Sharon Strange

Getting old, but not giving up. In racing syndicate with @ontoawinnerNEWS and @nickbradleyracing

[Sharon Strange @Shazstrange]

@aestheticsguyy

[Sharon Strange @Shazstrange]

@93vintagejones When you have to sit for hours on end, stretchy clothes are the best. Plus when I go to the loo in the cramped airplane toilet, it’s easy to pull them down and up again (women not having that handy easy pee tool) and they don’t have metal bits that set off the security thing.

[Sharon Strange @Shazstrange]

@hewantswealth This level is for a SECOND home.
If you’re just moving house it’s £20,000.
Not that I am defending this tax at all, I think it’s state theft! (This is in no way connected to the fact that I am in the throes of moving myself 😜).

[Sharon Strange @Shazstrange]

@MarieTidball Control will certainly be taken away from disabled people if this licence to murder becomes law.

[Sharon Strange @Shazstrange]

@BurnsideWasTosh Think I might just pick whatever Joseph O’Brien is saddling up 🤩

[Sharon Strange @Shazstrange]

Walking out of the chamber was childish & petulant.
If you’re dedicated to improving the lives of Welsh ppl, why wld you take issue with criticism of taxpayers’ money being sent on foolish projects overseas?
Stop describing things you disapprove of as “hate”.

[Niamh Salkeld @niamh_salkeld]

The Reform member’s contribution was inflammatory and dangerous. There’s no place for such hatred in politics.

Plaid Cymru won’t be drawn into Reform’s attempts to divide our communities. Our focus remains on bringing people together and improving lives across Wales.

[Sharon Strange @Shazstrange]

@AndiMorris85 He’s not “slagging off Welsh people”, he is pointing out the utter lunacy of some of the projects that the Senedd has funded whilst pupil attainment has nosedived. It exists to govern devolved policy areas for the Welsh nation-why is so much going overseas? #delusionsofgrandeur

[Sharon Strange @Shazstrange]

@mrdanwalker

[Sharon Strange @Shazstrange]

@MichelleDewbs They are despicable, but I still can’t support a death penalty-too many dodgy convictions. Would Letby have got a death sentence? Those mothers of the cot death babies?
How wld they be executed & by whom?

[Frank Stephens @justrightFrank]

A few weeks ago, I posted a copy of a letter from Ann Cryer MP for Keighley, to David Blunkett Home Secretary, concerning a Pakistani Grooming Gang that was operating in her area.
Blunkett did nothing, neither did Labour or the police.
Ann was vilified as a racist.
#TheyKnew

[Sharon Strange @Shazstrange]

@TheSimonEvansX TV & cinema are a shared experience-great in their own way, but nowhere near as intimate as the reading one. I am more likely to be moved emotionally with a book (Black Beauty was a sobfest!).

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

Dartmoor's hill ponies have grazed those commons for longer than there has been a country called England. Fewer than a thousand are left, down from six thousand a generation ago. The United Nations listed them as endangered in 2023. So, naturally, the body charged with protecting nature has decided to get rid of nine in ten of the survivors.

There is a process, obviously.

Natural England's new grazing contracts now count the ponies in the same bucket as the cattle and sheep. A commoner with a fixed quota has a choice: keep a semi-wild pony worth nothing at market, or use the slot for a lamb he can sell. Guess which one survives the spreadsheet. The rest are gathered in the autumn drifts, and with nowhere to put thousands of unhandled moorland ponies, the next stop is the abattoir.

Natural England would like it noted that it has not ordered a cull. It has merely built a machine whose only output is a cull, switched it on, and handed the bolt gun to a farmer so the fingerprints land elsewhere. Very tidy.

And now the funny part. The pony is the best tool on the entire moor for eating Molinia, the coarse purple grass strangling Dartmoor into a brown monoculture. Cattle and sheep won't touch it. The ponies hoover it down and clear the ground for the orchids, the wildflowers and the insects behind them. Remove the ponies and the moor chokes into precisely the lifeless scrubland the contract was meant to prevent.

So the conservation strategy, in full: protect the habitat by deleting the animal that maintains the habitat. A masterclass.

Better still, Natural England's own Fursdon review looked at this exact question and told them, in plain English, not to lump ponies in with cattle and not to cut pony numbers. They read it, praised it, said they fully supported it, then did the precise opposite.

Four thousand years these animals have run Dartmoor with no committee and no contract. They could be gone within one, and the people who did it will write it up as a win for nature.

[UK Decline Statistics @UKDecline]

I’ve been placing council transport spend, register-of-interest entries and Companies House filings next to each other.

This is not an allegation. It is official records: registered interest → supplier/contract link → money in published spend.

🧵👇

[Sharon Strange @Shazstrange]

@unreMARKLEble Kate was in the public eye for years before William proposed (there was even a brief break up) so we got used to her being called KM. The DoC was an unwieldy title so just easier and familiar to carry on with KM.
If they called HP by her maiden name, who wld know who she was?

[Sharon Strange @Shazstrange]

@LeftyMcLinks @LairdOfThManor @mollygiles2015 Yes, and peddling-just joining in the fun 😂

Don’t get me started on the misuse of apostrophes…

[Count Binface @CountBinface]

Here is my campaign flyer for the #Makerfield by-election. Unlike the Green Party I’ve made mine electronic only, to help save the environment. #LoveEarth #VoteBinface

[Sharon Strange @Shazstrange]

@BGatesIsaPyscho Isn’t it more troublesome to carry a load of rubbish to a park than to put it into your own bin?

[Sharon Strange @Shazstrange]

@TheCriticalDri2 When will producers realise that, as a woman, altho’ I don’t want to see females portrayed as blithering idiots, I don’t want to see them bossing weak men either. I gave up on Ten Pound Poms bc ALL the men were weak or evil (except the Aboriginal natch). Give us a hero now! 😂

[Sharon Strange @Shazstrange]

The public have NOT been asked (Rantzen doesn’t speak for us all). It would be wrong to force thru a Bill when it wasn’t in the manifesto. Medical orgs neutral on the issue are against this particular Bill. #killthebill

[Sam Carling MP🌹 @sam_carling_]

Really pleased that my colleague Lauren Edwards is reintroducing the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill. Terminally ill people deserve to have choice at the end of life, and I’m so pleased that Parliament will now have the ability to make a final decision on this Bill.