Left leaning, Marlesford living, West Ham season-ticket holder, mother, grandmother and master composter.
Marlesford
Joined March 2011
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Lesley Bensley retweeted
Labour GAIN Suffolk Coastal from the Conservatives 🌹
ALT A graphic with text reading: Labour Gain Suffolk Coastal, congratulations Jenny Riddell-Carpenter MP
Lesley Bensley retweeted
Number of 18 yr olds in the uk ~750k
Number of people in Uk army ~75k
Not quite sure how the army will cope with annually taking on board 10 times there size in recruits, giving them uniforms, equipment, training staff.
Oh and how does it work in Northern Ireland?
Bonkers
Lesley Bensley retweeted
You don’t have to play a fictional billionaire to care about the corrosive effects of extreme wealth. But you can, if you like!
Brian Cox joined 260 other millionaires to tell Davos: we would be #proudtopaymore in tax to help fix our broken economies.
proudtopaymore.org/
Lesley Bensley retweeted
The highlight of a positive night for @IpswichLabour - a @shoploveone gain in Holywells.
12/16 wards elected Labour councillors, and there was a County Council by-election win too.
Thank you to all the residents who put their trust in us.
I'm so proud to be part of this team.
Holywells (Ipswich) council election result:
LAB: 46.4% (+10.5)
CON: 40.6% (-4.3)
GRN: 7.6% (-5.7)
LDEM: 5.4% (-0.5)
Labour GAIN from Conservative.
Turnout: 39.0% (+4.6)
sotn.newstatesman.com/2023/0…
Lesley Bensley retweeted
How did the Foreign Office manage to spend £4,333.30 on two trips to the hairdresser?
Why has their spending via government procurement cards shot up 45% since last September?
And why won’t they answer these and dozens more related questions?
Read all about it in my letter:
Lesley Bensley retweeted
Sajid Javid regularly attacked me and Labour for opposing the increase in National Insurance.
Now he’s on TV telling us that he opposes the rise in National Insurance, too.
The Conservatives are showing that they are unfit to govern.
It’s time for a fresh start with Labour.
Lesley Bensley retweeted
NEWS: Rare baby white rhino born at Suffolk zoo hailed "little miracle"
planetradio.co.uk/greatest-h…
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Congratulations to all 6 phenomenal socialist feminists,
the groups and activists,
for getting a new @UKLabour National Women’s Committee we can be proud of 💪
Not only for grassroots working class women, but for ALL women.
Exciting times! ☺️✊
#LabourWomen21
#SocialistSunday
It is with GREAT pleasure we’d like to announce...
The SIX Grassroots Labour Women have won...
All SIX places on the new National Women’s Committee!! 😄🎉
Thank you all SO much for your support! ☺️
Now the hard work begins! ✊
Well done to everyone involved!
#LabourWomen21
Lesley Bensley retweeted
The Conservatives at Suffolk County Council voted against paying key workers a Real Living Wage of £9.50 per hour.
Meanwhile their Party leader, Boris Johnson, complains that he can't make ends meet on £161,401 a year, plus perks.
Out of touch.
#BelieveInSuffolk #VoteLabour
Johnson has told friends that he needs to earn about £300,000 a year — twice his salary — to keep his head above water, while a former No 10 insider said it was “received wisdom” that he is permanently broke. thetimes.co.uk/article/can-b…
Lesley Bensley retweeted
Why do Conservative cuts keep falling on families?
Labour will invest in Suffolk's future by:
- Reopening children’s centres
- Re-employing health visitors
- Fixing school transport chaos
- Making SEND a priority
- Lifting families out of poverty
#BelieveInSuffolk #VoteLabour
Lesley Bensley retweeted
A RECORD OF INCOMPETENCE: The Conservatives at Suffolk County Council wasted £8 million of taxpayers money on their Upper Orwell Crossing vanity project.
Imagine what that money could have been spent on instead.
#BelieveInSuffolk #VoteLabour bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-su…
Lesley Bensley retweeted
🗑️ A RECORD OF INCOMPETENCE: The Conservative's used taxpayers money to fund a £66,000 vanity report which ran to just 14 pages - that's a cost of more than £4,700 per page.
🌹 @suffolklabour will put an end to years of Conservative wastage.
#BelieveInSuffolk #VoteLabour
Lesley Bensley retweeted
Boris Johnson has spent £2 million on a TV studio in Downing Street.
But he's offering nurses a £3.50 a week pay rise.
It's clear where his priorities lie.
mirror.co.uk/news/politics/k…
Lesley Bensley retweeted
"They’ll tell you you’re too loud -
that you need to wait your turn;
and ask the right people for permission. Do it anyway." AOC
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The Tories have exempted shooting and hunting from the Rule of Six. Once again, it's one rule for the cabinet and their mates, and another for the rest of us.
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Question: who will benefit from a no deal, the nation or just a handful of billionaires? Just follow the money. theguardian.com/politics/202…