Academic Development. Primary school governor. Molecular Biologist in a former life. Labour Councillor for Danesborough and Walton ward. LoveMK! Views my own.
Political tweets: Promoted by Shanika Mahendran on behalf of Tracey Bailey, Labour councillor for MKCC, both at 112 Newport Road, New Bradwell, MK13 0AA
There is no saving this country.
Guy from Romford on
#BBCBreakfast
who waited 12 hours for an ambulance for his 88 year old father thinks Boris will sort everything out. 🤦🏻♀️
Does he think Liz Truss broke the NHS in 6 weeks?!
Ode to Joy is number 1 in the iTunes chart.
I just downloaded it for myself as for 99p it’s a cheap and civilised way to put two fingers up to Brexit.
#leavealighton
@Stick_Pins
@mollyjforbes
Whenever I hear schools with healthy eating drives and lunch box rules, I remember my Mum not having much money and pointing out that a packet of biscuits is cheaper than an apple and goes further.
She was right then, and it’s still the case.
@MartinSLewis
School governors get reminded of these on a regular basis. We have to declare any interests. We have to ensure public money is carefully spent where it would have greatest effect.
How on Earth can those who run the country demonstrate lesser scruples?
@Nurseborisbash
About 6 months before my Dad died, he was in hospital and told the HCA that he really fancied a pineapple fritter.
The next day she bought him one, wrapped in grease proof paper, that her Mum had cooked. It made his day.
I love call
#CallTheMidwife
but it’s a sad state of affairs that completely avoidable situations such as mould induced respiratory disease are still around now.
@danielgoyal
These figures wash over many people now, but let me tell them that there is no feeling like the complete helplessness you feel when you wait for hours for an ambulance with a loved one who is unconscious or in pain and there is nothing you can do about it.
@KateBurkeNHS
YES!!!
And while they are at it, make them big enough to not have to do a weird matrix-esque movement to get out the inward opening door because there is not enough room for your body to remain upright 😖
@MartinSLewis
Although, to be fair, I have only found this to be an issue on Twitter and Facebook posts. Real life doesn’t present problems without contextual information. For example, if I have 5 boys and 6 girls and they all want 4 sweets, the answer is 44. An answer of 29 will end in tears!
I was in Wavendon Gate last weekend. I met a 93 year old who is the sole carer for his 92 year old wife with dementia. He pays to take her to respite care once a week. He was wondering why the Tory Party, which he’s voted for all his life, are not helping him. Did you meet him?
Lovely speaking to voters in Wavendon Gate and Simpson, including Rob, we mused how both of our gloves are damaged from our high levels of hard work 😉
@MKConservatives
@CarolineLucas
@BorisJohnson
If I accepted a gift over £100 in value, I’d get the sack.
Mind you, if I didn’t do my job properly I’d get the sack.
Pretty sure if I’d been responsible for someone’s death I’d get the sack.
Why is BoJo above these standards?
@simonharris_mbd
@Jacob_Rees_Mogg
Or being forced to carry a child that will die within hours of birth. Why put mother and baby through that? Have we learned nothing from what has happened in Northern Ireland over the years?
While I was canvassing yesterday, a lady in her 70s told me she didn’t agree with strikes. Her and her husband had bought a house in the 1970s, and they managed, so she didn’t understand why people today need to use food banks. 1/n
My brother and I are flying The Flag of Europe on our houses today. Me in Milton Keynes, him in Corby. I had a tweet from someone Spanish to say ‘we are with you’; he had a German lady knock on his door and thank him for his support. Thank you EU friends 🥰
#NotMyBrexit
@it_se
@FiRawle
@AcademicChatter
Although it’s worth remembering that our students always have worries. Too many academics forget what it was like to be 18 and on the edge of the unknown.
Dr Rosena Allin-Khan: When will Conservative backbenchers start wearing their masks?
Sajid Javid: The honourable lady has misjudged the tone of the house
#WearAMask
While I am on a rant, not everyone is striking over pay. Some rail workers want to preserve levels of staffing so disabled people can use the service and vulnerable people feel safe. Others want to protect their pensions. None of this is unreasonable.
An incredible result for Labour - with
@DrTABailey
GAINING Danesborough & Walton ward from the Conservatives.
Tracey will make a brilliant councillor - congratulations 👏🌹
Amazing how many people seem to think Labour left the UK in masses of debt in 2010.
The reality is that things have got much worse since, and no, it wasn’t all down to Covid.
#GeneralElectionlNow
#GTTO
#VoteLabour
Instead of their second jobs, MPs could volunteer in a care home, or a hospital, or a food bank, or a run down school, or any other sector they have failed.
#InsideTheCareCrisis
@eliistender10
I was told the leaflet is always in the end with the date stamp. I have just tested this with 2 types of painkiller and some antihistamines and found it to be true. A packet of pro-plus was rogue though. Maybe a cruel joke on someone needing caffeine? 😂
So if you are of a certain age, and have paid your mortgage, or you are fortunate to have a high income, please take a little more time to understand why people might be angry enough to strike. 6/6
@carryonkeith
Let’s face it. He wasn’t welcome. He’d have been booed. Probably best he stayed away and didn’t bring that sourness to a wonderful occasion.
A friend tells me her company just announced the end of their final salary pension. She has no union, no alternative but to accept the loss.
@ucu
members need to remember the benefit membership has given us and help it stay strong in the future
#USSstrikes
#WeAreTheUnion
In 1976, average house price was about 3.5x average wage. It’s now 8.5x. So even if there are two average wages in the household, you are still worse off. 3/n
Excited to announce that I have been selected to run as the Labour Candidate in the May elections for Danesborough and Walton ward in Milton Keynes. 🌹
Will be doing my very best to win those votes so I can represent residents on MKCC. 😃
My social media are going mad! Thank you to every single person who campaigned with me, delivered letters, and kept my spirits high!
A historic Labour gain in
#danesboroughandwalton
🌹
I hope I will do its residents proud!
Congrats to everyone else in
@MKLabourParty
Hi, I’m an older female academic. You might know me from my greatest hits including “its Dr, not Mrs”, “no, I didn’t change my name when I got married”, and “no, it’s not confusing that my children have a different surname”.
Hi, I’m a young female lecturer. You might know me from my greatest hits including: “it’s Dr, actually”, “no, it actually is Dr; I have a PhD”, and “yes, an actual PhD”.
@danielgoyal
When my Dad was in hospital before he died, and visitors weren’t allowed, he struggled with the food and told a HCA he fancied a pineapple fritter. She got her mum to make one and took it in the next day 😊. He didn’t stop talking about her after that.
@educationgovuk
Just like schools were going back in January, eh? 🙄
Is it any wonder no one believes a thing that comes out of the government? Newspaper leaks have a 50/50 chance of being true, but in absence of a government known for speaking truth, that’s the best we’ve got! 😠
@Ben_Everitt
@BorisJohnson
He’s a liar. He’s under investigation by privileges committee, and he keeps going on holiday when he should be working.
My view of you has reached a new low.
Maitlis: Is brexit working?
Nandy: I don't think the problem is we've left the European Union
Maitlis: Are you in favour of freedom of movement?
Nandy: There's no appetite to negotiate freedom of movement
#Newsnight
@keepnhspublic
@nadhimzahawi
Even if it was, it’s not as if £31,000 goes very far these days. That’s less than £2k a month after tax. Take off mortgage payments, council tax, energy costs and food and there’s not much left. Add childcare and you are screwed.
Isabel Oakeshott on
#BBCBreakfast
now suggesting ministers squabbles and inappropriate messaging is evidence that lockdowns and school closures were a waste of time.
Her logic is presumably proportional to the quality of her journalism.
Most of my timeline this morning is the clip of Johnson and Raab talking inappropriately about the situation in Kabul.
Of the rest, there is
#BrexitFoodShortages
and concerns about escalating
#Covid
.
We deserve better
#ToriesMustGo
Hats off to
@simon_reeve
for putting out a programme showing both sides of
#TheLakes
. People need to realise that beauty comes with poverty and deprivation all over this country, and we need to work out how to put that right.
@JamesMelville
Sorry to hear that. Your tweets give me hope that there are still people who care in this world. I hope you feel better soon, but it’s hard.
@BestForBritain
I’m old enough to remember when a ‘Task Force’ was something that fought in the Falklands, not something we needed to get food in the shops.
Why is food so expensive?
#Panorama
ends looking at the cost to schools of providing lunches.
I remember schools closing their kitchens in the 1980s due to costs. A coincidence that was also under a
@Conservatives
government? 🤔
FSMs ended up as dreary packed lunches 😖
I came from a single parent family. Going to University was the biggest single factor in where I am now in terms of wealth. The access higher education is critical in
#levellingup
for so many and it’s being eroded.
@jenniebotham
@KatesSoper
@doctor_oxford
I seem to remember local schools doing the same. Also volunteers sewing scrubs and printing visors on 3D printers.
Government must think we have very short memories.
@MichaelRosenYes
I once read ‘The Giraffe, the Pelly and Me’ to my son on the train to London. We didn’t quite finish it and the lady sat next to us was quite upset not to hear the end of the story! 😂
@CA_AstroComm
Hi! I’m Dr Tracey Bailey and I have a PhD in the Molecular Biology of Cancer but have moved into Ed Dev to help other academics get the best from their students. If you don’t think I’m a proper doctor, go to Uni for 6 years and let me know if it was easy...
@Mistyswoman
I live in a very Tory area and I’ve been out campaigning for Labour. A lot of those who have previously voted Tory are undecided but leaning towards not voting Tory next time.
@chrischirp
@adsquires
@bmj_latest
Absolutely. It makes no sense to send a completely unprotected population back to an environment where spread is inevitable.
My Dad passed away yesterday.
I’m so grateful we managed to get 24hr care for his last week. Carers were wonderful at making him comfortable. It would not have been as peaceful in hospital with the noise and staff shortages.
RIP Brian Alfred Bailey 11.7.1939 - 25.3.22
@Conservatives
@RishiSunak
Why did your family feel they needed to pay for a great education?
You were born in 1980 so had most of your education under a Conservative government.
Did your family not trust the Tories with important things?
Sounds familiar.
I smiled, and decided not to argue. I suspected that the difference between average wage and average house price had changed quite a lot over the last 50 years, so I decided to check out the difference in case it’s useful to refer to again. 2/n
@megs1970
@JujuliaGrace
Awful for those that get ill, those of you in the NHS that need some breathing space, and children that keep getting their education disrupted. Government failing us yet again through their poor decisions 😠
@theAliceRoberts
As a former scientist with my eyes on the data, I really didn’t want to send my teenagers back to school in September due to lack of covid mitigations, but really didn’t feel like I had much choice.
Now imagine that your relationship breaks down, or your partner dies. You are back to one income with all those costs. Plus food and energy that are going up and up. 5/n
@simonharris_mbd
That woman doesn’t live in the real world. Many parents work until 5.30 or later, commute, have to cook dinner, find time for washing or shopping, and have more than one child. She annoys me so much I blocked her. Thanks for reminding me why!
@theAliceRoberts
The BBC article from 2nd September which headed the ‘Family and Education’ section on the news app, which claimed schools were not hotbeds of infection, has only been taken down in the last week. Sadly, people trust the BBC news 🤷🏻♀️
Striking today. No picket line but withdrawing my labour in protest of unjustified pension changes
#ucuRISING
@ucu
#Solidarity
with other University workers out due to pay and conditions,
@NEUnion
teachers, rail, communications and anyone else supporting
#WalkoutWednesday
@David__Osland
And the farmers are still being stitched up!
Costs of feed, fuel, vets bills etc will all be going up and it’s likely to get worse given the drought has lead to many farmers having to use their winter hay / silage early.
If you are not getting full tuition from your University, you should not pay full fees.
If however, your University has worked it’s butt off to provide online lectures, resources, virtual labs, and social activities, please embrace it.
Of course many people have children, and even 17 years ago when I had my first, I worked out I needed to earn over £20k a year to break even after nursery fees for one child, and even when they are at school, wrap around care is a significant cost. 4/n
@dazmoll
@thosethatcan
No it isn’t. Clear discrimination and completely irrelevant to your ability to do a job.
I wouldn’t want to work somewhere where that was asked but I would definitely complain to help protect those that do.
I am a
#1stGenPhD
. Mum worked in a housing office. Dad worked on the buses / security but divorced when I was 8yo. Mum taught me hard work pays off, but unfortunately died before I completed my PhD. Have to say I might not have done a degree without maintenance grants though!
My
#NewYearsResolution
is to do everything I can to get people to vote Labour at the May local elections and the GE when it comes. Looking forward to spending more time doing that with the lovely people in
@MKLabourParty
who want the best for the people of MK😃🌹
@AdamWagner1
Whether it broke the law or not, it’s still galling to see them take advantage of the situation, and tax payers money no doubt, when others were barely leaving the house.