@SkyNews ..
A complaint !
@adamboultonTABB ‘s report on the death of Ann Widdicombe today ..
has to be one of the most crass, disrespectful reports I’ve heard on anyone in politics ..
The fact this is also a Police investigation makes it even worse.
To repeat personal stories about her; and using phraseology such as an ‘ old maid’
and more ..
She was a very clever, intellectual, conviction politician who had more decency in her than most people I’ve ever met.
She was kind and thoughtful and would never hold a grudge with anyone when differing views were held ..
This is an outrageous slur on her character and reputation..
and I hope you’re damn well sacked !!
This is the downside of abandoning an overarching national culture and turning your country (and capital city) into something resembling an international airport terminal. Diversity is not our strength. It is, in many respects, our greatest challenge.
Emma Best is one of the most supportive Assembly Members towards police officers on the London Assembly Police & Crime Committee.
If you are or have been a Met police officer, and want to be heard, please take this opportunity.
Please share their tweet 🙏🏼💙
Ministers justified VAT on school fees with a series of measurable promises.
Promise 3: State sector costs were forecast to remain around £108m by 2025–26. 👇
Using the Government's own methodology, the estimated cost of educating the additional pupils entering the state sector is now around £350m.
This is only one part of the Government's fiscal model. It does not include wider fiscal effects such as changes in tax receipts, business rates or employment. It simply tests the Government's own forecast for state-sector costs against the available data.
#EducationNotTax
Many disrespectful comments about @DInspLeeMartin.. this man is decent, an excellent detective & has so much empathy, care for victims & drive for justice.
If you had a family member murdered you would be so grateful to see Lee as SIO.
This just detracts from a man murdering his wife & his two daughters aged 15 & 5… that’s what we need to be focusing on. @bedspolice
A country that beheads enemy soldiers has no place in the Olympics.
A country that rapes and tortures civilians and POWs has no place in the Olympics.
A country that bombs children’s hospitals, then strikes again when medics arrive, has no place in the Olympics.
A country that uses chemical weapons and banned munitions has no place in the Olympics.
A country whose troops drag POWs to death and shoot surrendering soldiers on camera has no place in the Olympics.
A country that is led by an individual wanted for child abductions and war crimes has no place in the Olympics.
A country that employs the Wagner Group, and is responsible for every massacre they commit, has no place in the Olympics.
Russia has no place in the Olympics.
Not under a flag. Not under “neutrality.” Not as individuals.
In 2022, 88% of Russia’s Olympic medals were won by soldiers. That’s not sport. That’s military propaganda.
If you see this, RT and like. Let the International Olympic Committee @iocmedia hear us.
Let the world hear us.
Let justice be louder than silence. #RussiaIsATerroristState
Lisa Nandy and Lucy Powell are leading Labour’s tinpot free speech crackdown.
The two senior Labour figures — Lucy Powell and Lisa Nandy — are working in lockstep to bring social media companies to heel and muzzle people who wish to point out the Government’s failures.
Last week, Lisa Nandy flounced off X, taking her department with her. The Secretary of State responsible for media called the spread of misinformation and disinformation a threat to democracy and free speech, then vacated the stage. If Nandy really did care about misinformation, surely she should have stayed on the platform and engaged in debate?
This dramatic move came just a week after she announced plans in the House of Commons, as part of the Government’s Green Paper, to force social media companies to prioritise and promote what they deem to be “trustworthy” news sources.
Now, Deputy Leader of the Labour Party Lucy Powell is pushing for greater restrictions on social media during election periods. Her proposals would see private citizens treated like broadcasters and could result in the censorship of those who wish to engage in political debate online. Will we see private citizens — both domestic and foreign — hauled before Ofcom to answer for their tweets?
Gareth Roberts writes that “these plans feel like the activities of a failing, flailing kleptocracy of the last century”. He adds: “It turns out that the hard-won freedoms of the British people – achieved by reformers and free thinkers long dead – are to be ended not by legions of brutes rolling down Regent Street in tanks, but by a gaggle of gormless supply teachers. Where Goebbels failed, Miss Hoolie from Balamory has triumphed.
“The nerve of the Labour Party trying to muzzle its political opponents – under an obviously spurious claim of public safety – is disorienting. Nobody can quite believe their audacity, the absence of a scintilla of self-awareness.”
This is a full-fledged assault on our right to free speech and open political debate. Gareth writes: “A propagandist of communism or fascism at least states openly that they are manufacturing a narrative for ideological control. The truly terrifying thought about Labour is that Nandy and Powell genuinely think that their worldview, such as it is, is the only correct one.
“We are, then, to have our public square adjudicated by the very same people who thought that rapists should be housed in women’s prisons (Nandy), and that mere mention of the unshiftable moral stain of the Pakistani rape gangs was ‘getting a little dog whistle out’ (Powell).”
Read more below 👇
@GBNEWS@benjaminbutter Labour Ministrrs are subject to Community notes on X for their sometimes interesting statements of so called fact . It’s a cess pit at times , but still gives people the chance to comment and challenge The real threat to Democracy is this current Government .
“This is the most authoritarian government we have seen in living memory.”
The last couple of days have reminded the Free Speech Union that the threat to free speech in this country has never been more acute.
But if we think things have been bad under Sir Keir Starmer, they are only set to get worse under Prime Minister Andy Burnham.
His close ally, Lisa Nandy, is spearheading plans to force social media companies to prioritise the promotion of what the Government deems to be “trustworthy” news sources.
When Josh Simons — the former MP for Makerfield who resigned to allow Burnham to return to Westminster — was head of Labour Together, he oversaw a project that targeted journalists who wrote critically about the think tank and his political master at the time, Keir Starmer.
Now, Deputy Leader of the Labour Party Lucy Powell is calling for the effective censorship of social media platforms during election periods.
This is deeply authoritarian, and we must be alive to the threat it poses not only to free speech but also to our ability to have open political debate in this country.
Watch FSU External Affairs Officer @_ConnieShaw on @GBNEWS below 👇
@history99917180 Direct entry has a lot to answer for as well. Parachuted into command via the College of Policing . No experience, just a culture of corporate ineptitude / sound bites and slogans !!!