Ian Wickham
@Wkrs
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SE London 🇬🇧 | Centre Left🌹| Pro-European 🇪🇺 Abuse = Block Also found @[email protected]
London
Joined February 2009
If you're going to get angry every time Labour don't walk into an elephant trap, you're in for long few years.
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You have to be working minimum hours to get childcare benefits which is why they squeezed in the 10k of earnings...it's very artificial. Also of £26k housing costs makes you angry, get behind building social (and private) housing!
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The reason they picked a single person for comparison is that an equivalent working couple with three kids and a joint pre-tax income of 140k would absolutely be getting the full child benefit amount https://t.co/Bry9x98E1K
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Everyone who finds the strength to call the Samaritans should be able to speak to someone. I just donated, if you can spare a few quid it takes 5 minutes here. https://t.co/Z1uKb87fsC
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It turns out being able to copy and paste “blacked out” portions of the Epstein files into a notepad to reveal that it’s just color blocked text has a very publicly available and obvious root cause.
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Happy Christmas! To everyone working through the Christmas period - a huge thank you.
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A brief dip into politics on #ChistmasEve I think this from @SteveReedMP is spot on but atm I’m not convinced a few of his @UKLabour cabinet colleagues understand or are in the mood to hear or take notice (same with backbenchers and membership) Only delivery will change that
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He sees you when you're sleeping, He knows when you're awake, He experiences all moments in past and future history simultaneously #SantaManhatten
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A reminder that when NATO command say they're tracking Santa, it's just a joke. Santa's sleigh is born of a non-euclidian geometry beyond human or mechanical perception.
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💫 The Employment Rights Act is now law. This Christmas, let’s celebrate how far we’ve come - and recommit to working together in 2026 for fair pay, stronger unions, and Labour’s New Deal delivered in full. Merry Christmas🎄
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Reform isn’t sweeping the country with 25% of the vote. All to play for when the UK General Election probably won’t be until 2029.
Westminster Voting Intention: RFM: 25% (-3) LAB: 20% (+2) CON: 19% (+2) LDM: 15% (+1) GRN: 15% (-2) SNP: 3% (-1) Via @YouGov, 21-22 Dec. Changes w/ 14-15 Dec.
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So sad that the Department of “Justice” and the FBI are slow walking, or even not giving, the unredacted documents requested by Congress. An embarrassment to our country!
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Literally your own, personal, Jesus
Surveys show that Americans’ trust in clergy has hit a record low. More people now pray in their cars than in churches. Perhaps inevitably, tech bros in Silicon Valley are taking the wheel https://t.co/whjwINXQjx Photo: Getty Images
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Christmas can be a tough time of year. Support is available for any veterans who need help with housing, healthcare, finances or employment. Find out more: 👉 https://t.co/pwR3Tjkaxk
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This was a Christmas gift to myself last year, well worth it. Obviously US focused but that's 50% of our news anyway so 🤷🏻
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If you want to take the politics out of something, a good start is to not publish lists of political demands.
I spoke to Andy Burnham on govt’s SEND reforms - Reforms must “start from principle about nothing being taken away” - Should eventually "move away from" EHCPs but in a way that does not "destabilise or frighten” - Politics must be taken “right out of it” https://t.co/8KBAqVL8dx
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So David Walliams has been dropped by his publisher, but before you go celebrating take a moment to think of the dozens of writers you've never heard of that are now out of work.
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Sir Keir Starmer visited a Greenwich school this week to announce new initiatives to tackle Violence Against Women and Girls, following our pioneering film Red, which explores VWAG through modern retelling of Red Riding Hood. 📰 https://t.co/jrPssIe3pF
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If you're following AI development at all, this is really important. The law needs to keep pace with technology.
We are going to aim to make it impossible for children to take, share or view a nude image, and we’re banning apps that create deepfakes. Here’s the detail:
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We in Labour need to do a much better job of selling our success, otherwise a Badenoch-Farage hell coalition is going to pit a brick on the accelerator, hop out with their wealth and let this country smash into a wall.
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