Natasha Smith

[Natasha Smith @natweetweet]

@MickAntoniw1 where is your call for a ceasefire? Rightfully you call out the wrongs of Russia in Ukraine but abstain when you have the opportunity to protect the people of Gaza, why?

[Natasha Smith @natweetweet]

@AlexDaviesJones where’s the call from The Labour Party for a ceasefire in Gaza? The silence is complicit in the genocide of the Palestinian people.

[Howard Beckett @HowardRBeckett]

The Prime Minister who earns £164k pa, who is worth over £700ml, is telling Doctors that they earning £19 an hour is ‘unreasonable”.

Doctors work 12 hr shifts, typically more than 48 hrs a week & one weekend in every three.

Parliament sat for 152 days last year.

Some cheek.

[Howard Beckett @HowardRBeckett]

Tory MPs got a £2,400+ pay rise this week. A 42% payrise since 2010.

Last year MPs sat in Parliament for 152 days.

Tory MPs are in no position to lecture doctors about pay or workplace responsibilities.

Back the doctors, they are the bedrock of the NHS.

[caenhillcc @caenhillcc]

A mini rush hour as two Muscovy ducks bring out their ducklings #minirushhour #rushhour #ducklings

[The Figen @TheFigen_]

Being happy is very simple. 😂

[Howard Beckett @HowardRBeckett]

Water Company bosses paid themselves £14.8 million in bonuses last year. During that time they dumped raw sewage into your water 372,533 times

Then they increased water bills by 7.5%

Water utilities are stripping profit while factoring in fines for pollution

Nationalise water.

[Historic Vids @historyinmemes]

Frida Kahlo takes a family photo, wearing a 3-piece suit and holding a cane, 1924.

Nearly 30 years later, in 1953, she writes a letter to Diego Rivera as she awaits surgery to amputate one of her legs.

"I'm writing this letter from a hospital room before I am admitted into the operating theatre. They want me to hurry, but I am determined to finish writing first, as I don't want to leave anything unfinished. Especially now that I know what they are up to. They want to hurt my pride by cutting a leg off. When they told me it would be necessary to amputate, the news didn't affect me the way everybody expected. No, I was already a maimed woman when I lost you, again, for the umpteenth time maybe, and still I survived.

I am not afraid of pain, and you know it. It is almost inherent to my being, although I confess that I suffered, and a great deal, when you cheated on me, every time you did it, not just with my sister but with so many other women. How did they let themselves be fooled by you?

…Let's not fool ourselves, Diego, I gave you everything that is humanly possible to offer, and we both know that. But still, how the hell do you manage to seduce so many women when you're such an ugly son of a bitch?

The reason why I'm writing is not to accuse you of anything more than we've already accused each other of in this and however many more bloody lives. It's because I'm having a leg cut off (damned thing, it got what it wanted in the end). I told you I've counted myself as incomplete for a long time, but why the fuck does everybody else need to know about it too? Now my fragmentation will be obvious for everyone to see, for you to see... That's why I'm telling you before you hear it on the grapevine...

…I'm writing to let you know I'm releasing you, I'm amputating you. Be happy and never seek me again. I don't want to hear from you, I don't want you to hear from me. If there is anything I'd enjoy before I die, it'd be not having to see your fucking horrible bastard face wandering around my garden.

That is all, I can now go to be chopped up in peace.

Goodbye from somebody who is crazy and vehemently in love with you,

Your Frida"

[BladeoftheSun @BladeoftheS]

For every 1p lost to benefit ‘thieves’, £2 is lost to Tax Avoiders.

Who do the Government chase?

The 1p, because the £2 is already theirs.

[Britain People @Britain_People]

🔴Poverty

[AFRICAN & BLACK HISTORY @AfricanArchives]

George McLaurin, the first black man admitted to the University of Oklahoma in 1948 was forced to sit in a corner far from his classmates.

When he first applied he was denied based on his race. He went to court & it ruled that denying him was unconstitutional.

George W. McLaurin provided the Oklahoma civil rights case that irreparably damaged the "separate but equal" legal position established in Plessy v. Ferguson in 1896.

Plessy v. Ferguson was a landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision in which the Court ruled that racial segregation laws did not violate the U.S. Constitution

The justices affirmed that McLaurin’s 14th Amendment rights means he must receive the same educational experience as OU’s white students.

He earned a master's degree from the University of Kansas and taught at Langston University, an all-black institution, until 1968.

[Howard Beckett @HowardRBeckett]

Rishi Sunak, with a wealth of £730ml, says it’s “right” to cut universal credit & raise worker taxes; “silly” to help with energy costs & interest rate rises are needed to tackle inflation.

At the same time £7.3bl of tax cuts to banker & new North Sea licences to fossil giants.

[Howard Beckett @HowardRBeckett]

A firm founded by Rishi Sunak’s father-in-law signed a billion-dollar deal with BP just two months before the PM opened up hundreds of new licences for oil and gas extraction in the North Sea.

Pick the bones out of that.

[Susie Dent @susie_dent]

Word of the day is ‘snollygoster’ (19th century): one who abandons their principles for short-term gain or power.

[BladeoftheSun @BladeoftheS]

Chris O’Shea British Gas boss is getting a £1.6m bonus for their 1000% increase in profits

Earlier this year they were found to have forced their way into 40,000 homes and fitted pre-payment meters

He said he was ‘really, really sorry.’

Nothing happened and they are back at it

[Jeremy Corbyn @jeremycorbyn]

Thames Water boss says it’s an “unfortunate truth” that bills will have to rise to save the company from collapse.

I’ve got a different unfortunate truth: privatisation has been a complete and utter failure.

Enough is enough — put water back into public hands!

[Howard Beckett @HowardRBeckett]

Socialists who believe in society change, those who are pro-Corbyn policies, will find alternatives to Starmer’s Labour.

Trade unions should accept Labour is now Tory & be part of an alternative.