Notices by griffinkate (griffinkate@sunbeam.city)

Hope it's OK to share a work thing on here. I was commissioned by the Energy Advice Hub to write a comparison of the UK parties' manifesto promises on energy and the climate.

So I have waded through EIGHT different manifestos to find out what they're actually saying, as opposed to what the media says they're saying. I thought I would never finish it in time, for the election but it's finally been published. Please read and share if you can.

https://secrhub.co.uk/election-roundup-on-carbon-energy-climate/

Yesterday I was inspired by a conversation with @kensanata to do a poll on birdsite about people's experiences of wasp stings.

62% of UK-based respondents (57% of total respondents) had been stung by a wasp at least once in their life.

What really surprised me was the 38% of UK-based respondents who've NEVER been stung by a wasp. I assumed almost everybody had, at some point in their lives.

The number of overseas respondents was probably too low to be meaningful. 5% of total respondents were overseas people who've been stung, 3% were overseas people who've never been stung.

BPAS are fighting the UK govt's plan to place a 2-child limit on welfare support, a plan that has been described this way: "If you were designing a policy to increase child poverty, it would be hard to do better than this."

BPAS are fighting this because they don't want anyone to be pushed into having an abortion they don't want out of the fear of becoming destitute.

Sometimes I forget that pro-choice campaigning is about ALL kinds of reproductive choice, and this has been a useful reminder for me today.

If your "pro-life" organisation isn't doing any work to get actual living children out of poverty, it's not pro-life, it's just anti-bodily-autonomy.

https://www.bpas.org/get-involved/campaigns/briefings/the-two-child-limit-on-welfare-supports