I'm a 55 year old white thinning cropped haired old punker.
#Gammon
isn't racist, it perfectly describes the bigoted tossers of my own age group who turn pink when they get angry about their privilege being challenged.
G'wan bust yer blood vessels you rancid foaming dinosaurs.
#r4today
BBC impartiality:
Laura Kuenssberg ends interview with Yvette Cooper "Lots of people will disagree with you".
Laura Kuenssberg ends interview with David Cameron "It's good to have you back".
#R4today
The Sue Grey story has backfired on the BBC a bit hasn't it?
I'm sure BBC presenters are "delighted" that their exorbitat salaries are back in the spotlight again, thanks to the grubby Chris Mason.
#r4today
The queue is symbolic of Britain alright.
The rich, powerful, and famous go straight to the front. Everyone else shuffles along for hours in order to see a feudal display for 20 seconds.
The sane don't participate.
#r4today
Absolutely crying with laughter at Johnson's call for us all to get gehind him. He's an over privileged, racist, homophobic, sexist, Social Darwninist, lying sack of excrement.
It's a no from me.
I uh I uh I uh. I I I uh. I uh. I uh. Do people really want to hear about this? I uh I uh I uh. Agamemnon. Ozymandias. Uh. Uh. Why should I? Me? Why should I? Me. Eton. Oxford. Uxford. Me. Churchill. Believe. Great nation. Wiff-waff. Woowah. Pompompom.
Boris Johnson.
#r4today
#bbcpm
Quite something when the BBC and others can spend ages picking over every single word of what Meghan said but can't be arsed to point out a single blatant lie by Boris Johnson.
@bbcpolitics
If Scotland goes independent I'm going to ask them very nicely if I can go and live with them.
A Little England with a never ending Tory government will be a tinpot hellhole.
#marr
#bbcaq
Just to break the stereotypes. I'm a southern Englishman. If I was Scottish I would join the SNP and do all I could for Independence. As I'm an southern Englishman it would be really great not to be ruled by shithouse Etonian hegemony all the fucking time.
#bbclaurak
The problem for this programme is that we've seen how much better it is with a proper journalist presenting.
It just looks third rate now.
Bring back Victoria Derbyshire.
#r4today
I'm 61 and I despise the Tories. Mind you, I always have. Th*tcher was elected the year I left school. The Conservatives have been a pain in the arse all my adult life. Their current incarnation is the worst Govt I've ever known.
#r4today
"and so I am announcing now on the steps of Downing Street that we will fix the crisis in social care once and for all with a clear plan we have prepared to give every older person the dignity and security they deserve."
@borisjohnson
24 July 2019. 1st speech as PM.
#r4today
Well I never!
BBC operated within a “culture of fear” in which senior journalists became afraid of reporting negative stories about the Government due to pressure from Downing Street and pressure from senior editors and executives.
#bbclaurak
Ah, Jeremy Hunt.
The man who wrecked the NHS and demoralized the staff just in time for Covid.
Now, he's Chancellor. What can possibly go wrong?
#bbclaurak
Same old...
Laura Kuenssberg’s Time as BBC Political Editor has been a Catastrophic, Systemic Failure.
"Thanks to managers at the BBC, the outgoing Kuenssberg repeated lies rather than challenging them, says former BBC journalist Patrick Howse."
#r4today
The Tories have always downplayed and/or denied poverty in this country. At the same time they lecture the poor on money management and belt tightening. They do not have the interests of the British people at heart. Just their own unjustifiable wealth and privilege.
The sick. The poor. The disabled. Immigrants. Grenfell. Windrush. Waspi women.
There is no such thing as 'compassionate Conservatism'.
Only greed, power and spite.
#marr
#peston
#bbcsp
Now why wouldn't the Tory Party, which kept winning elections, while being financed by Russian Oligarchs, want to investigate whether British democracy has been hacked by Russian Oligarchs?
Baffling isn't it?
#RussiaReport
#ToryCorruption
Of course Gove is on
#r4today
this morning. They always send Squealer out to mop up their mess.
"Afterwards Squealer made a round of the farm and set the animals' minds at rest."
Animal Farm.
George Orwell.
#bbclaurak
Ah, Jeremy Hunt.
The man who wrecked the NHS and demoralized the staff just in time for Covid.
Now, he's Chancellor.
What can possibly go wrong?
Government looking at quarantining passengers flying into UK airports.
By the end of the month.
IE In 3 weeks time.
I never had any faith in this Government but their uselessness is utterly staggering.
#r4today
@grantshapps
@GaryLineker
To suggest that Gary believes it's right or moral to tolerate criminal gangs trafficking vulnerable people across the channel just because he disagrees with Govt policy and rhetoric is a shameful conflation. You should withdraw that comment.
#bbcpm
#wato
#IStandWithLineker
I'm sick of this "hard work" bollocks.
Not everyone rich worked or works hard.
Not everyone who works hard becomes better off.
Hard work isn't the only way out poverty and often gets you nowhere.
This is a wage slave ideology promoted by the superrich.
#politicslive
#wato
Sunak is asked about food banks on LBC and whether his wealth means he cannot really understand the pressure people are under.
"I've been very fortunate in my life. I'm not going to apologise for that, right? My parents worked very hard."
Interesting implication.
#r4today
The fact that Zac Goldsmith was rejected by the electorate three times and was then made a Lord by Johnson and is now a Junior Environment Minister is a pretty perfect example of how feudal Britain still is.
#r4today
It's a very old trick. When a political party welds itself to the national flag, it's only a few short steps to it labelling opponents of that party as "traitors".
If I was Scottish I'd be joining the SNP and doing absolutely all I could to get shot of England.
As I'm English I'd like to get shot of Eton Hegemony.
#bbcaq
#r4today
I love the idea that you can work more effectively after getting up at fuck am, dashing out into the freezing cold, travelling on shit transport for ages to arrive at a soulless office after eating an expensive but crap breakfast while moving.
Exclusive: Rishi Sunak is considering requiring future applicants for public sector jobs to have completed National Service
It’s one of the enforcement options that would go to the Royal Commission for consideration if he gets to enact the policy
#r4today
The British Government lied to the British people's face. Live on television. They knew they were lying, we knew they were lying, they knew we knew, we knew they knew we knew. Lying normalised. Rule breaking normalised. Accountability dead. Corruption followed.
When my scruffy lazy snot ridden generation got off its arse via Punk Rock and Reggae to kick the shit out of the National Front 40 odd years ago, we didn't do it so the Conservative Party could enact their policies in 2021.
#r4today
#windrush
#grenfell
#racereport
#r4today
Ah, Jeremy Hunt. The man who wrecked the NHS and demoralized the staff just in time for Covid.
Now, he's Chancellor.
What can possibly go wrong?
Here’s Boris Johnson in Dec 2019 talking about the “fantastic” deal he struck with the EU... in just 3 months!
...A deal he now says doesn’t make sense.
Thank God you stopped Parliament from scrutinising it,
@BorisJohnson
! Clearly no need! 🤦🏻♂️
#r4today
Ah, Jeremy Hunt.
The man who wrecked the NHS and demoralized the staff just in time for Covid. Now, he's Chancellor. What can possibly go wrong?
#r4today
It was an obvious stunt.
Amber Rudd was given a tiny taste of what it's like to be invited somewhere, go in good faith, and then be told to leave. A miniscule taste of the atrocious way her Government treated some of the
#Windrush
generation.
#windrushscandal
#r4today
The Establishment keeps rewarding failures with high office because they have the correct ideology, that perpetuates incompetence, ignorance and corruption.
That's why Britain is in the toilet.
Mick Lynch says he doesn't want Truss or Sunak to be PM as they are both hard right. "Really?" says
@ChrisMasonBBC
"They are on the edge of saying tax is abhorrent.. those of us on PAYE have no choice.. many people are avoiding tax like it's some kind of disease."
#bbcnewscast
#r4today
"Libertarianism. A simple-minded right-wing ideology ideally suited to those unable or unwilling to see past their own sociopathic self-regard."
Iain M. Banks.
Very disappointed that I've been stood down from tonight’s Any Questions on Radio 4 because they said they couldn’t get a Tory MP on the show.
Just because we have a part-time Prime Minister and a part-time government, that shouldn't mean Labour is denied a voice.
#bbcaq
#r4today
Aberfan. Hillsborough. Stephen Lawrence. Windrush. Grenfell. Post Office. Infected Blood. The wheels of justice turn far too slowly for ordinary people.
@SuellaBraverman
@10DowningStreet
No.
Attempting to make it about family values rather than a reckless and dangerous flouting of the rules the rest of us have been obeying is politicising it.
#r4today
Voter suppression. Boundary gerrymandering. Protest suppression. Denial of institutional racism. Dictating to Universities. Appointing sympathetic people to top media positions. Cronyism.
Steve Bannon wasn't joking when he said Brexit was just the start. This is a coup
@Peter_Shilton
Being unhappy with the government and working to change things is perfectly legitimate in a democracy Peter, you're getting mixed up with tyrannies.
@nadhimzahawi
No.
Neither the RMT or the RCN is affiliated to Labour and does not finance it.
This is on you. 12 years of underfunding and a fundamentalist refusal to negotiate.
#r4today
#EnoughIsEnough
I grew up in the 1970s in a very multi-cultural street. There were Windrush families, Indian and Pakstani families. Us kids all played together. Then came the NF. We beat them. Now it's ignorant thugs egged on by soft voiced establishment Fascists. We'll beat them too.
#r4today