"I work in the public sector very closely with local authorities, the NHS, the police… we've seen years and years of cuts to funding for services for people that need them."
"Would you be prepared to pay more taxes to [solve] that?"
"Yes."
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16.10.2025 22:24 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

"We've had 14 years of Conservative austerity. They shut our libraries. They shut our community centres. And then to say integration is the problem. How do you expect people to integrate if you've taken away their services?" ~ @zackpolanski.bsky.social

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09.10.2025 22:31 — 👍 11    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0

Portrait artwork of journalist and author Aoife Moore's appearance on BBC Question Time panel, drawn in ink fineliner by John Soonaye

"[Keir Starmer] is struggling explain to people that the reason you're on a housing waiting list, the NHS is underfunded & your child can't get a special school place is not because of immigrants - it's successive governments"
- Aoife Moore

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02.10.2025 22:31 — 👍 7    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

A line drawing portrait artwork of Billy Bragg on Question Time drawn by John Soonaye

"You're suggesting that by leaving the ECHR, this will solve all the problems. Well, we bought a 'leave everything' arguement off your party before and it didn't quite work out... A lot of people have buyer's remorse."
~ @billybragg.bsky.social

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25.09.2025 22:27 — 👍 118    🔁 22    💬 1    📌 0

I've finished a new textile art project: a portrait of Deadpool made from fabric scraps and thread... on a piece of curtain! It's bigger than life-size too (pencil for scale in the 3rd picture)!
#Deadpool #TextileArt #Sewing #textiles #art #artist

07.04.2025 15:53 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

"A fair and just peace is the end of Russian aggression, the pulling out of all Russian troops and going back to Ukraine's 1991 borders." ~ Lesia Vasylenko

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20.02.2025 23:53 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

"If we're talking about deceptions, the big deception is that GDP could be seen as a measure of our well-being." ~ @georgemonbiot.bsky.social

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13.02.2025 23:13 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Did the double "Christmas Rickman" tonight: Love Actually AND Die Hard!!! 🎄🎬

20.12.2024 01:43 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Movie advent calendar drawn by John Soonaye

It's the 1st December!!! Happy advert everyone!

The perfect day to share my Christmas movie advent calendar!

I've drawn 24 of my favourite festive films! See if you can name them all!! Merry Christmas! 🌲🎁♥️🥰🤗

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01.12.2024 18:23 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0