Hassocks & Hurstpierpoint Labour

In February 2026, annual gross median wage of a UK employee was £31,032, £25,863 after income tax and NIC. Hard to survive, raise families, buy home, save for pension. Meanwhile, 1% have more wealth than 70% of the population combined. ons.gov.uk/employmentandl…

Sorry @EdwardJDavey I have stood up for you when @RoryStewartUK has attacked your “silly stunts” as he calls them because I know how hard it can be for smaller parties to get attention. But this is BS on a @Nigel_Farage scale. Nobody alive imagines that Churchill legend will wane because we see his face less on a banknote. And the public demand (inc I imagine many many LibDems) is for our nature and wildlife to be celebrated alongside our great humans. Leave the culture wars to the bullshitters who have nothing else to offer. These are really serious times. Be serious.

✅Waiting lists fell by 43,000 in January - down 374,000 over the past 18 months. ✅Ambulance response times are now the fastest in five years, with average waits for heart attacks and strokes under 29 minutes. ✅A&E waits are the shortest they’ve been in four years.

Since privatisation water companies have taken more than £85billion in dividend and piled up more than £60billion of debt. Yet all capital and operational costs are covered by bill payers. So why keep a privatised structure for a natural monopoly like water?

Working people are now facing a Donald Trump-made cost of living crisis & the Tories & Reform are cheerleading on a military misadventure that will drive up prices. The government must stand ready to pull out all the stops and shield households and firms from this global shock.

@AndrewBowie_MP If I have to read one more article from a Tory describing North Sea oil as “ours” I’ll scream. YOU PRIVATISED ALL PRODUCTION AND SOLD EXTRACTION LICENCES TO INTERNATIONAL COMPANIES WHO THEN OWN THE OIL AND WHOSE PRICES ARE SET BY INTERNATIONAL MARKETS

North Sea Oil question “we should get it from our own North Sea Oil” is GROSSLY misleading from @susannareid100 on @GMB to @SteveReedMP North Sea oil is NOT cheaper for the UK. The Tories sold them off and the price is now set on the GLOBAL market. Susanna knows this @LBC

There is increasing panic in the right wing movements due to Starmer making the completely right calls over involvement in the war...... Now they have sunk to this level (they forget US only got involved to save themselves - as usual - after Pearl Harbour)

I've joined @UKLabour. As an environmentalist and left-leaning social democrat, my views are now far closer to Labour than the increasingly radicalised Greens and are much better reflected in the work of people like Ed Miliband and Sadiq Khan than by Zack Polanski or Mothin Ali.

Melania Trump is chairing a UN Security Council meeting. I'm not joking. The US currently holds the presidency of the council and that's who Trump chose as chair.

Energy bills will fall in April because the government has delivered on its promise. bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

Everyone deserves a decent, safe, secure and affordable home in which to live. Today, our new £39 billion Social and Affordable Homes Programme opens for bids. At least 60% of homes delivered through the programme will be for Social Rent.

Representation, not red tape. ❌ Today, most of the Tories' 2016 Trade Union Act was scrapped, removing restrictions designed to tie unions up in knots.  Now our unions can get on with representing members and fighting for better pay and conditions. labourunions.org.uk/deliverinfull/

@BBCNews Let's get it right, BBC. Those Councils will all disappear in a year's time or less, due to reorganisation. The votes are a waste of time & money, which councils can't afford after 14yrs of Tory funding cuts. The councils *asked for* a delay. All Govt did was agree to allow it.

🌱Cleaner, greener energy starts with putting communities at the heart of local power. Plans for community-run solar and wind projects will aim to lower bills, support local investment, and give neighbourhoods a stronger say in how energy is generated. Cutting costs, boosting clean power, and handing more control back to local communities ⚡️

Great to be in Hastings where we announced 40 more neighborhoods will benefit from Pride in Place. Communities like this are the backbone to our society - that’s why we’re backing them to deliver the change they want to see.

Local people in 40 new areas across England will be able to decide where up to £20 million is invested in their neighbourhood. From saving youth centres to building new sports hubs and breathing new life into high streets. gov.uk/government/new…

The Epstein files offer a rare look at how power actually operates in the world. They also expose how thoroughly our media has failed at its most basic duty: speaking truth to power.

What should alarm us about the Epstein files isn’t just the appalling details. It is the degree to which enormously wealthy and powerful people live by their own rules — and continue to get away with it. It’s a club where the rules and the law don't apply. And you’re not in it.

"His behaviour was unequivocally wrong." The PM's chief secretary Darren Jones says Lord Mandelson should quit the House of Lords over allegations about his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein