The term illegal immigrants being tossed around on mainstream news channels to describe people seeking asylum. Just because the government wish this was illegal doesn’t make it so.

Liz Truss has just suggested people’s motivation to work harder and get a promotion is money, so that’s why cutting taxes is a priority. Thing is, money ISN’T the main or only motivator in life, otherwise no one would be a nurse, care worker, teacher etc #ToryConference

Word of the day is ‘bayard’ (16th century): one who has all the self-confidence of ignorance.

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RT if you are right behind your striking postie tomorrow. This is a fight to save the postal service of the UK. Are you with your local postperson or are you with the millionaire bosses? #StandByYourPost

THREAD: Energy Bill Support Grant. I have just been notified that I will get £67 a month off my energy bills under the govt scheme. For enormous numbers of people this support will be absolutely vital. But it won't be vital for everyone, and that includes me. (PLS RT) 1/

Petition for aisle chairs to be made mandatory on all UK flights - Sign the Petition! chng.it/VxfhFZz2 via Change.org UK

Today Royal Mail declared war on your local postie. Ripping up terms and conditions, coming for the union and destroying the service. Still our members will not bow down. RT if you stand with your postal worker and will back them whatever it takes. #StandByYourPost

I just made 5000 sales on Etsy. Thank you all so much for your support ❤️ etsy.me/3A7Fpl7

This is going to be one hell of a week for postal workers. Facing an out of control CEO and threats to their job, terms and conditions. They take strike action on Thursday and Friday. Are you with management or your postie? Pick a side. RT if you back postal workers.

Dear Mr Thompson, I’m a Royal Mail customer and I back your workers 100% and have complete solidarity with the CWU CWU. Have you considered that the problem might be you, and how you’re letting down your brilliant workforce? Please pay our posties properly. 👇

An open letter from Simon Thompson who earned £753,000 last year including £142,000 "short term bonus" mirror.co.uk/money/royal-ma…

This is a which side are you on moment Mick Lynch and rail workers or this rotten government? Dave Ward and posties or bullying bosses and shareholders? Jo Grady and university workers on insecure contacts or millionaire vice chancellors? RT if you are with the workers

I ASK EVERYONE WHO SEES THIS TWEET TO PLEASE RT IT. Tomorrow nurses strike. They will be put through hell by the media, politicians and the establishment. Ahead of the action please share this tweet if you back the nurses and find it sickening that they are being vilified.

NHS nurses hold the hands, tend the wounds, save the lives, wash the dead. They comfort us, console us, diagnose us, save us. They toil & smile & endlessly care. Not a single NHS nurse wants to strike tomorrow. They’re desperate. Please show NHS nurses some love. Please RT 💙

The cost of meeting the nurses' pay demand - £1.6bn 🏥 Cost of Sunak's bank tax giveaway - £7.3bn 💸 They have the money to give nurses a proper pay rise- they just don't want to. RT if you back a real pay rise for our nurses 👊

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Why are paramedics on strike? 📉Real pay down £6,000 since 2010 🏥Hours-long delays at hospital due to lack of beds 😞 53% struggling to cope with demands of their jobs 🚑A third witnessed cases where a patient's death was linked to a delay RT if you're with them 👊

I don't tweet much these days, all the changes to Twitter mean I'm not sure who'll see this. But, once upon a time my twitter was very much a place where miracles happened. So perhaps at the end of this terrible year, there's enough love left for a Christmas miracle for Howard /1