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@IanSollom Another really positive Saturday across St Neots delivering leaflets for @IanSollom to be elected as the new MP for the town.

Great to be out in Wintringham this afternoon after being out in the Eatons this morning! Finding more and more support for the Lib Dems in St Neots and Mid Cambridgeshire this weekend! 🔸🔶🔸🔶🔸

@IanSollom A top venue to stop off for a well earned break in St Neots and great to see our next MP enjoying a toastie!

Ambiance Cafe and Restaurant has been a favourite place to grab lunch when I’ve been out campaigning in the Eatons over the last 2.5 years. Nice to have an inaugural Ambiance General Election campaign lunch today!

@IanSollom @inspire2ignite_ Some seriously tasty ice cream there!

Lovely to drop in at the St Neots Citizen Hub after a morning door knocking for a delicious Scoop Nova ice cream! 🍦 (Highly recommend the coffee rocks!) Great program by @inspire2ignite_. Ready for some more door knocking now!

@IanSollom Great to see you out campaigning Ian. I know the voters of St Neots and Mid Cambridgeshire are keen to have the chance to vote Lib Dem and get a new MP.

The rain cleared up quickly for a beautiful sunny morning out hearing from voters in the Eatons! So many lifelong Conservative voters appalled by what the party has become in recent times and supporting the Lib Dems this time! 🔸🔶🔸

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The removal of performance related pay in schools is a big win and it's your win. We've been in talks with Government as a direct result of the strikes you took last year. Talks are continuing on how we can reduce teacher workload.

I believe these are live scenes from the office of the unelected dictator “President” of China. As serious and frightening as the threat from China’s “communist” dictatorship is, it is hard to take them seriously as leaders. Taiwan has elected a new president. Get over it Pooh!

I recall a few months ago how incredibly excited some people were about England’s PISA rankings. I assume the same people will be equally interested in this league table showing the impacts of poverty and poor diet on children, and equally interested in the causes of this.

@MaryWBousted I recall a few months ago how incredibly excited some people were about England’s PISA rankings. I assume the same people will be equally interested in this league table showing the impacts of poverty and poor diet on children, and equally interested in the causes of this.

The height of the average five year old has fallen 27 places in international rankings. British children suffer from an epidemic of poor food, hunger and the blighted prospects these ills bring with them. This is the product of austerity and we all know who’s to blame for that.

Hampshire Country Council have opened a consultation on what areas they should cut their services to 1.4 million residents, to ensure they meet their £132 million shortfall by April 2025 - following years of austerity cuts. The options are pretty grim😢 🧵1/

12 January 1894 | A Dutch Jew, Levi van Thijn, was born in Alkmaar. In August 1943 he was deported to #Auschwitz together with his wife Leentje and their son Marcus. None of them survived.

12 January 1893 | Polish woman Agnieszka Wachowicz was born. In #Auschwitz from 1 July 1942. No. 8134 She perished in the camp on 14 September 1942.

📞"DEFUND THE ITV!" "The woke @ITV forced the goverment to act!! What will ITV do a drama on next? The dodgy PPE contracts? The sewage scandal? The WASPI women!? This will cost us billions!" Colin from Portsmouth is furious with Toby Jones.

10 January 1890 | Dutch Jewish woman Duifie Nykerk was born in Amsterdam. On 12 October 1944 she was deported from #Theresienstadt ghetto to #Auschwitz in a transport of 1,500 Jews. She arrived at the camp on 14 October. She was murdered in a gas chamber after selection.

The Horizon sub-postmaster scandal on HIGNFY in 2021. How come ITV has to make a drama for anyone to notice?

Woman of the Day teacher and suffragette Minnie Glassman Lansbury born in 1889 in Stepney, defender of the impoverished and one of the rebel Aldermen of Poplar who went to prison for their principles in 1921. The daughter of Jewish immigrants - her father paid the £5 fee (£457.50 in today’s money) to become a British citizen, eligible to vote - Minnie married Edgar Lansbury, son of local MP George Lansbury, in 1914. She became a teacher earning £7 a month and joined the National Union of Teachers to call for equal pay for women. The following year, Minnie helped Sylvia Pankhurst and others to set up the East London Federation of Suffragettes in 1913, combining socialism with the campaign for women’s suffrage. Unlike other suffragette groups, it attracted the support of working class women and male dock workers. Just after WW1, Minnie was elected as Alderman on Poplar Council. Poplar was a poor borough with correspondingly low property rents but the Council was compelled to set a much higher rate of council tax in order to produce the same overall amount that wealthy boroughs achieved with lower rates. Extra precepts were added for London County Council, the Met Police, the Asylums Board and the Water Board. It was out of the financial reach of most residents. Poplar Council took direct action. It held down the punitive tax rate by not collecting the precepts. Minnie said: "I wish the Government joy in its efforts to get this money from the people of Poplar. Poplar will pay its share of London's rates when Westminster, Kensington, and the City do the same." London County Council and the Asylums Board responded by taking their case to the High Court. In 1921, Poplar organised a procession of 2,000 people led by the borough’s official macebearer, accompanied by a band, and carrying a banner proclaiming, "Poplar Borough Council marching to the High Court and possibly to prison". This was followed by a march of 4,000 people at Tower Hill with the leading banner: "Poplar Borough Councillors are still determined to go to prison to secure equalisation of rates for the poor Boroughs." At 32, Minnie was the youngest of thirty councillors - six of them women - who refused to charge their poorest constituents full council taxes. All thirty were sent to prison. The women, including Nellie Cressall who was pregnant, were sent to HMP Holloway. The men were sent to HMP Brixton. In Holloway, Minnie contracted pneumonia and never really recovered. She told friends "that imprisonment had weakened her physically, leaving her body unable to fight off the illness that killed her." She died on 1 January 1922, at the age of just 32. Her death was announced at a thousand-strong meeting at Bow Baths Hall: "The audience for a moment was stricken silent... Then out of the silence came a woman's cry of grief, followed by the weeping of many women." The meeting was abandoned. A few days later a crowd of thousands of mourners, mostly women, stood in the streets as her coffin passed by. George Lansbury wrote this moving tribute to his daughter-in-law in the Daily Herald: “Minnie, in her 32 years, crammed double that number of years' work compared with what many of us are able to accomplish. Her glory lies in the fact that with all her gifts and talents one thought dominated her whole being night and day: How shall we help the poor, the weak, the fallen, weary and heavy-laden, to help themselves? When, a soldier like Minnie passes on, it only means their presence is withdrawn, their life and work remaining an inspiration and a call to us each to close the ranks and continue our march breast forward.” Two years later, her widower, Edgar, married Moyna Macgill. Their daughter was Angela Lansbury, the actress. Minnie Lansbury is commemorated with a Memorial Clock in Bow Road, Tower Hamlets. Her name and picture are on the plinth of Millicent Fawcett’s statue in Parliament Square.

Thinking hard about our best bets for Year 11 success this summer. Some of things we’re doing are here 🧵:

1/ The Post Office Horizon scandal is an appalling miscarriage of justice. It is utterly gutting to see so many families’ lives destroyed. It’s awful to see the Conservative Party weaponising this tragedy to distract from their failure to get compensation to the victims quickly.