Anna Brindle

D+T teacher/ subject lead for textiles - Maker

[Haggis_UK 🇬🇧 🇪🇺 @Haggis_UK]

Nazir Afzal(former chief prosecutor NW England): "When Keir Starmer left the CPS we had the highest conviction rate for child sexual abuse in our history... that's his legacy. Boris Johnson said investigating child sexual abuse was money spaffed up a wall." Feb 22

#BBCBreakfast

[Anna Brindle @AnnaBrindle3]

@__shiticantsay I stopped having them at 41, by training to be a teacher - now I have panic dreams about other people's Alevels instead!

[James Murray @James_BG]

It really is hard to get across quite how bad this is. We’re on track for 3C of warming, which could easily result in catastrophic cascading risks to human civilisation. And emissions are still rising. https://t.co/uiTVXW0uhl

[Anna Brindle @AnnaBrindle3]

@Positivteacha I think (but can't be sure), that the way some year 9 boys refuse to engage in textiles lessons with younger female teachers is based on misogyny - I'm planning to talk with some of them in their lesson next week to question this.

[Anna Brindle @AnnaBrindle3]

Powerful but carefully told stories from those involving medical care in Gaza,one year on.
https://t.co/dw5Rxhtwjc

[Anna Brindle @AnnaBrindle3]

Woohoo, got @GreenManFest tickets for next year!

[Amjad Ali @TryThisTeaching]

*NEW TOOLKIT POST*
As The @BAMEedNetwork is compiling its resource to help tackle racism in school, I have put together this shared google drive packed full of useful resources/blogs/strategies/events -https://t.co/A7cWssw7JE to help tackle racism in schools and Muslim Hate!

[Peter Stefanovic @PeterStefanovi2]

With reports that far-right rallies may target immigration centres & lawyers’ offices let’s not forget the politician’s who shamelessly demonized lawyers upholding the rule of law despite being warned using dangerous language like this could put lawyers & court staff at risk

[Krishnan Guru-Murthy @krishgm]

It seems to me that the portrayal of the Labour win as shallow because of the vote share is misleading. This was a ‘get the tories out’ election. For different people that generally meant voting Labour, Lib Dem, Green or Reform. But in doing so they all knew they’d get a Labour government and did it deliberately. In reality even Reform voters actually voted for Keir Starmer to be PM.

[Melksham & Devizes Primary @MelkDevPrimary]

GO FOR IT MELKSHAM & DEVIZES.

Don't assume others will vote tactially for you! You need to do it yourself because we HAVE to change the blue to a different hue.

It's Brian Mathew, Lib Dem all the way.
Let's be clever and vote together!

Thanks @GetTheToryOut @TacticalVote

[Anna Brindle @AnnaBrindle3]

My junk mail is correctly identifying where to put Danny Kruger emails.

[Liz Webster @LizWebsterSBF]

USA media dishes brutal truth about Brexit Britain

“Every decision taken by Tory (and @LibDems) governments was a political decision—it did not need to happen that way. Austerity was never the hard logic of dutiful caretakers; it was a political calculation to rescue rich friends and dump the burdensome price on those least able to endure the cost.”

“There is mold in the walls and shit in the rivers, posh butter in the supermarkets has anti-theft tags stuck to it, the trains run on schedule about half the time, the average pub-poured pint of lager—the blood of the nation—is nearing the criminal price of 5 pounds ($6.34), and on May 22 a new general election was announced to the people of Great Britain by a prime minister who is richer than the king. 

“Should the polls prove correct—short of a 2016-scale error—the annihilation will be justified. Wage growth is at its lowest level since the Napoleonic Wars. What the Financial Timescalls the “rental market” and what the rest of us call “How much of your money someone richer than you takes every month” is stratospherically inflated; rent is about half a person’s average salary in London. Chain stores on British high streets close permanently at a rate of 14 per day, leaving most shopping areas a procession of corrugated shutters, uncollected rubbish, and the sleeping bags of the homeless.

“The precious marvel that is the National Health Service is cracking at the seams; at the current rate, waiting lists will not be cleared for another 685 years. The union for junior doctors, the BMA, has organised 10 strikes and walkouts in the past year for a pay deal that would only bring wages up to the current level of inflation. The city of Birmingham was the first to tip over into bankruptcy; more will follow.

“In 2022, at least 3% of all families in Britain—around two million people—could not afford to eat. Like a revenant from Dickens, Victorian diseases like scurvy, rickets, and scabies are back to blight children.

“Life expectancy has dropped to the lowest level since 2010—tellingly, the year the Conservatives took power, at the height of the recession.”

“These are the bitter fruits of austerity: an experiment in sado-monetarist economics and financial barbarism. Not much unites those five PMs other than the constant ritual tribute in blood to their coiffed icon, Margaret Thatcher. Yet Thatcher, back in the 1980s, did not lie about how brutal the first shock of neoliberalism was going to be. She coldly promised torture before riches.

“Its sequel, however, was pitched by its architect George Osborne, chancellor under David Cameron, as a bit of belt-tightening resembling that most prized memory in the national canon: the Blitz Spirit. Come on, chaps, buck up and give it some welly. The shattering of society into thinner fragments was supposed to be a hardy adventure. 

“Midway through this downhill plummet, Britain bumbled backward out of the EU. The wreckage of this four-year disaster can now best be seen as an attempt to escape the harsh bite of austerity.

“Brexit was a retreat from hunger into myth: an embrace of antique fables about British pluck and derring-do, a belief that even without an empire and an industrial base this archipelago might reclaim past glory. Faced with profound turmoil, much of the nation turned to a half-remembered falsehood about their grandfather’s generation, marching along with Churchill. This election is the reckoning Brexit postponed.

https://t.co/PRKpMibIqR

[Baroness Mary Bousted @MaryWBousted]

Precious little fighting for their future over the last 14 years. Real term cuts to school funding leading to one of the highest class sizes in the OECD. Teacher supply crisis. Explosion in child poverty. Explosion in child mental ill health. Do you think we will forget?

[James O'Brien @mrjamesob]

It’s not aimed exclusively at misogynists. There’s something for the racists too…

[Daniel Kebede @DanielKebedeNEU]

Finally, the inexorable increase in child poverty. Today a quarter of pupils take free school meals, that is 2.1 million children. In 2015, it was one in seven.

[Daniel Kebede @DanielKebedeNEU]

There are increasing shortages of subject specialist across the secondary curriculum. The shortage of maths teachers is a particular testament to the failure of Rishi Sunak who claimed he was going to provide maths for all 16-18 year olds. There is now a shortage of 5,133 mathematics teachers, up from 4,316 last year.

[Daniel Kebede @DanielKebedeNEU]

Inevitably teacher vacancies have increased sharply and are now six times higher than in 2010.

[Daniel Kebede @DanielKebedeNEU]

The school pupil and workforce census figures released today are a shocking indictment of this Government’s record.

More teachers are leaving the profession prior to retirement than ever before. And fewer newly qualified teachers are entering the profession, this year it dropped by a fifth.

[Politics UK @PolitlcsUK]

🚨 NEW: The Greens say immigration isn't why our "services are being run into the ground"

"If you meet a migrant in the NHS, they are more likely to be treating you"

#BBCDebate