Rower, coach, boatwoman, cyclist. Tea drinking is my first sport... though knitting is a close second. Owned by Bill π
North of England
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Sing ππ retweeted
The filth telling me I should be mad at the RNLI.
Yes, we lost 8 men from our lifeboat at Christmas. On an even more personal note I lost my best friend from childhood and his brother at sea. A lot of my friends are out there right now, the RNLI has their backs
Sing ππ retweeted
Huge amount of idiots on here calling for the βdefundingβ of the RNLI -clearly unaware they are almost exclusively funded by donations from the public. Their hate filled antics (which we have seen before) always results in a big SURGE in donations. Keep it up βpatriotsβ π
So proud of this amazing young man
The proud man from Durham ARC.
2025: GB v France π«π·
2026: GB v the world π
Hear from Quinn Mosley about his rowing journey as he gets ready to race in Plovdiv, Bulgaria at the U19 World Rowing Championships π
Read more π
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The Guardian: βNet migration down by three-quarters, the biggest fall in NHS waiting lists for 17 years, knife crime cut by 10%, the economy growing the fastest in the G7, rising wages, energy bills and petrol prices held down, the biggest sustained rise in defence spending since the cold war, a massive expansion of free childcare β¦
If Keir Starmer did tub-thumping lists of Labourβs achievements in the style of Gordon Brown, he would not actually have a shortage of things to talk about.β
During the two years of Labour government, following fourteen years of Tory mismanagement, there have actually been significant improvements in Britain. Why does the Tory media not report them?
Sing ππ retweeted
For those who don't know how this works, Reform are supported by the owner of X. All their accounts are centrally run and 1000s of bots are programmed to like their posts as soon as they go out. This is a form of election fraud no one is talking about yet. Rob's account is run from the US. Good local Makerfield boy.
It's all such a grift.
Sing ππ retweeted
π¨ What Has The Labour Government Done?
I didnβt vote for @UKLabour in #GE2024 and have been highly critical of both Labour and Starmer.
Polling shows pretty much everyone is dissapointed, and Labour has faced formidable difficulties in its PR - much of it self-inflicted.
In short, Labour has found it virtually impossible to persuade the public of its achievements and virtually no-one is aware of any of the good things that have happened.
This is partly because of mainstream news media, including a highly critical @BBC, but also because the Government has chosen to foreground measures which indicate that they donβt intend to behave like a Labour Government at all: e.g., abolishing the winter fuel allowance; cutting disability benefits; demonising and taking a hardline on immigration and especially asylum seekers; and reneging on its promises to reinstate welfare payments to couples with more than two children (almost all of them at least partially reversed, but after the damage was done).
So in the interests of balance, hereβs a list of things that have been introduced since July 2024 that for some mysterious reason, many voters arenβt even aware of:
1. #NHS and Health
Put an extra Β£29 billion into the NHS β one of the largest funding boosts in many years.
Delivered over 4β5 million extra NHS appointments in the first year (more than double the original target of 2 million).
NHS waiting lists have fallen by around 230,000β312,000 β the lowest level in two years.
Gave above-inflation pay rises to NHS staff and ended long-running junior doctor strikes.
Recruited around 1,700β2,000 more GPs and introduced the first new GP contract in four years.
Started free breakfast clubs in hundreds of primary schools.
2. Jobs, Wages, and Worker Rights
Raised the National Living Wage β giving over 3 million people a pay rise (a full-time worker aged 21+ gets roughly Β£900βΒ£1,400 extra per year).
Passed the Employment Rights Act β the biggest upgrade to worker rights in a generation, including:
Day-one protection against unfair dismissal for many workers.
Ending exploitative zero-hour contracts (right to guaranteed hours and notice of shifts).
Sick pay from day one for more low-paid workers.
Better rights to flexible working, paternity leave, and parental leave.
AND attracted Β£100β120 billion in new private investment, helping create more than 380,000 new jobs.
3. Housing and Renters
Passed the Rentersβ Rights Act β banning βno-faultβ evictions so tenants have much stronger protection.
Started major planning reforms to help build 1.5 million new homes over this parliament.
4. Energy and Environment
Set up Great British Energy β a new publicly owned company with Β£8.3 billion to invest in clean sustainable power like wind and solar.
Lifted the ban on new onshore wind farms in England and sped up renewable energy projects.
Aiming to make Britain a βclean energy superpowerβ with cheaper bills in the long term.
5. Cleaning Up Politics and Tackling Lobbying & Corruption
New Ethics and Integrity Commission launched in October 2025, replacing the old standards committee to oversee ethical behaviour by ministers, MPs, and public officials.
Tightened rules on MPs earning from paid lobbying jobs, removing exemptions that allowed MPs to be paid for giving advice on public policy or how Parliament works.
Stronger rules on political donations: Introduced the Representation of the People Bill (2026) to block foreign interference and hidden donations.
Tackling the βrevolving doorβ: Introduced rules to stop former ministers and officials from immediately taking jobs with companies they used to regulate.
More transparency on lobbying: Reviewing the current lobbying register and publishing more frequent data; the PM asked the Ethics and Integrity Commission to carry out a full review in March 2026.
New Anti-Corruption Strategy (2025): Published December 2025 with 123 commitments to fight bribery and corruption, including appointing a new Anti-Corruption Champion.
Local government reforms: Plans for a mandatory code of conduct for councillors and creation of a Local Audit Office to improve oversight and reduce corruption risks.
6. Tackling Online Harms (including pornography and disinformation)
Rolling out the Online Safety Act: Inherited, but actively implemented and strengthened by Labour.
From March 2025, platforms must remove illegal content, including child sexual abuse material.
From July 2025, new rules to protect children from harmful content (pornography, self-harm, suicide, eating disorder material).
Age verification on major porn sites, ensuring children cannot access adult content.
@Ofcom issued fines (Β£1 million+) for non-compliant sites.
Extra protections against harmful content include upgraded cyber-flashing and encouragement of serious self-harm to priority offences and rules introduced for non-consensual intimate images, deepfakes, and nudification apps.
Action on disinformation:
Platforms must remove illegal disinformation; Ofcom set up an advisory committee to improve responses.
7. Tackling Child Sexual Abuse & Exploitation (including Grooming Gangs)
National Audit by Baroness Casey (June 2025):
Reviewed group-based child sexual exploitation and recommended reforms; all 12 recommendations accepted.
Independent Inquiry into Grooming Gangs (December 2025, started 2026): Chaired by Baroness Anne Longfield with full legal powers; Β£65 million budget over three years.
Accelerated police action and reopened cases: National operation reopened over 800 cases; Grooming Gangs Taskforce contributed to hundreds of arrests, including 597 in late 2024.
New national taskforce and local support: Specialist taskforce for councils and police; new centre of expertise for best practices.
Updates to the Tackling Child Sexual Abuse Strategy (April 2025):
Better victim support, independent review routes, and stronger multi-agency working.
But anyway, APART from improving the NHS and the nationβs health, making more jobs, improving wages for the low-paid and worker rights, taking measures to improve housing and life for renters, cleaning up politics and tackling lobbying and corruption, tackling online harms including pornography and disinformation, tackling child sexual abuse and exploitation, including grooming gangs, stopping widespread train strikes early and starting to bring rail services back into public ownership, setting up a new Border Security Command to tackle small boat crossings, paying compensation to victims of the infected blood scandal, delivering real-terms wage growth and implementing several interest rate cuts, starting work on lifting hundreds of thousands of children out of poverty including changes to benefits, and, excluding the COVIDβrelated disruption, cutting net migration to its lowest level since before the UK left the EU in 2016 - APART FROM THAT, WHAT HAS THE LABOUR GOVERNMENT EVER DONE FOR US?
teapaw.org/docrussjackson/status/β¦
Sing ππ retweeted
In the autumn of 1942, a slight, 32-year-old Polish social worker named Irena Sendler passed through the gates of the Warsaw Ghetto with a carpenterβs toolbox in her arms. Beneath the hammers and nails lay a drugged six-month-old infant, breathing softly, utterly silent. One cry would have meant instant death for both of them. Irena smiled at the guards; they waved her through. They never suspected that this quiet woman would repeat the journey 2,499 more times.
The ghetto was a slow-motion extermination. Starvation, disease, and random murder stalked every street. Jewish parents faced a choice no human being should ever have to make: keep their child and watch them waste away, or hand them to a stranger who promised a chanceβhowever thinβat life.
Irena came officially to inspect for typhus. In reality, she came to steal children from death.
Babies left in toolboxes or ambulances under false bottoms. Toddlers sedated and tucked into potato sacks. Older children led by the hand through the stinking, lightless sewers while German boots marched overhead. βNot a sound,β she whispered as rats scurried past their feet.
She knew that the rescued children would be given new names, new religions, new families. Their pasts would vanish unless someone remembered. So, on fragile scraps of tissue paper, Irena wrote each childβs real name, their parentsβ names, and their new hiding place. She rolled the papers tight, slipped them into glass jars, and buried them beneath an apple tree in a neighborβs garden. If she were caught and killed, the truth might still survive.
She was caught.
On October 20, 1943, the Gestapo kicked in her door. They took her to Pawiak Prison and demanded the list. When she refused, they smashed both her legs with iron bars. Then her feet. Then her arms. For weeks the beatings continued. She never spoke. They scheduled her execution. On the appointed morning, guards dragged the broken woman from her cell.
Instead of a firing squad, she found herself outside the prison wallsβalive. The Polish underground council Ε»egota had bribed a guard to mark her file βshot while trying to escape.β Officially dead, Irena Sendler limped back into the shadows to keep working.When the war finally ended, the first thing she did was dig up the jars under the apple tree. She spent years trying to return the childrenβnow scattered across convents, farms, and foster homesβto whatever family might remain.
Almost no parents had survived. But the children had. Because of her, 2,500 Jewish boys and girls lived to grow up, to marry, to have children and grandchildren of their ownβan entire secret branch of the human family tree that the Nazis never managed to cut down.For decades her story stayed buried deeper than the jars themselves. Then, in 1999, four high-school girls in rural Kansas stumbled across a brief mention of her name. They found the old woman still living quietly in Warsaw and brought her courage back into the light.
Journalists called her the greatest rescuer of the Holocaust. Irena only shook her head.βI could have saved more,β she said. βThat regret follows me to the grave.βIrena Sendlerβarmed with nothing but a ghetto work permit, a toolbox, and a refusal to look awayβproved that even in the heart of the worst evil humanity has ever devised, one determined person can still keep the darkness from winning completely.
That's me done for 2025. Time to make the mince pies instagram.com/reel/DSpToBTDBβ¦
Sing ππ retweeted
A fantastic turnout today for the naming of 5 new and not so new boats, one in honour of former President Fred Snowdon and Junior Coach Gordon Beattie, one for former Captain George Adair, and three more in the DARC tradition named Prince of Darcness, DARC Humour and DARC Energy.
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Just 13k more signatures and the call for a public inquiry into Russian interference has to be debate in Parliament petition.parliament.uk/petitβ¦
.@CitroenUK no response? As rubbish a reaction as that from the dealer. Last Citroen I buy.
Hey @CitroenUK what's the point of buying a new Citroen? Less than 12 months old. An engine warning that states repair needed...the earliest my dealer offered me a diagnostic is a MONTH away. Only directed me to Citroen assist.Tough luck for those who have no other transport.
Hey @CitroenUK what's the point of buying a new Citroen? Less than 12 months old. An engine warning that states repair needed...the earliest my dealer offered me a diagnostic is a MONTH away. Only directed me to Citroen assist.Tough luck for those who have no other transport.
Sing ππ retweeted
If youβre celebrating a foreign media empire, owned by billionaires, that evades billions in tax offshore while radicalising millions, finally smearing and hounding a working class woman out of a job she had to fight harder than any man to attain, then youβre a bootlicking idiot.
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Thanks to Angela Rayner, zero hours contracts will be banned, no-one will be subject to fire at will, no-one will be able to be fired and rehired, and no-one will lose their private rented home just cos their landlord wants them out. That's quite some legacy. Thank you Angela.
.@BritishRowing really loving the music at Brit Champs... But I'm sure you could have got a less cheesy DJ. Smashy and Nicey might still be in business?
J16 1x π₯today with a course record π₯
Amazing performance from a fantastic young man... So proud
Quinn - legend ππππππ₯π₯ instagram.com/reel/DMQa9jLNpβ¦
