Peta O'Brien

politics, history, theology, news; really everything that annoys you about those people in pub quizzes. Wouldn't be able to help you on any sport questions tho.

[Matt Green @mattgreencomedy]

It seems to me that "Brexit isn't the problem, it's how it's being implemented" is the new "guns don't kill people, people do"

[Man vs Baby @mattcoyney]

Think about ANY quintessentially British thing that you love; the NHS, pubs, the seaside, whatever... They’re all dying or under threat. And not one of them because of immigration. They are all that way because of a government that is telling you that immigration is the problem.

[Mitch Benn @MitchBenn]

Well let’s think shall we?
1. Our beaches are unusable since you filled the sea with raw human shit
2. Whole swathes of the UK hospitality industry went out of business because of Brexit
3. We’re all broke because you crashed the economy
4. Rocketing rail & petrol prices
5. Etc

[Paul Brand @PaulBrandITV]

“I’m not familiar with that particular case”.

Suella Braverman says she didn’t know about 12 refugees being killed in Rwanda in 2018 after protesting about their conditions.

Moments earlier she insisted “Rwanda is safe for refugees”.

“Rwanda is a safe country” she repeats.

[Rasmus Kleis Nielsen @rasmus_kleis]

"Fifteen years of wage stagnation has left British workers £11,000 worse off per year, according to research shared exclusively with BBC Panorama." https://t.co/EDBuJf2UNT

[Jessica Simor KC @JMPSimor]

Please share as much as possible and as fast as possible.

[Mitch Benn @MitchBenn]

Once more for the hard of thinking:
Impartiality and political neutrality are NOT interchangeable concepts.
If one political “side” is doing objectively bad things, the impartial response is to SAY SO.
And you don’t have to “balance” it by pretend the other side are just as bad.

[Frankie Boyle Updates @frankieboyle]

A river of boiling shit flows through your town. You haven’t seen a tomato for 18 months. MOTD is 3 minutes long and narrated by a parakeet. Your salary is paid directly to British Gas. You solve a riddle to speak to a GP. You feel people come here because they want an easy life

[Michael Spicer @MrMichaelSpicer]

Half of British television always starts like this.

[Armando Iannucci @Aiannucci]

Lest we need reminding, here’s a cutting from The Daily Mail in 1938.

[Gary Lineker @GaryLineker]

@a_webb @secrettory12 There is no huge influx. We take far fewer refugees than other major European countries. This is just an immeasurably cruel policy directed at the most vulnerable people in language that is not dissimilar to that used by Germany in the 30s, and I’m out of order?

[Marina Purkiss @MarinaPurkiss]

So powerful…

Not just Sunak, but every anti-nurses strike bellend should do this:

[Steve Chalke @SteveChalke]

So it turns out the courts were ordered to ‘rubber-stamp’ warrants for the rich power companies to break into the homes of those already unable to survive in the cold winter of the cost-of-living crisis, install pre-payment meters and leave them to freeze & starve. It’s evil!

[David__Osland @David__Osland]

On her own admission today, Liz Truss spent two years as chief secretary to the Treasury without knowing how pension markets work, and was totally surprised when they fell to pieces. What was she being paid for?

[James O'Brien @mrjamesob]

Is the ‘left-wing economic establishment’ part of the ‘anti-growth coalition’ or are they rival factions?

[James O'Brien @mrjamesob]

This is very strong.

[Matt Green @mattgreencomedy]

Liz Truss stares out of a window, calling everything she sees “left wing”. Including the window and the frame. She looks down at her shoes. They are also left wing. Even the right one. She smiles. Everything is left wing. That is why she failed. Nothing to do with her.

[Marina Purkiss @MarinaPurkiss]

Here she is…

The woman who doesn’t give a single shit that she doubled your mortgage payments

Lamenting how her “mandate” wasn’t respected

Get in the bin, you utter bellend.

https://t.co/UNEwAkU3wf

[Jo Grady @DrJoGrady]

Cathy Newman: Do you think the public will be behind you.

UCU member: We are the public 🔥

[Brendan May @bmay]

I assume kids will all be in school for the coronation then, given all the rage about them missing lessons today?