@PoliticsInPubs

We're a group of people from across the political spectrum.
We organise informal meetings for people interested in politics.
We are not an echo chamber.

[@PoliticsInPubs @PiPsOrgUK]

https://t.co/10owz7hwz1

Above is a clip from the @Iromg show where Mike talks to one of our founders about Politics in Pubs: what we do and why we do it. Sign up to our website to know more about us. All welcome to join the discussion at one of our events.

[June Slater @juneslater17]

Quite by chance yesterday via our local church, we interacted with a young 20 something girl, we gave her a lift so as not to be late for a new job.
She was beautiful, polite, gracious and obviously learning English . Her name was Mariam.
I asked where she was from originally , she said Eritrea .
She'd been in a refugee camp in Ethiopia for three years, she described it as just filth, overcrowded and desperate. Death from malnutrition and disease was a daily occurrence.
She has no family left .

Life in Eritrea was brutal for this young Christian woman, let's just say atrocities were committed that no woman deserves. The police stop and search for no reason and girls like her fall prey to unscrupulous goings on by those with even the least tangible authority.
When I asked if she missed home, she teared up and dropped her head, she just said I can never go home . I didn't push it.

I'm giving you this background, because I want you to understand my thought process. This isolated young girl is deserving case for shelter. She patiently lived in a squalid camp in Ethiopia for years, waiting to be selected like a dog in a rescue centre.

She didn't know where she would end up or what her future holds. She's cleaning for work, she has nothing, but she described herself as very lucky to have a room to herself where she could sleep in a clean bed through the night without fear.

The problem isn't the genuine refugee like Mariam, the problem is the political class, who have allowed our refugee scheme to be utterly swamped with chancers, illegal arrivals and a dangerous criminal class, which has made everyone suspicious.

Rather than admit failure , they label those that complain about the saturation of wrong doers, rise in crime, stretched services and the threat to public safety as racist .

We're not‼️

We are mostly reasonable people capable of identifying genuine need, and willing to share a place of safety for authentic cases .

The abuse of the system because our political class, incapable of organising things properly, with stricter vetting and a cap on capacity has caused everything that's gone wrong with this system
It's become a free for all !

After daily saturation of videos and stories of the lunatics and criminals you see in clips on social media It's important not to forget there are genuine people out there that are deserving of help to make the safe .
Not rich, not better off than us, just safe.

[No Farmers, No Food @NoFarmsNoFoods]

Britain faces food shortages within months, farmers warn, as they cannot afford to plant their crops.

Come on @andyburnham - please get ahead of this and put some tangible policies in place to support our farmers and the farming industry. Our food security depends on them.

[Kathryn Porter @KathrynPorter26]

This really worries me

A month ago in Wales I suffered a ruptured aneurysm in my abdomen. I lost over 2 units of blood

But the Welsh ambulance service refused to send an ambulance. I was still breathing so apparently didn't need one

I spent 7 hours lying on the ground in a car park. Every time I moved I threw up from the pain. The owners of the car park called 999 6x

One of the people there was a fireman. He couldn't believe that 999 treated each call as a separate incident and couldn't see the details or link to previous calls. He was frustrated because they could see I was seriously ill but you can't see internal bleeding and so there was no way to persuade 999 that it actually was an emergency

Eventually my husband arrived by taxi, journey of more than 3 hours from our home

He gave me my pain meds (the car park people were worried about liability and I was too ill to get them myself). This meant I was able to crawl into the car and he drove me to A&E

He got me into a wheelchair. We waited 75 minutes to see a doctor. I was shivering, heaped with blankets and threw up all over the floor

As soon as a doctor looked at me I was taken straight to resus. The next day I was transfered by blue light ambulance to another hospital, had a blood transfusion and spent 5 days on the high dependency unit

If my husband hadn't been able to come and look after me I have no idea how I would have survived. As it was I nearly didn't

I would not have been able to get myself to hospital nor would I have been able to log into some digital triage system

This scheme seems to assume if you're seriously ill you'll arrive by ambulance and if not you're well enough to navigate a digital portal

My experience suggests that's a dangerous assumption

A week later, back home in England I had another ruptured aneurysm. This time an ambulance came in 2 hours and again I was taken straight to resus

It wasn't the same because I had a recent diagnosis of a ruptured aneurysm so we could tell 999 I was almost certainly bleeding internally. But I was too ill to get myself down the stairs and out to the car. We still needed that ambulance and I still wouldn't have been able to fiddle around with an ipad

Proper triage REQUIRES an actual doctor to look at the patient. It takes a matter of minutes to differentiate between a life threatening emergency and not a life threatening emergency. That's not minutes to get a diagnosis but to know that the person is stable or not stable and if not that needs immediate attention

Seriously ill people can't do it themselves. It doesn't matter how smart or articulate they are normally. Or how tough. Expecting people to manage their own emergency care isn't what a modern health service should do

https://t.co/RMi7L44fUy

[Claire Fox @Fox_Claire]

Do too many young people lack an appetite/resilience for working? Why are so many 16 to 24-year-olds claiming they're too ill to work? Obviously the welfare system is full of perverse incentives - you can be better off on benefits than with a job. But it seems there are deeper problems eating away at generational resilience - eg, the medicalisation of everyday problems, or the fact that many young people have internalised the Lockdown lesson that health trumps jobs, school, economy etc...

[@ChatsWithEm @chatswithem]

Baroness Claire Fox 🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼

Such an sound intelligent woman

Speaking so much plain sense and fact

This is how Briton used to converse

Calmly , eloquently and factually .. and often bluntly

And we functioned very well as a society

[@PoliticsInPubs @PiPsOrgUK]

15th June, 7pm Pimlico, London.
Digital ID: Panacea or dystopia?

Digital ID is back on the agenda. It was announced as a bill in the King Speech.

Come and join the discussion.
All welcome. Free event.
@darwin_friend1

More details: https://t.co/HqGB5hXaii

[Richard Thomson @RichardTomo5]

“Mad” Ed Miliband is allowing Britain’s North Sea resource extraction to decline - while we spend up to £40bn importing oil and gas from Norway.

Think about that.

We’re shutting down our own supply, shipping it in from abroad, and paying more for the privilege.

It drives up costs. It weakens our energy security.

It’s dangerously stupid.

[Claire Fox @Fox_Claire]

The most shocking word of the Southport Inquiry is 'preventable' - Rudakubana was a butcher hiding in plain sight while state authorities looked away. I asked the minister if there will be consequences - will people be sacked? And I was irritated when the minister suggested that it was wrong to bring race into the issue, when in fact it was a bastardised anti-racism that paralysed officials, teachers, social workers and police from confronting the dangerous threats posed by Rudukubana (as well as Calocane in Notts) - because they were black and vulnerable. "Lessons must be learned" reply from the government is unsatisfactory.

[ClarksonsFarm @ClarksonsFarm1]

Repost!👏🏻

[Catherine McBride OBE @CeeMacBee]

Renewable electricity does not produce: petrol, diesel, bunker fuel, or jet fuel; it does not produce the feed stock for ammonia used to make fertilisers, or feedstocks for chemicals, pharmaceuticals or plastics; it does not produce bitumen, carbon fibres, armaments or ammunition; it does not produce the industrial heat needed to make cement, glass, aluminium, ceramics or steel.

Claiming we shouldn't mine oil and gas in the UK because we won't be self sufficient is like suggesting we shouldn't produce any food because we won't be able to grow enough and would still need to import some.

Caroline Lucas is NOT right.

[No Farmers, No Food @NoFarmsNoFoods]

You cannot eat solar panels.

[ClarksonsFarm @ClarksonsFarm1]

👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

[No Farmers, No Food @NoFarmsNoFoods]

This area of Norfolk is going to be covered by solar panels and infrastructure that is the equivalent of 43,000 tennis courts. Countryside vandalism.

[The Free Speech Union @SpeechUnion]

Another deeply troubling move from this increasingly authoritarian government.

The Labour Party has removed the whip from Karl Turner — one of the most outspoken critics of plans to restrict our long-standing right to trial by jury.

The Chief Whip didn’t even have the decency to tell him in-person. Instead, the decision was briefed to the press and followed up with an email citing his remarks and conduct. Apparently, speaking forcefully in defence of fundamental liberties is now a problem.

Meanwhile, Lammy presses ahead with his sinister proposal restrict our right to trial by jury — despite having no manifesto mandate. He also continues to ignore the serious warnings from the country’s most senior legal figures.

Whatever your politics, the right to a fair trial by jury is a cornerstone of our system. This Government is a disgrace.

Credit to @KarlTurnerMP for taking a stand.

[No Farmers, No Food @NoFarmsNoFoods]

It’s time for the UK government to ensure food security - especially when there is a global supply chain crisis. It’s time to put British farmers first.

[Academy of Ideas @acadofideas]

In the midst of war on Iran, US "spheres of influence" and UK adherence to vague international law over Chagos...

1) Iran, Greenland, Brexit Britain... does sovereignty still matter? 🇮🇷🇬🇧

@HudsCheryl @richardmarcj Joan Kennedy of @PiPsOrgUK @KiszelyPhilip @jacobreynolds & @Fox_Claire

[Academy of Ideas @acadofideas]

AOI Director @Fox_Claire kicks off “Iran, Greenland, Brexit Britain: Does sovereignty still matter?” 🇮🇷🇬🇧

W/ @richardmarcj @HudsCheryl @jacobreynolds @KiszelyPhilip & Joan Kennedy of @PiPsOrgUK

[Proudofus.uk @ProudofusUK]

They told you to feel shame. Colonisers. Slavers. Oppressors.

Your ancestors couldn’t afford the ferry to France.

But they boycotted sugar. Signed petitions. Walked out of factories. Chose prison over convicting innocent men.

The powerful owned slaves. The people ended slavery. Then they ended it everywhere.

You were taught the shame. Never the pride.

Be proud of us. 🇬🇧