Helen Rooker MBE

@forwardnotback @UKLabour And white

So we already have Starmer Streeting Carns Burnham (If the voters of Makerfield elect him) Already declared as candidates for the @UKLabour leadership”, so at least we will have a contest for getting 81 MPs stage But note it is very male!

@GeorgeFoulkes @PolitlcsUK @macnahgalla Or make it a women's only short list?

@PolitlcsUK @macnahgalla If there is a by-election in Makerfield shouldn’t the local members choose the candidate?

🚨 BREAKING: Labour MP Josh Simons will resign to trigger a by-election in Makerfield to give Andy Burnham a route back to Parliament

@GeorgeFoulkes @PolitlcsUK @macnahgalla Yes

@forwardnotback Has anyone asked Jess how she feels about HH?

Yesterday it was all about an orderly handover with a transitional period with a timescale leading to a new leader Today arrogance, tantrums and an apparent desperation to mimic the tories chaos and drama mode of government I was never Starmer’s biggest fan, I didn’t vote for

@forwardnotback @NanSloane @UKLabour Off to knock up in Brum!

@NanSloane @UKLabour Amazing service

Without predicting any results other than to say I don’t believe the predictions that @UKLabour will lose 1900 cllrs (net) When the losses do come in, however many, I do hope that those Labour activists, members and MPs who have spent 18 months kicking lumps out of the government

@forwardnotback Great! Don't overdo stuff!

Morning ❤️ First night I woke up at 1am and 6am expecting blood pressure checks - a bit disorientated Other than that I slept really well Now waiting for carer/helper to arrive so I can have some breakfast and a shower - a bit weird not having someone wake me up with a menu😀

@forwardnotback Hurrah!! Tip - make sure pharmacy have got all your drugs ready to go!!

Morning Last BREAKFAST

@forwardnotback @macmillancancer Yum!!

Zak - A surprise (early) visitor on his way to steward for @macmillancancer in the #LondonMarathon Decent gift from #Edinburgh

@forwardnotback Oh what a shame but pre-discharge compensates!

They sorted in a window space 😂😂😂😂 But daylight is daylight!

I’m being moved downstairs to another cardiac ward - Evan Jones ward on the 3rd floor - clinically supported decision to support my transition to discharge So I will be losing this amazing view (They are trying to get me a window bed! But no guarantee)

@forwardnotback All sounds positive - warmer weather on the way - May the sun shine on you

… deal with on a daily basis and keep going will never cease to amaze me

The thing about living with heart failure (hate the term) is the rapid exhaustion that overwhelms you It is improving - thank you drugs - but little things like getting dressed or eating leave me totally knackered at times Walking with a frame is easier than it was and I’m …

@AndrewMarr9 No

Should Keir Starmer resign? magazine.newstatesman.com/2026/04/19/sho…

@forwardnotback Fingers crossed ...

Morning Just a light breakfast this morning I might have some big news soon 😀

@forwardnotback Good grief!!

40ish years ago this magnificent Yukka was in a pot on the sideboard 😳

@DerbyshireHag @CforWomenUK @ForWomenScot He's got matching socks!

@CforWomenUK @ForWomenScot Lord Rooker #6 - is not a number! he is a free man!

Labour Peer, Lord Rooker, magnificantly angry in House of Lords today over EHRC Code of Practice publication delay. "It's an absolutely disgraceful way to operate!" @ForWomenScot 1/

@forwardnotback Hogwash from a scratchy minister - hiding behind purdah

@HelenRooker Quite possibly ✅✅

Taking too long but at last a little bit of movement and promise of action to come “The government received the updated [EHRC] draft Code draft on 13 April. The Code will apply across Great Britain” Blaming local election purdah is puzzling questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-statem…

@forwardnotback Hope all gone well.

A rude awakening at 545 for my last food before “nil by mouth”for the thing to happen today It should only take a few hours to fit the ICD and all the wiring Amazing a couple of weeks ago this had been ruled out They really are “rebuilding Tim” See you on the others side 😀

@forwardnotback What about your greens?😱

And no! I am not going on a tour of UK hospitals with cardiac/heart units to review the food Hopefully this will be my last 😀

First dinner in London Pork Goulash and mash Apple Crumble Clementine

@forwardnotback @PHU_NHS Good news

Ambulance coming at 6pm(ish) to transfer me to St Thomas’s, London Thank you Queen Alexandra Hospital @PHU_NHS your staff from A&E, Resus, Critical Care and C6 ward - everyone involved in my care have been exceptional Thank for saving my life A credit to the #NHS

@forwardnotback He was hopeless ....

… isn’t the most talented or able member of the parliamentary Labour Party or the cabinet A friend calls him the “north London Burnham” personally I think he fails on that comparison As an aside I think Miatta Fahnbulleh is his protege/project and he would support her in a …

Please can we stop talking about Ed Miliband Under his leadership the rot and nonsense that enabled Corbynism, led to 14 hard years of opposition and a @UKLabour not fit for purpose The public rejected him in 2015 preferring to hand Cameron an outright majority I am sure a …