🏴Drum Thumper. Huge Transformers Fan.
Caerwys, Wales
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£49.18 is the standard weekly allowance for asylum seekers.
It's reduced to £9.95 if meals are included with accommodation.
You need a national insurance number to claim benefits or work. Asylum seekers do not have one.
No free phone (or Ipads). Occasionally, sims, or recycled phones are provided by charities.
Just in case anyone is interested in the facts.
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I'm a solicitor. Too many people make the mistake of not recording anything during redundancy procedures. Many redundancies do not follow the correct legal procedures, but unless you're recording everything you have no way to prove it in a tribunal. HR are not your friends.
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A lot of false claims have been spreading online about Plaid Cymru’s policies on migration and asylum.
Let’s set a few things straight and bust these myths together.
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Except very rare examples like the Singapore metro, if a transit system is making a profit, it's doing something wrong. That should NEVER be the aim of our public transport, it should be to improve connectivity and drive economic growth. To do that, it needs to be affordable.
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Sometimes when everyone’s being hysterical over not a lot you need to
Look at the stories getting no visibility. The Covid Inquiry yesterday declared 180,000 Brits died because Johnson and Hancock ignored expert advice. 180,000 people.
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So just to be clear, y’all’s transphobia did, in fact, result in a woman being attacked by a man in the women’s bathroom.
Male security guard barges into women's bathroom—bangs on stall door demanding proof of gender.
Ansley Baker was born a woman & identifies as a woman—yet was still kicked out of bathroom & ordered to leave hotel.
"He demands my ID, which I gave him. Things still got heated. We kept repeating that I’m a woman," she said.
The Liberty Hotel in Boston put out a statement claiming that Ansley Baker and her girlfriend, Liz Victor, were using the same stall.
The couple say they are still waiting for an apology for the false accusation.
#DemVoice1 #wtpBLUE #DemsUnited
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Are Muslims really banning dogs in parks? 🤔
Let’s look at this perfect example of how rage baiting works, and how disinformation spreads, sticks, and fuels division, even years after being debunked…
🧵1/22
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The British public refuse to accept that it's cheaper to provide welfare than withdraw it. Fewer benefits result in increased crime and poorer public health, requiring increased resources for the police and NHS. Prevention is cheaper than the cure, it's that fucking simple.
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Remember: Most billionaires are not “self-made.”
They’re made via a combination of inherited wealth, govt subsidies, tax loopholes, labor exploitation, and policy failures.
Can we stop perpetuating a myth that blames wealth inequality on the choices of everyday Americans?
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Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde: "I am not going to apologize for asking for mercy for others" ti.me/3E3sO7v
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The idea that billionaires are “self-made” is fundamentally a myth.
ALT Billionaires are multiplying, and 60% earn their wealth through ‘inheritance, cronyism, or monopoly power,’ Oxfam writes
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To those telling me I must vote Reform instead of @Plaid_Cymru:
✅Yes I want change from Labour.
✅Yes I want better services.
✅Yes I want “reform”.
❌But not at the cost of my identity, democracy, language, history & nation.
🏴Reform will destroy it. Plaid will protect it.
As much as would like @MerthyrTownFC to join the @CymruLeagues this is the wrong way to do it. They will become a target. That money should be distributed equally. Imagine how many Tier 2 clubs would be able to get a tier 1 license with that investment. That’s how you improve
Merthyr Town could be set for a major move! ⚽️ The FAW has offered up to £6m for the Martyrs to join the Cymru Premier in 2026. 🚀
#BBCFootball
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The end of year news about the state of the UK high street is pretty frightening. According to The Guardian we lost 37 shops each day in 2024, many of those independents.
This is a thread about comic shops...
