Rita Taylor

Previous NED North Tees & Hartlepool NHS. Sedgefield CLP Sec 1987 to 2015 & 2022/23. BA Maths/Education PGCE Durham.Breast Cancer survivor. Married 50yrs, 5sons

[Benonwine @benonwine]

A woman just had one of these people turn up at her door DEMANDING to know if she was watching the BBC… because she didn’t have a licence.

These clowns don’t even work for the BBC.

They’re Capita contractors behalf of TV Licensing not the BBC itself.

They have ZERO legal power to come into your house, force you to talk, or demand anything.

Just say “No thank you” and slam the door.

Biggest con in the UK. Don’t engage.

[Jack Dart @JackWDart]

As someone who lives in London and who doesn’t traditionally vote Labour, it is one of the best cities in the world and that is because of Sadiq Khan.

As a Londoner, I proudly note that under Sadiq Khan, the capital has achieved its lowest homicide rate on record (1.1 per 100,000).

He has delivered universal free school meals for all primary pupils, frozen TfL fares multiple times to support households, driven record levels of council housebuilding, planted over 640,000 trees, expanded the cycle network, and supported more than 330,000 new jobs. The ULEZ expansion has helped reduce air pollution-linked deaths by an estimated 40% (Imperial College research).

London is safer, greener, and fairer in many measurable ways, one of the world’s great cities. Done listen to these people who only ever talk down our great capital.

[Pippa Crerar @PippaCrerar]

EXCL: Keir Starmer has become first UK PM to be presented with Légion d’honneur by French president, in recognition of his work on security of Europe.

Emmanuel Macron awarded the historic honour to Starmer for his l'ship in setting up coalition of the willing at a critical moment for the continent in early 2025.

Only other British PM to receive a similar award – at a higher level, the Grand-Croix of the Légion d’honneur – was Winston Churchill in 1958 in recognition of his leadership during the second world war.

https://t.co/mybbRlZZba

[🇬🇧King 🇬🇧 @King0243_PJC]

Whoever came up with this deserves a standing ovation. 😂😂😂
“Stop the bungs” with Count Binface standing on the beach while Nigel Farage rows away in a boat full of cash… satire doesn’t get much better than this.

[BladeoftheSun @BladeoftheS]

Gary Lineker "If Count Binface wins that will be the greatest day in political history."

[Tim Walker @ThatTimWalker]

Very cool, entertaining and with high production values: if I were @Nigel_Farage, I’d consider dipping into that £5 million to try to get out a video that can compare to it.

[jane 💫🇪🇺 @janeturnbull17]

This is Jon Harvey aka satirist Binface . He’s actually a highly intelligent man with sound political views-a pro democracy centrist . Sounds a better candidate for gvmt than most of the current bunch 🤷‍♀️

[Rita Taylor @RTMORDON]

@LaindonFEMINIST Don’t think Farage really wants to be an MP there is too much scrutiny of his income and expenses and also his behaviours when an MP. Maybe he will withdraw at last moment and let the HC suffer embarrassment of having a dustbin

[(((Dan Hodges))) @DPJHodges]

This gives today's events fresh context. Farage knew this story was dropping today. And wanted to deflect by it. Also tried to spike the Guardian by passing to another paper. Even more serious questions for Reform to answer. Especially because the phrase "money laundering" keeps popping up.

[Willie Ross Jr. Knee Deep @RossKneeDeep]

By David Abbruzzes:

This Australian's reply to Trump's rant about “NATO not being there for America” is perfect.
"Mate. You run a country with 600,000 homeless people sleeping on the street tonight. A country where 40% of adults can't cover a $400 emergency without borrowing money. A country where insulin costs more than a car payment and people are rationing it to survive. A country where medical debt is the number 1 cause of bankruptcy. A country where women are dying in hospital car parks because doctors are too scared of abortion laws to treat a miscarriage.
You lock up more of your own citizens than any nation on earth. More than China. More than Russia. More than North Korea. The land of the free has 2 million people in cages, and a quarter of them haven't even been convicted of anything. They're just too poor to make bail.
Your life expectancy is going backwards. You're the only developed nation where that's happening. Your infant mortality rate is worse than Cuba's. Your kids do active shooter drills between maths and English while you sell the gunmaker's stock to your mates.
Your minimum wage hasn't moved in 15 years. You've got teachers working 2 jobs and veterans sleeping under bridges and you just spent a trillion dollars flattening a country that didn't attack you.
And you’ve got a convicted felon, adjudicating raping, paedophile protecting, porn star shagging insurrectionist running the biggest dumpster fire war campaign since the Taliban thanked you very much for losing again.
And you're calling Greenland poorly run?
Greenland has universal healthcare. Free education. One of the lowest incarceration rates in the world. Nobody goes bankrupt there because they got sick. Nobody dies in a waiting room because their insurance said no.
'NATO wasn't there when we needed them." When exactly was that, champ? September 11? Because NATO invoked Article 5 for the first and only time in history FOR YOU. Soldiers from dozens of countries deployed, fought, bled, and died in Afghanistan FOR YOU. Australia wasn't even in NATO and we still showed up. For 20 years.
And you pulled out at 2am without telling anyone and left them to deal with the mess.
So maybe before you start calling other countries poorly run, have a look at your own backyard, you spray-tanned aluminium siding salesman. The only thing poorly run in this picture is your f----- mouth."

Very well stated.

[𝔗𝔯𝔲𝔱𝔥 𝔐𝔞𝔱𝔱𝔢𝔯𝔰 @politicsusa46]

I was thinking what could I say about ‘five mill’ Farage, then @JonathanPieNews came along and stole my thunder.

🎥 TikTok - https://t.co/mWTIWFtVq4

[The Last Blairite #TrueLabour @LastBlairite]

I would vote for Darren Jones as Labour leader. RT if you would.

[Baroness Patricia of Plague Island @Patrici89225734]

The only person I want to see put forward on the ballot sheet for PM is @darrenpjones

[Rita Taylor @RTMORDON]

@darrenpjones @WayneSmithUK71 A very sad day -Please stand Darren

[Rita Taylor @RTMORDON]

@Hepworthclare Hartman worked to get TB out &Gordon in as PM he lost election she was temp leader dragged election of leader until she could get EdMilliband not David. EM lost election again she was temp leader dragged ontill we got Corbyn he lost election - so please take no notice of Hartman

[Jay Ξvans @JayEvansPR]

Labour members, quick poll. If the ridiculous leadership challenge happens, who will you vote for? @UKLabour Please share a wider response. Comment if you are a member and vote.

[Viviane: Holding Burnham to account @LaindonFEMINIST]

The economy is a major feature within this List along with the restrictions on social media for under 16’s. With the media focused on replacing our PM you may have missed much of this good news.

#DoingTheMediasJob
#FixingBritain
#LabourAchievements

[Joe Scott 💙 @JoeScottUK1]

Hey all you good folks @Keir_Starmer is the right man to lead the U.K.

[Kernow Q @KernowQ]

A good moment to remind everyone that the tories increased national debt from 1tn to 3tn.
The interest on this alone costs nearly twice the defence budget.
They also slashed the defence budget.
The tories are responsible for the dire state of the uk.

[dave lawrence 🐟🐟🐠 @dave43law]

This needs posting everywhere