Fifteen years. Five prime ministers, seven chancellors, eight foreign secretaries, twelve culture secretaries and sixteen housing ministers.
A thread, for #RantyTuesday.
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Really saddened to hear this, had the privilege of working with him on many occasions. Always a funny and warm man who loved words. Such a shame.
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Iβve been holding the Government to account for years using actual facts & statistics in films which are watched millions of times every week. If only there was some way of knowing why Iβve never been invited on @bbcquestiontimeβ¦ π€
On Question Time tomorrow, Fiona will be joined by Meghan Gallacher, Anas Sarwar, Angela Constance, Stephen Noon and Kate Andrews for our final show of the year
Join us and an audience from Kelso live on @BBCiPlayer from 8pm or or @BBCOne after the 10 o'clock news #bbcqt
Many thanks, @wesstreeting.
Have to say I really didn't have "stop exploiting those patients you see dying in corridors in horrifically overwhelmed A&Es" on this year's Christmas list.
Please consider reading this short thread in response to your Sunday Times interview. 1/n
90-97 UTurns, pledges reversed, policies scrapped, promises abandoned, under #Sunak.
307 since Tories Elected in Dec 2019.
Tories made these guarantees about the NHS on Dec 4, 2019.
Now clear that little action is in place - and NONE will be delivered in this Parliament.
And if you *still* need convincing that bigoted liar Boris Johnson might not actually be the Churchillian figure we've been told he is by sycophantic pundits, journalists, MPs and utterly delusional morons, here's what is quite possibly his finest hour:
π’ A proposed octopus farm in the Canary Islands threatens the lives of an estimated one million intelligent beings each year. Will you join me in emailing the Canary Islands government and stand against this cruelty? #StopOctopusFarming#EndItbit.ly/stop-octopus-farms
'One hundred and twenty years ago today, on the 4 December 1903, Ralph Vaughan Williams heard Charles Potiphar of Ingrave, Essex, sing βBushes and Briarsβ, and his life changed.'