Manu Durkin 📻

Presenter on @BoltonFM Tuesdays from 8pm with the Super 60s Show. Against bigotry and oppression of any kind. Green Party member. Autistic. Dyspraxic. He/him

[‏ً @omgsidewalks]

SERIOUS QUESTION: Why is it socially acceptable to tell poor people how to spend their money ?? But when we ask the rich to stop hoarding wealth, the response is always “it’s their money”.

[Zarah Sultana MP @zarahsultana]

The most emotion Keir Starmer has shown is over losing his job, not enabling the genocide of the Palestinian people.

Good riddance.

His next stop should be The Hague.

[Bec Shaw @Brocklesnitch]

TERFs are the biggest self-made victims on the planet, it's unbelievable. constantly crying about made up problems, fake scenarios, playing the victim while they are disgusting bigots who stop at nothing to attack innocent trans people and whinging if people dont like it

[Zack Polanski @ZackPolanski]

Bills up.

Wages too low.

Record profits for Oil & Gas.

50 richest families with more wealth than 50% of population.

Shit in our rivers.

Pensioners jailed for protesting.

Migrants thrown under the bus.

Supporting a Genocide.

That's Starmer's legacy.

[Seth @fiercepatricks]

Wait. WAIT. If watching two men kiss can turn a child gay, then showing them a man and a woman kiss should turn them back.

Unless, of course, that’s not how any of this works.

[Melissa Sigodo @melissasigodo]

I’ll never forget Keir Starmer’s island of strangers speech and how he fanned the flames of hateful anti-immigration rhetoric that is radicalising people & making the country less safe for us all. What a legacy to leave behind as a Labour leader.

[mitra @mitrajoy_]

having our first trillionaire before everyone has access to clean water is a failure of the human species

[Harry Eccles @Heccles94]

Great, Andy Burnham won! What is it you are looking forward to most?

Continued austerity?

Continued genocide denial?

More detention centres?

More welfare cuts?

Which one is it?

[daz @MetamateDaz]

Rich people don't die if you tax them.

Poor people do die when you cut welfare and healthcare.

no comment, just 2 facts.

[Erin Ekins (she/her) @QueerlyAutistic]

The people smugly gloating that young people will just have to 'find something else to do' in response to the social media bans are usually the exact same people who seethe with anger and make reports about 'loitering' whenever they have to share public spaces with teenagers.

[El 🍉🚂 @ellasrhapsody]

When I was too ill to go to school my council left me without education for 18 months. If it hadn’t been able to access educational content on YouTube like Mr Bruff and Free Science Lessons, I would never have passed my GCSEs.

This is going to harm disabled children.

[ali .⋆˚ @dreamgirleviil]

being a young person in the uk is literally just slowly coming to the realisation that the government hates you and everyone over 60 hates you and every single system is working against you and everything from rent to healthcare is getting dramatically worse and and and and

[troovus @troovus]

“Giving children their childhood back?”

So reopening the 2,000 youth clubs closed under neoliberalism? The 1,000 children’s centres?
Recreating the 10,000 + playing fields lost?
Or the 800 playgrounds lost in the last 10 years?
The 1,000 libraries?
The after-school clubs closed?

[aimée 🇮🇪🇵🇸 @sapphyreblayze]

"Stare at a wall" is, unfortunately, likely to prove accurate because you just know they're not going to invest in creating more third spaces where children can actually go when they're not online.

[lil Dove 🍁 @iAyushiRajput]

@PolitlcsUK @thetimes 16-17 year olds can drive, join the army and soon vote... but no late night scrolling?
Starmer thinks they are toddlers.

[Ben Smoke @bencsmoke]

it is a fundamental failure of society for one man to be able to amass such sickening levels of wealth as 673 million people across the world go hungry every single day.

[India Willoughby @IndiaWilloughby]

BREAKING: Shocking news from Dr Cal Horton @FierceMum who posts on Bluesky: The NHS has sent out letters saying all trans people under the age of 18 are to be FORCIBLY detransitioned. And @UKLabour @jamesmurray_ldn @Lord_Collins have the cheek to announce they are banning trans conversion therapy. LIE.

From current information a blanket medical withdrawal / forced detransition is being applied to all age groups under 18.

The 'investigation' and alleged 'potential harms' are an absolute joke.

The letters say that medication will not be possible after July.

There is no reassurance about continuity of care.

They simply say people should access the children's gender service (which hasn't prescribed anything to anyone in the 3 years since opening).

They do not say the children's gender service will continue any medication.

They say the children's gender service will provide 'psychological support'. Plus discussion of any concerns about a child's physical health in relation to any medication received.

They argue that access to blockers/HRT has been an act of medical harm. That it is an act of 'safety' to remove it.

Important reminder - a year long 'investigation' took place without even once speaking to any family, child or young person involved. Not even once.

Because the people involved are happy with the care provided, consider it critical and often life-saving care.

The investigation is a giant fraud.

Really important to emphasise - they have not been able to find ANY actual harms through a year long investigation.

Not one.

Instead a load of made up harms including, from today's letters this gem...

Case notes from when GP took over privately prescribed medication (as told to do so by Streeting in the puberty blocker criminalisation) fail to show "consideration of the possibility that gender incongruence and distress may be a transient phenomenon which resolves with increasing age". Garbage.

There is not a good time for forced medical detransition.

But, young people were informed yesterday that decision letters would come today.

Today is GCSE Maths exam.

Tomorrow GCSE English lit exam.

The NHS really could not care less for the well-being of these young people. All this after Wes Streeting’s bullshit in his interview with @lewis_goodall

[LGBwiththeT @LGBwiththeT]

The man who helped turn back the clocks in LGBTQ+ people, fears the clocks being turned back, on LGBTQ+ people.

Wait….

?!?!?!

[Manu Durkin 📻 @Manulovesradio]

@PolitlcsUK Racist prick.

[Proletarian Science @Malcolm1818]

Zack Polanski has far more media scrutiny than Nigel Farage for one simple reason. Zack is a threat to the establishment, Farage is part of the establishment!