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Rhys Lightning retweeted
27 Aug 2025
£49.18 is the standard weekly allowance for asylum seekers.
It's reduced to £9.95 if meals are included with accommodation.
You need a national insurance number to claim benefits or work. Asylum seekers do not have one.
No free phone (or Ipads). Occasionally, sims, or recycled phones are provided by charities.
Just in case anyone is interested in the facts.
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Rhys Lightning retweeted
27 Aug 2025
I'm a solicitor. Too many people make the mistake of not recording anything during redundancy procedures. Many redundancies do not follow the correct legal procedures, but unless you're recording everything you have no way to prove it in a tribunal. HR are not your friends.
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Rhys Lightning retweeted
12 Aug 2025
A lot of false claims have been spreading online about Plaid Cymru’s policies on migration and asylum.
Let’s set a few things straight and bust these myths together.
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Rhys Lightning retweeted
3 Aug 2025
Except very rare examples like the Singapore metro, if a transit system is making a profit, it's doing something wrong. That should NEVER be the aim of our public transport, it should be to improve connectivity and drive economic growth. To do that, it needs to be affordable.
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Rhys Lightning retweeted
11 Jun 2025
People are actually getting their children diagnosed by medical professionals instead of just ignoring the signs their whole life
11 Jun 2025
So what’s causing Autism to become so much more prevalent in children? Is it the food?
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Rhys Lightning retweeted
Sometimes when everyone’s being hysterical over not a lot you need to
Look at the stories getting no visibility. The Covid Inquiry yesterday declared 180,000 Brits died because Johnson and Hancock ignored expert advice. 180,000 people.
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Rhys Lightning retweeted
8 May 2025
So just to be clear, y’all’s transphobia did, in fact, result in a woman being attacked by a man in the women’s bathroom.
7 May 2025
Male security guard barges into women's bathroom—bangs on stall door demanding proof of gender.
Ansley Baker was born a woman & identifies as a woman—yet was still kicked out of bathroom & ordered to leave hotel.
"He demands my ID, which I gave him. Things still got heated. We kept repeating that I’m a woman," she said.
The Liberty Hotel in Boston put out a statement claiming that Ansley Baker and her girlfriend, Liz Victor, were using the same stall.
The couple say they are still waiting for an apology for the false accusation.
#DemVoice1 #wtpBLUE #DemsUnited
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1 May 2025
PHYSICAL MEDIA IS MORE IMPORTANT NOW THAN EVER!
Never get rid of CDs, DVD and records! (Unless you don’t like it anymore of course)
30 Apr 2025
Toxicity, the acclaimed album from System of a Down, has disappeared from Spotify.
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Rhys Lightning retweeted
13 Apr 2025
Are Muslims really banning dogs in parks? 🤔
Let’s look at this perfect example of how rage baiting works, and how disinformation spreads, sticks, and fuels division, even years after being debunked…
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29 Mar 2025
LINGUO, SOON?
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Rhys Lightning retweeted
12 Mar 2025
The British public refuse to accept that it's cheaper to provide welfare than withdraw it. Fewer benefits result in increased crime and poorer public health, requiring increased resources for the police and NHS. Prevention is cheaper than the cure, it's that fucking simple.
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Rhys Lightning retweeted
22 Jan 2025
Remember: Most billionaires are not “self-made.”
They’re made via a combination of inherited wealth, govt subsidies, tax loopholes, labor exploitation, and policy failures.
Can we stop perpetuating a myth that blames wealth inequality on the choices of everyday Americans?
22 Jan 2025
The idea that billionaires are “self-made” is fundamentally a myth.
ALT Billionaires are multiplying, and 60% earn their wealth through ‘inheritance, cronyism, or monopoly power,’ Oxfam writes
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Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde: "I am not going to apologize for asking for mercy for others" ti.me/3E3sO7v
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Rhys Lightning retweeted
22 Jan 2025
The idea that billionaires are “self-made” is fundamentally a myth.
ALT Billionaires are multiplying, and 60% earn their wealth through ‘inheritance, cronyism, or monopoly power,’ Oxfam writes
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Rhys Lightning retweeted
18 Jan 2025
To those telling me I must vote Reform instead of @Plaid_Cymru:
✅Yes I want change from Labour.
✅Yes I want better services.
✅Yes I want “reform”.
❌But not at the cost of my identity, democracy, language, history & nation.
🏴Reform will destroy it. Plaid will protect it.
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16 Jan 2025
As much as would like @MerthyrTownFC to join the @CymruLeagues this is the wrong way to do it. They will become a target. That money should be distributed equally. Imagine how many Tier 2 clubs would be able to get a tier 1 license with that investment. That’s how you improve
15 Jan 2025
Merthyr Town could be set for a major move! ⚽️ The FAW has offered up to £6m for the Martyrs to join the Cymru Premier in 2026. 🚀
#BBCFootball
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Rhys Lightning retweeted
8 Jan 2025
The end of year news about the state of the UK high street is pretty frightening. According to The Guardian we lost 37 shops each day in 2024, many of those independents.
This is a thread about comic shops...
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21 Nov 2024
I read growler and immediately thought of Pork Pie 🤦
20 Nov 2024
That’s not even the worst of it
They’re replacing the growler with…a monogram
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