On the 19th of February I made a defamatory statement about
@jeremycorbyn
. I have apologised to Mr Corbyn and here is the complete text of my apology. Please retweet.
I said I would not vote for vaccine passports, which I believe are ineffective & discriminatory. I also cannot vote for restrictions 'just in case' at a time when hospitalisations and deaths are falling. I don't believe the evidence supports Plan B and I will not vote for it.
You can't go round Britain judging
#heritage
and
#statues
on whether they were nice people or not. Historical figures can't be expected to comply with C21 values. Denying the past is not healthy. Our
#history
is what it is. Accept it and learn from it! Denying it helps no one!
Regardless of what you think about the severity of the individual outcomes, it surely can't be right that lad who accidentally wees on a monument, apologises & hands himself in goes to jail, whilst lad who knowingly commits criminal damage gets a caution?
FIFA recently banned the home nations from wearing a poppy on their shirts because it was deemed 'too political' - yet supporting a movement that are attacking police officers and war memorials is different? Really disappointed
@premierleague
😢
Premier League players' names will be replaced on the back of their shirts with 'Black Lives Matter' for the first 12 matches of the restarted season.
The
#EPL
will support players who ‘take a knee’ before or during matches.
Full story ➡
#bbcfootball
Rapper calls the PM a racist, lots of coverage...
Same rapper dedicates his performance to "all of his friends behind bars, doing time" - doesn't seem to make anyone question his judgement at all... No?
Just me?
I'm sure he's spot on 😒
#RoleModels
Oxford uni saying black students can now do less work than white peers🤦♂️
Fed up of seeing so many middle class white people apologising for being middle class white people and making condescending offers to promote "equality" by treating BAME people differently to everyone else
.
@bbc
spending £100m on diversity and this junk 👇 (which honestly is racist! Would not be acceptable the other way around!) whilst at the same time ditching regional news in order to save £25m
#Wrong
Absolute joke. Cancelling my TV license. I don't need to pay for this.
I'm ignoring Twitter today, or until all of the usual anti-Brexit, anti-Boris,
#FBPE
#ToryScum
brigade who have transferred their expertise and outrage to
#coronavirus
stop trying to prove how clever they are by talking about how confused they are
Laters 👍
If we start to judge historical figures by 21st century standards, we'll find that quiet a few folks weren't that nice... Almost as if they didn't know any better 🤔
Another colossal waste of
@metpoliceuk
's time and resources looking after lots of people who have the great luxury of clearly not needing to be at work, whilst they prevent others from getting to work
#winning
#xr
#extinctionrebellion
We don't
#police
the USA! Our British Cops are putting themselves at risk to protect us, through coronavirus and always! These idiots are directing their rage at entirely the wrong place, and making a mockery of all the health advice whilst they're at it!!
Dom was bang on the money. Equality doesn't require one group to kneel for others! That's just a different form of discrimination. We live in a largely tolerant and respectful country, where we want to see fairness for all.
"I only kneel for the Queen and the Mrs..." Same here!
Asked if he would take a knee in support of Black Lives Matter, Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab: "I take the knee for two people; the Queen and the Mrs when I asked her to marry me." Listen live ►
@JuliaHB1
|
@DominicRaab
Extinction Rebellion:
''Capitalism is killing us all!! We should stop eating meat!!
Right then guys, let's knock off. Maccy Ds anyone!?''
The lack of self-awareness is absolutely staggering 🤔
Cromwell has his place outside Parliament, facing off against Charles I who is staring at him from the church across the road... It's part of our history. We shouldn't be taking statues down in Parliament. Full stop.
I'll be voting against the Infinite EU Extension Bill. There's no way I would agree to hand over control of Brexit and our leaving (if at all) date to the EU.
We have to get the job done on Oct 31st. Nobody can say Boris hasn't been 100% committed to delivering
#Brexit
as PM.
Why I wont be taking part in Orwellian 're-education'... we should reject the premise that we're all unconsciously racist, stop the leftist infiltration of our institutions, and save the taxpayer £1.4m that could be better spent elsewhere
Labour: "You should ban
#Fracking
Government: bans fracking
Labour:" this is an outrage!!"
Wonder why it's been so difficult to get things done in this Parliament? 🤔
Yes fleeing the hideous war and poverty in, err,
#France
. Millions of Brits head there on holiday every year FFS.
They escaped war and persecution when they arrived on
#European
shores, now they are economic migrants heading for the
#UK
.
#GetReal
Diane!
Extremely dangerous circumstances in which people are crossing the Channel. We have a duty to those at risk in British waters and to vulnerable refugees many of whom are fleeing war, poverty and persecution and being exploited by smuggling gangs.
It's simply not good enough to abdicate all responsibility for the type of Brexit we end up with. You are the Prime Minister. You can't stand there and say 'I do not support a second referendum, but Parliament would like one so I'll just go along with it'. You are meant to LEAD!
Table Office in Commons have emailed to tell me I can't ask an "Equalities" question about white boys!? Why?
Last time I checked, the protected characteristics are sex and race, not female and BAME!!
These lads are bottom of the educational attainment stats. That's inequality!
There is no such thing as a
#Brexit
that works for people who do not want Brexit. Govt has been trying that for the last 3 years and look where its got us!! The fudge must end!
#theresaintrousers
Country more divided even than during Brexit, because Brexit just a symptom of a wider problem. London & metropolitan cities may as well be different countries; they have a different culture. One thats entirely alien and contradictory to life in working class towns in England...
Dear
@MarcusRashford
. We have a difference of opinion. I voted to target funding more closely at those most in need. I dont believe FSM is a good indicator of that. Can I invite you to one of the country's most deprived schools to come discuss with the Head (who agrees with me)?
Raised the cause of one of the country's most disadvantaged groups today in
#Equality
questions.
White working class boys. The
#LostBoys
that
@cjsnowdon
raised in last week's
@spectator
The
#EqualitiesAct
fails by not recognising socio-economic disadvantage. It needs fixing.
Charity begins at home. No excuse for wasting taxpayers money sending it to rich countries incl China in pursuit of an arbitrary 0.7% target when we have so much domestic need! The annual practise of looking for any old project to spend it on to reach 0.7 must end. Spend it here!
For the record, the public have never voted to choose a prime minister. It's always done by MPs. That's how our electoral system works.
Worth a reminder...
Apparently saying that British taxpayer funded social housing should be prioritised to house British nationals - reflecting the fact that the first duty of the British Government is to protect and support British citizens - is now 'far right hate speech' and 'the language of the…
I wrote to the Premier League re Black Lives Matter last week to say that - though it's clearly well-meant - promoting identity politics can only sow further division. Burnley last night kind of proves my point - a blog on the issue:
Mad world we live in where saying that parents are responsible for feeding their children is now seen as wildly offensive and controversial...
Dare I say that a long term degradation of personal responsibility is part of the problem here? You don't fix poverty with freebies!!
I would urge you to talk to families before tweeting. To this day I haven’t met one parent who hasn’t wanted or felt the responsibility to feed their children...
I’m proud to unveil Nubian Skin as the winner of this year’s TfL Diversity in Advertising Competition. Look out for their empowering, inclusive adverts on the
@TfL
network.
That. Speech. Was. Fantastic.
Just what so many people have been longing to hear.
@BorisJohnson
as Prime Minister will deliver Brexit on October 31st, and he'll bring our country together behind key priorities like our police, schools, and boosting "forgotten towns"
I'm excited
Hardly a surprise. Always said this would only last as long as fans were kept out. It's not the same as other unifying anti racism campaigns. Its built on division; oppressors and victims!
Now it's become a political party too.
@EFL
and
@premierleague
should stop promoting it.
A section of Millwall fans booed as their players took a knee in support of the Black Lives Matter movement at the start of their Championship match against Derby.
£4bn Foreign Aid becomes £4bn 'Levelling Up Fund' to support areas of the UK that are most in need of investment...
Should be warmly welcomed. I have no doubt it will be by the vast majority in
#Mansfield
These are challenging times and we have a duty to help these communities
I really hope that the man who brought us the ever popular Poll Tax and the hugely successful Fixed Term Parliaments Act hasn't just royally fucked this whole thing up too 😬
Corbyn been to my constituency today. Big thanks to him for coming all the way up here to remind so many in Mansfield just why they switched from Labour to Conservative in '17... Come as much as you like!!
Sorry but this is ridiculous. The idea that
@Martina
Navratilova is a transphobe is just totally mad and self-defeating. This is a woman who was an out gay athlete with a transgender coach in the 1980s!! She's an LGBT activist, and she's simply saying what most people think!
A US-based organisation that campaigns for LGBT sportspeople has cut its links with Martina Navratilova over comments she made about male-to-female transgender athletes.
Full story
👉
.
@jk_rowling
defends ''controversial'' comments - she said that women exist!! She said that biological sex is an undeniable fact and that she's proud of being a woman.
THAT IS NOT CONTROVERSIAL!! THAT IS THE VIEW OF 99% OF THE WORLD!!
Talking about 'white privilege' means convincing some of the most disadvantaged kids in our country, who are already struggling, that they also need to feel guilt for the colour of their skin and events from before they were born. Its immoral and irresponsible
#YoureHarmingKids
Talking about white privilege means looking at how our own actions maintain and support racist systems and structures - regardless of our intent. We’re sharing some actions that parents can take to help create a fairer society.
#WednesdayWisdom
Tone of
@BorisJohnson
address tonight spot on 👏
We all need to take responsibility for keeping ourselves and others safe in the coming weeks.
Good to see the boss looking well again too.
Totally unacceptable and violence against the police continues.
@pritipatel
@SadiqKhan
- back the coppers! Help them shut this down. Law abiding British citizens want to see these people brought to justice and an end to this disrespect of our Police!
Gov has lots of responsibilities: supporting the vulnerable, helping people to help themselves, balancing the books. Not as simple as you to make out Marcus. Extending FSM to sch hols passes responsibility for feeding kids away from parents, to the State. It increases dependency.
Paying close attention to the Commons today and to those who are willing to turn a blind eye to the needs of our most vulnerable children, 2.2M of them who currently qualify for Free School Meals. 42% newly registered. Not to mention the 1.5M children who currently don’t qualify.
These are the people that Steve Carrell and Chrissy Teigan are bailing out of jail. This isn't legitimate protest against racism, this is a vicious assault on a innocent woman trying to defend her business from these thugs. These celebs need to look beyond the virtue signalling!!
We're ending
#FreeMovement
! Tonight the Immigration Bill was passed through the Commons and we're delivering on our promise of a points based
#immigration
system. Once again Labour voted against ending free movement 🙄
#WillTheyEverLearn
Been stopped by a man on the train who said "Are you an MP? Ben Bradley? I thought so... I'm afraid I'm not on your side, but I'll move up so you can have this seat".
A reminder that in the world outside Westminster and Twitter, people are polite and, for the most part, kind.
Dear Caroline
The Supreme Court decided and extended the law in this new and unprecedented ruling. That's fine. They have that power. However, Boris could not have broken a law two weeks ago that did not exist until yesterday🤔 you may need to rethink.
Sincerely
Common sense
Boris Johnson’s response dripping with the arrogance that led him to suspend Parliament
No apology for breaking the law. Only sorry he got caught
Not fit to be Prime Minister
#resign
#prorogationunlawful
Reading
@Transgendertrd
evaluation of Stonewall guidance for schools on the train. Have to say some shocking legal, scientific and moral problems identified. Not least the concept of "affirmation, secrecy from parents and the idea that sex is "assigned" rather than biological.
Perhaps sexist and racist as well as illiberal and undemocratic... any other adjectives you want to add Jo? Or are we just going to tell all the young lads in my constituency there they should never aspire to high office because they are too white and too male?
Faux outrage and PC gone mad claims another victim.
I ask you this. Does anyone actually believe that
@AlStewITN
is racist? Are we banning Shakespeare now?
Come on
@itn
- sort your act out! A world exists outside of Twitter where people think this is MAD!
#AlistairStewart
Confirmed: no outlet in Parliament will be selling alcohol after 10pm.
MPs and staff will quite rightly be subject to the same rules as everyone else.
Worth also saying that G9vernment doesn't control those kinds of rules in the Commons
The comparisons with
#Orwell
& 1984 now too numerous to ignore. It's something of a parody of a prediction of course (you hope), but the early days of
#IngSoc
and
#BigBrother
are described in terms that ring true right now. Here's how that society comes to be:
A thread 👇
To help me win in my marginal seat, you need to commit to leaving the EU on October 31st come what may. Anything else is guaranteed to put me out of a job 👍
In December Jeremy Hunt said that the UK would 'flourish' and 'prosper' under a
#WTO
deal... now it's
#politicalsuicide
.
This is exactly why we need a leader who believes in
#Brexit
and fought for it. We've seen already that if you're not committed to it, it won't work!
Let me get in early here and say that Government should absolutely 💯% IGNORE calls from this 'source' to review the use of the word Empire on our honours system. We should not apologise for our country's past and we shouldn't seek to erase it either!
There is something seriously wrong with the leadership at the British Library if they are serious advocating the rewriting of history... not to mention that the idea that racism only happens in one direction is nothing more than a flat out lie. Serious shake up needed!
The British Library’s chief librarian has claimed “racism is a creation of white people”
An internal report called for removal of statues of the library’s founding fathers, replacing “Eurocentric” maps, and reviewing collections of western classical music
To all those who said that the organisation Black Lives Matter was just taking a harmless, non-political stance on equality, and definitely wasn't a hard-left or extremist group...
You were dead wrong.
@premierleague
can we stop taking a knee for this 'cause' now please?
Been social distancing since March. Today I broke it to join the
#BlackLivesMattter
demo outside Parliament and take a knee with thousands of brave young people calling for Justice.
''I will always act in the national interest''
''The Government is to blame for COVID''
You've agreed with measures and never presented a single alternative - so how is this message in the national interest?
This is absolutely brilliant from
@KemiBadenoch
the Equalities Minister. This Government stands firmly against Critical Race Theory and does not support the anti-capitalist and divisive Black Lives Matter organisation.
#WellSaid
👏👏
The Equalities Minister could not have been clearer:
Black Lives Matter and Critical Race Theory are political and do not belong in schools.
Teaching ideas such as 'white privilege' as a factual reality is breaking the law! 🚫👨🏫
Hi
@MarcusRashford
- no reply to this yet so far as I can see. You were very quick to reply to previous tweets... Would love to invite you to Oak Tree, to discuss the needs of the kids face to face, and why FSM is not the right approach. Drop me an email?
Dear
@MarcusRashford
. We have a difference of opinion. I voted to target funding more closely at those most in need. I dont believe FSM is a good indicator of that. Can I invite you to one of the country's most deprived schools to come discuss with the Head (who agrees with me)?
The point I made when I wrote to the PL about the
#BLM
decision, is that I get what they're TRYING to achieve, I really do. It's laudable, but that is not what it will ACTUALLY achieve. What it actually achieves is more divisive identity politics, which makes the problem worse.
Ken Clarke recently came to a business event in Mansfield to find every SME round the table either supportive of or comfortable with leaving CU SM and all the rest. Are these employers all fundamentalists too? Or perhaps people can hold different views without being extremists!?
You gave that control to the EU27 when you voted for Benn/Surrender Act! Your point is true, he does have more control, and it's because you gave it to him! Didn't you understand what you were voting for?
#OhDear
#DontKnowWhatYoureDoing
The French President has more influence over the length of our extension than the British Prime Minister.
Brexit is not taking back control, it's giving it away.
If this is genuinely in line with Government guidance for 11 year olds, then there needs to be a very serious conversation in Government about that guidance very quickly!
Angela. Please remove this clickbait nonsense. If the context is not clear, I will clarify, but thats 100% NOT what I've said. Please don't drag this debate in to the gutter. What you've put here is NOT TRUE.
A Conservative MP has said that free school meals are effectively a direct payment to brothels and drug dealers.
Notwithstanding the fact that the vouchers in summer could only be used to purchase food, this stigmatisation of working class families is disgraceful and disgusting.
Pretty clear that I'm about to get hammered across social media/papers for the crime of a tweet where the context wasn't as clear as I'd thought it was. Needless to say, I haven't said what I'm being accused of, nor would I ever. I'm sorry if others get dragged in to the fire.
I've just voted to support our Overseas Operations Bill
Tonight Labour refused to support our Bill to tackle "vexatious claims" against the
#ArmedForces
.
Different leader same old
#Labour
.
Fair play to him. He's cottoned on.
I wonder if he got slated and called racist like I did, for pointing out that BLM the organisation is not something to support!?
Anti-racism and well intentioned sentiment, yes... 👍
Anarchic hard left organisation, massive NO! 👎
Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer tells
#BBCBreakfast
it’s "a shame" the sentiment behind the Black Lives Matter movement is getting “tangled up with these organisational issues" and it’s "nonsense" to call to ‘Defund the Police’.
Common sense wins 🏆
One of the UK's most prestigious schools has been downgraded to 'Requires Improvement' by Ofsted because it put more focus on its 'social justice' brainwashing than it did on actually learning anything!
Sad to have just received this letter.
I will not be silenced by
@UKLabour
MPs who continue to dismiss the contributions of those who don't conform to their view of how ethnic minorities should behave.
A victory for common sense and for actual evidence based working, as
#UnconsciousBiasTraining
is to be scrapped in the civil service - and hopefully across much of the public sector. 'Little effect' and 'unintended negative consequences'...
For those saying I'm trying to do
@MarcusRashford
down, I'm not!
He has prompted hundreds of orgs to help kids, that's a great thing!
Just the anti-Gov msg without acknowledging the major investment in support this yr is frustrating/unfair! Nobody is 'turning a blind eye'.
Corbyn chose to spend his time at
#PMQs
today defending foreign national criminals, including murderers, rapists and drug dealers, who he seeks to prevent from being deported.
Proving once more that he's got no concept of the views of the majority in the country!
#GetAGrip
The world's first nuclear fusion power plant will be built in North Notts. A multi-billion pound investment in producing carbon-free nuclear energy on a commercial scale, so that North Notts can power the country once again.
@tomhfh
Not quite. Average house price in Mansfield is circa £130k. You can buy a small terraced house for £80-100k. My wife, only a few years older than you, bought a house in Notts at 21 because she grafted and saved. London isn't the world!
Of course 😒 The beheading of a teacher is the fault of free speech, not the fault of the radical terrorist murderer who did it? After all how could he possibly stop himself given the circumstances. That what you're trying to say here, Roshan? Feel free to clarify what you mean!
#CharlieHebdo
must be shut down immediately by French authorities. This racist, Islamophobic rag is causing community relations to completely break down with its repeated provocations. They are literally crying fire in a crowded theatre. Freedom of speech isn't worth civil war.
With new
#RSE
curriculum due to hit
#schools
in September I honestly think most parents would be shocked by the content. Conflating '
#sex
' and '
#gender
' leads to misinformation, and confused kids! Intend to take this up with DfE and colleagues in a big way.
Throughout the whole coronavirus process one of the most difficult things I think has been the amount of people calling for an end to using your common sense, and instead for Government officials to follow you with a tape measure at all times. How about personal responsibility.