Just a reminder that Boris Johnson is not just the Prime Minister of our country (even if you didn’t vote for him), he is also a father, a father to be, a fiancé and someone with family and friends. He’s a fellow human being and he is desperately ill. Just try to remember that.
Have you all lost your minds?
Have you all forgotten why Boris Johnson had to go? He locked us in our homes and bankrupted the economy while he and his staff partied away in No10 because they thought laws didn't apply to them. Shameless and shameful.
He must never be PM again.
My 77yr old mum, who lives on her own, had a heart attack in December &, thanks to the coronavirus risk & lockdown, I hadn’t seen her since late January until *two days ago*. So excuse me if I am beyond bloody incandescent at what Dominic Cummings did. Absolutely fucking furious.
The fact that we're talking about rationing energy, kids dying from the cold, thousands of businesses facing closure, millions unable to afford to keep warm this winter, should be a matter of national shame.
None of this just "happened".
It's the result of political choices.
Give up November to save Christmas.
Give up Christmas to save January.
Give up January, February and March to save Easter.
Give up Easter to save the summer.
Give up summer to save the Autumn.
Can anyone guess what's coming next...?
It never ends until WE say it does. 🤷🏻♀️
"New health alert as weekend temperatures to hit 30C - BBC" 😳
Oh, do fuck off. 30C isn't a health crisis. It's a lovely summer weekend. Most of us pay a fortune to go on holidays precisely to enjoy 30C heat.
Stop catastrophising the sodding weather!
If you're passionately defending
@GaryLineker
's right to freedom of speech but you didn't bother to utter a word to defend
@SalmanRushdie
,
@jk_rowling
@MForstater
, the Batley grammar school teacher & all the other genuine victims of "cancel culture", you're just a posturing fool.
"Quite shocking" is how a presenter on
@SkyNews
just described Millwall fans booing players taking the knee yesterday.
It wasn't shocking at all. Not to anyone living in the real world. It was entirely predictable.
Fans don't want divisive woke politics at football matches. 🤷🏻♀️
If you watched the horrible events on the streets of London on Saturday and you've concluded that
@SuellaBraverman
is the person to blame, then YOU are part of the problem.
When your house is on fire, don't blame the person shouting "Fire!"
Blame the arsonists.
I’m confused. Yesterday’s and last weekend’s violent protests were both disgusting.
But, according to the BBC, yesterday’s “violent London protests” resulted in 6 police officers being injured, while last weekend’s “largely peaceful protests” left 27 police officers injured. 🤷🏻♀️
When I had coronavirus in mid March, do you know what I didn’t do? Visit my parents. You know why? Because I didn’t want to infect my mid-70s parents. And that was before the lockdown forbade me to do it. What Cummings did was morally and legally wrong. End of.
God but this makes me angry. All the rich people are happily enjoying Wimbledon without wearing masks while the staff and the ball girls & boys are forced to cover their faces.
Once again, it's one rule for them, another rule for the rest of us.
End this insanity now.
The Prime Minister and half the Cabinet are currently at a huge lunch in Westminster. There is not a mask in sight (apart from the waiters, of course). Yet tomorrow the PM will make all of our children wear masks in schools. It's all theatre, folks. 🤷🏻♀️
Can we all at least agree on one thing today: that Gina “I only wanted to protect parliamentary sovereignty” Miller is now officially surplus to requirements and never needs to be seen or heard on our TV screens ever again?
No. They. Are. Not.
Being a woman is not a state of mind or a feeling on a rainy Wednesday morning.
I am a woman. You are a man. You are not a woman just because you say or think you are.
The end.
If you backed the second lockdown despite all the evidence that it would trash the economy & cost more lives than it saves, then DON'T YOU DARE complain about cuts to foreign aid, no pay rises, millions of lost jobs, huge debt & the inevitable future tax rises.
YOU OWN IT ALL.
Anyone else utterly despairing and sick with fear tonight about where western liberal democracies are headed with the return of lockdowns & authoritarian restrictions - all happily cheered on by the media & elites?
I'm scared we'll never recover from this.
Where does this end?
So the tier restrictions will end on Feb 3. Really?
In March it was "3 weeks to flatten the curve". Then we'd "turn the tide" by April, then "back to normal by Xmas" & don't forget "no second lockdown". Now it's freedom by "spring".
This will NEVER end until WE decide it does.
The news about the PM being taken to intensive care has taken my breath away. Thoughts with his family and wishing him a speedy recovery - for his sake and our country’s.
Stop feeling sorry for Theresa May. She didn’t serve the country that she loved, as she claimed. She worked for three years to undermine the biggest democratic vote in our country’s history. She served her own interests to stay in office. She has brought our country to its knees.
On 19 July I will go back to normal life.
I will not show a vaccine passport.
I will not socially distance.
I will not wear a mask.
You're free to do those things or to hide at home if you want.
But you have no right to demand that I cower in fear with you.
Life is for living.
Nothing Cummings has said suggests his circumstances were exceptional.
He & his wife should have stayed at home as everyone else did. Only his wife was ill when they drove to Durham. Their child was never at risk. The Barnard Castle story doesn’t add up remotely.
I'm sorry, what? There's a problem with the England women's team in the
#WEUROS2022
being too "white"? Which players should be dropped because they have the wrong skin colour?
Just extraordinary that a BBC presenter can say this and still be in her job!
The Remoaners think they’ve won and that they’ll be able to stop Brexit. They’re so wrong.
I’ve yet to meet a single Leave voter who isn’t boiling with anger & determined with all their soul to vote these anti-democrats out & elect a Parliament that WILL deliver Brexit
#TickTock
Deal or no deal, there is not one thing that the EU has said or done over the past four and a half years that has ever made me doubt, even for a nano-second, that I made 100% the right decision in voting for Brexit in 2016. On the contrary, they've confirmed just how right I was.
Last time I looked, I don’t remember electing Angela sodding Merkel or Leo sodding Varadkar to run this country.
How could any self-respecting sovereign nation put up with any more of this nonsense? Time to get the hell out.
So once again the NHS will be put on hold & become the National Covid Service with the sole aim of delivering booster jabs against one disease.
Long-awaited routine operations delayed and primary care all but suspended for a month.
They've learned nothing in 21 months. Nothing.
REMEMBER THE LOCKDOWN RULES:
1. If death rates go down, that means the lockdown is working
2. If death rates go up, that means they would have gone up far more without the lockdown
3. Whatever happens after the lockdown ends, the answer is ALWAYS going to be another lockdown
Call me old fashioned but I think only adult British citizens, not children or foreign citizens, should be able to vote in our general elections. It’s a mad idea, I know, but it might catch on.
Genuinely, I have never despaired more for my wonderful country than I do today. If we give in to the madness of a second lockdown, what on earth is the point of anything? Not a single life will be saved in the long run. Giving up our freedom & our rights for NOTHING. I despair.
Every sodding question at this press conference is "why aren't you going further, bringing in more rules?"
Not a single journalist asks what evidence the PM has that measures like mask mandates will make any difference to the spread of the new Covid variant. Answer: he has none.
Remoaners on Twitter call Leavers racists, fascists, far right, xenophobes, liars, ignorant, uneducated and even express glee at elderly Leave voters dying off.
Brexiteer PM says the words “surrender” and “humbug” and they all reach for the smelling salts.
Gimme a break.
Leave wins 52% in the EU referendum in 2016. Remoaners: but not by enough.
Leave wins 80%+ the 2017 general election. Remoaners: but it wasn’t clear.
Leave wins 2019 European elections. Remoaners: but the combined vote of the Remain losers is higher.
Anyone seeing a pattern here?
18 million women and girls in Afghanistan will be banned from showing their faces, treated only as servants to men, baby makers or sex slaves under the Taliban.
So where's the outcry from the
#MeToo
women?
Did you use all your anger up over the tampon tax and wolf whistling? 🙄
Your regular reminder that there is no end to lockdowns.
There is no exit strategy, no plan to reopen schools & businesses, to return to our normal lives.
There will *always* be another reason to remain in lockdown.
This will never end until we decide it does. Use your voice.
Funny how you normally can't keep Tony Blair off the telly and radio, but no sight of him in the past few days on Afghanistan, a war he took British troops into. 🤷🏻♀️
The BBC has now banned
#BlackLivesMatter
badges being worn on screen. Apparently they’ve finally learned how to read and found out what BLM UK actually stands for. You couldn’t make this shit up, could you?
Trans women are not women.
Trans women are men.
Stating facts isn't hateful, no matter what your dumb new law claims
@HumzaYousaf
.
Arrest me
@PoliceScotland
.
Just stood in a street with my daughter & her friends & a man shouted “you should be ashamed of yourself” at me.
Because shouting at someone whose politics you don’t like in front of kids is absolutely behaviour to be proud of.
Well done, whoever you are, you massive bellend.
If you are desperately angry about two women walking in an empty beauty spot 5 miles from their home or a man cycling 7 miles from his home, then I have some advice for you:
YOU NEED TO GET A FUCKING LIFE.
You're welcome.
Remoaners think that Leave voters will punish Boris Johnson for sending that letter asking for a Brexit extension.
Think again.
Voters won’t blame him. They’ll blame anti-democratic Remoaner MPs - who are going to get a HUGE shock when we do eventually get the general election.
No loving parent scares their child this much and then puts them on a stage. The only people who have stolen her childhood are the very people whose job it was to protect her: her parents.
"You have stolen my dreams and my childhood with your empty words."
In an emotional speech at a
@UN
climate change summit in New York,
@GretaThunberg
warns that the human race is "at the beginning of a mass extinction".
Read the full story here:
How many times are we going to be told by the PM and his advisers that we must learn to live with this virus?
And how many times are they going to stop us from doing just that?
When does this end?
WHEN. WE. SAY. IT. DOES.
It's over. No more. We want our lives back.
Genuinely embarrassed for Jo Swinson claiming she’s been excluded from the ITV leaders’ TV debate *because she’s a woman*.
She’s the leader of a party with 20 MPs on 14% in the polls.
She is NOT going to be the next PM.
Nothing to do with Swinson having Fallopian tubes.
Plan A.
Plan B.
Plan C.
The Govt can bring in Plan Z if they want, but I and millions more will never put up with any restrictions on our lives - let alone another lockdown - ever again.
It's over. We're done.
Hilarious.
@Keir_Starmer
has asked the Prime Minister for the "evidence" for his decision to end the Plan B restrictions on our lives.
Pity he never bothered to ask for the evidence to back bringing in those restrictions in the first place, eh?
Following the science? Bollocks.
Hundreds of young Muslim + Hindu men, wearing masks or balaclavas, are in violent running street battles against each other night after night for 3 weeks.
Not in India or Pakistan.
Here in Leicester.
This must be the "cultural enrichment" we've heard so much about.
What kind of democracy do we live in when a 6 month extension to emergency powers to control every aspect of our lives can just be nodded through without any vote?
I want to know exactly which MPs support this and which don't.
We won't forget, you know.
A friend's kid is off to nursery today. All toddlers are asked to wear rainbow colours and sparkles for the Pride parade and Pride disco.
What on earth has Pride got to do with them?
This is no longer about respect or love. This is a political ideology indoctrinating our kids.
National Grid are paying people NOT to use electricity to prevent blackouts on a cold winter's night.
We're supposed to be a first world country in the 21st century.
This is a national disgrace. Our political leaders are to blame for this Net Zero madness.
Shame on them.
Wouldn’t it be better - rather than handing out food vouchers - if all parents, including those on the lowest incomes or benefits, could *always* afford to feed their children during the school holidays? This cannot be beyond the abilities of the 6th richest country in the world.
If you’re too scared to do a 30 minute
@afneil
interview on the telly, then you probably shouldn’t run to be Prime Minister of this country. Full stop.
It's really obvious that Prince Harry is not used to people disagreeing with him or even gently questioning him. He's a damaged and angry young man, yes, but he also oozes the arrogance and entitlement of his wealth and royal status.
#HarryTheInterview
No, an innocent child has sadly died because his mother decided to join the Islamic State death cult and get knocked up by a jihadi terrorist while living in a medieval caliphate. Her choice, her responsibility.
Boris Johnson knows what he's doing is wrong. He knows it in his heart. He knows the data don't justify this delay and he knows the damage this delay will do to our country. But he did it anyway because he hasn't got the backbone to stand firm and do the right thing. Pathetic.
If you didn't condemn the aggressive policing of lockdown protesters then don't you DARE pretend to condemn the policing of the Sarah Everard vigil.
If you only support the right to the protest when it's a cause you approve of, you don't really support the right to protest.
I am so beyond angry with MPs tonight.
The entire bloody reason why voters demanded a referendum on Brexit was because MPs didn’t represent the people’s views on the EU. They still don’t.
They asked us what we wanted. We told them. Now implement the Brexit we asked for.
Dear Tory leadership contenders,
If you tried to thwart Brexit after 2016, you won't get my vote
If you back the Net Zero madness, you won't get my vote
If you won't rule out future lockdowns, you won't get my vote
If you don't know what a woman is, you won't get my vote.
Seriously?
#BoycottWetherspoons
is trending? A bunch of middle class Remoaner twats sipping their Sauvignon blanc and Peroni threatening to boycott a pub chain they’ve never set foot in once because they don’t like the political opinions of the owner? Gimme a break.
VACCINE PASSPORTS
@BorisJohnson
It was wrong to ever consider them.
It was wrong to ever threaten them.
It was wrong to pretend they would save a single life.
If you don't stand by your principles, then they aren't principles; they're just slogans.
We won't forget this.
Now we've won our freedom back from the Brussels bureaucrats, the next battle is to win our fundamental freedoms back from the lockdown fanatics in the Govt and SAGE to meet with our family & friends, take off the masks & allow all businesses to reopen.
Let battle commence. 🇬🇧💪
Vaccine passports to go to the cinema, theatre, sports events, concerts & nightclubs?
I've had my jab but I refuse to show proof to go about my normal life. I won't be doing any of those things every again then. I hope millions more people will join me.
#NoVaccinePassports
I don’t need a woman to represent me in Cabinet. I need Cabinet ministers with good brains, clever ideas, leadership skills & who want to make this country a better place. I couldn’t give a toss whether they’ve got tits or dicks.
Hoping the reshuffle doesn’t take women’s cabinet representation backwards:
Boris Johnson will need more women in the cabinet | News | The Sunday Times
"Proof of a negative test will no longer be enough"
UK PM Boris Johnson says that after all over-18s have had the chance to get both Covid jabs, full vaccination will be required for entry into "nightclubs and other venues where large crowds gather"
Jonathan Van Tam says at No10 press conference that we will have to wear masks & socially distance for many years and that will be "a good thing". Huh?
If you want to do that, JVT, feel free.
I'm going to go back to hugging, kissing & no face masks. That's my "good thing".
You literally just spent the last two years telling women and men what they can and cannot do with their own bodies, you disgusting hypocritical excuse for a man
@JustinTrudeau
No government, politician, or man should tell a woman what she can and cannot do with her body. I want women in Canada to know that we will always stand up for your right to choose.
Can anyone tell me what the “compromise” would have been if Remain had won the EU referendum 52-48?
Would we currently be discussing all these “soft Remain” options to keep Leave voters & MPs happy?
Nope. A Remain victory would have meant Remaining in the EU, full stop.
I am despairing today at how insane our country now is - from the Govt's insane lockdown to the mad green policies & everything in between.
Why is the great British public putting up with this stuff? We didn't vote for any of it.
Why are so many willing to put up with it? 🤷🏻♀️
Oh my god. Journalists at the No10 news conference have *FINALLY* started asking when the lockdown is going to end and what are the criteria for that decision.
It's only taken them TEN MONTHS but at least they've finally cottoned on...
Thousands of people are at a
#BlackLivesMatter
march in Hyde Park during a pandemic, breaking lockdown & social distancing rules, to protest a horrible crime that happened *in another country*. And the UK police are doing absolutely nothing to stop them. That’s lockdown over then
It’s utterly bizarre for Corbyn, Swinson, Sturgeon et al to call for Boris Johnson to resign when they have repeatedly refused to allow a general election.
They can force him out of 10 Downing Street in a vote of no confidence TOMORROW if they want.
Go on, then, do it.
What fabulous news to wake up to -
@jacindaardern
has resigned as the PM of the prison ship formerly known as New Zealand. Fantastic. She'll go on to make a fortune as a darling of the Covid authoritarians but at least the good folk of NZ won't have to suffer her anymore. 🥳🥳🥳
Today's decision to impose Plan B was made by the quad - PM, Sunak, Javid, Barclay
The Cabinet were only told of the decision in a *phone call* afterwards.
There was "not even a hint" at Cabinet meeting on Tues that Plan B was even being considered.
THIS IS THEATRE NOT SCIENCE
Well, that Boris speech cheered me up no end. Three years of national self-doubt is at an end. I’ve always believed in Britain and the British people and, whatever happens next, it’s nice to have a Prime Minister who does too.
It is with great sadness that I will tonight be opening a bottle of champagne to celebrate the news that the man who treacherously plotted to overthrow the democratic vote for Brexit will finally be leaving the Commons. Goodbye and good riddance.
It is with great sadness that I am today announcing my decision to stand down as Member of Parliament for Runnymede & Weybridge at the forthcoming General Election.
My letter to the constituents I have served for 22 years:
The Austrian government is about to order a national lockdown - but only for the 1/3 of the population who remain unvaccinated.
Absolutely fucking terrifying.
If you aren't disturbed by this - and everything else happening right now - you're a fool.
Still amazed and horrified by how many well-off middle class people think lockdowns were great because "we had a nice time at home with our families".
Yeah, in big houses with gardens, working at home on full pay.
The abject lack of empathy for those less lucky is astounding.
To the people on here claiming that "Israel brought this on themselves", can you please explain how massacring 260 young festival goers and abducting families, children & elderly will in any way help alleviate the very real plight of the people of Gaza?
The answer is: you can't.
Be under no illusion. The man in the middle cannot make *any* decisions on lockdown rules unless the two men on either side agree to back that decision in public. The advisers have become the decision makers. I don't remember voting for Whitty or Vallance. Do you?
The point isn't that staff at No10 shouldn't have held a 2020 Xmas party.
The point is not that they broke the rules they imposed on all of us.
The point is that they KNEW the rules they imposed on us were a load of nonsense.
But they did it anyway.