RIP Janey 😢

This is better than any speech from a politician we’ve heard recently 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾

1) The fascists, racists and Islamophobes dragging their knuckles through some parts of England and NI do not have any ‘legitimate concerns’. Their world is full of hate. It is not just to be pitied. It is to be rejected. Without equivocation.

I drove east into London on the A40 this afternoon. Light breeze, not too hot. London is always beautiful in the sunshine. Drove past Uxbridge. No riots, no looters, no cars overturned and ablaze, no sirens. Drove past Greenford. No riots, no looters, no cars overturned and ablaze, no sirens. Drove past Acton. No riots, no looters, no cars overturned and ablaze, no sirens. Parked in Westfield. There is sun, no sign of rain, but the full rainbow of humanity is here indoors. (They say they want their country back, but they actually want their empire back, the one their grandparents' generation lost. The Empire came home. And here we all are! ) The shop assistants everywhere were from every corner of the earth. The customers the same. Girls and boys, men and women, from every place in the world, peacefully going about their lives on a London Sunday in a cathedral to capitalism in Shepherds Bush. No shouting. No swearing. No mugging. No knifing. No looting. No burning. Just the world in one city under a giant glass roof in peace. Sometimes, you don't know how good you actually have it. When London is good, it's really bloody good. Most places in England are good, most of the time. Most people in England are good, no matter what the forces that seek to divide us want us to believe. I remember being broke and homeless 20 years ago this year, carrying my possessions in four bags and thanking God for my legs when I was deep in my material nadir. You already have your country. I already have my country. Both can be true. I don't want to take your job, unless I'm better at it. I don't want to put shariah in place over your head and in any case, the law in this country is about as close to shariah as I need. Why would I endanger that just to piss you off for some marginal gain? Think about it. We can get along. We are not enemies. Those grifters are fooling you, scamming you, and they're thick. They think 1 1=Foreigners. Their sums don't add up. They get tax breaks. Do you? Work it out. We aren't going anywhere and we won't roll over frightened like our parents did. We belong here. We ARE the British Empire. This is the legacy. It's not us you want your country back from. It's the foreign papers, the con artists who took COVID money, the scum who bought our water, the financial institutions who gambled away our future and made us pay for their next round of bonuses in an endless era of austerity. We didn't freeze old people to death. We didn't make food banks necessary. Cameron and Co did all that. We're just easy targets. A distraction. This is still a beautiful country. This is still a peaceful country. How about we find away to make it better for all of us:? Isn't London beautiful in the sunshine?

The making of the original Portillo moment. I was there. “The Observer polled the constituency,” said Stephen. “We’re only 4 points behind Portillo.” Silence in the room. This changed everything. An unwinnable seat now was knife edged. And this was no ordinary incumbent.

At the next General Election I'll be loaning my vote to Labour. We need rid of the tories. That is however the last time they get it for free. After that they'll need a complete about turn on brexit for me to give them it again next time.

Let me tell you @RishiSunak, why I will not be voting for you in the next general election. The first time I voted in 1979, was as a young soldier, it was for the Conservatives. I voted Conservative in every election until 2015, without fail. So why not now? Well I'll 🧵⤵️2️⃣

How to vote in the local elections on May 4th. Together we can remove 1000s of Tory councillors from 100s of Tory councils. A thread 🧵 /1

Potholes are a real danger when cycling around in Stoke. This one in Lytton St is particularly nasty. Luckily, some of the public spirited locals have taken some direct action to help it stand out to road users......

JUNIOR DOCTOR - PAY EXPLAINED 2008 - 24 Tins of beans an hour 2023 - 10 Tins of beans an hour #PayRestoration

Can anyone explain the argument for NHS privatisation? The way I see it, demand will be the same, it’ll just have more money. Where will that money come from? Consumers. So the only change is that people pay more for their healthcare, which we could have achieved via taxation

Today's Twitter Poll: Which do you believe the government should focus on more - growing the economy (ie increasing the size of the pie) - or making sure its more fairly distributed (focusing on who gets what size slice)

🧵Queen Elizabeth II, a life in charts.📈 Or rather: some charts about how this country transformed during her reign. Best place to start: the population. Up 17m since 1952 to just over 67m. That's a LOT of extra people. Even more intriguing is what's going on beneath the surface

Here's an impact of Brexit that doesn't get talked about enough... Day before the 2016 referendum... £1 worth 1.3065 euro £1 worth US$1.4879 Today... £1 worth 1.1840 euro (9.4% less) £1 worth US$1.2051 (19% less) We buy our energy on the global markets in foreign currency.

I have suggested that no plan to address the current economic crisis that I have seen is good enough. In that case I think it necessary that I offer my own alternative plan to address this crisis. This is it. It’s radical. It could work. I think it’s essential. A thread….

Tragic news The latest @CornwallInsight prediction, based on Ofgem's new methodology, is an 81% price cap rise in Oct (taking typical bill to £3,582/yr) and a further 19% in Jan (so £4,266/yr) Action & planning is needed now. The zombie govt needs wake up sooner than 5 Sept...