Antoinette Sandbach retweeted
Yes, Joey. She’s a democratically elected British MP, a former council leader, and she’s wearing a hijab.
Which part of that do you find so difficult to accept?
Her politics are fair game.
Her religion and her clothes are not.
Antoinette Sandbach retweeted
One of our supporters sent us this to help people understand at a glance concerns about the Conversion Practices Bill #BanTheBill
#Polanski is toast. A leader is supposed to lead. A shameful vote for the greens but i see the Corbynistas have taken over
Antoinette Sandbach retweeted
Replying to @Jennabeangood @PlanetFitness
Men shouldn't be in women's and girls' changing rooms, period. There is no test in existence to determine whether a man is or is not a threat to women before he's committed an assault. Innumerable men who claim to be women have sexually assaulted women. A simple Google search will give you the names and histories.
Men as a group pose a threat to women, as a group. The statistics don't change when the men identify as women. On the contrary, there are currently more trans-identified men in jail in the UK for sexual offences than there are among the general male prison population.
The reason this man was able to access unclothed women is that Planet Fitness thought it was progressive to let men into women's single-sex spaces. Women have been warning for years that women and girls would be harmed if corporations and institutions decided to placate the trans lobby and admit men to changing rooms and public bathrooms. These sexual assaults were entirely preventable. I repeat: I hope the women who've been assaulted sue.
Antoinette Sandbach retweeted
This needs a lead from politicians. They need to be crystal clear about the law and to tell public bodies like NHS Trust after NHS Trust that are unlawfully discriminating against women by placing male demands for access to their spaces over their needs that it has to stop.
Excl: Transgender rights activists are spreading misinformation about guidance that protects single-sex spaces by claiming it erodes the rights of trans people, the equalities regulator has said.
Mary-Ann Stephenson, the chair of the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC), said criticism of its updated code of practice had made the “real alarm” felt by trans people worse by wrongly suggesting they had lost protections or would face routine sex checks.
Stephenson said women had also been affected by not having access to single-sex spaces. She said: “Women who believe that their right to privacy, dignity or safety have not been properly protected deserve to have those concerns taken seriously too.”
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Wind farms paid £1.5bn to switch off — and the bill is rising <~~~ i am fed up of paying for this on my bills and we need to decouple from Gas. Wales has the highest standing charges in the UK which is ridiculous given the infrastructure hosted there @MartinSLewis @g__j
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Antoinette Sandbach retweeted
I listened to Ed Davey on the @BBCr4today this morning, and frankly, I think he missed the point.
The idea that we're keeping the triple lock to help millennials is at best for the birds, and at worst downright insulting. I say that as a millennial.
The case for the triple lock is a worthy one - stopping pensioner poverty. I want that as much as anyone. But pensioners are now less likely to be in poverty than children or working age adults.
We talk about fairness, yet our answer is to give the same increase to every pensioner, treating the one choosing between heating and eating exactly the same as the one with millions in the bank. I can see no moral or fiscal case for above inflation rises for millionaires.
That money should go where it's needed most - to everyone in poverty, not just one group. It could help fund free personal care, a policy that would disproportionately benefit older people.
Ed is right that we shouldn't pit one generation against another. But intergenerational inequality is already one of the defining injustices of our time, and this would further entrench it. Worse, it gaslights an entire generation into believing it's for our benefit.
Telling millennials we're keeping the triple lock to help us in 30 years' time is nonsense. We're on course to be the first generation worse off than our parents. We're locked out of the housing market, paying higher taxes, repaying student loans that never seem to shrink, and putting off having children because of the cost of living.
I joined this party because I care about fairness and tackling inequality, and that has to include inequality between generations.
This line, and this decision, fails on both counts. Ed needs to think again.
James Rebanks: ‘We’re the stupidest country when it comes to farming’
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Antoinette Sandbach retweeted
Farms are holding back on reservoirs and other resilience work because it would push the value over the inheritance tax threshold. That’s not planning for the next generation – that’s being forced to choose between the farm surviving the drought or surviving the tax. Scrap the family farm tax in the Budget. In fact, scrap inheritance tax for all.
hey @WhichUK can you please investigate multiple breaches of UK law by @SklumLoveDesign particularly in relation to bundling orders without consent and breaches of 14 day refund rules. Facebook documents multiple and repeated breaches
the car sales business is clearly full of misogyny. Walking into @LookersGroup %Chester not one of the sales team (no customers there) bothered to get up from their desk when i asked about ex demo @KiaUK EV3 for sale. Complete contrast with @MINIUK in Llandudno Junction
who could not have been more helpful and arranged a test drive on the spot. Sadly the Mini doesn’t have the range I need but I will walk over hot coals before ever walking into an @LookersGroup showroom again and they missed out on guaranteed sale.
I have now sourced one 100 miles away from a @KiaUK dealer who are interested in selling their cars rather than having them sitting on the forecourt unlike @LookersGroup who clearly enjoy looking at them rather than selling them (as the number on the front clearly show)
RIP #dollyparton a female icon fabulous talent and to me a feminist succeeding in an era which constantly put women down. Her business acumen philanthropy and talent will live on in her music
Antoinette Sandbach retweeted
🚨 Former MI6 chief Sir Alex Younger delivered brutal Brexit truths last year:
“Putin would’ve been absolutely delighted by our decision [to leave the EU] and so would Xi.”
“We’ve made ourselves irrelevant.”
“France has effectively eclipsed us.”
“Brexit has marginalised us.”
Brexit wasn’t Britain taking back control. It was Britain voluntarily surrendering influence, while Putin and Xi watched with delight.
hey @SklumLoveDesign waiting over 30 days for an order to be dispatched breaches UK consumer rights. #mysklumstory is waiting two months and appalling customer service. Hoping my followers will learn from my mistake and NEVER order from them
like most of rural UK my #electricitycost is linked to gas prices but we don’t have gas and have to buy oil in an unregulated market. Furthermore living in #wales we have the highest standing charges as our grid connectivity is not assessed on an all #wales basis #doublewhammy












