Lottie

Ex- public health specialist, now mindfulness teacher and neuro-strategist. Resilience for minds and teams. Member of Restore Britain

[Lottie @LottieB73]

@ThrillaRilla369 Tiswas and cartoons

[Anglo Futurism Capital LP 🇬🇧🐿️ @RollingHedge]

🚨📉THE SLOW DEATH OF BRITAIN:

We have shit water companies so we buy bottled water.

We have rubbish police so we hire private security.

We have terrible healthcare so we pay private hospitals instead.

Airbnbs in Cornwall pay council tax but get no rubbish collection, so they pay Biffa on top.

An awful lot of firemen are now volunteers.

NHS dentists don’t really work anymore, so you go private or you pull it out yourself.

Our roads are littered with potholes nobody fills. Your privately funded tyres and suspension are the collateral.

You are forced under threat of criminal prosecution to fund the BBC, and it’s so bad you pay for streaming to get news or entertainment anyway.

Your bins are collected fortnightly, so you drive to the tip. The tip now requires a booking, a permit and proof you live in the county.

Garden waste is a separate annual subscription. On top of the council tax that used to cover it.

Your GP surgery is an 8am phone lottery, so you pay £40 to an app to speak to a doctor in a different time zone.

CAMHS has a two year waiting list, so parents remortgage for private assessments.

Your child’s SEN provision is a legal entitlement, so you hire a solicitor to sue the council for it. The council spends more fighting you than the support would have cost.

Physio is a forty week wait. Your back does not have forty weeks.

Schools teach in portable cabins bolted to the playground because the actual building is held up by aerated concrete and hope.
Half of them are technically insolvent.

Parents fund the reading books, the glue sticks, the photocopier, the roof and increasingly the teachers wages - all via a PTA raffle and local fundraisers.

The state offers “free” childcare hours that don’t cover the nursery’s costs, so the nursery bills you a “top up fee” for the free thing.

Shoplifting under £200 is functionally legal, so Tesco hires guards - who crucially don’t even try to stop it - and you pay for them in the price of the milk.

999 takes an hour, so you buy the Ring doorbell, gather the evidence, file the report and get a crime number for the insurance you also pay for.

Court backlogs run to years, so anyone with money settles privately and everyone else gets nothing.

Legal aid is gone. Represent yourself.

Passport and DVLA backlogs are chronic, so the state sells you a fast track service to escape the queue the state created.

The trains are late whoever owns them, so you drive on the roads with the potholes.
Public toilets are shut, so you buy a coffee you don’t want.

The library is staffed by pensioners working for free.

Street lights are switched off at midnight to save money in a country with a burglary charge rate near zero.

You pay National Insurance for fifty years and they move the pension age.

You pay the adult social care precept every year and then sell your mother’s house to pay for adult social care.

Leaseholders pay for a “waking watch” because the state signed off the cladding and then billed the residents to fix it.

Social housing sits on the most valuable land in Britain, allocated by need rather than proximity to work, 48% of zone 1 social housing is occupied by foreigners mostly welfare dependent - while the nurses, teachers and other workers who keep zone 1 running commute ninety minutes each way from Kent because we stopped building anything in 1979.

Every one of these is a service you have already bought. The receipt is your payslip.

The tax burden is heading for its highest sustained level since the 1940s. The service level is the worst in living memory.

You are not overtaxed or underserved. You are actually BOTH, simultaneously, and the gap between the two is where your standard of living went.

The state has become a subscription you cannot cancel and cannot use.

[Lottie @LottieB73]

@Scott7507064635 @EssexPR I saw all the comments people responded with and the majority were negative which shocked me

[Lottie @LottieB73]

There just seems this awful hate campaign for people who genuinely need that financial support. I know people do take the piss and fraudulently claim it which is disgusting but I feel so sorry for the hate genuine people get. They genuine people don’t choose to be sick. Sorry for calling you a prick lol

[Lottie @LottieB73]

@Scott7507064635 @EssexPR You said they deserve it which I find really sad.

[Lottie @LottieB73]

Why would anyone deserve something you don’t even know what it is? Fistulas develop in extreme form of Chron’s disease. It will eat away ie ulcerate and create tunnels through your anus, through your muscles, through your bowel, to the outside of your skin on your body. Abscesses develop which can cause sepsis. Many people had to have multiple operations. Some have tubing that hangs out of their anus for life. Some end up with having their anus stitched up and have a stoma. They deserve that? What a prick

[Donna-Louise @NoLongerTheFuzz]

How a set of extraordinary, largely unverified claims took Jason Arday from South London and two GCSE's to a Cambridge professorship — and why asking for evidence was treated as the real offence. https://t.co/jqVidUBxuV

[Lottie @LottieB73]

I don’t think we should accept far right labels. We’re probably Thatcherites or Social Conservatives but need to define ourselves appropriately. If we project ourselves in a different way/label, others will identify us as such. 90’s politics changed it.
Language is so powerful

[Rowan Cheung @rowancheung]

Reminder to go touch grass

A scientist in Japan demonstrated that the air inside a forest strengthens your immune system for a full month

The study is incredibly fascinating:

Qing Li, an immunologist at Nippon Medical School in Tokyo, took 12 men on a 3-day forest trip. These were slow walks with no breathing exercises and no set route.

Then he tested their blood and found a surge in natural killer cells -- the immune cells your body uses to fight cancer and virus-infected cells.

Remarkably, the effect didn't fade when they went home, it was still measurable 30 days later.

A control group that walked the same distance through a city showed no change at all.

Pine, cedar, and cypress trees release compounds called phytoncides to defend themselves from insects and bacteria. You breathe them in, and Li believes they switch your immune cells into high gear.

He estimates one forest walk a month may be enough to keep those cells elevated all year.

The best medicine might not even need a prescription -- just a walk among the trees.

[Lottie @LottieB73]

@Grew74 Thank you so much and you too 🙏🏻

[Lottie @LottieB73]

#NewProfilePic

[Lottie @LottieB73]

@Grew74 That’s really sweet of you, thank you

[Rogue @RogueUnfiltered]

🚨I hate the silence because it’s deafening. 🚨

‼️What is happening?
‼️Police are supposed to update people surely?

🚨When is her funeral?
🚨What is happening!!

I have so many questions!!!!

[Lottie @LottieB73]

@BamaSaltyMarine Adorable!

[Lottie @LottieB73]

@SeoirseSpark2 I live in a rural village with tractors and trailers driving in the front of my home in the early hours, I hear them in the fields at night time, these people seriously need to get a grip and move if they don’t like it

[A View From Yorkshire @models_by_Russ]

Dear HM Government, (UK)

Firstly, congratulations. You’ve managed to discover a brand-new definition of transparency.

Apparently, the people who write the laws can have their criminal records kept secret from the very people expected to obey those laws. That’s an impressive piece of political gymnastics.

The rest of us apply for jobs, volunteer roles, taxi licences, security passes, and all manner of positions where background checks are considered perfectly reasonable. Yet when it comes to those entrusted with running the country… suddenly privacy becomes the highest constitutional principle.

Forgive us if we’re a little confused.

If a criminal record is irrelevant to holding public office, then explain why. If it is relevant, then surely voters deserve to know before they hand over power at the ballot box.

Democracy relies on informed consent. It’s difficult to make an informed choice if important information about elected representatives is deliberately withheld.

This isn’t about conducting witch hunts or judging people for minor mistakes made decades ago. It’s about accountability. Those who expect the public’s trust should be prepared to earn it through openness, not secrecy.
Unlike the government’s pursuit of Veterans 🤔

So, a simple question:

Why should MPs and ministers be held to a lower standard of transparency than many ordinary citizens applying for everyday jobs?

After all, “nothing to hide” seems to apply enthusiastically to taxpayers, but rather less enthusiastically to taxpayers’ employees.

Is transparency now something that’s only expected of the governed, while the governors are exempt?
Abit like the COVID vaccine 🤔 there is a pattern,

Perhaps we’ve misunderstood how equality works. We foolishly assumed the same standards applied to everyone. It would appear they do… right up until someone becomes an MP.

The British public doesn’t expect perfection.

We do, however, expect honesty, accountability, and the same standards from those who make our laws as they expect from those who obey them.

Yours, slightly bewildered,

A Taxpayer 🇬🇧

[Amogh @guyfromhills]

There are only 14 mountains in the world that rise above 8,000 metres. Nirmal "Nimsdai" Purja summited every one of them in just 6 months and 6 days during Project Possible, achieving what many believed was impossible.
Today, the world has lost a legend.💔

Nirmal "Nimsdai" Purja
25 July 1983 - 1 August 2026 🕊️

[Lottie @LottieB73]

@ThrillaRilla369 I think it will too. I also think that we will experience some much more difficult times before it gets better. However goodness and truth will always prevail.

[Lottie @LottieB73]

@nimsdai I’m praying for you and your teams safe rescue and return

[Benonwine @benonwine]

Three charged with the stabbing murder of Christopher Bradbury, 44, in Shelton, Stoke-on-Trent.

Hassan Ahmed, 19
Dhannish Mahmood, 19
Subhan Nadeem, 20

A British man is dead. Three young men are charged with his murder.
And yet this will barely register on the national news.

If the victim and the perpetrators had been reversed, this would have been wall-to-wall coverage for a week. Politicians would be lining up. Every newspaper would be running it on the front page.

The outrage would be endless.

Instead it’s a quiet local story that most people will never hear.

Christopher Bradbury was loved by his family.

His life mattered.

The selective silence says everything about whose lives the media decides are worth mourning.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

We now have a Two Tier Media!!