Thelma Walker
@Thelma_DWalker
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Former MP and former headteacher. A member of the Green Party. Also on @thelma-2.bsky.social Follows and shares are not endorsements.
England, United Kingdom
Joined June 2014
Teachers aren’t the problem, they’re the solution. More tests won’t inspire kids; investment, smaller classes, and trust in professionals will. Stop treating unions like enemies and start listening to those who know the classroom best. https://t.co/Ikybmn1aJp
theguardian.com
Education secretary says mandatory test needed to tackle ‘shocking outcomes’ for many working-class children
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This is so true. Absolute panic mode…..
We're currently in the phase where the political establishment are road-testing their smears.
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Almost 100% of children in 73 neighbourhoods in England are living in income-deprived families. Labour could choose to lift hundreds of thousands of children out of poverty immediately by scrapping the two-child benefit cap. Child poverty is a political choice.
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Before Floki: “He is definitely not coming on our bed”……
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So why does the BBC label the academic and economist Faiza Shaheen an "activist" but refuse to do the same for the former academic, turned anti-migrant activist Matt Goodwin?
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This brings me such a feeling of hope. ( Yes, I know I said don’t listen to the polls)
Find Out Now voting intention: 🟦 Reform UK: 32% (-) 🟢 Greens: 17% (+2) 🔵 Conservatives: 16% (-1) 🔴 Labour: 16% (-) 🟠 Lib Dems: 12% (-) Changes from 22nd October [Find Out Now, 29th October, N=3,065]
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We're just getting started. Time to lower bills. And tax billionaires. If you want to see the Green Party take on Reform - this is the moment. https://t.co/0qbagSvIYp
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Find Out Now voting intention: 🟦 Reform UK: 32% (-) 🟢 Greens: 17% (+2) 🔵 Conservatives: 16% (-1) 🔴 Labour: 16% (-) 🟠 Lib Dems: 12% (-) Changes from 22nd October [Find Out Now, 29th October, N=3,065]
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Unequivocal and honourable, @ZackPolanski is the leader our country needs.
My comment? I'm proud of Green councillors who are doing everything they can to bring attention to stopping the genocide. https://t.co/9ViLfJabQe
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Unequivocal and honourable, @ZackPolanski is the leader our country needs.
My comment? I'm proud of Green councillors who are doing everything they can to bring attention to stopping the genocide. https://t.co/9ViLfJabQe
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Not only is Zack Polanski one of the only honest and genuine party leaders out there.. not only is he the leader of the only political party out there that actually cares about *ALL* British people and classes regardless of origins…. he’s also funny as fuck
What a week! Lost Jeremy Clarkson, then Harriet Harman and now Carole Malone gone too. 😭 We'll just have to console ourselves with the thousands of new members joining every day. https://t.co/0qbagSvIYp
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Any Labour MP who abstained on this; Shame on you!
Farage's motion on leaving the European Convention on Human Rights failed: 154 votes to 96 All 4 @TheGreenParty MPs voted against it, because we believe international agreements on human rights are a good thing. But only 63 out of 401 Labour MPs did: https://t.co/8eoPCMvKIg
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British politics is now going to be Green or Reform. Labour and the Tories are toast.
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In my view, the Royal family have never come back from how they treated Diana and then they compounded it with such coldness towards Harry and Megan. Now the scandals surrounding Andrew are resulting in a big thumbs down for all of them from the general population.
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Brilliant, positive meeting with @SwaleGreens this evening, lots of Pizza and politics. Everyone there, old and new members, were sharing ideas and celebrating @TheGreenParty increase in membership across the country. @ZackPolanski
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Brilliant, positive meeting with @SwaleGreens this evening, lots of Pizza and politics. Everyone there, old and new members, were sharing ideas and celebrating @TheGreenParty increase in membership across the country. @ZackPolanski
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You can’t build a successful education system around shame, embarrassment, detention & exclusion. You can’t create inclusion for all via a curriculum that only works for some. So as the saying goes “If the child doesn’t learn the way you teach, start teaching the way they learn.”
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