@RobBryher @bristolgreen Over a million people on housing waiting list
Poverty at almost Victorian levels
Mental health huge problem
Obesity levels soaring
Rents soaring
Living standards falling
No problems then
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@RobBryher @bristolgreen We have maxed out on cliche’s
You need a new one three word strap line
“Maxed out on the credit card”
Pathetic and untrue
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@CarolineLucas To misquote Neil Kinnock when he took down the militant tendency
When a labour party a Labour Party will not legislate for the very wealthy to pay more tax labour deserves to be treated with utter contempt
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Not sure I can watch the Johnson programme tonight because just hearing his voice is triggering for me. Can someone watch and summarise for me? #JohnsonLies
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@seanptellsjokes Has slightly less appeal than Liz the lettuce
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@Himself132 Never underestimate the tories and their fellow travellers
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The Conservatives will almost certainly lose the election. But will they have enough seats to be the Official Opposition?
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The Conservatives are salting the earth and poisoning the wells (well, the rivers at any rate), as they know the next government will not be theirs. They are leaving, as their legacy, a broken country.
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Omg. Watch this. Unbelievable.
John O’Brennan@JohnOBrennan2
How on earth did America get to this point?
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As I contemplate another (no doubt unsuccessful) attempt to carve my pleasure-loving body into a svelte honed machine, I think my instinct is to be more Miriam Margoyles. It would be nice to look insta-ready for one week in a swimsuit. But I’d rather years of wine, cats & books.
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@CodeRedEarth @KevinClimate @jrockstrom Wars economic growth refugees authoritarian states tax burden benefit scrounging social care NHS extreme right politics mental health obesity small boats
All headlines that dominate the news
But alI are insignificant when put alongside the climate emergency
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2 quotes from 2 top scientists
2.7 C is optimistic *don't have technology to remove 100's of billions of tons of C02
@KevinClimate
2.7C - a place we "haven't seen for the past four million years." No evidence humans can survive in that environment
@jrockstrom
#ClimateEmergency
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I’ve been sprayed in the face with CS incapacitant and it was very unpleasant. But, it will never come close to the pain of having this stuff in my eyes during my weekly Sunday night bath as a young lad.
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@ianbbdesign As the tories want to take us back to the Victorian era the seventies would be like paradise
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@StefSimanowitz @GreenJennyJones @BorisJohnson There’s a special place in hell for Johnson and his ilk
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Four years ago on 5 March 2020 as COVID19 ravaged Italy, it was reported that a 70-year-old woman had become the first Briton to die of coronavirus
On the same day, @BorisJohnson told the nation:
“One of the theories is that we could take it on the chin”
Stefan Simanowitz@StefSimanowitz
There’s often a moment in the third act of a Hitchcock thriller – “the big reveal” – when the scales fall from the eyes of the hapless central character & he realises the answer he’s been searching for has been in front of his nose all along. That is how I felt last Thursday. /1
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Curse of Private Equity.
The Body Shop admits to breaking employment law in sacking hundreds of workers at a moment’s notice.
Long-standing workers and women about to go on maternity leave fired with no notice.
Taxpayer footing the bill.
independent.co.uk/news/business/…
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Right in the middle of a news & data deluge on how Brexit is battering the UK economy UK news shows are deliberately avoiding “Brexit” in the list of things battering the UK economy ahead of Wednesday’s budget
If you think they should be pointing it out RT this widely
Peter Stefanovic@PeterStefanovi2
With UK news & politics shows offering up the pandemic & war in Ukraine as excuses for the Government ahead of Wednesday’s budget why is no one pointing out the catastrophic damage which has been self inflicted on the country by the Governments hard Brexit? RT if they should be
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@70s80s90sKids And how many of us went on to use protractors set squares etc
What a waste of time along with four figure logarithm tables
I can still recite my times tables
Another waste of time
And what has changed no longer use the above but bugger all in reality. education my arse
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@DrFrancesRyan You barely exist on benefits
Stigmatising the poor mentally ill disabled single parent families
Labour my arse and if reform or George Galloway workers party are the alternative I despair
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It is so deeply depressing to see Labour give the right wing press these soundbites. They know no one “lives a life on benefits” if they are not severely ill and those who do are consigned to poverty. And yet they say it, making the country that little bit nastier and divided.
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"A sharp rise in the number of Environment Agency inspections has left hundreds of farmers facing punishment for not complying with the law"
Fixed that for you.
Farmers are important, a crucial part of society and civilization, but they aren't above the law.
No Farmers, No Food@NoFarmsNoFoods
“A sharp rise in the number of Environment Agency inspections has left hundreds of farmers facing enforcement action and left with a choice of either having to invest hundreds of thousands of pounds into their businesses, or sell up and retire.” fwi.co.uk/business/compl…
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