Natural dyer and textile crafter. Supporter of small & local. Re-user & recycler of things. Mother of twins. Cockerpoo slave. #GTTO
Berkshire, England
Joined January 2009
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Ukraine launched a campaign to prevent Russian athletes from entering the Olympics under a neutral flag. #StandWithUkraine
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Why do you imagine these @Conservatives are promoting themselves using green rather than blue & without using a party logo?
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Hilariously the Uxbridge & S. Ruislip Conservatives have stood by Boris Johnson because (this is priceless) he has promised a new hospital. This is magic beans territory, even by Johnson standards, laughable & empty. Nobody in their right mind believes a promise from Johnson. 1/5
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How could ministers at the Department of Health think it was a bigger priority to buy brand new iPhones for half their Whitehall staff than it was to increase the number of defibrillators in community spaces across the country? Story by @DaveBurke12. mirror.co.uk/news/politics/m…
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This demonstrates such a basic misunderstanding of a PM's duty to Parliament and the country.
It's like perjuring yourself, then advancing the notion that your PR team told you to lie, as somehow circumventing your legal duty to tell the truth.
Johnson will point to a 'line to take' Whatsapp message from his former director of communications Jack Doyle stating that rules hadn't been broken
He says this message shows he was given assurances and did not mislead
But committee says the assurances were limited
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Telling somneone that the line to take is "that the rules have not been broken" is NOT the same as being advised that the rules have not been broken.
They tried that with the cheese'n'wine.
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• Tories announce they are to open 75 Sure Start Centres. They closed 1,189 Sure Start Centres
• Tories announce they’re opening 5,000 NHS Beds. They closed 22,000 NHS Beds
• Tories announce they are opening 19 new NHS Diagnostic Centres. They closed 140 NHS Walk In Centres
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For the last 4 years next door have been rude, snidey & made constant muttered digs at me because I'm a police officer. I was happy to see her for sale sign go up.
Today I overheard her talking to some prospective buyers 'it's really safe here, the girl next door is a copper' 🤦♀️
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Britain’s strategy “was designed to keep out large numbers of European Jews – perhaps ten times as many as it let in…. Escape to Britain was an exception for the lucky few; exclusion was the fate of the majority”. | Kenan Malik theguardian.com/commentisfre…
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Why hasn't he resigned yet?
The BBC chairman helped a close friend become a paid adviser to the corporation on editorial standards and impartiality.
thetimes.co.uk/article/bbc-c…
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Who needs European standards to protect the environment and its citizens?
"Level of toxic 'forever chemicals' in some UK fish exceed European safety standards many times over"
@BrianMcHugh2011 via @YorksBylines
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A senior Tory MP is under investigation by a parliamentary watchdog after allegations he lobbied the head of the NHS on behalf of a firm he received money from.
#ToriesOut253 #SunakOut144 #GeneralElectionNow
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"People warned to avoid 83 UK beaches because of raw sewage dumped nearby."
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Strikes and demonstrations in GB: Teachers, junior doctors und Tube workers walk out and fight for higher wages.
Streiks und Demonstrationen in GB: Lehrer, Assistenzärzte und U-Bahn Fahrer legen die Arbeit nieder und kämpfen um höhere Löhne.
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4/8 nurses reject pay offer
17/8 RCN ballot announced
18/8 gov't refuses talks
6/10 ballot result
11/10 gov't refuses talks
9/11 strikes announced
15/12 strikes begin
21/2 gov't agrees to discuss pay
16/3 deal done
202 DAYS of gov't refusing to talk
23 DAYS it took to do a deal
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Ministers need to recognise that politics is the art of the possible. Constantly promising to end all problems related to asylum and immigration with new legislation is, at best, naive. Repeatedly threatening to terminate human rights obligations is worse.
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Journalists should start asking them, ‘Should a responsible government have given a wholly ignorant electorate a choice in the first place?’
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It's the job of Governments to govern in the national interest, not hand over massive constitutional & economic decisions to an ill-informed electorate in a once-and-for-all advisory glorified opinion poll.
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