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Here’s to an awesome 2019
So that’s the whole playlist of the deluxe version and my favourites, so far, are the Intro, All I Am and Insecurities. Let me know which ones you like best.
I’ve been listening to Jess’ new album last night after I came back from watching A Star Is Born. Guys believe me, I was so emotional while listening to the album and I’m just so proud of her, she did so well with this album!!
Trailer of the Jess Glynne documentary and can I just say, it looks absolutely beautiful!
This text by Jess really went under my skin, she’s so inspiring and I can’t wait to see what her new album will be like. (Via Instagram, jessglynne)
Jess attending the Brit Awards on 21st February 2018
The live video to These Days will be out on Monday.
I know I am late to the party, but I wish Jess all the best for her birthday and hope she had a wonderful time surrounded by all her loved ones!! She only deserves the best!
I love that picture of Jess, she looks absolutely beautiful!
Jess' Tour Video of her performance at the O2 Arena in London during her 'Take Me Home' Tour directed by Jolene Henry.
Jess performing 'My Love' live at Wildlife Festival on 10th June 2017
Jess with her Mum and Dad at an event.
Guys, I realise most of you are US based and don’t realise this, but the next General Election in the UK will decide what we as a country want out of our system.
We literally have the most left wing manifesto out of the labour party we’ve seen in years - they’re finally not just a centrist, almost policy for policy but slightly more left version of the tories.
However, right-wing media is attempting to destroy our left wing leader. They’re smearing him left, right and centre. Hopelessly trying to make him out to be an ‘incapable leader’, as though ANY of the leaders we’ve had in the past few decades were the most respectable of people.
Our right wing leader is essentially Cruella De Vil down to wanting to lift the ban on fox hunting.
Can we talk about this more as a site?
You all blogged for Trump vs Clinton. Now can we pay attention to the rise of the right wing else where? Our left wing is promising nationalisation, free education and taxing the rich to fill our gaps but people still want to vote Tory despite them looking to privatise our health care, rip it to shreds first by giving their friends jobs in management and toss our education system up in the air. All because 1) Not enough people are voting and 2) the right wing is playing dirty tricks.
What happens in our General Election decides how the UK interacts with Trump. Currently, Theresa is a loyal lap dog without a back bone to speak of. Be aware that politics in other countries exists.
This is all very true and very important, but can I point something out? Theresa May and the Tory party as a whole are the most right-wing government we’ve seen for a long time. This isn’t just about caricatures and fox-hunting. Yes, she’s a twat, and yes she wants to bring back fox hunting.
But more importantly:
This government has taken away disability benefits and replaced them with a new scheme that is absolute pittance, they increased the national debt, and have continued to de-fund and sell off parts of the NHS. They want to scrap free school lunches for impoverished children, privatise the NHS, reduce the winter fuel allowance for pensioners, tighten border control and immigration, fund more grammar schools, not to mention what has now been dubbed as the “dementia tax” where millions of elderly people and their families are essentially getting financially penalized for living longer while unwell. They are promising to CUT corporation tax, which is already lower in Britain than most other countries in Europe, meaning that all these multi-billion dollar corporations have to pay even LESS than before, and want foreign workers and international students to pay more for their healthcare while over here, as well as to increase defense spending.
And last but not least, I shit you not, Theresa May wants to give the government power to regulate what is posted and shared online.
Quotes from the actual, literal, official Tory manifesto:
“Some people say that it is not for government to regulate when it comes to technology and the internet… We disagree.”
“While we cannot create this framework alone, it is for government, not private companies, to protect the security of people and ensure the fairness of the rules by which people and businesses abide… Nor do we agree that the risks of such an approach outweigh the potential benefits.”
And from The Independent article:
The manifesto also proposes that internet companies will have to pay a levy, like the one currently paid by gambling firms. Just like with gambling, that money will be used to pay for advertising schemes to tell people about the dangers of the internet, in particular being used to “support awareness and preventative activity to counter internet harms”, according to the manifesto.
The Conservatives will also seek to regulate the kind of news that is posted online and how companies are paid for it. If elected, Theresa May will “take steps to protect the reliability and objectivity of information that is essential to our democracy” – and crack down on Facebook and Google to ensure that news companies get enough advertising money.
If internet companies refuse to comply with the rulings – a suggestion that some have already made about the powers in the Investigatory Powers Act – then there will be a strict and strong set of ways to punish them.
“We will introduce a sanctions regime to ensure compliance, giving regulators the ability to fine or prosecute those companies that fail in their legal duties, and to order the removal of content where it clearly breaches UK law,” the manifesto reads.
Honestly, this shit is terrifying.
And that’s not even talking about how many trans people who have begun their transition are not able to vote. Lets not beat around the bush.
Yes, she wants to bring back fox hunting. But she also wants to do a hell of a lot more much more harmful things than that. This government could be worse than Thatchers. She will make life miserable for the working class, the disabled, migrants, and other minorities.
So talk about it. And get your ass down to polling stations or organise your postal vote. Please, for the sake of everyone vulnerable in this country - VOTE.
Muricans, if you have UK followers (or if your followers have UK followers) help educate them on their vote. We need help.
So I’ve read the manifestoes for the English parties because when I vote, I vote based on who I agree with the most. I find it easier to then compare party policies side-by-side. I figured other people might do this too so I’ve stuck together my notes for anyone else who’ll find it useful. On that note, I haven’t included the SNP policies because I cannot vote SNP and therefore can’t justify spending my time reading their manifesto. But if you can vote SNP I encourage you to take that time! Honestly, I love Nicola Sturgeon and I wish she could be prime minister and defend UK politics as passionately as she defends Scottish politics. In the mean time I’ll just pray for her to adopt me.
My aim here is to be unbiased and these are the points that are helping me form my own political opinion. Just to be clear – the statements are summarised from each party’s manifesto and I am not intending to persuade anyone to vote a certain way, but rather to people to be informed when they vote.
Read on if you plan on voting with your principles, not if you want to vote tactically. There are good spreadsheets going around to vote tactically (although I urge you to check the statistics yourself and not let yourself be played). This post is not a tactic. I can’t bring myself to vote tactically – I want to be able to look back on my vote in years to come and be honest with myself when I say ‘I voted for what I thought was best’. Hit me up for discussion and please let me know if you find mistakes!!