Jonathan Stevens

UK/ Europe Sales Manager for Yalumba and other Hill Smith family wineries. Proud dad. Chelsea fan. Frequent skier and runner. Tweets are my own views

[Alethea Bernard @Tush27J]

Past rewards for achieving naff all.
Dame Priti Patel
Dame Therese Coffey
Sir Jacob Rees-Mogg
Sir Michael Fabricant
Dame Andrea Jenkyns
Dame Andrea Leadsom
Sir Sajid Javid
Sir Gavin Williamson
Charlotte Owen, Baroness Owen
Shaun Bailey, Baron Bailey
#BBCBreakfast #GMB

[Narinder Kaur @narindertweets]

1. We aren't in the EU. Lol
2.a private school is a business and should be taxed as such
3. There is no proof parents will leave private schools en masse and flood state
4. State schools urgently need the money.
5. It is not middle class parents being punished but poor kids in state schools.

[Lewis Goodall @lewis_goodall]

Don’t recall there being much outrage when Conservative No10s in every administration in recent yrs doled out honours to scores of backbench MPs basically for just being MPs.

We should have fewer political honours but the thrice elected London mayor seems an odd place to start.

[Giorgi Revishvili @revishvilig]

Truly unbelievable scenes from Georgia 🇬🇪

Hundreds of thousands of Georgians formed a chain of unity across the country expressing their unwavering determination to defend Georgia’s democracy and a European future.

[Mariam Kasrashvili 🇬🇪🇺🇦🇪🇺 @KasrashviliM]

Hey,World! 📢
Let’s make one thing clear about🇬🇪

It’s not just a moment It’s a movement!

It’s an ideological battle. There is a whole new generation born and raised in an independent #Georgia and we won’t surrender! 🇬🇪🇪🇺

#TbilisiProtests #GeorgiaProtests
📸 Ana Kaulashvili

[Katie Shoshiashvili @KShoshiashvili]

Surreal scenes from Tbilisi as a young brave woman breaks through riot police barrier screaming: “Is it me you are afraid of?!”

The Georgian women define bravery. Video @RTavisupleba

[Salome Zourabichvili @Zourabichvili_S]

#GeorgiaProtests
I am so proud of you!
I am proud of Georgia!

A national accord has been reached on the most critical matter: no one can take away Georgia’s independence, no one can return Georgia to Russia,and no one can deprive Georgia of its will and its European future 🇬🇪🇪🇺

[Vatnik Soup @P_Kallioniemi]

Georgia is going full Euromaidan, and the pro-Kremlin bloc is doing what they do best - intimidate, imprison and beat up people.

Stay strong my Georgian friends, you will prevail! 🇬🇪

[Samira Bayramova 🇬🇪 🇪🇺 🇺🇸 @SamBayramova]

Lovely Grandma from the protest ❤️
Protestors trying to protect water canon

[Marika Mikiashvili 🇬🇪🇺🇦🇪🇺 @Mikiashvili_M]

ALL EYES ON TBILISI!!! 🇬🇪🇪🇺

[Gavin Quinney @GavinQuinney]

Sunak’s wine legacy.

The highest rates of duty on wine in Europe, with 64 bands of duty (to replace just 2!) from 1 Feb 2025.

Will the next government do the right thing - it’s a simple move - and help businesses and consumers?

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[Keith Burge @carryonkeith]

For those who were asleep at the back:
- the overwhelming majority of farmers will be unaffected by the proposed changes to Inheritance Tax
- those complaining about it are the multi-millionaires who saw investing in farmland as an excellent tax avoidance measure.

[RS Archer @archer_rs]

It's just been announced Nigel Farage is once again in the USA on another jolly. The good people of Clacton however are still waiting for their MP to set up a constituency office, to agree times and places for a surgery or even establish an email address or phone number.

[Adam Schwarz @AdamJSchwarz]

The Telegraph, which repeatedly insists that "foreign courts" stop telling us what to do, is now telling us to listen to foreign billionaires telling us what to do.

[Mike Martin MP 🔸 @ThreshedThought]

Look at this.

1) Russian invasion of Ukraine
2) Russia throwing elections in Georgia
3) Russia interfering in Moldova referendum
4) Wagner in Sudan / Central African Republic
5) Wagner in Mali and wider Sahel
6) Russian submarine and naval activity off west coast of Ireland (and Iceland gap)
7) Russia in Syria

[Tata Chemia @tata_chemia]

What does the #EU mean to us Georgians 🇬🇪?

Freedom 
Education 
Equality
Diversity
Peace
Human rights
Mutual respect
Empowerment&development
Supporting &promoting cultural heritige
Envinrinmental protection

That’s what we are fighting for🇬🇪🫶🏻🇪🇺

[David__Osland @David__Osland]

Italy owns a UK rail franchise, China built our nuclear power stations, Canadian pensioners and Abu Dhabi own our water companies, India our steel industry and a Czech billionaire is buying Royal Mail. God forbid that England should have a German football manager.

[HLTCO @HLTCO]

This Daily Mail back page is an absolute disgrace. I know people will say to ignore it and not afford it oxygen but it’s simply embarrassing.

Putting the word “GERMAN” in capital letters; it’s 2024, this sort of utterly backwards bollocks should be well behind us.

[Greg Sherwood MW @gregsherwoodmw]

This is super interesting. New posters going up in retailers warning of price rises if the @Conservatives idiotic 30 band alcohol duty legislation goes live on the 1st of Feb 2025. There is still time for @Keir_Starmer and the @UKLabour government to see sense and kick it out!

[Richard Scribbles @RichardScribbl1]

Ian Hislop tears Andrea Jenkyns a new a-hole. #HIGNFY