When a friend of mine was very young she met Ken Dodd. When he discovered her father had recently died he said he'd send her a postcard from every town on his tour.
For the next four years Pamela received a postcard nearly every week.
RIP Ken Dodd.
Tonight we see a truly disgusting side of the UK. Those celebrating Boris being admitted into intensive care.
Never forget this. Never forgive this. Never let these people have any influence whatsoever in the country.
They deserve nothing but our total contempt.
Germany now acknowledges their testing regime has been pointless, inefficient, and an expensive waste of resources, so they recommend moving to 'intelligent testing'.
Intelligent testing - what the UK is doing.
Corbyn's wife sells a 250g bag of coffee for £10, while the Mexican & Guatemalan migrant labour are paid the equivalent of just £260 a year.
Little wonder she's kept away from the media spotlight.
Just saying ....
Last year, in the UK alone,
@McDonalds
made profits of £341 million.
Yet it doesn't pay its workers enough to get by.
So they're organising for £15 an hour, guaranteed hours each week and union recognition.
Here's how to join their campaign:
#McStrike
Shami Chakrabarti says points based immigration systems doesn't treat migrants as human beings.
Canada, New Zealand & Australia use points based systems.Japan demands you have a professional job or award & most other systems are based on earnings.
Labour wants open immigration.
Does the media really believe we are all so stupid that when they push their 'the UK is the worst country in Europe for Covid-19 deaths' we don't understand that they don't take the size of the population, population density or how the numbers are collated into consideration?
Outside of Danny Baker's Tweet about Archie, can anyone give an example of racism from the media?
I can't think of one & agree with Priti, on this. Coverage of Meghan & Harry's wedding was gushing & only changed when they snubbed tradition & the Queen.
Sky news says Dawn Butler being stopped by the police will cause great concern.
Damn right it will.
If the police are stopped from doing their job we are going to end up in one hell of a hill of shit.
Thank you to all who sent Ellie get well wishes after her stroke.
She died this morning at 6.30, at the vets, after seizures. It was time to say goodbye.
12 years ago we found her at the side of the road & I don't think a cat was ever more loved. Our hearts are broken.
He applied for the wrong scheme, which doesn't cover EU citizens. If I was him I'd be apologising for making a total fool of myself on Twitter, not continuing to moan I didn't feel welcome. 🙄
Over 90% of fishermen voted Leave.
So here we have Caroline at a fishing port, filming herself explaining to fishermen how their industry works & how they needs the EU, without one fisherman on camera agreeing or backing her up.
Oh, my ..... 😂
Today I visited
#Newlyn
, a fishing port in the West of
#Cornwall
to find out what those working in & around the fishing industry think about
#Brexit
. Superfast easy access to the European export market is absolutely essential. We must
#StopBrexit
to protect our fishing industry.
@MetTaskforce
Can you please ask for them to be changed? It isn't just horses which find the crossing a problem & it needs a voice like yours to help them.
Guide dogs have been confused by them & this could lead to a terrible accident.
Please, think of those left suffering.
I hope the bastards attacking the Princess of Wales feel like shit, right now.
Get well, Catherine. All decent people send you love and support.
#PrincessofWales
Families are struggling to wash their children?
Absolute and utter BS.
A damp flannel and the kitchen sink was all my Nan had to wash herself, with no bathroom and clothes were hand washed with cheap soda crystals so there is no excuse for kids having a dirty face or clothes.
Listening to an anti-Tory primary school teacher on
@SkyNews
& I'm starting to hope impressionable young minds are never, ever sent back into her classroom again.
Did I really just hear, on GB News, a former senior Met police officer say recruits need to be made aware they will have to work nights, weekends & their birthday when they apply, so they know what the job entails?
What the hell do they think it means joining the police?
"I can't describe the level of hypocrisy from our government."
Actress Emma Thompson says she's standing with the "next generation who want to fix the problem".
#ExtinctionRebellion
protests are taking place in London demanding action on climate change:
@gavinesler
Thank you for your compassion, Gavin.
My husband & I lived in France for 13 years & it was horrific.
The fear & despair we suffered in that war torn country, until we we were able to cross the Channel, is unimaginable to anyone who hasn't lived or holidayed there.
" civil servants in the HO believe if they ignore requests into grooming gang data for long enough, ministers will just move on to a different topic. I think they might be shocked by the persistence of Priti Patel ."
.. & suddenly she's called a bully.
Does Rachel Reeve not know that the Labour Party introduced the 'Bedroom Tax', not the Tories, & that they were in Government when foodbanks were first set up in the UK?
Or is she just desperately hoping no one else knows?
@shxnnonleanne
Hi, Shannon - I don't know you, but what I do know it is a lot if you've gone for a week without a suicide attempt, or three days from self-harming.
Well done to you - I hope you have people around you to help & support you. xxx
Why is Adam Boulton lying about the UK having the highest number of deaths in Europe? It is absolute BS. He's comparing countries with different methods of calculating figures.
This is unbelievable.
If you chose to live in a country where you can only find faults, to the extent you do nothing but complain about everything, there is a very simple solution.
Leave. Move. Live somewhere else.
Not only will you be happier, but people won't have to listen to your bitterness.
Is it safe to be back on twitter? Have people- including royal wedding journalist junkies- run out of breath yet? Proof again that GB is an infantalized, escapist nation.
The 3% pay rise offered to NHS staff will be paid for by increases in National Insurance, which had been ear marked for social care?
Most people aren't receiving any pay rise & tens of thousands of people are losing their jobs.
The only 'insulting' thing is the NHS's reaction.
Is this really where we are today?
Have people become so bigoted they attack you for talking to and shaking the hand of someone they don't like?
Are these people 12 years old?
Voters want Boris Johnson to go to prison if he breaks the law by refusing to seek a delay to Brexit and say he “probably acted improperly” over his links to the entrepreneur Jennifer Arcuri.
@MaajidNawaz
asks: should impeachment for the prime minister now be an option?
Any company giving future employment to Laurence Fox, or providing him with a platform, does so with the complete knowledge that he is unequivocally, publicly and undeniably a racist.
And they should probably re-read their own statements of 'solidarity' with the black community
Dawn Butler actually believes she was stopped because she's black?
How dare she call the police institutionally racist for doing their job. The police have every right to stop you, if they wish.
What an absolute farce this entire story is. She is a very nasty woman.
£5 a day? Sorry, but what bullshit is this? Even if the only benefits the mother has for a couple of weeks, while waiting for UC, is child credit she'd be on over £100 a week. She gets housing benefit so what's she spending the rest on?
8 year old Courtney and her family live off £5 a day - they rely on a food bank to eat and wear coats to bed when there's no money for heating.
This is Britain today, where more than 4 million children are growing up in poverty.
@ArchRose90
My favourite photo of the Queen & Prince Phillip.
There are may fabulous photos of him looking so young & handsome - but this one always makes me wonder what he said & I love how much fun they still had together, after so many years of marriage.
@Femi_Sorry
Femi, I think it is incredibly brave of you to highlight your lack of knowledge about British politics & The Monarchy on a public forum like this, so kudos to you.
Embarrassed to call myself a Conservative listening to mendacious nonsense from
@DavidDavisMP
a senior MP & ex DExEu SoS
@BBCr4today
He claims we can negotiate a FTA in under 3 months. He knows that’s not true. And a FTA would create a hard border & screw our economy
Anyone surprised Naga Munchetty said Boris Johnson has spent his first night in jail, instead of Boris Becker?
Same thing as when James Naughtie, Justin Webb & Victoria Derbyshire all referred to 'Jeremy C***' - it's how they talk off-air.
#BBCBias
shining through once again.
Won't be drinking, but after reading this Mark & I shall be going to Wetherspoons for lunch, next Friday.
We've never been in one & have always intended to go since coming home because of Tim Martin's Brexit support, & can't think of a better day to go!
"Words such as saboteur, traitor, enemy, surrender, betrayal should have no place in our party... and nor for that matter in our wider society."
Sir John Major criticises the language used by the present Conservative government - calling it "reckless and divisive behaviour".
Why are people comparing staff who work together having a drink, to people not allowed to see family? The staff involved were in work. They didn't travel to see family & friends.
It proves that this is nothing to do with what did or didn't happen. Childish posturing.
@ThierryBreton
@elonmusk
You are not in control of 'Europe'.
But, thank you for once again demonstrating why leaving the EU was the right thing for the UK to do.
@AnimalRising
Yes, it is what democracy looks like.
They were doing their job by stopping people breaking the law.
Stop destroying property & people's lives.
I will never trust what
@SkyNews
is saying.
When you deliberately choose to interview a far left activist & try to pass her off as just a primary school teacher nobody will ever believe you again.
'I don't trust what Boris Johnson is saying.'
Teacher Ellie Sharp says she doesn't believe the government has teachers' "best interests at heart", and says data should be shared so educators can make an informed decision on returning to school.
More:
They are not 'refugees'.
France is a 'sanctuary' - it is a safe country, where they can apply for asylum.
France should have stopped them entering the country in the first place.
They are not the UK's responsibility - & I say this as someone living in France.
President Macron is seeking a new deal with the British government that would see the UK taking in more refugees from France.
Safe & legal routes to sanctuary are the only way to prevent more deaths at the border.
#refugeeswelcome
@ChukaUmunna
Brexit was about controlling immigration. No matter how much you try to make it about racism & xenophobia it wasn't.
You should be ashamed of your comments.
Corbyn's millionaire wife sells 'artisanal' coffee at £10 a bag off the backs of local & migrant workers, in Mexico, living in abject poverty.
Wealth founded on modern day slavery, Jeremy?
"It is understandable that people in Bristol have finally become exasperated with the years of debate on having a statue of a man whose wealth was founded on slavery - as Edward Colston's was - and have taken action"
Read my thoughts at
#BlackLivesMatter
After her utterly embarrassing display in Downing Street yesterday, Kay Burley now thinks she knows better than the chief medical officer & health services - meanwhile everyone else continues to wonder how she remains in a job. 🤦♀️
29 actually, but the fact that I've had to fight Brexit since I was 25 years old, meaning that Brexit has stolen a significant chunk of my youth... is kind of the point.
I have just run a search on mortgages & can't find one mortgage anywhere near 10.5%. Not one.
34 pages of deals on MoneySuperMarket & nothing higher than 7.3% APRC.
This is a lie.
This young buyer’s mortgage offer went from 4.5% interest to a crippling 10.5%. Imagine if she’d already been locked in to her debt, as millions of others are. This is a crisis.
Just to demonstrate how little Remainers know about the EU.
EU paid leave - 4 weeks (UK 5.6 weeks)
EU min wage - non-existant
EU maternity entitlement - 14 weeks (UK 52 weeks)
Food & environmental regs - UK exceeds EU min standard
Tax? Thank God we can set our own.
Every ex-PM is awarded the Order of the Garter & Blair had been snubbed for 14 years.
To be able to give more recent PMs the award he had to receive one.
The Queen is actually saying "I'm giving you this because I have to, not because I want to" - how embarrassing for Blair. 🤭
After one of the Lib Dem's 'rising stars' was arrested after slapping her boyfriend the party released a statement "...., and hope that their privacy is respected."
Can someone remind them about this, please?
Are Labour suggesting you should pay all your tax in the UK even if your business is in another country?
Are they also demanding Sunak's wife gives up her Indian citizenship? Isn't that a little racist?
I hold up my hands & admit I was such an idiot to have ever trusted May, when she said she would deliver Brexit.
I argued with people that she wouldn't let us down, even after Chequers.
My God, what a fool I was.
#disMayed
@DJEazyTwist
He didn't drive into the protesters. They blocked his way, jumped on the car & started attacking it.
He moved off, slowly, to lose the mob - just as he should have.
Well done to that officer, I salute him, or her.
Guest on
#Paterson
, on Sky News, said no one voted for the UK to Leave the customs union & no one wants it now. I did & I still do. Every single Leave voter I know personally feels exactly the same.
Why do people say such ludicrous things & expect people to believe them?
Durham police actually concluded Cummings might have made a minor breach of regulations, a regulation which even if he did breach it would not have resulted in a warning or fine.
The man below is a QC. I'm a housewife.
I can understand police statements better than a QC.
In fact, the UK ranks very low on the racism table in the EU, coming in second from the bottom along side Malta, with Finland & Ireland the worst.
Sorry, Mr Stormzy, but just because you're a little upset it doesn't mean what you say is correct.
Today I opened our Broadband bill of £56! That's just under £700 a year! Think of all the extras I can buy for our household! All that extra money x millions of us, going back into the economy boosting other sectors and jobs. Labour are on the money as always!
#broadbandforall
1. William is arriving in Tuvalu. Tuvalu is situated in the South Pacific - not Africa.
2. It is traditional in Tuvalu is to carry all visitors who arrive by sea.
3. It would be rude, possibly 'racist' to refuse & demand they change their traditions?
My thoughts about last night's Greenpeace protest.
1. How the hell did they get in?
2. Where was security in the room?
3. If I was there I probably would have done the same as Mark Field.
4. Had this not been in the UK the protesters could have been shot.
#MansionHouseProtest
You go to an illegal protest, knowing you shouldn't be there & then suffer a panic attack because the police do their job?
Hmm .... for people so intent in breaking the law it's strange they'd suddenly become so fragile when things don't go their way. 🤔
My profile is 100% accurate, I live in rural France & unlike you I stick to facts.
The EU overruled the UK's vote in opposition to CCCTB & in July 2017 Frans Timmermans ordered the UK to accept more non-EU migrants, from Italy.
So who exactly are you? A second rate QC?
10 days ago French BLM protesters took to the streets of Paris, chanting 'Dirty Jews' & 'Jewish whores'.
Black Lives Matter is an antisemitic organisation, through & through.
I believed May when she said 'Brexit means Brexit'. I still believed her after Chequers that we would be Leaving the EU.
Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me.
I would laugh if Remainers manage to stop Brexit & then know they are 100% responsible when PM Farage walks into No. 10 Downing Street.
Oh, how that really would make me laugh .... 😂😂😂
Sky reporter praised Scotland's handling of Covid, adding that Northern Ireland's was 'messy'.
Proportionately Scotland has the highest death rate. Northern Ireland has the lowest.
Sturgeon & the SNP are given a pass by the media for what reason?
Nice to see neighbours getting on so well ....
Germans attacking cars with French license plates, yelling ""F***ing Frenchmen, go back to your f***ing corona country!"
Today, on
@SkyNews
, they reported France include deaths in the community in their daily figures.
They don't.
France has never counted people who die at home - it is reported in France as a 'time-bomb'.
An estimated 9000+ deaths have not been included.
Callum is in the £31,365 to £37,890 pay band.
While over 10 million people have been on reduced wages or lost their jobs, in the last year, Callum is complaining about only getting an additional £6 a week, in his guaranteed for life job.
I'm a senior (band 6) Nurse.
A 1% pay rise only puts an extra £6 in my pocket each week, which doesn't even cover how much I get charged for parking at work.