Mike Sheaff

Sociologist; socialist; husband and Dad; allotment tenant

[Mike Sheaff @mikesheaff]

@h1bennett @PlymUni @HistoryPlymouth I know you'll be missed Harry

[Mike Sheaff @mikesheaff]

This includes a letter from me, after Labour's appalling suspension of seven MP's supporting calls for an urgent reduction in child poverty. It is certainly a changed Labour Party

[Guardian Opinion @guardianopinion]

Labour is out of touch on the two-child benefit cap | Letters https://t.co/oajjAkC3MJ

[Mike Sheaff @mikesheaff]

@RossCoomber1 @Leah_Moyle This is so sad Ross. I know how closely you worked and imagine how you will feel after her tragically early death

[Mike Sheaff @mikesheaff]

@Kevin_Maguire @JennyKumah @samblackledge @Hoskea10 @sandralaville @emurrie91
From today's Plymouth Herald raising concerns about the council's secrecy & apparent failure to comply with the 'duty of candour' revealed at a judicial review, seemingly with cross-party support

[STRAWPlymouth @STRAWPlymouth]

More in The Herald today...

[Mike Sheaff @mikesheaff]

@CouncillorTudor A huge loss. His views and mine differed on several issues but he recognised the value of debate and dialogue, based on his core beliefs. Sadly, Labour is very different today

[Mike Sheaff @mikesheaff]

A good 1st day of @britsoci conference: my paper on the Cornwall housing crisis, with another by @AtasNatalija on student financial hardship; & chairing 2 great sessions including David Byrne & @MelodyZ1996. Good discussions @judithmudd1 @stontian. Thanks!

[Dr Melody Zhang @MelodyZ1996]

It was a very enjoyable experience to present my research about rural-to-urban and urban-to-urban migration in China at @britsoci I really appreciated for the lovely chat with David Byrne from Durham University and our chair @mikesheaff

[Dr Natalija Atas @AtasNatalija]

It was great presenting our work on students’ lived experiences of the Cost-of-Living Crisis (@Dabrowski_V) at the @britsoci virtual annual conference. I really enjoyed our discussion with @mikesheaff @judithmudd1 and @stontian #BritSoc24

[Mike Sheaff @mikesheaff]

Another great visit to @NMAPlymouth with our granddaughter today, who is now finding talks interesting - & the seagrass laboratory. Hope staff don't mind the photos

[Mike Sheaff @mikesheaff]

Shocked the Labour Party blocked a former Cllr (Planning Chair & Group Chair) from standing in May's Plymouth City Council elections after her selection as candidate with photos of her on a NHS picket line & Gaza protest as 'evidence'. @MarkSeddon1962 @Kevin_Maguire @KatieTimms94

[Mike Sheaff @mikesheaff]

@PressSteveH Thanks & I do understand your concerns. Mine are that in October the council assured us costs would be within the £12.7 million budget. Here's my letter in today's Herald. I just want honesty. I hope we can agree on that. With other demands, public money is not limitless

[Mike Sheaff @mikesheaff]

A letter I had in today's Plymouth Herald urging effective scrutiny of executive decisions after an apparent trebling of costs for the Armada Way project. And an extract from Labour's 2006 White Paper on scrutiny. Times change :( @STRAWPlymouth @plymouthcc

[Mike Sheaff @mikesheaff]

@lynnejones_exMP @Keir_Starmer Yes. 'Hoist by his own petard' was the phrase I used to my wife this morning - and we met in the LPYS in the 1970's!

[Mike Sheaff @mikesheaff]

@PeterWillsman And not helped by failure of our political institutions to provide scrutiny of contracts - my letter in yesterday's Guardian

[Mike Sheaff @mikesheaff]

Letters in today's Guardian reinforce the injustice of the Horizon scandal. Mine doesn't focus on this, but the inability of our political system to handle such failures

https://t.co/IY5KvGUMBP

[Mike Sheaff @mikesheaff]

@ArgyleLoz My letter in today's Plymouth Herald

[Mike Sheaff @mikesheaff]

My response in today's Plymouth Herald to criticisms from a local MP of Derriford Hospital's junior doctors supporting their dispute @SouthWestBMA @TheBMA

[Mike Sheaff @mikesheaff]

Another lovely visit to Plymouth's excellent @NMAPlymouth with our granddaughter ❤️

[Mike Sheaff @mikesheaff]

@h1bennett I don't know if this will come through clearly, but my Dad's recollection of the Exeter blitz may interest you, best wishes, Mike