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Cats are liquid ♡

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no more stress thanks, i’m full

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Such a handsome boi

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I mean… who could resist…?

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People want good work.

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i hate tiktoks without closed captions i am not listening to your little video i want to read it

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I found a company called “Frantic Meerkat” who makes journals whose sole purpose is to call me out

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That makes me cry.

Another reminder that half the country will look at this, shrug, and vote for politicians that take bribes from private insurance. Vote Bernie. We need medicare for all!

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other people’s puppies when you offer them your hand: *gives you their paw*

my puppy in the same scenario:

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How I protect myself at work.

Not from covid

But from customers leaning behind me for those bargains 😂

#me #mine #work #asda #walmart #devil horns #metal #worklife #help #customers #reductions #bargains #asda worker

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So I got some new clothes 🖤

#black #clothes #emp #shirt #me #mine #myself

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Hey, dumb American question here. Every UK person I have ever met hates Margaret Thatcher. Why? What terrible thing did she do to piss off that many people for so long?

Where do I fucking start?

So, Thatcher was the bane of the working classes, and much of what she did still has repercussions to this day. So, in no particular order, just in the order I remember them, here are some things she did that pissed us off - 

•In 1989 she introduced this thing called the “Community Charge” but which everyone calls the “Poll Tax” which replaced an older system in which your tax payment was based on the rental value of your home. This new tax meant that people living in one bedroom flats would pay the same as a billionaire living in a mansion. Obviously, the rich loved it, everyone else… not so much. So there were riots (video of news about the riots) - There were lots of riots in the Thatcher years, and they were all notable for the extreme levels of police brutality.

(photo, poll tax protest in Trafalgar Square, 1990)

•Then there was her war on industry. There was a lot of inflation when she came to power, so she instituted anti-inflationary measures. All well and good… except not the way she did it. She closed many government controlled industries, most famously steel and coal. The amount spent on public industries dropped by 38% under Thatcher. The coal miners went on strike, for almost a year, but in the end, the pits were still closed, and 64,000 people lost their jobs. Unemployment rates soared in industrial areas, and inequality between these (generally northern or welsh) areas and the rest of the UK is still there. During the strike there were numerous violent clashes with the police at picket lines which were widely televised. As a memoir from one miner attests: “I saw a police officer with a fire extinguisher in his hand, bashing a lad in the back. I tried to get closer to note down the officer’s number but they were wearing black boilersuits with no numbers. The next thing I knew, a police officer struck me from behind. I was coming in and out of consciousness as I was dragged across the road into an alleyway. They blocked off the alley and beat another lad and me with sticks until I was unconscious.” (I can’t post the whole thing it’s too long, but read it in the Guardian) Images such as this swept the country, turning many people against Thatcher -

And after it was all over people felt Thatcher had lied, saying she wanted to close only 20 pits, when in the end, 75 were closed down.

• Inequality soared whilst she was prime minister. There is a thing called the gini coefficient, it is the most common method of measuring inequality. Under gini, a score of one would be a completely unequal society; zero would be completely equal. Britain’s gini score went up from 0.253 to 0.339 by the time Thatcher resigned.

•During her time as prime minister the notorious ‘Section 28′ was published. It stated: A local authority shall not (a) intentionally promote homosexuality or publish material with the intention of promoting homosexuality; (b) promote the teaching in any maintained school of the acceptability of homosexuality as a pretended family relationship. - Section 28 wasn’t repealed until 2003.

• She introduced the Right To Buy scheme, which allowed people to buy their council houses for a very low price, which, at first glance, seems like a great idea, allowing people who normally wouldn’t be able to afford their own home to have one - however, loads of people have entered the scheme and now we have far too little social housing, meaning there has been a sharp rise in homelessness.

• The Battle of the Beanfield was a clash between hippies and police near Stonehenge in 1985. 1300 police officers converged on a convoy of 600 new age travellers who were heading to Stonehenge to set up a free festival in violation of a high court order. Again, there was an insane amount of police brutality, and 16 travellers were hospitalised, 573 people were arrested (one of the biggest mass arrests in UK history) - “Pregnant women were clubbed with truncheons, as were those holding babies. The journalist Nick Davies, then working for The Observer, saw the violence. ‘They were like flies around rotten meat,’ he wrote, ‘and there was no question of trying to make a lawful arrest. They crawled all over, truncheons flailing, hitting anybody they could reach. It was extremely violent and very sickening.’” (source) - Once everyone was arrested, the empty vehicles, which were in many cases the only homes the travellers had “were then systematically smashed to pieces and several were set on fire. Seven healthy dogs belonging to the Travellers were put down by officers from the RSPCA.” (source same as above)

Most of the charges were dismissed in court after Lord Cardigan, who had tagged along with them to see what would happen, testified on behalf of the travellers against the police. 

•Her removal of Irish dissidents right to be placed in a category that essentially made them political prisoners instead of merely criminals led to a hunger strike that ended in 10 deaths, including that of Bobby Sands, who was elected from his prison cell, reflecting the immense national, and international support for Irish nationalists. Thatchers lack of sympathy, or even empathy led to her becoming even more of a hate figure.

• She presided over a rapid deregulation of the banks, which ultimately led to much of the problems during britains 2007-2012 financial crash many years later.

• She took free milk from school children, which, though not as serious as anything else listed here, directly affected every child in the UK and was very unpopular, leading her to get the nickname “Maggie Thatcher, Milk Snatcher”, which is still used today.

• Oh… and she supported Apartheid and called Mandela a terrorist.

This is nowhere near everything she’s done that pisses people off, but I hope it goes some way to explaining why when she died “ding dong the witch is dead” became number one in the UK charts, people partied in the streets, and people protested her (State funded) funeral. She is a decisive figure, some people in the UK do actually love her. I do not. She decimated the UK’s industrial heartland, she caused mass unemployment and the destruction of much of working class culture, she was cavalier in her financial policies and increased inequality by staggering levels, she approved serious police brutality and attempted to destroy the culture of unions in this country.  I fundamentally disagree with all she stood for and it angers me that her mistakes are still affecting this country and the people who live in it. And I am VERY angry that the current government are spending £50 million on a museum about her.

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Boris Johnson’s incompetence

Heya grils, gays and they’s! Today im talking about my favourite topic, the reasons I think Boris is an incompitent leader for the UK, and im sure if you’re reading this you probably think the same thing. From the god awful way he’s handled this pandemic to his racial/sexist words on his past, do you really think a man like this is suitable to run a country? Because i sure dont!

Before his rule of the country even began, he spread lies about brexit so he can get his own way for something that got rid of 2 prime minsters before him, it makes me wonder why he wanted brexit in the first place, was it a malicious grab for power, or was it something else that would make the rich richer and the poor poorer. This small (yet not wanted) thing that he did was only acompished in 2020 a whole 6 years after the referendum was held, you would have thought if he wanted something that bad that he was willing to lie for it thar he’d at least try to get it done in a timely fashion - I mean what else does he do, sit around and have children?

Once he came into power the tragedy of Grenfell tower occured, the partys responsible still havent taken responsibility, families still haven’t been rehomed and cladding still hasnt been removed. I thought he was supposed to keep the people of britain safe - not kill them off in a fire. This yet again shows his genuine incompitence to get things done in our country in order to keep us safe and healthy.

And then Covid-19 hit, the worst pandemic of the 21st centuary, and what does he do, wait until 100 peope catch it and THEN put us in a lockdown, i mean come on Boris what do you really think that would do? Now were 100,000 deaths in and he still refuses to apoligise for the lives that have been lost at the hands of him and his awful tory counterparts. He plans on opening schools again soon which were the whole problem in the begining, in my sixthform alone there were over 50 cases! And yes as much as id love to be doing face to face teaching the lives of those close to me is so much more important than that. Which is something Mr johnson doesnt seem to quite grasp, all he is interested in is money and making sure him and Donald Trump are besties, two arseholes together i say.

But beyond all of this, the politics, the jokes and the AWFUL haircut Boris’ attitude towards women, POC, muslims and comments on single mothers are just plain wrong. Here are some things the ruler of my country has said, “outrageous that married couples should pay for ‘the single mothers’ desire to procreate independently of men”, “voting Tory will cause your wife to have bigger breasts”, “I would… say that it is absolutely ridiculous that people should choose to go around looking like letterboxes.”, Black Africans labeled “piccaninnies” with “watermelon smiles”,“The problem is not that we were once in charge, but that we are not in charge any more.” referring to the continent of africa, and lastly “To any non-Muslim reader of the Koran, Islamophobia — fear of Islam — seems a natural reaction, and, indeed, exactly what that text is intended to provoke,”. Is this really ang way to talk about the people in your country, because i dont think it is. Let me know what you think of our primeminister in the comments, keep safe - and have a good day!

Leah

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