Ewan Cunningham

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[Ben Habib @BackBrexitBen]

New SNP MP Lara Bird took the oath of allegiance to King Charles in the House of Commons and appeared to cross her fingers while doing it.

That is not a protest. It is contempt. Contempt for Parliament. Contempt for her office. Contempt for the constitution. This was an anti-British, anti-Unionist stunt from an MP who wants the privileges of Westminster while sneering at the very country that sent her there.

She is entitled to oppose the monarchy. She is entitled to support Scottish independence. But if her first act in Parliament is to treat the oath of office like a childish loophole, the public has every right to ask:

If the oath means nothing, what else is optional ?

[No Context World Cup @NoContextEPL]

Who made this? 😭😭

[The Footy Feed @TheFootyFeed]

Arsenal have released their shirt for next season... You'll be available from the club shop before the Burnley game.

[Chris Littlewood @chrislittlewoo8]

Can someone tell me what I’m actually paying for?

My latest council tax bill has arrived. £330 a month.

For what?

We still have to pay extra just to have the garden waste collected.

The roads are knackered, the drains are blocked, and every time it rains the streets flood.

The local town is now devoid of shops because business rates and parking charges have made it almost impossible to trade and expensive for people to visit.

So where is the money going?

Councils spend tax revenue on vanity projects like cycle lanes that might see a bike once a decade and disability parking bays that sit empty most of the time.

Meanwhile the services we actually rely on continue to decline.

We are expected to pay more and more for less and less.

And at the same time we all see public money being spent on people who entered this country illegally and have never contributed.

So I’ll ask again.
What exactly are we paying for?

The whole system is broken.

[Troll Football @TrollFootball]

Corner kicks in the Premier League 2027-28 season

[James Melville 🚜 @JamesMelville]

Almost everyone I speak to feels completely pissed off with what is happening to Britain. The extortionate costs, high taxes, petty authority rules and the fact that nothing works properly. A country in serious decline. A decline facilitated by governments for corporate greed.

Britain faces huge difficulties and we don’t have the calibre of politicians to deal with the issues being faced. We have the most useless, insincere and out of touch politicians ever seen in British history. It’s a dreadful situation. We are being led by a bunch of shysters with their nests being feathered by their corporate cronies.

Britain is broken. You can feel the decline everywhere, except in the deep pockets of the greedy corporations who have been allowed to plunder the assets of Britain.

We are an island full of natural resources & with a temperate climate. We should have energy security, vibrant agriculture and fishing industries, blue collar industries to be proud of, manufacturing centres of excellence, but instead, it's all being destroyed, sold off or closed down. The industrial and community fabric of so many communities has been wilfully destroyed or neglected for decades.

We have infrastructures and public services that are rotting despite having the highest tax burden in history.

We have an ongoing cost of living crisis where supermarkets & utility & energy companies fleece consumers on a daily basis while showing record profits.

And for all of this, I blame governments for being more concerned in political game playing, consolidation of power, suppressing freedom of speech, indulging in petty punishment rules and surveillance culture, facilitating corporate greed rather than addressing the many concerns and challenges faced by individuals and communities right across the country.

The first job of any government should be to wholeheartedly serve and protect the citizens that they are supposed to represent. Instead, we have successive governments who are punishing the public and are in thrall to billionaires, global technocrats and asset stripping corporations like BlackRock.

Britain has turned into a total mess. Nothing works. Everything is bogged down in governmental petty bureaucracy or punishment politics. Pensioners, small businesses, students, farmers, fishing communities and the disabled are wilfully hammered by the Labour government. Over £100bn of taxpayers’ money is now spent per year on interest payments for the national debt, £30bn is being spaffed away on carbon capture machines, The cost of living for basic essentials like water, energy and food is through the roof. We are taxed to the hilt and yet public services and core infrastructures are rotting. We have water, energy and food security concerns despite having the national resources to be secure in all of these. We have a warmongering Prime Minister who is the most pompous and conceited individual ever to walk through the doors of 10 Downing Street. We have successive governments literally asset stripping the country to give everything away to multinational corporations. We have massive amounts of poverty and homelessness. We have thousands of migrants arriving across the channel while £millions are spent every day on housing them in 5 star hotels. We have an NHS that is in a total mess with millions of people living in excruciating pain because they can’t get treated for months on end. We have governments who are more concerned with sucking up to the likes of BlackRock rather than fixing the mess that they created. And we even have a government who ram through plastering solar panels on thousands of acres of prime farmland while spending £50bn on sun dimming experiments. It’s an utter disgrace what has happened to Britain and for all of this, I blame successive governments.

Britain is broken. A gigantic asset stripping and plundering Britain - facilitated by successive governments - at our own expense. Absolutely shameful.

[James Melville 🚜 @JamesMelville]

Perhaps at some point, given that you’re the Prime Minister of the UK, you could try rebuilding the UK?

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

If you believe free speech is for you but not your political opponents, you're illiberal.

If no contrary evidence could change your beliefs, you're a fundamentalist.

If you believe the state should punish those with contrary views, you're a totalitarian.

If you believe political opponents should be punished with violence or death, you're a terrorist.

[Konstantin Kisin @KonstantinKisin]

"When you tear out a man's tongue, you are not proving him a liar, you're only telling the world that you fear what he might say".

My thoughts are with Charlie Kirk's family.

[Ewan Cunningham @EwanMCunningham]

@Argos_Online Sent

[Ewan Cunningham @EwanMCunningham]

@Argos_Online I pre-ordered a Switch 2 in Apr and was told I’d receive it on release day. It’s still at the DPD depot according to the tracking. Please can you help? I would’ve just picked one up from the shop if I’d known it might not arrive on time… 😔

[Candace Owens @RealCandaceO]

Boys will be boys. 🤷‍♀️

[Ewan Cunningham @EwanMCunningham]

@king_schmo THIS should be the most liked #MAFSAU post. Thought I was the only one to notice this. The double standards are ridiculous... 🤯

[Charlie Kirk @charliekirk11]

The Race Lady at MSNBC needs a wellness check:

“The second opportunity white women had” to save America and "change the way they interact with the patriarchy" but they “voted based on race rather than gender.”

[Alexandros Marinos 🏴‍☠️ @alexandrosM]

If you voted Democrat and you are feeling that the election result is truly horrifying, do this one simple thing for your mental health:

Write down your fears of what might happen in the next 4 years on a piece of paper.

Re-read and check in on them every few months.

It will be a constant source of relief to you when you see that your fears will not, in fact, come true.

Then start asking why you had those fears in the first place and how you can prevent them from forming the next time.

[ForAmerica @ForAmerica]

BYE.

[Alasdair Munro @apsmunro]

I don't like to tweet much about politics, but if you respond to an overwhelming victory for people you profoundly disagree with by saying, "everyone is clearly stupid/evil", instead of triggering profound curiosity and reflection, you are part of the problem

[Jack Mac @JackMac]

Bro is on cloud 9 😂😂😂😂

[Ian Miles Cheong @ianmiles]

This girl is right about why Kamala Harris lost the election.