Marie-Dom Othacehe🇪🇺💙

European, citizen of the world, in love, mother of 4 wonderful daughters, aiming for goodness always @[email protected]

[Carol Vorderman @carolvorders]

Morning 🤍
Touched a Tory nerve? Marvellous 👍🏼
Telegraph with 2nd poorly written piece in 24 hrs from an obsessed GB News presenter called Camilla ��🏼‍♀️
Excellent... it's given me an idea 🙋🏼‍♀️ RT
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[Nick Reeves #RejoinEU #NAFO #FBPE @nickreeves9876]

Starmer wrote in the Express that he will not restore Freedom of Movement.

Please retweet if you want our Freedom of Movement restored.

We were robbed of our right to live, work, study, and love in 30 countries by the worst abuses of democracy in modern British history.

[Brendan May @bmay]

To be a climate denier you are either:

1) stupid
2) paid to deny it

There's no other category.
#ClimateBreakdown

[Peter Stefanovic @PeterStefanovi2]

This video calling out the Prime Ministers bull**** on public sector pay got over 200,000 views overnight & has suddenly been deleted! So here it is again. Share it far & wide! Let’s make sure the country knows the TRUTH

[Jolyon Rubinstein @JolyonRubs]

🚨 NO ONE has lost their job or been arrested for the PPE scandal
🚨 NO ONE has lost their job or been arrested for the BILLIONS £’s lost as “fraud” during the pandemic
🚨NO ONE has lost their job or been arrested for the tragedy of Grenfel Tower & the deaths of 72 people
🤬But Nigel Farage had his bank account closed and heads roll.

[Guy Verhofstadt @guyverhofstadt]

Huge demand among British voters for improved relations with EU, but British Gov rejects it when offered! 🤦🏻‍♂️

A Government fixated with demonising migrants & fixing Farage's banking issues, instead of repairing 🇪🇺 🇬🇧relations for future generations!

https://t.co/tTucDEBvb1

[Lily Allen @lilyallen]

following on from my tweet yesterday, i see that some think i was blaming Dan Wooton for my dependencies. I don’t expect people to understand the pain associated with being harassed in the very public way that i was for a good 15 years. but just because you can’t understand it, it doesn’t mean that it didn’t happen, it did. Peaches Geldof, Amy Winehouse and Caroline Flack were all bullied and abused, subjected to the same kind of harassment that i and many others were, and at the same time. it was the culture back then, we were fair game, because we were female, young, articulate, well paid, brilliant at our jobs, vulnerable and relatable, we all wore our hearts on our sleeves and spoke our truths. And for that we needed to be destroyed. I can’t speak for the women above and neither can they, for obvious reasons, but i know how trapped i felt, how lonely and isolated i was, how scared i was, how unfair and desperate it all felt and how substances and alcohol felt like the only way to escape.
Dan Wootton last night claimed he is a victim of a smear campaign by nefarious players with an axe to grind, that his accuser is running a campaign to destroy his life.
The irony is not lost on me, maybe now Dan can begin to understand what it felt like.

I actually wish him well, i hope that he comes out the other side of whatever it is that he is facing, and that eventually it leads him to a place of happiness, peace and truth.

[4th July - Tory wipe Out @snb19692]

Should MPs (Members of parliament) be routinely tested for drugs and alcohol? 5 out day poll. please share after voting for a wider view.

[Volodymyr Zelenskyy / Володимир Зеленський @ZelenskyyUa]

In 15 days of July, we've already held negotiations, meetings, events with the leaders of the United States 🇺🇸, the United Kingdom 🇬🇧, France 🇫🇷, Germany 🇩🇪, the Netherlands 🇳🇱, Türkiye 🇹🇷, the Czech Republic 🇨🇿, and Poland 🇵🇱. Also Slovakia 🇸🇰, Bulgaria 🇧🇬, Lithuania 🇱🇹, Sweden 🇸🇪, Portugal 🇵🇹, Spain 🇪🇸 and Canada 🇨🇦, Australia 🇦🇺 and New Zealand 🇳🇿, the Republic of South Africa 🇿🇦, Guinea-Bissau 🇬🇼. NATO Secretary General @jensstoltenberg, President of the European Council @CharlesMichel, President of the European Commission @vonderleyen, Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew. The address to the student community in Argentina 🇦🇷, talks with the largest and most promising American investors and company executives. Today, very meaningfully, Mr. President of the Republic of Korea @President_KR.

And we will maintain the highest tempo of international work at all levels to restore peace for all our land and all our people. I am grateful to all our partners – every leader, every politician, public figure, every country who really supports us in the fact that only the complete liberation of our entire 🇺🇦 territory will allow the full force of the international rules-based order to be restored.

[Tomasz Jankowski @TomaszJankows14]

@mrjamesob I am a polish guy, i give you a hint: no one is coming for a 2 year Visa to the UK from Poland when one can work in Germany etc. without a visa for same or better money, wake up Britain, please!🤨

[Guy Verhofstadt @guyverhofstadt]

500 days of Putin’s war…

Remember it was genocidal from the start… and will not end unless Putin loses… and leaves !

https://t.co/jQwX6V7IcZ

[Harman Idema @HarmaninToronto]

There are no more borders in the European Union.

However, you will always know where the Netherlands begins.

[Dan Bloom @danbloom1]

STORY: U.K. and EU negotiators have agreed a draft deal on Britain’s re-entry into the Horizon Europe research program after months of hard-fought talks.

Rishi Sunak will be presented with the draft deal by officials this weekend

By @gallardo_ortega

https://t.co/wMEwsfqwTA

[Dr David Wrigley @DavidGWrigley]

Shocking to hear from a final year medical student @TheBMA #ARM2023 that her student loan is now £104,000 & the interest accrual will be higher than the repayments when she graduates-so loan goes up. Total paid back over 30yrs will be £250,000 -shame on politicians for doing this

[Michael M. 🇨🇭🇳🇴🇮🇸🇱🇮🇬🇧/🇨🇾 @vivamjm]

I am from the freight moving industry so have always known what Brexit would mean, but it still bewilders me why more don't get the simple concept of if you build a high wall against somebody it is also a wall for you to now climb over. Many just won't be able enough to do so.

[RS Archer @archer_rs]

Am currently having a cup of coffee in Belgium, 30 minutes ago I drove across the French / Belgian border at 120 kph, no checks, no delays no problems. Here I paid for my coffee and croissant with the same money I use everywhere in Europe.

The future is European, Brexit is dead

[Martin Lewis @MartinSLewis]

WHY ARE ENERGY STANDING CHARGES SO HIGH?
The high energy standing (daily) charges are a moral hazard and should be reduced. It is outrageous that people have to pay £300/yr just for the facility of having gas & electricity even if they use none.

While energy price cap & bills drop an avg 17% this Sat, that ISN'T equal for all:-

- Standing charges remain unchanged
- Elec unit rate is dropping roughly 10%
- Gas unit rate is dropping roughly 25%

So higher users, especially with gas will see a bigger than 17% drop. Lower users, especially electricity only, will see a lower than 17% drop.

Keeping the standing charge high means lower users can save proportionately less and less by reducing usage - that disempowers them.

I have long campaigned for lower standing charges. MSE is submitting a consultation on this about shifting some of the cost the the unit rates.

The reason Ofgem mandates firms to have high standing charges in the price cap is because they use it to pay for the 'fixed costs' of energy (distribution, transmission etc) - which it believes should be mostly shared equally.

It is especially loaded onto the electricity standing charge as that is 'more universal'.

I think a more progressive split would be better, by putting a bigger proportion of the cost on the unit rate. And in past polls I've done on here the huge majority agree.

One stumbling block is the argument from Citizens Advice, an organisation I have great respect for. Its concern is that if you shift the burden, some vulnerable people with disabilities and medical issues that make them high users will suffer.

Of course the correct solution to that is lower the standing charge but give them separate support. Yet that would involve an energy market that wasn't broken and the regulator and government to operate in concert.

So we're in a chicken and egg situation. Still on balance I think the fair thing to do is lower the standing charge (and campaign for help for the high using vulnerable at the same time). Yet I wanted to bash this out quickly as I saw much debate on it after my earlier tweets, and I wanted to explain some of the bigger picture.