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Donna's avatar

It’s going to be a battle ground every inch of the way. And you’ve got the stamina to see it through. They are showing their true colours.

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Sara's avatar

It’s appalling Darren - go give them a few home truths 💥

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Leanne Craggs's avatar

I hope you are Going Darren!! Neil Craggs will be carrying the Banner for Wheatley hill as a Reform Councillor 😀

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Toffeepud's avatar

Pathetic and spiteful and as you say, dishounours the memory of men like your grandad. But, that's Labour all over isn't it? Vindictive, spiteful and envious.

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Alan Jurek's avatar

Well said Darren.

Labour is now irrelevant and does not represent working people, you and your Reformers connect with the people and the whole Country of right thinking people can see this.

Keep your nose to the grindstone and you'll be in government in 2029.

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Trav's avatar

Disgraceful! He did the same with the Tories in 2020. Who does he think he is? There will be

thousands upon thousands walk down those winding streets having not voted Labour because they know what Blair did for our country! Reform voters of Co. Durham have to get into gear to bombard this biased nobody. https://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/opinion/letters/18195995.letters-alan-mardghum-done-irreparable-damage-standing-durham-miners-gala-families-represents/

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Pamela Lowrie's avatar

It’s laughable, if all the people who voted Reform don’t go to the Gala, it’s not going to be very well supported! This shows what Labour has become, and it’s why old Labour voters have deserted the party. My mother’s family were proud coal miners from Spennymoor, they’ll all be spinning in their graves! Labour are a disgrace.

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Leanne Craggs's avatar

I personally think we, and the people of Co Durham should stand up to their bigoted bullying behaviour! Wheatleyhill banner will be carried by a Reform Councillor! He has done so year after year! Honouring his father who was made redundant in 1993 at Easington colliery and all of his grand fathers before him. How dare he dictate to people! He is a disgrace!

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Carly Hall's avatar

So they are fighting dirty now by the sound of it!! Shameful and wrong!!

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Antony Teasdale's avatar

Tony Blair never went to one if I remember right. Labour Party always goes to the miners for support.. Why? The never bothered until they wanted their vote which has depleted enormously. Labour is not for the working class. Labour is for the EU and open boarders and lining their own pockets.

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Kinsey Ashton's avatar

I am a Welsh Miner’s daughter, on 1 January 1918, aged 12 my Dad started work underground full of pride that he was helping the war effort. He was a Labour voter all his life. I voted Labour in 1997, aged 47, grew up very quickly, found Nigel and tried my best to help the Country ever since. All my Ancestors were miners, even cousins.

It was a shock to find after doing Ancestry that my husband’s grandfather died in a mining accident aged 23 in Ashfield, so my husband also has a rich coal mining history in Ashfield. His great grandfather died in a coalmining disaster in County Durham, he is on a plaque there. They fetched his body back to Ashfield for burial.

What nonsense the lefty loonies talk. We are the “RIGHT” kind of people.

Have you all seen British Stand on YouTube, they are singing a fab song in a London nightclub about Sir Stalin. I can’t stop singing it in my head 🎼🎼🎼🎼

I thought Stalin’s Dad was a toolmaker, not a banker.

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Lynn M Ramsay's avatar

Don't allow them to sap your energy Darren, stay positive and focused on the wonderful changes that will allow us to reclaim our country, with strong principled people like you, keep going.

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Grumpy Grandad's avatar

Don’t worry about it, I would be half tempted to give them a taste of their own medicine, but don’t lower yourself, they ain’t worth it

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Leanne Craggs's avatar

Not on your Nelly!!

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