Camden Labour Councillor in Kentish Town. Husband, father, grandfather, walking, nature, the present. Kentish Town has been my home - 45 years and counting.

London NW5 - UK
Joined August 2011
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Enjoying the sunshine today in Kentish Town with my Labour friends. Remember to vote for Meric, Annabelle and Joseph on 7 May! 🌹
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Reaction to Government announcement on housing in London: 🏘️Camden remains committed to building new council & affordable housing through our Community Investment Programme 👉We will be holding private sector developers to account on new criteria 📣 news.camden.gov.uk/leader-st…
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Great on the #LabourDoorstep today in West Hampstead w/ this fab team of @CamdenLabour councillors and @labour_branchWH members. Huge recognition for the local LABOUR councillors, Sharon Hardwick and Nazma Rahman, supporting residents. Not a single mention of Tory councillors.
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Last night, Council Leader @Olszewski_RJO spoke about plans for a major investment for 3,000 Council homes, to make them more energy efficient and save residents money. 1/3
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Delighted to welcome three fabulous new @CamdenLabour councillors, following their by-election victories today: 🌟Tricia Leman (Camden Square) 🌟Joseph Ball (Kentish Town Sth) 🌟Robert Thompson (Kilburn) Big thank you to voters in these wards for your support.
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🚨🚨 Today is polling day in Camden’s three council by-elections Good luck to @CamdenLabour’s fabulous candidates: ✅Camden Square: Tricia Leman ✅Kentish Town South: @JosephBallKTS ✅Kilburn: @Rgt71Robert. #VoteLabour➡️#MakeADifference Remember to take photo 🆔🪪 to vote.
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VOTE LABOUR in Kentish Town South today! 🌹 🗳️
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It’s polling day in Camden Square, Kentish Town South & Kilburn! 🌹 An honour to be the agent for these three fantastic candidates: 🗳️ Tricia Leman - Camden Sq 🗳️ Joseph Ball - KT South 🗳️ Robert Thompson - Kilburn Polls open until 10pm so make sure to cast your votes today!
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Team Labour out this morning in Kentish Town South. Remember to vote for @JosephBallKTS before 10pm today! 🌹🗳️
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Umbrellas at the ready this morning for @CamdenLabour top team campaigning for @Rgt71Robert Thompson, for the #Kilburn by-election on 5 Sept. @1Meric. A great canvas with Robert and @EddieHanson on the Mortimer estate, with hugely positive response for #Labour.
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It was great to talk to residents last night in Kentish Town South in support of @JWB1889. A really positive response on the doorstep ahead of the by-election on September 5th! 🌹🗳️
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Council leader Cllr Richard Olszewski: "Roger was truly a Camden institution. He was there at the very first meeting of Camden Council and is built into the foundations. A staunch fighter against fascism and racism, and a determined campaigner for disability rights."
Tributes are being paid to Camden’s former mayor Alderman Roger Robinson - after the council was informed of his passing. He started the campaign for the Prisoner of War memorial you can see near Mornington Crescent.
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My statement on behalf of Camden, offering our thoughts and condolences to the families and friends of the bereaved, and injured in the terrible incident in Southport. We condemn the violence and intimidation that followed, in Southport and elsewhere. news.camden.gov.uk/council-l…
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Delighted to have added the first reference to the new Labour govt to the financial report I am taking to Camden's cabinet next week. Even w/out extra £s, giving councils multi-year funding settlements & ending wasteful competitive bidding will enable us to plan services better.
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Tory line to take in the right wing rags today is that Labour VAT on school fees will see 40,000 leave the private sector. The same Tories and the same rags said in 1997 that the minimum wage would cost a million jobs. Lying about Labour is in their DNA. And why are the Beeb swallowing the Farage BS line about the establishment plot rather than covering the reality of the situation - the racists and extremists who are on the ballot for the party he owns
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Keir Starmer, "I was worried at the time at the way in which the debate was being conducted. It got very toxic, very divided, very hardlined, and we lost sight of people in that" "That dragged us to a place where the Prime MInister of the UK, Rishi Sunak, made a trans joke in parliament, when the mother of the murdered trans teenager was watching on. That was a shocking place to get to" Lady in pink, "How will you reduce the effect of a poliralised politics?" Keir Starmer, "I want to return politics to service.. I want to take the opportunity to bring the country together.. Over the past 10-15 years politics has become divided and toxic.. People are trying to find the differences between us rather than the points of connection" "Jo Cox who was tragically murdered, was a good friend of mine, we came into parliament at the same time.. What she said in her maiden speech: that we have far more in common than what divides us" "During the pandemic people were looking out for each other.. We are a good country, reasonable and tolerant.. Live and let live if we don't go down the politics of division" 👏
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Really pleased to see @Georgia_Gould receive an OBE. Well deserved. Georgia has been a fantastic leader of @CamdenCouncil and done so much not just to protect public services in the face of austerity, but to drive their reform and innovation to make them better.
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#LabourManifesto I’ve seen & talked to @RachelReevesMP on YOUR behalf. She’s listened, this one is for all of us ❤️ COVID CORRUPTION COMMISSIONER is in, and “We will end the link between access to ministers and an inside track for public contracts.” Thank you Rachel 🤍
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For when you meet someone who thinks it doesn’t matter who wins the election. #VoteLabour #MakeADifference
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