How is this 'watering down assessments'? No-one gets a PIP award without an assessment. Constantly reviewing people with verified, medically proven incurable and progressive illness is a waste of tax payers money, private profits for companies carrying out those pointless reviews
Cut welfare to the bone and you do not create a stronger economy. You create unpaid bills, empty tills, worsening health, deeper poverty, and more pressure on councils, the NHS, charities, schools, and families. Poverty is expensive. Extreme poverty is even worse.
This infuriates me
We are being led by such evil such anti life and anti beauty and anti humanity evil
Defra like everything has been totally captured
They say "The move from Defra is intended to limit the impact of overgrazing across the UK which can damage the biodiversity of moorland, including making the land unsustainable for future livestock. "
So here they care about biodiversity and moorland ....
Yet we are seeing unimaginably large swathes of the countryside being obliterated by wind turbines and solar panels and now data centres . And not a peep.
But some ancient tradition little beautiful ponies ... they want them culled .
I'm so sick of the evil in this land. 👇🏼😡‼️
#SaveDartmoorPonies
@LeilaniDowding@DefraGovUK
https://t.co/ka1NK8oa3Y
I don't want Bovaer in my milk.
I don't want folic acid in my flour.
I don't want fluorine in my drinking water.
I don't want palm oil in my chocolate.
I don't want margarine in my cakes.
I don't want my fruit and veg sprayed with glyphosate.
I don't want my apples coated with Apeel.
I don't want my fish and chips cooked in veg oil.
I don't want crappy processed mayo on my burger.
I don't want roast spuds out of a freezer.
I don't want non-grass-fed beef.
I don't want farmed salmon.
I don't want GMO garbage.
... so I don't consume any of these products.
How sad we allow clowns to fcuk around with our food and drink in this way though. 🤦♂️
And now the media finally report the news that the UK is a slave to the UN Agenda 2030.
No citizen was given a vote on the most expansive and destructive societal change in our history. It’s considered decided!
Only we didn’t decide … they did 💣
Buy back Royal Mail, 76% want public ownership
It would cost around £3.6 billion
Put households on the board and raise the standards
This 500 year old institution worked well until it was privatised, it should not be owned by a Czech billionaire
https://t.co/c1zbbS73iM
They just blame disabled people for everything, assuming no one cares about us, and use that as an excuse to justify yet another round of austerity-related deaths.
At least 40% of #UniversalCredit claimants are in employment. They claim because their employers do not pay them enough. The overwhelming majority are working class women in low paid jobs, many work in care. The solution is a proper living wage not attacking the working poor.
Just to put things in perspective.
The average state pension in Spain is higher than in the UK.
The cost of living in Spain is 33% lower than in the UK.
Spain's equivalent to our council tax is about a tenth of what we pay in the UK. And they get daily bin collections.
Where's our money going?
Residents and conservationists in Fife are sounding the alarm over plans for a colossal AI data centre monstrosity near Auchtertool. It has been calculated that the AI data centre would use the energy of more than 50% of Scotland's households and guzzle vast quantities of local water supply. No one voted for this.
It is time for the Scottish people to stand up and demand control over their land and resources, pushing back against mega corporation developments that exploit Scottish countryside assets without public consent.
Multinational tech corporations and facilitating governments should never ride roughshod over Scotland's land and natural resources - the people of Scotland themselves should decide this.
When a 600MW hyperscale data centre, consuming more electricity than half of Scotland's homes can be proposed without meaningful public consultation or environmental impact assessment, that is not governance in keeping with Scottish constitutional tradition. It is the opposite.
The people of Fife did not consent to this, and their voices must be heard. That’s direct democracy in action. Finally, if the SNP government really do believe in independent sovereignty for the people of Scotland, let them prove it here, on Scottish soil, for Scottish communities.
The reason we think dandelions are weeds is because of a 1950s marketing campaign.
Dandelions, native to Europe and Asia, were brought to North America in the 1600s by European colonists who grew them deliberately.
Every part is edible. The leaves are a salad green, the flowers were made into wine, and the roots were roasted as a coffee substitute and used medicinally for liver and kidney conditions for thousands of years. They were a kitchen-garden staple well into the 1800s.
The shift happened after World War II, when 2,4-D (originally developed for chemical warfare research) was approved as a residential herbicide. Companies like Scotts built the modern lawn-care industry around the idea that a perfect green lawn meant zero broadleaf plants.
Dandelions, being bright yellow and resistant to mowing, became a visible enemy, and the campaign worked. By the 1970s, "dandelion-free" was synonymous with "well-kept."
They aren't native, but they aren't doing significant ecological harm either. The herbicides used to kill them, on the other hand, kill bees, contaminate groundwater, and have been linked to non-Hodgkin lymphoma in humans.
If you hate dandelions, it's most likely due to a marketing campaign that ran before you were born.
This is a major signal.
The United Nations has scrapped its “worst‑case” climate scenario.
The climate hoax is officially dead.
Our children are still being indoctrinated with this damaging nonsense in school - it’s a form of child abuse.
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Because too many local people are objecting to giant solar farms on farmland near their homes….
… Labour has changed the law so communities can object, but now those objections can be ignored.
Another little bit of our democracy chipped away.
Everyone else's mobile phone charges are going down.
In the UK they are going through the roof.
Zero regulation like Energy, Food, Water, Insurance, Rent...
They just rip you off as much as they like and the Government does nothing.
One of the rarest moons of the decade is rising over Earth tonight.
On May 30–31, the second full moon of the month will grace the sky, creating what is known as a Blue Moon. This uncommon event occurs only about once every two and a half years. After this weekend, the next monthly Blue Moon will not appear until December 2028.
This year’s Blue Moon is especially spectacular because it coincides with a beautiful planetary lineup. Before sunrise, Mars and Saturn will shine low in the eastern sky. After sunset, Venus and Jupiter will glow brightly in the west as the full moon dominates the night.
Despite its name, a Blue Moon is not actually blue. The term simply describes the second full moon to occur within a single calendar month. Since the Moon takes roughly 29.5 days to orbit Earth, squeezing two full moons into one month is unusual but not impossible.
The best time to view this Blue Moon may surprise you. Although it reaches peak fullness in the early hours of May 31, many skywatchers prefer to observe it rising on the evening of May 30. As it lifts above the horizon near sunset, the Moon often appears larger and takes on striking deep orange and golden hues.
This warm coloring is caused by the same atmospheric effect that creates colorful sunsets. Near the horizon, moonlight travels through more of Earth’s atmosphere, scattering shorter blue wavelengths and allowing longer red and orange wavelengths to reach our eyes.
The four bright planets sharing the sky with the Blue Moon are not actually close to one another. Jupiter, for example, is currently about 365 million miles (588 million km) from Earth. They only appear grouped together from our perspective here on the ground.
You can crash your yard's mosquito population without spraying a single chemical with a Mosquito Bucket of Doom.
Fill a 5-gallon bucket about two-thirds with water. Drop in a handful of grass clippings, leaves, or hay. Let it sit for a day, then drop in a Bti dunk (also called Bacillus thuringiensis israelensis, sold at any hardware store as "mosquito dunks," about $10 for six).
Mosquitoes are powerfully attracted to fermenting water and will lay their eggs in your bucket. Bti is a naturally occurring soil bacterium that produces a toxin that kills mosquito, blackfly, and fungus gnat larvae only.
This method doesn't harm bees, butterflies, fireflies, fish, frogs, birds, pets, or people. BTI dunks are EPA-approved for organic use and safe in animal water troughs and birdbaths.
One dunk lasts about 30 days. Top off the water as it evaporates. Cover with 1/2-in Mesh Hardware Cloth to prevent animals from getting trapped and put the bucket somewhere shady where pets and kids won't get into it.
The bucket becomes a mosquito magnet and a dead end. Compare that to fogging the entire yard with pyrethroids, which kills every insect in it, including the predators that eat mosquitoes.
Doug Tallamy's Homegrown National Park has been running the "Mosquito Bucket Challenge" since 2021. The more buckets in a neighborhood, the bigger the dent. One bucket per yard is a great start.
Why don’t you try to “live on benefits” Jeremy? Try applying for sickness or disability benefits for a start and see how far you get. Then try and live, day in day out, week in week out, on the pittance people receive. Then come back and tell us how easy it is.