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Sean Smyth

@devolusean

Editor @SocReview, focusing on devolution, metro mayors and transport. Read my pieces below👇. DM’s open. Politics grad. Runs @WoEElects. He/Him🏳️‍🌈

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Joined August 2021
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What can we expect from today's Local Elections? @devolusean gives an overview
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What can we expect from Thursday's local elections? @devolusean gives a rundown
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The question at the next election may not be whether or not Keir Starmer will be Prime Minister, but how powerful he will be, writes @devolusean thesocialreview.co.uk/2023/0…
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When all the votes are counted, Labour should have their best result in at least a decade and could be about to make their first four-figure net gain in terms of council numbers since 1995, writes @devolusean thesocialreview.co.uk/2023/0…
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A Green or Labour gain would see either party become the largest on the council - here’s the 2021 result
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There will be a by-election in Hotwells and Harbourside Ward in Bristol in the new year following the resignation of @Hartley4Hotwell. The Lib Dem’s have selected former MP @StephenWi11iams as their candidate in this tight three way marginal ward
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The government will soon have no more local authorities to conquer, and it will be the teachers, again, who will have to find a way to deal with it - or do as many have done already and quit, writes @DarcysMick thesocialreview.co.uk/2022/1…
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Mayor of Bristol @MarvinJRees tells @johndarvall he plans to seek selection as the Labour candidate for the new Bristol North East seat created by the Boundary Review. His mayoral term expires with the mayoralty in May 2024.
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Labour selects Claire Hazelgrove (@CHazelgrove) as their candidate for Filton and Bradley Stoke at the next General Election
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Quick thread on the boundary changes in the West of England region:
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Just three of First’s remaining commercially operated routes in Bristol have seen any expansion since the turn of the millennium, writes @devolusean thesocialreview.co.uk/2022/1…
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How Bristol’s local government responds to the myriad crises that engulfs its bus services could have huge implications for the future of Bristol’s infrastructure, and the current model of local government funding, writes @devolusean thesocialreview.co.uk/2022/1…
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Listen to our very own @devolusean's apperance on @bbcrb this morning, talking about cuts to Bristol's bus services and what local government plans to do. For more on the subject read his article on the subject linked below
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Thanks for having me on @bbcrb to talk about buses this morning - it’s from about 8:10 if you want to listen back, or I’ve clipped it in the thread below. While you’re here do also read my recent piece on buses in the West Country for @SocReview thesocialreview.co.uk/2022/1…
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Just three of First’s remaining commercially operated routes in Bristol have seen any expansion since the turn of the millennium, writes @devolusean thesocialreview.co.uk/2022/1…
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Labour must not compound one historic error with a new one by increasing unions’ presence without also sharpening their industrial teeth, writes Alex Maguire thesocialreview.co.uk/2022/1…
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The main purpose of this branch is to advance the workplace interests of rabbis and, in the future, other faith workers, writes @Alex_PT_Maguire speaking to GMB officer @steve_garelick and newly elected branch chair Rabbi David Mason thesocialreview.co.uk/2022/0…
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The dust has settled on the 2022 local elections, the hot takes have been dispensed with and the narrative that people will run with has been established, and as usual: they are wrong and The Social Review is right, writes @devolusean thesocialreview.co.uk/2022/0…
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The Tories have lost over 400 seats this year, which is to say, bad for them. And though doom and gloom are its first language, this has been a deceptively good set of results for the Labour Party, writes @devolusean thesocialreview.co.uk/2022/0…
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Though the narrative might have said otherwise, the 2022 local elections have been a marked success for Labour, a nightmare for the Tories and extremely important for the Lib Dems and the Greens, writes @devolusean thesocialreview.co.uk/2022/0…
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