Simon Calder on
@SkyNews
saying that the
#Dover
traffic crisis is not actually caused by the absence of P&O ferries but that
#Brexit
checks and passport controls are the principal causes. Wonder when
@BBCNews
might pick up on this line? 🤔
The new owners of the
#CrookedHouse
should be bricking it by now. Instead of making a big financial killing, they could be looking at a jail term. They could never have anticipated the local strength of feeling about this!
Why would anyone in their right mind want to contemplate our National Health Service being privatised after seeing what privatisation has done to our water industry? 🤔
#Panorama
It's all starting to unravel. Apparently the new owner of the
#CrookedHouse
is the wife of a major shareholder in a plant hire business and the nearby landfill site, locked in a dispute over access rights!
@PippaCrerar
@Ianblackford_MP
Well done
#IanBlackford
for having the guts to put his own strength of feeling before anachronistic Parliamentary rules. That will now resonate all round the world!
John O'Farrell is the hero we all need right now. Someone who is invited onto
#bbclaurak
and spits some truths at Laura Kuenssberg and the BBC over their nauseating servitude towards the Daily Mail and other right wing media.
Go,
@mrjohnofarrell
. 👏👏👏
Just heard Anna Firth MP for Southend, claiming that the discovery of a razor clam shellfish bed in the Thames Estuary, was somehow a
#Brexit
bonus.
Anyone? I'm utterly baffled!
#PMQs
In St. Ives,
#Cornwall
and an elderly lady is laid on the harbourside, covered in a blanket, with a suspected broken hip. She has been waiting for an ambulance for nearly four hours so far & told it could be hours yet. Lots of help offered but nothing that anyone can do for her.
Apparently, today is
#bluemonday2021
, the most depressing day of the year, so I thought I'd share a picture of a couple of boobies to cheer everyone up...😁
What an absolute annihilation for the
#Tories
on
#HIGNFY
tonight. Nothing held back and the studio audience loved it! Expect to see the programme banned next week...
@JustinWelby
@trussliz
Not sure why. She had more in common with the moneylenders in the temple than Jesus. Not really the person you would want caring for your flock...
Proof today, if any were needed, that the
#DailyMail
is now no more than a propaganda tool for the desperate
#Conservative
Party. Not a sign of an actual 'news' story, anywhere on their front page, despite everything going on in the world and country.
#ToriesUnfitToGovern
Why don't the
#Tories
just expel
#NadineDorries
for bringing
#Conservative
Party into disrepute? She is single-handedly wrecking their chances of re-election in Mid-Bedfordshire and beyond, with her antics. At least show a backbone and cut her adrift!
Nadine Dorries' local town council writes to her to raise their "concerns and frustration" at the "continuing lack of representation for the people of Mid-Bedfordshire at Westminster". They demand she "immediately vacate" her seat and allow someone else to represent the area.
This isn't normal. It feels like we're in a third world country and our government has been paralysed for months. There should be crisis measures to cope with situations like this. Yet we accept it , complain and wait for the
#GeneralElection
because that's all we can do.
@paul_woodcraft
@StewartPurvis
@RichardBentall
@CommonsDCMS
It should be conditional that any MP in a government post is required to carry out news interviews on a range of channels so that they can be scrutinised. Not acceptable that we pay them but they get to pick and choose whether or not to appear.
I have never felt so sickened by this country and all we have to look to on Health matters now is
#ThereseCoffey
, for all the use that she is. How much worse can this get? We have to get rid of this evil
#Tory
government before they completely destroy this country. 😡😥
A resignation matter? Don't be ridiculous...nobody in this government ever resigns or gets fired. Not even if people die as a result of their actions...
#ToryCovidCatastrophe
#ToryIncompetence
@MartinSLewis
Give
@MartinSLewis
a break. He explained the urgency and intended no disrespect. Many will be glad of his advice at a very stressful time...
Only 526 votes for the
#LibDems
but if they had stood aside and the votes had gone to
#Labour
, the
#Tories
would have been defeated. Same for Greens with 893. FPTP has handed this seat to the
#Tories
!
#Byelections
Could I be the only person in the UK not to have seen the
#NorthernLights
last night? So tired, that I fell asleep soon after 10pm, then woke up again and spent half the night looking at everybody else's photos!
A reminder that four years ago today, this came out. Nothing has changed.
But I wonder what happened to the staffer who was responsible? Hope they get promoted when the next government is in place...
And the first tweet I see on my feed after getting that lot off my chest, is
@BBCNews
telling us that the route for the
#Queen
's Funeral has been announced. Desperate times.
#EnoughIsEnough
.
Just imagine if the government or security services had looked this hard for evidence of Russian interference in our politics, what they might have found? 🤔
@BestForBritain
Just a reminder that it only took 2% of people like this to swing a huge constitutional referendum and lead us into a disastrous
#Brexit
...
@ByDonkeys
I would love to know precisely what
#BorisJohnson
was doing that was so much more important than attending those Cobra meetings. Are his engagement diaries accessible?
This image encapsulates everything that is evil and disgusting about this man. It will be on the front pages of all the European newspapers tomorrow and the humiliation of this government will be complete.
#JacobReesMogg
#StopTheCoup
#StopBrexit
@PolitlcsUK
Unbelievable. The government never 'followed the science' at all, did they? This is all supposition, guesswork and political spin. Everyone involved in this should be locked up for manslaughter. 😡
Happy holidaymakers faces all around, beautiful sunshine in a lovely seaside resort, while the
#NHS
and
#Ambulance
Service are in total crisis, just seem to bring the best and worst of the UK into sharper focus.
@realDonaldTrump
@FoxNews
As a UK outsider looking in, I wonder what Mr. Trump thinks he gains by tweeting? Almost universal condemnation! How many of the 56m followers are actually supporters? If I were him (and I'm very glad I'm not...) I would be closing this Twitter account right now!
@KarenStopHate
@johnleremainer
Stuff the others, but
#PritiPatel
should be visibly leading on policing during the crisis, quarantining of passengers arriving at airports and replacing the urgently needed NHS, Care and Farm workers who have gone away as a result of her policies.
#CoronaCrisisuk
@carolvorders
My upbringing was with a working dad and housewife mum, who taught me all about life skills and behaviour. These days, my grandkids have both working parents because they have to, to survive, so the kids get far less attention. Who do we have to thank for that?
#ToriesOut
@KateMaltby
So, where that leaves us is that
#MattHancock
who, a couple of years ago was charged with steering the country through one of the worst pandemics in world history, is now deemed not fit to be a constitutuency MP. What does that tell us about
#BorisJohnson
's judgement? 🤔
@BluesnJazzxx
@SteveBarclay
Is there still an out of date mentality that nurses were principally women, in careers secondary to their husband's, and therefore didn't need a living wage? Time this government was dragged into the 21st century!
@VictoriaBantam
And this...an officer who was a fully paid up member of the local hunt, sent to police anti hunt protests and failed to stop violent assaults on protestors...
@PippaCrerar
#KeirStarmer
and, later Iain Blackford, targeting their remarks at the conciences of backbench
#Tory
MPs. Very obvious that the derision that might once have been expected from them, didn't come. Beginning to look like it's going to be a very bumpy ride for
#BorisJohnson
now...
@MartinRemains
@Anniepop2027
Hands up if you think that Fox has actually had the vaccine, but to admit it, would destroy his only source of publicity ? ✋
@ByDonkeys
To the good people of North East Somerset, how could a
#LibDem
or
#Labour
candidate possibly be less suitable to represent you than this pseudo-aristocratic, monstrous throwback?
Wish I'd spotted this first!
"Just noticed on the BBC 1 schedule that Boris is on at 8:00 PM followed by “Would I Lie to You?” Coincidence? You decide..."
#BorisTheLiar
@PippaCrerar
Thankfully, the French seem to get it. I look forward to one day living in a country with a government that we can be proud of again, instead of embarrassed by!
@Otto_English
As someone on the radio pointed out today, to give some perspective, the number of immigrants arriving by small boat this year will still be less than the crowd at a Premier League football match, in a country with a population of more than 60 million...
On the anniversary of the UK joining the
#EuropeanUnion
, this prediction about our 'Independence' after
#Brexit
is so spectacularly wrong in almost every detail, that it would be hilarious if it weren't so tragic...
#RejoinEU
Interesting that
@BBCNews
is prioritising a story about something that isn't happening, over government criminal activity that most definitely is happening!
#ToryCorruption
#bbcnews
Why doesn't somebody commission YouGov to hold an opinion poll on whether the public wants a
#GeneralElectionNow
or whether we should leave the
#ECHR
? I'm sick of
#RishiSunak
constantly telling us what we want or don't want. He doesn't speak for me.
#ToriesOut
.
@PoliticsJOE_UK
It's easy for
#MickLynch
to win an argument when you're on the right side of it, you have the support of most people and you know your stuff inside out.
#RichardMadeley
, however...
I felt like standing up and applauding after hearing this statement. A massive moral victory for
#PrinceHarry
and on behalf of his mother, too, for the treatment she received at the hands of our disgusting press. Bring on the prosecutions!
#phonehacking
#PiersMorgan
David Sherborne KC reads out Prince Harry's statement.
"The court has found that Mirror group's principle board directors, their legal department, senior executives & editors, such as Piers Morgan, clearly knew about or were involved in these illegal activities.."
@PippaCrerar
I'm a
#KeirStarmer
supporter, but for the second time today, I'm beginning to question his judgement. How can this trip possibly be 'necessary'? It is being made for political purposes and meetings could just as easily be remote. Did they learn nothing from Barnard's Castle?
@carolynharris24
Did she slip at one point and describe her position as right-wing before correcting herself to centre right? Is that the official line on how the
#ConservativeParty
wants to portray itself today? I don't think anybody will be fooled...
@JolyonMaugham
Apparently, Dawn Butler Brent has said that she will use Parliamentary Privilege to read out the letter. Just how much more can the
#Tories
embarrass themselves?
@carolvorders
Very gracious. There is no way I would have considered Nicola Sturgeon would have used WhatsApp messages as carelessly as the Westminster lot! Many English would have been glad to have her in charge of our government!
@carolvorders
@mrjamesob
I hope that
#KeirStarmer
will commit to cleaning up the media as he has with political corruption and cronyism, even if it risks putting
#Lsbour
on a collision course with the press. Is he brave enough? 🤔
@CarverEmily
Can't you see that this isn't about 'cake'...it's about the hypocrisy and lies, which have no place in the government of what was once a country admired all over the world.
'So, for example, Oyster 60+ cards & senior bus passes are included, but not 16-25 Railcards. The issuers of each of these require the same information...Critics suggest it’s because opinion polling shows young people are much less likely to vote Conservative than older people.'
"There’s more chance of being struck by lightning 52 times in a row than there is of being a victim of voter fraud. This is nothing more than a voter suppression attempt by the Conservative Party"
Via
@SussexBylines
@DocRichard
Thing is, most of us can see exactly what needs to be done, but the government is simply not acting. Lots of theories that the
#Tories
want to set the
#NHS
up to fail so it can be privatised. Is that really what's happening here? We desperately need a change of govt to sort this.
@SASR666
I trust him, but I sometimes question his judgement. However, he has a skilled legal mind which is infinitely better than those of all the armchair politicians, including myself, so he'll get my vote.
@ZacGoldsmith
@TheHillsCountry
How do you know he didn't kill anyone? He might have contracted Covid that very night, even asymptomatically, and passed it on indirectly to thousands. Don't know about you, but I didn't do that because I followed the rules!
@afneil
The whole point is that there hasn't been enough data to assess, so far. Better some hysteria leading to unnecessary caution than complacency leading to tens of thousands and deaths, much suffering and even harsher restrictions later!
@carolvorders
And what about all those small companies which genuinely specialised in PPE but could not get a look in through the government 'process'...?
@carolvorders
And his peerage approved directly by King Charles, so not passed through the normal channels. If that's not the monarchy interfering in politics, what is?
@CatharineHoey
#GaryLineker
played professional football for 16 years and never received a single yellow or red card. That's all you need to know about his professional integrity. Now compare that to the records of most lying, greedy and mendacious
#Tory
MPs...
@DMReporter
@antic2000
I see them in my village shop each day, normal, personable, middle class people, buying the
#DailyMail
. They think it is interesting & reports the news fairly, but have no idea about the bigotry that it is insidiously planting in their minds. That newspaper is killing democracy.
@BrexitBin
@Daisybelll
If only we could get European newspers, in English, into the mainstream and let people know the truth about the news, and how this country is viewed from outside our newly controlled borders...
@NG26731
Back in the day, people used to show deference to their
#Tory
masters and the media would toe the line to keep it that way. These days, we have social and other media exposing the classless, dishonest Conservatives for what they are, and now their days are numbered!