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The incoming Prime Minister shaking hands with Elmo after a hard-fought campaign does make me wonder if I've drifted off during the election coverage
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This has gone beyond strategic ambiguity to homicidal stupidity. Russia masses forces and weapons on its side of the border to launch attacks and rain down missiles on Ukraine. The "battlefield" is where the weapons killing you are.
This is a worrying continuation of an apparent trend of threatened political violence. Death threats to MPs may not be a new thing in 2024 (which in itself is terrible) but no matter what political allegiance, free and fair elections depend on a non-violent democratic process
Man arrested after alleged death threat to Rochdale byelection candidate theguardian.com/uk-news/2024…
Greg James Coppack retweeted
Read this sentence. Then reread it. Then ask yourself how anyone is ok with this level of human suffering.
More than 10 children per day, on average, have lost one or both of their legs in Gaza since conflict erupted three months ago - @Save_GlobalNews
Lifetimes of pain management and medical care will be needed
savethechildren.net/news/gaz…
Greg James Coppack retweeted
On the 6th October 2023 I shared a link on X to a Mail Online article entitled ‘Militant union leader at the heart of doctors strikes is a Labour activist who boasted of charging the NHS for a strike cover shift. I accept that my words were misleading as the subject in question Dr Tom Dolphin was not on strike on the date of the shift in question but was simply covering a shift as a consultant for junior doctors who were on strike on 11th August 2023. I would like to offer my sincerest apologies to Dr Dolphin for any distress upset caused. I will also like to add that I understand that Dr Dolphin actually donated his pay for the covered shift which I believe was £1870 to the BMA strike fund and whilst I do not agree with the strikes I want to go on the record to say that I think it is a very unselfish act on the part of Dr Dolphin to put his money into something he strongly believes in. I will make the same contribution to compensate the upset I may have caused Dr Dolphin. Please Repost.
@CrossCountryUK the 7:04 route from Nottingham to Cardiff Central is always over-packed! This morning I could barely squeeze off the train at Tamworth, due to aisles full of people standing, and there were scores of people waiting to get on! How can I request cars to be added?
@CrossCountryUK it's a similar story on the way back, the 17:08 return service is constantly overfilled, sometimes to a dangerous level. This service clearly needs another carriage to be added on
Greg James Coppack retweeted
Truly appalling for Jewish schools to be targeted with vandalism.
Perpetrators must be caught and face the full force of the law.
Antisemitic hate must never be tolerated on Britain’s streets
Greg James Coppack retweeted
It is shocking to me how many people believe government decisions should devastatingly affect civilians in Palestine & Israel. ESPECIALLY Americans, if we paid for our country’s sins we’d be wiped off the planet. I see the rascism of it all too! Stop the #Gazagenocide
Anybody want to swap tickets for Dominic Fike? I have two standing for Manchester Wed Sep 20 and I need two for London 23 or 24 Sep
Is it ignorant to say that we need serious structural reform if this is the state of the economy? I want to learn more about circular, sustainable economics because a system that prioritises growth above all else seems to be failing everyone, in the UK and globally
"We cannot continue to have the current level of wage increase"
Bank of England Governor, Andrew Bailey, says the current levels of price setting and wage setting are "unsustainable", after the BoE raises interest rates to 5%.
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📺 Sky 501, Virgin 602
Greg James Coppack retweeted
Untruths being peddled everywhere.
Johnson wasn’t forced out by anyone but himself. The Privileges Committee (Conservative dominated) would recommend, the Commons (Conservative dominated) would vote, his constituents (Conservative majority) would decide.
He chose to quit.
Greg James Coppack retweeted
Suella Braverman told Parliament “the asylum initial decision backlog is down 17,000”
Home Office stats say “asylum initial decision backlog” is up by thousands instead
My letter to Suella Braverman urging her to correct the record immediately as required by Ministerial Code
Greg James Coppack retweeted
Happy Pride! (except in countries/cultures where it wouldn’t make us money)
Is the Public Order bill not authoritarian enough on its own? The government must not be allowed to circumvent the parliament that
is trusted to enact the will of the British electorate.
greenworld.org.uk/article/ba…
Fantastic (front-row!!) tickets to @RestIsPolitics Live last night. Thanks @campbellclaret and @RoryStewartUK for a brilliant evening
#TRIPlive If we accept that we need 500,000 net immigration annually, where are they all going to live? (plus schools, GPs and so on)
#triplive I'm sat in the front row to your right: I've never been on the winning side in any vote (25M) and so much of what needs to be done seems to be reversing the damage caused by this and previous Conservative governments. Do you think Keir Starmer represents real change?
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NEW: The government’s new pay offer for teachers in England is mostly funded, but will still leave teachers facing large real-terms salary cuts since 2010.
THREAD on @lukesibietia's @NuffieldFound-funded briefing on the latest teacher pay offer [1/5]: ifs.org.uk/articles/how-big-…
ALT Chart shows real-terms changes over time in teacher core salary points since 2010: actual and proposed. Title states: "Latest pay offer would still leave most teachers’ salaries about 12% lower in real-terms in 2023 than in 2010."