Julie Jones 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿💙

wife, mother, kinship carer, grandmother. Guardian to 3 neuro-diverse teenagers. I'm a cup half full type of girl. #SEND #ADHD #ASD #ODD

[Byline Times @BylineTimes]

🔴Reform UK converted a £630,000 loan from deputy leader Richard Tice into a donation to the party, raising further questions about the origins of the party’s funds.

https://t.co/TEhDxyQfMV

[Kevin Schofield @KevinASchofield]

Reform's Zia Yusuf today announced that the party would introduce a new law which would see bosses jailed for 5 years if they employ illegal migrants.

The only snag is that law already exists ...

https://t.co/0qBIXY7quv

[Hillary Clinton @HillaryClinton]

Local man suggests jailing own boss.

[Count Binface @CountBinface]

There now follows a party election broadcast by the Count Binface Party, And if I do say so myself, it's a banger. #VoteBinface #Clacton

[Angelica Shalagina🇺🇦 @angelshalagina]

As someone living in Kyiv, I’m begging you:

Please help us stop this.

Almost every night, russia strikes Kyiv with ballistic missiles, hitting civilians, homes, and warehouses.

We can’t stop these missiles because we don’t have enough Patriot systems.

People are dying.

Please don’t look away. Share what’s happening in Ukraine. Help us save lives.

[Will Hayward @WillHayCardiff]

“Immigration is putting an intolerable strain on our public services”

The above statement has been the relentless message from certain parts of our politics for a long time.

And it is easy to see why this chimes with a lot of people. You would have to be living under a rock to fail to notice that public services in Wales are in a really tough spot.

We have been looking at the challenges facing Wales’ public services and, in some places, you can indeed make the argument that the migration of people is making things harder for Cymru’s beleaguered local authorities.

But it’s not the immigration Nigel Farage is talking about.

We have examined the data and spoken to those people charged with delivering education and social care in Wales. It seems that when you look at the issue in depth, in some parts of Wales it is internal migration (those who move within the UK) that is having a much more significant impact than refugees in boats.

More specifically, it is the movements of older people that are putting particular strain on Cymru – especially those who are moving to Wales to retire.

Before we go any further we need to be very clear, this is not about blaming older people or in any way suggesting that people in other parts of the UK don’t have every right to retire wherever they like. They absolutely do.

People moving to Wales to retire is also far from the biggest reason why public services are struggling. Even without relocating retirees, Wales would still have an aging population problem.

But it would also be remiss not to point out the very real impact that people choosing Cymru as their retirement destination is having. In many places it is demonstrably more of a problem than supporting refugees (if indeed either are really a “problem” at all).

You can read our full analysis by using the link in the comments...

[Andrew Neil @afneil]

This is untrue, Reform, and you know it.
France requested assistance from UK Border Force with rescue of a boat full of migrants that was on fire in the Channel. This is footage of that. Nothing to do with your plan to have the Royal Navy dump migrants on French shores without French permission. Nothing whatsoever.

[Canada Hates Trump @AntiTrumpCanada]

Who would have ever thought that the guy who made 4,725 wire transfers to Epstein totalling $1.1 billion, defrauded charities, & has 34 felony convictions for falsifying business records, is the same guy who had 300 bank accounts closed for money laundering? I’m fucking SHOCKED!

[Frances 'Cassandra' Coppola @Frances_Coppola]

X has just told me a post calling for my teeth and nails to be forcibly removed does not constitute violent speech.

I'd quite like to know what does.

[Brian Krassenstein @krassenstein]

Imagine if Biden’s Pentagon did this…

The U.S. military jammed GPS signals during a training exercise in May.

A medical flight lost GPS, became disoriented, and crashed into a mountain, killing all four people onboard.

Americans deserve answers about how a military exercise was allowed to contribute to such a tragedy.

[Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla]

When @ObserverUK published story - with facts confirmed by Lebedev spokesman - it landed to a deafening silence.

Not a single news outlet followed up. The Lebedevs remained of interest only to @guardian @ObserverUK & indie outlets @BylineTimes @openDemocracy @tortoise

11/

[Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla]

My jaw hit the floor when I discovered Boris Johnson left an emergency NATO meeting after the Kremlin’s chemical warfare attack on Britain & flew to an off-the-books meeting with an ex-KGB spy.

Yours should too.

This is how it happened.
1/

https://t.co/5Yv5C6IuDM

[Peter Gillibrand @GillibrandPeter]

Anyone fancy watching Star Wars in the UK's oldest language?

Well you'll be able to do just that on Christmas Day on S4C.

A New Hope's being dubbed in Welsh for the very first time on its 50th anniversary.

[Volodymyr Zelenskyy / Володимир Зеленський @ZelenskyyUa]

Today, many were shocked by yet another video of the drone “safari” Russians are carrying out against civilians in Kherson. A Russian drone deliberately hunted down a man selling vegetables and detonated right next to him. The Russians even admitted to the crime, showing zero regret and openly boasting about tormenting people. The man was wounded in the blast. Every single day, ordinary people in Kherson face these Russian "safaris."

The world must see this. It must see every piece of evidence that Russia has gone mad and that its soldiers take pleasure in killing and abusing civilians. Without pressure on Russia, the dismantling of its capacity for aggression, and real security guarantees, it is simply impossible to imagine the world being able to coexist with this evil. We must remain resolute in defending life. We must act and support life in ways that force Russia to seriously think about peace rather than expanding the range of its drones.

This is not just about Ukraine. Russia’s campaign against human life must be stopped here in Ukraine before it spreads further. Finland and Kazakhstan, the Baltic states and Poland, the countries of the South Caucasus, Romania, and Moldova—all should work together to ensure real security guarantees and bring Russia’s war to an end. Peace is needed, which requires cooperation among everyone in the world who truly values peace. Thank you to everyone standing with Ukraine!

[LubnanBoi🇵🇸🇱🇧 🇮🇷 @AgitatorAK]

Dear @JeremyClarkson I saw this on my feed on another platform and instantly thought you needed to see it.

"Jeremy Clarkson thinks people who receive benefits should have to send a weekly thank you email to a randomly chosen working person, explaining what they did with the money, or have their payments stopped.

So here is mine. If you’d like to give it a share to help Jeremy see it, that would be great.

Dear Jezza,

Thank you for your concern about my contribution to society.

I should say first that you were aiming this at young people you believe are sitting at home doing nothing.

But you wrote it as a blanket rule applying to everyone whose benefits are paid.

That includes more than thirteen million pensioners, millions of people who receive benefits while working, who may find themselves being ordered to thank another benefit claimant, and me.

I receive PIP.

That money goes towards the Motability car I use to travel to work.

It is not a free car. It is not even my car. I exchange the mobility part of my PIP to lease it.

The car takes the lot.

Which is awkward, because that same payment is also meant to help cover the additional costs of being disabled, including a wheelchair that is actually usable for my job and hearing aids that allow me to do it.

There is nothing left for either.

I chose the thing that gets me to work.

That car enables me to work and, because I can work, I now pay considerably more in tax than I have ever received in PIP.

But my contribution does not end with my own tax bill.

I have built programmes that hundreds of people now use to earn a living.

They pay tax too.

Those programmes have helped thousands of people overcome anxiety, return to their lives and, in many cases, return to work.

Then there are all the people supported by the coaches and practitioners I have trained.

That is what disability support can do when it is designed to enable people rather than humiliate them.

My PIP did not disappear into some great benefits black hole.

It helped provide the transport that allowed me to work, build a business, create opportunities for other people and contribute far more than I could ever have done without it.

But as we are exchanging thank you letters, perhaps you could send me one too.

I paid my television licence throughout the years the BBC gave you the platform that made you famous.

I now pay for Amazon Prime, which helps fund the television programme about your farm.

I do not choose to watch it.

But that is how society works, Jeremy.

We all contribute towards things we may never personally use because the entire country would fall apart if every payment had to provide us with an individual benefit.

Perhaps you could also thank the taxpayers whose public services and infrastructure support your businesses.

And while you have the stationery out, perhaps you could explain the farm.

In 2021, you told The Times that avoiding inheritance tax was “the critical thing” in your decision to buy land.

In 2024, when that became rather inconvenient, you said it had never been true. You claimed you had actually bought the farm because you wanted somewhere to shoot and that tax avoidance had simply sounded like a better story at the time.

I am not sure which version helps your argument.

It is funny how public support and clever tax arrangements are treated as perfectly respectable when they benefit wealthy people.

Yet when a disabled person receives help to leave the house, go to work and participate in society, you think they should be made to perform gratitude.

So thank you for your concern, Jezza.

I hope my licence fee, Amazon subscription, taxes and contribution to the economy have all been gratefully received.

Please send your thank you letter weekly, along with a full breakdown of how you spent the money.

If it is not sufficiently fulsome and effusive, I assume your income will be stopped.

That is only fair."

[Prem Sikka @premnsikka]

Former neo-Nazi activist selected as Tory candidate for Somerset council election

Convictions for assaulting police officer, burglary of a police station, malicious communications, anti-semitism, racially aggravated harassment, harrasing MPs.

Tory party.
https://t.co/nGYjIp0MnH

[Farrukh @implausibleblog]

Hi @andyburnham I spoke today to a friend whose father had Alzheimer’s. He told me that last year the council was paying around £900 a week for carers to visit four times a day, providing a combined total of about two hours of care per day.

That works out at approximately £64 per hour of delivered care to the agency.

While many care workers providing the actual visits are paid around £16 per hour.

For comparison, an experienced NHS Band 6 nurse earns around £20 per hour.

Why are taxpayers paying such high rates to private care providers when the frontline workers themselves receive a much smaller proportion of the cost?

Would a publicly provided model, with qualified nurses and care workers employed directly by the NHS or local authorities, provide better value and more consistent support, rather than relying on care agencies that often deliver short, offer fragmented visits, charge a fortune, and make extortionate profits?

[ADAM @adamemedia1]

The Trump crime family sued Capital One for shutting down 300 Trump bank accounts saying it’s was because of politics.

Capital One just replied, it was actually because of a money laundering review…

This should be much bigger news.

[Parody Nigel Farage @Parody_PM]

Today I have mostly been telling lies about using Navy warships against dinghies and forgetting to mention that small boat arrivals are down 44% and net migration fell by 80% last year.

[Rt Hon. Will || Portfolio for Sarcasm (parody) @colder_sarcasm]

Ceuta doesn’t have a conventional airport - just a heliport.

Who paid for @ZiaYusufUK to travel there?