Emily Aspland

TV writer. Black Country girl. Gobby cow attempting to speak for working class women.

[Emily Aspland @EmilyAspland]

@robreynolds87 @BootsUK Am in the same boat. Not prescriptions, but 5 month battle w @BootsUK coz their website won’t accept my card (when all other websites accept it/my bank confirmed not them blocking it) I’ve been told they “cannot escalate further”. Useless, no regard for their loyal customers.

[Emily Aspland @EmilyAspland]

@redrumlisa Ain't that the truth 💔

[Emily Aspland @EmilyAspland]

@DreyfusJames By Royal Appointment was so good! Took my mom in Malvern and we roared. Most fun I've had at a play for a good while. You were all equally brilliant and Dominic D's directing was fab.

[Emily Aspland @EmilyAspland]

@craigbrockie We don't have half&half in the UK, is single cream the best substitute? Does it change which temp you make the yoghurt at?

[Emily Aspland @EmilyAspland]

Imagine you replaced “working class” with any other marginalized group in this tweet - there would be hell to pay. But rampant classism is still totally acceptable.

[Sam Brook @SlothBracelet]

Can anyone explain why the English working class is so spectacularly stupid and willing to further the agenda of libertarian billionaires without question? #r4today

[Emily Aspland @EmilyAspland]

The finest summary of The Salt Path drama on Twitter!

[Rachel Rooney @RooneyRachel]

The Salt Path is a bit Captain Tom but with hills.

[Emily Aspland @EmilyAspland]

@CindyBegel @xoravonn Seconding this. If I ever take a class, men always outnumber women. Plus, women are less likely to ask audaciously for what they want/need. Y'know that stat where women only apply for a job if they have 100% of criteria and men apply if they have 60%. Same thing here I think!

[Emily Aspland @EmilyAspland]

@GuyLambertUK Fabulous, underrated film with a tightly-woven, inventive script and wonderfully fleshed out characters across the board, Tik-Tok included.

[Emily Aspland @EmilyAspland]

@Gavin_F_Brewis The SAG strike was more about the change in residuals due to streaming. But overall yes, there's less work and less money. And as you know, that means working class talent will be left behind because only the wealthy can afford to have lengthy periods without stable work.

[Emily Aspland @EmilyAspland]

"She had been travelling...staying on homestays free of charge in exchange for doing household chores" < If she had taken five minutes to read the visa rules before flying she'd have known you cannot do this, it is absolutely forbidden. Peak middle class entitlement and stupidity

[Emily Aspland @EmilyAspland]

This girl was trying to illegally work in the US. Another privileged idiot who thinks the rules don't apply to her. I'm NOT pro-Trump but how she was treated is normal. Stories like this delegitimise the left's position by presenting the new admin's response as diff+extreme...

[Emily Aspland @EmilyAspland]

If you are stupid enough to admit you were working on a tourist visa then you will be detained and imprisoned until you can be processed. It has always been this way. Anyone with half a brain knows not to try and work illegally in the US. The clue is in the first paragraph:

[Emily Aspland @EmilyAspland]

@GuyLambertUK Thanks for speaking up about these issues!

[Emily Aspland @EmilyAspland]

@PoemsforPOI @DanaSG4 @jenniferlcroft Nope, she was trying to illegally work in the USA. Can't believe people aren't grasping that's why she's been detained. This isn't a dystopian Trump-era story, it's a standard US border control response to a foolish person who said she was going to be working on a tourist visa.

[Emily Aspland @EmilyAspland]

@woodgnomology @BBCr4today She was trying to work in the US w/out a visa. They've always been super strict about this. You can't do internships/work in exchange for digs etc. I'm sure they're making an example of her but it was a bit daft to say to US immigration "I'm coming to work here on a tourist visa"

[Emily Aspland @EmilyAspland]

@GuyLambertUK ...who has to financially support her mum, I can only generate so much fresh material in my limited spare time. This is why shutting down Doctors was such a loss @PhilipRalph9 . We needed a ton more opportunities like that.

[Emily Aspland @EmilyAspland]

@GuyLambertUK ...train and work their way up? Instead it's a case of endlessly write new material on your own time, submit it into comps or hope you win the jackpot of being paid to develop it. There's no path to train - even for min wage. As a working class person from the Midlands...

[Emily Aspland @EmilyAspland]

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