Marine Gould

Avid follower of trends in Art and Interior Design. Combine this with online work, blogging and keeping up on Politics.

[Marine Gould @SunbirdDesign]

Quentin Letts summing up Burnham’s lacklustre performance at PMQ, with his brilliant observational skills and long experience in the game. Doesn’t know why he’s in the job unless it’s just because he wanted the job. Sorry Andy but you’re a dud.

[GB News @GBNEWS]

'Mrs Badenoch chews him up'

Parliamentary sketchwriter @thequentinletts on Conservative Party leader Kemi Badenoch's performance against Prime Minister Andy Burnham at #PMQs today

[Xavier García Albiol @Albiol_XG]

Intentaron esconderlos en cuanto me vieron, pero ya es tarde: hemos descubierto los traslados ordenados por Pedro Sánchez para alojar a pensión completa en hoteles de la Costa Brava a inmigrantes en situación irregular llegados de Canarias.
Mañana a primera hora publicamos la denuncia completa desde la misma puerta del hotel; atentos.

[Daily Mail @DailyMail]

Warning from an unlikely source: As Burnham's sovereignty surrender begins today - Cameron tells the PM not to rejoin the EU https://t.co/3STNQTCg3e

[Sandy Tregent @SandyofSuffolk]

If you believed in man made climate change, really believed in it, you wouldn't travel by jet plane from the UK to Antalya airport in Turkey to talk codswallop for 6 minutes then fly back again.

#climatescam 😡

[Allison Pearson @AllisonPearson]

History will look back on the high priests of the net zero cult with incredulity.

Burnham is condemning Britain to poverty, deindustrialisation, power cuts with this absurd - and unachievable - commitment to reach net zero by 2050.

Fool or traitor?

[Daily Mail @DailyMail]

Fury as plan for 930 asylum seekers in small village moves ahead with Home Office signing £3.4m deal with construction giant https://t.co/Wc9vZDXA5x

[The Telegraph @Telegraph]

Lord Cameron has warned Andy Burnham against seeking to rejoin the EU.

The former prime minister, who resigned in 2016 after the Brexit vote, urged his successor not to trigger another “decade-long debate about whether we should be in or out”.

🔗: https://t.co/A7Ysa2Ki97

[The Gentlemen's Guild @TheGentsGuild]

In 1915, Rudyard Kipling's only son, John, wanted to join the war effort. The army turned him down because of his poor eyesight, so Kipling pulled some strings and got him a commision with the Irish Guards.

Weeks after his 18th birthday, John went missing at the Battle of Loos.

Kipling and his wife searched high and low, but never found him or an answer to what happened.

From 1917, Kipling helped the Imperial War Graves Commission decide what to place on the graves of the many thousands of soldiers who could not be identified. They came up with:

"A Soldier of the Great War. Known unto God."

He wrote it for other men's sons and his own.

Sadly, Kipling died in 1936 without ever learning where John lay.

[Richard Tice MP 🇬🇧 @TiceRichard]

Pressure from Reform and others on Gordon Brothers may be working

Lets keep it up

[Benonwine @benonwine]

SHE SAID HER DOG WAS VEGETARIAN. IT LASTED SECONDS, LIVE ON NATIONAL TV 😂🤣

A woman went on This Morning claiming her Siberian Husky, Storm, had gone vegetarian and didn't want meat anymore.

So the presenters put two bowls down. Veg in one. Meat in the other.

The dog went straight for the meat and tucked in. Completely ignored the veg.

First decent meal in years, by the looks of it.

This had me crying with laughter!!

[Chamelia @Chamaerion]

Exactly this

[Sallie @Fr12ee44Spewxh]

“Well before the end of the session (PMQs), the chamber started to empty. MPs no longer find him riveting”.

He may win over the benefit brigade with his meaningless TikToks but most people recognise that Burnham is completely out of his depth.

[Nigel Farage @Nigel_Farage]

I have said multiple times in and out of Parliament that Iranian spies were breaking into the country illegally.

The crisis in the channel is a national security threat. Why does no one listen?

https://t.co/ShTiRPPu2f

[Denise Findlay 💚🤍💜 @gracebrod1e]

I haven’t watched PMQs for a while but my goodness Andy Burnham is useless.
He has zero presence or authority. Stumbling over his words and looking like a deer in the headlights

[Marine Gould @SunbirdDesign]

@bishopSarahM @Pontifex_es

[Richard @RicardoEyes]

The genocide of Christians is never spoken about in the media. No protests. No anger.

[Rafe Heydel-Mankoo @RafHM]

Many people think Poland was created in 1918, like Estonia, Latvia & Czechoslovakia

In fact Poland is, like England, over 1000 yrs old

In the 16thC the Polish-Lithuanian union was the largest country in Europe

No European country's borders have changed more dramatically or tragically than Poland's

Having saved central Europe from Islamic conquest at the Battle of Vienna in 1683 (where my ancestor was commander-in-chief of Polish forces, incidentally), Poland was rewarded by disappearing completely from the map just a century later.

The very qualities that made England a liberal democracy (weak monarchy, strong aristocracy and Parliament) resulted in Poland being gobbled up by Prussia, Russia, and Austria in 1795

The difference? England was the big power on a secure island. Poland was a country with no geographic defences.

Had Poland been an island, it may well have followed in England's wake.

The result of Poland's unparalleled shifting borders is that the country which was once arguably Europe's most diverse, is now Europe's most homogenous.

At its peak in the 17th century, ethnic Poles accounted for only about 40% to 50% of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth.

Now, according to Poland's last national census, roughly 97.6% to 98.6% of registered residents are ethnic Poles

This video shows why the Poles today are so patriotic - and so determined to preserve their culture, heritage and identity.

The Poles know what it is to lose one's nation. After disappearing from the map altogether in the 18th century, under the 20th century communist jackboot their history and heroes were denigrated and rewritten, their achievements denied, their statues pulled down, their national symbols erased.

No surprise, therefore, that it has taken such a hard line against woke and immigration.

Poland once looked to Britain for inspiration.

Can Britain now learn from Poland?

[EwaL🇵🇱 @EwaLTylkoPytam]

Mają na bilety, mają na podróże, pomimo że często są nieletni,z krajów gdzie helikopter zrzuca ryż żeby nie umierali z głodu,nie potrafią często pisać,czytać,nigdzie nie pracują,nie mają stałego miejsca pobytu i pracy ....hmmm
Tylko głupi nie widzi że ktoś to opłaca i tym steruje

[duncan @mongrelcelt]

He must be thinking "Why am I being singled out when most of parliament's been at it too?"

[Nile Gardiner @NileGardiner]

This is outrageous.

[Marine Gould @SunbirdDesign]

Brother Burnham indeed. He must be congratulating himself how well he’s done on the Labour Party stepladder without ever having a proper job (he did a stint as an unpaid journalist for experience before becoming a political researcher for the late Tessa Jowell). Socialism pays.

[Quentin Letts @thequentinletts]

Brother Burnham flew all the way to Cop meeting in Turkey to make a six-minute speech to an almost empty hall. No other G7 leader has bothered witt it this year.