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[Stan Collymore @StanCollymore]

There should be both a triple lock on pensions ( we have some of the worst pensions in Europe for one of Europe's hardest working workforce) and social care spending.

Maybe the PM can start looking at where the money has gone in the last 25 years, who it went to and what it was spent on, alongside the routine and corrupt current practice of denying people social care who are having to sell homes and everything they have despite qualification for said care. Bookmark this because it will be a bigger scandal than Post Office and PPE combined.

We're a rich nation who's people ( out collective fault for voting for people and manifestos that change mid term, something that should be a legally binding document by the way) have worked hard for local and national services, care in old age, and a modest buffer to live on in retirement.

This is neither woke, lefty, righty or middly. It's what people vote for only to be u-turned by all governments.

Norway has 3 trillion in the bank, great pension provision, child care, public services and elderly care. They don't have a magic money tree nor have things like the City of London which should be generating huge revenue privately that also benefits us publicly. They simply hold politicians to account, make sound national decisions and aren't tempted by snake oil salesmen promising the earth but delivering zero to them but plenty to pals.

We do the opposite.

[MichaeloKeeffe @Mick_O_Keeffe]

A lot of you from outside Ireland are probably hearing about the Garvaghy Road and wondering what all the fuss is about.

1998 -

After the parade was banned from marching on the Garvaghy Rd, ten Catholic churches were set on fire across Ulster in one night.

In the following days, loyalists attacked Catholic homes, schools and businesses. Multiple houses were petrol-bombed, resulting in the murder of 3 young boys, the Quinn brothers. Their home was targeted because their mother was Catholic.

She mother woke to the sound of her children screaming in fear and the house full of smoke. Sadly the boys, Jason, Mark and Richard, did not make it out.

Garfield Gilmour was sentenced to life in prison after he admitted to driving three members of a UVF unit to the house, but later that was reduced to manslaughter.

Johnny McKay and brothers Raymond and Ivan Parke were named by Gilmour as the killers, but were never charged because of a lack of evidence.

In the days following the murders, loyalist bands defied orders not to play music while marching passed the home of the Quinn boys grandmother.

Tonight, a court overturned an earlier ruling banning the parade from marching on the Garvaghy Road, crowds have gathered and confrontation now seems inevitable with that march set to go ahead early Sunday morning.

The courts allowing this march to go ahead is absolute madness!

[Glenn Polley @glennpolley]

Throwback to when a poor fan held a sign up to U2 in San Francisco that said “SF ❤️ U2” and Bono ripped through them thinking they meant Sinn Féin…

[Guz Khan 🥶 @GuzKhanOfficial]

Zion Suzuki is world class…blimey

[Marl Karx @BareLeft]

It's going to be BAD bad, isn't it.

[Zack Polanski @ZackPolanski]

Palantir have just bought themselves a Labour Lord with close links to the Labour government.

No other word to describe this other than corruption.

How can Watson remain a member of the House of Lords and keep the Labour whip?

[Dr Rhonda Garad Difficult by Design @RhondaGarad]

The problem for Pink and Ed Sheeran now is that every time they sing about a better world, kindness or empathy, no one will believe them.

[Show Israeli Genocide the Red Card @RedCardGlasgow]

Thanks to Kevin Rowland from @DexysOfficial for taking the time to show support.

Kevin has a long history of speaking up for those affected by atrocities and his commitment to speaking up for Palestinians continues today.

❤️🇵🇸✊️

[lorna🍒 @Lorna9100M]

Replaced this twice today. Female toilets.Oncology dept.

So tired Sisters.

[Bring Back Safeguarding @KatyDidKatyDnt]

How often is this happening?
How many women are going to GPs with gynae pain and other symptoms without realising how they were injured?
GP and gynaecology training will need to be updated to check for signs their patients were drugged and raped.

[EVOOpsych @EOpsych]

"shared her"

A man purposefully drugged his wife so that other men could rape her and the men raped her to death and this is framed as "sharing" as if she was a sandwich and not a person

[Mukhtar @I_amMukhtar]

The RNLI normally receives around £25,000 to £30,000 in donations a day.

Thanks to the far-right, whenever they attack the charity, donations increase significantly.

For example, the image on the left is from today. They’ve raised over £100,000, with 2,428 people donating. Yesterday, they raised £63,000, with 1,517 people donating.

The image on the right is from August last year. On one day, they raised just over £25,000 from 289 donors, and the following day they raised nearly £22,000.

It’s almost as if the far-right attacks are raising more money for the RNLI.

[Alison Cameron @alisonc375]

This is for you @Helen_Whately. I suggest you pin it to your bathroom wall so you can read it as often as it needs to sink in.

[Ray Turner @Hypatiakitten]

Since it's inception the RNLI have lost a minimum of 438 crew attempting to saving lives at sea. More depending on how you define that.
Every single time a volunteer answers that call they show more courage than any of the armchair warriors shouting at their keyboards.

[Peter Oborne @OborneTweets]

Ed Miliband is the first British foreign secretary to stand up against US power and resist Israeli pressure at the same time. In our column for Middle Eye Imran Mulla and I argue that he deserves our admiration and support:

https://t.co/4PcZad1YCD

[West Midlands Police @WMPolice]

@narindertweets West Midlands Police incident 924-050926 refers

[Wokerati Marty @WokeratiMarty]

Protecting women and girls: latest from the Reform conference.

A young female protester is ejected while the person behind the camera called her “a young skinny unfucked bitch.”

Reform supporters are so utterly vile.

[Harry Eccles @Heccles94]

This is James Orr.

James is the head of policy for Reform UK. He also works for Cambridge university.

James believes gay marriage is wrong, and believes abortion should be illegal.

James Orr has also been linked to a far right eugenicist movement involving Peter Theil and Nathan Cofnas that claims black people are less intellect than white people.

Safeguarding concerns have been raised about his conduct with students at Cambridge, with regards to unprofessional boundaries (them living with him) and concerns about far right grooming. Cambridge have ignored these concerns.

Pretty alarming stuff.