Liz🦊
lizzissima.bsky.social
Liz🦊
@lizzissima.bsky.social
Love Manchester and all things interesting or furry 🐕‍🦺🐩
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Why would anyone want to go to the USA while that dangerous narcissist Trump is in charge.
Jeez. All tourists - including those from Britain - will have to undergo a social media screening before being allowed entry into the US under new plans being considered by the country's border force

news.sky.com/story/us-pla...
US plans to start checking all tourists' social media
The potential social media mandate being proposed by Customs and Border Protection (CBP) would apply to anyone visiting, whether they require a visa or not.
news.sky.com
December 10, 2025 at 4:51 PM
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Nigel Farage ‘was my vicious, persistent tormentor’ at school

www.thetimes.com/article/81bf...
Nigel Farage ‘was my vicious, persistent tormentor’ at school
Reform UK’s reaction to claims by former schoolmates about its leader’s alleged racism during his days at Dulwich College raises questions
www.thetimes.com
November 29, 2025 at 11:12 AM
Claire's beloved horse Tango died in terror when holiday-makers set off a firework display at a nearby cottage. Sign her petition to protect animals and vulnerable people from the shock and terror of unexpected explosions. you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/ba...
Petition: Ban the public sale of fireworks!
Claire's beloved horse Tango died in terror when holiday-makers set off a firework display at a nearby cottage. Sign her petition to protect animals and vulnerable people from the shock and terror of ...
you.38degrees.org.uk
November 4, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Claire's beloved horse Tango died in terror when holiday-makers set off a firework display at a nearby cottage. Sign her petition to protect animals and vulnerable people from the shock and terror of unexpected explosions. you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/ba...
Petition: Ban the public sale of fireworks!
Claire's beloved horse Tango died in terror when holiday-makers set off a firework display at a nearby cottage. Sign her petition to protect animals and vulnerable people from the shock and terror of ...
you.38degrees.org.uk
November 4, 2025 at 6:58 PM
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Yet another example of the legacy of Tory Govt chucking our money down the pan & greedy bastards profiteering from it👇🏼😡

Asylum Hotel provider makes £180 million profit despite providing residents with inedible food, terrible conditions, and even rationing toilet paper FGS❗️

#ToryLegacyOfGreed
Asylum hotel provider makes £180m profit despite claims of inedible food and rationed loo paper
Asylum seekers and charities tell BBC of
www.bbc.co.uk
October 7, 2025 at 8:51 AM
I just signed this petition calling for better cooperation with the EU on the environment. Will you add your name, too? www.europeanmovement.co.uk/uk-eu-enviro...
Tell The Government: Strengthen UK-EU Environmental Cooperation
Climate change and environmental problems don't respect borders. The UK and EU must work together to protect our shared environment, tackle the climate crisis, and preserve biodiversity for future gen...
www.europeanmovement.co.uk
September 25, 2025 at 8:33 AM
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In 1997 47 Labour MPs voted against Tony Blair's plans to abolish single-parent benefits, with a further 100 abstaining.

Not a single one of them had the whip removed
July 16, 2025 at 3:06 PM
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Latest from me: on the grim, terrible prospect of Labour's cuts to disability benefits, and the wider cultural moment of "overdiagnosis"
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Look at Labour’s cruel attitude towards disability benefits, then tell me Keir Starmer cares about 'human dignity' | John Harris
These proposed cuts will turn people’s lives into a nightmare. No wonder they are scared about where this all might lead, says Guardian columnist John Harris
www.theguardian.com
June 22, 2025 at 1:19 PM
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UNEMPLOYED GPs by @nhsengland.bsky.social

GP training posts up 4000pa

Funding to GP practices cut 20% since 2016 (£2bn)

NHSE introduced ARRS via PCNs (£1.7bn) with GP practices ‘given’ staff in alternative roles for ‘free’

GP practices with no money forced to accept ARRS cannot afford GPs
June 13, 2025 at 3:20 PM
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This is a very important step in improving safety

It might seem trivial to change the name but the change from Physician Assistant to Physician Associate was driven by an idea of equivalence to a Doctor

This has created confusion for patients & in some cases has lead to significant problems
June 4, 2025 at 6:52 AM
Alan Yentob 🥲RIP
May 25, 2025 at 4:16 PM
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Incredibly depressing day. I've spent my entire life being told by British governments how dreadful immigration is. New Labour did it. The Coalition. The Brexiters. Now Starmer. All of them accusing the ones who came before them of failing to clamp down. The same old vacant mean-spirited bollocks.
May 12, 2025 at 8:11 AM
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Starmer's anti-immigrant speech today wasn't just a moral and political embarrassment. It was also an intellectual embarrassment.

inews.co.uk/opinion/star...
May 12, 2025 at 1:46 PM
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The U.S. is on track to have the worst whooping cough outbreak since 1948. Some regions are reporting that they are struggling to do contact tracing of cases because they are ALSO managing measles investigations.

And, of course, funding cuts to public health have resulted in fewer resources.
May 7, 2025 at 7:18 PM
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It's two weeks since over 70 Labour Parliamentarians called for our government to embrace a visa based youth mobility scheme with the EU.
That prospect now looks closer than ever.

The UK/EU summit on May the 19th is shaping up to be a very significant moment.
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
UK poised to agree post-Brexit youth visa scheme in major step towards closer EU ties
Ministers appear to have conceded to EU demands to set up a youth mobility scheme, after previously claiming there were ‘no plans’ to agree on it
www.independent.co.uk
May 7, 2025 at 7:36 PM
'Hands off' protests take off across US

news.sky.com/video/share-...
news.sky.com
April 5, 2025 at 9:18 PM
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"I don't want a Disney vacation of our history! I don't a whitewashed history, I don't want a homogenized history. Tell me the wretched truth about America, because that speaks to our greatness" -- 20 hours into his speech, Cory Booker is spitting absolute 🔥
April 1, 2025 at 7:47 PM
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Latest from me, with a question for Labour MPs & ministers: Aneurin Bevan's landmark collection of essays was called In Place Of Fear. Even before these cruel benefit cuts arrive, millions of disabled people are now terrified. What on earth are you doing? www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Labour's historic attack on disabled people is already wrecking lives. Just ask Kevin | John Harris
The anxiety and horror of these sweeping cuts are a matter of deliberate policy. How did the party of Bevan come to this, asks Guardian columnist John Harris
www.theguardian.com
March 30, 2025 at 12:29 PM
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Today, you’ll no doubt see the shocking revelations about the mass sewage dumping that has taken place across the country in 2024. We’ve been featured in the Guardian by Sandra Laville. Windermere sewage dumping within ⬇️

www.theguardian.com/environment/...
March 27, 2025 at 3:50 PM
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🔴Labour is so paralysed by Brexit that, despite its hunt for growth, it won’t mention vast sums lost.

🔴CER estimates Brexit has cost the UK 5% of GDP—£128bn. Goldman Sachs agrees.

🔴LSE found £27bn lost in exports in just two years.

🔴OBR says trade is down 15%.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Rachel Reeves is all about growth. So why won’t she admit that Brexit is its worst enemy? | Polly Toynbee
Our exit from the EU won’t be a focus of the spring statement, but it should be. Most now accept the need for closer ties, writes Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee
www.theguardian.com
March 25, 2025 at 6:59 AM
What a wonderful voice he had ..sad news RIP
March 23, 2025 at 1:26 PM
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Next time Starmer and Reeves say there's too much regulation, remember this.
This is what a deregulated economy looks like, and we all pay for it, with our health, our ecosystems and, eventually - when the massive clean-up / land abandonment bill can no longer be avoided - our wallets.
A gobsmacking story. Water companies let toxic waste disposers, for cash, dump their loads into sewage farms. The sewage sludge is then spread, untested, on farmland, potentially poisoning vast areas, entire ecosystems and the people (you and me) eating the food.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
What’s in the millions of tonnes of sludge sprayed on to farmland? The answer won’t make you happy | George Monbiot
Thanks to breathtaking negligence, the liquid fertiliser used to help grow our food bubbles with a lethal cocktail of toxins, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
www.theguardian.com
March 21, 2025 at 1:45 PM
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Excellent letter in The Times from the CEO of Mind.

So concerning that Labour would rather stick doggedly to its ruinous red lines on Brexit than protect those on (already strictly assessed) disability benefits. Preferring punishment of its citizens to any serious attempt at improving prosperity.
March 17, 2025 at 7:39 AM
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So many of my patients rely on PIP to access recovery treatment.

Without it they probably wouldn't survive, let alone be able to access treatment.

PIP is already very hard to get - plans to make it harder are simply cruel.

www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
‘Labour is deserting me’: disabled people fear impact of Pip changes
As the government weighs benefit cuts, many warn of impact on independence and employment
www.theguardian.com
March 17, 2025 at 7:56 AM
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One of the greatest failures of NHS England has been the failure to deliver in General Practice

All its’ policies have failed to deliver primary care & remained focused on secondary care

If its removal sees a shift to restoration of access to GPs then @rthonwesstreeting.bsky.social may succeed
March 16, 2025 at 8:24 AM