Patricia McLoughlin

Incorrigible lefty. Love Americana, cats, my garden and my beautiful socialist comrades. And this poor old planet. No DMs.

#RiseLikeLions #BLM

[Patricia McLoughlin @Patrici57798012]

@ajcwbay @Samfr If she does, she's 50 years out of date.

[Patricia McLoughlin @Patrici57798012]

@recombobulating @Samfr Link, please. You can't go around saying that *some* civil servants have said this or that without evidence.

[Patricia McLoughlin @Patrici57798012]

@foxfreckle @Samfr @fascinatorfun Only the very top layers of the US civil service change. The bulk of the CS, in the US as well as most other countries, is at lower levels and are not changed.

[Patricia McLoughlin @Patrici57798012]

@ChristabelCoops @Samfr Read the Forde report before you start wittering about Labour AS, or better still, read the EHRC report, which found that the amount of AS within the party was miniscule.

[Patricia McLoughlin @Patrici57798012]

@borisye13652667 @Samfr There's never been any connection between the two. She may have heard of FCO Arabists, who used to be influential, but that's going back 50 years.
It all makes you worry about what contact she has with reality.

[Patricia McLoughlin @Patrici57798012]

@SteveSt73126236 @Samfr She doesn't think that far ahead, or even at all. If the effect of what she said ever entered her head, beyond the dimmest of Tory members, she wouldn't say much at all.

[Patricia McLoughlin @Patrici57798012]

@PeterChave3 @TTindrum @Bivver5 S/he has not bothered to do the most basic research before dismissing probably the most influential figure in post-colonial writing, as well as an author loved by millions round the world. Rushdie barely escaped death and is still in danger. That's not news??

[Patricia McLoughlin @Patrici57798012]

@PeterChave3 @TTindrum @Bivver5 I don't have to justify my opinions to you.
I haven't noticed this person showing any sympathy for millions of Afghans at risk of starvation, or for children in Yemen, bombed and starved.
And as I said, you'd have to be clueless to be surprised by the media.

[Patricia McLoughlin @Patrici57798012]

@80_mcswan Yes.

[Patricia McLoughlin @Patrici57798012]

@MatthewStadlen Almost equalled by Sunak's claim that woke types are "cancelling our women." If it were clearer what he means, it would be shocking. As it is, it's shocking and puzzling in equal parts.
"Our" women?? Coming from a man whose wife is as rich as the queen.

[Patricia McLoughlin @Patrici57798012]

@SimonAttwood @antisemitism @rustyrockets @UKLabour @aaronjmate If you say so. I've never heard of him. My bad, I suppose.

[Patricia McLoughlin @Patrici57798012]

@Karlsmi00479109 Short answer: because they can .
Real answer: because the regulator is about as strict as custard, because the water companies have been turned into cash cows, and because people keep voting for the Tories.

[Briefcase Michael @BriefcaseMike]

Many of the problems in the #NHS today originated in Jeremy Hunt's time as Health Secretary (the longest-serving one he often boasts) yet as regular as clockwork he's on #r4today pontificating about the state of the #NHS. #BrassNeck

[Patricia McLoughlin @Patrici57798012]

@sajidjavid @trussliz Those 3 words 'supply side reform' conceal a horrific vista of worker oppression and deregulation for the sake of profit. Of course if you came out and said what you meant, instead of using a phrase people don't understand, no-one would vote for you.

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@BBCLauraKT @mflack66 No, it doesn't look like corruption. It looks like the sheer stupidity of allowing international business to dictate the terms of discourse and sticking to your ideological guns no matter what the evidence of your own eyes tells you.

[Patricia McLoughlin @Patrici57798012]

@SimonAttwood @antisemitism @rustyrockets @UKLabour @aaronjmate ...if rather late arrivals.

[Bern Price @pricegspt]

#FreeJulianAssangeNOW

[Patricia McLoughlin @Patrici57798012]

@peterkyle @UKLabour @RachelReevesMP "Leads"? I believe this is known as leading from the rear. That these people can't see what's in front of their noses, that the energy companies cannot be allowed to demand whatever they please, is beyond belief.
People want renationalisation. Tinker at the edges and lose votes.