Sarah Baldry

@mag_worden @JolyonMaugham @TheGreenParty This is where I got to personally!

@JolyonMaugham Starmer doing his bit to increase membership of @TheGreenParty

@ProfBrianCox @ProfBrianCox your come backs in this thread are killing me 🤣

I keep being asked what I make of the UFO thing in Congress yesterday, so here it is: I watched a few clips and saw some people who seemed to believe stuff saying extraordinary things without presenting extraordinary evidence. Therefore I have nothing more to say, other than: It would be great if true - it would take a bit of the pressure off our civilisation if we weren’t the only means within the Milky Way by which the Universe understands itself. Sadly, as of today, I still feel that pressure, so can we perhaps focus on not messing our world up rather than hoping that, to paraphrase Sagan, someone will float down to save us from ourselves.

@sarahfrier @aishacounts Yes but arrogance knows best

Getting rid of the Twitter brand (and bird and tweeting) destroys billions in value, brand experts tell @aishacounts and Jesse Levine: bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

@jdportes @SimonPease1 @Independent If Labour choose to keep “lots of bad policies” from the Tories then they won’t get my vote. It’s lazy and planning to rule with fear instead of confidence in what’s right. Was Starmer planted into Labour by a right wing sponsor? He’s behaving weirdly. He also barely protests.

@bmj_latest The numbers struggling exist whether you reveal that number or not. @wysabuddy research in the UK, USA and Australia shows 1 in 3-4 people suffer with moderate to severe symptoms. Far higher than prev estimates. The problem just needs addressing in a different way at this scale.

The US recently recommended that all adults in general practice be screened for major depressive disorder and that everyone aged 19-64 be screened for anxiety disorders. This would expose patients to unnecessary harm, says Editorial bmj.com/content/382/bm…

Battery cages are banned in the EU, but the Tories want to exercise their Brexit freedoms to allow battery-farmed eggs to be imported into the UK because of the CPTPP deal. Meanwhile, the EU are taking steps to end caged farming entirely (likely by 2027). theguardian.com/world/2023/jul…

"80% of beaches in Cornwall issue raw sewage alerts. " No matter what propaganda you hear from the water industry or their corporate shills this is the reality of what 30 years of failed industry, government and regulation has achieved independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-n…

This woman is not attending parliament, she’s appearing on tv and writing so called books. She should be sacked as an MP! Like and retweet if you agree.

@PennyMordaunt Drivel. 2010 Pound at $1.51 Debt as % of GDP 69% Inflation rate 3.5% Credit rating Aaa Public services at an all time high 13 years later Pound at $1.20 Debt as % of GDP C. 100% Inflation rate still + 8.7% Credit rating Aa3 (7 drops) Public services at an all time low

Nadine Dorries last spoke in the House of Commons A YEAR AGO. Since then, we have paid her £84,754 as MP + £11,281 for the time she was a Minister. She may also have claimed the Minister's severance pay of £17,000. She isn't ill, so how is she still getting paid?

Those wondering why Nadine Dorries has not yet quit her £84k role need look no further than the fact that when she does, both of her daughters, Philippa, her ‘constituency caseworker’ on £45k & Jennifer, her ‘senior secretary’ on £40k would also have to quit their expensed roles

Must be doing something right...my words about anti-foodbank MP & his wages being twisted by the Tories today into trying to label me an education 'snob''....what a joke...🙄 They can't think of anything else to have a go at.... HOWEVER, I'll let my record in education do the talking inc helping 500,000 children with their maths during lockdown...giving bursaries for young people and schools with disadvantaged backgrounds like mine....helping Blunkett introduce the Numeracy Hour....governor of inner city school......education books for decades.....recognised STEM Ambassador....I could go on. Always a believer in encouraging young people to achieve their best, in whichever way that comes around, to be strong and happy and confident. Anything else being espoused is offensive, targeted, predictable Right Wing nonsense. PS Tories....this attack won't work. It just makes us more determined. PPS thanks for all your support...we'll beat them in the end ❤️❤️ Please RT

@holly Oh this is too funny. Listerine claims to kill all bacteria!

brb burning my own head

I'm having a great day

The Sunaks' donations: 🎓 Claremont McKenna College in California: $3million 🏫 Winchester College, his old public school: £100,000 🎒 Leyburn Primary in his constituency: £10 wine mirror.co.uk/news/politics/…

Here's how the future is going to play out. (Long - please expand the tweet.) 1. The Tories will wreck everything at an ever increasing pace as the GE approaches, like irresponsible teenagers who know they're not going to be the ones cleaning up the morning after their wild drunken binge. 2. Labour will win the GE on a desperate tide of people wanting to Get the Tories Out, but (and this will be VERY important later) their future freedom to manoevre will be hampered by the bright red lines they laid down on things like Brexit. 3. Labour will start trying to fix some of the stuff the Tories broke. It will prove very expensive. Mending is always more expensive than breaking. 4. Labour will try to Make Brexit Work. The RW tabloids will tear even bigger strips off them than usual. 5. Make Brexit Work won't. Work, that is. Trying to make Brexit work is like trying to get the toothpaste back in the tube after you've brushed your teeth with it. 6. Meanwhile, Labour are having to spend more more more just to keep stuff from literally falling apart (think sewers, water pipes, collapsing schools, crumbling hospitals etc.) 7. Tories watch from the sidelines, laughing and jeering. "Typical Labour. Always spending money they don't have." 8. If they're VERY lucky, Labour will go into the GE-after-next with the overall situation in Britain slightly better than it was when they took office. The country will only be knee-deep in metaphoric and real sewage, rather than thigh deep. 9. The Tories and the RW media will tag team to blame everything that's (still) broken in Britain on Labour. "Same old Labour. Can't be trusted with the economy. Can't be trusted with anything. Can't even fix Brexit, despite their lofty promises." (Important intermission: Labour will never get fair coverage in our British media. But this is a "known known". They need to figure out how to win, repeatedly, anyway.) 10. GE2: Electric Boogaloo. Labour are stuck. The taunts about having failed their flagship Brexit fixing policy hit home, because they're true. That lubricates the way for all the lies the Tories and RW media are spinning about their wider performance to slip down like honey. IF Labour pivot towards SM/CU/Rejoin, they might as well tattoo "we wasted 5 years because we didn't have a clue about what we were doing when it comes to Brexit" across their collective foreheads. They may pivot anyway, because the alternative is even worse. This is where those bright red lines (remember them?) will bite them in the fundament so hard they won't be able to sit down for the next six months. Because the press can absolutely legitimately scream "U-turn! Come and see the U-turn so big, it's visible from the Moon." And it will be true. (Absolutely critical point: there is no "Get the Tories Out" vote. "Ooh, the scary Tories will get back in if you don't vote for us" doesn't have anything like the same impact, especially with non-core Labour voters who lent their votes last time but who are absolutely livid about Labour's failing approach to the Brexit they detest.) 11. Labour lose GE2. A one-term wonder, and they're done. The Tories do what they do best: keep blaming everything on Labour, while picking their looting back up where they left off last time. ----------- Scroll back up through the scenario above, and look at how Brexit runs through it like a vein pumping pure poison. That is why Labour need to change their fundamental approach to Brexit, and they need to do so now. Stop ruling anything out (not saying you won't do something isn't the same as proactively saying you will). Think along the lines of "Labour will do whatever it takes to mitigate the damage Brexit is causing". Make the change far enough ahead of the GE that the fuss about the U-turn is reduced to the constant every-day moaning and carping of the RW press by the time the GE comes around. Also, Labour need to reconsider PR. It's the only hope they (and we) have of anything approaching long-term stability. Many of the problems Britain faces will take 2, 3, 4+ election cycles to fix. And they need to be fixed. But the only conceivable way of getting the time necessary to do so is to form long-term partnerships via PR. That way, you get rid of the short-termism that has dominated British politics to the ruin of us all. (In the current 5-year political cycle, the first year is spent learning the ropes and the last gearing up for the GE, so there are really only 3 even vaguely "productive" years to be wrung out of incumbency.) Phew, and we're done. You may disagree. You probably will disagree. But please take a very deep breath and a big step back, and think about whether your disagreement comes because it feels genuinely too horrible to contemplate the real world in the stark terms I painted above, and whether your support for a particular political party is blinding you to the reality of what they can achieve in a short 5-year (really 3) period in office.

There has been much discussion about the likely failure of Thames Water in the last day or so. I’ve been looking at the accounts of England’s water companies for the last twenty years. My conclusion is that they are all environmentally insolvent. So, a thread…..

@BlondeHistorian This sounds so scary. If you’re getting this more often than others I suspect they are taking advantage of your inability to identify them to the police. You shouldn’t have to do this, but could you attach a “dashcam” to your buggy or body (like the police do) to deter them?

@holly Amazing. Will offer my self up and if it doesn’t go smoothly split the house in half!

@SarahIBaldry Kittens are usually q easy because the others don't see them as a threat. Get feliway dispensers going, lots of treats & catnip, & expect growls & hisses for the first few days. As long as no one's actually fighting (real fighting is loud & fur flies, playfights silent), all good

My vet nurse friend asked if we could take an old lady cat about to be euthanised since no one wanted her. Obviously an instant yes. We've named her Dottie. She's mostly blind, was a starving stray brought in by someone who saw her get hit by a car...

I am a dutch, widowed parent, of a British child. I live in the UK on a parent visa and my daughter is happily growing up here, near my late wife's family and our friends. Last week @ukhomeoffice cancelled my right to be here. In error. A thread to put the record straight.