Carol Messenger

Red-headed grandma; Bruce Springsteen, Liverpool FC, live music, running, motorbikes, politics (citizenship, integrity, justice, equality, diversity, respect)

[Ry @RyanS92__]

If anyone’s stuck in Liverpool and needs taking back home, doesn’t matter where drop me a message, myself and two mates (3 separate cars), can get up-to 12 people at a time, please RT

[Carol Messenger @CazMessenger]

@veallbagsetlist I hope you make it!

[Carol Messenger @CazMessenger]

@veallbagsetlist Somewhere near the beginning hopefully - will be with my young grandsons and need to get back to the midlands afterwards.

[Carol Messenger @CazMessenger]

@PolestarCars Hey, any chance of actually providing a service to your customers?? How do I get an answer to a simple question about an order??

[Carol Messenger @CazMessenger]

@PolestarCars And another day @PolestarCars and no communication whatsoever 🤬

[Carol Messenger @CazMessenger]

@PolestarCars any chance of a response from your customer no-service team???

[Carol Messenger @CazMessenger]

@PolestarCars Another day almost gone - still no info!

[Carol Messenger @CazMessenger]

THIS 👇

[Shahid Kamal Ahmad @shahidkamal]

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?

[Carol Messenger @CazMessenger]

@CooperativeBank And I have now been on the phone for 35 mins today and STILL waiting - just to make a payment to a bank/recipient in the US that I have paid before. Time for a new bank account elsewhere I think!

[Carol Messenger @CazMessenger]

@CooperativeBank nice work people - phone lines open until 5pm on a Sunday - I call 10 mins before that, put on hold after going through all the IVR options and then told lines are closed at 5pm!! If a customer calls at 4.50pm, please have the courtesy to answer them!!

[Carol Messenger @CazMessenger]

@CooperativeBank Well mine wasn’t answered - after 7 mins waiting just got a message that you are closed and call back when you’re open.

[Carol Messenger @CazMessenger]

@bhx_official @Trish_atTC And the queue will still be 10 times longer than at any other airport 🤬

[Carol Messenger @CazMessenger]

@veallbagsetlist I think this will be an amazing event - really looking forward to it!

[Carol Messenger @CazMessenger]

@SimonHbikes I agree, Fartage will end up as leader of the Tories and, ergo, PM. Crazy, but very dangerous shit going on.

[Carol Messenger @CazMessenger]

THIS 👇

[Zoe Gardner @ZoeJardiniere]

Yesterday morning I got asked the real serious question of this election -

Is the UK full?

[Sandra Foy @Monkbythesea]

@edwinhayward The bit after the end is amazing.

[Carol Messenger @CazMessenger]

@rwparkinson @HajiraPiranie I'm assuming that was aimed at @HajiraPiranie ? I know which constituency I am in but it seems the Labour Party is not so sure...

[Carol Messenger @CazMessenger]

@HajiraPiranie thank you for your leaflet through my door, but I am not even in your constituency - @rwparkinson is the candidate for my constituency as far as I know! Or have the borders changed again??

[Carol Messenger @CazMessenger]

@veallbagsetlist Americans don't know how to use the 24hr clock 😂