Caroline Warren 💚🤍💜

Still holding the line. Far right thug, apparently. Protected by the ejaculation of serpents.

[Alan @A1an_M]

Dear Morrisons, Sainsbury's, Aldi, Lidl, Tesco, Co-Op*

From now on I won't be buying any of your products which contain folic acid, because none of my family is a currently or soon-to-be pregnant woman and, aside from the lack of benefit, folic acid may be harmful to us.

I know we are only 4 people and you have millions of customers and don't care about just 4, but I think you might discover that a lot more than 4 of your customers are angry about this.

Please pressure the government to scrap the law which means huge numbers of food products contain folic acid.

*Waitrose and Marks and Spencer - this applies to you too. I'm just not wealthy enough to shop in your stores.

[Right Said Fred @TheFreds]

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[Allison Pearson @AllisonPearson]

Since Jason Arday, I’ve been thinking about getting into Cambridge, and what it meant.

The culmination of years of headbanging hard work. Being a “swot” at school because I handed in homework instead of being popular. Yes, in a comprehensive the choice was that stark.

Carrying Tesco’s bags full of books home from the library on the bus for weeks. Piling the books high to create a rampart around my single bed.
Telling myself, “If you read all those books you’ll be good enough to get in.”

Some of the books I read - all of Graham Greene - were not considered “literature”. Not of the first rank, dear. I didn’t know.

As much Shakespeare as I could pack in - the big 4 Tragedies, all of the comedies. All of Austen, Forster (even Maurice FFS), lots of Dickens, Anna Karenina (devastating, wonderful).

I stopped going to school because I needed to read more, much much more. To be good enough to get in.

The Head of Sixth Form summoned me and said, “If you carry on like this you’ll fail your A levels.”

Ha! She hadn’t got a clue. I was working so far beyond A levels. Besides, I had to finish all the books in the rampart. Time was running out.

So hard, the entrance papers. Translating Proust into English. How?

Then, a passage of George Eliot I recognised - thank you God! Then pretending that I’d read Oliver Twist when I’d only seen the film. I called it Oliver! in my essay. With an exclamation mark - how crass. But the dons didn’t know the musical, maybe. I don’t know.

The only lie I told to get into Cambridge. Oliver! “All we ever get is groo-ell!” A really small, forgivable lie, I think, because the work of becoming good enough was so immense, so lonely.

But the surge of pride when I made it. Good enough to get into that unattainable place.

And now, we know that same Cambridge let in someone with two GCSEs - PE and textiles. A man who lied and lied and lied.

They didn’t just let Jason Arday in, they made him a Professor, one of those scholars kids like me revered. We were in awe - imagine being taught by those great minds.

Christ, Cambridge. What a betrayal of all of us who strove so hard to be good enough to deserve you. Who put you on a pedestal, who really truly thought reading hundreds of books was the price of admission, a price you willingly paid.

So much for the brightest and the best. It’s so disgusting on every level, waving in someone utterly unworthy, barely literate for crying out loud. A man at the mercy of the English language, not its master and commander.

A know-nothing Professor, a vacuous, fashionable fraudster hired to give lectures to kids like me.

So Cambridge could look “diverse” and, in so doing, renounced its ancient power which made so many like me strive to be good enough.

[Caroline Warren 💚🤍💜 @carawarren]

@LucyTCWife Completely with you on this. And the way they disguise the labels so it looks the same is criminal. Mud House, I'm looking at you 🤨

[Benonwine @benonwine]

That’s very true remember it’s all about control and state control.

[Caroline Warren 💚🤍💜 @carawarren]

@andyburnham If only you felt this passionately about defending Britain 😏

[Caroline Warren 💚🤍💜 @carawarren]

@CoachDanGo Went for a swim 😁

[Caroline Warren 💚🤍💜 @carawarren]

@latimeralder Delusion

[Latimer Alder @latimeralder]

'What has the BBC ever done for me?'

I'm over 50. A Brexiteer. A climate sceptic. Unwoke.

The BBC treats me with derision and contempt. It loathes me. I do not fit their model of an acceptable viewer/listener

And the loathing is entirely mutual

[Restore Britain @RestoreBritain]

Cheap energy is everything.

[Sunday Sport @thesundaysport]

Electricity bills will fall sharply this winter. Because there will be no electricity

[Jeremy Clarkson @JeremyClarkson]

Oh no. Diana Rigg and now Kevin Keegan gone. The only two well known Doncastrians left are Louis Tomlinson and me. Mexborough doesn’t count Blessed.

[Allison Pearson @AllisonPearson]

What does Andy mean by “building a more preventative state”?
Anyone?

[Jack @FFS_WhatNow]

'Remove the lectern! I'm too normal, and far too northern to need that. I'll do it from a bus. A northern bus, obviously. And get rid of that mic. I'll shout into a black pudding'

[Adrian Hilton @Adrian_Hilton]

I'm honestly sick of people calling Ann Widdecombe a ‘bigot’ for her Christian beliefs about marriage, gender and homosexuality, while simply describing Muslim politicians who share the same views as ‘socially conservative’.

[Benonwine @benonwine]

A woman just had one of these people turn up at her door DEMANDING to know if she was watching the BBC… because she didn’t have a licence.

These clowns don’t even work for the BBC.

They’re Capita contractors behalf of TV Licensing not the BBC itself.

They have ZERO legal power to come into your house, force you to talk, or demand anything.

Just say “No thank you” and slam the door.

Biggest con in the UK. Don’t engage.

[Caroline Warren 💚🤍💜 @carawarren]

@SirDanofC We're all Spanish now 🤦🏻‍♀️

[Caroline Warren 💚🤍💜 @carawarren]

@timfarron Deluded.

[Caroline Warren 💚🤍💜 @carawarren]

@rickygervais @MrHarryCole That's the funniest fucking thing I've read in years. Thank you 🙏🏻

[Caroline Warren 💚🤍💜 @carawarren]

@CaptainCreps No, we're not.