Over 1 MILLION people gathered in London to protest Israel’s genøcide ✊🏻
This represents 1/8 of the population of London!
And is one of the largest protests in the history of Great Britain 🇬🇧🇵🇸
The Tories may be out of government and office…regardless, they must be pursued for every crime, act of corruption, theft and fraud committed. We deserve better and we demand justice. #ProsecuteToryCriminals
Must watch on House of Commons reform @EllieChowns
Dr Ellie Chowns, "As a newly elected member, I'd like to offer observations on three elements on how this house operates: sitting, speaking and voting"
➡️ Sitting
- Chamber is too small
- In Council and in European parliament we had own seat, desk, plug in devices
- Extraordinary there aren't enough seats for every MP
There is a practice of Christian prayers, as a daughter of preachers I am familiar with this. But in this day and age where we are a mix of all faiths and none, it might be time to represent a range of faiths
➡️ Speaking
- If we have more time limits more MPs would be incentivised to speak
- Trying to get a slot, bobbing up and down, last week I did for five solid hours without getting attention of the speaker
- This is not good for a democracy
- Find a better way of allocating speaking time
- The culture in this house is everything from excessive deference to braying, we need to clean to clean up politics, we are here to debate in as positive a spirit as possible
➡️ Voting
- It's extraordinary we do not have electronic voting
- While I've been here I've participated in 5 votes, that's taken 1.25 quarter
- If you add up all the votes thats 1.5 months of MPs time, totally unproductive
- If we got rid of the voting lobbies we could double the physical size of the chamber (everyone could then have a seat)
"My final point, if we want to be a truly modern house of commons: proportional representation"
Donald Trump is 78 years old and in a state of profound cognitive decline.
He should end his campaign immediately.
Retweet if you think that Trump is unfit to serve!
@edwinhayward This is one of the reasons Labour should stop saying they are the only party who can win. They need to support Lib Dem candidates in constituencies where they may beat the Tories. Make sure they’re the Opposition
Police just served an order on me and banned me from every street around Whitehall and Parliament. Apparently 2 people complained. Probably Rishi Sunak and his wife.
Michael Gove attempting to spin the Tory PPE VIP Lane on #bbclaurak
“Decisions were only taken after a painstaking, proper, coherent and fair procurement process"
NOT TRUE
VIP Lane had 10 times the chance of a contract.
All contracts had been referred by Tory MPs & peers.
Most contracts given to Tory "associates" and donors.
Many firms had NO PPE EXPERIENCE
For example, Luxe Lifestyle had no PPE experience.
🔷Mark Higton was an associate of Greg Hands through the Conservative Party.
🔷April 7th Higton wrote to Hands re LL
🔷April 10th Hands forwarded the email
🔷2 WEEKS later
🔷£25.8 MILLION contract signed with Luxe Lifestyle 🔷AND 50% up front Govt CREDIT money
🔷Did normal NHS suppliers receive similar govt credit notes?
🔷£20 million of Luxe Lifestyle PPE remains UNUSED
🔷Luxe Lifestyle has NOT filed accounts since then and has twice attempted to close the company down without filing.
To my knowledge, no Tory has asked them why.
I'd like to know. I'm sure you would too.