Paul Young

[Paul Young @Paulplex]

@ironmouse Keep being strong @ironmouse. The earlier camera view from the iPad of @CDawgVA crotch jumping up and down above you is nothing compared to the strength you show despite CVID in your life.

[Paul Young @Paulplex]

@Lewisrendell1 I mean ...a flag doesn't make you racist (well, Nazi flags not withstanding). But I think you've gone a bit overboard there...

[Paul Young @Paulplex]

@TheSpaceshipper Damn you. Now I have to rewatch all of the seasons of the Expanse again.

[Paul Young @Paulplex]

@WiltsSpecOps @wiltspolicedogs I know police dogs are talented, but you've got 'em doing paper work now as well? Hope the hand writing is legible.

[Paul Young @Paulplex]

@OneHaleyStar @HantsPolRoads Won't deny that the resources to police the roads isn't there; but as the person on the motorcycle you need to be responsible for your own safety. How can you ignore those tires: better blue police lights stop you - rather than ambulance blues after you came off by yourself.

[Paul Young @Paulplex]

@LancsRoadPolice Did you stop them with that tank?!

[Paul Young @Paulplex]

@MrJamesMay That's nothing. I've stepped backwards to allow someone to pass, knocking into something just behind me - and turned to apologise profusely to a lamppost.

[Peter Stefanovic @PeterStefanovi2]

I’ll point this out every Sunday if I have to. The ECHR protects

• the right to a fair trial
• freedom of assembly & expression
• the right to participate in free elections
• freedom of religion
• freedom from discrimination
• the right to privacy
• freedom from torture & degrading treatment

suggesting the UK could join Russia & Belarus as the only European countries outside the human rights convention is just completely insane & any argument we can just leave the ECHR & create our own bill of rights pre - supposes we can actually trust the government with our human rights in the first place - WE CAN’T!

During the past eighteen months we’ve had an anti strike law - designed to rob millions of workers of their democratic right to strike, an Elections Act will lock millions of people out of the electoral process - a blatant act of voter suppression by the government & new laws have now stripped back our right to protest & limited our rights to judicial review - an affront to the very principles of fairness and government accountability - anybody see a pattern emerging here?

[Carol Vorderman @carolvorders]

Here's the list of @Conservatives MPs who voted for 15 more years of sewage dumping.....
You voting for them again?

[Farrukh @implausibleblog]

Must watch speech by @GreenJennyJones on the state of our economy and society 👏

If you watch one thing today, make it this ⬇️

"I think we are in a terrible mess in this country. And this budget, actually, it doesn't do anything for it

"And it's not really even a debate at all, because we've got two parties arguing over the same set of policies, while the general public see their taxes misspent on a mix of corrupt contracts and privatized services"

"It doesn't seem very fair, really"

"The reality of the UK today is that a lot of hardworking people get paid less than they were a decade ago, while the very richest get even richer"

"There's been no austerity for conservative party donors and the friends of cabinet ministers. They came out of COVID richer as a result of fast track PPE contracts. And now, of course, they're paying less tax with fewer regulations"

"And the ability to stir away their money in offshore trusts and Brexit has failed to benefit Cornish fishermen or voters in Sedgefield, Rexamore Lee"

"And levelling up is an excuse that enables the government to channel public money to marginal conservative seats"

"The whole Thatcher project has failed, yet politicians of both the two major parties treat it as sacred texts"

"For example, North Sea oil and gas has made Norway one of the richest countries in Europe from the 1980s onwards, with an oil fund worth approximately $1.4 trillion. Revenue from this fund accounts for a fifth of government spending. And the UK should be even better off. But we handed it all over to the private sector"

"So the result is energy customers being ripped off in the last two years with record high energy bills and record high profits for the oil and gas industries, instead of coming out of the last 50 years with a thriving economy, we live in a country where things are
falling apart and nothing works"

"Anyone who walks around towns will see the lack of investment because councils are struggling. They're going bust up and down the country"

"The NHS waits are getting longer, dentists can't be found"

"And these headline tax cuts will do nothing to reverse the decades long real terms wage freeze that most workers have faced under successive conservative governments"

"And you have to ask, where did all the money that we had when Margaret Thatcher took power, where did all the money go?"

"And of course, we have 171 billionaires now, which we didn't have before, which is obviously something we should all be proud of"

"But you have to ask, why isn't a wealth tax the number one priority for both parties, especially the Labour party, at the next election?"

"It would enable this country to finally invest in large scale renewables and the insulation of homes"

"And a wealth tax, of course, could deliver cheaper energy and lower bills, which is exactly what the majority of us need"

"Rail privatization has led to far higher fares at a time when the climate crisis dictates that we need lower fares, more trains, fewer cars and water privatization has given us sewage in our rivers, higher bills and a collapsing infrastructure"

"Plus, water bills are due to go up another 125 pounds on average this year to generate the 56 billion needed to fix our leaky pipes and overloaded sewage system"

"And oddly, that's a very similar amount to what the water companies have paid out in dividends. They took the money and they didn't do the work and I don't see any sort of penalty from that, from the government. There's been a few fines, but they pay those really happily. And what we should be doing is actually, instead of asking for fines, we should be taking shares"

"The solution to our economic decline is not privatisation of the NHS or anything else"

"It's public ownership of railways and water and the NHS and an end to taxpayers being ripped off by dodgy contracts"

"The Green Party wants this country to have its future back, and that means really change the way that we manage our economy and the environment that we live in"

"And it means clean water, clean air and clean politics"

"We are in trouble as a human race and somehow nobody seems to get this. They just don't understand the urgency, see, of what we have to do"

"And so I would argue that this budget, I mean, fairly useless, really, and I look forward to sharing the Green party budget with everybody so you can see what good ideas look like"

[Jason Pedlow 💙 @JasonPedlow]

Give the NY Times credit, they've nailed conservative Britain.

[The Labour Party @UKLabour]

The Tories crashed the economy.

Labour is the only party of fiscal responsibility.

[Tobi @TobiFrenzen]

What a lovely, balanced debate on #GBNEWS right now... The Prime Minister giving a party-political propaganda broadcast...

And from the opposition parties? Who's there to provide some balance or challenge the PM?

Oh that's right...
NOBODY!

FFS @Ofcom do your job!

[BladeoftheSun @BladeoftheS]

Tomorrow night at 8pm Rishi Sunak will be presenting GB News.

He should be fired for such a blatant disregard for standing of his Public Office.

RT if he needs to go.

[Farrukh @implausibleblog]

Left: Rishi Sunak launches a WhatsApp channel as a safe and reliable form of sharing information with the public

Right: Rishi Sunak explains at the Covid Inquiry how WhatsApp is not a reliable way of sharing information as he can't find his WhatsApp messages

[Peter Stefanovic @PeterStefanovi2]

The UK Prime Minister @RishiSunak just called a press conference to proudly tell the country he is willing to break international law and disaply human rights

We should all be terrified

[Farrukh @implausibleblog]

Today in a side room in parliament the government pushed ahead with policy to increase the number of, and role of, Physician Associates

PAs are not doctors, nor GPs, and yet they are being phased in as doctor substitutes and GP substitutes - read that again

This will create a two tier system of health service, those seen by qualified doctors and GPs, and those seen by PAs

We desperately need more doctors and GPs, but instead of training and hiring them (Brexit has made it difficult to bring more in), this Conservative government is watering down the quality of service being offered by the NHS

In 2010 the Conservatives inherited the NHS as one of the world's best health services. Since then they have underfunded the NHS, outsourced so we pay more for the same service, and now they're watering down the quality of staff.

Shame on anyone who still votes for the Conservative party, because they are destroying our NHS

[Owen Jones @owenjonesjourno]

The UK needs to immediately expel the Israeli Ambassador @tzipiHotovely.

She went on British radio - and incited genocide.

That's not simply a moral disgrace. It's illegal under the Genocide Convention of 1948.

Kick her out.

[Paul Young @Paulplex]

@b33rdy Used to love Google Reader 😕