Sue
@messy-by-name.bsky.social
Slowly losing my mind, patience & filter! Centre Left. Politically homeless! Sweary AF.
Thyroid Cancer Survivor, Long Term Sick, Perimenopausal, Aphantasia
🚫 Crypto / Trading / Cam Girls / Anyone begging for money 🚫
Thyroid Cancer Survivor, Long Term Sick, Perimenopausal, Aphantasia
🚫 Crypto / Trading / Cam Girls / Anyone begging for money 🚫
"One of the things people are commonly worried about with this kind of program is that when you give people cash they’re going to be less likely to go to work and be less productive members of society. And we didn’t actually find any evidence of that in our study."
Enough testing. Just do it. #UBI
Enough testing. Just do it. #UBI
Notre Dame study finds Rochester's guaranteed basic income program worked
ROCHESTER, N.Y. — The city of Rochester announced that its Guaranteed Basic Income (GBI) program, which provided families with $500 a month for a year, was successful. The Wilson Sheehan Lab for Econo...
www.whec.com
December 13, 2025 at 3:36 PM
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Earlier this week Kemi Badenoch criticised the government’s use of relative low income as a measure of poverty.
Our recently updated child poverty explainer looks at the various ways in which the scale of poverty can be measured.
Our recently updated child poverty explainer looks at the various ways in which the scale of poverty can be measured.
Child poverty and the two-child benefit cap: explained – Full Fact
Our explainer looks at the different ways child poverty is measured, and the impact of the two-child benefit cap.
fullfact.org
December 13, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Earlier this week Kemi Badenoch criticised the government’s use of relative low income as a measure of poverty.
Our recently updated child poverty explainer looks at the various ways in which the scale of poverty can be measured.
Our recently updated child poverty explainer looks at the various ways in which the scale of poverty can be measured.
Very Happy 100th Birthday to the absolutely legendary Dick Van Dyke 🎂🎁🥳 💖
December 13, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Very Happy 100th Birthday to the absolutely legendary Dick Van Dyke 🎂🎁🥳 💖
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If you strip the 2600 ARRS GP jobs (recruitment but not retained) then the job market has completely collapsed
Yet Wes & NHS England sail on regardless ignoring the evidence
‘There is an iceberg ahead’ & General Practice will sink
Read here
www.gponline.com/nhs-data-rev...
Yet Wes & NHS England sail on regardless ignoring the evidence
‘There is an iceberg ahead’ & General Practice will sink
Read here
www.gponline.com/nhs-data-rev...
NHS data reveal 'collapse' in GP jobs in England
Availability of GP jobs has improved over the past year but remains far below the level seen in 2022/23, according to NHS data that shine new light on the extent of the jobs shortage in general practi...
www.gponline.com
December 13, 2025 at 10:14 AM
If you strip the 2600 ARRS GP jobs (recruitment but not retained) then the job market has completely collapsed
Yet Wes & NHS England sail on regardless ignoring the evidence
‘There is an iceberg ahead’ & General Practice will sink
Read here
www.gponline.com/nhs-data-rev...
Yet Wes & NHS England sail on regardless ignoring the evidence
‘There is an iceberg ahead’ & General Practice will sink
Read here
www.gponline.com/nhs-data-rev...
Ohhhhh naughty boy #Tommeh, what a shame 🤭
The UK courts have sent bailiffs after Tommy Robinson to collect over £100,000 in court costs.
So, the money hunt begins...
Read more here:
searchlightmagazine.com/2025/12/cour...
So, the money hunt begins...
Read more here:
searchlightmagazine.com/2025/12/cour...
Courts want £100k from Tommy Robinson - the money hunt begins | Searchlight
Tommy Robinson being told he has to pay £103,000 in court costs The festive season was brightened up immeasurably this week by the sight of Tommy Robinson o ...
searchlightmagazine.com
December 13, 2025 at 12:32 PM
Ohhhhh naughty boy #Tommeh, what a shame 🤭
🚨Farage is paid £11,250/hour to push “tax-free gold”.
Direct Bullion pay him more in 4hrs than the average Brit earns/year
🚨The firm that controls DB has no employees and just £96 cash in bank according to latest accounts.
Farage has pocketed £415,000 from DB 🤷♂️ bylinetimes.com/2025/12/11/n...
Direct Bullion pay him more in 4hrs than the average Brit earns/year
🚨The firm that controls DB has no employees and just £96 cash in bank according to latest accounts.
Farage has pocketed £415,000 from DB 🤷♂️ bylinetimes.com/2025/12/11/n...
Nigel Farage Accepts Another £135,000 From Gold Bullion Firm for Just 12 Hours Work
The Reform UK leader has pocketed £415,500 so far this year to act as the company's “Brand Ambassador”
bylinetimes.com
December 12, 2025 at 10:02 PM
As with everything, it's not a black & white situation, despite #Starmer saying 1M #NEETS are claiming benefits
✳️44% of all NEETs aged 16-24 don't receive out of work benefits
✳️Those with the lowest qualifications (GCSE max) dominates the NEET population
✳️8% of NEETS are aged 16-17
#Labour
✳️44% of all NEETs aged 16-24 don't receive out of work benefits
✳️Those with the lowest qualifications (GCSE max) dominates the NEET population
✳️8% of NEETS are aged 16-17
#Labour
With young people Not in Education, Employment or Training (NEET) back in the news this week, now is a good time to gain a better understanding of who they are.
For @lseinequalities.bsky.social, @louisemurphy.bsky.social unpacks three common misconceptions around NEETS ⬇️
For @lseinequalities.bsky.social, @louisemurphy.bsky.social unpacks three common misconceptions around NEETS ⬇️
Three myths about NEETs in the UK
NEETs (young people not in education, employment or training) are rising. Are they all claiming benefits? Has AI taken their jobs? Debunking three common myths
buff.ly
December 12, 2025 at 6:29 PM
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Santa doesn’t always arrive by reindeer...sometimes he takes the bus 🎅🚌
Today, Saturday and Sunday @Sunshine_Fund Santa’s Bus Grotto is on Nelson Street by Grainger, offering free festive fun for families. Open till 5.30 each day, a local charity bringing sunshine to many lives
Today, Saturday and Sunday @Sunshine_Fund Santa’s Bus Grotto is on Nelson Street by Grainger, offering free festive fun for families. Open till 5.30 each day, a local charity bringing sunshine to many lives
December 12, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Santa doesn’t always arrive by reindeer...sometimes he takes the bus 🎅🚌
Today, Saturday and Sunday @Sunshine_Fund Santa’s Bus Grotto is on Nelson Street by Grainger, offering free festive fun for families. Open till 5.30 each day, a local charity bringing sunshine to many lives
Today, Saturday and Sunday @Sunshine_Fund Santa’s Bus Grotto is on Nelson Street by Grainger, offering free festive fun for families. Open till 5.30 each day, a local charity bringing sunshine to many lives
Wouldn't it be amazing if he actually did something useful with his grotesque fortune!
I'm sure he won't want to help anyone other than himself, but I signed it anyway!
#ElonMusk
I'm sure he won't want to help anyone other than himself, but I signed it anyway!
#ElonMusk
Let’s make the world’s richest man feel like the richest man in town this Christmas! Sign our Christmas card inviting Elon Musk to gift 44% of his wealth to the children of the world to create 2 billion smiles and still be the world’s richest man alive! #WealthTax #TaxTheSuperRich
c.org/jnnZhmp6J4
c.org/jnnZhmp6J4
December 12, 2025 at 5:46 PM
Wouldn't it be amazing if he actually did something useful with his grotesque fortune!
I'm sure he won't want to help anyone other than himself, but I signed it anyway!
#ElonMusk
I'm sure he won't want to help anyone other than himself, but I signed it anyway!
#ElonMusk
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We're currently hiring for an Associate Director to lead our programme of economic research on health and/or healthcare and to join the IFS management team.
📅 Find out more and apply here by 11:59pm, Sunday 11 January 2026: app.beapplied.com/apply/jfzr0z...
📅 Find out more and apply here by 11:59pm, Sunday 11 January 2026: app.beapplied.com/apply/jfzr0z...
December 12, 2025 at 10:30 AM
We're currently hiring for an Associate Director to lead our programme of economic research on health and/or healthcare and to join the IFS management team.
📅 Find out more and apply here by 11:59pm, Sunday 11 January 2026: app.beapplied.com/apply/jfzr0z...
📅 Find out more and apply here by 11:59pm, Sunday 11 January 2026: app.beapplied.com/apply/jfzr0z...
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The work and pensions secretary has bragged about cutting disabled people’s support, 3 days after launching a child poverty strategy which warned more than a million children in families where someone was disabled were living in “deep material poverty”
www.disabilitynewsservice.com/mcfadden-bra...
www.disabilitynewsservice.com/mcfadden-bra...
McFadden brags about cutting disability benefits, just as his own strategy warns of ‘deep material poverty’
The work and pensions secretary has bragged about cutting disabled people’s support, three days after launching a child poverty strategy which warned that more than a million children in families w…
www.disabilitynewsservice.com
December 12, 2025 at 7:00 AM
The work and pensions secretary has bragged about cutting disabled people’s support, 3 days after launching a child poverty strategy which warned more than a million children in families where someone was disabled were living in “deep material poverty”
www.disabilitynewsservice.com/mcfadden-bra...
www.disabilitynewsservice.com/mcfadden-bra...
Lord Offord talking out his 🍑 He's literally got no idea what he's talking about, maybe he should shut up & listen, he might actually learn something!
The migration from ESA to UC has increased the no. of people claiming UC health element, it's not rising uncontrollably FFS.
#BBCQT
#Reform #Tories
The migration from ESA to UC has increased the no. of people claiming UC health element, it's not rising uncontrollably FFS.
#BBCQT
#Reform #Tories
December 11, 2025 at 11:14 PM
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Please remember this next time you hear Nigel Farage and Reform say we must leave the ECHR to control our borders
🚨 “Can I tell you how many times in the last 45 years the European Court of Human Rights has ruled against the UK when it comes to deporting people from this country - only 13 times - in 45 years”
Hugely important point made by @vicderbyshire.bsky.social 👏
Hugely important point made by @vicderbyshire.bsky.social 👏
December 11, 2025 at 8:45 PM
Please remember this next time you hear Nigel Farage and Reform say we must leave the ECHR to control our borders
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We'll be live at the slightly later time of 5:30 PM today to talk Royal Mail pensions and take your questions.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=l3VW...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=l3VW...
Royal Mail Pensions | CWU LIVE
YouTube video by CWU Live
www.youtube.com
December 11, 2025 at 4:28 PM
We'll be live at the slightly later time of 5:30 PM today to talk Royal Mail pensions and take your questions.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=l3VW...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=l3VW...
#Labour really should have been pushing the DWP to sort these figures out BEFORE they started attacking long term sick & disabled people!
This answers their "spiralling out of control" rhetoric and proves that things aren't as bad as they're trying to make out.
#Labour
#PIP #UC #WelfareNotWarfare
This answers their "spiralling out of control" rhetoric and proves that things aren't as bad as they're trying to make out.
#Labour
#PIP #UC #WelfareNotWarfare
December 11, 2025 at 5:58 PM
#Labour really should have been pushing the DWP to sort these figures out BEFORE they started attacking long term sick & disabled people!
This answers their "spiralling out of control" rhetoric and proves that things aren't as bad as they're trying to make out.
#Labour
#PIP #UC #WelfareNotWarfare
This answers their "spiralling out of control" rhetoric and proves that things aren't as bad as they're trying to make out.
#Labour
#PIP #UC #WelfareNotWarfare
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Figures suggest that in 2024, 21,300 care workers were paid less than the minimum wage, likely higher once we account for unpaid travel time.
The Fair Work Agency should play a central role in ensuring compliance with the Fair Pay Agreement, ensuring it is taken seriously by employers.
The Fair Work Agency should play a central role in ensuring compliance with the Fair Pay Agreement, ensuring it is taken seriously by employers.
December 11, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Figures suggest that in 2024, 21,300 care workers were paid less than the minimum wage, likely higher once we account for unpaid travel time.
The Fair Work Agency should play a central role in ensuring compliance with the Fair Pay Agreement, ensuring it is taken seriously by employers.
The Fair Work Agency should play a central role in ensuring compliance with the Fair Pay Agreement, ensuring it is taken seriously by employers.
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Parents warned about danger of 'baby sleep pillows' after infant deaths
Parents warned about danger of 'baby sleep pillows' after infant deaths
Parents are being urged not to use "baby sleep pillows" for babies under 12 months old because of their links to deaths in the UK and overseas.
news.sky.com
December 11, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Parents warned about danger of 'baby sleep pillows' after infant deaths
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📮 𝗥𝗼𝘆𝗮𝗹 𝗠𝗮𝗶𝗹 𝗖𝗵𝗿𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗺𝗮𝘀 𝗹𝗮𝘀𝘁 𝗽𝗼𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗱𝗮𝘁𝗲𝘀, for your information.👇🏻
December 11, 2025 at 2:48 PM
📮 𝗥𝗼𝘆𝗮𝗹 𝗠𝗮𝗶𝗹 𝗖𝗵𝗿𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗺𝗮𝘀 𝗹𝗮𝘀𝘁 𝗽𝗼𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗱𝗮𝘁𝗲𝘀, for your information.👇🏻
Why hasn't Labour just replaced the Lords with a 2nd chamber elected by PR? Instead we have more 30 more peers nominated by Labour, Conservative and Lib Dems. A PR elected chamber would have over fifty green members based upon the 2024 election result
December 11, 2025 at 2:14 PM
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This thoughtful Substack is a must read.
NHS data* reveal 'collapse' in GP jobs in England.
Availability of GP jobs remains far below the level seen in 2022/23
Continued lies by Labour about 2600 new GPs with just over 1100 FTE in post but other GP jobs gone!
open.substack.com/pub/davetris...
NHS data* reveal 'collapse' in GP jobs in England.
Availability of GP jobs remains far below the level seen in 2022/23
Continued lies by Labour about 2600 new GPs with just over 1100 FTE in post but other GP jobs gone!
open.substack.com/pub/davetris...
The Jobs That Disappeared - How GP Adverts Tell The Real Story About General Practice
The graph that made my stomach drop
open.substack.com
December 11, 2025 at 12:26 PM
This thoughtful Substack is a must read.
NHS data* reveal 'collapse' in GP jobs in England.
Availability of GP jobs remains far below the level seen in 2022/23
Continued lies by Labour about 2600 new GPs with just over 1100 FTE in post but other GP jobs gone!
open.substack.com/pub/davetris...
NHS data* reveal 'collapse' in GP jobs in England.
Availability of GP jobs remains far below the level seen in 2022/23
Continued lies by Labour about 2600 new GPs with just over 1100 FTE in post but other GP jobs gone!
open.substack.com/pub/davetris...
More "we're just normal people with concerns" type BS 🤢
These thugs have no interest in protecting women & children, they're vile racists out to target anyone who isn't white British!
If anything I'd have thought children would find these people terrifying!
#Reform
#FarRight
#Nazis
#NotInMyName
These thugs have no interest in protecting women & children, they're vile racists out to target anyone who isn't white British!
If anything I'd have thought children would find these people terrifying!
#Reform
#FarRight
#Nazis
#NotInMyName
Nationalist vigilante ‘street patrol’ groups with ties to Reform UK and the far right are falsely claiming to be working with the police, while seeking to infiltrate local school networks in order to “protect” women and children
bylinetimes.com/2025/12/02/t...
bylinetimes.com/2025/12/02/t...
The Reform-Backed Far-Right Street Patrols Coming to British School Gates
EXCLUSIVE: Nationalist vigilante groups, with links to Neo-Nazis, and the support of senior Reform figures, have been falsely claiming police backing while attempting to infiltrate local school networ...
bylinetimes.com
December 11, 2025 at 1:47 PM
More "we're just normal people with concerns" type BS 🤢
These thugs have no interest in protecting women & children, they're vile racists out to target anyone who isn't white British!
If anything I'd have thought children would find these people terrifying!
#Reform
#FarRight
#Nazis
#NotInMyName
These thugs have no interest in protecting women & children, they're vile racists out to target anyone who isn't white British!
If anything I'd have thought children would find these people terrifying!
#Reform
#FarRight
#Nazis
#NotInMyName
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I know some of my older constituents may be struggling with loneliness this winter. It's important to know what support is available that can help you find a way towards feeling better.
Read @agescotland's free guide on how to get support at www.age.scot/lonelinessguide
Read @agescotland's free guide on how to get support at www.age.scot/lonelinessguide
Feeling lonely?
Loneliness can impact anyone, at any age, but older people can be particularly at risk. Find out how Age Scotland's Friendship Service can help you to feel more connected.
www.age.scot
December 11, 2025 at 1:00 PM
I know some of my older constituents may be struggling with loneliness this winter. It's important to know what support is available that can help you find a way towards feeling better.
Read @agescotland's free guide on how to get support at www.age.scot/lonelinessguide
Read @agescotland's free guide on how to get support at www.age.scot/lonelinessguide
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We avoided regulating the Internet to spur innovation
Under Conservative governments, there was a desire not to intervene in the market
Now, big firms dominate - diversity, creativity & safety have suffered
Let’s not make the same mistakes with AI.
Under Conservative governments, there was a desire not to intervene in the market
Now, big firms dominate - diversity, creativity & safety have suffered
Let’s not make the same mistakes with AI.
December 11, 2025 at 10:19 AM
We avoided regulating the Internet to spur innovation
Under Conservative governments, there was a desire not to intervene in the market
Now, big firms dominate - diversity, creativity & safety have suffered
Let’s not make the same mistakes with AI.
Under Conservative governments, there was a desire not to intervene in the market
Now, big firms dominate - diversity, creativity & safety have suffered
Let’s not make the same mistakes with AI.
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NHS ‘facing worst-case scenario’ as hospital flu cases jump 55% in a week
NHS ‘facing worst-case scenario’ as hospital flu cases jump 55% in a week
Number of people in England being treated remains at record level for this time of year with daily average of 2,660
The number of people in hospital in England with flu remains at a record level for this time of year and has increased by 55% in a week, NHS figures show.
An average of 2,660 flu patients were in hospital each day last week, up from 1,717 the previous week. At this point last year the number stood at 1,861 patients, while in 2023 it was just 402. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
December 11, 2025 at 10:24 AM
NHS ‘facing worst-case scenario’ as hospital flu cases jump 55% in a week