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A Molecular Biologist who fights misinformation. Product of 🇬🇧🇩🇰marriage I will continue the good fight🇪🇺💪🏼All views are my own MonkEmma @Mastodon .online

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Emma 💛💙🇩🇰🇬🇧🇪🇺

7 months

Someone has suggested I create a thread containing some of my explainer threads. A meta explainer thread, if you will...😁 They cover both science and UK politics. I hope others continue to find them useful. I'll update this as and when I do more of them👍 🧵of 🧵s

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Gosh, this sounds terrible. Imagine losing 70% of your customers overnight……. 🤔 Or do we think someone might be being slightly economical with the truth? Let’s dig in! 🧵 1/12

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I see lots of Right wingers are using places like Denmark as a shining beacon of why National service is great. It’s funny, cos they don’t ever seem to champion all the OTHER aspects of life for young Danes. Little 🧵 1/12

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In my village: A flat sold for £78K in 1996 Now worth £420K A mid terrace sold for £58K in 1996 Now worth £430K A semi-detached sold for £108K in 1995 Now worth £670K A detached sold for £83K in 1995 Now worth £800K Boomers, please stop claiming you just budgeted better🙄

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Ok, I’m applying for a 16-25 railcard for my son. It requires a photo. It requires PROOF OF ID to get one. Tell me again why a 16-25 railcard isn’t valid ID to vote but all of these are?? #voterID #VoterSuppression #ToriesUnfitToGovern

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Congratulations to the Telegraph for managing to find a private school that’s closing and attempting to to pin it on Labour🙄 But is it true that it’s closing under a Tory government because of a Labour policy that hasn’t happened yet? Here’s a little 🧵 You decide! 1/11

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Seeing lots of rather dubious takes flying round twitter about the effects of adding VAT to private school fees or removing their charitable status. Lots of “but think of the poor struggling parents” and “there’ll be a mass exodus FLOODING state schools” etc Reality check🧵 1/

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16 year old First ever summer job Local (albeit very fancy) Hotel £13.80 per hour Is it any wonder that junior Doctors, after a full medical degree, are suggesting that maybe they’re worth a little more than £14 per hour? #JuniorDoctorsStrike #SaveOurNHS

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So many right wing accounts frothing at the mouth about Glastonbury. Do they hate music? Fun? Lots of brightly coloured hats? What? British music industry is something we should be immensely proud of…. But no, not right wingers Full of hatred of anything joyful🙄 #Snowflakes

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Free education. Thats free education to whatever level you chose to go to, in whatever area you want to study For as many years as you want to study And not just free education - you get paid a grant to cover your living expenses, while you study. 2/12

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So, woman with a failing bridal shop, sees a property become available in a place she’s wanted to get to for 5 years and moves there. The end. 9/12

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So when you see a headline like this, you don’t need to do much digging - just give it a quick sense check. How likely is it that 70% of customers are lost overnight for a bridal shop, with excellent public transport links, cos they all drive 20yo cars…. 12/12

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Angela Rayner, may possibly have mistakenly not paid up to £3,500, years ago before being an MP Dan Hodges? 83 tweets Lord Bamford, Tory peer and Tory Donor - under an exceptional HMRC investigation for potential £500,000,000 bill Dan Hodges? Not one single mention. 🙄🤦‍♀️

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So yes, Denmark does have a National Service scheme. But you know what? Civic pride, national responsibility, a sense of community - that comes from living in a society that you KNOW has your back. 8/12

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But instead she goes to the press to claim that “Khan’s ULEZ” forced her out of business. And said press lap it up despite it being the biggest load of nonsense ever. But she gets lots of free publicity and the Mail gets to attack Khan. 🙄🙄 10/12

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I don’t know if anyone has seen the pernicious claim flying round social media in the last few days that only “17,000 people in the UK have died from #covid ” I’ve yet to see anyone debunk it so I thought I’d do a 🧵 1/

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Heavily subsidized child care Generous parental leave and child benefits Generous sick pay, disability pay and unemployment cover Just a decent safety net available for all so you know that if the shit hits the fan in your life, you’ll be OK. 3/12

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Thanks @BexBitchley for pointing to another piece in the jigsaw/nail in the coffin….

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@MonkEmma you are missing the fact that there were 3 bridal shops within 200m of each other. 1 closed last summer before ulez.

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Because otherwise, this is just another stick to beat young people with and has absolutely nothing whatsoever to do with fostering civic duty and National Pride. But we all knew that before I wrote this thread, didn’t we! 😉 12/12 #ToryBritain #ToriesBrokeBritain

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In Tory Britain, young people have been robbed of youth schemes and Sure start centers. Libraries decimated, mental health services almost non existent. Most of this generation will be in expensive, unstable housing for years to come Saddled with exorbitant student debts 9/12

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This shop is 2 minutes walk from a bus stop and 5 minutes walk from a station. And yet we’re expected to believe the overwhelming majority of customers were driving to the shop, in 20 year old cars, and then stopped coming, because of a £12.50 ULEZ fee…? 5/12

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So by all means take National Service from the Danish system. But then provide the other part of that social contract - the support, the housing, the education, the involvement in democratic and civic society, that comes with it. 11/12

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This is the message everyone should be taking home from today’s despicable announcement. The number of people of working age with a health condition or a disability is going up. And not because they’ve all suddenly become work-shy scroungers🙄 Long (sorry!) 🧵 1/25

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I wish her well in her new shop. May it be more successful than her previous 2 (yes she seems to have had another bridal company in 2010-2012). I hope the free publicity was worth the blatant lies she chose to tell in a national newsletter. 11/12

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A well functioning health service Specific psychological care for 18-24 year olds Housing allowance - yes young people are supported with their housing costs! With a decent social housing system that works. 4/12

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The usual suspects getting their knickers in a twist again Sharing a screen shot of a headline (not the link) designed to get all their followers frothy and outraged But as ever, the headline is totally misleading As are their faux outrage tweets about tax payers 1/

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There is literally only one reason why a government would want to leave the European Convention on Human Rights. You do see that, don’t you? The only reason they would do this is because they want to violate your Human Rights. #ToriesDevoidOfShame #ToriesUnfitToGovern

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Don’t ever forget - the ECHR was set up by Churchill and others specifically to PROTECT citizens FROM their governments. Its entire PURPOSE is to frustrate governments when those governments are trying to do bad things to their citizens. #ECHR #ToryGaslighting #ToriesOut

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Subsidised youth schemes and sports initiatives. Under 25s can get financial support for sports fees and camps, equipment and even travel. They actually encourage young disadvantaged kids to take part in arts and culture! (Imagine that!) 5/12

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Unfortunately, the far more likely explanation can be found when you look up the financial records I’m not going to post those here but it’s all available publicly The shop opened in 2019 and simply hasn’t done very well Tiny turn over, having to take out extra loans etc 6/12

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Talking down our country you say? Let’s take a look at the people who’ve actually been talking down our country and our great British institutions…. 🧵 1/9

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Firstly - ULEZ. ULEZ was expanded to cover this area on August 29th 2023 - 6 months ago. Do we really buy that a wedding dress shop - a business which by its nature tends to be for one off purchases - actually saw a 70% fall in sales overnight? 2/12

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They have a Danish Youth Council designed to strengthen youth engagement in democracy and civic society. (A little different to the Tories deliberately trying to make it HARDER for young people to vote!) 6/12

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Hottest temperature measured in the legendary summer of 1976? 35.9°C So no, you didn’t “survive hotter temperatures” in 1976 Not to mention it caused 20% excess deaths that summer. You may have survived. Many didn’t. #heatwave

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Of course Covid won’t have helped, but she specifically claims that wasn’t a problem. The accounts up to April 2023 show business wasn’t any better after Covid either. But she decides to blame Sadiq Khan instead🙄 7/12

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So a potential 6% fall is causing a 70% fall in her sales - overnight?! 🤔🤔🤔 And what kind of cars are they? Cars that are older than 18 years. Is it really likely that 70% of her customers who are spending 000’s on a wedding dress are driving 20 year old cars? 4/12

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A cohort damaged by the COVID years - with no meaningful effort put into supporting them to catch up (unlike most of the rest of the western world). They KNOW they live in a society that, not only does NOT have their back, it actively demonises them. 10/12

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BEFORE the ULEZ expansion over 90% of cars in that area were already ULEZ compliant After the expansion 96.4% of cars in that area were ULEZ compliant So, at most, that’s 6% fewer cars - some of which will have been upgraded, and some of which may well no be used as often 3/12

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Umm….. OK…. So basically, absolutely everyone and everything from the OBR to Natural England, from the media to *checks notes* the actual LAW are all ‘THE LEFT’ Basically if you aren’t a stark raving mad product of Tufton Street, you’re “the left”🙄🙄

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And what’s kept out of the Daily Mail article, is this little nugget: “For 5 years I’ve been wanting to get to Rochester” (From a Kent Online article) 8/12

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I'm going to start by saying: I'm not a Farmer I voted remain I have campaigned passionately to Remain I am gutted and angry that we have left But my eyes have been well and truly opened to the attitudes of many people whom I have campaigned alongside previously.... 1/

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What a day for the #BBC yesterday Lost all their #MOTD presenters after @GaryLineker wouldn’t apologise for criticising the government (read that again!😱) And while that was obviously the big story, their bad day didn’t end there…. 1/7

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Hampshire Country Council have opened a consultation on what areas they should cut their services to 1.4 million residents, to ensure they meet their £132 million shortfall by April 2025 - following years of austerity cuts. The options are pretty grim😢 🧵1/

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Former chancellor “agrees” to pay £millions - only AFTER an investigation exposed him. Well that’s good of him!🙄 How is this NOT on the @BBCNews app? Just imagine if it was a Labour MP. #ToryCorruption #ToryCriminals

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Former chancellor Nadhim Zahawi ‘pays millions to settle tax row’ after investigation

It comes after The Independent first revealed the inquiry into the Tory chair’s tax affairs last year

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Can someone explain the logic behind why Private schools were given charitable status in the first place? Also what advantages do they incur from it, that state schools miss out on?

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The list goes on….. 7/12

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Help me out here. If I post something and am factually corrected - I don’t post it again (I don’t like being told I’m wrong!) So, why do Leavers post the same things, having been corrected, with facts, repeatedly for 3 years?? I don’t get it🤷‍♀️ #BrexitShambles #leaverlogic

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@sbattrawden Not as impressive as a paper, but I had a guy on twitter insist on telling me that I hadn’t understood the article I’d posted and I needed to read it again to realise that his conclusion was correct. I actually didn’t have the heart to tell him I wrote the article!

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Don’t know who wrote this. But it’s absolutely spot on! #ToriesBrokeBritain #ToriesUnfitToGovern #ToryGaslighting

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Imagine being the Prime Minister of a country and celebrating the decline of what can be considered one of Britain’s greatest exports - Education. 🙄 Sunak posting one of his stupid tweets has made me cross, so here comes quick(ish) thread! 🧵 1/16

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Man who calls for boycotts to: Wicks Sainsbury’s Costa Grind Yorkshire BS H&M Paramount Man who calls for the sacking of: Gareth Southgate All the football pundits who went on strike in support of Lineker Man who burns a Pride flag Accuses other of being a “cancel cult”🙄 1/2

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Can we please, PLEASE, stop with the “oh they’re all the same” nonsense. Name me ONE current Tory MP you could ever imagine having this kind of dedication, commitment and passion for other people (and not lining their own or their mate’s pockets)…. #ToriesDestroyingOurCountry

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💪🏽RAGE from @jessphillips on the #RwandaBill costing £169k per person, IF anyone is even ever deported, while child abuse victims are given £42 each. "150 judges can be found suddenly down the back of the sofa, while rape victims wait seven years to get in front of a judge." ~AA

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If you are 🤬about Downing Street parties 👍🏻that Djokovic is having his visa removed 👍🏻that Andrew has had his titles removed 😱by minimizing of covid risks by govt & media Then let’s #FollowbackFriday ! I know they aren’t EU specific views but they are (IMO☺️) sensible ones!

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So the attack lines on Starmer are: That he quite literally wrote a book on Human Rights That he DID HIS job as a defense lawyer That he worked for free to protect people from the death penalty Oh, and he bought a donkey sanctuary for his Mum? And those are bad things??🤷‍♀️

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You were saying…?

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So, grifter extraordinaire, William Makis, posted this yesterday. A big looooooong post (because he obviously pays for a blue tick 🙄). As ever, I thought I’d take a look 🧵 1/24 #AntiVax #TurboCancer

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Give me strength 🙄🙄🙄

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But oh my God do they make that hard when they: ❌Silence govt critics ❌Refuse to air a show that might offend Right wing watchers (an Attenborough nature program FGS!) ❌Defend a Tory wife beater ❌Fail to correct spurious accusations made by a Tory MP 6/7

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Remainers pride themselves on being open minded, outward looking, and factual. Yet where farmers are concerned they appear stuck in a mythical narrative of blame and anger. If we ever want to Rejoin we will need to join with others to campaign. #SaveBritishFarming 14/ End!

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The Business rate reduction is thought to deprive local authorities of between £100 million and £144 million per year. In Scotland this was removed from Private schools recently - so it’s perfectly possible to do! 4/

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Private schools in Scotland set to lose lucrative tax break from next year

Independent schools will soon lose their ability to claim charity relief on non-domestic business rates.

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So, how do Private schools benefit from their charitable status? ⏺️80% reduction in Business Rates ⏺️Claim Gift Aid on donations ⏺️No tax payable on their profits ⏺️No tax payable on their investment income ⏺️Stamp Duty relief ⏺️Covid loans State schools not eligible for👆🏼 3/

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You are of course free to get really outraged that a disability charity is using some of its funds to help financially struggling, disabled people’s lives get just a little bit better, if you choose.🤷‍♀️ Ps there are names for people like you🤔 5/

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Taxi driver today told me that his friend had to cancel their holiday to Thailand as they had #covid and Thailand tests everyone entering. Me:Oh no, that’s a shame Taxi driver: No it was fine, they changed their flights and went to Turkey instead. 🙄🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️

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IFS report if you want to read it for yourself: 20/20 End!

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Tax, private school fees and state school spending | Institute for Fiscal Studies

This report compares private school fees and state school spending. It also examines Labour’s proposals to remove tax exemptions from private schools.

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I really hope there are some serious emergency meetings taking place today after the shocking day they had yesterday But given all the high level posts are held by well known Tories and Tory donors, I won’t hold my breath Please, please #BBC , do better for all our sakes.😢 7/7

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But Private schools provide lots of charity to disadvantaged children, right? Umm… not so much Only 1% of children in private school come from the most deprived backgrounds Many provide scholarships but this is usually 10% off the fees - totally unattainable to most 6/

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Finally, an apology for NOT clarifying on air that Nadine Dorries was making unfounded, absurd claims when she was interviewed about #SueGray . They were happy to let those accusations go unchallenged, but needed to add “balance” by pointing out SJ only beat his wife once! 4/7

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Don’t forget, the top Private schools increased their assets by 44% form 2015-2020! There’s definitely a bit of wriggle room there! 11/

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Elite Private Schools Increase Assets by More than Half a Billion Pounds in Six Years

These ‘charitable’ institutions in receipt of substantial tax breaks have seen their wealth burgeon in recent years, reveal Sascha Lavin and Iain Overton

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And it’s being funded by Motability. A charity. So unless you donated to Motability, then it isn’t YOU as a tax payer paying for it 🙄 4/

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Or you could look past these divisive, rage-farming headlines and go, “oh, well yeh, that sounds like a good idea” and then stop listening to the Tice’s and Lowe’s of this world👍🏻👍🏻 End

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So following on from my post pointing out that the ONLY reason a government would want to leave the ECHR is because they want to violate your human rights, I thought I’d address a couple of the themes that were coming up in the comments 🧵 1/

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I’m sorry, what?! Our Secretary of State for HEALTH doesn’t know what a Junior Doctor is?? Or knows, but wants to gaslight the British public into believing the wrong thing….? #ToriesDestroyingOurCountry #ToryLies #ToryGaslighting #ToriesOut

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Victoria Atkins: "Junior Doctors or Doctors in training as I prefer to call them" #Insulting #BBCBreakfast

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And finally, @Ofcom - you claim you can’t take action against their blatant violation of your rules for “News” shows as you don’t consider them to be News. Clearly it’s now a commonly accepted thing that they are indeed a “News” channel. So maybe take some action?🙏🏼 7/7

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It’s an emotive subject, I know. Everyone wants the best for their children. But only a privileged tiny minority can afford to send their children to private school. They may forgo some luxuries to do so, but millions forgo luxuries simply to feed and clothe their kids. 19/

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The reason they’re eligible for all these financial benefits is that they’re classed as “charities” on the basis that they provide education (Tufton Street think tanks fall Under this category too🙄) 5/

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You ever scroll through twitter and then see a post that makes you utterly despair for the future of the human race? How can anytime be THIS stupid?! Remember when people had high hopes about how the internet would provide unlimited education? Nope - the opposite happened 🙄🤦‍♀️

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Agree with this. + if you do not want to do military service (4 mths only), you then have to do a civic job (often social or arts sector) which is also for 4 mths and it is paid. Not volunteer and it is in one stretch so proper training can be given

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Yes energy prices are rising the world over, but seriously…..?! Would really like to know what the plan is! #ToriesUnfitToGovern

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Can someone explain the logic behind this?: In order to stand as a CANDIDATE in the upcoming elections I don’t need to provide a single piece of ID to register. But in order to vote for myself, I need ID to prove who I am.🤷‍♀️ #voterID

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But not all parents are rich… That’s certainly true, but it’s all relative! The overwhelming majority are at the top end of the income ladder A small minority aren’t, but if you can afford £15K (average) from your taxed income AFTER paying all your bills, you’re not poor! 12/

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I really want to support the BBC Even more so because the government are so keen to shut it down (God knows why!) I do hate the inherent right wing bias under the cover of “impartiality” but I try and give them the benefit of the doubt 5/7

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They announced they’d wouldn’t be airing the final episode of the latest #Attenborough series on TV for fear of a “Right Wing backlash” WTF? It will go out on iPlayer where the poor snowflakes won’t see it…. 2/7

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While we all bask in the beauty that is: Con -1061 Lab +536 LD +405 Green +241 Can we also take a moment to acknowledge that UKIP lost EVERY Councillor, while Reform UK came away with just 6 (gained 2)🤣 #LocalElections2023 1/7

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But private schools benefit local schools through partnerships, don’t they? That, too, seems fairly minimal. Inviting local kids to watch their theatre productions, and joint Carol singing forms the majority of the “partnerships” 7/

REPORT: Benefiting the public? A study of private-state school partnerships - PEPF

This report analysed responses from state schools about the quality and impact of partnerships with private schools, published with The Times

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This country is broken. Utterly, utterly broken. We NEED a #GeneralElectionN0W We NEED to start fixing the damage, investing in infrastructure, councils, public services. We can’t take any more cuts. 17/

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I haven’t got enough tweets left to cover the morality, and frankly hideousness of the narrative that if you have an underlying condition, your life is worth less. These people are our family, our friends, our carers, valuable, meaningful members of our society… 24/

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Then we had the statement about why #FionaBruce felt the need to clarify it was a “one off” when #stanleyjohnson put his wife in hospital😱 Yes, she was quoting one of their friends and not expressing her own opinion, but of all the things to ensure they clarified..? 3/7

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@ICT456 @drphiliplee1 Trying to explain to my teenage son that just because he is “allowed” to go to the gym with his mate under tier 3 doesn’t mean it is safe to do. I really don’t want him to go - but the rules say he can. Hard to argue that! 😢

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Had this shared with me by a gleeful GB News fan🙄 It seemed incredibly unlikely - so I wondered who they asked, what they asked etc. Went to look at the results of the poll itself…. 1/ #GBeebies #GBNews

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GB News named most loved news brand in the UK in new poll

The media organisation beat The Guardian and The Sun to the top award.

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It’s always fun when an old white man (sorry, but they are always old white men) tells me that, while I might be correct, his reasoning was actually more correct (it wasn’t!), and that I was clearly day dreaming in science lessons🤣 I have a First class Molecular Biology degree!

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@MyGineration @nicktolhurst @KevCOYG Here are 2 of them. They look like regular articles except you can see a line at the top showing who ‘wrote’ them. Both of the ‘articles’ blame companies for not preparing properly 😖

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Schools could absorb the costs in the short term by ⏺️lowering fees so parents pay the same ⏺️increasing class sizes ⏺️Not buy new equipment/swimming pools🤪 for a couple of years ⏺️dip into their investments ⏺️Sell off amenities And they can always apply to become academies 10/

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And don’t even think about claiming there’s no money! If they can find £240 million to throw at Rwanda for a scheme they know will never happen and spend millions on a barge just for some performative cruelty, then they can start finding money to actually fix the country 18/

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It’s a Motability scheme designed to help people with a Motability scheme vehicle (or waiting for one) to learn to drive in it. You must be in receipt of both a disability allowance AND a means-tested benefit - to ensure it’s only being used by people who need it. 3/

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And before I start, cards on the table….. I spent 5 years at an insanely expensive boarding school thanks to my Grandmother. AND one of my children spent 3 years at a local private school. This isn’t about jealousy or any other such nonsense, so don’t bother going there! 2/

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There’s a myth that adding VAT would cause a mass exodus into the state sector. In the last 20 years, school fees have risen 55%, yet numbers have remained at a steady 6-7% throughout that period. The IFS calculates that these tax increases might lead to just 3-7% leaving 13/

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Nope! You’re free to continue talking crap to those who want to listen. And companies are free to decide they don’t want to pay for you to do that. Maybe if you weren’t such a divisive, toxic, cesspit of a channel, advertisers would stick with you…🤷‍♀️ #GBNews #Grind

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July 5th may be Britains’s most unproductive day of the year! Who’s planning to be hung over, and exhausted from staying up all night?? 🥂🥱😴🥂🥳😆 #GeneralElection2024 #ToriesOut

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There are 9.1 million school age children in England ~560,000 private school children. Even IF 7% of them moved, (and it wouldn’t happen at the same time, or straight away) that would be around 40K. Last year, our state schools managed to absorb that from 🇺🇦,🇭🇰 and 🇦🇫. 14/

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So yes, it’s really sad that Alton school is closing. And I really do feel for the families and staff affected. But let’s not pretend this school has failed because of Labour policies. It has been struggling for years under Tory policies. 10/11

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I’m sure some schools do offer more meaningful partnerships, but as that report found, it’s rarely benefitting the most disadvantaged, and more often than not, used as a marketing exercise aimed at attracting new students. 8/

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