@DMinghella
I literally cried! I drove 150 miles to vote in Winchester where I was registered - voted lib dem as agreed with labour as labour couldnโt have defeated the tory incumbent. Arrived as polling office was closing, begged and they let me and husband in. The tory lost by 2 votes
@jemmaforte
The โnakedโ bit really struck me. Like Piers Morgan he has an unhealthy sexual obsession - didnโt he get off dreaming about shagging Princess Di in the back seat of a car? What is it with these guys. Maybe they know they just donโt stand a chance?
Excellent piece on the danger of this govt and immigrant rhetoric - the events in knowsley are the inevitable consequence. Braverman is surely guilty of the crime of inciting hatred
@D_Blanchflower
@HelenGothel
@trussliz
The freeports are limited companies and if you check companies house- youโll see that a significant number of councillors are on the board of directors ๐ฌconflict of interest?
@JimFunnel1
@PRSD
The United States geological survey identifies โDartmoor in the east to Isles of Scilly in the westโ โฆas one of the top five lithium-enriched granite areas worldwide. Dartmoor is now a part of The Plymouth and South Devon Freeport.
@CharlotteCGill
Austerity was based on a spreadsheet error, Brexit on lies. If Thatcherism existed in 1945 the NHS would never have existed. The Tories are dead, letโs change things around.
@PennyMordaunt
Can you explain to the electorate your links to the ERG and other opaquely funded Tufton Street think tanks? What are your memorandums with the ultra conservative state of Indiana really about?
@mikecornes
@JolyonMaugham
Listen back to old
@mrjamesob
shows on lbc at the time- loads of ppe and ventilator manufacturers couldnt get their calls returned- this is the heist of the century and the people will be paying for it for years
I am Harvey, Markโs son, writing to tell you that yesterday he was sentenced to 5 weeks. He is now in Thameside prison.
The sentence was for public nuisance. He sat on the road in the City of London.
Criticise Paul Dacre and get your ads taken down by โi newsโ - dangerous times indeed when critical voices are silenced and the press censors itself.
@BylineTimes
@ipapernews
Charities should keep out of politics? How come the Tufton St ThinkTanks , all registered โcharitiesโ (to avoid declaring their donors) havenโt been told the same thing?
@DefraGovUK
@WildlifeTrusts
Absolutely tragic, inaccurate and dismissive response to genuine concerns by some of the countryโs best loved and most respected organizations who would not make such an announcement lightly.
@JimFunnel1
In 2022 I investigated this and contacted IOW council who confirmed to me that no consultation of residents or local businesses had taken place when the whole of the Isle of Wight became quietly absorbed into the Freeport. I doubt the islanders even know.
If, like me, your timeline is suddenly full of nightmare right-wing accounts from political has-beens, Tufton Street lunatics and GB News mutants, join me in deciding what to do with them - please read and retweet my latest for
@YorksBylines
My piece on NatCs vs Nazis-though riddled with grievance and populist nonsense, the fact that senior figures in the govt spoke means we need to wake up to the fact that we have a serious problem. The whip should be removed and we shld start using the โFโ word
@GeorgeMonbiot
@A1an_M
And you have the highest energy bills on the planet. BP and Shell have record profits and they plough them into think tanks which convince people like you that fossil fuels are a good idea. See how it works?
@philsmith20
Itโs not the insurance thatโs the problem, itโs used in the EU where healthcare is generally better than it currently is in the Uk, no one is excluded and itโs heavily regulated - the fact that this govt will go for the USA model and that is the problem
@implausibleblog
Tactical voting played a large part in the vote share too. Itโs the system we have always had, reinforced by a referendum in 2011. Iโm not an FpTP fan but itโs so rich seeing new losers moan. Labour won. End of.
I wrote this in March. It discusses the spread of the American Libertarian right in our politics. At least 7 of their assets are hoping to be the next PM. They must be stopped
The battle is on to save the National Trust from a group of anti-woke libertarians with a worrying agenda, called the Reform Trust. Have you voted? | Ann Moody
@AnnAubert3
@BylineTimes
@nationaltrust
Hold onโฆ. I remember very clearly that according to the ERG, the EU potentially signing the practically identical TTIP with the US was an urgent reason to leave the EU because of the impact on our standardsโฆ
Daily Mail claims trade experts hailed how British membership of CPTPP would now give it 'equivalent economic weight' to the EU - totally UNTRUE!
Then they claim U.K. accession cld encourage America to rejoin.
Trumpย withdrew from what was then known as the TPP in January 2017.
@EuropeanPowell
@SydesJokes
Politicians have to have the courage to address the lie that is Brexit and withstand the inevitable backlash. We need to take the battle to them instead of playing their tune.The ownership and journalistic standards of the press in Britain needs to be urgently addressed (leveson)
Seriously, what on earth is going on? This is NOT standard police practice ๐ Has anyone ever seen the like of it? Any ideas? Can't breathe for laughing!
Cartoon by Stan
#SunakPoliceEscort
#ThroughTheLookingGlass
Please read and retweet my article
@YorksBylines
and that of
@NafeezAhmed
@BylineTimes
both out today- this is the biggest threat to the UK for decades- itโs our global reputation and our way of life thatโs on the line
Our government appears to be rapidly applying policy from an American right-wing libertarian playbook. But if this is where we are headed, shouldnโt we, in true libertarian fashion, have a choice? | Ann Moody
@AnnAubert3
@BylineTimes
This is absolutely incredible! Govt trawling social media accounts of expert contributors and cancelling them if theyโre anti Brexit, or critical in any way of the govt! This will reduce the gene pool of knowledge in vital areas of policy.Authoritarianism in action.
Orbanisation of the UK: keep your head down or you will lose opportunities; be frozen out. This is why so many people, including in the law, do not put their heads above the parapet. An insidious & dangerous form of State corruption totally at odds with a free & democratic nation
@PetronellaWyatt
My father in law came in 1938 fleeing nazis in Czechoslovakia with his dad- now theyd be called โillegal immigrants of fighting ageโ and wouldnt be let in. He went on to get an MBE and introduced Asterix and Obelix to Britain
Please read/retweet my latest for
@YorksBylines
about why sticking with the Beeb is, in my view, the right thing to do- throw out the bath water yes, but keep the baby. Thereโs nothing like it the world over. Itโs ours and we need to reclaim it from think tank output
Whatโs going on at the BBC? Is Auntie having a funny turn? | The last week's furore at the Beeb furthers the aims of right-wing think tanks for whom the existence of a national broadcaster is anathema | Ann Moody
@AnnAubert3
@BylineTimes
We've unmasked the history deniers at the ill-named 'Restore Trust' as a company with - as we always said - links to Tufton Street. And we've now issued proceedings against them for data breaches.
@mrjamesob
thank you, thank you ๐for talking to the fantastic
@rbrooks45
of
@PrivateEyeNews
abt Teeside and freeports etc. The Bylines Network published this - Houchen could be the tip of a larger iceberg
@10DowningStreet
The Bylines Network have written extensively on Freeports.
Best downloaded and viewed on a pdf viewer to really understand what they are and the impact they will have on the UK.
@jessgill03
Where I live in France, most of the Brits canโt string a sentence together, but they are welcomed and invited to take part in village life. It must be awful being you.
Asset-Strip Tees It is shocking that nobody except Private Eye is covering the colossal corruption surrounding Rishi Sunak's flagship freeport project in Teesside
It's the wholesale giveaway of public assets to businessmen who make no investment, but skim off all the profit
@campbellclaret
And
@RoryStewartUK
, great show but the most important bit was singling out the ERG as the true culprits. Why arenโt they, and other Tufton Street interest groups identified more? The man in the street doesnโt know about them and their criminal hold on our politics.
Voting in the National Trustโs AGM closes at midnight tonight. The UK needs strong, independent institutions. If you are a member please vote today. It matters. Here is the link All you need is your membership number. Thank you.
In the week of Navalnyโs murder- some things are worth remembering;
Boris Johnson Allowed Russian Interference into the UK as Putin Prepared For War โ Byline Times
Six of the likely candidates for PM work closely with the American libertarian right, who are expanding their influence in British politics. How would you like your government? Right, far right, or b**shit crazy? | Ann Moody
@AnnAubert3
@BylineTimes
An influential lobby group with links to the American religious right is attempting to promote its agenda at the heart of British politics, and seems to have found an interested party in the person of Suella Braverman | Ann Moody
@AnnAubert3
@BylineTimes
Is a regulatory framework being put in place to carry out the Institute of Economic Affairsโ great experiment? If so, the pound crashing will not concern them | Ann Moody
@AnnAubert3
@BylineTimes
@BritishAlba
@DavidGHFrost
@MarosSefcovic
The USA have told UK to bin article 16 threats. The NI protocol is working very well for the island of Ireland. Frost just needs to accept the deal he negotiated and got a seat in Lords for having done so.
It's time to
@RestoreTrustNT
in the National Trust.
Please vote for the following five candidates:
Philip Gibbs, Andrew Gimson, Violet Manners, Philip Merricks and Jonathan Sumption.
If you are a member of the National Trust please vote by clicking this link:
Tufton Street alumni are now scattered across government as special advisers.
Here are the graduates of opaquely-funded libertarian think tanks now in the corridors of power. ๐
@BylineTimes
@EuropeanPowell
Thatโs exactly my experience- it just didnโt make sense- the forcing through of legislation and closing down of debate- it was so obviously the wrong path to take there had to exist an agenda of which the public were ignorant. Knowledge is key.
This govt knows it now has 2 years to drive home its radical agenda, they began at pace; brexit, freeports and now fracking- the worst is yet to come -but they know they only have a small window - how far that window opens is up to us: we have to
#gtto
and unite the opposition
Bylines network articles are having serious reach issues due to X new algorithms- please read and r/t to ensure quality news can compete with disinformation
Friends - we need your help!
The algorithms here are really messing with our reach. Fantastic articles that usually get read by thousands are sometimes now only reaching a handful of people via X.
There are a few things you can do (and if you can see this, please share!)
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British press at the heart of our problems.
@BylineTimes
@BrianCathcart
hitting the nail on the head. Nothing will change without first addressing the cabal in charge of vital messaging
When right-wing journalists like Johnson and Gove infiltrate Govt, the ensuing chaos backed by their network of liberty is inevitable. When will Brits learn that they are being manipulated by non-domiciled tax-avoiding hatemongers?
@campbellclaret
Peter Thiel wrote the forward to that book and took it to Silicon Valley. Palantir, founded by him and the CIA, now have major data contracts in vital areas of our infrastructure such as NHS and defense. Rees Moggโs dad went on to be a founding director of NewsMax in the USA.
@paulyherts
Its not really though is it? Energy is capped at 4%, petrolโjust reduced to 1.35โฌ/ltr , loads of fresh produce in tbe shops, cheap excellent public transport, health system that works..etc etc. Sureโฆ global events are being felt but theres no talk of warm banks here
Superb thread by
@docrussjackson
on the socially divisive and morally absent Dail Mail ;from its origins thru to today when a disgraced former PM will start churning out slick with which to further gaslight its readers
#Threads
Evidence suggesting the Harmsworths (Rothermeres) have deliberately divided the British people, held Britain back, & inflicted more harm on UK society - all out of self-interest - than any other single family over the last two centuries - including the Murdoch dynasty.
@calvinrobinson
No, Iโve never noticed that. Itโs another good way to stir up another bit of hate and division at Christmas though. And you call yourself a Christian?
@mrjamesob
X trying to stifle users access to credible media outlets: Bylines reach has been drastically affected this last week - articles are being presented without the link so all you see is the image/photo/cartoon rather than the link to the article๐
This article, for example, would normally have had lots of views! It's hugely enjoyable while also making you shake your head in places.
Yet it's dawdling along with very few views. Almost as if the Big Tech people don't like the people power of citizen journalism!
Putting on a show destined for failure using tasteless rhetoric and bizarre optics, the Conservative Party conference of 2023 could have been inspired by Mel Brooks 1967 classic โ The Producers | Ann Moody
@AnnAubert3
@BylineTimes
Cartoon by
@SDupp
Hereโs my 3rd and final article about the โsmallโ firm who got a 70 BILLION POUND NET ZERO framework contract, and the people who gave it to them. This story connects Gove, Panama, Blair, Sarawak, Trump, The Wolf of Wall Street, Paris Hilton, and more.
@mrjamesob
@reid6peter
The same John Hayes who is very very influential in the American style Orthodox Conservatives, and to whom Braverman leaks legislation