Elaine Elliott
@elliotteloise.bsky.social
A retired primary teacher who cares
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1.2 million extra pensioners will be privately renting by the 2040s and it is set to cost the Treasury an extra £2bn in housing benefit.
Sky-high cost of rent means ageing tenants 'won't be able to retire'
www.bigissue.com
July 10, 2025 at 6:45 AM
1.2 million extra pensioners will be privately renting by the 2040s and it is set to cost the Treasury an extra £2bn in housing benefit.
Sitting next to my newly acquired waterfeature with a cold glass of prosecco
Why not? It's Friday
Why not? It's Friday
May 30, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Sitting next to my newly acquired waterfeature with a cold glass of prosecco
Why not? It's Friday
Why not? It's Friday
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Deal with EU will make food cheaper and add £9bn to UK economy, says No 10
Deal with EU will make food cheaper and add £9bn to UK economy, says No 10
Agreement reached to ‘slash red tape’ on food products, in exchange for extended EU access to fishing waters
* UK politics live – latest updates
A deal clinched between the UK and EU to remove checks on agrifoods will add £9bn to the UK economy and lower food prices, No 10 has said, as the last-minute agreement was clinched early on Monday morning.
The deal – which will grant EU fishers access to British waters for an additional 12 years – will remove checks on a significant number of food products as well as a deeper defence partnership and agreements on carbon taxes. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
May 19, 2025 at 11:21 AM
Deal with EU will make food cheaper and add £9bn to UK economy, says No 10
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Is there anyone morally bankrupt enough to still claim this is self-defence?
May 19, 2025 at 11:40 AM
Is there anyone morally bankrupt enough to still claim this is self-defence?
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Blair says net zero is "doomed to fail" – but to abandon a rapid green transition away from fossil fuels is to sentence millions to certain death . And he knows it .
12 days left to sign my petition to ban fossil fuel ads – please sign govpetition.uk/700024
12 days left to sign my petition to ban fossil fuel ads – please sign govpetition.uk/700024
April 30, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Blair says net zero is "doomed to fail" – but to abandon a rapid green transition away from fossil fuels is to sentence millions to certain death . And he knows it .
12 days left to sign my petition to ban fossil fuel ads – please sign govpetition.uk/700024
12 days left to sign my petition to ban fossil fuel ads – please sign govpetition.uk/700024
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Nigel Farage has told ITV News the first thing he would do as prime minister if he won a general election would be to remove the UK from the European Convention on Human Rights
That alone is good reason never to vote for Reform UK.
THIS IS WHY
youtu.be/MdiDDJrQUJA?...
That alone is good reason never to vote for Reform UK.
THIS IS WHY
youtu.be/MdiDDJrQUJA?...
Nigel Farage says first thing he would do as PM if he won a GE would be to remove UK from the ECHR
YouTube video by Peter Stefanovic
youtu.be
April 18, 2025 at 7:34 AM
Nigel Farage has told ITV News the first thing he would do as prime minister if he won a general election would be to remove the UK from the European Convention on Human Rights
That alone is good reason never to vote for Reform UK.
THIS IS WHY
youtu.be/MdiDDJrQUJA?...
That alone is good reason never to vote for Reform UK.
THIS IS WHY
youtu.be/MdiDDJrQUJA?...
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Please sign.
Then repost.
Then repost.
April 18, 2025 at 8:33 PM
Please sign.
Then repost.
Then repost.
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It’s not too late. I’m joining @trusselluk.bsky.social in calling on the government to rethink. This is how you can help👇
action.trussell.org.uk/disability-cuts
action.trussell.org.uk/disability-cuts
April 17, 2025 at 6:28 PM
It’s not too late. I’m joining @trusselluk.bsky.social in calling on the government to rethink. This is how you can help👇
action.trussell.org.uk/disability-cuts
action.trussell.org.uk/disability-cuts
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A private equity firm just bought £1.6 BILLION worth of the NHS.
It will make bigger profits by hiking rents for hospitals and NHS facilities. Previous govts privatized the estate.
That means less money for frontline healthcare. NHS already drained by PFI and private contractors.
It will make bigger profits by hiking rents for hospitals and NHS facilities. Previous govts privatized the estate.
That means less money for frontline healthcare. NHS already drained by PFI and private contractors.
A private equity firm just bought £1.6 BILLION worth of the NHS
Assura has sold NHS buildings to a US private equity giant, making £1.61 billion from infrastructure that we should own
www.thecanary.co
April 14, 2025 at 6:53 AM
A private equity firm just bought £1.6 BILLION worth of the NHS.
It will make bigger profits by hiking rents for hospitals and NHS facilities. Previous govts privatized the estate.
That means less money for frontline healthcare. NHS already drained by PFI and private contractors.
It will make bigger profits by hiking rents for hospitals and NHS facilities. Previous govts privatized the estate.
That means less money for frontline healthcare. NHS already drained by PFI and private contractors.
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🧵 Let's talk about hunger in the UK.
Parents are skipping meals so their kids can eat. People are frightened about rising energy bills. We've even heard from people who are surviving on sugary tea for days because they don't have enough money for food.
This isn't right.
Parents are skipping meals so their kids can eat. People are frightened about rising energy bills. We've even heard from people who are surviving on sugary tea for days because they don't have enough money for food.
This isn't right.
April 14, 2025 at 8:02 AM
🧵 Let's talk about hunger in the UK.
Parents are skipping meals so their kids can eat. People are frightened about rising energy bills. We've even heard from people who are surviving on sugary tea for days because they don't have enough money for food.
This isn't right.
Parents are skipping meals so their kids can eat. People are frightened about rising energy bills. We've even heard from people who are surviving on sugary tea for days because they don't have enough money for food.
This isn't right.
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Six out of every seven children in the UK's most deprived areas living in poverty.
Result of political choices - low wages, austerity, unchecked profiteering, benefit cuts, inequitable distribution of wealth.
Future blighted.
Govts listen to donors/rich, ignore the rest.
Result of political choices - low wages, austerity, unchecked profiteering, benefit cuts, inequitable distribution of wealth.
Future blighted.
Govts listen to donors/rich, ignore the rest.
Six out of seven UK kids live in poverty - map shows how your area fares
A record-high 4.5million children across the country were found to have been living in poverty in the year ending March 2024 - 121,000 more children than the year prior
www.mirror.co.uk
April 11, 2025 at 6:22 AM
Six out of every seven children in the UK's most deprived areas living in poverty.
Result of political choices - low wages, austerity, unchecked profiteering, benefit cuts, inequitable distribution of wealth.
Future blighted.
Govts listen to donors/rich, ignore the rest.
Result of political choices - low wages, austerity, unchecked profiteering, benefit cuts, inequitable distribution of wealth.
Future blighted.
Govts listen to donors/rich, ignore the rest.
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We took over the giant screen at Farage’s big rally in Birmingham
March 28, 2025 at 9:50 PM
We took over the giant screen at Farage’s big rally in Birmingham
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Shooting a sleeping golden eagle , how low can you go ? This is the story of Merrick . @wildjustice.bsky.social
March 24, 2025 at 11:15 AM
Shooting a sleeping golden eagle , how low can you go ? This is the story of Merrick . @wildjustice.bsky.social
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Fess up, who's not thought the same?
March 23, 2025 at 9:22 PM
Fess up, who's not thought the same?
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It’s 5 years today since the first Covid lockdown started.
But there’s ‘no evidence that the health service would be any better prepared today’. 😞
Via Guardian:
But there’s ‘no evidence that the health service would be any better prepared today’. 😞
Via Guardian:
‘Key lessons of Covid are being forgotten,’ UK scientists warn
The alarm has been raised by experts as the nation marks the fifth anniversary of the introduction of lockdown
www.theguardian.com
March 23, 2025 at 9:53 AM
It’s 5 years today since the first Covid lockdown started.
But there’s ‘no evidence that the health service would be any better prepared today’. 😞
Via Guardian:
But there’s ‘no evidence that the health service would be any better prepared today’. 😞
Via Guardian:
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This is one of the most gruesome raptor persecution cases I have ever heard– yet incidents like this take place up and down the country every single year .
It must end , please sign our petition to ban driven grouse shooting now govpetition.uk/700036
It must end , please sign our petition to ban driven grouse shooting now govpetition.uk/700036
March 21, 2025 at 11:16 AM
This is one of the most gruesome raptor persecution cases I have ever heard– yet incidents like this take place up and down the country every single year .
It must end , please sign our petition to ban driven grouse shooting now govpetition.uk/700036
It must end , please sign our petition to ban driven grouse shooting now govpetition.uk/700036
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🔥 Patriotic Millionaires UK campaigned last week across the country to advocate for a Wealth Tax, against the backdrop of significant possible welfare cuts in the spring budget.
Patriotic Millionaires UK ‘Tax our Wealth’ campaign visits Bristol
Patriotic Millionaires UK campaigned last week across the country to advocate for a Wealth Tax, against the backdrop of significant possible welfare cuts in the spring budget
westenglandbylines.co.uk
March 21, 2025 at 7:12 AM
🔥 Patriotic Millionaires UK campaigned last week across the country to advocate for a Wealth Tax, against the backdrop of significant possible welfare cuts in the spring budget.
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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...
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 8:17 AM
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...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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This will probably come as no surprise to anyone but..
March 21, 2025 at 8:07 AM
This will probably come as no surprise to anyone but..
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The RSPB and NT are warning that hundreds of thousands of these plastic pellets from last week's North Sea collision, are now washing up on the Norfolk coast. With nesting season beginning there's a danger birds will feed these to their chicks. Read about the clean-up operation underway ⤵️
Plastic nurdles -- an insidious form of sea pollution on Norfolk beaches.
Hard to clear up, mistaken for food by seabirds and fish. And these creatures can choke or starve as a result.
And then there is the food chain issue...
Hard to clear up, mistaken for food by seabirds and fish. And these creatures can choke or starve as a result.
And then there is the food chain issue...
Sea life along Norfolk coast under threat from toxic plastic
The recent North Sea cargo collision has unleashed a devastating plastic spill, threatening Norfolk’s fragile wildlife and coastline
eastangliabylines.co.uk
March 19, 2025 at 1:12 PM
The RSPB and NT are warning that hundreds of thousands of these plastic pellets from last week's North Sea collision, are now washing up on the Norfolk coast. With nesting season beginning there's a danger birds will feed these to their chicks. Read about the clean-up operation underway ⤵️
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Child deaths surge amid ‘Gazafication’ of West Bank, report says
Child deaths surge amid ‘Gazafication’ of West Bank, report says
Palestinians facing mass displacements, airstrikes and rise in attacks on children and other civilians, rights group says
Israel has brought the military tactics of its war in Gaza to the occupied West Bank, where Palestinians face mass forced…
www.theguardian.com
March 10, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Child deaths surge amid ‘Gazafication’ of West Bank, report says
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1. You feel powerless? Don’t know what you can do to resist the rise of fascism?
Here is an answer: Good Things.
Fascism inflicts pain and harm as a matter of doctrine.
Kindness, care and conviviality defend us from it.
The more we build community, the less it can take root.
🧵
Here is an answer: Good Things.
Fascism inflicts pain and harm as a matter of doctrine.
Kindness, care and conviviality defend us from it.
The more we build community, the less it can take root.
🧵
March 10, 2025 at 1:12 PM
1. You feel powerless? Don’t know what you can do to resist the rise of fascism?
Here is an answer: Good Things.
Fascism inflicts pain and harm as a matter of doctrine.
Kindness, care and conviviality defend us from it.
The more we build community, the less it can take root.
🧵
Here is an answer: Good Things.
Fascism inflicts pain and harm as a matter of doctrine.
Kindness, care and conviviality defend us from it.
The more we build community, the less it can take root.
🧵
This cause is close to my heart - please sign: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/ta...
Tax the super rich to stop cuts to public services
Across the UK, living standards are falling and millions live in poverty, while the cost of living crisis has made affording the basics difficult. Public services we all rely on - our hospitals, schoo...
you.38degrees.org.uk
March 7, 2025 at 6:56 AM
This cause is close to my heart - please sign: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/ta...
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James Porter's Letter to the editor:
How is it acceptable that social care in the UK varies widely where one person, with private funds, enjoys excellent care at £1,600/week while another, reliant on state care, suffers neglect for £1,000/week.
@eastangliabylines.co.uk
How is it acceptable that social care in the UK varies widely where one person, with private funds, enjoys excellent care at £1,600/week while another, reliant on state care, suffers neglect for £1,000/week.
@eastangliabylines.co.uk
Social Care: the haves and the have nots
Reader James Porter describes in his letter two contrasting tales of social care in Norfolk
eastangliabylines.co.uk
March 3, 2025 at 4:25 PM
James Porter's Letter to the editor:
How is it acceptable that social care in the UK varies widely where one person, with private funds, enjoys excellent care at £1,600/week while another, reliant on state care, suffers neglect for £1,000/week.
@eastangliabylines.co.uk
How is it acceptable that social care in the UK varies widely where one person, with private funds, enjoys excellent care at £1,600/week while another, reliant on state care, suffers neglect for £1,000/week.
@eastangliabylines.co.uk
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UK bumblebee numbers fell to lowest on record in 2024, shows data
UK bumblebee numbers fell to lowest on record in 2024, shows data
Bumblebees declined by almost a quarter compared with the 2010-2023 average, according to conservation charity
Figures show 2024 was the worst year for bumblebees in the UK since records began.
Bumblebee numbers declined by almost a quarter compared…
www.theguardian.com
February 27, 2025 at 5:28 AM
UK bumblebee numbers fell to lowest on record in 2024, shows data