Alison Barbour

Likes cats, tea, real ale and proper Yorkshire curd tart.... (dislikes racists, bigots & viruses)

[Deborah Meaden 🇺🇦 @DeborahMeaden]

First time the word Brexit has ever brought a smile to my face…👇🏻

[Larry the Cat @Number10cat]

I moved into Downing Street and took up my position as Chief Mouser exactly 13 years ago. If I'd known then what I know now, I might have asked to stay at Battersea, but things can only get better..."

[Alison Barbour @alisonbarbour]

@andy_murray You are fabulous, end of 🤩🥰

[Buitengebieden @buitengebieden]

When your dog’s so fluffy that even the cat can’t stop cuddling him.. 😊

🎥 IG: coloricats

[George Takei @GeorgeTakei]

He’s right, you know.

[Alison Barbour @alisonbarbour]

@rilgay @chizzyakudolu I was just about to post this. I kill everything and mine is now several years old and flowers often multiple times a year. Don't give up! x

[Alison Barbour @alisonbarbour]

@DeborahMeaden Absolutely stunning and well deserved, the vile comments you have to endure on this platform, I don't know how you cope! I hope the crystal clear air was rejuvenating. Merry Christmas to you dear Deb, I hope 2024 is fabulous. FYI this trip might incur arirmiles but inspires too!

[Jon Sopel @jonsopel]

If you only met world leaders that you agreed with on everything, would you ever meet anyone?

[Jon Sopel @jonsopel]

When the Home Secretary denies calling Stockton a shit-hole
And the local Tory mayor doesn’t believe it

[Dr Louise Newson @drlouisenewson]

I have written an article for @thetimes in response to the new draft menopause guidelines from NICE. They are a step backwards for women.

CBT may have a place when taking a holistic approach to managing the perimenopause, but it won’t improve every menopause symptom and won’t treat the underlying hormone deficiency.

Women deserve to have a choice and if they want to take HRT they should be allowed to. It is about time women are heard and their symptoms and future health is taken seriously.

[Alison Barbour @alisonbarbour]

@tracey_thorn You've just reminded me I bought one last year thanks for that just dug it out! Mine is by Beurer, just slightly smaller than A4 I likey 😎 Sending you 🌞

[Joe Lycett @joelycett]

My old friend @SuellaBraverman has described rough sleeping as a 'lifestyle choice' I always thought lifestyle choices were things such as cargo pants, fishing and decorating your bathroom with a bowl of potpourri.

I want to see if this image I found on google described as
'Wooden Botanical Fragrant Potpourri Bowl With Lemon' can raise £50,000 for homelessness charity @crisis_uk

Donate here: https://t.co/oQIZdFHRqX

[Snowleopardess 💚 @snowleopardess]

Look at them. These are two of the highest ranking Ministers in the Tory government.
And just look at them.

[Brian Krassenstein @krassenstein]

Robert De Niro’s full statement on Trump. Please read and let me know your thoughts:

I’ve spent a lot of time studying bad men.  I’ve examined their characteristics, their mannerisms, the utter banality of their cruelty. Yet there’s something different about Donald Trump. When I look at him, I don’t see a bad man. Truly.

I see an evil one.

Over the years, I’ve met gangsters here and there. This guy tries to be one, but he can’t quite pull it off. There’s such a thing as “honor among thieves.” Yes, even criminals usually have a sense of right and wrong.  Whether they do the right thing or not is a different story — but — they have a moral code, however warped.

Donald Trump does not. He’s a wannabe tough guy with no morals or ethics. No sense of right or wrong. No regard for anyone but himself — not the people he was supposed to lead and protect, not the people he does business with, not the people who follow him, blindly and loyally, not even the people who consider themselves his “friends.” He has contempt for all of them.

We New Yorkers got to know him over the years that he poisoned the atmosphere and littered our city with monuments to his ego.  We knew first hand that this was someone who should never be considered for leadership.  We tried to warn the world in 2016.

The repercussions of his turbulent presidency divided America and rattled New York City beyond imagination.  Remember how we were jolted by crisis in early 2020, as a virus swept the world. We lived with Donald Trump’s bombastic behavior every day on the national stage, and we suffered as we saw our neighbors piling up in body bags.
The man who was supposed to protect this country put it in peril, because of his recklessness and impulsiveness. It was like an abusive father ruling the family by fear and violent behavior.  That was the consequence of New York’s warning getting ignored. Next time, we know it will be worse.

Make no mistake: the twice-impeached, 4-time indicted Donald Trump is still a fool. But we can’t let our fellow Americans write him off like one. Evil thrives in the shadow of dismissive mockery, which is why we must take the danger of Donald Trump very seriously.
So today we issue another warning. From this place where Abraham Lincoln spoke — right here in the beating heart of New York — to the rest of America:
This is our last chance.

Democracy won’t survive the return of a wannabe dictator.

And it won’t overcome evil if we are divided.

So what do we do about it?  I know I’m preaching to the choir here.  What we’re doing today is valuable, but we have to take today into tomorrow – take it outside these walls.   We have to reach out to the half of our country who have ignored the hazards of Trump and, for whatever reason, support elevating him back into the White House.  They’re not stupid, and we must not condemn them for making a stupid choice.  Our future doesn’t just depend on us. It depends on them.

Let’s reach out to Trump’s followers with respect.  Let’s not talk about “democracy.”  “Democracy” may be our holy grail, but to others it is just a word, a concept, and in their embrace of Trump, they’ve already turned their backs on it.  Let’s talk about right and wrong.  Let’s talk about humanity.  Let’s talk about kindness.  Security for our world.  Safety for our families.  Decency.  Let’s welcome them back.  We won’t get them all, but we can get enough to end the nightmare of Trump, and fulfill the mission of this “Stop Trump Summit.”

[Farrukh @implausibleblog]

Man in orange, "If we started building HS2 from the north down to the south, we wouldn't be having this conversation (on cancelling parts of HS2), would we?"

Spot on! #BBCQT

[Chris Bryant @RhonddaBryant]

So as I understand it we shall have a train from London to Manchester and Leeds than doesn’t go to Leeds or Manchester - or London. And it will have cost bezillions. Is that about it? #ThirteenToryYears

[Nitin Sawhney @thenitinsawhney]

Madeley really is an arrogant, ignorant, patronising piece of work isn’t he? He addressed a president with mocking laughter and aggressive table thumping in response to a request for Britain’s historical exploitation of slave Labour to be acknowledged. What a dignified response.

[Alison Barbour @alisonbarbour]

This.... 😔

[Janey Godley @JaneyGodley]

I was about 12 a man stopped outside the cottage bar in Shettleston tried to get me & a pal into his car, he accidentally caught his tie in the wind up window and we ran off as he tried to grab me - my brother made me tell the police - a police woman told us to stop bothering men

[Alison Barbour @alisonbarbour]

@mammabee @JaneyGodley I absolutely think the same Janey, I lost my mum to this at Xmas. She was a fierce campaigner raising awareness too, and boy if she ever over heard a woman complaining about feeling fat or bloated she'd butt in and almost march them to the doc to get checked out! Much love xx

[Buitengebieden @buitengebieden]

Living the best life.. 😊