Clare Bonetree
@blooyonder.bsky.social
Poetry, trees, active hope, fairness, equality, Herefordshire; also: mental health, rheumatoid arthritis, disability, anarchism, radical hope
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If Epping Council won it'd have been disastrous. That doesn't mean hotels are an acceptable form of accommodation, only the other day @ramfel.bsky.social released a report into how bad conditions are in them. It's that this government's alternatives are worse 3/
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Rats, overcrowding and malnutrition common at UK asylum hotels, report finds
Home Office’s three accommodation providers made combined profit of £380m over five years, charity estimates
www.theguardian.com
November 11, 2025 at 12:23 PM
If Epping Council won it'd have been disastrous. That doesn't mean hotels are an acceptable form of accommodation, only the other day @ramfel.bsky.social released a report into how bad conditions are in them. It's that this government's alternatives are worse 3/
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Why is bo one even discussing taking a train?!
November 11, 2025 at 7:30 AM
Why is bo one even discussing taking a train?!
Can't wait until my niece and her mates can vote...
November 10, 2025 at 11:06 PM
Can't wait until my niece and her mates can vote...
It was a Brookside storyline in the 80s, involved Laura (a nurse?) who later died by falling downstairs after an electric shock from switching off a light with wet fingers (that was a separate storyline)
November 10, 2025 at 10:28 PM
It was a Brookside storyline in the 80s, involved Laura (a nurse?) who later died by falling downstairs after an electric shock from switching off a light with wet fingers (that was a separate storyline)
Reposted by Clare Bonetree
As the chancellor prepares to give pre-budget speech, want to focus on the cost of inaction on child poverty. Yes, abolishing the two-child limit & benefit cap is expensive but inaction costs much more (see vital @actionforchildren.bsky.social analysis) www.actionforchildren.org.uk/our-work-and...
Paying the price of child poverty
4.5 million children are now paying the price of poverty in the UK. Without sustained policy action, a further 400,000 children will be pulled into poverty by the end of the decade.
www.actionforchildren.org.uk
November 4, 2025 at 8:16 AM
As the chancellor prepares to give pre-budget speech, want to focus on the cost of inaction on child poverty. Yes, abolishing the two-child limit & benefit cap is expensive but inaction costs much more (see vital @actionforchildren.bsky.social analysis) www.actionforchildren.org.uk/our-work-and...
Sorry forgot alt text: close up of a big gnarly standing stone against clear blue sky
November 9, 2025 at 1:09 PM
Sorry forgot alt text: close up of a big gnarly standing stone against clear blue sky
Being cautious, and hence slow, I managed an appropriately stately pass by Silbury Hill!
November 9, 2025 at 12:42 PM
Being cautious, and hence slow, I managed an appropriately stately pass by Silbury Hill!