Rhona White 🔸

Manager - Children's Social Care. Social Worker, parent and wife, usually in that order. Any views expressed here are my own

[Dragonrider Sue 🐟 🐦 she/her 🇪🇺🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @topsyscatmum]

Still applies.. Sadly.

[Rhona White 🔸 @greyseal70]

@ArgyleBecky Yep, think it’s just you

[Rhona White 🔸 @greyseal70]

Forever with us in our hearts, and our memories Jim

[Kenton White @whitey_boy]

Four years ago today was the last time I spoke to Jim, my son. He died suddenly the next day.

[Kenton White @whitey_boy]

The beauty of nature

[Rhona White 🔸 @greyseal70]

@simonateba Almost anyone is more credible than that particular former president of the United States

[Dr Andrew Meyerson @AndrewMeyerson]

Dear 🇬🇧,

This is the anatomy of a militant takeover of your public healthcare system:

- Take the #1 healthcare system on Earth
- Defund it by £320 billion over a decade
- Force doctors and nurses to leave country
- Engineer the longest waitlist in NHS history
- Hold patients hostage to private healthcare
- Get the public sick, angry, out of work
- Call the sick public “generation sicknote”
- Mandate employers pay for private care

This is how they’ll continue to funnel billions more of your public money into the private sector, propping them up at the expense of your NHS, under the guise of “reducing the benefits bill and boosting the economy.” They could have simply funded the NHS and we wouldn’t be such a sick and out of work nation.

And so when we talk about the creation of a two-tier system, this is exactly what we mean: rapid access to a doctor for the wealthy on private healthcare, and years-long waits to see a non-doctor in the NHS.

The @Conservatives goal has always been to turn your NHS into an American privatised nightmare — just like the one I grew up in where healthcare is obtained through the employer at massive cost to both employer and employee — and it’s all happening right under your nose, without your consent.

So please wake up and stop letting them steal your healthcare from you and your family. They are not going to improve your healthcare, they’re simply going to take it away, only to sell it right back to you.

If you value the health of your family, never vote for them ever again.

#SOSNHS

[Rhona White 🔸 @greyseal70]

Come and join us at Central Bedfordshire.
We are Good, can you support the work to be Outstanding ?

https://t.co/wdQTw3ag8R

[Rhona White 🔸 @greyseal70]

@whitey_boy We are still going to see it though

[Dara Ó Briain @daraobriain]

We could get angry at Suella’s latest piece of performative, pandering cruelty or… instead:
let’s promote the excellent work done by @Shelter, @centrepointuk, @PassageCharity and other fine charities actually trying to help homeless people, especially now, as winter approaches.

[CALL TO ACTIVISM @CalltoActivism]

I absolutely love this story........ It made me cry.

"An 87 Year Old College Student Named Rose
The first day of school our professor introduced himself and challenged us to get to know someone we didn’t already know.

I stood up to look around when a gentle hand touched my shoulder. I turned round to find a wrinkled, little old lady beaming up at me
with a smile that lit up her entire being.

She said, “Hi handsome. My name is Rose. I’m eighty-seven years old. Can I give you a hug?”

I laughed and enthusiastically responded, “Of course you may!” and she gave me a giant squeeze.
“Why are you in college at such a young, innocent age?” I asked.

She jokingly replied, “I’m here to meet a rich husband, get married, and have a couple of kids…”

“No seriously,” I asked. I was curious what may have motivated her to be taking on this challenge at her age.

“I always dreamed of having a college education and now I’m getting one!” she told me.
After class we walked to the student union building and shared a chocolate milkshake.

We became instant friends. Every day for the next three months, we would leave class together and talk nonstop. I was always mesmerized listening to this “time machine”
as she shared her wisdom and experience with me.

Over the course of the year, Rose became a campus icon and she easily made friends wherever she went. She loved to dress up and she reveled in the attention bestowed upon her from the other students. She was living it up.

At the end of the semester we invited Rose to speak at our football banquet. I’ll never forget what she taught us.

She was introduced and stepped up to the podium.
As she began to deliver her prepared speech, she dropped her three by five cards on the floor. Frustrated and a little embarrassed she leaned into the microphone and simply said, “I’m sorry I’m so jittery. I gave up beer for Lent and this whiskey is killing me! I’ll never get my speech back in order so let me just tell you what I know.”

As we laughed she cleared her throat and began, “We do not stop playing because we are old; we grow old because we stop
playing. There are only four secrets to staying young, being happy, and achieving success.

1) You have to laugh and find humor every day.

2) You’ve got to have a dream. When you lose your dreams, you die.

We have so many people walking around who are dead and don’t even know it!

3) There is a huge difference between growing
older and growing up.

If you are nineteen years old and lie in bed for one full year and don’t do one productive thing, you will turn twenty years old.

If I am eighty-seven years old and stay in bed for a year and never do anything I will turn eighty-eight.

Anybody can grow older.

That doesn’t take any talent or ability.

The idea is to grow up by always finding opportunity in change.

4) Have no regrets.

The elderly usually don’t have regrets for what we did, but rather for things we did not do. The only people who fear death are those
with regrets.”

She concluded her speech by courageously singing “The Rose.

She challenged each of us to study the lyrics and live them out in our daily lives.
At the year’s end Rose finished the college degree she had begun all those years ago. One week after graduation Rose died
peacefully in her sleep.

Over two thousand college students attended her funeral in tribute to the wonderful woman who taught by example that it’s
never too late to be all you can possibly be.

When you finish reading this, please send this peaceful word of advice to your friends and family, they’ll really enjoy it!

These words have been passed along in loving memory of ROSE.

REMEMBER, GROWING OLDER IS MANDATORY. GROWING UP IS
OPTIONAL.

We make a Living by what we get,

We make a Life by what we give."

[Dr. Robert Rohde @RARohde]

The Earth has just completed the warmest month that humans have ever directly measured.

All of human civilization was built during a climate that no longer exists due to the global warming from man-made greenhouse gases.

https://t.co/utQOKKfWDE

[Jason Pedlow 💙 @JasonPedlow]

To save the British tax payer the already massively inflated cost of £3000/month to house an asylum seeker, they are spending £166,000 per month on housing that same asylum seeker on a barge.

Let me repeat that.

£166,666.00 per month, PER PERSON.

That's Tory economics.

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[Rhona White 🔸 @greyseal70]

@sharrond62 I like the idea of two categories- one for women born female and an open category for everyone else.

[Greenpeace UK @GreenpeaceUK]

SHOCKING FACT: If you earned £40,000 a day from when Jesus was born to the present day, you would still not make as much as Shell did in profits last year

[Rhona White 🔸 @greyseal70]

Save AutumnWatch - Sign the Petition! https://t.co/IOh6KFDmu4 via @UKChange

[dominic dyer @domdyer70]

BBC cancels Autumnwatch to focus on shows with "highest impact" Absolutely disgraceful decision in one of most nature depleted countries in world https://t.co/9pefDcTSoj

[Rhona White 🔸 @greyseal70]

@carlarebeccaw Madness Carla, but still impressive

[Sam Etchells @EtchellsSamuel]

Test the phrase “politics can’t change anything” against this:

[Sarah Millican @SarahMillican75]

Because #JoinIn is international, here is the info if you’re not in the UK and your Christmas Day has already started.

[Rhona White 🔸 @greyseal70]

@johnredwood Seriously, is this a parody account?