'Kiwis – go home': New Zealand to go into month-long lockdown to fight coronavirus
Not a single death, and yet New Zealand is going into lockdown to save lives
This is what responsible government looks like
#LockdownNow
I'm really happy to report that I am currently Mr Mogg's MEP and I operate constructively and cooperatively in the European Parliament
I'm sure he'd hate it if I were re-elected
#YouKnowWhatToDo
I have referred Nigel Farage to the European Anti-Fraud Office.
Farage is a professional political fraudster. We need to know as a matter of urgency whether his 450K gift from Aaron Banks has been used in fraudulent activities which breach EU rules.
Final speech. It was painful.
I hold in my heart the knowledge that one day I will be back in this chamber, celebrating our return to the heart of Europe.
Aaaargh! Yet again Boris Johnson says European Parliament is in Strasbourg
The man who led the Leave campaign and who wants to be the prime minister who takes us out of the EU doesn’t even know where we are!
This level of ignorance, deceit and ignorance is dangerous
#StopBoris
Lisa Nandy warns Labour voters any idea of reversing Brexit is a 'fantasy'
@TheGreenParty
is clear: we want to rejoin as soon as political conditions are right
If you're part of nearly 60% majority that agrees with us, you know what to do
#VoteGreen
Iceland's Christmas TV about rainforest destruction banned for being too political
This is a disgrace. How can protecting life on Earth be ‘too political’? More likely it challenges vested interests that are too powerful
Hello
@BBCr4today
A bit bemused about your choice of SW MEP candidates to discuss European Parliament
Ashley Fox lost and James Glancy knows nothing about the Parliament. Both are Eurosceptic
In the interests of balance I'm looking forward to my invitation in near future
Today, our prime minister will go, cap in hand, to Paris and Berlin to beg for concessions
Before June 2016 she would have been the equal of Merkel and Macron
What could be more symbolic of the way Brexit has diminished our standing in the world?
#JustMakeItStop
Hi
@maitlis
If voters switch from Labour to Green because we supported a ceasefire in Gaza, that is not a protest vote
Choosing a party because of its policies is how democracy works
Please don’t patronize Muslim voters
Britain’s wartime generation are almost as pro-EU as millennials
Those who actually remember the war are strong supporters of the peace that the European Union has brought
Let’s remember that on
#DDay75
Sorry to be dropped at last minute by
@bbc5live
when had woken up early, prepared to talk about Gibraltar
Why ask other BBC correspondent to comment rather than MEP who represents Gibraltar? Perhaps I couldn’t be relied on to stay on the right message?
#GibraltarRocks
🇬🇮
European Parliament just voted that Russian state actors interfered in the Brexit referendum
Let’s hope
@eucopresident
and council members agree to a lengthy extension of Art 50 so that we can reverse this attack on the integrity of the EU
#StopBrexit
#PeoplesVote
This is classic far-right rhetoric: create two tribes, tell tribe A they are threatened by tribe B, wait for tribe A’s fear to turn into violence against tribe B
I can’t be alone in feeling disturbed that this woman’s husband is being proposed as our next PM
@Peston
There are no leavers there because they would be lynched. These people are so convinced of their righteousness they cannot see anyone who disagrees with them as anything other than a monster. The rhetoric against people who voted to Leave characterises them as sub-human.
We’ve learned from experience that leaving EU is complex, divisive, destructive
I’ve long supported
#PeoplesVote
but I’m beginning to wonder whether we should just
#RevokeArt50
Aside from disaster capitalists and Putin stooges wouldn’t everybody just breathe a sigh of relief?
I’m finding it quite disturbing the number of Tory loyalists who defend male aggression, first by Mark Field and now by Boris Johnson
I think this tells you quite a lot about the party and why it’s been such an abysmal government
#MeToo
Conservative vote increased by 1% which led to this ‘landslide’
Lib Dem vote increased by 4% and they came out one seat down
This is the absurdity of the horse-race 🐎 voting system we are supposed to accept as democracy
#NeverAgain
Sajid Javid says we’ll be aligning with US rather than EU standards
This sounds to me like it will be more expensive to get Camembert
But cheaper to get aerosol cheese
What’s not to like? 🤮
We will have a confirnatory vote in October once she has chosen her team and negotiated her policy platform
In other words, once we have more detail about what her election means in practice we will have a
#FinalSay
Given that Ursula Von der Leyen's endorsement was 52-48, I wonder whether MEPs really knew what they were voting for, or whether they feel they have been lied to. Perhaps there needs to be a confirmatory vote...
This appears to be confirmation that Farage has broken European Parliament Code of Conduct for MEPs
Please can I ask EU anti-corruption agency
@OLAFPress
to investigate these payments as a matter of urgency?
Having first said he didn’t receive £450k of support, after Banks confirms it, Farage pivots to “it’s my own personal business”. Only problem, Farage is an MEP. Under Code of Conduct he must declare support for political activity (ART4) or gifts above €150 (ART5) within 30 days.
Airwaves have been full of Rachel Johnson and Ann Widdecombe, both standing for parties with no MEPs
As
@TheGreenParty
MEP for SW+Gib I haven’t had a look in. Called
@Ofcom
but asked to send email
What are the broadcasting impartiality guidelines worth if they aren’t enforced?
Vote Leave chief Dominic Cummings refuses to give evidence to Parliament
Vote Leave Chair Gisela Stuart laughingly admits they destroyed their data
It is increasingly clear that Vote Leave was a political sewer and that the Brexit mandate is unsound
Cummings says MP abuse will cease if they 'respect' Brexit vote
Clear breach of SPAD code:
'Special advisers must not take public part in political controversy . . . They must observe discretion and comment with moderation'
Will
@cabinetofficeuk
act?
I fear the BBC is making the same error with COVID balance that they made with climate change
If 99% of scientists say one thing and Karol Sikora says the opposite, it isn’t balance to give them equal airtime
#wato
My son works at Addenbrookes and confirms this is the case
Staff were not told Johnson was coming and were outraged to be used as stage set for his election campaign
In the most pro-Remain city in the whole country
Wonderful job booing him out of their hospital
#StopJohnson
.
@BorisJohnson
visited a hospital in Cambridgeshire today
💥 staff weren’t told about the visit.
💥 doctors weren’t allowed to ask questions.
Watch this student doctor tell the truth about the Tory war on our health👇
Many British MEPs were in tears listening to this
Is the strategy to block any chance of a renegotiation by the EU?
Surely this alienates any but the most ardent Brexit headbangers. Anybody who values our place in the world would hang their head in shame
“There is a pattern consistent throughout history of oppressed people turning on the oppressors. Slaves against their owners. The peasantry against the feudal barons.”
Brexit Party MEP Ann Widdecombe makes her maiden speech in the European Parliament.
I’ve never before seen a prime minister deliberately try to mislead her own Parliament. There have been no legally binding changes to the withdrawal agreement.
This is action worthy of an autocratic leader from a banana republic not the leader of a democratic country.
A terrible sight in a democracy
Police are occupying Trafalgar Square to prevent peaceful protest
This is the work of Priti Pitel's Home Office
And where is
@SadiqKhan
?
Please, at some point this weekend, take 15 minutes to read this story
@carolecadwalla
summarises everything she has learned about Russian involvement in Brexit
This is not conspiracy theory but conspiracy fact
This is the first
#EuropeDay
since we left the European Union
🇪🇺 I am still a proud European
💔 I am still heart-broken about this misguided and self-destructive decision
✊🏽 I am still determined to build support for our return to the EU
#StillLoveEU
Brexit party in talks to join far-right group in EU parliament
This is the problem with voting for a party without a manifesto. You think you’re voting for national independence but end up electing members to a group of fascists
#ResistFascism
Hey,
@Fox_Claire
, your blog suggested you are forced to travel business class and use chauffeurs. You aren’t! Please join those of us who travel standard!
And you’re also quite at liberty to be fully transparent on your allowances. Most British MEPs are; UKIP were an exception
Trump says Johnson would do a 'very good job'
Two sociopathic men who are comfortable telling lies, treat women with contempt, and use racist rhetoric to advance their careers
Will the national loathing of Trump now transfer to Johnson?
#TrumpUKVisit
Hello
@BBCr4today
When are you going to give me the 8 o’clock interview and throw me a lovely open question like ‘What do you think should happen during the next six months?’
I’m looking forward to giving your listeners a clear answer about an achievable future for the country
Hope I’m not alone in feeling infuriated by a Home Secretary posing tough by squaring up to a brainwashed schoolgirl but ignoring Russian infiltration into our society and democracy
Isn’t it extraordinary that we are getting a blow-by-blow account of US Presidential election campaign 2020 but almost nothing about
#EuropeanElections2019
in other EU countries
This bizarre transatlantic bias in our media is one of the causes of Brexit
#StopBrexitSaveBritain
How can the BBC think this is in any way appropriate? Why would you give someone under police investigation and a suspected traitor the oxygen of publicity and such a massive advantage before possible trial. Does this even prejudice the chance of a fair trial?
#Brexitgate
On
#marr
on Sunday Arron Banks will respond to National Crime Agency investigation into campaign funding during Brexit referendum
@Arron_banks
BBC One, 10am
I’m the only sitting MEP in the South West who is for a Remain party
I’ve worked my socks off to resist Brexit
Yet all the tactical voting sites are telling you to vote for somebody else
I hope you’ll ignore them so that I can carry on working for you and to
#StopBrexit
A majority of UK citizens know that the best future for our country is inside the EU.
The will of the people has changed, and has turned against the Brextremists and their
#Brexit
chaos.
#PeoplesVoteNow
BBC guidance says coverage reflects previous electoral support
Why does @
@BBCr4today
give first, framing interview for
#EuropeanElections
to Farage, who threatens more anger and uses classic far-right trope of pitting people against Parliament
Brexit party has *no* track record
I've helped coordinate a letter signed by 74 MPs, peers & MEPs to our law enforcement agencies demanding they resist political interference and pursue criminal investigations into Vote Leave.
We are meant to be a modern democracy not a banana republic.
Annunziata Rees-Mogg’s latest complaint about EU parliament backfires terribly
She complained she doesn't have time to think about her votes in EU parliament, prompting more experienced MEPs to suggest she does her homework before showing up
#BrexitLies
This latest legal attack on
@carolecadwalla
is a sign of growing desperation by Brexit crooks as the net closes in
But it is also intimidation of a superb and patriotic journalist
We are with you Carole. Let us know what help you need
#IStandWithCarole
It’s official. The biggest political donor in British history - the subject of a criminal investigation by the NCA - is using his who-knows-where-it-comes-from millions to take me to court.
Humphrys just said
@BBCr4today
had decided not to talk about Brexit today. Can somebody explain why? Does it have something to do with government strategy falling apart last night and the official opposition coming out for
#PeoplesVote
? Isn’t it precisely your job to report that?
'I’m delighted that UK will be holding
#EuropeanElections2019
. We will mobilise one of the strongest pro-EU movements in our continent. A strong vote for pro-EU candidates across the country will win a
#PeoplesVote
and keep us at the heart of the EU family'
My speech in Europarl
🇪🇺 EU Council in Brussels this week - attended by 27 European leaders
⛔️ The UK will not be represented
🙅🏾♂️🙅🏻🙅🏼♀️ Brexit has left us outside the room when important decisions about our own continent are being made
What is blowing my mind about
#DominicGoings
story
While government ministers were making holier-than-thou criticism of Ferguson for breaking lockdown they already knew that Cummings had broken *quarantine* and travelled when actively infectious
Lying is DNA of Vote Leave cabal
This was a tremendous performance by
@DavidLammy
on
#Marr
His refusal to back down over condemning the fascist language of leading politicians was a model for behaviour we should all have the courage to demonstrate
#ResistFascism
Wondered why Mogg and co. are so desperate to make Brexit happen at any cost?
Because of what it would cost them and their cronies in lost bets 🤑
They are literally gambling our future away 🎰
Big scoop from
@Byline_Media
- extraordinary amounts of money amounting to £8.3bn placed by Boris Johnson and Vote Leave backers on a no deal crashout on 31 October
#DisasterCapitalism
Amsterdam’s plan to remove 11,200 parking spaces from its streets by the end of 2025 is even more inspiring when we realize the kind of people-places that are possible where cars used to be. Example —
#Amsterdam
’s Elandsgracht between 2014 & 2019, via
@schlijper
’s great pics.
Our democracy is flawed in so many ways but the most shocking outrage is that 120,000 members of the Conservative Party - a party infiltrated by far-right ex-UKIP members - will soon be choosing our prime minister
Constitutional reform now!
Huge poll for
#C4Brexit
shows that - once people understand free movement as a benefit for ‘us’ as well as ‘them’ - 63% of British people want freedom of movement to continue
Today is
#EuropeDay
. A day when we celebrate our continent in all its richness and diversity
And when we celebrate the European Union which is, at its heart, a project of peace and unity, as this simple graphic illustrates
The Prime Minister is pretending that she is delaying a decision because of ‘ongoing negotiations’ but from my vantage point in Brussels I can guarantee you that there are no ongoing negotiations.
She is holding the country to ransom to save her own skin. Shocking stuff
Farage faces 'highest penalty' as MEPs demand punishment in funding row
He failed to declare huge donation from Banks that funded his lavish lifestyle
I referred Farage to EU fraud watchdog
@OLAFPress
and now parliamentary watchdog has backed this up
Every time I hear Gordon Brown’s insight and intelligence I wonder how we - as a country - can have chosen to squander his political skill and commitment
#r4Today
Labour MPs who help Boris Johnson to victory will not be forgiven
‘Each Johnson act that passes, each budget turn of the screw, will belong to them in perpetuity, no way back.’
Spot on from
@pollytoynbee
😠Jenrick travels hundreds of miles to visit parents
😠PM travels to second home to recuperate
😠Cummings travels hundreds of miles for childcare support
😤They see us as little people; rules don’t apply to them
😢They have made mockery of real sacrifices made by so many of us
In middle of global pandemic and a few months away from a possible disastrous no-deal Brexit
I’ve just watched 650 highly paid and vitally important MPs waste hours of working time trooping through parliament to register their votes
Mogg has made a mockery of our democracy
What Survation / Mail poll really shows:
By 48-34%, voters want people’s vote on May deal;
by 45-37% they prefer Remain to May deal;
by 50-40% they prefer Remain to no deal.
Please can we have the *whole* truth,
@BBCr4today
?
EU brings in 'right to repair' rules for appliances
🛠 Manufacturers will have to make spares available
💡 Energy efficiency standards to save €20bn on energy bills - equivalent to 5% of EU electricity consumption
💚 Circular economy!
Spain banned Vox. Why don't we do the same to Batten and Farage?
This is what experience of fascism teaches you, just as Germany doesn't allow referendums
In UK, BBC repeats Farage's incitement to political violence in hourly bulletins
#ResistFascism
Just a month into the job and the PM looks fearful, desperate and utterly out of his depth
This is what you look like when your lies come home to roost
#StopBrexit
Boris Johnson accuses EU of being "a bit negative" about prospects of reaching
#Brexit
deal. The UK PM says he believes "we'll get there" and has promised to "go at it with a lot of oomph"
.
@bbclaurak
Can you please stop spreading the myth that the EU forces second referendum on member states? You know that’s constitutionally impossible, tabloid nonsense that we don’t expect to hear from
@BBCPolitics
If British people want a
#PeoplesVote
we can choose to have one
13 cross-party MEPs & 11 MPs today signed a letter to Tony Hall, DG of the BBC, complaining about how
#BBCQT
viewers were misled that Leave & Remain sides cheated equally in the EURef.
We expect BBC to challenge not support such propaganda narratives.
Brexit fantasy 8.0: Theresa May will persuade EU27 to abandon integrity of single market, undermine legally binding Good Friday Agreement, and sell loyal member Ireland down the river.
I can guarantee that the European Parliament - which has a vote on this - will never ratify it
Bath baker 'betrayed' as he's denied settled status after Brexit
Another shameful disgrace in Brexit Britain
You should not be able to be thrown out of your home of 30 years because you can’t find documents you never knew you would have to keep
Whatever you thought of it, Brexit was a huge decision which has made massive changes to how our country works
Today Parliament will debate whether we should have a full enquiry into how it's working out
Any normal government would already have done this
#BrexitInquiry
I'm 56 years old and today, for the first time, the police stopped me to search me
My suspicious behaviour? Trailing a suitcase through Trafalgar Square
Apparently it might have contained a tent or a weapon
After initial, ingrained compliance I resisted and they left me alone
Here’s the email to the BBC sent by myself and
@CarolineLucas
explaining why they should reverse their decision to give a platform to Arron Banks
Please continue with your own complaints about this appalling decision
@TheGreenParty
If you have any influence in the Labour Party please use it to push for them to support a fair voting system
This is what a Parliament for the many would look like
YouGov just released polling results of ranking May's Deal/No Deal/Remain options in order of preference in constituencies across the UK.
Wow, just WOW.
#PeoplesVoteNow
#StopBrexit
If I’d had a vote in the
@UKLabour
leadership contest I would have voted for Yvette Cooper
In spite of the several years of Corbynmania I think it becomes increasingly clear that the £3 members backed the wrong horse
"Sticking to this failed plan... is deeply dangerous for our country"
Labour's Yvette Cooper repeats calls for Theresa May to allow indicative votes on way forward for
#Brexit
#PMQs
updates:
.
@BBCr4today
Please don’t give airspace to self-interested, ignorant businessmen like Tim Martin
His nonsense about ‘social distancing within pubs’ is itself a risk to public health
How dare he suggest Wetherspoons pub are as important as parliament?
#CarelessTalkCostsLives
Infuriating to hear
@Keir_Starmer
suggesting new negotiations possible and
@UKLabour
could negotiate something better. This is fantasy and they know it.
When will Labour act like real opposition, oppose this damaging Brexit deal, and go all out for a
#PeoplesVote
?
@BBCr4today
The Tory government has voted against continued involvement in the Erasmus scheme that allowed young people to spend time in other EU countries
A huge opportunity lost for future generations
A tragedy for our young people
MPs have voted against New Clause 10 being read a second time, by 344 votes to 254.
This new clause would have required the Government to seek to negotiate continuing full membership of the EU’s Erasmus+ education and youth programme.
We've lost two-thirds of our exports to our major export market but it doesn't even make the headlines
Brexit has lured us into a parallel universe where propaganda dominates over truth
#Marr
Just rang my mum to wish her a happy birthday
She said what a patronising b****d Mogg is to tell the poor they can have cheap meat while he enjoys the best cuts
#ProudOfMyMum
Proud to be with the people of
#Stroud
marching to
#StopTheCoup
Our forebears fought for democracy: we will protect and renew it!
'We are many; they are few'
#Peterloo2019
Our Prime Minister is spending this weekend with
#ShortCummings
working out how he can break the law and ignore the will of Parliament
This is why we people across the country will be rallying to
#StopTheCoup
#Kakistocracy
Zac Goldsmith handed life peerage and keeps environment role
You can see how this encourages corruption. After all, why bother to fight election campaigns when going to Eton and being incredibly wealthy is a much more efficient route to power?
The way broadcasters are almost entirely ignoring the frankly astonishing gains by
@TheGreenParty
is the best indicator to those who want real change and to challenge the establishment that they should should always vote green
Outraged to be told by security that I had to remove my
#StopBrexit
badge before being allowed into Portcullis House. Some views are obviously more welcome than others in the 'mother of parliaments'
Ironically, we are here to launch a report about reinforcing democracy
Johnson and Cummings continue to humiliate the Queen, this time by using her as mouthpiece for the Tory election broadcast
Without a majority in Parliament and with no costings, the promises contained in the
#QueensSpeech
are nothing more than dreams sold in exchange for votes
🤥 Brexit was based on lies
😡 There was no plan
😤 No economic basis
‘The tide is turning’
👍🏽 From a
#bbcqt
audience in Aldershot deliberately chosen to have a majority of Brexit voters
🇪🇺 I think she may be right
European Investment Bank drops fossil fuel funding
This is huge and great news, and something I’ve been lobbying for hard as your MEP
It’s too late - and there are worries about loopholes - but it’s the end of public funding for fossil fuels by EU bank!
Johnson ‘knew about Vote Leave’s illegal overspend'
🔥 PM failed to report wrong-doing to the Police
🔥 File of evidence has been handed to the Crown Prosecution Service
🔥 PM blocking publication of report into Russian interference
⚠️ Democracy at risk
🇪🇺 Today leaders of EU countries will meet at Versailles to discuss the future of Europe
🥲 Nobody from the UK will be represented there
😡 Far from being global Britain, we are left out of deciding the future of even our own continent
#BrexitDisaster