Mandie Shilton Godwin

Thanks to Mcr #Labour we now have 82 more neighbourhood police officers helping to keep us safe 🌲🌹

Double congratulations to you and your colleagues, Mandie 🎉

Fab night at the @walkridegm.org.uk awards tonight, with Cllr Anthony. Manchester won Best Council and Best Scheme (Deansgate)..amazing. Thanks to brilliant officers ...sorry Cllr Tracey couldn't be there .
And thanks to WalkRideChorlton for the peleton home along the Floop..

Money launderers, fraudsters, tax dodgers and sanctions evaders have all used Britain's own Overseas Territories to hide and stash their dirty cash.

Our reputation as a clean and fair place to do business has been dragged through the mud. It is time to throw open the books.

My guide to populist-proofing your democracy – before it’s too late | Timothy Garton Ash From public service broadcasting to an independent judiciary, these are the things that we must fight to keep, says Guardian columnist Timothy Garton Ash

Very interesting article by #TimothyGartonAsh much to reflect on in these difficult times

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BREAKING: This is huge news, the EU's equivalent of the 🇺🇸Supreme Court's 2015 Obergefell v. Hodges ruling.

🇪🇺Court of Justice just ruled all 🇪🇺countries must recognise same-sex marriages granted in other member states.

This effectively legalises gay marriage across 🇪🇺

I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.

They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1

📣New data shows London cycling is soaring:

📈 12% up from last year to 1,500,000 daily journeys
📈 that's 43% up from 2019

🚲Cycleway Network grows to 431km (up from 90km in 2016)
😎 & 76% of London cyclists feel safe our routes

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The annual gambling stats report from the regulator, the day before a Budget in which the industry is trying to resist a tax grab on online gambling.

Online gross income up 13%.

Is there anything we can do to alleviate flash floods in the West Midlands Experts say housebuilding and concrete drives are making floods worse, but that there are things we can do.

‘Is there anything we can do to alleviate flash flooding?’

Lots - & it’s good to see @floodmary.bsky.social talking here about working with nature, reducing paved areas & rain gardens

But we also need land use change across whole catchments - more trees, restored peat
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Leading the way: National Estate for Nature agrees shared objectives to accelerate nature recovery The National Estate for Nature group has taken an important step forward in its mission to drive nature recovery across England’s major estates. Read this post to find out more.

Great to see that the National Estate for Nature Group - whose members own c.10% of England - have agreed to "publish estate management plans by April 2026", setting out how each of them are contributing to 30x30 & Environment Act targets.

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Seven Assisted Dying Bill opponents table 587 amendments between them Today, members of the House of Lords will debate the Terminally Ill Adults Bill for the first sitting of Committee Stage. Baroness Finlay of Llandaff, Baroness Grey-Thompson, Lord Carlile of Berriew, ...

I'm all for the Lords revising the work of the Commons and improving legislation before it receives Royal Assent.

But, 587 amendments from seven peers isn't scrutiny.

It's wrecking the clearly expressed will of the elected House of Commons.

Those peers responsible should be ashamed.

@mandiesg.bsky.social

There is a Chorlton Blue Plaque group - part of Chorlton Civic

Spent the afternoon in #ChorltonPark.. another group is gettlng started to measure the water quality in the Brook, in partnership with @unitedutilities.bsky.social . The Friends goes from strength to strength..a fantastic local group

Be careful what you wish for. Have you checked the balance sheet and the revenue accounts? #justsaying

@pdsg.bsky.social your great great great great grandad you say..... you should sign up?

Good grief, fourteen years....

Who remembers when Nigel Farage told everyone to ignore those ‘clever people’ warning that smoking kills millions of people every year?

This week is #floodweek and Flood Re were in #Manchester with advice on how to protect your home.
For all things #flood in the NW check out thefloodhub.co.uk lots of useful information and advice

Representing GM at this regional event on #flood risk. Looking forward to a day of learning about how we can do this better and especially hearing about #naturebasedsolutions

In a world where techlords rule us by whim, Australia’s stance against deepfakes is reason to celebrate | Van Badham Could courage be contagious? Let’s hope so, because in the absence of powerful regulation, the normalisation of awful blooms

www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/oct/05/techlords-rule-us-by-whim-australia-stance-against-deepfakes-is-reason-to-celebrate?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

Andy Burnham,
"We always will stand together"

"And we will never let acts that are designed to cause hatred, division, violence, to succeed"

"That's our message tonight: do not let them succeed"

A stroll down Manchester's Oxford Road before teaching this evening. Crowds of students of every complexion & from all parts of the world. The road almost free of cars - just pedestrians, cyclists and the odd electric bus. New green spaces in abundance. An intensely heartening antidote to Farageism.

Anna Dixon statement on threats of death and violence I want local residents to be aware that I have received threats of death and violence directly posted in response to a misleading video recently shared by the MP for Keighley and Ilkley, Robbie Moore....

I want residents to be aware that I have received threats of death and violence directly posted in response to a misleading video recently shared by the MP for Keighley and Ilkley, Robbie Moore.

See my full statement below:

Corbyn clashes with Sultana over membership portal as split emerges in new party Ex-Labour leader says ‘legal advice being taken’ over issue, while Sultana claims ‘sexist boys’ club’ is running party

But who says the 'new party' is left wing'? I'm not convinced many of those 'independents' are...they're likely to be socially conservative..elected on one issue only and not sharing much of otherwise progressive views..

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Absolutely

BBC under fresh pressure over extent of Reform UK coverage Nigel Farage’s party featured in considerably more News at Ten bulletins than Lib Dems over six months, study finds

This is a self fulfilling prophesy… the reason they’re polling well is they’ve had free uncritical coverage , not the pther way round. Reform is essentially a BBC creation www.theguardian.com/media/2025/s...

How reaching net zero could cut global fuel costs by $1tr a year New modelling from BloombergNEF suggests investing just 0.7 per cent of GDP in the net zero transition could unlock huge financial savings - and avert a rolling climate crisis

Net Zero: saving our world and saving money. Now there's a win-win - if only voters knew about it.

"New modelling from BloombergNEF suggests investing just 0.7 per cent of GDP in the net zero transition could unlock huge financial savings - and avert a rolling climate crisis."