Anne Pugh 💙🌈

Solo traveller and keen wildlife watcher. @TheSofaSingers member and @NVFUK Trustee. Left leaning, proud to be woke, mad g'ma.

[Anne Pugh 💙🌈 @AnnePugh]

@reformparty_uk Remove me from your mailing list! I do not wish to hear about a rally in Leeds. I have never expressed any interest in your party and I will never vote for you. Britain isn't broken but it will be if @Nigel_Farage has his way. I DO NOT want to hear from you again.

[Guz Khan 🥶 @GuzKhanOfficial]

You know what Burnham and Markerfield proves?

This is a good country. Full of good people. This app is false. It’s a meeting point for wankers who share racist and xenophobic ideas.

You lot crack on, best of luck. England is REAL offline. That’s the best England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🩵🫱🏾‍🫲🏻🫱����‍🫲🏾

[Rebecca Long-Bailey @RLong_Bailey]

Well done @AndyBurnhamGM and the lovely people of Makerfield constituency. A brilliant result built on hope 👏✊

[Anne Pugh 💙🌈 @AnnePugh]

@emsibabes @Councillorsuzie @francesbarber13 @EmilyThornberry I've never been accosted by anyone in a women only space. I'm happy to share that space with women who are trans. I'm more scared of the men who are outside the women-only space.

[Anne Pugh 💙🌈 @AnnePugh]

@Gexa67a @Imogenlemon02 The country saw one man speak about how decent people respect the wishes of the victim's father. That man was our current PM. Farage would lead us to disaster.

[Waqas🔶️ @m0w4q45]

I was a prison officer, Nick. You can't preach "tough on crime." Your lot cut nearly 7,000 prison officers since 2010 and handed our jails to G4S and Serco. You broke the system, then act shocked it doesn't work.

You know what actually works? Lads out on licence getting their track tickets, learning a trade, coming home as taxpayers instead of reoffenders. That's using human capital, not warehousing it. A lad sat in a cell doing nothing helps nobody.

And funny how quiet you all go on the tax dodgers and the oligarchs bankrolling Putin's war. Boris took a Russian ex-KGB man's hospitality at his Italian villa, dodged his own officials, then made the son a Lord. Where's your "lock them up" energy for that?

[Roger Gall @Shambles151]

Nigel Farage - the leader of Reform UK - is under investigation for failing to declare a £5 million 'gift'.

Please RT this until the BBC gives this story the same level of blanket coverage - as it would for the leader of any other UK political Party.

[Woke Lefty 🫣 @SalfordMe2023]

In response to @Helen_Whately

The continued demonization of the most vulnerable members of our society for political point scoring has to stop.

On Sky News this morning you bumbled your way through an interview in which you described anxiety as a 'low level mental health condition' and said people suffering from it shouldn't qualify for PIP.

I don't receive PIP, but I know a thing or two about anxiety, and there's nothing 'low level' about people who get PIP because of it.

Mild anxiety isn't a qualifying condition for PIP.

As a former senior RASSO detective I've seen rape survivors become so crippled with anxiety they can't leave their homes. Men and women whose entire lives were stolen from them because someone decided to violate their very essence.

I buried my brother when he took his life because he couldn't cope with the anxiety that haunted his every waking hour.

You were asked to clarify if all sufferers from anxiety would be denied PIP. After twice being told it's okay to say you didn't know, if you didn't, you said yes, anxiety 'on it's own' wouldn't be a qualifying condition.

You further claimed that anxiety sufferers don't incur 'additional expenses' so therefore their condition doesn't meet the original purpose of PIP.

You clearly don't understand the disease, and it IS a disease, if you believe that.

Ironically, comments like those you so glibly threw out at the public this morning will serve only to worsen the condition of those sufferers who will, despite knowing there's no prospect of you ever being anything other than Shadow Secretary, now become ever more affected.

MPs earn an obscene £98,599 a year. On top of that you receive staffing costs, office costs, travel costs and accommodation costs.

The very least the public is entitled to expect from any 'duly elected' Member of Parliament is they understand they have a duty of care that, as a minimum, requires them to understand the subjects they're making policy decisions about.

There are far too many politicians currently running with the narrative that people with a disability, whether it's physical or psychological, are a drain on our finances.

Nobody chooses to be disabled, stop punching down on those who sadly are.

[Martin Davies 🇬🇧 🇫🇷 🇪🇺 🇨🇦 @martindvz]

Brexit explained by someone who isn’t a liar and was there and who knows:

[Anne Pugh 💙🌈 @AnnePugh]

@SwierczewskiZeb @TFWNicholson @TheProjectUnity Hate speech is hate speech, whoever it's aimed at. It's not criticism. You know when you have read something that is hateful.

[Anne Pugh 💙🌈 @AnnePugh]

@SwierczewskiZeb @TFWNicholson @TheProjectUnity Of course we're "allowed" to say whatever we want, unless it is hate speech. We are very comfortable with our freedom in the UK.

[Anne Pugh 💙🌈 @AnnePugh]

@BhattiLaib9960 Contented

[Anne Pugh 💙🌈 @AnnePugh]

@TerenceKerr5 @MichaelTakeMP I remember seeing photos of my father wearing plus fours. Why? I'll never know! He certainly never played golf.

[Anne Pugh 💙🌈 @AnnePugh]

@ReedFawell111 @JamesMartinSJ What about the account in Luke's gospel where Jesus tells Martha not to be angry with her sister Mary because sitting at his feet is of equal value to Martha's efforts to make a meal?

[Natalka @littleukrainian]

@JamesMartinSJ @jazzlover200 The Gospel never said “blessed are the efficient.” Pope Leo XIV is calling out a culture that measures human worth like quarterly profits.

[Anne Pugh 💙🌈 @AnnePugh]

These words are so important. They remind us that each person has an inherent value, by virtue of being human. Life should not simply be a fight to prove our worth.

[James Martin, SJ @JamesMartinSJ]

Pope Leo XIV: "Among these ideologies, I consider particularly insidious the one that suggests that every person must earn or justify his or her own worth, to the point of attributing greater value to those who are more efficient or effective. From this perspective, persons end up being reduced to a means of achieving results, a resource to be used and exploited, and are no longer recognized as a proper end in themselves who should never be instrumentalized. The value of persons, however, does not depend on what they achieve or produce. There are rights that apply to everyone simply by virtue of being human, and no human power can legitimately deny or arbitrarily limit them." #MagnificaHumanitas

[James Martin, SJ @JamesMartinSJ]

Pope Leo XIV: "Among these ideologies, I consider particularly insidious the one that suggests that every person must earn or justify his or her own worth, to the point of attributing greater value to those who are more efficient or effective. From this perspective, persons end up being reduced to a means of achieving results, a resource to be used and exploited, and are no longer recognized as a proper end in themselves who should never be instrumentalized. The value of persons, however, does not depend on what they achieve or produce. There are rights that apply to everyone simply by virtue of being human, and no human power can legitimately deny or arbitrarily limit them." #MagnificaHumanitas

[Carl Bovis @CarlBovisNature]

This is what entitlement looks like! 🤬
There are nesting waterbirds on this pond on Hampstead Heath... there are also big 'No Swimming' signs, all being totally ignored! 🤬
Pure selfishness... 😒🤬🤬

(Shared from Instagr*m with permission from 'swansofhampsteadheath')

[Sara Wahedi @SaraWahedi]

Made it my life’s mission to become the Taliban’s worst nightmare:

A highly educated Afghan woman.

First, Columbia University at the top of my class, and now Oxford University.

Give Afghan girls one chance and see what they can achieve.

[Anne Pugh 💙🌈 @AnnePugh]

@SaraWahedi @JohnTwelvetrees If you want to become the #TalibansWorstNightmare please keep letting us know what we can do to help you succeed in that!

[Will Black 🍓🍄 @WillBlackWriter]

People are saying that Nigel Farage has asked Elon Musk to ban people from X for sharing this clip of him attacking his crony Robert Jenrick.

Surely free speech champion Nigel Farage isn't that petty? But just in case, THIS is the video that you mustn't download or share