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i believe that tori spring would either be the master of boops and would boop everyone to get those badges, or she wouldn’t give a shit at all… there’s no in between
#tori spring nation#tori spring stan#tori spring heartstopper#tori spring#solitaire#michael holden#heartstopper#heartstopper tori#boop#boop meter#send boops#boopblr#booping#boop o meter#april fool's day#april fools 2024#april fools#april fools event#april fools boops
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feeling the need to post on tumblr whenever something goes wrong just to see if anybody gets me
#i am i face very anxious right now#something is happening#why isn’t he responding#taylor swift#taylor nation#taylornation#folklore#eras tour#swiftie#osemanverse#heartstopper#solitaire#tori spring
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The significance (and loveliness) of Alice giving us an update on National Coming Out Day with Michael saying it’s not important that he & Tori align with the societal expectations of dating or relationships.
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Okay, gonna watch season 2 of Heartstopper today. I'm seriously hoping Tori gets to punch someone. She's kind of my favorite character.
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We talk about this a lot atleast irl, but I can't wait for the day my niece or someone maybe gets into Käärijä in like 15 years, just like kids are now getting into old rock bands, and I can tell them what it was like to actually experience everything as it was happening. Like yes we did have a fucking yogurt with his face on it, he had hairspray, you went to London and saw his cumface ad on a bus stop, around nye you couldn't step on the metro without seeing his face on the vuosi vaihtuu ad, during spring facebook marketplace and tori was filled with any neon green item being sold as "Käärijä toilet brush" or "Käärijä bottle opener", when he lost his bolero on the highway it made national headlines, every week you'd hear of yet another small town filled to the brim as he performed at some tiny festival, during Eurovision we dressed our lantern bearers in Helsinki in giant boleros, a presidential candidate referenced him as like the 8th word in his opening speech, he really was fucking everywhere. Like how crazy that all of us got into this as it all started and we've seen these updates live as they come
#gonna tell my nieces and nephews about the kaivohuone show as if it were queen at live aid 1985#yeah kids he came to do cha cha cha in the crowd with us!!#gonna recite bojere lore as if its scriptire i swear to god#'so on the original nordic tour september of 2023' and theyll groan like yeah mf we know#käärijä#jere pöyhönen#cha cha cha
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By India McTaggart and Tracey Kandohla
21 April 2024
The first statue of Queen Elizabeth II since her death has been unveiled to the approving barks of nearly 50 corgis.
The permanent memorial to Britain’s longest-reigning monarch – complete with her own immortalised dogs – has been hailed as a fitting tribute for the “mother of our nation.”
The eye-catching 7ft bronze statue went on display on what would have been the late monarch’s 98th birthday, with a group of her favourite dogs stealing the show.
It takes pride of place outside the library in the market town of Oakham, in Rutland, Britain’s smallest county.
It depicts a youthful Queen Elizabeth – who stood at just 5ft 4in – standing at 7ft in regal robes with three loyal corgi companions at her feet, one peeking out from the creases.
It serves as a permanent reminder of her 70-year reign and her enduring affection for the Pembroke Welsh breed.
Sculptor Hywel Pratley believes the memorial will become a hit not only with royal fans, but that it will attract social media users wanting a selfie beside the late monarch and her dogs.
Speaking before the unveiling in front of a 400-person crowd and with a host of local dignitaries attending, he said:
“The plinth is designed to be sat on and I can see the statue becoming popular with the Instagram generation, and why not?
It will make a perfect backdrop for pictures and people will be able to reach up and pat a dog or if small enough even sit in its back.”
Mr Pratley, 51, who is half Welsh and lives in Chelmsford, Essex, told how he chose to add the corgis for a “bit of fun and to tap into the late Queen’s humanity and address her friendliness.”
He explained he made the statue larger than life because a “life-size Queen Elizabeth is too small. She deserves more.”
The £125,000 statue was commissioned by Dr Sarah Furness, the Lord-Lieutenant of Rutland, following the Queen’s death in September 2022.
Addressing the crowds in the spring sunshine, she said:
“We are witnessing a piece of history today with the first statue of Queen Elizabeth to be commissioned since her death and who gave us 70 years of exemplary service.
Rutland may be a small county, but the response to this had been huge with contributions from local businesses and individuals of varying sizes.”
As she spoke, barks from 46 dogs from the Welsh Corgi League rang out, and she said, smiling: “You can hear them!”
She added: “The statue is for everyone.”
Before his cancer battle had been known and made public, King Charles III had been invited to unveil the statue.
It is not known if Palace officials had agreed to the request.
Instead, the honour fell to Alicia Kearns, the Tory MP for Rutland and Melton, before being blessed by Debbie Sellins, the Bishop of Peterborough.
One resident, Hilda Townsend, said: “It is just wonderful. We are the tiniest county, but the first to honour the late majesty in such a big way. It is a very fitting tribute.”
Her husband, John, added: “It is absolutely amazing and, as Rutlanders, makes us extremely proud.”
The unveiling of two of the three bronze corgis was given to two young children who had won a local school art competition.
In an emotional speech, Ms Kearns, 31, said:
“It is an incredible statue of our beloved Queen, who showed unwavering commitment.
We hope we can reflect on her legacy of compassion, strength and leadership. The statue was no mean feat and is for all of Rutland and all of our country, and to come together in joy. Rutland leads and others will follow.”
The MP revealed that the King would be visiting the statue.
Crowds of local residents mingled with visitors from further afield, some waving Union flags, with children sporting gold paper crowns on their heads.
She told spectators: “I am proud to play my very small part in helping to celebrate her reign,” pointing to the statue and saying: “She belongs to all of you.”
Following the unveiling, a lone bagpiper played a lament to the late Queen and the National Anthem was played, with crowds joining in.
Dozens of corgis, some wearing red, white and blue, then posed beside the new monument with their owners and officials before parading along the packed streets to Oakham Castle for a meet-and-greet session with the public.
Among the corgi owners was Katrina Emptage from Lincoln, with her two-year-old pet, Mable.
She said: “The statue is absolutely amazing and I’m delighted to be here to see it and be part of the corgi parade. It is very special.”
The late Queen held a life-long, deep affection for the breed after she fell in love with the dogs as a child.
She owned more than 30 over the years, many of which were direct descendants of the first, Susan, which was given to her as an 18th birthday present by her parents in 1944.
Speaking of his inspiration, Mr Pratley said:
“I very quickly thought that I would like to have a corgi nestling in her robes by her feet because what a great symbol it is, artistically, of her being mother of a nation.”
#Queen Elizabeth II#Her Majesty The Queen#British Royal Family#royal corgis#corgis#dogs#statue#memorial#7ft bronze statue#Oakham#Rutland#pembroke welsh corgi#Hywel Pratley#Dr Sarah Furness#Oakham Castle#Susan
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oh, absolutely! and that’s why i’m honestly so fed up with these online leftists. they act like they were the first people to sound the alarm on bunch of horrible shit and go all defeatist, completely disrespecting the work of activists and organizers who have been trying to fix these issues since before they were even a thought. there’s this widespread idea that the systems won’t ever work in a way that’s fair because they weren’t designed to, and while yes, the systems were designed to be unfair and awful to marginalized groups, gutting them won’t solve the problem if there’s nothing to replace them with. mutual aid is a wonderful thing and i’m happy to see people talking about it but i don’t think a lot of them realize it can’t replace a system. it can help but it can’t be this thing you throw everything into because you’re disillusioned with the systems. the only way to make those systems better is to vote in candidates who will but these people are so sick of being told to vote they just refuse to even entertain why people may be telling them to do that.
See, this is where far-right libertarians and far-left "burn the whole system down!!!" ideologies once more collide. Far-right libertarians don't want to participate in society and don't want to be responsible for the welfare of others and don't want any rules and definitely no regulations and so on and so forth. Far-left "revolutionaries" claim to want the same thing in terms of destroying the existing system, but they do so out of some misguided idea that either some new and completely perfect system will magically spring from the ashes (spoiler alert: no), or that informal neighborhood-level networks of mutual aid (however they define that, when they're often willing to totally exclude people who disagree with them about the smallest things, so why would they help people they disagree with on everything else?) can replace, as you say, the entire system.
The thing is, if you're reduced to informally scraping along with your local neighbors and have absolutely no other recourse or formal system of governance and/or distribution, you're living in a failed state, and nobody who has ACTUALLY been through that experience thinks, as the Online Leftists do, that it would be a great idea. This is another thing about their total failure to learn from history, or listen to anyone who isn't American, despite the tankies' insistence that America causes all evil in the world forever. My friends who grew up in the former USSR sure don't think their system was great, even if it was called "socialism" or "communism" or whatever terms the left wants to use with no appreciation of their difficulties. And so on.
Basically, it reminds me of when the Brexit loons were insisting that it made no difference to food supply if Britain left the EU, because, and I quote, "Britain is a nation of farmers, we can grow food in our back gardens!" As if the entire point of human civilization has been to bring us back to personal subsistence farming, which has generally been acknowledged throughout history to totally suck and also be the least reliable way of providing for yourself, and also... the idea that personally growing food in your nice back garden in Kent can replace the entire structure and system of the EU single market and customs union is completely absurd. To say the fucking least, and to anyone whose brain isn't poisoned with Brexit Brexit Brexit! And yes, hey presto, Britain is now experiencing food difficulties and frantically blaming it on anything except Brexit. Meanwhile, Sunak finally negotiated a new Northern Ireland protocol with the EU, but it's anyone's guess if it'll pass the Commons, since the Tory backbenchers just reflexively nuke anything that suggests any cooperation with the EU or any acceptance of EU law. Because they want to pretend the EU never existed! (Even though it was Margaret Thatcher's idea/initiative, shh.) Yeah. That'll work.
So yeah. If you live in your own world where facts don't exist, or exist only to support your preferred ideology, and your insistence that destroying the system with nothing to replace it is the best idea... it is, uh, dumb. Which is the nicest way I can possibly put it. It's never worked out before, it won't work out now, and honestly, "I'm tired of being told to vote after I didn't vote and then things went wrong!" is an argument I have NO sympathy for whatsoever. I know things are bad. You know things are bad. If there's a simple, easy way to start fixing it -- and systems CAN be fixed, even if it takes time and is not the instant dopamine gratification of moral posturing on social media -- where you have to participate once every two years, and you don't do it, then yeah. I don't think that person is serious about fixing anything, and I have no obligation or desire to listen to them at all.
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Get to Know Me
name: Victoria
height: 5'2" and some change
nickname /s: Vic, Tori
nationality: American (I'm sorry)
favourite fruit: I'm a pineapple girlie when it comes down to it, I think.
favourite season: Autumn. I love the spooky vibes and mild temperatures. (Spring brings pollen and sneezing, I'm heat intolerant so summer renders me useless, and I hate the cold)
favourite scents: Anything tropical, fruity, some florals, cut grass. Honestly, anything that smells like I'm on some island down in the Caribbean strikes my fancy.
favourite animals: Pandas, narwhals, wallabies, axolotls, fruit bats, cheetahs
tea, coffee, hot cocoa: I'm an iced coffee girlie when it comes to coffee. Green tea when it comes to tea. General hot cocoa fiend.
average hours of sleep: I need AT LEAST 8 to function like a semi-person.
when my blog was created: July 2022
# of followers: At least 1
random fact: I have a balisong and can do tricks with it.
favourite food: I feel like it changes all the time, but I love Shepherd's Pie always
favourite t.v. shows: (Disclaimer I do watch more YouTube than tv, so bare with me). Haunting of Hill House, Looking for Alaska, Expedition Unknown, Ghost Adventures, History's Greatest Mysteries, Jersey Shore
favourite movie/s: Pride & Prejudice (2005), Mad Max: Fury Road
are both easily my favorites but some others are; Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl, Across the Universe, Ever After (The Cinderella movie with Drew Barrymore I need to clarify that), A Cinderella Story, The Cat Returns
sexuality: Bi.
pronouns: She / Her
favourite book series: SERIES? Okay, uh, The Raven Cycle
favourite video game/s: BIOSHOCK (I don't acknowledge or include Infinite in it. It's good as a standalone game). BioShock 2 I've played more, but BioShock is great as a classic.
favourite subject: Astronomy / Astrophysics
guys or girls: For what?
last time I cried: Yesterday! I'm a big crybaby!
what I should be doing: Getting ready for a CT scan. But, alas, Sam's account and Ordinary Adventures have my attention.
favourite fandoms: I'm going to get crucified but Star Wars. It's the only one I really consider myself a part of and actively immersed in. Yes, it's as bad as you've heard stories of, yes I love my dramatic space guys and gals.
Tagged by: @honeyedxhearts
Tagging: You!
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If we owe George Osborne anything, it is irrefutable empirical evidence that using the analogy of a credit card for a nation’s budget (along with inane “belt tightening” and “fixing the roof when it is sunny” metaphors) is a terrible basis for prudent fiscal policy. It is true that the Tories will leave scorched earth behind for the next government, with a budget dripping in red ink and a pitiful level of investment in the technologies and services the UK needs to escape a long-term slump. But this is precisely the reason why Labour must reject the austerian urges that, inevitably, spring from the credit card analogy.
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The state’s budget is nothing like a credit card. As chancellor of the exchequer, your (tax) income is highly dependent on your (public) spending. Limit your spending and you have limited your income too. This is why the more Osborne slashed public spending in the 2010s, the more money he needed to borrow. By adopting the “maxed credit card” narrative, Reeves endorsed Osborne’s flawed logic and, indirectly, absolved the Tories for the wanton damage they have inflicted on a generation of Britons.
Austerity, and the credit card analogy that provides its thin veneer of logic, is not just bad for workers and people in desperate need of state support during tough times; it also depresses investment. By hastening the stagnation of a society’s aggregate income, it signals to businesses that they would be mad to put money into building up the capacity to produce the output that society is too impecunious to buy. That’s how austerity undermined investment in Britain and that’s how it will annul Labour’s ambition to draw in private green investments, now that Reeves has ditched her modest green public investment plan, replacing it with wishful thinking that the private sector will, magically, make up the difference.
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Freetime Posters - 12 Nature Hobby Posters
Happy Saturday everyone! It's the weekend, so it's time for the second set of Freetime hobby posters. This week's hobby is one of my favorites, Nature! Swatch, info and download under ye olde cut!
Like the last set, these are on @linacheries’ wonderful 4t2 conversion of Simsza’s National Park Prints (mesh is included) and feature a dozen designs made with Flaticon elements + a bunch of Simlish fonts. They're all inspired by locations, features, items and Sims from the game.
Translations:
Grow
Veronaville Birdwatching Society
Autumn Colors
Riverblossom Hills Garden Club
Yuku haru ya / Tori naki uwo no / Me wa namida (Spring is passing / the birds cry, and the fishes' eyes are / with tears) I read and write a lot of haiku; this is one of my favorites by Matsuo Bashō.
The woods are lovely, dark and deep... Taken from another favorite poem, Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening by Robert Frost
McGreggor Farm 115 Old Farm Road, Riverblossom Hills Inspired by my favorite kilted Sim, Leod McGreggor from Riverblossom Hills
Lost Willow Park Since TS2 lacks any dedicated fishing lots, I borrowed the name of one from TS3's Riverview
Adventure Awaits
Lovely Ladybug Loft Advertisement for the in-game item
Contrary to what you believe, Gardens are easy with our seeds! Inspired by Opal Contrary, nature enthusiast from Desiderata Valley (whose surname was just perfect for this bit of advertising copy lol)
Top: Greaves Greener Gardens | Bottom: where the grass is always greener For the Desiderata Valley nature community lot
A numbered swatch is also included for your convenience.
Icons are by Freepik, photo3idea_studio, justicon, max.icons, AmethystDesign, luvdat, Jesus Chavarria, Good Ware, ultimatearm and Smashicons, and used with much appreciation as always! <3
DOWNLOAD (SFS) ~375KB...hooray! 🎉
Lots of love,
Spacey
UPDATE: Now that this series is complete, here is a master list of all the posts, plus a single download link for all the posters. All swatches are included, and files are sorted into folders so you can easily keep just what you like:
Tinkering
Nature
Arts & Crafts
Fitness
Science
Cuisine
Sports
Games
Music & Dance
Film & Literature
DOWNLOAD ALL THE POSTERS (SFS) Recolors are ~8.5MB
You can now also get all the designs on BV's Travel Keeper!
#s2cc#ts2cc#ts2 download#sims 2 download#ts2 art#ts2 custom content#sims 2 custom content#s2 cc#ts2#ts2 posters#ts2 wall decorations
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Recently UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak ruled out holding a general election on May 2nd – the date many localities are holding elections.
So now we have a better understanding why there won't be a spring general election.
According to an extensive survey, if elections for the House of Commons were held now, Conservatives might end up with fewer than 100 seats in the 650 seat chamber. By comparison, Conservatives won 365 seats in the last election in December of 2019. Expressions like catastrophe and wipe-out are appropriate in describing the Conservatives' likely electoral fate.
The Conservatives are on course for their worst election result, winning fewer than 100 seats, according to a new poll.
The seat-by-seat analysis gives the Tories 98 constituencies compared with Labour’s 468, giving Sir Keir Starmer a 286-seat majority, the Sunday Times has reported.
The 15,000-person poll, conducted by agency Survation on behalf of Best for Britain, gives Labour a 45% vote share with a 19-point lead over the Conservatives.
Rishi Sunak’s party is on track to win 98 seats with none in Scotland or Wales, according to the research. It also suggests the prime minister is at risk of losing his own constituency, the new Richmond & Northallerton seat in North Yorkshire, to Labour with his lead less than 2.5 percentage points.
The analysis forecasts that Reform UK will come second in seven seats and achieve an overall vote share of 8.5%, just behind the Liberal Democrats on 10.4%
The poll also suggests the Scottish National Party would pick up 41 seats, the Liberal Democrats 22 and Plaid Cymru two.
The London based betting company Smarkets currently gives Labour chief Sir Keir Starmer a 90.91% chance of becoming prime minister after the next election. Incumbent Rishi Sunak gets just 2.50%; that's even behind Conservative Ben Wallace, a former defence chief, who currently is not even in government.
Of the 21 UK general elections since VE Day in 1945, 11 have been held in May or June. Only 1 was held in July with none in August or September. Although there hasn't been an October election since 1974 (the last of four since 1945), my guess is that Rishi Sunak may just wish to get it all over with by that point; on October 25th he will have been PM for two full years.
#uk#uk general election#british politics#parliament#house of commons#rishi sunak#conservative party#keir starmer#labour party#tory wipe-out
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yooo i really wanna try something so let's see how this goes!
give me a character from one of these fandoms (put it in my asks) and i will give my headcanons for that character.
fandoms:
marauders
osemanverse
a good girl's guide to murder
six of crows
haikyuu
the inheritance games
(yeah ive just forgotten everything ive every liked so heres a couple fandoms to work with)
#marauders#james potter#sirius black#remus lupin#peter pettigrew#lily evans#marlene mckinnon#dorcas meadowes#wolfstar#regulus black#osemanverse#charlie spring#nick nelson#nick and charlie#tori spring#tori spring nation#heartstopper#solitaire#harry potter#this winter#alice oseman#a good girls guide to murder#agggtm#pip fitz amobi#pippa fitz amobi#cara ward#andie bell#ravi singh#pipravi#i want pip and ravi back
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like when you think about it, the UK really epitomises the whole "nationalise the problem, individualise the solution" thing. the NHS is one of the most stark examples of this. Struggling for decades because since Thatcher, it's been carved up and sold off to private companies one bit at a time. During COVID countless healthcare workers died and now the NHS is on its knees, completely unable to provide adequate care to people in a reasonable timeframe. A national problem that's blindingly obvious no matter where you are.
The way to lighten the NHS's workload? Here's just a few.
Make Drs appointments increasingly inaccessible. Oh you have to call at 8am on the dot to get an appointment. Called at 30 seconds past 8? Too bad, none left. More often than not, GPs try to fob you off and will refuse to investigate your problems properly. On screens in the waiting rooms, you'll have guilt trippy messages playing about how patients need to not let their frustrations out on staff. If you call the surgery, you have to listen to 2 minutes of a recorded message telling you what you all CAN'T come to the surgery for. Please try literally anywhere else first. Who cares that pharmacists, dentists etc are also increasingly oversubscribed and inaccessible.
Make A&E and hospitals hostile and scary places to go to. Make GPs dismissive and condescending. Make people wait to get medical care. Maybe they'll just give up and leave instead.
Allow private healthcare companies to spring up in massive numbers, and allow them to run ads on television. At the same time, make wait times at the NHS unacceptably long. The wealthy will go private in order to get their medical needs met in an acceptable timeframe.
Import legions of foreign workers under a "Healthcare Visa" which is basically glorified, legalised labour trafficking. After all, most of the healthcare workers who died of COVID were black and brown people, so we gotta replace them with more black and brown people to die in the line of duty.
Let private companies run social care services both care homes and in the community. There's no possible way this could ever go wrong, especially not when these are run for profit and have to "bid" to get care contracts from councils, which usually go to the lowest bidder.
Make people work impossibly long shifts and then make a shocked pikachu face when healthcare workers burn out in unprecedented numbers, or leave for the private healthcare sector where work is easier and pay is better.
Run PSAs about what you need to treat at home and not go to the GP for. Run PSAs about what you definitely shouldn't go to A&E for. Clearly, it's the ordinary people of the country who are the problem, for going to the Drs for every stupid little thing.
Guilt trip people for missing appointments because they're "wasting valuable time".
Push blame for the state of the NHS onto striking nurses and vilify unions.
Don't ever, ever mention on the news and media that there's a very clear cause of this (political decisions made by mostly the Tories over the past 4 decades) and that the solution also has to be political.
And this is just the tip of the iceberg really.
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“When I give food to the poor, they call me a saint. When I ask why the poor have no food, they call me a communist.”
― Dom Helder Camara, Dom Helder Camara: Essential Writings
Potty mouth James Cleverly has a fondness for the word “shit". He apparently described the government’s flagship Rwanda deportation scheme as “batshit”, but then denied he had used such language.
"James Cleverly repeatedly refuses to deny he called Rishi Sunak’s scheme ‘batshit’.” (Independent: 16/11/23)
Within a few days of that denial he was denying he had called the constituency of Stockton North a “shithole", following a child poverty question in the House of Commons.
During Prime Ministers Questions, Rishi Sunak was asked by the Labour MP for Stockton North why 34% of children in his constituency were living in poverty. Sunak, answered that 1.7 million FEWER people were living in poverty due to the policies of his government, and that 100,000 fewer children were living in poverty than when the Labour Party left office in 2012.
During that exchange Cleverly was allegedly heard to say “Because its a shithole". Under pressure, Cleverly admitted he used “unparliamentary” language, claiming he was insulting the MP and not his constituency.
“Allies of Home Secretary James Cleverly insist he DIDN'T call Stockton a 's**thole'... but did call Labour's Alex Cunningham a 's**t MP' in bizarre row over Commons hot mic moment." MailOnline: 23/11/23)
Typical of the Tory right-wing press and the Tories themselves, the original question about child poverty has been totally sidestepped. I have no idea if the MP for Stockton North is a good constituency MP of a bad constituency MP. Either way, he is certainly NOT responsible for the high level of child poverty in his area. That shameful figure is the result of repeated Tory governments cutting of public services, welfare benefits and local authority funding.
Let us look at Sunak’s claims about poverty in general and child poverty in particular.
He assured us that “1.7 million fewer people” were now living in poverty due to HIS policies. Sunak came to power on October 22nd, 2022, so poverty figures for 2022/23 are not yet complete or available, so how Sunak can make this claim is uncertain.
What we do know from government figures for the year 2021/22 is that relative poverty INCREASED while absolute poverty remained static.
What we also know is that in 2021, when Chancellor Sunak was asked about poverty levels in this country he lied. He stated on BBC Breakfast Programme:
"The number of people in poverty has fallen as a result of the actions the government has taken over the last several years” (06/07/21)
When this claim was fact checked, it was found that :
“Tory government statistics show the number of children in poverty in the UK rose by 600,000 between 2011 and 2019. The latest evidence (from a Tory think tank) says another 150,000 children are living in poverty since the pandemic – despite any aid from the Chancellor." (The National: 06/07/21)
And in 2022 we had this headline:
“More than one million to fall below the poverty line after Sunak's spring statement, think tank says." (ITVX: 24/03/22)
Turning to child poverty, Sunak claimed 100,000 fewer children were in poverty due to his interventions. Again, the figures for 2022/23 have yet to be compiled so how does he know?
For the year 2021/22 child poverty figures went up from the year before, the governments own figures showing a rise from 3.9 million to 4.2 million for children in relative poverty after housing costs were taken into account, while the number of children in absolute poverty remained the same at 3.3 million.
As tedious as it is to trawl through statistics, tables graphs and other data regarding poverty in this country it is essential that we realise that under successive Tory governments the number of those living in poverty is on the increase despite claims to the contrary.
Cleverly’s crass remarks regarding child poverty shows the true heart of the Conservative Party – blame the poor for their own plight. A place is a “shithole" not because it’s public services are under funded, or its schools are crumbling, or the rents are too high and their are no jobs, but because of the type of people that live there: the poor. Inflation, benefit cuts, housing shortages and the rising cost of living have nothing to do with turning a place into a shithole. It is the people who are to blame.
The sooner these arrogant, out of touch, rich, hypocritical, uncaring Tories are removed from office the better.
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James Cleverly has said the “unreasonable practice” of overseas students bringing their family to the UK will end as restrictions on visa routes come into force on Monday.
The Home Secretary said the ban, which affects all but those enrolling on postgraduate research courses and ones with Government-funded scholarships, will cut migration by tens of thousands.
The measures were announced in May by his ousted predecessor Suella Braverman shortly before official figures showed net migration running at 672,000.
The move could hit universities which rely on foreign student fees and could also harm the UK’s reputation as an international destination, experts have warned.
It means that as of Monday, international students starting courses in Britain are no longer allowed to obtain visas for their dependants, unless they are on a postgraduate research programme or a Government-sponsored course.
Prime Minister Rishi Sunak tweeted: “From today, the majority of foreign university students cannot bring family members to the UK.”
The Conservative Party leader said the announcement showed that the Government was “already delivering for the British people” in 2024.
Mr Cleverly said: “This Government is delivering on its commitment to the British public to cut migration. We have set out a tough plan to rapidly bring numbers down, control our borders and prevent people from manipulating our immigration system, which will come into force throughout this year.
“Today, a major part of that plan comes into effect, ending the unreasonable practice of overseas students bringing their family members to the UK. This will see migration falling rapidly by the tens of thousands and contribute to our overall strategy to prevent 300,000 people from coming to the UK.”
Immigration minister Tom Pursglove said: “Our world-leading universities rightly attract some of the brightest students from around the world to the UK.
“But we have seen a surge in the number of dependants being brought by students, which is contributing to unsustainable levels of migration.”
Revised Office for National Statistic (ONS) figures released last month showed net migration ran at a record figure of 745,000 in the year to December 2022. It stood at a provisional 672,000 in the year to June 2023.
Earlier in December, Mr Cleverly set out a raft of new restrictions that he said would cut numbers by 300,000 a year, including hiking the salary threshold for Britons bringing foreign spouses to the UK to £38,700.
The move was criticised for threatening to tear families apart, with many having their future thrown into doubt as the Government considered the details of the policy.
Ministers later rowed back by quietly announcing the threshold would first be raised to £29,000 and then increased in “incremental stages” until spring 2025, which in turn angered MPs on the Tory right in favour of tighter migration controls.
The Home Office said the new package is a “tough but fair” approach, insisting the changes to student visas strike the right balance between “attracting the brightest and best” to Britain but “removing the ability for institutions to undermine the UK’s reputation by selling immigration not education.”
Experts have previously expressed concern about the measure.
Nick Hillman, director of the Higher Education Policy Institute (Hepi) think tank, said international students will go to competitor nations if they are discouraged from coming to the UK.
“As a country, we risk cutting off our nose to spite our face,” he warned.
“International students benefit the UK in all sorts of ways. For example, they are vital to maintaining our world-class university sector as their fees cross-subsidise the teaching of home students and also help to fund UK research.
“I don’t celebrate the new changes and I urge ministers to keep a close eye on competitor nations, who may now seek to recruit those people who would otherwise have come here and benefited the whole of our country.”
Labour has backed the restrictions but said they do not go far enough to tackle “deep failures” in skills and training across the UK labour market or boost the country’s sluggish economy.
“Labour supports these restrictions on dependants for overseas students on shorter courses. However, this is nothing more than a sticking plaster,” shadow home secretary Yvette Cooper said.
“The Tories’ complete failure to tackle skills and labour market problems is undermining growth as well as increasing migration.”
In the year ending September 2023, 152,980 visas were issued to dependants of students.
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Hey! My name is Ally, I go by they/it! I'm a little silly and weird... I am a 15-year-old American, but I'm like...90% European. I can speak a LITTLE Chinese, as I have taken two years worth of language classes. 你好! 我喜欢比萨饼。 我是叫 Bruce Wayne。😎 (My Chinese sucks, sorry to all native speakers)
Games I Like/Play:
Honkai Star Rail
Dead Plate
Doki Doki Literature Club
Sally Face
Pony Town
Cookie Run Kingdom
Hatsune Miku: Colorful Stage (Pjsk)
Shows I Like/Watch:
Sk8 The Infinity
She-Ra
Percy Jackson
My Hero Academia (only sometimes..)
Schitt's Creek
The Owl House
The Promised Neverland
Hazbin Hotel
Helluva Boss
Other Things I Like!!
Drawing
Creepypastas
Cats (I have three!!)
Reading (thriller, romance, fantasy)
Sharks
Ducks
Fireflies/Lightning Bugs
Dragonflies!!
Gummy worms
Chocolate
Being gay and doing crimes
Raccoons!!
"Solitiare" by Alice Oseman
"None Shall Sleep" by Ellie Marney
Into/Across the Spiderverse
My Favorite Characters:
Dr. Ratio, Sampo
Amity Blight, Lilith
Yuri, Monika
Fyodor, Chuuya (I've never seen BSD)
Octavia, Stolas
Vox, Velvet, Alastor
Catra, Scorpia, ENTRAPTA!!!
Tori Springs, Michael Holden
Sal, Larry, Ashley
Aoyama, Toga
Miles, Hobie, Spider-Cat, Peter Parked-Car
Toby, Jeff, NINA AHHHH
Rody, Vincent
Favorite Bands/Artists!
Paramore!!1!1!!1!
Panic! At The Disco
Good Charlotte
Dropkick Murphys
Hatsune Miku. /nj.
Arctic Monkeys
MIRANDA LAMBERT (+Pistol Annies)
ROB ZOMBIE!!
PIERCE THE VEIL ❤
ADO (ADO NATION AHH)
Black Sabbath
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