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@OkayBiology @SkyNews or smothered in layer and layers of long dresses and unable to swim

@SkyNews Why is it always women and children who 'fall' off the boats entering European countries? Don't you think that's a bit of a coincidence? Did they fall? I suspect they were pushed

BREAKING: Two women die while trying to cross Channel in small boat news.sky.com/story/two-wome…

@SorchaEastwood The quickest thing they could do is reduce the "green levy" on energy bills, it is a huge % of the bill

As I wake up this morning to news of yet another fantastic local cafe closing, you bet these Labour Budgets have been disastrous. With boots firmly on the necks of small businesses, the increased NICS, highest VAT rates for hospitality in Europe, clobbering farmers & disabled people. They chose to balance the books on the backs of hard workers and the vulnerable. They are different ways of doing things. The ramifications of these budgets are hitting communities hard and I won't be quiet about it!

@Mom_of_cats2422 @BermudaPremier @duchess_salty @BdaGovernment @RoyalFamily she's not there! Seems mean

@BermudaPremier @duchess_salty @BdaGovernment @RoyalFamily What a pleasant greeting. Have a wonderful visit with the King and Queen.

This evening, Kristin and I were honoured to welcome His Majesty King Charles III to Bermuda on behalf of the Government and people of Bermuda. His Majesty’s visit is the first visit by a reigning Sovereign to a British Overseas Territory since Queen Elizabeth II visited Bermuda in 2009. During his time here, The King will meet Bermudians across the island and experience our culture, history, natural environment, and the traditions that continue to shape our community. This Royal Visit reflects the longstanding relationship between Bermuda and the United Kingdom, while providing an opportunity to showcase the warmth of our people, the beauty of our island, and the very best of who we are.

@MrsEmmaWebber All of that and the fear that people have that they will be called racist

✍️OP-ED (all my own views. Feel free to share on that basis). “The NHS is grossly failing the mentally ill in our country. The terrible events of this week in Golders Green go far deeper than rogue individuals, extremism and anti-semitism. The narrative between this incident, Southport, and our tragedy in Nottingham in June 2023 is that they all happened because seriously mentally ill, violent and dangerous individuals were not managed or cared for and were allowed to roam our streets unchecked. The fear of stigmatising, perception of racial inequality and bias is overriding the need to keep the public safe. There are not enough specialist facilities, adequately trained and robustly managed staff, or effective assertive outreach teams. In the few examples where these are in place in this country, the rates of violence and loss of life are greatly reduced. So it can be done. The NHS Mental Health Trust in. Nottingham is a poorly managed and failing Trust. Despite the public outcry, media attention, and indeed the scrutiny of the statutory inquiry, they still refuse to provide details and evidence of the process and actions taken by them for the countless members of staff who so clearly were negligent in their roles. Today, we learnt for the first time of one member of staff who faced disciplinary action for his limited contact and care of Valdo Calocane. Just one man who retired prior to any hearings. Despite our continued requests for the past two years, we still have no idea of what took place internally or is now planned. Were it not for this Inquiry none of these appalling practices would have been made public. Do not think for one moment that this is the only Mental Health Trust in this country that is in this state. It’s endemic and systemic. And lessons have never been learned. Our government (and previous ones) are failing to act. Failing to recognise the broken public services in our health, our policing and our criminal justice system. They are chasing the horses rather than fixing the fences. We cannot, and must not, be a passive reactive state. Countless lives are being lost and families destroyed because of fear, poor decision making and inaction. I do not hold myself to be a learned professional, nor have all of the answers or solutions. However, as Barney’s Mum; witnessing first hand how broken and wrong the systems and services are, I do have a voice, and I want to try and use it. The government, and our media MUST look at what is unfolding every day here at the Nottingham Inquiry. Ensure it is reported, listened to, and transparently and honestly done; not used for political point scoring or electoral gain. Be proactive and brave enough to tackle what is going broken. Emma Webber

@nebboneheim @MirabelTweets1 and been stabbed in the leg as he still held a knife?

@MirabelTweets1 Your are right, they should have knelt on his neck.

The police force which turned a blind eye to having a rapist in their ranks are attempting to gaslight the British public into thinking it is reasonable to repeatedly kick an offender in the head as a method of restraint while there is zero direct threat at that moment

@SamaHoole Although to be fair the EU is also allowing the neonics to be used

There is a class of pesticide called neonicotinoids. They were banned for outdoor use in the UK and EU in 2018, because the evidence that even trace amounts disrupt bee navigation, foraging, and reproduction was overwhelming. Then for four years in a row, between 2021 and 2024, the UK government granted “emergency authorisation” for one of them, thiamethoxam, to be used on the sugar beet crop. Each year against the explicit advice of the UK Expert Committee on Pesticides. Each year despite the British sugar industry's own pledge to end neonicotinoid reliance by 2023. By 2024, more than 91,000 hectares of British farmland had been treated with a banned bee-killer to support a single crop. Around a third of the UK bee population is thought to have vanished in the last decade. Britain has lost 13 of its 35 native bee species since 1900. Research published in 2023 found neonicotinoids in more than 10% of English rivers, despite the headline ban. The crop being defended is a root vegetable used to produce industrial sugar. The sugar goes into soft drinks, biscuits, and ultra-processed food. The British Hereford cow grazing in a hedgerow next to the same field has not killed a bee in her life. She has, in fact, been quietly improving the wildflower diversity of her field for as long as she has been on it. When the Telegraph wants to know what is destroying British biodiversity, it will write about her.

@DrNeilStone or the Muslim Brotherhood

I don't want to live in a country where the IRGC are legal any longer 🇬🇧

@Sam_Borley @NFFC69Will @metpoliceuk @SholaMos1 he was still holding the KNIFE, refusing to drop it AND could have had explosives on him or other weapons

@NFFC69Will @metpoliceuk @SholaMos1 Reasonable force is based on the current situation, not what was happening 30 seconds ago. The man was in prone position and what the police did is legitimately unlawful.

Contemptible abuse of police power. Why kick him in the head several times when he’s already tasered & in your control? Should he not be alive to be brought to justice in a court of law for stabbing 2 Jews??!! Disgusting.

@FleabagSilverm1 @sophielouisecc You mean fewer opportunities. White working class boys do least well and school and least likely to go to university - statistical facts

@sophielouisecc Being black puts you at a disadvantage EVERY TIME due to racism. There are barriers that are put up for all black people which leads to less opportunities. White privilege is REAL. Why don't you know this?

I am not against widening opportunities for those from disadvantaged backgrounds But just because someone is black - doesn’t mean they are automatically disadvantaged And just because someone is white - doesn’t mean they are not disadvantaged Any schemes that hire based on race are not widening opportunities- they are racist And we must end this - it would not be acceptable if the races were reversed

@prossertj @WRNWales I have asked questions of every single candidate in my constituency about women's rights only a conservative replied. I asked a Green party candidate a question on his Facebook post and he didn't answer...

@WRNWales And if you post repeated criticism of one side but not the other, it gives a certain impression.

This is an important topic, yet I’m unconvinced of the wisdom of single-issue campaigning. The Senedd election is about a *much* wider set of issues and, to put it mildly, there are other problems with the right-wing parties of which this account seems to be a de facto advocate.

@boot15_vu and from the heart not reading notes

Wow!! Speech of the day, and there’s been some belters. 💥

@Doris_Miliband @Dunnylad1 exactly!!

@Dunnylad1 Far better to have 650 independent MP's with her spirit. Whipping MP's to prevent a referral to the standards committee is an absolute abomination. No wonder no one trusts them anymore.

Sorcha Eastwood is magnificent. She represents one of the smaller parties from Northern Ireland. Her constituents are lucky to have her. But would be fantastic to see her as an MP in one of the main Parties ...she is a country mile ahead of most of them in political talent.

@ArchRose90 She is well prepared and speaks without notes but is articulate and passionate. I don't know what the rest of her policies are but the times I have heard her speak she has been fantastic

NI Sorcha Eastwood has tore into Starmer’s double standards once again: “Peter Mandelson wouldn't have survived the vetting for a kids football club and rightly so. And yet we are expected to believe from those benches that it's nothing to see here.” She didn’t hold back! 🔥

@HStiernstrand @mslizwills @therealmissjo @LisaSteel15 We have no idea what happened, why she was on the bus etc or what the arrangements were. Blaming parents is a small step from blaming her

@SuzLoNo @mslizwills @therealmissjo @LisaSteel15 No way proper parents subjects their kids to the evil that roams our western streets, public transports etc.

I despair. Imagine being a 17 year old girl on the night bus to Bradford. You just want to get home. The bus unexpectedly terminates in Morley, Leeds, you are told by the driver you should take a taxi and your phone is flat. What can you do? The only other passenger, who you don’t know, offers to share a taxi with you. This happened to a poor girl on 25 March 2025. Chiemka Okoronta, a 29 year old migrant from Nigeria, talked her into sharing a taxi, took her remaining money as payment for the taxi and then diverted the taxi to his accommodation where he locked her in a bathroom and raped her. She managed to eventually get out and was captured on CCTV fleeing the scene, heading towards the city centre where she stopped a passerby and used their phone to call the police. Okoronta was found guilty of three counts of rape and sentenced to 10 years in prison, with 3 years on licence. The judge said he was a “dangerous sexual predator” and she hoped he would be deported after he finishes his sentence. The girl has said that her entire life has changed. She does not like leaving her room or socialising and feels under threat all the time. Does anyone believe he will be deported?

@drsanjoykumar I am very grateful for your informed commentary on this - no one can claim that you don't understand medicine or the NHS - which hopefully means that it will get more traction

Today’s testimony 1. Mr Geoff Culpin AMPH - seeing VC in July 2020. Quite obvious Sec 3 required with CTO and Sec 117 aftercare. Says - “Not up to me to challenge Consultant Psychiatrist”. Can’t remember facts. Where were your contemporary notes. 2. Busayo Ajewole - Team leader at Cassidy Suite (Sec135 beds). She cuts and pastes patient records all over patient notes . Records of ‘risk’ incomplete. No reflection of violent characteristics. Incorrect info put into RiO. So Self generated letter to GP inaccurate, wrong dates, no risk factors. (Like HH Deborah Taylor has quoted before. If you put in rubbish into IT, you get out rubbish) 3. Dr Mohammad Omar Manzar - says there is always a tension between least restrictive option/being sectioned/treating in community. He then has insight to say that tension can be resolved by a ‘risk assessment’ …..which he never does properly. Clueless about risk to students. Does not contact Uni proactively. Does not do a statement for assault of ABH on Pc Pritchard, who has been punched and head butted by VC (the event that ACC Rob Griffin brushed off as non reportable and ‘as expected’ injuries for a policeman on duty). VC gets no charge for assault. Says if had been asked by police, he would have completed an MG11. Other apathetic officers never diligently look into case to encourage officer to support an ABH charge. Of significance says 19th Jan 2022 involvement was because VC had a “remitting & relapsing” illness. Strange, Blackwood the CPS expert said he was sttaight Psychotic for all of the time like straight 2 years 🤔. Ms Angela Patrick points out; painfully that Manzar could never do a risk assessment because he never enquired about past assaults/did not take a decent past hx/total lack of professional curiosity. ……I’m afraid Dr Manzar just doesn’t get it. I’m afraid to suggest that after all we heard from today……all giving evidence today above, should have all their previous cases reviewed. Their evidence was that bad. @CareQualityComm The heart break for me is that if any of the above had done a half decent job VCs trajectory would have changed and he would have missed by daughter. I keep using this analogy. VC was like an oil tanker, if the rudder had been changed by even 1 degree. He could have ended up in a different continent. The witnesses today just didn’t get this. It’s actually sad and does not bode well for families across the country.

@HStiernstrand @mslizwills @therealmissjo @LisaSteel15 expecting their child to be on a bus? Unaware her phone had no charge?

@mslizwills @therealmissjo @LisaSteel15 The parents?! Where the 🔥 are they?

@BurgessPark2 @spikedonline and both wings are deeply misogynistic

As a former deputy leader of the Greens, I have a duty to warn the world about what a monster this party has become. It is facilitating hard-line Islamic entryism. Its candidates spread anti-Semitic bile. Enough is enough, says Shahrar Ali buff.ly/E0nmS26

@schellhornmusic Do we have evidence of coercion in Switzerland? or is it a concern? Should one person be an agony because of a worry for which we have no evidence. For people with 6 months life expectancy why would even a nefarious person take the risk?

Do the needs of one person to be 'out of pain' (and there are many types of pain) outweigh the risk of coercion for those who might rather engage with palliative options (whether successful or not) just to have more time with their family? I think the broader considerations ought to be engaged with.

Let's have better palliation then.

@PigsAndPolling @mariecurieuk The answer is to invest in palliative care BUT for those whose pain is not medicatable and/or have incredibly distressing symptoms we need a route for them to call it a day if they don't have the £10K to go to Switzerland

Watching the CEO of @mariecurieuk interviewed on #London marathon coverage brings home just how awful the Assisted Suicide Bill would've been, 1 in 3 who need palliative care don't get it and the answer is not for the State to kill them

@bane_baldy yes we need access to palliative care for all BUT what about those whose pain cannot be medicated away and who have very distressing symptoms, why can we not meet their needs too? Swiss model not Canadian

When Palliative Care is a lottery, When Hospices are reducing beds, The "choice" of a "dignified death" when alternatives are disappearing, It IS NOT A CHOICE! Not ONE Disabled Group supported the Bill? Maybe ask them why before you play your violin! 🤬♿☠️