⚡️ 150 new Electric Vehicle chargers are being rolled out across Bristol
🙌🏻 These new chargers are funded by Helen Godwin, Labour Mayor of the West of England, and City Leap - the landmark decarbonisation project agreed by the former Labour administration
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Great to speak to @bristol247.bsky.social about women’s safety in parks and green spaces for this article. www.bristol247.com/news-and-fea...
Happy International Women’s Day to all women in Bristol and beyond.
Purple graphic which reads "New £9 million investment to strengthen support for women and girls affected by domestic abuse and sexual violence"
More support for survivors.
Too often, victims and survivors are trapped in abusive situations because of debt and financial dependence.
Today I’m committing an additional £9m to help survivors across London access vital services, build skills and get the jobs they need to secure their futures.
What other product would a company get away with saying this about? If a business admitted that children would inevitably be harmed by its product but said ‘that’s just the way it is, we’ll do what we can’, it would never be allowed on the market.
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‘Up to £117 off your annual energy bill thanks to Labour’
🌹 Labour is helping Bristol families with the cost of living.
💷 This April bills are coming down, the minimum wage is going up and train fares and prescriptions are frozen. More money in your pocket.
Some really welcome news from the Government today!
✅ Powers to speed up implementation of children’s wellbeing consultation outcome
✅ Preserving online data in tragic events of children’s deaths
✅ Powers to close loopholes to keep AI chatbots safe from illegal content
“We were crushed by the horror” but “I’m a survivor”
Gisèle Pelicot speaks to #Newsnight
Lucy with Andy Burnham, Angeliki and Ed Miliband
Huge numbers of Labour activists out today in Denton, Burnage and, with me in Levenshulme, @edmilibandmp.bsky.social @andyburnham.bsky.social, Angeliki Stogia, speaking to progressive voters who recognise that only we can stop Reform across the whole constituency.
"Epstein victims and Al-Fayed victims are watching what we do - they're not listening to what we say."
MP Natalie Fleet says it’s time to talk about the victims of sexual abuse with the same passion we’re talking about how bad the government is.
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The media coverage is unrelenting and, at the centre of it all, are the lives of the girls that were devastated by abuse. Imagine if we just believed women and girls the first time round. Solidarity with survivors everywhere.
We're working with Bristol Charities to launch a first-of-its-kind food and essentials distribution hub.
Bringing together charities from across the West would help reach more people in crisis, with FareShare South West able to deliver an extra 3 million meals by 2030.
Amidst the noise, we must never forget the voices of the women and children who were trafficked and assaulted for years by Jeffrey Epstein and his powerful accomplices.
Mandelson should never have been pushed for the role of US ambassador, he and other hugely powerful men must be held to account.
Tonight, Labour MPs voted to scrap the two child limit – a move that puts us on course to drive the biggest reduction of child poverty in a single Parliament.
The Tories and Reform UK voted against it.
Don’t let anyone tell you voting Labour doesn’t make a difference 🌹
Bristol Labour’s position on the Park Street proposals This Thursday, the Transport and Connectivity Committee will vote on plans to install a bus gate on Park Street, closing it to through traffic. This follows a period of negotiation between the West of England Combined Authority (WECA) and Bristol City Council over the funding arrangements. Despite offers of a compromise from WECA over a trial period for a bus gate only at peak times, the Green-led council has rejected this, seeking to take forward their original proposal and fund the majority of it through Clean Air Zone charges. We remain concerned about these plans. Modelling commissioned by the council shows that closing Park Street will worsen air pollution outside of the BRI and the Children’s Hospital. We consider it unconscionable that this council would take steps to make air quality worse where some of our most vulnerable children and adults access specialist healthcare in this city. We want cleaner air across Bristol, especially near our hospitals. Putting the brakes on the Park Street scheme frees up £5.3m of funding from the Joint Air Quality Unit for different measures to improve air quality. The council has a shortlist of other options on the table, including improving financial assistance to get more polluting vehicles off our roads and replaced with cleaner alternatives.
Not proceeding with the Park Street plans would free up a further £8m of Clean Air Zone charges for investment elsewhere. We have put forward a proposal to spend it on: Commissioning new bus routes or improved frequencies of existing ones Unblocking every drain in the city, audit them and put in measures to mitigate flooding in future Tripling the road marking repainting budget Installing solar lights on dark active travel routes Replacing bus stops that have been removed Improving cycling and road safety Filling more potholes When you weigh up the benefits of our proposal against the Park Street plan, there’s a clear winner. On this basis, we will vote against the Park Street proposals. Councillor Tom Renhard Councillor Tim Rippington Councillor Kaz Self Labour Members of the Transport & Connectivity Committee
📣 Our statement on the plans for Park Street
I am extremely concerned by the proliferation of dangerous ‘rape kits’.
Victims of sexual assault and rape should get help directly from professionals: www.nhs.uk/live-well/se...
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When Maria was sexually assaulted, she used an Enough kit to take a self DNA swab. Her friend posted it and then it was lost.
My follow up to my July investigation into Enough
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We can't walk on water, but the UK can start to run on it!
Tidal power can help lead our clean energy transition.
The Severn Estuary has the second-biggest tide in the world, and we need to harness that to deliver energy that is cheap, renewable, safe, and reliable.
We’re announcing the next 500 schools to join the Best Start free breakfast club programme. Support is being targeted to the 300,000 children who need it most.
Labour is giving our children the best start in life – no matter their background or postcode.
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A screenshot of a Bristol Green Party post reading “Big thanks to Cllr Barry Parsons and all of our Green councillors for building over 280 affordable homes in just six months”
Every one of homes was under construction during the Labour administration
All Councillor Parsons has done is attend ribbon-cutting ceremonies, pat himself on the back, and cut over 2,000 homes from the council housebuilding programme…
A rainy but very positive morning in Henleaze talking to local residents about local and national issues.
This week, an X user created an AI video of me being chloroformed and prepared for rape.
Victims are told it's not real and they're getting offended for no reason.
But nudification tools are weapons of sexual assault, and the harm they cause is real 👇
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🚨 REMINDER: Only Labour will improve SEND support.
The Tories left behind a ‘lose, lose, lose’ system in their own words.
Reform UK will cut SEND support. They blame ‘naughty children’ & ‘bad parenting’.
Only Labour will build a system where every child can achieve & thrive.
It will surprise precisely *no one* that Reform-led West Northants Council is amongst the worst in the country for potholes.
Despite a record £7.3 billion being given by this Labour Govt to local authorities for roads.
Infuriating. Just sort it out!
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ICYMI – Labour are boosting animal welfare protections!
The changes proposed in the new Animal Welfare Strategy for England include:
🦊 Banning trail hunting;
🪤 ending the use of snare traps;
🐔 banning hen cages;
🐷 banning pig farrowing crates;
🐶 and ending puppy smuggling & farming.
🅿️ Bristolians have long called for action on pavement parking. Until now, councils have not had the legal powers to effectively tackle this problem - the Labour Government is changing that 👇
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X is not safe for women - this is absolutely disgusting and will push women out of public life, so much of which is now online. That's not free speech, it's harassment (note - example below is thankfully age restricted, so only the prompts are visible and not the generated images).
Great to see Enough’s harmed being called out more and more
Police warn victims are being duped into buying self-swab rape kits www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...
