Epping, Essex 🌳 Conservative Councillor šŸ’™ Views my own!

Epping, Essex
Joined July 2009
Thank you, Epping West & Rural! I’m absolutely delighted to have been re-elected to @eppingforestdc. It was especially meaningful that the count took place at the new Leisure Centre which I was proud to help deliver. Epping is my home & I will always fight for our community…
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Holly Whitbread retweeted
This ITV documentary exposing Reform UK activists and councillors is utterly disgusting. The behaviour and attitudes shown are completely unacceptable. These people are unfit to serve as councillors and should be nowhere near public office.
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Holly Whitbread retweeted
Wow. I didn’t think Laila could sink any lower but she has. Reform London now playing the race card. Shameful and divisive politics and glad to see people calling it out for what it is. Dark and desperate stuff and that’s why they will lose.
This says it all. Kemi Badenoch says she got into politics because she was angry about Africa. How Africa was portrayed. How international development worked. How Africans weren’t being heard. My heritage is African too. But I sure as hell didn’t enter politics to ask what Britain could do for Africa. I entered British politics for one reason: to fight for Britain and the British people. The country that welcomed my parents. The country that gave me opportunities beyond anything they could have imagined. The country I am proud to call home. You shouldn’t be a politician to use Britain as an instrument for your ancestral homeland. Britain must be the reason you’re there. Britain. Every single time
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Proud to be a Conservative.
🚨 WATCH: Kemi Badenoch accuses Reform UK of debating "whether my mixed race children are English" "I don't want to explain to my son when we're watching our brilliant English team play football that some people don't think that black players are English"
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Holly Whitbread retweeted
Money cannot buy character, standards or competence. Problem after problem after problem. This is what Reform is. Earlier this year I said Nigel Farage was doing my spring cleaning. He took a large number of very problematic people from the Conservatives. Reform is where they belong. People are innocent until proven guilty. But just look at the pattern. Reform’s former Welsh leader is in prison for taking Russian bribes. His successor has now resigned after being arrested. Robert Jenrick is under investigation over allegedly impermissible donations. Richard Tice’s company is linked to donations being investigated by police. Reform itself faces a criminal investigation after the Channel 4 expose where we watched them openly brag about dodging the rules. It goes on and on and it will never stop. The difference between Conservatives and Reform is not just policy. It is character, conduct and standards. We care about these things and they don’t.
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Holly Whitbread retweeted
'You should aspire to live wherever you want to live, but you shouldn't aspire for the government, i.e. other taxpayers, to pay for you to live wherever you want to' Conservative party leader Kemi Badenoch told #BBCBreakfast she would target housing allowance as one of the measures to reduce spending on welfare bbc.co.uk/news/topics/c2jq3d…
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Same old Labour.
🚨 BREAKING: Andy Burnham suggests he won't cut benefits to pay for defence spending "National security cannot come at the expense of social security" #PMQs
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Holly Whitbread retweeted
Yusuf's performative outrage is fooling no one. Nigel Farage himself called these protesters ā€˜disgusting’. The truth is he’s arguing with his own leader, using me as cover as he tries to outflank Farage. This is a Reform power struggle, not a serious argument about Britain’s borders. While Reform are mired in scandal and turning on each other, the Conservatives are putting Andy Burnham under pressure over what he's doing on the economy, the cost of living, welfare and national security. We’re also setting out how we will fund defence properly, cut taxes, take back our streets, stop the boats and restore control. Reform can spend its time fighting over who gets to lead Reform. I’m only interested in Getting Britain Working again.
How dare you call them ā€œthugsā€Ā @KemiBadenoch? Badenoch and the Tory party threw open our borders and let in 130,000 invaders by boat. She and her party forced these men onto working class communities. British working class women and girls were raped and murdered. Now she calls the people whose lives are being turned upside down ā€œthugsā€? The Tories sneer at voters from their ivory tower. This is why the Tory Party must be destroyed.
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Richard Tice from Reform called them thugs: x.com/TiceRichard/st…
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Holly Whitbread retweeted
If I were a Reform member, I’d be mortified and embarrassed at that shower of a conference. Dodgy donations & lies is one thing. Assault on women? Vile. From the Party who bang on about ā€˜protecting our women’ - not a word.
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šŸŽ‰ What a brilliant first ever Epping Town Festival yesterday! Fantastic turnout, bringing people into the town, supporting our high street and, most importantly, bringing our community in Epping together. ā¤ļø
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A huge thank you to the Epping Town Centre Partnership, Epping Forest District Council, Epping Town Council, Epping Rotary and all the brilliant local organisations involved. Looking forward to Day Two today with Proms on the Green! šŸŽ¶šŸŽŗšŸŒ³
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Holly Whitbread retweeted
Presumably they use the same people who vet their candidates to vet their donors too…
ā€œI haven’t had time to watch the whole documentaryā€ ā€œWhat?ā€ Matt Chorley quizzes Reform UK’s Laila Cunningham on what the party’s official response is to allegations broadcast by Channel 4 News that the party plotted to break electoral law #Newsnight
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Oh @McivorJaymey, this is marvellous. A simple ā€˜no’ would have nipped it in the bud. But you couldn’t say it… and we all know why.
A fantastic segment of radio where a Reform councillor is accused of something unsavoury and spends a full minute trying and failing to wriggle out of it
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It was to welcome my friend & former colleague, @gaganmohindra to Epping yesterday for afternoon tea with @EFConservatives. As a former local councillor and EFCA Chairman, he’s a familiar face locally, & it was wonderful to hear about all the brilliant work he is doing as an MP.
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Holly Whitbread retweeted
Anyone needing this leaflet does not belong in Britain. I’ve been warning for a long time that not all cultures are equal. Britain can be proudly multi-ethnic, but we should not be multi-cultural.
Exclusive: Asylum seekers are being told ā€œmen and women are equalā€ in the UK amid mounting fears over integration and cultural values. The Home Office has issued new guidance to arrivals telling them ā€œthis means women can work, study, travel and make their own choicesā€. They also detail what rape is under UK law in a new booklet: "Consent is needed in every situation. This means even if you are married or in a relationship with someone, they must consent to sex every time. "If you have sex with someone without their consent, this is called rape. Rape is a serious crime in the UK. You could go to prison, lose your support and accommodation, and it will affect your asylum claim."
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Holly Whitbread retweeted
Apropos of nothing. Who contacted me to criticise Zia Yusuf? People in Reform. Who told me he was toxic to women? People who have seen Reform’s internal polling. Who was not told what to write by any billionaire/editorial line/editor? Me Who wrote a piece which spent much of its time explaining why Reform are back on the front foot if only they can get beyond the infighting? Me again. Who thinks any criticism is a ā€œhit jobā€? The bloke who’s been in politics for two years
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Holly Whitbread retweeted
ā€˜From a party whose former Welsh leader is currently languishing in jail for taking money from the Russians…’ Tory Sir Ben Wallace reacts to being called a ā€˜traitor’ by Zia Yusuf after criticising Reform’s prison plans.
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Well done to Cllr Will Church on a fantastic victory last night šŸ‘ He will be a first class local Conservative councillor.
It was great to be out supporting @SWTories in Great Dunmow last night with Dad. The by-election for Uttlesford District Council is next Thursday. Will Church is a great candidate fighting a strong campaign on local issues.
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