I’m very sick of the whole world trying to manipulate and bully women into having children but doing nothing to make life any easier for women who do. From the health risks to the pitiful maternity leave to the even worse government support, for many women there are no benefits
If one side can cut off internet, food, water, electricity, and still be seen as the victim does this not tell you anything about the power dynamic here?
Actual insanity - a middle class family got a 19 yo binman with a baby on the way sacked, bc kicking their snowman upset their 3 year old. Toddlers get upset about literally everything, I’m sure he would’ve got over it when it melted the next day but this is going to spoil him
If Priti Patel doesn’t have to face trial over her expenses then we truly live in a fascist state because it’s not possible to spend £77k on eyebrows. This is blatant money laundering lol
Cheating the taxpayer is only a crime if you live on a council estate or have to pick between food and heating. When some toff in a suit steals 10 billion of our money to give to his friends, he keeps his job as health secretary
“If you’re poor, then why do you have a phone? Why do you drive to work instead of walking 23 miles? Why do you go to the pub on a Friday?”
This conviction that poor people don’t deserve literally anything is a result of years of Tory Tabloid divisive propaganda
Priti Patel is trying to amend laws so that you can’t protest against her unless she pre-approves the protest. Do you know how SCARYYYY and dangerous that woman is
This is the first generation where both men and women in a household work full time and barely get by, and people think they’re the laziest and most entitled how’d that happen?
I genuinely want to know why Diane Abbott drinking a mojito on the train caused more outrage than Matt Hancock’s sister receiving £300k of public money or Boris Johnson’s mistress receiving £100k of public money, like do people actually think that was worse or?
Lily Sullivan’s mums impact statement made me cry. She had 14 miscarriages before having her only daughter and lived for her. A simple night out, she went to pick her up, and Lily was murdered by a man she said no to before making it to the car
The Money Saving Expert has said he is virtually unable to help with people with their rising bills anymore, and that there is no amount of money management or tightening belts that will work. This government has completely torpedoed the country and our quality of life.
Brits flocked to Dubai when the UK was put into lockdown and now Dubai has had to impose new restrictions to their actual citizens that could have been avoided had they just been left alone. Every day the British find new ways to be ashamed and yet they are not
The quality of life in the UK is so pathetic. Just work, pay bills, and use whatever little money is left at the weekend trying to forget about how crap life is here. The cycle seems so unfulfilling
My mum’s friend has an allotment next to Jeremy Corbyn’s allotment and once invited him to a bbq they were having there, not really expecting him to turn up, but he did and brought dishes 😭😭
The fact there are people in the UK dying by suicide with £4 in their bank account while waiting over 6 weeks for a universal credit payment while Tory councillors are buying themselves Cotswold mansions and holiday homes with taxpayer money is despicable tbh
“I would never not date someone because of their race so I found it really offensive that you wouldn’t date me because of my cosmetic surgery” is the maddest statement I have heard all year
#loveisland
Prince Charles has collected £1m+ from people in Cornwall who died without leaving a will.
When people die without one or surviving relatives, the property of their estate passes to the Duke of Cornwall under rules relating to the Duchy…
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Priti Patel is still intent on deporting the two Indian men in the Glasgow raid, who have lived there for a decade and work as a mechanic and a chef. How exactly would their deportation make the country safer? There is no justification for her evilness
So it turns out that a hotel that people are being forced to pay over £2k to quarantine at, Sofitel Heathrow, is owned by a billionaire Tory donor 😭😭😭 you could not make it up
Not Matt Hancock saying that six cases of voter fraud is “six too many”. How many cases of child poverty is too many? One million? Two million? Five million?
The Royal Family could have easily funded this funeral with the money they pay no tax on, but chose to let the taxpayer pay for it during a cost of living crisis and the entire country is on its knees. These are the people that everybody respects and reveres so much?
One of the greatest speeches ever on war from Tony Benn - “aren’t Arabs terrified? Do they not weep when their children die? What fools we are, when war is just a computer game for our children”. And note who is behind him.
Let me get this straight, people using £20 of their £200 benefit to buy alcohol is a crime below contempt but MPs on 80k using an open bar - paid by the taxpayer - is perfectly fine and ok?
I really think the UK could boost its economy by making domestic holidays more affordable. There are lots of places that would be nice holiday locations but nobody is going because of £280 trains, extortionate hotels, £24 sandwiches etc while travelling to Europe is like £14
I don’t find it funny that all of Corbyn’s policy suggestions that were ridiculed are now being played out and celebrated in real time. I’m just angry. We had our chance
I would again like to remind everyone that Corbyn did warn us on multiple occasions of what the Tories were planning and has transpired to be right on every one of them. If you didn’t vote for him, that’s on you. We had our chance
You don’t want compulsory tests, you don’t want vaccinations, you don’t want lockdowns, you don’t want to be declined entry from certain places… but you want covid to go away 😭😭 make it make sense
Universal credit is £400 p/m and if you do any work on the side then it gets taken out of that. I don’t understand how anyone can believe that “benefit scroungers” are living luxury lifestyles off that amount. Goes to show that people hate the vulnerable more than they like facts
My least favourite by-product of capitalism is that people (especially in the UK) think that if you’re poor you don’t deserve literally anything. Like if you work a low wage job or are on benefits you’ll be shamed for owning a phone or ordering a takeaway and this makes NO sense
If the only way to buy a house is by never going out, doing anything, buying anything or enjoying life then I do not want to buy a house. Hearing stories of people living like Oliver Twist so that they could afford a property is not motivating to me at all
So London was in Tier 2 for all of ten days before Boris and his mates changed their minds again. They have had ALL year to control the virus and it’s so frustrating to see other countries resume normal life while our incompetent money grabbing government wastes our lives
Stacey Solomon presented the critical thinking which gets dismissed because of her accent and the media’s dumbing down of her. She’s right. The royal family are just celebrities and it could have been any of us in that position because they did nothing to deserve it.
Not being funny but after people give blood they are advised to rest and avoid activity as they likely to feel fatigued and faint, but when they have blood pouring out of their vagina for days they are expected to come to work as usual with a smile on their face
I’m sick of seeing £19k, £21k salaries in London, that is simply not enough to keep anyone going in this city unless you live with parents and have 100% disposable income. And if the director thinks it is, why don’t they try
Errol Graham, a disabled man, starved to death after the DWP stopped his benefits. His 28.5kg body was found by bailiffs who had to broken down his front door to evict him
Rishi Sunak gave his wife, who is worth £430 million, covid relief funds of £1.3 million. He also voted to scrap a £20 uplift from the most vulnerable people in the country. He has no integrity, and should never be near the PM job.
He woke up in the morning and packed flowers and a machete, with the full intention of killing her if she said no. This was premeditated murder and I hope he gets slammed with the highest sentence possible. RIP to that poor girl and her family
For our entire lives, women have it drilled into them how to avoid male sexual violence when it’s nothing to do with us, it’s not our problem, and I’m sick of it, it will never stop no matter what we do, either educate men or lock them up
Corbyn couldn’t be trusted because free broadband “wasn’t realistic” so instead we voted in a party that took away our human rights and imprison people for protesting or writing articles against their favour. Good job guys! Very good decision
Our taxes should be funding the NHS, our infrastructure, the country’s most vulnerable. How does an MP who lives in luxury claiming hundreds of thousands on her personal care and her clothes and her cupcakes not enrage you?
All the people who claimed the NHS isn’t really being sold off because they didn’t turn up to the GP the day after election and get charged an entry fee need to understand what privatisation looks like. It is done part by part, section by section
They put single mothers in jail for fraudulently claiming a little extra on benefits so their kids can eat but a Tory peer claimed £300,000 on expenses to mend potholes in his driveway and that’s somehow perfectly legal, lol the UK is not a real place.
In the 80s, my mum rented a flat in Old Street for £9 a week.
Today in Old Street, in 2020, I bought a chicken wrap and bottle of water for £9 from a coffee shop
Horrific. An 18 year woman gave birth in her prison cell alone and bit through the umbilical cord herself because her cries for help were ignored (her baby passed shortly afterwards) and no this didn’t happen in 1542 it happened in England in 2019
After Sarah Everard was handcuffed by Wayne Couzens and shoved into his car, there must have been a point that she realised that this was a false arrest and something terrible was about to happen. I can’t imagine how scared she must have felt in her last moments 💔
Just a reminder for people who refuse to give money to homeless people in case they spend it on drugs, if you had to sleep on concrete you’d be on crack too
I don’t think people realise that tourists don’t come to the UK to meet the royal family, they come to visit their many establishments that they don’t live in, which will still be there without them lmao
I haven’t heard a peep from Jamie Oliver about actual accessibility to healthy food. I haven’t heard him pressure the government on relieving food poverty in the UK. His brand is very much just class shaming disguised as caring about health
The officer who killed George Floyd has had his charge changed to second degree murder, while the other officers present are now also facing charges.
Protesting works. Petitions work.
This country prioritises ruining young people’s lives before helping them or giving another chance. She is 21 with no former convictions. Jailed for three years for taking a drug at Creamfields which I am sure you will find dusted all over the Commons.
I notice that you have not mentioned that she had repeatedly raised concerns of a paedophile ring to BBC bosses before being taken out by a professional hitman on her doorstep
Countries with high tax rates (particularly in Scandinavia) have a great welfare system to fall back on when hardship hits, which is why their citizens accept it. Only in the UK do people accept tax increases for literally nothing in return
One thing about the Brits is that they will not care about any issue until it personally affects them. That’s why so many were convinced people on benefits lived in luxury until covid took away their job and they realised life on benefits is actually shit and degrading
I am not surprised. I think a lot of women can say they were 150% more catcalled, harassed and followed by men when walking home in their school uniform than they are now as an (objectively more attractive) adult
The only argument that people can come up with for existence of the monarchy is tourism and it’s so frustrating because it’s a theory that’s been debunked over and over. Why am I explaining to adults that no tourist came to the UK to meet the Queen
“If you double barrel your surname you would only be half my wife” is the most hilariously unhinged, controlling and narcissistic thing I’ve heard all year