⚡️ 150 new Electric Vehicle chargers are being rolled out across Bristol
🙌🏻 These new chargers are funded by Helen Godwin, Labour Mayor of the West of England, and City Leap - the landmark decarbonisation project agreed by the former Labour administration
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Happy International Women’s Day to all women in Bristol and beyond.
🌹 Labour is working hard to support Bristol families with the cost of living. Interest rates and mortgages are coming down, the minimum wage is going up and rail fares and prescriptions are frozen.
❌ Our plan to install new cameras to monitor fly-tipping was blocked by the Green-led council, who say they're not needed. What planet are they living on?
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Nine years ago, Hartcliffe resident Keith Pullin was fatally hit by a car that was making an illegal turn at this dangerous junction
Keith's family and local Labour councillor Kerry Bailes have been pushing for action. As of last week, the new camera is active
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📣 Tell the Green-led council: Fix the Oldbury Court river path.
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❄️ This Labour government has frozen rail fares for the first time in three decades - putting money back in people’s pockets and easing the cost of living for hard-working people.
🚆 After years of Tory neglect, we’re building a railway that puts passengers first.
🆕 From the Windrush era to today, the UK has made significant progress towards becoming a more equal society. But in recent years, we have seen worrying signs of regression. Labour Councillor Carole Johnson writes for Bristol24/7 ⬇️
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The bristol labour group also champions women across our city:
July 2024
Urged the Council to strengthen the commitment to tackling violence against women and girls.
November 2025
Full Council unanimously endorsed the Labour Group’s plan to make parks safer for women and girls.
This labour government is championing women both at home and at work:
Stronger protections for women who report sexual harassment at work.
Creating action plans around menopause and the gender pay gap.
30-hours of free childcare a month, and free school meals
Women’s History Month reminds us of the triumphs of women across the world and the challenges they’ve overcome to achieve them.
This is how both in government and in Bristol, Labour is backing women. 🧵
‘Up to £117 off your annual energy bill thanks to Labour’
🌹 Labour is helping Bristol families with the cost of living.
💷 This April bills are coming down, the minimum wage is going up and train fares and prescriptions are frozen. More money in your pocket.
Today marks Ash Wednesday, the beginning of Lent for many Christians across Bristol and around the world.
We wish everyone marking Lent a meaningful and peaceful season.
As the holy month of Ramadan begins, we send our warmest wishes to Muslim communities across Bristol and beyond.
Ramadan Mubarak to all who are observing.
🌹 Building community centres, filling potholes, and setting up new bus routes. Our priorities are your priorities.
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🆕 The Green-led council is selling your community buildings to the highest bidder. Labour councillors are fighting back 👇
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The public have made clear there is not enough support to justify ‘modal filters’ in Southville and Windmill Hill. Many say it will be disruptive to their day-to-day lives, and many more think it’s unnecessary. As it stands, the plans are, at best, very divisive. Residents want what’s best for their community. Their concerns are far from ideological - they are well-informed and reasonable. We remain concerned that installing roadblocks in a neighbourhood that already has relatively low levels of traffic will create more challenges than it solves. We have put forward a proposal to reallocate the £900,000 set to be spent on developing this scheme further towards alternative measures to improve road safety and active travel in BS3, the specifics of which will be guided by the views and priorities of the local community.
The Green Party’s attempts to sideline local voices, such as when they tried to block a valid petition against the road closures from being heard, risk setting a poor precedent. Residents must be put first. The council should go back to the drawing board and co-design solutions with the community. Today, we will vote against further spending on the South Bristol Liveable Neighbourhood so the funding can be invested in other road safety measures in the area instead. Councillor Tom Renhard Councillor Tim Rippington Councillor Kaz Self Labour Members of the Transport and Connectivity Committee
📣 Our statement on the South Bristol Liveable Neighbourhood
Helen Godwin, Labour Mayor of the West of England, is working with charities to set up a 'first of its kind' distribution hub for food and other essentials.
Labour leadership tackling child poverty, providing a better future for everyone.
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We're working with Bristol Charities to launch a first-of-its-kind food and essentials distribution hub.
Bringing together charities from across the West would help reach more people in crisis, with FareShare South West able to deliver an extra 3 million meals by 2030.
🆕 14 years of the Conservative Government left Bristol City Council on the brink. Now the Labour Government has ended austerity, its future is looking brighter.
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Bristol Labour’s position on the Park Street proposals This Thursday, the Transport and Connectivity Committee will vote on plans to install a bus gate on Park Street, closing it to through traffic. This follows a period of negotiation between the West of England Combined Authority (WECA) and Bristol City Council over the funding arrangements. Despite offers of a compromise from WECA over a trial period for a bus gate only at peak times, the Green-led council has rejected this, seeking to take forward their original proposal and fund the majority of it through Clean Air Zone charges. We remain concerned about these plans. Modelling commissioned by the council shows that closing Park Street will worsen air pollution outside of the BRI and the Children’s Hospital. We consider it unconscionable that this council would take steps to make air quality worse where some of our most vulnerable children and adults access specialist healthcare in this city. We want cleaner air across Bristol, especially near our hospitals. Putting the brakes on the Park Street scheme frees up £5.3m of funding from the Joint Air Quality Unit for different measures to improve air quality. The council has a shortlist of other options on the table, including improving financial assistance to get more polluting vehicles off our roads and replaced with cleaner alternatives.
Not proceeding with the Park Street plans would free up a further £8m of Clean Air Zone charges for investment elsewhere. We have put forward a proposal to spend it on: Commissioning new bus routes or improved frequencies of existing ones Unblocking every drain in the city, audit them and put in measures to mitigate flooding in future Tripling the road marking repainting budget Installing solar lights on dark active travel routes Replacing bus stops that have been removed Improving cycling and road safety Filling more potholes When you weigh up the benefits of our proposal against the Park Street plan, there’s a clear winner. On this basis, we will vote against the Park Street proposals. Councillor Tom Renhard Councillor Tim Rippington Councillor Kaz Self Labour Members of the Transport & Connectivity Committee
📣 Our statement on the plans for Park Street
Labour building homes whilst the Greens cut home building.
A screenshot of a Bristol Green Party post reading “Big thanks to Cllr Barry Parsons and all of our Green councillors for building over 280 affordable homes in just six months”
Every one of homes was under construction during the Labour administration
All Councillor Parsons has done is attend ribbon-cutting ceremonies, pat himself on the back, and cut over 2,000 homes from the council housebuilding programme…
From widening access to childcare to building more social homes, we are determined to lift children out of poverty in the West 🏠
Headteacher Lois Haydon says our Child Poverty Action Plan will make a big difference to kids in our region 👉
Today we pay our respects to the victims of the holocaust.
May their memory serve as a reminder to us all to stand against hate and discrimination.
The Union Flag and St George’s Cross are symbols of shared identity - one which everyone should feel proud to stand behind. As our national flags, they should have pride of place on public buildings and honoured locations with the consent of local communities, particularly for key national days. They are a display of British values. They should bring people together, not divide them. We know that many residents have proudly flown our national flags at their own homes and have done so for many years. We agree that celebratory or commemorative displays of flags, which show support for one of our national (or local) sports teams, national events such as a royal wedding or for Remembrance Sunday, brings us together. On private property, we encourage this. However, other councils have been clear that displaying flags on the public highway is unlawful. They can pose a safety risk to road users, particularly if they become loose, obstruct visibility or have the potential to cause a distraction. This includes on lampposts.
Context is crucial. The more recent ‘Raise the Colours’ movement was co-founded by someone with connections to Britain First, a far-right, nationalist movement. We are clear, supporting the flags being flown does not make someone “far-right” or racist. We also recognise that many may not be aware of this or the impact it is having on others in the community. Since the start of this movement, we have heard from residents who have said flags flown in this climate have made them feel unwelcome in their own community. Likewise, we have heard from people from migrant backgrounds who feel deliberately targeted by having flags flown directly outside their homes. Public spaces belong to all of us, including those who have been made to feel unwelcome by the flags. In recent months, we have also seen hate crime incidents increase. Among them, this has seen a nine-year-old racially abused and shot with an air rifle in Brentry, a racist attack on two men in Lawrence Hill, and Islamophobic graffiti on a bus stop in Bedminster.
Bristol is home to over 500,000 people from over 187 different countries. That’s something to be celebrated - it’s what makes Bristol, Bristol. Every single one of our residents has a right to feel welcome. We must carry out further meaningful work on community cohesion, exploring how we best celebrate identity in a way that brings people together. Now is the time for this city to show strong and decisive leadership. We are a City of Sanctuary where we seek to create a place that is welcoming for all. The approach to flags so far has been inconsistent and lacking a clear strategy, allowing the issue to fester and cause division for far longer than it should have done. The Labour Group believes that the leadership of this Council needs to step up, adopt a city-wide approach, and get the flags that have been placed unlawfully on lampposts taken down. Bristol Labour Group
Our statement on the flags unlawfully attached to lampposts 👇
🅿️ Bristolians have long called for action on pavement parking. Until now, councils have not had the legal powers to effectively tackle this problem - the Labour Government is changing that 👇
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Councillor Paul Goggin, Kerry McCarthy Mp, and fire and rescue crew
Fire and rescue crew and Councillor Renhard standing in front of a fire engine
📉 Under the Tories' spending plans, Avon Fire and Rescue would have been forced to make cuts.
📈 Under the Labour Government, it will receive £3.5m more than it would under Tory budgets. We've ended austerity and are investing in what matters most.
