Erasmus: a cost-neutral scheme allowing students from the UK and Europe to exchange places and broaden their horizons; advantageous to all concerned.
So, of course, the Brexiters vote to end the scheme - the terms Vandals and Barbarians for them are way too mild.
Anyone who claims that Corbyn is unfit for office but then recommends Johnson as fit for office given his track record of barefaced lying, clearly has no judgement. And I'm no Corbynista.
#r4today
Former head of the civil service, Lord Kerslake, says he has lost faith in PM-led inquiries since the Priti Patel bullying inquiry non-action.
#r4today
Sir John Curtice blowing the "hung parliament" Tory briefing out of the water for the reasons which are apparent to everyone except those with confirmation bias.
#r4today
Now Chancellor Rishi Sunak is insulting the public by regurgitating Boris Johnson’s bull****
Watch in disbelief & RT if you think the people deserve the TRUTH
Remember, Johnson shut the border to India much later than he did for Pakistan and Bangladesh probably because his trip to India was scheduled. His ego and negligence has put the easing of restrictions at risk.
#BorisHasFailedTheNation
@NicholasTyrone
I utterly dislike Rishi Sunak's Conservative politics, but I share the utmost disgust that he is obviously feeling after hearing those remarks by Farage's mob.
It's a shame he hasn't called out other racism in the past and that his party has accepted money from bigots this year.
I remember when
#Panorama
took an in-depth look at issues and analysed them thoroughly. Not any more. Tonight's episode taking a "close look" at the inside of the new government was painfully shallow, no analysis and just had an endless stream of sniping opinions by Kuenssberg.
@campbellclaret
@PatrickFbpe
And just look at the "calibre" of the people attacking
@GaryLineker
: Braverman, MacKinlay, Dorries, 30p Lee and concrete grower Mike Graham. What a bunch of low grade liars!
This piece contains a quote from Dominic Cummings backing a 2nd referendum on the terms of exit. Please don't retweet this article as it will really annoy him...
This is Kate.
Kate doesn't understand the difference between entering a country for a holiday and having the right to work and reside in that country.
Don't be like Kate.
So how do you think people like me travelled all over Europe long before we joined the Common Market? A rather silly tweet if I may say so with greatest respect.
.
@CharlieTaylor4
asked the PM on
@bbcsomerset
if he’d apologise over his trans joke in the commons that the dad of Brianna Ghey’s dad said was ‘dehumanising’.
He didn’t.
@Haggis_UK
By the way, asylum seekers are not illegal migrants until their case has been processed; furthermore most applicants are granted asylum so they were never illegal migrants anyway.
Sunak on Starmer:
"Under his tenure, rape convictions actually dropped."
Crown Prosecution Service data shows rape conviction rates rose from 57.7 per cent in 2008 to 60.3 per cent to 2013 during
@Keir_Starmer
's tenure as Director of Public Prosecutions.
#PMQs
@NeilDotObrien
My brother was born in India, he is a UK citizen and has lived here for 51 years, do you have a problem with him owning his own home, Neil?
I understand Therese Coffey has a PhD. As a Director of a PhD programme, I'd just like to emphasise that not all PhD graduates are this thick or ignorant.
Therese Coffey says that she is "shocked" the Shadow Home Secretary "can't even get the country right," because Yvette Cooper made reference to Kigali. Kigali is, of course, the capital of Rwanda
@RoryStewartUK
Well said Rory, as an atheist with a liberal Muslim upbringing within the UK, I find Anderson's rhetoric deeply troubling and paints an entirely false picture of London where I've studied, lived and worked for 29 of the last 33 years.
Miriam Cates is alongside individuals like Lee Anderson and Brendan Clarke-Smith providing reason after reason why the Tories will be massacred at the next election. Totally out-of-touch with the public who want proper public services, not culture wars.
#r4today
@implausibleblog
Sunak's fate was probably sealed literally on day one as PM, when he reappointed Suella Braverman literally days after she was fired for breaking the ministerial code.
His utter weakness and having no judgement being apparent practically immediately.
Cleverly has just sacked this person, not surprising since he sounds quite humane.
"I warned ministers about our disgraceful UK detention centres. Their solution? Stop the inspections | David Neal"
If you also dislike the Tories and Brexit, while liking a bit of sideways humour, I'd be up for a
#followbackfriday
(even though it's still Thursday...)
Man with multiple houses in multiple countries tells mortgage holders to "hold their nerve" due to his incompetence and infatuation with failed policies.
New Ipsos poll for the Evening Standard
Lab 47%
Con 20%
LD 9%
Green 8%
Reform 8%
Lowest Tory % ever recorded in an Ipsos poll going back to the start of their regular polling in 1978.
Irish PM says "Everyone born in Northern Ireland will retain their right to EU citizenship." Can we have the same for those born in the rest of the UK please?
#r4today
So Chris Whitty described Sunak's initiative "Eat out to help out" as "Eat out to help out the virus", then. Quite correctly in my view, it probably triggered the 2nd wave that killed so many more people.
@ABridgen
Your knowledge of geography knows no bounds, have you and Raab been comparing notes?
For the hard of understanding the Met Police investigate matters in London, not in Durham...
Oh FFS! Nutella "I have a dream of deporting people who are desperate and exploited" Braverman is again Home Secretary.
Right, that's it - Sunak is just as egregious as Truss!
#cabinetreshuffle
James Cleverly, the most inappropriately named Education Secretary in the history of the world: ill-informed, inarticulate and completely useless...
#r4today
This is why it is essential that people need to be adept at logical and critical thinking. Otherwise absolute nonsense like this from the Telegraph, which poses as a serious paper, but spouts utter BS, can be believed.
Well said
@MishalHusain
, the European Court for Human Rights is NOT a foreign court, it is an international court which the UK helped found and fully signed up to abide by its rulings.
#r4today
Tory minister conflating the issue as usual.
Frank Spencer (Gavin Williamson) admits that spending per pupil is still below the levels of the last
@UKLabour
government. Oh how nice of the Tories that they returning to levels still below 2010.
#r4today
I just would like to say
#ThankYouTories
, for providing poll numbers like this:
LAB: 46%
CON: 20%
LDM: 10%
RFM: 10%
GRN: 8%
This is the average of last four polls this week, for which Electoral Calculus predicts a bit of a change in the parliamentary arithmetic... 👇
Ian Hislop, "Angela Rayner may have fiddled up to £1,500 on her council tax. Says a book published by Lord Ashcroft who avoided £112,000,000 when he was a non-dom"
#HIGNFY
By the end of Nigel Lawson's tenure as Chancellor, inflation had topped 10% and interest rates were 15%, house prices collapsed and millions were plunged into negative equity.
#revisionism
#r4today
@mrjamesob
Suella Braverman is a total disgrace. She should never have been appointed to Home Secretary by Truss in the first place and the fact that she had gone and Sunak had felt he had no option but to re-appoint her, shows that he is totally devoid of strength and judgement.
Your periodic reminder that the Tory party members made Liz Truss their leader and our PM, and this is what one of their senior back bench MPs, Charles Walker, said in the dying days of Truss's utterly shambolic stint as PM...
Labour wants you to forget it, but Sir Keir Starmer spent years trying to make Jeremy Corbyn Prime Minister.
Corbyn's worldview:
❌ NATO
❌ Nuclear deterrent
✅ Hamas & Hezbollah
You can't trust Labour with our national security.
@RScowler
This is very positive, isn't it? It appears the public fury at the Tories in general is not abating and that they are not going to be fooled by the lies this time.
Remember the Dunkirk spirit during the fuel blockade in 2000? Didn't think so, because there wasn't any!! It was basically people panic buying bread and petrol. With a no deal Brexit, the sh*t will really hit the fan...
@JimMFelton
@UKLabour
Joint effort. It was raised in parliament a day before the open letter from Marcus Rashford. Obviously, the main impetus came from that excellent open letter, but to say that it was being ignored is to deny the truth.
Lord Frost now moaning that the Brexit treaty was negotiated when the UK was at its weakest. Strange, I was under the impression that we held all the cards? It's almost as if the Brexiters were lying through their teeth... 🤔
#r4today
REVEALED: After today's NICs changes, the UK's tax rate for those on average salaries is lower than all G7 nations based on the latest
@OECD
data.
This government supports hard workers.
@nickreeves9876
@OwenJones84
Leaving EU because " the people told us to do it" knowing it's disastrous is possibly the lamest of excuses since "dog ate my homework".
Pathetic boasting from Jeremy Hunt. But in the real world, public services are awful, roads are dreadful, rail is unreliable, rivers are disgusting. Tory policies have failed utterly and we need a fundamental change of direction.
#r4today
Real Exclusive: Sir Robert Buckland and Tory party keep quiet about bad behaviour until Elphicke defects from the party - sounds like the whips are still blackmailing MPs in fear of further defections...
#bbclaurak
#trevorphillips
🔺 EXCLUSIVE: Robert Buckland has accused the Tory who defected to Labour of approaching him when he was justice secretary before the trial of her ex-husband, the former MP Charlie Elphicke
✍️
@Gabriel_Pogrund
✍️
@cazjwheeler
✍️
@HugoCDaniel
Not sure that the sentiments of:
"I'm brilliant" and the "media forced me to fiddle my taxes"
quite has the sense of contrition that a letter responding to one's sacking demands.
#BBCLauraK
#Ridge
Labour extends lead by 5% to 27% in latest YouGov poll (27-28 May)
LAB: 47% (+3)
CON: 20% (-2)
REF: 12% (-2)
LDM: 9% (nc)
GRN: 7% (+1)
3rd poll to show a Labour lead increase since the "National Service" announcement.
#r4today
Labour has extended its lead over the Conservatives to 27 points, according to the first exclusive YouGov poll of the campaign for Sky News.
Full story:
More BS from geography genius Dominic Raab, who thinks the 39 billion is a fee for the deal when in fact it is "settling our bill". Typical Brexiter not wanting to pay for commitments and wanting unicorns.
#r4today
Another dreadful interview by Humphrys continually interrupting the excellent
@Keir_Starmer
to demand he state the conclusions of a meeting that hasn't yet occurred.
#r4today
@sturdyAlex
The main problem the Tories have is that the public have simply stopped listening since Truss crashed the economy, so no amount of sabre-rattling or waging culture wars is making a scrap of difference. Resets won't work.