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Writer, bird follower, tree hugger, ooh! what’s that? Mother to 3 adults. Politics (head in hands). Views change with new evidence #FBPE 🇪🇺🇺🇦🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

Mid Wales, ½ way up a mountain
Joined August 2011
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Who wants to come? Teatime April 14th - teatime on 16th 🌿 This is Wales, so you’ll need waterproofs and a sun hat 🤗 humankeystone.uk/the-giving-…
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Man in cream, "I feel like you would need to be pretty far removed to think that Rishi Sunak and this government have done well in the past five years, let alone the past 14 years, which has felt like a 14 year long episode of the thick of it" "You can't run on the roads because there are so many pot holes. You can't run on NHS waiting times because they're terrible. You can't run on the economy" "I have noticed recently that Rishi Sunak will tweet that he's done these things that we've lowered this, lowered that. He'll get community noted. Quite a bit" "It's worrying when the Prime Minister is openly saying we're doing all these great things. But it's really obvious by the stats, by everything, that that's just not true, is it" #BBCQT
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Tam Purkess retweeted
.@RishiSunak admits to lying - that’s how I read this. As so many said at the time, Rosebank can’t lower our energy bills or give us any energy security. It was (expensive) culture war BS (costing the UK £3billion in subsidies to a Norwegian company) bit.ly/47ia2Ck
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Tam Purkess retweeted
A huge thank you to everyone who has already bought a copy of Manifesto, and welcome to those who will. Do let me know what you think of it below, or let someone else know…. Manifesto is part memoir and part blueprint for the future of the planet. It follows my adventures on the road, in business and football, and it’s a plan for getting to a Green Britain. If your local bookshop doesn’t have it, you can get one here: bit.ly/3D86WnR
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The #StopRosebank campaign is taking the UK government to court for approving the climate-wrecking Rosebank oil field - and I've asked that the case be put forward in my name. Tell the Government that this case is also in your name: stopcambo.org.uk/p/courtcase…
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Tam Purkess retweeted
Kids don't need hours of tutoring - they need sport, arts, clubs, activities & to be part of a lively & diverse society again. Govt misses *another* chance to support youth mental health - and instead extends school to teach for tests. Learning is for life - not just exams.
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Crystal clear! 👏 Back To You, Huw! youtu.be/rLFKcYphPCM via @YouTube
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Just a reminder that it was not public money. But nobody is questioning the £37,000,000,000 for failed track and trace, £12,000,000,000 dodgy PPE write offs, £232,000,000 given to Michelle Mone, of PUBLIC MONEY. The Tories are defrauding the UK before our very eyes. 😡😡😡😡😡😡
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Do you think The Sun possibly could have started this 'BBC presenter story' to get the 'Boris Johnson Whatsapp story' off the news and the papers? Could it be possible?
96%Yes
4%No
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The fact that the Home Office has painted over another mural and has detained asylum-seeker children for up to 19 days has absolutely nothing to do with stopping the boats or breaking the trafficking model and *everything* to do with this govt just being a bunch of evil bastards.
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Must be doing something right...my words about anti-foodbank MP & his wages being twisted by the Tories today into trying to label me an education 'snob''....what a joke...🙄 They can't think of anything else to have a go at.... HOWEVER, I'll let my record in education do the talking inc helping 500,000 children with their maths during lockdown...giving bursaries for young people and schools with disadvantaged backgrounds like mine....helping Blunkett introduce the Numeracy Hour....governor of inner city school......education books for decades.....recognised STEM Ambassador....I could go on. Always a believer in encouraging young people to achieve their best, in whichever way that comes around, to be strong and happy and confident. Anything else being espoused is offensive, targeted, predictable Right Wing nonsense. PS Tories....this attack won't work. It just makes us more determined. PPS thanks for all your support...we'll beat them in the end ❤️❤️ Please RT
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For the record, the picture is not of me speaking.
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#IllegalMigrationBill @GreenJennyJones says @UKHouseofLords should not let this bill through - #RuleofLaw, Rwanda is not safe and it was not in the Tory manifesto, so there is no obligation parliament.uk/business/news/…
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This is absolutely shocking. When did we lose our compassion & humanity? How did we ever allow these people anywhere near high office? I refuse to believe that this Government speaks for the majority in this country. We are so much better than this
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Keep going on Carol. They need to be made accountable by the main stream media and also the opposition parties. The amount of corruption perpetrated by the Conservative government in the last 5 out strips anything I have known and its that common it almost expected
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Tam Purkess retweeted
Andrew Marr is right, it’s almost as though the BBC News presenter story was manufactured to hide…. -Government have failed to deliver the WhatsApp messages as instructed -The mortgage rate has hit a 5 year high -There are 3 by-elections next week.
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An unnamed 20-year-old denying the account of his unnamed parents about an unnamed BBC presenter has led news bulletins for several days. The return of scurvy and rickets to Britain hasn't rated a mention.
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So ‘BBC presenter’ is trending as a hashtag just as Rupert Murdoch wants it to. I think #BorisJohnsonphone should be.
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