Jane Braybrook 🦊🌳🌱

animal lover, concerned about the degradation of the environment and disappearance of natural spaces

[North Dorset Hunt Saboteurs @NDHuntSabs]

Portman Hunt riders recklessly using their horses and quad to block a sab on a public footpath. Using spurs on the poor horses to make them ride into people against their instincts. They're only going back to the meet too, they just can't help themselves! All in front of kids too

[HSA Chair @HsaChair]

Sneaking under the headlines, the Reform party is cuddling up to committed animal abusers, the Countrywide Alliance, while their owner, sorry leader, Nigel Farage, takes 100k from a fox hunter.

Whatever your politics, the Reform Party is the party for animal abusers.

[Rosie P 🦇 🦎 🕷️ 🦭 🐌 🍃🌳🚲💧 @RosieP4]

Do NOT build houses or put solar panels on farmland

https://t.co/awltnbklUp

[Huw o Feirionnydd 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 #FBIW @Welsh_Dragon_71]

Do you remember how @BBCNews made an issue about how Lineker was being paid via a private company? The same BBC is now refusing to report on the leader of the Reform company doing exactly the same. The sheer hypocrisy of the BBC and its right wing hierarchy is astounding!

[CommunityPlanningAlliance 🦇🦎 @CommunityPlann1]

UK on course for sharp decline in food self-sufficiency without urgent steps to rebalance land use & food production.
Farmland in UK has shrunk by 771,000ha (4.4%) since 2000. Under current policy trajectories, a further 835,000ha could be lost by 2050.

https://t.co/WaQOSBUbuN

[Simon Sab @friendofthefox]

Please don’t vote @reformparty_uk 🙏🦊

[CommunityPlanningAlliance 🦇🦎 @CommunityPlann1]

Congratulations @SteveReedMP on your new planning brief.
If you want to hear the views of hundreds of local groups all concerned about planning, we'd love to talk 💬
https://t.co/TLKgfRxH8k

[Clive Lewis MP @labourlewis]

An Observation on Angela Rayner and the Labour Government:

One cannot help but feel a measure of sympathy for Angela Rayner. I know her well enough to say that she came into politics for the best of reasons: a desire to serve, a determination to improve the lives of people whose struggles she understood from her own experience.

But the further up the ladder one climbs in politics, the more insistent the temptations become. This is not simply about individual weakness or personal failing. It is structural. Over the past 40 years, Britain has built a society in which consumption, status, and proximity to wealth have become defining features of the political class. The gravitational pull of money is now so great that even those who arrive in Westminster with the clearest sense of purpose find their heads turned.

Angela’s story is not unique. She came from humble beginnings, but the wealth that circles political life today is more concentrated, more brazen, and more intrusive than in the past. The old checks and balances, party rootedness in mass membership, trade union accountability, a press less entangled with oligarchic interests, have all weakened. Where once honour, public service, even a sense of historical duty could command respect, today those values are dimmed in comparison to the pursuit of material position.

The mechanism is subtle but relentless. It is not corruption in the brown-envelope-under-the-table sense. It is the slow, almost invisible turning of heads. You are introduced to those who walked this path before you, former ministers who now sit comfortably in boardrooms or on the payroll of consultancies with six and seven-figure salaries. You are invited to corporate boxes at sporting events, to private dinners, to concerts and premiers. Lavish clothes or spectacles can be “within the rules,” provided they are declared. But by then the damage has been done.

The message is implicit but unmistakable: play the game, listen to us, and you too can enjoy more of this. The logic creeps into your personal life. You stretch to buy the house that can host the right gatherings. You measure your worth by the standards of a world that equates success with possessions and proximity to privilege. And once you are on that path, it is hard to step off.

This is, of course, a simplification of a complex socio-economic and political process. But as someone who came from a council estate myself, I see it all around me in Westminster. And it is not going to be changed by media witch-hunts, the tutting of ethics advisers, or even the occasional burst of public outrage.

As Gladstone once warned, “Nothing that is morally wrong can be politically right.” But in our current system, what is morally questionable is too often normalised, excused, and rebranded as “just the way things are.”

Real change will only come from a collective decision to choose a different path: to stop outsourcing our state to private interests, to end the revolving door between government and corporate boardrooms, to challenge the idea that the role of politics is to serve vast concentrations of wealth.

We can choose differently. We can once again put community, solidarity, and public service at the heart of our political life. We can insist that worth is measured not in the size of one’s house or the company one keeps, but in the contribution one makes to society and the integrity with which one serves.

Until we do, until we decide as a polity to hold up those values rather than the glittering prizes of private gain, hese scandals will not just recur. They will define the very character of our politics.

[Jane Braybrook 🦊🌳🌱 @JaneBraybrook1]

@DanicaPriest Oh, the irony! His estate is down the road from me. Big signs up saying “Conservation area”. What he means is “keep out, my game keepers are releasing pheasants and killing foxes”. He’s really into conservation. 🙄

[Harry Eccles @Heccles94]

RT if you agree @SkyNews should have included the clip where Farage gets lambasted!

[Lincolnshire Police Rural Crime Action Team (RCAT) @LincsRuralCrime]

Another ‘knockout’ result at court

The men, Billy Joe Saunders (36), Maurice John Smith (36), Noah Stanley (54) and Noah Stanley (26) were convicted after dogs used for hunting were found in their possession and videos of the crime were found on their phones

@NFUtweets

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[Led By Donkeys @ByDonkeys]

While we’re talking about politicians and tax, a reminder that Nigel Farage works for a company that exists to help rich people avoid tax.

[Jane Braybrook 🦊🌳🌱 @JaneBraybrook1]

@ChrisGPackham I’m surprised you hold her in such high regard, Chris. Possible tax evasion apart, she is promoting the destruction of the countryside for housing developments.

[Harry Eccles @Heccles94]

Let's make this video famous.

Let's make sure @Nigel_Farage is shown to everyone be the fraud he is.

Let's make sure @BBCNews @SkyNews @Channel4News @itvnews allkeep showing this on repeat!

Retweet! Retweet! Retweet!

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

Nigel Farage looks uncomfortable as Jamie Raskin uses his opening statement to absolutely demolish him

[Jane Braybrook 🦊🌳🌱 @JaneBraybrook1]

@_AgainstMyWill @GarethDavies007 @UKLabour I raise you Andrea Jenkins when she was SoS for Education…

[Rosie P 🦇 🦎 🕷️ 🦭 🐌 🍃🌳🚲💧 @RosieP4]

Countyside being concreted in the name of ‘growth’: Cheltenham

[Jane Braybrook 🦊🌳🌱 @JaneBraybrook1]

@Cocogrey2015 @BreakingNews4X Nor does he thank us for our attention to this matter. 🙄

[Crazy Vibes @CrazyVibes_1]

Unlikely Animal Friendships That Will Melt Your Heart 🐾~ A Cute Thread ❤️🧵

1. Cow and pupper best friends... ❤️

[Jane Braybrook 🦊🌳🌱 @JaneBraybrook1]

@DanielPriestley At the other end of the scale a hard working young friend set up a business and is willing to pay youngsters a good wage labouring. He picks them up at 6.00. They either don’t show up or jack it in after a few days.