Marina Robb

Orthodox Christian ☦, theologian, philosopher, art historian, teacher 🎓
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[Marina Robb @MarinaRobb]

Join me where the skies are blue!
https://t.co/sXg1hAbUxS

[Binman @binman18691753]

#Farageriots in Southampton tonight after he came out of hiding to whip up hatred through his lies and disinformation. Hasn’t been contactable to discuss his £5,000,000 bung from tax avoiding crypto billionaire but always available to create a U.K. Kristallnacht. Vile odious man

[Marina Robb @MarinaRobb]

@naturebeauty760 Bishopsgate

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@SyndiTypo @Druhorton @indumbpendence @AndyBurnhamGM @christiancalgie Like The Hamlet CIC the Church is open to the public, but not a public space as per GDPR law.
The presence of no photography signs means just that!

[Marina Robb @MarinaRobb]

@SyndiTypo @Druhorton @indumbpendence @AndyBurnhamGM @christiancalgie My local Church sometimes posts photos of the Sunday school kids *with consent*.
A few families don't give consent and we don't photograph those children or put them online. Sometimes they are fostered or adopted, or sheltering from domestic abuse. 1/

[Marina Robb @MarinaRobb]

@adamboxer1 @_MrBonney_PE @amymayforrester Me too!

[Marina Robb @MarinaRobb]

@LitAuntie Schools need proper funding and we get this!!

[Marina Robb @MarinaRobb]

1/ Schools are skint, teachers are exhausted, everyone’s arguing about SEND, funding and behaviour… and somehow the DfE response today appears to be Gemma Collins influencer content with Bridget Phillipson.

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3/ The weirdest bit is I’d barely seen Gemma Collins online before today.

Now suddenly it feels like someone in Westminster is trying to soft-launch education policy via bougatsa.

[Marina Robb @MarinaRobb]

2/ Then five minutes later Gemma Collins pops up AGAIN on my Instagram at the local Cypriot cake shop - Aroma in Palmers Green with “Auntie” Litsa 😭

I’m sorry but this is the most aggressively North London education policy rollout imaginable.

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@Nairobifatlover @WasOnceLoved @kennygfrederick Don't count your chickens, especially as former Enfield Council leader, Nesil Caliskan, who pushed for Meridian Water, has just been made Parliamentary Undersecretary of State in the Ministry of Housing.

[Marina Robb @MarinaRobb]

@LitAuntie @kennygfrederick People are entitled to ask whether what replaces green space will genuinely be worth the trade-off Good housing should not just mean numbers on a target sheet. It It should mean genuinely liveable communities with greenery, fresh air and quality of life built in from the start.

[Marina Robb @MarinaRobb]

@LitAuntie @kennygfrederick Green space, fresh air and access to countryside are not luxuries. They are part of what makes places genuinely liveable.

People also aren't persuaded by aggressive caricatures, name calling and browbeating as we've witnessed here.

[Marina Robb @MarinaRobb]

The first time I simply point out that open countryside and green space are valued by local people, I’m immediately caricatured as some kind of anti-housing zealot.

It’s not a particularly constructive way to discuss planning.

[Marina Robb @MarinaRobb]

I’ve never spent my time opposing major developments in the borough and have actually welcomed them, including some genuinely good-quality housing. Housing debates are not really something that has ever been particularly on my radar, to be brutally honest.

[Marina Robb @MarinaRobb]

n.b. If someone repeatedly replaces your actual position with a false strawman version of it, there is very little point continuing the discussion.

[Marina Robb @MarinaRobb]

@DaveandDaf @WasOnceLoved There are also concerns about some new-builds being bought mainly as investments. But these aren't the main issues here.

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@DaveandDaf @WasOnceLoved Precisely, and “affordable” is often a fairly nebulous term.

The question isn’t simply “build houses”. It’s who they’re for, whether local people can realistically afford them, and whether infrastructure and services can support them.

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@Petersbrooking @WasOnceLoved That probably is for Facebook 🤣

[Marina Robb @MarinaRobb]

This rude, obnoxious, lecturing, arrogant tone is exactly why the people of Enfield voted as they did!
I can't say I blame them.
My own vote wasn't based on Crews Hill - but I can see now why people did. How to win friends and influence people.

[Wol @WasOnceLoved]

@MarinaRobb @barlow_lov11346 Blah blah.

We need new homes built.
Millions.

[Marina Robb @MarinaRobb]

@Petersbrooking @WasOnceLoved Valid point. I think there’s still a difference between disagreeing with strangers online and repeatedly assigning motives, personality traits and moral failings to people you don’t know.

[Marina Robb @MarinaRobb]

@FionaLeadbeater Try substack