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Mike Gapes ⚒🇺🇦🇬🇧
@MikeGapes
Hammer, Blues, Jazz, Bridge. Rotarian. Internationalist. Worked 15 years Labour HQ then MP Ilford South 1992-2019. I block abusive and antisemitic tweets.
Ilford, Essex, UK
Born September 4
Joined July 2008
- Sunak apparently wants to “scrap EU red tape”. There is no EU red tape here. The red tape UK now has is UK imposed, much by Johnson’s Brexit deal which Sunak supported. The best way to “cut red tape” would to reduce Brexit friction and align with EU standards and Single Market.
- My daughter Rebecca was born 28 years ago today. We all miss her so much.
- If no taxpayers money was spent they cannot be work events. That makes them illegal parties doesn’t it ?No taxpayers' money was spent on food or drink consumed at Downing Street events being probed by the Metropolitan Police as part of its "partygate" inquiry, the government has insisted trib.al/Lo6sJsp
- Great question by @angelaeagle why is Johnson holding himself to lower standards than he expected of Hancock or Stratton ?
- So. Truss plans to allow far more foreign workers into the UK to fill Labour shortages. But British workers won’t get reciprocal freedom of movement rights to live and work in other countries. That Brexit bonus is going so well..
- Can we put the clocks back to June 22 2016 please ? We would be a much wealthier and happier country.
- When I joined the Labour Party in 1968. I joined a political party not a Stalinist leadership cult.
- The tone of Priti Patel is all wrong. No humility. No sensitivity. They would have been better to have kept her locked in the cupboard.
- Clarke -Smith Tory MP on BBC Radio 4 World at One confirming that Johnson attacked Archbishop of Canterbury in meeting with Tory MPs last night.
- This morning I have resigned from the Labour Party after fifty years. It has been a great privilege and honour to serve my constituents for 27 years, I intend to continue to represent them as a member of the new Independent Group of Members of Parliament #ChangePolitics
- Very good #PMQs by @Keir_Starmer attacking Johnson record on Fraud, Covid loans, and side swipes at Parties and then focusing on tax rises and rising fuel prices, attacking “loan shark Chancellor”. Blustering Johnson defending the energy companies. 6-0 to Starmer.
- Thanks to the many hundreds who have emailed or tweeted support this week. And also to those few individuals prepared to challenge and engage without anonymity and without abuse.
- Why should UK citizens living in Northern Ireland have the benefit of remaining in the EU Customs Union and Single Market indefinitely, but my constituents and other UK citizens living in London, not be able to have those same benefits ?
