🧵 1/2: No #UKNews outlet is able to explain what happened in #Westminster today over the #ceasefire vote. Let me explain: #Parliament used to be a place for representatives of the people to debate & vote legislation that benefit citizens & represent their aspirations. Yes #lobbyists have always existed but overall, #MPs believed in their mission & in the importance of parliamentary rule. Today however, parliament is only a farcical theatre to boost #electioneering while obfuscating real policy
Tory Government has scrapped pledge to restrict #MPs’ second jobs
This gives the green light to more sleaze in #Westminster
We call for limits to how much MPs can spend working in second jobs, & how much they can earn. We also need a strict ban of any second jobs that involve covert lobbying.
Dr China Mills shares her experiences of pulling together decades of evidence of deaths, protests and failures in the disability benefits system for a new timeline which holds the government to account...
As much as your comment pisses me off, it does have some value, in proving the title perfectly accurate - people need to start listening to disabled people more, because this is obviously an issue for many of you.
The article did include a couple of stories, you just didn't care enough to click through to the examples (or to read a shock horror short introduction to the literal information you are demanding).
And since you clearly don't give enough of a shit to make the effort, neither will I, have a copy pasta and go on with your life of wilful ignorance:
46,562: the number of #taxpayer funded pints drunk in the #HousesofParliament. All because food and alcohol for #MPs and #Lords is subsidised. Last year, the alcohol bill cost us £500,000 including 2,800 bottles of bubbly.
Please sign the #petition now to stop taxpayers money propping up the bars in #Westminster
After her resignation, she said that her young age, along with her #Gitxsan#Nisgaa & #Tsimshian heritage, made her feel alone & isolated when raising issues relating to #women & #Indigenous peoples.
#UK politics:
Gillian Keegan (#Education Secretary): "everyone else has sat on their arse and done nothing"
There was a vote on a #Labour Opposition Motion to disclose information on the Safety of #School#Buildings on 23 May 2023.
Not a single #Tory voted in favour. Here are the names of the 287 Tory #MPs who would rather that information about the condition of schools is kept under wraps #indoorfireworks comment under #JohnCrace column in @TheGuardian.
So #GillianKeegan sat on her arse too!
Dutch and Belgian female politicians have had enough.
Faced with direct threats, double standards, and practices they consider unchangeable, a growing number of female MPs and ministers from all parties are resigning or giving up on running for re-election.
16 MPs claiming cash to rent London homes - while letting out their own - Mirror Online
‘Tory Trade Secretary Liam Fox is one of 16 MPs who have claimed cash for rent in the capital while letting out properties they already own in the city’
The #BBC has apologised to the batrachian #Farage, but the sum total of it is: "We reported you lost your #Coutts account because you don't have the money. This was not entirely accurate. You also lost your account because you're a bigoted shit."
Farage and his fanbois are gloating. But he's still gunning after someone senior in the bank, because it was never about money or 'spree feach'. This is about revenge and intimidation, and always has been.
Hey Fediverse, I'm coming back with a new request.
I'm looking for other people with experience with the Hurler-Scheie Syndrome (also known as MPS-IH). I've tried to search though hashtags but without any success. Boosts are welcome. #hurlerscheiesyndrome#mps
Today, after 13 or so years on #twitter, I’ve deactivated my accounts.
I’ve not been on since the überlord fecked it with that limit thing & my life has become less stressful. I don’t read the asinine posts from over-promoted #MPs nor the other right wing stuff that just got on my bits.
Anyway - hello new friends to be. Thank you for having me!
K-12 Education: MPS Makes the Case for Referendum (urbanmilwaukee.com)
From the Article:...
Disabled people are trying to tell us how benefits system is killing them. It’s time we listened. (www.bigissue.com)
Dr China Mills shares her experiences of pulling together decades of evidence of deaths, protests and failures in the disability benefits system for a new timeline which holds the government to account...