Joe Kirwin
@joekirwin.bsky.social
🟣 Third-Sector CEO / 🌹 Councillor / 🪧 Trade Unionist/ 👶🏻🐶 Dad / 🤼♂️ Pro Wrestling fan / 📣 Views my own
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Lucy Powell: Labour should raise gambling taxes to axe two-child benefit cap
Lucy Powell: Labour should raise gambling taxes to axe two-child benefit cap
Deputy leadership candidate says party needs to be ‘clear that our objective is to lift children out of poverty’
Labour should consider raising taxes on gambling firms to cover the cost of lifting the two-child benefit cap, the party’s deputy leadership candidate Lucy Powell has suggested.
The Manchester Central MP, who is battling with the education secretary, Bridget Phillipson, to succeed Angela Rayner as Labour’s deputy leader, also acknowledged the public was “exasperated” because of “some mistakes” Labour had made in office. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
September 20, 2025 at 8:13 PM
Lucy Powell: Labour should raise gambling taxes to axe two-child benefit cap
Why I'm backing @lucympowell.bsky.social for Deputy Leader of the Labour Party
September 19, 2025 at 11:43 AM
Why I'm backing @lucympowell.bsky.social for Deputy Leader of the Labour Party
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Nice sunset in Whitley Bay.
September 17, 2025 at 6:39 PM
Nice sunset in Whitley Bay.
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Our great Deputy Leaders have connected the heart of the Party with the head of the government - that’s what I’ll do.
I spoke to @theguardian.com about why I’m standing as a full-time Deputy Leader and how we can succeed and do better:
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
I spoke to @theguardian.com about why I’m standing as a full-time Deputy Leader and how we can succeed and do better:
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Labour deputy contender Lucy Powell calls for culture change at No 10
Ex-Commons leader says she wants Downing Street to be better connected to MPs and that she would deliver difficult truths to PM
www.theguardian.com
September 12, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Our great Deputy Leaders have connected the heart of the Party with the head of the government - that’s what I’ll do.
I spoke to @theguardian.com about why I’m standing as a full-time Deputy Leader and how we can succeed and do better:
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
I spoke to @theguardian.com about why I’m standing as a full-time Deputy Leader and how we can succeed and do better:
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Good to join so many colleagues with Ambassador of Palestine, Husam Zomlot to commemorate recognition of Palestine, something I’ve long supported. Great to see so much support of @lfpme.bsky.social at this important moment.
September 17, 2025 at 7:40 PM
Good to join so many colleagues with Ambassador of Palestine, Husam Zomlot to commemorate recognition of Palestine, something I’ve long supported. Great to see so much support of @lfpme.bsky.social at this important moment.
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Scan the code to help out - whether you live in Whitley Bay or not!
August 2, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Scan the code to help out - whether you live in Whitley Bay or not!
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Noticing today’s moments with #Nature with Starlings at St Mary’s Lighthouse, thirsty Feral pigeons at Royal Quays marina, and young Ringed plover and Curlew at Whitley Bay among the stink 💩 🏝️ #NorthTyneside #Birds
August 2, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Noticing today’s moments with #Nature with Starlings at St Mary’s Lighthouse, thirsty Feral pigeons at Royal Quays marina, and young Ringed plover and Curlew at Whitley Bay among the stink 💩 🏝️ #NorthTyneside #Birds
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In the end political cannibals become the prey & not the predator. That’s the ‘tweet’
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Pressure on Nigel Farage as Reform UK councillors resign over his leadership
Exclusive: Departures will add to scrutiny of party leader after Elon Musk said he was ‘not up to the job’
www.theguardian.com
January 11, 2025 at 7:21 AM
In the end political cannibals become the prey & not the predator. That’s the ‘tweet’
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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2024 IS IN THE BOOKS 📚
Last night might’ve been our best show ever. You’re in for a treat if you couldn’t get there.
But we’re BACK IN 2025
ALL ROADS LEAD NORTH // SAT 1ST FEB
🎟️ ON SALE NOW 🎟️
northwrestling.co.uk
Last night might’ve been our best show ever. You’re in for a treat if you couldn’t get there.
But we’re BACK IN 2025
ALL ROADS LEAD NORTH // SAT 1ST FEB
🎟️ ON SALE NOW 🎟️
northwrestling.co.uk
December 8, 2024 at 11:06 AM
2024 IS IN THE BOOKS 📚
Last night might’ve been our best show ever. You’re in for a treat if you couldn’t get there.
But we’re BACK IN 2025
ALL ROADS LEAD NORTH // SAT 1ST FEB
🎟️ ON SALE NOW 🎟️
northwrestling.co.uk
Last night might’ve been our best show ever. You’re in for a treat if you couldn’t get there.
But we’re BACK IN 2025
ALL ROADS LEAD NORTH // SAT 1ST FEB
🎟️ ON SALE NOW 🎟️
northwrestling.co.uk
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South Korean woman who grabbed soldier’s gun says ‘I just needed to stop them’
South Korean woman who grabbed soldier’s gun says ‘I just needed to stop them’
Video of party spokesperson grappling with rifle-wielding soldier has gone viral as symbol of defiance against martial law
A South Korean party spokesperson seen grappling with a rifle-wielding soldier in a video that went viral as a symbol of defiance…
www.theguardian.com
December 5, 2024 at 1:02 PM
South Korean woman who grabbed soldier’s gun says ‘I just needed to stop them’
Still struggling to accept that Georgia won Junior Eurovision. Just seems so strange and such a large gap between the public vote and jury vote
November 19, 2024 at 9:38 PM
Still struggling to accept that Georgia won Junior Eurovision. Just seems so strange and such a large gap between the public vote and jury vote
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Did you know the Whitley Bay Chamber of Trade is 170 members strong?
That’s 170 independent businesses working together keeping our high street alive, organising community events and putting the town of Whitley Bay on the map
That’s 170 independent businesses working together keeping our high street alive, organising community events and putting the town of Whitley Bay on the map
November 17, 2024 at 5:04 PM
Did you know the Whitley Bay Chamber of Trade is 170 members strong?
That’s 170 independent businesses working together keeping our high street alive, organising community events and putting the town of Whitley Bay on the map
That’s 170 independent businesses working together keeping our high street alive, organising community events and putting the town of Whitley Bay on the map
