Lesley Muir

Creative Highland communiteer with own shed by the sea. Arty, Sciency, History-y. Foolishly optimistic. Swordswoman. Re-tweets not necessarily endorsements.

[Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla]

NEW: Boris Johnson failed to declare to parliament a gift of private jet flights from the same cryptobillionaire, Christopher Harborne who gave £5m to Nigel Farage, leaked documents reveal.

New #HarborneReceipts investigation from @thenerve_news
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[alan rusbridger @arusbridger]

The sums involved in the MPs expenses scandal were chicken feed compared to the Farage £5m. HIs reaction - mind your own business - suggests he may not be cut out for this democracy thing https://t.co/rOJwRqxgUs

[Prem Sikka @premnsikka]

Royal Mail boss’s pay package triples to £6.9m.

Cost of postage stamps rocketing

RM hasn't hit delivery target for 1st-class post since 2017, 2nd-class mail since 2020.

Ofcom continues to reduce targets.

Bosses rewarded for fleecing people.
https://t.co/5KHpChLSlV

[Craig Murray @CraigMurrayOrg]

Baroness Michelle Mone and husband made approximately £200 million personal profit from supplying defective medical gear to the NHS.

They were handed the contract with no competition or process despite having zero experience in the sector.

Nobody is in jail. They keep the cash.

[InfoGram @_InfoGram_]

ICC Chief Prosecutor Karim Khan blew the lid off Trump and Netanyahu 🔥👏

Khan: "They threatened ICC judges, UN staff, and my family over Israel cases.

🇺🇸 12 U.S. senators sent a letter saying 'Go after 🇮🇱 Israel and we go after you and your family.

Then came sanctions, frozen accounts, travel bans. It is deeply dangerous for states to bully international justice."

Finally someone said this. What a COURAGE this man has 💪 🫡

[Lesley Muir @Ellyuno]

@Meteor_FBPE @BladeoftheS @PaulClay710 Already free parking for hospital staff, visitors etc at NHS Scotland hospitals. Thanks SNP.

[Alex Taylor @AlexTaylorNews]

Oh look ! The pesky EU refusing to buy UK food containing pesticides and fungicides which it has banned, but which the UK allows "under its Brexit freedoms"
"Freedom" to use dodgy chemicals, eh ?🤡

and of course that's the EU "punishing" the UK again. Of course it is ...

[Christopher Webb @cwebbonline]

BBC isn’t backing down.

Trump sued them for $10 billion, which means discovery cuts both ways. Now the BBC wants his phone logs, private schedules, daily diaries, and communications from November 2020 through January 20, 2021.

They aren’t just defending the case. They’re asking a simple question: did their documentary damage Trump’s reputation, or did January 6 do that all by itself?

Lawsuits open doors, and discovery is fair game 💥

[Richard @ricwe123]

"Anyone who has served in the Israeli Forces in Gaza since October 2023 should be considered a suspect in relation to war crimes, crimes against humanity, and the crime of genocide"

-Chris Sidoti, UN Commission of Inquiry on Palestine

[NHS Million @NHSMillion]

This post is really getting some people’s knickers in a twist so please do keep liking, sharing, and following 🙏

[Ramy Abdu| رامي عبده @RamAbdu]

“They threatened my family if I pursued Israel.”

ICC Prosecutor Karim Khan says he, ICC judges, and UN officials faced threats over Israel-related cases, warning such intimidation undermines the rule of law.

[Clive Lewis MP @labourlewis]

Great to hear that after our pressure the government has confirmed the re-opening of the medical evacuation scheme for critically injured children in Gaza.

Earlier this month, I co-signed an open letter coordinated by my colleague Simon Opher MP urgently calling for the government to take this action.

We shouldn’t look away from what’s unfolding. The war has left Gaza’s health services unable to cope, and thousands of children are now cut off from essential medical help.

Re-opening this scheme will provide some relief. However it's only one step, and I will continue to keep pushing the government to do much more for the people of Gaza.

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

Has there ever been a World Cup where a team is playing in the host country on the literal same day that the host country is bombing that team's country?

[Liz Webster @LizWebsterSBF]

John Major:

“Who are the gainers from having left? I don’t hear the Brexiteers talking much about Brexit these days because they know in their heart that it has failed to deliver what they promised… The losers are every wallet, every purse and every balance sheet in the country.”

After 10 years, even a former Tory PM is saying what the data shows: Brexit failed.

[Glenn Tunes @glenn_tunes]

To everyone who's upset that trump's name was removed from the Kennedy center i would like to point out that you can find his name mentioned more than 30 thousand times in the epstein files 👍

[Lesley Muir @Ellyuno]

Absolutely this👇

[Gordon Fielden @GordonFielden]

There is, perhaps, a grain of truth in Jeremy Hunt's assertion. The United Kingdom can undoubtedly survive outside the European Union. Yet survival should never be mistaken for success, nor endurance for prosperity.

The question has never been whether Britain is capable of existing beyond the European Union. It plainly is. The real question is whether our nation is stronger, more competitive, more productive and more influential than it would have been had it remained within the Single Market and Customs Union.

When one reflects upon Britain's position before Brexit, our standing within Europe, our influence upon the world stage, the strength of our manufacturing sector, the ease with which we traded with our largest and nearest market, and the confidence with which international businesses invested here, the contrast with today is striking. Investment has faltered, exporters face barriers that simply did not exist before, countless smaller businesses have abandoned European markets altogether, and our manufacturing base continues to diminish.

The fishing industry, presented as one of Brexit's greatest prizes, offers a particularly telling example. Grand promises were made, yet many fishermen now find themselves burdened with additional costs, delays and bureaucracy, while access to their principal export market has become markedly more difficult. Similar difficulties confront producers of fresh food and agricultural goods, where speed to market is often the difference between profit and loss.

Nor has Brexit delivered upon one of its central political promises, namely restoring effective control of our borders. Before leaving the European Union, the United Kingdom participated in the Dublin arrangements, which provided a legal mechanism for returning many asylum seekers to the first safe European country in which they had arrived. That system was by no means perfect, but it afforded Britain an important instrument in managing irregular migration alongside our European neighbours. We relinquished those arrangements without securing an equally effective replacement. As a consequence, successive governments have found themselves with fewer practical means of dealing with illegal migration while small boat crossings have continued to rise. Whatever one's view of immigration, it is difficult to argue that Britain has emerged in a stronger position.

Trade with one's nearest neighbours has always been the foundation of economic success. Geography cannot be altered by political rhetoric. Europe remains our largest and most accessible market, while many of the trade agreements heralded as the great rewards of Brexit have delivered only modest economic benefit. No agreement negotiated with distant partners can realistically replicate the advantages of frictionless trade with a market situated only a few miles across the Channel.

Jeremy Hunt asks whether Britain can survive outside the European Union. Of course it can. Nations are remarkably resilient. The question he avoids is whether Britain is stronger, wealthier, more secure and better placed than it would otherwise have been. On that point, the weight of the evidence has become increasingly difficult to dismiss.

Britain is surviving. It is not leading. It is not thriving. It is not realising the economic potential that was so confidently promised. That is the true legacy of Brexit, and no amount of political revisionism can alter that conclusion.

[Zack Polanski @ZackPolanski]

When politicians and media say ‘difficult choices’, that’s code for working class people about to be screwed.

[alex thomson @alextomo]

Barrister Paul Powlesland seeks meeting with Env Agency boss to ask him why he doesn’t turn its River Roding PR disaster into a success story working with local river guardians’ expertise and EA resources to make it a clean river again ? Watch this space…

[Lesley Muir @Ellyuno]

Why is Westminster still supporting Israel with weaponry parts etc. Why?

[Declassified UK @declassifiedUK]

The UK again criticises Israel — this time for “grave violations against children” — while keeping military and trade policies in place which support it. https://t.co/0U7tDr7gfD

[Parody Nigel Farage @Parody_PM]

As a wildfire burns in Derbyshire, Richard Stupid Tice confirms it is just weather. But definitely not because Reform have received £24 million from people with fossil fuel interests since 2019.