Oh my goodness. The BBC went to a working man’s club in Dover looking for racist comments and found a member of staff giving a reasonable summary of what the migrant crisis is all about, and how the number of refugees here is tiny compared to other countries!
Oooh, a barrister who employed Sue Ellen Braverman years ago says she defended asylum seekers and got their deportations overturned. So she was a ‘lefty lawyer’!!!! 😆
@PippaCrerar
He didn’t nearly die. That’s another lie. He was in and out of hospital within a week, and then travelled back and forth between Downing Street and Chequers as soon as he was discharged. People hospitalised with serious Covid can’t do that.
Hunt pointing his finger at Starmer saying ‘ordinary people will shed more than a few pounds if his lot get in’
Extremely tasteless from a Tory Chancellor presiding over an economy in which children are actually starving.
Outrageous. Sunak said he didn’t hear Ed Daveys question (noise from his side) said he wasn’t interested and the question doesn’t matter. I’m not a Lib Dem, but the Speaker should do something about the disrespect Sunak shows to
#PMQs
and Parliament.
Now the BBC is reporting we’re in a recession because ‘people cut spending’.
Oh, right. Government presiding over a cost of living crisis so none of us can afford to spend any money is our fault. We shouldn’t have cut back on our spending. 🤷♀️
I’m wondering if people can explain why, if the Met exonerated Johnson of all but one of the lockdown breaches and that is the end of it, why the Durham police exonerating Starmer last year was not the end and the Tories could force them to do it again?
@paulwaugh
@BBCNewsnight
When did we have a referendum to change our constitution from a parliamentary democracy with a constitutional monarchy to a presidency?
Has Rees Mogg informed the Queen that she will no longer be our Head of State?
Just dawned on me that this is the first Christmas Eve I have spent alone. This time last year I was in A&E with my husband, he’s now in a nursing home. Trying to make my new solitary Christmas Eve traditions. Once upon a time I would have been playing Santa!
@Afzal4Gorton
@thom_brooks
@pritipatel
Oh, right. I thought that she might have sent you a letter asking for details of the problems your constituents were having so that she could look into it for you.
Silly me - forgot who we are talking about!
Grant Shapps on TV saying the problem is ‘man against virus’.
He may be right. Can we get a woman to sort it out? Like Jacinda Ardern or Angela Merkel?
@mikeysmith
A ward team were filmed dancing in a corridor to relieve stress after their shift and to cheer people up. The howls of rage from Twitter warriors ‘why aren’t they working? We don’t pay them to dance’. Probably the same people now making excuses for No 10.
@PippaCrerar
They were employees. They weren’t there for fun! It was his home, so he was technically the host, and he was the boss of the whole building so should have been held responsible. There is no reason other than corruption for him to have escaped more fines.
@MartinSLewis
My husband, who has Parkinsons and dementia, tried to get himself dressed a couple of weeks ago and I couldn’t breathe for laughing so uncontrollably. He was wearing a pair of swimming trunks and one of my t-shirts that was so small it looked like a crop top.
I know that the press ‘watchdog’ is toothless, but Clarkson’s hate filled rant about his fantasies of violence against the Duchess of Sussex is just ‘sexist and pejorative’? What about incitement to violence? Hate speech?
IPSO needs to be reformed.
@MattThorn10
@CllrOliver
@PaulSchleifer
I’ve been reading a book about 1930s Germany and people were writing letters to each other with comments along the lines of ‘well, at least Hitler is going to solve the Jewish problem’.
A fake problem and blame aimed at a group of people. Works every time.
@campbellclaret
I liked the person who held up a poster saying ‘I am not criminal, I work hard and pay more tax than the Prime Minister’s wife’.
Very much to the point!
@carolvorders
A typical bully’s response.
‘How can they claim I bullied them when I didn’t swear or throw things at them?’
It takes a lot of courage for bullied workers to come forward, I think we all owe them our thanks. They’ve made the civil service a safer workplace.
@MatthewStadlen
Their concern for impartiality would be more understandable if they hadn’t appointed the clearly impartial Tory cheerleader Laura K to their most senior political role and kept her there despite all the complaints from the public.
ITV news announces portentously that ‘Labour is facing more trouble this evening over anti-semitism’.
Then - reports the 2 suspensions of Labour candidates that they reported last night.
Will they do the same all over again tomorrow evening?
@vicderbyshire
Yes.
But I blame the Government. I think the employers would have made a deal long ago if they hadn’t been forbidden by the Sec of State for Transport.
Which suggests they are not really independent, private companies after all. So why not renationalise?
@eyeswideshut75
@Thehuck_59
All that sickly sentimentality he writes into his TV series on caring aristocrats who will never turn away a pregnant servant girl or a tenant farmer who can’t work any more. But this is the reality. Arrogant and cruel.
@Blodeuweddmoon
@RuthvenPhilip
Surely the insurance payment is to put the car back to the way it was. How can it be income? This is dreadful, and puts all the apologists for tax avoidance by the very wealthy into perspective.
@ColinBaldy
It’s like the ‘nearly died of Covid’ incident all over again. Apparently in intensive care, then he leaves hospital after a few days, goes to Chequers and then back to Downing Street for one of those parties. Was he even ill?
Now another unlikely tale.
@RicHolden
@Keir_Starmer
They’ve probably realised they can represent their constituents better by working on other things rather than by sitting listening to Johnson’s lies, which make the whole thing rather pointless.
@Andy_g1979
@paul_stothard
Covid exists and we are still in a pandemic. The government is corrupt and gives contracts for testing to friends and donors.
Those two things can both be true at the same time, they’re not mutually exclusive.
@TulipSiddiq
@captainsuth
The Tories are having a collective nervous breakdown. Since April I have been knocking on doors and listening to the anguish of people who don’t know what to do now Johnson has destroyed their belief in the party. None of them voted in the local elections.
@jwbottomley
@Peston
Exactly. Johnson knows whether he attended parties when it was illegal under his own laws. He doesn’t need Sue Gray or the Met to tell him that. He should just own up. And go.
@KayBurley
@Daily_Express
I’m a viewer. And I am completely not horrified. Well done for holding Government ministers to account. Nobody cares about the shoes.
@andreajenkyns
@lewis_goodall
@DominicRaab
Is this a parody? Poor spelling, parroting what he said in that ridiculous resignation letter? Blue ticks mean nothing any more, so it’s hard to tell. ‘Thacherite?’ ‘Precident’? Let’s hope it’s not a real MP.
@Peston
And yet Johnson is claiming in the Commons Chamber that we will be tracking new variants. How does he think he’s going to do that when only wealthy people are testing?
@harikunzru
This will be us when the Conservative government has finished selling off the NHS.
Use your vote wisely or end up like people in America, having to choose between food, rent or essential medical treatment!
@CeliaRichards0n
@CentralBylines
I was about to cancel my membership for financial reasons but kept it so I could vote for the recommended candidates. So pleased with this result!
@vicderbyshire
@Sillyshib
Safeguarding isn’t about wealthy people unable to get a friend to deliver food or find a babysitter. It’s a serious issue affecting vulnerable children. How dare they use it as an excuse for this arrogant man to do what he likes during a national emergency?
Watching the Post Office Inquiry, going through the transcripts of the interviews, it occurs to me that a small sub-post office wouldn’t have had the amounts they were accused of stealing going through the branch. These were in little villages. £65,000?
@devisridhar
@matthaig1
It’s one year. If we had the virus we couldn’t go out. So let’s act like we do have it, stay at home, enjoy a nice meal with wine, and plan a big party at the end of 2021. At least we’re not stuck in hospital, as a patient or a frontline NHS worker.
@Chris_G_Pearson
@cristo_burton
The only drawback is the ‘one paying adult’ rule. Many families would struggle to pay for even one adult meal. Asda seems to recognise this. If any families do have a small amount to spend on a meal out, but not enough for the whole family this could help.
@Peston
He announced the rules, with great fanfare from Downing Street. He has no right to claim he didn’t know what he was doing was against he rules.
@Sillyshib
We studied this in media sociology when I was an undergraduate. The establishment, when cornered, identifies ‘one bad apple’ to turn on because otherwise we would realise that the whole institution is corrupt. Case study was police, but it’s the same.
@CliveWismayer
@maitlis
@Mousehole1
I always ask why they are asking security questions when it was they who phoned me! This happens with genuine calls from the bank as well as with scammers. So I think we have every right to ask them security questions and insist on phoning back.
@mrjamesob
I was cleaning the kitchen. I heard his voice in the distance on the TV in the living room, and I felt a wave of revulsion. I couldn’t go into the room till I was sure he had gone. I never hated anyone this much, not even Thatcher.
Briefly switched on BBC2 - not only the ridiculous Gullis going on about his ‘lifelong career as a teacher’ but also one of those silly girls trained to appear on the BBC to spout Tufton Street propaganda. Immediately switched off.
@nannycrin
Yes. It’s accurate. That’s what ending free movement means. My brother and his wife (who has worked for the NHS all her life and is due to retire next year) had their long term plans to sell up and retire to Greece destroyed by Brexit.
@christopherhope
Oh, yes. He’s used that trick before. Made a statement and then refused to answer questions about it at PMQs, hoping Starmer and Blackford won’t be able to change what they have prepared as questions. Sadly for him, they’re both more than capable.
Left my husband in hospital last night. Daughter picked me up and drove me home. As we drove in we saw that the tree had been decorated in our absence by daughter’s lovely boyfriend.
@suefreelance
@pebbledash57
@campbellclaret
I was right back in 2015, then, when I said we needed the EU to protect us from bad government decisions. I wasn’t being ridiculous as people said - here we are with polluted water just because we left the EU! 🤷♀️
@JMPSimor
They were busy protecting her official phone while she was illegally using her private, unsecured phone. I think they should treat every Foreign Secretary as a potential security risk and tap all their phones.
@Patrici89225734
@SueLamerton
In a couple of weeks Johnson will say ‘alas! We introduced sanctions but the property was already sold and the money out of the country! There was nothing we could do. Alas!’
Clive Myrie a very good replacement on BBC Sunday Morning today. Clear, focused questions. Interesting topics. Allowing interviewers to answer the questions. Like Victoria Derbyshire he is an asset to the BBC and miles better than other presenters.
@Lotto688Lotto
Plus: 1) Hancock went on TV and promised the nation care homes were safe (‘protective ring’)
2) People did try to take relatives out and the police were called to stop them.
3) If you have to work to pay a mortgage you can’t give 24hr care.
@JAHeale
No, he dislikes him because he gets under his skin and doesn’t let him get away with lying. The main metropolitan elite is led by Johnson and his friends.
@MartinKnight_
No, we didn’t. We made guys from old clothes and newspaper and Guy Fawkes masks we bought at the newsagents. Then went out with them saying ‘penny for the guy’. On 5th Nov Dads set off not very explosive fireworks in the back garden. No Halloween.
@SocialistNHS
When a member of staff has to leave work at night, early in the morning or work double shifts, and they can’t afford to park a car, they can be very vulnerable while walking to a bus stop, or even when waiting for a ‘park & ride’ bus. Should be free.
@mollygiles2015
A lot of female MPs have visible handbags with them in the Chamber. Stella Creasy has a backpack because she has a baby she is still breastfeeding and will need to pick the baby up when she leaves the Chamber. And most MPs check their phones.
@Deborah12474068
@marjodasays
@jacquep
I know I would have paid her fare. I even did it for a couple of American women who were too stupid to change their dollars to pounds before trying to get the bus. So I know I would do it for someone vulnerable. Why didn’t any of these passengers?
@MatthewStadlen
Difficulty getting essential medication for my husband and for me. Problems finding carers or home helps to relieve the burden as he becomes more disabled.
Fresh nutritious food less available, more expensive and goes bad quickly, making us less healthy.
@implausibleblog
@cernusson
I admire Bridget Phillipson so much for her calm demeanour when surrounded by right wing bullies Tice, Davies and Bruce. Outnumbered but not outclassed!
@GNev2
@ScarthLloyd
I wondered what they would announce to get their voters to the ballot boxes on May 5th. I thought it might be tax cuts. But instead they decided to accelerate the Nazification of the U.K.
@mdouganlpool
@SpanishDan1
The sovereignty they wanted was to rule over the rest of us with no restrictions and no protection for us against them. They managed to trick half the country into believing it was going to empower the people, and not their rulers.
Emily Thornberry is so brilliant when she is interviewed on TV! Good humoured, answers the questions - apart from questions she can’t answer where she honestly explains why she can’t answer - and not a slogan or sound bite to be heard
@TheJanHarvey
@GillyHx3
@BBCNews
I was in and out of the room, so I only heard him, but I remember thinking - ‘so, Nicholas Witchell is now a trained psychotherapist and relationship counsellor, is he?’
He’s been allowed free rein for the last week to spout psychobabble. It has to stop.
@DMinghella
They also said selling off our water would allow the private companies to replace the out of date Victorian infrastructure. But instead it allowed them to make huge profits and contaminate our waterways with raw sewage.
@Haggis_UK
Okay. I will have to remember that. If I do something wrong and get questioned by the police, I will say ‘that was months ago - you can go on about that…. but I’m not that interested in the past.’
(Not that I plan to do anything illegal!)
Our rivers are too polluted to use. Food banks struggle to cope with the demand. Councils are deprived of funding and having to make cuts. NHS is on its knees. People being bombed in Gaza, Ukraine and elsewhere.
News channels top story? King goes to church.
@mrjamesob
Nick Ferrari is what stops me listening to LBC all day. I turn on at 10am, and can guarantee intelligent broadcasting for most of the day, as I dip in and out. Ferrari’s tabloid approach makes me switch off after 5 minutes. Can’t stand Radio4 any more either.
@petersturdgess
I suppose if they released the information and it stated that there was no case to answer, it would not affect the result of the local elections. We have to draw the conclusion that it is damaging to the Prime Minister.
@BalooTaylor
@ej_holloway
Better than when I was a Guide. We had to go out in pairs, pick a random stranger and follow him without him spotting us. In Balham. One way of giving the adults running the meeting a break, I suppose!
@Peston
She lied. She had to withdraw and apologise. Not ‘getting heated’. And not remotely amusing that a holder of one of the high offices of state would lie in a Parliamentary committee.
Starmer: Labour would bring back Blair-style NHS targets to fix ‘broken’ system -
People didn’t wait years for an operation, doctors weren’t underpaid, and there were enough GPs under the last Labour government. Good move by Starmer.
@archer_rs
I wouldn’t worry too much. You won’t have to deal with them again. In my experience they don’t stay the girlfriend of someone for long, if they are that annoying.
@Steven_Swinford
The Tories seem to be hoping that they will get away with a Conservative appointed ‘ethics adviser’ reporting that HMRC are wrong and Zahawi keeping his job. Opposition MPs must not allow this to happen. An inquiry is not needed. This is definitive.
@DrAmirKhanGP
So cheerful still! After all that work, you tweet early morning photos, clean out all your bird feeders, run errands for Mama Khan, do breakfast TV slots and still keep smiling. An inspiration to us all. The NHS is lucky to have you.
@helenopinion
@chriscurtis94
He knew he hadn’t broken any rules and that the local police had investigated and cleared him. He didn’t know that the Daily Mail had the power to force the police to open another investigation into the same thing. This is now the start of their 2nd go.