Stand down, guys. The problems with the Irish Protocol has now forced sensible journalist to tweet about carrying live giraffes across the Irish Sea!! Tempted to say you're having a giraffe!
🦒🦒😂😂
Airline industry “Get rid of restrictions & masks on flights, it’s crippling the travel industry.”
Also airline industry “Your flight is cancelled because some of our staff caught covid & are too sick to come into work”.
#r4today
“Welcome to the Brexit” a Dutch customs officer says, whilst confiscating a UK passenger’s ham sandwiches.
All those UK caravaners who pack 2 week’s worth of food for their French caravan holiday are in for a shock this Summer!
I just heard Tory MP Robert Jenrick tell us that ‘the boats’
“is probably the most difficult challenge that is facing this Government.”
Is he for real. What about your constituents not being able to afford to feed their kids. I’d say that’s a more difficult challenge
#r4today
Empty shelves at the supermarket is so normal these days, but today I really noticed it.
We’re not Russia in the 80s. This shouldn’t be normal!
Today at Sainsbury’s
#Branksome
#Poole
hardly any tomatoes nor eggs.
OK. Because I am nerdy, I looked back at my online shopping order
@ASDA
a year ago to compare to
today's prices. WOW!
#Inflation
Olive Oil⬆️70%
Cucumber⬆️67%
Stilton⬆️60%
Bread⬆️40%
Potatoes⬆️36%
Here's a list of the top 20 increases in my shop:-
Jeremy Hunt tells Laura K on
#bbclaurak
that the Tories have created 8,000 new jobs every single working day since 2010.
That’s quite a claim.
8000x252x14= over 28 million new jobs!
Think our Chancellor has got his maths wrong. Another Tory said it was 800!
@CenterParcsUK
Someone at Center Parcs has made a CHOICE that it’s cheaper to remove a day from customer’s holidays & deal with the Twitter Storm & PR, rather than pay their staff extra for working a Bank Holiday.
I am not sure it was the right choice.
@GFFN
The rules according to ‘The Sun’
Laughing at your own awkwardness on meeting The Queen - TRAITOR
Covering billboards on Paris landmarks with pictures of English footballers quoting ‘It’s Gaul Over’ on the Eve of the World Cup quarter Final between England & France - PATRIOTIC
Labour's Chris Bryant says it would be "absolutely despicable" if a junior member of staff loses their job over the Downing Street party
Boris Johnson says "I've come to this House to make amends" but asks him to wait for the result of the inquiry
#PMQs
@garethlpowell
Top Tip that may be life-changing - the plastic lid of a Pringle tube fits exactly as a lid for one of those Gu pots
I use them when I’m preparing ingredients like chopped garlic, coriander etc, or storing egg yolk in the fridge when I’ve used the whites!
@johnredwood
It’s exactly the Hard Brexit you voted for, John.
You voted for the UK to be treated like any other third country when entering the EU.
You voted for every single passport to be checked at the EU border, so all coach passengers have to hop off & queue.
How are the fish, John?
@LizWebsterSBF
I heard an important call on LBC yesterday highlighting that the shortage of medicines, partly due to Brexit, means some cannot get their required medication, having an impact on their ability to work. Add the decimated mental health provision & it’s no wonder too many sick notes
@SkyNews
“The vast majority of British Muslims want to protest peacefully.”
Why does Jeremy Hunt continue with the narrative that only Muslims are marching? Last time I looked, me and my daughter don’t fit this demographic!
@ukiswitheu
Another example of Dominic Raab starring as Sam Beckett in Quantum Leap.
“Dominic Raab looks like the guy in Quantum Leap, just as he’s jumped into a new body, constantly, & is looking around for clues as to who he is.”
@curiousiguana
I am mesmerised by the queue. It’s movement us a thing of beauty. How long can I be bothered to track the length of the queue? Will I last ‘til Sunday?
@imranahmadkhan
Oh my goodness I had to check that you really were an actual MP. I can’t believe that you would write such a thing. “We’re the mighty British, we saved France from the Germans and you should forever be in our debt!” British exceptionalism at its best!
#r4today
Deputy First Minister of Scotland says we know that at least some of the 6 new
#Omicron
cases in Scotland have no connection with travel to South Africa.
So there is community transmission.
Let’s still wait 28 more hours to make masks mandatory in England 😡
@vivamjm
I still don’t understand why business owners whose livelihoods depend on knowing how Brexit will affect them, have done little to no research. My friend’s company imports jewellery from Italy & they haven’t even questioned whether their Italian supplier will be willing to ship 1/
@GFFN
And BTW, for those that haven’t seen it, here’s Stella McCartney laughing at her own awkwardness at not knowing how & whether to curtesy on meeting our King last month!
"Your Majesty, I don’t know what I’m supposed to do anymore!" 😂
King Charles has a sweet reunion with Stella McCartney, who kisses him on each cheek before making him laugh with her curtsey.
And, since self-isolation rules changed, now they would be allowed to work with covid if they were able, all those staff are actually too sick with covid to go to work.
In
#England
alone,
*866,096*
people have been reported as testing positive in the 7 days since 27th December. This DOES NOT include re-infections. All should currently be self-isolating…..
That’s a lot of nurses, teachers, social workers, bus drivers, plumbers…..
@IainDale
@LBC
You obviously don’t listen to his show then - he’s been peddling misinformation for ages. If I switch on
@lbc
& he’s on, I’ve now learnt to switch off straight away!
The growth rate in cases in London in the ages 20-44 - are insane😮. The majority of these age groups have at best had 2 vaccines, not many will have had a booster. Growth rate in week to 7 Dec
#Omicron
20-24⬆️76%
25-29⬆️67%
30-34⬆️42%
@chrischirp
@Kit_Yates_Maths
absolute scenes as
@GilesWatling
Tory MP asks (he thinks jokingly) “In 1960 The Beatles went as back-up to Tony Sheridan in Hamburg. That can still happen, can’t it?”
Everyone answers “NO”!
./4
#EUVisasForPerformingArtists
@BethRigby
How about choosing a date where more than 50% of the population (not just the % of adult population) have received 2 jabs, and a date where the daily cases aren’t rising at 70% week on week?
@abi1005
@Dr_D_Robertson
We're not a mainly vaxxed population though are we?
Looking at current data, an underestimate is 2% of cases need hospitalisation - 30 Jun so far 26,598 cases that means 531 hospital admissions IN ONE DAY (on 5 July), whilst we have these restrictions.
This is not sustainable!
@jon_trickett
- £8.91 = Hourly minimum wage
- £9.99 = 25 Nerf Rival bullets
We have a system where 25 yellow balls of soft stuff my son has just brought off Amazon is worth more than a human
@faisalislam
@BBCr4today
I know you know this
@faisalislam
but please make it clear to your audience that haulers have been banging on about this for months, trying to get our Government’s attention, to no avail. Now suddenly Michael Gove pops up suggesting any delays will be due to haulers not being .1/
*Data published 18 Dec*
In
#London
cases are really climbing in all age groups - now worryingly in the over 60s.
Age breakdown data is only up to 5 days ago, cases have risen a further 25% since then
./1
@Peston
@Beany_1
There you have it, folks. In order for the energy companies to still pay their CEOs £££s in salaries & shareholders £££s in dividends, we’ve all got to pay higher rates on our mortgages!
@Peston
Is this the same Rishi Sunak who lived next door to Boris Johnson whilst Boris Johnson broke the rules?
Is this the same Rishi Sunak who must have known that Boris Johnson lied to Parliament?
@itvnews
@ITVJoel
“Hello. I’m calling from Mone Border Control. We’re going to charge you £145 to check each pallet of French cheese on your lorry.”
“That’s a big steep.”
“I know. And the best thing is, we’re not actually going to check it. We’ll just wave it through and collect your £145. Bye.”
@LanceForman
Lance, the queues in Kent will be there whether there is a Deal or No Deal. Border checks were inevitable from the moment our Governments decided to leave both the Customs Union and Single Market. They have had years to develop an IT system but failed to prepare!
#Kermit
Inflation hasn't fallen as most analysts expected. They'd expected a further slowdown in the rise in the cost of living - to 3.7% - but instead it's ticked up:
All the talk in the kafeneion is of Johnson Sr.
Geezer1: They must have a cure or rich people wouldn’t risk it.
Geezer2: What risk? He’s coming to a clean place. The risk is all ours.
Geezer3: If my son fucked up that bad, I’d leave the country too.
Geezer1: THEY HAVE A CURE.
I once pretended that my bank account had been suspended by woke liberal elites because I was too political.
Turns out, my savings had just dwindled to below £1 million due to the fact that more and more people are realizing I’m a complete cock!
#Farage
#Coutts
Nigel Farage fell below the financial threshold required to hold an account at Coutts, the prestigious private bank for wealthy customers the BBC has been told.
It also understood that he was offered a normal account at Natwest which owns Coutts.
People familiar....
The
#Immensa
scandal has hidden case rises in numerous areas, across all age groups, but particularly in ages 10-14.
#Cheltenham
6,899.6 - 1 in every 14
#Tewkesbury
5,712.8
#Bath
& NE Somerset 5,486.7
#Somerset
West & Taunton 5,257.7
Here's the Age Demographic Charts:-
./1
It's so ****ed up that the government whose record on Covid is the highest excess death rate in Europe and the worst economic recession in the G7, is using the damage THEY CAUSED to cover up the damage from Brexit, WHICH THEY ALSO CAUSED.
#Marr
"Rishi Sunak"
Positive
#coronavirus
cases in
#Bolton
12 May
Average 7-Day case rate has more than doubled in a week (89 compared to 36)
Cases rising rapidly in under 40s - cases in ages 5-9 nearly quadruple
./1
Robert Jenrick goes on to say
“we have to make the UK less attractive for migrants.”
Well, your Government is doing a bloody good job at that. You’ve made the UK less attractive to me, anyway!
#r4today
@jessicaelgot
This you
#Rishi
? 17 days later, Matt Hancock WhatsApp to Simon Case ‘Eat Out To Help Out is causing problems’ & ‘Yes we’ve told Treasury’!
Areas in UK with the biggest rises in
#coronavirus
cases on data published 3 June.
Looking at % increase in 7-Day case rate at 1 June (4,844 +ve tests that day so far) compared to 25 May
- now more London boroughs
- 42 areas increase >100% IN A WEEK
.1/15
@ParodyHancock
Stop blaming the rise in cases of Indian Variant on vaccine hesitancy. The bottom 10 areas for vaccine uptake in over 40s are mostly in London - not Bolton, Blackburn or Bedford!
#EUVisasForPerformingArtists
Tory MP Damien Hines asks “Do we know of any good reasons why countries in the EU would resist extending us favourable arrangements?”
BECAUSE WE VOTED TO LEAVE THE EU YOU NUMPTY. WE ARE A THIRD COUNTRY 😡 & Tories didn’t negotiate a Visa waiver
@Peston
@sajidjavid
Not going to work.
#Omnicron
has been here for weeks -
@UKHSA
have just asked all visitors to Brentwood KFC on 19th Nov to take a PCR - that was NINE DAYS AGO - day before rugby 80,000 fans at England v South Africa. & Test & Trace mention 7 Nov - THREE WEEKS AGO
@Haggis_UK
Let me get this straight.
Labour want to process migrants quickly, enabling them to get into jobs, paying taxes, and encouraging GDP growth.
Tories want to continue to keep migrants on hotels for years, costing the taxpayer £6 million PER DAY??
Today, there has been a lot of 'cases don't matter, its only hospitalisations & deaths that count.'
Let's compare 1 Aug - 15 Oct 2021 with same time last year, 2020:-
2020 Deaths 2,434
2021 Deaths 8,687
THREE AND A HALF TIMES the number of deaths now as there were in 2020
./1
@Haggis_UK
Well Liz Truss is lying. Here’s a mortgage broker at the time of Truss’ mini-budget showing how mortgage rates rose👇. My payments doubled this March when my fixed term came to an end. Thanks Liz, Thiz!
Ten minutes walk from the Chancellor’s speech, a Birmingham mortgage broker shows me banks returning to the mortgage market today at rates 1.5 percentage points higher than a week ago - 5-6% - and that’s with a 40% deposit
#BBCNewsTen
@VincentRK
Repeat after me…
A fully vaccinated (with 95% efficacy) 50 year is still 20x (TWENTY TIMES) more likely to die of Covid-19 than an unvaccinated 17 year old
👇
@faisalislam
@BBCr4today
...prepared, George Eustice at Select Committee yesterday even suggesting UK will blame the EU for delays. Getting their excuses in early for the inevitable queues. RHA have been warning about shortage of personnel & the Government have done diddly squat! ///
@AlokSharma_RDG
Good news - the vaccine is approved.
Bad news - UK Gov say it’ll be delayed by 4 weeks as they want to stamp each vial with the Union Jack
“And then Rish! said that Northern Ireland is in the enviable position of having unfettered access to both the UK and EU Single Market!”
“Isn’t that what the whole of the UK had before Brexit?”
“Yes!”
@garethlpowell
Full Disclosure - the plastic lid of a Pringle tube fits those Gu pots - fine for stacking in the cupboard or fridge, but lids will fall off is tipped upside down, but whose going to do that?
In shock. My 14 yo son had positive PCR AGAIN 8 1/2 weeks after he first caught it.
Symptoms from Monday - sore eyes & runny nose & cough - still -ve on LFD last night!
So glad we got PCR before my 79 yo Mum came for Christmas dinner.
How many think they just have a cold?
sometimes you see celebs look great on the red carpet but normal in paparazzi photos and you realize it was all a costume. but bill nighy seems to both dress himself and always look stylish and that's pretty cool
via youtube CycleGaz
@Peston
Robert, this has been clear for years. Retaining the integrity of the Single Market & Customs Union has always been top of the EU’s list.
Why are you only now just catching up?
@implausibleblog
@AnnemarieKane1
Instead of
#EatOutToHelpOut
2020, why didn’t they just give the whole country five free takeaways instead? The restaurants would have still been working, those 3 million self-employed not included in furlough would’ve been fed, and thousands of people would not have caught covid!
@MarieAnnUK
They were conned. Third Countries have never been allowed to export live shellfish into the EU. UK helped write the rules of the ban ffs!
Now UK voted to become a Third Country, DEFRA lied to shellfish industry saying they could change the ban, they hold all the cards etc.
And so it begins.
Pub in Shaftesbury ceases trading. “Supplier prices have increased to such a point that we are no longer able to pass that cost onto our guests. Our utilities alone have increased by an extra £58,000 alone.”
#CostOfLiving
#Dorset
./1
@eiecampaign
The thought process is staggering!
Sunday, Edwina says to hubby “I’m going on TV tomorrow to discuss the energy crisis. Could you just pop to Hobbycraft and get me a piece of silver foily paper so that I can show the little people how to save 0.01% of their energy bills”
There are now so many areas showing increase in
#coronavirus
cases, too many for graphs, I have created a table for the data published on 30 May showing areas with highest increase:-
AS at 27 May
Cases >10
Increase in weekly 7-Day Average case rate >30%
.1/?
Almost all items are over 10% more expensive than last year! Kellogg's Cornflakes are just[!] 5% higher & Maryland Cookies are the same price!
#Inflation
You see all those families trying to get away for their first holidays in 3 years having to wait for hours in queues of cars because every single passport has to be checked and stamped?
I caused that!
#Dover
#Brexit