✨ union organiser ✨ H&S steward; EC member ✨ personal acct, nothing to do with my employer (she/her) ✨ insta: _kateflood

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Joined December 2008
Routine overwork, including excess of 40 hours a week, isn't just about being a bit tired. It causes cancer, heart disease, stroke alongside mental ill health and a whole host of other ills. The idea people should trade health security for financial security is stupidity
We all know 40 minimum wage hours isn't enough to sustain a very good standard of life. It never has been. Which is why you're supposed to make it enough by working more or earning more. Add that horrible warehouse job to your weekends for 6-8 months. Hustle.
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The fact loads of us have worked way over 40 hours a week, across multiple different sectors, or that someone might be doing it and feeling fine for now, is not a justification for a system that doesn't reward full time work with a full life. That system will not kiss you back
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Instead of this divisive nonsense that serves absolutely nobody what about giving south Manchester proper transport links, or is that, as a tangible task you can be held to account for, too much to ask
I went to Manchester's famous 'Curry Mile' - a street that has been transformed by mass migration. At @RestoreBritain, we will reverse mass migration. We need your vote to deliver radical change. Vote @MarlonTag for Mayor of Greater Manchester tomorrow. This is the political elite's blueprint for the rest of Britain. Unless we act now, it will mean the end of our people.
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spending your eightieth birthday getting lit on a mandated away day
🚨 NEW: The Government is now set to raise the state pension age to 68 in 2037 - seven years earlier than originally planned
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Okay well the Europeans who have paid holiday and healthcare free at the point of access and maternity leave and shared parental leave and healthier food and public transport infrastructure, look upon this as an example of corruption not freedom
The most interesting part of the red card saga isn't the ruling. It's how differently Americans and Europeans process the idea that they might have been wronged. Europeans are fundamentally different from Americans in one particular way: they expect life to be aggravating and at times unfair. It's just a fact of moving through the world. I joke that in Europe, the customer is always wrong. You didn't read the fine print. The only pharmacy in town is closed every other Tuesday for three hours, and even if the times weren't posted, that's still your problem. Too bad if you want the bill, because the waiter's on his union-mandated half-hour smoke break, and you're just going to have to wait. To quote the great Mark Knopfler: sometimes you're the windshield, sometimes you're the bug. There's something freeing in that. Things are less in your control, so there's less angst in managing your expectations. In America, things couldn't be more different. We simply can't accept a wrong left unrighted. The flight attendant sneezed handing you a drink on your one-hour flight? 15,000 frequent flyer miles. Didn't like your appetizer? A replacement is on the way, and the whole course comes off the bill. There's a reason our interstates are lined with trial lawyer billboards. Europeans have turned complaining into a continental pastime with no expectation that the universe owes them a remedy for their grief. You gripe about the train being late, your friends nod solemnly and everyone goes back to their apéro. In America, we launch a full-blown investigation of the train system, sue the government (and its contractors) that allowed for the tardiness and hold a Congressional hearing on the state of national infrastructure. So to an objective observer, the red card shouldn't have happened, and VAR was a travesty. To Americans, our star player shouldn't be unfairly banned from a match we couldn't afford to lose for a card he so obviously didn't deserve. Who cares that FIFA used a little-used reversal to fix it. Who cares that other people are mad about it. We. Were. Wronged. It was unjust. It must be corrected. We would accept nothing less. Europeans waxing poetic about the sanctity of the game are, of course, talking about a governing body whose last tournament host was decided via confirmed cash bribes — one that imposed dress codes on women, shrugged off widespread allegations of modern slavery and reconfigured the entire tournament calendar to suit the host country. Which is exactly the point. If you've made peace with all of that, at least enough to watch the tournament four years later, a probationary suspension isn't actually a scandal. Maybe that's the real divide. Over millennia, Europeans have made peace with being the bug. Americans have never once considered it, and apparently, we're not about to start now.
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Hello my fellow Belgium in the Sweepstakeians
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kate flood 🇵🇸 retweeted
I’m gonna go Evertons training ground this week dressed as a spurs scout 😂🕵️‍♂️🥷🥸🔎
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congrats to arsenal i guess, north east london just absolutely erupted
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When I was 19 and a first time voter I voted Green, and people would make comments about how I'd change my views "when you are older..." or "when you have kids of your own". Well I'm now in my 30s, have a daughter, and just voted Green again, because I still believe in the future
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kate flood 🇵🇸 retweeted
knowing how it tends to go with male authors and their wives it was probably marge who wrote the odyssey
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"And I packed your angry eyes, just in case"
🚨 NEW: No 10 sources say the public will get to see “angry Starmer” in the Commons later today
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It will never not be absurd that renters can be priced out of the place they grew up or built their life - wherever that may be - because paying off someone else's asset, while also giving them a passive income, has priced them out of their own housing bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c145…
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Not even apartheid South Africa codified executions for only one ‘race group’. Israel is now the most racist state the world has ever known. Shame on every government, every company, every individual who offer it support.
Israel has now become the first state to codify a death sentence that applies in practice to one ethnic group, while another is effectively shielded from it.
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Absolutely wild scenes that I, having been diagnosed with ADHD at 14, have to join a 5 year waiting list for a new ADHD service because I moved borough. My GP cannot prescribe medication until I'm on the new books. Under-resourcing doesn't just impact those awaiting diagnosis !
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If you're unfamiliar with the process, ADHD medication is handled by psychiatrists who also do routine checks on thyroid etc given ADHD meds are a Schedule II substance in the UK. You cannot just go to your GP and get a prescription without a shared support agreement
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you can feel the cold winds of the abyss from here
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Absolutely no amount of propaganda should convince you that some children don't deserve to grow up
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kate flood 🇵🇸 retweeted
championship clubs in tottenham stadium next season:
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