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@BrynHGriffiths
Labour Left Podcast presenter | Colchester Labour | Tweets personal capacity | Vice Chair of Momentum | CLPD Executive | Labour Hub | He/Him
Oct 13, 2024 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
Every time a developer submits a housing application a battle commences. The housing authority (the council) seeks the provision of a target proportion of affordable housing the developer seeks to avoid such a provision. 1/6 The developer seeks to avoid the provision of affordable housing as it reduces their profits & they perceive it discourages potential high value purchasers. So, battle commences! 2/6
Jan 1, 2024 • 13 tweets • 6 min read
HAPPY NEW YEAR
A review of 2023 including the launch of the Labour Left Podcast plus some of the community and left activity that I got involved with in Colchester North Essex during the year. Another busy year. 1/13 On the 18 January Colchester’s nurses & @theRCN took to the picket line to fight for better pay and defend the NHS. 📷 BH Griffiths 2/13 Image
Jun 13, 2023 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
It’s possible to begin to see the contours of a Labour rebellion under a Starmer Govt. The right wing Labour faction around the Leader’s office can see problems ahead so they want to purge critical voices while they have control the party machine. We must wait & prepare. 1/6 Paul Nowak’s call for those with the “broadest shoulders” to pay more to rebuild public services gets right to the heart of what a Labour Government must do and is a great starting point for a left platform. 2/6
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Mar 22, 2023 • 4 tweets • 3 min read
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
Dec 31, 2022 • 14 tweets • 8 min read
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
Mar 15, 2022 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
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 Image 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 Image