LibDem Cllr South Twickenham Chairman RBL Twickenham Branch 20yr Reserves 50yr IT@Telecomms Swim Cyclist? Redneck? Armed Forces Convenant Champion Poppy Seller
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Michael Butlin retweeted
Trump appeared before a large audience and began loudly insulting Norway—labeling the country a "toilet" and a "shitty dump"—because Norway had refused to award him the Nobel Prize.
Unless the Americans take the microphone away from him, by the end of his term, Trump will have managed to fall out with every single country on earth—with the exception of Vanuatu; and that only because he cannot pronounce the name.
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Michael Butlin retweeted
We need a breathing space budget: a Budget that slashes the cost of essential energy, fuel duty and public transport costs, and the high costs hammering hospitality businesses on our high streets.
Michael Butlin retweeted
Last Sunday, a woman called the sheriff because my grandmother was sitting on her beach.
I’m 20. I spend a week every summer with my grandma in the beach town where she grew up.
She’s 81. She has set up her chair at the same spot by the water since 1962.
This year there was a new house behind that spot. Big glass deck. Two signs stuck in the sand. PRIVATE BEACH. NO TRESPASSING.
Grandma read them and set her chair up anyway, ten feet from the water.
Twenty minutes later, the owner came down her stairs in a sun hat and told us to leave.
Grandma said she had been coming here longer than the house had.
The woman went back up and called the sheriff’s office.
A deputy walked down the public access path about half an hour later. The woman met him at the bottom of her stairs.
“I want them removed. Everything from my deck to the water is mine. It’s in my deed.”
Michael Butlin retweeted
🇦🇺 She survived the execution of her fellow nurses. Then, for three and a half years, her friends kept that survival a secret.
On February 16, 1942, Japanese soldiers ordered 22 Australian nurses into the sea at Radji Beach, on Bangka Island.
Two days earlier, the nurses had survived the sinking of the SS Vyner Brooke while fleeing Singapore.
Now machine guns opened fire behind them.
Vivian Bullwinkel, 26, was hit. She fell into the water and lay motionless until the soldiers left. Of the 22 nurses, she alone survived.
For 12 days, she hid with a wounded British soldier, tending him despite her own injury. Eventually, they surrendered. He died soon afterward.
In captivity, Vivian found other nurses who had survived the shipwreck. She told them what had happened on the beach.
They understood the danger: their captors must never discover that a witness to the massacre was still alive.
For the rest of their imprisonment, they never spoke of it.
Through hunger, disease, and years of captivity on Bangka and Sumatra, they protected her secret. Eight of the captured Australian nurses died before freedom came.
Vivian survived to testify at the Tokyo war crimes tribunal and spent decades honoring her murdered colleagues.
She died on July 3, 2000, aged 84.
During captivity, silence had helped protect her. Afterward, she made sure the world heard their story.
Follow @Vanguard_WW2 for more extraordinary lives behind the history of World War II.
Michael Butlin retweeted
Report: In ‘unprecedented confrontation,’ IDF chief resisting carrying out military action ordered by Netanyahu relating to Iran
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Michael Butlin retweeted
Farms in my constituency should not miss out on vital support just because the Sustainable Farming Incentive (SFI) application window quickly came and went.
Glastonbury ticket style approach for SFI meant that instead of merit it came down to who could click the fastest.
#LibDem
Michael Butlin retweeted
Best anecdote in Carol Thatcher's book about her father is when Sir Denis boarded a train at Paddington in which the only empty compartment was reserved for Rosewood Psychiatric Hospital.
Denis travelled alone and in comfort as far as Reading when "all these chaps piled in", accompanied by a male nurse, who counted them before the train moved off.
'One, two, three, four ... who are you?"
"I'm the Prime Minister's husband."
"Six, seven, eight, nine..."
Michael Butlin retweeted
Start making your neighbourhood greener: apply for a climate action microgrant 🌍
Our climate action microgrants of £100-£500 are available to help local projects get of the ground!
The deadline to apply is FRIDAY 30 October ⬇️
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ALT Queens Bench - group photo
Michael Butlin retweeted
A huge thank you to @GMB for featuring this letter on the show this morning @Annemariealex 🙏🏽
🎖️I've brought together 103 MPs from 11 parties & @PoppyLegion with a simple Budget ask:
Stop cutting injured veterans' benefits just because they've received military compensation.
Civilian compensation is protected. Veterans should be too.
Chancellor, this injustice must end
Michael Butlin retweeted
Board games cafe, Nexus Games, in Torquay has just won four awards, including the Rising Phoenix award for Best Community Space in Devon and the Best Board Game Cafe in Devon.
It was a delight to visit this week, along with Councillor Swithin Long, and congratulate owner Luke on the awards.
They pride themselves on being welcoming to everyone, and they are currently moving into the old Clarks shop up the road to support their growing business.
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ALT Swithin and Steve with Luke holding his awards at Nexus Games
Michael Butlin retweeted
The Richmond Society invites you to put your views to the people in power. At our annual forum, you can question @LBRUT councillors including the leader @Gareth_Roberts_ about the local issues that concern you. Join us on November 12th. eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-richm…
AS A CATHOLIC
TOUGH BISHOPS
EXPECT TO BE USE
BY TRUMP – at Richmond, London
Two Catholic bishops have expressed regret about agreeing to a White House meeting that produced a publicly distributed photo of them praying with President Trump. cbsn.ws/3W8mKnh
Michael Butlin retweeted
Two Catholic bishops have expressed regret about agreeing to a White House meeting that produced a publicly distributed photo of them praying with President Trump. cbsn.ws/3W8mKnh
Delightful evening on offer
Setting TEDDINGTON APART
Beautiful for all
Encouragement for all
Thank you – at Richmond, London
Rogue Opera is presenting an elegant and unforgettable evening of opera, exceptional dining and theatrical experience at The Anglers in #Teddington next month!👀
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Michael Butlin retweeted
Rogue Opera is presenting an elegant and unforgettable evening of opera, exceptional dining and theatrical experience at The Anglers in #Teddington next month!👀
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Michael Butlin retweeted
George W. and Laura Bush are backing James Talarico against Trump's terrible candidate Ken Paxton
Michael Butlin retweeted
Walker: "I nearly bought a wool jumper in town. £140. Nice work if you can get it."
Farmer: "I got about £2 for the fleece."
Walker: "£2?"
Farmer: "Per sheep, per year. Clipped it off her in two minutes, rolled it, bagged it, drove it to the depot. The cheque for the whole flock didn't cover the diesel."
Walker: "Then who's getting the £140?"
Farmer: "Not me, not the shearer. He costs me more per sheep than the wool fetches. I pay to have it taken off."
Walker: "So you lose money shearing."
Farmer: "Every year. And I can't not shear, or she cooks in July and the flies eat her alive. The wool's a welfare job that used to be an income."
Walker: "Sell it yourself, then. Cut out the middleman."
Farmer: "Not allowed. By law it goes through the board. Has done since 1950. I can keep a fleece for the wife to knit with, and that's about the extent of my freedom."
Walker: "So where does it go?"
Farmer: "Washed in Bradford, if we're lucky. Shipped to China, spun, knitted, shipped back, and sold to you with a label about heritage. By the time it's in the window there are eleven people between us and I'm the only one who met the sheep."
Walker: "That's mad."
Farmer: "My grandfather paid the rent on the wool cheque. I pay a man to take it away. Same sheep, same hill, same jumper in the window. Only the price of the farmer went down."
Walker: "What would fix it?"
Farmer: "You buying the jumper. And asking them where the other £138 went."
Michael Butlin retweeted
“You have 2 minutes to leave your home. If you don’t leave, we will shoot everyone.”
-Zionism, summarized in 16 words by Ahmad Imraish, from Hebron, Palestine.
