Tim Swift

Labour and Cooperative Councillor; Calderdale MBC. Interests in health, social care, and the future of towns. Tweeting in a personal capacity

[Tim Swift @TimSwift]

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[Tim (still totally unremarkable) @forwardnotback]

No politician, regardless of party should be subject to abuse
When people normalise that and also talk about politics being broken you know they are hypocrites and part of the problem

[Tim Swift @TimSwift]

@seanbamforth But there’s a poll I think showing half their members want Reform to win. Which perfectly captures their existential crisis.

[Jonathan Brash MP @JonathanBrash]

Real change means tackling disadvantage head on. Replacing our deeply regressive council tax system is the kind of big, bold reform that would genuinely improve lives in northern towns like Hartlepool, putting more money back into the pockets of the people who need it most.

[Jessica Elgot @jessicaelgot]

Without minimising the dire results for Labour, it’s extraordinary how chipper the Tories are.

They’ve lost 500 seats from a low watermark, lost major councils to Lib Dems and Reform, show no signs of recovery in the esp LD areas they need to win.

[Luke Tryl @LukeTryl]

Labour lost *every single seat* on Kirkless, where the party holds 4/5 MPs.
We are seeing some of the most fragmented results in councils that combine a white working class vote with a large ethnic minority population - e.g. with Mill Towns like Kirkless/Burnley.

[Tim Swift @TimSwift]

@LukeTryl @stephennaylor Looking at who has been elected, it’s hard to imagine that the new Reform group will be entirely cohesive!

[Tim Swift @TimSwift]

@LukeTryl @stephennaylor The Tory wipeout is interesting. Has perhaps been coming for a couple of years as they seemed to have lost most of their recent activists to Reform, but I expected them to cling on in a couple of wards.

[Tim Swift @TimSwift]

@jessicaelgot True. In Calderdale where I was a councillor, the conservatives were the main opposition to Labour. They now have no seats, and as far as i can see, have lost most of their activists to Reform.

[Oliver Kamm @OliverKamm]

This isn’t altogether surprising and suggests Matt Goodwin was talking off the top of his head. The only election-loser I can recall who displays comparable gracelessness is George Galloway.

[Tim Swift @TimSwift]

@Helen_Barnard I thought it was just happening to me.

[Tim Swift @TimSwift]

@NJ_Timothy So let me understand. The conservatives would ban Muslims from performing any act of worship in a public place. Would this also apply to Hindus? Jews?

[Tim Swift @TimSwift]

@SamanthaTaghoy What a sad, narrow minded post.

[Nick Cohen @NickCohen4]

On the contrary, this war underlines the stupidity and irresponsibility of the Tory party and Farage's policy of putting Trump's interests before the interests of this country

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[Nicholas Boys Smith @boys_nicholas]

Every single time. Car domination makes city centres poorer not more prosperous. The data is very consistent. You don’t necessarily need to or should ban them, but you do need to put people first in all or nearly all streets.

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[Oliver Kamm @OliverKamm]

Ms Truss sadly blocked me when I expressed scepticism about her economic record but I think it reasonable to call her a deluded conspiracy theorist who is essentially anti-British.

[Tim Loughton @timloughton]

Didn't need to be in Cabinet to know how out of her depth Braverman was as Home Sec. As Dep Chairman of Home Affairs Select Comm I saw how dysfunctional she let the Home Office become week in week out. The graceless way she now blames colleagues who covered for her is shameful

[Halifax Courier @HXCourier]

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