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Catherine Taylor Profile picture
@cathesaurus
Apr 16 • 5 tweets • 4 min read Twitter logo Read on Twitter
So, by ones and twos, maybe soon by tens and twenties... @AdamHollowayMP your tenure as #ConSelfServative MP for #Gravesham is coming to an end. And, if I have my way, so is the tenure of EVERY MP that won't vote for #ElectoralReform. Because 1/2
I am launching a non-partisan campaign group on Tuesday, with the primary aim of identifying either a) the "best" candidate to tactically vote for, in each constituency, to get 326 or more #ProPR MPs elected at the next General Election; or b) where no such candidate exists, 2/3
b) Identifying someone to stand on that issue, as I am in #Graveshem and help them to win. Because this isn't about JUST kicking the #ToryScum out; it's about making sure they can never again turn a minority vote share (just 43.4% in 2019) into an unassailable majority of 80. 3/4
And that basically means that voting @labour, sadly, really isn't good enough, because they LOVE #FirstPastThePost just as much as poxy #ConSelfServative toerags, so sorry, but Labour are fair game, too, for THIS NEXT General Election. Unless they formally commit to #ProPR 4/5
And that is the main platform issue on which I'll run, and intend to help others run. As to how I, personally, will win in #Gravesham, see the pinned post on my profile. And noon on Tuesday we OFFICIALLY get this rolling.

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Apr 16
True fact: I've been a fan of Saga since I first bought a copy of "Heads or Tales" in 1983. I also vividly remember playing side one of "Worlds Apart" in my neighbour Doug's room, the last night of my (first) first year at @Kings_College, January 1984. 1/x
Bizarrely (which is how my memory works these days, oy) it was while walking past the corner of Market Square yesterday (where Andy's Records used to have a permanent pitch outside the then branch of Barclays Bank) that I remembered that factoid. Doug, Jennie and I, and Saga. 2/x
So I went down, briefly considered studying Maths elsewhere, leading to being offered a place at UCL (University College, London) but no, I couldn't bear the thought that Cambridge had somehow "beaten" me, so, back I went, that October, to try again. Well, almost. 2/x
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Apr 15
So, last night I took two guests to High Table at @Kings_College and we could not have been made more welcome. I've never lost sight of the enormous privilege that studying at Cambridge represents, and the benefits it has brought me ever since. "High Table" sounds out of time; NO
When I was at King's, 1983 to 1987, I was aware that King's viewed itself as more than a little different to most other Cambridge Colleges. Not for nothing was it referred to, by ourselves AND by others, as the People's Republic of King's. A very diverse, eclectic student body.
And a similarly diverse set of academic Members. It's totally down to me that I didn't keep a closer connection to the College in the years since I graduated, or that I've missed numerous reunions at 5, 10, 15,... 35 years, or neglected over 180 earlier occasions for High Table.
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Apr 6
The first tentpole principle of my campaign to be elected as #MP of #Gravesham is that I will NOT take £84k - I'll take the salary of a qualified nurse, on a general surgery ward, with five years experience. Which is what I think ALL MPs should be paid.
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The second tentpole principle is that I will NOT take any additional jobs, other than MP. Representing all of my constituents will be my highest priority, and I don't see how part-time MPS with second, third, fourth, fifth jobs can reasonably claim to do that. 2/x
The third principle is that I will NOT benefit from the subsidised bars and restaurants which #MP use in the Palace of Westminster. If I use one, I will deposit the amount of subsidy from out of my own pocket into a fund, which will be used to support #Gravesham causes. 3/x
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Mar 30
So, standing for election is one thing; having a plan to win that election against an 18 year incumbent is another; and knowing HOW to represent ALL of my constituents fairly, inexpensively, effectively while only taking the wage of a qualified Nurse and NO expenses? 1/2
And taking NO second, third fourth, fifth jobs while MP? While allowing a majority of my constituents the power to recall me at ANY time? And working tirelessly to end the archaic, unfit-for-purpose #FirstPastThePost electoral system that keeps #ConSelfServative and Labour 2/3
from fearing that they'll never again have an unassailable parliamentary majority on a minority share of the vote? Sounds impossible? Watch the @wsegpodcast next Monday, April 3rd, and decide for yourself. 3/4
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Mar 27
Oh my giddy Aunt - @ByDonkeys have pulled off yet another blinder. This would bring ANY other "government", of any era, crashing down, as the conventions of Erskine May, and the notion of "all Members of Parliament being honourable" just DO NOT APPLY to these criminal scum. 1/2
@ByDonkeys The clock is weel and truly ticking for these #ConSelfServative #ToryScum who have plundered hundreds of billions of pounds from the public purse, for themselves, their overseas paymasters, and their mates. They will be booted out of office by December 2024 at the LATEST 2/3
@ByDonkeys But the Disunited Kingdom of Breakshiteland, Scotland and Northewrn Ireland just cannot afford another 20 months of their corrupt gangsterdom. They need to go now, and every last one of them put on trial for abuse of power in public office. I will pursue them relentlessly 3/4
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Mar 24
Their whole charade is in tatters. The momentum has about reached a tipping point, and I'm calling it now - they won't survive to a General Election at the end of 2024. They'll be out of office THIS year. I will vote tactically to get @AdamHollowayMP ousted as my MP, but then 1/x
@AdamHollowayMP Tactically hereabouts means voting Labour. I will vote Labour to remove a #ConSelfServative MP. I'm an ex-Labour Party member who then joined @TheGreenParty as the only truly socialist *electable* party then available to me 2/x
And they're still electable, as they've proved in local Government, across the country, ever since, and in Brighton Pavilion since 2010, and very nearly in a handful of other parliamentary seats, including Bristol. But NOT here, sadly. So I will hold my nose to oust Holloway 3/x
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