Ben Obese-Jecty MP

What an incredible 2024!

Thank you so much to everyone. These first six months have been an honour to be your Member of Parliament. I’ve loved every minute of it and I look forward to making sure that next year is even better.

Happy New Year and here’s to a brilliant 2025.

This week in Parliament I was able to highlight the amazing work of Freda and John Grace, whose Christmas lights display at their house in Sawtry is an incredible effort!

It was great to see their efforts congratulated by the Rt Hon Lucy Powell, Leader of the House of Commons.

Labour MP hosted man charged with being part of banned PKK group in parliament The Kurdistan Workers' Party, known as the PKK, has been a proscribed organisation since 2001 for its advocation of Kurdish self-rule through both political and armed struggle.

Shocking to see Labour inviting and hosting an individual in Parliament who has now been charged as a member of a proscribed terrorist organisation.

Such a laissez-faire approach to security by Labour should be a concern to everyone on the parliamentary estate.

On ITV Anglia this evening covering the forthcoming announcement from the Government regarding the police core grant allocation of funding in Cambridgeshire and ensuring that the county receives our fair share.

Where’s Mark Cavendish, the all-time greatest stage winner in the history of the Tour De France? Overcame depression, Epstein-Barr virus, several season ending crashes and then came back in the twilight of his career to finish the job.

Not just SPOTY, one of our greatest ever sportsmen.

Because the vast majority of people skim past posts and this means they see the headline without having to click on a link.

“A survey released by the Bank of England suggested that over half of firms were planning to cut staff as a result of the national insurance hike. Analysis by Deutsche Bank suggests that as many as 100,000 jobs could be lost.”

And yet Labour MPs champion this budget as “taking difficult decisions”.

How is there no space on the SPOTY list for Mark Cavendish in a year when he becomes the all-time greatest stage winner of the Tour de France against the odds; the icing on what was already an incredible sporting comeback?

You can’t claim that Bluesky is a new utopia compared to X, and then add a caveat that says “unless you recently became a Conservative MP”.

I’m fascinated how many people on this site list “Nazis” as their primary complaint about X.

I referred to engagement Tim, i.e. people like yourself who send me posts like yours above, not my feed. Do you understand the difference?

Great to see that despite users insisting that Bluesky is friendlier than X, there are still sneering left-wing accounts who think that your Ghanaian surname is a source of ridicule.

The behaviour of people on Bluesky really isn’t any different to X.

Whilst many here might find it inconvenient, it’s interesting that none will challenge posts like that below because it supports their narrative.

What about this one Richard?

I’m really not convinced that the behaviour on Bluesky is any different to that on X.

I follow local organisations and businesses on Facebook Richard which is far better for interacting with people within the constituency.

And yet you have an anonymous account which exclusively reposts content from the type of accounts referred to in my original post.

I have over 4,000 followers Sue. There aren’t 500+ accounts worth following.

Your post doesn’t make any sense Gill. We’re not in Government.

It directly addressed your point about inviting people to join.

The FBPE credentials in your bio illustrate the very point I’ve just made.

What’s the incentive to join Bluesky based on my observations above?

Engagement is actually minimal and almost exclusively, sneeringly, left-wing, which makes it interesting to see what self-righteous centrist-dad criticism will be flung at you but that’s it. There’s no debate to be had because everybody holds the same opinion.

Only last week Luke Pollard was busy telling everybody that once they “see the detail” of the Chagos Islands deal they would support it.

Now it’s a “Day One” issue for the incoming Trump administration and potentially fundamentally changes US nuclear strategy across the region.

Well done Labour.

Absolutely excoriating stuff in today’s Bloomberg piece on how Starmer and Reeves incompetent first five months is hammering Labour morale.

It explains an awful lot about why you see such poor attendance from Labour MPs unwilling to defend Labour’s terrible policy offering.

On @skynewsrss.bsky.social this lunchtime for the post-PMQs panel.

Asked why the leaders’ interactions are now so brief it’s important to highlight how evasive Keir Starmer is when the answer hasn’t been pre-approved by the Labour whips for a verbatim response read out from his folder.

Worrying that despite months of rhetoric pledging support for Ukraine, it is surely no coincidence that in the week of his big reset, Keir Starmer begins talk of “negotiations”.

A quick recap of my activity for last week.

Thousands of other people seem to manage with following me on Facebook. You could also look at my website.

You can’t expect an MP to not engage in party politics. So as for representing you, what local issues am I failing to represent you on?

You didn’t really answer the question.

As you say “obviously, I didn’t vote for you”, which suggests that you’re unlikely to feel I represent you whatever I say.

Perhaps follow me on Facebook if you want non-partisan content of me being a constituency MP?