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Em is a UK based writer, artist & educator. Work in progress : Hip Hop Mixtape: The History of Hip Hop for kids.

England, United Kingdom
Joined October 2013
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@yabookprize #askYA10 how important do the authors feel school visits are for their career and why?
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This is so powerful… And all before our eyes.
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They defund the NHS so it looks like it’s failed. Then we have to turn to privatisation and they cash in. They close all safe routes for asylum seekers entitled to our help under the human rights convention we signed up to. Then they blame asylum seekers themselves for crossing in boats and hold them up as racist bait in hotels while they wait years to be processed. They do this because they know capitalising on racism and attacking vulnerable people is a vote winner, even though it shouldn’t be. People die as a result of their inept policies. They blatantly throw parties and socialise during a pandemic whilst making it illegal for us to do so. They capitalise on the pandemic with commercial nepotism and corruption. They empower criminals and spread hate to distract from their BS. They attack the legal professionals protecting our rights by calling them lefty lawyers. They put inflation through the roof. They make house ownership an impossible dream whilst causing rents to rise everywhere. They increase energy bills to insane amounts, whilst passing laws to allow sewage to be dumped in our rivers and waters and discrediting any scientist who points out environmental or climate crises. They abdicate all responsibility for the bonkers mess of Brexit, the gift that keeps taking, and burden taxpayers with hare-brained unlawful multimillion pound deals to deport people to Rwanda with no right of appeal. They and their supporters have done so much damage to this country. Don’t let them completely destroy it. Let’s vote them out when we can… They are the worst of us.
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Cornwall voted massively for Brexit and is 100% Tory-run. It received over £1 billion in EU funding from 2000 and was to receive another £350m after 2020. Instead, it was awarded £18 million and beaches covered in human excrement. Brexit illustrated. cornwalllive.com/news/cornwa…
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Southern Water are basically saying that if we don't want bills to increase by 73% by 2030, they won't #endsewagepollution. Asking us to pay again because the money was used to fuel bonuses and dividends. Sign the petition to put and end to this sh*tshow: buff.ly/3MLg9qH
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I’m not sure what it takes for people in the U.K. to realise that democracy is slipping through their fingers. Jacob Rees-Mogg is admitting today that voter ID was an attempt at gerrymandering. The public order act has put the fundamental right to protest in the hands of an institutional racist police force. Since Brexit, the rate of decline in a democratic freedoms has exponentially risen. Just how bad does it need to get before people realise how dangerous the situation is becoming?
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Cried at the polling station this morning as the old lady in front of me, who had struggled to walk there, was turned away. She had photo ID but not the right version. When I handed them my passport, they questioned if the photo was me. Horrible atmosphere. #election2023 #VoterID
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If you are worried about Benefit Fraud £0.5bn but not Government Corruption £58bn. Or immigration £2bn but not Tax Havens £150bn. Or NHS potential pay rises £3bn but not Bankers tax cuts £7.3bn. You are buying their lies.
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BORIS JOHNSON RETWEET if you think he must never hold any office again.
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It’s a strange world, where we the tax payer paid a (albeit very capable) barrister an alleged £5,000 per hour to defend an already discredited lying and cheating politician, while we refuse to pay people who actual save people’s lives £20 per hour.
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It would be a real shame if this got RT'd massively to create awareness in his constituency that there is an opportunity looming to kick Boris Johnson out of British politics. Retweet and add your own hashtags if you don't have sympathy for him.
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Racist. Homophobic. Misogynistic. Disband the Met.
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Isn’t it crazy how… The Govt’s new Elections Bill permits older person’s bus passes and Oyster 60+ cards to be used as ID But not student cards and young persons railcards And we’re just like… Yeah, it’s just the Tories doing some election-rigging Cool cool.
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• Tories announce they are to open 75 Sure Start Centres. They closed 1,189 Sure Start Centres • Tories announce they’re opening 5,000 NHS Beds. They closed 22,000 NHS Beds • Tories announce they are opening 19 new NHS Diagnostic Centres. They closed 140 NHS Walk In Centres
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Refugees aren't the reason you can’t get a Hospital appointment Refugees aren't the reason you could not eat this week Refugees aren't the reason the country has food banks & high energy prices Refugees aren't the reason you can’t get a home #RefugeesWelcome
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If you lie about benefits and defraud the state by £10k+ …you get 18 months in prison. If you lie about Brexit and defraud the state by £100bn+ …you get made Prime Minister.
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Mogg is so patriotic he pays almost no tax, has moved all his businesses to Ireland, has an Irish passport and is registered for tax in the Cayman Islands tax haven. He truly is the ideal of Brexit, a flag waving, tax dodging, passport changing charlatan.
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You won’t get to see Gary Lineker on Match of the Day on Saturday night But don’t forget to tune into Lord Sugar on the Apprentice. 9pm BBC1 every Thursday!
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Just as an observation, 1930s Germany was all about rhetoric, ideology, othering, removal of rights, intimidation, propaganda and finger pointing which focused on minorities/disabled/religion/sexual orientation etc. War itself (1939) and the horror that followed (Wannsee / Holocaust 1942 etc) came later. The Tories and their client journalists throwing hissy fits about comparisons between their divisive language and policies and 1930s Germany obviously haven’t done their homework. Comparing Tory policy to the Holocaust itself is incorrect, nobody has, it’s about preventing future Holocausts from ever happening, that’s why we say Never Again, and if the language you’re using is reminiscent to language used in the decade prior to the Holocaust, then it’s a moral duty to call it out. Imagine if more ordinary German people had spoken out, had considered what direction things were heading in and made a stand, what horrors might have been prevented. The Tories ARE pursuing policies that are reminiscent of 1930s Germany, just look around you at the hatred and division, and take a stand.
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