kristinna retweeted
If you've convinced yourself that being pressured into marital sex is simply part of being a good wife, then a woman who calls that behaviour abusive presents an uncomfortable possibility…that something you've accepted, endured, or even defended as normal might have been wrong.
And sometimes the easiest response, rather than asking yourself why a man who supposedly loves you is doing that to you, is to dismiss her as weak, hysterical or desperate to be a victim.
kristinna retweeted
If you’re wondering how hard it is to get a rape conviction, it took six women, all of whom
testified against him, to get the jury to believe he raped only one of them. Now imagine how hard it is when a woman on her own is trying to get justice against her rapist.
kristinna retweeted
It's shocking to see 'low-wage care workers' portrayed as a drain on the welfare state. They're doing essential jobs and the only reason they claim benefits is that the fat cat private equity bosses that own care homes don't pay them enough to live on.
kristinna retweeted
The new minimum wage in the UK is now £27,456 per year. Sounds good, right?
Not really. It's still nowhere near enough for a single person to cover the basics.
£27,456 a year works out at roughly £1,869 a month after tax, National Insurance and workplace pension contributions.
Now let's do the maths:
Rent: £900
Council Tax: £140
Utilities: £170
Fuel/car insurance/tax: £300
Monthly food shop: £300
Phone bill: £50
WiFi: £30
That leaves you £21 short every month, just to cover the basics. You're already in the red before you've even paid for toiletries, emergencies or anything resembling a social life.
Even if you get rid of your car and rely on public transport, costing around £200 a month, you'd have just £79 left to last you the entire month.
People will say get housemates, rent a room or budget better. But if you're working full time, your wages should cover the basics and leave you with something to save every month.
Nobody is asking for a luxury lifestyle. They're asking for a full-time job to provide a decent standard of living.
One of the richest countries in the world, where millions of people are working full time and still living payday to payday.
We're not living. We're just surving.
kristinna retweeted
In England, vaccine uptake landed around 70 percent, meaning 30 percent never took a single dose. Denmark came in the same. So did Finland. Africa was even lower. America lands in that same range, roughly 30 percent who never vaccinated.
That number is worth sitting with. Under the largest coordinated propaganda campaign I’ve ever seen, every government on earth, the WHO, the WEF, the UN, all working in lockstep with a twenty four hour news cycle, 30 percent of humanity still said no. Different countries, different media systems, and the number held steady everywhere.
We didn’t even know there were this many of us. People were too afraid to talk about it at work. When employers mandated vaccination to return, I told people to start talking to their coworkers. If the numbers held true in their own workplace, 30 percent of the room could have walked out together.
Thirty percent changes governments. This is an international movement, and we have to keep speaking up loudly, or we lose both free speech and the most powerful chance for change we’ve had in a generation.
kristinna retweeted
🔴@Helen_Whately, Shadow Secretary of State for Work & Pensions, has claimed £2 MILLION expenses in 10 years.
£300,000 relates to her own travel and accommodation - yet she only lives 50 miles from London.
Her boss, @KemiBadenoch has 3 children, claims £2.7K per month to rent a 6 bed farmhouse & tried to claim expenses for a family holiday.
The country can't afford these @Conservatives.
- @Heccles94
kristinna retweeted
Please read posts by the parents of unvaccinated children…👇
As a parent of 4 unvaccinated children:
We’ve been to the pediatrician no more than 10 times in total for all 4 children during their first 18 years of life.
It’s a similar story with my other unvaccinated friends.
Not at all normal for the vaccinated.
Less vaccines = better health outcomes.
#vaccines
kristinna retweeted
Do you think anyone in Britain wants to be reading this right now? We are all up to our necks suffering an unaffordable cost of living and you're quite literally bragging about all the billions our government is awarding you
I had a great conversation with the UK Prime Minister @AndyBurnham, and we are grateful to Britain for its unwavering, strong, and truly leading support. Today, Britain made a strong decision to provide an additional £10 billion in financial support – £7 billion in economic support over the next three years, and another £3 billion in British export support, primarily for the supply of much-needed weapons that will strengthen our protection of lives. This is on top of the annual support Britain already provides to Ukraine.
A truly strong and very timely step – coming right as Russia needs to see and feel that Ukraine will not be left alone to deal with the problems Russia is so eager to escalate. Every step to strengthen Ukraine brings Russia closer to realizing that it must end this war of its own making.
Of course, Andy and I also discussed sanctions policy, and Britain will remain principled on this – setting an example that matters globally.
I am grateful to Britain, to Prime Minister Andy Burnham and his team, and to every person around the world who understands that standing with Ukraine is the right thing to do – that it means being on the right side of history.
🇺🇦🇬🇧
kristinna retweeted
We can’t help our elderly, we can’t afford police stations in our towns, we can’t afford to allow our armed forces to practice war game scenarios, we can’t afford new prisons or hospitals… and our taxes are at 85 year highs.
BUT £10 BILLION FOR UKRAINE -
F**K OFF
kristinna retweeted
Someone more intelligent than me please explain how the UK can be 3 trillion in debt, completely on our arse but still find 10 billion to fund a war that has fuck all to do with us ?
🚨 NEW: John Healey has announced Ukraine will receive £10bn in additional economic and military support
"We called him this morning... he told us we made his day"
#Budget
Meanwhile poverty in the UK increases and the general public believe disabled, sick & vulnerable people should not receive enough £ to survive …..
Seriously WAKE UP
There’s enough £
We just send it to other countries
kristinna retweeted
Tesco are making £4bn a year in profit.
About 50% of their staff are on Universal Credit.
Why don't we crackdown on this unneeded benefit for billionaires?
kristinna retweeted
Middle class being squeezed hard. Poor are better off, rich are better off, but any professional salaries job is screwed. Keep in mind as well a lot of those jobs require uni degrees with huge loans now required
kristinna retweeted
Mind boggling till you realise it's on purpose.
Min wage only started in 1999, but run it from there:
1999 → £3.60 an hour = £7,488 full-time. 40% kicked in at £32,335 → 4.3x
2027 → £27,456 vs £50,270 → 1.8x
They didn't make the min wage rich. They froze the line and dragged everyone up to it.
kristinna retweeted
After mortgage, council tax, gas, electric, fuel, insurance, road tax, maintenance, food & clothing £5.4k pm / £65k a year doesn’t go far.
HMRC takes £43k including employers ni plus any other consumption taxes like vat or tax on fuel.
we are taxed far too much.
