Denied asylum in Italy & Germany. Arrived in UK illegally in 2020 then claimed asylum here. Flatmates complained to police that he was dangerous. Asylum claim still hadn't been processed by late 2023 when he decided to murder a pensioner in the street. Absolutely insane system.
Just took 93yr old mum to vote, she’s registered blind. In a very loud voice she said "which box for building houses and infrastructure?" and everyone in the polling station booed and voted for their respective NIMBY party
"Friends of" the Chancellor now briefing the papers that he may not stand at next election and could be off to California. He's throwing the most unbelievable tantrum.
David Davis resigning at such a crucial time shows
@Theresa_May
has no authority left and is incapable of delivering Brexit.
With her Government in chaos, if she clings on, it's clear she's more interested in hanging on for her own sake than serving the people of our country.
Just finished work and seen the news.
We’re led by a party that can’t even govern. Two defeats.
Jeremy Corbyn is the only leader actually offering a sensible solution to bring all sides together and wanting to seek a mandate for a sensible Brexit position.
Election now.
I will never not be pissed off at bean counter Sunak for wrecking HS2 when it was under construction. Should be built in full to Mcr and Leeds. Projects like that don't come along very often and his poor decision means we are stuck with Victorian train lines for many more decades
268 kmh through Kent on HS1. Meanwhile, on the "classic" network, a speed limit of 50 mph applies due to danger of falling trees. This is your occasional reminder that modern infrastructure is a lot more resilient. It's not just about speed! Just get on and build HS2 in full.
I’d say journalists should check out what Facebook groups Theresa May might be in, but then I remembered this is a person whose idea of a hobby is reading the telephone directory.
Deeply disappointing to see £1bn of investment right next to the M25 REJECTED!
The anti-growth
@ThreeRiversDC
decided that a economic activity and good jobs just aren't welcome in *checks notes* Watford.
Must watch on House of Commons reform
@EllieChowns
Dr Ellie Chowns, "As a newly elected member, I'd like to offer observations on three elements on how this house operates: sitting, speaking and voting"
➡️ Sitting
- Chamber is too small
- In Council and in European parliament
The "legacy", aside from the Windsor Framework, is basically non-existent. Scrapping HS2, some kind of crackdown on vapes and smoking, and spending half a billion on a deportation policy that doesn't work is not a legacy. Sorry.
Would we accept the police telling literally any other racial group to stay away because their mere presence would provoke racists? Two-tier policing in action right here.
“You are quite openly Jewish. This is a pro-Palestinian march. I am not accusing you of anything, but I am worried about the reaction to your presence.”
Enough is enough. It is time for a major change.
On Saturday 27th April — the next anti-Israel march — we are asking you,
@JimmySecUK
Hilariously, by creating the blue tick system, he's incentivised spammers, AND the new X algorithm kindly boosts their replies above genuine users who haven't paid for the tick 🤡
I tried watching the Owen Jones video on the Hamas bodycam footage and it was too revolting to get through. He starts by essentially apologising for attending the screening (I guess he knows his audience) and it just gets worse from there.
"I remember as a child in South Wales swimming in sewage"
Conservative MP
@DamianGreen
says water pollution from sewage dumping has always been an issue, but it used to be perceived as more acceptable
#Peston
Nobody in Jerusalem, Tel Aviv, Rafah or Ramallah could give a damn about a meaningless vote in the UK House of Commons, which is what makes it even more pathetic that people are losing their minds over it
Chaos in the Commons. MPs shouting at each other about arcane rules. The Speaker’s facing allegations that he’s interfered in politics to save Starmer embarrassment & save his own job. Not sure they’ll be impressed if they’re watching in Jerusalem or Rafah or Ramallah.
Labour will use call-in powers much more aggressively to promote economic development.
Reeves announces that Rayner will recover and call-in the two rejected data centre investments.
Ludicrous. Tory policy now seems to be entirely centred on costly bribes for older voters at everyone else's expense. Why should 60+
get free travel at PEAK TIME?!
Some friendly advice Prime Minister in CAPS 😊
Nothing should stand in the way of us keeping ALL communities safe in OUR country
We DO NOT have a hierarchy of races or communities in the UK and we DO NOT play divide and rule
We should ALL stand united against ALL forms of hate
David Cameron wants to hire a team of “pool professionals” whose “workmanship is second to none” to install a 45ft by 13ft pool, thought to cost £50,000, at his £1.5 million Cotswolds home
@bobscartoons
Your opinion is irrelevant as to whether Netanyahu is Jewish. He is, whether you like it or not, according to Jewish law/halacha. It is not decided by arbitrary rules that you like the sound of.
Keep seeing this on the timeline... he's pretty obviously taking the piss, and somehow it's gone right over the heads of the people getting incredibly worked up about it
Both Biden and Trump are disgustingly awful candidates due to their policies and allegations made against them.
Thank god the Green candidate, Howie Hawkins, is offering an alternative: free healthcare, Green New Deal, abolishing college tuition, ethical foreign policy and more.
Chris Whitty just endorsed the PM's argument that opening up now is better than opening up in the autumn/winter when the virus will have a natural advantage. Again it's a complex issue but Twitter's brilliant at turning everything into proxy culture war.
I think there are a lot of Tories deluding themselves this morning that the Lab win is somehow shallow and that it could all be over in 2029. This ignores 2 important factors. One, the Tories are *despised* and this will take a long time to fade, potentially a decade.
Imagine looking at the NZ election result, and then blaming the UK electorate rather than the former UK Labour leader for not attracting enough of their votes. Still getting it completely the wrong way round.
What an entitled attitude to demand precious UK/US troop time and resources be spent on evacuating animals when there are 1000s of Afghans under genuine threat from the Taliban, desperate to get out
Here is the message from Pen Farthing to Ben Wallace’s special advisor on Monday morning
In several Sunday newspapers, a source that has heard it confirms the words:
I just cannot understand the mentality of people who look at Trump insulting the UK and think "YEAH! HE'S GREAT!"
He's revolting, he's not our ally, and he doesn't believe in free trade. We couldn't have picked a worse time to pursue hopes of a US trade deal
Incredibly bored of reading facile analysis that is just trying to scare people and fails to factor in the tens of millions of people now vaccinated. It's not September 2020 any more.
They couldn't have fucked the HS2 announcement any more if they tried. It was dragged out over weeks, then announced in the same city HS2 was meant to terminate in, then its "replacement" was revealed to be largely nonsense (for election leaflets) dressed up as a serious project
No 10 said to be 'bruised' that conference, particularly HS2, did not shift dial
Tory MPs concerned King's Speech & Autumn Statement will underwhelm
Economic constraints will severely limit room for manoeuvre in Autumn Statement
Also in Playbook ... 40 year-old Tory MP Brendan Clark-Smith, who got a leftover vaccine at the weekend, is rebuked for "idiotic behaviour" by a senior Whitehall source
Just been to a local supermarket.
The expressions of relief, joy and thanks that we are out of the EU were extraordinary.
Needless to say, I wasn't in Central London.
The Prime Minister
@BorisJohnson
arriving with wife Carrie at St Paul’s Cathedral for the Platinum Thanksgiving Service is booed by some in the crowd
@BBCNews
Onshore wind, Sizewell C & modular reactors - these are all good news, but none of them will get built unless the planning regime is overhauled.
All new infrastructure will be killed off through the legal system by "local activists" until the govt does something about this
We will still meet our international commitments and hit Net Zero by 2050.
Our new approach will embrace with even greater enthusiasm the incredible opportunities of green industry.
This will create hundreds of thousands of good, well-paid jobs right across the country.
EU member states: "Can't believe Oxford/AstraZeneca won't give us millions of doses of a vaccine we won't use so that they can sit in warehouses and expire"
Internal Downing St drama never particularly interesting, but quite funny that a director of comms threatened to resign when the comms has been shambolic all year, and the PM just... let him... resign
@v_j_freeman
Really amazes me how some think that the extraordinary measures adopted for a pandemic are sustainable long term. Imagine not socialising properly for the rest of our lives. What a miserable idea
We had a referendum where all votes counted equally and the result was decided by simple majority and Femi wasn't happy with the result of that either. Perhaps the voters are the issue here.
@si_rubinstein
I found the transition from the 80s episodes to the 90s absolutely jarring. It felt like an entirely different show! Not sure if that's when people's opinions on it started to turn?
So Sunak has dumped an effective and popular Housing Minister and is now struggling to fill the role just as they're about to do more leasehold reform. Can anyone explain what on earth the thinking was here? If there was any.
@jhallwood
All they see is Jews, they couldn't give a toss what our nuanced position on the conflict is. The quicker people realise this the better. If anything comes out of the horrors we've seen I hope it's that.
A rumor alleges Charles will appoint a regent until the next heir comes of age, because William supposedly beat Kate to death, thus making him
unsuitable to be king. Wildest thing about this rumor is the idea that killing his wife has ever disqualified a king of England.
A stat like this just doesn't pass the most basic of smell tests. Are other countries doing testing and sequencing (and high quality Covid data) at the same level as the UK? No.
There were 229,000 new cases of coronavirus in the world yesterday. The UK provided 20% of them. 1 in 5 of the new cases in the whole world was on our little island.
"We reject the logic of first come, first served"
EU Commission calls on AstraZeneca to live up to its "contractual, societal and moral obligations" as row over vaccine shortage escalates
Shani Louk, the German woman last seen naked and unconscious in the back of a pickup truck that paraded her on a Gaza street like a trussed animal on the morning of October 7, has been confirmed killed. Family just got message her body has been recovered - presumably, in Gaza.
Yes literally every app in the world that uses the Google/Apple Covid-19 Exposure Notifications API has this limitation. Nothing to do with Matt Hancock.
Tried to download the
@NHSCovid19app
on my phone, an iPhone 6. Won't work. "This application requires iOS 13.5 or later." So, only people with phones less than three years old can use it. This is what the Tories call a "world-beating" system. Well done,
@MattHancock
, you genius.