Emma Sweeney

I’d like to congratulate @Keir_Starmer. Yesterday I was told that the small private catholic school my children attended was closing. I was gov at the school. Students due to complete GCSEs next year have 3 months to find another school. Some of her friends suffer from anxiety. That will now be worsened. Well done. x.com/Keir_Starmer/s…

This is utterly sinister. How dare schools presume to indoctrinate kids as to which political views are acceptable. A guy on @JuliaHB1 show says his grandson told him he was a Nazi because he backs Reform! Teachers who do this must be named and shamed.

For reasons best known to itself, The Daily Telegraph hasn’t put its piece from Robert Jenrick online. So here it is. In a dozen paragraphs he offers a cogent and devastating critique of immigration policy and isn’t afraid to explain where this takes us in the future.

I have known Rupert Lowe for a long time, and worked with him very closely. He is a good man. Reform has attacked him with false allegations that have no evidence. Rupert and every Reform supporter have been betrayed tonight.

Have you noticed how you are constantly being told to be outraged that: - Someone said the wrong thing - Used the wrong word - Wasn't sufficiently inclusive and tolerant And you're never told to be outraged that: - housing is unaffordable - our debt is greater than our GDP - tens of thousands of people come to your country illegally Fascinating, isn't it?

Parents should be allowed to take their children out of school for a very limited number of days per year, over reasons they choose. Let's show a bit of common sense here. The prices are so wildly different out of term time, it is often the difference between a family being able to afford a decent holiday abroad, or not go at all. Will a child missing a week of school a year damage their education? Perhaps, a little. Will that quality time spent with their family more than compensate? Yes, yes it will. And that is a decision for the parents to take, not the state. I have pushed the Department on this, with zero progress. They just don't want to know. Let's remember - MPs have very generous time off from Westminster, timed to coincide with the school holidays. Others do not have that same luxury, particularly in areas that are reliant on tourism - like my constituency All of this from the same people who shut schools for months when the virus posed almost zero risk to children, and were desperate to do it for longer. Forcing boys and girls to learn from a kitchen table, and many had no access to proper outdoor space. THAT did far more damage to children's education than a few days away in the sun with their family. PLEASE. Let's just show a modicum of common sense, FOR ONCE. If parents want to take their child out of school for a limited period of time, very occasionally, as they believe that experience will benefit their son or daughter? I say that's their choice.

Pray for the family farm here today. Orchard Organic Farm: The worst day has come. We had security guards positioned on both entrances to the farm overnight. Yesterday, at least a dozen people in hazmat suits and huge helmets were setting up the cull equipment and Jerry spent hours with the government vet counting every chicken with no signs of disease (those are the ones we get compensation for). I find this slightly ludicrous as we keep meticulous records which clearly show the number of birds in each house with any losses  recorded. The chickens also get counted again as they are culled. Over 4,000 hens show absolutely no signs of disease whatsoever and are positioned well away from the infected house. All birds will still be culled. There is no quarantine option. We cannot restock for 12 months by which time we will have lost all our customers. There is an option to go through a secondary cleaning and disinfection process but this is extraordinarily expensive and out of our reach. Despite trying very hard, it is nigh on impossible to get affordable insurance for avian flu. The cost of insurance would have made our business completely unviable. No-one wants to insure organic laying hens due to the freedom they are afforded and therefore the greater risk of being in contact with wild birds. We have to shoulder the cost of incinerating £7,000 of eggs which can't be sold and disposing of £5,000 of chicken feed which has to remain in the farm. Tomorrow we will wake up with empty fields and all our 'girls' will be gone. The government has no interest whatsoever in what happens to us now, other than making sure we follow their post cull rules for the year ahead. We have no idea what the future holds for us now. After the most gruelling and haunting week of our lives at Orchard Organic Farm we will be taking some time to decide on the best way forward and Jerry will be looking for a job. Thank-you to everyone for the wonderful messages of support. We have felt very loved and we are more grateful than you can ever imagine. Emma

Over the last 2 days the Assisted Suicide Bill Committee has REFUSED amendments to exclude people with impaired judgement, the depressed and suicidal, prisoners and homeless people, those 'unduly influenced' by others, or those who are doing it because they feel a burden. 1/3

At the end @Rebecca_SPaul and I managed to get Kim Leadbeater to admit that under her Bill a person would be able to get an Assisted Death for the sole reason of saving their relatives money. 3/3

After the Bristol Inquiry reported on dozens of avoidable baby deaths after heart surgery in 2001, I supported the idea of an NHS crash investigation team, coupled with a government commitment to provide the resources to fix the problems they unearthed. Had such an expert team gone into the Countess of Chester hospital shortly after the unexpected deaths started happening, my belief is that the clear problems with substandard care would have been identified and addressed nearly 10 years ago and the unit would either have been safely staffed or downgraded. I agree with the international expert panel that there is no medical evidence of murder, I just wish they could have reached their conclusions many years ago. The eye watering sums of public money we have spent on a trial and a public inquiry, and all the legal ramifications, could instead have gone on NHS staffing, and a huge amount of anger, anguish and harm could’ve been prevented. I think this is probably a colossal failure at every single level - medical, legal and political. And the media hasn’t covered itself in glory either. This has all the hallmarks of another entirely avoidable NHS tragedy.

It’s not like these politicians started companies or were NBA All-Stars, so where did they get all the money? Does anyone know?

My amazing sister nearly died due to the covid jab. She was in a coma and woke up paralysed. She is so brave, and thankfully, she is walking again but disabled with other vaccine related issues. My good friend also had the jab and within 48 hours he had a brain bleed, and is still paralysed 18 months later. We do need answers for vaccine injured.

27 local authorities have now declared state schools at capacity and can’t absorb private school students (@thetimes). A policy fuelled by envy, punishing private schools and further burdening an already overstretched state system. Appalling.

It seems odd to me that Sir Keir Starmer has ordered his Cabinet to meet at a secret location today. The last Tory government (I don’t think) ever did this, even its lowest moments. I can’t imagine that a confident government, sure of itself, would do this either. And Labour’s landslide was only seven months ago …

All voice coaches and - more importantly- speech therapists worked remotely in December 2020. Leonie Mellinger broke lockdown rules by not working from home when she was able to do so and by travelling into Tier 4. Which was forbidden. Starmer should resign.

Tom Bradby and Woke ITV are disgusting. Nothing more than constant anti-Trump, anti-American rhetoric. Newsflash: You don’t speak for Britain even if you think you do. And stop claiming to be an impartial broadcaster. You’re nothing but leftist activists.

Men and women were left to rot and die alone, but Keir Starmer could meet his sodding voice coach? It STINKS.

EXC: NHS Speech therapists were NOT exempt from Covid ‘Stay at Home’ orders - heaping fresh pressure on Sir Keir Starmer over a lockdown meeting with an actress coach who he says was a ‘key worker’… thesun.co.uk/news/33196208/…

Now that the tide has turned, everybody will pivot and pretend they never supported imaginary genders, fake pronouns, men in women's sports, 'transitioning' kids, etc. Just like they pretend they never supported lockdowns, mask mandates, and firing people over 'the jab'.

An extra FIVE MILLION people will be living in the UK in 7 years' time. That's almost five Birmingham populations added to the nation - almost entirely due to immigration. This is insane. Our country is already overcrowded with an overloaded infrastructure.