1/n Hi
@Mara_yamauchi
, firstly, to be clear at the outset I fully support the new
@worldathletics
Transgender and DSD Regs. So we agree on what I thought was the main issue you are campaigning on i.e. protection of the women's sport category. I hope other sports follow suit.
@eoine_oc
you are right that UKAโs transitional arrangements allowed males already entered in the F category before 31 March to compete. But nevertheless, THOUSANDs of females suffered unfair competition, & worse finish positions bc of this male. And you tell
@FemaleRunner
she &
@piersmorgan
But your behaviour has been diabolical Piers. Obsessed, unrelenting, mean, cruel and vindictive. Hopefully when you walked away you took the chance to reflect and this unseemly vendetta you've pursued will end.
@DaveJH2
@IsabelOakeshott
@neetneet4710
Or it might mean the public were lied to by a load of opportunistic and populist politicians. "Have our cake and eat it". "Easiest trade deal in history". "ยฃ350M pw for the NHS". "Taking back control" (which was always illusory anyway).
@Anna_Soubry
@piersmorgan
Hmmmm, the palace releasing statements on bullying by Meghan and "dignity at work policies", but nothing on Prince Andrew and FBI child sex trafficking allegations and the "dignity" of Virginia Roberts? C'mon. Total PR own goal from
@RoyalFamily
Why do the
@RoyalFamily
do any charity work whatsoever so? I hope
@toryboypierce
remembers it the next time a member of the
@RoyalFamily
pitch up at a charity even in a Bentley, Rolls Royce or the Queen goes to a charity gala wearing a diamond brooch.
@mulcs85
@montie
Don't know why so much fire reserved for Starmer on timing etc. He's not PM. The resp for resolving this urgent crisis isn't his. If you're concerned about slow response to the crisis why aren't you commenting on Johnson, Truss, Sunak, who between them still don't have a plan?
You see, the problem is that while Putin is a despot, Johnson is a pathological liar. Even on a quote of this importance, he adds "or something like that". Just go away Boris.
#BorisTheLiar
Boris Johnson says Putin threatened him with missile strike
@IsabelOakeshott
Isabel, what is wrong with handing this back to the ppl for a final say on what the deal on offer actually is. What on earth is anti democratic about that?
@ziddy7
@IsabelOakeshott
Ummm. Ppl were promised the "easiest trade deal in history" by our former Brexit secretary before the referendum. What happened to that?
@mattzarb
@dewordepolitics
@OwenJones84
It will stain Labour (whose anti austerity plat gets blown out of the water by Brexit) when the public realise Corbyn did nothing to stop it
@allisonpearson
Why don't you tweet something constructive then, like encouraging young people to follow the guidance on self isolation for the good of all and to prevent unnecessary deaths from
#coronavirusuk
, rather than emphasising that the dead are overwhelmingly older?
@JohnBoyneBooks
@solange_lebourg
John, you are obviously spending waaaaaayyyyyy too much time on twitter if you've "never seen as much homophobia as there is right now". Presumably, you mean on twitter? Coz in the real world, off twitter, luckily I haven't encountered homophobia in a very long time.
@caitlinmoran
And rightly so. The whole situation is pathetic, especially since the BBC Chair arranged an ยฃ800k loan for the former Prime Minister, right at the time the PM was appointing him. Yet, the BBC chair hasn't had to step back for impartiality reasons! Weird that, isn't it?
@Haggis_UK
Jesus Christ! It just gets worse for them ๐. Why can't they just apologise, learn from it and move on? ๐คท I suppose the answer is if they did that there'd be no more culture wars, and what would the Conservatives have left then?
@Scotty2906
@NickBoles
He was supposed to stay at home. Instead he travelled across London twice whilst infected. Then took his whole family to Durham where they ended up in an NHS hospital spreading Covid-19, precisely the reason they were told to stay at home. He broke the rules.
@BorisJohnson
This is a Joke, right? This PM is mocking the British public. Who the hell does he think he is? Less than 3 hours after having 3 senior ministers tweet in support of
#Sackcummings
who did exactly the opposite of this and who he is defending and trying to save.
#Hyprocrisy
@ProfBrianCox
@JFCWindmill
Brexit was always a fraud because the deregulation aspect was never articulated honestly by Brexiteers. Deregulation was never mandated and as a result Brexit was always doomed to failure, and everyone who voted for it was told this. Over and over again.
@allisonpearson
Overwhelmingly it does not, agreed, but there are still younger people being hospitalised and dying. The CDC in the US reported that around 40% of the first 2500 hospitalisations in the US were 20-54 year olds.
@UK_Centrist
@johnredwood
Not only that but UK has picked silly, petty and insulting fights with the EU, e.g. refusing to recognise diplomats in London, blaming EU for shellfish ban, blaming EU for visa requirements for musicians.
@BBCPolitics
This is what
@UKLabour
need to do between now and the next election. Highlight the duplicity, the lying, the flipflopping and u-turning and most importantly, the ineffectiveness of this useless government. The public are sick of this nonsense.
@KirstieMAllsopp
You've having the Twitter induction into the discussion of trans issues. Not for the faint hearted ๐. You're abs right tho, ppl shouldn't be afraid to speak up. On either side. Everyone should double their efforts to be as respectfull as possible (not always easy I know)
@mara_yamauchi
@delaneyplanet
Mara, if the event is a UK Athletics event it complies with World Athletics transgender regulations. You know this. Competitive Athletics in the UK is protected. Stop pretending it isn't. We're talking about Park Run here. An inclusive community mass participation timed run.
Absolutely astonishing tweet from
@JohnBoyneBooks
. He doesn't see trans ppl as a vulnerable group. However, he generalises about all trans ppl and fears violence and abuse by them against gay men, lesbians, women & children on a daily basis. A simply bonkers position to take.
@DAaronovitch
Contrast it with the stories on the front pages of the other papers highlighting the Acruri investigation. Named sources. Multiple other sources. Facts. This govt is doing nothing... literally nothing except creating smokescreens to get away with what it's trying to do.
@hawkins_carole
@mrjamesob
He's actually quite thick! That's one myth that's been busted by this debacle. I'd say he's on the Steve Bannon level of smartness which is pretty low.
Sunak couldn't have been clearer. But the Tory membership didn't want to know. Sunak said deal with inflation first. Then address growth/productivity. Truss told him he wasn't brave enough.
#rishisunak
Liz Truss can't say she wasn't warned that her plan was a fairy tale.
Rishi Sunak(former Chancellor) - "We have to be honest. Borrowing your way out of inflation isn't a plan - it's a fairy tale."
@thisisasimon
@sturdyAlex
It's a complete disaster. It's rebounded spectacularly on them largely because Andrew's lack of co-operation with the FBI Epstein investigation means the palace are in no position to talk sanctimoniously about "investigations" and "dignity at work policies". It's nauseating.
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@simon_schama
@campbellclaret
Same issue at Sofia airport in August... but because I'm an EU citizen I got to skip the queue. Had a lovely coffee waiting for my partner (travelling on British passport) to come through. Brexit = pointless act of self harm.
@allisonpearson
The more people that get it the more people will be hospitalised. The more hospitalised, the more vulnerable are our medical workers. Medical workers more likely to die due to additional viral load.
And it turns out that
@SteveBakerHW
who describes this legislation as a farce, goes in and votes for it. What a hypocrite. Tweet it's a farce and vote against it. Don't tweet it's a farce and vote for it.
#ParliamentFarce
@truemagic68
Great question, but while we're at it what has Prince William achieved to be in there? Why is he such a revered icon and wouldn't it be nice if his seat went to care workers / unsung national heroes etc.
@hal64738
@BrexitBin
Spot on. It's really noticeable. From 48 secs onwards he's totally changed. He hasn't a clue how farmers will be helped. Why? Because they won't be.
@Martina
@mara_yamauchi
@Nike
find women to sell sports bras all the time. โฌ๏ธ They found one trans woman to sell a sports bra through their own tik tok channel. One ad. The real issue about sports sponsorship is why 98% of all sports sponsorship still goes to men. But yes, blame the trans woman
I just don't believe Paddy Jackson and his mates. You get a text from a girl saying she was raped and you never mention it to your friends? To me the story told by the four rugby men are inconsistent and implausible. Obvs I'm not in the court room so will have to trust the jury.
@DAaronovitch
The reverse spinning on this today is something to behold. In this warped Tory reality we're living in it turns out that the bullied are no longer the victims of bullying. Bullies are now the victims of Bullying. ๐
@neilmunro49
@Andrew_Adonis
Wrong. They know they show how Brit politicians view Ireland. They know that British politicians (Tories in particular) will throw Ireland under a bus if it suits them. It's exactly why Ireland has been so steadfast in its demands that Brexit does not undermine Irls EU membership
At least Allegra Stratton offers profound, unreserved apologies and seems contrite. Yet
@BorisJohnson
can't get the ppl at his home to tell him the truth, and then brazenly accuses
@Keir_Starmer
of undermining the public health message. What a hypocrite.
#PMQs
#allegrastratton
@jonsopel
@jjswin
Raab will make awful mistake if he does. What little credibility he has left from the positions he held in his political career will be shot if he goes to
@GBNEWS
. He'll go from being Rishi Sunak's deputy, a peer of Jeremy Hunt, to being a colleague of D Grimes and D Wooton
@StuartBudd1
@Peston
Is this not a criminal matter. Can the person who saw him in Castle Barnard not make a police complaint and have them investigate it? This should resolve what happened / did not happen fairly quickly.
@RobinShipston
@itvpeston
@Peston
@pritipatel
@BorisJohnson
Granted, but what about the times *she* was harassing her own colleagues? She shouldn't tolerate sexist harassment, but she has been more than happy to harass underlings with torrents of abuse which cost the victims untold pain and the tax payer hundreds of thousands of pounds.
Agreed. Personally, spent ten days of Xmas without my partner after
@BorisJohnson
cancelled it and I couldn't leave London. So many ppl had it worse, losing loved ones. The stench is made worse by the PM and his cronies lying about this for the last week.
#Disgusting
People across the country followed the rules, even when that meant being separated from loved ones.
They had a right to expect the government was doing the same.
To lie and to laugh about those lies is shameful.
We have a Prime Minister whoโs socially distanced from the truth.
@mulcs85
@montie
They haven't though. Starmer ahead of the curve throughout on this. Windfall Tax in Jan. Insulation plan last year. Got his team working on this plan over the last two months. A large part of the mess this country is in is due to back of fag packet policy making.
@mara_yamauchi
Basically what you are saying is you're happy to be transphobic and are going to continue to be transphobic and don't care. Fine Mara, but take the heat for being transphobic. And again this is not a criticism of the substance of your campaign / argument.
@afneil
Being woke is not synonymous with cancel culture. Why are you conflating the two, basically weaponising 'woke' ness, which as you point is essentially a positive thing.
@Kellgardner
@des_childs
I have read it again. Show me where the guidance allowed him to travel 250 miles while infectious with
#COVID
ใผ19 for childcare?
Here are the relevant bits I'm reading.
Quote the relevant bit back to me which allowed
#cummingsgoings
to do what he did?
Clear, comprehensive, fully costed plan for how to handle the energy crisis now and importantly into the future.
@UKLabour
,
@Keir_Starmer
&
@RachelReevesMP
ready for government. Captain foresight. Tory govt rudderless. Out of ideas. MIA.
@David_Marcer
@RobDotHutton
It's astonishing that that was allowed to stand. These Tories are truth twisters. Liars. One of the huge problems they have, because ultimately the reason Johnson went as PM was the public were sick of his lies. Now, let's look at the last 7 days. What's changed?
@jazzaoxon
@ladyjacq66
It's emotional. It's symbolic. It's irrational... And almost certainly not the biggest issue on the table. The real stumbling blocks are level playing field and oversight.
@malcognito
@hugorifkind
But there is lying and then there is lying. Yesterday's sound bite from the PM just takes things a step too far imo. Passing it off as being about more police, better education, more money for "our brilliant" NHS is too much. Ppl are not that stupid.
@DAaronovitch
Including the ยฃ13bn NHS funding announcement. From a govt which for 9 years hasn't been able to find funds for anything let alone the NHS, it's nothing more than a stunt to bribe the electorate.
This man is an absolute idiot. I left my job of 18 years in the middle of the pandemic. Did i get to say goodbye to valued colleagues? No. Because it was not essential to work in the context of the pandemic. Boris Johnson was and is an arrogant, entitled clown.
#NotMovingOn
The PM says some events identified in Sue Gray's report were held for the purpose of "saying goodbye to valued colleagues".
He adds that "some people will think it was wrong even to do that" but "I respectfully disagree."
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@mulcs85
@montie
Now we have a serious, organised, well lead opposition with a credible PM in waiting but people are still complaining about it. It's unbelievable.
@CliveWismayer
@wblau
@Selisia
One can be passed off as desperation to save lives. "We've done what we had to do". The other can't be. That's why the flat matters. It gets to the heart of how dishonest, wasteful, entitled and venal
@BorisJohnson
is.
@BBCPolitics
Here are the four current holders of the great offices of state. And
@SuellaBraverman
tells us that multiculturalism in the UK has failed? ๐ค
@MeghanMcCain
I still can't believe he was elected. Someone with no experience, and was clearly completely unsuited temperamentally for that job. But yet the Republican party and the US public went for it. Terrifying. And the four years were terrifying too.
@Keir_Starmer
Keir, you and other
@UKLabour
moderates like
@JanetDaby
will have to act at the end of Feb if no meaningful moves from
@jeremycorbyn
to stop a no deal Brexit. That includes abandoning Labour if Labour not prepared to act in the National interest.
@mara_yamauchi
Mara just wants to transphobically dictate how trans ppl must be misgendered in order to run in mass participation running events. Completely ignores the barriers to inclusion for trans and non binary people in sport. Why? Because she is transphobic.
@butwhatifitsall
@heyoubeautiful_
It's not hating on Kate at all. It's just asking would Meghan have recv'd the same resp if it had been her? Almost certainly not imo. Plus Kate didn't wear a mask. Yet she wore a mask outdoors at a school on Wed. Clearly she wanted to be seen, which is fine, but own it.
@NelsonAlmUK
@montie
Keep ranting and raving. No politician has a magic wand. What we need is clear, comprehensive, costed plans to address the challenges. Nothing from Tories, but Labour's plan addresses all this; energy costs now, how it is funded, and addresses demand for the future.
@sturdyAlex
@fascinatorfun
@SophyRidgeSky
That's your take. It's not mine. She missreprented him. Spoke over him. Had her time. Didn't want to let him speak. It was a panel discussion Alex, both had a right to speak. Both condemned clearly Hammas. No idea what you're issue is.
@OwenJones84
And we are nowhere near ready for that. As these charts show new daily infections should be clearly falling before we raise lockdown/relax the message. We'll be in lockdown again before too long.
@RapidLightnings
@ESCdiscord
The juries are out of touch with what the public like and that's a major problem. It's not just a case of get over it. Either you get rid of the juries, or you keep them and ask what needs to change so the juries reflect what is popular music better.