My Mum has just sent me this from a friend in Germany and it's messing with my head 🙃

Re: Home Office guidance supposedly issued in 2008 advising police not to intervene in child grooming cases because victims had ‘made an informed choice about their sexual behaviour’? BBC Verify carried out extensive searches of HO guidance across that period & found no evidence

Davey Boy Saveloy Osita Mba Victoria Derbyshire mgad 🎗️ nazir afzal One of the first FOIs about this whole rumour Nazir Afzal had unwittingly spread about Home Office circular 017 / 2008 and "informed consent" came in 2018 whatdotheyknow.com/request/child_… the response was nah, see for yourself + a link to the national archives whatdotheyknow.com/request/child_…

Davey Boy Saveloy Osita Mba Victoria Derbyshire mgad 🎗️ nazir afzal The source in the FOI about Jacqui Smith's Home Office saying "We believe they have made an informed choice about their sexual behaviour" is a far right Islamophobic Pro-Brexit site Alt News Media which grabbed the rumour in Nov 2018 and ran with it altnewsmedia.net/general/the-in…

Conclusive proof that the claims about a Home Office memo suggesting to police that children could make an informed choice about abuse were categorically wrong and unfounded. Now can we focus on the victims and action from all involved to protect children bbc.com/news/articles/…

We've launched 190 ads across England & Wales in support of our campaign to reform our archaic abortion law & protect women & girls from: 🚫 Life imprisonment 🚫 Arrests straight from hospital 🚫 Homes searched 🚫 Children taken away Email your MP at bpas-campaigns.org

We’ve written to MPs with MSI Reproductive Choices, NUPAS & BSCAP urging support for NC1 to the Crime & Policing Bill. ⚖️ End criminalisation now 📜 Reform abortion law for the future 👩‍⚕️ Deliver a new Abortion Act Abortion is healthcare – not a crime. Ask your MP to support NC1.

Nigel Farage says abortion laws are “utterly ludicrous.” and wants to cut back on a woman's right to decide how to plan her family MPs are watching. We have days to show them: the public backs protecting abortion rights. Join me and sign the petition now! you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/decr…

Robert Jenrick Out of interest, what would you suggest should be the consequences for a minister who unlawfully approves a planning application to help a party donor avoid £40m in tax?

Tuesday evening MPs will be voting on Tonia Antoniazzi's NC1 to stop the criminalisation of women under abortion law from 1861. Email your MP now, and let's get Parliament to protect women, protect abortion services, and vote for NC1 on Tuesday night bpas-campaigns.org

June 12 2025 - UN atomic watchdog rebukes Iran over nuclear breaches Iran has been expanding its nuclear activity since Donald Trump in 2018 abandoned the accord Tehran signed with the Obama administration ft.com/content/fbfd21… via @ft

“Nine years on from Brexit, 56% Brits want to see the UK return to the EU…Brexit is on course to cut UK trade by 15%, the government’s independent financial watchdog has warned, despite Vote Leave campaigners arguing [lying] it would receive a boost.” independent.co.uk/news/uk/politi…

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Robert John May III is a Republican member of South Carolina’s state house

“The public doesn’t like #Brexit . Has anyone told the media?…the general public and newspaper readers are not the same thing. They never perfectly aligned, of course; but now the group that reads newspapers is a fraction of the public as a whole.” newstatesman.com/politics/media…

Zia Yusuf You know you can’t access council data. And if you are, it’s illegal.

We are at the University of Birmingham 125yr anniversary concert and they are playing Credit to the Nation ❤️✊ #UoB125

"If Kamala gets 4 more yrs, the Middle East will spend the next 4 decades going up in flames + your kids will be going off to War, maybe even a Third World War, something that will never happen with President Donald J. Trump in charge. For our Country's sake Vote Trump for PEACE!

“The 4% loss translates to ~£40bn tax loss between 2019 & 2024, a period in which the government raised taxes by £100bn. “A large chunk of [the tax rises] wouldn’t have been necessary if the UK had remained in the EU or chosen a softer form of Brexit” archive.ph/dADIn