Amy Yeo

Conservative Party member. Tea-drinking Brit 🇬🇧 . Cyclist, former runner & failed triathlete. Always on a side quest 🎮

[Amy Yeo @Amy_Y_24]

An amazing speech by @KemiBadenoch . The @Conservatives are on the up 🇬🇧

[Amy Yeo @Amy_Y_24]

@sophielouisecc I have been warned by colleagues at work to keep anything remotely right wing quiet - less someone gets offended and takes it to HR. My boss is playing the game as well realising where this is going. I know full well what his views are but he’s saying the opposite

[Amy Yeo @Amy_Y_24]

@KEdge23 It’s the shower cap that had me 😂

[Amy Yeo @Amy_Y_24]

@sophielouisecc Many companies have policies now where your actions outside of work can result in disciplinary if it is deemed to bring the organisation/company into disrepute or if someone takes offence and reports it.

[Amy Yeo @Amy_Y_24]

@StaceWhat Bisterr - got to have a proper R sound on the end for me.

[Amy Yeo @Amy_Y_24]

@lukerobertblack Reform single-handedly drag the national average down.

[Amy Yeo @Amy_Y_24]

@LucyTrims It feels very grim. The UK has, by and large, always been a tolerant and respectful country but I feel like an obsession with labels and categories has created a vicious nasty example of group think and in/out group behaviour.

[Amy Yeo @Amy_Y_24]

Fortunately I took an interest and began cooking the odd meal for my family when I was 14-15. When I was home from uni my grandma would let me cook dinner a couple of times a week. She was in charge of quality control. I still cook for my mum when I stay with her

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

A British girl in 1960 left school able to roast a joint, render the dripping, make a suet crust and bone a fish. Her granddaughter was taught to design the box a pizza comes in.

It was called domestic science, and it was on the timetable from the 1870s. Once a week you carried your ingredients in on the bus in a wicker basket with a tea towel over the top. A woman in a white overall, who frightened everybody, taught you the lot.

- How to choose a cheap cut and make it tender
- How to make stock from the bones
- How to use up the cold joint on Monday
- How to feed a family of 5 for a week on a wage

The boys were next door doing woodwork, and went home to be fed by someone who had passed the course.

In 1990 the National Curriculum abolished it. Cooking was folded into a new subject called design and technology, alongside plastics and electronics. Pupils no longer cooked a meal. They "developed a food product". They surveyed their classmates on preferred toppings, drew the packaging, and wrote an evaluation.

Thousands of school kitchens were stripped out, since nobody needed an oven to draw a box.

That was 36 years ago. The first children through it are now the parents, standing in a supermarket with no idea what to do with a shoulder of lamb, and being told that their weight is a failure of willpower.

It was a decision. A country that had taught every girl to turn a carcass into a week of dinners chose to teach her children to be customers.

[Amy Yeo @Amy_Y_24]

@Streakyblue1951 Exactly and in daily life many people use shortened versions of their first name. Tom instead of Thomas, Steph instead of Stephanie. Some use their middle name instead of their first name- Liz Truss was named Mary Elizabeth Truss by her parents but goes by Liz

[Amy Yeo @Amy_Y_24]

If this ends up on HIGNY…

[Amy Yeo @Amy_Y_24]

Not me dodging the media this morning 😂 - I was not expecting a camera and microphone to be pointed in my direction 😳@TalkTV

[Amy Yeo @Amy_Y_24]

@LuggJudith Exactly it’s pure racism. And it is one of the things I genuinely can’t stand.

[Amy Yeo @Amy_Y_24]

People are stooping so low as to say Kemi Badenoch isn’t using her real name… but they say nothing about Liz Truss or Nick Timothy or Penny Mordaunt or Mel Stride… all use a shortened version of their first name… it’s racism to say Kemi isn’t using her ‘real name’

[Amy Yeo @Amy_Y_24]

@AEHALL1983 @stopthesupermaj And a torrent of racist word salad from Reform too.

[Amy Yeo @Amy_Y_24]

@DonaldC03660803 @DLumsden_MP might have something to say on one of those points 😂

[Amy Yeo @Amy_Y_24]

My post yesterday attracted a lot of Refrom trolls out of the woodwork. One wonders if they’re a little fragile given Kemi’s speech was an absolute barnstormer

[Amy Yeo @Amy_Y_24]

An amazing speech by @KemiBadenoch . The @Conservatives are on the up 🇬🇧

[Amy Yeo @Amy_Y_24]

@drellietheking So far I’m safe. BUT… I was on the tail end of an illness coming into conference so I may have contributed to some of it. 😔

[Amy Yeo @Amy_Y_24]

@HinckleyConserv It’s pure racism plain and simple. They’re showing their true colours - they have resorted to racism as they have nothing else they can attack with

[Amy Yeo @Amy_Y_24]

@lukerobertblack I bet Nigel Farage also uses an auto cue too.

[Amy Yeo @Amy_Y_24]

Right I’ve got a lot of work to do blocking a lot of racists who also decided to spew putrid bile on my posts

[Amy Yeo @Amy_Y_24]

@LucyTrims I chose an apartment-hotel. I’m wary of Airbnb (heard too many horror stories!). It gave me the convenience of a hotel if I wanted it or the privacy of an apartment which I preferred. In future I think this will be my preferred option if possible.

[Amy Yeo @Amy_Y_24]

@kevinhollinrake 🐾 Hope she got lots of treats and scritches yesterday.