The devil's in the details. 🏴 Guitar and sounds @colorvoxband , photography, arts comms
London, England
Joined January 2009
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BBC News, "4.3 million 18-24 year olds have not registered to voted.. That's enough to change the result of the election"
If you haven't registered yet, please register to vote - help shape the future of our nation
Head to gov.uk/register-to-vote
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97%+ of over 65s are registered to vote. Only 2/3s of 18-24 year olds are on the register. If you turn 18 on or before 4th July you can register to vote right now.
Do not lose your democratic birthright! It matters so much.
It only takes 5 minutes.
gov.uk/register-to-vote
richard thompson retweeted
URGENT! Pls share. The last chance to register to vote in the General Election is 11.59pm tomorrow Tue 18 June. Potentially 8m aren't registered at their current address. Here's 4 key facts...
1) You can do it online here registertovote.service.gov.u…
2) It's good for your finances. Not being on electoral roll can make it more difficult to be accepted for credit products like bank accounts or mortgages.
3) You can opt out of the 'Open Register' (which allows your info to be sold on) which will stop you getting junk mail marketing )
4) You'll need ID when you do vote (not to register) if you don't have it, you can get it free until Wed 26 June gov.uk/apply-for-photo-id-vo…
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The timing of the election might cause problems for some, esp students coming to the end of term or those who have holidays booked (whoever they intend to vote for). The solution is to apply for a postal vote. Here’s the link to do so. Please share.
gov.uk/apply-postal-vote
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In <24 hours 7000 NHS staff have signed this open letter condemning @NHSEngland’s decision to defund vital, life-saving mental health support for doctors.
Please keep sharing & signing.
@NHSPracHealth costs a mere 0.007% of NHSE’s budget.
Are we really worth so very little?
💥 NHS STAFF 💥
Please consider signing this open letter to @VictoriaAtkins & @AmandaPritchard at @NHSEngland expressing your dismay at their extraordinary decision to cut @NHSPracHealth funding for hospital staff.
Please share widely 🙏
Letter here:
forms.gle/YmXpi8dxSbW7URPF8
richard thompson retweeted
The Scottish Government is blocking the Hanging of Portraits of King Charles in Public Buildings including schools.
This will save them £8m that they can actually spend on education.
RT if England should do the same.
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
The £8 million figure stated is actually the cost for the 'free portraits' for the whole of the UK. It's also a UK Govt scheme so it's not saving Scotland any money let alone the £8 million claimed in the post.
thenational.scot/news/23751233.…
mirror.co.uk/news/politics/…
gov.uk/government/new…
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If you want to see Michelle Mone kicked out of the House of Lords and arrested until she pays the £136,000,000 she owes give this a RT.
richard thompson retweeted
There are almost countless ways to fund the £1.3 billion required to end the two-child benefit cap and take 250,000 children out of poverty. The only thing that is not true is that there is no money left.
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Please share and share and share. And then share again.
The new migration bill passed by the UK Parliament violates the country’s international human rights and refugee law obligations.
High Commissioner for Human Rights @volker_turk and I share grave concerns in this respect.
Here is our joint statement👇🏻
unhcr.org/news/press-release…
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My column on the latest developments in the Post Office scandal - an incredible tale of total corporate psychopathy that I absolutely BEG you to stay very very cross about theguardian.com/commentisfre…
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What an incredible story. Not just one life, many. Amazing piece of research by Andrew Holter on Orange Juice's Zeke Manyika. rollingstone.com/music/music…
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I cannot begin to understand how this is not daily front page news… Braverman literally has no explanation for the whereabouts of 154 children. Where are they? What happened to them? How is this possible? Why is this not the biggest U.K. scandal in modern times? 154 children!!
Cruella is appalling at answering simple, direct questions. Remember her car crash interview on the ERG with @krishgm? She ums and ers her way through a simple question regarding 154 missing children. How did she get to be Home Secretary? She is unpopular, terrible and dangerous.
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Staggering statistics. Real average weekly earnings are same today as in November 2005.
A completely unprecedented period with no earnings growth. Hard to compare but likely this has not happened over any comparable period since Napoleonic wars.
Long view on today's labour market stats is price-adjusted average pay is down £35/wk since Feb 2008
A drop from £532 to £497 over 182 months' of data
Few would have guessed possible (without a revolution!) -- except those who knew the US horror story
ons.gov.uk/employmentandlabo…
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260,000 have already signed to BLOCK Boris Johnson's HONOURS LIST
Sign now.
RT RT
@38degrees
you.38degrees.org.uk/petitio…
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The most corrupt Prime Ministers of the most corrupt British governments in living memory are filling the House of Lords with their corrupt friends and family members. Retweet if you are not happy about this.
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Good morning, we’re back on here.
Still don’t understand why the powers that be took away 14 years of followers just because we changed some profile info.
ANYWAY this is our handle … this is our new name @invadarecordsuk
Please follow, re-tweet, spread the word if you can ❤️
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Some amazing news to share + pls RT 😭💛✨
@AIAIAItweet and I are proud to announce the opening of our free to use music production studio in London. ✨🚀
If you are a Black and queer artist in need of studio space please apply here: aiaiai.audio/beautiful-appli…
Love you 💛✨✨
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My column on the Post Office scandal, which has never caught the full-spectrum attention it deserves. Or even the attention afforded to various bad tweets. theguardian.com/commentisfre…
