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Dream Surfer & Existential tidy upper.

[BladeoftheSun @BladeoftheS]

Matt Hancock gave a PPE contract to his sisters company which he owned 20% of.

Then denied it when confronted and covered up the evidence.

In total he has been personally involved in more than £600,000,000 of PPE fraud.

Let’s investigate HIS bank account.

[SophieSpring97 @SophieP25397]

Job Seekers allowance is £71.70 a week.
#Sunak reckons that people out there are living lives of luxury on that.
He spends £1500 on his shoes, £5000 on his suits, and £80,000 a week on his helicopter.

[Guy Shrubsole @guyshrubsole]

This is a *really* great pledge by @SadiqKhan - to make the Thames (and all London rivers) clean enough to wild swim in.

Other mayors & candidates take note: access to clean rivers needs to become the norm in England

@Right_2Roam

https://t.co/15uV7TkMbJ

[BladeoftheSun @BladeoftheS]

Can someone tell us how sending 300 people to Rwanda for £562,000,000 will help lower NHS waiting times, or build more Social Houses?

But they could have hired 20,000 extra Nurses, or built 10,000 houses instead, and that would.

Yes Rwanda is that ridiculously expensive.

[Frances Ryan @DrFrancesRyan]

There is no such thing as “a sick note culture.” There is a record high NHS waiting list, crippling housing costs, widespread food poverty, stagnant wages and inadequate benefit rates, a broken social care system, dire mental health services, and closed Sure Start centres.

[Farrukh @implausibleblog]

2020: Rishi Sunak claps for NHS including GPs

2024: Rishi Sunak says your GP is too stupid to know if you are sick

[BladeoftheSun @BladeoftheS]

Conservative MP Edward Leigh thinks disabled people and pensioners cost too much.

He claims £2350 to pay his Council Tax, and £2500 to pay his energy bills every year

But he isn't disabled or a pensioner, he is on £94,000

He should pay his self and cut the bloody benefit costs

[#WASPI Campaign @WASPI_Campaign]

WASPI MP calls for £10k DWP compensation to right 'stain' on UK justice https://t.co/3Yov7X4krF

[Zarah Sultana MP @zarahsultana]

The richest Prime Minister in history – worth an estimated £529,000,000 – is demonising sick and disabled people.

He wants us to blame our problems on anyone but the real culprits:

The Tory government, their super-rich donors, and a system that puts greed before human need.

[William Dalrymple @DalrympleWill]

"Israelis marked a month since Hamas killed 1,400 people and kidnapped 240, starting a war in which 10,300 Palestinians are said to have died."

Nothing at all biased about this description in today's London @thetimes: complete neutral like the rest of their coverage. That's the trouble with Palestinians, isn't it, they just die? No one has to kill them. You just advert your gaze, lose all your journalistic integrity, humanity and compassion... and what do you know? Suddenly over ten thousand Palestinians are dead for no reason at all.

[End Less @Stef_Sistar]

@SkyNews Peace is their ruin. By war they are enriched.

[Mrs Fox 🕊️ @CaliforniaFrizz]

Katharine Hepburn’s childhood, in her own words.
“Once when I was a teenager, my father and I were standing in line to buy tickets for the circus.
Finally, there was only one other family between us and the ticket counter. This family made a big impression on me.
There were eight children, all probably under the age of 12. The way they were dressed, you could tell they didn't have a lot of money, but their clothes were neat and clean.
The children were well-behaved, all of them standing in line, two-by-two behind their parents, holding hands. They were excitedly jabbering about the clowns, animals, and all the acts they would be seeing that night. By their excitement you could sense they had never been to the circus before. It would be a highlight of their lives.
The father and mother were at the head of the pack standing proud as could be. The mother was holding her husband's hand, looking up at him as if to say, "You're my knight in shining armour." He was smiling and enjoying seeing his family happy.
The ticket lady asked the man how many tickets he wanted? He proudly responded, "I'd like to buy eight children's tickets and two adult tickets, so I can take my family to the circus." The ticket lady stated the price.
The man's wife let go of his hand, her head dropped, the man's lip began to quiver. Then he leaned a little closer and asked, "How much did you say?" The ticket lady again stated the price.
The man didn't have enough money. How was he supposed to turn and tell his eight kids that he didn't have enough money to take them to the circus?
Seeing what was going on, my dad reached into his pocket, pulled out a $20 bill, and then dropped it on the ground. (We were not wealthy in any sense of the word!) My father bent down, picked up the $20 bill, tapped the man on the shoulder and said, "Excuse me, sir, this fell out of your pocket."
The man understood what was going on. He wasn't begging for a handout but certainly appreciated the help in a desperate, heartbreaking and embarrassing situation.
He looked straight into my dad's eyes, took my dad's hand in both of his, squeezed tightly onto the $20 bill, and with his lip quivering and a tear streaming down his cheek, he replied; "Thank you, thank you, sir. This really means a lot to me and my family."
My father and I went back to our car and drove home. The $20 that my dad gave away is what we were going to buy our own tickets with.
Although we didn't get to see the circus that night, we both felt a joy inside us that was far greater than seeing the circus could ever provide.
That day I learnt the value to Give.
The Giver is bigger than the Receiver. If you want to be large, larger than life, learn to Give. Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get - only with what you are expecting to give - which is everything.
The importance of giving, blessing others can never be over emphasised because there's always joy in giving. Learn to make someone happy by acts of giving.”

Happy Wednesday folks 💫

[#WASPI Campaign @WASPI_Campaign]

It’s been been over 5 years for
@PHSOmbudsman to investigate 6 sample #WASPI cases. He won’t give us even a rough idea of when he will finish. No one should have to expect or endure this. Certainly not #50sWomen. One of us dies every 13 minutes while this goes on.

[Silkie Carlo @silkiecarlo]

A terrible Bill is planned for tomorrow’s King’s Speech. @MelJStride

The government should NOT intrude on the privacy of anyone's bank account in this country without very good reason, whether a person is receiving benefits or not.

Here’s why 🧵

[End Less @Stef_Sistar]

@PollySissy2 @silkiecarlo @MelJStride They can 'request'proof of income via bank statements - they cannot access your b/a. Full stop.

[GMWRAG @GMWRAGtweets]

UK ‘in violation of international law’ over poverty levels, says UN envoy. https://t.co/QuE3l0mV3T

[End Less @Stef_Sistar]

@SoVeryBritish When getting caught in the rain my Mum used say "Stop complaining it's not acid drops". Tough love.

[End Less @Stef_Sistar]

@ShennanHelen @ANonniemuss @MartinSLewis @GOVUK Why?

[End Less @Stef_Sistar]

@prodnose I've heard us described as - 'not very rich people' & 'other sections of society' - The BBC never utter the phrase 'working class' if they can help it. Don't mention the Working Class darling.