Always Read The Handle

Mini-blogging or tweeting (bleeting?) my experiences, observations and random thoughts, sporadically and almost not at all.

[Paul Powlesland @paulpowlesland]

So, I find myself 30ft in the air up a tree in Wellingborough- surrounded by police, security & tree surgeons- trying to prevent an illegal tree felling. How did I end up here? Here’s an outrageous story of nature destruction & collusion between authorities & private developer 🧵

[Joe Blunden 💙 @NHSCommsJoe]

This is a few years old now but still as true as ever.

Some of the media in the UK have a lot to answer for.

[Martin Lewis @MartinSLewis]

10 days ago I sent Chancellor @Jeremy_Hunt a letter (below) asking him to postpone the govt's 20% increase in energy bills on 1 April.

Since, SEVENTY major charities (below), & the energy industry trade body have signed up to support the letter.

IF YOU SUPPORT THE CALL PLS RT

[Dan Neidle @DanNeidle]

The Post Office scandal is beyond shocking. Innocent people went to prison, had their assets seized and their reputations shredded. The victims are finally receiving compensation - but much will disappear in tax. Unless the Government acts.

A 🧵:
https://t.co/EbK2o0r303

[Florence Lox 🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @floboflo]

Get a better paid job, get a second job, wear an extra jumper, eat for 30p, swim in shit, live with Covid, don't call an ambulance, live without fresh fruit and veg, stop buying lattes and Netflix, live with your parents, stop talking down Britain, stop ruining Brexit and shut up

[Always Read The Handle @amyjoco]

@lauralexx If I'm removing a sink that's earthed ready for a new kitchen, can I just rip it out, wires and all? Or is there some special order I have to follow? 🤔⚡☠

[Always Read The Handle @amyjoco]

@guardian How does someone end up paying "an effective tax rate of 62%"?

[Always Read The Handle @amyjoco]

Solidarity to the workers.
Victory to the working people.

[PoliticsJOE @PoliticsJOE_UK]

"They are responsible for your poverty."

"We refuse to be poor. We are going to win for our people on our terms."

Mick Lynch's powerful speech in front of thousands of striking workers this afternoon.

[PoliticsJOE @PoliticsJOE_UK]

When the bloke representing civil servants says "the government is full of hypocrites" you know it's bad.

[Refugee Council 🧡 @refugeecouncil]

🧵 Today we publish a report showing that the majority of those men, women and children who cross the Channel on small boats would be granted asylum in the UK because they are fleeing war and persecution. Here’s how the Home Office tried to rubbish our report last night….

[Always Read The Handle @amyjoco]

Why do I have two news feeds now? What fresh twitter hell is this?

[JCWI (Follow us on Bluesky @jcwi-uk.bsky.social) @JCWI_UK]

This is a farcical, authoritarian, anti-democratic move from government that we should all be opposing.

[Always Read The Handle @amyjoco]

Full Braverman video, just as bad as shortened version. Ironically says she doesn't want to "conceal the reality of what we are all watching". Guess that doesn't extend to footage of her bizarrely justifying her use of nazi rhetoric because her parents worked in the nhs. Er what?

[Jo Grady @DrJoGrady]

RT if one of your New Year’s resolutions is to support every single worker that takes strike action in 2023.

The bosses, media and political class stick together.

So must ours.

Organise your workplace, support picket lines, donate to strike funds.

Do your bit.

[Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi MP @TanDhesi]

Let’s take a look at Avanti West Coast’s record:

-The fewest trains on time.

-More complaints than any operator.

-A wholesale failure to train new drivers.

So why are the Conservatives rewarding failure?

[Enough is Enough @eiecampaign]

115,000 Posties 💌

80,000 Railway workers 🚆

100,000 Nurses 👩‍⚕️

25,000 Paramedics 🚑

100,000 Civil Servants 💼

This Christmas, workers across different sectors are fighting back not just for better pay and conditions but for better public services.

RT if you're with them 👊

[Jo Grady @DrJoGrady]

RT IF YOU ARE A STRIKING UNIVERSITY WORKER, POSTIE, TEACHER OR ANYONE ELSE ON THE PICKET LINE TODAY.

ALSO RT IF YOU BACK THEM.

Let’s cut beyond the media and show people they have mass support.

#ucuRISING

#StandByYourPost

[BBC Politics @BBCPolitics]

What is the safe and legal route for a 16-year-old orphan escaping an African warzone to join their sibling who is legally in the UK?

Home Secretary Suella Braverman struggles to answer Tory MP Tim Loughton
https://t.co/G7Wbp5Cb7M

[PoliticsJOE @PoliticsJOE_UK]

“The Daily Mail supported Adolf Hitler.”

RMT’s Mick Lynch responds to a Daily Mail journalist who described him as “the Grinch of Christmas”

[Always Read The Handle @amyjoco]

I'm not watching it (not that I've watched for years now) but also not reading any articles about him or listening to "news" items about his appearance. It's a blatant re-brand attempt and I'm not aiding it.

[Doctors’ Association UK @TheDA_UK]

“As a GP & DAUK’s Co-chair, I’m only too aware of Hancock’s role in the UK’s pandemic response. And what’s more – he has not yet been held accountable” - Dr Ellen Welch in @MetroUK

https://t.co/3ns30M8bJg

#NHS #iamacelebrity