Jo Avery 💙

Used to live near London and be a journalist. Now ambling through wheat fields in Derbyshire working for a charity.

[Jo Avery 💙 @JoAvery]

@sozzah22 @CrowtherSim And you’re increasingly being given responsibility of teachers but not the pay. Just expectation that you will be a substitute teacher for living wage. It’s so unfair.

[South Dallas Foodie @SouthDallasFood]

“Hey… Look at us.

Who would’ve thought?

Not me.”

[𝙷𝚢𝚙𝚎𝚛𝚔𝚊𝚛𝚖𝚊 ░▒▓█ ►(◄Симо́н Майерс►)◄ █▓▒░ @mysuburbanhell]

OK... That's a pretty cool thing to have in a nail salon....

[kieron @Sewn_apart]

Seen en route to the football in Birmingham tonight

[Today Years Old @todayyearsold]

Olympic cameraman filming the trampoline gymnastics. I guess every job has it's ups and downs.

[Jo Avery 💙 @JoAvery]

Think one of my favourite moments of the #OpeningCeremony was when they cut away from the heavy rain to the smiling, happy surf contestants in a sunny Tahiti. Who picked the best competitive sport, hey?

[Celia Richardson @CeliaRichards0n]

Love this story. Cocker spaniels wearing backpacks so they can spread seeds as they run around ‘like wolves used to do.’

Dogs with backpacks plant seeds to rewild lost woodland

https://t.co/k7qcnk6VZ7

[Jo Avery 💙 @JoAvery]

@IrradiatedMouse Just crazy. No one can help being ill, also encouraging people to send in kids who are sick to pass it on to everyone else (including pregnant teachers). Wild when there’s been a pandemic and covid still so prevalent. What a horrible policy.

[Joe Crann @YesWeCrann]

I’ve said it before, but nobody does sporting montages better than the BBC

[Jo Avery 💙 @JoAvery]

@mattzarb Has always mystified me that my 17 yr old can work in a cafe alongside a 21 yr old and get paid several pounds an hour less for doing exactly the same job purely because of her age. Some employers don’t do this @nationaltrust @YHAOfficial both pay National Living Wage 👍🏻

[R @lib_urgh_al]

The Rt. Hon. Good Girl for Torbay

[Jo Avery 💙 @JoAvery]

@NotSoSlummy Eesh. It’s so hard. You have my sympathy. Hope it manages to sort itself out. Sometimes they need to see you upset too. I imagine you’ve been super strong over the last couple of years. Hope you can also go to his dad for support in helping fix problem x

[Jo Avery 💙 @JoAvery]

@petergates3 Twitter storm over pens is ridiculous. Especially the teachers saying I’d have to give out thousands of pens a year. How many kids per day actually forget pens/can’t borrow one off their mates or a teacher and give it back? This pen schizzle has gone on for days and is bonkers.

[Laura @LauraLeslieF1]

I don’t care if you hate Coldplay, watching a crowd this size vibing away happily in a field in England is incredible.

Four years ago we all doubted when we’d, if ever in our lifetimes, see this kind of thing again.

Yet here we are. Never take it for granted ✌️

#Glastonbury

[Edwin Hayward @edwinhayward]

If you missed the story, when the Tories placed inside bets on the GE date, it moved the betting markets.

That tipped off Labour to the GE timing.

They rushed to buy up key ad space everywhere, eg the front page of the Sun website for the final week.

Another big Tory own goal.

[Jo Avery 💙 @JoAvery]

@NotSoSlummy You get up early and do gym tho don’t you whereas I’m a slug in a morning

[Jo Avery 💙 @JoAvery]

@NotSoSlummy If I did that I’d be awake at 2am. And post work I just feel like I need an evening to chill, watch tv etc. so usually stay up far too late. I am so jealous of your lovely 9 hour kips!

[Jo Avery 💙 @JoAvery]

@NotSoSlummy Do you go to bed really early to get 9 hours? I am lucky if I get 7 hours. There is an inability to sleep post 45! I used to also be a 9 hour pre kids but since have never seemed to manage it.

[Liz Webster @LizWebsterSBF]

USA media dishes brutal truth about Brexit Britain

“Every decision taken by Tory (and @LibDems) governments was a political decision—it did not need to happen that way. Austerity was never the hard logic of dutiful caretakers; it was a political calculation to rescue rich friends and dump the burdensome price on those least able to endure the cost.”

“There is mold in the walls and shit in the rivers, posh butter in the supermarkets has anti-theft tags stuck to it, the trains run on schedule about half the time, the average pub-poured pint of lager—the blood of the nation—is nearing the criminal price of 5 pounds ($6.34), and on May 22 a new general election was announced to the people of Great Britain by a prime minister who is richer than the king. 

“Should the polls prove correct—short of a 2016-scale error—the annihilation will be justified. Wage growth is at its lowest level since the Napoleonic Wars. What the Financial Timescalls the “rental market” and what the rest of us call “How much of your money someone richer than you takes every month” is stratospherically inflated; rent is about half a person’s average salary in London. Chain stores on British high streets close permanently at a rate of 14 per day, leaving most shopping areas a procession of corrugated shutters, uncollected rubbish, and the sleeping bags of the homeless.

“The precious marvel that is the National Health Service is cracking at the seams; at the current rate, waiting lists will not be cleared for another 685 years. The union for junior doctors, the BMA, has organised 10 strikes and walkouts in the past year for a pay deal that would only bring wages up to the current level of inflation. The city of Birmingham was the first to tip over into bankruptcy; more will follow.

“In 2022, at least 3% of all families in Britain—around two million people—could not afford to eat. Like a revenant from Dickens, Victorian diseases like scurvy, rickets, and scabies are back to blight children.

“Life expectancy has dropped to the lowest level since 2010—tellingly, the year the Conservatives took power, at the height of the recession.”

“These are the bitter fruits of austerity: an experiment in sado-monetarist economics and financial barbarism. Not much unites those five PMs other than the constant ritual tribute in blood to their coiffed icon, Margaret Thatcher. Yet Thatcher, back in the 1980s, did not lie about how brutal the first shock of neoliberalism was going to be. She coldly promised torture before riches.

“Its sequel, however, was pitched by its architect George Osborne, chancellor under David Cameron, as a bit of belt-tightening resembling that most prized memory in the national canon: the Blitz Spirit. Come on, chaps, buck up and give it some welly. The shattering of society into thinner fragments was supposed to be a hardy adventure. 

“Midway through this downhill plummet, Britain bumbled backward out of the EU. The wreckage of this four-year disaster can now best be seen as an attempt to escape the harsh bite of austerity.

“Brexit was a retreat from hunger into myth: an embrace of antique fables about British pluck and derring-do, a belief that even without an empire and an industrial base this archipelago might reclaim past glory. Faced with profound turmoil, much of the nation turned to a half-remembered falsehood about their grandfather’s generation, marching along with Churchill. This election is the reckoning Brexit postponed.

https://t.co/PRKpMibIqR

[Jo Avery 💙 @JoAvery]

@JaneMontgomery We have the same here, fed up pup, climbing the walls. Just walked him now.