Stephen Hill

Professional with 35 yrs experience in the food industry, business owner for past 25 yrs. Row at Nottingham RC, Leeds United. Ballroom Dancer. Yorkshireman!

[Bev Turner @beverleyturner]

And this is the social media platform that @Keir_Starmer is happy to let your kids on.

[Ministry of Defence 🇬🇧 @DefenceHQ]

Norway may row. But England roars 🦁🦁🦁

Good luck tonight team, from our Armed Forces around the world! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

@England

[David @belfastDGM]

Ann Widdecombe did not have divisive views. She just had views that not everyone shared. Like most views.

[Harry Cole @MrHarryCole]

What the fuck is wrong with these people

[The Heartlands Tribune @Labourheartland]

Now even the mainstream media are starting to notice the machine.

#AndyBurnham will walk into Number 10 on the 16th. The promised leadership challenge vanished. No contest. No mandate. No public vote. No scrutiny. Just a managed handover dressed up as democratic process.

On Sky, Sophy Ridge and Wilfred Frost practically laughed in Labour MP Gordon McKee’s face as he tried to defend the indefensible. McKee reached for the weakest excuses: Burnham has done Reddit Q&As.

Frost pointed out the obvious: Burnham chooses which questions he answers. Ridge added the part Labour would rather ignore: he can simply dodge the questions he does not like, including the ones the public actually want answered.

That is not scrutiny. That is a handover.

Ridge also highlighted that Burnham has barely done proper interviews at all. Press conferences are not enough, especially when journalists are not allowed to ask questions. Social media appearances are not enough when the candidate can filter the public. Hand-picked questions are not democratic accountability. They are stage management.

This is not someone applying to run a residents’ committee. This is the man about to become Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.

If Burnham should face proper interviews, hostile questions, live scrutiny, unscripted follow-ups and a public that is allowed to hear what he actually believes before he walks through the black door.

The staggering part is not only that Burnham has avoided scrutiny. It is that Labour MPs are now tying themselves in knots trying to pretend avoidance is accountability.

The machine has moved. The media are finally catching up.

And the public will never get a say.

[Darren Grimes @darrengrimes]

Scroll after scroll of Bluesky’s hatred of Ann Widdecombe, the very people who claim Musk’s X is the problem. Sick!

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

This month the Energy Secretary approved his third large solar farm in a fortnight, one of them on prime farmland across Nottinghamshire and Lincolnshire that his own inspectors told him to refuse. They walked the site. They said no. He signed it anyway.

So here's the grand plan. Take some of the best food-growing soil in England, ground that has fed people for a thousand years, and bury it under glass panels shipped in from China to catch the famous Lincolnshire sunshine. In a country where the sun knocks off mid-afternoon for half the winter and turns up for roughly eleven per cent of the year, we are concreting over arable land to harvest photons that mostly aren't there.

A British solar field spends most of its life doing an impression of a very expensive greenhouse with the plants missing. The panels tilt hopefully at a grey sky. The soil beneath them, some of the finest in the country, sits in the dark for forty years quietly learning to be a car park.

And it doesn't come back. Not in your lifetime. They are making a permanent decision about a temporary energy fashion, on ground you cannot un-glass, against the written advice of the men they pay to give it, in the same fortnight the same government swears food security keeps it awake at night.

Sunniest idea they've had all year.

[Nicholas Lissack @NicholasLissack]

Disgraceful scenes on Sky News as a smirking Adam Boulton rants about Ann Widdecombe as a “spinster,” an “old maid” and a “virgin” while speculating about her private life.

She was murdered this morning, yet he can’t help but already spew misogynistic poison about her.

Evil.

[Guido Fawkes @GuidoFawkes]

KEMI BADENOCH: “I’ve been stunned to hear this awful news.

To be honest, I’ve really struggled to find the words to say. Ann Widdecombe was a very fun and feisty woman who spoke her mind and she was 78 years old, she was an elderly woman.

I don’t understand how someone could do something so horrific to an elderly person. It was a nasty, horrific attack and my heart is breaking for her family.

It’s one thing when someone dies, but to know that they’ve been murdered in this horrible way is just awful.

The Conservative Party is reeling. Ann was a long-standing member of the Conservative Party, she was a Conservative minister, and then she moved to Reform.

I’m sure they’re just as stunned as we are, and I extend my condolences to Nigel Farage and everyone in Reform on behalf of the Conservative Party, because we’ve both lost a friend.”

[Colin Brazier @ColinBrazierTV]

The people who insist we should all “be kind” very often turn out to be something quite different.

[John Smith @JohnSmith8eu3]

@GuidoFawkes Does anyone know how to report this? Does it go to the same place ?

[Iain Dale 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇬🇧 ⚒️ @IainDale]

I will curb my language but that tweet is disgusting. You profess to be an advocate of human rights, and the right to be treated with dignity after death is a basic human right everyone should have, yet you rejoice in her death. Yes, her religion guided her views on equality issues, and I had many disagreements with her, but as a gay man I counted her as a friend, as did many others. She was actually a profoundly kind person. She endorsed my candidacy knowing of my sexuality. She softened her views on equal marriage and told me in 2019 she would not support reversing it.
So be ashamed of yourself today, Peter. You do some great work, but in this instance it's you that's the bigot. Bigoted against the dead, and bringing upset to those of us who counted Ann as a friend. Think on that.

[Stephen Hill @StephenHill10]

@Artemisfornow More Communism

[🩵Sugar 🩵 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧 @Ihatesugar3]

Make this utter BITCH famous ‼️

[Kemi Badenoch @KemiBadenoch]

My deepest condolences and those of the Conservative Party to the family and friends of Ann Widdecombe. She was a formidable politician who was never afraid to speak her mind and fought hard for what she believed. Always true to herself, her politics were strongly guided by her faith and her values.

Rest in Peace, Ann.

[J Stewart @triffic_stuff_]

You have to see this.

Sophy Ridge and Wilfred Frost literally laughed in Labour MP Gordon McKee’s face as he tried to defend Andy Burnham’s almost non-existent media scrutiny.

McKee lamely offered that Burnham had done Reddit Q&As. The presenters immediately shut it down. Frost pointed out that Burnham literally picked the questions he wants to answer. Sophy, laughing at the sheer absurdity, added that he just simply ignored the ones he didn’t like and refused to answer what the public actually wanted to know.

She went on to highlight how Burnham has barely done any proper interviews at all, opting instead for tightly controlled press conferences where he refuses to take questions from journalists.

This is someone being lined up as the next Prime Minister.

The level of avoidance is staggering. No serious candidate has ever dodged real scrutiny like this. If Burnham wants the job, he should face proper, unfiltered interviews and tough questions, not hand-pick softballs on Reddit.

Watching Labour MPs tie themselves in knots trying to defend it only makes them look ridiculous.

[MedioTiempo @mediotiempo]

¡¡HASTA ENTIENDEN NUESTRO SARCASMO!!😂🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇲🇽❤️

Gordon, que desde el primer momento no mostró molestia alguna por la grosería que le lanzó el Vasco, asumió que se trató "solo una broma" y le restó total importancia. 👏🏻

🗣️ "Me acordé de eso. Es solo una broma"

🗣️ "Con todo el calor y la tensión que rodeaban al partido, fue un momento divertido. Acababa de dejar en ridículo al lateral por la banda, así que fue una especie de cumplido por su parte. Al menos, así es como me lo tomé"

https://t.co/WNfUVKKGNH

[Lee Anderson MP @LeeAndersonMP_]

And now here's the full facts you pathetic weasel.

Stood as a Labour council candidate and won.

Stood as a Tory council candidate in a seat that had not been Tory for years and won.

Stood as a Tory Parliamentary candidate in a safe Labour seat and won despite being third favourite at the bookies.

Stood as @reformparty_uk Parliamentary candidate and despite being 12 - 1 at the bookies at the start of the election and every other seat surrounding me going Labour I won and increased my vote share even though the boundary review cost me thousands of votes.

Stood 4 times. Won 4 times. Voted for by the same people in the same are 4 times.

You will lose your seat next time.

You haven't got the guts to fight a seat like mine.

You are a coward who shoots his mouth off on here yet when you walk by me in Parliament you look down to the floor and scurry past like a weasel.

Prediction - Reform gain.

[Richard Tice MP 🇬🇧 @TiceRichard]

If true this is shocking

Tory Chairman being investigated for trying to influence the Standards Commissioner.

After all his attacks on Nigel and Reform?

[Annunziata Rees-Mogg @zatzi]

They want us to be poor and cold*.

Swapping food for unreliable energy is madness.👇

*the U.K. ranks 229 out of 230 countries for solar power potential according to the World Bank.