Rosi Sexton

This matters. It’s also another reason why we should be skeptical about the digital id plans.

This looks like really important (and urgent) work.

Rachel Reeves due to appear at gambling lobbyist’s event amid tax review Chancellor’s invitation criticised as ‘strange timing’ with Treasury looking at whether to raise duties on £12bn sector

Getting the #BigMoney lobbyists out of politics. It would be a good idea.

As is taking back control from the #gambling industry, doing enormous damage to individuals and communities.

But is this Labour government likely to act?

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Btw it's 76,000 now and going up every minute....

yes, people really seem to be going back and forth from "it's not just being poor makes you racist" to "economic policies are irrelevant to the development of the far right". It's such a massive motte-and-bailey that it ought to have a shop selling Historic Wales tea towels.

Yep - we'll see how many have noticed improved treatment vs how many (often from more disadvantaged groups) have been "managed" off waiting lists without treatment.

I'm so sorry. 🫂

How awful for her - sorry to hear that you've had to go through this. (Not "liking" the post, obvs, just expressing sympathy)

Out of interest, whereabouts are you? (If you don't mind saying!)

My own view (and I talk to a lot of people in detail about healthcare experiences in my job - though admittedly not a representative sample) is that there is massive regional variation, and huge differences in access for different groups even within the same region.

Public satisfaction with the NHS and social care in 2024: Results from the British Social Attitudes survey The Nuffield Trust and The King’s Fund join forces each year to analyse and present findings from the gold-standard survey of public attitudes and opinions towards the NHS and social care, as surveyed...

If only there was some actual research into this... www.nuffieldtrust.org.uk/research/pub....

I think fairer to say that people's expressed opinion on the NHS is much worse than *your* personal experiences.

Lots of people having some truly dreadful experiences right now.

Some groups and geographical areas much more than others.

Democrat @raskin.house.gov excoriates Nigel Farage for banning journalists from Reform UK events:

"I'm asking you a direct question. Why do you ban journalists who oppose your views from coming to your events? Why did you tell local government not to do interviews with your local newspaper?"

Excellent thread.

Huge congratulations - amazing campaign and an incredible result. Hope you've got some well deserved time to recover! 💚

Elsewhere I might be tempted to read something into that, but not in that room!

I always thought "highly qualified but entirely unemployable" was my own special niche.

Ouch.

I think that's more a function of where the party has chosen to target than any inherent Green voting tendencies of the local electorate. If the political landscape changes, so will the target seats.

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I get that it’s comforting to imagine it’s just Kemi Badenoch but very clearly, a good half of the media/political class have dry-roasted their own brains in a digital oven.

Jim Waterson @jim.londoncentric.media This sounds glib but "prominent people being mocked online and hating it" is suchhh a driver of so many things in media/politics right now!

Ten years ago! Jim is talking about Tories it’s okay for him to criticise, but it’s what made both the centrists and the right flame-grill their brains, because the problem here has been elite radicalisation and an incredible amount of it online, due to being told to fuck off on Twitter dot com

I prosecute and defend the most serious sexual offences in our courts.

The overwhelming majority of offenders are British-born. Overwhelmingly the victim is someone known to them, either a partner or relative.

Anybody purporting to care about protecting women might start there.

The last decade has been such a scramble to find ways of telling people that it's possible to have change without anything changing.

generally speaking if you’re furious that women are able to find relationships through dating apps whilst men aren’t, you are surely either a) on a lesbian dating app by accident or b) very confused about the mechanics of how pairing off actually works in the end

UK has got ‘fat’ on decades of free labour by women, says MP Jess Phillips Minister points to ‘sexist’ practice of country relying on women to provide services so government did not have to

I see this every time I work with community groups. Women stepping in to fill gaps left by LAs and government, only to find the more they step in, the more gaps appear, as government sees this free labour as a solution that their funding crises. It is not. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

I think we're going around in circles here, and I don't think I'm going to make myself any clearer than I already have.

Nobody is arguing that the belief is "inherently abusive".

We have already agreed that context is important, and careful procedure is important.

Enjoy your weekend.

I appreciate that's not a belief that has any legal protection - but a literal reading of that bit of the code of conduct would suggest that we'd treat it the same way.

As for whether we should or not - I'm inclined to agree that it's behaviour that matters rather than beliefs per se, but I wonder how far we'd be comfortable extending that to, say, someone who was open about racist or eugenicist beliefs (but wasn't directly abusive to individuals).

While it's an interesting theoretical question (my hunch is that churches and political parties probably could make a legal argument for excluding people based on beliefs), I agree that would be legally riskier.