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Jamie Driscoll

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8 months

I can’t express how angry I am at the vandalism of the tree at #SycamoreGap . People have had their ashes scattered there. People have proposed there. I’ve picnicked there with my wife and kids. It’s part of our collective soul. We must bring whoever did this to justice.

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Jamie Driscoll

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10 months

I’ve decided to resign from @UKLabour and serve as an Independent Mayor. People are tired of being controlled by Westminster and Party HQs. They want someone to stand up for them. Let the people decide. £25k by end of Aug & I’ll stand as North East Mayor👉

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1 year

I’ve been barred from standing as North East Mayor by @UKLabour . No explanation has been given. I’m proud to have created thousands of jobs, fought child poverty, built affordable homes and delivered our Green New Deal. I believe in democracy. Share if you do too. More to follow.

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9 months

I’ve been offered tickets for the executive boxes at St James Park, expensive dinners by lobbyists, hospitality for sporting events – and I turn them all down. I’ve claimed £0 in expenses since I was elected. I just think it’s wrong to take perks when you’re elected to do a

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20 days

What an astonishing campaign. I’m in awe of everyone who gave their time, energy, resources and votes. When recent GE polling in the North East shows Labour with 60+% of the vote, most commentators thought Labour would walk this. The fact that we got 126,652 votes here, nearly

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7 months

Suspending a great local MP like @AndyMcDonaldMP for calling for Israelis and Palestinians to live together in peace and liberty is shameful. Sir @Keir_Starmer needs to reverse this decision. Everyone should be calling for peace. #AndyMcDonald

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9 months

Hospitality while doing your job is fine. But why did Sir Keir Starmer need £698 tickets to Coldplay. Or Jeremy Hunt £600 tickets to Chelsea Flower Show. Or Jonathan Reynolds £3k tickets to Glastonbury....from Google. Why is this considered ok? Read my column

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1 year

My first duty is to the people who elected me as their mayor. The Labour Party members here, in our region, chose me to represent them last time. They should have that choice again. It’s called #democracy . Read my article 👉

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6 months

. @Keir_Starmer has abandoned his 10 pledges. He’s even deleted them from his own website. Now he’s abandoning the Red Wall. The North East lost 100,000 manufacturing jobs under Margaret Thatcher, my Dad’s job at ICI included. This is adding insult to injury. No wonder @UKLabour

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Jamie Driscoll

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1 year

Thank you to everybody for all the thousands of messages of love and support. I’ve been blown away. There were just too many to reply individually, but I’ve read them all and I really appreciate each one. Solidarity. Sign up to my newsletter at

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@JamieDriscollNE

1 year

I’ve been barred from standing as North East Mayor by @UKLabour . No explanation has been given. I’m proud to have created thousands of jobs, fought child poverty, built affordable homes and delivered our Green New Deal. I believe in democracy. Share if you do too. More to follow.

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2 years

First time in London this year and guess who I bump into on the Tube. @jeremycorbyn #JeremyCorbyn

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4 months

They’ve totally lost it. Going full Gordon Gecko now. Keeping the 2 child benefit cap, now adopting the Truss policy lifting bankers’ bonuses. We need investment in the real economy, like the thousands of permanent jobs my team and I have created in the North East.

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25 days

The North East Mayoral election is neck and neck. It’s a two-horse race. No one else can win. You can't split the vote. Your vote could actually make a difference for once! Vote Jamie Driscoll – a safe pair of hands with a proven track record. Independent from Westminster

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10 months

We hit the £25k campaign target in under 2 hours. Unbelievable! Let’s see how far we can get to the £150k I’ll need to run my campaign against big party machinery. Be part of it. Donate here 👉

Jamie Driscoll for North East Mayor, organized by JD4Mayor Campaign Fundraiser

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3 months

In Rochdale, only 26.7% voted for 3 main parties. The Galloway win is a rejection of the hopelessness of Westminster politics. Yes, candidates and Gaza were a factor. But in the North East I’m winning support from all parties. People want positive policies to fix broken Britain.

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1 month

I’m not a career politician. I didn’t go into politics until I was 48. I left school at 16 to work in a plumbing warehouse. I got an engineering degree as a mature student and have run my own business. My politics are simple, I believe that Britain should be run in the

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10 months

I don’t have the big party machinery or media moguls behind me. We’re going to have to work hard to get our message out. So, we’re getting the slightly embarrassing blue tick here so we can better do that. This is not an endorsement of Elon Musk!

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10 months

The scenes in #Rhodes are terrifying. Tinder-dry conditions are helping the fires to spread rapidly. We are seeing record breaking temperatures across the world. I declared a #climateemergency on my first day as Mayor in 2019. I’ve made green policies an integral part of my

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21 days

The polling stations have closed and the voting is over. It’s been an incredible few months. Thank you to the hundreds of activists who have pounded the streets hour after hour, to deliver 400,000 leaflets. The army of online supporters who spread our digital messages across

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2 months

Rachel Reeves is claiming today in the Mais Lecture, that Margaret Thatcher "delivered a decade of national renewal". Tell that to the communities in the North East that she destroyed. If they’re proposing continuity Thatcherism then they don’t understand the needs of working

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23 days

There’s a bombshell poll showing we can win in the North East. National media is covering polling in West Mids and Tees Valley? Why aren't they talking about the North East? Perhaps it doesn’t fit their narrative of Westminster party politics. Red vs Blue. The people of the

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15 days

The people of Sunderland just voted for Labour councillors based on Graeme Miller’s record as council leader. Now @UKLabour have just barred him. The new group leaders have been appointed by unelected Labour operatives from London. This is an insult to the people of Sunderland.

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10 months

Our campaign fund just hit £100k! Nearly 4,800 of you have donated. I’ve been humbled by the messages. Pensioners giving £5 they can barely afford, but wanting to make a difference. Thank you. Every pound is appreciated. There is a movement building.

Jamie Driscoll for North East Mayor, organized by JD4Mayor Campaign Fundraiser

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10 months

I’m on the train heading to the Berwick rally. I bought my ticket at the office in #Newcastle Central Station. We need to save our #rail ticket offices. They are an essential service for so many people. #SaveTicketOffices

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9 months

Since 2010 England has lost half its bus routes. Towns and villages are cut off from public transport. The deregulated system has failed us. If I’m elected North East Mayor, I’ll build a Total Transport Network – fully integrated public transport under public control. With free

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1 year

Devolution is about making decisions here. Why are people in London @UKLabour HQ taking me out? Why don’t we let local members choose their candidate? The North East needs someone who’ll put region ahead of Party. Here’s my @BBCNEandCumbria #PoliticsNorth interview.

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10 months

As @AndyBurnhamGM says, we mayors do our job better when it’s place first, rather than party first. The world is changing, the politics of the 1990s is gone. Mayors have a direct mandate and are able to change things that can’t be done from Whitehall. Devolution will only

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14 days

On #Radio4Today @amolrajan asked @AnnelieseDodds why @UKLabour welcomes someone who venerated @BorisJohnson , but not someone who shared a stage with Ken Loach. For clarity, there was no complaint against me. No appeal process. Nothing. The Labour Party has badly lost its way.

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8 months

This is economically illiterate and borders on #climate denialism. Unless we give industry some certainty, they won’t invest in #GreenEnergy generation and clean transport. The UK will lose jobs. Mr Sunak is proposing a lose-lose. #NetZero #RishiSunak

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10 months

My campaign fund just reached an amazing £120k! Thank you so much to everyone who has donated. It’s a people built campaign with an average donation of £20. We are within touching distance of our target of £150k. Let’s keep going!!

Jamie Driscoll for North East Mayor, organized by JD4Mayor Campaign Fundraiser

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4 months

Sir Keir Starmer talking about McCarthyism is the pot calling the kettle black. He has presided over a vicious purge in @UKLabour sidelining anyone who dares to question his leadership. Sacking MPs who stand with striking workers and silencing Party members during selection

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4 months

It’s bombs killing Palestinians in Gaza, but it’s words and silence that enable it. I was at the Newcastle March for Palestine on Saturday. It was inspiring to see so many people who want to stop the suffering. We need a ceasefire now. #Gaza #Palestine #CeasefireNow

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4 years

How yesterday compares to recent elections. #LabourParty

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10 months

The last two days has been a whirlwind of social media and TV & radio interviews. I’ve been blown away by the support you’ve given me. After asking for a £25k starter to the campaign fund, it currently stands at nearly £95k with 4,600 people donating 👉

Jamie Driscoll for North East Mayor, organized by JD4Mayor Campaign Fundraiser

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10 months

The only ‘whip' should be the people. The North East needs an experienced, independent voice. Even if you don’t live here, this affects you. Our politics is a mess. Millions feel no one speaks for them. Politicians should answer to you, not to party bosses in London HQs.

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1 year

Are all the politicians the same? Do the people in the Westminster bubble think they know what’s better for the North East than you do? Is that why @UKLabour didn’t trust members with a free choice of North East mayoral candidate? Read my article 👉

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8 months

The NHS is on its knees. There’s already a shortage of doctors. It costs us £160k+ to train a doctor. We can’t afford to lose a single one. One doctor described working in the #NHS as feeling like you’re going down with the Titanic. Let’s not just watch them sink. Tax the rich.

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22 days

I’m disappointed that Labour and @KiMcGuinness are stooping to lies, using data from the 2019 General Election. The latest polls say it is a “dead heat” between me and the official Labour candidate. The Tories are toast – polling just 11%. If @UKLabour are having to use

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11 months

“We are astonished and dismayed that Jamie Driscoll is being prevented from being considered as Labour’s candidate for the North East Mayorality. To exclude a politician of Jamie’s calibre and commitment represents a monumental own goal....1/

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1 year

This week CLPs, Unions and other affiliates are nominating their preferred Labour candidate for North East Mayor. This is the statement I submitted before @UKLabour HQ barred me.

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1 year

Don’t tell me there’s no money to properly pay nurses, paramedics, posties, rail staff and other key workers. They kept us safe during the pandemic, while the billionaires pocketed obscene profits. It’s not complicated. #EnoughlsEnough

Call for new taxes on super-rich after 1% pocket two-thirds of all new wealth

$26tn of new wealth created since start of pandemic went to richest, Oxfam report reveals

www.theguardian.com

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10 months

Fiscal responsibility seems to the key phrase on the media this week. That we can’t afford to scrap the two child benefit cap. But we need to think longer term. #Poverty stores up problems for the future. It costs more in the long run.

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10 months

In the 2020 leadership campaign Keir Starmer said ‘Disciplining people to be united, is going nowhere’. I agree. You don’t build a broad-based movement that can deliver for working class communities by vindictively sidelining dedicated party members and unions. @Keir_Starmer

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Jamie Driscoll

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21 days

Done the deed! Bet you can’t guess who I voted for! 🗳️ Don’t forget to vote! Polls are open till 10pm.

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4 months

Cllr Habib Rahman has served his community with dignity. He understands racism. His father was murdered in a racist attack. So when he says @UKLabour is excusing Islamophobia and racism from elected politicians we should listen to him. An investigation is needed. Habib was Lord

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I’m done with the @LabourParty I have just submitted my resignation to @Kier_Starmer I’m done suffering. I’m done living a victims life. In solidarity with all victims and oppressed people around the #World

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2 months

‘Mick Lynch said “Nationally, we need to put a Labour government in to get the Tories out, but we also need a strong voice that will put the north-east first, whatever government is in power. That’s why the RMT and our north-east region is completely behind Jamie’s campaign.”’

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10 months

Since my barring by @UKLabour , I’ve received overwhelming support. The cry for me to run as an independent has come from business leaders, community workers, trade unionists and politicians cross party. People have stopped me in the street asking me to run!

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1 year

'But Conor, he doesn't love you mate, he's going to betray you, just let him go, the relationship isn't there anymore'. On @BBCPolitics today. Apologies for the confusing captions. No-one taught young #ConorBurns not to interrupt. #PoliticsLive #BBCPoliticsLive #Partygate

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27 days

The @durham_uni hustings results are in. @DurhamUnion

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7 months

Sir @Keir_Starmer defended his position on the #Israel / #Hamas conflict, saying a ceasefire in #Gaza could risk further violence. Really? Israeli war planes must drop more bombs in civilian areas or else civilians could get hurt? I could almost hear the party slogan from 1984

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21 days

Rev. Mick Lynch says ‘vote Jamie’. Who am I to argue! In all seriousness, it’s a huge deal to have the backing of @RMTunion . At a time when @UKLabour are rowing back on worker’s rights - this #MayDay week I reaffirm my pledge to always fight for working people. 7 hours to get

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8 months

Despite all the huffing and puffing, Sir @Keir_Starmer has confirmed on TV that he will stick to @RishiSunak ’s plans to cancel #HS2 and redeploy the money. He literally said he would deliver whatever the Conservatives finally decided. @UKLabour policy is being written in

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10 months

Apologies for anyone who tried to donate recently and got an error message. The whole Go Fund Me site stopped working. We may have crashed it! It’s back up and running again now

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8 months

@joecguinan Quite a few people have been in touch saying they’re “under investigation” for supporting me. I do not expect anything resembling a fair investigation for any of them. The Labour Party even changed its rule book to state that natural justice no longer applies. Can I just

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2 months

I’ve had members from all parties telling me they’re voting for me, including Labour, Greens, Reform and Conservatives. Nobody is happy with the Westminster chaos that we’ve seen. People are looking for an independent leader who can shield the North East from all that. People

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1 year

Even the @WashingtonPost , from all the way across the pond, can see this is an injustice. Their motto? ‘Democracy Dies in Darkness’

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@JamieDriscollNE

2 months

Westminster won’t help us. We need independent voices in power to change the narrative. We deserve better.

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2 months

I just quit Labour after 24 years. We deserve better than the race to the bottom between Labour and the Tories. Labour want you to think there's no alternative. But there is. Join it:

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10 months

Margaret Thatcher famously said there was no such thing as society. I disagree! And the lynchpin of society is community. Across the country, community heroes are engaged in making their area a better place. Everything from gardens to sports clubs, help for people with

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But I won’t have big party machinery behind me, or a national press office. I’ll need £150k to run a full campaign. If I can raise £25k by the end of August, I’ll run. The decision is yours. There’s more info here 👇

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@JamieDriscollNE

4 months

It's already happening. If we want democracy, or any policies that put working people first, we can run as independents. I am.

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4 months

Reading this to the end, it's increasingly clear that Labour is going to mass purge left-wing MPs on the brink of a general election. That will happen because of the National Executive Committee refusing to endorse their candidacies.

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8 months

Closing #swimming pools won’t save money. It’ll cost us more in the long run. And kids are growing up with nowhere to learn to #swim . We currently have 7.68 million people on #NHS waiting lists. A record high. For people with joint problems, swimming is ideal exercise. Can

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1 year

On #PoliticsLive today, asked about London Labour barring me from standing for North East Mayor. How’s it possible that I’m good enough to be a Labour Mayor, but not good enough to be candidate for Labour Mayor? #SchrodingersMayor

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6 months

Change of meeting for tonight! Found out just this afternoon the original venue cancelled “because it was political” despite being used for @UKLabour events all the time. We booked and paid for it last month and have incurred costs of £thousands, including print and delivery of

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7 months

Nothing justifies the deliberate killing or kidnapping of civilians. Both @RishiSunak and @Keir_Starmer must join the global majority and support an immediate humanitarian ceasefire in #Israel and #Gaza . I stand with anyone who stands for peace.

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7 months

We can see the objective fact that bombs are being dropped on civilians, yet Westminster politicians are mincing words instead of showing leadership. We need a ceasefire to save lives.

Keir Starmer loses council majority after another resignation over Gaza Israel stance

A ninth councillor on Oxford City Council has resigned reducing the party to a minority leadership

inews.co.uk

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1 year

Thanks for your support @AndyBurnhamGM .

Andy Burnham

@AndyBurnhamGM

1 year

Together with @MetroMayorSteve , I have written to the Chair of @UKLabour ’s National Executive Committee to express concern about the selection process for the North East Mayor. You can read our letter here👇🏻

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21 days

Today’s the day! Time to start a new chapter for the North East. Remember to bring photographic I.D. with you when you go to vote. Polling stations open till 10pm. Once you’ve voted, text 5 friends to remind them to vote! Let’s do this!

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1 month

I’m hearing people from right across the political spectrum saying they’ll vote for me. Why? People are saying they’re tired of party politics and they just want someone with a track record who’ll get the job done. This isn’t a General Election. It’s a local election to find

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1 year

I’ve made the decision to refuse to provide public funding for the Strawberry Place development. I don’t believe it’s in the best interests of the people of the city and the region. #StJamesPark

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1 month

Since I was elected as Mayor in 2019, I've claimed £0 expenses, added £0 council tax precept and accepted £0 hospitality. Instead I've levered in £millions of private investment to grow the North East economy and put money in people's pockets. Elect me as North East Mayor. My

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10 months

This is not a time for faint hearts. It’s a time for bravery. If you back me, I’ll run. If I run, we can win. #ShyBairnsGetNowt . If you want to find out more about me and my vision for the future, you can find out more on my website

Home

Jamie Driscoll is standing as an Independent candidate in the North East Mayoral Combined Authority election in May 2024. Jamie is currently North of Tyne Mayor.

jamiedriscoll.co.uk

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4 months

Who cares if you’ve won an election, when the world is on fire. Someone needs to tell Sir @Keir_Starmer that people don’t follow titles, they follow courage. Our grandchildren will not cheer you for selling out their futures.

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10 months

There’s a cost of living crisis. Families are struggling to pay their bills and children are going hungry. But there’s no profit crisis at @BritishGas whose profits are up 900% from last year. Or at @Centricaplc , their owners, who made £6.5 billion profit in just 6 months this

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1 year

Thanks to General Secretary @Mattwrack , President Ian Murray, @fbunational and @fburegion3 for their support.

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1 year

"This move...rides roughshod over Keir Starmer's previous commitments to democracy in the Party." A statement from General Secretary @MattWrack , President Ian Murray, and @fburegion3 officials on the North East Mayor selection process. 👇

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1 year

This makes a good point: Unless we increase trust in politics we pave the ground for Farage and worse.

Notes on a scandal: this is how Starmer’s bullies took out Jamie Driscoll – and why it matters |...

Having examined how the North of Tyne mayor was barred from standing again, I see something akin to McCarthyism, says Guardian columnist Aditya Chakrabortty

www.theguardian.com

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12 days

Gotta love headline writers – openly telling the public what you’re doing is hardly plotting. Many people have been in touch who want accountable politicians delivering common sense policies like decent public services and an end to privatised utilities fleecing us. Get in touch

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@JamieDriscollNE

22 days

Being independent means I can put the people of the North East ahead of any Westminster party line. People across the board say they’re voting for me. Their reasons vary. Some are inspired by my policies. Some are voting tactically. Many like my record in office, working

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. @UKLabour and @KiMcGuinness if you’re going to try and win an election with lots of paid advertising, at least be truthful with the public. The North East deserves better. Electoral commission and advertising standards have been informed. #NorthEastDeservesBetter

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Since I was born, the curly wurly has got smaller and smaller - but the price hasn’t. The same thing has happened to our public services. We’re paying more and getting less. While the rich get richer, we get the curly wurly treatment. It’s time to put the people first.

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We need a #CeaseFireInGaza and #Israel to stop the loss of more innocent lives. I’m at the rally for #Palestine today in #Newcastle . @NewcastlePSC #Gaza

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8 months

How can one tree mean so much? To those who say “it’s just a tree” I would ask, is the Mona Lisa just a painting? I know the tree is not human. Or even animal. I know that many of us have lost loved ones to road traffic accidents. To cancer. To war. To crime, even. And perhaps

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'Thanks to Mick Lynch of the @RMTUnion for his continued support. On 2nd May, vote for a Mayor with the vision to transform the North East and the experience to make it happen.

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11 months

My negotiations with Treasury for North East devolution began back in Jan 2020. It's been quite a journey. The latest twist is @UKLabour HQ's ironic decision not to fully devolve the choice of NE Mayor to local Labour members. Want the full story? 👉

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4 months

For the fifth year in a row, I’m charging you £0 council tax. People in the North East are caught in the jaws of a cost-of-living crisis. They don’t need more taxes. As Mayor, I have the power to add a charge to council tax bills. I’ve never done it. We’re often told it’s a

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2 months

The world is rightly shocked and saddened by the killing of innocent aid workers by the IDF. But let’s remember too that innocent Gazans have been killed in their tens of thousands. Many of these deaths will have involved British made weapons. We must suspend arms exports

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9 months

We’ve made strides against homophobia – but there is more to do. We cannot truly be free until our brothers and sisters are free. #Poverty is oppressive. #misogyny is oppressive. And there are too many in authority who stir up division and hatred rather than bring people

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1 month

I’m winning votes right across the political spectrum. The fact that the @UKLabour machine is fighting so hard against me shows that they believe I can win. Read my interview with @katyballs in the @spectator to find out why Labour are feeling so desperate. 👉

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22 days

The Establishment is finally waking up to how tired people are of a two party system that never seems to benefit them. In the North East, there is an alternative. We’re now only 2% behind in the polls and that’s closing fast. 👉

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3 months

UK Politics is a mess. Where is the hope? Help me get elected as North East Mayor and we'll see another world is possible. Please watch this, spread the word and take action 👉

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1 year

Thanks to @UniteSharon and @unitetheunion union for their continuous support.

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@unitetheunion

1 year

“What is emerging from Labour is a pattern of behaviour to literally take out any MP or mayor who backs key manifesto demands on the re-nationalisation of energy, action on rampant profiteering & investment in UK steel.” @UniteSharon

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1 month

Thanks to Mick Lynch, @RMTUnion and @RMTNorthEast for their continued support. Solidarity.

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@JamieDriscollNE

10 months

I’m joining a great range of speakers including @RMTunion Mick Lynch at this public rally tomorrow. Come along and help save our #rail ticket offices. 5pm, The Maltings, #Berwick #SaveTicketOffices

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@JamieDriscollNE

2 months

Sorry folks, but we have had to change the venue for our event in Sunderland on 10th April. The Stadium of Light cancelled our booking with just 5 days notice. But my great campaign team immediately sprung into action. We will not be cancelled! So we are now at Pop Recs on High

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4 months

Privatisation of key services has failed. Train company bosses have been rewarded for failure and are laughing all the way to the bank. We need transport under public control. If elected North East Mayor in May, I’ll build a Total Transport Network to serve people not profit.’

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4 months

It was a sold out venue in Sunderland last night, with standing room only. We’ve suffered from a lack of investment and focus for decades. That’s why I fought so hard to get our £6.1b devolution deal. No one believes that Westminster will look after us. They never have. 1/2

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3 months

. @Keir_Starmer ’s decision to drop his £28bn green investment pledge doesn't make economic sense. It would’ve been a good plan if they'd stuck to it. Here's what I said on @LBC last night. As Mayor I’ve invested £30m in offshore wind, launched a Green New Deal Fund and we teach

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10 months

#Pride is an opportunity for us all to come together and celebrate diversity and inclusion. I was there today with the crowds, waving my flag! @northernprideuk needed a hand this year with their costs. @NorthTyneCA were happy to help, to ensure the pride village was free for

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1 month

We’ve got an army of supporters out every day delivering leaflets and knocking on doors. I’ve been right across the region talking to people in towns and cities. Everywhere its the same. We’re getting support and winning votes from across the political spectrum. Why? Because

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6 months

An unelected Prime Minister has appointed a resigned former Prime Minister to be unelected Foreign Secretary. #davidcameron #sunak

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@JamieDriscollNE

10 months

A week is a long time in politics. I’ll say! This time last week I was a Labour Metro Mayor. What followed was extraordinary. Read my diary of the last eventful week 👉

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