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In 3 years, 67 women died in homeless hotels and bnbs in Scotland. Women are preyed on, abused, and traumatised. We desperately need single-sex emergency accommodation and serious action to fix Scotland's collapsed homelessness system. Thank you @AshReganALBA for raising this!
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Laura Jones retweeted
A child should not have to earn the right to a safe home.
A woman should not have to risk her safety because she has nowhere else to go.
A man should not have to risk his safety on the streets because he was refused shelter and safeguarding.
A family should not be left waiting most of us take for granted.
Housing isn't a privilege to be rationed. It is a fundamental human necessity.
Why have we normalised homelessness?
#HousingBirthRight
A woman should not have to risk her safety because she has nowhere else to go.
A man should not have to risk his safety on the streets because he was refused shelter and safeguarding.
A family should not be left waiting most of us take for granted.
Housing isn't a privilege to be rationed. It is a fundamental human necessity.
Why have we normalised homelessness?
#HousingBirthRight
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As opposed to using it for fun? 😧
Scots urged to use A&E ‘only when necessary’ amid ‘significant pressures'. news.stv.tv/scotland/scots…
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Laura Jones retweeted
A stain on the world!
⚠️ 🇵🇸 An estimated 564,000 children in Gaza are living in "critical or catastrophic" shelter conditions as winter rains flood displacement camps, Save the Children said. Israel, as the occupying power, "must be held accountable for any child deaths that result," the group said, noting that “tents, shelter kits and fuel are waiting at Gaza's borders while children sleep in floodwater, because the Israeli authorities are blocking their entry.”
The group's Middle East regional director said “this is a choice, and children are paying the price." Citing an assessment by the Palestine Shelter Cluster of UN agencies and NGOs, Save the Children reported:
🔹 1.2 million people, 58% of Gaza's population, live in critical or catastrophic shelter
🔹 Israel has repeatedly blocked the caravans the ceasefire promised as an alternative to tents
🔹 48% of families burn plastic, tires or garbage to cook, which releases toxic fumes that cause respiratory illness and carbon monoxide poisoning. 84% still can't heat their shelters
🔹 Winter clothing covers just 1% of the over 1 million people who need it
🔹 464,000 people live in sites at high risk of flooding
🔹 60% of the $283 million needed for winter is unfunded
Last winter, 11 children reportedly died of hypothermia. the group said.
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Laura Jones retweeted
In 1989 Palestinian woman sits down with Israeli woman...
The way the Israeli women look at her is vile
The way the Israeli women look at her is vile
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Laura Jones retweeted
In Scotland we dont much care.
We dont let little things like the law stand in our way in this great country.
The law for example in the Housing (Scotland) Act 1987, section 29 mandates that local authorities have an interim duty to accommodate individuals who may be homeless h it.
The law has very strict regulations on safeguarding, we say the hell with it.
The Adult Support and Protection (Scotland) Act 2007, Section 4, places a duty on councils to make inquiries where they know or believe an adult is at risk and intervention may be necessary.
Section 5, requires cooperation between Councils, Police Scotland, Health boards and other specified Public bodies, including reporting concerns about adults at risk.
The law says if you are threatened, abused or manipulated, public bodies have duties to investigate concerns. Cooperate. Share information and take appropriate protective action, but apparently nobody has to take responsibility. Instead you are told “you should really call the police”
We're cowboys, we do what we want.
Whether its being complicit in the rise of house-deprived homeless women and children or deaths of house-deprived homeless people are on the rise; we like to play it fast and loose in this country.
Making it up as we go along.
Accountability is apparently another one of those optional services.
And if anyone should die under these circumstances we call it ‘manipulative, self injurious behaviour’
The ‘Establishments’ silence can only be attributed to consent, acquiescence or disinterest. Take your pick, but its at least safe to say they dont much care.
And should anyone be sufficiently determined, resourceful or fortunate enough to challenge these practices through Judicial Review, we can always fall back on the wonderful world of procedural scrutiny.
We won't necessarily concern ourselves with whether vulnerable people were actually protected, whether statutory duties were fulfilled or whether anyone was held accountable.
No, we'll examine the decision-making process, the paperwork, the policies and whether the correct procedures were followed. If the decision was unlawful, we might even send it back to the same public body to have another go, this time getting the process right.
Accountability? Don't be ridiculous. We're investigating processes here, not inconveniences such as consequences.
And of course, should any of these vulnerable individuals wish to challenge the whole sorry affair, there's always the Scottish Legal Aid Board and our wonderfully accessible legal system.
All they need is to find a solicitor willing to take the case, establish eligibility, navigate the legal aid application process and somehow overcome the practical and financial barriers to securing representation.
Because nothing says access to justice quite like requiring people who have been failed by public authorities, who may have no home, no money and no support, to navigate an expensive and complicated legal system to establish that their rights actually mean something.
Justice is available to everyone, apparently. Just not necessarily in any form they can realistically access.
Who is taking this serious?
The media ? who might give it a mention if only there weren’t so many 'man bites dog' stories to focus on.
We dont let little things like the law stand in our way in this great country.
The law for example in the Housing (Scotland) Act 1987, section 29 mandates that local authorities have an interim duty to accommodate individuals who may be homeless h it.
The law has very strict regulations on safeguarding, we say the hell with it.
The Adult Support and Protection (Scotland) Act 2007, Section 4, places a duty on councils to make inquiries where they know or believe an adult is at risk and intervention may be necessary.
Section 5, requires cooperation between Councils, Police Scotland, Health boards and other specified Public bodies, including reporting concerns about adults at risk.
The law says if you are threatened, abused or manipulated, public bodies have duties to investigate concerns. Cooperate. Share information and take appropriate protective action, but apparently nobody has to take responsibility. Instead you are told “you should really call the police”
We're cowboys, we do what we want.
Whether its being complicit in the rise of house-deprived homeless women and children or deaths of house-deprived homeless people are on the rise; we like to play it fast and loose in this country.
Making it up as we go along.
Accountability is apparently another one of those optional services.
And if anyone should die under these circumstances we call it ‘manipulative, self injurious behaviour’
The ‘Establishments’ silence can only be attributed to consent, acquiescence or disinterest. Take your pick, but its at least safe to say they dont much care.
And should anyone be sufficiently determined, resourceful or fortunate enough to challenge these practices through Judicial Review, we can always fall back on the wonderful world of procedural scrutiny.
We won't necessarily concern ourselves with whether vulnerable people were actually protected, whether statutory duties were fulfilled or whether anyone was held accountable.
No, we'll examine the decision-making process, the paperwork, the policies and whether the correct procedures were followed. If the decision was unlawful, we might even send it back to the same public body to have another go, this time getting the process right.
Accountability? Don't be ridiculous. We're investigating processes here, not inconveniences such as consequences.
And of course, should any of these vulnerable individuals wish to challenge the whole sorry affair, there's always the Scottish Legal Aid Board and our wonderfully accessible legal system.
All they need is to find a solicitor willing to take the case, establish eligibility, navigate the legal aid application process and somehow overcome the practical and financial barriers to securing representation.
Because nothing says access to justice quite like requiring people who have been failed by public authorities, who may have no home, no money and no support, to navigate an expensive and complicated legal system to establish that their rights actually mean something.
Justice is available to everyone, apparently. Just not necessarily in any form they can realistically access.
Who is taking this serious?
The media ? who might give it a mention if only there weren’t so many 'man bites dog' stories to focus on.
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substack.com/@formerlydecen… Formerly Decent: "It's feminislam!" 😱
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Laura Jones retweeted
No you are not. You are not even an ‘anti Zionist’. You are simply a fraud.
Only a few years ago when you were a Lib Dem you solemnly promised voters that a vote for you was “a support for Israel”.
You were a 34-year old man, not a child. You left the Lib Dems a year later purely and simply because they didn’t select you for a parliamentary seat.
If they had, you’d still be promising that a vote for you is a vote for Israel. You are a despicable, malignant fraud who would toss your own mum under a bus for a few extra moments of political relevance.
Only a few years ago when you were a Lib Dem you solemnly promised voters that a vote for you was “a support for Israel”.
You were a 34-year old man, not a child. You left the Lib Dems a year later purely and simply because they didn’t select you for a parliamentary seat.
If they had, you’d still be promising that a vote for you is a vote for Israel. You are a despicable, malignant fraud who would toss your own mum under a bus for a few extra moments of political relevance.
I am in a long line of antizionist Jews who political opponents try to make people hate.
But I wont be quiet, not on criticism of Israel, nor on tackling the extreme wealth and poverty pay that both the Tories and now Labour have overseen in office.
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Al Qaeda backs Israel.
Literally no Muslim in the world is shocked. Lol.
This is not news.
Edward Snowden leaked 10 years ago that MI6, CIA and Mossad worked together to create and train ISIS, Al Qaeda, Boko Haram and every local off-shoot terrorist group.
And just last year, US congressman Scott the US has been funding all these groups through USAID.
But guess what the biggest tell has always been?
The people these “Muslim terror groups” love to kill the most are Muslims! And only carried out their first controlled attack on Israel in 2017 when rumour mills started to reveal the Mossad connection. (Spoiler alert: it was a false flag).
So, despite years of you telling us that “Muslim radical Islamist terrorists” are the greatest threat to western civilization and they especially “hate Jews” they mainly target their own people and not their “greatest enemy”?
Lol.
Here’s something else you might mot know, and it’ll help explain the below - Iran has been fighting to try and eliminate these groups for decades!
“Al Qaeda urges Muslims to back Israel over Iran”. Yeah, no shit, Sherlock, because they are Israel and Israel is them.
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Laura Jones retweeted
"To hell with a world that talks endlessly about human rights while leaving children to drown inside their tents. To hell with everyone who has witnessed this suffering and chosen silence, and to hell with govts that have the power to act but continue to turn their backs on us."
I admit that I completely broke down today. I cried uncontrollably. I couldn’t hold myself together after witnessing what I saw with my own eyes.
Today, we went to film a journalistic report inside the displacement tents along the seashore. I swear, what we witnessed was beyond what any human being should have to endure.
I saw men crying bitterly. Men I had never seen cry when they lost their children or when their homes were destroyed. Today, I saw them crying because they were powerless to do the simplest thing: protect their children from the water and the cold.
We spoke to families who told us they had spent the entire night carrying their children in their arms after floodwater covered the floors of their tents and soaked their mattresses. They couldn’t find a single dry place to put their children. They couldn’t even give them a few hours of sleep.
I saw children no older than five, without proper clothes to protect them from the cold, without heating, and without a dry place to sleep. Children shivering inside tents that cannot keep out the rain, protect them from the wind, or provide even the most basic sense of safety.
What more must happen for this world to act? How much more suffering must people endure before someone remembers that they are human beings?
I am sick of this world. I am sick of its hypocrisy and empty slogans. To hell with a world that talks endlessly about human rights while leaving children to drown inside their tents. To hell with everyone who has witnessed this suffering and chosen silence, and to hell with the governments and institutions that have the power to act but continue to turn their backs on us.
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Laura Jones retweeted
The Green Party have all manner of deranged ideas and along with the cartoon Trotskyists of the RCG have decided that it's a priority to try and disrupt a march demanding the streets be made safe for women. Truly we live in the dumbest of all possible worlds.
NTU Greens turned up to disrupt and intimidate women.
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Violence used once again to ensure women cannot congregate without men or assert their rights. RECLAIM THE NIGHT. ✊️💜
Last night, our members made history. We stood together in #Nottingham for the first female-only #ReclaimTheNight march the city has seen in well over a decade. In fact, this was likely the only explicitly female-only #ReclaimTheNight march in the entire country this year. 1/11
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Laura Jones retweeted
Ms. Rachel: “Can we take a second to think about how if we were freezing cold in tents and they were flooded and our babies were going to freeze and there’s a government, the Israeli government, that won’t let the warm supplies through so more kids are gonna die and we’re just all the people, all the leaders, just like yeah that’s gonna happen again. You and I should not be ashamed that we are loud and we are constantly saying stop”
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If we watch and do nothing, we are complicit; if we speak, we will be convicted: god help every human enduring the israeli killing machine
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Laura Jones retweeted
A child was killed today because of the extreme cold, after the cold mercilessly consumed his fragile body.
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A heartbreaking scene of a Palestinian woman whose tent was flooded by heavy rains in the Gaza Strip.
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Russell Brand admitted to rape and sexual assault on stage, in TV interviews, on panel shows, in his book, and in his private messages, so clearly this must be an establishment stitch up
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Laura Jones retweeted
What I witnessed and saw today in one of the displacement camps is beyond human endurance and exceeds anything that words or imagination could ever describe. These are heartbreaking scenes, and no matter how powerful the words may be, they can never convey the full scale of the tragedy people are experiencing here.
There are no tents left to speak of. The rain and floods have swept them away, torn them apart, and completely destroyed them, until almost no trace of them remains. Families have been left with no shelter, no roof over their heads, and not even a dry corner where they can take refuge from the bitter cold.
Entire families are sleeping out in the open, with no dry clothes to protect their bodies from the cold. Children are submerged in water and mud, while mothers and fathers desperately try to salvage whatever remains of their belongings. Clothes, blankets, covers, mattresses, and bedding — everything has been soaked and submerged in water. These families have nothing left to cover themselves with or protect them from the harsh winter.
The bodies of children, women, the sick, and the elderly are trembling nonstop. They are shaking from the bitter cold as the freezing temperatures mercilessly tear through their fragile bodies. There is no warmth, no shelter, no dry clothing, and no means of protection from the death drawing closer with every passing hour.
Men are crying in anguish, pain, and helplessness. Men stand before their children and families, powerless to protect them or provide them with even the most basic necessities of life. Fathers have no roof under which to shelter their children, no blankets to warm their little bodies, and no refuge where they can escape the storms, rain, and floods. They have been left alone to face the deadly cold, while the sounds of bombardment and gunfire continue to haunt them at every moment.
I swear that all the horrifying and heartbreaking scenes you have witnessed are nothing more than a very small fraction of the true scale of this catastrophe and the suffering and pain endured by families here in Gaza. What remains unseen is far worse than anything photographs or videos could ever capture or describe.
What families here are experiencing is beyond all imagination and description. Children are facing the threat of freezing to death and drowning, while families are being crushed under the weight of the freezing cold and devastating floods. More than 70,000 families remain without shelter to this very moment — with no roof to protect them, no safe place to sleep, and no means of protection against these brutal conditions and the threat of death. Entire families are being abandoned in the open and on the streets, facing an unknown fate, with no idea how they will survive this catastrophe.
What more is the world waiting for?!
How much longer will this horrifying silence continue?!
Why are we left to face death every single day?! And why are our families and children being abandoned to face it alone, while no one moves to save them?!
I swear that families across Gaza are now facing a real and imminent threat to their lives. We are witnessing a humanitarian catastrophe that is worsening by the hour, a tragedy that could claim the lives of even more innocent people, particularly children, women, the sick, and the elderly, if these conditions continue without urgent intervention to save them.
Please, act now, before it is too late. Save what remains of Gaza. Gaza is crying out for help. Gaza is drowning. Gaza is facing a humanitarian catastrophe that can no longer wait.
WE NEED URGENT RESCUE NOW, NOT TOMORROW.
There are no tents left to speak of. The rain and floods have swept them away, torn them apart, and completely destroyed them, until almost no trace of them remains. Families have been left with no shelter, no roof over their heads, and not even a dry corner where they can take refuge from the bitter cold.
Entire families are sleeping out in the open, with no dry clothes to protect their bodies from the cold. Children are submerged in water and mud, while mothers and fathers desperately try to salvage whatever remains of their belongings. Clothes, blankets, covers, mattresses, and bedding — everything has been soaked and submerged in water. These families have nothing left to cover themselves with or protect them from the harsh winter.
The bodies of children, women, the sick, and the elderly are trembling nonstop. They are shaking from the bitter cold as the freezing temperatures mercilessly tear through their fragile bodies. There is no warmth, no shelter, no dry clothing, and no means of protection from the death drawing closer with every passing hour.
Men are crying in anguish, pain, and helplessness. Men stand before their children and families, powerless to protect them or provide them with even the most basic necessities of life. Fathers have no roof under which to shelter their children, no blankets to warm their little bodies, and no refuge where they can escape the storms, rain, and floods. They have been left alone to face the deadly cold, while the sounds of bombardment and gunfire continue to haunt them at every moment.
I swear that all the horrifying and heartbreaking scenes you have witnessed are nothing more than a very small fraction of the true scale of this catastrophe and the suffering and pain endured by families here in Gaza. What remains unseen is far worse than anything photographs or videos could ever capture or describe.
What families here are experiencing is beyond all imagination and description. Children are facing the threat of freezing to death and drowning, while families are being crushed under the weight of the freezing cold and devastating floods. More than 70,000 families remain without shelter to this very moment — with no roof to protect them, no safe place to sleep, and no means of protection against these brutal conditions and the threat of death. Entire families are being abandoned in the open and on the streets, facing an unknown fate, with no idea how they will survive this catastrophe.
What more is the world waiting for?!
How much longer will this horrifying silence continue?!
Why are we left to face death every single day?! And why are our families and children being abandoned to face it alone, while no one moves to save them?!
I swear that families across Gaza are now facing a real and imminent threat to their lives. We are witnessing a humanitarian catastrophe that is worsening by the hour, a tragedy that could claim the lives of even more innocent people, particularly children, women, the sick, and the elderly, if these conditions continue without urgent intervention to save them.
Please, act now, before it is too late. Save what remains of Gaza. Gaza is crying out for help. Gaza is drowning. Gaza is facing a humanitarian catastrophe that can no longer wait.
WE NEED URGENT RESCUE NOW, NOT TOMORROW.
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