These protestors got 5yrs in prison for blocking roads. What sentence should be handed down to EDL and far-right rioters burning police stations and attacking mosques?
#r4today
#riots
#JustStopOil
Disgusting. 🤢
Lake Windermere is at risk of becoming "ecologically dead" because of the amount of sewage being dumped in it.
Why has the government just given water companies the green light to continue trashing our rivers, lakes and seas?
Boris Johnson clearly knew Maxwell. Their relationship was close enough to be flirtatious based on what Rachel Johnson said in the Spectator. Where does Boris Johnson sit within the Ghislaine Maxwell network? What is the extent and nature of their relationship over time?
#r4today
Only in some authoritarian nutcase country would the public service broadcaster refer to the outcome of a fair democratic election as a ‘coup’. Isn’t it time we looked at BBC News & management?
#r4today
On December 18th last year, there was a Christmas Party in No.10 Downing Street. That same evening "police handed out £34,000 in fines after breaking up a student party" in Sheffield.
#ChristmasParty
#Marr
#r4today
We’re singing God Save The Queen while she is lobbying for exemptions from climate change. I don’t think we’re all in this together are we? Should it be God Save Us From The Queen?
#r4today
#ClimateEmergency
Officers had to issue our second £10,000 fine for an office party in the City last week.
Please don't put yourself and others at risk of catching COVID19: stick to the rules and socially distance, even in the festive season.
“A lot of my acquaintances who are lorry drivers have left the UK, as soon as the new Brexit rules came into place.” It’s Brexit not the pandemic.
#r4today
#Brexitreality
?
BBC are ignoring an issue of trust in the Prime Minister & the issue of £126,000 of public money just gifted to someone. That’s why it matters.
#r4today
#LocalElections
Dear fellow musicians, performers, technicians etc. Here’s a thread about how our lives are going to change re touring/working in the EU in 50 days time. Think of it as a kind of Bad News Advent calendar. Here goes 1/
Anyone concerned about phones ‘pinging’ should remember that they do so because of a deadly virus from which so far 160,000 people have grieving families & friends.
#r4today
#pingdemic
@SuzannahCSW
Need to re-launch SureStart, rethink Ofsted, resource SEND and reduce student debt. Also add VAT to private school-businesses. Those things would be a good thing to do asap.
Doctors are taking 4 cases to court against government and dodgy PPE. Media may not care to take on this Tories but thankfully medics do.
#r4today
@EveryDoctorUK
Morning! Lots of news outlets aren’t mentioning
@EveryDoctorUK
in press about the dodgy PPE court cases. Please do- we’re the doctors who built a dossier of evidence and are the co-claimants in these 4 legal cases. We run a network of 40,000 NHS staff.
Please could you RT?👩⚕️💙
Call me old fashioned but I’d probably feel that bit safer if our lorry drivers were able to reverse.
“Tests will be made shorter, with the reversing exercise element removed.”
#bbcaq
#r4today
HGV driving tests will be relaxed to allow 50,000 more to be taken in an attempt to tackle the shortage of lorry drivers ahead of Christmas, the transport secretary has announced
A reminder to BBC & Today programme. This is what proper journalism and proper scrutiny looks like. Why don’t you hold Johnson’s government to account like this?
#r4today
#bbcnews
NEW: 🚨Femi Fact Checks PMQs🚨
Did you see Boris Johnson at today’s PMQs? Well, here he is again, this time with added FACTS.
A masterclass in debunking from the brilliant
@Femi_Sorry
for
@allthecitizens
@carolJhedges
Look at Chile. They created a special TV channel, all text books free online, parent training packs, a national digital learning platform & creating high speed internet. Teacher CPD to support & measure health & wellbeing. Flexible return for staff/students & flexible reopening.
“The more this virus circulates the more opportunities it has to mutate.” World Health Organisation
Wear a mask and do distancing. It’ll save jobs, hospitals and lives. Alternatively get ready for another lockdown.
#r4today
#NewVariant
#Delta
A reminder to BBC News and politics programmes. This is what proper journalism and proper scrutiny looks like. Why don’t you hold Johnson’s government to account like this?
#bbcaq
#r4today
NEW: 🚨Femi Fact Checks PMQs🚨
Did you see Boris Johnson at today’s PMQs? Well, here he is again, this time with added FACTS.
A masterclass in debunking from the brilliant
@Femi_Sorry
for
@allthecitizens
@BethRigby
To be honest I thought the Cameron story was only there to deflect from Cronyism, Northern Ireland, Arcuri, Brexit and a whole load of other Johnson-made disasters.
“Dec 3, Mr Williamson urged people to take the “responsible approach” of following social distancing & self-isolation rules to avoid a new surge in cases & tougher restrictions being imposed”.Dec10th he threw a party.
#Newsnight
#r4today
#WhoWasAtTheParty
@BethRigby
@ShonaSomerville
@meg_matt1998
@tsueyek
There’s something about UK media that adores Farage & the far-right in a way they never did with the far-left. You all happily fawn over their extremism and popularise fascism as something to behold rather than condemn.
Just a reminder that this Conservative Government awarded a £198 million contract to supply laptops for pupils to a firm founded by Tory donor Sir Phillip Hulme.
Sir Phillip's wife gave the Tories £100,000 before the 2019 election.
This crisis has been good for some.
“It is estimated the £2.8bn cost of the unusable equipment equates to around 20% of total spending on PPE by the Treasury.”
#r4today
#bbcaq
#NHS
‘Staggering cost of VIP sleaze’: PPE worth £2.8bn not fit for purpose ?
@KayBurley
160,000 deaths and public money gifted to Tory friends & family for a PPE feast. And a media who mostly ignored Tory corruption. It is more than a tragedy and in so many ways.
#kayburley
#r4today
@BBCNews
BBC barely mentioned Islamophobia during the General Election. And everyone knew it was rife in Conservative Party. BBC still didn’t acknowledge it.
@thehill
I don’t know why they’re so offended by gay marriage or any other Kind of marriage. Who cares and what difference does it make to anyone who marries who? The can’t cope with different people.
BBC conflicted between support for Johnson or helping to knife him and getting Gove in as unelected replacement. Head of BBC & Laura talking it through with Murdoch on the phone now. Expect updates soon.
#r4today
@USAmbUK
Ring out Big Ben. Here comes the sell off of the NHS, chlorine washed chicken, hormone injected beef & a whole new set of infections. A very sad & dangerous time and it isn’t Project Fear. It’s
#BrexitReality
With same exposure BBC gave Farage, Green Party would have:
1) More public awareness of environ issues & green policies
2) More voters esp those concerned about climate
3) Got major parties to be more pro-environment
4) Won more seats in recent election.
#newsnight
#r4today
Contrast this with Nick Robinson’s interview and understand what ‘holding government to account’ should actually look like.
#r4today
#bbcbreakfast
#bbcnews
Alastair Campbell - I reread operation yellowhammer.. this Is what It warned of.. disruption to channel crossings, delays for lorries, disruption to fuel supplies, electricity price rises, reduction in supplies of fresh food.. which of those has anything to do with brexit?
#GMB
We soon knew Johnson was willing to be flexible with law but until now we didn’t know the police were the same. In some senses this second discovery is even more frightening than the first.
#t4today
#bbcaq
#metpolice
The law says we are all equal. 'Great' and 'small' alike, subject to the same laws. That's what the law says - and the Police need to apply it. So we've sent them a letter telling them we will sue if they refuse to investigate the Downing Street parties.
Make of this what you will but Eton College has confined 50 students to their boarding houses this week, cancelled assemblies & chapel & instructed the entire school to wear masks & take daily lateral flow tests...
BREAKING 🔴 EXCLUSIVE: Friend of Matt Hancock Wins £14.4 Million PPE Contract
The firm is owned by the wife of a horse breeder who has donated thousands to the Health and Social Care Secretary, reports
@WritesBright
🔽
LOOK AT THIS: £40m in furlough funding given to a company with no staff.
Will there be a BBC Documentary on Tory sleaze and corruption?
#r4today
#bbcbreakfast
#Lab21
FT investigation: A group of companies set up by an obscure entrepreneur received as much as £40m in furlough cash in a single month this year, despite little public evidence that the businesses have any staff.
Owen Paterson was found guilty of corruption by two Parliamentary authorities. It’s not ‘mismanagement’ and it’s not a ‘row.’ It’s corruption.
#r4today
“A coronavirus wave going through a partially vaccinated population is the peak mutation risk for a new, vaccine-resistant variant. If that happens and spreads internationally, it is essentially the nightmare scenario.”
#r4today
EXCLUSIVE: Video obtained by ITV News shows Downing Street staff joking about a Christmas party on 18th December last year.
No 10 has spent the past week denying any rules were broken. This new evidence calls that into question.
@PippaCrerar
I believe there were about 24 parties and events during lockdown. Probably more. If we can’t trust Conservatives under a national emergency how can we trust them at any other time?
#bbcpm
#partygate
We’re running an MP briefing on Thursday about NHS privatisation🚨, and 90 MPs have confirmed their attendance. This is unbelievable; 14% of elected UK politicians will be in attendance😮
Please help build our reach; can
@EveryDoctorUK
hit 65k followers today?💙pls RT+follow🤞
If you’re sending email invites to 100 people to come to No 10 Downing Street during a lockdown, it’s hard to imagine those at the very top weren’t involved. It’s time for the BBC to stop protecting them & side with Britain rather than these Tory traitors.
#r4today
@SkyNews
Johnson stood accused of disregarding the deaths of people over 80. His response was to discuss vaccines. For those 83,000 people its too late to be vaccinated. They're dead!
#PMQs
#wato
It would take about 2 months of same restrictions to potentially get everyone vaccinated. That would be the time to ease restrictions with everyone protected. Why can't we wait that long for the NHS and everyone's safety?
#bbcaq
@BBCBreaking
Wasn’t this where police used tear gas and rubber bullets on BLM protestors? I think it was. Why do they let Trumps terrorists get away with it?
Bringing in the army is just more nationalism. Like sending a warship to the channel etc. Johnson is using one national crisis to hide the effects of another - Brexit.
#r4today
@PippaCrerar
This is my new garden office where I work very flexibly & very happily from home. I know many others doing the same. We’ve all finished going to offices apart from 2-3 times a year.
#wfh
Tories had 40.6% majority in North Shropshire at the last election. It was a big Leave voting constituency. Last night there was a 34.2% swing from Tories to LibDem.
All of this proves that Santa is real and he can do magic?
#r4today
#ByeByeBoris
@peterjukes
@carolecadwalla
Carole’s work sits there in a parallel world and it’s heroic but yet so often hidden. Thank goodness for journalists like her who probably face awful hostility along the way.
#respect
@Peston
@trussliz
Did you ask Liz Truss about this?
“Govt awarded PPE contract worth £252 million to Ayanda Capital Limited, a ‘family office’ owned through a tax haven in Mauritius, with connections to Liz Truss..largest PPE contract we have seen to date.”
#CPC21
#r4today
@SkyNews
The government has politicised schools. What happens if someone doesn’t want to sing “One Britain”? Will they be called unpatriotic? It’s McCarthyism and deeply wrong.
#r4today
Case leading the inquiry into Downing Street Christmas Party. The night before he held one himself.
“event described as “a piss-up”, also allegedly featured snacks & Christmas decorations…listed in invitations..as “Christmas party!”
#bbcpm
#bbcaq
@Peston
Why is UK media in such a coordinated persistent attack on Labour but had no will to do same to Tories in their 14 yrs? It’s like the whole media are drilling it. So who are they serving? Is it Tories? No they’re a basket case. It can only Murdoch or Farage. Which is it?
#r4today
We left the EU so we could strike a deal which is the same as the one we had with the EU. We took back control so we could decide to carry on being the same as before. And how much has all this cost again?
#r4today
#brexit
@AdamBienkov
The whole Level 4 thing is a meaningless publicity stunt to deflect attention from his bad behaviour. At the same time the most infectious virus goes unchecked in the background.
Tomorrow new Brexit rules are introduced. The BBC 6pm news on Radio 4 spent 2-3 mins reporting it without one mention of the word Brexit. There was no explanation of why changes were happening at all. What is going on with the BBC News?
#bbcaq
#r4today
@Telegraph
More implicit racism from the Telegraph. Isn’t it time to look at yourselves and ask: ‘Weren’t we once a respected newspaper’? and ‘what happened to change that’?
A victory for honesty and decency in politics. A Labour victory. I’m just so pleased the BBC will have to rearrange its ‘red-wall’ vox-pops it had lined up to gloat over a Labour loss.
#r4today
#BatleyAndSpen
#Labour