Eizabeth Chell

Retired academic; published in areas of small business, social entrepreneurship & ethical dimensions of the same.

[Jennifer Stewart @JenniferJS_]

Burnham "was the perfect hype-man for a new bus system, appearing in clever videos explaining problems [of the system inherited from Thatcher] posing for endless very yellow press photos. But even dogs in the street know he didn’t create the Bee Network. It created him... Bus reform was a major plank of the devolution deal negotiated with the Conservative government years before Burnham came back north..."

The other big transport initiative of Burnham’s period – the Clean Air Zone – is such a well-known disaster that it hardly bears repeating. Burnham tends to bristle when asked why he spent many millions on a project that caused such anger...it had to be abandoned even after the signs announcing the scheme to motorists were already in place.

The CAZ was imposed on us by the Conservative government, he says. And yet, it was his team who designed it, and it was their failure to create the right carve-outs for delivery vans and other commercial vehicles that led to an angry revolt in places like Makerfield."
https://t.co/CyHilwPa5o

[Jane Featherstone 🇬🇧🇪🇺 @JaneFeathersto1]

@danny__kruger You’ve lost any integrity you might have once had. Nigel Farage whipped up hatred yesterday. Everyone saw him putting out his emergency speech yesterday morning from a field . However hard you try to deny it, he incited violence which played out in Southampton last night

[Gordon Fielden @GordonFielden]

@bbclaurak https://t.co/fFDqLe9nXV

[Viviane: 🌹Labour led by Keir for me @LaindonFEMINIST]

I want these new NHS cards to have the option for Reform/Restore voters to specify that they only want white doctors, nurses, cleaners, anaesthetists, midwives, tea makers and cleaners. And state they’re prepared to wait. Put it in capital letters at the top. So there’s no error

[Jennifer Stewart @JenniferJS_]

Wow. @AndyBurnhamGM actually said something positive about @Keir_Starmer today.

He also said more people from the left should be in the govt., but not @jeremycorbyn - so only people from the left who meet his (Burnham's) lofty standards. In other words, people who support him.

[lee harpin @lmharpin]

Peter Kylie at today’s Westminster lobby lunch:”What the media report as positives is individual people that want to thrust themselves forward at moments of instability.
“And I don't think our body politic - of which you are part - rewards the behaviour that you are challenging me about.
“People who put their heart and soul into delivering stability and authority at times of challenge is not what is reported, is not what is rewarded in our body politic. “And that is something that we all have to own up to.”

[Philip O'Connor @PhilipOConnor5]

If you, like me, feel that we are fortunate to have @Keir_Starmer as our Prime Minister please repost. I am not even a member of the Labour Party.

[The News Agents @TheNewsAgents]

“We’ve got to be so careful not to play into narrative of people like Nigel Farage. The Nazis were brilliant at picking up what the Social Democrats said and did, and twisting it", says @LordBlunkett

“My great worry is that the Green Party are God’s gift to Reform."

[Hugh 🌹 @HughEdw31897368]

@D_G_Alexander as Secretary of State for Scotland will you also be campaigning in Aberdeen South and Arbroath and Broughty Ferry? It would be good to see as much effort being made in those two seats as there is in Makerfield, a seat we already hold.

[Erdmute Wendlinger @wendlingere49]

@FT @DrEmilyHarris That means he's failed 3 times to try & be leader of the Labour Party.He should
Get behind Keir & do the job he's been doing well in Manchester.Burnham is NOT THE ANSWER.

[Viviane: 🌹Labour led by Keir for me @LaindonFEMINIST]

Prime Minister Starmer:

We need to also assert who we are as a country, because Musk, again, has been interfering in our politics in the last few days, trying to whip up division, that is not who we are in Britain.

In Britain, we are reasonable, tolerant people.

[Jane, Retired, Happy, Rejoiner 🌹 @likesretirement]

@forwardnotback How stupid does he think poeple are?

[Eizabeth Chell @LizChell]

@calculus52 I am sure SKS will put it behind him & carry on with his agenda.

[Cal Cowen @calculus52]

When (when!) all this is over, the Burnham charade, I hope our PM and his loyal cabinet will rise to new heights and be able to put this sorry destructive mess behind them

[Eizabeth Chell @LizChell]

@MSmith58282 Well done sir Keir!

[ClareT with Ukraine heart and soul 💪 @ClareTa97789912]

Last days no?
Having his undermining “colleagues” out in the open and the end of the media extended Mandelson fiasco leaves Keir to get on with the job he was elected to do.
3 more years

[Politics UK @PolitlcsUK]

🚨 BREAKING: Keir Starmer's statement after meeting Henry Nowak's family at No 10

"I was profoundly humbled to meet Henry Nowak’s family, Mark, Lucy and Katie, in Downing Street this afternoon, and to see their dignity and strength in the face of unimaginable pain.

"I was moved to learn more about Henry - his kindness, his warmth, and his love of football - and am grateful to his family. There is no doubt he had a bright future ahead of him, a future cruelly stolen from him in appalling circumstances.

"Henry deserves a legacy that goes beyond this awful tragedy, and I am committed to making that happen. I am determined that we do everything in our power to prevent other families from suffering such a devastating loss.

"There are difficult questions that need to be answered about the way the police handled Henry’s murder. The Independent Office for Police Conduct are investigating. We will be unflinching in taking whatever action is required to right the wrongs in this case.

"It is our duty now to ensure that lessons are learned, that justice is delivered and that we choose unity and progress over division and hatred. This is the only way to honour Henry’s memory"

[The News Agents @TheNewsAgents]

"I hope on behalf of those two officers legal action will be taken, otherwise it's the wild west."

@LordBlunkett calls for legal action against Elon Musk, after he linked the wrong police officer - who has now gone into hiding - to Henry Nowak's arrest.

@maitlis | @jonsopel