By Rachel Reeves MP
Ensuring young people get the best start in life is one of this Government’s key priorities – and families across Leeds West and Pudsey are already seeing the impact we’re making.
More families in Bramley and Armley are benefiting from free breakfast clubs, like the one at Bramley St Peter’s Primary School I visited with Labour councillors last month.
And we have eased the financial burden on many households across our communities thanks to the expansion of free school meals, lifting thousands of children out of poverty. Elsewhere in my constituency, Leeds Baby Bank have opened up their new support centre in New Wortley.
It was a pleasure to meet with the inspirational team running this local charity who are doing amazing work supporting families across Leeds and helping ensure no child goes without.
I was particularly proud to announce in my speech at Labour conference, that this Labour Government will ensure every primary school in England has its own library by the end of this Parliament.
School libraries are a place for young people to learn and grow, explore their interests independently or find a quiet space to study that isn’t always on offer at home.
After 14 years of underfunding, I know things haven’t been easy for local schools and I want to pay tribute to all teachers and support staff. I know how hard you all work to give children in Leeds West and Pudsey the best start in life.
I recently sat down with many West Leeds headteachers to listen to their views on the challenges they face and their ideas for improvements, which I will take back to my colleagues in government.
While we know there is more to do, this Government is getting on with the job – delivering practical help for families who have been let down too long, putting money back in people’s pockets and giving young people the best possible start in life.
As I said in my Conference speech, I believe in a country where ordinary kids can flourish, unhindered by their background. Unlocking opportunities for young people is what brought me into politics and what drives me today.
I was proud to announced that this Labour Government will fund a new Youth Guarantee. Every young person will be guaranteed either a place in college, an apprenticeship or one-to-one support to find a job.
YE YE innit Rachel.
You can just tell that some Southern English 30something Parlimentary Advisor/SPAD wrote this, it reads completely soulless.
Like if it war written by an AI to be as generic and light touch as possible. If we want better things for our kids and civic engagment:
Fund Yorkshire kid’s Schools properly. London schools are given double the amount of money per child than schools in Leeds or York. The Southerner English take Yorkshire’s Money and ignore our Historic Right to nationhood, this is why Young Yorkshire has problems.
You are intentionally only selectively mentioning problems, and you offer sticking plaster solutions instead of putting Justice and fairness for Yorkshire and Leeds’ kids, schools, facilities, opportunities, educations front and centre.
The boomers and auld pensionerd and adults sold their souls to London, England. They betrayed their children and us young people who are now seemingly doomed to slave away all our lives for London and English Political Parties and Fat Cat Bankers and economic Dillard’s like Mrs.Reeves MP. Cheers old people for enslaving future generations to a Broken SourhernEng Supremacist brokem Westminster isn’t working system.
She thinks you are an idiot and that’s why Labour speaks to the entire country like they’re speaking to fools. They think you’re so stupid snd easy to manipulate, that by saying “14 years the Tories black hole mission for changed labour difficult inheritance’ at you as political party spin words to make you stop thinking. It’s called a “Thought Terminating Cliche” and Labour and the Chancellor are infamous for them.
We need to remove all southern English Loyalists from Yorkshire, because they are a bunch of racist white Supremacists who manipulate the Leeds and Yorkshire public for their own London Political Party benefit. It’s same with Paul Farage, some backwards posh English Snake Oil sailsman who cares nothing for Yorkshire yet will try to get all the foolish racists to vote Reform UK by telling them the enemy is the woman with darker skin than myself.
The real enemy is the English and Southern British.
We must remove the ability for idiots like Westminster Reeves to destroy Yorkshire’s Prosperty and we can go our own way with our population of nearly 6 million, larger than Scotland, and economic power which is double that of Wales.
Yorkshire Needs Home Rule and a Yorkshire Nationalist Parliament.
People like Rachel Reeves think that you will just read the above letter one of her High Paid posh staffers has likely written on the MP’s behalf, not think about it much, and vote for Labour again based on you misunderstanding what’s actually going on, and allowing thysen to be lied to and allowing yourself to be fooled from these Elite Southerners from England who don’t respect your intelligence or the intelligence and rights of Fowlk here in our Country of Yorkshire.
Rachel why haven’t you helped out Farsley Celtic?
Why are Yorkshire boys and girls from leeds discriminated against when we apply for good jobs down in London, England ?
Why are Leeds Schools deeply lower funded compared to higher funded London Schools?
Do you actually know how angry people are out there?? I’ve canvassed 40,000 doors in my time since 2021- people are like Russia 1905 put there. Please do better Rachel. Be human.
Finally, We are basically a colony where southern English London accented rich elites steal our taxes, jobs, youth, capital government investment, and hope.
Get ready for a difficult few months Rachey Reeves, because people hate labour and apparently none of you in the Treasury know how to count properly or add up basic sums.
Everything in London Labour causes an economic disaster and their lack of charisma and inspirational talk and ability to communicate with anyone, will hang them from their own petards electorally.
Cheers for this deeply informative and engaging article from an English Born non-Yorkshire MP. They definetly have 100% electoral chance to win May’s Leeds local elections or any devolved regional Yorkshire elections or any Westminster Elections.
I predict a 3 term Labour Government and Prime Minister Kier Starmer to be with us till he’s 100.
Abolish the 2 child benefit cap pls my family is hungry and cold
Dear Tyler,
Whilst I agree with many of your opinions, especially ones about RR, I think that you’ll find that London is actually the wealth generator of the country.
I’ve really admired your political ascent thus far ( except your ill advised comments after the late Queen’s death) but you have recently become quite vitriolic in your comments about whole swathes of the population and some of your posts are verging on the unhinged.
Aren’t us Yorkshire folk English or/ and British too? Even if we became an independent nation most of us would still be genetically English.
Also if you want to appear like a credible politician it might be wise to proof read your posts. Paul might be Mr Farage’s middle name but in common parlance he’s known as Nigel.
I appreciate that you feel frustrated and are obviously very passionate about your beliefs but please don’t wreck what can be a glittering political career by launching into rants that could possible alienate your potential followers.
Yorkshire is Not England.
England is not Yorkshire.
We are different in culture, ethnicity, friendliness, communitsrianism, and in National Identity.
No, Yorkshire folk are Our own Folk, ourssens.
We are part of the Country of Yorkshire, which is a constituent Home Nation of The British Union-State. And we are a part of The Commonwealth as we are under the thumb of a royal family full of Rapists and Sex Traffickers and Cheating on partners, Affairs and Tax Avoidence etc.
So Yorkshire, is a Nation.
Anyone who says it isn’t, is a Southern Loyal Englishman. Not a Tyke. Not granted Yorkshireness.
And we will fight for it if necessary, like The Irish Free State, Michael Collins, The 13 Colonies, George Washington, like the Malaysians and Kenyans and Jamaicans, we will fight the Crown and their Royalist Whites and forces of English Loyalists.
We Young Yorkshire have had enough, I’ve spoken to tens of thousands of Tykes on the ground at the door, I’ve spoken to old Tykes and white Tykes and black Tykes and Jewish Tykes and Muslim Tykes and Yorkshire Tykes from Barnsley t’Whitby t’hull.
We are sick of being slaves for Southern London and the English. They brainwash people into believing the absurdity that Yorkshire is the same if England.
Yorkshire stops at the Hunber, goes down and around the peak district, up the Pennines Moutnain chain Backbone of Britain, then curves round to stop at the tees.
England is below the Humber, above the Tees, and to the west of the Yorkshire Pennines & Moors.
Whats the difference between me and you? Old Royalist scum? I don’t care about what people say, and I am A Yorkshire *Nationalist* you’re just another Englishman waiting to be sent back to Hell with your dog Queen Elizabeth burning in Lakes of Fire for her crimes as Whore of Babylon. HEATHENS render onto God.
Tyler.
I’m so offended. How dare you say that I’m old? LOL.
Would love to go for a beer with you one day.
You posts make my day.
You haven’t swallowed The Reverend Ian Paisley’s Guide to Oratory by accident have you?
I’d be gully down for that, I’m actually way less intense in person.
There’s a Leeds Trinity University media starts next Monday. I’ll be there at 10am for the breakfast, I’d really enjoy having a chat, despite the rhetoric I’m actually more of a coalition builder than a Partisan, I’m also a Friend, a member of The Religious Society of Friends, so I’m actually a Passionate Pacifist.
If you’re free, I’ll maybe see you at Leeds Trinity? If not send me an email, I’m free to arrange a genuine chat and discussion, maybe with a 0% Guinness hah.
Enjoyed the creative discussion/debate/argument we had, was really intellectually stimulating. Makes me think at least!
Cheers Steve. And I’m in my 20’s, most people I speak to about politics who’re more involced than an average voter are all older than me, but my apologies for presuming.
Cheers all
Peace ✌ ❤️
Well, am one’r them sophisticated Yorkshiremen from Leeds, though i do like pineapple and cheese on a stick, if you’re a fan of that comedy show and get the reference lol
I used to perform a lot of Opera when I was younger as a kid with Opera North Childrens/Youth Chorus- a lot of the drama and hyperrealism and like, electric oratory and polemic and script overlaps with real life politics.
I guess that’s why I write stuff that resonates with fellow humans for all sorts of reasons.
Unlike RR et al… just no passion to em.
Glad you enjoyed and in good humour- and hope also made tha think a bit out of the box for any observers and readers too. ✌
Now for something completely different ;
I think Rachel Reeves is doing the economically prudent and correct least damaging thing by increasing income tax by like a tuppence.
If we increase VAT instead, then everything you or I or anyone buys (apart from VAT exceptions) goes up in price and skyrockets inflation.
Income tax rises are not to be immediately dismessed- they’re valid fiscal policy as a reasonse to the economic conditions Britons and Britain faces in 2025. Apparently also labour MP’s from Tribune and former Starmer Loyalists are planning something.
Hi Tyler
Thanks for the invitation, I really appreciate it. Unfortunately I’m busy on Monday but hopefully another time.
Pineapple and cheese on a stick?, Next you’ll be drinking your pint with an umbrella in it.
You were right to.presume that I’m old but don’t worry I’m almost impossible to offend. I used to get so.uptight about everything but now in my 50s I just sing Monty Python’s ‘Always Look on the Bright Side’ and try to find the humour in everything, which is bloomin’ annoying to all my friends.
Keep up the great work. We need more impassioned people in politics. I do hope that you’ll consider running for Parliament. Your operatic background will hopefully have prepared you for all its Wagnerian esque machinations
Enjoy your time at Trinity.
And to.paraphrase Strictly. ‘Keep posting!’