Lifelong (now remote) fan of Crystal Palace FC. Love The Who & Southside Johnny. Hate animal cruelty. Labour Party & Co-op Party member. Retired nurse

Kent
Joined June 2011
maureen griffin retweeted
When I met Angela Rayner to campaign for change to overly aggressive council tax debt collection, with its unprecedented rapid escalation to balliffs, she nodded like most politicians do. I explained it was destructive for individuals, councils and the economy. She listened more then said she'd change it. I was sceptical. Yet a consultation was launched within weeks and delightfully the change announced within 18mths (its in place from next April) - bullet train pace for politics. I've a rule that if I campaign for a politician (of any party) to do something, and they do it, I say thank you. Its important to recognise it. So thank you so much Angela Rayner for listening and more importantly acting. The changes coming are a great start.
I promised we'd make council tax fairer, and I’m getting on with the job. Too many working people have seen council tax debt spiral before they had the chance to get help. That's why we're introducing more time to pay, clearer warnings if you miss a payment and more support from councils. Thanks to @MartinSLewis and @mmhpi for their tireless campaigning to make this change happen. Here's everything you need to know ⬇️
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maureen griffin retweeted
In case you had any doubt about who encouraged the bigots and racists to pile on to the RNLI. His usual approach. Light the touch paper, retreat to a safe distance and wait for the gullible to do your bidding. Meanwhile, you delete the post so you can say ‘not me guv.’
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Zia's little joke, presumably, because the truth is:
For too long Westminster has run on who you know and what school you went to. That's how Britain got the rotten political class it has. Reform is doing it differently. Our Accelerator Programme is for brilliant, ambitious young people who want to build our future. Come and join us! Apply: reformparty.uk/accelerator
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maureen griffin retweeted
I came first in the Clacton by-election! Of the candidates who bothered to turn up for the results. Here is my victory speech!
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maureen griffin retweeted
It’s the first time in 45 years that a winning MP didn’t bother to turn up to the count. Farage lied about a ‘credible threat’ - the police stated nobody was advised not to attend. The truth is he didn’t want to be photographed with the bin that won a third of the votes.
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maureen griffin retweeted
Good luck to @CountBinface (and @jondharvey).
Count Binface has been unmasked. Inside the bin is a man pledging to serve the people of #Clacton. Turns out he understands how Westminster works.
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Saw this brilliant post on LinkedIn and thought it was worth sharing here. 🤔
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maureen griffin retweeted
🚨 NEW: President Zelenskyy has gifted Keir Starmer the Ukrainian 'Order of Freedom' - the highest award for a foreign person - during his final visit as PM Starmer says he will "treasure it forever"
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I was with him yesterday amongst so many who he has supported by challenging the system and introducing laws to prevent and protect…I observed total respect and a sense of loss and I observed his humanity, dedication, and grace in Departure. I believe my eyes, ears and those who actually know above the Tittle Tattle and name calling of foreign influence and those who simply serve to bring down. We have lost a good man with good intent, We will know that too soon,
It’s clear watching Starmer’s final PMQs that the Labour Party has just made an absolutely catastrophic error, blinded by panic, afflicted by petty opportunist factionalism, and entirely disengaged from the national interest in a dangerous world. What a huge, huge blunder. 🤦🏻‍♂️
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maureen griffin retweeted
Melanie, your right to nominate Andy Burnham is beyond dispute. What is very much in dispute is your assertion that the Labour Party has somehow united behind him. That is not a statement of fact. It is a political opinion, and one that a vast number of Labour members simply do not recognise. Louise Haigh has now publicly confirmed that planning for Andy Burnham's return began just over a year after Labour entered government and continued over the following year. That is an extraordinary revelation. It makes clear that this was not a sudden response to recent events, but a carefully developed process that unfolded over many months. Yet throughout that entire period the membership, the very people who give the Labour Party its strength, were never consulted and were never afforded any meaningful voice in determining the future leadership of their own party. Thousands of members have already resigned. Many thousands more remain because they still believe the Labour Party is worth fighting for, but they do not recognise the picture you seek to paint. There is no great unity. There is a widening gulf between the Parliamentary Labour Party and a substantial section of its membership, and no amount of carefully chosen language can disguise that reality. You entered Parliament only in 2024. With respect, that affords little authority to lecture the wider Labour movement about unity, democracy or the settled will of the membership. Many of those whose concerns you dismiss have devoted decades of their lives to the Labour Party, campaigning in difficult times, delivering elections, raising funds and sustaining the movement long before you took your seat at Westminster. They have earned the right to be heard, not ignored. The Parliamentary Labour Party is not the Labour Party. It is one part of it. The membership are not an inconvenience to be managed, nor a backdrop to be acknowledged only at election time. They are the foundation upon which the party has always stood. To claim that the party has united, while so many members feel excluded from the very process that determined its future, is not merely premature. It is a profound misunderstanding of the movement you now claim to represent. History has shown that political parties which lose the confidence of their members rarely recover it by pretending the division does not exist.
Yesterday I nominated @andyburnham to be Leader of the Labour Party and our next Prime Minister. This morning I told @SkyNews why I was proud to do so 👇
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maureen griffin retweeted
Can one single Reform voter please answer this question for me?? thanks
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maureen griffin retweeted
Clacton now has no MP representing it, which is exactly the same as it’s been for the last two years.
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In case we have forgotten who is PM and what he is doing..
Resident doctors have just agreed a deal with us to stop the strikes. This deal will see better pay progression, better career opportunities, and better working conditions for resident doctors. Together, we can get on with delivering for patients and cutting waiting lists.
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Only in Britain can you have someone speaking with the accent of Joanna Lumley, behaving like Vicky Pollard, while using the vocabulary of a back street yob. #KemiBadenoch
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maureen griffin retweeted
A Statement from Hold the Line
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maureen griffin retweeted
Our Founder, Jack Dart, speaks to Times Radio to say: Detonating this government and installing the seventh prime minister in ten years is exactly what Reform wants, what the media wants and what the country cannot afford.
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maureen griffin retweeted
Oddly important for MAGA to talk about a UK with “unfettered immigration” and “through the roof” crime - when trends clearly in opposite direction….
🗞️UPDATE: UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer set to resign on Monday, with one of the main reasons of allowing unfettered immigration in the UK, as crime has gone through the roof
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1\ @BBCPolitics @SkyNewsPolitics @itvnews @Channel4News @LBC @TimesRadio @politicshome Open statement to UK broadcasters and the press. As a Labour member, I am deeply alarmed by the one-sided media coverage around our democratically elected Prime Minister , Keir Starmer. You are becoming a democracy blocker by giving oxygen to anonymous briefings, factional pressure and anti-Starmer narratives while failing to fairly represent Labour members and MPs who support our Prime Minister.
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