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GPEW Socialist/Wildlife Gardener/Carer. Angry and sad in equal measure 💚

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@IanThewildside You'd think the bonniest of the corvid clan would pass muster. I love them all (especially Jackdaws).

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@ProfBillMcGuire @AaronBastani @novaramedia Watching it now. About time others understood why some of us have been crapping ourselves for years. You're very calm considering the doom you're doling👏👏👏

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@TheMeldrew There were loads of them at it. As soon as Andy Burnham said don't speculate, it HAD to be Muslims. We live in hell!

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@AaronBastani @ProfBillMcGuire Glad you're covering this more

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@archer_rs I hate that people tar an entire community with the same brush, but my experience over the last few years hasn't been great. You get to a point where you're defending the indefensible- which of course means that the good uns get no defence at all.

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@I_amMukhtar It's tragic and senseless, but the fact that the knuckle dragging scum went straight for the "bet it was Muslims" line, makes me ashamed of my so called fellow countrymen.

[GET A GRIP @docrussjackson]

The #jeremyvine show is clickbait 'outrage porn' - it exists to provoke & divide people by removing nuance & debasing informed intelligent debate, in order to drive comments & viral clips which help monetise & reward the toxic polarising media, which harms all of us. IGNORE #vine

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@ClimateDad77 Who does it serve???

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Nicely put!

[TheNappingSloth ♿🏳️‍🌈 @TheNappingSloth]

It's fascinating how the people closest to Jeremy Vine are all coming out in his defence. That tells us two things:

1) He is apparently a *completely* different person in private than the one disabled people see on his show.

2) People are remarkably comfortable talking over disabled people and dismissing our experiences.

The uproar from the disabled community didn't come from nowhere. His show's account asked, in his name, whether it was "time to crack down" on benefits for sick and disabled people, and whether young disabled people should be called the "sick-note generation". He told his own panel there is something "fishy" behind the rise in people too ill to work, and recounted replying to someone who had just been diagnosed with ADHD with "we haven't got any money". Telling us you know a kinder man in private doesn't undo any of that. We don't watch him in private; we watch the show, and see it's posts.

Yes, we know he hosts a talk show, and debate is the format. A host can still correct disinformation and push back on ableist rhetoric. Good hosting includes both.

This situation could still end well, and the power to make that happen sits entirely with him. If the private Jeremy is real, here is what he could do with one of the biggest daytime platforms in Britain:

Apologise properly: Do it in his own voice, on his own show, for the specific things said in his name. A deleted tweet is a shrug, but an on-air apology is a statement.

Challenge the rhetoric: Bring the same energy he brings to everything else. When a guest claims welfare is "out of control," push back with the actual figures. He does it on other topics, so he should do it on ours.

Include us: Put disabled people on the panel when the topic is us. Nothing about us without us.

Cover unheard stories: Highlight carers in poverty and people losing the support they depend on. Show the human cost behind the statistics his show debates so casually.

That is the whole ask. Nobody wants him hounded, and nobody is demanding he disappear. The ask is to be heard instead of talked over, and he is in a better position than almost anyone in British broadcasting to show what listening looks like.

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@TheMeldrew They were book authors back in the day...."I fell off a cliff" by Eileen Dover......"Rusty Springs" by I.P. Knightly..."10 yards to the toilet" by Will E Makeit.....

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@AaronBastani Congratulations!!!

[Sarah @WolfydocS]

Quite a few people appear to be struggling with the difference between:
"They want to cancel Jeremy Vine!"
and
"It's inappropriate for Jeremy Vine to host an awards ceremony for the very people routinely demonised on his show"

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@herdyshepherd1 @BenGoldsmith But James, we can grow food in vats now! You pesky farmers can all retire!!! It's win-win!!! 😒

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@relish_hendy It's the curse of the chummy bubble. Media, Westminster, Billionaire.....

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@relish_hendy Even if JV thinks he's giving a balanced view on his show, the framing is vile. Perhaps he needs to tell the editor "no" once in a while, or better still, stop click farming altogether

[Charles Paynter @charlespaynter]

@the_brc @itvnews By turning food into an industrialised commodity like iron ore, where it’s all about volume and processing efficiency, the food industry has pushed farmers into unsustainable practices, reduced resilience to climate change and through UPF has created a huge ill health scandal

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@SangitaMyska @implausibleblog I slept on the sofa for a week when I bought my border pup home. She was in a crate (unlocked), & every time she came out I'd take her into the garden. She was more or less house trained in 7 days so the crate moved into my bedroom. It's still there, though she's 2 years gone 😔

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@TheMeldrew Good!

[cat frampton @cat_frampton]

I’ve moved my writing to a new site, which may not be for everyone but… you get to read it without having to pay or sign up or give your email out.

Mind you, I don’t get paid…

Still.
Here is a older article about the ‘sheep wrecked upland’ stuff.

https://t.co/X1A58nMAts

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@glaisian Happy boop da snoot, Walby 😘