Louise Mitchell
@elsieeemm.bsky.social
E17 dweller.
Labour councillor for Chapel End and Cabinet member for Adults and Health in Waltham Forest.
All my teams play in red.
Labour councillor for Chapel End and Cabinet member for Adults and Health in Waltham Forest.
All my teams play in red.
Pinned
Louise Mitchell
@elsieeemm.bsky.social
· Nov 19
Promoted by Hollie Ridley on behalf of the Labour Party, 20 Rusheorth Street, London SE1 0SS.
If you see someone sleeping on the streets in #WalthamForest please alert StreetLink to connect them to support and help: thestreetlink.org.uk
#Walthamstow #Leyton #Leytonstone #Chingford
#Walthamstow #Leyton #Leytonstone #Chingford
November 19, 2025 at 4:11 PM
If you see someone sleeping on the streets in #WalthamForest please alert StreetLink to connect them to support and help: thestreetlink.org.uk
#Walthamstow #Leyton #Leytonstone #Chingford
#Walthamstow #Leyton #Leytonstone #Chingford
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With temperatures dropping below zero, we’ve activated the Severe Weather Emergency Protocol for the first time this winter to ensure anyone sleeping rough in freezing conditions is offered emergency accommodation and support to stay off the streets for good.
www.london.gov.uk/emergency-se...
www.london.gov.uk/emergency-se...
November 19, 2025 at 12:13 PM
With temperatures dropping below zero, we’ve activated the Severe Weather Emergency Protocol for the first time this winter to ensure anyone sleeping rough in freezing conditions is offered emergency accommodation and support to stay off the streets for good.
www.london.gov.uk/emergency-se...
www.london.gov.uk/emergency-se...
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The BBC is facing a coordinated, politically motivated attack. With these resignations, it’s given in | Jane Martinson
The BBC is facing a coordinated, politically motivated attack. With these resignations, it’s given in | Jane Martinson
The corporation should have stood up to the Telegraph, Trump and the Tories. Now, its enemies know how little it takes for it to fold, says Jane Martinson, professor of financial journalism
www.theguardian.com
November 9, 2025 at 8:12 PM
The BBC is facing a coordinated, politically motivated attack. With these resignations, it’s given in | Jane Martinson
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So the BBC director general has had to resign because Panorama suggested that Trump tried to overturn the result of the 2020 presidential election? Because obviously that never happened …
November 9, 2025 at 6:52 PM
So the BBC director general has had to resign because Panorama suggested that Trump tried to overturn the result of the 2020 presidential election? Because obviously that never happened …
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Donald Trump was impeached by the House of Representatives for inciting an insurrection. Why is the Director General of the BBC resigning?
November 9, 2025 at 7:18 PM
Donald Trump was impeached by the House of Representatives for inciting an insurrection. Why is the Director General of the BBC resigning?
Our town hall’s still the best town hall 🌹 #WalthamForest
November 7, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Our town hall’s still the best town hall 🌹 #WalthamForest
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Today, we celebrate 75 years of the European Convention on Human Rights. From the right to a fair trial and freedom of expression to freedom of thought, conscience, and belief, the #ECHR has been instrumental in advancing human dignity and liberty. 🧵
humanists.uk/2025/11/04/c...
humanists.uk/2025/11/04/c...
Celebrating 75 years of the European Convention on Human Rights
Today, we celebrate 75 years of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR). Brought into being after the horrors of the Second World War and the Holocaust, and following in the footsteps of the Un...
humanists.uk
November 4, 2025 at 10:12 AM
Today, we celebrate 75 years of the European Convention on Human Rights. From the right to a fair trial and freedom of expression to freedom of thought, conscience, and belief, the #ECHR has been instrumental in advancing human dignity and liberty. 🧵
humanists.uk/2025/11/04/c...
humanists.uk/2025/11/04/c...
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Thousands of Londoners have indefinite leave to remain.
They have legal rights and are our friends, neighbours and colleagues, contributing hugely to our city.
Threatening to deport people living and working here legally is unacceptable.
They have legal rights and are our friends, neighbours and colleagues, contributing hugely to our city.
Threatening to deport people living and working here legally is unacceptable.
Farage vows to scrap indefinite leave to remain, placing thousands at risk of deportation
Reform UK plans to force non-citizens to apply for visas with high salary thresholds and no access to NHS services
www.theguardian.com
September 22, 2025 at 10:13 AM
Thousands of Londoners have indefinite leave to remain.
They have legal rights and are our friends, neighbours and colleagues, contributing hugely to our city.
Threatening to deport people living and working here legally is unacceptable.
They have legal rights and are our friends, neighbours and colleagues, contributing hugely to our city.
Threatening to deport people living and working here legally is unacceptable.
In what way do they think white people and Western culture are native to America? Return to the land? #FFS 🤷♀️
A group of Americans are building a “whites only” community in rural Arkansas they call the “Return to the Land.” They believe that white people and Western culture are facing extinction due to an influx of immigrants and minorities.
Inside the ‘Whites Only’ Community in Arkansas
Members have espoused racist and antisemitic views and repeatedly praised Adolf Hitler and the Nazi party. They've raised hundreds of thousands of dollars, and their movement is growing.
www.wired.com
August 12, 2025 at 4:14 PM
In what way do they think white people and Western culture are native to America? Return to the land? #FFS 🤷♀️
Not entirely sure about these numbers but, YES, give local government enough money to do everything it is asked to do and watch as our communities heal and grow
Adult social care, public health, children’s services, SEND services all need proper funding to provide support that’s desperately needed
Adult social care, public health, children’s services, SEND services all need proper funding to provide support that’s desperately needed
Increasingly convinced the cheapest way to address this is to reverse local government austerity. Returning English local authority budgets to 2010 levels would cost about £7bn. Factor in population and demographic change and you'd want maybe £15bn. Benefits could be seen quickly and felt widely.
"The truly unnerving thing about the fall of Rome (yes, I’m going there again, sorry) was that most Romans probably didn’t notice it had happened."
Morning all!
Morning all!
July 22, 2025 at 11:41 PM
Not entirely sure about these numbers but, YES, give local government enough money to do everything it is asked to do and watch as our communities heal and grow
Adult social care, public health, children’s services, SEND services all need proper funding to provide support that’s desperately needed
Adult social care, public health, children’s services, SEND services all need proper funding to provide support that’s desperately needed
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Increasingly convinced the cheapest way to address this is to reverse local government austerity. Returning English local authority budgets to 2010 levels would cost about £7bn. Factor in population and demographic change and you'd want maybe £15bn. Benefits could be seen quickly and felt widely.
"The truly unnerving thing about the fall of Rome (yes, I’m going there again, sorry) was that most Romans probably didn’t notice it had happened."
Morning all!
Morning all!
The decline and fall of Great Britain
From the graffiti to the economy, a sense of terminal rot has set in.
www.newstatesman.com
July 21, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Increasingly convinced the cheapest way to address this is to reverse local government austerity. Returning English local authority budgets to 2010 levels would cost about £7bn. Factor in population and demographic change and you'd want maybe £15bn. Benefits could be seen quickly and felt widely.
Remembering my lovely PolskiGrandpa a refugee who died on this day 19 years ago #WorldRefugeeDay. He lived peacefully in the UK for 60 years, married and had a family, had a job and began to feel safe.
Every refugee deserves a life as wonderful and as ordinary ❤️
#NoOneIsIllegal #AsylumIsAHumanRight
Every refugee deserves a life as wonderful and as ordinary ❤️
#NoOneIsIllegal #AsylumIsAHumanRight
June 20, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Remembering my lovely PolskiGrandpa a refugee who died on this day 19 years ago #WorldRefugeeDay. He lived peacefully in the UK for 60 years, married and had a family, had a job and began to feel safe.
Every refugee deserves a life as wonderful and as ordinary ❤️
#NoOneIsIllegal #AsylumIsAHumanRight
Every refugee deserves a life as wonderful and as ordinary ❤️
#NoOneIsIllegal #AsylumIsAHumanRight
Lovely sunny day for a canvass! Listening to concerns and is raised by residents in Chapel End with George, Helen, Paul and @nathanburns.bsky.social #Walthamstow #LabourDoorstep
June 14, 2025 at 12:35 PM
Lovely sunny day for a canvass! Listening to concerns and is raised by residents in Chapel End with George, Helen, Paul and @nathanburns.bsky.social #Walthamstow #LabourDoorstep
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not to post commercial, but this silly little bbc video from 10 years ago made me cry the first time i saw it because it was the first time i realized that brian wilson would die someday www.youtube.com/watch?v=XqLT...
God Only Knows - BBC Music
YouTube video by BBC Music
www.youtube.com
June 11, 2025 at 5:27 PM
not to post commercial, but this silly little bbc video from 10 years ago made me cry the first time i saw it because it was the first time i realized that brian wilson would die someday www.youtube.com/watch?v=XqLT...
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Ahead of the Spending Review, we have written to
Rachel Reeves and Bridget Phillipson making the case for the end of the two-child benefit cap.
The cap currently impacts over 7,500 children in Waltham Forest. 👶👧👦
Rachel Reeves and Bridget Phillipson making the case for the end of the two-child benefit cap.
The cap currently impacts over 7,500 children in Waltham Forest. 👶👧👦
June 9, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Ahead of the Spending Review, we have written to
Rachel Reeves and Bridget Phillipson making the case for the end of the two-child benefit cap.
The cap currently impacts over 7,500 children in Waltham Forest. 👶👧👦
Rachel Reeves and Bridget Phillipson making the case for the end of the two-child benefit cap.
The cap currently impacts over 7,500 children in Waltham Forest. 👶👧👦
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These people aren't interested in making your life better. They don't care about the quality of your kid's school or the health of your community. They have no coherent political philosophy. They just want to make themselves feel bigger by shitting on people.
First meetof Reform UK controlled Kent County Council
Chairman says Pride flag won’t be flown over council in June
He’s challenged by the opposition to speak with LGBT staff & voters to understand what that flag means to them
Chairman says Pride flag won’t be flown over council in June
He’s challenged by the opposition to speak with LGBT staff & voters to understand what that flag means to them
May 22, 2025 at 10:04 AM
These people aren't interested in making your life better. They don't care about the quality of your kid's school or the health of your community. They have no coherent political philosophy. They just want to make themselves feel bigger by shitting on people.
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May 14, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Still nervous. Very, very nervous 😬#lofc
May 14, 2025 at 1:44 PM
Still nervous. Very, very nervous 😬#lofc
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Our Labour Leader Grace Williams and fellow Co-Chair of the Waltham Forest Borough of Sanctuary, Averil Pooten-Watan have written a letter to the Home Secretary which you can read below 👇
www.walthamforest.gov.uk/stories/lett...
www.walthamforest.gov.uk/stories/lett...
Letter to the Home Secretary from the Co-Chairs of the Waltham Forest Borough of Sanctuary
www.walthamforest.gov.uk
May 14, 2025 at 10:28 AM
Our Labour Leader Grace Williams and fellow Co-Chair of the Waltham Forest Borough of Sanctuary, Averil Pooten-Watan have written a letter to the Home Secretary which you can read below 👇
www.walthamforest.gov.uk/stories/lett...
www.walthamforest.gov.uk/stories/lett...
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As your Labour Councillors, we will always be proud of our diverse community who come together in good times and bad to support each other. As a Borough of Sanctuary we value and celebrate all of those who settle in Waltham Forest.
May 14, 2025 at 10:28 AM
As your Labour Councillors, we will always be proud of our diverse community who come together in good times and bad to support each other. As a Borough of Sanctuary we value and celebrate all of those who settle in Waltham Forest.
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An absolute masterclass in how the UK media platforms and normalises far right politics. This is how Farage wins.
May 5, 2025 at 8:37 AM
An absolute masterclass in how the UK media platforms and normalises far right politics. This is how Farage wins.
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*uses time machine to burst into a room ten years ago*
"I don't have much time, but for the love of god choose Chaos with Ed Miliband™ "
"I don't have much time, but for the love of god choose Chaos with Ed Miliband™ "
May 4, 2025 at 12:19 PM
*uses time machine to burst into a room ten years ago*
"I don't have much time, but for the love of god choose Chaos with Ed Miliband™ "
"I don't have much time, but for the love of god choose Chaos with Ed Miliband™ "