Sally Davies

People may dislike PM Starmer and the Labour Party but they are actually doing what other politicians only talk about, stopping the boats and reducing illegal immigration. No wonder Farage is no longer talking about it.

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Another fossil fuelled energy crisis is underway. The last time it happened the Conservatives' response was hugely expensive, and badly targeted. Labour has a chance to do this differently. We need to tackle the root causes not the symptoms. We need reform of the energy market. First, give North Sea operators a fixed, stable price for oil and gas - using the same mechanism that has been so successful for green energy projects - Contracts for Difference. Second, 'break the link' between global gas prices and the price we pay for our own green energy. Third, control the network operators by capping their profits in line with the retail cap. Set them at 2% instead of 40%. These are foreign owned, total monopoly businesses making extraordinary returns while failing to invest in our networks and jacking up our energy bills. These measures combined could halve our energy bills in normal times and right now help Britain weather the storm caused by Trump and Netanyahu’s illegal war. And make us better protected from the next global fossil fuel crisis.

We are trucking here!!! Nearly at 5k!! Let's keep going and show Jolly Joly what happens when you bully women who are trying to protect children! Please follow @ProtectTeach

@ThrillaRilla369 I would say if a man came into the ladies room and was desperate I’d be cool about that. If a man pretending to be a woman came into the ladies room I would find it really difficult. It’s the pretending I can’t tolerate

To the women who are on this app, be honest Are you OKAY with a man claiming to be a woman using the ladies room if you're in there? 🤷🤔

It’s all starting to unravel for Reform UK LTD. The whole charade is starting to show, the facade has dropped and the majority have simply had enough. The shop window of Kent county council has been an abject failure and Farage rarely mentions it now hoping others don’t ask him how it’s doing. In Worcestershire county council he’s now griping he wished he never taken it on and that “I wish we hadn’t bothered” that has simply shown he’s lazy and anything that demands hard work is beneath him. Every council that campaigned on tax cuts have in fact raised them, some to the maximum or above. When confronted by this he evaded, denied and then refused to take responsibility for it. He lost Gorton and Denton after predicting they would win, when the results came in he said it was through cheating, when he complained to the police they found no evidence so he acted like a toddler throwing his toys out of his pram refusing to take the evidence as fact and went on to accuse the police of performing a “whitewash” because the enquiry didn’t go the way he wanted. In recent by-elections where they expected to win by large majorities they only won one out of the five. In Scotland less than a week after announcing candidates they have already lost five who have stood down, been suspended or removed. Candidates elsewhere have been outed as paedophiles, abusers, fraudsters et al proving they are not interested in the proper etiquette of vetting but the £200 they get from each candidate. Since winning in the May elections they have lost well in excess of 70 elected officials for all manner of reasons ranging from financial impropriety, racism, misogyny, domestic abuse, in fighting, you name it this motley crew have done it. Donations have been made through cryptocurrency that cannot be traced but one company has allegations of money laundering. Now the government is banning donations through cryptocurrency meaning he will lose a revenue stream. Speaking of money laundering one of Farage’s closest advisors was arrested and sentenced for the very same crime of money laundering. One of his senior members in Wales is currently serving ten and a half years for taking bribes from Russia, he tried denying he knew Gill until a multitude of images of them together emerged. At the same time he denied ever meeting the Russian ambassador until an image appeared of him having a meeting with him in the Russian embassy. He bought a house in Clacton for just shy of £900,000 cash, no finance, no mortgage. He failed to pay an extra stamp duty of £44,000 as a second home and then went on to say it was bought by his girlfriend who clearly does not have that kind of spare cash lying around. There is still no explanation of where the money came from? One council caused uproar for spending £75,000 on flags while potholes went without being repaired. Another spent some £6,000,000 on outside consultants whilst closing eight care homes at the same time. Another has blown a £70,000,000 deficit into the budget since they took over less than a year ago. At the same time paying £600,000 to refurbish a courtyard into an executive car park whilst charging council staff £4 per day to park. Talking of car parks another has removed free parking for disabled blue badge holders now making them pay in all council car parks. His deputy Richard Tice has been exposed as avoiding tax to the tune of £600,000 and he himself has been exposed as putting his earnings through his own corporation to only pay 25% corporate tax rather than the 40% personal tax. His constant trips to the USA rather than spending time in his constituency in Clacton is starting to show where his loyalty lies, in fact his relationship with Trump is toxic to the public watching him. He wanted to join in with the USA’s illegal war in Iran and tried to chastise Starmer for not doing so. Only for a week later with his tail between his legs he U turned realising it wasn’t a popular choice with the public. He staged a walkout of parliament along with the rest of Reform UK LTD’s MP’s because he didn’t like being held to account for trying to take us to war or voting against giving law enforcement more powers to tackle small boat crossings. It made him look weak and childish in the eyes of the public and he went on the defensive only to make matters worse. He laughed when in parliament when the Dunblane massacre anniversary happened. He wants to repeal the law on handgun restrictions as he believes it was a knee jerk reaction to the killing of 16 primary school children aged between five and six and their teacher. He wants to repeal the ban on fox hunting to placate his friends in the establishment that he says he is fighting against. Talking about fighting the establishment he took a private jet donated by a billionaire to stay in 6 star accommodation in DAVOS to fight the “establishment!” Add on top of this he now has to deal with an even bigger racist, fascist and all round nasty piece of work Rupert Lowe and his party that is splitting the far right vote, not only taking supporters from him but his councillors and other elected officials who are defecting. The bubble has burst, decent people can see what they are and those who were once unsure are now sure and are turning their backs on Reform UK LTD. All they have is their die hard fan base of racists, fascists and bots and bots can’t vote.

Girl Guides and the Single Sex Question: What Child Development and Safeguarding Tell Us (longish post) Girl Guides exists as a single sex organisation for a reason grounded not in prejudice but in developmental science. The research on adolescent girls consistently shows that dedicated single sex environments support confidence, risk taking, and identity formation in ways that mixed environments do not, particularly during the years when girls are navigating the social pressures of puberty and early adolescence. Removing the single sex character of those spaces does not leave them neutral. It changes them in ways that the developmental evidence suggests are meaningful. The safeguarding concern is straightforward and does not require any claim about the intentions of individual children. Safeguarding frameworks are designed to manage risk at a population level, not to make judgements about individuals. Single sex overnight environments, changing facilities, and residential trips carry specific safeguarding protocols that depend on the single sex character of the group. When a child who is biologically male is included in those environments on the basis of a self reported gender identity, those protocols are compromised in ways that any competent safeguarding review would flag. The 2025 UK Supreme Court ruling, which confirmed that woman and sex in the Equality Act refer to biological sex, reinforces the legal basis for maintaining those boundaries. The developmental harm to girls at this stage of their lives is not incidental. It goes to the heart of what single sex provision is for. Adolescence is the period in which girls are forming their understanding of themselves as female, navigating the physical changes of puberty, developing the capacity for intimacy and trust with peers of the same sex, and beginning to construct the adult identity that Erikson describes as the central developmental task of this life stage. The research on single sex environments consistently finds that girls in those settings show greater willingness to take intellectual and social risks, report higher levels of comfort with their own developing bodies, and demonstrate stronger peer relationships built on the specific solidarity of shared female experience. Those benefits depend on the space actually being what it presents itself as being. When a biologically male child is present in that space, the girls in it are placed in a position that the developmental literature does not support and that safeguarding guidance does not anticipate. They are asked to manage the presence of a biological male in changing rooms, on overnight trips, and in the intimate social environment of a group that exists precisely to give them respite from mixed sex social pressure. They are asked to do this at the developmental moment when bodily privacy, peer trust, and the consolidation of a female identity are most significant. And they are asked to do it without their consent having been sought, and frequently without their parents having been informed. The schema formation argument drawn from Bem's work is relevant here: girls at this stage are actively constructing their understanding of what it means to be female, and an environment that systematically blurs the boundary between female and male does not loosen those schemas in a liberating way. It introduces confusion into a developmental process that requires clarity and safety to proceed well. There is also a relational dimension that deserves attention. Bowlby and Fonagy establish that the capacity for secure peer attachment depends on environments that are predictable, boundaried, and safe. An environment in which the boundaries of membership are uncertain, in which girls may not know whether a peer is biologically male or female, and in which raising a concern is socially costly, is not an environment that supports secure attachment or genuine peer intimacy. The harm is not dramatic or visible. It is the quieter harm of a developmental environment that has been subtly but significantly altered at a moment when its character matters most. The developmental concern for the boys themselves is less often discussed and deserves equal attention. Erikson and Marcia show that identity formation is a developmental achievement of adolescence requiring a genuine period of exploration and moratorium. A boy who is socially affirmed in a cross sex identity from an early age, placed in environments that reinforce that identity, and supported by institutional structures that treat the identity as settled, is a child whose developmental moratorium has been foreclosed before it properly began. The desistance literature, reporting resolution rates of sixty to ninety percent in pre-affirmation era cohorts depending on cohort and methodology, suggests that the majority of children expressing cross sex identification would, given time and space, arrive at a different understanding of themselves. Institutional social affirmation in single sex spaces of the other sex is not a neutral accommodation. It is an active intervention in a developmental process that the evidence suggests should not be foreclosed. There is also the Winnicottian dimension, and it deserves more than a passing reference. Winnicott's account of the False Self describes a developmental pattern in which a child, faced with an environment that makes belonging conditional on performing a particular identity, learns to present that identity fluently and consistently. The performance does not feel like performance. It feels entirely authentic, because the child has no access to the True Self that the compliance dynamic has suppressed. The False Self is not a mask the child knowingly wears. It is a structure the child has built in order to survive an environment that could not tolerate what lay beneath. The boy who joins Girl Guides as a girl is in precisely that environment. His belonging is conditional. It depends on the sustained presentation of a "female identity", affirmed by the institution, reinforced by every interaction within it, and socially costly to question or relinquish. The longer that environment persists, and the more significant the attachments formed within it, the more firmly the False Self structure is consolidated. The child is not being helped to discover who he is. He is being helped to become more fluent in a presentation that the institution requires. What makes this particularly serious from a developmental perspective is that the harm is invisible from the outside and unfelt from the inside, at least while the compliance dynamic holds. The boy will report that he is comfortable, that he belongs, that the identity is real. That is exactly what Winnicott's model predicts. The False Self is a successful adaptation. It works. The cost is paid later, when the True Self, having been suppressed through the years in which identity formation should have been occurring, eventually reasserts itself, often in the form of the acute distress that characterises detransition accounts. Those accounts, which describe not simply a change of mind but a profound sense of having been absent from one's own development, map with considerable precision onto the clinical picture Winnicott describes. None of this requires hostility toward any individual child. The appropriate response to a boy experiencing gender related distress is compassionate, thorough clinical assessment, careful attention to the possibility of underlying anxiety, attachment difficulties, or social factors, and the kind of watchful, patient support that allows development to proceed at its own pace. Placing that child in a single sex environment organised around an affirmed female identity does not provide that support. It provides the conditions in which a False Self consolidates, development forecloses, and the reckoning is deferred to a point when it will be considerably harder to bear.

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@LaindonFEMINIST @Neets21 @BasildonCouncil I live in a reform run council, my council tax has gone up and the council is in disarray. Our election was last year, this year I’m leafleting in a nearby constituency to support their Labour candidates

I live in a Labour run Council. @BasildonCouncil and they’ve not increased Council Tax this year. Our street lights have stayed on. Our bin collection has gone back to weekly. And I’m going to do my best to see Labour succeed on May 7th.

I’ve spent all day giving my website a good going over in the hope that I get a few more views/sales/commissions. Have a look and tell me what you think. gailmyerscough.co.uk

@GailMyerscough Hello Gail, I liked your website, the designs are not really my thing but I’m eyeing up some bags for presents….. I wish you every success 👍

@GNetworkComms any chance you're going to repair the damage you did the the public realm on Pancras Road 2 years ago? Millions of taxpayer money was spent to regenerate this area, and this is how you treat it?

This is a Street Scar. We’ve all seen them: the freshly laid paving or granite setts, the Yorkstones lovingly laid on a slow street, or in front of a newly repaired parade of Victorian shops. Within months, weeks or, sometimes days, a slice or a square of them are pulled up thoughtlessly, cracked, smashed or, worse, thrown needlessly away and replaced by a scar of tarmac which lingers for months or years or forever and which seems to laugh at any local or neighbourhood desire to live in a place with self-worth. “I am authority,” it seems to say. “I am from nowhere. I serve the needs of a nameless, placeless corporation. I don’t care about you, or your neighbourhood or your friends. You don’t matter. Your local aspirations are pointless and petty. Get lost. I don’t care…..”

I have received information re claims made by one Hayden against, by my count, 32 individuals & 5 corporates or unincorporated associations. If you are one of the 37 &/or have faced civil legal claims instigated by Hayden, please contact me asap, as my work has started. Thank you

BERT IS STILL #MISSING HE MAY HAVE BEEN MOVED ON ELSEWHERE IN THE UK PLEASE SHARE VULNERABLE OWNER NEEDS HIS BOY HOME #stolendoghour

#URGENT A van has been #stolen from the car park at a dog show with 5 dogs inside - all Welsh Springer spaniels as in photo. Biddulph Valley Leisure Centre, Thames Drives Biddulph #Staffordshire #ST8 7HL Just north of Stoke on Trent Silver transit van YG61 BYK #stolendoghour

We found a #LostToy #LostStuffie in #Liverpool yesterday, just outside St John's Gardens (corner of Old Haymarket and St John's Lane. We left him on the wall all day but no-one had collected him by 11pm, so we collected him after the gig. Please share in case he is missed.