Former Cllr, FBU Region 11 Chair, Kent Brigade Chair, ⚒️, ⚓️Veteran, Bi polar, 🇪🇺, My own views not my employer,💚party member, 🏳️🌈 advocate, 🇵🇸, CND.
Westgate, England
Joined February 2020
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Nothing depicts the horror and destruction of war than this painting from WW1 artist Paul Nash. I based my art exams around him.
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Last night was London's busiest bonfire night since 2016, with firefighters control receiving 832 emergency calls.
In Scotland, firefighters control received over 1000 emergency calls, while crews on the incident ground were attacked with fireworks, rocks and glass bottles.
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Here’s the @bbcquestiontime clip that triggered the @reformparty_uk “let’s talk about anything but Brexit can we?” approach to debate … even its architects know it has screwed our economy
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Wildfires were placed on the National Risk Register in 2013. In 2022, we saw a whole street in Wennington burn to the ground. This year, we saw 19 homes destroyed in Stourbridge.
And yet, we're still here, making the case for more firefighters on the frontline.
FBU general secretary Steve Wright addressing the MHCLG committee on the state of the Fire and Rescue Service.
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PMQs is on fire today
Yes @KemiBadenoch we DO want to reopen the conversation of rejoining Europe
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Fantastic to see this news
For clarity the unusual wording for Kent & Medway today is because the Local Government Reorganisation quasi judicial decision hasn’t yet been made and there is one option for a single unitary which would mean just a foundation not mayoral authority.
Devolution is growing out!
The government is now in the final stages of agreeing 10 new devolution agreements:
Mayoral Strategic Authorities for Devon, Plymouth and Torbay; Hertfordshire; Lancashire; Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland; Stoke and Staffordshire; Surrey; Thames Valley (Oxfordshire, Berkshire and Swindon); and Wessex.
A Strategic Authority for Kent and Medway which will be Mayoral if the area’s Local Government Reorganisation outcome is compatible with this and Foundation if not.
This adds to Cheshire and Warrington; Cumbria; Sussex and Brighton; Hampshire and Solent; Essex and Norfolk and Suffolk.
And a single Foundation Strategic Authority for Cornwall.
Well done to all the local leaders and MPs, businesses and partners who have made the case and done the hard work on the ground!
#budget26 @mhclg
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Between now and the Spending Review, the FBU will call for increased and sustained investment in the fire service.
Firefighters must have the funding and resources needed to respond to the full range of incidents they attend, from RTCs and house fires to flooding and wildfires.
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Congratulations to Carole Cadwalladr, @carolecadwalla, who together with colleagues first revealed this story.
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The Tories are pledging 50,000 new prison spaces if they win the next election, have they forgotten that they were in power for 14 years and built next to fuck all extra capacity in that time? No hang on, they remember perfectly well, they are just hoping we don't.
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Today is the 90th anniversary of The Battle of Cable Street where local Jewish groups, communists, socialists and Irish dockers among others prevented Oswald Mosley’s British Union of Fascists marching through the London East End in 1936.
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#OnThisDay 1984. Arthur Scargill addresses the Labour Party conference in Blackpool.
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Andrew Fox-Hewitt has been elected as the new FBU national president.
He will take up office on January 1 2027.
Congratulations Andrew. 🎉🚒
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For those who keep shouting “STOP THE BOATS”, I’d genuinely love to hear your solution.
Successive governments have tried and failed to stop the crossings.
And wasn’t Brexit supposed to mean we’d “take back control” of our borders?
So, what’s the actual plan?
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A very moving Red Plaque ceremony at Ramsbottom Fire Station today for Paul Metcalf who lost his life on September 5th 1999 while attempting to rescue a teenager from a lake.
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You could donate to Danny Tommo, to get his boat seaworthy again, or you could donate to the RNLI, in case it sinks again rnli.org/support-us/give-mon…
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Ah Sir Jim Ratcliffe. Don't you just love him.
He reminds me of Sir James Dyson that other tit who voted for Brexit saying "Brexit was worth it, even if it made people poor"
The front of these two whining is quite extraordinary. They give w*nkers a bad name.
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