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Dunblane, Scotland
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lesley o'hare retweeted
“Surface”
A varied collection of artwork by 24 professional, elected artist members of Visual Arts Scotland.
Open Tues-Sat 11-4 & Sun 12-4pm.
Amanda Gizzi
Hairy Belly Fonte
Tapestry
13x10cm
#amandagizziart #visualartsscotland #vas #tapestry
lesley o'hare retweeted
“Surface”
A varied collection of artwork by 24 professional, elected artist members of Visual Arts Scotland.
Open today 11-4 if you are venturing out & not choosing to be tucked up in front of the fire!
Margaretann Bennett
Obfuscate
Acrylic on Cradled Wooden Panel
25.5x30.5cm
lesley o'hare retweeted
Never mind the future. We’re currently queuing outside to even access arrivals. You’ve become a national embarrassment @EDI_Airport & getting worse. Fancy shops & lounges are great, but you MUST sort arrivals. Shocking.
✈️| This is Our Future.
Our £500m investment programme will create more capacity, improve facilities and enhance the passenger experience.
🎥 Take a look at how the plans will be phased over the years ahead.
Find out more and watch the full video here: tinyurl.com/2fa8wheh
lesley o'hare retweeted
“Surface”
A collection of artwork by 24 professional, elected artist members of Visual Arts Scotland.
Genevieve Draper
Close of Day, September
Oil on Canvas
40x50cm
#genevievedraperart #visualartsscotland #vas #scottishart
lesley o'hare retweeted
I'm a double amputee.
I recieve 3,600 a year in PIP
@Helen_Whately receives *39,000* a year in housing.
If our Hels wants to cut down the welfare bill I've an idea where she should start...
lesley o'hare retweeted
Indians in the UK barely need any of your social welfare benefits. The Indian diaspora is one of the most educated and high-tax-paying demographics.
lesley o'hare retweeted
Helen, Helen, Helen
Let me explain this to you in plain and exceedingly simple English.
Disabled kids are most likely to have been born with their disabilities or conditions (as I was). I know this might be shocking to you Helen, but we don't just stop being disabled at 18. Being born with a disability is usually a lifetime deal.
I tell you what, care to swap? You can have my cerebral palsy (and the benefits that you say come with it) and I'll take your fully functioning extremities and become an MP. Not a Tory one though, because I'm not a horrible bastard.
By the way, if you accept my offer, good luck trying to wipe your backside, put your own clothes on, wash any part of your body or doing any sort of cookery (since you won't be able to hold a knife properly) are, and one more thing, forget about rolling yourself over in bed at night, you'll have to get somebody to help you with that as well. But yeah, apart from that, a lifetime on benefits is really fucking easy isn't it?
lesley o'hare retweeted
We know you are not very bright Tice, you really do not need to keep reminding us!
As your Tory Rejects will explain to you there is no British Airways anymore - not as a credible entity in the UK anyway!
Since it was sold by your hero/mentor Maggie Thatcher in 1987 the UK government does not own a stake!
In 2011 British Airways merged with Spain's Iberia to form International Airlines Group (IAG), a multinational airline holding company.
BA ceased trading independently on the London Stock Exchange and became a subsidiary of IAG.
BA was sold for £900,000, so - to give you another example of a disastrous Tory deal - for the year 2025, BA operating profit was £2.23 billion with a strong operating margin of 15.2%,
lesley o'hare retweeted
“Surface”
Now open. Thanks to all who came to the opening yesterday afternoon... a busy day!
Work by 24 elected artists from Visual Arts Scotland. Open today 12-4pm.
Jo Gifford
Ambiguous Object 213
Porcelain
5cm(h) x 8cm(w) x 8cm(l)
#jogifford #porcelain #vas
lesley o'hare retweeted
Wonderful to see the music community coming together for one of their own, Ana, who spends her life supporting music.
You lovely lot are class acts for doing this, what a night it will be, gutted to miss it, hope you have a ball 🎶💃
People really do make Glasgow ❤️
lesley o'hare retweeted
Closed this week as we rehang for our collaborative exhibition with Visual Arts Scotland (VAS) - "Surface".
Opening Saturday 17 October at 11 with refreshments & meet the artists 2-5pm.
Jo Fleming Smith
Summer Skies
Ink on Canvas
120x80cm
#joflemingsmith #vas
lesley o'hare retweeted
Helen Whately has spent the past few days promoting a fictional divide between disabled people and “hardworking taxpayers”.
First, she shared a carefully constructed £27,400 benefit figure that combines Universal Credit, housing support and enhanced PIP, as though rent and disability-related costs were disposable income.
Then she suggested Labour MPs only resisted PIP cuts because claimants outnumbered their majorities. What she didn’t mention was that this applies to a higher proportion of Conservative and Reform MPs, and her own majority is just 1,469.
Disabled people are workers, taxpayers, carers and voters. We are not “Benefits Street”, and we will not be reduced to figures on a political spreadsheet.
#HelenWhately #PIP #UniversalCredit #DisabilityBenefits #DisabilityRights
lesley o'hare retweeted
Imagine making it your life’s work to attack the sick, the disabled and the vulnerable, while at the same time claiming huge sums of money in expenses on top of your very large salary?
What kind of person would do that, @Helen_Whately?
lesley o'hare retweeted
He committed a crime whilst on bail, filmed himself doing it then uploaded it to social media and then told the police he had no fixed abode so therefore no bail address. But you know all that don't you.
lesley o'hare retweeted
I know of one guy who got given 5 million for doing nothing! Not even turning up to his day job to earn his 90k!
The Mail and Sun won't tell you so I will.
lesley o'hare retweeted
I have officially been sworn in! Great day meeting all my new colleagues, so excited to represent the people of Holborn and St Pancras!
lesley o'hare retweeted
I was walking to the building where I work in Oxford when I passed three young girls speaking Farsi and I couldn’t help but run back and ask if they were from Afghanistan.
They said yes. It had been a few months since their arrival as refugees waiting in Pakistan, now studying at a local school in Oxford.
I was swelling with emotion. These girls just escaped 5 years of gender persecution under the Taliban. Erasure of their schools. And are now in Oxford, studying freely.
Thank you to the U.K government for giving them a second chance.
As a former refugee myself, we all just need one chance, as Canada gave to my mother and I.
Two sets of Afghan women, escaping two Taliban regimes, meeting in Oxford. All in the hopes of finding freedom through education.
lesley o'hare retweeted
Okay, I'm breaking character here. This is not a satire post. My 2-year-old son is in a wheelchair that we can't fit into our car. We are not eligible to apply for a wheelchair accessible vehicle until he is three--and even then we would have to pay about £13,000 towards it (which we don't have).
The idea that disabled people get given free cars willy-nilly is bullshit. My son has to attend regular appointments at various locations. He has a team of specialists dedicated to helping him with an extremely rare neurological condition that means he needs around the clock supervision.
He can't even hold his own head up so a regular car seat is out of the question. He was using a baby seat, but he's outgrown that. It's really tough for us to get around because misinformation from pricks like Nigel influences public opinion. Does this seem right?
lesley o'hare retweeted
Sagal isn't in the same Party as me but I welcome her to the House of Commons and stand with her against the vile, sexist, racist and Islamophobic abuse she's been receiving in recent weeks. @Sagal_AW
lesley o'hare retweeted
Fire that killed two sisters was started by candles in flat below bbc.in/4AYybOg
