Doula. Psychotherapist. 4th Trimester Educator. Polyamorous. Bisexual. HoH/deaf. She/Her🦻🏼🏳🌈
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Manda Leon-Joyce retweeted
Now that we know the electorate isn’t actually gender critical and being a transphobe isn’t an election winner, can we PLEASE go back to ACTUAL women’s issues that need urgent attention?
Let’s stop letting the GC’s suck all the oxygen out of our fight for women’s liberation.
Manda Leon-Joyce retweeted
It doesn't feel like it, but Reform barely improve on UKIP's 2015 election. 14.3% of the vote vs 12.6%. 4 or 5 seats vs 1 seat. 98 2nd places vs 120. Not exactly a sea change. Yet seen as very significant given how close they pushed the Tories nationally in the polls.
I see all your hot takes but if we had PR voter behaviour would have been different. Voter behaviour adapts to the system you have, hence tactical voting. We very much need PR but the takes explaining what the landscape would be under PR cannot reliably use data from these polls.
Manda Leon-Joyce retweeted
unless labour pick up 620,000 votes in the remaining 5 seats still to declare, labour have actually lost hundreds of thousands of votes than their 2019(!) result and won a landslide this time lol
Manda Leon-Joyce retweeted
agree in part, but I think it's dangerous to extrapolate votes between electoral systems like voters do not adapt to it.
I'm pretty sure the end-result would have been quite different in a proportional system, where you can't really vote tactically for example.
Manda Leon-Joyce retweeted
With the Greens now having the same number of seats as Reform, the UK media should provide them the same platform and level of coverage as Farage’s ilk. Will it happen though? #GE24
Manda Leon-Joyce retweeted
Reposting this meme as we've signed up for another 5 years
If there's hope it's that Reform and the far right are really only "popular" thanks to the mainstream elite enabling it
Problem is the mainstream elite needs the hype to hide its failure to address various crises
Shout out to @LG_NHS staff member for phoning me from a noisy room about my audiology / hearing aid appointment, refusing to give me the name of the person my appointment is with* and then hanging up when I was struggling to understand what she was trying to call for. Wtf.
Manda Leon-Joyce retweeted
If you are in the UK, when did you get the test emergency alert?
44%Before 3pm
18%At 3pm
11%3:01pm to 3:30pm
27%Haven't had it yet
2,748 votes • Final resultsThe UK Government:
ThERe wILL bE an EmErgeNcY alert TeSt At 3PM
ALL OF THE UK at 2.59pm
#CanYouDoNothingRight
I don't frequent the bird app much any more - but I am newly over here doing my thing. Follows, links and comments very much appreciated 🙏🏼
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Manda Leon-Joyce retweeted
Ah fuck it, THREAD, I guess. I’ve tried to hold my tongue re: the lack of female guitar acts/female headliners/the “pipeline problem” at Glastonbury. But perhaps my experience is relevant. I am a female guitar act. I write big, singalong chorus songs that go great at festivals.1/
Is using "desperately needing a wee and yet not going because you've not finished your email/document yet" a common motivational tool, just me, or another subset.
Asking for reasons..
One of my partners described the current political situation as a WhatsApp group that goes bad and everyone leaves, then the last person in it becomes the group admin by default and yeah... I know no better way to describe how @RishiSunak is now the prime minister
Which specific part of
- jumper
- blue
- penguins
excludes girls please?
Me and my penguin obsessed but 'not a boy' toddler will wait... @welovefrugi
Oi @welovefrugi, what nonsense is this? 👀 You used to be a top pick for bold gender neutral clothes now this is regressive & needless. It's a jumper. It's blue with penguins. All kids can wear it. Quit it. 🐧.
@letclothesbe #letclothesbeclothes #everydaysexism #penguinsforall
