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Julia Smith🍉🍉🍉 #CeasefireNOW retweeted
"Your heart is breaking for Israeli children, why isn't your heart breaking for Palestinian children?”
a brilliant question.
Julia Smith🍉🍉🍉 #CeasefireNOW retweeted
Prince William, the man who lectures the country on homelessness, is now telling long-standing Duchy tenants to buy their farms or get out.
Many cannot raise the money. The distress is already real.
Same royal who preaches compassion is the one putting families at risk of losing their homes.
Hypocrisy does not get clearer than this.
bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cwm2…
Julia Smith🍉🍉🍉 #CeasefireNOW retweeted
Think about anyone running an honest small trade or trying to get by on an average wage. If you owe HMRC a few hundred pounds, they will relentlessly hound you with automated penalty fees, interest, and the threat of court action.
Yet out of £46 billion handed out in pandemic schemes, only 19 percent has ever been repaid in full. It was treated like an open buffet, and the politicians setting the rules were right there at the front of the queue.
Julia Smith🍉🍉🍉 #CeasefireNOW retweeted
Here goes… 🤞 💙
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BREAKING: In a miraculous medical breakthrough, the government has worked out that disability does not start until you are 25 years old ♥️
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"The double amputee marathon runner Richard Whitehead has criticised Kemi Badenoch for “weaponising his sporting success” to justify her proposed £36bn welfare cuts."
theguardian.com/sport/2026/n…
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Michael Rosen and Beano launch nationwide poetry competition - The Bookseller - goo.gl/alerts/ZL2uzH #GoogleAlerts
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A former Cabinet minister describing Motability cars as “free” is extraordinary. Disabled people pay for them through their mobility allowance. PIP isn’t an out-of-work benefit. Either you don’t understand the system you’re attacking, or you’re deliberately misleading the public?
I've met families where 3 generations have never worked… and a young man trying to break that cycle, only to find his family told him to stop working because his alarm clock was waking them up.
People are making a mockery of our welfare system. Bragging about their free Motability cars, flaunting their new keys on TikTok.
They think it's a victimless crime. It isn't.
18 million working households will each pay £50,000 in taxes for working-age welfare this Parliament.
Every pound claimed by someone exploiting the system comes from somebody else.
Someone who gets up, goes to work and pays their taxes and most likely will never afford a brand-new car.
This wasn’t the aim of our post-war welfare state.
It’s the sign of a deeply broken one.
Julia Smith🍉🍉🍉 #CeasefireNOW retweeted
BREAKING: Israel Has Committed A Massacre By Bombing Nasser Hospital In Gaza
Six confirmed dead so far & over 30 wounded.
This is what the world calls a “ceasefire”. The genocide continues.
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Helen Whately has been an MP since 2015 when she was elected MP for Faversham and Mid-Kent.
Helen has held several positions within the Conservative party but is now employed as a full-time demagogue, attacking disabled and sick people for claiming much needed benefits.
Guess how much Helen has claimed in ̶P̶a̶r̶l̶i̶a̶m̶e̶n̶t̶a̶r̶y̶ ̶b̶e̶n̶e̶f̶i̶t̶s̶ expenses since becoming an MP? 👇
Helen is actively working to make those much less fortunate than herself … much worse off.
While having claimed almost TWO MILLION pounds from the public purse in expenses.
Just utterly reprehensible.
Meet Nikki. She’s a mum in her fifties who came to see me.
Since her job in a nursery became all too much, she’s started receiving universal credit.
Without qualifications and, as she put it, being ‘no good at computers’, she's struggling to find another job.
But that’s not why she came to speak to me. Her real worry was her son, Jack, who signed on the moment he turned 18.
He's got autism and ADHD, but Nikki wants him to work.
She's frustrated the state is paying him money to stay at home. She desperately wants the job centre to get on his case.
But there’s no sign of that.
So, Jack is literally left to his own devices, gaming in his bedroom most of the time.
Who would want that life for their child?
Stories like Jack's are increasingly common.
It’s a disaster.
Hundreds of thousands of young people are setting out on a life on benefits. Only the Conservatives have a detailed plan to put an end to this and help young people into work. We’ll halve National Insurance for employers hiring 21 to 24-year-olds, create 100,000 more apprenticeships, and introduce a Get to Work programme to stop young people going straight from education onto benefits.
Julia Smith🍉🍉🍉 #CeasefireNOW retweeted
Yes it’s true … British tax payers are going to be forced to bail out the National grid.
Just so you know the ‘National Grid’ isn’t owned by us. Er no….
It’s a privately owned company with international shareholders, with almost £49 BILLION of debt, forecast to reach £60–70 BILLION by 2031.
The massive costs of upgrading the grid including financing costs and shareholder returns (obvs) , is paid through increasing OUR energy bills.
Much of this investment is because of the Government’s Net Zero targets.
And if it gets into serious financial trouble, the law even allows government financial support (paid for by taxpayers)
It’s a bloody brilliant private investment where the investors never lose. And ordinary people always pay.
Now watch what they do with nature.
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Freedom of the City for the Eastney Station
Just when George Madgwick thought his week could not get any worse 🤣🤣
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So you’ve probably seen a lot of posts and articles about Voyager 1 reaching the one light-day milestone on November 18, 2026. What are the _next_ milestones for the Voyager probes?
While Earth and even Jupiter fade into the background and become less relevant for the Voyagers, the Sun is still the dominant gravitational force, and will remain so for hundreds of years. On February 4 next year, Voyager 1 will reach the one light-day distance _from the Sun._ Why is this date different? Because of the position of Earth in its orbit around the Sun. Earth was a little farther away (orbiting around the ‘backside’ as seen from Voyager 1) and so the distance to Earth was a little greater in November.
For this next milestone, you will notice that the order is reversed (Sun first, Earth second), and now you can figure out why that is! On August 11, 2028 Voyager 2 will be 150 times as far from the Sun as the Earth, or 150 Astronomical Units (AU). It will be 150 AU from the Earth five weeks later on September 18, 2028.
The milestone after that? On January 6 2029, the two Voyagers will be 20 BILLION miles apart. I have milestones tagged out to 2100 (the current limit to the HORIZONS system for the Voyagers), but that’s for another post…
#Voyager1 #OneLightDay
Julia Smith🍉🍉🍉 #CeasefireNOW retweeted
Sister ship Voyager 1 is currently ~23h 59m 06s of light travel time from Earth (2026:315:120000:1L)
Julia Smith🍉🍉🍉 #CeasefireNOW retweeted
Next week, for the first time in human history, a human-made object will reach a distance of one light-day from Earth.
We're inviting the world to celebrate Voyager 1's major milestone with us. science.nasa.gov/mission/voy…
Julia Smith🍉🍉🍉 #CeasefireNOW retweeted
Brilliant work - well done!
The vote is in 81% @unitetheunion members at East London NHS foundation trust voted in favour for strike action! A monumental victory! Let the fight begin! Thanks to all who worked tirelessly calling members making sure they retuned their completed ballots! @UniteLondonEast @unitetheunion #saveournhs
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Liam Neeson says his wife last words to him were oh darling I’ve taken a tumble in the snow
‘She and I had made a pact of any of us got into a vegetative state we’d pull the plug so when I saw her and all these tubes that was my immediate thought, ok these tubes have to go she’s gone’
‘Sweetie you’re not coming back from this you’ve banged your head I don’t know if you can hear me but this is what gone down, we’re bringing you back to New York all your family and friends will come’
‘We donated three of her organs her hear her kidneys and her liver so she’s keeping three people alive at the moment I think she would be very thrilled by that’
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Tonight BBC 4 is screening a repeat of the Ken Loach "Cathy Come Home".
The story of a young couple's descent into poverty & homelessness.
It was a screening of this that drew me and many others into working in- and campaigning for- more social housing.
Sadly
Nothing has changed.
