NewBrightonJim

[NewBrightonJim @NewbrightonJim]

@AndyBurnhamGM The current heatwave demonstrates how infrastructure investment has to be prioritised - cross country services with no aircon and reduced carriage in these temperatures is not acceptable in a modern democracy.

[NewBrightonJim @NewbrightonJim]

@Gumballchan @RobertJSalvador Best comment I’ve read all day 😆

[NewBrightonJim @NewbrightonJim]

@WhiteHouse Nonsense, why not invoke article 5 to stop small boats on the English Channel? Um, because it’s about border security not a military attack. The analogies the White House come up with are like those of someone senile on LSD!

[Neil Lancaster @neillancaster66]

Fucking prick

My son spent 6 months in Iraq, and then two 7 month tours of Afghanistan with the Royal Marines

He fought hard in Sangin saw friends die, or be maimed. He bears scars of his own, and he did it because the USA triggered article 5

Risible, amoral fucking bastard

[NewBrightonJim @NewbrightonJim]

@Mike_Traylor88 @FordJohnathan5 Yes, but he’s demeaning the sacrifice of other countries in Afghanistan and contradicting his own self-serving argument that NATO allies wouldn’t be there for the US if needed [they would].

[NewBrightonJim @NewbrightonJim]

@merseyrail Thanks - to be fair I was feeling really grumpy - these things happen!

[NewBrightonJim @NewbrightonJim]

@merseyrail marked deterioration in service recently, trains to and from New Brighton invariably delayed without explanation and/or cancelled. Take the 5:53 this morning. Are you a reliable partner for onward travel? Should I take the bus or a taxi to Lime St in future?

[NewBrightonJim @NewbrightonJim]

@merseyrail also why did you cancel the 5:53 from New Brighton at Birkenhead North on a stormy day without telling customers (!) that you were going to do so at NewBo thus giving people the option to abandon the trip. Instead we had to wait 20 mins to help you lot out!

[NewBrightonJim @NewbrightonJim]

@RealTimBooth we’re so happy to be coming to your matinee performance next Thursday at the Cavern on our 21st wedding anniversary - and feel immensely blessed to have got tickets. Really can’t wait! Good luck and enjoy the day Tim. Jim and Maria x

[Politics UK @PolitlcsUK]

🚨 BREAKING: Labour responds to Rishi Sunak’s plan to introduce national service for all 18 year olds

"This is another desperate £2.5 billion unfunded commitment from a Tory Party which already crashed the economy, sending mortgages rocketing, and now they're spoiling for more.

"This is not a plan - it's a review which could cost billions and is only needed because the Tories hollowed out the Armed Forces to their smallest size since Napoleon.

"Britain has had enough of the Conservatives, who are bankrupt of ideas, and have no plans to end 14 years of chaos. It's time to turn the page and rebuild Britain with Labour."

[terry christian @terrychristian]

Almost 14 years of this Tory govt and its mystifying and destructive policies. The long term damage they have done across all public services, the hate and division they have created in our society. The mental health and resilience of the whole nation. The brexit policy trying to create a nation of third world serfs to parasite off the back of the EU so Oligarchs who have more money than they could spend in a thousand lifetimes can afford that 'Gold Coffin' that awaits . Let's pray 2024 sees an end to this narcissistic madness #BrokenBritain

[Angela Eagle DBE @angelaeagle]

Best to remember this

[NewBrightonJim @NewbrightonJim]

@MagooWilliam @MrRobertBob1 Ye but he’s just bad tv. No one wants to hear him drone on for weeks on end whilst thinking about ITV’s foolishness in forking out £1.5m!

[Richard Murphy @RichardJMurphy]

Let me offer a basic philosophical comment on what is happening in Israel and Gaza.

If you have to know the heritage or ethnicity of a civilian being killed as a consequence of war before you can decide on your response to their death, then you need to ask if you are being ethical.

The same is true if you have to know the heritage or ethnicity of the person who has killed them.

In my opinion, we should think that the death of a civilian killed during war is wrong, whoever they might be and whoever killed them.

John Rawls’ described this as acting from behind a veil of ignorance. His philosophy suggests that we can only know what is truly ethical if we observe an action (including our own) in that way. In other words, the ethical action is only such if it is independent of the observer and the person being observed.

We are only ethical in that case if we condemn the deaths of civilians in war, whoever they are.

That is what I am doing in this conflict.

And that is why I think a ceasefire – necessarily being a demand on both sides in the conflict, and not one or the other – is what is necessary now.

[Jeremy Corbyn @jeremycorbyn]

People in Gaza are dying in the darkness.

This unthinkable horror cannot be undone — and history will not forgive those who refused to treat Israeli and Palestinian lives with equal worth.

Please, we need a ceasefire, now.

[Richard Murphy @RichardJMurphy]

I awoke in the night, panicking about Gaza.

For me (and I suspect millions of others) that was just a nightmare.

In Gaza is it an unimaginable reality.

No one can ignore what Hamas did on 7 October. It was unambiguously wrong.

But we cannot ignore what Israel is doing either. It is not proportionate. It is way beyond self defence. It too is unambiguously wrong.

That is why calls for a ceasefire are right. These wrongs must end, now. The lives of Palestinians, Jews and others impacted all matter. Right now, nothing matters more.

It is the legal duty of all politicians in every country that has signed the Geneva Convention of 1949 to uphold it. That must mean calling for an end to this war, now.

When will the UK’s political leaders call for a ceasefire? Leaving it another day will be too late.

[NewBrightonJim @NewbrightonJim]

@SamsungHelpUK Hello! A lovely lady helped me in the end and has booked an engineer to assess the situation. Let’s hope we reach a resolution 🙂

[NewBrightonJim @NewbrightonJim]

@SamsungHelpUK I can see this is an extremely common problem yet you are repeatedly telling innocent customers that it’s “cosmetic”, out of warranty, and “not a manufacturer defect” - how could this be caused by anything but a faulty seal around the water dispenser. Disgusting

[Alex Mcguire @AlexMcg00200664]

@samsungireland after countless efforts through the store where we bought our Samsung fridge freezer, I have to resort to try contact you via Twitter. The door is bubbling around the water dispenser, the ‘metal’ door. They claim they have logged several calls with you since Oct!?

[Andrew Adonis @Andrew_Adonis]

Spain has 16 high speed rail lines in operation, totalling 2,500 miles and linking most of its major cities

The British govt is about to cancel half of a 210 mile line linking its 1st, 2nd & 3rd largest cities

[Carol Vorderman @carolvorders]

Boris Johnson makes an utter mockery of our democracy once again.
Charlotte Owen will receive money for life, be able to affect the laws and rights of British people, and all because????
Well we won't know will we, as there are injunctions in place.
What a country we've become 🖤