Lou Derry 🌹
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Lou Derry 🌹
@louderry.bsky.social
Never voted tory. Works in social housing. Sweary.
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Spike knows ...
January 20, 2025 at 1:28 AM
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December 18, 2024 at 8:34 PM
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Man in stripes, "Are the government's no housing plans an assault on our green and pleasant land?" #BBCQT

Wes Streeting, "No. What they are is an attack on the situation we see in our country today where too many people are priced out of decent homes"
December 12, 2024 at 10:55 PM
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Man in green, "In my generation it's a pipe dream to own a home, it's so expensive.. The consensus hasn't worked.. The Tories had 14 years, they haven't built the homes we need" #BBCQT

"If Labour need to change the rules, to make it easier, then that's what we need to do to build more homes"
December 12, 2024 at 11:13 PM
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Over 140,000 children live in sub-standard accommodation…

…enduring mould, bug infestations, and inadequate washing and cooking facilities.
The scandal of hidden homelessness
Over 140,000 children live in sub-standard accommodation, enduring mould, bug infestations, and inadequate washing and cooking facilities
sussexbylines.co.uk
December 10, 2024 at 7:05 PM
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Punchy start to David Lammy's statement in the Commons on Syria

He says the UK chose not to reengage with Assad when others did

"We said no because Assad is a butcher with the blood of countless innocents on his hands"

"Assad is the rat of Damascus fleeing to Moscow"
December 9, 2024 at 4:46 PM
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Explains a few things..
December 4, 2024 at 10:59 PM
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She was excellent .. as were all the team .. people claiming Tory and Labour are same should watch the 40mins .. policy, intellect, composure, knowledge and detail from Labour.. blah from Tories and SNP !
Rachel Reeves, "Today I have appointed Tom Hayhoe as our new Covid Counter Fraud Commissioner"

"As Chair of an NHS trust during the pandemic, he saw the urgency of getting PPE to NHS staff when they needed it"

"He will investigate the billions lost to fraud and underperforming contracts"
December 3, 2024 at 6:55 PM
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Tonight Portsmouth played its part in marking #WorldAIDSDay2024. We can create a world where we end AIDS if everyone’s rights are protected including the right to health services, which too many still are unable to access. Fantastic event Pompey Pride
December 1, 2024 at 10:02 PM
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It seems the electorate was very decisive in the General Election.
Under-appreciated election fact...

Number of MPs with majority greater than 10,000:
Labour: 115
Lib Dem: 25
Conservative: 5
Green: 2
Plaid: 2
November 26, 2024 at 3:01 PM
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November 26, 2024 at 12:28 PM
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Good news: the Bibby Stockholm is about to be retired from its role as a grotty floating quasi-prison for asylum seekers.

Bad news: they will be dispersed all over the place, but none locally, so any friendships that had managed to form will be torn apart.
Last asylum seekers housed on Bibby Stockholm barge set to leave after government stops using it for accommodation - www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...
November 26, 2024 at 12:56 PM
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British Non Dom’s and foreign billionaires owning our press was bad enough.

Now an American one is dictating what questions the Prime Minister is asked on This Morning.

Insane and hideously depressing state of affairs
November 25, 2024 at 5:35 PM
James uncleverley the tory Mp, who joked about drugging his wife, is currently ranting on twatter because the government is making spiking a stand-alone offence. 🤢
November 25, 2024 at 3:00 PM
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Starmer cannot survive this
November 24, 2024 at 7:06 PM
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Watching debate on assisted dying this morning, just to make it clear as I have done to my constituents - Friday is one vote that will lead to weeks and weeks of scrutiny. Any changes in the future in slippery slope argument would, as it has with abortion law, have to be decided by parliament.
November 24, 2024 at 9:59 AM
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Funny how we never saw headlines like this after the last government made a series of totally unfunded tax cuts prior to the election
November 22, 2024 at 12:01 PM
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This is excellent news!
🚨🚨 Unsurprisingly and as predicted, Labour is quitely with incremental steps "rolling back" #brexit with quite noticeable regulatory alignment with the EU. Keep your eyes open particularly on the UK Product Regulation and Metrology Bill: bills.parliament.uk/bills/3752
November 20, 2024 at 2:47 PM
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Very interesting to note the selective reporting the BBC & established press continues to engage in...

I don't remember this level of scrutiny of Boris Johnson, a man who had lied as a journalist, and then made a number of misleading statements, and told lies, as PM.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
MPs raise questions about Chancellor Rachel Reeves' CV
Claims the chancellor embellished her work achievements were seized on by Tory and Reform MPs at PMQs.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 20, 2024 at 6:07 PM
As expected, tories opened #PMQS with an attack on nurses' pay rises.
The same people who are telling you farming is a vocation, and they should be exempt for inheritance tax.

Will tell you that nursing/care work is a vocation, and they shouldn't expect decent pay rises.
November 20, 2024 at 2:54 PM
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A £500 million package of support will be available to vulnerable households this winter.

I encourage anyone struggling with their bills to contact their supplier to see what extra help is available.

More here 👇🏾

www.energy-uk.org.uk/news/energy-...
November 20, 2024 at 2:28 PM
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Now watched all of BBC's immigration doc (sadly I don't feature in part 2..).

Central argument appears to be that Cameron, Farage, A. Green/Migration Watch & Johnson did more (via Brexit) to increase migration than Tony Blair/I ever did..

www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...
November 20, 2024 at 1:58 PM
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Wes Streeting orders review of physician associates’ role in NHS
Wes Streeting orders review of physician associates’ role in NHS
About 3,500 PAs work in England but there is growing alarm in medical profession about patient safety
www.theguardian.com
November 20, 2024 at 12:23 AM
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Coming to any photo opportunity at any time you’ll have ‘em

The new Tory B*llox Band

From left to right

Close my Companies while they owe HMRC Philps
Claim Anything I Can McVey
How Did I End Up As A Minister Atkins
And band leader …
KemiKaze BadEnough
November 19, 2024 at 8:15 PM