Alasdair Stewart
@AlasdairIS
Followers
2,194
Following
1,237
Media
677
Statuses
16,764
Purley Oaks & Riddlesdown @CroydonTories Councillor and Croydon's Vice Chair of Scrutiny. Mainly post about Croydon, charities, politics, & tech.
London, UK
Joined August 2010
Don't wanna be here?
Send us removal request.
Explore trending content on Musk Viewer
القادسية
• 577203 Tweets
سيلتا
• 493445 Tweets
Michigan
• 310286 Tweets
Arsenal
• 261144 Tweets
Miami
• 119090 Tweets
Osimhen
• 100728 Tweets
Tennessee
• 97567 Tweets
Bournemouth
• 78968 Tweets
Nico
• 75490 Tweets
#StarAcademy
• 74389 Tweets
Liverpool
• 70385 Tweets
Saliba
• 66991 Tweets
Corinthians
• 52520 Tweets
Usher
• 46324 Tweets
Celta
• 43883 Tweets
Arteta
• 40775 Tweets
Indiana
• 38422 Tweets
Norris
• 32297 Tweets
gremio
• 30179 Tweets
Vini
• 25732 Tweets
Nebraska
• 25456 Tweets
Modric
• 23731 Tweets
Louisville
• 20615 Tweets
Auburn
• 15858 Tweets
Ancelotti
• 14447 Tweets
Renato
• 12942 Tweets
Cam Ward
• 12013 Tweets
GARIME X LA OPORTUNIDAD
• 11980 Tweets
Pinned Tweet
Promoted by Alasdair Stewart of 36 Brighton Road, CR8 2LG.
0
1
5
The way in which Sir Philip Rutnam has quit simply confirms all the "briefings" from last 2 weeks.
He didn't like the new regime, didn't like the new Home Secretary, and didn't like that he wasn't getting his way. His job was to do what Priti Patel wanted - it's right he's gone.
"I have been the target of a vicious and orchestrated briefing campaign"
Top civil servant in the Home Office, Sir Philip Rutnam, quits and says he intends to sue the government for constructive dismissal
4K
7K
15K
148
635
2K
For every remoaner complaining about the
#Brexit
50p, can I remind everyone that we had a 50p in 1973 to celebrate us joining, and another in 1998 to celebrate 25 years of membership and our Presidency. We mint coins to recognise occasions. 31st January is a pretty big occasion!
86
582
2K
The
@brexitparty_uk
just revealed their European Parliament election party political broadcast:
#wow
. This is a strong, simple message that will surely resonate with millions of voters. Establishment aren't going to know what's hit them.
149
716
1K
I would like to congratulate
@theresa_may
for yet again exceeding all my expectations!
I thought we’d lose about a thousand seats, but no, that wasn’t good enough for her - we lost 1334 hard working Conservative councillors.
All because the PM won’t admit it’s time to go.
51
303
874
Really disappointed to see
@MattHancock
supporting the Police in fining people for not following the *guidance* rather than only where the law is broken.
We have the rule of law in the UK and western democracies for a reason! Very easy to quickly lose public support here.
#Ridge
68
143
743
On Tuesday night
@theresa_may
betrayed her party, manifesto & voters with her No Deal motion.
On Wednesday, chaos as Parliament betrayed the People, damaging our democracy.
No idea what happens next, but clear I (& many others) can’t support the Conservatives with May as leader
31
132
356
It is almost certain that
#NetZero
will be one of the big scandals of this century. Undoing the progress made in the last 50 years, putting cars and warm homes out of reach unless you’re rich etc. risks destroying society. It’s utter madness.
34
193
348
@theresa_may
@AldersgateGrp
A terrible, uncosted at the time (and later confirmed to be ridiculously expensive) decision that in future decades we will come to regret - in terms of the costs to jobs, our wealth, and quality of life. I'm afraid it's an even worse legacy than the draft Brexit deal you left.
9
27
359
Conservative MP
@RishiSunak
took a photo with a bag of tea you can buy in the shops. Brand said they weren't involved. The left go crazy & demand a boycott.
Corbyn did the same in 2017. Anyone remember calls for a boycott then?
How sad & intolerant.
29
157
325
Well, I fear tonight is the end of Theresa May, the current government, and quite possibly the Party.
Every Labour vote will cost a Tory vote - so it'll be a red Brexit with blue PM. DUP have essentially been dropped (so who's keeping us in power). And party members are furious!
22
122
291
Incredibly proud of the UK 🇬🇧silent majority who ensured the UK public vote 12 points went to Israel 🇮🇱.
The horrible protests and antisemitism we’ve seen on our streets do not represent the majority view.
#Eurovision
#Israel
#Eurovision2024
147
58
340
@mushycrouton
No, JKR is pro-woman, pro-LGB. She understands the difference between sex and gender, ensuring my homosexuality isn’t erased by TQ+ activists like yourself,
She also understands the difference between fiction and fantasy, and fact & science. And thank goodness she does.
5
16
331
@PeterTatchell
Given how politically charged the debate is around TQ+ at the moment, and some charities in that space have active safeguarding investigations, it’s hardly surprising.
The Crown also risks upsetting many homosexuals, like me, if they were to do anything to support the medical
8
25
300
No, Nick. The majority - women, 51% of UK population - are the ones under attack. Their rights, spaces & sports are at risk.
Stonewall, unbelievably, are the ones now attacking homosexuals - accusing us of transphobia if a man won’t date a woman or vice versa.
#SexMatters
Are the rights of a minority under attack for political gain in a re-run of Clause 28? The chair of
@stonewalluk
thinks so but critics say the trans rights row is different as they impinge on women’s rights. Why won’t he talk to those critics? Listen 🎧
121
21
119
2
46
292
@Casserly_Rock
@KayBurley
There were 10 guests, split across two tables, which breaks the rule of six (assuming they dined outside) or all the rules for tier 2 assuming they dined inside! Never-mind the part where other people apparently joined her inside at her home...
12
3
249
Some encouraging figures - including that two-thirds want to see the license fee substantially reformed or scrapped. Boris is clearly on to a winner if he does decide to take action.
8
83
198
Sadly, this is true. Too many in the Conservative Party are standing against the change that voters put us in power to deliver. Until that changes, it’s no surprise voters won’t trust us to deliver.
The Conservatives are heading for defeat because they're completely out of touch with the people who put them in power. My latest in tomorrow's
@Telegraph
0
177
516
10
89
217
@JuliaHB1
Indeed. I'm reminded of my tweet from just a few days ago making this very point (and kind of Ms Abbot to provide the perfect illustration of it in action!)...
I am continually amazed at the capacity of the left to forgive and forget utterly appalling & vile comments from their supporters and candidates.
Yet often those same leftwingers would happily see someone on the right barred and tarred for life if the wrong pronoun is used.
12
13
66
20
14
203
@GavinBarwell
One of May’s last acts was to pass legislation putting net zero targets into law.
The same net zero that will see UK citizens be unable to afford their energy bills, and in the worst cases, sadly starve or freeze to death this winter.
That legacy is quite something.
28
18
191
It is very clear with
@vonderleyen
at the head of the EU the Northern Ireland Protocol can never be resolved. It is beyond time to walk away.
An utterly ridiculous & false statement - perhaps she should reflect first on her own country's recent history...
40
61
191
At some point in the future a government minister will have to tell the people: "We can't do that because of EU rules".
And at that point the British public will ask a very simple question "I thought we left?!". It will break our democracy and I daren't predict the outcome.
15
49
137
@IainDale
I don’t agree with the speech, but it seems to be an attack on individuals who deny biology and want to destroy single sex spaces and sports. I don’t see it as an attack on LGBT more widely.
And I also think it’s quite legitimate to complain that as a government minister, the
18
4
163
#IVotedLeave
and I hope you did too!
#EUref
let's take back control and make tomorrow our independence day!
21
69
143
If eco terrorists want to put themselves at risk, let them. If they can get up the bridge, they can stay there. They'll want to come down at some point, and in the meantime, traffic should simply flow freely.
Time to stop enabling their disruption.
15
25
156
Having watched and listened to MPs use every trick in the book to block Brexit directly against the wishes of the public while having the gall to block an election... Time for
@BorisJohnson
to throw down the gauntlet and advise against Royal assent. We need an election now.
3
49
146
@Howard_Goodall
@InsideCroydon
And despite your best efforts, the Great British people have voted for it and kept voting for it!
Maybe one day you'll understand democracy.
125
12
141
@BenInLDN
They seem to want to censor our free press. So I'm sorry, but zero sympathy. The law sets the boundaries of our freedom of speech and views, and newspapers are rightly filled with a range of views and opinions reflecting society at large.
17
3
130
@hannahblythyn
@OwenJones84
Speaking as a member of the LGB community - No.
Devolved administrations have no right to change the meaning and effect of Westminster legislation and areas that are reserved to Westminster. This is a basic part and fact of our democracy.
7
5
137
Losing voters, activists, and now big donors: all agree we’ve been hoodwinked by
@theresa_may
- and yet cabinet and 1922 still do nothing.
I fear the future is now the same as Canada’s Conservative party - the decline becomes more irreversible as every day of inaction passes.
BREAKING Former Conservative donor Jeremy Hosking revealed as £200,000 donor Nigel Farage's Brexit Party via
@Telegraph
120
388
674
5
51
123
Another brilliant
@spectator
#Brexit
article. The EU has rebuffed us again, so now time for some British backbone. With polls showing 2/3rds of us think the EU has acted like a bully, giving in would be a terrible mistake.
0
62
103
How far back would we need to go to find another time when so many prominent Conservatives have written so many damning articles about the Party & Leader?
MPs need to take the hint and get May out of Number 10, before the rot is irreversible.
14
67
102
The EU is trying to bully Switzerland into a deal they don't like or really want. Truly an awful organisation. Only a matter of time until they pick a fight with
@realDonaldTrump
they can't win...
5
65
101
Great that
@BHLIVE_UK
have acted on this feedback, returning to separate male and female facilities. Thanks to
@sheela_na
& many many others for publicising, and to
@InsideCroydon
for chasing Fairfield Halls for a response - change is possible!
#SexMatters
Councillor’s complaint sees Fairfield Halls drop mix-sex loos
#Croydon
@FairfieldHalls
@BHLIVE_UK
@AlasdairIS
@BBCLondonNews
27
71
476
8
30
123
This article from
@DanielJHannan
is spot on.
As these remainiacs move in their own remainer bubbles, they can't see the damage they are doing in wider society. The divisions of
#Brexit
will be nothing compared to the divisions of a failed democracy.
9
68
110
@RayyaGhul
Sadly you're an embarrassment to academics and academia.
Is it any wonder that an entire generation is unable to critically consider different perspectives when those teaching our young only want to teach "their single truth"?
1
6
117
@NicolaSturgeon
@mgoldenmsp
As a Scot who's chosen to live in London for the last 8 years, I've met far too many people who've said they weren't welcomed in Scotland due to your particularly nasty form of nationalism, and have returned to England as a result. Wish it wasn't true!
200
17
112
One of many
@vote_leave
teams out in Sutton this morning! Now off to rally in London
#VoteLeave
#Brexit
4
45
87
Really disappointed to see this at
@FairfieldHalls
. Everyone deserves single sex facilities. I hope
@BHLIVE_UK
urgently reconsider this awful misogyny.
#SexMatters
Today's slow clap is for The Cube cafe in Croydon
@JohnWhitgiftFdn
- they've added a handy unisex sticker to the ladies loos, but the mens is still for, well, the menz.
@FairfieldHalls
tell us, pray, why men's privacy and dignity matters, but not women's? dying to hear it...
217
1K
4K
3
30
100
@PinkNews
"The UK’s parliament is still the gayest in the world after 2019 election despite Tory landslide"
This is a ridiculous headline - implying a Tory landslide would mean fewer LGBT MPs, when actually it's meant there are more LGBT Conservative MPs and thus more LGBT MPs full stop!
0
3
95
@OwenJones84
It’s quite possibly the last charity for our community left standing that still defines homosexuality (correctly, the hint is in how the word is spelt) as same-sex, not same-gender, attraction.
It is only a small loud faction that equates that with being anti-trans. It isn’t.
2
2
89
Remind me again which party was it that abstained in the vote...?
All we get from Boris Johnson is indecision, confusion and weak leadership.
411
950
3K
2
18
90
@TylerWilsonYP
From one elected councillor to another - please grow up. This is not the time or place to be making these political arguments. You should be embarrassed by your message in the book of condolence and this entire thread.
0
3
94
@SnellArthur
@afneil
Both tweets seem to be making the same point?
Coop had tweeted they would stop advertising in Spectator due to some of the articles, after pressure from some on twitter.
@afneil
doesn't let advertisers influence editorial decisions. A consistent - and very correct - position.
1
3
89
Compare this to the EU’s tweets, bullying and general attitude.
The EU views us as a country to be beaten into submission, while the USA genuinely believes there’s a win-win deal to be done that we’ll both benefit from in terms of trade, employment and prosperity. 🇬🇧🇺🇸
1st round of 🇺🇸- 🇬🇧 FTA talks a success! Liz Truss and Robert Lighthizer are working hard to get a deal done that will boost jobs &
#SharedProsperity
for both our great countries!
124
597
2K
4
22
82
@finnvapxr
@lililenton
@SVPhillimore
I didn’t have any care in the world… until you decided it was transphobic to exclude transmen from gay homosexual dating pools.
When you attempt to redefine same sex attraction as same gender attraction, you better bet on a reaction and people starting to pay attention.
2
1
90
@SimonMcCoyTV
@GBNEWS
The content I can hear and see is great. Looking forward to the gremlins being sorted soon. Amazing viewing figures compared to Sky News so far. Lots of us rooting for you!
Keep calm and carry on 🇬🇧
5
1
78
Normally people are too polite to boo and criticise comedians who aren't funny, lean a certain way, and rely on targeting certain groups for cheap laughs. Very glad to have seen the clips & read this where attendees didn't let Nish get away with it.
1
31
74
The green climate emergency blob are all over our TVs this week, wanting us to destroy our economy and impoverish British citizens.
The hard truth is that if UK went net zero tomorrow, growth in emissions everywhere else in the world would replace what we saved within 2 years.
4
18
82
@gideonrachman
Thanks for the laugh Gideon. Seems the public are quite happy with how things are...
1
5
82
Some
@Conservatives
complained there was a problem with the party if we no longer had room for
@PhilipHammondUK
- but this interview with
@Telegraph
demonstrates exactly why
@BorisJohnson
was right to throw him out. Soft
#Brexit
is not why we voted
#Leave
9
31
74
@TheJacobTrueman
The irony of using Pride to discriminate and demonstrate intolerance towards a certain group is clearly lost on you.
1
4
77
@MayorofLondon
You don’t get to set out demands.
You fired the last commissioner without consulting the Home Office. The Home Office will rightly pay you lip service and no more.
I look forward to
@pritipatel
appointing an excellent new commissioner, and no doubt one you’ll dislike.
7
8
78
Given all the journalists so far have failed to ask anything intelligent and just repeatedly ask the same already answered questions, this is hardly a loss.
No follow up questions at tonight's press conference with the PM
3K
405
3K
0
14
76
It is one thing to express these views in private events for Conservative party members.
It is quite another to go on national TV, harm the UK negotiating position, and contradict the very manifesto you stood on and were elected on a year ago.
Shame!
A NO DEAL would not just harm our economy & international reputation but also impact on the 🇬🇧🇺🇸 Special Relationship.
Western resolve is about to re-group & confront the growing global threats we face.
Let’s work hard to secure a way out of this impasse so we can step up too.
2K
293
2K
6
14
76
Listen to final comments + see recent polling: 67% think government handled Brexit badly & 85% government is doing a bad job overall.
May’s refusal to deliver what Leavers voted for has landed us in this mess, but Tory councillors will sadly be first to pay the price in May.
5
36
68
Listening to this morning's debate on the
#WithdrawalAgreement
and I can't help but be disappointed at the huge numbers of
@UKLabour
and
@LibDems
MPs who seem to have no faith in the United Kingdom or its peoples. A truly sad state of affairs.
2
9
70
@kirkkorner
A bit more than just running out of fuel…
No working dashboard and they wouldn’t know their speed either. Seems he got off lightly!
2
1
73
@GavinBarwell
This is an argument to pursue GDP growth at all costs - not GDP growth *per capita* which is what people in the UK are desperate to see, and what will lead to an increase in our living standards.
0
3
72
I love how every day this
@BorisJohnson
#Brexit
government is finding a new way to trigger the
#FBPE
crowd!
After 3 years of May, it truly is a magnificent thing to behold.
I intend to take every “brexit 50p” that falls into my hands into a bank and ask them to swap it for a proper one. I shall refuse to take them in change. Who’s with me?
#resist
4K
2K
8K
3
11
56
@hibeesfamily
@NicolaSturgeon
Scotland does not and would not meet the EU’s financial requirements to join, with a 11% deficit between what the Scottish government spends vs what it earns (this is currently funded by the UK). Joining the EU will remain a dream, it won’t be a reality without very tough cuts.
21
1
68
@mjCurnow
@griffitha
The taxpayer owns approximately 39% of NatWest, a legacy from when Gordon Brown bailed them out during the financial crash (they were called RBS then).
Any large shareholder would have a view on this, as it affects the value of the shares. The government is no different.
20
1
71
@HLHoulihan
@darrengrimes_
Exactly!
Rayner thought a mug gifted to Rishi by his wife was excessive.
But then happily expensed top of the range items, far beyond what is needed to do her job, to the taxpayer - ie all of us mugs who end up paying for it.
2
3
64
@njwimpenny
@GoodwinMJ
Unlike the majority of the UK population, the Royal family are net contributors the Treasury. I wish more of the UK population were net contributors too - we’d then be able to afford better public services and lower taxes.
5
1
63
@rtenews
Easy solution, Simon - tell your EU mates in France to stop them crossing to the UK. Then they won’t be able to cross over to Ireland.
Otherwise, perhaps we need some express ferries from Kent to Warrenpoint?
3
3
68
I am continually amazed at the capacity of the left to forgive and forget utterly appalling & vile comments from their supporters and candidates.
Yet often those same leftwingers would happily see someone on the right barred and tarred for life if the wrong pronoun is used.
Lib-Lab Pact As Both Stand by “I’d Hang Tories” Council Candidate
35
154
220
12
13
66
The improvement to the
#Brexit
Withdrawal Agreement seems to be clarification around how arbitration panel can suspend Backstop if EU acting in bad faith.
Bad faith is still almost impossible to prove. Suspending is clearly not leaving.
It’s lipstick on a pig, and not enough.
1
16
56
This is a thread for everyone. It is why May’s “deal” must never pass. Truly the most shameful PM and government in British history.
1
44
60
How lovely. The UK government needs to ensure the whole world knows the EU doesn’t believe in contract law and is happy to requisition private property at a whim. Investors beware the “rules based” EU.
5
36
63
Out at a packed pub. A group arrive, barely a table left: "Last night of freedom, innit!". Handshakes(!) & talk of what beer to drink. Almost normal.
Then the awkward
#covid
Q: "What's the deal with food?"; the barman whispers "a bowl of chips - for the table".
Quiet rebellion.
1
3
60
Quite sad & ridiculous how many businesses have given in to the woke-left
#StopFundingHate
mob.
The only notable incidents on
#GBNews
in the last 2 days are (sadly) the string of tech issues. It's also regulated by
@Ofcom
. Companies need to understand Twitter is not the country:
1
17
66
@FJ731
@EdConwaySky
The situation is the same across Europe, USA...
Didn't realise they'd all Brexited too.
16
3
59
@benhowlettuk
@stonewalluk
We wouldn't let teachers use materials from Conservatives, Labour, or SNP and teach them as facts.
Entirely proper we don't allow materials from other campaigning organisations to be taught as facts.
2
1
58
Sadly my local MP now seems to be drinking the same kool-aid
@theresa_may
& her team are. A “pragmatic
#Brexit
” is not the answer. It’s simple:
A) May must go
B) Ditch the
#BRINO
Withdrawal Deal
C) Deliver the Brexit we voted for
Otherwise we’re inviting Corbyn into Number 10.
Very surprising Labour lost rather than gained seats, esp in the Midlands and North. Less surprising are Con losses given very high 2015 starting point. But this shows the public want MPs from both main parties to stop arguing & deliver a pragmatic Brexit (entailing compromise)
794
59
184
7
13
48
@SeanSmithCeleb
It's several times a year, not daily. Releasing official pictures has also mostly destroyed the market for unauthorised paparazzi snaps.
They are the future King and Queen and there is public interest in the line of succession for this great country and several others. 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧
4
0
61
@bbcnickrobinson
@stonewalluk
No. Nick, you’ve got it wrong (as does the bbc style guide).
No, Nick. The majority - women, 51% of UK population - are the ones under attack. Their rights, spaces & sports are at risk.
Stonewall, unbelievably, are the ones now attacking homosexuals - accusing us of transphobia if a man won’t date a woman or vice versa.
#SexMatters
2
46
292
1
2
59
@dan_grey
@T_Extinguishers
A bus can weigh up to 18 tons (a new style route master is 12 tons).
They're absolutely lethal, and have no place on our roads.
8
1
62
@GoodSchweik
@TomJackSpencer
@LesRallizes77
@HCH_Hill
The average temperature in my flat during the day has been 23-25c for the last several weeks (north facing). I mostly work from home. It is a pretty unpleasant environment to work in - my flat is so well insulated, meaning it retains far too much heat even in modest temperatures.
5
4
61
@peterejhamilton
@AudreySuffolk
I’m more concerned that you seem to have been a victim of daylight robbery - £10.85?!?!
About the double the price it should be…
6
0
59
If true, it's important we don't retaliate in-kind & disrupt legitimate trade and business contracts.
We should instead tear up the Brexit Withdrawal Agreement and the billions of euros the EU wanted - killing British citizens is nothing short of an act of war.
8
16
54
While finding someone who has never expressed any political views for this kind of role would be quite difficult, it is rather telling that those brought in are always on the anti-Conservatives & anti-Brexit side... wonder why?
Beeber 1 🗣 ‘Hey, we’ve got a problem with our journalists being accused of bias on social media’
Beeber 2 🗣 ‘No problem, I know just the guy who can help’
#DefundTheBBC
48
550
1K
1
26
49
@MarkDiStef
For those of us who basically ignore the FT now due to BDS, would someone fill me in on what happened? Something about a zoom call?
7
0
53
@mummygirl
@CPhilpOfficial
@JamesCleverly
Highest employment ever, with unemployment halved over last 8 years under a Conservative government. We've also had record numbers of job vacancies, so if someone wants to work they will find work.
14
1
50
Siri, show me how out of touch with ordinary people the urban liberal elite media are?
5
14
52
Perhaps if the
#BBC
wasn't wasting money on things like this (we really don't need a "Beeb" voice assistant), they'd have the funds needed to keep free TV licenses for the over 75s! So much waste from a single organisation.
1
11
46
Irony clearly lost on the
#EU
, today begging the USA to allow free flow of vaccines supplies... while the EU has just blocked an export of 250k Oxford AstraZeneca doses to Australia!
1
22
48
Watching
@patel4witham
interview on
@SkyNews
#Ridge
this morning:
1) Huge breath of fresh air without constant interruptions by interviewer
2) Confirming that Priti Patel remains a huge asset to the
#Conservatives
- completely on top of the detail & unflustered by questions
4
17
49
Sad to see journalists like
@BethRigby
making same mistakes with
#coronavirus
#lockdown
as with
#Brexit
. The British public are not thick and can understand perfectly fine what they are being told. The only confused person here is Beth!
3
12
47