@_KateA1 @Jeremy_Hunt £9000/per year =£27000. My daughter is a first year student currently working 40hrs per week & like you say....paying for the privilege. My friend gave up her midwifery training because she couldn't afford it without the bursary. It's scandalous! #NHSCrisis#nhs
This is a true story and relates to a post about ex Armed Forces and housing.
Some of us have also served in the armed forces.
I am one of 125 MoD caretakers across the UK and NI.
We work at Army Reserve and UOTC centres.
All of us have to live in tied accommodation that comes as part of our employment.
The 125 of us will be made redundant on the 31st of March 2027.
This is not a personal choice; we are part of the MoD's 10% cost-saving cuts. We are the lowest paid in the MoD; we earn less per annum than a 17-and-a-half-year-old in basic training in the Army. Some of us have served for decades. Yet we are committed and steadfast in maintaining the operational security and effectiveness of the Reserves Centres that we work at and in some cases manage.
When we are made redundant, our tied accommodation must be emptied and ready to hand over by the 31st of March. We and our families are not entitled to be rehomed. Again, this is not our choice; this action is being forced on us after years and decades of dedicated service to the MoD, the Army, and the our Country. This is a life-changing event for us all.
There is a lack of information, and as each week counts down to March, the stress on us all and our families increases. Yet, here in the UK, we have not only non-taxpayers but also people who are in our country illegally being given new priority housing.
Nobody is interested in our story or wants to help, and the media, with ethe exception of (The Scotsman) either do not want to report on or publish our story, or the information they are relating to is incorrect.
This is a true story and relates to UK tax paying nationals. Some of us have also served in the armed forces, and at least one of us is currently on Operational Tour, and will not be back in the UK by March 31st.
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@MelanieBlakeUK My daughter passed her English Literature GCSE in year 10 with an A*. Every teacher found her and congratulated her except her English teacher. She never mentioned it 😳🤣
Outstanding reporting but it’s 18 minutes of💔
Hearing the 999 calls, watching them walk innocently towards their fate and seeing that evil monster roaming the streets casually after the attack is unbearable.
I bought Barney those trousers for his 19th birthday and his t-shirt was one he’d ‘borrowed’ from his brother.
To all who failed - I hold you responsible for his death; and you WILL be held to account.
@officialsammyuk I’m gobsmacked that of all the people to call out, you call out @recusant_raja. The guy is literally risking his life for grooming gang survivors 🤯 What the actual f*ck?!
The Full Federal Court has handed down its judgement in Giggle v Tickle.
In a shock to women across the country - Sall Grover not only lost her appeal, the Court set aside the original finding of indirect discrimination and replaced it with direct discrimination, upholding Tickle's cross-appeal.
The damages were doubled from $10,000 to $20,000.
It’s important to note the Court expressly said it was only applying the Sex Discrimination Act as it is written- it is "not empowered to give effect to its own view" about whether that law is desirable.
In 2013, @JuliaGillard’s @AustralianLabor government amended the Sex Discrimination Act- stripping the meaning out of "man" and "woman" and adding gender identity as a protected attribute to be pitted against biological sex.
Today's outcome is proof of what those amendments have done: women are left with no meaningful rights or recognition under the Sex Discrimination Act - a bitter irony, given that protecting women was the very purpose of the Act under our commitment to CEDAW.
In my opinion, this is a verdict on the law, not on Sall. The judges found that the law - as that government amended it - left them no other conclusion.
These amendments must be repealed.
The Sex Discrimination Act must once again recognise biological reality and protect women's right to single-sex spaces.
What a dark and devastating day for Australian women and girls.
#RepealTheSDA2013 #IStandWithSallGrover
#GigglevTickle
#Auspol