Sonja Charters

In the scary land of Twitter, I occasionally tweet my own views. I retweet a lot of things I think are important, should be known & matter to me. Please be kind

[Sonja Charters @ChartersSonja]

@premnsikka I work in construction - mostly new builds or conversions. Suppliers' prices just go up at every opportunity and way above 3% 🤔 inflation. Brexit hit hard, along with covid & wars. The numbers just don't work anymore. We've never been so quiet. My hours have been cut.

[Jeremy Corbyn @jeremycorbyn]

Classrooms of children in Iran. Hundreds of people in Lebanon. The ongoing genocide in Gaza.

Their humanity matters, but the message from our political & media class is clear: some lives are worth less than others.

We are all human beings - and we all deserve to live in peace.

[Prem Sikka @premnsikka]

Shortage of NHS stroke specialists in England resulting in death or disability.

Between 10,000 and 20,000 patients died or sustained a serious disability because of treatment delays.

Lives destroyed by fiscal rules, austerity, appeasement of the rich
https://t.co/7Y6ki2NoP5

[Good Law Project @GoodLawProject]

NHS England is rolling out software to run our health records from Palantir – a US spy-tech firm that has supported mass deportation in the US and enabled genocide in Gaza.

Say No to Palantir in the NHS ⬇️
https://t.co/JGcobrFyzb

[Tehran Tadhg @TadhgHickey]

You only think you hate her. But it's not her you hate, it's her authenticity, compassion, fearlessness - qualities you might have once had or at least wanted to have but life drained them from you. You're looking for the angle but there is none. She simply cares. And you can fight to reclaim that empathy. It's the easier, softer way than emptying, fruitless hatred.

[Sonja Charters @ChartersSonja]

@LizWebsterSBF I work in construction and nearly all the suppliers have informed us of price increases in January from 3%-10%. No real reason for it as far as I can see, except for greed. Expect inflation to increase again in the new year.

[Farrukh @implausibleblog]

"Christ would embrace the refugees and cast the fascists out"

Billy Bragg sings a new song in response to a far right carol concert in London

Song: Put Christ Back in Christmas

Put Christ back into Christmas
The season of goodwill
Peace on earth for everyone
So let the bombs be still

:et the guns fall silent
Let the hungry be fed
And let the tyrants of the world
Lay uneasy in their beds

You'll want Christ back in Christmas
Yet you ignore his words
And live a life of selfish
As if you've never heard

Of the Samaritan who stopped and helped
Strangers dressed in rags
And you pay lip service to the world
While worshipping the flag

A flag won't ask you've done to help the poor survive
But Christ demands you cast you cast away the sin of national pride

Love thy neighbour as thyself
And you will plainly see
That true message of Christmas time
Is one of empathy

In haste to vilify you forget
Christ was a refugee
King Herod's murders orders forced
His family to flee

Into the land of Egypt
Where their safety did lie

Would you refuse to let him in
And sent him back to die

God rest ye merry gentlemen
All drunken in dismay

You'd not be so belligerent
If Christ came back today
If he was forced to chose a side
I'd tell you without doubt

That he'd embrace the refugee
And cast the fascists out

Come all you peopel of good faith
And listen to my song

If you have studied your holy book
You'd know that it is wrong
To use the name of Jesus Christ
In order to divide

So stand with those
Who need the most
Goodwill at Christmas time

So stand with those
Who need the most
Goodwill at Christmas time

Put Christ back in Christmas

[Liz Webster @LizWebsterSBF]

Thatcherism broke Britain.
The EU was just the scapegoat.

We sold off council homes.
We privatised our utilities.
We deregulated everything.
We hollowed out industry.
We turned housing into an asset class.
We handed public wealth to private monopolies.
We replaced wages with debt.
We stripped the state and called it “freedom”.

Then when the consequences hit 👉
low growth, low pay, high bills, no homes, collapsing services the same politicians who caused it pointed at Brussels and said: “Look over there.”

Brexit was never the cause of Britain’s problems. It was the cover-up for forty years of deliberate policy choices.

And now we’re paying the price.

https://t.co/bbyxb0AGr2

[Prem Sikka @premnsikka]

UK govt can save over £20bn a year by stopping payment of interest on commercial banks’ central bank reserves.

Subsidy implemented after the 2007-08 crash. Banks now very profitable.

Since 2023, the EU stopped paying interest on central bank reserves.
https://t.co/1AC1piNUVU

[Sonja Charters @ChartersSonja]

@BladeoftheS Stop the pension age from continually rising! I should have been retiring in 7 years, now it's 14. Thankfully just in before the next increase in age.
Also all health and social care - GPs to ambulances to elderly & special needs care etc...

[Suppressed News. @SuppressedNws1]

⚡️BREAKING: Freed photojournalist Shadi Abu Sido, kidnapped on March 18, 2024, during Israel’s raid on Al-Shifa Medical Complex, spoke after nearly 20 months in captivity, expressing shock at global silence.

“For two years I was starved, I went in starving and came out starving,” he said. “They hung our bodies day and night, naked, abused and insulted us. They told us, ‘We killed your children. Gaza is gone.’”

Translation: @translatingpal

[David__Osland @David__Osland]

Britain now has 1970s levels racism without 1970s levels of secure well-paid jobs, social housing, properly-funded NHS and social care, free tuition, student grants, final salary pensions and affordable rail fares

[John O'Connell @jdpoc]

Nice to see Charlie properly preparing for the visit by Rapist & Paedophile, #Trump ...

[Richard Burgon MP @RichardBurgon]

We are in an incredibly dangerous moment.

We not only face the threat of a far-right government coming to power for the first time in our history, but also a violent far-right street movement on a scale not seen here in decades - if ever.

This street movement, led by convicted criminal Tommy Robinson, is especially dangerous for Black, Muslim, Jewish, and other minority communities. And we need to build the broadest possible opposition to it.

Everyone has an interest in standing up to these far-right thugs. Their hatred, racism, and division are being funded and cheered on by the super-rich to distract from the real causes of people’s problems: our rigged economic system.

This stoking of hatred and division offers ordinary people nothing. It won’t build a single council house. It won’t put a penny more into the NHS. It won’t deliver higher wages. But it does allow the super-rich to shift the blame, protect their privilege, and keep getting richer - while everyone else is left worse off.

Throughout history, we have driven these far-right forces back.

And it is up to all of us - from different parties, from different communities - to come together, and to drive them back again.

[Mukhtar @I_amMukhtar]

Be more like this guy.

[Supertanskiii @supertanskiii]

This is quite possibly the most powerful and important thing I’ve ever seen.

Max Porter’s Wild West is a glimpse into British violence - colonial, institutional and chillingly ordinary.

We are a country haunted by our own brutal fictions.

Watch this. Trust me.

[Larry & Paul @larryandpaul]

🌍 DEBATE: What Is Causing Extreme Weather?

👇🏻 Please watch this #BrokenNews report, then share with your favourite climate scientist.

[Prem Sikka @premnsikka]

Brexit led to 1,500 deaths a year as EU nurses left UK.

Replaced by less experienced/skilled staff, lower quality of patient care.

Brexit has done harms. No impact assessment was provided.

Farage/Reform still doing the same with nationalist rhetoric.
https://t.co/HF8orTnAic

[Supertanskiii @supertanskiii]

This is absolutely brilliant satire that succinctly explains how the Daily Mail radicalises people.

[Supertanskiii @supertanskiii]

Excellent work by Everyone Hates Elon 👏🏻