🇬🇧 🇷🇴 🌹 Labour and Co-Operative Cambridgeshire County Councillor for St Ives South and Needingworth
Huntingdonshire
Joined January 2017
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Dr Alex Bulat retweeted
At @UKLabour Party Conference, we hosted a panel with @MAGsaveslives on “Security in a Fragmented World: Rethinking Defence and Development:”
In an increasingly uncertain world, security is about more than military strength - it’s about resilience, prevention and tackling instability before crises escalate.
Thank you to all our panellists @CalvinBailey, @laurakyrkesmith, @FredThomasUK, @darrencormack and Fiona Crack @bbcworldservice for joining us to discuss the challenges facing Britain’s security.
Dr Alex Bulat retweeted
Our latest voting intention sees a cross over. Labour move ahead by 4. Their first lead since March 2025 & highest share since Nov 24
🌹 LAB 28% (+4)
⏩ REF 24% (-2)
🌳 CON 22% (nc)
🔶 LIB DEM 12% (+1)
🟢 GREEN 8% (-3)
🟡 SNP 2% (nc)
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Dr Alex Bulat retweeted
🚨 NEW: Andy Burnham is set to increase international aid spending to 0.7% of GDP
[@Independent]
Dr Alex Bulat retweeted
Great weekend campaigning in Makerfield 🌹🗳️
Big up @AndyBurnhamGM
Big up @JohnHealey_MP
With much love from Huntingdon and NW Cambridgeshire 🫡❤️
Dr Alex Bulat retweeted
You voted against scrapping zero hour contracts.
You voted against banning fire and rehire.
You voted against day one sick pay for workers.
You said the minimum wage was too high for young people.
Reform politicians openly say they don't like trade unions.
You will always put the interests of your offshore crypto billionaire donors ahead of workers.
Dr Alex Bulat retweeted
🚨 NEW: Andy Burnham would end all Government contracts for asylum accommodation and hotels if he becomes Prime Minister
The responsibility for providing accommodation would instead be given to local authorities
[@thetimes]
Dr Alex Bulat retweeted
Gorton and Denton is a straight fight between Labour and Reform UK.
The Greens aren’t in this race.
ALT A graph showing fieldwork from Britain Predicts from January 2026. The graph shows Reform on 34% and Labour on 32%. The Green Party are far behind on 20%. Comment above reads: The Greens and Lib Dems can't win this seat.
Dr Alex Bulat retweeted
🚨 NEW: The Government has rated councils in England red, amber or green based on how well they're fixing potholes using Government funding
Dr Alex Bulat retweeted
NEW: Half a million more children will benefit from Labour's free breakfast clubs from April next year.
ALT Image of an apple. Text: Half a million more children to have free breakfast clubs from April
Dr Alex Bulat retweeted
The Prime Minister said in September that we are at a fork in the road. These asylum proposals suggest we have taken the wrong turning.
The idea that recognised refugees need to be deported is wrong. We absolutely need immigration controls. And where those controls decide to grant asylum, we should welcome and integrate, not create perpetual limbo and alienation.
The rhetoric around these reforms encourages the same culture of divisiveness that sees racism and abuse growing in our communities.
The Government is wrong to think that reviews of safety in the person's country every few years will mean refugees can be returned at scale. That hasn't happened in Denmark. Brutal dictators tend to hang onto power. It would just move huge amounts of resource away from making our asylum system work as it should - by cutting initial decision delays and the appeals backlog, sorting out asylum accommodation, making the UK-France deal work, removing those whose claims fail etc.
The Government must think again on this.
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Dr Alex Bulat retweeted
On police funding in Cambs being the fourth lowest:
Just over a year ago the was cross-party backing at @CambsCC for a motion calling for a: ‘fairer share of police funding’. It was proposed by @LabourAlexB
Dr Alex Bulat retweeted
Anthony Williams, 32, from Peterborough, will appear in court today charged with 10 counts of attempted murder following the major incident in Huntingdon.
He's charged with another count of attempted murder re a separate incident in east London. More ⬇️
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Dr Alex Bulat retweeted
🚨 DEVELOPING: The train stabbing incident at Huntingdon:
- Took place on an LNER train from Doncaster to London Kings Cross
- The attack is believed to have started a few minutes after the train left Peterborough at 19:30
- Witnesses reported a man armed with a large knife and passengers hid in toilets to escape
- Police were called at 19:39, and the East of England Ambulance Service launched a "large-scale response" involving air ambulances, tactical commanders, the Hazardous Area Response Team and a critical care team
- The train made an emergency stop at Huntingdon at 19:44
- Armed police arrested two men and several people were taken to hospital
- PM Keir Starmer says the stabbing is "appalling" and "deeply concerning"
- Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood urges people to "avoid comment and speculation at this early stage"
- LNER is urging passengers not to travel, saying there is major disruption across the East Coast Mainline. All lines are currently blocked at Huntingdon
Dr Alex Bulat retweeted
We are currently responding to an incident on a train to Huntingdon where multiple people have been stabbed.
Officers are in attendance alongside @CambsCops and two people have been arrested.
Further updates will be shared here.
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🚨Who benefits from asylum hotels?
💷 Follow the money!
🔵 In 2019 the Tories signed contracts with three private companies with v little competition
🏨 They put asylum seekers in hotels, allowed costs to spiral, and made HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS in profit.
Billions of pounds have been wasted because of a 'rushed and chaotic' approach to asylum hotels, according to a group of MPs.
In a damning report, the Home Affairs Committee has warned the Government needs to 'get a grip' of the failed system.
@SwainITV reports.
Dr Alex Bulat retweeted
A great honour to be elected Chair of @HuntingdonCLP yesterday 🌹
In May we did the unthinkable with @LabourAlexB gaining a County seat in St Ives - marking the first time it had ever been Labour
I will strive to make sure in 2026 we can repeat the same success across Hunts 🇬🇧
Dr Alex Bulat retweeted
"Go home” isn’t a policy - it’s a racist chant.
People who are legally living in Britain should never be told they don’t belong.
@Katie_Lam_MP - this is their home. – at London, England
Dr Alex Bulat retweeted
UNISON signs joint union letter calling for an end to the escalation of anti-migrant rhetoric.
“Our health and social care sector is built on the hard work and rich diversity of its workforce."
Read our joint statement
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ALT Logos of unions: BMA, RCN, BDA, CSP, Unite, UNISON, HCSA, SoR Joint statement on anti-migrant rhetoric – Keeping our communities safe from racism Our health and social care sector is built on the hard work and rich diversity of its workforce. Many of our colleagues, especially those from international backgrounds or perceived as ethnically distinct from the majority population, are facing a sustained campaign of anti-migrant rhetoric. The escalating use of hostile language allows some political parties to exploit fear and promote division and emboldens those in society who seek to intimidate. This rhetoric also comes at a time when the rights of those who live and work in the UK to continue to make the UK their home are being openly questioned, including tens of thousands of people working within the health and social care sector. People are unsettled and frightened, with some directly experiencing hate and violence at work and within their communities. In the face of this blatant s