cait🌻

i have an opinion

[Josh @joshlufc91]

Louis Theroux is the absolute master of making someone look like a complete cunt by just looking at them and being silent. Should be good viewing this

[dhwani @dhwanisaraiya_]

there are sentences being said that have never been said before

[Oli Dugmore @OliDugmore]

If I wanted to live in America I would move there

[Farrukh @implausibleblog]

Lady in blue, "Will student loans be the next misselling scandal?" #BBCQT

Oli Dugmore, "My three year course, £9,000 a year for the tuition, on top of that a maintenance loan, I left uni with £37,500 of debt"

"From the day I was charged RPI interest"

"Since I went to uni in 2012, the amount of interest I have accrued is £32,000"

"Was it missold to me when I was told it would cost me £9,000 a year? Yes"

"On top of that its a regressive system"

"If you're wealthy enough to pay the fees up front, you don't get charged interest - if you're rich enough you don't pay the same as me"

"The government changed the terms of the agreement, I call that loan sharking"

Fiona Bruce, "How else would you pay for university?"

Oli Dugmore, "How did you guys pay for it?"

"The state paid for it, didn't they?"

Fiona Bruce, "They did"

Oli Dugmore, "Good enough for you, good enough for me?"

[Oli Dugmore @OliDugmore]

Oxford, free
Cambridge, free
Cambridge, £3,000
LSE, £9,000
Cardiff, £27,000

[Ava-Santina @AvaSantina]

That photo of Andrew circulating is one of the most disgusting things I’ve seen. We need a full inquiry into what the Royal Family did and didn’t know. This is a national disgrace.

[BBC Breaking News @BBCBreaking]

"Allowing money to corrupt your moral compass constitutes a grave betrayal of the trust vested in you by the electorate"

Ex-leader of Reform UK in Wales Nathan Gill sentenced for taking bribes as part of a pro-Russia influence campaign

Follow live: https://t.co/VljZrmTD7z

[Politics UK @PolitlcsUK]

🚨 SUMMARY: Key findings from Phase 2 of the Covid-19 inquiry

- Government did "too little, too late", leading to thousands more deaths

- Lockdown left lasting scars on society and worsened existing inequalities

- If lockdown had been imposed a week earlier than March 16, it could've cut number of deaths in England by almost half

- Lockdown could have been avoided if steps such as social distancing and isolating those with symptoms - and their households - had been introduced earlier

- It calls February "a lost month", questioning why Johnson did not chair a single Cobra emergency meeting and noting that the Covid response basically stalled over the half term week, when the Covid crisis in Italy "should have prompted urgent planning across the four nations"

- Criticises all four nations for flawed planning and decision-making, but adds this was undermined by a lack of trust between Boris Johnson and First Ministers

- Johnson oversaw a "toxic, sexist, chaotic culture" in No 10, where rule-breaking seriously eroded public confidence

- Government scientists misjudged how fast the virus was spreading in the early stages

- Nicola Sturgeon misled the public by insisting her plan to eliminate coronavirus in Scotland was achievable

- Most children were not at risk of serious direct harm from Covid-19 and Ministers failed to properly assess the impact of shutting schools

- Children "were not always prioritised" and the Government was not prepared for the "sudden and enormous task" of educating children at home

- Johnson relied on his own optimism and accepted repeated assurances from Matt Hancock, who the report says had a reputation for “overpromising and underdelivering”

- Sir Christopher Wormald – now running the Civil Service for Keir Starmer – presided over "misleading assurances" about the UK being prepared when he was in charge of the Department for Health

- After the 23 March lockdown, errors were repeated, including what the report calls an "unwise" exit from restrictions in the summer, pushed partly by Rishi Sunak

- November 2020 lockdown measures were "too weak" and could have been avoided with an earlier circuit breaker

- The overall lack of urgency overall in Government was "inexcusable"

- Brands Dominic Cummings as "a destabilising influence" during a time of crisis who had "poisoned the atmosphere in 10 Downing Street and undermined the authority of the Prime Minister"

- Chair Baroness Hallett concludes: "Johnson should have appreciated sooner that this was an emergency that required Prime Ministerial leadership to inject urgency into the response"

[Fesshole🧻 @fesshole]

I once waited on Boris Johnson at a dinner in Bristol. I poured some of the drip tray into his pint. It's the closest I've come to national service. You're welcome.

[Fesshole🧻 @fesshole]

Visited a school in Romania and was asked about my favourite soap opera. I answered truthfully that it was Pobol y Cwm. They asked for a few episodes and I posted them a USB stick with a bunch on it. It turns out they didn't care about drama, they wanted to learn English. Sorry.

[Guillermo del Toro @RealGDT]

I believe I do...

[Politics UK @PolitlcsUK]

🚨 NEW: The Green Party now has more members than the Tories

[YoritomoArt - COMMISSIONS OPEN (2/5) @yoritomoart]

Is that... IS THAT FUCKING COLOR?????

[joseph🌲 @oomfitos]

the green party being far more YIMBY than the general british public (not hard) is gonna break some peoples brains

[The News Agents @TheNewsAgents]

“Jewish people in that Manchester synagogue are not responsible for Israeli foreign policy - likewise Muslims going to a mosque are not responsible for what some crazy jihadist might do."

"I 𝘸𝘪𝘴𝘩 we could separate the two things.”

@maitlis | @jonsopel

[Jay @JibbaJabb]

" Nigel Farage was willing to believe a taxi driver....and this guy wants to be Prime Minister , you must be joking "

#bbcqt

[Scott Barber @thescottbarber]

Putting wheels on this cross to bear is the best possible metaphor for American Evangelicalism

[sara hinkley @boneysoups]

oh my god

[Sam Coates Sky @SamCoatesSky]

Bloody hell. This is NUTS

The ONS say that "in London, the average home was not affordable for any household income decile".

Utterly broken....