Jeni Hooper

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#FullFact real-time Government Tracker updated today.
It now shows Labour delivered (or are on track to deliver) 57 of 83 Election pledges.
This is an extraordinary achievement in just 15 months in power.
The Tories managed just 3 (one partially) in 5yrs

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Calling English a 'rip-off degree' is one of the most blatant exhibitions of personal barbarism I've ever seen. You've demonstrated nothing but the poverty of your own mind.

The last few days I have seen first hand the NHS struggling to meet needs.
Staff of all kinds of nationalities & skin tones at GPs, hospitals & ancillary services working hard and remaining cheerful in the face of overwhelming demand and awkward, sometimes rude patients

if you’ve ever watched the apprentice, that’s the world without arts or humanities degrees

As an artist I don't even want that, to me art is a safe space for exploring emotions of all kinds including exhuberent joy so to me the kid is "getting it" way more than the stuffy pretentious adults

Not all children with additional needs are neurodiverse. Quiet space in a crowd is an interesting concept. If the place visited isnt asking for silence maybe that sets the tone.

Be bold. You are her pathfinder. I hope you meet other families who can make waves. Mainstream schooling can create different challenges in finding like-minded people.

Art galleries and museums can be sombre, po faced places for earnest, cerebral contemplation. That is very ablist and joyless. I'm glad she enjoyed your outing and well done to her for her spontaneity and unintentional bid for inclusiveness.

Not aiming for the youth vote or for their aspirational parents.

Victoria Derbyshire, "You described Reform UK as the right wing fascists of 1930s, why?"

Lord Heseltine, "Because that's what they are"

A thing I worry about a lot about a Reform government is basic competency. As in they'll get in and not understand things and just not be able to get anything done properly.

Water is essential for wildlife. There are so few ponds in Norfolk. Animals are coming into residential areas to find water and food in gardens.

‘Thick as Thieves’: Nathan Gill and Nigel Farage’s Putin Problem Far from being distant from the Reform UK Leader, insiders told Byline Times that the former MEP convicted of bribery was one of Farage’s closest aides, while we reveal how Gill worked on the Kremlin’...

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Give the lowest white man someone to look down on, and they’ll empty their pockets for you - LBJ

Nigel Garbage has a solid handle on this concept

Many more retirees should start using their professional/academic/political wisdom to contribute in this way. And if anyone in any nation wants to (like me) become a citizen journalist to do this more effectively, we’d love to hear from you at @yorkshirebylines.co.uk

This is what Keir Starmer has done for you so far The Tories presided over 14 years of decline, undermined our public services, and wrecked our economy. Keir Starmer's Labour Government is getting on with the job, fixing the foundations of our countr...

BBC: "normally a year in you would expect lots of policy announcements."

Erm…!?!?

Like the ones already announced such as most recently digital ID?

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Labour can't win against this.

#UKPolitics #Labour #BBC

There are a limited number of appointments available for the 3 GPs at my local surgery. Retired people are a large demographic and may struggle with online booking. Some do not have smartphones.

This is very upsetting. Please watch the video clip.

I've lived a decade longer than my parents. Im not finished yet

Welfare spending is 10.8% as a proportion of GDP and was 10% in 2001. (And the increase is nearly all pensions). Apparently it's now out of control. It's just absolutely bog standard right wing paper talking points.

Tired of reading crap about Sharia Law. It is the code and rules of Islamic faith. It only applies to Muslims and doesn't overrule the laws of the land.
The Roman Catholic equivalent is Cannon Law, which also doesn't overrule the laws of the land.

Farage is after power and money. He is still not available to his constituents and rarely in parliament.

Reform's supporters are not well educated.

Maybe the and should be an or : national insurance payments or voluntary work. Voluntary work is often daytime, which isn't practical for anyone with a full-time job. Most of the voluntary work here is from retired people.

The picture shows a terracotta horse with a rider on four wheels.

Children loved to play with toys in #Roman times too: some 1,800 years ago, a child in Cologne was buried with a terracotta horse with a rider on wheels. It was certainly a much-loved which the child was also supposed to play with in the afterlife.

📷 Römisch-Germanisches Museum Köln
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Farage refuses to criticise Trump over paracetamol despite health experts dismissing autism claims Reform UK leader says he has ‘no idea’ if US president is right to tell women to avoid drug during pregnancy

Doesn’t this tell everyone who supports Reform everything they need to know about their glorious leader? I.E. that he will follow the Trump playbook into all the circles of hell into which it leads.

Unlike paracetamol and autism which has NO link whatsoever…believing Right wing bullshit then voting for a racist, fraudulent, insurrectionist, conman rapist DOES equate to ficking up your country.

#Trump
#USA
#VoteStupidGetStupid

I am disgusted by Reform UK's threats to people who have built a life in this country.

They are coming for our neighbours. They are coming for our colleagues. They are coming for our friends.

We are at a dangerous moment. This hatred cannot be appeased. It must be defeated.

This is amazing.

Reform branded ‘threat to democracy’ over Farage plan to remove thousands of migrants with leave to be in UK – politics live Nigel Farage says Reform UK would scrap the main route that migrants take to gain British citizenship

There are 4.24m people with Indefinite Leave to Remain (or equivalent).

82% are in work, compared with 74% of Britons

3.8m are in relationships with Britons

They have about 2.4m British-born children.

This bullshit is never going to happen. Again.

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