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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

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?'

I'm not listening to her. If Reform genuinely wanted support they'd realise negativity doesn't win longterm on a people who've had nothing but for years. We were there first (& are therefore bigger and more established) seems the whole basis of opposition to someone who clearly doesn't want to compromise on sorting the mess out. Because to me that's the main difference between them - what's possible easily and the sort of institutional nationwide revolution we need to fix us properly and get us growing into a great country again. Very silly strategy IMHO.

Guess what? Yep @ThatAlexWoman is on @TalkTV & she’s AT IT AGAIN! Ranting like a LOONATIC about Rupert, RestoreBritain & EVERYONE who supports them! GET A LIFE Phillips! You’re SO EMBARRASSING!

@RodRapid1784 Obviously not. The feet don't lie

@AbsolutelyVexed Always thought i was at the back of the queue in that area 😴

Early coffee and back to normal again. Put on my favourite sketchers and they are too big 🤔🤔

@RodRapid1784 I do. You're even more attractive and healthy despite the former sounding a physical impossibility

@AbsolutelyVexed Not sure what to make of that 😂

Webinar: Assisted Suicide Bill is Back: How Do We Respond? (Tuesday 23rd June) For anyone who is interested. I have booked on. It is free to do so. Support for this Assisted Suicide Bill has plummeted since MPs first voted on it – it can and must be defeated. spuc.org.uk/event/webinar-…

Of course not. He's going to hang on until almost the GE then handover to Burnham . Then they'll try to keep power with a different face but more or less same terrible country destroying policies . And they might just get it because too many people support them (especially indoctrinated by Fabianists' youth), the boundaries of constituencies fixed to favour them (with no objection from the other parties) and the new foray into tactical voting by the left Sometimes I predict a term early but I'm never wrong re the general direction of travel. We need non voters to be inspired to vote. I believe Restore is enough of a clean sheet to do it - my main objection to Reform is that they've imported lots of former politicians from other parties. Yes some experience is good but too much looks like same old same old. Restore is full of people who think the same and moved from Reform with the same thinking. I'm not going to waste time slagging off Reform endlessly though. They're my second place preference, third is Conservative. Need to see how support is in my area before I vote. Don't want to split the vote and end up with Labour.

Has fuknuts resigned yet 🤔

Every doctor in Australia needs to read this thread. The Australian Govt is about to radically change Australian healthcare for the worse. It has decided that it can no longer afford what has historically been world-beating care. A cut-price model, imported from the UK, /

As a result of the train crash in Bedfordshire, 89 people were injured, 22 seriously & 11 potentially critical. BLOOD BANKS MAY BE DEPLETED. PLS GIVE BLOOD IF YOU CAN. blood.co.uk/the-donation-p…

The urologist who reassured @JonniSkinner that puberty blockers were fine after they caused him to become incontinent and start pissing blood was just charged with possession of thousands pornographic images of children

So the Scottish Prison Service admits it has been acting unlawfully. But says it will continue to break the law until it figures out how best to respond to the court’s ruling. Have I read this right?