8 Tasting Menus across 8 Days 😱
We discover why Bangkok is a fine dining paradise while staying in luxurious comfort at the glorious Lebua hotel 👌💯
#AmazingThailand
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"Are we seriously having the discussion that a tweet from
@GaryLineker
has done more damage to the BBC's impartiality, than your chairman who sorted an £800,000 loan for Boris Johnson?"
Alastair Campbell
@campbellclaret
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Average energy prices
£2,585 - UK
€650 - France
€650 - Belgium
€620 - Spain
€558 - Germany
€558 - Denmark
€546 - Holland
€545 - Austria
€543 - Norway
€476 - Finland
€174 - Poland
We pay 5x more as the Conservative party refuse to tax excess energy profits.
Man in the audience, "Boris Johnson was given £250,000 of public money to defend himself..It's outrageous that people sitting in this audience, should they need legal aid might not secure it, but Boris Johnson, a multi millionaire, is given £250,000. It's a scandal."
#BBCQT
With 42% of the vote, Le Pen was wiped out.
With 43% of the vote, Johnson got an 80 seat majority.
This is why the UK needs Proportional Representation.
£969 million - British Gas profits this year
£98 million - British Gas profits last year
Individuals and businesses struggle in a Cost of Profit Crisis.
Sajid Javid said that if MPs cannot have second jobs, they will leave.
I’m happy to swap every MP who wants a second job, for MPs who want to focus only on their constituents eg Caroline Lucas.
Anyone else?
Lady in green, "As a child I couldn't understand how the nazis came to power. And now I understand it... Truss and Kwarteng tanked the economy, my daughter is paying £400 more a month for her mortgage. They are deflecting all of that by talking about small boats."
#BBCQT
Feargal Sharkey, "This year is the 25th anniversary of the Good Friday Agreement. For 25 years the people of NI have been able to prosper and grow and blossom. And have discovered that this thing peace, is a very delicate beautiful little flower that needs nurturing caressing…
Diane Abbott, "No one from the Conservative party has apologised. Not at all"
"They keep saying Frank Hester has apologised. He hasn't apologised. He's apologised for being rude, where in fact he was being racist"
"He apologised for being rude, and in fact he was inciting…
Rishi Sunak says your GP is not qualified to determine whether you are sick or not.
This is a vile assault on the health of the British people by an unelected Prime Minister.
£65,738 -MP salary in 2010
£86,584 -MP salary in 2023
If rail, teachers, nurses, firemen, ambulance staff, bus drivers, had the same rate of increase, there would be no strikes.
If you have a strong work ethic, you will work at an office, at home, at a coffee shop, train or even plane; literally, anywhere.
If you have a weak work ethic, you’re distracted by cheese, and don’t bother reading the Brexit deal you sign.
Ryanair boss in The Guardian on airport chaos,
“This is without doubt one of the inevitable consequences of the disaster that has been Brexit. Withdrawing from the single market, just so that they can say: ‘We got Brexit done’ was the height of idiocy. But then they are idiots.”
"To blame asylum seekers in hotels for being there, when the system has completely failed, seems to be encouraging people to go round there with hammers, smash up police cars and say it's your fault you're here."
Ian Hislop tears into Robert Jenrick
#BBCQT
"Newspaper owners, largely non tax paying, are living above the law.. No one dares to take them on in Britain because they're so scared of them, especially the politicians.. I think Brexit has ruined our country and now the majority of Brits do as well."
@HackedOffHugh
#RejoinEU
Ian Hislop, "Three British aid workers have been killed, whereas 30,000 Palestinians have been killed.. It's grim but true. If you kill people who aren't Palestinians, then it suddenly becomes unacceptable"
Clive Myrie, "How has Netanyahu explained the deadly strike?"
Paul…
Man in grey, "Saying you've reduced National Insurance by a couple of percent, but it's offset by other taxes.. The government don't earn the money, it's us taxpayers who have to pick up the bill each time"
Fiona Bruce, "What would you like to see"
Man in grey, "I would like to…
My friend just passed away ☹️
He was an NHS surgeon, double vaccinated, caught covid, had been in intensive care for a few weeks, and died tonight, leaving behind a wife and three young children 😢
Please help save lives and
#WearAMask
🙏
Caroline Lucas, "Water companies had no debt when privatised. They have since borrowed £52 billion and paid £72 billion in dividends. Meanwhile we have a sewage scandal. Privatisation of water was a serious mistake and it needs to be permanently rectified."
President of Student's Union in Lancaster, "I have students coming in saying they can't study because they haven't eaten in three days"
Fiona Bruce, "People are telling you they haven't eaten in three days?"
President, "I have hundreds of stories.. We have a food bank on…
Baroness Jones, "The only sensible thing now is to cut our losses and rejoin the EU.. I say that as somebody who voted for Brexit.. The gov is taking away parliament's sovereign powers of voting for or against laws.. We've reached the slash and burn stage of Brexit cultism."
Liz Truss, "One thing I absolutely don't support is a windfall tax."
Ursula von der Leyen, "Profits must be shared and channeled to those who need it most."
Anyone else want to
#RejoinEU
?
"Boris Johnson missed 187 commons votes while he was in the US making £4m giving speeches. Nadine Dorries hasn't been in the commons for over a year. In what other job is this acceptable?"
@MarinaPurkiss
comments on second jobs for MPs.
Jose Andres, founder of
@WCKitchen
"Those drones have eyes on everything that moves in Gaza. I've been there. The drones are flying non stop above you. Everything that moves, the IDF knows. Nobody should be targeting, ever, humanitarian organisations and civillians"
The French government is taxing EDF energy €8.4 billion to cover the increase in price rises.
The UK government is not taxing our energy companies, they are issuing loans which we all have to pay back.
See the difference?
Ian Hislop, "Angela Rayner may have fiddled up to £1,500 on her council tax. Says a book published by Lord Ashcroft who avoided £112,000,000 when he was a non-dom"
#HIGNFY
1989: Margaret Thatcher, "Privatised water is a better deal than nationalised water.. Water privatisation will go very successfully indeed"
2024: Victoria Derbyshire, "Huge scale of raw sewage dumped by water companies into our rivers and seas.. For more than 3.6 million hours"…
Gordon Brown, "It's a sign of the times that John Major and I find ourselves more on the same side, than on opposite sides"
"We're not trying to make Cameron-style comebacks"
"I'm too old for British politics and too young for American politcis"
"A few years ago, John, Tony…
Al Gore, "I find it shocking, really disappointing, I think Rishi Sunak has done the wrong thing.. Fossil fuel companies have used their wealth to slow things down.. They're much better at capturing politicians than emissions.. You can tell when they've captured one"
Monthly net salary
2005
DR - £2,168
MP - £2,293
2023
DR - £2,108
MP - £4,939
This is why I support the
#DoctorsStrike
And last year over 7,000 doctors left the UK for better paid jobs overseas. If you want to save the NHS, you too should support the strike.
Lady in scarf, "You have a former Prime Minister, Boris Johnson, who was heading up a culture of partying, law breaking, corruption, cronyism, and has not submitted a single WhatsApp with the most ridiculous excuses"
"You've got a current Prime Minister, Rishi Sunak, who also…
"Rishi Sunak isn't on the side of motorists. He is on the side of anything that will keep him in power. Look at your mortgage, look at your rent, look at the NHS, look at your energy costs. It's a diversionary tactic. Look at every other aspect of your life which is currently…
Yvette Cooper shreds and shames Suella Braverman and Robert Jenrick in this 4 min speech. This is something spectacular to watch.
Jenrick's response? "Labour have no plan."
Alicia Kearns, "So you've never had a piece of paper put in front of you by a foreign office lawyer that says Israel has breached international law?"
David Cameron, "Look.. I.. I.. I.. The reason for not answering this question, I can't recall every single bit of paper that's…
Alastair Campbell, "You were lied too.. I understand why you voted for Brexit.. Johnson, Farage, these conmen were coming along and offering you something that was going to make your lives better.. I don't blame you for voting for Brexit, I blame them for lying to you."
#BBCQT
Man in the audience, "Refugees aren't the cause of your suffering. It's the economy, it's inflation, it's the fact that nurses aren't being paid enough. I don't appreciate this distraction technique of targeting refugees who don't have a voice."
#BBCQT
This video from 2018 is on the BBC's website and says,
"Gary is not involved in any news or political output for the BBC, and as such, any expression of his personal political views, does not affect the BBC's impartiality."
What changed in 2023?
#IStandWithGaryLineker
Angela, "I'm a therapist, I work in a school, so I know what I'm talking about. Rod, if you think mental health has nothing to do with poverty, can I suggest you live in poverty for six months and you a free session and we'll chat about your mental health"
#BBCQT
Man in glasses, "It is a complete myth that the public sector is being blocked by migrants.. It's migrants that run the NHS and they have done since it started."
#BBCQT
Clive Myrie, "What has recently been discovered in a harbour near Portsmouth?"
Ian Hislop, "It's not all the money stolen by all the water companies over the years, is it?"
Paul Merton, "You say stolen?"
Ian Hislop, "They've literally borrowed money in order to give it to…
Lady in braids, "Does Palestine have the right to defend itself.. When land was taken from it.. When people were dispossessed.. When houses were levelled.. When UN resolutions on torture, ethnic cleansing, apartheid.. When Israel turns on and turns off the electricity.. And stops…
Man in blue jacket, "14 years.. The NHS is broken.. Councils are broke.. Water companies take record profits while they poison our rivers.. UK-based companies aren't paying their taxes.. And you're saying that the Tories have done a great job? I'm sorry sir, but you're deluded"…
Tom Bradbury, "Picture a country going backwards, where workers haven't had a decent pay rise in 15 years, public services are on the verge of collapse, and the gap between rich and poor grows year on year"
"That is how Britain was described today in a bleak and damming…
2020: Boris Johnson, "We will prosper mightily after Brexit"
2024: Fareed Zakaria, "If Britain was to join the US as the 51st state, it would be the poorest state in the union"
Labour's Lisa Nandy said on BBC Newsnight that "there is no appetite at all, on either side, to negotiate freedom of movement."
I disagree. I'd like freedom of movement with the EU.
Anyone else?
Voters in Cornwall upset at sewage dumped in Harlyn Bay 13 times during June and August.
All six Cornish MPs are Conservative.
All six voted repeatedly to dump raw sewage.
Hey Cornwall, if you don't want sewage in your waters, vote for another party 🤷♂️
In France: 4% energy price cap, pension increases, benefits increases, financial aid to poor families, rent rise limits, all to help with the cost of living crisis.
In the UK: Johnson is on holiday.
Left: Conservative Party Home Secretary Suella Braverman, "These are hate marches"
Right: Former Co-Chair of the Conservative Party Baroness Warsi, "Israel is not Netanyahu, the Palestinian people are not Hamas, and the protestors on the streets of London are neither protesting…
Feargal Sharkey, "Ofwat the regulator has already highlighted and confirmed. We have already paid them all of the funding they ever needed for 30 years to fix this problem.
"We should be asking where our money's gone and what's happened to it and how you fix it"
"Water…
@dunlin57
The disgrace of hungry school children and subsidised dining in Parliament.
Until all children have free school meals as standard, there should be no subsidised food for politicians.
Jenny Jones, "Look at the government's plans to actually spy on the bank accounts of those receiving benefits... It really is a new low in this government's constant vile behaviour"
"Never in our history has the government intruded on the privacy of anyone's bank account without…
Sir Max Hastings, "Our country does seem in the eyes of the world increasingly ridiculous.. Americans and Europeans don't hate us, they look at us in disbelief.. The right is now running Britain, it's a terrifying sight..
"One would like to see Keir Starmer be bolder.. Anything…
Man in audience, "It's illegal, impractical and won't work..As stupid as Braverman sounds when she uses words like blob..They're forecasting to the next election..They can't run on their record, sewage in rivers, inflation, cost of living.. All they have left is division"
#BBCQT
"I'd like to invite Alex, the Tories and the government to strike immediately, because we could absolutely go without your service."
Lady in
#BBCQT
audience speaks for the nation.
I’m at A&E.
There’s a 4 hour wait.
I’m not angry at the NHS.
I’m angry at the Conservative government that has underfunded the NHS to the point where people in A&E have to wait 4 hours to be seen.
If you care about our NHS, don’t vote Conservative.
Man in yellow, "Replace one thing in this whole situation. Change Israel for any other nation on the planet. And see if you would have sat back as long with what Israel has done in Gaza, or would you have stepped in earlier and said you need to stop?"
#BBCQT
Plan B was announced on a day with 120 deaths and 7,413 in hospital
End of Plan B was announced on a day with 359 deaths and 18,979 in hospital
Why are we easing restrictions when deaths and hospitalisations are higher?
#DowningStreetParties
Johnny Mercer, "Extraordinary progress on climate change has been made under this Conservative government"
George Monbiot, "No, extraordinary progress has not been made under this government. It has deliberately trashed some of the progress even that was made under Boris…
Lady in scarf, "What is the Conservative government doing about reclaiming money spent on inadequate PPE?"
David Davies, "It's being thoroughly investigated... Labour are wasting money in Wales on a racetrack"
Fiona Bruce, "In fairness you are being asked about PPE. So let's…
Ian Hislop, "Conservative MP Mark Menzies asked for money from local donors to be put into his own account.. Thank goodness he wasn't fiddling his council tax for a small amount.. Then it would be a proper scandal"
#HIGNFY
"Last time he was in trouble it was for paying a…
Left: Rishi Sunak says there are 2,000 more GPs than there were in 2019.
Right: BBC Reality Check, "there are 823 fewer GPs now than there were in 2019."
Stephen Flynn: We're in this situation because Boris Johnson lied, Brexit is an unmitigated disaster
Wendy Morton: That's not true, we have Brexit gains like the vaccine
Dr June Raine: We got the vaccine under EU law
Clive Myrie, "A businessman who donated £5m to the Conservative party was unexpectedly given a knighthood"
"Unexpectedly, because at no point had he been quoted as saying he wanted to shoot a black woman"
#DianeAbbott
Ian Hislop, "This is specifically not allowed.. Mansour has…
Wow! - Yvette Cooper shreds the Rwanda bill.
And every time there is an intervention, she knocks it out of the park with a home run.
This is a masterclass is countering populist rhetoric, including the charge that Labour have no plan, which she answers in detail and succinctly.…
Remember this look.
Rishi Sunak cannot even look at Keir Starmer as he asks why the U.K. has been left out of the new partnership between the US, India, Saudi Arabia, UAE and EU.
Brexiters promised us the world. We’ve been conned and are sidelined by major players
#RejoinEU
Why did 265 Conservative MPs vote down an amendment to stop private water companies from dumping raw sewage into the UK’s rivers and coastlines?
I’m genuinely baffled 🤷♂️
Nick Ferrari, "Any water company chief executive who continues to allows their company to put raw sewage into the water should go to jail for five years.. Put them behind bars, it will be solved overnight."
#BBCQT
Helen Whately's expression at the end..
£1,500 - how much Angela Rayner is accused of owing
£29,000,000 - how much Michelle Mone who is an unelected Baroness in the House of Lords secretly received from a PPE contact which is sat off shore
£120,000,000 - how much Michael Ashcroft, who was formerly Lord Ashcroft…
Chris Bryant, "What's worse? Losing your WhatsApp messages as a tech bro, losing £11.8 billion to fraud as Chancellor, presiding over the biggest fall in living standards in our history, or desperately clinging onto power when you become even more unpopular than Boris Johnson?"…
Rishi Sunak, "Our plan is working"
Sir Michael Marmot, "We're starting to suffer Victorian diseases.. Universal Credit pays 70% of the cost of essentials.. If you're on Universal Credit we guarantee you will get sick because we don't give you enough money to eat healthily, to…
2019: Theresa May, "After Brexit our environmental standards will not fall"
2024: Oxford rower Leonard Jenkins, "A few guys got e.coli.. I was throwing up this morning.. It would have been ideal not to have so much poo in the water"
World famous
#TheBoatRace2024
@theboatrace
…
Amazing intro from Krishnan Guru-Murthy
#CovidInquiry
"The government during covid was a disgusting orgy or narcissism. And that was according to Boris Johnson himself as he struggled to deal with the pandemic and clashed with his advisers. Evidence from Dominic Cummings and…
A phenomenal 10 mins with Carol Vorderman on 🔥
It begins with an intro, then from 1:23 onwards,
"We've had a Conservative government which is in my opinion corrupt.. During covid we have the VIP PPE lane.. Then we had partygate.."
"I started digging and I just started to…
Liz Truss: "Reduce benefits, raise retirement age, start fracking, abolish the windfall tax, diverge properly from the EU, delay net zero commitments, abandon replacing gas and oil boilers. This will not be easy but it will be worth doing."
Bonkers. Completely and utterly…
Man in cream, "I feel like you would need to be pretty far removed to think that Rishi Sunak and this government have done well in the past five years, let alone the past 14 years, which has felt like a 14 year long episode of the thick of it"
"You can't run on the roads because…
Biden cancels his meeting with Truss.
In unrelated news, the FBI are investigating Truss's Downing Street chief of staff for an election bribe in Puerto Rico.
"The reality can no longer be hidden.. Brexiters have completely destroyed our country.. Now they want us to forget it, it's not going to happen.. They've trashed our economy, our society, the future of our children, it is unforgivable."
Gina Miller speaking sense.
Man in blue, "Frank Hester actually said that when he looks at Diane Abbott it makes him hate all black women, and that she should be shot"
"If that is not extremism, I don't know what is"
#BBCQT
2020: Boris Johnson criticises Brussels which he says is neither elected nor accountable
2023: Boris Johnson appoints Charlotte Owen as an unelected and unaccountable person
Krishnan Guru-Murthy, "There are gongs for officials involved in the covid parties. A damehood for a minister who flicked the finger at protesters. And a knighthood for the one who wrongly got the Queen to shut down parliament."
Left: Nigel Farage on
#ImACeleb
claims that immigration to the UK is the reason you can't get a GP appointment
Right:
@DrAmirKhanGP
explains that immigrants and their descendants are part of the reason you CAN an appointment with your GP because they comprise 42% of the NHS…
Chris Bryant, "Parliament is in trouble.. Nearly every day there is a scandal.. I care passionately about democracy.. I just don't think in an ordinary line of work if you miss coming in for over 6 months, like Nadine Dorries, that you'd still be paid."
@RhonddaBryant
In case you missed it, effigies of Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and Home Secretary Suella Braverman paraded through the streets for the
#LewesBonfire
This is about as British as our protests get 😄
BBC News write, "Seven bonfire societies each produces an effigy, which typically…
"Rishi Sunak reportedly rejected a proposal put forward by energy companies while Chancellor that would have frozen bills at £1,971."
Disgraceful. Truly disgraceful.