Gill Mortimer

Happily retired but still passionate about lots of thing. NOT the MP.

[Alex Armstrong @Alexarmstrong]

I went to a kebab shop that has sponsored 7 skilled worker visas.

What skills do you need to work in a kebab shop that requires you to import people into Britain?

[Yuan Yi Zhu @yuanyi_z]

I hear that a backbench MP will be reintroducing the assisted suicide bill.

I cannot think of a more tone-deaf thing to do at a time of national malaise, particularly as the bill divides the Labour Party, and has been rejected by every medical royal college that took a view.

[Chris Parry @DrChrisParry]

Wasn't it dangerous for the cameraman to be at the bottom of the ladder before the assault team arrived?

[David Shaw @David90shaw]

🚨 THE MASK HAS COMPLETELY SLIPPED.

Keir Starmer is banning social media for teenagers, but guess which app is magically exempt?

Bluesky. 🤡

They are blocking every platform that allows independent free speech, while leaving the ultimate left wing echo chamber wide open.

This was never about child safety. It is a highly coordinated plot to trap your kids in a digital bubble and brainwash them with pure establishment propaganda.

They want total control over what the next generation is allowed to think.

RT if you refuse to let the Labour elite indoctrinate our children! 🇬🇧🔥

[Heidi Bachram @HeidiBachram]

This is Usama Ghanem looking delighted to be protesting near a synagogue today. He lost his student visa MONTHS ago. Why is he still in this country able to harass Jewish ppl? @ShabanaMahmood

[Lee Nallalingham @LNallalingham]

💰 The Government has signed off £800,000 to support Vietnam’s net zero targets.

Seriously, what are we doing?

Energy bills have now gone up six times under this government.

Millions of British households are struggling with the cost of living.

Yet somehow we have nearly £800,000 available to help another country pursue its Net Zero ambitions.

I like Vietnam. It’s a fantastic country.

But if Vietnam wants to invest in its energy transition, surely Vietnam should pay for it.

British taxpayers have enough bills of their own.

[Jamie Metzl @JamieMetzl]

Join me in once again calling for the resignation of @TheLancet editor Richard Horton.

Publishing a petition calling for the boycott of the Israeli Medical Association is an absolute disgrace. Medicine should bring physicians together in service of patients, not weaponize professional organizations for political campaigns.

Just as it failed the public on the #COVID19 origins debate, The Lancet is again positioning itself as a political actor rather than a medical journal.

[Shruti @heyshrutimishra]

SpaceX's 11th employee just became a billionaire.

Gwynne Shotwell joined SpaceX in 2002. She was employee number 11, joining as VP of Business Development before the company had proven a single rocket could fly.

She didn't even go there looking for a job. She had taken a colleague to lunch to celebrate him leaving for SpaceX, ran into Musk at the restaurant, and got interviewed on the spot. A week later, she joined him.

Her job: sell rocket launches for a company nobody had heard of. She built the Falcon vehicle manifest to over $5 billion in commercial contracts. She managed SpaceX's growth to 22,000 employees. She was the one who told NASA, the Air Force, and paying commercial customers why SpaceX could get to orbit cheaper and faster than anyone before it.

She was also the one who said no to going public for years. "I wasn't sure the company would go public," she said on CNBC yesterday. She resisted the pressure because she believed the public markets would force SpaceX into quarterly thinking, which would kill the mission.

She finally decided it was time. "I do not want to focus on quarterly earnings," she said on IPO day. "What we're doing is very futuristic."

Her stake is now worth north of $1.3 billion. She's SpaceX's fifth-largest Class A shareholder.

The 24 years of operational work that made yesterday possible have Gwynne Shotwell's fingerprints on them.

[Northern lass 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇮🇪 @Norther10885608]

Our police are vile, what is happening to our country manhandling a five year boy, while his dad is getting pepper sprayed on the ground. And then pushing a mother holding a baby who is trying to comfort her son. I don't recognise this country under Labour. 🥺

[Steve Loftus @LoftusSteve]

She was off work for 3 months. Is still on restricted duties over a year later. She had to give up her Sergeant Rank because she couldn't do the role.

But it's OK, her spine wasn't actually shattered. Out of sheer luck.

[Stephan (1) @springfield1952]

Wist je dat?

Moslims bidden niet op straat in Iran, Saoedi-Arabië of andere moslimlanden—het is illegaal en onbeleefd, omdat het anderen stoort.

Ze doen het alleen in landen die ze veroveren, als een dominantie-strategie.

[Marika Cobbold @Marikacobbold]

This is Samuel Corner, sledgehammer raised, ready to strike the police woman lying at his feet, arm held out in a vain plea for mercy. Samuel Corner is not a martyr nor a "young activist", he's just a common-or-garden thug.

[Robbie Moore MP @_RobbieMoore]

A huge welcome to @StephenMorganMP as the new Food Security Minister — who after a quick search of hansard has mentioned “Farming” ZERO times in Parliament since being elected in 2017.

Great to have another outspoken voice for farmers in DEFRA 💪

It’s now absolutely clear. Labour are truly dedicated to our farmers.

[Dr. Maalouf ‏ @realMaalouf]

You have to be a complete idiot to believe that these two cultures can coexist.

[Nick Timothy MP @NJ_Timothy]

The threat from radical Islam is not just terrorism.

Islamists seek to subvert our society and our democracy.

But what we have is worth defending.

We have to fight back.

[WasAcop @WasAcop]

🚨Keir Starmer still hasn’t said a single word about the 72 people arrested outside Woolwich Crown Court.

And he won’t.

Because when it’s Palestine Action supporters getting nicked, the “full force of the law” suddenly turns into the “full force of the awkward silence.”

The script only comes out for the right kind of protesters. 😂

#Starmer #Woolwich

https://t.co/1Cmm22BgaV

[Gunther Eagleman™ @GuntherEagleman]

Elon Musk created thousands of millionaires in his career.

Elizabeth Warren created 1, herself.

Keep that in mind.

[Dux @DuxVul]

If you think $1tn is a disgusting amount of wealth

Wait until you hear that the UK has £2.94tn of national debt

That’s really disgusting

[Alexandra @Alexandr4Denman]

I look forward to the storm coming Starmers direction from the Polish government now! Well deserved aswell

[A. R. Peters & Son @sussexfarming]

This really shows how farming has become less and less important to successive governments and now in less than 2 years labour have carried on giving the industry that is food security, national security absolutely no continuity of minister at all. @angelaeagle @stephenmorgabMP