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Vote Labour. Save the NHS.

How times have changed. Nearly 10 years and a pandemic later, I can confidently say that this is a party which has become unrecognisable to me. Labour died the day they came for the only man with enough integrity to provide a viable option to our crippling national health service, housing crisis and lifeline benefit cuts.

Labour now funds genocide with a smile, doubles down on demonising migrants and justifies taking food out of the mouths of children.

Don’t vote Labour. Don’t vote.

Welp.

Vote Labour. Save the NHS.

As much as we pretend we get it, somehow we still underestimate how important nurses are in the recovery process. I’m so grateful over the years for being treated by the best consultants and surgeons and doctors etc- and all through the the NHS, but my nurses were so integral to my ongoing recovery, not just for my physical wellbeing but my mental wellbeing too. They’re not my parents, they didn’t raise me, they’re paid peanuts and are overworked, yet they still took care of me like their lives depended on it. In a way their lives do- being a nurse isn’t just a job, they really believe in what they’re doing, and honestly they tend to have more knowledge on what you’re going through than the doctor treating you. Not to mention the reassuring emotional support and stability they provide your family. And speaking of family, my mum left Tunisia for a couple months to look after me, most of it during Ramadan, while my brother sacrificed the start of his summer to carry me, feed me and watch over me at night so that my mum could get some rest. And not to mention my closest friends are constantly checking up on me. Back to the NHS. I'll always support our system that has provided me with free healthcare, and the teaching hospitals that are funded by the NHS, even though im wary of the business-like aspects of foundation trusts that are creating private companies. Having said that, although it's not a perfect system, it beats many countries. Don't take it for granted. We're already slowly losing it to privatisation and undermining its core values. Don't just let it become a symbol of fading ideals. Our health minister jeremy hunt says we can't afford to increase staff pay by just 1%, yet MPs are casually entitled to receiving a 9% pay rise. On a more positive note, im very thankful for all that I have.

Mothers are everything. My mum escaped Tunisia by crossing the Algerian border by foot with 3 children on her arm.

The testimonies in Tunisia's Truth and Dignity Commission took Amel Agrebi back 30 years when her husband was imprisoned and tortured - and she smuggled messages into prison and became the family's breadwinner

So my mum wrote this essay about her struggles as a mother of 3 living under Ben Ali’s regime while my father was being tortured in prison

#tunisia #tunisians #tunisie #politics #tumblr #the13thcatsmeow

you havent said anything about the burkini ban

and I don't need to.

eid mubarak be kind to each other

you should start a yt channel, you have a great style:)

yeah nah

Anyone read the works of Aboul-Qacem Echebbi?

#poet #tunisian #poetry #tunisian poetry #aboul qacem Echebbi

does anyone have extensive knowledge and could give me serious advice and recommendations on building my own telescope and making my own instrument? thank you

#astronomy #telescope

Americans need to stop saying 'I could care less' How can you have the logic to say 'I have no f*cks left to give' but still say 'I could care less'

#it's couldn't care less #you can't care any less #there is nothing left to care about

I take criticisms of the NHS as a SYSTEM extremely personally, and so should you.

You’re literally shitting on all those people especially minorities who need(ed) the NHS just to survive.

I’m more disappointed in criticisms coming from other young minorities who are suddenly ‘fiscally conservative’ because they’re finally making some P and wanna romanticise their 'get rich or die trying’ motto and insult the working class (like themselves) for not working 'hard’ enough, you know, because you’ve clearly made it, living off your American Express credit card to pay for your C-grade Benz.

Stop being patronising arseholes especially when I know your own parents worked extremely hard for your well being and would be disappointed in your views.

In the UK it’s coming from a lot of 2nd gen Arab and Asian guys who think they’re so above everyone else because they insta pics of themselves wearing suits with pocket squares and own rolexes paid for through old student loans.

Your world doesn’t exist within a vacuum, Tories are scum.

How dare you. Seriously, have some shame.

#not today tumblr not today #yeah this post is problematic #bye #can't be arsed to add more context #tumblr isn't policing me today

I’m watching a very detailed documentary on Om Kalthoum’s visit to Tunisia on TV.

It’s very important that people are aware of Om Kalthoum’s conviction in her faith and it reminds me of the gift she gave to Tunis when she performed here in the 60s.

During her stay here, she couldn’t hear the adhan as in this particular area of Mutuelle Ville/Belvedere there were no masjids (this was done on purpose by Bourguiba for obvious reasons).

She couldn’t believe that a Muslim majority country had very few mosques let alone didn’t sound the adhan publicly. She said ‘we’re Muslim and I want to hear the call for prayer’.

Instead of her complaints falling on deaf ears, she decided to build a Masjid that was named after her; Masjid Al-Om-Kalthoum in Mutuelle Ville.

My mother grew up in this area and she told me that if it wasn’t for her, she’d have nowhere to pray. I live near this masjid and I feel very fortunate that it exists today.

Allah yar7mek Om Kalthoum

P.S her concert in Tunis is said to be her best because Tunisians were her favourite audience to engage with.

#Om kalthoum #Tunisia #partytilfajr