I've just seen a TV ad for 'affordable' private health care: £15.50 per person, per month. That's £62 a month for a family of four. This is what we'll all be facing if we don't get the Tories out and protect the NHS.
I've visited 10 Downing Street. You have to have an invitation, sign in and be searched by armed police officers at the gate. So the fact that the
@metpoliceuk
don't know whether or not there was a party there last year is either a cover-up or gross ineptitude.
#WhoWasAtTheParty
Been watching
@BBCNews
for over 30 minutes now. They've talked about nothing but Huw Edwards. Not a word about Johnson's WhatsApp messages. This is scandalous. You should be ashamed BBC; you're no better than The Scum.
I'm a pensioner. The tax promises in the
#ToryManifesto
are good for me. But I still wouldn't vote for them while I have breath in my body because I don't only think of myself when I vote and they're two-faced, lying charlatans.
#GTTO
If you don't see the connection between Laurence Fox's remarks on
@GBNEWS
, Russell Brand's attitude towards women, Andrew Tate's vile misogyny and the tragic murder of a 15-year-old girl yesterday, you're not really paying attention.
I just want to say that I'm now in my 70th year and these people disgust me. Most of us aren't brain-dead fascists who are too thick to realise that Reform represents the values our parents fought against in WWII.
@GMB
@richardm56
Anyone else who does their job as badly as Madeley does, week in, week out, would have been sacked by now. He's supposed to be politically neutral but his dislike of Mick Lynch is palpable. Lynch on the other hand, was calm, sensible and, as always, impressive.
When a member of the Royal family with brown skin draws more criticism than a paedophile, you just know there's something very wrong with this country.
I've finally realised that the pro-Corbyn, anti-Starmer brigade want Labour to lose the GE next year, so that Starmer is thrown out and the party moves back to more radical socialist policies. That'll mean at least another 5 years of Tory rule. Is that a price worth paying?
Mike Dwan’s Academy Schools group was investigated by
#Panorama
▶️ Built a school for £22 Million but was paid £90 Million
▶️ One school building repair was billed at £566,000 but only cost £60,000
▶️ THERE ARE NO PROSECUTIONS and they’re still at it!
So is no mainstream news channel going to go anywhere near the
#BloJo
story? It may be a hard one to to take on but if Matt Hancock's snog in a cupboard made front page news, how can Johnson's BJ not even be investigated?
@BBCNews
@Channel4News
@SkyNews
@itn
@LeeAndersonMP_
Did you miss the part where your grandad was actually fighting to prevent people like you gaining power over the rest of us? Look up Kindertransport or maybe check out the history of the 65 million people displaced by WW2. In fact, just read a book, any book.
Awful imported American money-making/money-wasting traditions we could do without: Trick or Treat, school proms, baby showers, gender reveal parties. Any more?
I hope it's OK if i get my
#FollowBackFriday
tweet in early. Firstly because I'm going to be very busy tomorrow and second, because the
#BrexitShambles
seems to be getting worse by the minute. We need a strong EU group more than ever as
#Brexit
implodes. Please RT.
Nigel Farage had the worst voting record of any MEP when he represented UKIP at the EU. He rarely turned up for anything. If you live in
#Clacton
and you think you're any more to him than a stepping stone to power, you need to wake up before 4th July.
Imagine Farage is the only Reform MP elected. Do you think he's going to hang around, putting the hours in, in the hope of getting a question at PMQs every ten weeks or so? If you want rid of the Tories in Clacton vote Labour and get the job done properly.
@TitaniaMcGrath
The world's gone mad. I'm an atheist and I would no doubt disagree with everything that guy said but I would still stand up for his right to say it. We used to live in a democracy; an imperfect one by many standards but still a recognisable one. Not any more, I fear.
What sort of a country do we live in when the government thinks that threatening to remove benefits from the most vulnerable people in society is bound to be a vote winner?
Walked through Nottingham city centre yesterday to a Brazilian festival. So many languages being spoken, so many skin colours, such varied dress. Multi-cultural, cosmopolitan, bright, friendly; the best of Britain. Don't let Farage and Sunak take it away.
The Cleverly wife drugging joke is not going away. No one thinks it’s funny and it definitely wasn’t appropriate for a Home Secretary in charge of law and order. Parliament opens on 8/1/24. Keep this at the top of Twitter until then. He must not get away with it.
#CleverlyMustGo
@toryboypierce
It isn't just Labour attacking the appointment. Anyone with any sense of justice, humanity and propriety is too. Which is exactly why you aren't.
@LizKershawDJ
So what? Her husband could be wealthy or her parents. She might have inherited wealth or won the lottery. This comment is a snidey attempt to paint all nurses in a bad light. It's sad, pathetic and unjust. You should be ashamed.
Too soon for
#FollowBackFriday
? Sorry, but it feels too urgent to wait. It's not just about
#Brexit
now; the forces of darkness are closing in and we have to marshall the opposition. The Tories will destroy us unless we stand together. Onwards and upwards...
It's inconceivable that someone, somewhere hasn't been able to find out what Charlotte Owen actually did for Johnson to get herself made a life peer. Something is very, very wrong with this.
I've just signed the petition calling for an explanation as to why Charlotte Owen has been made a life peer in the House of Lords.
9410 people have already signed it. The target is 10,000 signatures.
If you agree, please sign and RT:
via
@UKChange
Badenoch is shaping up to be one of the Tories' most accomplished liars. Unlike Anderson, Gullis, Braverman, etc. she's much more articulate and subtle but she'll try to convince you day is night given half a chance.
#TrevorPhillips
: Do you feel ashamed that it took a TV drama to provoke action on the Sub-Postmasters?
Kemi Badenoch: "It wasn't TV that made this action happen..." 👀
#bbclaurak
Clarkson's misogyny being excused by right-wing journalists, Prince Andrew's protection by the establishment, Andrew Tate being allowed back on Twitter, Metropolitan Police turning a blind eye to rapists in their midst. Enablers allow violence against women to continue and grow.
I was intrigued by Ban Dr Shola Mos-Shogbamimu trending because I'd never heard of her. Having watched a few videos and researched her a bit now though, I quite like her. I'm assuming that the people who want to ban her are racists.
A few unanswered questions. Can anyone help: Why has no senior member of Post Office management been prosecuted yet over the Horizon scandal? Why is Charlotte Owen in the House of Lords? How does Sunak keep getting away with it? What's the point of Jonathan Gullis?
@johnredwood
No John. It's because she's guilty of multiple breaches of the ministerial code and has fascist tendencies where immigration is concerned.
I didn't see Susanna Reid interview Raab yesterday but I've seen two gammon accounts this morning referring to her as a 'stupid cow' and an 'arrogant bitch', which just goes to show that sexism still very much forms part of the far-right, Brexit nexus. It really is pernicious.
Anyone who knows anything about the National Conservatism Conference, knows that it's a gathering of extreme right-wingers (many would say, fascists), so the fact that Suella Braverman, Michael Gove & Lee Anderson are attending should tell you a lot.
This is amazing. Sunak is behaving like a schoolboy who's been told he can't go out to play. Bleating on and on with false statements about Labour's tax plans. He has nothing. He's done.
#LeadersDebate
So have I got this right.. the
@metpoliceuk
investigation into
#Partygate
is just starting, 10 days after the Gray report was published, and will involve emailing questionnaires to 50 people and asking them to be honest about if they attended or not? Seriously?
@danielmgmoylan
Clearly your idea of good journalism is to let Tory politicians avoid straight answers and to continually regurgitate government propaganda and pre-prepared sound bites. Eddie Mair did exactly what he was supposed to do here.
Remember when Gordon Brown was heard calling a member of the public a bigot? This is a similar moment for Sunak. This is how much respect he has for ordinary people.
Prickly Sunak meets member of public.
Patronises them, laughs at them, and then walks away halfway through encounter.
A genuine sign of contempt from PM towards ordinary voters.
The
#ReinstateBoris
petition has got just over 5000 supporters in a day. I recently signed a petition to stop the culling of badgers. It got more signatures in less time. Funny that.
Lord Soames (grandson of Winston Churchill) on BBC
#r4today
calling for a ceasefire in Gaza and condemning Braverman. What a very welcome surprise. Integrity from a Tory is so very rare right now.
@mikemoves12
Most of the people who go to Glastonbury are middle-class, and you're allowed to be a socialist and still earn a decent living from whatever job you do. You don't really understand much about politics or economics do you.
@HarissonEric7
@Patrici89225734
Good point. I haven't seen her interviewed by anyone yet. If only as the youngest peer ever created, she's newsworthy, so why hasn't anyone spoken to her?
@danielmgmoylan
@MatthewStadlen
@RussInCheshire
Nastiness and spite are things you'd know all about, employing them as you do, regularly, in your tweets. What Russ has written though, in contrast to most of what you write, is the truth.
@helen_spirit1
As we haven't had a Labour government for 12 years, that's about as crass a political comment as anyone could make. I'd be embarrassed if I was you. And just a tip: Saying something is a fact doesn't make it so unless it actually is, and this isn't.
Dacre and Watson being ennobled is the clearest message yet that our political system is corrupt and undemocratic. It's long past time for House of Lords reform; it needs to be abolished.
@justsophie_1
That's the whole point though isn't it? From what any of us know about her achievements, she doesn't deserve a peerage. You're absolutely right that the elevation of others to the HoL should be questioned too.
For all the people who are tweeting
#PritiPatelResign
, I'm with you 100% but let's not forget that whatever she's done over
#Ukraine
, it will have been with the full approval and backing of
#LiarJohnson
. They should both go.
The
@metpoliceuk
can't protect women on the streets of London from being sexually assaulted and murdered or kids from being stabbed but they can spare 5 or 6 officers to arrest this woman for telling the truth. What have we become?
#ThoughtPolice
Little Jewish woman opposing genocide is unmasked by the MetPolice as a little Jewish woman opposing genocide.
English police arrest daughter of holocaust survivors for protesting against mass slaughter.
Shit you can’t make up.
The terrorist attack on Pan Am flight 103 has been referred to as 'the Lockerbie Air Disaster' ever since it happened in 1988. But this year a motley collection of right-wing shills, Islamophobes and racists are using it to denigrate Humza Yousaf. Pathetic.
Did she actually refer to Britain as 'God's own country'? Which particular god would that be then Penny? ... considering the man you're fawning over is a Hindu.
Just been announced that
@Ofcom
has rejected Farage's complaints about this film. It was genuine. Reform has a deep vein of racism, homophobia and misogyny running through it.
1758 people retweeted this. That's 1758 people so stupid they don't realise that British history is, and has always been, taught in our schools. Presumably most of them only had a passing acquaintance with a classroom though.
@Bren4Bassetlaw
@supertanskiii
You're supposed to be an MP yet you behave like a spoiled 10-year-old bully. People like you, Anderson and Johnson are the reason the Tory party will be wiped out in the next general election. Never has unemployment been more richly deserved.
@darrengrimes_
That exactly what they sacrificed themselves for. Freedom. Freedom for anyone living here - even temporarily - to engage in legitimate, peaceful protest. Democracy that's limited only to people you approve of, isn't actually democracy at all.
@NileGardiner
@BorisJohnson
That you are so effusive about the possible return of a proven liar and cheat shows how desperate the Tories are and how totally without principle you are.
@RickGore10
So I've checked the whole of this comments thread and not come across a single Brexiteer who's enlightened us as to what we've actually gained from leaving the EU. Did I miss it? Please point it out if I did.
@_HenryBolton
@SimonCalder
They're managing their borders in a way that's appropriate to the relationship between the EU and a third country. That this is problematic is down to you and your Brexiter friends, not the French.
@DonnaPrissyrn1
@actcarbon2
@ShadowofEzra
And...? How do you think drugs and chemicals are developed and manufactured around the world? Every country has biotech and pharmaceutical companies. This sort of conspiracy is pathetic. If you support Russia, just say so.
@walrozt
That's all very well but I get my scientific information from my mate's brother's uncle who lives next door to a woman who works in the local chemist and she says the vaccine alters your DNA and you'll be speaking Chinese this time next year.
@toryboypierce
Why do people of colour bother you so much? Do you think they're less than white people, worse human beings? Why does it matter what colour their skin is? Could you be ever so slightly racist?
@SimonClarkeMP
That's not the point. Apart from it not being true (check out the UK deaths figures) it's irrelevant. The PM broke the law in office and misled Parliament. Whatever else he may have done or not done, that's a resigning matter.
I really have no issue with hounding Julia Hartley-Brewer off Twitter, off the radio, off the TV or off any other platform she tries to use to spew her hate-filled bile into the world. And the same goes for Piers Morgan, Andrew Tate, Nigel Farage and all of their acolytes.
@NileGardiner
No, we're not a disgrace. We're just ordinary people who have learned lessons from history and who know that the price of freedom is eternal vigilance. We won't sleepwalk into your right-wing, authoritarian paradise.
After 30p Lee Anderson had referred to refugees and asylum seekers as murderers and rapists in the HoC (and been supported by Cruella), I wrote to my MP to ask how many R & AS had been convicted of either offence. Two weeks ago. Still waiting for a reply.
The Tories think
#XmasPartyGate
will blow over in a few days and we'll all forget what two-faced, truth-twisting fuckwits they are. Do you think we will?
@KilclooneyJohn
I'll explain it in a way you might be able to understand. If I dig a 10m hole and fall into it, I'm 10m below ground. If I climb 5m, I'm 5m higher but still 5m below where I was before I dug the hole. Now do you get it?
@NixJPayne
You stayed at home during the Covid pandemic to protect yourself and others and to prevent the NHS being swamped. Those nurses were working to save lives... and dying, while you baked banana bread.
@KEdge23
No Kevin, it isn't 'the left'. It's some frustrated anti-Tory protestors. They're no more representative of everyone on the left of politics than Britain First members are of you and your right-wing colleagues.
Reluctantly, I'm beginning to agree with those who say there's little difference now between
@UKLabour
and the Tories. I'll vote tactically to get rid of this awful government but it's clear that
@TheGreenParty
or
@LibDems
are the radical parties.