Anne Greensmith
@snowleopardess.bsky.social
Snowleopardess on Twitter. Live in London. Have 5 amazing sons. Love dogs and have a GSD and a corgi.
Hate injustice and inequality. Ex-Labour. #NHS #FBPE
Hate injustice and inequality. Ex-Labour. #NHS #FBPE
Reposted by Anne Greensmith
If you missed the Trump press conference... here's a taster
Donald Trump sounds like a lunatic during his press conference on the Black Hawk military helicopter crash with the American Airlines plane:
"You could have gone up. You could have gone down. You could have gone straight up, straight down. You could have turned."
FFS.
"You could have gone up. You could have gone down. You could have gone straight up, straight down. You could have turned."
FFS.
January 30, 2025 at 5:14 PM
If you missed the Trump press conference... here's a taster
Worse, and not only on green issues
@georgemonbiot.bsky.social
"After 14 years of environmental vandalism, it might have seemed impossible for Labour to offer anything but improvement. But on green issues, this government is worse than the Tories."
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
@georgemonbiot.bsky.social
"After 14 years of environmental vandalism, it might have seemed impossible for Labour to offer anything but improvement. But on green issues, this government is worse than the Tories."
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Look at Labour’s acts of environmental vandalism and ask: did I vote for this? | George Monbiot
Our rivers, our wildlife, the air we breathe: the government is sacrificing all to the insatiable god of GDP – and mocking our objections, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
www.theguardian.com
January 30, 2025 at 10:15 AM
Worse, and not only on green issues
@georgemonbiot.bsky.social
"After 14 years of environmental vandalism, it might have seemed impossible for Labour to offer anything but improvement. But on green issues, this government is worse than the Tories."
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
@georgemonbiot.bsky.social
"After 14 years of environmental vandalism, it might have seemed impossible for Labour to offer anything but improvement. But on green issues, this government is worse than the Tories."
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Reposted by Anne Greensmith
It’s these two against the civilised world and rules-based international order.
🗽Netanyahu will be the first foreign leader to take a trip to the U.S. White House.
“I look forward to discussing how we can bring peace to Israel and its neighbours, and efforts to counter our shared adversaries," said Trump.
“I look forward to discussing how we can bring peace to Israel and its neighbours, and efforts to counter our shared adversaries," said Trump.
Netanyahu to become first foreign leader to visit Trump in White House
The new US administration, which claims credit for the current ceasefire in Gaza, has called for a permanent end to the war between Israel and Hamas.
www.euronews.com
January 29, 2025 at 4:16 PM
It’s these two against the civilised world and rules-based international order.
Reposted by Anne Greensmith
By golly, Labour couldn't bark up a more wrong Brexit tree if they tried.
Strongly out of tune with 80% of their 2024 voters. Extraordinary mistake. That's substantially more than necessary to lose the 2029 GE.
But hey ho, they'd rather stick their necks in the sand.
yougov.co.uk/politics/art...
Strongly out of tune with 80% of their 2024 voters. Extraordinary mistake. That's substantially more than necessary to lose the 2029 GE.
But hey ho, they'd rather stick their necks in the sand.
yougov.co.uk/politics/art...
January 29, 2025 at 5:11 PM
By golly, Labour couldn't bark up a more wrong Brexit tree if they tried.
Strongly out of tune with 80% of their 2024 voters. Extraordinary mistake. That's substantially more than necessary to lose the 2029 GE.
But hey ho, they'd rather stick their necks in the sand.
yougov.co.uk/politics/art...
Strongly out of tune with 80% of their 2024 voters. Extraordinary mistake. That's substantially more than necessary to lose the 2029 GE.
But hey ho, they'd rather stick their necks in the sand.
yougov.co.uk/politics/art...
Reposted by Anne Greensmith
I've always loved the fact that the word 'sneeze' is the result of a historical accident. The original form, in the Middle Ages, was 'fnese', but someone mistook the 'f' for the long medieval 's' and wrote down 'sn-' instead.
Fneezing sounds much more like a proper, nasal sneeze.
Fneezing sounds much more like a proper, nasal sneeze.
January 18, 2025 at 11:13 AM
I've always loved the fact that the word 'sneeze' is the result of a historical accident. The original form, in the Middle Ages, was 'fnese', but someone mistook the 'f' for the long medieval 's' and wrote down 'sn-' instead.
Fneezing sounds much more like a proper, nasal sneeze.
Fneezing sounds much more like a proper, nasal sneeze.
Patients are dying in hospital corridors and going undiscovered for hours, while others who suffer heart attacks cannot be given CPR because of overcrowding in walkways, a bombshell report on the state of the NHS has revealed.
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
Hospital patients dying undiscovered in corridors, report on NHS reveals
Royal College of Nursing says people ‘routinely coming to harm’ with vital equipment not available and staff too busy
www.theguardian.com
January 16, 2025 at 1:30 AM
Patients are dying in hospital corridors and going undiscovered for hours, while others who suffer heart attacks cannot be given CPR because of overcrowding in walkways, a bombshell report on the state of the NHS has revealed.
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
#PMQs is an embarrassment.
Do the MPs, whose salaries we pay, really think we want to hear these childish taunts and subsequent hilarity every week?
Is this just a ridiculous unfunny comedy show now, while people in the real world suffer poverty and hardship?
Do the MPs, whose salaries we pay, really think we want to hear these childish taunts and subsequent hilarity every week?
Is this just a ridiculous unfunny comedy show now, while people in the real world suffer poverty and hardship?
January 15, 2025 at 12:23 PM
#PMQs is an embarrassment.
Do the MPs, whose salaries we pay, really think we want to hear these childish taunts and subsequent hilarity every week?
Is this just a ridiculous unfunny comedy show now, while people in the real world suffer poverty and hardship?
Do the MPs, whose salaries we pay, really think we want to hear these childish taunts and subsequent hilarity every week?
Is this just a ridiculous unfunny comedy show now, while people in the real world suffer poverty and hardship?
Most previously long term Labour voters who are appalled at Starmer’s government (like me) would not touch Reform with a barge pole. Of course we will go to the Greens or Libdems.
Labour losing votes to Greens & Lib Dems is partly caused by Labour’s caution on rebuilding links to Europe and tackling the damage of Brexit
labourlist.org/2025/01/youg... – via LabourList
labourlist.org/2025/01/youg... – via LabourList
Labour losing more votes to Greens and Lib Dems than Reform – YouGov – LabourList
Labour is losing more voters to the Greens and Lib Dems than to Reform, despite Nigel Farage’s party now polling better than the Conservatives, according…
labourlist.org
January 15, 2025 at 11:30 AM
Most previously long term Labour voters who are appalled at Starmer’s government (like me) would not touch Reform with a barge pole. Of course we will go to the Greens or Libdems.
As many as one in six workers in Britain are skipping meals to make ends meet as households remain under pressure from the higher cost of groceries, energy and other essentials.
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
One in six UK workers skipping meals to make ends meet, says TUC
Trade unions body finds 17% have skipped meal in past three months, and as many as 10% do so most days
www.theguardian.com
January 12, 2025 at 8:40 PM
As many as one in six workers in Britain are skipping meals to make ends meet as households remain under pressure from the higher cost of groceries, energy and other essentials.
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
Paramedics in England are unable to respond to 100,000 urgent 999 calls every month because they are stuck outside hospitals waiting to hand over patients, endangering thousands of lives.
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
Ambulance crews stuck at A&E miss thousands of 999 calls a day in England
Exclusive: paramedics unable to respond to 100,000 calls a month as they wait to hand over patients
www.theguardian.com
January 12, 2025 at 8:35 PM
Paramedics in England are unable to respond to 100,000 urgent 999 calls every month because they are stuck outside hospitals waiting to hand over patients, endangering thousands of lives.
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
I get sick of seeing posts saying "The grown ups are in charge now".
@MarinaHyde is right here when she says of British politics at the moment:
"There are no adults in the room: there’s barely a room."
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
@MarinaHyde is right here when she says of British politics at the moment:
"There are no adults in the room: there’s barely a room."
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
There are no adults in the room: there’s barely a room. This is politics at warp speed, and we know who’s benefiting | Marina Hyde
Fiscal crisis, corruption claims, shenanigans and legal threats. This feels like the week old-style politics sat on a grenade, says Guardian columnist Marina Hyde
www.theguardian.com
January 11, 2025 at 3:05 PM
I get sick of seeing posts saying "The grown ups are in charge now".
@MarinaHyde is right here when she says of British politics at the moment:
"There are no adults in the room: there’s barely a room."
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
@MarinaHyde is right here when she says of British politics at the moment:
"There are no adults in the room: there’s barely a room."
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Reposted by Anne Greensmith
Did you vote Labour in 2024?
Is this what you voted for?
Is this what you voted for?
January 11, 2025 at 11:46 AM
Did you vote Labour in 2024?
Is this what you voted for?
Is this what you voted for?
Reposted by Anne Greensmith
Staggeringly misleading & irresponsible article by Express online. Neither I nor my site've ever said that. It's a perversion of our "earn under £35k & it's worth checking a benefits calc to see if you're missing out on owt" into dangerous, trite clickbait.
January 10, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Staggeringly misleading & irresponsible article by Express online. Neither I nor my site've ever said that. It's a perversion of our "earn under £35k & it's worth checking a benefits calc to see if you're missing out on owt" into dangerous, trite clickbait.
The president of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society hit out at the difficulties in obtaining stocks of flu vaccinations, as she called for better national coordination and planning to ensure everyone eligible can access them easily.
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
Pharmacists warn of difficulty sourcing flu jabs amid warning illness yet to peak
Hospitals are ‘full to bursting’ across the country with hundreds attending emergency departments
www.independent.co.uk
January 11, 2025 at 12:48 PM
The president of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society hit out at the difficulties in obtaining stocks of flu vaccinations, as she called for better national coordination and planning to ensure everyone eligible can access them easily.
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
Reposted by Anne Greensmith
"A group of 10 councillors who had been elected for Reform UK have given notice of their intention to resign en masse in protest at Nigel Farage’s leadership."
You love to see it.
You love to see it.
Pressure on Nigel Farage as Reform UK councillors resign over his leadership
Exclusive: Departures will add to scrutiny of party leader after Elon Musk said he was ‘not up to the job’
www.theguardian.com
January 10, 2025 at 11:06 PM
"A group of 10 councillors who had been elected for Reform UK have given notice of their intention to resign en masse in protest at Nigel Farage’s leadership."
You love to see it.
You love to see it.
Reposted by Anne Greensmith
Reposted by Anne Greensmith
Mel Gibson’s $14.5m house burned down whilst he was denying climate change exists on the Joe Rogan podcast.
Oh dear.
Oh dear.
January 10, 2025 at 10:58 PM
Mel Gibson’s $14.5m house burned down whilst he was denying climate change exists on the Joe Rogan podcast.
Oh dear.
Oh dear.
Reposted by Anne Greensmith
Fox recruiting for henhouse guard duties.
Thanks, Labour. Thanks a bunch.
The line to collect your P45s in 2029 is the one on the right.
www.politico.eu/article/gise...
Thanks, Labour. Thanks a bunch.
The line to collect your P45s in 2029 is the one on the right.
www.politico.eu/article/gise...
January 9, 2025 at 11:21 PM
Fox recruiting for henhouse guard duties.
Thanks, Labour. Thanks a bunch.
The line to collect your P45s in 2029 is the one on the right.
www.politico.eu/article/gise...
Thanks, Labour. Thanks a bunch.
The line to collect your P45s in 2029 is the one on the right.
www.politico.eu/article/gise...
Reposted by Anne Greensmith
Caroline Lucas, "We keep being surprised by these phenomenon.. Floods in Valencia.. Hurricanes that hit the US"
"What else does nature have to throw at us to wake us up to recognise that this is being massively exasperated by climate change"
Well said @carolinelucas.bsky.social
"What else does nature have to throw at us to wake us up to recognise that this is being massively exasperated by climate change"
Well said @carolinelucas.bsky.social
January 10, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Caroline Lucas, "We keep being surprised by these phenomenon.. Floods in Valencia.. Hurricanes that hit the US"
"What else does nature have to throw at us to wake us up to recognise that this is being massively exasperated by climate change"
Well said @carolinelucas.bsky.social
"What else does nature have to throw at us to wake us up to recognise that this is being massively exasperated by climate change"
Well said @carolinelucas.bsky.social
Reposted by Anne Greensmith
My letter in today's Guardian. Just asking, like. But I think we know the answer.
January 9, 2025 at 1:29 PM
My letter in today's Guardian. Just asking, like. But I think we know the answer.
Reposted by Anne Greensmith
A lot of horses have already escaped... but there's still a very numerous herd that will be kept in by this measure.
Remember, we won't reach the annual peak of "flu season" for another 5-6 weeks... we're still at the start of it.
Can't understand why they didn't do it sooner though.
#WearAMask
Remember, we won't reach the annual peak of "flu season" for another 5-6 weeks... we're still at the start of it.
Can't understand why they didn't do it sooner though.
#WearAMask
January 9, 2025 at 3:25 PM
A lot of horses have already escaped... but there's still a very numerous herd that will be kept in by this measure.
Remember, we won't reach the annual peak of "flu season" for another 5-6 weeks... we're still at the start of it.
Can't understand why they didn't do it sooner though.
#WearAMask
Remember, we won't reach the annual peak of "flu season" for another 5-6 weeks... we're still at the start of it.
Can't understand why they didn't do it sooner though.
#WearAMask
Shutting the door after the horse has bolted springs to mind...
"Multiple NHS hospitals have reintroduced a requirement to wear face masks in clinical areas as they declared critical incidents due to surging demand and winter viruses."
www.independent.co.uk/news/health/...
"Multiple NHS hospitals have reintroduced a requirement to wear face masks in clinical areas as they declared critical incidents due to surging demand and winter viruses."
www.independent.co.uk/news/health/...
NHS hospitals reintroduce face mask requirement as flu cases soar
The number of flu patients in English hospitals has quadrupled in a month, latest NHS figures show
www.independent.co.uk
January 9, 2025 at 12:46 PM
Shutting the door after the horse has bolted springs to mind...
"Multiple NHS hospitals have reintroduced a requirement to wear face masks in clinical areas as they declared critical incidents due to surging demand and winter viruses."
www.independent.co.uk/news/health/...
"Multiple NHS hospitals have reintroduced a requirement to wear face masks in clinical areas as they declared critical incidents due to surging demand and winter viruses."
www.independent.co.uk/news/health/...
"Gloucestershire acute trust declared a “critical incident” on Wednesday as hospitals in England asked patients seeking medical help to come alone to reduce overcrowding in A&E."
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
Gloucestershire NHS trust to discharge 140 patients over ‘extreme winter pressures’
People told to attend A&E alone as acute trust cancels operations, declaring ‘critical incident’ amid rise in flu cases
www.theguardian.com
January 9, 2025 at 12:40 PM
"Gloucestershire acute trust declared a “critical incident” on Wednesday as hospitals in England asked patients seeking medical help to come alone to reduce overcrowding in A&E."
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
Starmer "is less leftwing than almost all of his 401 Labour colleagues, according to the research by Chris Hanretty..."
Why did Starmer (and Reeves) choose to stand for Labour when they clearly do not espouse real Labour Party values? A mere vehicle to power...
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Why did Starmer (and Reeves) choose to stand for Labour when they clearly do not espouse real Labour Party values? A mere vehicle to power...
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Keir Starmer among least leftwing Labour MPs, study finds
Kemi Badenoch is judged to be to the right of Tories, and Lib Dems’ Ed Davey further left than Starmer
www.theguardian.com
January 9, 2025 at 12:27 PM
Starmer "is less leftwing than almost all of his 401 Labour colleagues, according to the research by Chris Hanretty..."
Why did Starmer (and Reeves) choose to stand for Labour when they clearly do not espouse real Labour Party values? A mere vehicle to power...
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Why did Starmer (and Reeves) choose to stand for Labour when they clearly do not espouse real Labour Party values? A mere vehicle to power...
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...