Amanda Peters
@abergirl2011.bsky.social
My current jigsaw= Kids, Wales, politics, work, West Yorkshire.
Absolutely delighted that Gullis will (presumably) have a new job with Reform. I have been terrified that he might have to go back to being a teacher. No child deserves that.....
Three former Tory MPs have joined Reform, PA reports.
Jonathan Gullis, who represented Stoke-on-Trent North, Lia Nici, who served as Grimsby MP, and former Bolton West Tory MP Chris Green.
Usual suspects.
Jonathan Gullis, who represented Stoke-on-Trent North, Lia Nici, who served as Grimsby MP, and former Bolton West Tory MP Chris Green.
Usual suspects.
December 1, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Absolutely delighted that Gullis will (presumably) have a new job with Reform. I have been terrified that he might have to go back to being a teacher. No child deserves that.....
Fixing stuff. It's not glamorous. It doesn't win many votes, sadly. But it's SO important.
Legal aid was decimated under the Tories.
In the last year, Labour have supported the system with small pots of funding in specific areas.
But following a major review and consultation on funding, they have today announced an increase of £92m more funding to rebuilt after years of neglect!
In the last year, Labour have supported the system with small pots of funding in specific areas.
But following a major review and consultation on funding, they have today announced an increase of £92m more funding to rebuilt after years of neglect!
Multi-million-pound investment in legal aid to boost access to justice for victims
Criminal legal aid solicitors will receive up to £92 million more a year to help address the ongoing challenges in the criminal justice system.
www.gov.uk
December 1, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Fixing stuff. It's not glamorous. It doesn't win many votes, sadly. But it's SO important.
Increasingly convinced that Kemi Badenoch knows diddly squat about anything.
The OBR is run independently from Government. It literally was somebody else's fault.
You'd think Kemi Badenoch would know that given her own party created it in Government, but apparently not
You'd think Kemi Badenoch would know that given her own party created it in Government, but apparently not
December 1, 2025 at 6:43 PM
Increasingly convinced that Kemi Badenoch knows diddly squat about anything.
What is wrong with these people? These amendments are pathetic,spiteful, desperate. If this is the kind of BS that the HoL comes up, I'm a convert to abolishing it. Please write to them to let them know that these silly games are not acceptable. Hold them accountable.
Opponents of choice want to ban the bucket list.
This amendment would not protect dying people - it would punish them.
Email Peers today and urge them to defend the will of the people.
www.dignityindying.org.uk/actnow
This amendment would not protect dying people - it would punish them.
Email Peers today and urge them to defend the will of the people.
www.dignityindying.org.uk/actnow
December 1, 2025 at 4:08 PM
What is wrong with these people? These amendments are pathetic,spiteful, desperate. If this is the kind of BS that the HoL comes up, I'm a convert to abolishing it. Please write to them to let them know that these silly games are not acceptable. Hold them accountable.
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For context the 'Middle England' referred to here is the 0.5% of households living in homes worth more than £2 million
November 30, 2025 at 10:27 PM
For context the 'Middle England' referred to here is the 0.5% of households living in homes worth more than £2 million
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Mason declares that in his judgement we have been misled by Rachel Reeves.
It feels unprecedented that the BBC has made a "call" on a story, and is something that was absent throughout the terms of notorious liars such as Johnson.
There were certainly no "calls" about Brexit lies.
#r4today
It feels unprecedented that the BBC has made a "call" on a story, and is something that was absent throughout the terms of notorious liars such as Johnson.
There were certainly no "calls" about Brexit lies.
#r4today
December 1, 2025 at 7:29 AM
Mason declares that in his judgement we have been misled by Rachel Reeves.
It feels unprecedented that the BBC has made a "call" on a story, and is something that was absent throughout the terms of notorious liars such as Johnson.
There were certainly no "calls" about Brexit lies.
#r4today
It feels unprecedented that the BBC has made a "call" on a story, and is something that was absent throughout the terms of notorious liars such as Johnson.
There were certainly no "calls" about Brexit lies.
#r4today
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The pre-budget coverage was preposterously long, and the post-budget coverage has been completely hysterical. It would all be quite ridiculous if it wasn't so obviously malevolent.
December 1, 2025 at 9:08 AM
The pre-budget coverage was preposterously long, and the post-budget coverage has been completely hysterical. It would all be quite ridiculous if it wasn't so obviously malevolent.
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For those in the UK, still with any doubt about the bias, the unfairness & the arrogance of BBC Tory Laura K, try watching a bit of her show today.
Count the times she interrupts Rachel Reeves mid sentence- I lost count.
Then count the times she interrupts Kemi Badenoch...
Zero.
Count the times she interrupts Rachel Reeves mid sentence- I lost count.
Then count the times she interrupts Kemi Badenoch...
Zero.
November 30, 2025 at 10:08 AM
For those in the UK, still with any doubt about the bias, the unfairness & the arrogance of BBC Tory Laura K, try watching a bit of her show today.
Count the times she interrupts Rachel Reeves mid sentence- I lost count.
Then count the times she interrupts Kemi Badenoch...
Zero.
Count the times she interrupts Rachel Reeves mid sentence- I lost count.
Then count the times she interrupts Kemi Badenoch...
Zero.
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Labour's Budget is for every street in Britain.
👉 Cutting energy bills
👉 Lifting children out of poverty
👉 Rebuilding public services
While our opponents hide behind cheap, divisive politics, we're getting on with the job: changing Britain.
👉 Cutting energy bills
👉 Lifting children out of poverty
👉 Rebuilding public services
While our opponents hide behind cheap, divisive politics, we're getting on with the job: changing Britain.
November 28, 2025 at 10:56 AM
Labour's Budget is for every street in Britain.
👉 Cutting energy bills
👉 Lifting children out of poverty
👉 Rebuilding public services
While our opponents hide behind cheap, divisive politics, we're getting on with the job: changing Britain.
👉 Cutting energy bills
👉 Lifting children out of poverty
👉 Rebuilding public services
While our opponents hide behind cheap, divisive politics, we're getting on with the job: changing Britain.
Scrappy is right.
Read this.
A scrappy indie outlet standing up to Farage’s bullyboy lawyers in a way that should shame better-funded outlets
A scrappy indie outlet standing up to Farage’s bullyboy lawyers in a way that should shame better-funded outlets
”Reform UK's barrister tried to scare us. Our advice to other news sites: don't play the bullies game." Martin Shipton from @nation.cymru on being bullied by Reform's lawyers: www.thenerve.news/p/reform-nat...
November 28, 2025 at 1:41 PM
Scrappy is right.
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The "don't have an extra kid if you can't afford it" brigade get awfully upset when you suggest they don't stay in their £2m house if they can't afford it, don't they?
November 27, 2025 at 11:39 PM
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WTF?! This is a whole other agenda. There really are some dinosaurs in the HoL aren't there....
Anti-choice campaigners want ALL dying people to take a pregnancy test before accessing an assisted death.
Amendments like this aren’t scrutiny - they’re sabotage.
Email Peers today and tell them a tiny minority must not derail the assisted dying Bill.
dignityindying.org.uk/actnow
Amendments like this aren’t scrutiny - they’re sabotage.
Email Peers today and tell them a tiny minority must not derail the assisted dying Bill.
dignityindying.org.uk/actnow
November 27, 2025 at 4:41 PM
WTF?! This is a whole other agenda. There really are some dinosaurs in the HoL aren't there....
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This is a long and laudable list and what is in the media? - tax goes up and Starmer out. Let's hope people see the improvements in their lives and in services and come to the right conclusion. Do I think this government is perfect - definitely not - do I fear an alternative - definitely.
What spending was announced / funded / committed to in the 2025 Budget?
It's a long list - and likely incomplete, so will add more if I hear of them!
+ recommits to £120bn public investment across the Parliament
+ doubling local roads funding - now over £2bn
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It's a long list - and likely incomplete, so will add more if I hear of them!
+ recommits to £120bn public investment across the Parliament
+ doubling local roads funding - now over £2bn
1/10
November 27, 2025 at 7:26 AM
This is a long and laudable list and what is in the media? - tax goes up and Starmer out. Let's hope people see the improvements in their lives and in services and come to the right conclusion. Do I think this government is perfect - definitely not - do I fear an alternative - definitely.
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Trump is making foreign tourists to US national park pay $100 (£76) per person to access 11 of the most popular sites.
Makes £1.30 per night tourism tax in Wales seem a bit tame doesn't it?
Weird that the politicians who said this would "kill tourism" in Wales are quiet about this...
Makes £1.30 per night tourism tax in Wales seem a bit tame doesn't it?
Weird that the politicians who said this would "kill tourism" in Wales are quiet about this...
November 26, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Trump is making foreign tourists to US national park pay $100 (£76) per person to access 11 of the most popular sites.
Makes £1.30 per night tourism tax in Wales seem a bit tame doesn't it?
Weird that the politicians who said this would "kill tourism" in Wales are quiet about this...
Makes £1.30 per night tourism tax in Wales seem a bit tame doesn't it?
Weird that the politicians who said this would "kill tourism" in Wales are quiet about this...
More pathetic (and sexist) 'journalism' on show. It's money (presumably a ridiculous amount of money) for old rope isn't it?!
I see the most important thing about the budget is what it means for Rachel Reeves’ career prospects and not… what it means for the economy.
November 27, 2025 at 6:41 AM
More pathetic (and sexist) 'journalism' on show. It's money (presumably a ridiculous amount of money) for old rope isn't it?!
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The two-child cap pushed half of children in larger families into poverty. Today, Labour abolishes it.
I stood for office to stop drawing charts and start changing them. This change will see the biggest drop in child poverty of any parliament on record.
Know what that is? Hope.
I stood for office to stop drawing charts and start changing them. This change will see the biggest drop in child poverty of any parliament on record.
Know what that is? Hope.
November 26, 2025 at 2:21 PM
The two-child cap pushed half of children in larger families into poverty. Today, Labour abolishes it.
I stood for office to stop drawing charts and start changing them. This change will see the biggest drop in child poverty of any parliament on record.
Know what that is? Hope.
I stood for office to stop drawing charts and start changing them. This change will see the biggest drop in child poverty of any parliament on record.
Know what that is? Hope.
Listened to 5 minutes of Radio 4 coverage and it was so ridiculous, so trite, so Daily Mail like, that I switched off again. Non existent journalism. Mason one of the worst.
Hey BBC Chris Mason, who are the “most people in the country are not happy about the two child cap being removed”?
Luckily my family are not impacted, but we will all gladly pay a bit more to help free more children from poverty.
Shouldn’t we all feel that way?
Luckily my family are not impacted, but we will all gladly pay a bit more to help free more children from poverty.
Shouldn’t we all feel that way?
November 26, 2025 at 6:28 PM
Listened to 5 minutes of Radio 4 coverage and it was so ridiculous, so trite, so Daily Mail like, that I switched off again. Non existent journalism. Mason one of the worst.
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No Prime Minister. Not you as well.
We've just got my 11 year old past all the 6-7 stuff (it's now over to listen to him)...
...just for my 7 year old to pick it up (it's even going to be in their Christmas play)...
...and now the PM.
When will it end....
www.instagram.com/p/DRcnNSxiS47/
We've just got my 11 year old past all the 6-7 stuff (it's now over to listen to him)...
...just for my 7 year old to pick it up (it's even going to be in their Christmas play)...
...and now the PM.
When will it end....
www.instagram.com/p/DRcnNSxiS47/
November 25, 2025 at 9:15 AM
No Prime Minister. Not you as well.
We've just got my 11 year old past all the 6-7 stuff (it's now over to listen to him)...
...just for my 7 year old to pick it up (it's even going to be in their Christmas play)...
...and now the PM.
When will it end....
www.instagram.com/p/DRcnNSxiS47/
We've just got my 11 year old past all the 6-7 stuff (it's now over to listen to him)...
...just for my 7 year old to pick it up (it's even going to be in their Christmas play)...
...and now the PM.
When will it end....
www.instagram.com/p/DRcnNSxiS47/
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observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
I'll never forget the horror of the COVID ward I was on as a patient either. If Johnson walks away from this gross negligence in office with just a smirk & an arrogant wink those days I spent there & can't forget will seem even more horrendous.
I'll never forget the horror of the COVID ward I was on as a patient either. If Johnson walks away from this gross negligence in office with just a smirk & an arrogant wink those days I spent there & can't forget will seem even more horrendous.
I’ll never forget the horror of the Covid wards | The Observer
observer.co.uk
November 23, 2025 at 8:35 AM
observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
I'll never forget the horror of the COVID ward I was on as a patient either. If Johnson walks away from this gross negligence in office with just a smirk & an arrogant wink those days I spent there & can't forget will seem even more horrendous.
I'll never forget the horror of the COVID ward I was on as a patient either. If Johnson walks away from this gross negligence in office with just a smirk & an arrogant wink those days I spent there & can't forget will seem even more horrendous.
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People really don't understand the concept ( and importance) of having grown ups in charge, do they? And the press in particular (then and now) seem to bitterly resent someone knowing what they're talking about , rather than spinning a load of BS to them and the public.
I have been critical of Keir Starmer over the past couple of weeks, but he was right here, despite being vilified by the press at the time.
November 22, 2025 at 8:59 AM
People really don't understand the concept ( and importance) of having grown ups in charge, do they? And the press in particular (then and now) seem to bitterly resent someone knowing what they're talking about , rather than spinning a load of BS to them and the public.
Woah....wonder how many other prosecutions might be in the pipeline....? 🤞🤞🤞
The ex-Reform leader in Wales has been sentenced to ten-and-a-half years in prison for taking pro-Russia bribes
Nathan Gill's "sophisticated" activity was a "grave betrayal" of public trust, a judge said on Friday
Lib Dem leader Ed Davey said Nigel Farage's party is a "danger to national security"
Nathan Gill's "sophisticated" activity was a "grave betrayal" of public trust, a judge said on Friday
Lib Dem leader Ed Davey said Nigel Farage's party is a "danger to national security"
Ex-Reform UK Leader In Wales Sentenced To Ten-And-A-Half Years In Prison For Taking Russian Bribes
Nathan Gill, the former leader of Reform UK in Wales, has been sentenced to 10-and-a-half years in prison for taking bribes from a pro-Russia campa...
www.politicshome.com
November 21, 2025 at 1:45 PM
Woah....wonder how many other prosecutions might be in the pipeline....? 🤞🤞🤞
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"State regulation should be to dignify and respect the freedom of individual choice, not deny it....For peers to seek to make it a legislative and bureaucratic bunfight is obscene."
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Unelected Lords are blocking assisted dying – this is a democratic outrage | Simon Jenkins
Second chambers are a good idea, but they should not be able to overturn clear decisions reached by an elected body, says Guardian columnist Simon Jenkins
www.theguardian.com
November 20, 2025 at 8:24 PM
"State regulation should be to dignify and respect the freedom of individual choice, not deny it....For peers to seek to make it a legislative and bureaucratic bunfight is obscene."
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Yep. When the s**t hits the fan you want Government run by grown ups with integrity and brains.
So be careful what you wish for. (And that includes Polanski)
So be careful what you wish for. (And that includes Polanski)
Having Johnson & Cummings in Downing Street when Covid struck was, just like Brexit, an entirely avoidable disaster caused largely by utterly appalling journalism. And now exactly the same clowns, arses & bigots with bylines are rolling out the red carpet for Farage.
www.thetimes.com/article/1b15...
www.thetimes.com/article/1b15...
Covid inquiry live: ‘Inexcusable’ delays under Johnson led to 23,000 deaths
Lockdowns may have been avoided if Boris Johnson’s government had acted faster, damning report finds
www.thetimes.com
November 20, 2025 at 9:45 PM
Yep. When the s**t hits the fan you want Government run by grown ups with integrity and brains.
So be careful what you wish for. (And that includes Polanski)
So be careful what you wish for. (And that includes Polanski)
Reading @guyshrubsole.bsky.social 'Who Owns England?' It is brilliant, terrifying, fury inducing, and eye opening. (And I can't believe that the FoI act was only introduced in 2005?!)
Read it and weep.....
Read it and weep.....
November 17, 2025 at 7:11 PM
Reading @guyshrubsole.bsky.social 'Who Owns England?' It is brilliant, terrifying, fury inducing, and eye opening. (And I can't believe that the FoI act was only introduced in 2005?!)
Read it and weep.....
Read it and weep.....