'My Mama said to get things done, you'd better not mess with Major Tom'
Swearer. Landlocked sea lover. All views my own.
If you put me on a list, I'll block you
Sunak - son of immigrants
Braverman - daughter of immigrants
Patel - daughter of immigrants
Badenoch - immigrant
Cleverly - son of immigrants
And yet none of them want the same chances for others that they've benefitted from.
🚨 NEW: Rachel Reeves plans to slash the welfare budget, with the aim of reducing "fraud".
The Guardian reports that Reeves plans to "take tough decisions on welfare and spending" in the autumn.
(Via
@guardian
)
Great headline today claiming that the virus is rising because we relaxed too much. Not because the government urged us all back to work/school/pubs/shops/Barnard Castle for eye tests/Lack of PPE. Nope. It's our fault. Of course it is.
London’s first multibank is open.
Funded by City Hall, the Felix Project's multibank will support more than 40,000 families in need by providing essentials all in one place, such as:
👚 Clothes
🛏️ Bedding
🍼 Baby products
🧼 Toiletries
🪑 Furniture
MP's are getting a pay rise.
Key workers and other low paid workers have to strike to see any improvements in pay and/or working conditions.
Do you see the Tories for what they are yet?
Both Esther McVey and her husband MP Philip Davies claim £1,625 a month each in rent for Flats less than a mile apart this has cost you over £250,000 in total.
Is the Minister for Common Sense, engaging in expenses fraud?
Legend! Thank you Mick Lynch. I've been helped by staff on trains and in stations many times even though I don't have a disability. I want rail workers at every level to be paid properly. I don't want my fares to end up in the pockets of the already very rich.
🎥 "An app is no good for you if you're in a wheelchair and need to board a train with a big gap at the interface."
@RMTunion
Mick Lynch on why passengers want a staffed railway
#StaffOurStations
Wouldn't it be fantastic if the Government started a huge 'Buy British 🇬🇧' campaign?
We make the best produce in the world - we should celebrate it!
Our farmers, fishermen and economy would all get an enormous boost.
What's not to like?!
☕️ BREAKING: Phoebe Plummer Arrested at Cafe While Waiting for Hash Browns
⚖️ On Monday, Phoebe was issued draconian bail conditions by
@metpoliceuk
stating she is “not to protest on any roadway within the UK”. This morning, Phoebe chose to slow march for no new oil and gas.
I'm gobsmacked, as a Yorkshire woman, that anyone in the North could even think about voting for the Tories. They hate the North. They hate working class people. They will privatise the NHS (they already are). Can you afford to vote for them?
#VoteLabour2019
Thatcher caused generational decay in communities built around the mining industry. She destroyed jobs and livelihoods.
She increased inequality.
She privatised our utilities.
She initiated outsourcing in the NHS.
She laid the foundations for the current housing crisis.
Hold on
@UKLabour
I have an email saying my data might have been the subject of a cyber incident. I resigned from your party nearly two years ago, why on earth have you still got my details? And yes, I would like an answer please.
🚨 NEW: Labour peer Robert Winston has urged Keir Starmer to make people pay for the NHS.
Interviewed by Sky News, he said: "Labour won't want me to say this, but I think we have to ask whether or not we need to consider an insurance scheme ... or we accept people have to pay"
Tory Iain Duncan Smith whose policies were described as causing a 'systematic violation of Human Rights..' by United Nations, has received a Knighthood. The
#Queen
rewarding people who cause suffering.
#Royals
Feels like the Establishment are trying to wind us up!
#ToryBritain
On this day 29 years ago, Nelson Mandela walked free from prison. Here's our Deputy Chairman,
@JamesCleverly
, on why Mandela is the defining politician of his generation.
BREAKING:
@JeremyCorbyn
has written to the PM calling for emergency support for people affected by the coronavirus epidemic, including rent deferrals & mortgage holidays, higher statutory sick pay from day one, & income protection for insecure, low-paid & self-employed workers.
Johnson's never said a bad word about anyone? What about, 'Tank-topped bum boys' 'Picanninies with watermelon smiles' Describing muslim women as letterboxes? These are the very well known ones. There will be thousands more no doubt. Seriously Nadine, think before you tweet, eh?
The same lady who on an interview on TV last week said something along the lines of ‘I just hope we can all be a bit kinder and a bit nicer to each other now.’ I’ve never heard
@BorisJohnson
say a bad word about anyone, not even those who strongly oppose him
#Thebetterperson
Dear Mr Sunak, when Oh when will you rid our Streets of these terribly awful mob rule types
Extinction Rebellions discobedience outside Lloyds of London
#MobRule
#LeapDay
#Leap
#leapday2024
#viral
For too long, football fans have been treated as an afterthought.
If I’m Prime Minister, I’ll make sure the European Super League doesn’t happen.
It’s time to start putting fans first.
Am tweeting this again because it makes me so angry. This can never be allowed to happen again. It's happened far too many times already. If you vote Tory, you're voting for this.
I'll be wearing my poppy with pride this year, honouring our veterans and remembering those who made the ultimate sacrifice for our freedom.
Please support this year’s
#PoppyAppeal
and the important work
@PoppyLegion
do.
This is my MP, Bell Ribeiro-Addy who did NOT vote to discharge raw sewage into our rivers and seas because she's a decent person. She also supports striking workers. Thank you
@BellRibeiroAddy
Some people can't work.
Are they really economically inactive though?
As far as I can see, their benefits (if they're claimed) go straight back into the economy and/or the pockets of landlords.
Please stop blaming and demonising people.
Yet more evidence of the dire inheritance we face.
Our employment rate is still not back to pre pandemic levels.
More than 1 in 5 people are economically inactive.
Millions of people are being denied the support and opportunities they need to get work and get on at work. 1/2
Dennis Skinner was thrown out of the House of Commons for calling Cameron ‘Dodgy Dave.’
Today, the unelected
@David_Cameron
has been appointed Foreign Secretary by the unelected
@RishiSunak
.
To all those sniping at a government trying to cope with one of the fastest-moving national emergencies in a generation: you haven't got a fucking clue. Not an iota. Either come up with something constructive, or zip it. Ideally the latter. FFS.
No Piers. The most important people in the fight against this virus are not Tory fuckwits. The most important people in the fight against this virus are front line staff who are being treated like shit by said Tory fuckwits.
The fact Britain’s 3 most important people in the battle against Coronavirus have gone down on the same day says everything about our woeful & I fear disastrous social distancing strategy.
They can’t even practice it properly themselves.
"I can tell you everything was done with full propriety and in accordance with proper procedures."
Boris Johnson faces allegations he failed to declare potential conflict about public funding to close friend
This smear is beyond vile and disgusting
I hope Corbyn and Labour sue Hunt for making such remarks
And its really sad that our politics has gotten so personal with pathetic attacks on Corbyn like hes too frail, a racist and attacks on his pension
#Hunt
I really believe that if we don’t open schools we are going to lose a generation. The parks are full of teenagers drinking and smoking weed. It’s the most vulnerable kids who will suffer, risking getting sucked into crime and drugs. Sometimes school is their only chance.
Yes, you've changed the Labour party. Now I can no longer be a member of it coz I can't see the difference between your party and the Tories.
You should be calling for a
#CeaseFirelnGazaNOW
too. I honestly don't know how you sleep at night
I'm a remainer. I voted Labour. I still want Labour. I definitely don't want someone who doesn't care at all about his constituents - Umunna is MP. I want a
#byelection
I voted for the party, not this ego
Justin Welby suggests we should forgive Prince Andrew. It is difficult to forgive someone that neither admits to,or shows remorse for wrong they've done.
I'm hearing that coaches from outside London have been cancelled now many tube lines won't be running.
If you can get to the demo on Saturday, please do so. It's more important than ever
#CeasefireForGazaNOW
This is Simon Antrobus, CEO of ‘Children In Need.’
...but before he helps any kids, he wants a £135,000 per year salary plus expenses and the rest of his staff want £6.5 Million per year of your money.
Why has the tube driver who started Pro Palestinian chants just been suspended “ pending an investigation” “
There’s nothing to investigate it.
He said it. We’ve all heard it. He should be fired immediately.
🚨BREAKING NEWS🚨 Labour breaks it's promise to implement UN Disability rights policy into UK law if it wins the next general election.
More from
@johnpringdns
On turning down an
#OBE
, Benjamin Zephaniah (RIP) wrote "Up yours, I thought ... I get angry when I hear that word 'empire'; it reminds me of slavery, it reminds of thousands of years of brutality, it reminds me of how my foremothers were raped and my forefathers brutalised..."
Eat Out to Help Out
Let the bodies pile high
Food banks
Cost of Living Crisis
Having a job but having to claim Universal credit
Rawanda...
Those are some of the things that are disrespectful
not decide whether to support Leave or Remain till a special conference to be held AFTER the election. This will pass because
@jeremycorbyn
has support of trade unions and delegates who are at conference. But it is out of step with desire of most Labour members and supporters...
@BarbaraSutton15
Yes, why shouldn't he express his opinion? I don't have a strong opinion on Lineker either way but for anyone who says he should stick to sport, well, politics affect us all.
My problem with Jess Phillips is that she often did NOT “speak truth” in relation to Jeremy Corbyn.
Often she spoke lies. And often she spoke those lies with intent to cause harm to Mr Corbyn.
And she is Murdoch’s candidate. So it’s a bit rich to claim to speak truth to power
Weasel Corbyn eh? Keeping it classy, I see
@simon_schama
Corbyn's called out Johnson more times than anyone else, but he doesn't do infantile name calling or shouting - that behaviour belongs to bullies - just so you're aware.
can someone please stand up and start shouting (it wont be the weasel Corbyn) "YOU ARE NOT CHURCHILL, fatso, and the EU is not the Third Reich. You do not have a war cabinet because THERE IS NO WAR. How DARE you invoke the sacrifices of those fought one!
And the UK abstains.
The USA & UK rejecting the sanctity of life.
Both supporting more genocide. More slaughter of children.
One a nation of immigrants. One a nation of colonialism.
Both now joined by supremacy & self interest.
Both guilty. Both racist.
Yes! Just persuaded my sister-in-law to vote Labour. She wasn't going to bother but hates the Tories-reckons they won't win. Told her Corbyn only lost last election by just over 2000 votes. Her daughter-in-law is a teacher, so we talked about it. 'Right, I'm going to vote then.'
The Obsession with Jeremy Corbyn here drives me up the f*cking wall. There's literally f*ck all logic, truth, or point to any of it, you're just aching for some Loon to do him serious Harm. He has *No* power or influence, yet you stay a million miles from those that do.
🚨 BREAKING: Phoebe Plummer Arrested for...
🤷♀️ Apparently nothing.
🚔
@metpoliceuk
are arresting people for conspiracy to do something that didn't happen in a location they weren't in. Make it make sense.
💸 Support people in civil resistance —
🚨 VICTORY
RMT welcomes resounding victory against ticket office closures
@RMTunion
today welcomed the government’s complete withdrawal of its ticket office closure plans in light of passenger watchdog objections as a complete victory.🧵
#SaveTicketOffices
You can't have a political opinion if you've got a bum and/or boobs?
Jesus, what century is
@ShaunBaileyUK
actually living in?
Thank god he didn't become London Mayor
Not until no deal is off the table. Come on Owen, you know this, so I don't understand why you're attacking Labour when your time would be much better spent attacking the Tories.