Amy Watson

Sometimes a shoulder to cry on. sometimes a screw up. Trying to make a difference & be my best. All views my own.

[Amy Watson @amy_watson]

Social media time out is required for the good of my soul. There is much goodness in the world - it just doesn’t hang around here.

[Amy Watson @amy_watson]

My youngest son and I made pasta for the first time today. Not everything in the world is terrible Twitter. It just seems like it on here.

[Sam Smethers @Samsmethers]

A woman discloses she is a survivor of #domesticabuse. A national newspaper gives a platform to her abuser on their front page. Never underestimate the extent of #misogyny in our society.

[joe heenan @joeheenan]

New lockdown rules for England:
You can hunt Neil Buchanan from Art Attack but not Pat Sharp from Funhouse.
Mice can use cats as horses.
You can stay in a bungalow but only if it's haunted & you're the same height as Kylie Minogue.
Indoors is outdoors on Shrove Tuesday.

[Rupert Myers @RupertMyers]

Bye Nigel, here’s your best bit

[Aaron Law @AaronLaw92]

If anything else needs removing from all broadcast past and present it has to be Mrs Browns Boys.

[Ayesha Hazarika @ayeshahazarika]

Dear TV executives. Instead of panic erasing stuff which most of the public, & even the creators of the shows now find a bit cringe, HIRE & COMMISSION NEW DIVERSE TALENT. It’s not that hard...

[Charlie Falconer @LordCFalconer]

Lord chancellor announced just now the end of the privatisation of the probation service. Years of increased reoffending, the government repeatedly warned by everyone it was a disastrous policy. We should cheer. Its a massive u turn.

[Amy Watson @amy_watson]

Ffs @Channel4 ‘Britain’s Best Parents’. As if being a parent (and child & young person) isn’t challenging enough at the moment. #doingthebestwecan #HomeSchooling

[Jacqui Smith @Jacqui_Smith1]

There is a cruel irony in the fact that the children who are most likely to suffer from no education until September are least likely to be visiting a zoo or a theme park.

[Jen #JoinAUnion @JennyN68]

@BorisJohnson In this experiment you're conducting, do you not think it would be best to establish localised, test, trace, isolate 1st? Would it also be more sensible to include private schools? Otherwise it looks like 1 of Cummings's eugenics experiments 🤔
#HerdImmunityIsMurder

[Jay Rayner @jayrayner1]

Man in suit terrified of woman doing her job.

[Jonathan Lis @jonlis1]

A BBC source tells me: ‘Faced with fact and fiction, the BBC has chosen to buckle to government pressure and choose fiction. What they’ve done to Emily is disgusting.’

[Mitch Benn @MitchBenn]

Now - SHAMEFULLY - deleted from the BBC feed. RT far & wide, and while you’re at it, I defy you to point out ONE WORD of this which isn’t factually true and “impartial”.

[Paul Mason @paulmasonnews]

Emily @maitlis is one of those rare people: a brilliant, impartial journalist who cares about communicating with the BBC's most precious possession - its audience. Cummings is a tw*t - but he keeps his job. Compare, contrast ...

[Amy Watson @amy_watson]

I suspect @GarySambrook89 would not be so happy to draw a line if he had been unable to attend the funeral of a loved one, arrange a scattering of ashes or was deeply lonely in sheltered accommodation. All conversations I had last week #cummimgs #oneruleforall

[B31 Voices @B31Voices]

In a statement issued this morning, Birmingham Northfield MP @GarySambrook89 says he believes it is now time to 'draw a line' under the #DominicCummings #lockdown affair

#coronavirus #covid19 #SWBrumPolitics

READ the statement in full: https://t.co/hBSfKDVOja

[Amy Watson @amy_watson]

Anyone out there know how to ‘advise’ someone how to turn on CBeebies & Zoom?? #askingforanotfriend

[Amy Watson @amy_watson]

I never thought that I would read a headline that talks about bishops uniting against the prime minister. On Twitter.

[Amy Watson @amy_watson]

So my thoughts...apparently it is however possible.

[@[email protected] @mrchrisaddison]

Letter to my teenage self:

"Dear Chris,

You think you couldn't hate a government more than Thatcher's..?"