As a country with the sixth largest economy in the world, why have we no money for doctors, nurses and dentists, roads, trains and buses, insulated homes, clean rivers, libraries, child care, affordable housing, university education and so on. Why? Where’s the money gone?
Just say we sent the marbles back to Greece and I really, really wanted to see them. It would be cheaper for me to fly from Manchester to Athens (£168) than get the train to Euston (£255)
NEW: Rishi Sunak cancels meeting with Greek PM amid diplomatic row over Elgin marbles
@ChrisMasonBBC
reports.
It comes just after Kyriakos Mitsotakis repeated their long standing position that the Parthenon marbles (as they’re known in Greece) should be returned.
A few weeks ago the Director General of the BBC, Tim Davie, took the unusual decision to have a closed door meeting with the 1922 Committee of Tory backbenchers. Today an axe has fallen on Newsnight. Curious eh?
That ‘room’ has been funded by your 24 hour trolley wait in A&E, your kids’ crumbling schools, fruitless hunt for a dentist, your sky high energy bills, your closed library, your potholes, your crisis in social care…feel free to add more.
Why aren’t housing developers compelled to fit solar and heat pumps to all new properties? All that land, all that roof space wasted. Can local councils not step in and demand this through planning? Seems bonkers that we aren’t doing so much more.
I don’t care if he’s on telly.
I don’t care if you want to be like him.
I don’t care if he could kill me by looking at me.
I don’t care what he thinks.
@antmiddleton
should be ashamed of himself. This is dangerous bullshit and will harm people.
If you’re thinking the extension to HGV drivers’ hours isn’t anything to worry about, when was the last time you drove for 9 hours? Have you ever? What’s the longest drive you’ve ever done? How did you feel at the end?
Well it’s going up to ten hours.
This is really unpleasant and unprofessional. This isn’t parliamentary bants, it’s grim and serves no purpose other than giving Badenoch a titillating frisson of the power that she lost. Rayner clearly, and rightly, unmoved.
The cancer I had was not a lifestyle choice, the burst appendix I had was not a lifestyle choice, being born with the umbilical round my neck was not a lifestyle choice. These IEA ghouls are utterly horrid.
Reem Ibrahim(IEA): "If we had an insurance based healthcare system... you would be personally & financially responsible for your lifestyle choices... but because we've got a socialised healthcare system.. that means there's no financial incentive to make better lifestyle choices"
Press photographer
@tomsdinner
was arrested this week for filming the
@JustStop_Oil
protest from a public footbridge.
Officers then raided his house at 11pm
“I’ve not seen anything like this happen before. I was fucking livid”
Madeley on the murder of Sir David Amess last year.
“It is my deepest hope and prayer that yesterday's foul killing of a decent, civilised man will open our eyes to the poison that now slops around in the well of public debate.”
Madeley today 👇
Can I just point out the selfish recklessness of calling an election two months after half the country went to the polls for locals. The costs involved running two elections when one polling day would have done will cost local councils many tens of millions of pounds.
@Mikeuntold
Because they’ve been continually lied to. I have some sympathy with them, the average person in the street shouldn’t have to dig through lies to find the truth. Truth should be a fundamental tenet of Government and lies punishable in law.
💥Data on 20mph in London & 39 European cities shows an astonishing 37% fall in road crash fatalities.💥
📉 18% cuts in emissions
📉2.5dB fall in noise pollution
📉 7% ave fall in fuel consumption
... with v small variations of average traffic speed.
If you’re angry at Angela Rayner for selling her council house…
But not angry at where this non-story came from
i.e. from the billionaire Tory peer who got out of paying UK taxes by being a non-dom while sat in our House of Lords
…then you’re part of the problem.
Someone, anyone help me out here. There's a charity called Feeding Britain, one of it's trustees is a Conservative MP who voted against free school meals over the winter, the President is Justin Welby, and its registered address is 55 Tufton Street. HELP ME UNDERSTAND............
Thinking of attending a Boxing Day hunt meet? This is what ‘trail hunts’ get up to. Shocking footage released today by
@HuntSabs
Please RT if it’s just one thing you do today. Get these faces everywhere.
Lord, remember this 🔥 from
@Anna_Soubry
? 👏👏👏👏
Brexit seems to have turned out exactly as remainers predicted and is still a running sore to its cheerleaders. Maybe it was a dreadful idea all along.
NEW: Rishi Sunak cancels meeting with Greek PM amid diplomatic row over Elgin marbles
@ChrisMasonBBC
reports.
It comes just after Kyriakos Mitsotakis repeated their long standing position that the Parthenon marbles (as they’re known in Greece) should be returned.
Again I ask, who exactly has benefited from Brexit? Certainly none of the people who were used as poster boys for the whole thing.
Manufacturing
Farming
Fishing
Small Business
NHS
Tech
Car Makers
All shafted. Folk should be in jail for this con.
I know I keep banging this drum but, the Rwanda plan is NOT offshoring the processing of asylum claims for the UK it is forced deportation of potentially successful asylum applicants.
Unbelievable.
@NeilDotObrien
- generally regarded as a a relatively competent/intelligent Conservative MP - who has written extensively about immigration policy, is utterly and cluelessly ignorant about the Rwanda policy he so vocally supports.
If you’re all in a tizz about the RNLI tonight. Have a bloody word with yourself. Sorry if that offends. They’re volunteers who drag themselves out of bed or from their jobs to face the heaving tide to save fellow humans.
Good for them for spreading that ethos around the world.
Watch this. This is precisely why Angela Rayner is attacked so vociferously, her detractors can’t stand how straightforward and relatable she is, it terrifies them.
Almost died at birth. NHS saved me.
Meningitis at 9, NHS saved me.
Cancer at 36, NHS saved me.
Ruptured appendix at 43, NHS saved me.
👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏
NHS workers, I thank you, more than you’ll ever know.
@JoanneMCrompton
@JaneyGodley
When I was nine I had meningitis. I was really poorly but it was the seventies and my parents couldn’t stay with me. I woke one night to find a nurse holding my hand as she’d heard me crying in my sleep. I never saw her again. She was my Angel. 💙
@KtLeeArrowsmith
It really is incredible isn’t it. If the Tories have secured a victory by peddling or perpetuating such horrendous lies it should be a matter for the electoral commission.
'I did not, would not and would never make such comments about his constituency'
@JamesCleverly
tells
@ACunninghamMP
he did not call his constituency a 'sh**hole'
But the home secretary admits using the derogatory word 'in a comment about him'
Fourteen years ago, almost to the day, I found a lump in my testicle. Not so much a lump but more a different texture. Went to the doc next day, ultrasound the week after, op the week after that. Then chemo. I’m alive. Check your bits.
#WorldCancerDay
Good grief there’s going to be trouble for the returning officer if this is correct!
Exclusive! Claims of Election Law breaches by council over voter ID – East Anglia Bylines
The same people who say we should ‘look after our own’ are the ones who oppose British workers wanting a decent wage and fair conditions at work. Go figure.
If the ‘pint bottle of wine’ is adopted by the wine industry or shoppers, I’ll eat my hat. It’s amazing how the Gov are touting this as a joyous ‘new freedom’ for us after being oppressed by 75cl bottles for our whole lives. If you’re falling for this, more fool you.
I’ve just signed this. Parliament could have voted for the Cherry amendment but Labour whipped against. Signing this puts it back on the agenda.
Petition: Without a Deal make "Revoke Article 50" the default action.
I am so glad that the news is filled with stories about the colour of the England flag rather than a £130 shirt, made by an American company in a factory in Thailand. Well done everyone.🙄
Guido Fawkes doxxing a child on Twitter says everything you need to know about what sort of a person he is. Despicable frankly. Honestly, what a total shitbag.
This was absolutely disgraceful from the Health Secretary
She thinks uncapped bonuses for millionaire bankers is a terrific idea but the nurses who sacrificed so much to keep us safe during the pandemic should accept another crappy real terms pay cut
ABSOLUTE BOLLOCKS TO THAT!
I’m beginning to think there’s something in the water.
Britons, get a grip. If you vote for a party who won’t publish a manifesto until after the election you are bloody idiots. No ifs or buts. Idiots. You should be utterly ashamed of yourselves.
You are not patriots.
This is absolutely bang on, I used to quite like seeing JRM on politics shows, he used to be a sort of caricature of everything that’s ridiculous about our forelock tugging serfdom. He wasn’t dangerous then, because it was inconceivable he’d ever have any clout. Then Brexit.
‘Brexit created this weird space in which intellectually poor people could profit.’
@mrjamesob
explains how someone as ‘ridiculous’ as Jacob Rees-Mogg has become the Tory voice of authority on last night’s historic by-election defeats for the government.
Spectacularly failing to mention the following.
Earnest Rutherford (atom)
Alexander Graham-Bell (phone)
Tim Berners-Lee (internet)
Genocide
The Allies (World Wars)
I’ll let him off with the moon.
"Americans harnessed electricity, split the atom, and gave the world the telephone and the internet. We settled the Wild West, won two World Wars, landed American Astronauts on the Moon—and one day soon, we will plant our flag on Mars!"
— President
@realDonaldTrump
Any right-minded person in Johnson’s position would have gone into the garden and asked what the hell was going on and sent everyone home with a flea in their ear. His excuse is risible, his judgement utterly abysmal. What a disgrace.
Boris Johnson’s statement to Parliament on the NO 10’ “bring your own booze” lockdown party was filled with so much bull**** it could fertilize a field!
If you are still in any doubt the Prime Minister is taking the country for fools watch this!
#PMQs
How long are we going to allow these truth twisting chancers to get away with taking the public for fools over post Brexit trade deals?
If you are as sick to death as I am of this absolute bull**** RT this widely
Blimey, just back from Tesco where a maskless man was throwing yoghurt at two teenagers for wearing their masks. I think I’ve just witnessed a culture war.
Sorry.
I’m going to solve this right now. “If you want to come on here again you must provide, in confidence to our editorial team, the funding sources of this report, otherwise, there’s the door.”
IEA think-tank asked about research funding transparency, and one of the excuses was "We're an educational charity... like Oxfam", followed by “I don’t work in that department”
Lee Anderson MP, former Deputy Chairman of the Conservative Party: "I'm pretty sure that coal 100 million years ago was trees and plants.. it was, well I would argue that's sustainable."
No no no no NO! These lanterns are litter, cause fires and are deadly to wildlife and livestock. No just NO! However worthy the cause they need banning.
@AlexBoyd
@antmiddleton
It’s hugely disappointing. I’ve really enjoyed some of the TV he’s done. He has a huge following and he should be using it to promote responsible behaviour instead he chooses to play the big man.
Honestly you’re not going to see anything better on Twitter ever. I know I only tweeted this five minutes ago but it’s straight-up genius. “We gonna m m m m mummify your ass!” 🤣
THE COUNTRY SHOULD BE IN A STATE OF SHOCK
Emergency legislation to disapply human rights, dispensing with courts & threats to join Russia & Belarus outside the ECHR - this obscene & insane Government must be ousted from power
If you agree please RT this widely
For the avoidance of doubt, we aren’t building 40 new hospitals or a bridge to Ireland. Or an airport in the Thames or a roundabout under the Isle of Man. We aren’t bringing back pounds and ounces either. It’s all just bollocks. Again.
This is a photo of Winston Churchill that I colourised for the Evening Standard, but they ended up not using it. He's very topical at the moment, being in the news the last few weeks, so I thought I would share it with you. I hope you like the work x
Wishing PM Johnson a speedy recovery. He must be really very poorly indeed. Whatever your views, this isn’t the time to air them. Right now, Johnson is a sick father in hospital so he deserves our best wishes as do his family.
Tory MPs just voted to insist that Afghan interpreters who served British armed forces can be sent to Rwanda.
A scheme which costs £2m per asylum seeker. A £500m+ scheme for less than 1% of asylum seekers. Which now includes those who worked with our troops
Shameful & shambolic