George Osborne got booed at the paralympics because his policies killed so many disabled people.
To have any sympathy for him whatsoever is an affront to the people who are now dead because of him.
Since 2010:
📉 Teachers' real pay is down by £6,600
📉 Paramedics' real pay is down £6,000
📉 Nurses’ real pay down £5,000
📉 Midwives’ real pay down £6,000
Longest period of wage stagnation since the Napoleonic wars and yet workers are told it's their pay causing inflation.
i’ll shut up after this but I just can’t wrap my head around the fact that the military heard them implode when it happened and STILL there was $6,500,000 spent on looking for them, while the greek coast guard WATCHED (there’s film) the 750 refugees sink and did nothing to help
The default position in English law is that 16 year olds can consent to medical treatment. Under 16s can also consent, without their parents knowledge if necessary. This was established in the Gillick case. So they can decide what pronouns to use.
For a week now the combined forces of media, Government and press plus a baroness and a comedian.... have been going after a child who "claims she's a cat."
Only it's not true. Its a lie and a cover for hate and transphobia.
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A woman recounts her experience of being groped, and anti-trans activists dogpile her with anti-trans bigotry.
I've said it before. I'll say it again.
The anti-trans movement is sick.
There are 7 (7!) front-page BBC news stories or features about the missing billionaire tourist submarine.
There are now 0 stories about the refugee "crisis," where European indifference and wilful neglect took 300 lives last week. And more lives will be claimed without action.
And there is is… it was never about saving money. It was always about maintaining the optics of cruelty whilst funnelling more money to private sector cronies. £1.6B awarded quickly & quietly for barges.
Dirty government in bed with private profiteers.
By refusing to block a government proposal to give the police unprecedented powers to stop peaceful protests, Labour has allowed a monstrous assault on our freedoms to pass into law.
This is a day of shame for a party that arose from a protest movement.
“The hardest part has been watching friends of mine and listening to them talk about being stuck there.”
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Forcing young trans people to go through a puberty which will trigger gender dysphasia, and often sadly attempted suicide, is heartless and simply inhumane.
It's a fucking joke hearing MPs talk about "the need to support women's rights" as a smokescreen for attacking the rights of trans people on the same day as Britain jailed a woman for taking abortion pills when she couldn't get a scan.
There's a section of our press & political system actively invested in ensuring that the lives of LGBT+ and disabled people are increasingly at risk.
Ask any queer person in your life if they feel safer now compared to 5 years ago and I guarantee the vast majority will say "No".