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Multilayered protections for everyone. Yearning for the days when public health protected public health.
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Absolutely correct.We’ve had a lot of building in our village with more planned but because they can’t sell this batch they’ve had to delay the next. No one local can afford these exorbitantly priced houses.And no increase in infrastructure surrounding them so how will that play out if they do sell?
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Excuse me but, what the f*** is the point of targets to build homes that only the wealthy can afford? How does it help anyone who is not a property developer? And why does Labour care more about property developers than families? liveapp.inews.co.uk/category/398...
Leaked memo reveals Labour plan to slash affordable homes target
A requirement for developers to build affordable housing in London is set to be cut from 35% of new homes to 20%, in a move councils fear will spread across Britain
liveapp.inews.co.uk
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www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-...

I want equality, everyone to have a home, jobs for everyone who can work, benefits that are enough to live in, our environment to be protected, green space for ppl to enjoy, free health/education- I grew up with this.
Why is this not Labour’s mission?
Civil war looms over this brittle Labour government
Peter Mandelson’s sacking has only heightened factional conflict in the party.
www.newstatesman.com
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Noted: 'Healthcare-associated infections (HCAI) include:
MRSA, MSSA, E. coli and Klebsiella species, P. aeruginosa and C. difficile. They also include all bloodstream infections associated with critical care.' @ukhsa.bsky.social

👉 They don't include COVID-19 HCAI.
🤷 Why?
www.gov.uk/government/c...
Healthcare-associated infections (HCAI) statistics
Healthcare-associated infections (HCAI) statistics are published monthly, quarterly and annually.
www.gov.uk
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As if they keep writing all these headlines - and our membership numbers and polling just keeps shooting up. 🚀

Now at 110,000. Over 55% increase in just one month!

Lower bills. Fund NHS. Tax the super rich.

Join.greenparty.org.uk
Polanski is talking nonsense about wealth taxes. Greens who want to save the world by destroying britain
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Liberals clutching their pearls on this site when told that not masking to protect others in essential public spaces is ableist. Instead of getting angry, they should reflect on how they can do better
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Israel have been bombing Palestinians today as if there is no ceasefire, and they will continue to do so and everyone will ignore it.

Eventually Hamas will fire back and they will 'break' the Ceasefire.

Donald Trump's Peace is just continued Genocide.
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BREAKING: Shabana Mahmood announces that immigrants will have to recite Beowulf in its entirety in Old English, without notes, before being allowed entry to the U.K.
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The Spectator (owned by GBNews owner Paul Marshall - estimated wealth of £800 million) doesn’t like taxing wealth fairly.

I wonder how they got to this editorial decision?

Let’s tax wealth fairly, fund front line services & make hope normal again.

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Polanski is talking nonsense about wealth taxes.
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Letter to the editor:

If Germany stripped British residents of healthcare, the UK would be outraged.

So why tolerate such proposals here?

From Camilla Cucinotta
Letter to the editor: A civilised society does not withhold care based on citizenship
Letter to the editor
eastangliabylines.co.uk
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Hey @lukepollard.bsky.social

Have a look at my thread about Derriford. I’m the woman who was in touch with you about ferrying Nigerian care workers home due last year’s race riots

Meanwhile - St George flags besmirch Forder Valley on the way up to Derriford & the REI, where so many people 1/2
Anyway - the stellar staff we have seen include:

Dr Abu from The Sudan (fled to get to Egypt when a kid, now a wonderful doctor)
Joy from Malaysia who sped around Resus for 12 hours without pause
Nurses Elizabetta & Esitio on The Medical ward
Dr Hasan on call
Julietta from Poland who makes + tea
2/2 What concerns me is that she will be discharged without long enough monitoring & with a 10 month wait until ablation is possible & we’re back to square one.

It’s a hellhole there (staff doing their best etc )
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Farage is a con man who would burn his country to the ground to rule over the ashes!

Police-style mugshots and fingerprinting just to go on holiday around Europe are another major reason why Nigel Farage and Reform UK could never be trusted to run Britain.
'Farage could never be trusted to run Britain after getting Brexit so wrong'
No Brexit champion, particularly Nigel Farage, is worthy of high office after proving so conclusively wrong on such a seismic issue, says Mirror Associate Editor Kevin Maguire
www.mirror.co.uk
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Rupert Lowe on Nathan Gill, former Reform leader in Wales, who has pleaded guilty to taking bribes from pro-Russian proxies:

"I had absolutely no idea. I was new to the European Parliament, Nathan had been there for years alongside Farage - they were very close."

Shots fired. ~AA

Rupert Lowe MP
@RupertLowe10
I have received A LOT of questions about Nathan Gill, having sat as a Brexit Party MEP alongside him in Brussels and Strasbourg. He was also the Reform leader in Wales. For those who don’t know, he has pleaded guilty to taking pro-Russian bribes over a number of months.

Obviously, I had absolutely no idea. I was new to the European Parliament, Nathan had been there for years alongside Farage - they were very close. He was the head of the delegation of our MEPs, so with the whip ran the day-to-day affairs of our grouping and organised activity in Brussels/Strasbourg. He was one of just two MEPs from the previous term Farage allowed to stand again.

He seemed particularly interested in Russian/Ukrainian developments which I found peculiar. There was one event, right at the beginning of our term, which he asked me and other MEPs to attend. Due to his position in the grouping, I agreed. It had a very pro-Russian slant, with individuals who claimed to be close to Putin there. For obvious reasons, I did not attend another such event.

I thought his obsession with that part of the world was strange, but given his years in the Parliament and position in the party, I didn’t think there was more to it. Other MEPs also found it unusual, but we just got on with job.

So to journalists asking, there is my response.

It is disgraceful behaviour, treasonous behaviour.

I am ashamed to have ever sat alongside him.
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We’re in the middle of a mass disabling event.

Covid isn’t over and Long Covid has surpassed asthma as the most common chronic illness in kids.

Hundreds of kids are in quarantine in South Carolina due to a measles outbreak. Measles disables more than it kills.

All the tear gas & pepper spray?
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Pope Leo says that American bishops need to be more vocal and support migrant communities from being abducted by ICE in US cities

"Important that we as church give a message of hope in the midst of these horrible struggles, what's going on in some cities in the US"

"The church cannot be silent"
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Robert Parsonage steps down as Cornwall Council leader of Reform UK. days after deputy leader quit the party to sit as an independent.



And another one gone, and another one gone, another one bites the dust, yeah. ~AA

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Cornwall Council Reform UK group leader stands down from role
Rob Parsonage has stepped down from his role in charge of the Reform UK group on the authority.
www.bbc.co.uk
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Why doesn't the UK media talk about Farage and Russian money?