Jenny Halliday

Wife, mum & Music Teacher • she/her

[Performance@Deanes @DeanesPerform]

Congratulations to Ruby for getting aDistinction in her LCME Grade 5 Musical Theatre Singing Exam #imatterasaperformer #🎤🎼

[Supertanskiii @supertanskiii]

Sending my love to any other women and people who are enduring the horror of their sexual trauma resurfacing in the wake of the Brand allegations.

It’s horrific. Get attacked, where do you go, to the police who you can’t trust because of all the rapist officers? The guys that took photos of murdered sisters? The people who allowed one of the most prolific rapists to carry on in their force?

Write to your MP? Well, loads of our lawmakers have faced allegations of rape. What about the PM? Johnson had allegations against him too.

Even if you went to the fucking palace you’d find the actual King was once advised by Savile and is protecting and rehabilitating his brother, Andrew. The Queen paid off his rape accuser.

What about the place you get your news? They sit on allegations for years and allow men facing serious allegations to carry on working and hush up accusations.

We feel hopeless and powerless when we are harassed or attacked, everywhere we’d go for help is full of people we cannot trust and on top of that we are attacked if we aren’t the perfect victim, we are told we are lying.

Even a woman sexually assaulted in front of millions of people in plain sight, for the world to see after winning the World Cup was called a liar.

Then every time a new article comes out we live with the hell of knowing the men that abused us, attacked us or tried to harm us are free. Free of accountability, free of consequences and free to ruin another woman’s life.

We have to warn each other about certain men we know, like a neighbourhood watch scheme. We have to complete never ending checklists, we can’t let our guard down. Ever. Then if the worst happens? We are more likely to get a rape conviction if they kill us.

It’s our lives that are ruined, not even men who are convicted have their lives ruined. Men are believed. Men are protected, when men are statistically, globally, the people who hurt all other genders. I can’t even walk in the park in the day without being afraid.

Women live a sort of half life, the fear is always there. It’s fucking enraging. Women deserve better than this.

[Shematologist, MD @acweyand]

PSA:

Your period should not
🩸last longer than 7 days
🩸interfere with your life
🩸happen more than monthly
🩸require product changes more than every 2 hours
🩸have clots larger than a quarter
🩸cause debilitating pain
🩸require double product coverage
🩸make you anemic

[Marina Purkiss @MarinaPurkiss]

So…

The BBC are to blame for people bringing EU flags to the proms

And they should have been banned from waving them

And the BBC now has to be investigated as a result

…and this is all coming from the supposed free-speech brigade who love to call others snowflakes?

Ok hun.

[BladeoftheSun @BladeoftheS]

I’m old enough to remember Jacob Rees-Mogg being the Minister of Brexit Benefits.

Then they quietly closed the position without him finding a single one.

[Marina Purkiss @MarinaPurkiss]

It’s hard to know who and what to trust these days…

But this incredible clip nails it

Simply:

Don’t trust idiots

And how do you spot an idiot?

Look for the people who are cruel…

[BladeoftheSun @BladeoftheS]

The Langham family own the dock where this boat is moored, they donated £70,000 to Nigel Farage’s UKIP.

Now they are earning £4,000 a day simply to let this boat moor in their harbour.

£1,500,000 a year, of your money just to moor this monstrosity.

[Jenny Halliday @jennytosh]

@jackpalmerwhite 🫤

[TechnicallyRon (On all the platforms) @TechnicallyRon]

I took 1 star reviews of #Barbie from furious men on letterboxd and put them on the posters because it makes the film seem ever cooler.

[Matt Thomas @Trickyjabs]

MP with 1 kid: £104pw child allowance

MP with 2 kids: £208pw child allowance

MP with 3 kids: £313pw child allowance

Public with 1 kid: £24pw child benefit

Public with 2 kids: £40pw child benefit

Public with 3 kids: £40pw child benefit

Do you see the massive disparity?

[Led By Donkeys @ByDonkeys]

Whatever the rights and wrongs of Nigel Farage having his elite bank account cancelled, let’s remember who he actually is

[Dr Julia Grace Patterson💙 @JujuliaGrace]

You probably won’t read in the papers today about the consultant surgeon who padlocked the operating theatres shut when there was no PPE, and safeguarded lives by refusing to operate until PPE was found.

You won’t find out about the consultant who put her hand up and fought…

[David__Osland @David__Osland]

I hadn't realised that most MPs can claim £5500 per child on expenses, for up to three children. But it certainly puts the two-child benefit cap in perspective.

[Kate Luna 💙💙 🌊🌊🌊 @kate13luna]

This

[hair-rayney.bsky.social @hair_rayney]

Happy Trans Pride to all. Stay safe and be loud. I see you, you exist, you are valid, you are loved. #TransPride

[Dr Andrew Meyerson @AndrewMeyerson]

Dear @Telegraph & @DailyMailUK,

For the last 13 years, you have enabled the Tories' devastating assault on our healthcare, serving as lead cheerleaders for policies that have harmed our patients, our colleagues, and our NHS. You have poisoned the country's minds for far too long, and now that you are attacking our colleagues, we've had enough.

2/3 of the public still firmly support us striking NHS workers — not the corrupt govt you so readily defend — and now that you are losing the battle of public opinion, you are desperately going after my colleagues to find any way to smear us. We're not going to tolerate it any longer.

While successive Tory governments dismantled and destroyed NHS services, you did your job of manufacturing consent for their harmful policies from Austerity 1.0 and 2.0 to the 2012 and 2022 health care bills — pieces of legislation that faced near universal opposition from health experts and all of the Royal Colleges — and you enabled those policies to succeed, because what you do isn't journalism for the public good, it's propaganda for the government's wealthy friends.

You then manufacture outrage with myths about NHS managers, immigrants, and NHS funding, never questioning those in govt who intentionally defunded and dismantled the formerly #1 ranked healthcare system of this great country in order to drive more people into private healthcare.

Alongside Tory govt ministers, your publications bear significant responsibility for the NHS crisis we now face. With your cheerleading, patients are now suffering on the longest GP, A&E, cancer, and outpatient waiting lists in NHS history at 7.4 million people long. 500 patients are now dying every single week due to preventable delays accessing NHS emergency care — with over 13,000 dead patients thus far in 2023 alone — all because of Tory policy failures that you championed and you enabled.

We are now suffering through the worst crisis in NHS history — one that your newspapers helped engineer — and because you are so morally bankrupt, even with alarming staff suicide rates, your editors think it's okay to attack my burnt out frontline NHS colleagues, defending billionaires instead of doing real reporting that is in the public interest of our patients.

You could elucidate to your readers why those 13,000 people are dead, or where the billions stolen from the public purse during COVID can be found, or how no one can see an NHS dentist, or how our mental health crisis has let down a generation of children and families, or how the govt still hasn't fixed the broken social care system, or you could investigate how many A&E departments have been closed in the last decade, or how many beds have been shut, or you could look at how much NHS funding goes into the pockets of private companies and never reaches patients, or how govt policy in a dozen other areas has harmed public health, but no, you choose to attack my friend Holly and our colleagues to try and find any way to discredit us.

Holly Turner has more integrity in her little toe than you've got among your entire staff — and certainly among your editorial boards — and we won't sit by and watch as you attack her for sport.

And so to the editors of the Telegraph and Daily Mail: We are not afraid of you. You are mouthpieces for a govt that will go down as one of the most corrupt in our lifetimes and your influence is waning rapidly. It's time to keep Holly's name out of your mouth. It's time to stop cheering the arsonists who are burning down our NHS, and it's especially time for you to stop gaslighting the public into believing that their neighbourhood looks better on fire.

You have never been on the side of patients and you never will be. And no one in the UK who wants reliable and honest information about NHS policy should trust anything that's written in your newspapers.

We fight for our patients. You fight for our billionaires. I think the public knows who to trust.

#SOSNHS #PayRestoration #NHS75

[tyler oakley @tyleroakley]

NOT A DRAG QUEEN, A PASTOR

[Mark Greene @RemakingManhood]

Not a trans person.