Left of centre page supporting Brexit as the long term project unfolds. Also tackling the culture war and the Channel situation. Exposing Starmer's shenanigans.
Peter Shore MP, Labour statesman, died in 2001. Every word of this perhaps even more true now than when he spoke it in 1975 on the eve of the then referendum
The Telegraph ran an article on May 12th saying when Cummings and Johnson were on their sick beds, the Civil Service and the EU drew up a plan to extend the transition whereby the EU would make the offer and we would accept. Cummings came back and stopped it. Interesting... 🤔
Waffle from Leadbeater about the teacher in hiding.
'Don't put him under the spotlight' means exactly that. Ignore it and move on, and don't ask about it any more.
#BatleyAndSpenByelection
#BatleyAndSpen
A craven Verhofstadt says the EU should ignore vetoes and force through centralising policies whether the member states want them or not. 'It is just a matter of will'
Brilliant reference to the very close Welsh referendum result by
@KateHoeyMP
to explain why referendums do not give legitimacy to compromise with the losing side
What about when Tony Benn said of the European Commission: 'I felt as if I were going as a slave to Rome'? It's a metaphor, but then guess he was a 'small minded nationalist' too...
Anne Widdecombe just compared Britain leaving the EU to "slaves" rising up "against their owners".
It is impossible to explain how offensive and ahistorical it is for you to equate my ancestors tearing off their chains with your small-minded nationalist project. Shame on you.
Someone with an asylum claim in 2014 is rejected for waving a knife around.
7 years later they are still in the UK, and try to kill lots of people again.
This is a broken system that does not instil confidence in its citizens, nor law abiding migrants doing the right thing.
The Labour candidate for Erdington, Paulette Hamilton, talking about an 'uprising' instead of democratic change. It seems she isn't keen on 'the bullet' more because her side might not win. It's worth the people of
#erdington
seeing this before they vote.
#byelection
Only 3 Labour MPs voted against the Scottish Hate Crime Bill back in 2021.
15 voted for it. There are 22 Labour MSPs.
Labour is an enemy of free speech as much as the SNP.
Must watch. Johnson was taken out of context yesterday. A misleading clip got millions of views.
His kettle analogy was illustrating how nuclear energy investment is worth it in the long term.
The truth matters.
@oflynnsocial
@PaulEmbery
@Fox_Claire
@faisalislam
What is conspiratorial about believing there is an elite establishment that stops certain things from happening in a country?
It's happened since the dawn of time.
@ClaudiaWebbe
Depends on the billionaire, depends on the nurse.
Also UK-based billionaires pay more in taxes than nurses. They pay for nurses.
Simplistic student drivel.
No just Clement Attlee, Tony Benn, Hugh Gaitskell, Nye Bevan, Michael Foot, Barbara Castle, Peter Shaw, Bob Crow, Dennis Skinner, Gisela Stuart, Kate Hoey and pre 2016 Jeremy Corbyn.
What 'hope' is presented in ignoring a democratic vote?
Do we want to be on the same side as Boris Johnson, Jacob Rees-Mogg and Nigel Farage, or lead a politics of hope against them?
I am in no doubt, Labour should unequivocally back Remain in a new referendum.
#Lab19
@timfarron
Had they heard of the free hotel rooms and the £45 a week? Had they heard we can't deport anyone because we're hobbled by foreign courts and daft liberals and leftists?
They must have laughed after talking to such a soft touch.
GB News should put some full shows on their site and YouTube and get ads revenue. People are missing shows, especially if they don't use a TV, and it would be good to make content more easily available
@GBNEWS
.
Chris Bryant should resign as Chair of the Standards and Privileges Committee, because what he claims he saw before the fracking vote has been found to be untrue.
The press is trying to push this Covid passport agenda without the govt even saying they will do it.
Either that or the govt is leaking it through the press to gauge reaction.
That reaction must be 'no, no, no'.
UK GDP Growth 1955-2016, can you see any discernible increase from membership of the EEC in 1973 and/or the EU internal market from 1992? Nope, neither can we, more detail here:
@JMPSimor
We never attacked NATO, in fact we kept meeting our 2% obligation unlike many others.
Putin's nationalism was always there - EU or no EU. NATO exists - EU or no EU.
@LozzaFox
This was happening before the pandemic, to be fair. Just making the use of an unused phone box. They are often in areas with more old people. A good idea really.
Do the Conservatives not realise people - the people who usually vote for them - are FURIOUS?
Do they realise these people won't turn up to the church hall and save them from annihilation?
You bin your supporters, your supporters bin you.
Lots of ordinary people are uncomfortable with the militant, irrational turn the trans lobby has taken. They don't like it denying biological fact & the privacy/safety rights of women.
This does not make them 'Tories' or TR supporters. Many are your sort of voters.
Wes Streeting - like his Blairite colleague Rosie Duffield - is a TERF
JK Rowling has made offensive comments about transgender people - Labour continues defending those who sow division as the party seeks votes from Tories and the Tommy Robinson cult
@YvetteCooperMP
The idea is that it's a deterrent that should drastically bring down the people trying to enter. It did work in Australia, the conditions within the camps aside.
How would Labour tackle this?
We know they would not. They'd just wave them in as potential future Labour voters.
Farage claiming that no deal Brexit is what people voted for - but that wasn’t on the ballot paper. He refuses to publish any policies before election and won’t say who’s funding him - and that’s the new politics?
@itvpeston
The blob be like: 'Mordaunt, Wallace, Sunak, Hunt'
What about Badenoch - the one candidate, massively popular with the membership, who could have stopped all this?
Oh yes, that's not part of the script.
@SadiqKhan
No it wasn't.
It really wasn't. The Romans & Normans were *invaders*, not 'refugees' or 'migrants'. English people made the modern capital what it is today, & what politicians like you are flushing down the toilet.
Yes there were some immigrants, but never the post 1997 levels.
@PaulEmbery
But there is a particular fixation with bringing down Johnson because of Brexit. They want revenge, just as they wanted to overturn the referendum. Undeniable
Today, our U8s coach told us the opposing team forfeited the game over our Palestine corner flags. No issue with displaying them; confirmed with the FA. However, we view this incident as an opportunity to enlighten our followers about the gravity of the situation.
@francessmith
@BBCSportScot
She was the greatest mind ever. The paragon of virtue. Joan of Arc, Marie Curie and Sylvia Pankhurst combined.
We will always love her.
Who was she again?
@PaulEmbery
Yes, and it must also be said that by doing this Hamas has directly caused the next few months of dreadful pain for its own people. If Hamas genuinely cared about its own citizens it wouldn't have allowed such an atrocity.
This 'NHS Digital' thing seems a bit worrying.
If you don't opt out (by the end of June?), then your data goes into a centralised database, and some of it can be accessed by a whole list of organisations, including university researchers and pharmaceutical companies.
No way.
Here's what we could've had. Badenoch on immigration:
“Simply taking in numbers to boost GDP... is not the right way to do that. We need to look again at resolving our productivity issues & that means using capital better, not just getting cheaper and cheaper labour.”
This is how 'serious politicians' Creasy and Huq react to passing a law criminalising protests (even silent prayers) outside abortion clinics. Whether you agree or disagree with that law, this subject should be a sombre one.
Not a pathetic stunt for attention.
The EU is not Europe. Out of 44 countries (exc UK), 27 are full members, 7 have free access to its markets (Andorra, Iceland, Liechtenstein, Monaco, Norway, San Marino, Switzerland) and 10 are not members at all (Albania, the Balkan states, Belarus, Georgia, Moldova, Ukraine).
Respectful Soubry? Here is a clip of her seeming to call Miliband a 'sanctimonious c**t' in 2015. She denied it and said she shouted 'rubbish' - rather a strange pronunciation of 'rubbish'...
If the EU won't ever give us a trade deal and we can never meet their terms (or they ours), then why should we have to keep extending our membership?
It doesn't make sense. We didn't vote to be a hostage to the EU. Walking away is now the only way to honour the vote
#merkel
@GaryLineker
Do you ever use fossil fuels, Gary? Any flights all around the world following a game? Any TV or podcast studios? Any flash cars?
If so, shut up.
Walks into phone shop "I'm not leaving without a deal"
"Have this old Nokia for 10 million"
"That's a bad deal"
"Leave then"
"No deal is off the table"
"Have this old Nokia for 10 million"
"Ok"
h/t
@EddieDempsey
If
@SDPhq
had healthy exposure and funding, they could be a major force.
They propose capping immigration at 50,000 a year. That would be massively popular, and is better than Reform.
Let's join the SDP in large numbers and get them on the way. Repost!
It's sad that most people 'haven't heard of them since the 80s' or do not realise they've changed a lot.
If economic centre-left but socially traditional folks looked into them, they might like what they see
@SDPhq
Seven years since we made the correct decision, Brexit has NOT failed.
It was stalled by an unwilling elite for 4.5 years before we got the tariff free deal remoaners said we wouldn't.
Then we were clobbered by Covid, the Ukraine war and the resulting economic crisis.
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@AngelaRayner
Just because fraud hasn't been detected, doesn't mean it hasn't happened.
Why do you want to have less secure elections?
It's a real thinker, isn't it.