Energy costs are so much higher in the UK because we have no meaningful regulation of the sector, or of the private sector generally. The UK has a government that primarily serves billionaires & corporates. The best democracy money can buy!
My heart absolutely aches for those abused in Rotherham.
I know their pain because I share in it. I am one of the one in four girls sexually abused before the age of 18.
Having been abused as a young child I then fell for a situation with an older “boyfriend”. I’m not going into details, but I share the story of many of the girls groomed and sold for sez”x.
My abusers were white. Statistically, most grooming gangs are.
Rotherham council made several horrendous mistakes, which have quite rightly been the subject of several investigations.
Using the situation to promote a racist narrative is horrific and vile.
Abusers abuse because they can. English, non English, Christian, atheist, Muslim, Klingon…
Instead of using these horrors to fuel hate, how about tackling systemic inequality, the continued abuse of girls and women, misogyny, stereotypes, lad culture…the list goes on.
Don’t use it to hate on people just because they exist. If you’re going to get angry about perpetrators of abuse, get angry at all of them.
And don’t you dare use the pain of survivors to promote your agenda.
Boris Johnson on “£60 million being spaffed up the wall on some investigation into historic child abuse”
maybe Elon Musk needs a history lesson on who really stops these things happening
This is Eva Marie Kogel, the opinion editor for the German newspaper Welt. She has resigned in protest after Welt published an op-ed from Elon Musk supporting the AfD, a far-right political party with ties to Neo-Nazis.
RETWEET to thank @EMKogel for standing up for democracy!
As we leave 2024 behind us and enter 2025 we do so with delight and safe in the knowledge that we have @Keir_Starmer as Prime Minister and a Labour Government for many, many years to come
Happy New Year!
FABULOUS
Arise Sir Gareth! Two European Championships finals and a World Cup semi-final. England’s second most successful men’s football manager of all time. Fully deserving of the knighthood.
The son of an immigrant bus driver, brought up in an aspirational working class family, who became a lawyer, voted 3 x Lord Mayor of London, knighted, makes me proud to be Brtiish. Never let those angered by it tell you to stay in your lane.
Omg this outrage over parents having to pay VAT on private education. But zero fucks given for those parents who struggle to pay for uniforms or even school meals. Why are those parents told ‘go without Netflix, stop going Costa or my personal fav get a better job’? Fuck #OneRule
Farage didn’t” get us out of the EU.” He stood aside and let other people do the hard work ( as usual) while they did it very badly - then complained about their botched work ( as usual) . Freeloader.