Chris Wills (he/him) 🏳️🌈
@crispeater.bsky.social
Labour and Co-op Party councillor for Withington ward in Manchester. LGBT+ Lead on Manchester City Council. Union steward. Lover of Doctor Who, Eurovision and walks.
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Tomorrow we take the first big step towards Bee Network Rail. 🐝
Fares will be simpler and in most cases lower for people travelling between our stations in GM.
Tickets valid on any service. 🙌🏻
Fares will be simpler and in most cases lower for people travelling between our stations in GM.
Tickets valid on any service. 🙌🏻
December 6, 2025 at 9:13 AM
Tomorrow we take the first big step towards Bee Network Rail. 🐝
Fares will be simpler and in most cases lower for people travelling between our stations in GM.
Tickets valid on any service. 🙌🏻
Fares will be simpler and in most cases lower for people travelling between our stations in GM.
Tickets valid on any service. 🙌🏻
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Big thanks to Sale Brass Band, St Paul's Church Choir, Withington Daytime Singers, and the Drum Therapy Collective.
Special thanks to Santa for giving out over 100 selection boxes to local children, and to all the Withington Civic Society volunteers for helping run the event too.
Special thanks to Santa for giving out over 100 selection boxes to local children, and to all the Withington Civic Society volunteers for helping run the event too.
December 5, 2025 at 11:02 PM
Big thanks to Sale Brass Band, St Paul's Church Choir, Withington Daytime Singers, and the Drum Therapy Collective.
Special thanks to Santa for giving out over 100 selection boxes to local children, and to all the Withington Civic Society volunteers for helping run the event too.
Special thanks to Santa for giving out over 100 selection boxes to local children, and to all the Withington Civic Society volunteers for helping run the event too.
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Despite the wet and windy weather, good to celebrate Christmas in Withington with our local community today.
A big thank you to the Library staff for letting us use their space for some of the performances at short notice and to everyone for attending and taking part too.🎄🎅🎺🎶
A big thank you to the Library staff for letting us use their space for some of the performances at short notice and to everyone for attending and taking part too.🎄🎅🎺🎶
December 5, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Despite the wet and windy weather, good to celebrate Christmas in Withington with our local community today.
A big thank you to the Library staff for letting us use their space for some of the performances at short notice and to everyone for attending and taking part too.🎄🎅🎺🎶
A big thank you to the Library staff for letting us use their space for some of the performances at short notice and to everyone for attending and taking part too.🎄🎅🎺🎶
This is horrific, and probably only the tip of the iceberg. The sooner we have a full, trans-inclusive ban on so-called “conversion therapy”, the better. www.bbc.com/news/article...
LGBT survivors tell of 'barbaric' NHS electric shock therapy
More than 250 people were subjected to painful electric shocks in NHS hospitals, the BBC discovers.
www.bbc.com
December 5, 2025 at 6:37 PM
This is horrific, and probably only the tip of the iceberg. The sooner we have a full, trans-inclusive ban on so-called “conversion therapy”, the better. www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Labour is expanding the Warm Home Discount to provide vital cost of living support for low-income households and pensioners across the country. In the North-West 280,000 more households will benefit.
December 5, 2025 at 9:39 AM
Labour is expanding the Warm Home Discount to provide vital cost of living support for low-income households and pensioners across the country. In the North-West 280,000 more households will benefit.
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Tomorrow is Small Business Saturday, a chance to celebrate all the brilliant independent and local businesses in south Manchester. If you can, show your support this weekend and shop local.
December 5, 2025 at 2:38 PM
Tomorrow is Small Business Saturday, a chance to celebrate all the brilliant independent and local businesses in south Manchester. If you can, show your support this weekend and shop local.
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NEW: A major boost for mutuals and co-operatives across the UK as package of support to grow the sector is announced.
We've long called for regulators to play a greater role in enabling growth. Today's big news is another promising step on our journey to doubling the co-operative and mutual sector📈
We've long called for regulators to play a greater role in enabling growth. Today's big news is another promising step on our journey to doubling the co-operative and mutual sector📈
December 5, 2025 at 12:01 PM
NEW: A major boost for mutuals and co-operatives across the UK as package of support to grow the sector is announced.
We've long called for regulators to play a greater role in enabling growth. Today's big news is another promising step on our journey to doubling the co-operative and mutual sector📈
We've long called for regulators to play a greater role in enabling growth. Today's big news is another promising step on our journey to doubling the co-operative and mutual sector📈
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BREAKING🚨: Nigel Farage has received a record £9 million donation from Thai-based crypto CEO Christopher Harbone.
Nigel Farage has proposed cutting taxes and regulations on the crypto industry.
Nigel Farage has proposed cutting taxes and regulations on the crypto industry.
December 4, 2025 at 1:18 PM
BREAKING🚨: Nigel Farage has received a record £9 million donation from Thai-based crypto CEO Christopher Harbone.
Nigel Farage has proposed cutting taxes and regulations on the crypto industry.
Nigel Farage has proposed cutting taxes and regulations on the crypto industry.
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This is vile and so so wrong. GB News is the TV version of X.
Extreme racism like this should not be platformed as ‘news.’
It is absolutely disgusting and another attempt to drag ‘debate’ to the right and destabilise our democracy.
Extreme racism like this should not be platformed as ‘news.’
It is absolutely disgusting and another attempt to drag ‘debate’ to the right and destabilise our democracy.
GB News now broadcasting calls to remove the ethnic minority MPs from parliament
December 3, 2025 at 7:53 PM
This is vile and so so wrong. GB News is the TV version of X.
Extreme racism like this should not be platformed as ‘news.’
It is absolutely disgusting and another attempt to drag ‘debate’ to the right and destabilise our democracy.
Extreme racism like this should not be platformed as ‘news.’
It is absolutely disgusting and another attempt to drag ‘debate’ to the right and destabilise our democracy.
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Again: the project is clearly to drive trans women, in particular, out of public life altogether.
December 3, 2025 at 11:26 AM
Again: the project is clearly to drive trans women, in particular, out of public life altogether.
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I am glad common sense has prevailed.
BUT
The UK’s fastest-growing city-region should not be in the position of having to beg and plead for basic rail connectivity.
A plan to improve Manchester-London services in the short, medium and long terms is now well overdue.
BUT
The UK’s fastest-growing city-region should not be in the position of having to beg and plead for basic rail connectivity.
A plan to improve Manchester-London services in the short, medium and long terms is now well overdue.
Manchester-London 7am train will now carry passengers after outcry over regulator’s decision
Manchester-London 7am train will now carry passengers after outcry over regulator’s decision
Avanti service was to be pulled from timetable from mid-December but would have still run because of needs out of Euston
The express Manchester-London 7am Avanti service will take passengers after all, after the rail regulator conceded defeat in the face of public outcry over a ruling that would have left it running as an empty “ghost train” each day.
The 7am train, the only service linking the cities in under two hours, was set to be axed from the passenger table from mid-December – but would, as the Guardian reported on Saturday, have kept running empty from Piccadilly each day so it could run morning trains back out of Euston. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
December 1, 2025 at 5:15 PM
I am glad common sense has prevailed.
BUT
The UK’s fastest-growing city-region should not be in the position of having to beg and plead for basic rail connectivity.
A plan to improve Manchester-London services in the short, medium and long terms is now well overdue.
BUT
The UK’s fastest-growing city-region should not be in the position of having to beg and plead for basic rail connectivity.
A plan to improve Manchester-London services in the short, medium and long terms is now well overdue.
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HIV is treatable and preventable; those living with it can live long, healthy lives with the right support and medication.
In the UK we must continue to break down the stigma & end discrimination against those with HIV.
In the UK we must continue to break down the stigma & end discrimination against those with HIV.
December 1, 2025 at 11:22 AM
HIV is treatable and preventable; those living with it can live long, healthy lives with the right support and medication.
In the UK we must continue to break down the stigma & end discrimination against those with HIV.
In the UK we must continue to break down the stigma & end discrimination against those with HIV.
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Today is World Aids Day.
@commonswec.parliament.uk recently found there was a concerning rise in HIV diagnosis rates among women, and services are stretched. Eradicating HIV by 2030 will require a specialised action plan, and the Committee will continue to push for action in this area.
@commonswec.parliament.uk recently found there was a concerning rise in HIV diagnosis rates among women, and services are stretched. Eradicating HIV by 2030 will require a specialised action plan, and the Committee will continue to push for action in this area.
December 1, 2025 at 11:22 AM
Today is World Aids Day.
@commonswec.parliament.uk recently found there was a concerning rise in HIV diagnosis rates among women, and services are stretched. Eradicating HIV by 2030 will require a specialised action plan, and the Committee will continue to push for action in this area.
@commonswec.parliament.uk recently found there was a concerning rise in HIV diagnosis rates among women, and services are stretched. Eradicating HIV by 2030 will require a specialised action plan, and the Committee will continue to push for action in this area.
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Today, the government have unveiled the new HIV Action Plan for England.
It's a really exciting moment, with transformational potential. We're rounding up some of the highlights.
Find out more.
https://tht.org.uk/news/government-launches-trailblazing-scheme-reconnect-thousands-hiv-treatment
It's a really exciting moment, with transformational potential. We're rounding up some of the highlights.
Find out more.
https://tht.org.uk/news/government-launches-trailblazing-scheme-reconnect-thousands-hiv-treatment
December 1, 2025 at 8:02 AM
Today, the government have unveiled the new HIV Action Plan for England.
It's a really exciting moment, with transformational potential. We're rounding up some of the highlights.
Find out more.
https://tht.org.uk/news/government-launches-trailblazing-scheme-reconnect-thousands-hiv-treatment
It's a really exciting moment, with transformational potential. We're rounding up some of the highlights.
Find out more.
https://tht.org.uk/news/government-launches-trailblazing-scheme-reconnect-thousands-hiv-treatment
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We're so excited about this.
A £5 million trial is going to put HIV testing kits on to the NHS App and therefore into everyone's hands.
A £5 million trial is going to put HIV testing kits on to the NHS App and therefore into everyone's hands.
New trial allows HIV testing kits delivered to your door with results on phone
A groundbreaking £5 million trial, to be unveiled in the government's HIV Action Plan published on Monday, will see home testing kits ordered at the touch of a button
www.mirror.co.uk
November 30, 2025 at 11:10 AM
We're so excited about this.
A £5 million trial is going to put HIV testing kits on to the NHS App and therefore into everyone's hands.
A £5 million trial is going to put HIV testing kits on to the NHS App and therefore into everyone's hands.
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For our community, it’s more than a ribbon.
It’s remembering everyone lost to HIV. It’s a promise to support people living with HIV. It’s a pledge to end new cases of HIV by 2030. It’s a stand against HIV stigma.
Donate now.
tht.org.uk/ribbon
It’s remembering everyone lost to HIV. It’s a promise to support people living with HIV. It’s a pledge to end new cases of HIV by 2030. It’s a stand against HIV stigma.
Donate now.
tht.org.uk/ribbon
December 1, 2025 at 6:01 AM
For our community, it’s more than a ribbon.
It’s remembering everyone lost to HIV. It’s a promise to support people living with HIV. It’s a pledge to end new cases of HIV by 2030. It’s a stand against HIV stigma.
Donate now.
tht.org.uk/ribbon
It’s remembering everyone lost to HIV. It’s a promise to support people living with HIV. It’s a pledge to end new cases of HIV by 2030. It’s a stand against HIV stigma.
Donate now.
tht.org.uk/ribbon
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Scrapping the two-child cap is both anti-poverty & pro-learning.
Children don’t come to school ready to learn if they live in poverty. Teachers can’t focus on teaching if they’re plugging gaps elsewhere.
What goes on outside the school gates makes a big difference inside them.
Children don’t come to school ready to learn if they live in poverty. Teachers can’t focus on teaching if they’re plugging gaps elsewhere.
What goes on outside the school gates makes a big difference inside them.
November 28, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Scrapping the two-child cap is both anti-poverty & pro-learning.
Children don’t come to school ready to learn if they live in poverty. Teachers can’t focus on teaching if they’re plugging gaps elsewhere.
What goes on outside the school gates makes a big difference inside them.
Children don’t come to school ready to learn if they live in poverty. Teachers can’t focus on teaching if they’re plugging gaps elsewhere.
What goes on outside the school gates makes a big difference inside them.
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Banning plastic wet wipes is a major step forward in protecting our rivers, beaches and wildlife.
11 billion wet wipes are used every year - this Labour government is taking action to clean up our waterways.
11 billion wet wipes are used every year - this Labour government is taking action to clean up our waterways.
November 28, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Banning plastic wet wipes is a major step forward in protecting our rivers, beaches and wildlife.
11 billion wet wipes are used every year - this Labour government is taking action to clean up our waterways.
11 billion wet wipes are used every year - this Labour government is taking action to clean up our waterways.
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This Labour government’s removal of the two-child limit will lift 450,000 children out of poverty, rising to around 550,000 alongside other measures announced this year, such as the expansion of free school meals.
November 27, 2025 at 12:42 PM
This Labour government’s removal of the two-child limit will lift 450,000 children out of poverty, rising to around 550,000 alongside other measures announced this year, such as the expansion of free school meals.
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The "don't have an extra kid if you can't afford it" brigade get awfully upset when you suggest they don't stay in their £2m house if they can't afford it, don't they?
November 27, 2025 at 6:09 PM
The "don't have an extra kid if you can't afford it" brigade get awfully upset when you suggest they don't stay in their £2m house if they can't afford it, don't they?
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A good day for Ed Miliband: mansion tax introduced, green levies moved off bills to taxation, ban on new North Sea oil and gas licences confirmed.
November 26, 2025 at 9:59 PM
A good day for Ed Miliband: mansion tax introduced, green levies moved off bills to taxation, ban on new North Sea oil and gas licences confirmed.
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Today’s Labour Budget is about fairness. Our Labour values in practice.
Lifting nearly half a million children out of poverty paid for by a gambling levy, a tax on homes worth £2m, and closing tax loopholes.
We are Labour and we make different choices.
Lifting nearly half a million children out of poverty paid for by a gambling levy, a tax on homes worth £2m, and closing tax loopholes.
We are Labour and we make different choices.
Two-child benefit cap to be scrapped from next year
The policy, introduced under the Tories, means parents can only claim universal credit for their first two children.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 26, 2025 at 5:49 PM
Today’s Labour Budget is about fairness. Our Labour values in practice.
Lifting nearly half a million children out of poverty paid for by a gambling levy, a tax on homes worth £2m, and closing tax loopholes.
We are Labour and we make different choices.
Lifting nearly half a million children out of poverty paid for by a gambling levy, a tax on homes worth £2m, and closing tax loopholes.
We are Labour and we make different choices.
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The Chancellor has scrapped the two-child limit, benefitting more than half a million families.
In April 2025, out of families impacted by the limit:
- 6 in 10 had 3 children.
- 6 in 10 had at least one person in work.
- And 6 in 10 are receiving a health or disability benefit.
In April 2025, out of families impacted by the limit:
- 6 in 10 had 3 children.
- 6 in 10 had at least one person in work.
- And 6 in 10 are receiving a health or disability benefit.
November 26, 2025 at 1:45 PM
The Chancellor has scrapped the two-child limit, benefitting more than half a million families.
In April 2025, out of families impacted by the limit:
- 6 in 10 had 3 children.
- 6 in 10 had at least one person in work.
- And 6 in 10 are receiving a health or disability benefit.
In April 2025, out of families impacted by the limit:
- 6 in 10 had 3 children.
- 6 in 10 had at least one person in work.
- And 6 in 10 are receiving a health or disability benefit.
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💼 The Chancellor made a number of bold, important interventions in the Budget today:
- Scrapping the two-child limit in Universal Credit
- Lowering energy bills
- Holding down transport costs
- Increasing the minimum wage
These will all assist families struggling to get by.
- Scrapping the two-child limit in Universal Credit
- Lowering energy bills
- Holding down transport costs
- Increasing the minimum wage
These will all assist families struggling to get by.
November 26, 2025 at 3:12 PM
💼 The Chancellor made a number of bold, important interventions in the Budget today:
- Scrapping the two-child limit in Universal Credit
- Lowering energy bills
- Holding down transport costs
- Increasing the minimum wage
These will all assist families struggling to get by.
- Scrapping the two-child limit in Universal Credit
- Lowering energy bills
- Holding down transport costs
- Increasing the minimum wage
These will all assist families struggling to get by.
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Great to see that a proper tax on online gambling has been included in the budget today. The Treasury Select Committee’s recent report proposed this as a way to encourage people to spend less time gambling on predatory slot algorithms, while also raising revenue. (1/2)
Stewart Kenny, one of the co-founders of Paddy Power, told me on the Treasury Select Committee today that he regrets many parts of the industry that he once led. (1/4)
November 26, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Great to see that a proper tax on online gambling has been included in the budget today. The Treasury Select Committee’s recent report proposed this as a way to encourage people to spend less time gambling on predatory slot algorithms, while also raising revenue. (1/2)