Pingu G S Handley

Grieving mum. Battling for meaningful lessons 2b learned re preventable death of 33yr old son with Downs Syndrome.

[Full Fact @FullFact]

.@Katie_Lam_MP said on BBC Radio 4 that welfare payments now exceed income tax receipts for the “first time ever”.

That’s not true. Welfare has been higher than income tax for more than a decade.
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[Nikki da Costa @nmdacosta]

A Bill which has been widely criticised by the Royal Colleges and the Equality and Human Rights Commission and which has significant problems. Here's
Labour colleague Luciana Berger setting out the problems 3/

[Nikki da Costa @nmdacosta]

@dignityindying @LewisAtkinson There is no democratic mandate. Your Parliament Act Plan is a travesty - forcing unsafe, reckless legislation on to the statute books despite the Royal Colleges and Equality and Human Rights Commission raising significant concerns alongside a host of other organisations.

[Jason | 🇬🇧 🇿🇦 🇮🇱🇺🇲 @Ajaon_of_All]

Let me categorically Debunk this utter rot. @sainsburys.

I am a poultry Breeder. The hens that lay white eggs (Amberline/White Star) DO NOT have a lower carbon footprint.

Yes they eat a bit less and produce roughly the same amount of eggs as the Brown egg layers (Bovan/Lowman/ISA Brown) but they live shorter lives, are prone to dying suddenly when startled, a flighty and nervous and because they live shorter productive lives (12 -18mnths) vs brown 18/24mnths (both commercial farmed), you have to incubate more which is increased (Electricity/gas costs) and their eggs are not the same quality.

I breed and keep 20+ different breeds, including: ISA Brown hens and White Stars. All my hens are 100% free range, Not a single barn kept bird, I have ISA browns that are 5yrs old and still laying beautiful Brown eggs, I have not seen a White star live beyond 3yrs and certainly none have laid eggs past 18-24mnths.
White stars Lay themselves to death. They are slender birds and because they dont eat a lot, it drains their personal vitality to keep up laying the eggs you want to sell because of the nonsensical lie that they are "More Carbon Neutral"

You want to know about eggs, come talk to someone like me, Don't rely on some hairbrained imagination of a buyer who's trying to squeeze the profit margin for a few extra pennies at our expense and to the poor hens detriment.

[Me Myself and I @clarkson_geoff]

#PMQs @KemiBadenoch why are you not asking why 55% of the welfare bill goes to state pensioners?

Why are you not asking why 40% of people in work are claiming welfare?

Not everyone claiming welfare is unemployed.

[Imogen @Imogenlemon02]

So Farage ran away from parliament after he was shamed by the PM.

Where did he run away to? To Oswald's in Mayfair, a private members club.

When will people wake up. He doesn’t represent you. He doesn’t understand you. He’s not like you. He’s using you.
https://t.co/pMJw5uKCYv

[Joe Hardy 🇺🇦 🇪🇺♿️🐟 #RightToLove 💙 @BlokeOnWheels]

Once more for those at the back: you can't reform a benefit that has nothing to do with employment status so as to push people into work. Somebody who is disabled and in work still incurs extra costs as a result of their disability, which pip is meant to help with. Employment support can be useful for some people, but offering it in place of PIP simply won't work.

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[Deborah Duffin MRSS @DeborahDuffin]

@cv_cev I think it's disgusting for schools to reward 100% attendance. Good health is its own reward & we shouldn't be adding yet another competition to the toxic school environment of petty rules, endless tests & exams. Concentrate on instilling a love of learning & supporting all kids.

[Dale Vince @DaleVince]

.@wesstreeting is wrong to say new North Sea drilling will not “necessarily” mean cheaper energy bills - It’s an un arguable fact that it won’t. It can't because global markets set the price of oil and gas, even when we produce it here. Wes offers equivocation where certainty exists - that’s unhelpful, it could deceive people into thinking why not give it a go. On the question of more tax revenue from more drilling he offers certainty where equivocation is needed - it’s far from clear…

Take Rosebank for example, it needs nearly £3 billion of tax subsidies to get going and may never pay tax. Our North Sea is all but empty and politicians jumping on this bandwagon are doing the public no favours - Tony Blair included. This is a fossil fuel crisis, we won't solve it with more fossil fuels - we need 100% green energy ASAP and to ‘break the link’ for real. The link that prices our own wind and sun according to the global price of gas - a ridiculous mechanism that strips enormous value for our economy and impoverishes millions of us.

Ed faked it, we need to actually break the link.

[Erin Gourley @ErinGourley1]

I’m an OA psych ST5. If one of these medical educators would like to explain to me why I need a medical degree, foundation training, CT and membership exams to “run” a memory clinic (with supervision if req), but a PA with no relevant psych experience can have a go - I’m all ears

[Nerine Halton @NerineHalton]

The Mandelson scandal is being resurrected in all its utter tedium now by our BBC , 🥱 who clearly are gaining no traction on Starmer via any other route.
Dear BBC , we’re over it. Your reporters are sounding like feverish teenagers.
DO BETTER ‼️

[NewsThump @newsthump]

Nothing screams 'free speech enthusiast' quite like threatening to shut down an entire organisation because a couple of comedians made a joke about you. 🤷

[Thomas H. 💙 @THemingford]

Disabled people are far more likely to live in poverty, yet public debate often treats disability support as a burden instead of a necessity. The real question should be why a wealthy country still leaves millions struggling with unavoidable extra costs simply to survive.

[David__Osland @David__Osland]

Many MPs tell us that the current state pension age is 'unsustainable'. Which is odd, really, given that they can claim parliamentary pensions as soon as they turn 55.

[Peter Stefanovic @PeterStefanovi2]

Nigel Farage registered ‘absent’ from the last 77 votes in Parliament

Official Parliamentary figures reveal that Reform leader Nigel Farage hasn't bothered to vote for anything in the last 11 weeks...

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[Simon Maechling @simonmaechling]

For the umpteenth time:

Vaccines work.
Chemtrails do not exist.
mRNA is in everything you eat.
Everything is made of chemicals.
Natural is not a synonym for safe.
It’s the dose that makes the poison.

Most internet health scares collapse the moment you learn basic chemistry.

[Rachel Charlton-Dailey @RachelCDailey_]

1) pip isn’t an out of work benefit
2) nobody is getting pip for “mild” anything
3) the conservatives know the general public don’t know this

[Adrian Gosling @digitalsunshine]

No real sympathy for Murrell or Sturgeon obviously, but where was this energy and scrutiny from Laura Kuenssberg, when it came to the tory party PPE scandals, that potentially cost the country billions, rather than the 400k they're talking about here?

#bbclaurak
#BBCBreakfast

[Inspector Gadget @InspGadgetBlogs]

Who'd have thought raising the state pension age to 67 would result in increased youth unemployment 🤔