Things to pay attention to when the next #GeneralElection comes around, whether it be 23 or 24, whoever you are. A thread...... #Election2024 #Election2023

Blaming asylum seekers for homelessness? What about the 720,000 empty homes in England, and the 1,627,450 second homes in England alone. Blaming asylum seekers for expensive food shops? What about the £3,100,000,000 profit Tesco made last year? Blaming asylum seekers for expensive energy bills? What about the £438,000,000,000 made by just 20 energy companies in profit? Blaming immigrants for not getting an NHS appointment? What about the 260,000 migrant workers keeping the NHS going? And what about the 25% real term cut in NHS funding, think that could do it? Blaming people on welfare for a lack of money to fund the NHS? What about the £36,000,000,000 tax gap due to avoidance and evasion by the elite? It's time to realise it's not immigrants, asylum seekers or people on welfare causing you any harm, it's capitalism and the mega rich hoarding all the wealth.

Quite enjoying the cognitive dissonance between ‘throw ins must take five seconds because we can’t slow the game down!’ and ‘now we have ad two breaks in the middle of the game.’

It turns out that Lauren Edwards, the MP who wants suicide to be available on the NHS for disabled people, has used unacceptable disability slurs in the past. Is this why she hasn't consulted any of the disabled-led organisations who unanimously oppose this Bill?

A Chinese guy was flying in a paraglider when a cloud sucked him up to 8,600 meters where temperatures hit -40 degrees and he literally started freezing alive. He survived, landed safely, and on top of everything broke the record for the highest flight without oxygen.

much misinformation re benefits claimants, many people not realising the entire system has changed IS different to even 10 yrs ago. Employees contracts more unstable (zero hrs etc) necessitating top ups via benefits, we need to look at employers using benefits to pay less wages

“You can only cry for your country scoring” Me when Curaçao, that i couldn’t pin point on a map until like two hours ago, scored their first goal ever:

Applying for jobs while neurodivergent is confusing. The job ad lists a bunch of requirements. I don't have half of them. Apparently the correct response is still to apply. Why are we all pretending the list isn't there?

HOW BRITAIN REWARDS PEOPLE WHO TRY TO SAVE TAXPAYER MONEY: FIRE THEM Mike Kiely spent 22 years inside BT (@BTGroup). He knew how the telecoms industry operated. So when the government hired him as a consultant to oversee the £2.5 billion rural broadband rollout, he knew exactly what he was looking at. BT had won all 26 government contracts. All of them. Kiely did the maths. Installing a street cabinet in Northern Ireland cost around £13,000. On the mainland, BT was charging the government between £61,000 and £80,000 per cabinet. Public money covered roughly 77% of every single one. He suspected BT was simply inventing tasks and inflating charges to absorb as much public funding as possible without doing more work. So he shared his analysis with local councils. The people whose job it was to negotiate these contracts and spend public money responsibly. Then his document leaked to a broadband blog. The Department for Culture, Media and Sport trawled his internal emails, found what they needed, and sacked him. The man who tried to protect public money. Margaret Hodge (@margarethodge), chair of the Public Accounts Committee, told the Guardian (@guardian) she was getting increasingly concerned at the way whistleblowers were being bullied. She pointed out that hiding behind commercial confidentiality was denying the public the right to know how their money was being spent. Her committee later confirmed what Kiely had warned all along. Taxpayers had been ripped off. £1.2 billion had gone to BT shareholders. Kiely was eventually vindicated when a community in Oxfordshire paid £28,000 per cabinet. Exactly in line with what his numbers predicted was fair. He lost his job for telling the truth. BT kept every contract. This is what accountability looks like in Britain. The consultant who raises the alarm gets sacked. The company he raised the alarm about gets the cheque. Support whistleblowers. They are the only audit most public spending ever gets. SOURCES @BBCNews @TheRegister @guardian @margarethodge

Disabled people with lifelong conditions facing ‘unnecessary’ Pip reassessments theguardian.com/politics/202… @DrFrancesRyan

BREAKING: Apocalyptic scenes in Lebanon’s capital right now. Israel is bombing residential buildings in densely populated neighborhoods of Beirut. A ceasefire that still allows bombs to fall on civilians is not a ceasefire.

The children of Gaza, abandoned by the world because they’re not European.

There's a woman from 'Big Brother Watch', a 'think tank', on @bbcnews attacking the social media ban. But the BBC doesnt inform viewers that we dont know who funds 'Big Brother Watch' or pays their spokeswoman wages. Like most think tanks such as 'Net Zero Watch', 'Big Brother Watch' won't reveal their funders - which is usually because its big businesses. Big business funding think tanks who are then casually welcomed onto the media like they are independent, is a major flaw in our democracy.

How typical: people with disabilities are being swept aside in all the attacks on diversity, equity & inclusion, despite the discrimination and two-tier policing they face. My @theipaper column inews.co.uk/opinion/real-pol…

You actually reduce crime by eliminating poverty. You reduce crime with universal healthcare, public housing, livable wages, and free college. You reduce violence by creating happy, healthy communities that aren’t constantly fighting over basic needs and material resources.

Every World Cup team ranked by how phenomenal name their manager has 1st - 🇨🇼 Curaçao: Dick Advocaat 2nd - Every other team

The number of messages I get similar to below (received today) has been increasing for the last few years. It's absolute madness HGV drivers feel they have to risk their safety because hard shoulder's been removed and technology which is meant to offset that, is not up to the job

This is a major flaw in the system. If someone is medically diagnosed with a lifelong /or deteriorating condition a vast amount of money is wasted in a programme of reassessments. There needs to be a shift to acceptance of lifelong being just that and if someone is identified at needing the highest level of support then that being confirmed forever. The stress of unnecessary reassessment also complicates people's lives - the fear of losing the needed support etc Disabled people with lifelong conditions facing ‘unnecessary’ Pip reassessments ‘Pointless’ reviews are wasting public money and ‘significantly harming’ the mental health of claimants, charity says theguardian.com/politics/202…

You condemn every single disabled child who cannot work and parents who are their carers

Asylum seekers are not “illegal migrants” They’re going through a legal government process. That’s legal. Burning out houses, inciting violence, tweeting racism. That’s not legal.

From a follower: During an admission under the MHA after self-injury which required surgery, 2 MH nurses entered my room to tell me they were from a team whose name I didn't catch, and before any other conversation, not even "how are you?", or an assessment said, "you self-harm therefore you have a behavioural problem". I replied "brushing my teeth is also a behaviour". They immediately turned around and left, I later learnt they had decided on the basis of that one minute interaction that it was apparently "clear that I would never work with them". That was the sum total of interaction.