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County cricket lover and lifelong Essex supporter who also enjoys cooking, reading, chocolate and music. I am interested in politics and social housing. Anti Tory, anti facsism, anti racism, anti Reform. Pro Europe. I stand with 🇺🇦. I love cats🏏🐈🍽
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Our petition is flying - thanks for all your support. Ban driven grouse shooting petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...

When you’re tempted to say Labour are the same as the Tories look at this list and give your head a wobble. The Tories took away workers rights and disempowered unions. Making sure workers have less power. Many of those laws are being abolished now thanks to Labour.

Nigel Farage has told ITV News the first thing he would do as prime minister if he won a general election would be to remove the UK from the European Convention on Human Rights That alone is good reason never to vote for Reform UK. THIS IS WHY youtu.be/MdiDDJrQUJA?...

NEW: Judge Boasberg finds probable cause for contempt against the Trump administration: "The Constitution does not tolerate willful disobedience of judicial orders — especially by officials of a coordinate branch who have sworn an oath to uphold it." storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

A proud moment for Kasun! 😁 🦅 #FlyLikeAnEagle

Word of the day is ‘bugiard’ (17th century): one who distorts the truth beyond all recognition to fit their own agenda.

total clarity here from @edwardluce.bsky.social www.ft.com/content/4c4b...

“There’s a lot of misplaced optimism about [a UK-US] deal. It’s inconceivable that the Trump team do a deal that doesn’t involve a big concession from us... If you want a quick win on UK growth, reducing trade barriers with Europe looks like an absolute no-brainer.” ~AA inews.co.uk/news/politic...

100% agree with this.

I've been a journalist for 25+ years and I'm not sure I've witnessed as much wilful (and v likely coordinated) disinformation from certain corners of the UK media than over past few days. Sun, Mail and Telegraph have been truly awful - and seemingly shameless www.theguardian.com/business/202...

I am convinced he’s sending innocent men to a death camp in El Salvador without due process is so he can send whoever he likes to prison without due process. If you think he’s stopping with immigrants you are very much mistaken.

The Harbinger of Doom has signed Trump’s political death warrant.

'Good chance' of US-UK trade deal, says Vance. Please repost if you want the UK to rejoin the EU or Single Market rather than do a trade deal with Trump's America. www.bbc.com/news/article...

I don’t think a better headline could have been written about what happened yesterday. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

He’s threatening media companies who are critical of him. He’s talking about sending Americans to foreign prisons. He’s signing executive orders to investigate former staff members who spoke out against him. He’s defying the Supreme Court. Don’t you see what’s happening here?

2025: Nigel Farage suggests that if it wasn't for him and Richard Tice, Labour would not take steps to renationalise British Steel 2016: That time Nigel Farage told us that the way to save British Steel was to leave the European Union

228 pounds.

Never forget this rubbish.

“In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Those affected receive a small apartment & counselling with no preconditions. 4 out of 5 people affected make their way back into a stable life. And all this is CHEAPER than accepting homelessness.” It costs less to house people.

Please stay vigilant for Yellow-legged hornets. Report using the Asian Hornet Watch app

Democracy is under attack. I'm trying to get a campaign going to get the maximum possible anti-Farage vote in the local elections. I can't run this on my own. What is needed is a few hundred people here campaigning for a #Vote4Democracy Please retweet and join the campaign with your own posts.

Tea during a London County match at Crystal Palace around 1902. Players used to take tea on the field. In the picture are the instantly recognisable WG Grace as well as Billy Murdoch

NDAs can silence victims of abuse & harassment. Let's change this! Sign the petition to ensure the Employment Rights Bill bans NDAs in cases of misconduct. #StopAbusiveNDAs #EmploymentRightsBill you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/st...

Does Badenoch think this makes her look good? For FOURTEEN YEARS they left everything untended, unresolved, underfunded, in disrepair. Yet on EVERY TOPIC her line is "we'd have done it brilliantly, in fact we were JUST ABOUT to do it when STOOPID VOTERS kicked us out, enjoy Labour STOOPID VOTERS".

Ah lovely. Another bag of rubbish gets tipped into the House of Lords. The place must absolutely reek of stale Tory failure, corruption and abuse of power. Honours handed out like sweeties to some of the most undeserving, underachieving, overpromoted clowns and liars to have ever held public office.

BREAKING from @science.org: The Trump admin is seeking to kill nearly all climate research at NOAA, its climate science agency. Its near-final budget proposal would end all NOAA research labs, academic institutes, and regional climate centers. And it wants to fully end the NOAA Research division.

The only story in today's news that isn't downright grim It's made my day 😊 Housing and nature can co-exist - if it's done properly www.theguardian.com/environment/...

🔴Matt Hancock Intervened to Help Conservative Donor’s Pizza Firm Land Lucrative Covid PPE Contract Two days before winning the contract, the company, which had no previous experience of supplying medical equipment, removed ‘pizza’ from its name bylinetimes.com/2025/04/11/m...

🚨 Register to vote deadline is today. www.gov.uk/register-to-... Make this go viral, and we can keep out Reform at the local elections on May 1st

Number of people who go bankrupt every year because of medical bills or illness-related work loss: Australia 0 Canada 0 Denmark 0 Finland 0 France 0 Germany 0 Iceland 0 Ireland 0 Italy 0 Japan 0 Netherlands 0 Norway 0 Portugal 0 Spain 0 Sweden 0 UK 0 United States 530,000 There’s a lesson there.

That's 90,000 signatures! 90,000 of you calling for a ban on driven grouse shooting. If we reach 100,000, we can get this debated in parliament. So please sign and share - help us get there!

🏥Good news! 🧑‍⚕️ The NHS waiting list has now fallen for 6 months in a row, down by 219,000. The Government promised 2 million extra appointments. So far, it’s delivered 3 million in just 9 months. There is plenty of work left to do, but Labour are getting the NHS back on its feet.

Sorry to disappoint Brexit nut job Camilla Tominey but this Remoaner crank ain’t giving up anything…Repost if you agree…

White House trying to present this as some sort of victory lap is one of the funniest things I have ever seen. YEAH! They MEANT to wipe trillions off stocks, alienate all allies and partners, make their debt hugely more expensive, only to then poop their pants and take it all back. 😂🤪🔔🔚

Monday: "We have finally found a Brexit benefit" Wednesday: "Nope, lost it again"

Just take a moment to appreciate Coxy's First-Class batting stats for Essex. 😳 🦅 #FlyLikeAnEagle

I’m struggling to wrap my mind around sheer cruelty and spite of this administration, on top of its greed, corruption, ignorance, and incompetence, willfully, wantonly destroying lives and livelihoods of millions. And still, the wider GOP largely goes along with it. www.reuters.com/business/hea...

Reform 'throwing farmers under bus' in chlorine-backed US trade deal www.farmersguardian.com/4411995/