Leader @hantsconnect Cllr for Romsey Rural &@testvalleybc; passionate about #adoption, the hubby & our dotty family; #Eurovision nut Everything is now my fault

Test Valley
Joined May 2008
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โš ๏ธ A3090 closed between Hursley & Ampfield this morning due to a fallen tree blocking both ways. Our crews are working to remove the tree but please find an alternative route where possible.
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๐Ÿ—ฃ๏ธMany thanks to Wendy Morton MP @morton_wendy who has secured a Westminster Hall Debate next Wednesday on the National Scheme of Delegation. The LGA Conservative Group is firm, these regulations must be repealed!
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Absolutely brilliant from Kemi Badenoch. Nice push back against one of the โ€˜journalistsโ€™.
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Iโ€™m in Edinburgh and being asked a lot of questions about ITVโ€™s Reform expose. The reported comments show yet again why weโ€™re not doing deals with Reform. We want Reform voters back, not Reform politicians. Reform voters are being let down by the people who claim to represent them. Many of these people were the ones who let them down in the Conservative Party. We are now under new management. These people caused a lot of problems and is why I say Nigel Farage has been doing my spring cleaning. These problems will keep coming for Reform. Just as Farage is being investigated, so is Robert Jenrick, and so is Richard Tice. These problems will never end because of the kind of people they are - they donโ€™t care about high standards of conduct. That is why I am showing those voters who want to defeat Labour but left the Conservative Party that itโ€™s time to come home. We are under new management, and you deserve better than this.
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๐ŸŒก๏ธ International E-Waste Day! If your handheld fan or cooling device is broken, donโ€™t bin it ๐Ÿ“ท These items can cause fires at recycling facilities ๐Ÿ”ฅ Find your nearest electrical recycling point: recyclenow.com/recycle-an-itโ€ฆ Video by @VeoliaUK #HampshireRecycles
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Last week I called Andy Burnham's speech consequential, but it was very much full, as Ed Davey said, full of 'definitely maybes' by 2040. @KemiBadenoch delivered a belter of a speech today, full of sparkle, but also setting out basic Conservative principles and full of policy meat. The IHT promise will get the headlines but there was far more to it than that. The stuff about the Reform "weirdos" and ruling our reuniting the right should get attention, plus the passage on her ethnicity and what it means to be English, where she absolutely socked it to Suella Braverman without naming her. The passage on how to bring about growth was especially strong. I've been attending party conferences for 40 years. This one got off to a slow start, but ended with the party members going home with a spring in their step. Rarely, if ever, in those 40 years, have I seen a party so united behind its leader - both MPs and party members. And to achieve that within less than two years of becoming leader is quite an achievement. Yes, last year's conference speech was a turning point, but so was her firing of Robert Jenrick. With one decisive step, she ripped out the cancer, and has never looked back. It's now up to her shadow cabinet to demonstrate that this isn't a one woman party.
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What a conference! ๐Ÿคฉ The LGA Conservative Group have had a highly successful conference - meeting and catching up with thousands of councillors across the country. Local Government is at the very heart of the Conservative Party! ๐Ÿ’ช
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๐Ÿ”ต๐Ÿ‘‰ Add your name to our open letter to the Prime Minister on the National Scheme of Delegation, before it comes into effect on the 31 October! Please contact the team, or check your WhatsApp groups to sign it! โœ๏ธ Letโ€™s send this Government a strong, unified message! ๐Ÿ’ช
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๐Ÿ”ตThis evening @Katie_Lam_MP, Shadow Secretary of State for Local Government, joined the LGA Conservative Group to take questions from Conservative Group Leaders'. More to come at @CPC26 in a few days time!
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Zoe Hollowood is incredibly brave to challenge her party in this way. I know what itโ€™s like to state biological sex is real and be attacked for speaking common sense and telling the truth. She is not on my side of the political spectrum, but courage calls to courage everywhere. Zoe should be supported in trying to get the Lib Dems to stop being silly, follow the law and respect the supreme court judgement.
Yesterday our chair @hollowood_zoe asked @LibDems conference in a trans debate: "In 2026, are women allowed rights? Rights to dignity. Rights to safety. Rights to say no." Conference resoundingly voted 'no' thus deciding that women were second class citizens. ๐Ÿงต
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This. Absolutely.
The questions are still difficult. Theyโ€™re just easier to answer when you: ๐Ÿง  use common sense ๐Ÿ“š do your homework ๐Ÿ“ have a planโ€ฆ and actually give an honest answer! ๐Ÿ˜
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The Labour government cut Wandsworth Councilโ€™s budget by 40%. It speaks volumes that Andy Burnham is happy to slash the funding for Conservative-run councils, but wonโ€™t touch the bloated welfare bill.
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The Fair Funding Review removes a further ยฃ42m from @Hantsconnect budget. Those of us who have kept Council Tax low & costs down have few leavers to pull. It's entirely disingenuous of Ben to suggest this is a choice. It is not for Wandsworth - it's forced on them by Labour.
Lying by omission is still lying, Ben You conveniently forgot to mention that Burnham, Rayner and Co. have just changed the funding formula to raid Wandsworth (and other frugally-run councils) by ยฃ84m per annum or more Weโ€™re challenging this - youโ€™re playing dumb games
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EHDC has called on the Government to pay back the money councils spent on shelved plans for local government reorganisation. easthants.gov.uk/news/2026/gโ€ฆ
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My condolences to Prime Minister Andy Burnham and all his family. No matter how old you are, or how much you try to prepare, losing your father is a profoundly painful experience. A part of your life that has always been there is suddenly gone forever and it can feel as though a part of you wonโ€™t ever be the same again. May Roy Burnham Rest In Peace.
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A country so in love with Eurovision they make their election results like it I'm obsessed
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The Fair Funding Formula is anything but - Labour are putting up council tax in Britainโ€™s best run councils. My latest in the @spectator ๐Ÿ‘‡
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Reform are about to learn the lesson of the law of diminishing returns. In 2020, Michael Bloomberg spent $1 billion employing 2,400 staff and saturating coverage on his Presidential campaign. It came to nothing. Money is an accelerant, not a cure. If the fundamentals are good, it improves things. If theyโ€™re bad, things will get a whole lot worse. You can buy staff and advertising, but you canโ€™t buy judgement or integrity. Sometimes a bigger cheque just means you make more of the same mistakes. The Conservatives are up for the fight. We are raising millions, attracting new donors and winning back old ones because people can see what is coming. Britain does not need another protest party. It needs common sense, a serious plan and a party capable of bringing the country together. That is who we are. And it is what Reform will never be.
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Itโ€™s Romsey Show day. One of my favourites of the year. And not just for the ice cream.
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