Love is love. When hate is loud, love must be louder. Happy Pride Month everyone 🏳️‍🌈❤️

Labour members across the country have a chance to help reconnect our party with its core values by nominating @mainstreamlabour.bsky.social candidates for the NPF. In the NW, I’d be grateful for CLPs to consider nominating myself, Scott Brerton (L1150299), alongside Liz Grey (L0138116).

I just signed a @mainstreamlabour.bsky.social petition for an asylum and migration system rooted in mainstream Labour values. Sign here: actionnetwork.org/petitions/an...

Reform’s biggest economic success in Lancashire so far? Tyre repair shops. 🛞💷😬

Wishing a very Happy Holi to Hindus celebrating across Great Harwood, Hyndburn and beyond. May your day be filled with colour, joy, and celebration. 🙏

All set for tonight's Hyndburn Borough Council Full Council Budget Setting meeting.

Over 80% of 16 to 24-year-olds would vote to rejoin the EU in a new referendum says a new ITV poll, and a recent survey by YouGov found that 63% of the UK population would vote to rejoin the EU This should be the direction of travel for Labour now. www.itv.com/news/2026-02...

The changes we need to make as a party aren't difficult. Labour doesn’t need fantasy politics or to out‑Reform Reform. We need our roots: the party that created the NHS, the welfare state, and helped lift millions out of poverty — bold, believable, and focused on the big changes Britain needs. 🌹

Hyndburn is outperforming Lancashire and national business birth rates, showing what a Labour🌹controlled council can do when in power. 🚀 Determined entrepreneurs 🤝 Strong partnerships 🏛️ A council backing growth 💪 A borough defying stereotypes 📈 And we'll push on further this year.

👀 Check out just how good the Hyndburn Borough Council Jobs Fair was earlier this week. ✅ Bigger and better than ever, there was a fantastic range of jobs, apprenticeships and training courses from both local and national businesses.

Incredibly proud to be standing as one of @mainstreamlabour.bsky.social candidates for Labour's National Policy Forum (NPF) in the North West.

A statement from Mainstream's Interim Council on the departure of Morgan McSweeney from Number 10.

This.

The Mandelson scandal shows Labour at our worst: outdated elites, spin, and top‑down politics. We need to return to our roots, a member led movement, driven by communities, grounded in real change. We must be bold, believable, deliverable and transparent every step of the way.

Cheaper pints. Poorer kids. Reform UK's plans to reinstate the two‑child benefit cap won’t “help pubs”. It will push kids back into hunger, cold homes and poverty. That’s the real cost of this policy.

Reform’s whole brand is built on anger, blame and resentment, but there’s only so much negativity people can absorb before they switch off. A movement fuelled by bitterness eventually burns itself out. 🧵1

Today is #HolocaustMemorialDay. We remember the 6m Jewish people and others murdered by the Nazis and their collaborators. We must never stop remembering.

It's essential that local party members, and the people of Gorton and Denton, have the opportunity to select and elect the strongest possible Labour candidate to take on Reform - with no qualified candidates excluded. If it was right in 2020, it's right in 2026. @mainstreamlabour.bsky.social

I just signed a @mainstreamlabour.bsky.social petition - Guarantee a Fair and Open Selection for the Gorton and Denton By-election. Sign here: actionnetwork.org/petitions/gu...

Thrilled to be standing with these formidable candidates for Labour Party's NEC. Please do get in contact if you have any questions and let us/we know when your NEC nomination meetings are. Thanks Cat

A route for Andy Burnham to return to Parliament? labourlist.org/2026/01/susp...

Angela Rayner is right. We promised to “finally bring the feudal leasehold system to an end”, including banning the sale of new leasehold flats. The manifesto also added: “We will tackle unregulated and unaffordable ground rent charges.” We must stick to our campaign pledges.

There's still time for the government to do the right thing and deliver the Hillsborough Law in full. It's what we promised as a party and it's the right thing to do.

That's because if you scratch the surface of the Green Party, there's LOADS of blue underneath. Here in Hyndburn, they literally propped up the Tories. They're the Conservatives for cowards. Vote 🟢 get 🔵

The Tory Winning Machine is cranking into overdrive. Defections. Deals. Rebrands. This isn’t a merger, it’s a hostile takeover. A Trojan Horse operation to swallow Reform whole and repaint it Tory blue. Same old party. New wrapping. Same betrayal. #ToryTakeover

As much harm as social media does, it also does a lot of good. For example, young people who feel different, isolated, queer, trans, or just lost… Finding others like you online can be life-saving. Teach kids to use SM responsibly, safely. Bans don't work.

No. Reform voters will never vote for Labour being a 'Reform-lite' when they have the real thing. Our hope as a party is with a clear, solid, centre-left vision that speaks to ordinary people. Progressive, bold, believable. Stop pandering to the right. magazine.newstatesman.com/2026/01/09/o...

Brexit broke Britain. Rejoining the single market could help fix it. Farage and Reform? They’d rather burn the house down than admit they knowingly lit the match.

What a class act Tim Walz is, a real leader. Calm, compassionate, and unafraid to call out this shocking killing of Renee Nicole Good by ICE thugs. Imagine a world where Kamala Harris and Walz were in charge. What a contrast to Trump’s chaos and cowardice.

📉 Nowcast: Reform fall short of a majority for the first time since July. Turns out hate, blame and empty slogans don’t build trust—or run councils. Voters are waking up.

A very good read. “Appeasers get eaten (...) It’s very important to remember that if people are offered two versions of a particular political brand, they will always choose the genuine one.” alanrusbridger.substack.com/p/neil-kinno...

Clement Attlee, born #OnThisDay in 1883 Built the NHS Created the welfare state Built council homes Nationalised key industries Raised the school leaving age Not radical. Just necessary. Bold. Believable. Deliverable. We’ve done it before. We can do it again. 🌹 @mainstreamlabour.bsky.social

Whenever I’m wrestling with complex moral dilemmas—war, justice, the death penalty- I always ask myself: what's Biggins hot take on this? 🤷‍♂️🤣

👍 Agree with @paulnowaktuc.bsky.social A UK-EU customs union isn’t just sensible—it’s vital for growth, jobs, economic and political stability 🛃 Cut red tape. 🛒 Lower food prices. 🚛 Unblock supply chains. Ignore the Brexit zealots. America isn’t the ally it once was.

Everyone should take five minutes to read this on Christmas Day www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Two bits of good news from Labour this week: 🐾 A bold new Animal Welfare Bill 🧒 Real support for care leavers These are the policies the public welcomes. This is Labour at our best—principled, compassionate, forward-looking. No need to echo Reform’s division. Lead with hope. More of this 🙌

📉 Reform’s poll slide isn’t just numbers—it’s a warning. You can only run on rage and division for so long before people crave hope. We as Labour must now seize this moment. No more pandering. Set out a bold, believable vision rooted in positivity and purpose. 🌹 #Labour

What does Mainstream's mission mean to me? A Labour Party that speaks to and up for regular people—and those who can’t speak up for themselves. Policies that are bold but believable, radical in impact but rooted in real life, making genuine positive changes for everyone.

Happy Winter Solstice — the shortest day of the year! From here on, the evenings start stretching out again. Bit by bit, the light returns 😊

UPDATE: Employment Rights Bill passed! Labour delivering: ✅ Better Pay ✅ Better Conditions ✅ Better Jobs Labour in action

This is how you take on Reform. Labour will never 'out-Reform' them, and nor should we. Let's tackle soaring rents, profiteering landlords and help fix the housing system that is treating so many people so badly. @labourlist.bsky.social @generationrent.bsky.social labourlist.org/2025/12/labo...

Nasty, misogynistic, chaotic and clueless. Seven months of Reform UK running Lancashire County Council. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Will we see Corbyn set up his own "Me me me" party?

I doubt either Corbyn's or Sultana's egos will cope with not being leader, so could we see splinter parties to add to this already disastrous movement? It's rapidly turning into a Pythonesque Peoples Front of Judea, Judean People's Front moment.

Great Harwood's fantastic Town Crier Rawden Kerr delivering the Lancashire Cry outside Churchfield House for Lancashire Day 🌹 Thanks too to the Civic Society and the volunteers at Churchfield House. 🙏 #lancashire #lancashireday #lancashireday2025 #hyndburn #greatharwood

Happy Lancashire Day 🌹

⬛ Fascism Isn’t Fashion Reform UK is selling black football-style shirts with “Farage No.10” on the back. They call it cheeky. Patriotic. Just a bit of fun. But history isn’t laughing. 🧵

Thank you to the Great Harwood Branch of the Royal British Legion for a very poignant Armistice Day Service today on the Town Gate. An impeccably observed two minutes silence from all who attended. Lest we forget

Basically, we need to be finding Traitor viewers that would rather be Faithfuls than Traitors to get the Labour vote out for the next set of elections. 🤷‍♂️

Lee Anderson boasts about “gaming the system” at Citizens Advice—then uses it to justify slashing support for anxious young people. This isn’t a critique of CAB. It’s a dubious confession from a Reform MP who sees compassion as weakness and lived experience as fraud.