I live nr Durham Cathedral. On the door is a Sanctuary Knocker. allowing anyone who touched it, shelter. We used to be a country that took in people fleeing poverty, war, oppression. Our country was richer for it. No more.
#FollowBackFriday
if you wish we were that country again.
If you would rather
#SackBoris
than Back Boris (I refuse to use their hashtag, I’m not bumping up their numbers Thank You) then I’ll follow you if you follow me.
#FollowBackFriday
This is my MP.
MP for Hartlepool, Jill Mortimer.
The last to be elected to the
@Conservatives
in 2021.
As if the town doesn’t have enough to deal with, the legacy of 40 years of post industrial deprivation, she voted to allow 💩 to be dumped into the sea.
#TorySewageParty
Don't bother watching the Laurence Fox Mea Culpa.
It boils down to 3 Words.
Sorry. NOT sorry.
There.
I've saved you 15 minutes you would never get back.
You can follow me back for that
#followbackfriday
If you make an apology, a so-called 'unreserved apology', but you then caveat it with "I got the big calls right", that ISN'T unreserved. Unless Eton teaches a different version of ethics than the rest of us learnt...
Doesn’t work for me. I don’t see the optics of a sweet, pretty lady saying how much we should believe the man she loves. I see a woman who saw nothing wrong with depriving the exchequer of revenue that could have fed a child at a breakfast club or helped a pensioner with bills.
An unelected, non-dom billionaire businesswoman is delivering the keynote leader’s speech to the Tory conference in Manchester.
I kid you not!
Oh yes, she’s also the prime minister’s wife.
In 28 days' time, I want to see local elections that are so bad for The Tories that their support goes into freefall. I want the whole crime syndicate of client journalists & greedy MPs gone. I want this to be the beginning of the end. Do we dare to dream?
#followbackfriday
Nothing will happen. Hoyle will have a mini strop, but there will be no sanction. Nothing works anymore, no one cares anymore and corruption goes unpunished.
Welcome to Broken Britain.
Gove giving a keynote speech in housing policy in central London rather than to Houses of Parliament: A former cabinet minister tells me there’s “lots of unhappiness” that he’s giving speech and not speaking in Parliament. “One of the most blatant breaches of the Ministerial Code
What we have to remember, is while there are politicians like Rees Mogg, Gullis, Anderson, Johnson who debase their profession, country & party, there are also MPs who actually DO give a damn about more than themselves.
On a day when we feel betrayed, gaslit & bloody bloody 😡 am going to be terribly presumptuous & make a suggestion. We need to channel that anger & do whatever we can to GET HIM OUT. Join Labour/Lib Dems/Green any party that isn’t blue & let’s NEVER be in this place again.
#GTTO
Don't watch it, don't send them money in phone votes, don't reward the advertisers, and fuck Ant and Dec for platforming him, no matter how many oh so edgy winks to camera and cutting remarks they make.
At this point, you unclip your mic, walk away from the interviewee and state I’m not doing this anymore. If you won’t answer the question this whole thing is pointless.
This ‘verbal dance’ would then stop overnight.
- Will HS2 come to Manchester?
- We've got spades in the ground, I'm not going to comment on speculation.
- I'm not asking you about speculation. You're the Prime Minister. This is your decision.
- We've got spades in the ground, I'm not going to comment on speculation.
👀👀👀
Boris Johnson: "it was only right to say goodbye to colleagues who were leaving"
My aunt Joyce, on a borrowed phone in ICU: "David, I'm scared, I don't want to die, I've so much living left to do"
Me: "I love you, you're my hero, I will see you soon"
The next day she died.
Look this whole Jubilee business I am totally ambivalent about. If people want a sausage roll & to wave a flag with the kids, fine. But royalty is a luxury I’m not sure we can still afford.
Stacey Solomon just went up several notches in my estimation here.
"They're humans who are exactly the same as us,
It could be us 4 sat there,
I just don't get it"
Well said Stacey. 👏🏻
Get off your knees England,
It's soul crushingly pathetic kowtowing to people who are privileged beyond belief because of luck of birth.
#JubileeCelebration
If you haven’t seen this, do watch it. It shouldn’t work, but it does and it reclaims the Smiths brilliance from the fascist nob that Morrissey has become and allows us to enjoy these songs all over again. Pure class x
“Hello? Is there anybody in there? Just nod if you can hear me? Is there anyone at home?”
#FollowBackFriday
if you believe we are
#StrongerTogether
& like me want shot of The Tax Avoiding Tories for GOOD. Before we all become ‘comfortably numb’ to the way the country is going…
@RSPBEngland
@marjgold
@DefraGovUK
Can I just say thank you
@RSPBEngland
for the stance you are taking? I am a member and agree the changes proposed, particularly in the freeport areas, are horrendous for people and wildlife. Enough is enough. We can’t just sit back while our countryside and coasts are ruined.
I can’t think why this line from a song from Electronic has become an ear worm for me today.
“I’ve been getting away with it all my life. (Getting away with it)”
#GTTO
#JohnsonOutNow
#JohnsonTheCorruptPM
The PM came to my town today well woop-di-effing-do. It won’t help the people living in the tents near Aldi. It won’t help the people at the Foodbank tomorrow. It won’t help the carer struggling to pay for the bus fare to work tomorrow. Or the lonely old man who will put another.
NO Jeremy Clarkson. Not on any level, in any circumstance, is it ok to write this stuff about any woman & absolutely NO to "everyone who's my age thinks the same"
No no no. We absolutely do NOT think the same.
Listen to the noise Jeremy. The crowds are chanting "shame on YOU"
When David Bowie’s son wades in to call you a prat, in addition to Jack Monroe who knows from painful experience how hard it is to live with poverty, it’s time to stfu because you really know nothing.
Ignore the prat that started the thread. What's important is Jack Monroe explaining how poverty affects nutrition & how a person is supposed to work and live on a calorie deficit. Numbers dont lie. Read the thread-
Ah yes, compassion, whatever happened to that? 13 years of Tory austerity, victim blaming, amoral leadership & international law breaking has brought us to where we are now. We are not Great Britain but Hate Britain. We are so much better than this.
#BeMoreGary
#FollowBackFriday
Whilst Fiona Bruce was interviewing Paul Scully for the CBC... Conservative Broadcasting Corporation
@richardpbacon
was hosting
@bbcquestiontime
for the
@BBC
🤔✌
I'm not normally someone who criticises someone for their looks. It might not be their fault, or they may choose to look a certain way as it makes them feel better about themselves. But ex PMs have enough money to spend on a hairbrush & enough seconds in the day to use one...🤦♀️
@ZelenskyyUa
@BorisJohnson
Please. I wish you and your country the peace you so rightly deserve. If you need to offer thanks, offer it to the United Kingdom, not to a man who will use your words for propaganda.
@adilray
@MSFarmiloe
@RishiSunak
The minute he reappointed a woman who was knowingly racist & broke the ministerial code, we all knew exactly what the self styled ‘caring Conservative’ really thought.
Please don’t follow Lee Anderson. I seem to have a couple of followers who do, which means I am seeing endless posts from this oik of a man. It’s doing my head in. Make it stop…
@sturdyAlex
There has to be a reckoning with this man. There just has to be. Or else all bets are off if we think we still have a functioning democracy…
The biggest cost of living crisis since forever is about to hit people like a tsunami & this govt have turned their backs. Sunak actually said 'we can't help everyone'. People will freeze & starve but they won't help. They lie, cheat & steal. I want them GONE.
#FollowbackFriday
Cummings is asked why he helped install as PM a man he knew to be unfit for office.
He said the alternative was a second referendum on
#Brexit
and a possible Corbyn gov't, so "we decided to roll the dice". ~AA
#CovidInquiry
Chocolate Guinness Cake. I learnt from last time, when my topping was too runny and dribbled down sides, to take moisture out of the cream cheese (brands are often bulked out with water) by patting cheese between absorbent kitchen rolls. Seems to have worked x
@Nigella_Lawson
@PippaCrerar
Are these 50 fines to 50 separate people? Or have people received multiple fines? This is the trouble with concealing identities, we won't know if there are serial offenders or those who have never received a fine because they stuck to the rules.
God it’s not even over yet. They are still wanging on about the Coronation. When will it stop? When will we get back to the real World where the Tories lost 1,000 plus seats on Friday? Welcome to Dystopia…
Breaking News: Zelensky is coming to address the Commons. Thank God for Volodymyr, the Tories Human Shield deployed on a regular basis to distract from their cruelty & incompetence.
@miffythegamer
@jfranklynh
The residents of Flitwick need to remember the disdain emanating from her & her party when the long awaited by election does happen.
I will use this visual analogy as to how I think we should see Partygate & it’s ‘Titanic’ effect on Johnson.
This is Partygate ⬇️& this ➡️is Johnson.
Holed under the waterline I believe he will never recover.
Run for the lifeboats lads & lasses…
#GTTO
#JohnsonOutNow
@carolvorders
Good on you for caring about this stuff. Thank you for using your voice to highlight this criminality. It’s so nice to see someone in the public eye who cares about the country around them and speaks up x
We’ve had a deadly pandemic with utter cretins in the room at No 10 & now we are at the beginning of a brutal war without end & guess what? Here we are again. I WANT ADULTS IN CHARGE OF THIS COUNTRY NOW. Get them out.
#GTTONow
Victoria Derbyshire reads a number of quotes from people who say Israel has broken international law... are they wrong?
James Cleverly: "There are a number of other quotes witch you didn't show, which don't agree with them..."
#bbclaurak
#TrevorPhillips
He IS a GOOD human. And that has become such a rarity in people with a platform of influence in these dark days. He should NEVER have to back down on his word, when EVERYTHING he says is true.
#ImWithGary
#migrantswelcome
Protest marchers on the Jarrow Crusade, a demonstration march by unemployed men from Jarrow in 1936 who walked to London to demand the right to work. Under the government’s new law, which bans walking protests, they would all now be arrested and imprisoned for 12 months.
Who does he think he is? The total and complete arrogance of these people. Smug, uncaring, entitled, abdicating any responsibility. My splenetic juices are permanently boiling.
Beth Rigby: You raised taxes by £25b in the last autumn statement & £30b in spending cuts... that's £55b into the Treasury... that cleaning up Liz Truss' mess?
Jeremy Hunt: No... you should be better informed... they didn't have Liz Truss in the eurozone..
#AutumnStatement
..jumper on in the hope he can get through another day without putting the radiators on. No it’s ‘shiny shoes time’ everyone. Backs straight, look smart and let’s all pretend this other World just doesn’t exist. Fuck it. We need them out NOW.
#SunakOut
#GTTO
#GeneralElectionN0W
@supertanskiii
@danielmgmoylan
It is like those people who say, why should I pay for everyone else's street lighting, I will just pay for those outside my house. Then promptly crashes into a lamppost on a dark street...
It’s true. We have a drip feed of “we can’t afford these things”. Why not? If we went to war tomorrow we would be able to afford that. We can afford a new gold coach for a Coronation. We DO have the money, they just don’t have the will to spend it on the things that matter.
As Lord Keynes - the man who inspired the post war era that built the welfare state - once said ‘Anything we can actually do we can afford’. Modern politicians should take note.
@EmmaKennedy
@F__CKTHETORIES
Not great for him in the long run as the list of people he has thrown under the bus and have nothing to lose but to enact cold revenge, gets ever larger...
.
@BethRigby
reminds Boris Johnson that "you said you have nothing to hide", when he avoids answering a question on partygate.
He responds saying that he wants to get on "with the priorities of the British people."
Latest:
📺 Sky 501 and YouTube
@BootstrapCook
@BurnsideNew
While your comments are open, because they never are, thank you for what you do. And sorry you pay such a price in abuse for just trying to help people. It's a strange World when it's the helpers that get the flak...
To anyone feeling envious as they get a few followers on FB Friday while others gain 100s, DON’T. I really appreciate everyone who has followed me, 😊 but it has been bleedin’ hard work vetting 3,400 since Friday & have barely made a dent. Found 1 Nazi too. Be careful out there…
@simoncosgrove
@Daveb3007
This: "I think he honestly believes that it is churlish of us not to regard him as an exception, one who should be free of the network of obligation that binds everyone else."
In spite of the revulsion from the Lucy Letby case, the Labour Party should not even be contemplating this. Let her rot in prison instead for me.
No, no, no to State Sanctioned Killing. EVER.
We can never stop thanking the NHS for what it has given us. And we can never stop blaming a government in power for the last 13 years that has put it on life support. If you agree
#followbackfriday
if you disagree, jog on but don’t trip up as there may be no 🚑 for you..
Watch this heartfelt video from the one and only Johnny Vegas:
"Please, I implore you... to protect our NHS from commercial interests... It was set up for a reason - and it's because we matter".
Please RT and go to to take our 5 actions!
#YourNHSNeedsYou
Thank God. Someone is saying these things out loud. It's the vast gulf between these peoples lives and many, many people who are really struggling in a sypposedly 1st World Country that is the problem.
To say I’ve been a bit overwhelmed by follow back Friday this week is putting it mildly. Last week I got 60, this week 3000. I mean - Paul Cannell! If I haven’t followed you back, I’m not being a diva or owt, I’m getting there. In the meantime keep on fighting the power!
#GTTO
So we have 2 men this week. Privately schooled. Oxbridge graduates. Who not only get to decide our PM, knowing his obvious unsuitability (Cummings) & now we discover a Health Secretary, cold, conceited & arrogant enough to suggest he should decide who lives or dies.
#CovidInquiry
This person is the Home Secretary in charge of the police, our security & immigration. She is the living embodiment of The Peter Principle. Promoted way, way beyond any level of competence she may have. Why? Just WHY is she still here?
TAXI FOR BRAVERMAN!
- Will you stop the boats?
- We want to.
- So you’ll stop the boats.
- In a year it will be very clear whether we’ve succeeded.
- How?
- A dramatic reduction.
- In a year.
- I’m not going to put a timescale on it.
- You just did. ~AA
@PaulChiddle
@IanDunt
I have always thought though, the shy, sensible people won't go on camera. I know I wouldn't. It's always the big 'I am' people who are more than happy to share their 'pearls of wisdom'. It is not, therefore, anywhere near representative of the majority of the populace.
Just to say thank you to anyone who follows me. I came here for political insight (& gossip) & in spite of Bluebird's many pitfalls, thanks to many of you, I now feel part of a little community. It gives me the oomph to carry on. SO. Let's
#GTTO
shall we? 😉
BREAKING: Conservative MP Alicia Kearns says she does not have confidence in Prime Minister Boris Johnson.
Latest:
📺 Sky 501, Virgin 602, Freeview 233 and YouTube
A regular reminder of why we are where we are. Because Johnson thought the highest post in the land was his birthright. Aided and abetted by bigoted disrupters who would always be able to walk away from the destruction unscathed.
#GTTO
#SunakOut
#GeneralElectionNow