves proud.
And you have done Redditch proud.

Congratulations, Jordan and Cian. An honour thoroughly deserved.

#Redditch #FTDBrothers #HonoraryFreemen

[Prof.Petro Nicolaides🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇬🇷🇨🇾 @PetroNicolaides]

20 minutes and 23 seconds of a schooling by @KemiBadenoch to Laurel & FoolHardy.
#DoomsdayBudget

[Rupert Lowe MP @RupertLowe10]

I have received countless questions on my recommendation for who to vote for this Thursday, and I have thought long and hard about the answer. Here is my honest assessment:

For months, I pushed Reform to propose radical, but credible policies. To detail it, with substance and costings. Write it down, produce policy documents. I was mocked and ignored. I hoped that there might be some form of plan for these elections, maybe a well-thought out policy or two? To even go as far to write a proposal - not thrown together on a flashy social media graphic, but in properly constructed sentences on an actual document. None came. Nothing.

All we get, day after day after day, is glossy pictures of Nigel Farage. No manifesto, just an empty promise that ‘Reform will fix it’. HOW? Please, tell me how? If I have to watch another overproduced video of Farage, I’ll vomit turquoise coloured confetti. Sweeping shots, backed by booming dramatic music, of the man going about mundane campaigning activities. It’s a parody. Where is the policy?! All we get is vacuous bull, piled on top of more vacuous bull - purely designed to pump up Farage’s ego at a time when British airspace is already dangerously full.

I’m not interested. I want numbers, detail, substance. A plan.

When even vague policy has been discussed by Reform, what happened?

In January, when Farage announced that Reform would hold an inquiry into the rape gangs - I was so proud to be a Reform MP. Using our parliamentary platform in order to deliver justice. Launching a campaign that would bring real change for thousands of victims. We gave those women and their families genuine hope. What did Farage do? He took the credit, did the media rounds, got his social media views and then dumped the idea. With no explanation, and with no apology. It makes my skin crawl.

I felt so ashamed to have been a part of that vile circus act. I still do. It’s just not how I operate. I am sorry for my role in it. As you know, I have worked so hard over the last month attempting to repair that mistake through launching our own inquiry. What was Farage’s response to that fundraising effort from almost 20,000 supporters? He said there’s ‘no point’. Class, he certainly lacks.

Then on deportations, amazingly Farage won’t commit to deporting all illegal migrants - he still refers to those ‘that enter’, future tense. Every illegal migrant living in the country must go. We don’t need clever word play, we need categorical commitments. As you know, Farage personally instructed me to remove the term ‘mass deportations’ of illegal migrants from my speech. He calls it a ‘political impossibility’, and ‘a very grave, dark and dangerous use of language.’

Reform even blocked me on their social media channels for quoting Farage’s own words on this. A party of supposed ‘free speech’ should be willing to take some mild criticism from an independent MP, surely?

I tabled a motion in the Commons calling exactly for the mass deportation of all illegal migrants.

Has Farage signed it? Tice? Anderson? No. None. More Conservative MPs have supported my mass deportation motion than Reform.

Please listen to me when I say this - Reform’s leadership does not share the opinions of the membership on so much of such importance. Perhaps most concerningly? Farage alarmingly states if we ‘politically alienate’ the whole of Islam, we ‘will lose’. Think very carefully about what he is saying here.

My view? There needs to be an honest national debate around the influence of Islam, and how it is shaping our way of life against the wishes of the vast majority. Farage does not share that opinion, and pushes the same crippling cowardice that has allowed our civilisation to be held hostage out of fear of offending one religion - Islam.

British values need to be robustly and courageously defended, even if that results in unpleasant insults of racism and ‘islamophobia’ from an establishment that will always hate us. I don’t care about that. Sadly, Farage does and that fear shapes him.

The Reform suggestion of ‘Net Zero’ immigration is entirely inadequate - that would still be accepting hundreds of thousands of migrants into the country every year. For the foreseeable future, there needs to be significantly more people leaving the UK than entering. Not just including the removal of illegal migrants, but also those who came legally yet have failed to uphold their end of the deal.

Again, just more Reform pandering to the ‘middle’ ground of politics. We don’t need additional centrist rot. We need radical change. Reform does not offer that, and it’s getting softer every day.

I won’t dwell on my own experience with the exit from Reform - you all know what happened. I want to focus on policy and substance.

So please tell me, where are the comprehensive local election policies? On potholes, social care, high street renewal, bins, public transport, housing policies, education, SEND support, children’s care, planning, business rates, parking. I could go on. Can you name one proper detailed local election policy? I can’t.

These local councils really matter - they play a huge part in all of our lives.

I simply cannot endorse a party that has put so frighteningly little thought into what it would actually do with power. Reform’s plan is to ride the protest wave, faced with two obscenely unpopular mainstream parties, but offer absolutely nothing constructive - chasing power for the sake of power. To ‘win’ the game, and it is a game to them.

Reform leadership has treated its own membership like dirt - dictated to them, ignored them, used them. Central planning doesn't work in politics any more than it worked in the Soviet Union. Real movements trust their people. Reform does not. Members cast aside, failing ‘vetting’ for no good reason, woeful delegation. The branches are what makes a political party. The work is done on the streets, not in some flashy London office. Reform members are good, honest people - they deserve better.

Great leaders don’t create followers, they create more leaders.

In Reform, there is space for one, and only one. There can only ever be one.

For years, people on our side of politics voted for the ‘least worst option’. It got us nowhere. I don’t see any point doing it again - principles matter. Would I vote for Reform? No, is the honest answer. Britain doesn’t need a protest, it needs a plan - Reform has not presented anything near one. A vote for Reform on Thursday is an endorsement of their condescending electoral strategy, fuelled by arrogance, rage and ego - not a genuine passion for any radical change.

Reform is not the answer.

This is not a General Election. Vote for a candidate who cares about your local community, and has considered/presented credible policies on how they can actually benefit your area. I wouldn’t worry too much about the colour of the rosette this time - do what is right for your community. It’s not ‘letting Labour in’. Labour is in. And will be firmly ‘in’ until 2029. Nothing that happens this week will change that.

At the time of these elections, I will be an independent MP - it will not remain that way forever.

There will be an alternative to Reform, I promise you that.

[Cllr Matt Dormer @cllrmattdormer]

Rachel Reeves’ Spring Statement is a disaster:
💸 Record tax hikes.
📉 Growth halved.
💰 Welfare costs up, benefits cut.
🚨 250,000 more in poverty.

Labour’s incompetence is hurting hardworking families and businesses. Britain deserves better!

#LabourFail #EconomicCrisis

[Cllr Matt Dormer @cllrmattdormer]

🚨 Labour’s farm tax will destroy British farming! 🚨

❌ 20% inheritance tax on family farms
❌ £400K+ tax bills forcing land sales
❌ Threatens UK food security

Farmers aren’t millionaires—they feed the nation! Sign the petition: https://t.co/LvMZmxJqFM 🌾

#StopTheFarmTax

[Conservatives @Conservatives]

The West is in a crisis made by its own weakness.

To save it, we must reject self-doubt, defend free speech, secure our borders, and restore national pride.

That’s what @KemiBadenoch is here to do.

[Cllr Matt Dormer @cllrmattdormer]

My vote is going to @KemiBadenoch

I have spent time with both candidates, also listened to many debates and hustings and conclude that as a party , we need someone to bring all parts back together, for this reason, I believe Kemi can #unite and #renew our party.
#Kemi4Leader

[Cllr Matt Dormer @cllrmattdormer]

Another great day on the doors campaigning for @redditchrachel
Really positive responses by everyone and so many acknowledging how hard @redditchrachel has worked for us all here in Redditch.
Please make sure you all vote @Conservatives on Thursday
#VoteConservative

[Cllr Matt Dormer @cllrmattdormer]

This is great news for all of us here in Redditch. This money will be used to regenerate and redevelop key parts of our fantastic town.

https://t.co/Fxbymx0J4B

#unlockredditch

[dormerplanthire @dormerplanthire]

Dormer plant hire staff joins the nation in mourning the death of His Royal Highness The Duke of Edinburgh.

[Robert Jenrick @RobertJenrick]

Announcing the first #TownDeals from our landmark #TownsFund, championing investment across the country, boosting regeneration and supporting communities. (1/2)

[Robert Jenrick @RobertJenrick]

Delighted to today announce the first set of Town Deals from our #TownsFund, worth almost £180 million.
https://t.co/8C9oEnxF7D (1/3)

[Cavendish Advocacy @CavendishAdv]

@cllrmattdormer warns that there is a mammoth task facing the UK to ensure it meets its decarbonisation targets. Says that the regeneration of Redditch has provided an opportunity to ensure that EV infrastructure is taken into account. #CAFringe20 #CPC20

[dormerplanthire @dormerplanthire]

@Chadsgrove @Wickes @VIYproject @bandq_help @HowdensJoinery @Buildland1 maybe your best bet. I know they are open. Not something we do. Sorry

[HWFireRedditch @HWFireRedditch]

Large fire involving quantities of metal and plastics. Large amounts of toxic smoke so please close swindcows in the Batchley area. Crews from @HWFireRedditch @HWFireUpton and @HWFireBGrove currently dealing with incident @HWFireControl

[Aston Villa @AstonVilla]

It is the sad duty of Aston Villa Football Club to announce that our former manager, Ron Saunders, has passed away at the age of 87.

[Cllr Matt Dormer @cllrmattdormer]

Good luck 🤞tomorrow at #NBAwards top Redditch builder up for a top award. @abbey_lyndon @damon150

[Cllr Matt Dormer @cllrmattdormer]

Great win for @AVFCOfficial today beating @dcfcofficial 4-0. Also a great win for my daughters team @girls_u14 this morning who also beat @Derby_LadiesU14 2-0. Well done girls. Good day all round

[Beccy Wood @BeccyWoodTV]

Good evening @bbcmtd we’re live at @SixwaysStadium with @Dan_Pallett and @WorcsWarriors #COYW #doubleact

[Rachel Maclean @redditchrachel]

Back in Redditch today. Here's 👇🏼what I got up too:
- Meeting with @JohnPaulCampion & his Chief Constable to discuss the extra 215 police officers.
- Visit to @CitizensAdvice to fnid out more about their support for Universal Credit claimaints.
- Lively Q&A at @SaintsAugustine.