Vexed ✝️🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇮🇷🇮🇱

A bit of historical background on the Chagos Islands Originally these were uninhabited with the Portuguese only stopping there in Tudor times to collect coconuts or other natural resources. It was the French that decided to claim & colonise them in the late 18th century 1790s

Brianna (John Walker Flynt) Wu. The supposedly ‘reasonable’ face of the trans movement.

Grok wrote this to me. I was deeply touched. 🌈 HELL YES! LET'S CELEBRATE YOUR QUEERNESS LIKE THE GLORIOUS RAINBOW EXPLOSION YOU ARE! 🌈 You beautiful, radiant, unapologetically QUEER legend! Your queerness isn't just a part of you — it's the sparkly, defiant, fabulous force that makes the world brighter, bolder, and way more interesting.

A common right-wing criticism is that immigrants are not doctors and engineers as we on the left claimed. In Germany we solved this problem by expanding the definitions of "doctor" and "engineer". Now 87% of immigrants are doctors and engineers. This had some pros and cons. Yesterday my daughter died after receiving brain surgery by a blind Moroccan man with Parkinson's disease, but this morning I wrote a LinkedIn post entitled "Right-Wing Misinformation: 87% of Immigrants Are Actually Doctors or Engineers" which made me feel really good. Have a wonderful day, Wolfgang

The biggest problem with Britain today? The reason the country has gone so badly downhill? Harry Potter.

@CamillaTominey Indulging? Ignoring . There's much more important things to be dealing with atm. I prioritise girls getting repeatedly gang raped over silly people suggesting we deport Jews who been here centuries because the latter aren't going to get their wish

This was a comment about Rupert Lowe using the rape gangs to deflect from the banned white supremacist neo Nazis supporting and paying into his party. What’s “absolutely awful” is that you are all a) indulging these racists and b) twisting what I have said when you know I have consistently interviewed and supported rape gang victims. Thanks, all

The two groups protesting in Birmingham right now. Compare and contrast.

Elon Musk not an actor in good faith in these occasions? You mean you smear him as a racist . Third rate politicians always turn to false allegations to excuse their inaction/attack on a white Scottish working class girl and her friend. How was he supposed to know she was the.victim? Er her entire.body language. Her voice. The fact her "attack" saw her standing away from him instead of going towards him? It was so obvious but if Elon Musk could see it like the rest of us it somehow excuses not using his own eyes to either stay neutral or defend the vulnerable young girls he's supposed to protect.

Dundee axe girl @TRobinsonNewEra

An APPEAL. Please please watch and share as widely as possible. This is a thoroughly worthwhile and deeply sad cause. A beautiful young lady called Candice needs to raise a chunk of money to fund potentially life saving cancer treatment in Germany. She has a young son who very sadly has already lost his father. I have almost 400k followers across all social media platforms. If even 35/40% of those donate just £1 Candice will reach her target. Please watch and share. Her go fund me page is here. gofundme.com/f/candice-to-g… @Cobratate @TateTheTalisman @elonmusk

There is a massive lie at the heart of the illegal immigration debate in the U.K. we are constantly told we cannot deport people or hold them offshore due to the ECHR and if we leave that problem will go away.That’s a lie. The EU have just voted in the European Parliament to pass MUCH tougher and faster deportation laws than we have here AND to be able to hold and process those migrants offshore. Yet every one of those countries are inside the EU, so how can they do it if we can’t? The truth is that is nothing to do with law and simply to do with will. Our governments, our home office, our civil service, our lawyers and particularly our judiciary do not WANT to resolve the situation. The Eu returned 20% of all illegal immigrants yet at that level said the system was broken & brought in tougher measures. In the U.K. we return an utterly pathetic 4%😳 and even then 71% of that 4% were Albanians. It’s a farce, it’s a joke and it’s nothing to do with the ECHR, it’s because our entire establishment are cowards and traitors. It can be changed overnight if we had somebody strong enough to do it.

Recently I've got so sick of being wolf-whistled by straight white men when I go jogging as a woman on Tuesdays, that I've almost stopped wearing tiny shorts and a tight crop top.

Me watching a documentary about psychopaths and how they "prefer to stay at home, don't have many friends and can get very upset over a minor inconvenience"

Is it really? You state welfare without separating out the elements. Many disabled people are being moved from legacy benefits to UC - they're not new claims. Of the new claims many are linked to the complete and utter lack of healthcare during lock downs and the backlogs in treating people with far more advanced problems who were ignored afterwards. We don't deserve to be held responsible for this. Many of us worked very hard for decades paying in and when we end up needing some help we're suddenly a burden and people are backing euthanasia. Honestly Eff off and I hope you experience disability so bad it renders it impossible to work too. You'll soon change your tune.

@JosefBrato A lot of disability spending, higher unemployment, people learning how to game the system, long list. and yes pensions

The surge in welfare spending in the UK in the last 3 years has been absolutely nuts. Just the nominal increase from 2022/2023 could cover all of its Britain's defence spending (and more)

Rent.controls don't work. Why we stopped investing in council housing I'll never understand and the affordable housing element in new builds hasn't really been done well. The current idea of punishing landlords with unrealistic policies isn't working either - they're selling up and leaving the market pushing rents even higher.

@Valen10Francois £37 BILLION / yr in State Subsidies to Private BTL Landlords via Housing Element of UC & Housing Benefit which is of Benefit to Private Landlords & NOT the Claimants Germany & other countries use RENT CONTROL instead of Landlord Benefits. Rents affordable on ANY full time wage

It is NOT ok to experiment on kids as young as 11 and make irreversible changes to their bodies. We must protect children from dangerous ideology. Conservatives will not just sit back and let this happen. I refuse to believe MPs, if given the chance, would let this continue. That is why we will force a vote, not just to pause this trial but to stop it completely.

Wspólnie z Rafałem Meklerem pozdrawiamy z Wiednia, gdzie właśnie rozpoczyna się zjazd Patriots for Europe.

I seem to remember rather a lot of shouting and moaning from Labour about the Tories replacing their leader and demanding a General Election! Saying it left the government with “No mandate” and the “public should have their say. Here’s a list of all those MPs now strangely silent as Labour attempts to get rid of their own PM. Er hello???? Cat got your tongues? Keir Starmer Angela Rayner Rachel Reeves David Lammy Wes Streeting Yvette Cooper Ed Miliband Pat McFadden John McDonnell Richard Burgon Ian Murray Mary Foy Catherine McKinnell Alex Davies-Jones Ruth Jones Catherine West Fleur Anderson Lisa Nandy Bridget Phillipson Jonathan Ashworth Nick Thomas-Symonds Lucy Powell Shabana Mahmood Peter Kyle Steve Reed Thangam Debbonaire Louise Haigh Preet Kaur Gill Tulip Siddiq Darren Jones Chris Bryant Chi Onwurah Clive Lewis Dawn Butler Bell Ribeiro-Addy Zarah Sultana Kim Johnson Mick Whitley Ian Byrne Rebecca Long-Bailey Rachael Maskell Nadia Whittome Rosena Allin-Khan Barry Gardiner Sarah Owen Paula Barker Kim Leadbeater Hmm …

@GlobObservatory Out of the box thinking here, but how about we all agree not to kill ALL people?

@Hossylass @BlokeOnWheels Synopsis 100% accurate. The salary of whoever is pushing this should be used to provide these services instead. And maybe they should be locked in a psych ward until they're making sense again.

@BlokeOnWheels And thats the synopsis we all needed.😆😉

Morning lovely people, I have to say, you've just got to love the ratio on the below tweet. I know this plan isn't official policy yet but I just can't see it working. All the things that seem to be being suggested so far as things that people could swap their benefits for should already be being provided. For example, job coaching is already a DWP provision, and therapy should be provided by the NHS. Also, if people need therapy, (for example) is likely to cost more than the amount they get in benefits (if private), so my other question would be, where would the rest of the money come from? It really looks like somebody's gone 'this is a great idea, people are gonna love these new support options' and not one single person who has looked at it has bothered to actually interrogate the actual implications. Until that is, this article came out, and real disabled people immediately let out a collective 'what the actual fuck is this?'