To confirm I was not the farter, and from where I was sitting it sounded like it came from the other side of the chamber. (however I was one of the speakers referred to who made another important contribution emphasising the importance of this budget)

#OnThisDay 168 years ago the East Kent Railway (predecessor of the London, Chatham & Dover Railway) opened between Chatham and Faversham via Rainham, Sittingbourne and Teynham (Gillingham and Newington opened later). Sittingbourne is the oldest surviving LC&DR building (Google).

actually it's called Reform because they're trying to re-form the Conservative party but in the tent next door

Last night’s assault on Swale House was an attack on free speech. Read my full statement on the events that took place below.

As Jesus once put it: "what shall it profit a man, if he gain the whole world, and then have to pay the mansion tax?"

This week is Road Safety Week & a chance to talk about Barbara Castle! Barbara was Transport Minister for three years yet she was able to introduce the Breathalyzer, a proper integrated transport strategy & more! This was done despite fierce opposition. 📸 Photo from the Parliamentary Achieve

In proper parliamentary style I have to declare an interest in this, as I’m a private renter and before moving to Sittingbourne I was a council housing tenant Improving renters rights has been one of the biggest things for me so far in parliament, as is providing £39bn for building social housing

Given the context and the crowd, despite Musk’s weasel words, this was a call for violence against the British state, from a foreign national who controls a major propaganda engine, and has engineered it to monetise hate

Rep. Jamie Raskin tears into Nigel Farage as a "far-right pro-Putin politician" and a "Donald Trump sycophant and wannabe".

This is my flag.

it's failed Medway as per every bloody where...

The happy day when the potholes you reported 6 months ago will finally go

In this weeks @kentcurrent.news @edjennings.bsky.social reported on Kent County Council Reform Councillors posed for photos with known far right fascists No other Kent publication covered this Read the story Share the story Subscribe www.kentcurrent.news/p/kent-refor...

No one at County Hall seems particularly eager to explain how five Kent Reform councillors came to be smiling for photographs next to a neo-Nazi activist.

💧 It’s time to fix our broken water system. For 30 years, companies like Southern Water have prioritised profit over people. Now, Ofwat is being scrapped. A new, stronger regulator will hold polluters to account - protecting our environment, our bills, and our local rivers like the Medway.

*feels seen*

One other 7/7 thread today. Because I think how the bus network got running again is a real testament to some serious heroes that day: The bus drivers and staff who got that network running again and got London home that night. And TfL/the Mayor disobeyed the Security Services to make it happen /1

🚨 NEW: Labour is lifting 100,000 children out of poverty by expanding access to free school meals. Alongside free breakfast clubs, cheaper uniform costs and government-funded childcare, Labour is putting money in parents’ pockets and giving children the best start in life.

Buses are an essential service, and this is exactly what our Labour government should be doing in the name of not only protecting but building local communities across the country. www.tssa.org.uk/news-and-eve...

Morgan Jones (@morganj0nes.bsky.social): Social democracy is true

Happy 2️⃣5️⃣th St Thommo's Day everyone 🥅🏆

Wishing Matt Jarvis a happy birthday! 🎈 #Gills

The unbelievable condescension we’re already seeing today towards working class people- suggesting they don’t travel to Europe or their kids might not want to go to university and study in Europe- is quite something to behold.

🔥 @rachelblakemp.bsky.social says the Conservatives have "nothing to be proud of" from their botched Brexit deal, which has made our country poorer, weaker, and less safe.

🚍 We are delighted to announce In the Fast Lane, a new pamphlet by Alex Mayer MP 🧵(1/6)

Don’t let a man who is hardly at his own desk make you an absent parent or carer. Flexible working means more people can balance caring and career commitments - research consistently shows it makes a workforce happier, healthier and crucially there’s no loss of productivity. Our future. Not his.

Statement following today’s KCC results

Apropos of nothing - trans women are women. Trans men are men.

Labour just saved our steel indusutry. The Tories would never have done it in a million years. 4 times they willingly let the sector fail:

90+5' (1-0) DACKY!!!!!!!!! #Gills

I was pleased to support my Labour colleagues Yuan Yang and Abtisam Mohamed today who were unacceptably detained and refused entry to Israel. It is disappointing that the Opposition was once again unable to put aside party politics on this issue.

This is a very important essay and everyone should read all 8000 words: britishprogress.org/articles/red...

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Elbows up, Canada.

A List of Complaints from 1925 🧵

One for @planningshit.bsky.social 😬😬😬

To Residents of Cuxton/ME2: A broken mains water pipeline in Cuxton has left some residents without water this evening. I have spoken with Southern Water, and they are currently providing a temporary supply until repairs are completed. (1/2)

It’s appalling that some TransPennine Express staff, on management contracts, are paid so little that they risk falling below National Minimum Wage. TSSA will not stand back and allow our members to be exploited. TPE must take steps to fix this poverty pay. www.tssa.org.uk/news-and-eve...

I recently spoke to the BBC about how unacceptable it is that illegal waste sites, such as the one in Brambletree Wharf in Borstal, can blight the lives of residents. I welcome the planning enforcement notice issued by Medway Council which requires the landowner to clear the site within months.

Thank you for your incredible support today, Gills 👊 #Gills

Happy International Women's Day! Today we're celebrating the 263 women MPs currently serving in the House of Commons, many of whom are captured here. They make up 40% of the total number of MPs today, the highest number in the UK's history.

What Trump/Vance are doing in the US is what Farage/Reform want to do in the UK. It’s that simple. If you vote Reform, that’s what you’re voting for. Anti vax quackery, demonisation of minorities, shredding state capacity. And bending the knee to Putin.

I am very proud of this

Well spring is springing here at @nucleusarts.bsky.social in #Chatham. If you're feeling inspired to get out, don't forget the seed swap is still open at the #Lightbox in #Rochester #Medway

Fantastic @labouryimby.bsky.social panel at South East Regional Conference Regenerating our industry heartland in the South East is often forgotten on a national level but we need to focus on it to deliver growth and the homes we need

Just gorgeous. More of this I say.

Most of these are much smaller than Medway as well!