Sam Holman

Head of Engineering based in Leeds, UK. Agile, TDD, DDD, Go, JS, Gamer, Dad, Lefty Liberal. Views my own.

[Supertanskiii @supertanskiii]

Is it sinking in yet, Clacton?

Parliament is sitting and this feckless simpering prick is paid by our taxes to be an MP, yet spends his time taking huge sums to spread propaganda for GB News, whilst desperately blowing on the balls of rapey convict, Trump, at any opportunity.

[Sam Holman @SamH]

@Keir_Starmer @YvetteCooperMP You're never gonna outdo the Tories or Farage with this rhetoric so why continue it? Reestablish a sensible Asylum policy for refugees with safe routes and there'll be no further demand for these gangs.

[Sam Holman @SamH]

Never gonna outdo the Tories or Farage with this rhetoric so why continue it? Reestablish a sensible Asylum policy for refugees with safe routes and there'll be no further demand for these gangs.

[Keir Starmer @Keir_Starmer]

It is my personal mission to smash the people smuggling gangs.

[Zoe Gardner @ZoeJardiniere]

Meanwhile the death rate has soared.

It’s like Labour had one good week with the budget & decided, nah, they’d prefer to keep feeding support to Farage.

So they’re back to banging the Tories’ same old drum, demonising people for seeking the safety & opportunity we have #r4today

[Zoe Gardner @ZoeJardiniere]

How we could change our approach to immigration always shrunk to two brutal, expensive, FAILED sides of the same “stop the boats” coin.

No one on #r4today is interested in whether we could save money for our communities by HELPING those 30,000 people.
But many of the public are.

[Zoe Gardner @ZoeJardiniere]

Of course on #r4today “balance” is a man who thinks we should stop the boats through “deterrent” deportations

v Yvette Cooper who thinks we should do it by arresting our way out of reality.

The two options according to our media.
& we wonder why people keep dying year on year🤷‍♀️

[Caroline Lucas @CarolineLucas]

This 👇

[Dan Neidle @DanNeidle]

This chart is a scandal.

Teachers, doctors and others earning fairly ordinary salaries can face marginal tax rates of more than 60%, and sometimes approaching 80%.

Rachel Reeves should reform income tax. Thread:

[Marina Purkiss @MarinaPurkiss]

These poor little souls... 💔

[Ian Dunt @IanDunt]

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[Eric Feigl-Ding @DrEricDing]

Here is what a 15 foot hurricane storm surge looks like folks.

[Robert Saunders @redhistorian]

We have to stop treating climate action as something we can do later if and when the economy allows.
https://t.co/PTKS8LWMhq

[sarah murphy @13sarahmurphy]

They’re both just so astoundingly shit.

Badenoch - an out-of-control fire hose of obnoxiousness.
Jenrick - like some wannabe Bond villain seeking revenge on the world for the fact that no-one’s ever really liked him.

That’s all the Tory party is now. Nasty inadequacy.

[sarah murphy @13sarahmurphy]

So the Tory party has whittled it down to the 2 most dislikeable candidates they could find. A deeply arrogant belligerent bully and a grim opportunist who thinks goose-stepping off to the far right will give him power.
No one responsible or decent votes for those two horrors.

[Owen Jones @owenjonesjourno]

Imagine a state hostile to the West demanded a hospital in a war zone empty all of its patients.

Newborn babies in incubators.

Pregnant women.

The severely wounded. The unconscious. Those in ICU.

It would lead the news as a hideous crime. But with Israel, it’s normalised.

[Sam Holman @SamH]

I sorta don't care because they're all shits, but I do because it's still important to have the least shitty of the shits leading the party of opposition. And probs Cleverly is the least shit. The other two are objectively awful human beings.

[Robert Peston @Peston]

Cleverly now a shoo-in to be in the ballot of Tory members, because most of Tugendhat’s 20 will transfer to him. The battle on the party’s right between Jenrick with 31 and Badenoch with 30 will be something to behold over the next 24 hours

[Edwin Hayward @edwinhayward]

I'm in the 38%.

Still can't countenance Labour's ridiculous Brexit stance.

But I thought at the very least Starmer would bring in a new clean brand of politics, given that he made trust the centrepiece of his appeal and it seemed an obvious differentiator.

Very disappointed.

[Roland Smith @rolandmcs]

The UN refugee convention will be the Tories' next target.

[Dominic Grieve @dominicgrieve_]

The way the ECHR is applied may at times irritate and as in all human affairs no court will always be perfect in its reasoning and decisions. But the ECHR has done immense good throughout Europe. Precisely because it is a " living instrument", it has been able to promote human rights. We take for granted today that illegitimate children should not suffer discrimination and that homosexual relationships should not be criminalised. But delivering these reforms is just some of the good work of the ECHR. As Churchill saw, it's drafting and promotion has been one of the great achievements of UK soft power for the common good of all.
At the end of his video, Jenrick gratuitously offers an irrelevant image which is intended, I infer, to show an immigrant gloating over money he is getting. The only purpose of this is to stir up hatred against immigrants. That is why we need the ECHR. It is also why he is showing himself entirely unfit for office.

[Dominic Grieve @dominicgrieve_]

I now want to look in more detail at Jenrick's nasty propaganda video.
It starts with a few examples of cases to make people angry. But those examples are in fact irrelevant to the case he is trying to make.

Jenrick has been an Immigration minister. He must know that the main problem with illegal or irregular migration is that when a person comes here and claims asylum, they may get it as a bona fide refugee in which case they can stay. That has nothing to do with the ECHR. It is a consequence of our domestic law and the Refugee Convention. He makes no suggestion we should leave it.
For those whose application is refused the main problem is that it is very difficult to return them to their countries of origin which will often not co-operate particularly if documents have been destroyed.
So leaving the ECHR will have minimal impact on the problem he claims to be addressing.