Erica
@ericawildgoose.bsky.social
My passions are Mental Health and My (British) Labour Party. I'm a lucky NHS Pensioner, Mum, Granny and Labour Party Disability Officer still working to improve our mental health services 🌹🌹🌹🌹♥️
@catsmithmp.bsky.social Cat I do hope you are as upset as I am as a Disabled Labour Party Disability Officer with a Jewish son in law and Jewish grandkids living in Wales about what happened on Bondi Beach and rising antisemitism in the UK 🌹🌹🌹🌹
December 16, 2025 at 6:04 AM
@catsmithmp.bsky.social Cat I do hope you are as upset as I am as a Disabled Labour Party Disability Officer with a Jewish son in law and Jewish grandkids living in Wales about what happened on Bondi Beach and rising antisemitism in the UK 🌹🌹🌹🌹
@catsmithmp.bsky.social As a Farmer's Daughter and Farmer's Sister who did NOT inherit the Family Farm I grew up on Why haven't your complaining "terminally ill" Farmers already passed on their Family Farm to their family? My brother is in partnership with my niece...ALSO FARMERS DON'T VOTE LABOUR!🌹
December 16, 2025 at 6:01 AM
@catsmithmp.bsky.social As a Farmer's Daughter and Farmer's Sister who did NOT inherit the Family Farm I grew up on Why haven't your complaining "terminally ill" Farmers already passed on their Family Farm to their family? My brother is in partnership with my niece...ALSO FARMERS DON'T VOTE LABOUR!🌹
Reform led Nottinghamshire Council has blacklisted a local paper for asking questions about what councillors were doing. Farage says he welcomes free speech, that should apply to freedom of the press too. Sign the petition to get them to reverse the decision: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/re...
Reform: Stop hiding from press scrutiny!
Nigel Farage says he welcomes freedom of speech, even if people find it offensive. Surely that should apply to freedom of the press too? So why have Reform's Nottinghamshire councillors - who control ...
you.38degrees.org.uk
August 29, 2025 at 7:14 PM
Reform led Nottinghamshire Council has blacklisted a local paper for asking questions about what councillors were doing. Farage says he welcomes free speech, that should apply to freedom of the press too. Sign the petition to get them to reverse the decision: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/re...
I agree with everything Rachael says ♥️🌹🌹🌹🌹
Labour MP Rachael Maskell close to tears as she 'pleads' with the government to abandon planned welfare cuts
'These Dickensian cuts belong to a different era and a different party', she said
How on earth has it come to this?
'These Dickensian cuts belong to a different era and a different party', she said
How on earth has it come to this?
July 16, 2025 at 4:43 PM
I agree with everything Rachael says ♥️🌹🌹🌹🌹
@labourlewis.bsky.social How do you put up with dear Lord Harper Clive, really admire your patience?But as a Labour Party Disability Officer involved in the Welfare Not Warfare campaign I did not know that the Dear Lord was a Disability Minister.For heavens sake he said that he sorted out PIP 😄😄🌹
July 16, 2025 at 11:04 AM
@labourlewis.bsky.social How do you put up with dear Lord Harper Clive, really admire your patience?But as a Labour Party Disability Officer involved in the Welfare Not Warfare campaign I did not know that the Dear Lord was a Disability Minister.For heavens sake he said that he sorted out PIP 😄😄🌹
Great News ♥️ Vicky Foxcroft 🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹and speaking as a Labour Party Disability Officer
(1/2) With a heavy heart, I have written to the Prime Minister to tender my resignation as a whip.
Whilst I will continue to support the government in delivering the change the country so desperately needs, I cannot vote in favour of the proposed reforms to disability benefits.
Whilst I will continue to support the government in delivering the change the country so desperately needs, I cannot vote in favour of the proposed reforms to disability benefits.
June 20, 2025 at 7:19 AM
Great News ♥️ Vicky Foxcroft 🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹and speaking as a Labour Party Disability Officer
@vickyfoxcroftmp.bsky.social I am also very involved in the Welfare Not Warfare campaign and went on the March to Downing Street on 7 June 👍🌹🌹🌹🌹 and agreed with everything Jeremy Corbyn and Dianne Abbott said there 🌹🌹🌹🌹My Labour Party should NEVER do this Reform to PIP and the rest 🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹
June 20, 2025 at 7:18 AM
@vickyfoxcroftmp.bsky.social I am also very involved in the Welfare Not Warfare campaign and went on the March to Downing Street on 7 June 👍🌹🌹🌹🌹 and agreed with everything Jeremy Corbyn and Dianne Abbott said there 🌹🌹🌹🌹My Labour Party should NEVER do this Reform to PIP and the rest 🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹
@vickyfoxcroftmp.bsky.social So impressed that you have resigned as a Labour Party Whip over Liz Kendall's totally heartless reforms to Disability Benefits ♥️🌹🌹🌹🌹As Kerry McCarthy's Disability Officer (& Disabled Bipolar NHS Pensioner,Mum,Granny & MH Advocate) I am soooo angry and upset by Ms K 😢😡🌹🌹🌹
June 20, 2025 at 7:15 AM
@vickyfoxcroftmp.bsky.social So impressed that you have resigned as a Labour Party Whip over Liz Kendall's totally heartless reforms to Disability Benefits ♥️🌹🌹🌹🌹As Kerry McCarthy's Disability Officer (& Disabled Bipolar NHS Pensioner,Mum,Granny & MH Advocate) I am soooo angry and upset by Ms K 😢😡🌹🌹🌹
@k8lister.bsky.social your i paper article has really helped me to get over my dear Neighbour shouting loudly at me in the Street the other morning how "Mental" & how horrible I am over & over again-I'm a 69 yr old Bipolar Oxford graduate,NHS Pensioner, Granny,Mum & Labour Party Disability Officer😀🌹
May 7, 2025 at 8:18 AM
@k8lister.bsky.social your i paper article has really helped me to get over my dear Neighbour shouting loudly at me in the Street the other morning how "Mental" & how horrible I am over & over again-I'm a 69 yr old Bipolar Oxford graduate,NHS Pensioner, Granny,Mum & Labour Party Disability Officer😀🌹
@joedunthorne.bsky.social Listening to you on World service at 0340 in Bristol, very interesting...have ordered your book 👍
May 6, 2025 at 2:39 AM
@joedunthorne.bsky.social Listening to you on World service at 0340 in Bristol, very interesting...have ordered your book 👍
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Britain's 177 billionaires sit on £965 bn - more EACH than the average Brit will earn in 1000 lifetimes.
So obviously, Labour decided NOT to have a 2% wealth tax on this obscene, unspendable hoarding. More poverty for 6.9m disabled Britons is their solution.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
So obviously, Labour decided NOT to have a 2% wealth tax on this obscene, unspendable hoarding. More poverty for 6.9m disabled Britons is their solution.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Further benefits cuts planned as Rachel Reeves forced to find extra £1.6bn
Chancellor risks wrath of Labour backbenchers with spring statement set to confirm deeper cuts
www.theguardian.com
March 26, 2025 at 8:39 AM
Britain's 177 billionaires sit on £965 bn - more EACH than the average Brit will earn in 1000 lifetimes.
So obviously, Labour decided NOT to have a 2% wealth tax on this obscene, unspendable hoarding. More poverty for 6.9m disabled Britons is their solution.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
So obviously, Labour decided NOT to have a 2% wealth tax on this obscene, unspendable hoarding. More poverty for 6.9m disabled Britons is their solution.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
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I’m finding it very hard to understand the stance of the Royal Society here. Science is part of society, not separate from it, existing in some strange metaphysical bubble. I look across the Atlantic, aghast at the damage being done to science and scientists.
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Royal Society decides not to take disciplinary action against Elon Musk
Exclusive: Fellows argue Musk has violated code of conduct but council believes investigation ‘could do more harm than good’
www.theguardian.com
March 26, 2025 at 8:44 AM
I’m finding it very hard to understand the stance of the Royal Society here. Science is part of society, not separate from it, existing in some strange metaphysical bubble. I look across the Atlantic, aghast at the damage being done to science and scientists.
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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🧵 (1/8) Watch Dr Pat Hart, the first working doctor jailed for peaceful climate protest. Scroll through the thread to watch more of Dr Hart ⬇️
February 13, 2025 at 6:46 PM
🧵 (1/8) Watch Dr Pat Hart, the first working doctor jailed for peaceful climate protest. Scroll through the thread to watch more of Dr Hart ⬇️
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Planning for a peacekeeping force for Ukraine will move to an “operational phase”, Keir Starmer has said after a meeting of the “coalition of the willing”
www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2...
www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2...
March 15, 2025 at 2:13 PM
Planning for a peacekeeping force for Ukraine will move to an “operational phase”, Keir Starmer has said after a meeting of the “coalition of the willing”
www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2...
www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2...
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A top economics reporter goes off script on national TV: “I am going to say this at risk of my job, but what President Trump is doing is insane.”
March 12, 2025 at 3:10 AM
A top economics reporter goes off script on national TV: “I am going to say this at risk of my job, but what President Trump is doing is insane.”
@kclarity.bsky.social Kerry as your Disability Officer in Bristol East I am very concerned with what I am hearing about Liz Kendall's plans for people claiming Disability Benefits. I will be writing to her on behalf of many working age people I know who are getting very worried about her plans 🌹🌹
February 2, 2025 at 7:37 AM
@kclarity.bsky.social Kerry as your Disability Officer in Bristol East I am very concerned with what I am hearing about Liz Kendall's plans for people claiming Disability Benefits. I will be writing to her on behalf of many working age people I know who are getting very worried about her plans 🌹🌹
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I’m in England, in a field of Barley. Today, I’m going to collect wild yeast under that tree back there, and I’m going to show how to feed and grow it until it’s ready to bake with. We are going to start at the very beginning, and end at the end.
(this is an experiment in thread transfer)
(this is an experiment in thread transfer)
April 30, 2023 at 6:29 PM
I’m in England, in a field of Barley. Today, I’m going to collect wild yeast under that tree back there, and I’m going to show how to feed and grow it until it’s ready to bake with. We are going to start at the very beginning, and end at the end.
(this is an experiment in thread transfer)
(this is an experiment in thread transfer)
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Hard to reconcile the nation that put a man on the moon is the same nation that put a moron in the White House.
January 12, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Hard to reconcile the nation that put a man on the moon is the same nation that put a moron in the White House.
Thames Water is collapsing. NO BAILOUTS for the shareholders and banks who caused this mess. Tell the government to take it into public ownership PERMANENTLY and protect the public interest. #WeOwnIt
weownit.org.uk/act-now/brin...
weownit.org.uk/act-now/brin...
Bring Thames Water into public ownership
weownit.org.uk
January 8, 2025 at 11:27 AM
Thames Water is collapsing. NO BAILOUTS for the shareholders and banks who caused this mess. Tell the government to take it into public ownership PERMANENTLY and protect the public interest. #WeOwnIt
weownit.org.uk/act-now/brin...
weownit.org.uk/act-now/brin...
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🌊 "We heard "take back control" again and again, but not to have control of our water always struck me as insane."
82% of us want to end water privatisation, including Stephen Fry.
Agree? Share and sign this petition to bring water Thames Water into public ownership: weownit.org.uk/act-now/brin...
82% of us want to end water privatisation, including Stephen Fry.
Agree? Share and sign this petition to bring water Thames Water into public ownership: weownit.org.uk/act-now/brin...
January 8, 2025 at 10:08 AM
🌊 "We heard "take back control" again and again, but not to have control of our water always struck me as insane."
82% of us want to end water privatisation, including Stephen Fry.
Agree? Share and sign this petition to bring water Thames Water into public ownership: weownit.org.uk/act-now/brin...
82% of us want to end water privatisation, including Stephen Fry.
Agree? Share and sign this petition to bring water Thames Water into public ownership: weownit.org.uk/act-now/brin...
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Prof Alexis Jay, chair of public inquiry into child sexual abuse, says further national inquiry into grooming gangs isn’t needed & would delay action.
“The time has passed for more inquiries, we’ve had enough… We’ve set out action required & people should just get on with it, nationally & locally”
“The time has passed for more inquiries, we’ve had enough… We’ve set out action required & people should just get on with it, nationally & locally”
January 7, 2025 at 8:10 AM
Prof Alexis Jay, chair of public inquiry into child sexual abuse, says further national inquiry into grooming gangs isn’t needed & would delay action.
“The time has passed for more inquiries, we’ve had enough… We’ve set out action required & people should just get on with it, nationally & locally”
“The time has passed for more inquiries, we’ve had enough… We’ve set out action required & people should just get on with it, nationally & locally”
@jessphillipsmp.bsky.social Sending my big support to you Jess 🌹🌹🌹🌹speaking as a Labour Party Disability Officer who Supports My Labour Government 🌹🌹🌹and speaking as a disabled NHS Pensioner who still works in Mental Health 🌹🌹🌹🌹
January 7, 2025 at 9:51 AM
@jessphillipsmp.bsky.social Sending my big support to you Jess 🌹🌹🌹🌹speaking as a Labour Party Disability Officer who Supports My Labour Government 🌹🌹🌹and speaking as a disabled NHS Pensioner who still works in Mental Health 🌹🌹🌹🌹
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Don't destroy their home and wonder why they invade yours. 💚
December 30, 2024 at 6:05 PM
Don't destroy their home and wonder why they invade yours. 💚
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Happy New Year!
P.S. Here’s us last night below.
P.S. Here’s us last night below.
January 1, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Happy New Year!
P.S. Here’s us last night below.
P.S. Here’s us last night below.