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Govt - everyone - needs to grasp that legacy welfare benefits, Carer's Allowance, Universal Credit and PIP are woefully inadequate. They are NOT enough to survive or live on with modern costs - especially if disabled, because of the extra costs that can incur.

On This Day in 1990 Married women in Britain became independent entities for income tax purposes for the first time. From the start of the 1990–91 tax year, they were fully responsible for their own tax declarations and their income was no longer automatically assessed as part of their husband’s. The reform was introduced under Margaret Thatcher, who was Prime Minister at the time. Before the 6th April 1990, for generations, the tax system had treated a married woman’s earnings as an extension of her husband’s. He was legally responsible for declaring and paying tax on her income; she had no separate tax privacy or personal allowance in her own right. The change, introduced under the independent taxation reforms first announced in the 1988 Budget ended that legal fiction and gave every married woman the same status as any other adult taxpayer. It was part of a broader, long-term shift away from older legal assumptions about marriage, a process that had been unfolding for over a century. Merely 36 years ago, and in the sweep of British history that is astonishingly recent. Many women who are grandparents today were already working adults when this change took effect. Their own mothers had lived their entire married lives under the old rules. It is a vivid illustration that the legal recognition of women; adult human females, as fully independent, rights-bearing individuals is not some ancient, settled tradition. It is modern, hard-won, and still within living memory. The rights women secured in the 20th century, including this one, were fought for on the clear understanding that “woman” means adult human female. Those rights were not granted to a feeling, an identity, or a self-description; they were secured for biological women precisely because of the historical and legal incapacities that had been imposed on them as a sex. We must defend them as such. Most households paid about the same tax overall, but the way it was calculated changed. Couples where both partners earned often did a bit better (or at least fairer), while single-earner households could lose some tax advantages over time as old allowances were phased out. The biggest change wasn’t the amount paid; it was that each person became responsible for their own income and tax, rather than the husband handling everything. On this day in 1990 Britain took an important step forward. Let’s make sure we never take that step backward...

“I don’t understand why women don’t just report it if it really happened.” When I was 19, I reported mine. I had bruises. Hospital photos. Text messages of him apologizing the next morning. My friends drove me to the station because I could barely stop shaking. I thought evidence would make it simple. I thought truth would be enough. Months later, I was the one on trial. His lawyer printed my Instagram photos and held them up in court. Asked why I wore crop tops. Asked why I drank that night. Asked why I didn’t scream louder. He replayed my police interview and pointed out every time I hesitated, every time I cried, every time my timeline wasn’t perfectly linear. “If it was traumatic,” he said, “why can’t she remember clearly?” Sitting there while strangers debated my pain like it was a group project felt like being stripped again. My messages were projected on a screen. My body was described in detail. My character was picked apart like that was the real crime. He walked out on bail. I walked out with panic attacks. That’s why some women don’t report. Because even with bruises. Even with screenshots. Even when you do everything “right.” You still have to survive the assault twice, once in private, and once in public, just to maybe be believed.

There is only one reason the UK has been stuck in 18 years of Austerity. It is to protect the profits of the richest at the expense of everyone else. It is time for them and their profits to destroyed for the damage they have done to everyone else.

Pensions are affordable. Benefits are affordable. Paying decent wages is affordable. Universal Healthcare is affordable. Billionaires aren't affordable.

Workers are poor because their billionaire employers are rich. Houses are unaffordable because billionaire Landlords are rich. Healthcare is unaffordable/unavailable because Healthcare billionaires are rich. All the problem are the same and begin with b

Apparently speaking about disability = “making yourself a target.” No,the problem is people feeling entitled to attack disabled people for existing publicly. #DisabilityAdvocate #Ableism #DisabilityAwareness #ChronicIllness

🚨FIRST OFFENSE, NO SECOND CHANCES! ✂️ If you have sex with a child 13 yrs old or younger in Louisiana, you WILL be castrated on your first offense. Some are calling this law "barbaric" and say offenders can be reformed. Is castration a just punishment on the first offense?

Maureen's husband, Patrick, was somewhat of a male chauvinist. Even though they both worked full-time, he never helped around the house. Housework was woman's work! But one evening, Maureen arrived home to find the children bathed, one load of clothes in the washer and another in the dryer, dinner on the stove, and the table set. She was astonished; something's up, she thought. It turns out that Patrick had read an article that said wives who worked full-time and also had to do all the housework were too tired to make love. The night went well and the next day she told her office friends all about it. "We had a great dinner. Patrick even cleaned up. He helped the kids do their homework, folded all the laundry and put everything away. I really enjoyed the evening." "But what about afterward?" asked her friends. "Oh, that was perfect, too. Patrick was too tired!"

The UK can afford State Pensions. Properly funded Universal Healthcare. No University fees. Government run Energy, Water and Housing. What it can't afford is the billionaires blocking all of these things. YOU choose which you want. I'm picking NO billionaires.

During every childbirth a woman stares death in the face. Every 2 MINUTES a woman dies due to childbirth. So if you weren't the one risking your life on that table, you don't get a vote, an opinion, or a timeline on her womb. Full stop.

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Makes more sense 🤣

I don’t know whose idea it was to do The Passion Of Jesus in London Trafalgar Square on Good Friday, but I’d like to shake their hand. Whether you’re religious or not, there are many demonstrations that go on there, but a demonstration of love is a lot nicer than the usual ones.

Apparently NO ONE KNOWS HIM 🤔 125000 MEMBERS IN 6 WEEKS SAYS DIFFERENTLY @RestoreBritain_ This man should be in DOWNING STREET NOW

t.co/8TKpr28ZGk British TV host Alex Phillips tells Islamists to shove their “Islamophobia” blasphemy law. She doubles down on the burka ban and calls to follow Italy’s lead, banning both virginity tests and full-face Islamic veils. “We are culturally Christian,” she said, and argued for the UK government to defend Britain’s identity, culture, and values. Do you agree with her?

The imam of Brescia who said that 9 year old girls can be married was deported from Italy today to his home in Pakistan. One less pedophiIe in Europe.

Motability changes will limit how far disabled people drive Disabled people attacked again Infringement of our lives to less than able bodied The lie. Disabled people pay huge sums up front to go for many cars under mobility The basic ones are few, and do not have space for disabled people's adaptations We pay monthly for the cars For work, mobility as buses, and taxis aren't always practical, for life #Labour #mobilitycars thecanary.co/uk/news/2026/0…

There is no gender war. Just men being violent, abusive etc