Richard Eskins 💙
@eskins
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Retired lecturer, still keeping an eye on digital, but mostly staggered that people still support the Torys and Brexit. * Pro EU*
Manchester, UK
Joined March 2008
I’m a past winner of the Orwell Prize & won partly because I exposed Vote Leave’s unlawful activities. Michael Gove was its co-convener & refused to answer a single q. He’s now a judge of the prize & our world is truly one that Orwell would recognise https://t.co/AfwPdlw1S4
bylinetimes.com
Critics say "Orwell would have enjoyed the irony" of the former Conservative minister's appointment
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Since Boris Johnson came to power, there were 142 Tory U-turns. In one case, 3 in one day. I listed and documented them on a thread which ran from Dec 2019 to June last year. On each of them, #BBC’s Mason declined to ever use the word ‘U-turn’.
A hat-trick of U turns – and this is the most awkward of the lot, @ChrisMasonBBC writes https://t.co/cW8yps1EuP
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Amazing how pumped @afneil is all of a sudden about government lies. It’s as though the Johnson administration never happened. A govt. led by a ‘pathological liar’, a narcissist wholly unfit for any kind of office. Neil is a poseur, bought & paid for by his billionaire bosses.
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🔥 This is an utterly superb speech by Gavin Newsom, Governor of California. In it he sets out clearly the chain of escalating events - and then goes onto fully call out Trump’s authoritarian push in perfectly clear language.
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Was just fully denied the right to travel today at Liverpool St Stn, on any train, because @networkrail staff collectively refused to deploy a ramp for me. Why? One of them claimed I was “rude” for telling him I didn’t need the lecture he was giving me on why they’d failed to …
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This has been in plain sight for years, ignored by both main parties and most media outlets. The government must now have the inquiry that Boris Johnson refused. Enough of the cover ups. We must now have light. https://t.co/xEuPLtUdjp
theguardian.com
Government targets party’s ‘softness on standing up to Putin’ to show Reform is out of step with UK public
Britain has a Russia problem. And his name is Nigel Farage. Today, Ofcom finally banned RT. 8 long years after Russia illegally invaded Crimea. But this is their man. RT - whose editor described it as a "weapon" of the Russian state - is what made Farage into who is today. 1/
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My thought for the day. Single Market. Customs Union. More money for defence. Strengthen Europe. Place us firmly back at the heart of our continent economically, militarily and geopolitically.
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At last! At LAST!! AT LAST!!! Industry gets it! No! Hydrogen won’t be powering cars!! And No!! Not trucks either!!! So can we dump this complete #Hydrogen con now and just MOVE ON!! Hydrogen Has Failed In Cars And It Won’t Be Powering Trucks Either.
forbes.com
With dwindling passenger car sales for hydrogen fuel cells, the technology is now looking like a non-starter for heavy-duty trucks as well.
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@LauraTrottMP Have you got that evidence I asked you to produce yet? The evidence that academy freedoms drive school improvement. No? Thought not.
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I'm an Octopus customer: @Ofgem, @nationalgrid, please save @SavingSessions and keep rewarding customers fairly for helping the energy system! #SaveTheDFS
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People say the UK needs a disruptive innovator and entrepreneur. We have one! Greg Jackson has turned a Utility company into a popular, CUSTOMER focussed business. But it upsets the fossil fuel lobby. He deserves a knighthood. ❤️ & RT if you agree.
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Had a quick chat with the Minister y'day, re the scam of offsetting. But all the while it's legal, the Govt will use it to fool us into thinking various practices are renewable, when they clearly aren't.
Drax is not a renewable energy and it has been shown repeatedly that the so called "offsetting" is a fairy tale. @GreenJennyJones trying to explain to @UKLabour that they are wasting taxpayers money and damaging the environment in the same way the last government did
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Calling all teachers!🧑🏫🤸♀️ Your class is invited to join our CEO Greg for virtual green energy lessons on Nov 21st and Dec 2nd. Find out more and sign up 👇 https://t.co/YS5VkX44Ne
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For someone who binned Sure Start as soon as he got into office, despite reams of data showing how positively it impacted young children from the poorest backgrounds, to whine about this in this way now is pure hypocrisy
I am deeply saddened and disappointed that the new Labour Government has decided to close down National Citizen Service, @NCS. I began pilots for NCS in opposition, to help build bridges across social divides. Young people from different backgrounds, different areas of the
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Your occasional reminder that the 26 CofE Bishops in the House of Lords make the UK one of just two countries in the world, where unelected clerics automatically sit in the legislature. The other is Iran.
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The Tory PPE Scandals continue 1,049,700 PALLETS of useless PPE have now been destroyed (about £8/9 BILLION) WTAF And not a single person or politician has been charged with corruption or waste of our public money Our system is …… 😡😡😡😡
🚨The PPE Scandal continues 👇 Health ministers just confirmed that over 1 million pallets of useless PPE procured during the pandemic have now been destroyed up to Sept 2024 *1,049,700 pallets* PPE valued at £8 billion+ literally up in smoke 🔥 https://t.co/BArgksEBI6
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