💦65% of Hastings & St Leonard’s still have NO water supply -Southern Water must open up more water stations and better support vulnerable residents.
Our cafes,pubs & hotels are relying on Southern Water to do all they can to save this bank holiday weekend and Jack in the Green.
It’s an honour to be selected as
@UKLabour
candidate for Hastings & Rye at the next election.
The works starts now to win back this seat for Labour and change lives.
Thank you to all our brilliant members, unions & affiliates who backed me. See you on the
#LabourDoorstep
🌹
Beaches were closed again after
@SouthernWater
dumped yet more sewage 🌊
People want to enjoy our sea not worry about getting sick, & our tourist industry relies on it
Yet again our Tory MP & Government missing in action - voting against
@UKLabour
amendment to take action
I’m standing to be Hastings & Rye’s next Labour MP.
I have the local roots, track record of beating the Tories and the energy to win back Hastings and Rye. Now I want to speak to
@UKLabour
members about how we do it.
Let's win this together!
Margaret McDonagh ❤️🌹
First woman General Secretary
@UKLabour
1997 Campaign Coordinator of Labour’s most successful result ever.
The best organiser the world has ever seen xxxxxxxxxx
A lovely sunny weekend when everyone should be able to take a swim in the sea 🌊, but yet again Southern Water puts a stop to that! 💩
Bad for
❌Public health🏥
❌Tourism🏖️
❌Cafes and pubs🍦
❌Wildlife🐟
❌Fishing industry 🎣
✅Labour’s plan will end the sewage scandal.
Yesterday
@AnnelieseDodds
and I met with Tess who runs The Crown pub in Hastings Old Town and heard how huge hikes in energy bills will affect small businesses like hers.
This is a national economic emergency yet the government is missing in action.
We won’t take any lectures from a party that has crashed the economy and now wants working people to pay for it.
@itvmeridian
@UKLabour
has a plan to get the economy growing again
Zara Aleena was murdered by a man who should have been locked up.
Under the Tories just two in every 100 reported rapes make it to court.
We can’t go on like this. A Labour Government led by
@Keir_Starmer
will have zero tolerance for crime
Huge turnout today for protest against
@SouthernWater
dumping of sewage in our sea 🌊and this Conservative Government letting them get away with it for the past twelve years.
On
#SewageScandal
as on
#NHS
#CostOfLivingCrisis
- the Tories are asleep at the wheel.
Tonight local
@CoopParty
members in Hastings & Rye backed me take the fight to the Tories at the next election.
As we face the worst
#CostofLiving
crisis in a generation, our local cooperatives offer a safety net but they need a
@UKLabour
@CoopParty
Government behind them
Great team out speaking to residents this morning in Hastings. Lots of conversations about local schools, holding Southern Water to account and rescuing our public services from 13 years of Conservative mismanagement.
The longer the Conservatives are in power the longer people wait for treatment.
Labour has a plan to cut waiting lists and clear the backlog.
@bbcsoutheast
We did it! Rye is a Labour Gain x 2! 🌹🌹
Thank you to everyone who voted for
@UKLabour
Rye and Winchelsea now has two fantastic Labour
@CoopParty
Councillors who will work their socks off for you.
@Simon_McGurk
Fantastic to welcome
@Keir_Starmer
to Lancing this morning where he set out the choice at this election:
⚫️service or self-interest
⚫️stability or chaos
⚫️a Labour Party that has changed or a Tory Party that has run away from the mainstream
Thank you
@EmilyThornberry
@LabourSJ
@StephenMorganMP
@SteveReedMP
and all who’ve joined us on the campaign trail this week!
Vote Labour on May 2nd to send Rishi Sunak a message that the country wants change and a General Election to have their say.
Rishi Sunak’s Rwanda scheme is costing over £500m to send just 300 people - less than 1% of asylum seekers, with no plan for the 99%.
It won’t work and is just an extortionate election gimmick instead of a serious plan.
@itvmeridian
I spoke to
@itvmeridian
about why our Conservative Government need to take some responsibility for this mess, after voting down
@UKLabour
amendment last year >>
Thank you St Helier, it’s an honour to represent you with Dennis & Nick. I’ll work hard for you and be on your side.
Our community is united against the plans to downgrade St Helier Hospital. With
@Siobhain_Mc
@cllrallison
I’ll do all I can to fight these plans
#SaveStHelier
🏥
I’m proud to be nominated by
@unisontheunion
@UNISONSE
members in Hastings & Rye kept our country going while others partied.
Clapping doesn’t pay bills - it’s time to give workers the pay rise they deserve as we face the worst
#CostOfLivingCrisis
in decades
#PutNHSPayRight
4 Chancellors in 4 months, 3 Prime Ministers this year, endless budgets and “mini budgets” 🤷♀️🤷♀️
Time for a general election. The British people deserve a choice.
@itvmeridian
Awful to see the impact on residents & businesses this morning. Some have lost everything. Thanks as ever to our brilliant firefighters 🚒, to councillors and council teams working to find the residents accomodation.
Enough is enough. Southern Water must get its act together.
Always feels productive spending an afternoon today with
@stjohnambulance
giving people their second doses of
#covid19
vaccine 💉and antibodies 🧫. Don’t delay booking your second jabs.
Great
@stjohnambulance
#vaccine
shift at the brand new
@AFCWimbledon
stadium which has opened its doors first as a vaccine centre. We even had a visit from
@DonsLocalAction
to keep the staff room well stocked.
Every jab gets us closer to being able to have a full stadium. ⚽️💉
What an amazing day 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
and we couldn’t have asked for better weather ☀️🌊
Great to be joined by
@AnnelieseDodds
@lloyd_rm
and many more
@LGBTLabour
.
Thanks to all the stewards and organisers who made today possible
#HastingsPride
Thanks
@Feargal_Sharkey
for joining us in Liverpool and standing up for coastal communities like ours. 🌊
A
@UKLabour
government will clean up our sea, rivers and hold water bosses financially and legally accountable.
On Wednesday night, Hastings’ Council meeting had to be abandoned after a small number of people sought to undermine our local democracy. We cannot allow that to happen. (1/2)
I am appalled by the latest sewage discharges into bathing waters in the local area, and Southern Water must be held to account for this threat to both public health and marine life. (1/2)
Hastings own Keith Leech
@SkyNews
: “This year Southern Water have managed to close our beach because of sewage, they have flooded our town centre, and now they’ve cut off from water on our biggest weekend of the year”
Here’s hoping the water comes back today🙏🏻🚰
I’m proud to be backed by
@GMB_union
to be
@UKLabour
’s candidate in Hastings & Rye.
I will fight for
@GMBSussexBranch
members who face the worst
#CostOfLiving
crisis in a generation while wages fall ⬇️📉at the fastest rate in a decade.
@UKLabour
will deliver a better deal 🌹
Thank you
@SKinnock
and everyone who joined us in Rye. Labour in power will give Hastings & Rye its future back. It’s time for change.
(Of course we had to take a selfie for
@HelleThorning_S
)
Thanks to everyone who supported our St Helier campaign. Votes are counted tomorrow 🗳
An election like no other with
#covid19
😷 changing how we do things but I’m so grateful to everyone who took time to speak with us, queued to cast their vote or helped with
#LabourDoorstep
🌹
A lot of people talking about the sewage scandal today following
@joelycett
@channel4
excellent show last night.
Labour is the only party with a serious plan to end the sewage scandal and force Southern Water to get its act together 👇
@SteveReedMP
Great to have
@EmilyThornberry
with us today for
#SmallBizSatUK
in Rye! For many of our shops, pubs, cafes and hotels, times are tough so do support them if you can!
But our small businesses also need more support from Govt. Labour has a plan to help small businesses thrive.
Good luck to the excellent
@Ashley__Dalton
in today’s by election. It was great to support your campaign with my uncle Rick and his
@WhalleyRangeLab
🌹 team.
Santa’s little jabber 💉🎄
Great to have people coming in the pharmacy for their first dose today.
Getting vaccinated is the best gift 🎁 you can give your family for Christmas
@stjohnambulance
It is astounding that over 70 vulnerable children have disappeared from one hotel on this Government’s watch.
This Government is allowing criminal gangs to set up an industry along our south coast.
13 years of failure.
@bbcsoutheast
It’s great to have the support of my union
@UsdawUnion
My first job was stacking shelves in
@sainsburys
and I look forward to continuing to support
@UsdawUnion
campaigns to keep shop workers safe from abuse and improve workplace policies for mums and dads 👩👦👨👧
@rabdonnelly2010
Just heard
@SallyAnn1066
on
@bbcsoutheast
saying there are no “quick fixes” to this problem 🌊💩
Her party have been in Government for 1️⃣2️⃣ years.
Bring on a general election.
A very sunny session in
#MidBeds
☀️☀️and lots of residents telling us how much they want a change with
@UKLabour
@alistrathern
Find out how to get involved with the campaign here:
No water for 65% of residents in Hastings and St Leonards - I’m calling on Southern Water to
💦open up more water stations to stop this traffic chaos
💦Support local schools and businesses to stay open
💦 deliver water to all without delay
💦 Get the water back on!
Another morning of flooding and disruption in
#Hastings
town centre. Awful to see residents carried from their homes by our amazing firefighters
I’ve written to the Southern Water CEO calling on him to act - Southern Water needs to get its act together.
Fantastic speech today
@Keir_Starmer
laying out how the next Labour Government will change Britain & build an economy that delivers for working people
Never again can we see a budget like Friday-borrowing from nurses in Hastings to pay for tax cuts for the top 1%
Let’s win this
It’s too late
@SallyAnn1066
.
You have known all along who this Prime Minister is.
The people of Hastings and Rye deserve better.
They deserve a Labour Government.
Considering the further revelations that have come to light, and given that the integrity of Parliament must be upheld, on behalf of my constituents of Hastings and Rye I am no longer able to support Boris Johnson as Leader of the Conservative Party and Prime Minister.
🚨🚨🚨Important update for all living in Hastings and St Leonard’s - I’ve just heard the shocking news that it is likely 65% of people here could lose water supply at 5pm. I’m calling on Southern Water to act NOW to get water to residents. 🚨🚨🚨
Great to have local businesses from Hastings & Rye join me this evening to hear from
@Keir_Starmer
about Labour’s plan to get Britain’s economy growing
Labour is a pro worker, pro business party and when businesses big and small thrive we can invest more in our public services
Good to join
@itvmeridian
to chat about the latest Conservative chaos and why it’s time for a change with Labour. Bring on the General Election!
Catch it tonight after the 10 o clock news 📺
@ITV
New figures I’ve uncovered show Hastings & Rye is the worst place in South East to call an ambulance for a heart attacks or strokes.
I took
@wesstreeting
to Hastings Ambulance Station to hear from
@SECAmbulance
paramedics about pressures they face working on the frontline (1/2)
Great to have Shadow Transport Minister
@StephenMorganMP
with us today to hear about the key transport issues across Hastings and Rye: potholes, trains, buses that don’t show up and the unfinished ‘Road to Nowhere’.
Too many Tory broken promises. It’s time for a change.
Great to hear
@bphillipsonMP
highlighting childcare reform on
@bbcquestiontime
Unaffordable, unequal childcare provision 🍼 = HUGE barrier to UK productivity
Childcare is vital economic infrastructure📈
This week
@UKLabour
set out our (costed) plan ➡️
Proud to be backed by
@WeAreTheMU
. In Hastings & Rye we have a unique music scene but many of our musicians have been through tough times.
Tory cuts mean many children don’t get to learn a musical instrument 🎸🎵
Right support would give us more like the brilliant
@KidKapichi
One after another, every Tory contender is setting out how they would boost productivity
Barely any mention of childcare 🍼
Recent
@PregnantScrewed
study found 40% working mums were working fewer hours because of unaffordable childcare
The UK childcare system needs fixing
A national emergency like this calls for a serious plan. People are worried sick about how they’ll pay their bills while the Tories are asleep at the wheel
Labour would act now to stop energy bills rising.
We’ll pay for it by taxing the huge, unforecast profits of oil & gas 👇🏻
Great to welcome
@Steph_Peacock
to
@HaigHousing
talking to veterans & their families about how we
@UKLabour
can help.
Lots of support for
@cit4sol
campaign against unjust, unaffordable visa fees for Commonwealth Veterans who served our country
🚨Rye Pool will be reopening on October 2nd!🏊♀️
Great news thanks to hard working Rye Labour
@CoopParty
Councillors who worked hand in hand with community to get it open.
Rye Pool should never have closed but Tory Govt failed to step in to tackle spiralling energy bills. (1/2)
Thanks to everyone who joined our litter pick on St Helier Ave.
Keeping our lovely green spaces looking their best 🌳🍃 supporting the Great British Spring Clean 🇬🇧 and
@KeepBritainTidy
#GBSpringClean
Let’s take a journey down the A21.
What proportion of kids achieve A*-C in Maths & English?
Tun Wells (where Rishi is): 78%
Hastings: 52%
Over last decade,
@hastingsbc
has lost £60M+ in govt funding. Under last
@UKLabour
Govt we saw hundreds of millions invested &lives changed
EXC:
@RishiSunak
told Tories in Tunbridge Wells that as Chancellor he tried to reverse Treasury formulas "that shoved all the funding into deprived urban areas" so areas like theirs could benefit
@NewStatesman
story:
Great team out this morning in St Leonards talking to residents about our campaign on
@SECAmbulance
long ambulance waits. The longer we give the Tories the longer people wait.
Our youngest member of the team aged 3!
💦💦No water for 65% of Hastings and traffic gridlock at the few water stations open. Southern Water must urgently open more water stations and ensure local schools, medical centres and local businesses can stay open.💦💦
Spoke last night
@Merton_Council
about brilliant work
@HaigHousing
do in our community & amazing contribution our Commonwealth & Gurkha veterans make to our nation.
Too many have been let down by current visa system, left in legal limbo & deserve better
Excellent Maiden Speech
@Merton_Council
Full Council meeting by St. Helier ward councillor
@helenadollimore
on Merton's support for Commonwealth and Nepalese veterans. Brilliantly timed to allow all to watch the football later on!
Instead of Boris, I’ll be listening to my union
@UsdawUnion
and following their advice to continue wearing a mask in shops. This will help keep shop workers safe and protect the immunocompromised.
(With thanks to
@CWUnews
for the excellent 3-layer mask!)
Today brings the 17th budget in 13yrs of Tory economic mismanagement (and who could forget the ‘mini budget’)
The Tories have left us unable to fulfil Britain’s potential. It’s time for a change
A Labour budget led by
@RachelReevesMP
will give us the highest growth in the G7 📈
Liz Truss and the Conservative party that backed her clearly feel no shame or contrition for what they have done to this country.
While families pay the price, the Tories continue to blame everyone but themselves for the mess they have made.
Great to have
@SteveReedMP
, in Hastings & Rye to hear from local residents & small businesses about how they’re paying the price for Southern’s Water’s repeated failures - from flooding to sewage to water outages. Labour will force the water companies to get their act together.
💦Hastings and St Leonard’s Water Crisis💦
My letter to the CEO of Southern Water.
💦 We need more water stations to end the traffic gridlock
💦 Vulnerable residents, schools and local businesses must be kept in supply
@Feargal_Sharkey
@SteveReedMP
How can this be right
@SouthernWater
? You have a moral duty to put this right. We can’t see local businesses going under as a result of your failings.
From Rye to Hastings town centre- you need to do the right thing for residents & businesses and go beyond OFWAT bare minimums
Business offered £75 compensation by Southern Water after losing £30,000. The Mermaid Inn in Rye lost its mains water supply for several days, forcing it to cancel 380 reservations worth around £30,000 to the business.
Great discussion with friends
@labourforces
#Lab21
about how we can support our forces families and newly arriving Afghan refugees across the UK. We are lucky to be home for many veterans in St Helier supported by
@HaigHousing
I spoke to
@theipaper
about the price Hastings is paying, yet again, for Southern Water’s failings: flooding in town centre, sewage in sea and homes & now the taps running dry.
Meanwhile Southern Water demand bills go up 70%! It’s a disgrace.
@SteveReedMP
Two busy booster shifts this week with people queuing in the rain for their
#boosters
💉
We’ve named our Christmas decorations Omicron and Delta.
Boosters this weekend protect you for Christmas! 🎄
Hi
@SallyAnn1066
your defence of this lying and rule breaking PM will not be forgotten by people across Hastings & Rye come the next election.
Hastings & Rye, and Britain, deserve so much better than this.
In 2019, we saw a massive majority of MPs elected for Boris Johnson’s Conservatives reflecting a realignment of politics based on 2016’s EU referendum. The PM upholds that realignment, reflecting the values of people around the country who do not live in the ‘Westminster Bubble’.