Churches Wakefield

Churches Together in Wakefield: a forum for Wakefield Churches: views expressed are not necessarily official.

[The Hepworth Wakefield @HepworthGallery]

This cup-shaped home and tangle-web has been woven by a female mothercare spider, or Phylloneta. The species gained its name through the intense nurture the females give to their young. It is lovely to see the biodiversity that the garden supports!
#thwgarden

[ITV News Tyne Tees @itvtynetees]

Tino Livramento has been signed for Newcastle United
https://t.co/Y4m9EBLLqL

[Gina Miller @thatginamiller]

Just when you thought the #Tories #SuellaBraverman couldn't get more desperate - they're talking of sending asylum seekers 4,000 miles away to #AscensionIsland

An idea that's been knocking around the Tory party for 20 yrs, but when they looked at the details no-one was mad enough to push it through

Priti Patel tried 3 yrs ago to revive the plan but Treasury blocked it saying the required costs for upgrading the island’s power supply, new desalination facilities, other infrastructure etc would prove exorbitant. That's even before they considered staff (c. 800 live on the island) and environmental costs!

Why don't they put all their efforts into turbo-charging the backlog, hiring more borderforce staff, smashing UK trafficking gangs and setting up legal routes. As well as fixing #brokenbritain

Time to put compassion, caring and commonsense into politics
https://t.co/7qs1ddG3IU

[Dominic Minghella @DMinghella]

Let's face it. They turn up expecting every entitlement. We give them free accommodation and subsidised food. Some even commit crimes while we fund them! They may pretend to integrate with us, but really they hate our culture and our laws.
Put these Tory ministers on a barge.

[Farrukh @implausibleblog]

Chris Bryant, "Parliament is in trouble.. Nearly every day there is a scandal.. I care passionately about democracy.. I just don't think in an ordinary line of work if you miss coming in for over 6 months, like Nadine Dorries, that you'd still be paid." @RhonddaBryant

[Churches Wakefield @CtwChurches]

Mmm

[sarah murphy @13sarahmurphy]

Another day of Tory snarling about how they’re stopping the boats by stuffing a few people on a prison barge and how dare anyone try to stop them.
This isn’t solving the problem though. This is a piece of dark theatre. A show of viciousness to please a small audience of bigots.

[Russell England 💉💙🇪🇺🧳🌻🇺🇦🗿🌍 @RussellEngland]

@MaryRiddell @catherinemginn Reminder that Sunak spent £1.3m of taxpayers money to "Repair his Image"

#JustStopSunak

https://t.co/ugy3A9cC7O

[Pope Francis – ARCHIVE @Pontifex266Arch]

Acts of love are a gift for those who do them, even before they benefit those who receive them. For whatever we hoard for ourselves will be lost, while whatever we give out of love will be our treasure in heaven. #WYD

[Churches Wakefield @CtwChurches]

Yes!

[Austen Ivereigh @austeni]

“Friends I want to be clear with you … In the Church there is room for everyone, for EVERYONE, and no one is superfluous — for the one who makes mistakes, for the one who falls … REPEAT AFTER ME: EVERYONE!! For me, for you ….” #JMJ2023

[NHS Million @NHSMillion]

If everyone who has been grateful for the NHS over the past 75 years followed and retweeted we’d reach a million by midnight

Please take just two seconds to show you care

[sarah murphy @13sarahmurphy]

GB ‘News’ presenter and occasional MP, McVey, gawps at teachers striking and Andrea🖕Jenkyns wonders why they can’t strike in the school holidays. Neither of these pea-brained culture war warriors seems to understand that public sector strikes are evidence of their own failure.

[Churches Wakefield @CtwChurches]

Good to hear! Blessings from Wakey! Nick

[Andrew Nunn @AndrewPNunn]

Congratulations to @michaelrawson62 who becomes Acting Dean @Southwarkcathed May God bless him in his ministry. I know @HodgeTheCat will tell him what to do!

[Simon Lightwood MP @simonlightwood]

I've been told by the Home Office that the Cedar Court Hotel will have its asylum occupancy more than DOUBLED from 148 to 306.

This is on top of news a third asylum hotel is being forced on Wakefield. I've written to the Home Secretary with @denisemjeffery to demand a rethink!

[NHS Million @NHSMillion]

We agree with every word of this.

Please RT if you do too.

[Churches Wakefield @CtwChurches]

@harrywe26805243 @bo66ie29 Timothy whites and Taylors sold out to Boots….

[Prof Alice Roberts💙 @theAliceRoberts]

Would anyone actually have voted for Brexit if we’d been told the country would be 4% poorer forever?

[Steve Chalke @SteveChalke]

250 yrs ago we chose to transport people to Australia because they were vulnerable enough to steal a loaf of bread. Today our government wants to deport others to Rwanda because they are vulnerable enough to seek safety on our shores. Have we learned nothing?

[Andrew Graystone @AndrewGraystone]

“Do not forget to show hospitality to strangers, for by so doing some have unwittingly entertained angels.” Hebrews 13:2

[Yvette Cooper @YvetteCooperMP]

Ministers ignored all warnings about deep problems in this policy - from treatment of torture victims to the risk of making people trafficking worse.

Shows shamefully that they care more about picking fights than serious policies. They’ve lost all British decency & common sense