Su Curtis

Grandma. Mom. Friend. Not necessarily in that order. unqualified health professional? experience unlimited

[Su Curtis @su4142]

My grandsons have embraced home school in their own style. Lucky to live in the woods they gathered acorns and planted one for each classmate to share on return to school. Each child can grow their own tree. The little one's class is Acorn and his brother Oak so very appropriate

[Crewkerne Gazette @CrewkerneGaz]

David Lammy and Sir Trevor Phillips shared a McDonald’s, but tensions rose when Lammy insisted only he had the right to remove the pickle.

When the bill arrived, things escalated, a young man was arrested, and Trevor calmly stepped in to de-escalate and save the day.

{satire}

[Dr Viv Pointon 💜🤍💚 @VPointon]

Vive La France! 🇫🇷
Now can we do this in England? 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿
Beer, fish n chips, roast beef, and Jerusalem!

[Su Curtis @su4142]

@TheBritLad Copying the symbolism supporting an American criminal is not a good look. Stand in silence with head bowed like we do for heroes would be more patriotic.

[Steven Billingham @StevenBillingh5]

The UK is made up of lush green, verdant isles. It is also situated 250 miles from the Arctic Circle. Armed with these facts, there are still people who can't grasp why we find anything over 25 degrees celsius unbearable and why we don't routinely have AC in our homes.

[Robert HJ Marshall @roberthenryjohn]

#StatePensions
Why work hard for up to 50 years, to be starved and frozen when you are old and vulnerable. . . . . .????

[Martin Kimber @MrMKimber]

Sir Trevor Phillips hits the nail on the head: “Prime minister, Kemi Badenoch, Nigel Farage, anyone else, please stop telling me how to feel… perhaps you should all focus on doing your jobs”

[Bernie @Artemisfornow]

Wrong! … Decent mothers would not do that.

As an English mother … I would have kissed my son, told him how disgusted I was and then called the police and handed him in.

Because thats what a mother does when her boy murders another mother’s boy.

[Dr. Maalouf ‏ @realMaalouf]

Every woman must fear this!

[The English Remnant @Englishremnant]

An American Soldier in WWII:

"Those Brits are a strange old race. They show affection by abusing each other, will think nothing of casually stopping in the middle of a firefight for a 'brewup' and eat food that I wouldn't give to a dying dog. But fuck me, I would rather have one British squaddie on side than an entire battalion of Spetznaz! Why? Because the British are the only people in this world who when the chips are down and it seems like there is no hope left, instead of getting sentimental or hysterical, will strap on their pack, charge their rifle, light up a smoke, and calmly and wryly grin, 'Well, are we going then you wanker?" 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🇬🇧

[Jayne ✝️🇬🇧🚜 @MollyP25131886]

@nuriyahk I've often thought that Muslim women must have breathed a sigh of relief to finally be in a country that affords them protections and equality with men.... only to find that we've allowed the same crushing ideology they'd escaped to take hold and hold sway. Frying pan into fire.

[Su Curtis @su4142]

@nuriyahk Went for meal at home of second generation muslims we befriended at our favourite balti house the wife served our meal then went to sit with older women in another room. After clearing away she asked if she could join us. Went to shower and change first.

[Nuriyah Khan @nuriyahk]

As a woman of Muslim heritage, I can tell you this conversation is decades overdue and millions of women know it.
A good day to be alive.

[Susan Hall AM @Councillorsuzie]

Excuse me … WHAT???

[Su Curtis @su4142]

@jk_rowling He was arrested for falsely setting off a fire alarm, putting people's lives at risk. They should have charged him with that. No one disrupted his talk, but he felt it was ok to do that to women.

[Benonwine @benonwine]

The genius of Father Ted wasn’t that it told people what to think.

It simply exposed the ridiculousness of human nature and let the audience work it out for themselves. 😂🤣🤭

[Colin Wynter KC @QcWynter]

@sappholives83 One cannot just summon up a black SC judge.
No suitable candidates in generation before mine.
I know of 3 black jurists who might be up to the job.
None have applied to be judges.
Would have to earn their spurs as judges unless "tokened in".
So, at least another generation away.

[Su Curtis @su4142]

@simonwatt85 Lose the election and just return to being mayor how will that work.

[Su Curtis @su4142]

@Inevitablewest @LadyRebecca_1 I don't think I would want people copying the symbolism connected to Floyd who was a criminal if Henry was my son

[Malcolm Hay @MalHay]

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Andy Burnham faces questions over contracts for campaign donor
As the Makerfield by-election looms, the Greater Manchester mayor is under scrutiny over £338,400 in taxpayer-funded authority deals with EY3 Media

By Bill Curtis, Oliver Wright

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A media company that made substantial donations to Andy Burnham’s mayoral election campaigns later received at least £338,400 in taxpayer-funded contracts from the Greater Manchester authority that he ran.

EY3 Media donated a total of £45,000 in the form of free promotional videos to Burnham at the time of the 2021 and 2024 Greater Manchester mayoral elections, freedom of information requests and spending records show.

Since the company’s first donation of £29,000 in April 2021 EY3 Media has received at least £338,400 from the Greater Manchester Combined Authority (GMCA) for “publicity” and “other promotional services”. This included a publicly funded campaign to challenge gender-based violence across the region. The campaign was praised by Burnham as “the most important and impactful campaign we have ever run”.
📷Burnham during his mayoral campaign in 2024CHRISTOPHER FURLONG/GETTY IMAGES
The GMCA said Burnham had not been involved in the decision-making process.
Burnham is also facing questions about his failure to declare his wife’s shareholding in a company that runs Manchester’s electric vehicle charging network. Marie-France van Heel is the chief marketing officer of Iduna Infrastructure. The company owns large parts of Manchester’s charging network.

Although Burnham declared his wife’s role as the company’s chief marketing and customer officer he has not disclosed her shareholding, which amounts to about 0.2 per cent of the company.

📷Marie-France van Heel and Burnham celebrate his mayoral victory in 2017ANTHONY DEVLIN/GETTY IMAGES

He said in 2022: “Marie-France has no direct financial relationship with Iduna. She does not own any shares in them and does not receive any bonus nor incentive payments from them.”
The GMCA and a spokesman for Burnham said the mayor had taken legal advice from the authority’s monitoring officer and was told he did not have to declare his wife’s shareholding in the company because he had already declared her as an employee and recused himself from all decisions about Iduna and the Be.EV charging network.
The records have led to claims of hypocrisy from the Conservatives, who said that when Burnham was shadow health secretary he called links between donations to the Tory party and public contracts “worrying”.
Burnham appears to have forged close links with EY3 Media, which is run by Nikhil Nagarkar and Hayley Thomas. Nagarkar spoke to Burnham in March 2021 on his podcast, Cvlture, about “how he got into politics, taking power back from central government, Westminster making frauds of politicians”.

After Burnham’s re-election in 2021, Thomas said on Facebook: “Absolutely thrilled that Andy has been re-elected mayor of Greater Manchester! Myself and the team are very proud to have been part of the campaign. He really is the same person on and off camera and I just hope he goes for Labour leader next!”

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The GMCA said it had “rigorous procurement processes in place to ensure transparency and fairness when awarding these contracts”.

It added: “At no point was the mayor involved in the awarding of any contracts to EY3 Media. They were selected following robust procurement processes. The mayor declared his campaign donations from EY3 to GMCA’s monitoring officer and they were recorded in the register of interests.”

EY3 Media said it was “extremely proud of the work that we have undertaken on behalf of GMCA”.

It added: “Decisions regarding procurement, commissioning and contract awards are matters for GMCA. All political donations made by EY3 Media were properly declared and fully compliant with the relevant electoral rules and regulations.”

In the case of Burnham’s wife’s shareholding, the GMCA said he did not need to declare it: “Once the mayor declared his wife’s employment interests he was prohibited from taking part in any debates or decision making where Iduna had an interest.

“Our monitoring officer therefore did not require the mayor to declare his wife’s shareholding once he had declared her employment interest. We are satisfied that the mayor has met his legal obligations to register disclosable pecuniary interests.”

[Su Curtis @su4142]

@NickBuckleyMBE Not only are clothes overpriced but the quality of clothing today means they are worn out before getting to the charity shop. Over use of dryers and too hot washing burns the fabric and leaves it a dingy tone.