Vanessa Smith

Vanessa Smith: EAP tutor, feminist, Broxtowe Independent Councillor for Beeston Central, portfolio holder for housing, knitter, sewist, odd'un (she/her)

[Vanessa Smith @TEFLness]

I'm on BlueSky now https://t.co/PkoUR9dAfw

[Vanessa Smith @TEFLness]

I have made @PSCupdates's Councillor Pledge for Palestine!

I am committing to advocate for Palestine and to combat complicity in Israel's crimes.

Follow this link to ask your local councillors to do the same: https://t.co/ydOVko9WCr

[Vanessa Smith @TEFLness]

You don't need a big party machine with lots of money to run a decent campaign. Just hard-working, dedicated people who focus on their community and the issues that mean the most to them.

Progressive, community politics beats hatred and division. 🧡💚

[Broxtowe Alliance Councillors @broxtoweindys]

Yeesssssss!!

We won by 144 votes.

Unbelievable result

Provide an alternative to Reform

Thanks to the @TheGreenParty @ZackPolanski & the other independent for stepping aside to beat Reform

@councilsUK @ElectionMapsUK

[Nottingham People's Alliance @NottmPA]

If anyone is in any doubt how the Labour Party treats its Cllrs the take a look at this

This is the Labour official who has been watching over our every move and controlling the Labour Group

We walked away from this - they cannot control us anymore

[NJ @NoJusticeMTG]

Mass Labour exodus on Nottingham City Council - me and Dalia Gebrial for Novara Media

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[Broxtowe Alliance Councillors @broxtoweindys]

Welcome to the family @NottmPA

[Vanessa Smith @TEFLness]

@kirstyljones @NottmPA Congratulations! Looking forward to working with you across the county

[Broxtowe Alliance Councillors @broxtoweindys]

SIX CLLRS RESIGN 🥀

‘Today we end decades of Labour stranglehold on our City

Starmers Labour takes ordinary people’s votes for granted in our communities, our City & the Country

There are now progressive alternatives

This is the beginning of the end for Labour in Nottingham

[Broxtowe Alliance Councillors @broxtoweindys]

@AaronBastani We are now the Progressive Alternative in Broxtowe 👇

Worst Labour result here in living memory

[Hugh Casswell @HughCasswell]

BREAKING: Labour group leader Kate Foale loses her seat to @broxtoweindys

[Vanessa Smith @TEFLness]

@CllrJWilliamson @MyWakefield Welcome! It's a tough thing to do,but it's so freeing to be able to keep to your values and hold your head up. Solidarity from @broxtoweindys !

[Greg Marshall @Greg4Broxtowe]

If anyone was believing the hype, this is the view of a recent senior Nottm City Councillor who sees #Broxtowe as a rotten borough and Beeston, Stapleford, Kimberley and Eastwood as “meaningless suburban towns”. It is a remarkable insult and shows what the City thinks of us.

[Greg Marshall @Greg4Broxtowe]

So proud of @broxtoweindys delivering our @broxtowebc budget to cabinet tonight.
• No cuts to jobs & Services ✂️⛔️
• Building new council houses 🏘️
• Lowest rent in East Mids 💷
• ethical investments 🌳
• 100 Broxtowe events+free play days
• Sound finances for Broxtowe ✅

[Broxtowe Alliance Councillors @broxtoweindys]

Help us fight the National Party machines and let us,our residents & our communities have a voice & a seat at the political table in May.

Never before has it been so vital to break the 2 Party system and provide a strong community alternative to Reform

https://t.co/RnUujXdQUE

[Vanessa Smith @TEFLness]

https://t.co/Q0aCYUlYxb

[Vanessa Smith @TEFLness]

So many passionate, community minded people (familiar faces and new) coming together to share ideas about how we can have positive impact in Broxtowe and beyond. Feeling really grateful and inspired 😁

[Broxtowe Alliance Councillors @broxtoweindys]

Not even a month old and what a crowd for our first members meeting.

Give people hope, agency & a sense of community & they will turn up

The revolution starts in the back room of the local British Legion ✊

[Broxtowe Alliance Councillors @broxtoweindys]

She’s listened to the ‘non -dom community’ but not the WASPi women, the pensioners, the charities demanding a rethink on the 2 child benefit cap, the working class communities left behind.

It’s astounding that this is the LABOUR Party, a LABOUR government!

[Broxtowe Alliance Councillors @broxtoweindys]

Sink the Bill?

The Climate & Nature Bill?

This Bill?

🏭reduce greenhouse gases
🌎reverse damage to natural world
🙋‍♀️launch climate citizen assembly

When will backbenchers get a backbone and show some leadership & courage?

Where is the fight back? What will it take?

[Vanessa Smith @TEFLness]

Absolutely! You have to get out there, and we will be doing the same in Beeston on 11th Feb at Middle St Resource Centre 6:30pm. Come and join us.

[Broxtowe Alliance Councillors @broxtoweindys]

Nobody is ‘hard to reach’. We have to make our methods of communication reachable.

Another example of small politics 👇

Regular Community Meetings 👇

Bringing the local Cllrs, the Police and Council Officials out into the heart of the Community.

[Greg Marshall @Greg4Broxtowe]

No-one voted for this. We expected it from the Tories, but not from @UKLabour. Make no mistake, this is a choice and they’re “choosing” not to rebuild QMC until 2037 🏨💔

[Broxtowe Alliance Councillors @broxtoweindys]

Build from the grassroots up

Get back into your communities

The political systems have failed us

Rebuilding a genuine civil society means constructing & supporting organisations deeply rooted in communities & built around people

This is what our Cllrs do 👇

Our Broxtowe ��️