Helen Dunbar ☸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺💙🤘

Veggie 🍇 Feminist 👧 Tree hugger 🌲 Kitty lover 🐱 Rocker🤘Choc eater 🍫 European 🇪🇺 Education professional 🎓 UCU Union 💪 Tofu-eating wokerati 💪

[Helen Dunbar ☸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺💙🤘 @helendunb]

@inthefade Yep

[BladeoftheSun @BladeoftheS]

The PIP consultation recommends ridiculous things, the biggest among them is changing money for vouchers.

Disabled people aren't criminals, and you can't live with your entire earnings coming from vouchers

How long until Pensions are paid in vouchers too?

RT if this is illegal

[BladeoftheSun @BladeoftheS]

"People are pretending to be unwell."

The reality is that actually the UK is very, very unwell, and many people are pretending not to be.

[Dan White : Disability Campaigner / Author / ♿️ @Danwhite1972]

HMRC prosecuted just 11 wealthy individuals last year for tax evasion

There is currently £120 BN lost every year due to tax avoidance by the wealthy

Disabled people on benefits aren’t the reason the NHS is failing, why the roads & sewers fall apart

It’s parasites at the top

[Paul Cox @PaulCoxComedy]

According to the Met Office April has been ‘warmer than average’

Is everyone at the Met Office pissed?
Warmer than what average?
The average temperature of a polar bears ball bag?

[Thought Provoking Berserker ⚛️🦍🦅 @Provokethoughtz]

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[VeryBritishProblems @SoVeryBritish]

Level 1: Relaxed Goose
Level 2: Slightly Miffed Goose
Level 3: Quite Cross Goose
Level 4: Livid Goose
Level 5: Violent Goose

[Claire Lotriet 🌞 #ubuntu @OhLottie]

Do not take the stairs when exiting at Covent Garden tube station. I repeat: do not take the stairs.

You have been warned.
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[Helen Dunbar ☸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺💙🤘 @helendunb]

@TheRealDudja

[Brian Cox @ProfBrianCox]

The reason the UK will have the lowest growth in the G7 next year is Brexit. We're not going to reverse the decline until we begin to remove the barriers - economic, social, scientific - that we chose to erect with the rest of our continent. That's not rocket science. Just say it

[💂🏻‍♀️👋🏻вєαя🍻🇬🇧™ @BigBearF1]

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[VeryBritishProblems @SoVeryBritish]

I’ve said “good for the garden” and “nice weather for ducks” far too many times this month. It’s getting silly. In actual fact my garden is flooded and even the ducks look like they’ve had enough.

Anyway, I look forward to complaining about it being too hot and dry this summer.

[mainstream @Nillo82948721]

Mogg - the UK must leave the ECHR

Braverman - the UK must leave the ECHR

Jenkyns - the UK must leave the ECHR

Jenrick - the UK must leave the ECHR

Based on what these 4 absolute tools are prognosticating, should the UK leave the ECHR?

Like for yes RT for no.

[VeryBritishProblems @SoVeryBritish]

10pm: “So tired, going to bed”

3am and 356 Wikipedia pages later: “Ah so that's why there are holes in Swiss cheese…”

[Thought Provoking Berserker ⚛️🦍🦅 @Provokethoughtz]

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[dominic dyer @domdyer70]

Barbara Harmer left school at the age of 15 without any qualification to work as a hairdresser.

After five years of doing people's hair, she applied to become a trainee air traffic controller at London Gatwick Airport.

While working at Gatwick, she also decided to study for her A levels with the aim of studying law.

For this reason , her A levels subjects were Geography, English Law, Constitutional Law.

But she later changed her mind , and started taking flying lessons after obtaining a £10,000 bank loan.

After obtaining her private pilot licence, she embarked on a 2 year distance learning course for her commercial pilot licence which she secured in 1982.

Even after obtaining it , her tenacity to succeed was put to a stern test once again, when she was rejected by potential employers. Her 100 applications for a pilot job were all rejected.

In 1984, after two years of tarmacking, she got her first pilot job in a small commuter airline, and within that same year lady luck came calling when she joined British Caledonian Airlines.

Things became even more better for her three years later in 1987, when British Caledonian Airlines merged with British Airways.

She kept on soaring and after four years flying British Airways' DC-10 plane , she was selected to train as concorde pilot, becoming the first woman qualified to fly the supersonic plane.

By the time Concorde was withdrawn from service in October 2003, Harmer had served 10 years as a pilot flying regular scheduled services.

After concorde she converted to flying Boeing 777 Jumbo jet, until 2009 when retired voluntarily to pursue other things. Her aim was to sail in her yacht across the atlantic in 2013, something she had started preparing for.

But unknown to her, she had developed ovarian cancer which was slowly eating her life away. By the time it was diagnosed, she only had slightly more than a year live.

Captain Harmer, who never had children, died in 2011 at the age of 57 leaving behind her husband of 27 years. Her ashes were flown high and scattered over the sea near her home.

She started low in life, climbed and soared. Her legacy is an inspiration to women and to youngsters everywhere. Through her pragmatic, can-do attitude, she achieved success in a male-dominated industry.

#TeamAirline