Letter to my MP.
Dear Chris Grayling,
If I were to stop 1000 people in Epsom High Street and ask them if they were in favour of dumping raw untreated sewage into UK rivers, I would expect 100% to say NO. Please can you explain then, why you voted YES?
I’ll post his response.
I’m 66 in January and this is my mum. She’s not far off ninety! I wish I looked half as good as she does. If you give her a shout out, it will make her day.
Kathy Newman C4News - “British Berries say there are £36m worth of British Berries unpicked because they can’t get the workers and a farmer in Kent had to let £75,000 worth of onions rot in the field. That’s a self inflicted problem isn’t it?
George Eustace - “No it’s not”.
Please can a “techy” explain why it is possible to retrieve phone calls from 2013 that provide evidence to the Post Office shenanigans, but they can’t find the WhatsApp messages on Johnson’s and Sunak’s phones?
Cast your mind back to the run up to last Christmas. Remember all those European drivers who were kept here in their cabs without food, water or toilets by the UK authorities. Some never made it home for Christmas. If you were one of those drivers, would you be rushing back here?
I will be 69 this month. I grew up with real pride in my country. We won the World Cup, we had The Beatles and The Stones, Henry Cooper, Tommy Cooper, The NHS, free school milk, we made things, like Concorde and we bought our council house. It was good. Now it’s shit. Why?
Isn’t it strange how the most ardent patriotic flag shaggers are the most likeliest to not pay their taxes. They’re all chancers and barrow boys. Effectively stealing from schools and hospitals.
New Zealand locked down in March 2019, set up a 4 stage system and started at level 4. Businesses & schools closed, airports/ports effectively controlled. People stayed home. 5 weeks later, dropped to level 3 and continued to fall. Now clear of Covid. Why didn’t we do that?
It’s a small world. Charlie Elphicke’s sister is married to Mark Field, yes, he who grabbed the protester by the neck, and whose first wife left him after she discovered he was having a bit of extra curricular with..., Liz Truss MP. It’s like a soap isn’t it?
Neil Parish MP watched porn in the House of Commons. He owned up to it and eventually did the honourable thing and resigned. It was bad but not as bad as sending the contact details of 10 of your mates to a blackmailer though.
William Wragg must resign.
I see Charlotte Owen is trending again. There is a major public interest in her and her back story which seems to have been subject to some kind of media blackout. Is she Johnson's daughter or not? We need to know.
Angela Rayner has played a blinder. She says she will step down if she is found to have committed a criminal offence. She knows she hasn’t and there will be no case to answer but it makes it very difficult for the next Tory MP not to follow suit when accused of an offence.
I’m currently tweeting from my bed in The Royal Marsden Hospital having undergone a similar procedure to Charlie Boy. I very much doubt that he had better treatment and care than I. Everything here is gold standard. So proud of our NHS. Pay ‘em the money Sunak you bastard!
Can someone please explain, if we have energy price rises of 50%, NI hike of 10%, predicted 7% inflation etc, how come we’re skint now and likely to get skinter, and all the other countries are doing so much better than us, how can we be the fastest growing economy in the G7?
I feel sorry for The Labour Party. Taking on this country now will be like getting your car back after it had been stolen by kids and completely wrecked and torched.
Where would you start?
When you mention to a Tory, that their Track and Trace System cost £37b, and the German system which actually worked, cost a little over £1b what do they say?
If a policeman beats an innocent child with a baton more than 30 times, and is sacked for it, shouldn’t he also be charged with assault and face criminal charges?
@carolecadwalla
Please can someone tweet the names of the insurance companies that are owned by Arron Banks. I want to make sure I don’t give him any business.
I recall an organisation from years back named Remploy. The name came from Re employ and they employed many disabled people to help manufacture items of furniture etc. This gave employment to many who would struggle finding work elsewhere. Whatever happened to them?
Why do you think, people who had barely heard of the EU, never voted for an MEP let alone knew who their MEP was, and didn’t understand what the EU does, suddenly became vociferous anti EU and couldn’t wait to leave, even though they had no idea why, and still don’t?
I don’t get it. Just because Doris is filmed dressed in high viz on a building site, or he’s pictured holding up a haddock in some far flung fish market, am I supposed to think he’s a really good guy and get behind him. Not working for me. You?
Did Nicola Sturgeon go up in your estimation after accepting blame over the Scottish A Level fiasco? She did in mine. Accepting responsibility shows leadership and strength, something woefully lacking in the Tory Party.
#CovidInquiry
Just one last question sir. See, it’s the phone thing. It’s bothering my wife and most of the UK voting public…
Sorry to ask again, but why didn’t you ask someone to retrieve your messages? After all, you knew they would be needed for the enquiry?
There’s more to this Honey Trap Story than meets the eye. Some of those 10 people, who include ministers and whose numbers were handed over by William Wragg, also then sent explicit pictures to Charlie. “Some” implies two or more! What’s going on?
In the few days that Liz Truss and Kwasi Kwarteng had their hands on our economy they managed to blow a £74billion hole in it. That’s some hole. Yet it’s hardly ever mentioned as a reason for our economic demise. It’s always COVID, The Ukrainian War and energy costs. Why is that?
Raab stressing the US is still our closest ally, but many would question that. It’s also clear that since Brexit, we don’t have a “special relationship” with the EU either or even Scotland, or Northern Ireland. So which country is our “best friend” now?
When Laura Kuenssberg and Fiona Bruce blatantly nail their political colours to the mast from their BBC programmes hardly a ripple but if Gary Lineker comments on Twitter, the right wing press go into melt down.
We see you. We’re not fools.
If leaving the EU with or without a deal sees the country prosper and grow, us remainers will hold our hands up and say, “wow, looks like we were wrong, this is really good”.
But if it turns out to be utter pig’s swill, what will the leavers say?
Forget Brexit. The outcome is immaterial. What Brexit demonstrated is that the direction and will of a nation can be planned and controlled by just a few individuals. Democracy was intended to prevent just that, and now, after Brexit, even democracy looks finished. What next?
Has anyone ever replied to a tweet from an MP of any party and received an answer or even an acknowledgment? They all seem keen to tweet opinions etc, but not so keen to engage with the likes of us.
My advice is, don’t bother. They never read them anyway.
“As the virus spread into Europe an alert prime minister would have taken immediate charge, turbocharging preparations. Instead, he vanished from public view for 12 days, most of it spent on a private holiday with his pregnant fiancée at a palatial country house” Jenni Russell
Someone at
@bbcquestiontime
is in for an arse kicking for booking Victor Adebowale last night. They won’t make that mistake again, but I strongly suspect
@mrjamesob
will be looking in his diary and thinking about a Full Disclosure interview. Get it booked James.
I’m sure he would have “got off” with a warning, we don’t send criminals to Australia nowadays, but what concerned me was the complete apathy from the crowd. I guess homelessness is so common place now, we can’t see it for what it is.
Brexit has dominated our lives since 2015. Most people are totally sick of it. With or without a deal, it won’t stop. It will go on and on for years. Meanwhile, the country is in freefall. The pound is plummeting, things are getting worse by the day. We need to revoke don’t we.
A homeless man in my local mini supermarket, was arrested and taken away by the police for stealing a packet of Bakewell Tarts. The crowd cheered the police as they put him in the back if the car.
If my daughter bought home a guy who had fathered several illegitimate kids, got a man beaten up as a favour to a friend, cheated on his wife, was sacked twice for lying, lied to the queen & illegally prorogued parliament, I wouldn’t have him in the house let alone vote for him.
Sunak has a problem. Does he call an early election to deny Galloway sufficient time to recruit and put up candidates, or does he delay as long as possible hoping that Galloway proves to be a flash in the pan? Tories are going to lose anyway, so best to go ASAP I reckon. You?
My sister is a proud Tory, a Daily Mail reader and a Brexiter. She told me she doesn’t believe in giving aid to other countries as their govts are all corrupt. Oh the irony!
I have no will or strength to argue anymore.
Are you one of the people who watched CH4 News last night horrified at how the American Election had been subverted by mis-information and subliminal messaging by Cambridge Analytical, and yet voted for Brexit believing that you haven’t been subverted by Cambridge Analytical?
@MartinDaubney
You were moaning ever since we entered the Common Market in 1973 and you’re still moaning now that we’ve left. As for losing, yes we don’t like it, so we’ll pick ourselves up, dust ourselves down and campaign to rejoin and we will rejoin and then you’ll moan about that!
Let’s face it. People only give donations to political parties because they expect to get something in return. What would Frank Hester expect for his £10million?
“ I don’t listen to James O’Brien. He’s too left wing for me”.
This from a guy who worked all his life for the minimum wage, voted for Brexit and for Doris and doesn’t even own the dirt under his fingernails.
@mrjamesob
@mafevema
@shaunwalker7
What’s more surprising is that many who voted for Brexit accept that the Russian people have been brainwashed but can’t imagine that’s exactly why they voted for Brexit. Hardly any even now, know what the single market and customs union is and can’t explain the Irish Protocol.
I don’t understand how 17.4m gullible people fell for the lie written on the side of a bus but the same gullible people don’t believe a word written by the county’s top financial advisers in Yellowhammer?
@johnredwood
Which particular EU law didn’t you like? Is the the one where MPs have to declare their offshore accounts or the ones that determine our food and environmental standards?
@THEJamesWhale
We also had polio, diphtheria, small pox, scarlet fever, rickets, bed bugs and fleas. We used to empty our chamber pots into the street and hang people for stealing a loaf of bread. Oh the good old days. Where did they go?
Track and trace is essential to beating this virus. You know it, I know it, and many other countries are already doing it but if you don’t trust our government to use your data responsibly, you won’t download it. I don’t trust our government. Do you?
If an MP no longer wishes to be a member of the party to which he or she was elected, it is only right and proper to call a by election. What is there to prevent MPs from any party planning to defect en masse the minute they get elected? That’s not democracy.
@LeeAndersonMP_
So according to the Panorama Documentary, the Brexit Party received a £10 million pound gift from a Russian oligarch.
Why, an why did Frogface keep quiet about it?
There’s no smoke without fire. Curling plumes of smoke are rising from Sunak like a slice of Mother’s Pride on high setting. He’s toast. They’re looking for a new leader, again. Look at this face.., again. We’re going to see a lot more of her in the coming weeks I reckon.
Who among us thinks it unfair and unjust, that the Govt was elected with an 80 seat majority by just 43% of the population, and that hardly anyone in Scotland or Northern Ireland voted for them? It’s not right, is it?
#BREATHTAKING
I think this series is going to be as powerful and damning for the government as Mr Bates Versus The Post Office. Expect a media explosion tomorrow.
Chris Grayling actually didn’t cast a vote (my bad) so I apologised and asked him why not. In my view, on such an important vote, an abstention is as bad as a ‘YES’. It may well be that he was unable to vote for a perfectly sound reason. We shall see. But Most tories voted YES.
We were told Article 50 wouldn’t be triggered until after we had secured a deal. That was sensible but they lied. It was triggered. So isn’t the only practical solution now, to extend the transition and put it all back to the people.
Crash out versus Remain.
Yes/No?
Jacob Rees Mogg writes…,
“Now that the UK has regained its independence, we have a fantastic opportunity to do away with outdated and burdensome EU laws, and to bring forward our own regulations that are tailor-made to our country’s needs”.
Does that worry you?
It should.
There’s a small but powerful clique operating at the highest levels of government. Their purpose is not traditional tory party politics, but Brexit and the personal wealth it will bring. They’ve played us like a one string fiddle.
@zatzi
Let’s see if i’ve got this right then: You said we have to leave the EU to get our sovereignty back, but this ruling and earlier rulings prove without doubt that we are and have always been sovereign. So now your going after the judges. What is it you actually want?
@JamesCleverly
Wrong use of “Braking”. Braking is something you found difficult to do when using your mobile phone whilst driving. You should check the difference too between lying, as in lying to the police after a car accident and lying in bed. Tricky isn’t it!
@AndyGJBurge
They talk about the war years as if everyone was looking out for everyone else, and you could safely leave your doors unlocked. The evidence doesn’t support it. There was a thriving black market and the rate of hangings went up during that period.
Health Minister Helen Whately appears on Newsnight to say that the NHS has adequate supplies of Personal Protective Equipment to keep staff safe, only to be followed later by an NHS doctor saying there was not enough PPE and staff are seriously at risk. Who to believe?
Had Doris not spaffed £50 million on a garden bridge we didn’t get, we could have fed our school children over the summer. What happened to the £50 million?
I'm what they call "politically homeless". When I cast my vote my cross will go to the party I despise least, and not for a party whose policies I support, and whose leaders I can trust to deliver them. Does anyone else feel the same way?
So there we were, before June 2016, 5th biggest economy, peace in Ireland, peace in England. Happy days. Few knew of or talked of a customs union or single market or leaving the EU. And now, seemingly overnight, so much hatred, so much division, so much pain. Was it worth it?
Rory Stewart (Independent MP) is known as a centralist, a moderate. He’s disillusioned with the Tory Party and is now considering joining the Labour Party. Is that a sign of how far the Tories have moved to the right, or how far Labour has moved from the left?
Apparently the Govt are considering buying the entire UK market of lambs for £500m because farmers won’t be able to sell them if we don’t get a deal. The problem is, they can’t slaughter and freeze the meat because the freezers are already full. Who voted for that?
@JamesCleverly
He’s not being racist, he’s asking a question? By the way, how’s the investigation into Islamaphobia within the Tory party going? Has it even started yet? And why did Baroness Warsi step down?
Richard Tice along with other Brexiters stating that the US is our most important trading partner, despite the fact that we do 50% of our trade with the EU and 25% with the US.