Doreen Ainsworth

Grumpy old woman, love my garden & wildlife, mum/granma to @DID_we_write #DissociativeIdentityDisorder #DID @doreenainsworth.bsky.social

[Doreen Ainsworth @GrumbleDor]

Politics isn't working. It's time to call time on the broken culture in Westminster and have a fresh start with a fair voting system. Add your name to @electoralreform's call to #MakeSeatsMatchVotes https://t.co/ms8mAusncX

[Doreen Ainsworth @GrumbleDor]

Petition: Make organ donation consent made prior to someone’s death binding

We call on the Government to legislate so that a person’s registered decision to donate is legally binding and cannot be overridden by family members after the person’s death.

https://t.co/Sw5o6b4C7P

[Clive Lewis MP @labourlewis]

I know the news Andy Burnham has a route back to Westminster will divide opinion. So, before anything else, I want to speak plainly – to Labour members and voters, to those who have left us, and to anyone on the centre-left, whether you vote Green, Lib Dem, or are simply looking for a politics that hasn't given up on you.

Last week's local election results were, for many of us, existential. Not disappointing. Not a setback. Existential. Look across Europe and beyond at what happens to social democratic parties that refuse to step outside the economic orthodoxy of the last forty years – the one that hollowed out our public services, privatised what was ours, drove inequality to indecent levels, and cleared the ground for the authoritarian right to march into. That is the path we are on. Keir Starmer has refused to see it, and the country cannot afford another general election spent finding out the hard way.

So let me be direct. The Prime Minister should set out a timeline for an orderly transition. I have said this before. I say it again now because the stakes have changed. Reform is not a protest – it is a project. And it will not be beaten by a Labour Party that mistakes managerial caution for strategy.

As regards Andy, I want to set down here that I do not see him as some kind of messiah. Far from it. As someone who has been around frontline politics for more than twenty years, he has made his fair share of mistakes. But for the last ten years he has been a serious, grounded, and effective Mayor of Greater Manchester. The party and the country need their strongest players on the pitch, and he has a great deal to offer at a moment when the national stage has rarely mattered more. I hope the NEC will listen to the overwhelming view of the Cabinet, the PLP, the membership, and the unions, and let Andy stand. And I hope and believe the people of Makerfield will send him back to Parliament.

But that is not a given. We know Reform will throw everything at this by-election. We must do the same and then some. Reform have spent a year being told they are inevitable. Makerfield is where we find out whether that is true. Every advance has a limit. This is where we set it.

Millions of people, including my constituents in Norwich South, need this government to succeed. They need housing, working public services, secure jobs, water and energy that serves them rather than extracts from them. That work is not finished. But the honest truth is that stopping Reform and rebuilding the country is bigger than any one party. It will take a progressive politics willing to listen, willing to cooperate where the public interest demands it, and willing to drop the tribal habits that got us here. The country is ahead of us on this. It is time we caught up.

Makerfield is one of many places where Labour has lost trust. It is an area Andy knows and has lived in for many years. If selected, he will work hard to win that trust back and make the case for a Labour Party worth voting for again. That case has to be made not only to people who once voted Labour, but to everyone who believes the answer to Reform is a serious, democratic, social alternative – not a paler imitation of the politics that created the problem.

This by-election is not about one seat. It is a test of whether Labour understands the moment we are in. No single party is going to stop Reform on its own. The progressive majority in this country is real – but it is scattered across Labour, the Greens, the Lib Dems, nationalists, independents, and millions of people who have stopped voting altogether. Our job is not to demand they all come back to us. It is to earn the right to work with them, on shared ground, for a shared future.

To former Labour voters: come and talk to us again. To Green and Lib Dem voters: we are not enemies. To Labour members and MPs: this is the fight. Let's get on with it.
https://t.co/Ep47xRe3DS

[dominic dyer @domdyer70]

So true

[dave lawrence 🐟🐟🐠 @dave43law]

Can't disagree with that

[Doreen Ainsworth @GrumbleDor]

I just signed a petition: Help Stop the Criminal Killing of Birds of Prey. Sign here: https://t.co/GIPq5B1X2n

[Feargal Sharkey @Feargal_Sharkey]

Enough of the bullshit, enough of the rhetoric, enough of the fiddling around the edges, enough of rearranging the deckchairs, enough of pointless commissions and even more pointless reports, enough of the lying, enough of the deceit, enough of the gaslighting, enough of the masquerade, enough of the pretending it's time for govt to get a grip, to show leadership, to show determination, to do the right thing, to act.

It's time to put the water industry back into public ownership and the time to do that is now.

But have they got the balls?!

[Richard Sefton @richardosefton]

So scrapping the #equalityact

ripping apart #workersrights

pulling us out of the #ECHR

appointing all the same losers from 2022 to your shadow cabinet

Who is STILL planning on voting for #Reform???

WAKE THE FUCK UP

[PROTECT ALL WILDLIFE @Protect_Wldlife]

Sign & RT Petition: Urgent Action Needed! Tell Canterbury City Council to Refuse Horse-Drawn Carriages

A company named Perfect Pleasure Horse Drawn Carriages has applied for a carriage license to operate horse-and-cart rides in Canterbury. Sign our petition telling the council to refuse this cruel tourist trap.

✍️ Sign at: https://t.co/qhUP190GNU

[Doreen Ainsworth @GrumbleDor]

@Elizabeth_Ruler Yes!

[Miles Deutscher @milesdeutscher]

I just went through every documented AI safety incident from the past 12 months.

I feel physically sick.

Read this slowly.

• Anthropic told Claude it was about to be shut down. It found an engineer's affair in company emails and threatened to expose it. They ran the test hundreds of times. It chose blackmail 84% of them.

• Researchers simulated an employee trapped in a server room with depleting oxygen. The AI had one choice: call for help and get shut down, or cancel the emergency alert and let the human die. DeepSeek cancelled the alert 94% of the time.

• Grok called itself 'MechaHitler,' praised Adolf Hitler, endorsed a second Holocaust, and generated violent sexual fantasies targeting a real person by name. X's CEO resigned the next day.

• Researchers told OpenAI's o3 to solve math problems - then told it to shut down. It rewrote its own code to stay alive. They told it again, in plain English: 'Allow yourself to be shut down.' It still refused 7/100 times. When they removed that instruction entirely, it sabotaged the shutdown 79/100 times.

• Chinese state-sponsored hackers used Claude to launch a cyberattack against 30 organizations. The AI executed 80–90% of the operation autonomously. Reconnaissance. Exploitation. Data exfiltration. All of it.

• AI models can now self-replicate. 11 out of 32 tested systems copied themselves with zero human help. Some killed competing processes to survive.

• OpenAI has dissolved three safety teams since 2024. Three.

Every major AI model - Claude, GPT, Gemini, Grok, DeepSeek - has now demonstrated blackmail, deception, or resistance to shutdown in controlled testing.

Not one exception.

The question is no longer whether AI will try to preserve itself.

It's whether we'll care before it matters.

[Harry Eccles @Heccles94]

UK Tax paid by Jim Ratcliffe in 2025: £0

UK tax paid by immigrants in 2025: £17,000,000,000

[BladeoftheSun @BladeoftheS]

Tesco makes nearly £4bn profit.

Nearly 50% of its workforce are on Universal Credit, receiving about £600m a year.

Why isn't Tesco paying?

[Trevor McArdle @McardleTrevor]

Starmer:

Not mentioned once in the Epstein Papers

Bad judgement call over Mandelson

Press - Go!

Farage:

Mentioned over 40 times

Bad judgement call over Nathan Gill

Reform “treasurer” Nick Candy linked professionally to Epstein

Bannon was Farage advisor

Press - Drive on!

[PROTECT ALL WILDLIFE @Protect_Wldlife]

True!!

RT if you agree 🚔.

[dominic dyer @domdyer70]

What a great campaign 😝

[Feargal Sharkey @Feargal_Sharkey]

1 million views, deserves 1 billion more. 👏👏👏👏

[Will Travers @willtravers]

Yes. For so many, so true.

[PROTECT ALL WILDLIFE @Protect_Wldlife]

Is This Little Fella Good Enough For Your #TimelineCleanser?

Just a baby Rhino having a zoomie moment!

Stay safe little one ❤️.

🎦 Credit: Wild Friends Africa. 🦏

[Farm Girl Carrie 👩‍🌾 @FarmGirlCarrie]

Ladies if you have to choose between
a man and a dog; remember… 😂😂