The Conservatives have successfully groomed a nation to expect less from government, to hate and fear outsiders, to envy each other, to see home as a commodity and money as the only benchmark of success. They are the very worst of us and they must go.
#EnoughIsEnough
There are no words for how fucked our media system is in this country. Dominated by a cabal of billionaire-backed libertarian offshore disaster capitalists, picking and choosing their favourites and destroying whoever threatens their massive piles of profit. Anyway, Happy Sunday
For those that have listened for the last 11 years 8 months 13 days, thanks for putting up with the many shite days and for giving us your time and your fucking funny jokes. We love you from the bottom of our hearts
Itโs driving me nuts the way masks have been politicised. You donโt hold a door open for someone for your benefit, you do it as a small courtesy to them. Same with a mask but more important. Why is it so hard for people to just be a bit nice?
Being a racist isn't an opinion you're entitled to. If you discriminate against someone because of their ethnicity you're dangerous. You deserve to be vilified. You deserve to lose your job. You're not being cancelled. You're being left behind by a society that rejects you.
No surprise to see nearly all news outlets demonising train drivers, nurses, climate protesters and Harry and Meghan instead of centuries-old establishments that deliberately conspire to make all of our lives worse every day. We must fight these forces and we have to win. ๐ซก
For some reason Iโm almost as depressed to discover I live in a country that celebrates the celebrity of Matt Hancock than I am to live in one that votes for Brexit.
Having heard people talk about it I innocently bought a small jar of Biscoff paste from Sainsburyโs earlier today and now Iโve got no teeth, have sold my house and am tossing people off for change under Charing Cross bridge
My mind has gone. I am totally overwhelmed by all of your love. And most recently by my
#thisisyourlife
from one of the great broadcasters and mentor to me,
@steve_lamacq
. Tomorrow letโs just open the pub early and talk shit yea? What you havin by the way? Xxxx
I canโt believe today. This is my eldest son photobombing Taylor Hawkins. Taylor was the most delightful โfamous personโ I think Iโve ever met. Just a true, beautiful soul. He seemed to have a pure love of music and people. A sense of fun. Devastating to hear heโs gone.
Oh hi
@DominicRaab
. Obviously you blocked us so thereโs a chance youโll miss this, but we wanted to let you know we projected your fatuous imbecility onto 3000 square metres of the White Cliffs of Dover.
I donโt know shit but it seems to me that politics in general used to be quietly, grindingly boring and administrative, but now itโs performative. To the colossal detriment of everyone on earth. Pint?
Absolutely heartbroken about what they are doing to us. How can it be legal for them to do this? How can they foist yet another unelected prime minister on us??
#GeneralElection2022
How far we have fallen from morality when Gove's spinners think the electorate will be morally horrified by
#MichaelGove
's recreational cocaine use, but not at all arsed about how he deliberately and systematically fucked up the U.K.'s state school system for years to come!
Pure arrogance for the Government and BBC to press ahead with a ยฃ1.50 hike to the Licence Fee in the midst of a pandemic forcing so many out of work.
Thatโs right, next year the Beeb is going to cost you ยฃ159, no matter your age.
I repeat: ยฃ159! Outrageous.
World gone mad. Hearing Nick Robinson badgering Emily Thornberry, โWOULD Jeremy Corbyn use nuclear weapons?!โ Come on mate! Are you HARD enough to detonate a thermonuclear device that will definitely wipe out humanity or are you a SOFTLAD?!
I think we should stop broadcasting stories about N***l F****e's new party as one might ignore a child on a tantrum..why do we keep drawing attention to him??
The
@Conservatives
are unashamed economic and cultural vandals who are deliberately destroying our childrensโ futures and our chances of a decent life. They need to be removed as soon as possible and we need to do everything we can to make that happen. We need to come together.
Just want to say a colossal thank you to everyone who listened to our show and have been contacting me sending love to me. I reciprocate that in a huge way. Iโm going to carry on lying under my bed in the foetal position for a bit longer but I promise Iโll be back making
The kind of men who racially abuse people they were lionising moments before are the same kind that call women unutterable names after their wolf whistles are ignored.
Itโs very simple - itโs this country and government who should decide who comes here - not criminal gangs.
Our new laws show we will do what is necessary to achieve that.
David Davis on
@BBCRadio4
describing the current Conservative crisis as potentially โdeath by a thousand cutsโโฆ.heโs one letter out isnโt he?!
Guess what I got for Christmas? COVID! The perfectly awful end to a shite year. I know loads of peopleโs Xmas has been compromised this year by illness or loneliness, so I just want to say Iโm with you, all things must pass, we shall prevail. Dig deep. PS I CANโT TASTE ANYTHING!
Classic far-right/narcissist playbook though, isnโt it? Call everyone snowflakes, and then the minute youโre challenged robustly shout โyouโre being a rude bully!โ Youโve destroyed the country and weโre not allowed to be angry about it?!
If Johnson does get flushed out of public office is anyone up for a small street party? A dummy run for the fucking massive one when we got the Tories out?
Oh my god. Oh my god.
@BorisJohnson
you are a complete and utter disgrace. Gaslighting, obfuscation, accusing the opposition of playing politics. Step down.
On my death bed, if someone whispers "that Robbie Williams biopic comes out on Friday", I will squeeze the carer's hand and whisper, "I'm ready to go".
โImpartialityโ has become a stick to cow presenters into silence. It has become a euphemism for protecting a corrupt government. The Conservatives inculcated this culture of fear deliberately and are gleefully destroying the BBC just like they are the NHS.
#EnoughIsEnough
Congratulationsย to Makenzy Beard, Year 9, whose painting has been selected for exhibition at the
@royalacademy
Young Artists' Summer Show. The work will be on display in London 13th July - 8th August. A fantastic achievement, well done!!! ๐๐ผ
#bishExpressiveArts
#bish21
Iโm getting ready to go to bed early for work for the last time. It feels really weird. Good night. Hope you can listen tomorrow for our last ever breakfast show. I guarantee it will be a mess.
Heโs right. Itโs Jodie Whittakerโs fault young men commit crimes. Not years of austerity, mental health and social care provision cutbacks, fewer pathways into real careers, under investment in poorer communities and abject failure of hope. Itโs definitely Jodieโs fault.
Farage is right about one thing, there is a small boat in the Channel right now on which we can blame many of the problems we currently face as a nation. And he's in it. What a horrible, horrible manifestation of the worst parts of our national psyche he is.
Sadly we are trying to find heart in the heartless, sense in the senseless. This governmentโs very bedrock is hate, othering, and cynically pandering to peopleโs worst instincts. I cannot wait to see them washed away in a landslide:
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#OTD
1977: John Noakes scaled Nelson's Column, on a wobbly ladder... with no safety harness...and no helmet...wearing flares... to clean some pigeon poo. Don't try this. Anywhere. Ever.
I fucking love watching Bob Ross paint. I especially love the bit where, every single time, I mutter, โaw heโs fucking lost itโฆโ, and then he slaps a bit more titanium white and banjaxed crimson on and it looks fucking mint
#fuckingmint
Boris Johnson has lost any authority to deploy advice on the coronavirus. This is a crucial moment. Itโs a disgrace he is still there. His presence in Number Ten is a public health risk.
Gary Davies has just fucking faded out Tunnel of Love by Dire Straits before the solo and now I am walking the streets shirtless swinging a snooker ball in a sock
My funk soul brother, youโre one of my favourite people in broadcasting. You know this. We used to joke whenever you stood in for me on Breakfast it was in fact I who was standing in for you til you could dep again, so popular you were! Youโre going to be so good. OPEN THE TRUNK!
Craig Charles (
@CCfunkandsoul
) is the new host of weekday afternoons between 1โ4pm ๐
The show will be an uplifting and eclectic mix of music with guests from across the worlds of music, comedy, TV & film.
Craig will continue to present the Funk and Soul Show on Saturdays ๐
It wasn't optimism that got Americans on the moon Boris, you mendacious tool, it was 9 years of mindblowingly intricate work by 350,000 geniuses and the courage of three almost superhuman humans. Piggybacking on their work to make your shit point is typical of you.
The world is now run by shit Bond villains, Marvel billionaires and actual television comedians. So-called adults mock a kid for trying to save the earth. The sooner the kids take over the fucking better:
Travelling anywhere in this country, going to the hospital, needing help of any kind, weโre reminded that in 14 years of Tory rule the only people whoโs lives have improved are Tory donors, members, or the super rich. The rest of us are meaningless to them
#GeneralElectionNow
Weโve had some coughing in the house so we are on 14 day lock-in from last Saturday (donโt panic we have wine). So wonโt be with you on the waves for a bit. But my wonderful colleagues will be. Stay in, stay safe, and Iโll be talking bullshit at you IMMINENTLY XXXX
More articulate people have expressed this than me, but having the jab made me feel emotional. A whole building full of brilliantly helpful and clever people doing something totally altruistic. The world can seem awful at times, but there is hope here.
#nhs
๐
Raab is trying to sell himself as a brilliant politician whoโs innovative work was stymied by pathetic underlings. Weโre talking about a man who, as Brexit Secretary, didnโt realise the English Channel was an important trade route. The guy is an incompetent bullying twat!
Non-priorities for current government: Free school meals. Human rights. Morality of any description. Culture.
Priorities: Kill the BBC. Flags. Protecting statues. Division. BYOB parties. Taking the piss and getting away with it.
I think if the Conservative party line is that omicron will be deadly due to an overwhelmed NHS, we have to remember which party has been most invested in the dismantling of said health service.
@BorisJohnson
Who are you addressing this to? Not the nation, seeing as though we weren't asked. I guess it must be directed at the 0.13% of the Conservative Party that did. Either way, the honour was not bestowed by us. We think you're a lying bellend.
Why are places like the BBC once again enabling Nigel F*r*ge by giving the whole โooo it looks like a good time for a comeback for the political maverick!โ schtick rather than ignoring or marginalising one of the most dangerous figures in modern politics? I just donโt get it.
Just saying for the avoidance of any doubt that I believe this incarnation of Tories are the most morally-corrupt, politically damaging and incompetent bunch of arseholes ever to have been in charge of what is left of this counrtry, and I can't fcking wait for them to fck off. ๐คถ
it feels really invasive to have your children's future ruined by very privileged late middle-aged politicians who have demonstrated how little they care about anything but their own reputations doesn't it?
instead of constantly arguing about who the perfect leader should be, shouldnโt all Labour activists be unifying to tell the simple tale of a government of cronies and cynics that hates all but the richest of its constituents?
This lady has just spent 2 mins absolutely eviscerating the Conservatives on their record on EVERYTHING ๐๐ป๐๐ป๐๐ป๐๐ป๐๐ป๐๐ป
#BBCQT
โ Iโm staggered that you think youโre succeedingโฆ
Watch and listen!
Love how tories are very happy to start a million divisive and utterly fake culture wars against โsnowflakesโ but the minute someone says โI detest the toriesโ they absolutely lose their shit and start crying in a corner.
It may be one of the most challenging times to be alive right now but it's an absolutely halcyon moment in history to be a shameless, lying, machiavellian, incompetent, heartless, greedy sack of shit isn't it?
If you think Just Stop Oil are a
bigger problem than the oil companies that have been deliberately obfuscating information about climate change for 40 years, or the governments that are ignoring it, I think you are also the problem.
Playing Monopoly in the rain on holiday and remembering what a great lesson it is for kids: money turns people into pricks. I hate to call my kids that but facts are facts.
Imagine being so morally debased that you and your cronies would actively use a war in which thousands are dying due to a despot that weaponises disinformation, to stay in office.
Enough! I canโt stand it anymore! Alex Scott spoils a good presentational job on the BBC Olympics Team with her very noticeable inability to pronounce her โgโs at the end of a word.Competitors are NOT taking part, Alex, in the fencin, rowin, boxin, kayakin, weightliftin & swimmin
Itโs not funny anymore is it. Our relatives and friends and front line workers have died and these guys just waffle on in some careerist Odyssey of Lies.
Special love to all with the virus or helping people with it right now. It's the real deal, a scary thing that can lay you up for a long time. Despite what some silly people might contest. We all have to absolutely kick the shit out of it with love, kindness and patience xx ๐๐
If Johnson does get flushed out of public office is anyone up for a small street party? A dummy run for the fucking massive one when we got the Tories out?
Steve was a friend-on-the-radio first, then a proper friend. He was just really kind, and sweet and looked out for you. Never took any daft shit seriously. But he took radio seriously. Canโt believe it really. Love you pal. โค๏ธโค๏ธโค๏ธ
This story about the football super league is just another example of how weirdly accepting we have become in this country of accepting behemoth businesses taking a massive shit on the front lawn of our collective culture.
If you were to measure the value of a person's time on earth by how many people they delighted, Barry Cryer is one of humanity's great treasures. Giving hundreds of little daily gifts of laughter. Always seeing the funny. The world just got a bit more boring.
#ripbarry