Jacquie Newton
@jacquienewton09.bsky.social
Retired social worker and academic. Want peace, understanding and equality in the world. Rejoin EU. WASPI woman. Like cooking, community, photography, music, great friends and good health. Scotland is my home.
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We should stop the boats because it's dangerous, and we should stop the scapegoating of immigrants because it's wrong and cruel.
Controlled migration is good for the country, helps build our economy and diversity strengthens our communities. (1/6) 🧵
Controlled migration is good for the country, helps build our economy and diversity strengthens our communities. (1/6) 🧵
November 17, 2025 at 11:03 AM
We should stop the boats because it's dangerous, and we should stop the scapegoating of immigrants because it's wrong and cruel.
Controlled migration is good for the country, helps build our economy and diversity strengthens our communities. (1/6) 🧵
Controlled migration is good for the country, helps build our economy and diversity strengthens our communities. (1/6) 🧵
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Let’s balance up this poll…
POLL: Is Reform's migrant visa plan racist?
www.express.co.uk/news/politic...
POLL: Is Reform's migrant visa plan racist?
www.express.co.uk/news/politic...
POLL: Is Reform's migrant visa plan racist? | Politics | News | Express.co.uk
Sir Keir Starmer branded Reform's policy requiring those granted indefinite leave to remain to reapply under far tougher criteria as 'racist'.
www.express.co.uk
September 29, 2025 at 6:43 AM
Let’s balance up this poll…
POLL: Is Reform's migrant visa plan racist?
www.express.co.uk/news/politic...
POLL: Is Reform's migrant visa plan racist?
www.express.co.uk/news/politic...
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Encountering the fascists outside Waterloo
It's clear now that we are in a battle of terrible proportions.
open.substack.com
September 14, 2025 at 11:30 AM
Excellent substack. The way more and more rt wing press use, “writing designed to stoke those feelings, to hit her readers’ mental triggers for fear and anxiety” is disgusting.
Everyone who resists this rt wing rhetoric should call it out at every opportunity…before it is too late.
Everyone who resists this rt wing rhetoric should call it out at every opportunity…before it is too late.
brokenbottleboy.substack.com/p/isabel-oak...
Breaks the heart to read the replaying of moral panic golden oldies from the law and order scares of 1960s USA and 1970s UK. Dracula like rising from the grave again despite effective rebuttals like this article
Breaks the heart to read the replaying of moral panic golden oldies from the law and order scares of 1960s USA and 1970s UK. Dracula like rising from the grave again despite effective rebuttals like this article
Lies, damn lies, and Isabel Oakeshott's statistics
How much should you believe a column on crime in the UK from a woman who decamped to Dubai?
brokenbottleboy.substack.com
August 4, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Excellent substack. The way more and more rt wing press use, “writing designed to stoke those feelings, to hit her readers’ mental triggers for fear and anxiety” is disgusting.
Everyone who resists this rt wing rhetoric should call it out at every opportunity…before it is too late.
Everyone who resists this rt wing rhetoric should call it out at every opportunity…before it is too late.
This is so true. Apathy to human suffering and the absence of empathy and compassion are the things that threaten the values I hold. In Gaza certainly but increasingly across the world and it is growing here in UK.
youtube.com/watch?v=JIYk... “Apathy 2 human suffering caused the Holocaust yet today it is INFLICTED by those who suffered in the past. This is the greatest irony of this cent. THUMPS UP TO EVERY MARCHER FOR HUMANITY! Today, it’s happening to the Palestinians, tomorrow,it can happen to us!” #Sydney
Tens of thousands of people march across Sydney to demand an end to Israel's war on Gaza
YouTube video by Al Jazeera English
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August 3, 2025 at 6:50 AM
This is so true. Apathy to human suffering and the absence of empathy and compassion are the things that threaten the values I hold. In Gaza certainly but increasingly across the world and it is growing here in UK.
I am at a loss over the hatred of migrants. Friday I was driving a woman who was married to a refugee and has two children with him to a hosp apt. She was celebrating the protests and making the rt wing trope allegations and assertions. Media coverage is driving this. We must do better.
August 3, 2025 at 6:32 AM
I am at a loss over the hatred of migrants. Friday I was driving a woman who was married to a refugee and has two children with him to a hosp apt. She was celebrating the protests and making the rt wing trope allegations and assertions. Media coverage is driving this. We must do better.
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Democracy dies when leaders treat laws like suggestions and power like a throne. Trump’s attacks on courts, press, and elections aren’t politics, they’re authoritarianism. It’s time to #StopTrumpDictatorship and rise up to #SaveDemocracy before the Constitution becomes a memory.
#FBPE #FBR
#FBPE #FBR
June 22, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Democracy dies when leaders treat laws like suggestions and power like a throne. Trump’s attacks on courts, press, and elections aren’t politics, they’re authoritarianism. It’s time to #StopTrumpDictatorship and rise up to #SaveDemocracy before the Constitution becomes a memory.
#FBPE #FBR
#FBPE #FBR
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1 in 5 of the UK’s care workforce have a non-British passport.
Starmer would have us believe these carers are the “squalid” result of a “failed experiment”.
I say they do vital, necessary, humane, skilled work and they are worth their weight in gold.
Starmer would have us believe these carers are the “squalid” result of a “failed experiment”.
I say they do vital, necessary, humane, skilled work and they are worth their weight in gold.
May 12, 2025 at 12:51 PM
1 in 5 of the UK’s care workforce have a non-British passport.
Starmer would have us believe these carers are the “squalid” result of a “failed experiment”.
I say they do vital, necessary, humane, skilled work and they are worth their weight in gold.
Starmer would have us believe these carers are the “squalid” result of a “failed experiment”.
I say they do vital, necessary, humane, skilled work and they are worth their weight in gold.
I worked in and around social care for over 40years. If it were easy to recruit or ‘grow our own’ care workers from the UK there wouldn’t be a permanent and severe shortage of workers. It is a highly skilled but low paid profession, with punishing shifts that people don’t want. That can’t change.
May 12, 2025 at 6:04 PM
I worked in and around social care for over 40years. If it were easy to recruit or ‘grow our own’ care workers from the UK there wouldn’t be a permanent and severe shortage of workers. It is a highly skilled but low paid profession, with punishing shifts that people don’t want. That can’t change.
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They are deliberately crossing the red lines, in order to make the unacceptable commonplace and, eventually, acceptable again.
February 21, 2025 at 4:55 PM
They are deliberately crossing the red lines, in order to make the unacceptable commonplace and, eventually, acceptable again.
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It should be a no brainier so what is Labour playing at?
April 21, 2025 at 7:18 AM
It should be a no brainier so what is Labour playing at?
Loved Bill Maher’s description of the current American administration, “they dissect a frog with a hand grenade.”
April 9, 2025 at 12:23 PM
Loved Bill Maher’s description of the current American administration, “they dissect a frog with a hand grenade.”
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When did politicians get the idea that ‘nothing is off the table’ is a good line?
At best it spells weakness, at worst it spells amorality.
My question is rhetorical though. We all know the answer is ‘June 2016’.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cp...
At best it spells weakness, at worst it spells amorality.
My question is rhetorical though. We all know the answer is ‘June 2016’.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cp...
Trump tariffs live updates: 'Nothing off the table' in trade talks with the US, Reeves says as markets stabilise
The UK chancellor says Donald Trump's global tariffs will have
www.bbc.co.uk
April 8, 2025 at 12:29 PM
When did politicians get the idea that ‘nothing is off the table’ is a good line?
At best it spells weakness, at worst it spells amorality.
My question is rhetorical though. We all know the answer is ‘June 2016’.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cp...
At best it spells weakness, at worst it spells amorality.
My question is rhetorical though. We all know the answer is ‘June 2016’.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cp...
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I've kicked off a campaign to get out the biggest possible anti-Farage vote in the local elections.
It's called #Vote4Democracy. Please use the tag. It helps pull the campaign together & track its progress.
It needs lots of you to get posting #Vote4Democracy messages. The more people, the better.
It's called #Vote4Democracy. Please use the tag. It helps pull the campaign together & track its progress.
It needs lots of you to get posting #Vote4Democracy messages. The more people, the better.
March 28, 2025 at 2:35 PM
I've kicked off a campaign to get out the biggest possible anti-Farage vote in the local elections.
It's called #Vote4Democracy. Please use the tag. It helps pull the campaign together & track its progress.
It needs lots of you to get posting #Vote4Democracy messages. The more people, the better.
It's called #Vote4Democracy. Please use the tag. It helps pull the campaign together & track its progress.
It needs lots of you to get posting #Vote4Democracy messages. The more people, the better.
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youtu.be/iJB2S-Di9kg?...
Crucial watching for everyone who has a vote 👏
Perhaps some people can send this to the empaths in the government?
Particularly Liz Kendall, Rachel Reeves and Keir Starmer?
Crucial watching for everyone who has a vote 👏
Perhaps some people can send this to the empaths in the government?
Particularly Liz Kendall, Rachel Reeves and Keir Starmer?
Quick Chat About Benefit Cuts
YouTube video by Michael Spicer
youtu.be
March 20, 2025 at 3:59 PM
youtu.be/iJB2S-Di9kg?...
Crucial watching for everyone who has a vote 👏
Perhaps some people can send this to the empaths in the government?
Particularly Liz Kendall, Rachel Reeves and Keir Starmer?
Crucial watching for everyone who has a vote 👏
Perhaps some people can send this to the empaths in the government?
Particularly Liz Kendall, Rachel Reeves and Keir Starmer?
Living in Scotland, I have a political option beyond Tory and Labour. I am however a proud socialist and I am disgusted at the stance this UK government has taken against disabled people. They don’t deserve power. An uprising of any socialists left must stop this cruelty. ENOUGH!
March 18, 2025 at 3:26 PM
Living in Scotland, I have a political option beyond Tory and Labour. I am however a proud socialist and I am disgusted at the stance this UK government has taken against disabled people. They don’t deserve power. An uprising of any socialists left must stop this cruelty. ENOUGH!
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Happy #FollowBackFriday.
If you believe in 2025 countries should be working together to make things better for all and not threatening to 'annex' each other through economic pressure or force like some demented old medieval king then I want to follow you so say hello.
If you believe in 2025 countries should be working together to make things better for all and not threatening to 'annex' each other through economic pressure or force like some demented old medieval king then I want to follow you so say hello.
March 14, 2025 at 6:31 AM
Happy #FollowBackFriday.
If you believe in 2025 countries should be working together to make things better for all and not threatening to 'annex' each other through economic pressure or force like some demented old medieval king then I want to follow you so say hello.
If you believe in 2025 countries should be working together to make things better for all and not threatening to 'annex' each other through economic pressure or force like some demented old medieval king then I want to follow you so say hello.
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I needed this today Simon. Thank you. 👍
March 10, 2025 at 7:50 AM
I needed this today Simon. Thank you. 👍
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🔴Reform’s Policies Are Dangerously Out of Step With Public Opinion and It’s Time the Media Started Scrutinising Them’
The British press has given Nigel Farage’s party a free ride for too long, argues Salman Shaheen
bylinetimes.com/2025/02/28/r...
The British press has given Nigel Farage’s party a free ride for too long, argues Salman Shaheen
bylinetimes.com/2025/02/28/r...
'Reform's Policies Are Dangerously Out of Step With Public Opinion and It's Time the Media Started Scrutinising Them'
The British press has given Nigel Farage's party a free ride for too long, argues Salman Shaheen
bylinetimes.com
March 10, 2025 at 6:23 AM
🔴Reform’s Policies Are Dangerously Out of Step With Public Opinion and It’s Time the Media Started Scrutinising Them’
The British press has given Nigel Farage’s party a free ride for too long, argues Salman Shaheen
bylinetimes.com/2025/02/28/r...
The British press has given Nigel Farage’s party a free ride for too long, argues Salman Shaheen
bylinetimes.com/2025/02/28/r...
The storm has arrived. I hope everyone stays safe. Hunker down, unusual climate events are likely to be more frequent because powerful people don’t believe in science.
January 24, 2025 at 7:26 AM
The storm has arrived. I hope everyone stays safe. Hunker down, unusual climate events are likely to be more frequent because powerful people don’t believe in science.
I moved to a ‘fixer up’ house last summer. Several months of disruption, then a break for the festive period. Today that disruption starts again 🥺. But I have a roof, I have heat and food, I have friends and reasonable health. I try to help people who don’t. Surely that shouldn’t be unusual. Onwards
January 16, 2025 at 6:45 AM
I moved to a ‘fixer up’ house last summer. Several months of disruption, then a break for the festive period. Today that disruption starts again 🥺. But I have a roof, I have heat and food, I have friends and reasonable health. I try to help people who don’t. Surely that shouldn’t be unusual. Onwards
Everyone has a different Christmas. So to people old and young; working, resting, recovering, planning; to those in families, with friends and those alone; I wish you safety, good health, peace, kindness and great memories past, present or for the future. I wish there was peace on Earth!
December 25, 2024 at 7:32 AM
Everyone has a different Christmas. So to people old and young; working, resting, recovering, planning; to those in families, with friends and those alone; I wish you safety, good health, peace, kindness and great memories past, present or for the future. I wish there was peace on Earth!
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Good article on BBC bias and parade of far right loons on #bbcqt - lead by Fartage.
An open letter to the BBC
Dr Russell Jackson, senior lecturer in communication and public relations at Sheffield Hallam University, writes to the BBC about Question Time
yorkshirebylines.co.uk
December 10, 2024 at 3:15 PM
Good article on BBC bias and parade of far right loons on #bbcqt - lead by Fartage.