Marina Asvachin

A socialist vegan wandering through the cesspit of despair in search of unicorns & rainbows. And cats......

[Marina Asvachin @Meanfluff]

We need as many people as possible to email the Port Authority of Las Palmas to reject the application to build the world’s first octopus farm. I just did it so please join me and act now. https://t.co/5nrHOOLNgQ

[Marina Asvachin @Meanfluff]

In English local elections, the voting system means councils often don’t reflect the way people voted. Now, millions of local votes don’t help shape the final result. You deserve a voting system where all of your neighbours help shape what happens next. https://t.co/a3Q7sWxNVd

[Damian Low @DamianLow3]

Rayner has been cleared, but the media ran 30 front pages in total, averaging 4 front pages a day during the peak of the story.

Farage's £5 million gift has had two front page stories.

Why would there be such a difference in reporting standards for the two?

[Larry the Cat @Number10cat]

Politicians come and go, cats remain.

[Politics UK @PolitlcsUK]

🚨 NEW: Labour members voting intention:

Starmer vs Streeting:
Starmer: 53%
Streeting: 23%

Starmer vs Burnham:
Burnham: 61%
Starmer: 28%

Starmer vs Miliband:
Miliband: 46%
Starmer: 39%

Starmer vs Rayner:
Rayner: 45%
Starmer: 41%

Via @LabourList, 1214 members

[Marina Asvachin @Meanfluff]

Let's go dancing!

[Marina Asvachin @Meanfluff]

The amazing things you see on a lazy stroll along the river Exe.....

[Angela Rayner @AngelaRayner]

Our party has suffered a historic defeat.

Many good Labour colleagues have lost their seats despite working hard for those they represented. We have lost good Labour administrations and lost the chance for more.

What we are doing isn’t working, and it needs to change. This may be our last chance.

The Labour Party must now live up to our name: we must be the party of working people.

We’ve heard the same on the doorstep as we’ve seen in the polls - the cost of living is the top issue for voters of all parties. People have turned to populists and nationalists because we have not done enough to fix it.

Living standards are barely higher than they were a decade and a half ago. People feel hopeless - that the cost of living crisis will never end, and now they see oil and gas companies use global instability to post record profits.

Once again, ordinary people are paying the price for decisions they didn’t make. It’s no wonder that across the UK, working people feel the system is rigged against them.

Things can be so much better than this. Countries including Spain and Canada have shown that economies can grow and people can thrive when governments stay true to labour and social democratic values and put people first. We need to learn from that.

In London, we lost young people who fear they will never afford a home. In my patch and across the north, we lost working people whose wages are too low and costs too high. In Scotland and Wales, people do not currently see Labour as the answer. 

We are in danger of becoming a party of the well-off, not working people.

The Peter Mandelson scandal showed a toxic culture of cronyism. 

Decisions like cutting winter fuel allowance just weren’t what people expected from a Labour government.

For too long, successive governments have allowed wealth and power to concentrate at the top without a plan to ensure the benefits of economic growth are shared fairly. The result is an economy that does not work for the majority, with wealth concentrated in too few hands. This level of inequality, alongside squeezed living standards, is the outcome of a model built on deregulation, privatisation, and trickle-down economics.

But we have the chance to fix this. 

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[Marina Asvachin @Meanfluff]

Save Frank, Exeter Stagecoach’s Beloved Depot Cat - Sign the Petition! https://t.co/VaPKpz5HKE via @UKChange

[Marina Asvachin @Meanfluff]

@technocratX You can call the album "Stoned Arrowheads" 🤣

[Marina Asvachin @Meanfluff]

Hereditary peers have left the Lords for the last time https://t.co/6DoEWJLOmA via @electoralreform

[Buitengebieden @buitengebieden]

Mood.. 😅

[Exeter City Council @ExeterCouncil]

If you’ve applied for a postal vote for Exeter’s City Council elections, keep an eye on your letterbox - they’re being sent out from 23 April and should arrive soon.

More: https://t.co/LKZtLYqW09

[Jac 🇺🇸🇺🇦💙 @JacDalAM]

This makes me sick.

[Steve Howell @FromSteveHowell]

This needs some serious fact-checking!

If half the time of 305 staff costs £100m, their average full-time annual salary (after NI) must be £570,206. I don't think so.

Besides, 305 half-time union reps is a tiny number relative to the NHS's 1.4m staff.

Ridiculous story.

[Exeter City Council @ExeterCouncil]

Election notices for the Exeter City Council elections on Thursday 7 May are now online.

View the official Summary of Candidates Nominated and check candidate details before polling day:
https://t.co/znhjHXN6L8

[Exeter City Council @ExeterCouncil]

Just a month to go until Exeter’s local elections on 7 May 🗳️

If you’re not on the electoral register, you won’t be able to vote - but there’s still time. Make sure you’re registered by Monday 20 April (it only takes a few minutes online).

More: https://t.co/g3wM5lwYWo

[Exeter City Council @ExeterCouncil]

Do you have a four-bedroom family home to rent in Exeter?

The City Council’s Housing Access Together (HAT) scheme is looking for landlords with available properties, especially larger family homes.

Find out more: https://t.co/aMK2iiRv6b

[Buitengebieden @buitengebieden]

This is what knowing your physics well means.. 😉

[James Lucas @JamesLucasIT]

A hilarious April fools video made by the police