Indigomama 💙

Woke is never an insult. Always European. Covid is not over. Protect people. GTTO.

[Prof. Christina Pagel - @chrischirp.bsky.social @chrischirp]

Important 🧵on our new peer-reviewed paper:

The pandemic is as bad as it ever was for babies - in year to Aug 2023, 6,300 babies under 1 were admitted to hospital wholly or partly BECAUSE of Covid.

They are ONLY age group where admissions have NOT gone down over time 1/17

[Good Law Project @GoodLawProject]

We crunched the numbers from government spend records. And if these figures are correct, the total handed out to Tory friends and supporters through the VIP lane for useless PPE that has not been recovered stands at a staggering £979m 🤯
https://t.co/UyLCyiI9gI

[Indigomama 💙 @Indigomama1]

@alisonthewliss @APPGIFI You made the APPGIFI so accessible and the work was vitally important. It’s been a privilege to attend, thank you for your commitment and work Alison. Might a previous member who has been returned take on the chair perhaps?

[Edwin Hayward @edwinhayward]

Two futures:

Labour in Government. Tories in Opposition. 5 years of endless culture wars & immigrant-bashing.

Labour in Government, LibDems in Opposition. Tories powerless & voiceless on back benches.

If the Tories come third, it changes everything. Here's why:

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[Jon Ironmonger @JonIronmonger]

Exclusive: The Government has incinerated or written off £1.4 BILLION worth of Covid PPE, provided by one supplier in the summer of 2020 - it is the single most wasteful public contract of the whole pandemic. Thread 1/

[Election Maps UK @ElectionMapsUK]

Final Councillor Count #LE2024:

🌹 LAB: 1,158 (+186)
🔶 LDM: 522 (+104)
🌳 CON: 515 (-474)
🙋 IND/LOC: 274 (+102)
🌍 GRN: 181 (+74)
⚙️ WPB: 4 (+4)
➡️ RFM: 2 (+2)
🔴 SDP: 1 (+1)
♀️ WEP: 1 (+1)

[tern @1goodtern]

This graph should have been plastered across the front of every newspaper in the UK.
⚠️There is no sicknote crisis.
⚠️There is no absenteeism crisis.
🚨THERE ARE SICK CHILDREN.

[Cat in the Hat 🐈‍⬛ 🎩 🇬🇧 @_CatintheHat]

Here’s the same chart for 1-14 year olds…

As of the end of March 2024, the cumulative standardised mortality rate was already 5.2% higher than the average from 2014-23.

And again, it’s considerably higher than any other year going back as far as 2012.

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[Supertanskiii @supertanskiii]

Politics Joe have excelled themselves with this.

[Indigomama 💙 @Indigomama1]

It’s so insulting to residents of Northamptonshire that the Conservatives think it’s appropriate to not only select a candidate with a conviction of violence against women, but then elect him Leader of the Council.

[Carol Vorderman @carolvorders]

NEWS
Tory Council Leader Jonathan Nunn has been accused of serious abuse by 5 women

"Convicted in 2004 for assaulting his wife Janice he received a community order.
Mrs Nunn had bruising to her shoulder, arms, chest, back, buttocks & legs.
A medic also found she had been dragged by her hair.".
The horrific story of his conviction is in this piece by @BBCNews
Nunn denies these new allegations.

How many more Tory stories like this @RicHolden?

Mark Menzies and Jonathan Nunn in just one day.

https://t.co/yJiZT21ClX

[Siob, Princess of Yorkshire #FBPE #FBR @Sillyshib]

If Tory MPs are half witted enough to send dick picks to complete strangers on Grindr, Jesus what must the PROPER spies have on them???

[Indigomama 💙 @Indigomama1]

@ChrissieGrech @Patrici89225734 @RishiSunak We are governed by people who think an appropriate course of action to receiving messages from unknown people is to send pictures of their, presumably, genitals. It’s not encouraging is it?

[Gyll King Post Skip Diplomacy @GyllKing]

In 2023, 29,437 people arrived on small boats.

And 300,000 people died:

Waiting for an ambulance
In an ambulance outside A&E
In a hospital corridor
On an NHS waiting list

These deaths aren't caused by small boats but they're why the Tories want you to talk about small boats.

[Indigomama 💙 @Indigomama1]

@1goodtern Me please!

[Indigomama 💙 @Indigomama1]

@dr_hurford He could just wear a well fitting ffp3. Or, ask others to as an act of compassion and respect?

[Carol Vorderman @carolvorders]

BREAKING

£100 BILLION of Tory waste since 2019 election..

Extraordinary data....

Absolutely and literally sinful....

Pls RT...

Will put detail up next...

Thanks to @BestForBritain @pimlicat

[Cat in the Hat 🐈‍⬛ 🎩 🇬🇧 @_CatintheHat]

🚨 Indoor AIRBORNE Risk Assessment in the context of SARS-CoV-2 from the World Health Organisation (@WHO)

For clean air advocates, this is HUGE!

The WHO are finally saying, loud & proud: COVID IS AIRBORNE.

Let’s take a closer look at the details…🧵

🔗 https://t.co/8uEE4GVo0o

[Anthony Costello @globalhlthtwit]

Privatised in 1989 with zero debt, Thames Water now has £14.7 billion of debt, 80% of its value. Ten billion accrued by Australian Macquarie bank before it sold out in 2017, most used for dividends/loans. Debt faces high interest. Current owners:

[Laura Miers @LauraMiers]

August 2022: “Children & teens who’ve had COVID are at greater risk for blood clots, heart problems, kidney failure, and Type 1 diabetes, according to a new report.”

These conditions are longer rare because we keep reinfecting all the kids. https://t.co/ODY5RKyd3I