Today #partygate Johnson faces a cross party privileges committee of MPs. Let’s recall what #Colchester MP Will Quince, the Health Minister, had to say during this national scandal. Here he is the notorious #BorisJohnson apologist supporting Johnson in April 2022. 1/4
Here is #Colchester Quince, the notorious Johnson apologist, backing Johnson on 6 June 2022. 2/4
Here is #Colchester Quince the notorious Johnson apologist on TV on 4 July 2022 backing Johnson to the hilt over ‘Pincher by name Pincher by nature . 3/4
I put the whole sorry story together in a letter to the Gazzete which was printed under the headline ‘Now’s the time to get rid of the Boris apologists’. The #Colchester electorate will get their chance to act on the headline in 2024. 4/4
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At the end of 2021 I ended my 36 years in local government & came out of political retirement. Here’s my #Colchester 2022 review which turned out to be one helluva year. Solidarity & #HappyNewYear to all the wonderful new people I’ve got to know in the last twelve months. 1/14
JANUARY: A group of socialists visited Fratting Hall Farm, a former pacifist settlement nr. Colchester, founded during the Second World War in 1943. The painting of the barn which survives to this day was by local artist Roderick Barrett. History 👉 historyworkshop.org.uk/radical-object… 2/14
FEBRUARY: Attended a #JohnsonOut rally organised by Brighton Trades Council. The message on the placard was one the stark messages of the protestors. 📷 BH Griffiths.
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Today, on holiday in Lisbon, I visited the Museum of Aljube Resistance and Freedom and it got me thinking about Ernie Bevin’s creation of NATO - which Sir Kier Starmer compares to the NHS as a Labour achievement! 1/4
At its very outset in 1949 Portugal was a NATO founder. Salazar the Portuguese dictator was feted as an anti-communist ally & rewarded with Royal visits. But who was Salazar? 2/4
This picture of a 1936 Salazar rally gives us a clear indication of what our NATO Ally was all about. 3/4