Solo traveller and keen wildlife watcher. @TheSofaSingers member and @NVFUK Trustee. Left leaning, proud to be woke, mad g'ma.

Joined April 2009
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@reformparty_uk Remove me from your mailing list! I do not wish to hear about a rally in Leeds. I have never expressed any interest in your party and I will never vote for you. Britain isn't broken but it will be if @Nigel_Farage has his way. I DO NOT want to hear from you again.
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Anne Pugh πŸ’™πŸŒˆ retweeted
I was a prison officer, Nick. You can't preach "tough on crime." Your lot cut nearly 7,000 prison officers since 2010 and handed our jails to G4S and Serco. You broke the system, then act shocked it doesn't work. You know what actually works? Lads out on licence getting their track tickets, learning a trade, coming home as taxpayers instead of reoffenders. That's using human capital, not warehousing it. A lad sat in a cell doing nothing helps nobody. And funny how quiet you all go on the tax dodgers and the oligarchs bankrolling Putin's war. Boris took a Russian ex-KGB man's hospitality at his Italian villa, dodged his own officials, then made the son a Lord. Where's your "lock them up" energy for that?
David Lammy wants to put violent young thugs on a course. We want to put them in prison. The teenage rapists proved the problem. Lammy must change the sentencing rules.
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Anne Pugh πŸ’™πŸŒˆ retweeted
Nigel Farage - the leader of Reform UK - is under investigation for failing to declare a Β£5 million 'gift'. Please RT this until the BBC gives this story the same level of blanket coverage - as it would for the leader of any other UK political Party.
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Anne Pugh πŸ’™πŸŒˆ retweeted
In response to @Helen_Whately The continued demonization of the most vulnerable members of our society for political point scoring has to stop. On Sky News this morning you bumbled your way through an interview in which you described anxiety as a 'low level mental health condition' and said people suffering from it shouldn't qualify for PIP. I don't receive PIP, but I know a thing or two about anxiety, and there's nothing 'low level' about people who get PIP because of it. Mild anxiety isn't a qualifying condition for PIP. As a former senior RASSO detective I've seen rape survivors become so crippled with anxiety they can't leave their homes. Men and women whose entire lives were stolen from them because someone decided to violate their very essence. I buried my brother when he took his life because he couldn't cope with the anxiety that haunted his every waking hour. You were asked to clarify if all sufferers from anxiety would be denied PIP. After twice being told it's okay to say you didn't know, if you didn't, you said yes, anxiety 'on it's own' wouldn't be a qualifying condition. You further claimed that anxiety sufferers don't incur 'additional expenses' so therefore their condition doesn't meet the original purpose of PIP. You clearly don't understand the disease, and it IS a disease, if you believe that. Ironically, comments like those you so glibly threw out at the public this morning will serve only to worsen the condition of those sufferers who will, despite knowing there's no prospect of you ever being anything other than Shadow Secretary, now become ever more affected. MPs earn an obscene Β£98,599 a year. On top of that you receive staffing costs, office costs, travel costs and accommodation costs. The very least the public is entitled to expect from any 'duly elected' Member of Parliament is they understand they have a duty of care that, as a minimum, requires them to understand the subjects they're making policy decisions about. There are far too many politicians currently running with the narrative that people with a disability, whether it's physical or psychological, are a drain on our finances. Nobody chooses to be disabled, stop punching down on those who sadly are.
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Brexit explained by someone who isn’t a liar and was there and who knows:
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The Gospel never said β€œblessed are the efficient.” Pope Leo XIV is calling out a culture that measures human worth like quarterly profits.
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These words are so important. They remind us that each person has an inherent value, by virtue of being human. Life should not simply be a fight to prove our worth.
Pope Leo XIV: "Among these ideologies, I consider particularly insidious the one that suggests that every person must earn or justify his or her own worth, to the point of attributing greater value to those who are more efficient or effective. From this perspective, persons end up being reduced to a means of achieving results, a resource to be used and exploited, and are no longer recognized as a proper end in themselves who should never be instrumentalized. The value of persons, however, does not depend on what they achieve or produce. There are rights that apply to everyone simply by virtue of being human, and no human power can legitimately deny or arbitrarily limit them." #MagnificaHumanitas
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Pope Leo XIV: "Among these ideologies, I consider particularly insidious the one that suggests that every person must earn or justify his or her own worth, to the point of attributing greater value to those who are more efficient or effective. From this perspective, persons end up being reduced to a means of achieving results, a resource to be used and exploited, and are no longer recognized as a proper end in themselves who should never be instrumentalized. The value of persons, however, does not depend on what they achieve or produce. There are rights that apply to everyone simply by virtue of being human, and no human power can legitimately deny or arbitrarily limit them." #MagnificaHumanitas
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Anne Pugh πŸ’™πŸŒˆ retweeted
This is what entitlement looks like! 🀬 There are nesting waterbirds on this pond on Hampstead Heath... there are also big 'No Swimming' signs, all being totally ignored! 🀬 Pure selfishness... πŸ˜’πŸ€¬πŸ€¬ (Shared from Instagr*m with permission from 'swansofhampsteadheath')
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Made it my life’s mission to become the Taliban’s worst nightmare: A highly educated Afghan woman. First, Columbia University at the top of my class, and now Oxford University. Give Afghan girls one chance and see what they can achieve.
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Anne Pugh πŸ’™πŸŒˆ retweeted
People are saying that Nigel Farage has asked Elon Musk to ban people from X for sharing this clip of him attacking his crony Robert Jenrick. Surely free speech champion Nigel Farage isn't that petty? But just in case, THIS is the video that you mustn't download or share
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Anne Pugh πŸ’™πŸŒˆ retweeted
Urgent message.
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Sir David Attenborough is a national hero πŸ’šπŸŒ To celebrate his 100th birthday and all he’s done to inspire us to protect our planet, he should be honoured with a permanent statue. Agree? Join me by signing the petition: act.38degrees.org.uk/act/a-p…
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As I predicted, people are incredibly pissed off that Starmer hasn’t fixed 14 years of Tory damage and destruction in less than 2 , and as a result have voted for the main architect of a key part of the destruction in the local elections, because he says he’s the only one who can truly fix Britain. I really despair. Yes, Starmer has fucked up in a few Key areas, but Farage is not the answer.
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Anne Pugh πŸ’™πŸŒˆ retweeted
Hahahahah! Just seen this on FB: ---- Have you found yourself in the hideous position of having a Reform councillor? Here’s how you can help your brand new councillor settle into local government properly: email them this week with an actual council problem to solve. Got rubbish piling up? Email them. Bus vanished from existence? Email them. Streetlights dead? Email them. Care package delayed? Email them. Pavement like the Somme? Email them. Send them in by the hundred. Make sure they’re made very clear on what their job is. Being a councillor is not standing in front of the Union flag shouting about dinghies on GB News. It’s reading committee papers at midnight, attending meetings nobody enjoys, holding surgeries in church halls, and dealing with the endlessly glamorous world of drains, social care budgets and recycling disputes. Welcome to local government. The boats are in Kent. The bins are in your ward. The email address for your ward councillor can be found on your local council website as soon as it’s updated. Feel free to copy and paste to share wider.
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RT @AlinejadMasih: This woman lying here so peacefully is named Aida Aghili. But her story has shaken millions of Iranians. During the Jan…
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If you took the covid jab and are alive with no side effects at all please like and repost want to prove something to some accounts on here :)
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Anne Pugh πŸ’™πŸŒˆ retweeted
Nigel Farage is facing questions over a Β£5m gift he received from a billionaire backer before he became an MP @vicderbyshire runs through the timeline #Newsnight
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YOUNG PEOPLE. LISTEN UP. Today Nigel Farage said the government should cut the minimum wage for young people ...to β€œraise aspiration” and β€œboost business" It's Β£10ph FFS! Lower your pay so you’ll dream bigger DO YOU SEE IT NOW? Spread far & wide. bylinetimes.com/2025/11/03/n…
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RT @daniellismore: On 23 June 2026, Britain marks ten years since the Brexit referendum. We were promised Β£350 million a week for the NHS.…
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