Emma Stevenson

[Emma Stevenson @StevensonEmmaE]

@GWRHelp Can passengers with tickets for this evening travel tomorrow instead? We were meant to be on the 18:36 going to Newton Abbot

[Tanita Tikaram💙 @tanita_tikaram]

Never forget UK broadcasting 's complicity with the Far Right - LBC gave Farage & his awful racist views a lucrative contract for his own show & the BBC invited him on QT 36 times . Previously , he'd been employed on the Russian government funded channel Russia Today .

[Alison Kriel 💚 @AKLondon UpScrolled @AlisonKriel]

Can’t share this often enough

#Riots

[Emma Stevenson @StevensonEmmaE]

@orncgreenwich Hi @orncgreenwich is anyone around to fix the big screen? Needs someone to press a button so we can keep watching. Lots of people here!

[Murky Depths @TheMurkyDepths]

Cracking success the last govt made of this.

Let's see what the new lot does.

[Jordan @jordanbhx]

'Demand management' mean higher ticket prices. Despite the loud nonsense of idiots and frausters, the reality has always been that ticket prices will inevitably rise *without HS2* because - entirely intuitively - HS2 = more capacity = more supply = lower rail ticket prices.

[Greens for HS2 @Greens4HS2]

The National Audit Office has said the government could need to “incentivise people to not travel by rail” thanks to the cancellation of HS2’s northern legs.

This is the very opposite of what the climate and nature emergencies demand.

[Helena Horton @horton_official]

Some people in the Brixham area have been under a boil water notice for a month! https://t.co/DGym4qRIcG

[Liz Webster @LizWebsterSBF]

USA media dishes brutal truth about Brexit Britain

“Every decision taken by Tory (and @LibDems) governments was a political decision—it did not need to happen that way. Austerity was never the hard logic of dutiful caretakers; it was a political calculation to rescue rich friends and dump the burdensome price on those least able to endure the cost.”

“There is mold in the walls and shit in the rivers, posh butter in the supermarkets has anti-theft tags stuck to it, the trains run on schedule about half the time, the average pub-poured pint of lager—the blood of the nation—is nearing the criminal price of 5 pounds ($6.34), and on May 22 a new general election was announced to the people of Great Britain by a prime minister who is richer than the king. 

“Should the polls prove correct—short of a 2016-scale error—the annihilation will be justified. Wage growth is at its lowest level since the Napoleonic Wars. What the Financial Timescalls the “rental market” and what the rest of us call “How much of your money someone richer than you takes every month” is stratospherically inflated; rent is about half a person’s average salary in London. Chain stores on British high streets close permanently at a rate of 14 per day, leaving most shopping areas a procession of corrugated shutters, uncollected rubbish, and the sleeping bags of the homeless.

“The precious marvel that is the National Health Service is cracking at the seams; at the current rate, waiting lists will not be cleared for another 685 years. The union for junior doctors, the BMA, has organised 10 strikes and walkouts in the past year for a pay deal that would only bring wages up to the current level of inflation. The city of Birmingham was the first to tip over into bankruptcy; more will follow.

“In 2022, at least 3% of all families in Britain—around two million people—could not afford to eat. Like a revenant from Dickens, Victorian diseases like scurvy, rickets, and scabies are back to blight children.

“Life expectancy has dropped to the lowest level since 2010—tellingly, the year the Conservatives took power, at the height of the recession.”

“These are the bitter fruits of austerity: an experiment in sado-monetarist economics and financial barbarism. Not much unites those five PMs other than the constant ritual tribute in blood to their coiffed icon, Margaret Thatcher. Yet Thatcher, back in the 1980s, did not lie about how brutal the first shock of neoliberalism was going to be. She coldly promised torture before riches.

“Its sequel, however, was pitched by its architect George Osborne, chancellor under David Cameron, as a bit of belt-tightening resembling that most prized memory in the national canon: the Blitz Spirit. Come on, chaps, buck up and give it some welly. The shattering of society into thinner fragments was supposed to be a hardy adventure. 

“Midway through this downhill plummet, Britain bumbled backward out of the EU. The wreckage of this four-year disaster can now best be seen as an attempt to escape the harsh bite of austerity.

“Brexit was a retreat from hunger into myth: an embrace of antique fables about British pluck and derring-do, a belief that even without an empire and an industrial base this archipelago might reclaim past glory. Faced with profound turmoil, much of the nation turned to a half-remembered falsehood about their grandfather’s generation, marching along with Churchill. This election is the reckoning Brexit postponed.

https://t.co/PRKpMibIqR

[James O'Malley @Psythor]

I know “fucking up rail capacity a decade in the future” isn’t exactly an obvious reason to change Prime Minister, but it feels like such a catastrophic strategic fuck up that in a just world, this would have been a resigning issue for Rishi.

[Sara Wahedi @SaraWahedi]

Not a single woman will be present during the Doha talks between the UN and Taliban.

Without a doubt, the erasure of Afghan women and girls is the most pressing issue the country faces.

To ignore this, and appease the Taliban as they wish, undermines the entire UN system.

[Jordan @jordanbhx]

If you’ve ever wondered why we can’t build places that look like Italian hilltop towns, one of the reasons is Edwardian prudes.

[Bob From Accounts 🚲 @BobFromAccounts]

UK planners are hardwired never to inconvenience drivers, the default position is to disregard pedestrians & cyclists. In any other European country, there would be a compromise, & the safety of non-drivers would be considered. A major cycle route gone for months @CS6Count

[Campaign for the Arts @_CFTA]

The Conservative Party has announced a plan to shut down university courses based partly on "future earnings potential”.

1 in 8 students could see their course closed, with funding diverted to apprenticeships.

We’re concerned about the implications for arts education.

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[Larry the Cat @Number10cat]

Nobody born since October 1939 has undertaken National Service in the UK. Those people are now aged at least 85. This policy is aimed at winning the votes of people who never did National Service themselves but who want to force others to do it.

[Chaminda Jayanetti @cjayanetti]

damn, what happened in 2010

[BlackheathStandardResident 💙 @RichardT135]

That Woolwich foot tunnel has been unavailable to disabled people, those with reduced mobility / shortness of breath and most cyclists for almost two years is shocking. Vast sums have been found for #SilvertownTunnel, but nothing to replace lifts that are not fit for purpose.

[dan barker @danbarker]

Imagine buying a flat with a £1,128 per year service charge (£94 a month), and finding 7 years later it's gone up to £7,752 per year.

[Tim Walker @ThatTimWalker]

Strangely enough, the New York Times is not owned by Murdoch.

[Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum]

They killed him, because even in jail he threatened a regime that thrives on lies and secrets https://t.co/gk6c3aBqJJ