James D 💙

Still tired

[Emma 💛💙🇩🇰🇬🇧🇪🇺 @MonkEmma]

Well, that Express headline was always going to raise a few eyebrows!😳

Starmer is responsible for embracing polygamy to appease Muslims, and so he's increasing their benefits??

That's the implication.

After all, this "started in April", right?

Wrong!

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[Danny Boy @Care2much18]

Almost 10,000 likes for straight-up lies by Annunziata Rees-Mogg, quote:

"Asylum seekers make up 0.08% of Dorset's population and 44% of alleged sex offences. So unbelievable I had to check. It's true."

It's not true, it's utter garbage.

I'll go through facts and figures. /1

[James D 💙 @JaLuDa]

Called customer services and they could not get hold of the store either. Apparently there was no capacity to deliver last night! It's been rebooked to be delivered this morning. It would have been nice to have been informed.

[James D 💙 @JaLuDa]

@IcelandFoods very disappointed with your service today. My order didn't turn up and the phone number on the "get ready" email doesn't actually ring so I can't check if it's very delayed or not turning up at all.

[Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla]

Entire news crew wiped out: 2 journalists + 2 cameramen.

Killed by Israel which has killed more journalists than died in WW1, WW2, Vietnam, Afghanistan & Yugoslavia combined.

[Led By Donkeys @ByDonkeys]

How Musk broke Twitter and helped elect Trump
(Location: Tesla European HQ, Amsterdam)

[UNICEF @UNICEF]

We repeat. Nowhere is safe in Gaza.

Children need a ceasefire NOW.

[Raptor Persecution UK @RaptorPersUK]

WATCH @Channel4News this evening at 7pm for an exclusive on the illegal shooting of a hen harrier on, shock horror, a grouse moor.

Excellent work by @RSPBbirders @alextomo

‼️ NOT TO BE MISSED ‼️

https://t.co/EK1lT2mOsS

[Channel 4 News @Channel4News]

Secret filming uncovers illegal killings of rare birds in England

[Robert Peston @Peston]

There seems to be significant faux outrage from Tory leadership candidates Cleverly and Tugendhat about the Starmer government’s transfer of the Chagos islands to Mauritius.

Official sources tell me the transfer would have happened in materially the same
way at roughly the same time if Sunak had somehow won the election.

The point is that the transfer was being negotiated on the recent Tory government’s watch - including by Cleverly as foreign secretary and then by Cameron - and the deadline was in effect set by Washington.

I am told that President Biden wanted the deal done before the 5 November presidential election. Biden wanted certainty about the future of the US military base on the Chagossian island of Diego Garcia, just in case Donald Trump were to win the election.

For confirmation that the deal was clinched on a timetable and in a style to suit the US administration, see Biden’s statement that “it is a clear demonstration that through diplomacy and partnership, countries can overcome longstanding historical challenges to reach peaceful and mutually beneficial outcomes”.

Biden pointed out that the agreement between the UK and Mauritius meant the US had secured “the effective operation of the joint [military] facility on Diego Garcia into the next century.”

It is therefore curious Tugendhat should describe the transfer as “leaving our allies” exposed when the UK’s most important ally, America, has welcomed it.

And Cleverly’s denigration of Starmer as “weak, weak, weak” for formalising it seems eccentric when the negotiations with Mauritius were in full swing when he was in the cabinet.

As for Liz Truss’s assertion that Boris Johnson is to blame, I am told that Johnson was the last PM to wholly oppose giving up sovereignty over Chagos, and that the talks did not start properly till she was PM.

If anyone in the Tory party wants to know the nitty gritty of all this, possibly they could ask for an introduction from the former minister Lord Frost - because his spouse Harriet Matthews has been the lead official negotiator for the foreign office on the Chagos treaty with Mauritius.

[Kevin Schofield @KevinASchofield]

Worth pointing out that the foreign secretary who started the negotiations with Mauritius over the Chagos Islands in November 2022 was ... James Cleverly.

[Nazionale Italiana ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ @Azzurri]

Ciao Totò 💙
Eroe delle Notti Magiche

[European Unity #FBPE #RejoinEU🇪🇺🇺🇦🇨🇦#NAFO @EuropeanUnity1]

#NationalReadABookDay

[Reece Dinsdale @reece_dinsdale]

Anyone? 👀🤷‍♂️🤦‍♂️

[Peter Stefanovic @PeterStefanovi2]

Apparently Reform leader @Nigel_Farage believes two thirds of Brits would back joining Russia & Belarus as the only European countries outside the European Convention on Human Rights.

If you think he’s talking boll**** RT this to let him know
https://t.co/EDhyOfoilK

[Marcus Chown @marcuschown]

All this talk about blaming individuals for stabbings by psychotic people but little mention of the elephant in the room: the NHS is under-resourced and mental health services in particular are under-resourced. It’s impossible to safeguard the public with insufficient staff.

[Edwin Hayward @edwinhayward]

Latest Express poll needs more input. You know what to do.

(Link takes you directly to the poll. It bypasses the Express website, so you won't boost their ad impressions. Ignore the request to enter an email address - it's optional.)

https://t.co/cAYxgFv9Uw

[Aaron Bastani @AaronBastani]

Walthamstow tonight.

Will you retweet @elonmusk?

You know - just to provide your 193 million followers with a rounded picture of national sentiment in the U.K.