This is the message everyone should be taking home from today’s despicable announcement.

The number of people of working age with a health condition or a disability is going up.

And not because they’ve all suddenly become work-shy scroungers🙄

Long (sorry!) 🧵

1/25 Shall we take a look at THAT rather than pretend the problem is that too many “undeserving” people are claiming long term sick benefits?

Maybe if those issues started to be addressed, some of these people could actually get better and get back to work🤷‍♀️

2/25

The more I see this, the worse it becomes!

First the tweet itself - I addressed that last night 👇🏼

1/8
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https://x.com/monkemma/status/1775991829848035622?s=46&t=XMHcspxq5q2fqUPd0qxe6Q

Next the claim: 2nd most powerful country?!

I’ve found 2 world rankings for power:

We rank 5th in both

1st US
2nd China
3rd Russia
4th Germany or India depending on the study
5th UK

2/8

Talking down our country you say?

Let’s take a look at the people who’ve actually been talking down our country and our great British institutions….

🧵

1/9 How did Cleverly describe Stockton, again?

Oh yes - a sh*t hole.

Nice 🙄

2/9

Gosh, this sounds terrible.

Imagine losing 70% of your customers overnight…….

🤔

Or do we think someone might be being slightly economical with the truth?

Let’s dig in!

🧵

1/12 Firstly - ULEZ.

ULEZ was expanded to cover this area on August 29th 2023 - 6 months ago.

Do we really buy that a wedding dress shop - a business which by its nature tends to be for one off purchases - actually saw a 70% fall in sales overnight?

2/12

Hampshire Country Council have opened a consultation on what areas they should cut their services to 1.4 million residents, to ensure they meet their £132 million shortfall by April 2025 - following years of austerity cuts.

The options are pretty grim😢

🧵1/ 1 - Adult social care charges

Rather than getting people to pay 95% of their care and support, we just go the full whack and charge them 100%

2/

So, grifter extraordinaire, William Makis, posted this yesterday.

A big looooooong post (because he obviously pays for a blue tick 🙄).

As ever, I thought I’d take a look

🧵

1/24

#AntiVax
#TurboCancer So obviously the first thing you can’t help but notice are those photos, right?

They look really horrific.

And wow, if mRNA Vaccines were causing that, that would be truly awful….

So are they photos of people following a covid vaccine?

Well, no. They’re not.

2/24

Oh FGS - Daily Mail headline strikes again🙄

Guess who’s reading that and going “ha, see covid vaccines are KILLING EVERYONE” or some such nonsense?

Yup - AV twitter are besides themselves with glee over this headline

Short 🧵on what the studies actually showed

#DailyFail First, the stroke risk in the elderly:

The FDA looked at 5.4 million over 65s Medicare patients, who were given a high dose flu shot (4x higher than a normal flu shot) on the same day as their Pfizer or Moderna bivalent Covid booster.

2/11

Seeing lots of rather dubious takes flying round twitter about the effects of adding VAT to private school fees or removing their charitable status.

Lots of “but think of the poor struggling parents” and “there’ll be a mass exodus FLOODING state schools” etc

Reality check🧵
1/ And before I start, cards on the table…..

I spent 5 years at an insanely expensive boarding school thanks to my Grandmother.

AND one of my children spent 3 years at a local private school.

This isn’t about jealousy or any other such nonsense, so don’t bother going there!

2/

#NadineDorries resignation letter in full

It was quite fun to read

I fluctuated between “WTF is she talking about” to “ha ha, she’s bang on there”

A mixture of whining “poor me” to real hatred towards Sunak!

Bring on more Blue on Blue attacks! 🍿

#MadNads
#DorriesWatch
1/ Wow - a lot of the things she thinks she achieved during her time as MP

The sale of Channel 4?!

Leading the world in “imposing cultural sanctions” on Putin??

2/9

So following on from my post pointing out that the ONLY reason a government would want to leave the ECHR is because they want to violate your human rights, I thought I’d address a couple of the themes that were coming up in the comments
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1/ “There are 150 countries in the world not in the ECHR, so why should we be in it”

Indeed.

And 60% of the world’s population live in countries that have the Death Penalty🤷‍♀️

I’d hazard a guess that those citizens would welcome ECHR style membership, don’t you think?

2/

The usual suspects getting their knickers in a twist again

Sharing a screen shot of a headline (not the link) designed to get all their followers frothy and outraged

But as ever, the headline is totally misleading

As are their faux outrage tweets about tax payers

1/

The scheme they’re referring to is this👇🏼

2/

So, the latest #AntiVax bandwagon is that “no *healthy* young people died of covid in Israel”

As ever, given we know many under 50s died from Covid in the rest of the world, does this seem likely?

What do you think?!🙄

Let’s have a look at what’s going on….

🧵1/ I went to the link on @stkirsch’s tweet first (I always feel a bit yucky clicking on those, but I braved it!💪🏼)

And, as is often the case, this claim has come from a Freedom of Information request. This is a classic technique, to get an answer you can misconstrue.

2/

Following on from my thread about @GBNEWS winning “most loved News brand” by being the ONLY TV News channel/programme in the category, some guy tried to rebut the thread by posting:

So I thought I’d take a look at the claims in the article😁

1/12

order-order.com/2023/05/26/gb-… So it begins with the claim that they’re the “most loved News Brand” (already covered that in my previous thread👍🏻)

Note how they provide a link for that claim…

Then they claim that “yesterday” they had bumper ratings - but provide no link for *that* claim🤷‍♀️

2/

Had this shared with me by a gleeful GB News fan🙄

It seemed incredibly unlikely - so I wondered who they asked, what they asked etc.

Went to look at the results of the poll itself….

1/

#GBeebies
#GBNews

uk.news.yahoo.com/gb-news-named-… So the first thing to jump out was that out of 100 media brands, GB News wasn’t in the top 10 or the top 20 or even the top 50.

I had to scroll to the end of the report - it was number 53

2/

5043860.fs1.hubspotusercontent-na1.net/hubfs/5043860/…

While we all bask in the beauty that is:

Con -1061
Lab +536
LD +405
Green +241

Can we also take a moment to acknowledge that UKIP lost EVERY Councillor, while Reform UK came away with just 6 (gained 2)🤣

#LocalElections2023

1/7 So we can absolutely REJECT any daft Right Wing notion that this result shows the Tory Party just need to swing even further Right, or that it’s because they haven’t “stopped the boats” or that they need to “scrap net zero”.

This result really, really does NOT show that!

2/7

What a day for the #BBC yesterday

Lost all their #MOTD presenters after @GaryLineker wouldn’t apologise for criticising the government (read that again!😱)

And while that was obviously the big story, their bad day didn’t end there….

1/7 They announced they’d wouldn’t be airing the final episode of the latest #Attenborough series on TV for fear of a “Right Wing backlash”

WTF?

It will go out on iPlayer where the poor snowflakes won’t see it….

2/7

I don’t know if anyone has seen the pernicious claim flying round social media in the last few days that only “17,000 people in the UK have died from #covid”

I’ve yet to see anyone debunk it so I thought I’d do a 🧵

1/ Recently, I saw a number of people making the same, obviously false claim along the lines of “only 10% of covid deaths are actually covid deaths”

I asked for sources repeatedly and eventually got sent a link to an @ONS Freedom of Information request…

2/

OK, I'm really struggling with the uproar over @Keir_Starmer saying we need to #MakeBrexitWork.

#Brexit has happened. There is no magic wand we can wave to make it simply vanish in a puff of smoke. We can't just return to 2016 and all live happily ever after...

1/ The path to Rejoining the EU will take 5-20 years (depending on your optimism levels😜) and will necessitate multiple steps bringing us closer to the EU both in terms of standards/trading/economy and also values/attitudes/democracy.

The EU didn't chose Brexit.

2/

I'm going to start by saying:

I'm not a Farmer
I voted remain
I have campaigned passionately to Remain
I am gutted and angry that we have left

But my eyes have been well and truly opened to the attitudes of many people whom I have campaigned alongside previously....

1/ I got involved in a campaign, #SaveBritishFarming, to try and protect our high food standards (after the govt U-turn) and push for an EU trade deal to try and protect our food industry.

Protecting our food supply felt like a mission we could all get behind.....

2/