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[AaliStar @LittleMsMcStar]

@BladeoftheS I'd love it if I earned £40K a year, but I'm not even at £30K and still no savings, still no holidays and still no extravagance. On MP's salary, they can afford their own food, their own commuting costs & their own bills. They shouldn't be subsided or claimed back

[BladeoftheSun @BladeoftheS]

The average MP is claiming more than £40,000 a year in personal benefits, including for ridiculous things like new phones, electricity, heating and food.

Which everyone has to purchase.

Why don't we talk about this benefit fraud?

[Richard Corbett @RichardGCorbett]

The UK-USA medicines deal obliges the NHS to pay substantially higher prices for new medicines.
This is “one of Brexit’s hidden costs”.
EU countries negotiated collectively with the USA, with much greater leverage.
Britain negotiated alone with no clout
https://t.co/5A4zzEPf2p

[Britain Justice Uncovered @justicewatchuk]

Shana Grice was 19. She asked Sussex Police for help five times in six months. They fined her.

That is why her mother is standing outside this police station holding Shana’s photograph.

Michael Lane tracked Shana’s car, assaulted her and stole a key to enter her bedroom. Once, she hid under the duvet listening to him breathe.

But because Shana had not initially disclosed their past relationship, an officer gave her a £90 fine for “wasting police time”.

The trial judge later said police had “jumped to conclusions” and stereotyped her. The police watchdog found that the officer’s actions affected Shana’s confidence and may have stopped her reporting Lane’s continued harassment.

On 25 August 2016, Lane entered Shana’s home and murdered her. He was jailed for life with a minimum of 25 years.

One former officer was found to have committed gross misconduct and was barred from policing. Another committed misconduct. Sussex Police apologised and changed its procedures.

Shana went to the people meant to protect her. Their response taught a frightened teenager that asking again could get her punished.

That failure was indefensible.

[Andrew Hesselden @andrewhesselden]

One of the strangest things about Brexit is how many consequences were subsequently described as inevitable.

They weren’t.

Leaving the EU, leaving the Single Market, ending freedom of movement and creating new trade barriers were separate political choices.

[Andrew Hesselden @andrewhesselden]

I’m going to block anyone here who tells me that

….British people voted for Brexit (this was a government decision)
…chose hard Brexit (see above)
…or that Remainers are responsible for Brexit in any way shape or form.

Enough now. Thank you. 🙏

[Shaun Summersgill 🇺🇦 @ShaunSummersgil]

@PaulSchleifer A similar incident has just happened in Manchester city centre.
Is this co-ordinated?

https://t.co/PfOa188Vvw

[Chris Tracey. @ChristineT56150]

@PaulSchleifer @kendmacgregor So at one end of Whitehall we’ve got 650 MPs on £90000+ salaries quaffing subsidised food and booze at our expense and at the other end we’ve got people who do not have enough money to eat. And guess who @CityWestminster is going after?

[Farrukh @implausibleblog]

Once again BBC News prepares to broadcast a Reform UK press conference

They don't do that for the LibDems or the Greens

And you have to wonder why our national broadcaster is doing so

[dave lawrence 🐟🐟🐠 @dave43law]

The UK democide of the disabled - Reform policy title

Steve should be the poster boy of Reform's disability campaign

"In 2017, just one year after the start of the benefit freeze, Stephen Smith, who suffered from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and osteoarthritis, had his Employment Support Allowance (ESA) payments stopped. A work capability assessment (WCA) found 64-year-old Stephen “fit for work”."

JENRICK WAS PART OF THAT GOVERNMENT

[BladeoftheSun @BladeoftheS]

Elon Musk has said that by next year people will stop calling Twitter, Twitter.

Lets make another of his predictions not come true.

[James Melville 🚜 @JamesMelville]

This. ⬇️

[Liz Webster @LizWebsterSBF]

🚨 This is why political donations and benefits MUST be declared.

Nigel Farage’s two major benefactors 🚩 George Cottrell and £5m donor Christopher Harborne 🚩 are now linked by a Sunday Times investigation to a betting operation implicated in potentially illegal gambling.

Farage trivialises his £5m disclosure controversy:

“Maybe I haven’t filled in a piece of paper.”

It was £5 MILLION. Transparency matters.

1/2 👇

[Prem Sikka @premnsikka]

Trump says Strait of Hormuz will soon be called a territory of the United States

Also wants to takeover Canada, Cuba, Gaza, Greenland, Mexico, Panama, Venezuela, more

Does he think local population won't resist?

Nothing learnt from Vietnam, Afghanistan
https://t.co/dMOCAVlYfu

[David__Osland @David__Osland]

Robert Jenrick argues that 'the government should focus on building new reservoirs'. Has it escaped his notice that the water industry is privatised?

[Mohamad Safa @mhdksafa]

This is Croatia right now…

Everyone needs to know what is happening in our world right now: Our planet has been experiencing the most extreme heat event in world history. This is the coldest summer of the rest of your life.

July was the hottest month in the United States since we records began in 1895—Washington, USA burned to the ground.

June was the hottest month in Europe, exceeded 40 degrees Celsius, shattering all heat records—caused over 25,000 deaths across the continent.

Venezuela, Columbia, Indonesia, and Malaysia earthquakes crashing. The planet has recorded exactly 10 major earthquakes of magnitude 7.0 or higher—Earthquakes are not caused by CO2, but climate change can modulate them by secondary effects.

Rivers in China and Europe are drying up, reaching historically low levels—Just for perspective, the drying of these rivers will impact shipping routes, leading to a skyrocketing in the prices of food, fuel, and energy.

El Niño has begun, driving ocean temperatures to record-breaking highs—Nearly three decades ago, a catastrophic El Niño claimed 23,000 lives and inflicted billions of dollars in global economic damage.

Canada burned to the ground, and Greenland's ice sheet is collapsing—slowing down the overturning of heat in the North Atlantic, pushing the whole monsoon system down further south, causing droughts and forest fires over the Amazon rainforest.

The severity of this heatwave is truly hard to comprehend. What's going on there is a foreshadowing of our future.

Scientists confirmed that heatwaves driven by climate change. Climate change is not a "hoax." It’s real and it’s happening.

If you are not a scientist, and you disagree with scientists about science, it’s actually not a disagreement. You're just wrong. Science is not truth. Science is finding the truth. When science changes its opinion, it didn't lie to you. It learned more.

This is no longer just a climate crisis. Climate chaos is inevitable. This is a humanitarian crisis. Just because you do not take an interest in climate change, doesn't mean climate change won't take an interest in you.

We should start naming heatwaves after fossil fuel and oil companies, and wildfires after arms and defense industries. And Could reporters stop asking if leaders believe in climate change and start asking if they understand it instead.

The world must remember that we live in a society, not an economy.

[Raymond @Raymond82310289]

Who agrees?

[David__Osland @David__Osland]

Whether you win or lose an election, turning up at the count is a basic courtesy to the people who campaigned for you

[Sam @SamCKx]

Farage starts as he means to go on as MP for Clacton by not turning up.

[Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy]

As Britain swelters through another heatwave, few people will have heard that ministers have quietly dropped plans for solar carports.

Cars cooler in summer. Shelter from the rain in winter. Clean electricity all year round.

A missed opportunity?

https://t.co/7WTmw8RXCV