@AndrewHWestern As a Labour Party MP, you're not a fan of freedom of speech and you're content to allow the BBC to pick and choose which parties are invited onto their shows, particularly for a by-election?
@RupertLowe10 Please name each and every MP who thinks they have something more important to do than attend the debate about the systemic rape of white working class girls.
@prodnose Of course it's handball. So VAR got it wrong. The tech is fine, it's the muppets using it. But don't forget how outraged everyone was pre-VAR over all the decisions. It is the right system, but needs to inject common sense and allow on field decisions to stand for marginal calls
@SBarrettBar I do have 18 year old boy, and I worry every time he goes out. I'm sure my parents worried about me at the same age, but the challenges our children face today are different. And not for the better. When do we say enough is enough?
@TheGriftReport Really happy and relieved that he's a good guy, he's in a relationship and he's not involved in a scandal! Such a massive part of my boys' childhood!
@stellacreasy Labour suddenly have very thin skins after years of rude and sweary attacks on the Tories and Reform. And also, still not listening, because it doesn't fit their agenda.
@JakeBenRichards@RachelReevesMP You really have no idea how much you are despised by everyday, normal people. Ask yourself why the results of the local elections were so catastrophic for Labour.
Dear @Keir_Starmer, you said to big tech: 'If you profit from harm & abuse, you lose the right to self-regulate' - yet you've done almost nothing to tackle scam ads?
An Open Letter to the PM from @MoneySavingExp & @WhichUK highlighting Govt's repeated, ongoing, flaccid treatment of scam ads
You Want To Talk About Foreign Money, Ed? Let's Talk About Your Money.
@EdwardJDavey, three points that demand a response.
You invoke Ted Heath's sacking of Enoch Powell as the model for dealing with unacceptable speech. Powell was sacked for predicting, with documented demographic evidence, what is now visibly happening in British cities. The political class that applauded Heath's decision spent the next fifty years ensuring that nobody could say what Powell said without career destruction. The result is not a more harmonious society. It is the one we are living in now. The cordon sanitaire you want to rebuild is the mechanism that prevented honest conversation about immigration, integration and parallel communities until the consequences became undeniable. Rebuilding it now is a demand to return to the conditions that produced the problem.
On antisemitism at both demonstrations. You claim antisemitic slurs appeared on placards at both marches. If specific antisemitic incidents occurred at the Unite the Kingdom march they should be named, documented and prosecuted. Vague claims that both marches were equally antisemitic without specific evidence is precisely the false equivalence that allowed genuine antisemitism to flourish unchallenged for two and a half years. The antisemitism documented across thirty three pro-Palestinian marches since October 2023, the death to Israel chants, the red triangles, the Iranian regime flags, is on the public record. Name the equivalent from Saturday's march or withdraw the claim.
The real problem lies closer to home. In the captured institutions that produced the progressive mindset now visible in BBC newsrooms, government departments, HR bureaucracies and university humanities faculties. Those institutions were not captured by the far right. They were captured by the progressive left over fifty years of patient institutional work, a process Gramsci theorised in the 1930s and Dutschke operationalised in the 1960s. That capture has produced a generation that cannot define a woman, treats the Union Jack as a symbol of fascism, marches under Iranian regime flags and describes Jews as an abomination to this planet in private WhatsApp groups. The march you find sickening is the reaction to that capture. Addressing the reaction without addressing the cause is not leadership. It is evasion dressed as principle. And stopping the flow of Qatari money into British universities, which has funded the academic infrastructure producing that generation, would be a more productive use of your energy than rebuilding a cordon sanitaire around anyone who names what has happened.
On foreign funding. Since you raise it so forcefully the Liberal Democrats need to answer some questions of their own. Your biggest election donor in 2024 was Safwan Adam, a director of Stay Belvedere Hotels Limited, a firm that ran 51 hotels housing asylum seekers across England and Wales, provided approximately a quarter of all Home Office asylum places and reported nearly ยฃ705 million in income in a single year while paying out ยฃ45 million in dividends. Adam gave your party nearly ยฃ500,000 before the July 2024 election and over ยฃ750,000 across that year. The firm was subsequently stripped of its Home Office contract due to concerns about its performance. The Liberal Democrats, the party demanding stronger borders against foreign money in politics, were bankrolled by the man who made a fortune from the border crisis your policies would deepen.
Elon Musk's funding of British politics is a legitimate concern. So is the Qatari money flowing into British universities producing the generation now marching under Hamas symbols. So is the Iranian funding of mosques documented by the Henry Jackson Society. And so is your biggest donor making hundreds of millions from the asylum crisis while your party campaigns to expand it.
"Safwan Adam gave your party nearly ยฃ500,000 before the July 2024 election and over ยฃ750,000 across that year."
@Keir_Starmer You've learnt nothing. You're still not listening to the concerns of the (previously silent) majority. Carry on because you'll destroy the Labour Party the same way Johnson, Sunak and Truss relegated the Tories to insignificance
This Parking Enforcement Officer in Bristol was captured on video driving the wrong way up a ONE WAY STREET before leaving his car parked on double yellow lines.
Despite being told a number of times he was in the wrong.
Is this a council worker?