Laura Rogowski Weldon

Northerner. Blue Team. Freedom enjoyer. Pensions supremo. Dog person. Left-footer.
GE24 Conservative Candidate in Pontefract, Castleford & Knottingley.

[Laura Rogowski Weldon @LauraRWeldon]

@guzzicraig It's a shame they've sold it to Howdens, who are just awful.

[Laura Rogowski Weldon @LauraRWeldon]

@sc_wadsy @KayBurley Only in Huddersfield, which I discovered to my great confusion when I went into a butty shop and asked for a cup of tea and a toasted teacake and they gave me a toasted plain barm.
In most of Yorkshire it's a bread cake, which is just about tolerable.

[Laura Rogowski Weldon @LauraRWeldon]

Plot Twist: they were actually spying on the DEFRA waste team to find out once and for all which colour bin day it is.

[caroline wheeler @cazjwheeler]

Exclusive: A secret camera has been discovered in a sensitive Whitehall building, sparking fears of espionage, The i Paper has learned.

Security officials working at Marsham Street in Victoria, central London – a vast suite of offices that houses the Home Office and the Department for Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG) – found a hidden camera in a ceiling panel.

A source familiar with the incident, which occurred in the last two months, said the Security Services had been informed.

How the camera came to be placed in such a sensitive location, and how long it was there, is unknown.

The electronic device had been discovered in a communal area of a shared building used by multiple civil servants, rather than in or near ministerial offices.

One of the most high-profile decisions taken in the Marsham Street building in recent months was the approval of China’s plans for a huge new embassy in central London – despite opponents warning that the site could be used as a base for spying and posed security risks.

[Laura Rogowski Weldon @LauraRWeldon]

During the election I knocked on doors in Castleford of people who had fled Hong Kong due to persecution from China.
If you like, @YvetteCooperMP, I'll take you round and you can say this to their faces.
Although you'd actually have to come to the constituency to do that, so...

[Jack Elsom @JackElsom]

EXCL: Britain must end "cancel culture" of hostile states like China, Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper says.

https://t.co/z19ovXChY9

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@rcolvile @WarGit One of the under-reported consequences of both the economic and birth rate crises is the regrettably dramatic reduction of businesses called "[Surname] & Son"

[Laura Rogowski Weldon @LauraRWeldon]

@griffitha Do they need a passion for graphic design?

[Laura Rogowski Weldon @LauraRWeldon]

Is there a way to do this without demanding age verification everywhere and scanning every photo on an individual's phone?
We keep our children safe by educating them about danger. If you take away that need they're not prepared for the next thing that comes along.

[BBC Breaking News @BBCBreaking]

UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer says tech firms must stop children sending or receiving sexually explicit images or face new legislation - follow live https://t.co/lbxxtiNrmT

[Laura Rogowski Weldon @LauraRWeldon]

@59W00dy59 @Rik_w2010 Attention seeker seeks more attention 🤷🏼‍♀️

[Laura Rogowski Weldon @LauraRWeldon]

@EvanAG1999 More evidence were it needed that York is hell on earth and best avoided unless absolutely necessary.

[Laura Rogowski Weldon @LauraRWeldon]

@SimonWhelband Every journeyman eventually runs out of places to go next.

[Laura Rogowski Weldon @LauraRWeldon]

@Muaythaijoey @selyonmas @DannyF11770 @adje__ He was literally caught red handed

[Laura Rogowski Weldon @LauraRWeldon]

@sydtea3 Just because another country's laws are needlessly complex, that's not a reason to ape them. Especially not the turbo-nanny-state Aussies.
I've said it before and I've said it again - Crocodile Dundee sold us a bill of goods with that lot.

[Laura Rogowski Weldon @LauraRWeldon]

Big practical problems here (aside from the fact that it's utterly stupid and superfluous when marriage exists)
How are you going to differentiate people who are an "unmarried couple" and who are flatmates? Maybe some sort of... registration?
What happens if a couple splits up and one person just denies they were actually a couple?
What happens if your flatmate of 3 years gets hit by a bus and cops it- do you just get all their stuff by default?

[David Lammy @DavidLammy]

3.5 million unmarried couples living together in the UK stand to gain stronger protections under Labour.

Too many couples have limited rights if their relationship ends or their partner dies - even after years together or raising children.

Labour is consulting on reforms to improve financial security, strengthen protections for survivors of domestic abuse and create a fairer system that reflects modern relationships.

[Laura Rogowski Weldon @LauraRWeldon]

@toontoon999 @MartinSLewis Statutory declaration of consent, just like marriage. You don't particularly have to evidence why you want to marry someone - just that you're legally free to do so.

[Laura Rogowski Weldon @LauraRWeldon]

@BuyEnglishMade I know multiple people who had their United share certificates framed, on the wall, in pride of place - they weren't an investment, they were a stake in the club, but apparently nobody cares about property rights any more

[Laura Rogowski Weldon @LauraRWeldon]

This is why marriage is actually the fairest system - it doesn't matter if you live together (lots of married couples can't full time for work reasons but remain married), it doesn't matter if you have children, it doesn't matter if you're sexually active or chaste, it doesn't matter if you have joint property, it doesn't matter if you've been together for ten years or ten weeks - once you've said the magic words you're legally linked as much as anyone else.

[Laura Rogowski Weldon @LauraRWeldon]

Big practical problems here (aside from the fact that it's utterly stupid and superfluous when marriage exists)
How are you going to differentiate people who are an "unmarried couple" and who are flatmates? Maybe some sort of... registration?
What happens if a couple splits up and one person just denies they were actually a couple?
What happens if your flatmate of 3 years gets hit by a bus and cops it- do you just get all their stuff by default?

[Laura Rogowski Weldon @LauraRWeldon]

@DreyfusJames Instructions unclear - accidentally took middle aged woman called Gaynor for a brew. Views on homosexuals remain unchanged - what now?!

[Laura Rogowski Weldon @LauraRWeldon]

Hard not to conclude this is less about protecting the children from the evils of tiktok and more about Keir getting butthurt over gen alpha making spicy memes about him being useless

[Politics UK @PolitlcsUK]

🚨 BREAKING: Keir Starmer will announce a social media ban for under-16s in the UK in the next two weeks

[Laura Rogowski Weldon @LauraRWeldon]

@SimonMagus @ACinWY What if you're, say, the glamorous owner of a small northern backstreet newsagent, and you need to be rid of an abusive ex husband who has followed you to a seaside getaway? Hmm? What then??