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Hastings Battleaxe. Tory-hating ranty blogger, writer, wannabe poet. Wise old warrior woman, European. ex-Brummie. Wife, grandmother. Sweary survivor, wokeish…
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#HastingsBattleaxe
enjoyed a trip to
#SymondsYat
. Welcomed this visitor to our cottage….
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If anyone with half a grey cell wants to avoid a heart attack, don’t read this list. It is the worst
#Brexit
thing ever. I feel ill. What is to become of us?
#BrexitCrisis
#nodealnightmare
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What are you doing about
#sewage
ruining the beaches in your constituencies
@SallyAnn1066
@HuwMerriman
? It is a disgusting, outrageous disgrace. I hope you are ashamed.
#SewageScandal
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Just watched
#johnmajor
on
#channel4news
. Back in the day I thought he was a Tory fool. He sounds like the Messiah compared with today’s politicians. How did we get into this terrible situation...
#johnmajorspeech
#BrexitReality
#brexitshambles
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Have heard similar stories to this so many times now. The
#NHS
is in total collapse. Why are we not angrier about this? It is totally due to
#ToryShambles
#ToriesDestroyingOurCountry
. We are still told we are the sixth richest economy in the world. How can this be happening?
Last night I checked into the emergency department at my local hospital*. I saw firsthand what has happened to the NHS. However much you read, it doesn't prepare you for the terrible reality. This thread tells a now-ordinary but - in this rich nation - almost unbelievable story.
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To all my
#Twitter
followers, all good wishes for
#2023
. Let’s make the
#NewYear
better than 2022!
#HappyNewYear
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Please sign this! Call an immediate general election to end the chaos of the current government - Petitions
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Anyone remember Owbridges cough medicine? As a 50s child I also had
#lucozade
(in yellow cellophane), kaolin and morphine, Vick rubbed on chest, horrid pink penicillin, Rinstead pastilles. Can’t remember
#disprin
.
Were you a child before the invention of Calpol? What did you have instead? When I was ill as a kid in the 1970s, I would sleep in my parents' bed and would be cured by a Chelsea bun and Lucozade.
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Yes I will. Have just returned from Portugal where everyone wears a mask indoors and many wear them in the street. Am ashamed to be British, and to be stuck here on
#PlagueIsland
.
#JohnsonOut_23
The WHO has advised British people to ignore the politicians and continue to wear masks in indoor areas.
I will be wearing mine to help keep immunocompromised people and those who can’t be vaccinated, safe.
Will you?
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Anybody linking this to TV series
#RiseoftheNazis
? Our government now has its thuggish
#stormtroopers
in place to scare us into submission.
#SupremeCourt
#notmygovernment
#NotMyPrimeMinister
#stopthecoup
Leaving
#SupremeCourt
#BaronessChakrabarti
faces a tirade of abuse hurled from an angry group of
#Brexit
supporters, who later spout anti-Muslim hatred & one man appears to make a succession of Nazi salutes, London, UK. 17/09/2019.
For licensing contact: jasonnparkinson
@gmail
.com
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Hastings lifeboat trying to land. Came in three times and failed. Now still out there somewhere - all to rescue an idiot surfer...
@rnli
@outonashout
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@Andrew_F_Smith
@RuthvenPhilip
Feeling so angry, desperate and powerless to change anything about government incompetence, arrogance, corruption and blatant power grabbing has affected my physical as well as my mental health.
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Why do I have to share a country with such an evil, hypocritical excuse for a man? The people who have continued to vote for him make me nearly as sick as the vile creature himself… yes, I am proud to detest
#Tories
@Jacob_Rees_Mogg
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How can this be real? How can I be part of this dreadful country? Does the
#UN
ruling mean nothing? What can we do to stop this?
#Rwanda
#CruelTories
#PatelOut
The High Court has ruled that next week's planned deportation flight of migrants from the UK to Rwanda can go ahead
For more on this and other news visit
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I’ve just been told to try to think about something else… it’s hard but I just found this… the little bird would do well to stay away from us humans….
#Gaza
This is a Goldcrest, it’s Britains smallest bird and weighs the same as a 20p piece. It’s just crossed the North Sea from Scandinavia and landed on the Isle of May. Probably never seen humans before…
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What are ‘British Values’
@SallyAnn1066
? Things like honesty, integrity, taking personal responsibility, caring for others? Oh, I wonder where those have gone… No sign of them in your
#corruptTory
rabble, that’s for certain.
On Tuesday I had the pleasure of visiting Hastings Academy to meet the new Principal, Simon Addison, and join an assembly focused on British Values.🏫
It was fantastic to talk with some of the students, as well as to answer their questions on a whole range of topics.🧑🎓
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Hello
@SallyAnn1066
Have you sent in your letter to the 1922 Committee? I warn you, if you have not, you will not be representing
#HastingsandRye
after the next election if I have anything to do with it.
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Many people on here saying ‘I never voted Tory so it is not my fault’. I’ve never voted Tory either. But indeed, we are all part of the same country/society/system. Could I/we have done more in the past?
#TheRiseAndFallOfBorisJohnson
@RussInCheshire
I do wish we’d spend more time humbly asking what kind of culture and systems allowed someone like Boris to become leader. I believe that ultimately we all share some responsibility. Obviously there are degrees to that responsibility, but if you still think we have any sort of
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A letter to
@RishiSunak
. A thread. Dear Rishi, Firstly, why would you want to be Prime Minister now? You don’t need the money… so is it power you are after? If so, I feel your time will end in humiliation and failure. Your party is irreversibly split..
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So,
@SallyAnn1066
we can see from
@SkyNews
that you are in the top 42% of MPs who have received gifts and donations… I don’t see your
#Hastings
constituents getting much return from the thousands that have been uselessly squandered on you.
@SAHart_watch
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But look who votes for them! Our electorate is dominated by those blindly still in thrall to the unthinking deference of the class system where the Tories are the natural party of government. What can be done to open their eyes?
We have a government that doesn’t use public transport, they access private healthcare and their children are in private education. They claim expenses for everything from heating to furnishing and paying for a second home. They might as well live on a different planet to us
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About
#VoterID
. Yes, it’s wrong and yes, it is designed to benefit the bloody
#Tories
, but it is real. They’ve done it. Don’t be caught out… get your ID in order before May and
#voteLabour
- or anything else but Tory…
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#thicktrunktuesday
. This one lives at
@PashleyManorGdn
East Sussex. But why isn't it
#thicktrunkthursday
? Far more alliterative.
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This creature
@mercer_felicity
is the wife of
@JohnnyMercerUK
. She is paid 40k by us, the taxpayers, as his secretary. Just shows the effect of rampant corruption, nepotism, sense of entitlement, contempt.
#ToriesDestroyingOurCountry
#GeneralElectionNow
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Anyone also being plagued by what I assume are
#bots
? All joined Sept or Oct 23, no posts. They keepXX liking my posts, following me and including me in long lists of what look like other bots?
#X
,
#Xwittermess
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There are people who would lose their lives rather than compromise their principles, but in this case I’d rather they didn’t drag the rest of us down to hell with them.
#VoteLabour
for goodness sake.
Christ I’m sick of ppl on here saying they won’t support Labour under Starmer. One Corbyn supporter claiming she hatesLabour more than the Tories.
The most important thing is to get rid of the corrupt Tories. Assuming ppl want an NHS, help for the poor, end to child poverty etc
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@JohnWest_JAWS
@Xhiado1
@sharron_honey
At 75,
#Charles
has probably lost at least an inch in height.
#Sunak
is standing up straighter, is slightly closer to the camera, has got at least an inch in hair bouffery, and probably gained another inch in shoe wedgery…
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‘Still Hope’
@HuwMerriman
? Is that the best you can do? High time you stopped hoping and started acting. Speak up, cross the floor but for goodness sake DO something. And as for you,
@SallyAnn1066
I despair.
#torychaos
Those of us who backed Rishi Sunak lost the contest but this poll suggests that the victor is losing our voters with policies we warned against. For the good of our country, and the livelihoods of everyone in our country, I still hope to be proven wrong
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@RebeccaH2030
You post this, yet say you have no idea what it is, where it is, or, presumably, when it was. What are we supposed to do about it? Why post such gratuitously unpleasant material? What is your point?
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#Labour
. What the hell is this?
#HodgeComparisons
is aggressive, puerile, stupid bullying. Am ashamed to be a member of this party. On brink of leaving.
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@oflynnsocial
So, if you apparently know so much, perhaps you’d like to explain precisely how Brexit will benefit me?
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#HastingsBattleaxe
visits
@Hastings_Pier
. What has changed over the last month?
@HastingsSteve
@1066Tweets
@FOHP2018
@HAPP1066
@HastingsShout
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Isn’t it mysterious how these ‘mistakes’ people like
#Zahawi
make are always so incredibly favourable to the apparently ‘careless’ one?
Oh, do one with your ‘careless and not deliberate’!
Do you think we’re all nine!
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Not in my absolute worst nightmare could you catch me swearing an
#oathofallegiance
. Am becoming increasingly
#Republican
in my old age. What rubbish.
Good morning everyone 🌸🌞🌸
Happy Sunday 🥰
I will not be doing this!. 👇
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@carolJhedges
Hi Carol. Have just phoned Johnson’s office on the number you gave. Got straight through, spoke (politely) to a young man and registered my complaint. He said he would pass the message on. This is worth doing!
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Poor girl. When I was 17 me and a friend planned to join the Israeli army. Can’t even remember why but I think we liked Moshe Dayan’s eye-patch. Fortunately we were caught in time.
#ShamimaBegum
was a child of 15. Terrible things happened to her.
BREAKING: Shamima Begum will not be allowed to return to the UK, the Special Immigration Appeals Commission has ruled.
The court decided to dismiss the 23-year-old's appeal on all grounds
📺 Sky 501, Virgin 602, Freeview 233 and YouTube
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So,
@SallyAnn1066
, what will you have to say now? Last night you voted to subject
#HastingsandRye
to
#fracking
. You know nobody wants this. Your useless, evil party is in chaos, while many of your constituents must choose between
#heating
or
#eating
.
#GeneralElectionNOW
.
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This is a clever dog.
@ruskin147
@DianeCoyle1859
. She is desperate to join in, to learn, to play. Why not teach her, encourage her, play with her, use her name?
@sociabledog
I’m with
@Chez_Em
.
#sophiefromromania
’s only, short dog’s life is going to waste.
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Am sorry for
#KingCharles
-
#cancer
is never good, but I find the totally excessive media coverage offensive to others who have cancer and have to wait so long for treatment. It is doing nothing to demystify cancer either - just bigging it up unnecessarily.
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#HappyChristmas
to all my Twitter followers. This is the final day of the Digby
#cat
#adventcalender
, which has been running on Insta and Mastodon.
#Caturday
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How have we ended up with
@SallyAnn1066
as our MP? Woe betide the people who voted for her - woe betide a tide of poo…
#SewageScandal
#sewageSally
#SewageParty
No
@SallyAnn1066
, you don't know what you voted for. There was ABSOLUTELY ZERO mention of banning sewage overnight, it was "progressive reductions" that you rejected.
Another Conservative MP peddling the party lie and her own constituents know it.
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#Hastings
Battleaxe goes to great concert at
@MaryintheCastle
with
@HastingsPhil
@rich_rdlester
@1066Tweets
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Oh, for goodness sake! Will we ever be rid of the liabilities of this money-grabbing lying charlatan?
@BorisJohnson
Johnson’s declared earnings since standing down are £5.5m but he is expecting taxpayers foot bill to defend him in Partygate inquiry.
Bill has grown to £245,000 but FOI shows Treasury did not sign off the decision to use public money for it.
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Forget horrible politics for a moment and admire this beautiful moth. Looks like an antique lace table mat folded in half.
#toryleadershipfarce
#ToryShambles
#GetTheToriesOut
#HappyFriday
The 2nd brood of Lace Border on the South Downs today. 2 different individuals of this National A rarity found sheltering from the warm sun.
@savebutterflies
@sdnpa
@SussexWildlife
@BCSussex
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Have published
#LinesandWrinkles
’ a collection of my
#poems
illustrated by
@Dannymooney
to benefit 3 charities:
#SaraLeeTrust
,
#Ridingforthedisabled
#Hastings
#QueenAlexandracollege
#Birmingham
Book costs £8 and has been v well received. Message me.
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I can’t tell you how furious I am, to be stripped of my European citizenship, without my consent, to pander to the whims of ignorant xenophobes.... Our days of walking this way are numbered.
#BrexitShit
#StopBrexit
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#Hastings
Battleaxe enjoys burgeoning local
#ClassicalMusic
scene
@HastingsPhil
@ChChStLeonards
@1066Tweets
@HastingsShout
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Despite staging the shot with the assistance of those reflected in the teapot, he’s blown his pathetic attempt at Northern credibility with the Waitrose skimmed milk!
@RishiSunak
Failed!
Quick Budget prep break making tea for the team. Nothing like a good Yorkshire brew.
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From someone on the
#Hastings
‘bubble’ but, thank goodness, not in your cosy Tory ‘bubble’, I can assure you,
@SallyAnn1066
that you are wrong. Many people here are poor and angry, many are just plain angry. You do not represent us.
In 2019, we saw a massive majority of MPs elected for Boris Johnson’s Conservatives reflecting a realignment of politics based on 2016’s EU referendum. The PM upholds that realignment, reflecting the values of people around the country who do not live in the ‘Westminster Bubble’.
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So, you’ve written a ‘strongly-worded letter’ to
@SouthernWater
. What use is that
@HuwMerriman
@SallyAnn1066
@mariacaulfield
? What about some meaningful action?
#SewageScandal
I could weep with impotent rage.
What are you doing about
#sewage
ruining the beaches in your constituencies
@SallyAnn1066
@HuwMerriman
? It is a disgusting, outrageous disgrace. I hope you are ashamed.
#SewageScandal
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So true. Such smugness, such virtue-signalling. Also,
#payingmoreforenergy
just puts more money into the big energy companies pockets.
The new trend of “I’ll willingly pay more for energy to help Ukraine” is the worst type of privileged posting. You’re not a better person because you’re rich - and people on low incomes frantic they can’t afford to heat their homes doesn’t mean they don’t care about war.
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To all
#sophiefromromania
fans,
@ruskin147
,
@DianeCoyle1859
. Genuine, rapid progress is made with very nervous Romanian rescue dogs, using an alternative approach. please look at
@doggosnewtricks
. Don’t close your minds to questions and challenge.
Sugar has been wonderful today. She's been allowed off the lead in the garden and was brilliant. She had her (horribly overgrown) nails trimmed and was really brave. She can now walk properly and isn't slipping on our floors. She's as sweet as her name suggests.
#FosterDog
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@katie_jr
@Cedar50
@Jane_934
@likesretirement
@yvettedoc50
I should imagine every one of those new swabs meant a new test kit being opened and used. Every used kit presumably means another ‘test’ added to spurious government statistics? Like all those posted and not returned?
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We have several of these intelligent and enterprising birds in our garden. Lovely photo
@DaveSpherical
Good morning / nearly afternoon
#TwitterNatureCommunity
meet the stunning and possibly overlooked Western
#Jackdaw
also known as the Eurasian Jackdaw.
#pretty
#bird
#birds
#SonyAlpha
#wildlife
#birdlovers
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#HastingsBattleaxe
has a snoop round
#HastingsTownHall
. Lovely painting of
@AnnieBrassey
@HAPP1066
@1066Tweets
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@jeremycorbyn
Jeremy. Listen to a woman of your own age. You won’t win a General Election. Even if you did, you will not get a better deal from the EU. Grow up. Save Labour. Stop Brexit
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Happy New Year to all my Twitter followers, and from
#HastingsBatteaxe
who is nine years old today. Enjoy this beautiful
#starling
in our garden.
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@WILifemagazine
Collecting the Lady Denman Cup from the
#Queen
at the 2015 AM at the
#Royalalberthall
. A proud, and scary moment for me!
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It's nearly
#JackintheGreen
time! Don't forget to Drop into the WI charity tea room upstsirs at the Jenny Lind on Monday 7, 10.30 to 3.30.
@1066Tweets
@HastingsSteve
@HastingsShout
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@hannahgib81
Being pro-trans shouldn’t mean being anti-woman. Both should be able to live alongside each other. Problem is that some pro-trans activists are violently opposed to the reality of biological sex difference, and use this to attack and denigrate biological women.
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#HastingsBattleaxe
has moved! She is now grown-up, at . Here's a sunny photo of
#Hastings
from the East Hill, taken yesterday.
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Well, here’s one woman who’ll never again be up on the floor joyously screaming ‘
#IwillSurvive
’. It’s ruined for ever now. 🤮🤮🤮
#JohnsonOut14
#GutoHarri
Boris Johnson sang 'I Will Survive' to new communications chief Guto Harri
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It is
#SerpentDay
today, celebrating the power of the snake. I wear this every day. Wish I could call on magical powers to get
#johnsonout8
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#HastingsBattleaxe
approves of the new Discovery Centre at
@ryeharbour_NR
.
@SussexWildlife
. Battleaxe recommends!
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Yeah,
@MattHancock
let’s fire up the barbie and have a flutter on the horses you patronising git. Most of us would rather stay alive.
#Covid19UK
#covidshambles
Thanks to the nation’s resolve, horseracing is back from Monday
Wonderful news for our wonderful sport
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Am I missing something? The information about
#Bercow
being able to rule out 3rd vote has been out and around for days... how can it come as a ‘surprise’ to
#government
.
#BrexitShambles
as usual!
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Should we be leaving Twitter?
#HastingsBattleaxe
thinks about social media
Heres's a nice pic from
#AlexandraPark
in
#Hastings
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This is bad. Watch for more apparently insane ‘policy’ announcements designed to create more division and embolden more right-wingers
#ToryFascists
#JohnsonMustGo
#CorruptToriesOut
#ToriesUnfitToGovern
#JohnsonTheCorruptPM
Election guru Lynton Crosby attending PM’s morning meetings
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I voted for Corbyn, but his time is up. He has lost all credibility, couldn't lead his way out of a paper bag, never mind win an election.
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It would be even more great
@SallyAnn1066
if you were out and about working to reduce the number of people in your constituency who are forced to use food banks.
@TrussellTrust
It was great to be out and about in Hastings recently, including a trip to Tesco Extra to speak with Jess, Nick and other members of the store's team to learn more about the fantastic work they've been doing in partnership with the
@TrussellTrust
.🛒🥫
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This is very sad news, but understandable. How any sane, decent and rational person can bear to work in politics in the current (Tory-led) toxic environment just beats me. It must be soul-destroying.
@CarolineLucas
In 2010
#Brighton
Pavilion made history by electing me UK’s 1st Green MP & it’s been the honour of my life. My open letter to residents & friends explains why I’m not standing at next General Election. With love & gratitude, I hope I've done you proud 👇
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I suppose I’m a Saga voter…
#Rishi
I would rather drink my own pee than vote for you. Can’t see a GP, can’t afford to heat our homes… which older people could you possibly think could be won over by your nonsense?
#ToriesOut
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Needless to say, our
#HastingsandRye
MP,
@SallyAnn1066
yesterday voted in favour of overturning the suspension of sleaze king
@OwenPaterson
. She is a disgrace, an embarrassment to this area and anyone who voted for her should feel shame.
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Isn’t it about time we did something to tackle these money-grabbing, heedless, polluters who are ruining our local seas?
#SouthernWater
#hastings
.
NEWS: Bulverhythe Beach, St Leonards, closed early today — local sewage is flowing from a broken pipe near the shoreline.
#MoreRadioNews
#StLeonards
#Hastings
#EastSussex
#pollution
#sewage
#SouthernWater
#environment
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#HastingsBattleaxe
tries to think soothing thoughts and welcome the approach of
#Spring
but has a good rant about the current situation
#Ukraine
#ToriesandRussia
.
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@sociabledog
After your last post I asked you whether you had noticed any differences in
#sophiefromromania
since you last saw her, and what would be the next steps for her. You didn’t answer. Am genuinely interested.
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Anyone who takes
@BorisJohnson
for a bumbling fool is wrong. He is a clever, dangerous operator.
#JohnsonOut14
Take note
@SallyAnn1066
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On 8 June 1913 Emily Davidson died fighting for
@VotesforWomen
. Use your vote on 8 June!
@jf2811
@esfwi
@WomensInstitute
#Election2017
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@AmberRuddHR
So, Amber, why are you supporting the woman-bullying sexist
#BorisJohnson
, who in turn supports arch-sexist
#Trump
?
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