1/17 telegraph.co.uk/politics/2022/…
Those who’ve campaigned against bad development have too often been smeared as being #NIMBYs. In my book, they're local patriots. 🇬🇧
We also know #community groups, on the #IsleofWight and across the #UK, have despaired at top-down targets.
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Nov 23, 2022 • 10 tweets • 4 min read
This afternoon, myself and others will set out the case for #planning reform.
thetimes.co.uk/article/e350a9…
For sure, we don’t like top-down targets. But most of all, we want a better way of doing things: a planning system with #communities, regeneration and the environment at its heart.
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Mar 8, 2022 • 10 tweets • 5 min read
➡️Zelensky’s address to the @UKParliament was a remarkable & rare moment in our political life & justified given the determination and resilience of Ukrainians. 1/10
@UKParliament He spoke #Ukrainian, not his first language of Russian. He called Russians ‘occupants’ & deplored terror brought by their bombs: on schools, even on the monument at Babi Yar, where thousands of Jews were murdered (Zelensky is a Russian-speaking Jew). ‘Terror against all’. 2/10
If Ukraine had been too bitter a pill for Russia to swallow then this would not be happening.
We should have stopped talking re #NATO membership, which enrages Putin, but quietly armed and trained Kiev - to a greater scale than we did.
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Jan 9, 2021 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
1/5 Around 3,500 to 4,000 #IsleofWight residents have already received their first vaccination. It is hoped that by the end of next week this will rise to nearer 10,000. This is great news but we to do more and fast @MattHancock2/5 Each #IOW vaccination site has received 975 doses of the Pfizer vaccine so far. Very soon they will all receive another 975 doses plus 400 doses of the Oxford vaccine and 75 doses of Pfizer for care homes. After that only the Oxford vaccine will be administered here.
Jan 8, 2021 • 5 tweets • 3 min read
1/5 I’ve written to @MattHancock asking for the #IsleofWight to be treated as a priority area to speed up the #Covid19 vaccination process. It is a race against time to get the most vulnerable vaccinated. #iwnews#IOW2/5 The @IWPublicHealth team is doing a great job at getting the vaccine to those who need it, but I want the Government to do more.
Jan 8, 2021 • 9 tweets • 5 min read
With @councillordave1 (@iwight), I have submitted a detailed response about cross-Solent connectivity to a major, independent review of transport infrastructure.
We've highlighted the “uniquely disadvantageous” position the #IsleofWight faces, compared to other UK islands.
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As we outline in our submission, the intervention we secured for the pandemic (legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2020/370/… & gov.uk/government/new…) was a "watershed moment".
We should not return to the "old normal" of our connectivity being entirely at the discretion of private companies.
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Feb 11, 2019 • 20 tweets • 15 min read
#GlobalBritain. 20 policy ideas from our report Global Britain: A 21st Century Vision:
1/20 The UK should base its global strategy on three Global Campaigns: 1. Freedom for Trade 2. Freedom from oppression 3. Freedom of Thought #GlobalBritain@james_rogers@HJS_Org
2/20 Britain should establish a National Strategy Council to develop a global grand strategy and drive cross-government integration. This new national Strategy Council should evolve out of the existing National Security Council. #GlobalBritain@james_rogers@HJS_Org
