@joshfg.bsky.social
Member of Parliament for Calder Valley, Health and Social Care Select Committee Member, mediocre fell runner - never knowingly on message.
@joshfg.bsky.socialYesterday was an important election. It was a chance to choose an inspirational candidate who has gone from being a refugee at 2 to an MP at 42. It was also a chance to say no to divisive politics. To choose leadership that offers answers over anger. Voters did that yesterday.
@sarahowen.org.ukReposted by @joshfg.bsky.socialThe morning and afternoon in Holborn & St Pancras. 🌹 It was great to speak with so many people choosing hope with Labour today.
An added bonus to knock on doors alongside the fantastic Jamie and fellow geriatric millenial @joshfg.bsky.social, apparently his t-shirt is a famous service station 🤷🏻♀️
@joshfg.bsky.socialTwice today (I’ll try to work out alt text
@joshfg.bsky.socialByelectionmaxxing
@joshfg.bsky.social“Terrorism” is defined by tactics not aims. But I suspect this argument isn’t going to lead to reflection, have a good day.
@joshfg.bsky.socialIt seems to me that you are saying explicitly that we can’t memorialise the Holocaust without also criticising the founding of the Jewish state. Is that your view or am I misinterpreting you?
@joshfg.bsky.socialEvents in Palestine are awful. I’ve raised issues from army/settler collusion in the West Bank to seemingly deliberate killings medical workers in Gaza in parliament. But I’d urge you to examine your instinct to make a post about Jewish suffering in the Holacaust into an argument about Palestine.
@joshfg.bsky.socialI’ve just come back from a few days away in Prague researching my wife’s family history. A beautiful city with a sometimes tragic history. But this visit on Monday will stick with me.
@joshfg.bsky.socialThe Pinkas memorial in Prague is truly sobering. Every name on the wall is one of the over 77,000 Czech Jews killed in the Holocaust. The names pass through multiple rooms and go up the stairs. Each name written alongside their family was someone with hopes, dreams, hobbies & loved ones.
#neveragain
@joshfg.bsky.socialAs I said in my speech the judgement being more clinical than psychological and social was an issue for me. I think it would have been better to have a PMB instigating a royal commission to produce workable legislation rather than trying to do it by an imperfect process
@joshfg.bsky.socialI think a royal commission or similar would make sense
@joshfg.bsky.socialThat’s interesting because you responded within 3 minutes and it’s 5 minutes long. Impressive
@joshfg.bsky.socialYou couldn’t legislate for funding through the PMB process but on the safeguards the proposers of the bill indicated they wouldn’t accept amendments so they could use the parliament act to pass it.
@joshfg.bsky.socialDid you watch the speech or just restate your view?
@joshfg.bsky.socialYou can see my reasoning here. With the difference between palliative care offers in rich and poor areas there was a very real chance we’d have seen those in wealthy areas choose a comfortable death while those who are poor could only choose an early one youtu.be/Jcf6h0PMsN0?...
@joshfg.bsky.socialI know people feel raw about this and I do understand. I’d have voted for a workable bill. But having spoken on a number of occasions on palliative care and social care it’s pretty galling to be accused of bad faith
@joshfg.bsky.socialToday I voted against the Terminally Ill Adults (end of life) bill. Not because I oppose the principle but because the bill isn’t safe. I believe palliative care isn’t good enough and not enough has been done to guard against cohesion youtu.be/Jcf6h0PMsN0?...
@joshfg.bsky.socialI was proud to be in parliament to hear the foreign secretary announce comprehensive sanctions on illegal Israeli settlements. Alongside France and Canada. I spoke to push the foreign secretary on calling out settler violence and the collusion of the Israeli army in it.
