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vivienne
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Retired therapist/uni counsellor
Amateur potter/photographer/art dabbler.
Psychology/education/politics/organic gardening/environment/NHS.
💚 Green Party member.
Deplore corporate greed & rise of the far right.
Rejoin EU 🇪🇺 asap. #FBPE
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One way of telling the political story of the last ten years is of three wasted overall majorities.

A substantive majority in the Commons for a full term is the greatest prize the UK constitution can bestow on a PM, and three times in a row, it has been wasted by those prize-winners.
November 12, 2025 at 10:41 AM
Reposted by vivienne
Trump canceled an annual government survey on how many Americans struggle to get enough food.
The data has been collected every year since mid-'90s, and is widely used by federal, state, local policymakers to make funding decisions for food-aid programs, & to evaluate how well those programs work
Exclusive | Trump Administration Cancels Annual Hunger Survey
The government has been measuring food insecurity since the mid-1990s, but now says the report has become “overly politicized.”
www.wsj.com
September 20, 2025 at 9:37 PM