Simon Lydiard FRSA 🇪🇺🇮🇪

Former Senior Civil Servant. Checked in my political impartiality on retirement. Fellow @theRSAorg. Member @UKLabour, @thefabians. May mention Dr Who.

[Larry the Cat @Number10cat]

This is an image from @I_W_M of British Commandos on a landing craft approaching Sword Beach on D-Day, 6th June 1944. 82 years ago today.
War is a horrific thing; these men left their loved ones to enter its hellish cauldron. Some never returned. We remember their immense bravery and sacrifices to defeat fascism so that they should never be necessary again.

[ALASTAIR CAMPBELL @campbellclaret]

Any chance you lot could one day be on the side of decent British people against far right Americans who have nothing better to do than spread hate and division around the world? Or is this what Rupert wants?

[Selina j 🧚🏻🌙⚒ @OfSelina]

If you’re White living in England which is over 80% White and you genuinely think there is an anti-white campaign against the White population by institutions that are predominantly run by White people I genuinely do not know what to say…

… Other than get off social media

[Prof Colin Talbot (rerum cognoscere causas) @colinrtalbot]

Angela Rayner - £40k underpaid stamp duty - repaid. Lost jobs in Cabinet and Dep. PM.

Peter Murrell - £400k theft from SNP - going to prison

Huge coverage of both

Nigel Farage - £5m undeclared bung (possibly more) - goes to ground for a month.

Media coverage? You judge.

[Larry the Cat @Number10cat]

"We want to use Henry’s heartbreaking story to make change for the better. We do not want his death to be used to create further division, hatred or tension.”

I am in awe of Henry Nowak's family.
Anyone callously ignoring their wishes deserves nothing but contempt.

[Simon Lydiard FRSA 🇪🇺🇮🇪 @LydiardSimon]

@DMiliband @Sherlocker2 So sorry for your loss. May her memory be a blessing.

[Waqas🔶️ @m0w4q45]

Three problems, Rob: it's not a mosque (it's a food bank with a small prayer room), it wasn't a consecrated church (it was an old school building), and it doesn't serve any faith exclusively. The one thing genuinely destroyed at the site was a digger torched by arsonists who'd swallowed the exact "it's becoming a mosque" myth you're reposting. The C of E condemned the attack. Maybe read past the headline next time.

[Trades Union Congress @The_TUC]

BREAKING 🚨| The number of people in a union in the UK has GROWN by 192,000 - to 6.6 million.

There has never been a more important time to be a member of a union.

When unions do well, working people do well.

It pays to be in a union.

[Ted Smith 🇪🇺 @TedUrchin]

@TimesRadio @CalumAM So disappointing, I used to like him but Blair has lost the plot. To all intents and purposes he is now a right wing Tory.
Moreover, he has become toxic to the Labour Party.
My message to him would be: Button it, Blair. Keep your trap shut.

[Simon Lydiard FRSA 🇪🇺🇮🇪 @LydiardSimon]

@BobbyDazz12 I got away with it. Admittedly, I'm self-employed. 😉

[Simon Lydiard FRSA 🇪🇺🇮🇪 @LydiardSimon]

@forwardnotback

[Simon Lydiard FRSA 🇪🇺🇮🇪 @LydiardSimon]

@KathrynDW59 @RobertJenrick @mike69923907 @Nigel_Farage Don't confuse them with facts.

[Simon Lydiard FRSA 🇪🇺🇮🇪 @LydiardSimon]

@suespensley Yes. I think I got 15p a day when I joined the civil service in the late 70s.

[Larry the Cat @Number10cat]

CAT ADVISORY: It's very hot across the UK this weekend. All cats should find the coolest spot in their home and stay there. Tell your staff to bring chilled snacks and water every 15 minutes.

[Simon Lydiard FRSA 🇪🇺🇮🇪 @LydiardSimon]

@justdavenow89 @johnandi Yep

[ALASTAIR CAMPBELL @campbellclaret]

If the subject of the £5m donation scandal was a member of the Cabinet, a senior SNP, Plaid or Green politician, he or she would be getting doorstepped an monstered everywhere they went. The double standards are sickening

[Micheál Martin @MichealMartinTD]

Appalled at the shocking behaviour of Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir towards illegally detained members of the Sumud Flotilla.

The Israeli government’s actions are in breach of international law and I intend to raise this issue at EU level.

[Karen Lee @Karen_karenelee]

After my daughter died, my son in law dropped my 3 small grandchildren off daily at a school breakfast club so that he could continue to work. They support a wide range of families in so many different ways.

This Reform Cllr really ought to think before she opens her mouth

[Yvette Cooper @YvetteCooperMP]

I am truly appalled at the video posted by Israeli Cabinet Minister Ben-Gvir taunting those involved in the Global Sumud Flotilla.

This violates the most basic standards of respect and dignity in the way people should be treated.

We are in touch with the families of a number of British nationals involved to provide them with consular support.

We have demanded an explanation from the Israeli authorities and made clear their obligations to protect the rights of our citizens and all those involved.

[lee harpin @lmharpin]

Dreadful #PMQs for Badenoch that