Wendy 'What Now?!' McDonnell 🌱

For Halloween 🎃

Was definitely swedes/neeps for us in rural Southern England in 60s and 70s. Didn't know what a pumpkin was - or Trick or Treating. Had some great costume parties though. Swedes are horrid to carve for small fingers.

If the US charged $50 to punch Mike Johnson the US national debt would plummet from $38bn.

The buses bill also became law this week, allowing councils in England to finally take control of local services used by millions of people.

Almost nothing from No 10 or Govt Comms as a whole. It's beyond woeful.

Meanwhile Reform are holding multiple press conferences a week.

Nearly 150,000 aged 90 and above wait 12 hours in England’s A&Es each year Older people left in their own excrement and wet beds for hours and forced to watch others die, Age UK report finds

This terrifies me. The prospect of this being in my future, with no-one to fight my corner, makes me seriously consider a self medication contingency plan

www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Prepared to or preparing to? A world of difference.

So, we get a picture of her, rather than the perpetrator? Ugh🙄

Take good care of yourself 👍

Lethal bloody machines. My uncle (once a hooligan - always a hooligan, and never one to learn a quick lesson) several times ended up in the same ditch, wrong way up and relying on neighbours to right him and the blue meanie. Ironically, he probably would have voted Faragist.

Three Just Stop Oil activists cleared over Stonehenge protest Trio argued orange powder protest day before 2024 solstice was justified because of focus on climate emergency

Brilliant result - ridiculous law. It won't get repealed, however. The government knows what's coming down the road in terms of climate disruption - and the public's likely reaction to it. Grim.

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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A gargoyle on Paisley Abbey that looks suspiciously like a Xenomorph

A gargoyle on Paisley Abbey that looks suspiciously like a Xenomorph

On this Halloween, a reminder that a sculptor included a Xenomorph gargoyle during the 1990s restoration of Paisley Abbey

I'm on the north east edge of Ashdown Forest and we've certainly got a healthy squirrel population locally. Hoping for pine marten introduction, but not heard anything yet. 🤞

👇 We need to go harder and faster to protect our system of government. Too timid by half...

Andrew Wakefield has one hell of a lot to answer for 🤬

Andrew Wakefield has one hell of a lot to answer for 🤬

Deadline tonight. Word to the wise -use the quick vote 👍

A woman is killed by a man every 3 days in the UK...

78% are murdered by a partner/ex

Yet not once have I heard Reform talk about this

Not once have I heard them back measures to protect women’s safety

In fact, they voted against them...

Confirmation of how low BBC News has sunk. Reeves' trivial administrative cock up leads its news website when, for example, Jamaica is being destroyed by a hurricane.
Sod the 1000s of Brits worried about family, embarrassing Labour is more important.

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Thanks for your effort on this Warren. Appreciated 👍

Your daily reminder that the government continues to commercially support an individual who wants to destroy it through fascist violence.

I don't think we should talk about climate change anymore, we should talk about kitchen-table issues. Like how climate change will destroy your kitchen table and everything else you have

I so agree with this.

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I've lost count of the occasions I've had "go back home you white bastard.." shouted at me in the street and being annoyed that people can't be bothered to pronounce my name correctly.

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Quick and easy to vote and please do so by 31st of October

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What kind of country puts its pensioners ahead of children in poverty? | Polly Toynbee As long as a third of children are living below the poverty line, the government cannot justify keeping the pensions triple lock, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee

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Beth Rigby: "Keir Starmer has changed his top team more than I've had hot dinners."

In two years before Starmer we had 3 PMs, 4 Chancellors, 3 Foreign Secretaries, 5 Home Secretaries, 5 Education Secretaries, 5 Cabinet Secretaries, etc. - total 221 ministerial departures.

Maybe Beth is on a diet.