Anti-social behaviour complaints are a big part of my inbox and have been on the increase for a while. I was pleased to raise the issue and some of the key areas in which constituents have raised it with me during Home Office questions today.
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Thank you. 🙏 I don’t travel that way often but they seemed a nightmare Pity the poor residents that have to use that route every day
CASEWORK WINS LAST WEEK! Education Nursery place secured following issue with Government Gateway Code ReclaimingCosts Supported constituent in claiming back wrongly incurred costs from the RAC Council Tax Waived Supported critically ill constituent with their claim to have Council Tax charges waived Health Hospital Trust reviewing parking arrangements following widespread complaints from patients Family Housed Expedited move for family with a disabled child following a long-running dispute with Valuation Office Agency Believe Housing Repairs carried out after constituent highlighted issues with vermin Lighting Repair Lighting column repaired for residents following their lengthy complaint with local authority DWP Intervened to get State Pension in place for constituent following delays
There's never a quiet week in my office so here's a taster of some recent wins we've had on behalf of constituents. Sometimes the small things can make a huge difference to someone, their family or a group of residents. If you ever need support please don’t hesitate to get in touch.
I just signed a @mainstreamlabour.bsky.social petition - Guarantee a Fair and Open Selection for the Gorton and Denton By-election. Sign here: actionnetwork.org/petitions/gu...
I just signed a @mainstreamlabour.bsky.social petition - Guarantee a Fair and Open Selection for the Gorton and Denton By-election. Sign here: actionnetwork.org/petitions/gu...
These discussions will inform a submission to the Department for Education ahead of the release of the SEND White Paper. I felt it was incredibly important to include the lived experiences of people in my constituency, so please get in touch if you’re interested in attending and contributing to the conversation. The venue and full agenda will be released next week to everyone who has confirmed their attendance. Please note, spaces are limited so I can only admit people based in my constituency. Contact Mary.Foy.mp@parliament.uk with your name, full address and whether you’re a family member, education provider or other organisation to express interest in attending.
CITY OF DURHAM SEND ROUNDTABLE. More info👇🏻
Calling teachers, services and families of SEND children and young people in the City of Durham constituency.
Next Thurs 22 January at 18:15, I’m holding a roundtable meeting to hear direct from families and teachers who have to navigate the SEND system.
Mary with Sarah and James
Some of the goods in jars available to be bought
More of the lovely items to be bought
The Weigh to Shop is a waste free shop, full of alternatives to plastic, the products are absolutely top quality, and there is an amazing coffee shop as well. James, Sarah and the team are so welcoming and passionate about making shopping more sustainable, it’s very clear to see how they had huge support in this competition. Next time you are in Framwellgate Moor (or even if you have to make a special trip) get yourself along! A wonderful business and worthy winners of this award. Congratulations to every single business that was nominated, I’ll be doing shout outs for each one in the run up to Christmas so we can all enjoy shopping small and shopping local! 🛍️🎄 #smallbusinesssaturday #smallbusinesssaturdayuk #shopsmallshoplocal
🥁 SMALL BUSINESS OF THE YEAR 2025 - WINNER 🏆
I’m thrilled to announce the winner of this year’s Small Business of the Year award is -The Weigh to Shop in Framwellgate Moor!
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Agree 100%Peter. All so wrong Goodness knows what people like Alf Dobbs think about it all
Keir Starmer + Shabana Mahmood propose that reintroducing Priti Patel's 2022 asylum reforms (with small tweaks) can significantly deter Channel Crossings
2022-24 shows temporary status won't deliver control re "pull factors"
Having controlled routes at scale + closing unauthorised routes could
“We welcome migrants, we don’t scapegoat them".
How Keir Starmer promised Labour MPs and members he would lead his party on immigration
The Home Secretary says "we have become the destination of choice in Europe, clearly visible to every people smuggler and would-be illegal migrant across the world"
That is a factually untrue claim: the Home Office shows that the UK is fifth, getting 1/10 claims, while Germany gets 1/5 claims
I see that Mahmood, McSweeney and Glasman (who admires Steve Bannon) are continuing to merry go round of cruelty depicted on our current front page
As keep the faith Peter, we do #safc
But what about “ethnic change”? Yes, the proportion of Islington’s population who are (like me) white British has dropped from perhaps 85% to about 40%. This change is indeed visible. For West, it is “far beyond what any group would find tolerable.” What he doesn’t and can’t say is why exactly I’m supposed to find it intolerable. Why should I, or my neighbours, be more concerned about what race or ethnicity the kids are at the local school than the quality or financing of local services, or whether the council is successfully balancing the need for more housing with the interests of long-standing residents?
I wrote about Robert Jenrick's embrace of blood and soil nationalism for @bylinetimes.bsky.social
"The British right is adopting an increasingly extreme form of ethnic identity politics, while failing to explain what the rest of us are supposed to be worried about"
bylinetimes.com/2025/08/19/r...
Cutting more public services no doubt, it’s like the Reform Council in Durham who find services already cut to the bone, These populist?politicians have no idea about how democracy works
This is devastating but hard to think of more important journalism. 18,457 children have been killed in Gaza (many more not accounted for). Here, The Guardian prints their names and beautiful faces and tells us what they were like before Israel stole their lives. www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...
We need a national conversation about a better Britain. I began in Somerset, but it needs to spread.
See brexitrage.com/a-better-bri...
Brexit is Farage's achilles' heel. We must move the Overton Window back into place. See our YouTube film on the matter.
#Brexit #FarageRiots #RejoinEU
currently at record-high search interest for canceling disney plus. pulling kimmel is a bigger deal to the company's bottom line than any of the "woke" scandals of the past 5 years. i think news & entertainment corp execs need put more work into understanding their audience, & get off twitter
I’m with Kinnock. Does anyone remember small boats bring a crisis before Brexit?
Me and Helen Mirren: Life after 80
open.substack.com/pub/eyesande... from @bobhudson.bsky.social A great weekend read
Couldn’t agree more Let’s hope the UK government follows her lead
I think Musk's comments to a rally of 100k people are the highest profile advocacy of political violence in the UK since the end of the Northern Ireland conflict. Does anybody have a counter-example?
"Whether you choose violence or not, violence is coming to you. You either fight back or you die."
Eyes & Ears North East
eyesandearsnortheast.substack.com?utm_campaign...
An interesting and informative read
Just imagine if we tried to interfere in American politics like Musk does in UK politics
This man RFK Jr is the biggest threat to public health in my lifetime
Please you good Americans who know this , continue to show how dangerous he is
RFK Jr and Democrats spar in tense hearing about chaos at federal health agencies and vaccines – live updates
Ocado handed out 221 million plastic bags last year! 😱 Sign the petition and tell them to ditch single-use bags for good. you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/oc...
The perpetrator of this horrendous act should be behind bars
