He put himself forward to support when elders and family were unable to attend due to Covid-19
The young volunteer stepping up to help at Muslim funerals — Leicestershire Live – News
Something a bit good-er (the word ‘nicer’ doesn’t seem right) from my neck of the woods, in an attempt to counteract all the awful things going on today.
‘It’s taken so long – now it’s too late’: Grieving family slam DWP over mam’s benefits fight. Andrea Eastwood’s family said she was refused PIP while undergoing chemotherapy for leukaemia. A grieving family has slammed the Department of Work and Pensions for forcing their terminally ill mother to spend the last year and a half […]
PIP Atrocity: Grieving family slam DWP over mom’s benefits fight — Govt Newspeak
This is the second one of these stories I’ve read today. (This is the first.) This government is a literal horror show.
Some smart person took a video of what Leicester looked like during lockdown, using drones and the like. It makes me sad, but it’s very well done.
Here’s the news today. MPs voted against protecting the NHS from foreign interests. It seems to have happened very quietly. It didn’t even make the BBC website. (Still hasn’t in fact.)
Oh but the clapping! They all did a lot of clapping.
Right now, living in Britain with medically vulnerable family it feels like a big dark cloud is constantly over your head. It’s unfair and it’s fucked up and I can’t even imagine what it’s like for people who don’t have any sort of safety net.
Britain has its own brand of mask-idiot.
“Mask Nazism.” What an unbelievably ignorant thing to say. Where do you even start with someone who believes being asked to wear a mask for the sake of other people is equivalent to oppression and genocide?
Shamima Begum is being allowed back into the UK to plead her case. Certain parts of the media are delighted that they get to froth at the mouth about it.
See, here’s the thing, I don’t like Shamima Begum. She sounds like a horrible person. But even if you think someone is shitty their human rights still apply, you know? You don’t take away their right to a fair trial.
You also don’t make them stateless. That may have indirectly led to the death of her baby and that’s what gets me most of all. People are saying “serves her right” and “those are the consequences of her actions” as if her child was only an extension of its mother and nothing else. The death couldn’t possibly serve a baby right because a newborn baby has done nothing wrong. A baby has done no actions for there to be consequences of. It really gets to me.
Perhaps the people saying that have flawless family trees, and are otherwise accepting of the idea that a child deserves to suffer for the crimes of its parents. But I imagine most of them would be horrified if you suggested that to them, and never once make the connection.
Leicester factory put lives at risk during lockdown, claims garment worker
Anil had also been reluctant to speak, saying he feared for his family’s safety. But he agreed because he was so angered by the treatment of workers. While his wife looks after their two children, he has been working about 40 hours a week for £200, about £5 an hour.
There was no canteen, and rats and mice were visible on the factory floor, Anil claimed. There was no hand sanitiser until last week, and the single men’s toilet had no soap. “They have put us in danger,” he said. “If I feel sick, I make my family sick. I put them in danger too.”
Since the second lockdown began, though, the pattern in Leicester has shifted. If the North Evington area where many of the city’s factories are based was previously beset with risky working practices and almost no scrutiny, this week an abundance of attention has come just as many workshops went dark.
But it still came so fast. The NHS saved Boris Johnson’s life, he said so himself. And this is how he thanks them.
So much for clapping.
Today marks the 15th anniversary of the 7/7 attack on London which claimed a lot of lives. I remember bits and pieces of that day but nothing really concrete. (I probably wrote about it on this blog, back when it was on Livejournal, fifteen years ago.)
I want to mark the occasion somehow but I don’t really know how and I’m wary of reposting tributes I found since you never know who’s appropriated the deaths for their own gains. So I’ll just post this, from Mayor Khan’s twitter account.
-There will be a massive increase in satirical zombie stories in which the population deliberately go out and get themselves bitten.
-UK politicans will continue to pay lip service to the NHS and yet completely fail to give anything in the way of help to those who are working within it.
-Kanye West will probably not be president.