Sarah Parkin

Newly qualified funeral celebrant trying to make sense of how grief feels. Mum of 4 amazing humans and passionate gardener x

[Sarah Parkin @Cllrsparkin]

@OctopusEnergy The "full thing" for me is that you owe almost £1200 and yet every member of staff I talk to has a different story of why it's not back in my account. Shameful. I thought you knew better.

[Stuzi 🐝🐝 @stuzi_pants]

This is hilarious 😂

[David Challen @David_Challen]

Claiming that the scenes of violence erupting around the country are a born of anger for the three girls murdered, and the safety of women and girls as a whole, is as foul a lie I’ve seen peddled on this platform.

The lives of women and girls routinely taken by male violence have become a vehicle for far right groups to light their match. To give them reason to get into the streets by saying they ‘care’. Yet, you won’t find names like Zarah Aleena, Bibaa Henry, Nicole Smallman or Emma and Lettie Pattison cross the mouths of these far right leaders. For all the moments women walked the street in vigils and protests, these men weren’t there in their droves, angry. They weren’t showing outrage online.

The Southport attacks were another storied act of male violence against women and girls. An appalling one. What is erupting now is yet more male violence. All because the killer wasn’t white. It mattered not if he was a British national or not in the end. They’re out there now, burning down police stations stoking racist hate and division at a time when we needed to stand against male violence against women and girls together.

I can no longer humour accounts who incite violence and stoke racist hate anymore. If that’s the road for you, farewell.

[Brendan Cox @MrBrendanCox]

Imagine your response to the death of three children being to peddle conspiracy theories that incite a riot.

This is why Farage deserves the label far-right. Everyone who is associated with him, has normalised him or promoted him should be ashamed.

This is vile.

[Janey Godley @JaneyGodley]

No president of America has ever given birth - I don’t understand why it’s suddenly an issue

[Jack @FFS_WhatNow]

The England fans have found a German copper who looks like Southgate 😂👌

[Brendan Cox @MrBrendanCox]

This weekend will be the 8th anniversary of Jo’s murder. We’ll be marking it by celebrating her life & what would have been her coming 50th birthday! Our kids are putting on a mini concert of her favourite songs & we’ll be remembering all she meant to us and to so many others.

[Sarah Parkin @Cllrsparkin]

Doomed to fail because he has failed to lead.
Everyone in politics knows it.
It's just the ones who care that will say it

[Sam Coates Sky @SamCoatesSky]

Heading to the exit? One person can’t see the signs….

A(nother) film today by @TomLarkinSky

[The Independent @Independent]

Wednesday's front-page from The Independent:

[Mohamad Safa @mhdksafa]

If you think fertilized eggs are people but parents who've crossed the oceans with their kids aren't, stop pretending your concerns are religious.

[Darren M Jones @DarrenMJones200]

@LBFlyawayhome I haven't got a lot of good things to say about Margaret Thatcher but stopping us kids from being forced to drink warm milk with an inch of coagulated cream on the top was probably her greatest achievement.

[Jeremy Vine | Here, on Tiktok, Insta & Facebook @theJeremyVine]

This April Fool tho, world class

[Lee David Evans @LeeDavidEvansUK]

An emotional Denis Healey recalls his experiences during the Second World War, including his response to the (outrageous) allegation that those fighting in Italy, as he was, were ‘D-Day dodgers’.

‘I’m sorry, you see, there it goes! I’m afraid I get too moved by these things…’

[Sarah Parkin @Cllrsparkin]

@widow_waiting @CherryMorrello Thank you both x Dignity. Love. Hope. I hear you both and your pain has changed me xxx

[Widow in Waiting @widow_waiting]

I could listen to this on loop for hours.

I’m not religious but this piece soothes my soul.

I wish you all peace tonight. Christmas can be so bloody hard. Go gently, dear tweeps.

And, for @CherryMorrello, make sure you #SmileAtAStranger #AndTheirDog

[Sarah Parkin @Cllrsparkin]

@Jacob_Rees_Mogg If he's real I think he gave a crap....

[The Purple Pimpernel @Eyeswideopen69]

A doctor hanged himself because he’d been incarcerated on the Bibby Stockholm…

Reflect on that the next time you’re stuck in A&E for days…

Or the next time a stupid racist claims migrants monopolise the NHS…

[The New World: New ideas. New magazine @TheNewWorldmag]

We can now reveal Michelle Mone threatened to sue The New European over this front page. We told her to fuck off.

[Rob Galloway @DrRobgalloway]

I'm an A&E consultant and I'm tired after a weekend of nights.

But this am, I've handed over what I described as a "good department". This was said genuinely and with no hint of irony.

We provided great care and have very short waits to see an A&E doctor, but I'd forgotten how unacceptable it was to have 18 patients in the corridor, and elderly patients waiting over 2 days for a ward bed.

My lens of what is good and acceptable has been slowly warped by the slow & damaging effect of the working conditions of A&E departments up and down the country.

My biggest worry is that I'm starting to accept the unacceptable.

This is not about a lack of gp appointments, patients "abusing" the system or poor management - in fact we had excellent hospital management support, with patients boarding on each ward waiting there instead of A&E for a bed.

This is a simple case of patient demand being greater than what the overall health economy can cope with.

We have to either change the way we work, change demand via expectation management or increase resources.

If not, then the unacceptable becomes the norm and that's unacceptable.

Our patients and staff deserve better.

[Rod Whiting @rodwhiting]

😂😂