Cathy Havard

The most Green Party story I’ve ever read. The Greens reparations officer, Antoinette Fernandez, who supports the idea of Britain paying trillions of pounds in slavery reparations, is descended from a Nigerian royal family that traded slaves. One of them owned 1,400 slaves.

I don't know what school this is, but unless the headteacher has invited a Reform UK politician (and others) to rebut this disinformation and to give a balancing view, this electioneering is a blatant contravention of Part V, Chapter IV, Sections 406-7 of the Education Act 1996.

For a thousand years, when nobody was coming to help the British people, the British people helped each other. 🇬🇧 That has always been our answer. Long before any state asked it of us. Long before any law required it. We were already looking after each other. 🙏 In the year 900, every Anglo-Saxon man was bound by oath to nine of his neighbours. If one was wronged, the other nine were responsible for putting it right. ⚖️ The whole village answerable for each other. It wasn't charity. It wasn't kindness. It was the law. By the 1300s, every English parish kept what they called a poor box. 🍞 Bread for the family who couldn't farm. Wool for the widow who couldn't weave. Coin for the orphan with no one. The state didn't tell them to. The state didn't even exist yet. They just did it. In the 1400s, the wealthy started leaving their fortunes in their wills. Not to their children. Not to the church. To strangers. 🏛️ To houses where elderly neighbours could live for the rest of their lives. Some of those almshouses, founded six hundred years ago, are still housing British people today. In the 1700s, the working men came together. They didn't own land. They didn't have fortunes. They had a few pennies a week. So they pooled them. They called themselves Friendly Societies. ⏳ If a member fell sick, his family was fed. If a member died, his children were buried with dignity. If a member was injured, the doctor's bill was paid. By the 1870s, half the working men of Britain belonged to one. Long before there was a welfare state, the British working class had built one for themselves. Penny by penny. 🪙 In 1824, William Hillary watched a ship break up off the Isle of Man. He could hear the sailors calling for help. Nobody was coming for them. No navy. No coastguard. No state. ⛵ So Hillary asked the British people to be the ones who came. Volunteers. Donations. Lifeboats. Two centuries later, the RNLI has saved more than 146,000 lives. Still volunteer-run. Still funded by donations. Still no state involvement. 🌊 In 1862, half a million Lancashire mill workers were out of work. A naval blockade had cut off the slave-grown cotton from America. Their families were starving. Someone offered them slave-grown cotton from elsewhere. Just to keep working. They voted on it. In Manchester's Free Trade Hall. They voted no. They chose hunger. For people they would never meet. For people enslaved on the other side of an ocean. 💔 In 1911, a chancellor named Lloyd George stood up in Parliament. He had a plan. Workers would pay a few pennies a week. Their employers would pay too. And in return, when a worker fell sick, his family would be fed. The doctor's bill would be paid. He didn't invent the idea. He copied it. From the Friendly Societies the British working class had been running themselves for two hundred years. Thirty-seven years later, a Welsh miner's son named Aneurin Bevan made it national. 🏥 They called it the National Health Service. One of the proudest achievements in British history. And it was built on the model the Friendly Societies had been running for two hundred years before it. British working people had already invented it. The state finally caught up. The state didn't give us this. We gave it to ourselves. ✊ proudofus.co.uk/support 🙏🇬🇧 Be part of us. Be Proud Of Us. 🙏🇬🇧

Racist incitement to murder. Lucy Connolly was sent to jail for less. This woman stands for office.

The man who's spent years talking over and attacking women for defending their rights has now decided that you must belong to a protected group to express an opinion on the threats facing it.

The staff at this school are almost certainly breaking the law by allowing this to happen.

Scottish schools are actively pushing masturbation on children, teaching them about licking anuses and ejaculating on faces. They are even demonstrating anal sex by showing pupils a video of a banana being dipped in Nutella This is grooming, plain and simple!

I was very glad to meet the lovely @IsabelHardman last week and grateful to be interviewed for this forthcoming book. We are living, breathing and surviving (just) the #nottinghaminquiry As this book will prove we HAVE to make sure that when it concludes, there is proper change and accountability. We cannot put ourselves through this hell for findings and recommendations that are words on a dusty shelf. 🙏💛💚

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This morning the Islamic Republic announced the execution of three more protesters: #Mehdi_Rasouli #MohammadReza_Miri and #Ebrahim_Dolatabadi who were arrested during December protests in Mashhad and sentenced to death after sham trials. If the international community does not respond to this grave injustice soon there’s a serious risk of hundreds of executions in the coming weeks as the regime expedites the killings of their own people as a deterrent to another (imminent) uprising.

As a GP, I am not allowed to receive a pen or post-it note pad from a pharmaceutical company rep Govt banned them in case I was influenced to prescribe medications This should also be banned Influence is being bought in Govt Patients should influence not the healthy & wealthy

🇸🇪 Sweden has just approved that to obtain citizenship, the following must be required: -8 years of residence -Stable income -NOT having received social benefits -Swedish language exam -Exam on Swedish values & society

🚨I was just sent a video by a Jewish man who was harassed by a pro-Pal in Bury. He interrogated him about if he was a “Zionist” or “for Palestine”. When the Jewish man refused to answer he got aggressive and said he was a “problem”. This is the CHILLING new normal. @gmpolice

How does that work?! 😳

Do these people have no shame?? 😳 What the hell is wrong with everyone?! How is it not obvious that these children are WAY too young for these conversations!! We have totally lost our minds in the West. We need to find our way back to sanity. 🙏

🇬🇧 Families on a UK beach were having a lovely afternoon by the sea… That is until a group of young men showed up with fireworks and yelled “Allahu Akbar.” Are you feeling culturally enriched yet, Britain?

🚨STREET PRAYERS TAKE OVER KENSINGTON PAVEMENT Friday afternoon in Collingham Gardens, Kensington. 30 plus men completely blocked the pavement for prayers right outside the Qatar linked facility. • Pedestrians, disabled people & prams forced into the road • Uber drivers parked bikes on the pavement to join in This isn’t peaceful worship - it’s dominance over public space. The mosque is next door. Keep prayers inside the building. Highways Act 1980 s.137 makes obstructing the highway illegal. Why is this allowed in London?

NHS FINGERPRINTED A DOCTOR FOR REPORTING A COLLEAGUE WHO WAS INJECTING DRUGS ON DUTY Dr Patricia Mills was an anaesthetist at West Suffolk Hospital. In 2017 she saw a colleague injecting himself with drugs while looking after patients. She raised the alarm. The NHS's response was to investigate her. Management hired handwriting experts and fingerprint analysts to work out who had been tipping off a grieving family about a potentially botched operation. They narrowed the suspect list down to seven doctors. Four of them had one thing in common: they had all previously raised concerns about the self-injecting colleague. Dr Mills was among them. She was off sick for six months. She said she thought she was going to lose a 30-year career. The drug-injecting doctor continued to practice for years after her original disclosure. When Dr Mills turned to the National Guardian's Office, the body specifically set up to protect NHS staff who speak up, she said its response was, in her words, literally useless. The CEO who ordered the fingerprinting resigned when it became public. An independent review in December 2021 fully exonerated Dr Mills. It called the fingerprinting incendiary and extremely ill-judged. It said the treatment she received verged on victimisation. It said her concerns were well-founded from the start. So to recap. Doctor raises a patient safety concern. Hospital spends public money trying to unmask her. She gets sick. The wrongdoer keeps working. The regulator does nothing. And three years later a review says yeah, she was right all along. Sorry about that. Sources: The Guardian, BBC @BBCNews, The Telegraph @Telegraph, Patient Safety Learning @PSLearning, NHS England independent review by Christine Outram, December 2021

How do politicians end up with multi-million pound net worths on public salaries?

But Zack Polanski says they’re “peace marches”