I find kids now are often nervous about things that used to be ordinary like talking to shop staff or other strangers because it's largely out of their experience. online activity means they don't talk to strangers. Not going out means you mix with a very small, curated group and that must be bad
@mrjamesob.bsky.social although the reasons kids are now always inside are complex 1 reason is our attitude to children. I constantly see Facebook posts on local groups with photos complaining about kids playing outside with footballs/ making noise / running around or heaven forbid 'standing around'
@mrjamesob.bsky.social Disruptive kids drove me mad at school in the 90s.There was a culture, that behaving well/ working hard saw you labelled 'a boffin' which was a terrible insult in the 1990s & left you open to ridicule.These kids got the teachers focus over hard working kids who were struggling
@mrjamesob.bsky.social I will never forget seeing a child i knew to have a difficult home life crying on the last day of term, asking the teaching assistant if she could still come in on Monday. For kids for whom school is a refuge the long holiday must be hell.
@mrjamesob.bsky.social you've reminded me that someone i know had a school friend Barry Duck, whose father was called Donald. Born before Disney was well known in the UK.
Thank you to everyone who spoke to us today, ahead of the vote in 1st May. I've loved representing Dartford North East for the last 4 years and I would love to carry on.
"...to succeed, any reforms to sentencing must ensure the Probation Service is properly resourced to be able to deal with the cases it is required to manage."
Latest annual Probation Inspectorate report highlights overwork and inexperience ➡️ hmiprobation.justiceinspectorates.gov.uk/news/the-pro...
Today @jessphillipsmp.bsky.social
read the names of all the women killed by men/ where a man is the main suspect over the past year.
Among them was Nina Denisova who was stabbed to death at a property in Dartford.
Thuggery from Trump and Vance, plain and simple.
Every time I watch Musk speak I’m confused as to how a man reached all of his various lofty positions without the ability to get sentences out in a coherent manner
As the mum of an army cadet it was a privilege to join the South East Reserve Forces and Cadet Association at Kent County Council today.
Out in Newtown today
Thank you to everyone who joined @jimdickson.bsky.social and I for coffee this morning at The Beacon Beefeater or who spoke to us on the doorstep.
Well done @kevinmckenna.co.uk
Great to join Jim Dickson MP for the NHS 10 year plan consultantation meeting tonight.
@jimdickson.bsky.social
@mrjamesob.bsky.social the saddest thing is fish and chips are still not wrapped in newspaper & the signs in the Dartford tunnel remain unchanged so these people must still be as unhappy as ever.
Please sign to save central London's only independent cinema.
Details here ⏬️
princecharlescinema.com/savethepcc/
Sign here ⏬️
you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/sa...
On Cervical Cancer Week shout out to the HPV vaccine. Introduced for girls in England in 2008, who are now adults in their 20s. Studies shows a reduction in both pre-cancerous growths & an 87% reduction in cervical cancer.
Alice da Silva Aguiar
Bebe King
Elsie Dot Stancombe
#SayTheirNames
Great weekend for donations to Dartford Deeds Not Words. These will go to people in the mental health wards in Dartford.
Cold afternoon in Temple Hill with ny lovely Labour team this afternoon.
Great to be taking to voters today on the Bridge with our MP @jimdickson.bsky.social
this morning.
Just in from mammoth interview session to two bits of news. One that a DV perp got locked up because of something I did and that a vulnerable constituent had a a massive wrongful debt written off after our intervention. This is why I came to politics, this is why I'll just keep cracking on.
STORY
Kemi Badenoch hasn't actually met any grooming gang survivors - and doesn't think she needs to
www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...
Just a reminder that the minister with the brief for women and equalities from 2022 to July 2024 was none other than Kemi Badenoch, since she herself seems to have forgotten that – judging by her indignation at #pmqs.
Damning moment on Newsnight as Dorries admits that the child grooming scandal was "never discussed" when she was a cabinet minister.
