*unless you're: 1) A #Grenfell survivor 2) Homeless 3) From the #Windrush generation 4) An EU citizen living in the UK 5) A UK citizen living in the EU 6) An Airbus worker 7) On a zero hours contract 8) Young 9) Disabled 10) A refugee
Have I left anyone out? #PMQs
lots more good suggestions coming in: 11) Teachers 12) Users of Sure Start centres 13) Not a homeowner 14) A rail commuter 15) Receiving Universal Credit 16) Hit by the bedroom tax 17) Relying on a food bank
Keep them coming in; unfortunately this could go on for a while.
even more of your examples: 18) A WASPI woman 19) A public sector worker 20) A student 👩🎓 👨🎓 21) A carer 22) A fire fighter 🔥 23) Living near the Northern Ireland border 24) In need of legal aid 25) A badger
I’m sure there must be more...
A night to sleep on it and you’ve come up with yet more examples: 26) Suffering from mental health 27) Recently graduated with extortionate debt 28) People who breathe air in London 29) A northerner 30) Scottish 🏴 31) Welsh 🏴 32) Northern Irish ☘️
You don't seem to be running out of examples 33) A single parent 👩👧 34) Anyone against up-skirting 📸 35) A woman facing period poverty 🙋♀️ 36) A child wishing they had access to music, art & drama 🎼🎨🎬 37) A Carillion worker 38) Anyone working in the health service 🚑🏥
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The Home Office has been broken by a public discourse that has gotten out of control. A xenophobic rhetoric that has become accepted by too many. The UKIPification of our newspapers, TV, and our politics.
4 months after they first met with @ukhomeoffice, 2 of my Windrush constituents are still waiting for essentials like residence cards, suitable accommodation and the right to a bank account.
This is a drop in the ocean & just spin until we know full numbers deported, detained & those hounded out of their home country by the home office. Apology is crocodile tears & an insult to people still not given hardship fund, left jobless, homeless & unable to afford food.
Home Office covering up scale of the scandal by consistently refusing to answer my questions, including those to the PM back in April. This will all be viewed as just spin until every single person affected gets an apology and compensation.
According to @sajidjavid 6,507 people contacted the #Windrush taskforce, were considered possible #Windrush and referred for a call back to progress their case. 2,272 people have now been given documentation confirming their status.
Well done Stormzy for giving back and leading the way, once again.
You don't need to use your power and platform to bring others with you, but you do it anyway. bbc.com/news/amp/newsb…
This should spark a proper conversation about access to Oxbridge and other top unis, because as the data shows, access spending has totally failed.
The proportion of disadvantaged students at Russell Group unis has only increased by 1% since 2010. theguardian.com/education/2018…
Oxbridge should follow its Harvard/Yale peers and offer all disadvantaged students who get the grades full scholarships.
With a combined wealth of £21bn, they can certainly afford it. This would begin a much-needed process of serious structural change. theguardian.com/education/2018…
.@Michael_Heaver just cannot help himself from trying to define racism. Please send help and dictionaries to @WestmonsterUK.
The Macpherson report defines racism from a victim's point of view. This is important here because there is clearly an unequal power distribution between Johnson, Eton & Oxford-educated, former Foreign Sec, and Muslim women, who are some of the most vulnerable in our society.
Muslim women are the most economically disadvantaged people in the UK - they are three times more likely to be unemployed jobseekers. To mock their clothes and compare them to bank robbers shows a complete disdain for this and their other disadvantages. bbc.co.uk/news/uk-370413…
Nailed it @Trevornoah. Being French and being proud of African identity is not mutually exclusive. But this debate has treated those things as such. French does not = ethnic French. (1)
The nation is not an ethno-state. The England team is black, brown, mixed, white, working class, Afro-Caribbean and more. This is England and it’s beautiful. (2)
People of African heritage from around the world, including the US, should of course celebrate the success of people of African heritage. That does not mean they are denying their French identity. (3)
Trump has access to one of the world's most sophisticated intelligence services. He knows last summer's terrorist attacks didn't result from decisions made at City Hall. Each time he blames @SadiqKhan, he insults every victim & every Londoner #trumpvisituk
I will call it like it is. The real reason Trump blames my friend @SadiqKhan for the terror attacks last year is simple. He hates that London chose a Muslim mayor. The President is racist. He does not deserve to meet our Queen today #StopTrump