Kate Hampton

Starmer seems determined to have the government always interfere when you're doing perfectly fine. And then never intervene, when you're massively in need of help.

Green Party rightly say how "a blanket ban could leave some young people particularly disabled and LGBTQIA people more isolated and cut off from support." But if the Government really cared about preventing suicides they wouldn't withdraw vital healthcare from young trans people.

Ban on social media access for the under 16s + AI tutors for selected kids = ? ?

Israel executed Rayan today in Gaza with a bullet to the head. He was only 3 years old.

Just a couple of reminders of how much Starmer cares about the safety of kids.

💥scrapping jury trials 💥cutting welfare and disability benefits 💥halving foreign aid 💥restricting protests for ‘cumulative disruption’ 💥proscribing Palestine Action & arresting thousands of people for holding signs 💥AI boosterism 💥cosying up to Palantir & embedding them in the NHS 💥surveillance flights over Gaza & arms sales to Israel 💥allowing UK bases to be used for war in Iran 💥the most punitive asylum and immigration reforms in generations 💥halving the UK's contributions to the Green Climate Fund 💥banning social media for under 16s despite widespread opposition from child protection charities 💥taxing workers not wealth 💥refusing to nationalise water & energy or punish executives and companies pumping excrement into rivers 💥‘reforms’ to planning rules to remove environmental protections 💥freebies and cronyism scandals 💥a watered-down Employment Rights Bill 💥introducing policing via Live Facial Recognition using Israeli software used to “track, trace and abduct” thousands of Palestinians passing through checkpoints 💥 Peter Bloody Mandelson… All brought to you by the most disliked Prime Minister since the introduction of modern polling, delivered to power with an unlawful slush fund filled with cash from millionaire and pro-Israeli donors. Did anyone who voted Labour in 2024 expect this?

@BBCPolitics Finish the job is very unfortunate terminology but at least let's us know how they're thinking

Assisted dying returns to Parliament as MP urges peers to "finish the job" bbc.in/4eptYbS

Your reminder today, as no one will report it, that the leading children's protection charity in the UK, NSPCC, opposes a blanket ban on social media, along with many other children's safety groups. This is what they've said: "But for countless children, especially those who feel shut out or unheard offline, social media isn’t a luxury. It’s a lifeline – a source of community, identity, and vital support. “A blanket ban would take those spaces away overnight and risks driving teenagers into darker, unregulated corners of the internet. Everyone involved in this debate will have the best interests of children at heart, but children’s fundamental right to participate safely in the digital world, to access information, to connect with peers, and to have their voices heard must be protected. They should not be stripped of those rights because tech companies have repeatedly failed to build platforms that protect them."

So a deeply dangerous bill that intends to remove safeguards once it’s through the door is being forced AGAIN and refuses to ensure safeguarding. Anyone who gives a damn about people being able to make a decision on AD without coercion being a factor, will oppose this bill. Unfortunately, many will still back this bill because it’s the cheaper solution. They would rather let you, your loved ones suffer to the point of asking for AD rather than fund proper palliative care. That’s already coercion. It’s also cheaper to people being on benefits. In a country that let a mass disabling virus let rip - this is a cost saving bill. But we knew this was the agenda since the committee stage when we first heard them vote away safeguards for non terminal disabilities. No one needs AD for autism, Down’s syndrome, anorexia or diabetes. But that’s what they voted on. Any safeguards in place to get this bill through the door is smoke and mirrors to allow state sanctioned death via the back door. It must fail. This bill is completely unsafe for all. Even those they’re hiding this appalling bill behind. They’re using these terminally ill people to get this through. They do not care what happens with them at all.

@10DowningStreet They will regard you with utter contempt and get round it. But you know that.

We are giving children their childhoods back. Social media platforms will be blocked from offering services to under 16s. We’re setting a new normal for future generations and empowering parents who just want to do their best for their kids.

The reintroduction of the Assisted Dying Bill by Vichy Labour suggests they’re deadly serious about reducing the Welfare Bill so that arms manufacturers can have nice things.

@shearernorthern Especially as it's in lock step with deep proposed cuts to benefits and pensions

I was sort of in favour of the assisted dying bill originally. But not now as the safeguards were all removed and the apparent desperation to get it through. Enough reasons to now be very sceptical.

@kimleadbeater No, it's monstrous news that is terrifying people. Why the zeal? Why the obsession? Who's making money from this?

Excellent news. Well done Lauren Edwards❤️

The rest of the country isn’t grateful, Claire. The HoL did their jobs and you’re circumventing the law. All to give the government a cheaper option than palliative care. And no, the country doesn’t support this bill. Only old polls conducted by Dignity in Dying (the ones who poured millions into getting this done for the government) actually suggest that. A deeply dangerous bill that intends to remove safeguards in the coming years once it’s through the door is being forced AGAIN and refuses to ensure safeguarding. Anyone who gives a damn about people being able to make a decision on AD without coercion being a factor, will oppose this bill. Unfortunately, many will still back this bill because it’s the cheaper solution. They would rather let you, your loved ones suffer to the point of asking for AD rather than fund proper palliative care. That’s already coercion. It’s also cheaper to people being on benefits. In a country that let a mass disabling virus let rip - this is a cost saving bill. But we knew this was the agenda since the committee stage when we first heard them vote away safeguards for non terminal disabilities. No one needs AD for autism, Down’s syndrome, anorexia or diabetes. But that’s what they voted on. Any safeguards in place to get this bill through the door is smoke and mirrors to allow state sanctioned death via the back door. It must fail. This bill is completely unsafe for all. Even those they’re hiding this appalling bill behind. They’re using these terminally ill people to get this through. They do not care what happens with them at all.

Israel killed little Riyadh in Gaza. He died of his injuries today.

Tearing my hair out watching news today 🫠 Any journalist covering the “social media ban” but not HOW it works is miserably failing + missing the story. It won’t be remembered as a policy that kept kids off SM (it won’t) - but as the policy that introduced IDs for the internet.

The welfare bill can be cut instantly - Make employers pay a living wage so that the 40% who claim while in work do not have to. Govts will do ANYTHING but address this.

@LynnBraben Yep

Andy Burnham would agree with him.

@SaulStaniforth Othering the vulnerable to give money to the arms dealers is despicable stuff

Carns is asked where the extra £ for defence should come from. ".. I think there are places, such as moving welfare from hand outs to hand ups" Describing welfare as hand outs tells us all about Carns politics & who he wants to target - the sick, disabled, low paid, pensioners

It's pretty damned obvious that it's not possible for a defendant to mount any form of adequate legal defence against offences they are not charged with. Please RT this until this injustice is corrected. Thank you.