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Day 19 @ARAScot
#Archive30
#DigitalArchives
Technology is great when it works, but sharing this “timeline” to illustrate what can be produced. All the photos are unrelated to Whitchurch Hospital and there are numerous errors in the accompanying text. Can you spot them?
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Lowe continuing his boggle-eyed campaign against a tiny group of children who've been injured in one of the deadliest conflicts on the planet.
I've been pushing for information from the Home Office on how many Gazan migrants who were allowed into the country for free NHS treatment have now claimed 'asylum'.
I am told by the minister 'the requested information on asylum claims from individuals who entered the UK under the Gaza medical evacuation scheme is not available from published statistics.'
Key bit?
'Published statistics'.
They know exactly how many Gazans have immediately claimed asylum, but are refusing to tell us.
It's a scandal. It will be hundreds and hundreds and hundreds.
Claim asylum, become refugees, live on benefits for the rest of their lives.
Brilliant. What a great deal for us that is.
Restore Britain's position is clear.
We must not accept a single migrant from Gaza.
Not one.
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Four simple steps to be vote ready! 🗳️
Get ready for the elections on 7 May
✍🏼 Register to vote by 20 April
📮 Apply for a postal vote by 20 April
🪪 Apply for Voter ID by 28 April - if you don't have a passport or driving licence (England only)
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The Prime Minister’s plan to offer rapid routes to settlement for those earning six-figure salaries whilst punishing and making lower-paid workers wait appears to be based on the notion that care workers are “low-skilled” because they are low-paid - its an absolute disgrace.
Care work is highly skilled work and only paid so poorly because of the failure of successive governments to value it properly - just think about that - and now the prime minister actually wants to punish migrants who have come to this country at our invitation - to work in our health and social care sectors - by forcing them to wait 15 years before being granted indefinite leave to remain instead of the five years they were promised before they made the decision to uproot their lives to come and work here - its reprehensible.
🚨THE PRIME MINISTERS SHAMEFUL IMMIGRATION PLAN WILL KEEP PEOPLE WORKING IN KEY INDUSTRIES LIKE CARE IN TEMPORARY STATUS FOR A DECADE OR MORE. It will keep people in insecure work, make them more easily exploitable, poorer and marginalised - WHEN DID THAT BECOME THE POLICY OF A LABOUR GOVERNMENT?
The Institute for Public Policy Research has shown the governments proposals will be a fiscal cost to the UK for decades - it will directly undermine the government’s child poverty strategy and starve our society and economy of the skills we need to fulfil the government’s important ambitions on industrial strategy, housebuilding, manufacturing and in health and social care.
It would also undermine community cohesion and integration - weakening the bonds that hold our society together - AND ALL FOR WHAT - SO THE PRIME MINISTER CAN SHAMELESSLY BE SEEN TO BE COMPETING WITH FAR RIGHT PARTY’S LIKE REFORM.
And now new data suggests the changes planned by the government will deliver just a fraction of claimed savings.
THE GOVERNMENT WON’T ACHIEVE DECENCY OVER DIVISION BY TRYING TO BE REFORM LITE.
Contact your MP now and ask them to oppose this
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The striking stained glass window in Belfast City Hall commemorating the International Brigades. 48 mainly working class men volunteered from the city.
Gandesa, Belchite, Madrid, Brunete, Teruel, Córdoba....
Thanks to Paul Mullen for this photo.
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This is good on what is probably the most significant aspect of the Senedd race so far: how low-key and underwhelming the Reform Wales campaign has been.
I was expecting them to be full of energy and taking the fight to Plaid and Labour. But it's all been weirdly flat.
While they may well tell us that it’s ‘Time for Reform’, on the evidence of the 2026 Senedd election campaign, Reform itself seems far from ready ✍️Richard Wyn Jones wp.me/p8Mk4U-1jtn
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Great way to start the day in Rhiwbina, hearing from residents about issues in the Garden Village and talking about a New Chapter for Wales with @welsh_labour 🌹🏴
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❗ Tomorrow is the last day you can register to vote for next month’s Senedd Election 🗳️
Don’t lose your vote, make it count.
Register here orlo.uk/voyJg
ALT A man stands on a city street holding a black tote bag printed with the words “I’m registered to vote” in bold white and pink lettering. The background shows buildings, streetlights, and a wide paved walkway. A pink panel at the bottom displays the message: “Register to vote in the Senedd election by 20 April. It’s quick and easy.” The Electoral Commission logo appears underneath.
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Canvassing in #Rhiwbina this afternoon. 🌹
Thank you to all our amazing volunteers who give up their time to make days like today happen - we couldn’t do it without you.
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"Britain is building a culture where people think they can do what they like and nothing will happen."
As a pretty @welshlabour @cardiffnorthlabour pretty active kind of boomer I’d cut the GenAngst and give the universal social goods to all for all as needed for all - guess I’ll probably vote too
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There are great Universities in Wales. And there are great ones across the UK. Welsh students should be able to choose where they go on the basis of the course they want, the experience they want, & should be supported
Nationalists should not penalise them. Pathetic Plaid policy
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“I shall take my voice wherever there are those who want to hear the melody of freedom.”
Celebrating Paul Robeson, born April 9, 1898 - baritone, actor, athlete, scholar, social activist, and lifelong friend of Wales.
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Racist right-wingers organised a protest outside Lush Cosmetics in Oxford over their window display supporting asylum seekers.
Only about four people turned up, and anti-racists greeted them with chants of "Get yourself a bath bomb to wash away the Nazi scum."
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Pope Leo's Easter message:
"Let those who have weapons lay them down! Let those who have the power to unleash wars choose peace! Not a peace imposed by force, but through dialogue! Not with the desire to dominate others, but to encounter them!"
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Starmer is going to have to cancel the trip by King Charles to this vile madman.
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🌹 Knocking doors in #Llanrumney this weekend. We’re committed to making life more affordable and protecting communities from global fossil fuel price shocks through Welsh energy sovereignty.
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Great morning knocking doors in Stow Hill ward with the Welsh Labour team 🌹
We spoke to residents about:
Minimum & living wages going up ⬆️
Pensions going up 🛗
New workers rights being introduced from today 👩🏭
A great Easter weekend so far 🐣
Iain Claridge retweeted
Day 4 @ARAScot
#Archive30
#UntoldStories
#Whitchurchhospitalcricket
It’s fair to say that there are many many untold stories but we are choosing #Cricket 🏏
We have been asked to help @wh_cc
with their story as it’s their Centenary, Can you help
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