Cllr Rich Maw
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Cllr Rich Maw
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An Independent left-wing North Yorkshire Councillor for Weaponness and Ramshill, Scarborough.
- flags at half mast. Nationalist nonsense -

#scarborough #flags #nationalism
September 11, 2025 at 2:26 PM
I started the week off delivering my Election Special around Sea View.

Plenty of folks out in the street ready to chat, talk politics and even registering some casework!

My thanks, as ever to my amazing wife Claire (who probably delivers twice as many as me cos of all my chatting 🤣)
#STC
March 24, 2025 at 2:13 PM
We're getting HuNdReDs of shrubs, bushes and trees to plant out at Scarborough's newest nature reserve near Cornelian Drive 🌿🌿
Yorkshire Water are committing to provide our local community group (Wheatcroft) with sufficient funding and some help with planting 👍

But we may need some volunteers! 🤔😘
March 15, 2025 at 12:14 PM
#Zelensky has just been mugged off by the occupants of the White House.

Trump is not worthy of that office.

Starmer / Europe is left with egg on his / it's face.

Disaster 🙄
February 28, 2025 at 5:57 PM
The #Tory-led (and most likely, whipped) #NorthYorkshireCouncil just voted against a motion to vastly reduce the use of #glyphosate (a weed killer which the #WorldHealthOrganisation has said is probably carcinogenic).
#politics #environment
February 27, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Since Starmer's win, an additional 30,000 badgers have met their doom driving them to near extinction is some areas 🦡

Defra are pushing ahead with culling because farmers may lose what little confidence they have in the government 🤔

#badger #cull #defra #brianmay
February 25, 2025 at 2:15 PM
#europa won't reduce your energy prices along the East Coast, they're merely #fracking up the coast and beneath your #nationalpark for profit! #banfracking #frackoff #burniston
February 21, 2025 at 10:54 AM
A nice article in The Yorkshire Post regarding #scarborough400 👌

www.pressreader.com/uk/yorkshire...

(also, thanks to D Jeffells - and cool photo of yours truly by J Hardisty 📷)
#spa #HistoricEngland #heritage #anniversary #quatercentenary @yorkshirepost.co.uk
February 12, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Energy companies have no regard of the legitimate concerns of locals, they routinely bulldozer their way through campaigns, objections and local authorities.

Weak government is taken advantage of (C'mon Ed Milliband, pull your finger out!)

#fracking #banfracking #burniston #europa #energy
February 9, 2025 at 10:23 AM
#NorthYorkshireCouncil has a responsibility to #listed buildings of this nature and I am pleased that they are now liaising with #HistoricEngland.
#scarborough #tennis #pavilion
January 28, 2025 at 8:59 PM
With an average of 360 ambulance hours per day lost due to delayed handovers, the #YAS Trust loses the equivalent of 32 ambulances on a 12-hour shift per day! In December, Cat 2 response times (stroke) were 41 mins. #scarborough patients are taken directly to York adding a further 1hr. #nhs #funding
January 24, 2025 at 9:17 AM
This morning, I was guest speaker at the #YMCA for the Leisure & Learning group.
Who'd know that I could talk about #scarborough400 for a full hour without notes?! 😅
Only one question caught me, - about the Town Charters (fortunately I did have some notes about them! 📝)
Thank you for the invite 😁
January 21, 2025 at 12:16 PM
There is a lack of any progress being made on the rare Victorian #tennis #pavilion in Holbeck Hill #Bramcote
Dating back to the sport's inception in the 1860s the building is hugely significant.
Owners cannot be allowed to let their listed buildings decay! #scarborough
January 20, 2025 at 5:25 PM
The appointment of Mandelson (twice forced to resign, Prince of Darkness with zero diplomacy credentials) highlights the dire inadequacies of contemporary politics.
The only positive I can see is that we finally get him off our shores and into #Trump Land (or perhaps not...)!
#mandelson #politics
January 19, 2025 at 11:31 AM
A huge day for #scarborough400 yesterday as we held three meetings to discuss events, heritage and marketing strategies.
2026 will be a HUGE year for Scarborough as we celebrate being the 1st seaside resort!
#scarborough #anniversary #tourism #northyorkshirecouncil #spa #seaside #quatercentenary
January 16, 2025 at 8:41 PM
January 11, 2025 at 7:02 PM
This year, I will continue to stand in solidarity with those who are fighting for justice; whether that be striking teachers, NHS biologists or anti-Hunt supporters ✊ #bantrailhunting #foxhunting #trailhunting #northyorkshirecouncil #fox #derwenthunt
January 4, 2025 at 6:54 PM
I saw this in the sand this aft... (some sandy satire!?)
Congrats to anyone trying #veganuary and/or #dryjanuary #scarborough
January 4, 2025 at 6:49 PM
Today I joined Keep Scarborough Tidy with a South Cliff litter pick. Whilst at the gardens I saw our poor Christmas tree looking a bit worse for wear, lying on the ground following last week's storm. Tomorrow it will be back in place thanks to Parks & Gardens 🎄
#scarborough #northyorkshirecouncil
December 17, 2024 at 3:47 PM
You can't see me, but my hand is raised ✊
#politics #austerity #taxbillionaires #socialism
December 7, 2024 at 9:46 AM
Reposted by Cllr Rich Maw
Another horrifically cruel practice for day 4 of my top 20 worst fox hunting crimes with @huntsabs.bsky.social . . . the act of ‘hardening’ terriers . . .

We need a #RealBanNow
December 4, 2024 at 1:23 PM
In last month's budget, The Rural Services grant was scrapped and 're-purposed'. What this means to a #council such as #NorthYorkshire is a loss of circa £14 million.
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When officers talk about efficiencies and savings, what they really mean are #cuts.
I predict there will be cuts. Let's see... 🙄
December 4, 2024 at 4:45 PM
This morning, teachers at Scarborough 6th Form College were striking once again over the apparent oversight by the government who have not guaranteed a pay settlement for non-academised colleges.
#s6fc #neu #strike #picket
December 3, 2024 at 12:26 PM
You may be surprised to learn that since the demise of SBC, there has been NO STRATEGY for the harbour(s). This has, in my view, left us treading water for the last two years (pardon the pun) and concerns me as the power is increasingly centralised over in Northallerton whilst our harbour silts up!
December 2, 2024 at 5:49 PM
Yesterday, I asked Simon Morritt, Chief Exec of York & Scarborough Trust, of the current microbiologist industrial action and quality of care issues re blood sciences at Scarborough.
#nhs #industrialaction #scarborough #strike #UnitetheUnion
November 30, 2024 at 8:18 AM