Mum to three sons🦋. Proud Mimi.Activist with Anyone’s Child:families for safer drug control.Campaigning for safer drug policy in UK. 50 years service in NHS
So, it turns out that the violent protestors, who Farage & Reform would have us believe were regular members of the public showing justifiable rage, had numerous previous criminal convictions
https://t.co/HHCaxa2QZf
@TweeterReynolds People have two choices. You can either let the black market sell to younger age groups or have a legal framework. The law is outdated and getting ever tougher on drug use with punitive drug policies, just adds to harms which drives further violence, exploitation etc.
Hannah Spencer puts the record straight.
Reform UK lied, it is not a £2000 Gucci blouse,
It is a 15 year old blouse from a charity shop made by Costa Brava.
So just to get my head straight and so I’m clear: the first pic is an act of terrorism and the second is an act of protest…… Have I got that correct??🤸🏾♀️🤸🏾♀️🤸🏾♀️
Ruth Curtice , Chief Executive of the ‘Resolution Foundation’ , who is calling today for the Triple Lock on the state pension to be scrapped, worked for 15 years at HM Treasury where she was Director of Fiscal policy. So we can be sure she has a very good, probably gold plated, civil servant’s pension herself. It’s always the same with people calling for the triple lock to be scrapped. The first question that these people, who want to reduce OUR state pension provision, should be asked when they are interviewed is ‘what pension provision do you have?’. The second is: ‘who funds your think tank?’
But of course these questions are never asked . https://t.co/qy91oiqgyR
Never forget that as Elon Musk became a trillionaire today, it is estimated that 750,000 people have died as a result of his cutting of USAID. The majority of those deaths were children.
@TweeterReynolds@ere_phil Bigoted attitudes towards cannabis and drug policy reform clearly shows how out of touch many politicians are in the U.K. Prohibition has enriched gangs, caused endless violence, exploitation of vulnerable people and a black market with contaminated potent, synthetic drugs.
Here’s an idea, cut MPs expenses (£242.6 million) , freeze their pay, stop catering/alcohol being subsidised (£7 million to £8 )million, House of Lords catering (£3 million) stop daily rate (£23 m total costs £143 mill)
Because difficult choices have to be made to pay 4 defence
I agree that consuming cannabis in public should be controlled in the same way as consuming alcohol, a far more dangerous and harmful drug, far more likely to be part of anti social behaviour. So lets give cannabis consumers a place like the pub where they can meet friends, have the opportunity to sample different varieties of cannabis and enjoy a safe experience. This approach has been very successful in the Netherlands where there is far less underage use and separating cannabis from the hard drug markets means the rate of heroin addiction is one-sixth that of the UK. As for the law. It is an ass. It's absurd, not based on evidence and achieves nothing except to criminalise tens of thousands of people every year, encourage and support organised crime and costs something in the region of £500 million pa in direct law enforcement costs.
‘Cross-party MPs call for urgent repeal of UK drug laws as deaths hit record high’
Signatories include independent MPs alongside Greens. Lib Dems and Labour.
https://t.co/wkHnry1C61 via @teamleafie
This is possibly the saddest thing I've seen in a long time..an immigrant nurse talking about fleeing her home..she saved her UNIFORM. So she could still WORK for our communities.
I'd fill this country with a thousand of this woman than one of those good for nothing thugs.
God help this poor woman.
Working-class white people are burning down the homes of black working-class people, at the instigation of the world's only trillionaire. How has it come to this?