But look at those ‘undecided’ numbers 😬

🚨 POLL | Greens LEAD in Gorton and Denton ** Labour drop to distant 3rd ** 🟢 Grn: 33% (+19) ➡️ Ref: 29% (+15) 🔴 Lab: 26% (-25) 🔵 Con: 5% (-4) 🟠 Lib: 2% (-1) Source: Omnisis, 13-19 Feb (+/- vs GE2024)

There is no need for a change in the legal rights children have - they should be strengthened not undermined. As explained so well in this radio interview.

Do they seriously think that such a conflicted enquiry will make the story go away?

MORE RELEASED Following a hearing at the Old Bailey, 12 more of the UK Political Prisoners known as the ‘Filton24’ will be freed. This includes many of the hunger strikers, as well as five prisoners who have been held since Nov ‘24. None of them have been convicted of a crime.

“I have come from the city. I bring you a welcome gift with a sharp point that you may remember me. I ask, if fortune allowed, that I might be able [to give] as generously as the way is long [and] as my purse is empty,”

Girlduiding and Women's Institute say the law forces them to exclude trans women. But that's not true. We are offering to indemnify them against legal risk if they change course. If they remain trans exclusive, their members can know it's management's ideological choice.

“Stop blaming special schools for government failures” Claire Dorer at NASS doesn’t hold back: “I don’t think I’ve ever worked under a Minister who shows such contempt” for special schools, their children and families “who have found them a lifeline” www.nasschools.org.uk/stop-b...

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Ecosystem of anti‑EU nationalism, dark‑money, data‑driven voter manipulation Files show Brexit was the outcome & instrument of a transnational network of oligarchs, data‑operation firms & authoritarian‑leaning actors. All stood to profit from destabilisation, low regulation, weak democratic checks

Most Britons can't make political donations/bribes and are made to suffer. 14.2m live in poverty 120,000 a year die in fuel poverty 300,000 a year die prematurely awaiting hospital appointment. Poorest 20% pay higher proportion of income in tax than the richest 20%. Is democracy possible?

When the teachers, the lawyers and the parents are all up in arms, you know the Government have got things spectacularly wrong. What a way to treat the people you are supposed to be helping. See articles today in TES, LawGazette, Special Needs Jungle and here from Send Alliance.

SNJ NEW POST: After yesterday’s horrors, we take a calm look at that and some baffling independent school funding news. We say The Department for Education needs a plumber, better policymakers, less panic, and someone who truly understands SEND www.specialneedsjungle.com/dfe-needs-pl...

An excellent article from Ed Reyes at Law Gazette: SEND families braced for government's education white paper - www.lawgazette.co.uk/comment...

The Govt is announcing this policy from a data void, with no formal evidence on costs, price or value to back its claims. In 2024, @nao.org.uk reported that while overall spend on ISS is rising, it’s due to more LA placements, not higher cost per pupil. School fees are not ‘spiralling’.

'Policy announcement by leak has created the worst of all worlds' @warrencarratt.bsky.social on how a week of SEND reform leaks have likely caused entrenchment - and indicate a worrying narrative for the path ahead. www.tes.com/magazine/ana...

🗨️If I had been given more information about the risk of vulval nerve damage associated with thrush and how to minimise infections, I would have been better empowered to protect myself.🗨️ A new blog by Philly Baines featured on the hub this week. www.pslhub.org/learn/patien... #patientsafety

Thanks to The Times for highlighting Savannah’s story and the critical issue that there is no specialist NHS service for very severe ME. Grateful to Ashley Dalton for our recent brief call but still waiting for progress report re ME Plan commitment to explore such a service, including treatments.

ME/CFS Delivery Plan 6 months on Empty words and no concrete action Severe ME patients still being failed, Savannah’s case shows the human cost of inaction. Training uptake is feeble. Research is moving mainly through charities, not government. www.thereforme.uk/p/campaign-u...

TW: Update on Savannah via GoFundMe: Donations have now funded legal action. Sonya Chowdhury (CEO Action for ME) has briefed a solicitor as well as Savannah’s MP. I’ve donated again. Also includes a diary style update of her experience in hospital. www.gofundme.com/f/severemerg...

Another excellent short clip here from SEND rights Alliance explaining the crisis in special educational needs & disability (SEND) support and how we got here. Contrary to right wing think tanks pushy parents aren’t to blame! ‘We need to stand together’ www.facebook.com/share/v/15br...

Reaction from SEND Rights Alliance to the reports/leaks about Special Educational Needs & Disability White paper. www.facebook.com/watch/?v=222...

Repeat protests have won us many of our rights and freedoms, but could soon be banned under the Government’s Crime and Policing Bill. We’re calling for these laws to be scrapped and our fundamental rights to be upheld. www.libertyhumanrights.org.uk/issue/eight-...

This is probably the single worst aspect of the leaked SEND plans. the transition to secondary is when most Special Needs kids will need more dependable support, not less. But bureaucratic logic seems to have won out

Had Charles died without a child, Andrew would have had complete sovereign immunity as monarch. He would have had personal immunity from arrest, prosecution and civil suit in British courts - whatever his alleged wrongdoing. How can this stand?

Good to see the principle that no one is above the law is being upheld in the UK, but take note of the fact that Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor has not been arrested because of the harm he may have done to girls, but because of the harm he may have done to profits

‘Transporting disabled children to school is far more complicated than for their non-disabled peers. Means testing transport doesn’t just balance budgets – it risks locking disabled children and young people out of education altogether.’ 1/2 www.theguardian.com/education/20...

I know we’re slightly distracted rn but it’s worrying that Starmer has chosen to ignore all the reports of bullying by Antonia Romeo (mostly of other women, reportedly) & confirmed her as the head of the civil service. “Special Envoy to US Technology Companies” & greaser of Palantir‘s entry to UK

So families with ill/disabled children - who have often fought incredibly hard to secure an appropriate EHCP - may be put through years of worry that (legally enforceable) provision will be lost during transfer reviews. Transition to the next stage is already stressful & challenging for many

From the BBC. It's happening. There will doubtless be good things too, but this is quite the move from a govt in such a fragile position. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

We all know the state of the polls. This may very well land when Reform UK are newly in govt. And what, Labour MPs, do you suppose will happen then?

Love that the SaveOurChildrensRights campaign is having an impact! www.saveourchildrensrights.org.uk

Last week, former Reform UK MP Rupert Lowe announced the official launch of his new party, Restore Britain. Many on the far right, who see Reform as too moderate, celebrated. Here’s all you need to know: hopenothate.org.uk/2026/02/17/r...

🧵 There are some who swim against the tide of populism & hate, & one of them is @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social , New York's new mayor. He is a force. Today, he appointed a former inmate, Stanley Richards, Commissioner of Department of Corrections. Both have a vision, choose a different, humane path.

Spot on. It is the bedrock of inequality

"So will it be the same act but with a different label?" Victoria Derbyshire humiliates Zia Yusuf on Reform UK's plan to scrap the Equalities Act, because, as she reads each of the things from the Equalities act he confirms they'll still be protected 🤷‍♂️

FOI reveals the EHRC holds zero minutes of meetings with trans-led organisations in the past 5 years. This is the UK’s 'equality' regulator. Trans voices are not important enough for the EHRC to keep a record of what was said. This should be a headline in all the papers.

Reform pledge to scrap the Equality act. If they do so you can be discriminated against or abused at work, in education or in the public. For Age, Disability, Gender reassignment, Marriage status, Pregnancy, Race, Religion. Sex or Sexual orientation. Doesn't sound good to me.

Nothing says "anti-establishment" like appointing the former Minister of Immigration and Shadow Secretary of State for Justice and former Home Secretary and Attorney General for the previous government, which was in power for 14 years, to your front bench.

Welcome to Reform’s front bench Yusuf, Hampton School, £29,916 per year Jenrick, Wolverhampton Grammar, £17,835 per year Farage, Dulwich College, £30,618 per year Tice, Uppingham School, £58,176 per year Braverman, Heathfield School, defunct private school The authentic voice of the working class

This is a good and welcome move. Until we tackle the vile, hostile and dehumanising political and media rhetoric which so often stoke these hate crimes though it is a sticking plaster on a gaping wound. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... Definitely. ASAP

Our public services aren’t for a secretive profit-hungry US tech firm. Sign the petition to tell the Government to scrap all contracts with secretive US tech firm Palantir. you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/st... Pls can we keep signing and sharing on all the platforms we use?

Farage‘s connection with Epstein appears to be more directly financial than Starmer’s, but it seems uninteresting to the political press. bylinetimes.com/2025/11/19/d...

BREAKING 🚨 | Reform announce plans to legalise discrimination. Plans include scrapping the Equality Act, which would legalise discrimination against a worker if they were a woman, disabled, black, pregnant or gay.

“We are committed to building the evidence base” says the SEND minister when asked what evidence base is being used for the current ramp-up in creating “inclusion bases”. What’s wrong with this picture? www.theyworkforyou.com/wrans...

Henry Shelford, chief executive of charity ADHD UK: it is "hateful and cruel how badly the overall NHS treats people with ADHD”.

Blimey. Looks like Matt Goodwin, who seems to think the Handmaid's Tale is an instruction manual, is in the pay of an Orban think tank, funded by Russian oil money.

Meanwhile, the rest of us scrape together our fivers and tenners to try to stop this happening... www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/help-save-...