"Why did we have an explosion in the number of asylum hotels in the country? Why did we have all this strife and division in communities? It's because the last government effectively gave up on processing asylum claims." ~ Lisa Nandy @lisanandymp.bsky.social
"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." #JohnDrawsBBCQT#BBCQT#BBCQuestionTime
"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
"[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
"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
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
"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
