Sarah Cheung Johnson

But you swear & stamp your feet instead, insisting you are right. You’ve literally done the opposite of what your friend wrote.

Last post from me.

I encounter attacks as a minority all the time. I know the ones who wish to be allies don’t yell at others when given advice. They listen.

Your friend’s reply was gracious & acknowledges different viewpoints - you could learn a lot from them.

Of your friend, and had zero interest in being “sympathetic” to a minority then why bother posting on a public social media platform for others to reply to?

Truly “sympathetic”people would take feedback with an open mind, instead of already resorting to swearing and making it about themselves.

I wasn’t insisting on being right - I was saying your language has the potential to insult others who are ND & their families. If you only wished to speak

Pls do some reading up of who Asperger’s was and why functioning labels are damaging, if you’d like to be a true autistic ally. Suggesting autistic people arent empathetic by default is also not the defence you think it is. It’s ablest.

Find me a LibDem leader that has used this racist rhetoric?

I’ll wait.

Deputy Green Party Leader admits to performing hypnotherapy to 'enlarge' women's breasts in the past Zack Polanski, the deputy leader of the Green Party, has admitted to performing hypnotherapy to 'enlarge' women's breasts in the past.

Coming from a man who did this, nothing surprises me about him www.lbc.co.uk/news/zack-po...

And politically stupid, too. Alienates core vote (& they do have places to go) in pursuit of votes he'll rarely get, & demolishes his core policy agenda of growth, making his re-election more unlikely. Even those (inc. me) willing to cut him a lot of slack feel betrayed. A truly awful day for UK.

Amazing news that the Home Office has apparently worked out how to bring hundreds of thousands of native UK workers into the care industry

Starmer's speech today was shameful from a Labour government: pandering, dishonest and inflammatory.

To say "the damage this has done to our country is incalculable" is language no politician should use about migrants who have come to the UK and contributed to our economy and society.

I once had to refuse a camping chair someone gifted me when I worked for a big company because anything over a “nominal value” was deemed against the rules.

An NYT journalist defending a whole freaking aeroplane as being “nothing to see here” is so depressing

I’m not even going into how economically illiterate it is to be anti-immigration in an aging nation, with stagnant growth, low productivity and an electorate that still expects a big welfare state and whose biggest concern is saving a crumbling NHS that runs on immigrants.

So. Racist AND Stupid.

Also plenty of British immigrants I met in Hong Kong never managed to speak Cantonese.

Starmer really mastering the racist rhetoric with a slop of English exceptionalism on top.

Hope you’re proud of your leader, Labour types.

Shameful

“Island of Strangers”.

For every Labour person who accused us LibDems of being yellow Tories

For every Labour person who argued their votes FOR Brexit didn’t mean they were anti-people who looked like me

I hope you’re proud of your party.

I’m bloody glad I didn’t vote for this unprincipled BS

This dog whistle language is so deeply offensive to me, the daughter of immigrants who don’t speak great English.

You don’t speak for me Prime Minister, and despite the scare you’ve evidently had from Reform, thankfully many of fellow Brits don’t either.

Cynical, disgusting politics from Labour.

No single party leader is now trusted on the economy, Opinium found. However, Starmer (-32%) and Reeves (-38%) are the most distrusted, with the Reform leader, Nigel Farage, the Tory leader, Kemi Badenoch, and shadow chancellor, Mel Stride, all rated similarly on -22%, -23% and -24% respectively.

The magical disappearing Ed Davey, courtesy of The Observer & @opiniumresearch.bsky.social

Poll asks people if they trust various politicians on the economy.

@eddavey.libdems.org.uk comes out with best net score, 16 points better than next best.

See if you can spot what's missing from write-up:

Huge congrats to Chris and Dianne - what a wonderful partnership.

And to the Strictly crew, yes I was bawling throughout. Bravo. Excellent season.

Finally watched Strictly Come Dancing final.

A blind man, a deaf woman, a black man and a middle class woman of a certain age all got voted by the British public into the final of the biggest show on British TV.

This year has been brutal for us liberals but sometimes let’s celebrate the wins.

@angemiso.bsky.social here you go! bsky.app/profile/did:...

YES Nadiya! Love her!

I love Monica Galetti! Though she probably wants to do more cheffing and less TV-ing.

I’d like Masterchef champion Ping Coombes because it’s high time we had an East Asian presenter of anything high profile!

Nothing against Angela or Andi but as Great British Menu watcher, also not sure on them

Dang. He needs the extra G for being extra gross.

It’s high time Masterchef stopped being helmed by 2 white middle class men of a certain age anyway

As a long time Strictly fan I always found it telling that Aliona, his pro dancer seemed deeply uncomfortable with him and felt her relief when they got voted off first. That was way back in 2014.

Hello fellow middle-class women of a certain age!

We’ve all met people like Greg Wallace in real life, who tell us we can’t take a joke.

The jokes are inevitably not funny and laced with sexual innuendo we’re expected to absorb, because we are women of a certain age.

Hopefully know this was not my intention. Just a difficult perspective 🙏

Obvs my Chinese parents never read aloud to me this word or in fact, any other English words.

Not saying this applies to said parliamentarian but let’s not look down on those who pronounce things wrong and instead celebrate the new words they’re bravely trying out, aloud.

I will just say those who pronounce words incorrectly have often come to them from reading and not from having the privilege of hearing words spoken aloud for various reasons. I still remember the laugh I got for saying enveloped incorrectly in English class one day.

I beat the game already. I watch Korean dramas on Disney Plus and not been recommended The Bear.

Try:
Moving
A Shop for Killers
Call It Love

Good thread this, changed my mind.

Sorry but all the fables and fairy tales I read as a kid led me to believe people would be learning WAY more lessons than they actually do