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Triggering Brexit types since 2016

[Andy @MrAndyHaynes]

@DPJHodges Agree Dan and I think people will listen to him and give him a change to turn things around. His comm skills are better than any of them since Cameron

[Bruce Bowman @boswelltoday]

This is superb.

The lesson begins with the usual catechism: J.K. Rowling has “bigoted opinions”.

Then someone makes the unforgivable mistake of reading what she actually wrote.

Suddenly, certainty requires definitions. Slogans require evidence. “Everyone knows” requires rather more than everyone saying it.

Critical thinking really is murder on a fashionable consensus.

[Queen Esther @XOQueenEsther]

Prince Harry has been patron of WellChild since 2007. After nearly twenty years, he still cannot describe what the charity does.

At this year’s awards he was asked, in effect, how exhausted parents get a break. His answer was not specialist nurses, funded respite, or the Better at Home training that helps families safely care for seriously ill children at home.

It was this: parents need a day off and a night off and a date. So find your neighbour. Or your neighbour’s neighbour. “Train them up.” Learn to look after their child. Knock on the door. They can ring you and say they need a few hours.

“It’s like, I’m there.”

That is not an explanation of WellChild. It is word salad delivered with the confidence of a man who has never had to be the neighbour.

WellChild exists because these children are not ordinary babysitting situations. Some have complex medical needs requiring specialist equipment, medication and highly skilled care. The charity’s specialist nurses and Better at Home programme help families develop the skills to care for their children safely at home. It provides specialist support and works to give families access to respite because informal goodwill is not a care plan.

Harry flattened all of that into a village fete.

“Community” is a beautiful word when you have never needed the clinical version of it.

He grew up with nannies, protection officers and a household built around his needs. He now lives behind gates with private security. He has spent years arguing that his own children cannot safely visit their family in Britain. Yet the same man is telling British parents of medically complex children that real support looks like handing their child to someone down the road whom they have “trained up.”

The language gives him away. “Train up” is how you speak about staff. Not a neighbour you recruit for date night.

Combined with “I’m there,” it is the performance of usefulness from a life that has never had to be the person who stays.

This would be merely tone-deaf if he were a passing celebrity. He is the patron. He has visited WellChild programmes and spoken extensively about the pressures faced by these families. Then the microphone went live and the organisation he is supposed to represent disappeared behind a TED Talk about knocking on doors.

That does the families a second disservice.

Their problem is not that Britain forgot how to be neighbourly. Their problem is the need for trained support, reliable respite and people who know what to do when a child’s medical needs cannot be handled by good intentions.

When the patron turns that into date-night advice, he makes a complex care problem sound like a community-spirit problem.

It isn’t.

WellChild’s work is serious. It deserves a patron who can explain that work clearly and understand why it matters.

After nearly two decades, “find your neighbour’s neighbour” is not the answer.

It is a remarkably revealing description of how little the patron seems to understand the difference between a village and a care plan.

[SODEM : "Cap ALL Political Party Spending." @snb19692]

Billionaire Jim Ratcliffe that advocated for Brexit then fled to tax haven Monaco after the referendum! Complaining about the state of the UK economy!
Like a wolf eating a lamb, complaining about the bones!!!

[Paul Schleifer @PaulSchleifer]

Life in the old meme yet.

[Dave ♿️ Esq @DaveyBoi73]

Is this Zack Polanski?😂😂

[Colin Wynter KC @QcWynter]

Possibly the most ridiculous thing most of us will witness in our lifetime.
A fully grown man stands outside a court which has effectively declared him a "woman" and holds forth about the nature of womanhood & none of the women gathered around him is laughing; none even smile.

[Political Watchdog @PoliticalWatchD]

I have a dream

[Melanie D'Arrigo @DarrigoMelanie]

According to the Epstein files, it’s children.

[Andrew Parnall @dontbrexitfixit]

I served 22 yrs in the British army, so I think I've earned the right to call myself a patriot more than the wife beating flag shaggers can who mince around in balaclavas intimidating @RNLI volunteers. These racist fucks are neither patriotic nor Christian

#FarageFascistArmy

[Cold War Steve @coldwarsteve]

@Arron_banks https://t.co/5gnDoPbE2f

[Benedict Spence @BenedictSpence]

It’s kind of mad how in the West, liberal lanyard-wearers can never define a woman, unless some random religion wants them segregated. At which point, the lanyard class know *exactly* what they are.

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

As another man who once worked with me declares himself saddened by my beliefs on gender and sex, I thought it might be useful to compile a list for handy reference. Which of the following do you imagine makes actors and directors who aren’t involved with the HBO reboot of Harry Potter so miserable?

Is it my belief that women and girls should have their own public changing rooms and bathrooms?

That women should retain female-only rape crisis centres?

That men don’t belong in women’s sport?

That female prisoners shouldn’t be incarcerated with violent men and male sex offenders?

That women should remain a protected class in law, because they have sex-specific needs and issues?

That language should reflect reality rather than ideological jargon, especially in a medical context?

That women shouldn’t be harassed, persecuted or fired for refusing to pretend humans can change sex?

That women should not be threatened with violence and rape when they assert their rights?

That freedom of speech and belief are essential to a pluralistic democratic society?

That troubled minors, especially those who are gay, autistic and trauma-experienced, should be given mental health support instead of irreversible surgeries and drug treatments on non-existent evidence of benefit?

That gay people shouldn’t be pressured to include the opposite sex in their dating pools, nor should they be smeared as ‘genital fetishists’ when they don’t?

That cross-dressing heterosexual male fetishists aren’t actually oppressed, but having the time of their lives piggybacking off gender identity ideology?

That said ideology, and the privileged, blinkered fools pushing it because they suffer zero consequences themselves, have done more damage to the political left’s credibility than Trump and Farage could have achieved in a century?

Let me have your thoughts.

[Larry Dean @larry_mcwethy]

A clown show.

[Jennifer 🟥🔴🧙‍♀️🦉🐈‍⬛ 🦖 @babybeginner]

What a mean mean nasty arrogant rude ignorant performance by this woman. My word she behaved terribly. She was just awful to him. They completely panic when you get close to the truth. Watch her unravel. She talks faster. Gets biting and needling.

[Barry Wall @HeadWarriorTWM]

Listen.
Learn.

You cannot change your sex.

[Miley Stats @StatsOnCyrus]

🚨Dolly Parton officially left the rights and royalties to “Jolene” to Miley Cyrus in her will.

— “The song became hers from the very first moment she sang it. She will always be my girl.”

[Miley Official @MileyCyrusBz]

Miley Cyrus & Dolly Parton singing I Will Always Love You x Wrecking Ball. Their last performance together and one of the greatest performances ever.

[The Royal Family @RoyalFamily]

Remembering the late, great Dolly, who brought joy, comfort and inspiration to so many - including the millions of children given free books through her Imagination Library. We will always ❤️ you.