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Alison C

@KnittingPins

Northern lass with a passion for all things woolly - knitting, spinning and anything four legged and fleecy.Tend to shop for wool with my nose....

Yorkshire, UK Katılım Eylül 2011
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Dogs Trust 💛🐶
Dogs Trust 💛🐶@DogsTrust·
If this little prince wasn't called Scout, what would you call him? 💛 Scout is at our @DT_Glasgow centre 🐶
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NOBUNAGA🇯🇵🏯_夏樹蒼依
In Japan, children clean their own schools. Every day. After lunch. About twenty minutes. Classrooms. Hallways. Toilets. Not because the schools are too poor to hire someone. Because in 1947, this country decided that cleaning your own space is part of becoming a person. The cleaning rag is on the school supply list. Right next to the pencils. Egypt teaches it now. So does Indonesia. So does Mongolia. Think about the last time you watched a seven-year-old mop a floor without complaining. Japan does that in every elementary school in the country. Not as punishment. As education.
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Animal Adoptions UK 🐕‍🦺🐈🐎❤️
Please retweet to help find a rescue shelter space for these 2 Bulldogs found tied up #SWALE #KENT #UK Found Wed 13th March 2026 Now in a council pound💔💔💔 Two British Bulldogs found tied up in #Faversham Microchipped but unable to make contact Proof of ownership required Contact main council on 01795 417850 Original post on facebook 👇👇👇 facebook.com/swalestraydogs Council contact website 👇👇👇 swale.gov.uk #Stray #straydog #bulldogs #britishbulldogsuk #dogs #Canterbury #Ashford #Dover #Edenbridge #England #Wales #Scotland #London #adoptdontshop @missingdogwales @DogLostUK @MissingPetsGB @AndrewRosindell @KatieAmess @clarebalding @PatrickChristys @GMB @NickDixonITV @thismorning @AllDogsMatter @themayhew @DogsTrust @Battersea_ @JerryGreenDogs @WoodgreenPets @ConservativeAWF @LabourAnimalRG @JaneFallon @rickygervais @missgemcollins 2 British Bulldogs found tied up Faversham, now need rescue spaces asap.
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Missing Pets GB
Missing Pets GB@MissingPetsGB·
🐎 STOLEN £1500 REWARD It’s now been seven months since beloved Dori was STOLEN. Missing since 6 October 2025 from #ROCHDALE #OL16 greater Manchester. Please share and make her too hot to handle. Someone must know her whereabouts!
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Missing Pets GB@MissingPetsGB

MISSING OR STOLEN MINIATURE PONY from field £1000 REWARD FOR DORY'S SAFE RETURN Missing / stolen 6th October 2025 from Rochdale ol16 Albert Royds Street There's a little 6 year old boy at home in tears in a mess. Please help let's get her home. Dory is very small 🙏

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Carl Bovis
Carl Bovis@CarlBovisNature·
Goldfinch squabble! 😍😀🐦
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Nigel Farage MP
Nigel Farage MP@Nigel_Farage·
This is fake news by the establishment media who will do anything to hurt Reform as we challenge their cosy consensus. I had passed proof-of-funds and the relevant checks before receiving the gift. Sky News did not publish that part of our statement despite knowing the truth.
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EXCLUSIVE: Reform UK leader Nigel Farage bought a £1.4 million property in cash, shortly after receiving a £5m personal gift from billionaire donor Christopher Harborne, Sky News learns news.sky.com/story/nigel-fa…

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NaturalFibre Company
NaturalFibre Company@NatFibreCo·
Calling Owners of Shetland Flocks! We would like to purchase 200kgs of Shetland Fibre c.50kg of black, brown, grey and white. Ideally the fibre will all come from the same farm and be from this year's shearing. If you can help please email: enquiries@thenaturalfibre.co.uk 🐑🐑
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Blue Cross UK
Blue Cross UK@The_Blue_Cross·
This stunning gentleman is Wady! 💙 He's looking for a home where he can live a relaxed life with some gelding pals for company. Wady is a polite lad and well-mannered for the vet and farrier, a true gentleman! Has Wady caught your eye? Meet him here! 👉 bit.ly/4d4hCGQ
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Rupert Lowe MP
Rupert Lowe MP@RupertLowe10·
For those asking, my MP salary in May is being donated to a charity called the 'Martham Boat Dyke Trust' in my constituency to provide more of their Sarah Dyball awards. In Sarah’s memory, the trustees make several awards every year to help Martham students to further their education/training to gain a professional qualification. The money will cover course fees (not university), various other costs and for equipment to help get local young girls and boys proper training/skills. It will fund around ten Martham students. Since day one, I have been working to help local young men and women build a successful career outside of university so I am hopeful that this donation will help more students achieve that. I am delighted to help.
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Right over Left Everytime
Right over Left Everytime@RightSide_Uk·
🚨 Andy Burnham — the man being quietly lined up as Keir Starmer’s replacement — has just been exposed as one of the worst enablers of Britain’s grooming gang scandal. In Oldham, when furious families of victims stormed the gallery demanding a proper public inquiry into the systematic rape of hundreds of vulnerable British girls, Burnham was one of the first to shut it down. Hard. You can see the raw pain in the footage — mothers and fathers screaming from the public seats while this Labour careerist stonewalled them to protect the “community relations” narrative. This wasn’t a one-off. As Greater Manchester Mayor, Burnham has form: refusing to discipline police officers who turned a blind eye to little girls crying out for help, sometimes even arresting the fathers trying to rescue their own daughters instead of the predators. All while the grooming gangs — mostly Pakistani-heritage men targeting white working-class girls — operated with impunity for years. Why? Because in two-tier Britain, the feelings and votes of certain communities matter more than the broken bodies and souls of our children. Burnham’s so-called “Assurance Review” was a toothless whitewash from day one — limited scope, no real survivor testimony, and designed to bury the truth rather than expose it. He spent years defending it, pretending there was “no cover-up,” only admitting the obvious when the scandal went global. Now the same man is being floated as the next Prime Minister. The same man who prioritised political correctness over protecting our daughters. The same man who watched the grooming gangs destroy lives and chose silence, denial, and deflection. This is the rotten heart of modern Labour: politicians who’ve spent decades trading British girls for bloc votes and “diversity” optics. From Rotherham to Rochdale to Oldham to Manchester — the pattern is identical, and the cover-up machine is still running. Enough. We need a full, fearless national inquiry with no limits, no sacred cows, and real consequences. Police chiefs, social workers, councillors, and MPs who looked the other way must face justice. Life must mean life for the rapists. And any politician — Burnham included — who helped bury these horrors should never hold office again. The silent majority is awake. We remember every girl failed. We remember every father arrested for trying to save his child. And we will not let the grooming gang apologists rewrite history or slither into No. 10. Protect our children. Demand real justice. No more cover-ups. 🇬🇧 #GroomingGangsCoverUp #AndyBurnhamExposed #TwoTierBritain #ProtectOurGirls #RestoreBritain #LabourFailedOurChildren
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Sama Hoole
Sama Hoole@SamaHoole·
An appreciation post for the 1.5 billion cattle currently on Earth, quietly holding the whole thing together while receiving nothing but criticism in return. Consider, for a moment, what these animals actually do: - They turn grass, a thing no human can digest, into steak, a thing every human thrives on - They graze the two-thirds of farmland that grows nothing else, asking for no thanks and receiving none - They carry the most bioavailable iron, B12, and zinc on the planet, and deliver it on the hoof - They produce butter, which on its own would justify the entire arrangement - They fertilise the soil for free, through a process we are all too polite to describe in detail - They build topsoil and sequester carbon into pasture, while being blamed, somehow, for the reverse - They give us tallow, leather, marrow, suet, and gelatine, with no waste and no complaints - They restore land that crops have exhausted, turning the worn-out and the marginal back into something living - They stand in the rain for years on end and never once bring it up Ten thousand years of domestication. Ten thousand years of being the most useful animal in the field, the foundation of the food system, and a keystone of every landscape lucky enough to hold them. They are not the problem with the planet's future. They are, quite plainly, the shape of it. We repaid all of this by putting them on the front of climate reports. Magnificent animals. Owed an apology.
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Simon's Cat 🐾
Simon's Cat 🐾@SimonsCat·
Your lunch is my lunch! 😺
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Laila Cunningham
Laila Cunningham@policylaila·
Two men live in Zone 2 London. Both are around 30. Both sleep in a one-bed flat. But only one believes he has a future in the city. James was born in London. He went to university, got a degree, found a decent job and now works at a marketing firm near Old Street. He earns just under £60,000 a year. On paper, he is doing well. But every month James opens his payslip and watches a third of it vanish before he ever sees it. Income tax.National Insurance.Student loan.Then comes the rent. Nearly £2,000 a month for a small one-bed flat with mould around the windows and a landlord who only renews the tenancy six months at a time. Every evening James scrolls Rightmove looking at tiny flats he cannot afford in the city he grew up in. Even the cheapest one-beds near him now cost around £400,000. The deposit alone feels impossible despite earning more than most people in Britain. His parents bought their first home younger than he is now. James still does not know if he will ever own one. So he keeps renting.Keeps waiting. He watches friends delay children. People earning what used to be considered “good money” still checking every direct debit before payday. Now meet Shaheed. He arrived in Britain recently and was granted refugee status. He does not work. He lives in a one-bed flat in East London. His housing costs and council tax are largely covered through the welfare system. He qualifies for free prescriptions, dental treatment and eye tests. He does not spend his evenings worrying whether the next rent rise will wipe out what little he has left at the end of the month. And this is the part driving so much public anger. James works full time, pays a fortune in tax and still cannot see a long-term future in the city he was born in. Shaheed does not work, yet has more housing security than the man whose taxes help fund the system. That is how a city loses its young people, because they stop believing hard work leads anywhere. London has to become a city where the people who work, contribute and build lives here can realistically afford homes, raise families and feel secure again.
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Roe Deer Diary
Roe Deer Diary@RoeDeerDiary·
⚠️PLEASE REPOST⚠️ Roe deer are currently giving birth. They leave their kids hidden in long grass or undergrowth for several hours. Babies haven't been abandoned and DON'T NEED RESCUING, MUM WILL RETURN. DON'T BE TEMPTED, BACK OFF & ADMIRE AT DISTANCE 🙏🦌 #RoeDeerDiary
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Jim Chimirie 🇬🇧
Jim Chimirie 🇬🇧@JChimirie66677·
The Man Who Wants To Lead Labour Just Described Its Lost Voters As A Threat To The Nation. Wes Streeting resigned as Health Secretary this morning and launched his leadership bid with a letter that deserves to be read carefully. Not for what it says about the NHS. For what it says about how he intends to fight. Reform UK, Streeting writes, represents dangerous English nationalism and an existential threat to the future integrity of the United Kingdom. Reform won 27 percent of votes cast in local elections across England a week ago. Millions of working class people in Labour's former heartlands, people whose parents and grandparents voted Labour for generations, chose that party. Describing their choice as dangerous English nationalism is not a strategy for winning them back. It is the attitude that drove them away in the first place, restated with greater confidence the morning after the worst local election result in Labour history. The NHS claims in the letter require equal scrutiny. Streeting describes a fastest improvement in waiting times in history. The Nuffield Trust's deputy director of research told the Telegraph that the apparent progress owes more to administrative removals than genuine increases in patient care. The number of patients waiting over 12 hours for emergency admission in March 2026 was 141 times higher than before the pandemic. The waiting list remains above seven million. The letter presents stabilisation as transformation and expects nobody to check. Then there is Angela Rayner. HMRC has cleared her of wrongdoing over the stamp duty affair that ended her Cabinet career in September. The clearance itself is more complicated than her team is presenting. Tax Policy Associates, an independent expert body, states it cannot understand why HMRC decided not to charge a penalty. Both of Rayner's advisers explicitly told her to obtain specialist tax advice. She did not. Independent experts say a penalty of around 20 percent was the likely and legally correct outcome. HMRC reached a different conclusion without explaining why. A £50,000 donation to the Office of Angela Rayner Limited from Refrigeration House Limited arrived on 24 March 2026, declared on the parliamentary register and described as towards staffing costs. Weeks later Rayner paid the £40,000 stamp duty bill. Whether any connection exists between the donation and the payment cannot be asserted. The questions the timing raises are entirely legitimate and entirely unanswered. Over 100 Labour MPs have now called for Starmer to go. The threshold to trigger a leadership contest is 81. The numbers exist. What has been missing is a serious candidate willing to step forward and bear the consequences. Streeting has now stepped forward. Rayner is positioning. Burnham remains without a seat. The succession is underway. The candidates are the products of the same political culture that produced the Mandelson appointment, the three line whip, the undeclared Palantir meeting and the systematic accommodation of interests that do not align with Britain's. Streeting's letter describes Reform voters as nationalists. Rayner's clearance raises questions her supporters are not asking. Burnham's record on grooming gang accountability in Greater Manchester has never been satisfactorily addressed. None of them has identified the culture as the problem. None of them has proposed dismantling it. The country is being forced to accept the same arrangement with different names attached. The questions are already forming. They will not wait for the leadership contest to conclude. "Reform UK, Streeting writes, represents dangerous English nationalism and an existential threat to the future integrity of the United Kingdom."
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Nick Dampier ✝️ 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿
@AngelaRayner I was late with a payment due to a bereavement and they fined me years ago, HMRC, doesn't care about excuses when it comes to ordinary people, but you dodge your taxes and they say okay Ange, you carry on. This stinks
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Carl Bovis
Carl Bovis@CarlBovisNature·
A lovely Collared Dove at Combwich in Somerset at the weekend. 😍 Is it just me.... there doesn't seem to be as many Collared Doves around as there used to be? 🤔🐦
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James Melville 🚜
James Melville 🚜@JamesMelville·
Top trolling by Labour MP Barry Gardiner - sitting behind Keir Starmer at PMQs with the book “The Fraud” sitting on his lap. “The Fraud” is a book that gives a damning portrayal of the Starmer project.
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Liza Rosen
Liza Rosen@LizaRosen0000·
Breaking: Muslim terrorists just stormed a Christian village in Nigeria and unleashed pure demonic savagery on innocent families who couldn’t run fast enough to escape. They captured pregnant women and hacked their bellies open with machetes — forcing the young women to witness their own unborn babies die right in front of them as they succumbed to fatal stab wounds. All because they were Christians who refused to convert to Islam. No one in the international community, UN, EU, ICC, or ICJ seems to care. Not even Christian leaders in the West. Please pray for the persecuted Christians in Nigeria. 💔💔💔💔
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