David Key 🧡

Messages promoted by Councillor David Key, 16 North St Andrew Street, Edinburgh, EH21HJ.

I wonder why she stopped replies😂

@AndyBurnhamGM @LizzyBuchan Arbroath or Aberdeen are nice too Andy.

I can confirm that I will be requesting the permission of the NEC to stand in the Makerfield by-election. I grew up in this area and have lived here for 25 years. I care deeply about it and its people. I know they have been let down by national politics. Ten years ago, I decided to leave Westminster. Why? Because, after 16 years, I came to the conclusion that our national political system does not work for areas like ours. I learnt this fighting its failure to invest in the Wigan borough, for justice for the Hillsborough families and against its treatment of Greater Manchester during the pandemic. Over the last decade, I have been challenging this failure from the outside and building a new and better way of doing politics. We have built Greater Manchester into the fastest-growing city-region in the UK and put buses back under public control, introducing a £2 fare cap to help people with cost-of-living pressures. However, there is only so much that can be done from Greater Manchester. Much bigger change is needed at a national level if everyday life is to be made more affordable again. This is why I now seek people’s support to return to Parliament: to bring the change we have brought to Greater Manchester to the whole of the UK and make politics work properly for people. Millions are struggling and they need the Labour Government to succeed. It has already made changes to make life better for them in its first two years. After this week, we owe it to people to come back together as a Labour movement, giving the Prime Minister and the Government the space and stability they need as the by-election takes place. I want to recognise the difficult decision taken by Josh Simons and the sacrifice he and his family are making. I have worked closely with him as Mayor on issues like flooding and illegal waste dumping and have seen first-hand how effective he has been. He has put the communities of Makerfield first, made a real difference for them and should take great pride in that. Finally, I truly do not take a single vote for granted and will work hard to regain the trust of people in the Makerfield constituency, many of whom have long supported our party but lost faith in recent times. We will change Labour for the better and make it a party you can believe in again. ENDS

@BenProcter Almost time for a change of PM again. @UKLabour do better, surely Ben?

It is six days since the elections to both the Scottish and Welsh Parliaments. The Senedd has elected its presiding officers, the new first minister and the full new cabinet has been appointed. Holyrood will elect the PO tomorrow and the FM next week. Scotland do better.

Babcock International has admitted it built the first two Type 31 frigates in the wrong sequence, forcing it to spend months making £140m of changes @Telegraph @Babcockplc @CommonsDefence @ModernNavy #RoyalNavy archive.is/2026.05.13-200…

Today Sanne Dijkstra-Downie was sworn in as an MSP. I was in the room when she chose to NDA a woman to protect wrongdoing whilst destroying someone else’s career. Apparently that’s how you get ahead in politics. I still reject it. #AskSanne #AskAlex

This is a fair question to all evangelical Christians, including myself: “Dear conservative evangelicals; You gave him a pass on “grab them by the pussy.” You don’t mind that he’s an Olympics-class liar. A thirty-four count fraud conviction didn’t faze you. Not even an adjudication of rape bothered you. He’s mentioned in the Epstein documents literally 38,000 times. You don’t find it odd that he’s personally blocking the release of three million of those files. He’s the most corrupt politician in American history. He’s broken all ten of the Ten Commandments. Including taking the lives of 153 little girls whose only crime was being in school. And then he lied about it. He doesn’t go to your church. He doesn’t go to ANY church. He cheats at golf. He cheats at business. He cheats contractors. He cheats on his wives. He cheats in elections. He’s profane. Crooked. Disrespectful. Selfish. Driven by greed. By ego. By revenge. Yet here you are worshipping a golden idol in his likeness. So what is it about YOU that makes you a Christian? Bruce Lindner”

@markcousinsfilm Bonne chance Mark❤️

There were dire warnings about the impact raising Employers’ #NationalInsurance Contributions would have on charities. In TFN this month we hear from @NCVO @DSC_Charity and others that the impact has been even worse than predicted. Read it here: okt.to/ujJ7g8

@UKGovScotland Blah, blah, blah…….word salad.

What the King's Speech today means for you 🫵 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Stronger economy, stronger trade, stronger defence.

@MtarfaL Op Simnel

@MtarfaL Did that very thing in 1987 with a SKMk4 on the back of RFA Tidespring (the previous incarnation!🙂).

A good reminder of where we are today, potentially sending RFA vessels into harms way. Listen to the audio - listen to the damage control….

England is debt-ridden, going bust, with few assets. It is in terminal decline - a poor country pretending to be rich. If allowed, it will drag Scotland down with it. Its flawed political/economic system extracts wealth from its people, especially its poorest, effectively mortgaging their children's future to enrich a southeast elite. Time to get out, for our children's sake. 🙏

@ThomasKerrMSP @ReformUKScot @reformparty_uk 😂😂😂😂

The Fox is in the Hen House. Let's get to work folks 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

Multi-millionaire Keir Starmer: "The system failed my disabled brother who died in poverty" so I'll cut disabled people's benefits by 50% this April. 🙃

"Keir, put the cat down and come out. It's over"

It would be a nice touch if Labour MPs lever out Keir Starmer using a crowbar made by his dad.

Ireland will not broadcast the #Eurovision this week - and instead of the final, RTÉ will air a repeat of the Father Ted Eurovision episode A Song for Europe rte.ie/entertainment/…

There'll not be much change under Burnham.

@gowdavy @GavinKBarrie @ThomasKerrMSP 🤣🤣🤣

@ThomasKerrMSP The view of the guy who took the Glasgow Tories from 14 councillors to 2 then fucked off to Farage's mob.

John Swinney's latest pathetic childish stunt reeks of desperation. Nearly 400k Scots elected Reform MSPs - now the second largest party - yet we're excluded. Has he learned nothing from his last anti-democratic summit?

@WorkersPartyGB @janethomson1952 @AndyBurnhamGM And he's anti independence 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

Never forget @AndyBurnhamGM 1. Voted for the Iraq War 2. Supported privatisation of the NHS 3. Was a member of Labour Friends of Israel He will be just another face of the regime.