Rexx
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Rexx
@rexxsch.bsky.social
Retired, spent a lifetime in education and technology. Lifelong socialist.
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🗣️ "According to the Sutton Trust, 38% of teachers have seen growing numbers of pupils coming to school hungry."

We were mentioned by MP for Slough, Tan Dhesi, in a debate on the rollout of primary school breakfast club the House of Commons 👇
November 21, 2024 at 2:13 PM
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Women, on average, are asked 5 times to stand before they say yes. I said no many more times than that. When you meet a young woman that you know is going to lead the future, you absolutely have to ask her to stand. Who would you ask to stand? #askhertostand #5050parliament
November 21, 2024 at 4:27 PM
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Equal Pay Day reminds us of the persistent gender pay gap: today marks the point where women effectively work the rest of the year for free compared to men.

I'm glad that the government is working towards closing both the gender pay gap, as well as the racial and disability pay gaps.
November 20, 2024 at 4:43 PM
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🚨 Major policing reforms announced 🚨

✅ Neighbourhood policing at the heart

✅ Government performance unit to drive force-level improvements and end the postcode lottery on law and order

✅ New national policing body

✅ Half a billion pounds of additional funding for policing next year
November 19, 2024 at 1:02 PM
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Jeremy Clarkson is turning up to the protest tomorrow.

A reminder that he bought his 312-acre farm in 2012 for £4.25million in HIS OWN WORDS so that he:

*would not be required pay death duties on the land*
November 18, 2024 at 11:01 PM
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Just a reminder of what trade deals “with the rest of the world” have done for us compared with what we have lost and continue to lose…

(Private Eye)
November 18, 2024 at 8:58 AM
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Finally NHS waiting lists are starting to fall, which means Labour’s plan has started to work since they settled the strikes!

#NHS #Labour #KierStarmer
NHS waiting list finally starts to fall after backlog increased for a decade
NHS England data suggests the waiting list - which still stands at 7.57 million - could be seeing the first sustained fall since the Tories came to power in 2010
www.mirror.co.uk
November 15, 2024 at 11:46 AM