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@kaleidobrain I finally got in at 7.20 🤣

@clarewolfenden Ridiculous isn't it? I know in the grand scheme of things it's a minor issue but I had prepared for this! Worse than queuing on the GP phone line for an appointment.

I was ready at 5.45. Coffee in hand, in the 39 minute queue. Just like a washing machine it was way longer when I finally got to the front. Only the app threw me out. Three attempts and three coffees later I just got there, but really chaotic #tesco

@SnobsKnobs @Tesco I’ve had this since 5.50

Here I am in March 2020, wearing the flimsy PPE frontline staff were given, bracing for an influx of desperately sick people with SARS-CoV-2 — what we now call COVID-19. I watched patients die. Our colleagues die. Michelle Mone should be in jail. And she should only be the first name on a very long list.

So the @Stonegate_Group @SlugandLettuce ask if you are pregnant in their job applications. Why?

@NoContextBrits Almost £300 a month council tax is what we call it in Barnet

What do you call this?

Petition: Remove the 28 day time limit from the unduly lenient sentence scheme for murder petition.parliament.uk/petitions/7001…

@Grant_Colgate What’s your name?

@Grant_Colgate Are you on bluesky?

What’s your name on blue sky? I’d like to follow you over there

I’ve gone over to the other side. Had to change my name as someone’s nicked this one. Bastards. Anyway, birdycheeks over there if you want to follow

@flaminhaystacks 🤣

My dad showing how precarious the wheelchair ramp is next to Mother Theresa Cathedral #kosovo

@JolyonRubs had a knock on our door today as they want to honour your grandfather with a plaque on the house in Hendon. We are happy to do this and thought your family should know. His contact details are below.

@Grant_Colgate I’ve never said it. We call it prozzy. 🤣

@Grant_Colgate Don’t do it. It’s a slippery slope that always ends in jumbo cords. Don’t say I didn’t warn you.

@Grant_Colgate They stole our flag, now they have our outerwear.

Poor man, keeps asking people who they are? Is he lost? Does his care home know he’s gone out?

@donutcoder @Amelia87519558 @flaminhaystacks @SamanthaTaghoy @rubycooper007 Oh my god. So much hate in 7 lines. You need help mate.

Elizabeth was just 18 when she was raped by a colleague of hers at McDonalds, where she worked part-time during sixth form. She went to the police, but nothing happened. No charges, no consequences, no justice. Her rapist walked free and kept his job. Now, she is speaking out. Having bravely waived her right to anonymity, Elizabeth (@ElizabethHaighx) wrote: “No one tells you how much it hurts when a man forces himself into your frozen, shocked body. There is no manual that prepares you for the pain — the sheer, deadening terror — of losing your virginity to a rapist. I said all the ‘right’ things. I told him I didn’t want to. I begged him, repeatedly, to stop.  But the man — a longer-serving colleague from McDonald’s where I worked part-time — raped me anyway. And the chilling fact… is that the prevailing culture at McDonald’s not only failed to check this sort of outrageous behaviour, but turned a blind eye to it. In short, predatory men were permitted to run amok. There was no duty of care shown to female employees as young as 16, who had no recourse to help if they were harassed.  And male staff who flirted, made lewd sexual comments and touched young women inappropriately never faced reprimand from their seniors who were often as culpable of bad behaviour themselves. An unspoken rule decreed that pretty female employees should be deployed in customer-facing roles. ‘Tits on tills’ was the crude aphorism used. Nobody, in my experience, ever acknowledged it was a policy, but it happened routinely: attractive women worked front of house; men almost always in the kitchen. Little wonder then, that the McDonald’s colleague who raped me, would be unlikely to face penalties at work for his crime.  Actually he felt entitled to abuse me without any fear that his actions would have consequences.” And Elizabeth is not alone in her experience. Hundreds of present and former McDonalds staff have recently spoken out about the culture of silence, sexism, sexual harassment within the company. In a Northern Irish branch, sexual contact between managers and junior staffers (which is prohibited under McDonalds policy) was so rife there was an alleged outbreak of gonorrhoea. A teenage worker in Devon claimed a senior manager choked and groped her. Welsh McDonalds managers are alleged to have bet on who could sleep with new hires first. And the list goes on. For years, young women and girls working at the world’s largest fast-food chain have been left at the mercy of predatory managers and senior staff, while those in power turned a blind eye. Why? Because McDonalds cared more about profits than protecting their own employees from harassment and abuse. Enough is enough. Change must happen. Now.

@HHepplewhite No, but that doesn’t mean they weren’t there, it just means they were too scared to say. When I was at school, going in with a new haircut was bad enough