Michelle McGrath

Just me. Happy wife. Busy mum.

[Michelle McGrath @FlixtonFilly]

@DefenceHQ @EHOinExile @England Love this 🦁

[Angela Rayner @AngelaRayner]

The Tories have crowned Rishi Sunak without him saying a word about what he would do as PM. He has no mandate, no answers and no ideas. Nobody voted for this.

The public deserve their say on Britain’s future through a General Election. It’s time for a fresh start with Labour.

[Andy Burnham @andyburnham]

I think this hashtag needs to be trending tonight, don’t you?

#GeneralElectionNow

[Michelle McGrath @FlixtonFilly]

@elonmusk And how will you harness our humanity?

[The Best @TheBestqueenx]

If this bird filed a paternity lawsuit against President Trump, it would win 100%. 🤣🤣

[Michelle McGrath @FlixtonFilly]

@BBCPolitics Why didn’t @bbclaurak ask Mandelson what he meant by Yum Yum in one of his emails to Epstein? Woeful interview.

[Michelle McGrath @FlixtonFilly]

@dussyme Evelyn and Alice

[Michelle McGrath @FlixtonFilly]

@Joanne13Harding Merry Christmas Joanne 🎄

[Michelle McGrath @FlixtonFilly]

@ZelenskyyUa Merry Christmas 🇺🇦 ♥️

[Michelle McGrath @FlixtonFilly]

@piersmorgan You could be brothers!

[Michelle McGrath @FlixtonFilly]

@NotFarLeftAtAll Yes

[Michelle McGrath @FlixtonFilly]

@zatzi Younger end of primary, I’d say Famous Five. A little older, Secret Seven and lastly Mallory Towers.

[Michelle McGrath @FlixtonFilly]

@elonmusk Frightening

[Michelle McGrath @FlixtonFilly]

@MFT_MRI Would be wonderful if this could be implemented @ MRI. I can relate 100% with the feeling of panic when unable to find a parking space to visit seriously ill family member.

[Mr PitBull Stories @MrPitbull07]

"My name's Raymond. I'm 73. I work the parking lot at St. Joseph's Hospital. Minimum wage, orange vest, a whistle I barely use. Most people don't even look at me. I'm just the old man waving cars into spaces.
But I see everything.

Like the black sedan that circled the lot every morning at 6 a.m. for three weeks. Young man driving, grandmother in the passenger seat. Chemotherapy, I figured. He'd drop her at the entrance, then spend 20 minutes hunting for parking, missing her appointments.

One morning, I stopped him. "What time tomorrow?"
"6:15," he said, confused.
"Space A-7 will be empty. I'll save it."
He blinked. "You... you can do that?"
"I can now," I said.

Next morning, I stood in A-7, holding my ground as cars circled angrily. When his sedan pulled up, I moved. He rolled down his window, speechless. "Why?"
"Because she needs you in there with her," I said. "Not out here stressing."
He cried. Right there in the parking lot.

Word spread quietly. A father with a sick baby asked if I could help. A woman visiting her dying husband. I started arriving at 5 a.m., notebook in hand, tracking who needed what. Saved spots became sacred. People stopped honking. They waited. Because they knew someone else was fighting something bigger than traffic.
But here's what changed everything, A businessman in a Mercedes screamed at me one morning. "I'm not sick! I need that spot for a meeting!"

"Then walk," I said calmly. "That space is for someone whose hands are shaking too hard to grip a steering wheel."

He sped off, furious. But a woman behind him got out of her car and hugged me. "My son has leukemia," she sobbed. "Thank you for seeing us."

The hospital tried to stop me. "Liability issues," they said. But then families started writing letters. Dozens. "Raymond made the worst days bearable." "He gave us one less thing to break over."

Last month, they made it official. "Reserved Parking for Families in Crisis." Ten spots, marked with blue signs. And they asked me to manage it.

But the best part? A man I'd helped two years ago, his mother survived, came back. He's a carpenter. Built a small wooden box, mounted it by the reserved spaces. Inside? Prayer cards, tissues, breath mints, and a note,

"Take what you need. You're not alone. -Raymond & Friends"
People leave things now. Granola bars. Phone chargers. Yesterday, someone left a hand-knitted blanket.
I'm 73. I direct traffic in a hospital parking lot. But I've learned this: Healing doesn't just happen in operating rooms. Sometimes it starts in a parking space. When someone says, "I see your crisis. Let me carry this one small piece."

So pay attention. At the grocery checkout, the coffee line, wherever you are. Someone's drowning in the little things while fighting the big ones.

Hold a door. Save a spot. Carry the weight no one else sees.
It's not glamorous. But it's everything."

Let this story reach more hearts....

Credit: Mary Nelson

[Michelle McGrath @FlixtonFilly]

@MAGAVoice Good. Recent comment on BBC lamenting that it’s tax payers money. It Was tax payers money that funded the Panorama programme. And those clips shown in the UK influenced people’s view of Trump. I’m annoyed that I was duped. Trump should sue. Leftist propaganda needs to stop.

[Michelle McGrath @FlixtonFilly]

@Matt_Pinner 18?

[Michelle McGrath @FlixtonFilly]

@Matt_Pinner Satan

[Michelle McGrath @FlixtonFilly]

@gunsnrosesgirl3 Blow Dry

[Michelle McGrath @FlixtonFilly]

@buitengebieden Stooge

[Chris Littlewood @chrislittlewoo8]

Digital ID for every adult is not progress. It is the end of a free society dressed up as convenience.

I am a cyber security specialist. This is my take.

They are selling it as a fix for illegal migration. That is bollocks.

We spend hundreds of billions a year on cyber security and yet the volume of breaches is breaking records. The threat is growing faster than the spend.

Digital ID will not stop boats. It will not stop trafficking gangs. It will not fix a broken border.

Criminals will work around it.

Honest citizens will pay the price.

It builds giant data banks that track where you go, what you buy, what you read and who you speak to.

It links your identity to every checkpoint in daily life.

One breach and your life is exposed.

Look at Jaguar Land Rover and the airports in recent weeks. Now imagine that at national scale on an ID system tied to everything you need to live your daily life.

Here is the risk that ministers will not admit.

Ransomware seeded through a supplier or an insider:

It lies quiet for months.
It rolls through the backups.
On trigger day the register and the recovery sets are both encrypted.

Payments fail. Health and benefits stall. Borders slow. Citizens are frozen out until a ransom is paid or the state rebuilds from scratch.

Centralise identity and you centralise failure.

Do not fall for the pitch.
Function creep is certain.
It starts as login.

It becomes access to money, travel, speech and public services.

It turns rights into permissions controlled by the state and its contractors.

It creates a single point of failure for criminals, insiders and hostile states to target.

It will punish the elderly, the poor and anyone who is not always online.

It will centralise risk and outsource blame.

It will not stop fraud.

It will not stop illegal migration.

It will build the machinery for a social credit system by stealth.

If ministers cared about the border, they would enforce current laws, resource patrols and processing, close loopholes and remove those with no right to stay.

You do not need a national ID to do any of that.

We scrapped ID cards in 2010 for a reason.

Britain does not need a central register to prove age or status.

Yes to privacy first proofs. No to a database state.