Lesley

Happiness is not by chance, but by choice 💕

[Mike Gardner @mikegardner_wb]

Great video from Andrew Neil as he likens Labour’s conference to the Titanic - complacently steaming towards a rendezvous with reality.

Thatcherism heralded the most successful post-war period we’ve ever had.

Burnham hates it but the reality is we’ve become a failed State because we’ve moved away from it to embrace the things he loves and wants more of.

@afneil

[Benonwine @benonwine]

Three Dogs Roasted Alive in a Hot Car While Their Owners Played Golf — The “Responsible” Owner Got 100 Hours Unpaid Work and Can Still Keep Animals.

Company director Sarah Sharkey left four Irish Setters Brodie, Sorcha, Seren and Barclay locked inside a vehicle for two hours in Colney Heath on 4 July 2025 while she and her husband Brendan went to play golf.

By the time they returned, three of the dogs had already roasted to death. Seren was barely alive and needed emergency veterinary care.

Sharkey, a reported pet sitter and breeder, admitted four counts of causing unnecessary suffering to protected animals.
Her punishment?

A 12-month community order with just 100 hours of unpaid work and £85 in costs.
She was not banned from keeping animals. Magistrates said she had been “a responsible and competent dog owner for many years.”
What kind of justice is this?

Three dogs suffered and died a horrific death because their owners chose golf over their lives on a hot day. The car turned into an oven. They trusted the people meant to protect them.

And the consequences? A slap on the wrist and permission to keep animals again.
What sort of determination led to that decision? What message does it send that dogs’ lives are disposable as long as you’ve been “responsible” in the past?

This isn’t justice. It’s an insult to every animal that suffers because someone puts convenience first.

Share this. Demand better. These dogs deserved far more than this pathetic outcome.

[PROTECT ALL WILDLIFE @Protect_Wldlife]

Animals are not ours to use and abuse!

Look at the baby tethered to keep her apart from her mother who is restricted with shackles around her feet.

The ‘man’ carries a bull hook to ensure the Elephants comply 😡.

Tourists ~ #DontBuyATicket 🎟️ EVER!! 🚫

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

Dartmoor's hill ponies have grazed those commons for longer than there has been a country called England. Fewer than a thousand are left, down from six thousand a generation ago. The United Nations listed them as endangered in 2023. So, naturally, the body charged with protecting nature has decided to get rid of nine in ten of the survivors.

There is a process, obviously.

Natural England's new grazing contracts now count the ponies in the same bucket as the cattle and sheep. A commoner with a fixed quota has a choice: keep a semi-wild pony worth nothing at market, or use the slot for a lamb he can sell. Guess which one survives the spreadsheet. The rest are gathered in the autumn drifts, and with nowhere to put thousands of unhandled moorland ponies, the next stop is the abattoir.

Natural England would like it noted that it has not ordered a cull. It has merely built a machine whose only output is a cull, switched it on, and handed the bolt gun to a farmer so the fingerprints land elsewhere. Very tidy.

And now the funny part. The pony is the best tool on the entire moor for eating Molinia, the coarse purple grass strangling Dartmoor into a brown monoculture. Cattle and sheep won't touch it. The ponies hoover it down and clear the ground for the orchids, the wildflowers and the insects behind them. Remove the ponies and the moor chokes into precisely the lifeless scrubland the contract was meant to prevent.

So the conservation strategy, in full: protect the habitat by deleting the animal that maintains the habitat. A masterclass.

Better still, Natural England's own Fursdon review looked at this exact question and told them, in plain English, not to lump ponies in with cattle and not to cut pony numbers. They read it, praised it, said they fully supported it, then did the precise opposite.

Four thousand years these animals have run Dartmoor with no committee and no contract. They could be gone within one, and the people who did it will write it up as a win for nature.

[Alex Armstrong @Alexarmstrong]

Fantastic video from these young farmers explaining the basic economics and mathematics of the inheritance tax law that Rachel Reeves from customer service and is clearly incapable of.

Please share this to inform the left wing echo chamber where needed.

[PROTECT ALL WILDLIFE @Protect_Wldlife]

Yet again @RickyGervais nails it when it comes to his views on trophy hunters!

"What must've happened to you in your life to make you want to kill a beautiful animal and then lie next to it smiling? 😠!!"

RT if you want a GLOBAL ban on #TrophyHunting NOW!

[PROTECT ALL WILDLIFE @Protect_Wldlife]

"Well done. You managed to shoot a stationery, 14 foot peaceful creature with a high velocity rifle. Very sporting!" ~ @RickyGervais.

RT if you want a WORLDWIDE ban on #trophyhunting.

[Viewsfromtheomnibus @MrsLScotland]

From FB 😢

Post from a Beekeeper 🐝
“Its late, and maybe in the morning I'll delete this post, but I've just got home and for now I need to write this down.
Earlier this evening I received a message from a home owner to say they had a swarm of bees in their hedge, but they were worried about them because children had been throwing water at them.
By the time my fellow beekeeper and I arrived, what had been a beautiful prime swarm was reduced to a few hundred drenched bees, huddling limply around their queen.
I've already deleted the photos of the puddles of water, the dripping wet hedge, and the many, many dead and dying bees that hadn't been able to escape the attack; sharing those pictures serves no purpose.
We gently placed the bees that had survived into a collection box, and hopefully tomorrow, when they've had chance to dry out and settle, we'll check on them and if necessary feed them; they'll be exhausted and possibly (understandably) defensive. They've been through a lot.
Please, please, help me to educate your children, your grandchildren, your neices and nephews, your neighbours, your colleagues and your friends that a swarm of bees isn't dangerous - they're amazing creatures that are just looking for a new home.
Please don't let anyone harm them.
Just call a beekeeper who will gladly rehome them.
Please help me to spread this message and hopefully save any more bees from being unnecessarily harmed” 😢
Sad and unhappy Beekeeper

[St Andrews Wine Co @StAndrewsWine]

Good morning wine people, I need your help. The @scotgov is going to destroy the wine trade here with their DRS and alcohol marketing bans. Can you retweet this today so @NicolaSturgeon and @lornaslater know that you aren’t happy about it. https://t.co/OdNRxYgVEq

[The Majority #ScrapHolyrood @themajorityscot]

Retweet if you don't want Sturgeon's HARD BORDER

[(((Edwin Moore))) @GlasgowAlbum]

Graphic images of cetacean slaughter in the Faroes. Angus Robertson is just back from neighbouring Iceland, which also slaughters cetatceans - yet the SNP tells us we have more in common with these people than the English. What do Scottish Greens say?

https://t.co/39nfCBfbAK

[Graeme Hanna @graeme818]

Go put your money where your mouth is, please.

Donate a pound or more to @UnionBears_07 to say thanks for doing the club and the nation proud, tonight. Retweet.

https://t.co/cPV7jotDDH

[Lesley @els0064]

Thank you, your majesty!

[Lesley @els0064]

A breast scanning programme to be added to the annual mammogram checks for women who have had primary breast cancer. - Sign the Petition! https://t.co/H1TwOT3SrT via @UKChange

[Lesley @els0064]

Help @PETAUK work to prevent horses, primates, cats, dogs, and other individuals from being tormented and killed in horrific experiments: https://t.co/u8PXl7DJjm

[Lesley @els0064]

Petition: Ban the religious slaughter of animals without first stunning them https://t.co/FmAhodTvtn

[Allison Heutsche @artasanjewelry]

Huge best wishes and good luck to @RangersFC - a special message from Belinda Carlisle ♥️
@The_real_Gio #johnlundstram @James_Tavernier @RangersUELFinal
@ibroxrocks @EuropaLeague @4ladshadadream @talkSPORTDrive @ClydeSSB @btsport @SeafarerMichael @Sports_EmmaD #uel

[Rangers Football Club @RangersFC]

Remember who you represent 🔴⚪️🔵

Stay safe and enjoy the party 🇪🇸

#UEL