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Grant Mayos 
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Watch Manager Fire and Rescue Service: Very Blue Labour thinker: British and proud of it. Views are entirely my own and not those of my employer.
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Lesβ¦stop being all flibbitty jibbityβ¦.whether you like it or not people are going to stand up and speak up using platforms over this weird Boris esq tribalism thatβs going on. Itβs as cringeworthy as nadine dorres !!
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Fresh out of our Welsh Lamb kitchen, this caramelised Welsh Lamb chops and roasted veg traybake recipe will become a new summer favourite. Simple one tray cooking with delightful results!
Full ingredient list and recipe on our website: bit.ly/3PBxXEA
#LoveWelshLamb
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π¨ NEW BLOG: "It's your union. If you want to change things, use the democratic structures," FBU leaders tell members. But what is the point when they consistently refuse to action policies agreed by the union's parliament? β¬οΈ
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Chris McGlone did not resign from the FBU. His status as an Ordinary Member ceased on retirement. Like everyone else.
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In response to our latest blog, Les is doubling down, repeating his claim that βgreat stridesβ have been made over the past seven years in recruiting non-Grey-Book workers. The claim is, of course, utterly unsustainable. The whole exercise has been a major failure. Read our blog.
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Replying to @CampaignFBU and @stewartkinnon
At the June EC meeting we identified 226 Green Book members, that number is growing every day. Some regions attract more than others but great strides have been made. Remember the Brid agrmnt and the Rule Book has to be taken into account. We continue that work.
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It seems that a number of senior FBU officials have us in their sights. They are circling their wagons in defence of a tired and discredited leadership. We wear their attacks as a badge of honour. This is the litany of wrongdoing they are defending. β¬οΈ
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We didn't "accuse" you of anything. We merely pointed out the obvious truth that is was highly unusual for senior union officials to require questions to be submitted in advance of a meeting with members. If you can't take legitimate criticism, perhaps the job isn't for you.
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This seems to have become the standard rebuttal of senior FBU officials to any criticism of their actions: "Raise it at your branch meeting." It's pure deflection - a bit like Keir Starmer saying, "Raise it at your CLP meeting" whenever some criticises him.
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Replying to @CampaignFBU and @Skagsy
Iβm not defending anything, explaining the case was made by conference in May. Other conference announcements mean thereβs other factors. Iβm sure you can get the latest update at your next branch meeting
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The position has been vacant FOR OVER A YEAR. That is clearly a breach of the rule book. And despite annual conference instructing the leadership to run the election, it still hasn't commenced three months later. Please stop defending these unacceptable failings.
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Well, I'm still an active member of and would be willing to be part of any media campaign putting the case for firefighters and the fire service. They know where to find me.
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An interview with me for on the state of the Labour party, immigration, and whether I would ever join the Tories.
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I am NOT anti vax
Myself & my wife Lisa both had the vaccine
Sadly, Lisa isnβt here any more because of it.
That is a fact I have to face up to daily.
Rare, unlucky⦠perhaps.
But whatever you want to call it, Lisa was undoubtedly my ONE IN A MILLION π
#VaccineDeaths
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In honor of the very talented Bernard Cribbins, who brilliantly played Mr. Hutchinson on Fawlty Towers. Iβve just heard he passed today at 93.
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Happy Birthday Daughter no2 Lucy have great day love ya
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BREAKING: Shadow transport minister Sam Tarry sacked after appearing on picket line during rail strike.
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A great result. Hats off to , which seems to be the only trade union willing to resist the creeping authoritarianism we are seeing in the workplace. The rest of the trade union movement has failed abjectly to stand up for freedom of expression.
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With our help, Simon Isherwood has won his Employment Tribunal case against West Midlands Trains! The rail conductor was dismissed for gross misconduct after asking whether indigenous populations enjoy 'black privilege' in African countries during a diversity training course.
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The annual report shows only broad revenue and expenditure streams. It does not show specific transactions. Those are contained in the full accounting records, which the unionβs leadership unsuccessfully fought tooth and nail to keep under wraps.
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Iβll never stop speaking up for firefighters and the fire service. The fact that was found by an employment tribunal to have unfairly dismissed me after a βwitch-huntβ instigated by wonβt stop me doing that.
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Replying to @edzblue @PaulEmbery and @fbunational
@PaulEmbery was shit on by the Fire Service Union and he still promotes their best interests. Talk about rising aboveβ¦
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#elanvalley #visitwales #cymru
#nature #grounding
Get outside tweeple - get away from the BS and connect with nature β£οΈβ¨οΈ
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FBU members are being badly let down by a sclerotic and authoritarian leadership. A change is long overdue.
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Not a single media interview with the general secretary or his deputy during one of the most tumultuous weeks in the modern history of the UK fire and rescue service, and when the FBU was presented with the ideal opportunity to make the case on cuts and pay. Not good enough.
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Well, quite.
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Can we have an explanation, please, ? The past 48 hours have provided an ideal opportunity for the union to get its message across in the media. Yet senior officials have been conspicuous by their absence. What is going on?
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Replying to @waterfairymick @tel_leigh and @fbunational
The absence of FBU officials from the media over the past couple of days is bizarre. We need an explanation. I know from experience that it is very likely the union's head office would have been besieged with requests for interviews.
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After taking 3 bullets in Vietnam (2 in the neck), beating a 6 month life expectancy prognosis in 2004 (stage 4 colon cancer), & surviving a widowmaker heart attack a handful of years ago, my dad, my favorite veteran, & my biggest hero turns 76 today. Can he get a RT & HBD? β€οΈπ₯³
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I have consistently asked to take part in a head-to-head debate with me about the appalling manner in which our union is being run, but he point-blank refuses.
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RBL for the past 10 years I have tried to attend the festival of Remembrance in memory of my Son Pte Daniel Wade I have volunteered for the poppy appeal for 10 years plus my Son even sold poppies for the legion. Yet I am never accepted to go I'm his Mum next of kin WHY Not ????
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Omg fuck off!!!!!!!!!! Just fuck off with these bullshit headlines!!!! If I melt I melt!!!!
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I just switched on the BBC, the weather woman was waxing lyrical about how sheβs never known heat like this as she pointed to a map of the UK in blood red colours, to make the earth look scorched. The hyperbole and rhetoric of fear is utterly shameful. Itβs summer for Godβs sake.
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I'll have you know. . that whomsoever wins this race, I will NOT support any more lockdowns, mask-wearing, or WEF ideology. Just so you know...
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How they used to present summer VS how they present it now.
It's all part of an attempt to terrify the British public.
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Mine would be to get rid of the Welsh gov - that would be a start! ππ
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Always saddened when seeing the planning vandalism in Cardiff. New soulless buildings with grey concrete everywhere. Hardly any trees planted in wide dull spaces, yet Labour expect farmers to plant trees on food producing land π€·ββοΈ
Planning needs to change. Labour needs to change.
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Iβm a survivor of the summer of 1976.
What a time to be alive. It was amazing. I was 15 and the No government as I remember instructed me in how to behave.
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Why is today's generation of politicians (including the current Tory leadership contenders) so timid? Where is the radicalism, the big ideas and ideological arguments? I try to provide an answer. β¬οΈ
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I'll tell you something, Ash. If you think I'm guilty of a "moral panic" because I object to a biological male p**sing in the same female toilet space as my 12-year-old daughter, you're an enemy of mine and I wouldn't want you anywhere near my kids.
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My side of the argument is that trans people should be able to live their lives in peace and dignity. And, instead of having a big moral panic about who pisses where, politicians should concentrate on dealing with a cost of living crisis which is going to kill people this winter. twitter.com/PaulEmbery/staβ¦
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Huge congratulations to what an incredible humble man that showed so much respect to Kyrgios. Itβs a disgrace that heβs currently been stopped from playing on the USA and Australia.
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Cost-of-living crisis, public services not working, real wages crashing, housing crisis, huge gap between rich and poor, millions in insecure employment, crackpot cultural revolutionaries on the march β¦ Amid all the SW1 drama, these are the things that matter. Donβt forget it.
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"Human beings cannot change sex. It is not hateful to say that. I was a victim of discrimination because I stated that biological sex is real - a view shared by the vast majority of people in this country. I hope employers will take note of the judgment."
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Itβs gaining momentum. People will go hungry
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The world keeps turning, in spite of events in Westminster. In the Netherlands, farmers are protesting at plans advanced by the Hague that they say will see 30 per cent of Dutch farms close.
Food security is rising up the global political agenda.
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Happy Birthday to this total unit
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