While my father said grace, my maternal grandfather, Ernest, would whisper that Tories would starve working people for an extra sixpence profit - it should be the unions to whom we gave thanks for the food on our plates, not any God.
He was right.
Ernest died in February, 1976.
Years ago, owing to their mistake, I underpaid income tax by almost £200. They agreed to a monthly repayment as I was a single mum with two kids. When I changed banks, and the last payment didn’t clear, I got a letter threatening court action.
The amount outstanding was £16.37.
Ann Widdecombe is not a cuddly dancing grandma, she's a vicious far right horrorbag who insisted pregnant prisoners give birth in chains.
(Also she fought against unionisation all her life until she had to do manual work for a week on a reality TV show, then she formed a union.)
I find myself wondering if Carrie was induced so Johnson could have some more time off.
Then I laugh because that’s absurd.
Then I find myself wondering if Carrie was induced so Johnson could have some more time off.
#PMQs
For those applauding the local radio interviewers who tore Liz Truss into shreds this morning, this is what you get when journalists are not desperate to keep their lobby pass and be invited to the Spectator garden piss up.
Ian Blackford didn’t call Johnson a liar, he asked him if he was a liar. Still the Speaker tells Blackford off, while he allows the PM to lie his arse off every week.
#PMQs
I don’t know if Captain Tom was a nice guy or not, although his family seem typical Tory grifters, but it was always wrong to treat the NHS as a charity - it should be a service provided by public sector professionals, free at the point of delivery, and funded by taxation.
0n the day we discovered that Priti Patel can’t read out a number that’s on the sheet in front of her, it seems fitting to remind the news programmes and the commentators that have they encouraged the ridicule of Diane Abbott since she got a number wrong more than two years ago.
Phillip Schofield helped make the bed that perhaps over 50,000 people have died in, and only now does he get upset over government incompetence?
To feck with you.
America, where a woman’s right to choose is murder but a diabetic dying because they can’t afford insulin is freedom, where you can buy a semi automatic in a supermarket but have to go to a back street for an abortion.
This monstrous bollocks is still up. I can only assume Rachel Riley is a vicious, bigoted, compulsive liar, unless maybe she’s too coked-up to find the delete button.
EXCL: Keir Starmer’s office has begun polling British Muslim voters amid growing concern in senior Labour ranks about damage done to their core vote by row over party’s position on Middle East.
Sainsbury’s staff have worked throughout the pandemic, been abused by idiots because of toilet rolls, risked the health of their loved ones, and now Laurence Fox is trying to get them made redundant because he’s an attention seeking racist.
The Princess of Wales has taken her children to volunteer at a baby bank where the young royals picked out Christmas presents for those in need 🎁🎄
Latest UK news:
It’s not incompetence, they’re not well-meaning lads making a few mistakes under enormous pressure, they’re dark-money funded, corrupt megalomaniacs who don’t give a toss about you, your kids, or your grandma.
#ToryIncompetence
@toadmeister
@guardian
I was threatened, pushed downstairs, punched, hit over the head with a lamp and kicked.
My neighbours, who couldn't make eye contact afterwards, pretended they didn't hear. I've often wondered why they ignored my cries but now I understand, they were Tories like
@toadmeister
.
This is a man who will actively destroy the lives of children, refugees, the disabled, the sick, the terminally ill and their families in a filthy whistle-blowing attempt cling to power.
That Rachel Riley is happy to make her concern about an emoji public, while unashamedly unmoved by the massacre of children in Gaza, sums up her character perfectly. Hard to believe our media treat this trashy clothes-horse, minor celebrity as an ‘expert’ on racism.
London’s burning. When Mayor Boris Johnson was challenged about his ten fire station closures he told Labour Assembly leader, Andrew Dismore, to ‘get stuffed’.
Ngozi Fulani founded a charity supporting survivors (victims) of domestic abuse. That’s a legacy.
Sarah Hussey spent sixty years voluntarily carrying the lipstick of one of the richest women in the world. That’s not a career.
Prince Andrew has set up a multi million pound company that does not have to submit tax returns with a fellow alleged sex offender who was sacked but never faced trial.
What a country.
Not surprised Rishi Sunak thought Darlington was in Scotland as geography is not his strong point - it’s only last year he thought he needed a US green card to be MP for Richmond.
‘We have reminded Rachel of her obligations as a contributor to Channel 4 programming.’
In other words, we think we need Rachel Riley’s skin-tight short skirts and simpering grin more than we care about her blatant racism offending viewers.
Accounts I now block without hesitation -
Apartheid supporters
Flag shaggers
Bigots
Misogynists
Racists
Terfs
People who tell me not to swear so much
Corbyn haters
Rosen haters
Markle haters
Trump fans
Monarchists
Climate breakdown deniers
and
Twats.
Have I missed anyone?
Camilla is taking a holiday while her husband has cancer treatment because she’s just done 13 days of work for the very first time in her life.
(And this is royal ‘work’, she’s not been hewing coal.)
Astonishing.
#AbolishTheMonarchy
Downing Street reveal that Johnson was ill with food poisoning during the Susanna Reid interview in a shoddy move to make him the object of sympathy rather than the impoverished bus-travelling pensioner, Elsie.
It’s another unprovable but certain lie. They have no shame.
Rabb says home working is damaging the economy.
Thatcher took an economy that depended on steel and manufacturing and turned it into one dependent on tuna baguettes.
#Marr
It’s quite lovely sitting with a brandy and watching in real time as ‘Queen’ consort Camilla’s reputation goes swirling down the toilet pan and off to the sewer where it belongs.
#Spare
Iran's attacks on Israel are a reckless and dangerous escalation. They must stop.
Israelis deserve to live in safety and security.
We must avert a regional war.
@GMB
@piersmorgan
Propaganda. At a time when Kensington Palace should be worrying about Phil, they’re panicking about the Oprah interview and busy running to the press with smears.
You will need to show voter ID at a UK General Election but not for Scottish or Welsh Government elections because neither of those nations are run by actual fascists.
People have died, and will continue to do so, but
#marr
dismisses the criticism of the missing 38 days with ‘hindsight is easy’. What a disgusting, flippant attitude towards thousands of deaths.
It’s common knowledge that the trip to Barnard Castle took place on Mary Wakefield’s birthday, it’s a little less well-known that Cummings’ mother, Morag, also celebrates her birthday in April. Might that be why they went to Durham in the first place?
#NotMovingOnTilDomHasGone
"It's a very strange supposition that you can't win an election because you promised to try and do something about child poverty. Poor people have votes as well, you know"
@jeremycorbyn
tells
#Peston
For those of you under 60, Maureen Lipman was famous in the 80s for appearing in an advert for a phone line (which was a monopoly - crazy times).
Back then no one suspected she would turn out to be a fan of apartheid and the mass slaughter of brown children.
Sunak says postal workers shouldn’t ask for pay increases that the hard-pressed taxpayers cannot afford to pay, seemingly unaware that Royal Mail is privately owned.
A twat and a liar.
#PMQs
Beth Rigby on Sky News seconds ago, describing Therese Coffey as the minister took a selfie outside No 10, ‘She’s actually quite lovely’.
Ladies and gentlemen, this is our media.
I am very tired of being labelled as a member of an institutionally racist party by people who implicitly support the politics of Windrush, the hostile environment, Yarl's Wood, Zac Goldsmith, Boris Johnson and Lynton Crosby.
With all due respect, fuck off.
‘Lots of people are happy with their broadband.’
‘Lots of people are happy to pay for dental treatment.’
It’s almost like
#Marr
has never read the UN report on poverty in Britain, isn’t it?
We don’t really need to ask why we will have the most deaths, do we? Herd immunity, late lockdown, no contact tracing, no testing, no PPE, early muddle, denial and a PM who stayed on holiday.
#C4News
There has never been anything gentlemanly or refined about Jacob Rees-Mogg, he has always been a fascist thug in a double-breasted suit and with old-Etonian, shoot-the-peasants, languidly arrogant accent, a quaint haircut and a salivating, grasping, ferocious greed.
Diane Abbott has been on the side of the disadvantaged and the oppressed all her life.
The Daily Express is a xenophobic, racist rag for arseholes, creeps and idiots.
I’ve heard tributes to the late, great John Hume all day. Much praise for Blair and Major too, but no one has mentioned the contribution paid to the peace process by the marvellous Mo Mowlam.
#C4News
As Priti Patel reads out the numbers of the dead like an estuary automaton, a reminder that the good people of New Zealand are having routine operations, meeting friends in a bar and attending family weddings.
#DowningStreetBriefing
Lots of people are saying this looks like Johnson used public funds to pay for sex. I'm not saying that, of course, but there are loads of people, good people, saying Johnson spaffed taxpayers' money on getting his leg over.
Motorway protests are dangerous, extremely irresponsible & unlawful. Thoughts with the officer & family affected by this.
Labour has long supported use of injunctions to stop dangerous protests. Wrong to put lives at risk in this way.
Health workers who have died did not sacrifice themselves, they were exposed to danger by a hapless, profit-before-people government and its hollowed out NHS.
#C4news
Queen acts to protect brand by stripping grandson of title for moving to protect his family from our racist, muderous media.
Queen acts to protect son, alleged rapist and proven friend of child abusers, still an HRH, Duke, Earl, Baron.
Nice woman, our queen.
#SussexRoyal
Fifteen guests at a wedding while thirty are allowed to gather to wear tweed and shoot birds out of the sky.
There’s your class war, right there.
#covidbriefing
Chatted about the 20mph yesterday with a man who said ‘How many lives will it save, 10? That’s nothing.’
A retired man thinks getting somewhere a few minutes earlier is more important than 10 people’s lives. Maybe a child or two, a pregnant woman, someone’s dad.
Horrible.
The aim of the Rwanda scheme is not to stop asylum seekers crossing the channel or to break the people traffickers, it’s to pander to the far right press and the racist vote.
#C4News