Sorry I've been quieter than usual for the last week... My personal life has been on fire, and my mental health took a nose dive
So I'm going to give myself some time to get better.
But here's the most important message for this year:
Absolutely F*****G INCREDIBLE!
Rishi Sunak just spent 2 minutes boasting about how Northern Ireland is the "most exciting exciting investment zone on the planet" because it has full access to the UK and EU market...
You know... like we did before Brexit!
#WindsorFramework
Tories
If you're white Ukrainians we'll bring you into our homes & stop buying oil from your persecutors.
If you're from Africa/Middle-East we'll send you to concentration camps in Rwanda while selling bombs to the people who blew up your home.
But we're definitely not racist.
The UK has a new head of state, a new Prime minister and a new government in the same week, and NOT A SINGLE FREE VOTE was cast.
We're such a democratic country, aren't we...😬
Can we all agree on something?
If you're a politician getting paid over £84,000 plus expenses, for mainly office work...
You don't get to tell nurses on less than £30,000 that they're being paid enough for 12-hour shifts keeping people alive.
#NursesStrike
BREAKING:
Rishi Sunak is announcing new support for the cost of living on the same day as the Sue Gray Report.
TRANSLATION:
The government was happy to watch people freeze and starve for months, but only thought it was worth helping if it could help distract from their crimes.
The UK FINALLY has a way out of this Tory nightmare.
The Labour Party just voted to adopt Proportional Representation.
That is key to getting the Tories out at the next election and keeping them out of number 10 at future elections.
WELL FUCKING DONE TO EVERYONE BEHIND THIS!😍
Mick Lynch: We need a written guarantee of no compulsory redundancy.
Tory Rachel Maclean: They already have! It's here in this letter.
Mick Lynch: No it's not.
Rachel Maclean: *Reads out letter that doesn't guarantee anything.*
#bbcqt
This. Woman. Is. A. HERO!!! 🤩🤩🤩🤩
She knew the BBC didn't want to discuss the government's attacks on free speech and she didn't care.😍
The Policing Bill is THE THREAT!
#BBCqt
@piersmorgan
I'm curious, Piers.
You hear Harry say a member of the royal family expressed concern over the skin colour of his unborn child.
Yet you think HE'S the problem.
Either you think he's lying or you think he should keep his mouth shut about racism in the royal family.
Which is it?
I don't mind Right-Wing thugs chucking their drinks on me.
I don't mind them poking me in the face with a flagpole.
I do mind that Nigel Farage is set to WIN the European Elections on Thursday, by calling anyone who opposes a form of Brexit he said would never happen, "traitors".
This is the most chilling explanation of what Brexit will do to the UK economy after December.
By
@AdamPosen
, President of the Peterson Institute for International Economics.
#ThisIsWhatYouVotedFor
This is how a true public servant reacts to a man whose only priority is his own ambition playing games with the lives of her constituents.
Jess Phillips, you have truly inspired me today. A very rare thing given today's parliamentary politics.
@jessphillips
I've got nothing.
I pre-wrote an article about Boris Johnson facing the Privileges Committee to decide if he lied to Parliament on
#Partygate
.
But I never imagined he'd remove *honesty* from the Ministerial Code WHILE being investigated.
We're at rock fucking bottom, people.
Correct me if I'm wrong but Boris Johnson's lost every vote in Parliament, now has a majority of minus-41 & his flagship policy was incinerated in days.
Yet compared to Theresa May, very few people are calling him a "weak PM ". Does male bravado make one strong regardless?
This isn't about left, right, centre, leave or remain... This is about ensuring that democracy can never be put on pause when an unelected politician finds it inconvenient.
#StopTheCoup
"By giving the police the discretion to use these powers some of the time, it takes away our freedoms ALL of the time."
David Lammy is fighting for every single one of us.
✊🏿✊🏾✊🏽✊🏼
#PolicingBill
@DavidLammy
The real test of the UK is whether by Election 2024, we all forget the Tories caused the most excess deaths in Europe, gave the top grades to private school kids, starved poor kids while their parents were out of work, blew £millions on dodgy contracts and left the North to rot.
@MarcusRashford
@England
The skill required to send an international goalie completely the wrong way...
Mate you've literally been the best of this country both on and off the pitch for the last 18 months.
You're the one who's been let down.
Just riding through Bournville and spotted two kids, Mary and Matthew, protesting outside the police station by themselves. Figured I'd give them a boost.
(made them call their mum for permission first)
#BlackLivesMattterUK
If a desperately hungry person steals fruit from Morrisons, the law brands them a criminal and they go to jail.
If a Tory MP takes an £80K salary from the tax payer, but instead serves the wishes of businesses paying him £112K, the law gets changed to protect him.
#OwenPaterson
Have Harry & Meghan ever actually hurt people in the UK?
Have they ever deprived poor kids of school meals? Cut people's benefits? Sent covid patients into care homes? Crashed the economy?
So why is there MORE hatred for them than the politicians who did?
#HarryAndMeghanNetflix
Here's an idea...
If you spend 5 years screaming "we won, you losers" into our faces, you don't get to tell us to "let it go" after 3 weeks when it starts ruining people's lives. 🤷🏿♂️
Can you imagine if the Royal Family said "Because people are literally starving right now, we're going to pay for the
#PlatinumJubilee
out of our own private fortunes and give all the cash that would have been spent on us, to the poorest councils in the UK"?
What a wild gesture!
OH MY F***ING GOD!
@SophyRidgeSky
: But these tax cuts will mainly benefit millionaires.
Mark Littlewood: "You're not going to like this package if you care more about the poor."
@MarkJLittlewood
= director of the pro-Brexit IEA think-tank. (funding?)
IT'S FINALLY HAPPENED!!! 😍😍😍😍
An audience member on Question Time just said changing the voting system to Proportional Representation is the answer to the current crisis.
AND THE AUDIENCE CLAPPED!!
#BBCQT
Sometimes I think when Boris Johnson needs the public to be distracted from his failures he just pushes Priti Patel out the door and says "Go be yourself!".
Andy Burnham absolutely letting rip at the government for withholding the support Manchester needs... looking like the Clark Kent of Stockport. 😍
#ManchesterLockdown
@AndyBurnhamGM
If an MP is paid £122,400 a year by private companies with lobbying interests and paid £80,000 a year by the tax-payer, who is he really working for?
Asking for Owen Paterson.
#ToryCorruption
Any government that sacrifices trade with its own continent so it can import beef from the other side of the planet, while claiming to be tackling climate change, shouldn't be trusted.
#Bbcqt
#AustraliaTradeDeal
I'm trying to organise building a statue of Jimmy Saville outside Birmingham Children's Hospital because his contribution to kids' entertainment is an important part of our history, and without a statue we'd forget the great things he did.
Let me know if you're willing to help.
🔺Worst recession & inflation in G7
🔺126 crimes in Downing Street
🔺A Brexit more costly than Covid (his government's analysis)
🔺Voted to cover up MP bribery
🔺Refused poor kids school meals
🔺200,000 dead
🔺Knowingly promoted Sex pest
🔺£Billions on fraudulent Covid contracts
Dear
@bbc
,
Why are your presenters wearing poppies?
Your rules ban "virtue signalling no matter how worthy the cause".
If presenters can support war-related campaigns on the news, surely they can show they believe in equality for black & gay people? Or is that against BBC values?
‼️ Rishi Sunak is the first Prime Minister to enter 10 Downing Street, having ALREADY committed a criminal offence while in government. ‼️
Are any journalists mentioning this? Or are they letting him paint himself as restoring integrity after Boris Johnson.
You don't get to inflict poverty, death, and division on millions of people for 12 years and then complain that they're using words like "hate" to describe you.
#DetestToryValues
Michael Gove knows he lied about Brexit, and now that it's added to the poverty of millions of people... all he can do is grin, dodge and gloat about winning.
@MichaelGove
. Everyone can see what you are.
Imagine if someone in 2016 said a vote for Brexit would leave UK politics so broken that in the space of 12 months, there'd be government misconduct over porn, rape, paedophilia, bribery, blowjobs, bullying and 126 crimes committed in Downing street, and they'd still be in power.
So kneeling during the national anthem makes you a traitor to your country, but breaking into and planting bombs in the Capitol Building makes you a patriot.
Have I got that right?
I can't stress how elitist it is that you would replace Erasmus (lets young people study across Europe) with Turing (lets them study in Canada, America, Australia etc)...
How many working class kids can afford a flight to Melbourne! You can get to Belgium for 12 quid!
Does ANYONE think this is a coincidence?
We are now constantly discussing whether a free* NHS is financially sustainable, after 3 years of the Tories literally stealing billions from the NHS budget via dodgy contracts.
WEIRD, HUH! 🤯
Grant Shapps: "We've never told people where they have to specifically locate themselves."
Really? I feel like the phrase "stay home" might have come up.
#Marr
It's always good to remember that Boris Johnson kicked a whole load of Tory MPs out of the party because they wanted more time to scrutinise a deal he now plans to break.
With 150,000 already dead and a new variant of concern detected, the people saying
#DoNotComply
with mask rules represent an ideology far more dangerous than any extreme religion in the UK.
Boris Johnson has effectively left office, with queues at Dover, a Brexit bill of €50 billion, and the EU now suing the UK for trying to unilaterally change the Brexit deal over Northern Ireland.
Can anyone with even a single functioning braincell say he got Brexit done?
Please remind everyone that the Downing Street parties weren't happening in a vaccinated UK.
The Tories were watching nearly 1000 British people dying of covid per day and partying together like our medical & mental suffering meant nothing to them.
#Partygate
Dear
@BBCPolitics
,
@bbcquestiontime
,
@skynews
....
If you keep inviting Julia Hartley-Brewer on to your shows, after she made fun of a teenager's autism...
YOU HAVE NO STANDARDS.
You are deliberately ruining society.
NEVER FORGET:
The main Covid strain in the UK is the one that came from India in April.
Boris Johnson's experts told him to put the strictest border controls on all countries in JANUARY.
So ALL the problems we're facing now are because Boris Johnson had 'had enough of experts'.
Hello UK,
Biden won because everyone who wanted rid of the blond lying racist dictator, put their political preferences aside and voted for the only alternative leader on the board who could beat him.
That's a lesson that all Labour factions, Libs and Greens need to learn.
Laura Kuenssberg: Maybe social care would improve is care workers weren't struggling on £18,000 / year.
Rishi Sunak: What if we gave them a SENSE that they're being paid more?
#BBCLauraK
: Would you work for £18,000?
Rishi Sunak: Look Laura! My job actually matters!!
Simply because I was born British, I have the automatic right to take up employment anywhere I like for a 1000 miles around, from Belfast to Bucharest, from Stockholm to Sicily. An entire continent is my home.
Bloody EU forcing freedom on the British People!😡
#OppressedByTheEU
@Jacob_Rees_Mogg
Hi Jake,
You are using a war that the UK is not even fighting, to distract from the fact that your government has been found guilty of 50+ crimes since you took office 2 years ago.
Don't you feel unclean?
European Super League is dead because the UK furiously rejected a Football League where an elite few hold their positons regardless of whether they're any good.
But we're OK with a voting system where an elite few hold their positons regardless of whether they're any good?
I love that the Tories are now arguing that the presence of alcohol doesn't mean this gathering in the Downing Street Garden last May was party...
...when just few days ago, they were arguing that the Christmas quiz wasn't a party because there wasn't alcohol.
For the record, when you shout n****r at me from a moving car, my reaction isn't anger, pain, or humiliation. It's confusion, disappointment and pity.
Like if someone makes a new movie but it's only available on VHS tape... Like "How have you not advanced beyond this?"
@IanWright0
You were the reason I first gave a crap about football, back in 1996 (I was 6).
And you've just cemented your position as a lifelong hero of mine.
Boris Johnson voted against ID cards 12 times, but wants to restrict voting to people with Photo ID .
THAT'S how you know his Voter ID policy is just about voter suppression against already marginalised groups.
Katie Hopkins does not speak for this country, Donald. She doesn't understand Brexit and she thinks struggling families can survive on false hope alone.
£80 million to Nissan... £23 million to Fishing...
Johnson is spending a lot of money to save British industries from a Brexit he said would help them...🤔
'We don't investigate Covid breaches from a year ago.' -
@metpoliceuk
BULLSH**!
Police hunted down ordinary people in council estates who couldn't afford the fines.
The
#DowningStreetParty
was SURROUNDED BY POLICE!
The police were the ****** BOUNCERS!
Clean up your mess!
If you're more worried about a Cenotaph (made of stone), than two million flesh & blood people, who are being bombed in Gaza RIGHT NOW, your humanity is dead; you're just a toy for politicians to play with.
For anyone keeping score:
British Gas blackmailed their engineers into lower wages via Fire & Rehire.
Then they raised customer prices by 54%.
And they made 44% more in profits.
@BritishGas
@CentricaPLC
@Nigel_Farage
So what you're saying is... a 51.something% victory isn't enough for a vote to be legitimate? Would that be what you'd call "unfinished business"?
Julia Hartley-Brewer had to effictivley type "At least I'm not autistic", think that was OK to say to an autistic teenager, and press TWEET.
Human f****** garbage.
#GretaThunberg
Was it Public Health England who skipped 5 Covid-Cobra meetings?
Was it Public Health England who advised handshaking when Milan locked down?
Was it Public Health England who allowed mass events in late March?
Was it Public Health England who trashed lockdown by backing Cummings?
If Shamima Begum isn't allowed to come back to the UK because terrorists groomed her into marriage at 15 years old...
Anyone who fights for the Israeli IDF as they commit genocide, AS A LEGALLY CONSENTING ADULT, should be banned from the UK too.
I had to check the news wasn't playing an April Fools prank by telling us about nazi police in the UK, THE DAY AFTER the government tells us there's no racism in its institutions. 😬
BEST
#BBCQT
CLIP OF ALL TIME!!!
Audience member: The anti-foreigner Brexit has come back to bite us.
Fiona Bruce: Shut up! We only want to hear from Brexiteers.
Audience member: I AM a Brexiteer!
Fiona: Sh**!