Mrs Bongo

Stopfordian, Politics teacher, Feminist, Politically homeless, Mum to 3 +2🐩🐩 Life revolves around 🏞️🍷⚽Retweets not an endorsement.

[Mrs Bongo @BongosViews]

Proud to play my small classroom part in raising them from all across Greater Manchester and beyond 🙌

[Visit Manchester @visit_mcr]

Here's to strong women.
May we know them.
May we be them.
May we raise them.

#IWD2022

[Iris Gorfinkel, M.D. @DrGorfinkel]

“Staggering”

Modelling predicts USAID funding cuts will result in
> 14 MILLION DEATHS.

🧸 1 in 3 are <5 yrs of age

The Lancet Global Health https://t.co/XCRMriqDMX

[Sky News @SkyNews]

Homes in illegal Israeli settlements promoted at London property show

https://t.co/KmwKFXZlpa

[IPPR @IPPR]

Reform UK's proposal to reverse employer NI hike through an Employer Migrant Labour Levy is nonsense 😞

1⃣ We already have such a levy - the Immigration Skills Charge

2⃣ It raised around £560m in revenue in 2024-25, which pales in comparison to the over £20bn a year raised from increase of NI

3⃣ Migration is falling sharply so revenue now would be even lower.

4⃣ Reform want to cut migration even further so how can they expect to fund large tax cuts through migration levies?

[Magyar Péter (Ne féljetek) @magyarpeterMP]

As I predicted before the election, @PM_ViktorOrban's propaganda machine collapses within moments as soon as its state funding is cut off.
And sure enough, that is exactly what happened. A whole world of lies, shattered.

[Kenneth Roth @KenRoth]

A leaked memo shows the European Union has known since 2017 that it had the legal right to freeze Israel's trade deal due to Israel's persistent violations of international law in the occupied West Bank. https://t.co/0lkP43NBaV

[Global War Desk @GlobalNewsHQI]

🚨 THIS MAY HAVE BEEN THE MOST EMBARRASSING MOMENT FOR THE US NARRATIVE YET 😭🔥

🇺🇸 Pete Hegseth: “We’ve controlled the Strait this whole time.”

🇺🇸 Journalist Margaret: “Then why the hell has Trump spent 102 days begging Iran to reopen it?” 👀⚠️

And just like that…

Pete completely froze. 😭

No answer. No explanation. Just awkward silence and word salad. 🍿🔥

The clip is now exploding online because it exposed the contradiction in seconds:

“If America already controlled everything… why was Washington negotiating with Tehran nonstop?” 🤨

Absolute destruction on live television.

[dave lawrence 🐟🐟🐠 @dave43law]

He's finished - has outstanding complaints already and escaped a No Confidence vote with the Tories voting for him by a single vote previously

The Reform UK leader of Warwickshire County Council George Finch faces a solicitor-led investigation after a row over a social media post that depicted a Conservative councillor dressed as a burglar.

The 19-year-old has been the subject of complaints alleging he breached the authority's code of conduct by publishing the mocked-up image.
https://t.co/EAacZUrcBO

[Magyar Péter (Ne féljetek) @magyarpeterMP]

Parliament has just passed it.
From now on, in Hungary, a Prime Minister may serve a maximum of two terms, or eight years.

[Shadow of Ezra @ShadowofEzra]

BREAKING: Benjamin Netanyahu says he will not comply with President Trump’s peace deal with Iran and will strike Iran and Lebanon whenever he deems necessary.

Netanyahu says he does not see eye to eye with Trump on the issue and that he is responsible for Israel’s security.

Nethanyahu needs to be removed.

[(((Dan Hodges))) @DPJHodges]

Let's just reflect on this for a moment. For the past few months a group of people who style themselves "patriots" have been peddling propaganda on behalf of a foreign state after it sponsored a firebomb attack on our Prime Minister.

[Scott Robertson @sarobertson_]

Former deputy PM John Manley: We used to always refer to the president of the United States as the leader of the free world. Donald Trump is not the leader of anything other than about the 37% of Americans that still support him. If anything, intellectually at least, Mark Carney has become the leader of the free world, the countries that believe in democracy and the rule of law.

[Gavin Newsom @GavinNewsom]

Today, my wife & I joined Donald Trump’s hit list. He has directed his Department of Justice to investigate us. They have not found a crime - they are simply trying to find one.

He isn't coming after me because of mean tweets, but because I am considering running for President.

He hates that I consistently call him out. He is simply the most corrupt President in American history.

We have nothing to hide. 

Mr. President, come after me. I am not going anywhere. 

The country is watching.

[(((Dan Hodges))) @DPJHodges]

For months there have been conspiracy theories circulating on here about the arson attacks on Keir Starmer. Now the case is concluded, the truth can be revealed. They were sponsored by Russia to directly intimidate the British Prime Minister and his family.

[Luke Tryl @LukeTryl]

Under 16s social media ban commands significant support from the public. From all of our conversations it’s seen as an area where people think individual parents can’t act alone and an area where they need government to help them take back control.

[The Sutton Trust @suttontrust]

🚨 Almost half of the GCSE attainment gap between poorer pupils and their better-off peers is “locked in” by the end of primary school.

Concerning findings from @EducEndowFoundn and @EduPolicyInst new research 🧵⬇️

https://t.co/eNsNLQSCiL

[Stop That Neuer @Goatkeeper1_]

The Curaçao goalscorer after the game tonight

[Martin Shaw @martinshawx]

The UK Court of Appeal has seriously overreached itself by basing its decision on the manifest untruth that “Palestine Action overtly promotes unlawful violence amounting to terrorism”.

Reading this, and squaring it against the evidence, the Supreme Court or failing that the European Court will overturn this ruling.

[Ed Davey @EdwardJDavey]

It looks as though Vladimir Putin may have ordered an arson attack against the British Prime Minister last year.

That is an incredibly serious escalation and shows why we must redouble our efforts with Ukraine and the rest of Europe to resist and deter Putin’s aggression.

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

An insane stat

[Mr Ethical 🚩 @nw_nicholas]

My ideal, predicted scenario. Parliamentary Standards Commissioner rules that Farage should have declared £5m. That triggers Electoral Commission to determine if Harborne was a permissible donor at the time. (I suspect not). They find he wasn't and open criminal investigation. Police/NCA get involved and discover numerous other "donations" laundered from around the world. Farage goes to prison.