Steven McConnell

Singer/Songwriter. Songs are on streaming sites under my name + The VictorZulus. Football teams - Celtic with a bit of Barca and Liverpool, CHECK OUT MY WEBSITE

[Steven McConnell @stevenmcconnell]

Merry Christmas from the McConnell’s all. Ready for a sleep now… Flagging.

[chas newkey-burden @allthatchas]

God bless you @kellylgiven. God bless you. God bless you. 💚

[Steven McConnell @stevenmcconnell]

Looking for something different for your child’s party?
Our kids’ music parties let children write their own songs inspired by Timperley village —creative, fun, and confidence‑building.
We also offer guitar and drum tuition in a friendly home studio on the Stamford Brook estate

[Steven McConnell @stevenmcconnell]

@lawrencedonegan I live in Manchester and I actually am in this situation. Train, hotel and tickets booked for me and my daughter. (I used to be a season ticket holder)

[Steven McConnell @stevenmcconnell]

@20MinuteTims Where is this boys?

[Steven McConnell @stevenmcconnell]

Lovely

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

Nigel Farage looks uncomfortable as Jamie Raskin uses his opening statement to absolutely demolish him

[Jonathan Pie @JonathanPieNews]

The Corporate Con.
With corporate greed out of control, it's time for a Labour to start governing.

[Steven McConnell @stevenmcconnell]

@KevinASchofield Erm. Terrible headline. It’s not really a slap down.

[The News Agents @TheNewsAgents]

"These girls are being exploited all over again. Politicians jumping on the bandwagon after years of silence is 𝘴𝘩𝘢𝘮𝘦𝘧𝘶𝘭."

Andrew Norfolk, who exposed the grooming gang scandal in 2011, condemns the reuse of the abuse for political gain.

@maitlis | @lewis_goodall

[dave ❄️ 🥕 🧻 @mrdavemacleod]

Boris Johnson on “£60 million being spaffed up the wall on some investigation into historic child abuse”

maybe Elon Musk needs a history lesson on who really stops these things happening

[Steven McConnell @stevenmcconnell]

@ETimsNet Crazy… Donny lad all the way.

[(((Dan Hodges))) @DPJHodges]

The working people of Britain have been struggling to make ends meet for the last 3-4 years. They've been told "sorry, we know it's hard, but it is what it is. You have to put up with it". But as soon as anyone says to the rich executives and shareholders of the wealthiest companies "can you just shave a little off your profits for a bit till we all get back on our feet" that's North Korean communism...

[Steven McConnell @stevenmcconnell]

I am quite surprised at how many people I follow have signed up to the Bluesky platform. Which is very similar to this platform.

[Steven McConnell @stevenmcconnell]

This song just came on in the Avry pub in Manchester.

[electrasy @electrasy]

I have 1999 dates from a pocket diary and it's not mentioned there. We were in-between record companies then (no bands land) so apart from a few lead up gigs into Glastonbury there wasn't so many gigs in the UK.

I think 1998 for The Leopard would be right.

[Steven McConnell @stevenmcconnell]

@CelticF1rst I had this, I’m sure at the end they had footballers comparing scoring goals to sex…… went over my head as and 8 year old. But that was a bit weird.

[Steven McConnell @stevenmcconnell]

@hamishcarton It’s got a draw all over it.

[Steven McConnell @stevenmcconnell]

@rory_fans Daft

[Steven McConnell @stevenmcconnell]

@rory_fans has the us open not got feature groups?

[Steven McConnell @stevenmcconnell]

@rory_fans Ahh, not on sky

[Politics UK @PolitlcsUK]

🚨 NEW: The 2024 Labour manifesto in full

Main pledges:
- All adults to receive a "genuine" minimum wage no matter your age

- Increase NHS appointments by 40,000 per week, funded by cracking down on tax avoidance

- Create a new Border Security Command to tackle criminal boat gangs using counter-terror powers

- No increases in National Insurance, Income Tax rates, or VAT

- Cap corporation tax at 25% throughout the Parliament

- Launch Great British Energy with a windfall tax on oil and gas giants

- Crack down on antisocial behaviour with more police and youth hubs

- Hire 6,500 new teachers by ending tax breaks for private schools

- Voting age to 16 for all elections

- Introduce free breakfast clubs in every primary school

- Remove hereditary peers' voting rights and set a mandatory retirement age of 80 in the House of Lords

Security and Defence:
- Absolute commitment to the UK's nuclear deterrent

- Apply a NATO test to major defence programmes

- Condcut a strategic defence review in the first year

- Create a new Border Security Command, funded with the Rwanda funding

- Seek a new security agreement with the EU for real-time intelligence access

- Establish a new returns and enforcement unit, with 1000 additional staff

Economic Policy:
- Move the current budget into balance

- Ensure debt is falling

- Keep mortgages rates low

- Retain the 2% inflation target

- No increase to National Insurance, income tax rates, or VAT

- Abolish non-dom status and ending the use of offshore trusts for inheritance tax avoidance

- Close the loophole on private equity capital gains tax

- Modernise HMRC and tackling tax avoidance

- Embrace securonomics and resilient foundations

- Support businesses through a stable policy environment

- Establish an Industrial Strategy Council and increase investment in the UK

- Establish a National Wealth Fund and promote a pro-business regulatory framework

- Investing in tech, ports, gigafactories, steel industry, carbon capture, and green hydrogen manufacturing

- Undertake a review of the pension landscape

- Cap corporation tax at 25%

- Update national planning policy and achieve national 5G coverage by 2030

Infrastructure and Services:
- Create a National Infrastructure and Service Transformation Authority

- Improve Royal Mail's governance

- Maintain and renew the road network, fixing 1 million potholes annually

- Restore the 2030 phase-out date for new cars with combustion engines

- Introduce Great British Railways and secure the aviation industry's future

- Support AI development and introduce the Regulatory Innovation Office

Labour Market & Welfare:
- Reform the points-based immigration system

- Introduce a plan to upskill workers and bolstering Jobcentre Plus and the National Careers Service

- Overhaul Work Capability Assessments

- Establish a youth guarantee and introducing a 'new deal for working people'

- Ensure the minimum wage is a genuine living wage without age bands

Crime:
- Crack down on antisocial behaviour with more neighbourhood police and residents will have a named officer to turn to when things go wrong

- Introduce Respect Orders to ban persistent adult offenders from town centres, targeting public drinking and drug use. Fly-tippers and vandals will clean up their mess

- New specific offence for assaults on shopworkers that will protect them from threats and violence

- Every young person caught with a knife will be referred to a Youth Offending Team and receive a mandatory reoffending prevention plan

- Ban ninja swords, lethal zombie-style blades and machetes, and strengthen rules to prevent online sales with sanctions for executives who flout

-Local partnerships will identify at-risk youth and intervene

- Youth workers and mentors will be placed in A&E and Pupil Referral Units, funded by firearm licensing fees

- Create a new offence targeting gangs exploiting children for violence and crime

- Specialist rape and sexual offences teams in every police force

- Fast-track rape cases, with specialist courts at every Crown Court location in England and Wales

- Introduce domestic abuse experts in 999 control rooms for victims to speak directly with specialists

- Ensure a legal advocate is available in every police force area to support victims from report to trial

- Introduce a new criminal offence for spiking

- New legal safeguards around strip-searching children and young people

- Roll out a direct entry scheme for detectives to boost investigation skills

- Allow Associate Prosecutors to work on appropriate cases

- Review of sentencing to ensure it is brought up to date

Health:
- Cut NHS waiting times with 40,000 more appointments every week

- Double the number of cancer scanners

- A new Dentistry Rescue Plan

- 8,500 additional mental health staff

- Return of the family doctor

- Ensure patients wait no longer than 18 weeks from referral for consultant-led treatment of non-urgent health conditions

- Deliver an extra two million NHS operations, scans, and appointments every year

- Introduce shared waiting lists to allow patients to be treated quicker

- Use spare capacity in the independent sector to ensure patients are treated more quickly

- Deliver the NHS long-term workforce plan to train more staff

- Introduce a new ‘Fit For the Future’ fund to double the number of CT and MRI scanners

- Commitment to delivering the New Hospitals Programme

- Develop an NHS innovation and adoption strategy in England

- Ensure Britain is at the forefront of transforming treatment for dementia

- Train thousands more midwives as part of the NHS Workforce Plan

- Set an explicit target to close the Black and Asian maternal mortality gap

- Digitise the Red Book record of children’s health

- Enable vaccinations for babies and children as part of health visits

- Implement professional standards and regulate NHS managers

- Establish a Royal College of Clinical Leadership to champion the voice of clinicians

- Implement the recommendations of the Cass Review

- Create a Community Pharmacist Prescribing Service, granting more pharmacists independent prescribing rights

- Trial Neighbourhood Health Centres

- Provide 700,000 more urgent dental appointments

- Create a National Care Service

- Develop local partnership working between the NHS and social care on hospital discharge

- Establish a Fair Pay Agreement in adult social care

- Guarantee the rights of those in residential care to be able to see their families

- Creation of Young Futures hubs to provide open access mental health services for children and young people

- Ensure the next generation can never legally buy cigarettes

- Ban vapes from being branded and advertised to appeal to children

- Commitment to banning advertising junk food to children

- Ban the sale of high-caffeine energy drinks to under-16s

- Give coroners more powers to access information held by technology companies after a child’s death

- Reform gambling regulation and strengthening protections

- Halving the gap in healthy life expectancy between the richest and poorest regions in England

- Commission a new HIV action plan in England, in pursuit of ending HIV cases by 2030

International:
- 'Unshakeable' commitment to NATO

- Deepen ties with the EU to 'make Brexit work'

- No return to the single market, customs union, or freedom of movement

- Negotiate a veterinary agreement with EU to prevent unnecessary border checks and tackle the cost of food

- Secure a mutual recognition agreement for professional qualifications to help open up markets for UK service exporters

- New UK-EU security pact and other bilateral agreements with France and Germany

- Remain part of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR)

- Launch Strategic Defence Review to assess threats

- Put the Armed Forces Covenant into law and establish an independent Armed forces commissioner to improve service life

- Give Veterans better access to mental health, employment and housing support

- Scrap visa fees for non-UK veterans and their dependents who have served for 4 or more years
prioritise UK businesses for defence investment and reduce waste

- Establish a military strategic headquarters and a national armaments director

- Support Ukraine in its war against Russia and with NATO membership

- Create a new Clean Power Alliance to accelerate green energy transition

- Push for a ceasefire in the Israel-Gaza conflict and recognition of Palestine

- Restore development spending to 0.7% of gross national income when fiscal circumstances allow

Fiscal plan:
- Get debt falling by 5th year of parliament

- Tax rises: closing further non-dom and tax avoidance loopholes, VAT on private schools, closing carried interest tax loophole, increasing stamp duty for non-UKmis residents by 1%, windfall tax on oil and gas giants

Serving the country
- A new Ethics and Integrity Commission

- Establish a new Modernisation Committee tasked with reforming House of Commons procedures

- Immediate reform of the House of Lords

- A reset between Westminster and Holyrood, Cardiff Bay, and Stormont

- Votes at 16

- Review and update post-government employment rules

- Enforce restrictions on ministers lobbying for the companies they used to regulate

- Ban MPs from taking up paid advisory or consultancy roles

- Remove the right of hereditary peers to sit and vote in the House of Lords

- Introduce a mandatory retirement age of 80 years old in the House of Lords

- Commitment to replacing the House of Lords with an alternative second chamber

- Address the inconsistencies in voter ID rules

- Renew opportunities for the Prime Minister and Heads of Devolved Government to collaborate

- Establish a new Council of the Nations and Regions

- Oppose a 2nd Scottish Independence Referendum

- Maintain the arrangements in the new Scottish fiscal framework

- Support the Scottish Government to partner with international bodies

- Explore the devolution of services to Wales to enable them to be more locally responsive

- Work with the Welsh Labour Government to consider devolution of youth justice

- Devolve employment support funding to the Welsh Government

- Commitment to implementing the Windsor Framework

- Commitment to taking forward discussions about a fiscal framework for Northern Ireland

- Work with the Irish Government to strengthen the relationship between our two countries

- Repeal and replace the Legacy Act

Historical injustices:
- Act on the findings of the Infected Blood Inquiry

- Respond to the findings of the Grenfell Inquiry and the Covid-19 Inquiry, to ensure swift resolution

- Introduce a 'Hillsborough Law' mandating transparency for public servants and authorities, with legal aid for victims of disasters or state-related deaths

- New Windrush Commissioner

- Investigation or inquiry about the events at Orgreave

Reforming further and higher education
- Bring forward a comprehensive strategy for post‐16 education

- Guarantee training, an apprenticeship, or help to find work for all 18- to 21-year-olds

- Establish Skills England to unite businesses, training providers, unions, and government to ensure a highly trained workforce for Labour’s Industrial Strategy

- Transform Further Education colleges into specialist Technical Excellence Colleges

- Reform the Tories’ "broken" Apprenticeships Levy to address vital skills and training needs ignored by current rules - a new Growth and Skills Levy to ensure qualifications offer value for money

- Act to improve access to universities and raise teaching standards

Arts and culture:
- Implement creative industries sector plan as part of Industrial Strategy, boosting jobs and growth in film, music, gaming, and creative sectors

- Collaborate with BBC and public broadcasters to support British content and creative economy

- Support children studying creative or vocational subjects until age 16, with accountability reflecting this

- Protect time for physical education and support grassroots clubs for wider sports access

- Increase access to cultural assets through national museums' increased community loans

- Launch National Music Education Network for easier access to music and drama classes

- Introduce consumer protections against ticket touting to put fans first at events

- Host international events like UEFA Euro and ICC Women’s T20 to inspire talent and promote healthy living

- Reform football governance with a Football

- Governance Bill to protect clubs and involve fans in decision-making

- Ensure English football remains inclusive and connected within its pyramid structure

Equality:
- Enact the socio-economic duty in the Equality Act 2010 to ensure equal opportunities for all backgrounds

- Make Work Pay plan to enhance rights for working women, including equal pay, maternity protections, and combating discrimination like menopause and sexual harassment

- Introduce a Race Equality Act for equal pay rights, dual discrimination protections, and tackling racial inequalities

- Strengthen monitoring of antisemitic and Islamophobic hate

- Champion rights of disabled people with equal pay rights, disability and ethnicity pay gap reporting, improved employment support, and Access to Work reforms

- Make all strands of hate crime aggravated offences to protect LGBT+ and disabled individuals

- Ban conversion therapy and reform gender recognition law for trans-inclusive policies while retaining healthcare access requirements

- Support implementation of single-sex exceptions under the Equality Act to protect women’s rights

Opportunity for schools:
- Recruit 6,500 new expert teachers in key subjects

- End the VAT exemption and business rates relief for private schools to invest in our state schools

- Bring down the cost of school by limiting the number of branded items of uniform and PE kit that schools can require

- Mental health professionals in every school

- Create Young Futures Hubs, providing open-access hubs in every community for children and young people with drop-in mental health support

- Reinstate the School Support Staff Negotiating Body

- New Regional Improvement Teams to enhance school-to-school support

- Enhance school inspections with a new report card system replacing single grades, providing clear performance information to parents

- Include Multi-Academy Trusts in inspections and introduce annual reviews of safeguarding, attendance, and off-rolling

- Expert-led review of curriculum and assessment, working with school staff, parents and employers to change this

- Ensure school admissions decisions consider community needs and mandate schools to cooperate with local authorities on admissions, SEND inclusion, and place planning

- 3,000 new primary school-based nurseries

- Free breakfast clubs in every primary school

- A modern curriculum so young people are ready for work and life

- High-quality apprenticeships and specialist technical colleges

Pensions:

- Retain the triple lock for the state pension

- Adopt reforms to workplace pensions to deliver better outcomes for UK savers and pensioners

Housing/renting:

- Immediately end Section 21 'no fault' evictions, protect private renters from exploitation and discrimination, empower them to contest unfair rent hikes, and improve standards, including extending 'Awaab’s Law' to the private sector

- Enact Law Commission proposals on leasehold enfranchisement, right to manage, and commonhold

- Ban new leasehold flats and make commonhold the default tenure

- Address unregulated and unaffordable ground rent charges

- End 'fleecehold' private housing estates and unfair maintenance costs

- Develop a new cross-government strategy with Mayors and Councils to end homelessness in Britain

- Ensure justice and compensation for victims of the Horizon Scandal

- Build 1.5 million new homes and new social renter homes

- Build new towns and reviewing Right to Buy discounts

- Introduce landmark devolution legislation

Clean energy:
- Set up Great British Energy to cut bills for good

- Energy independence from dictators like Putin

- 650,000 new high-quality jobs

- Warmer homes to slash fuel poverty

- Water companies forced to clean up rivers or be in special measures and fined

- Work with private sector to double onshore wind, triple solar power, and quadruple offshore wind by 2030

- New Energy Independence Act will establish the framework for Labour’s energy and climate policies

- Will not revoke existing oil and gas licences

- Will close the loopholes in the windfall tax on oil and gas companies

- Keep the Energy Profits Levy until the end of the next parliament and increase the rate of the levy by 3%

- Implement a stricter energy regulation system prioritising consumers, attracting investment to reduce bills, holding companies accountable, enforcing higher performance standards, and ensuring automatic customer compensation for failures

- Reward clean energy developers with a British Jobs Bonus, allocating up to £500 million per year from 2026, to incentivise firms who offer good jobs

- End the injustice of the Mineworkers’ Pension Scheme by reviewing surplus arrangements and transferring the Investment Reserve Fund back to members for fairer pensions

- Invest an additional £6.6 billion to upgrade five million homes and reduce family bills

- Create nine new National River Walks and three new National Forests in England, planting millions of trees and creating new woodlands.

- Expand nature-rich habitats like wetlands, peat bogs, and forests for family exploration and wildlife thriving, including on public land

- Commit to reducing waste by transitioning to a circular economy

Animals:
- Ban trail hunting, hunting trophy imports, puppy smuggling, puppy farming, and snare traps

- Partner with experts to phase out animal testing