Chris Bodle

Stuff about politics, mostly. How has it come to this!?z

[Chris Bodle @chrisrbodle]

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[Chris Bodle @chrisrbodle]

Right now fossil fuel companies are driving the climate crisis causing death, destruction & displacement around the world. The people that have done the least to cause the climate crisis are paying the highest price. Join me in signing this urgent petition https://t.co/EhvLr4fbtH

[Saul Staniforth @SaulStaniforth]

If nurses dont get a pay rise that matches inflation, their pay is being cut in real terms.

Labours Debbonaire says we cant afford to give them that pay rise "It's difficult to see where we are going to get the £ from"

You could get it from a wealth tax. You just dont want to.

[Peter Stefanovic @PeterStefanovi2]

No wonder Daily Mail readers look so confused

[Richard Murphy @RichardJMurphy]

Let’s play leadership scenarios. Sunak gets on the ballot with most support, around 140. Johnson and Mordaunt get over 100. In a vote Mordaunt is eliminated. In the indicative run off Sunak wins 230:140. The members then choose Johnson. And the Truss fiasco repeats by Christmas.

[George Monbiot @GeorgeMonbiot]

Sorry to repeat myself, but you *really* need to know this.
Under the government's Public Order Bill, anyone who has protested in the previous 5 years can be forced to "submit to ... being fitted with, or the installation of, any necessary apparatus" to monitor your movements.

[Chris Bodle @chrisrbodle]

@beardedjourno Something along the lines of Palais de Tokyo in Paris, Gallery, art space, studios, experimental cultural hub, indoor plaza and tourist attraction. https://t.co/OhbmCqTnI6

[Municipal Dreams @MunicipalDreams]

'Re-planning Bristol - The Post-war City Part 2 - New homes for all'. Nobody has told these stories better for a wider public than @Locallearning:
https://t.co/atZdPGHG0d

[Chris Bodle @chrisrbodle]

Just posted a photo https://t.co/2EbxmLpgdt

[Chris Bodle @chrisrbodle]

Just posted a photo https://t.co/UdF9u1NE7j

[Caroline Lucas @CarolineLucas]

NO! In what moral universe is it acceptable to acknowledge we’re on brink of climate catastrophe & simultaneously back new oil and gas fields?
Ministers cannot be allowed to get away with this grotesque immoral deceit #NoMoreExcuses
https://t.co/3mM3ahaFtG

[Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla]

If you watch one thing today, make it this. Utter utter disbelief from international scientific community at what we're doing

[Dr Rachel Clarke @doctor_oxford]

Over 1200 scientists around the world have just condemned @BorisJohnson’s mass Covid experiment as “dangerous and unethical”.

His so-called ‘freedom day’ is a threat to the world & may foster vaccine-resistant new variants.

It’s wildly irresponsible. https://t.co/AlOZLbzXQS

[Caroline Lucas @CarolineLucas]

Chris Whitty: “currently this epidemic is doubling. It's doubling in cases. It is also doubling in people going to hospital, & it's doubling in deaths."

The PM’s bonfire of protection measures on Monday looks more criminally reckless than ever👇

[Channel 4 News @Channel4News]

NEW: Exclusive polling for @Channel4News by @JLPartnersPolls shows the top reason given for not voting Labour in elections in England yesterday was Sir Keir Starmer's leadership.

More in @GaryGibbonC4's report on @Channel4 and @All4 tonight at 7pm.

[Daniel Grigg @Daniel_Grigg]

@jeremycorbyn In the 17 councils so far declared.

Under Jeremy Corbyn (2016)

Labour 198
Conservative 108
Lib Dem 36
Green 4

Under Keir Starmer (2021)

Conservative 164
Labour 141
Lib Dem 40
Green 7

Hey Labour front benchers, I don't think more of what Keir Starmer's doing, is the answer.

[Diane Abbott @HackneyAbbott]

Crushing defeat for Labour in Hartlepool. Not possible to blame Jeremy Corbyn for this result. Labour won the seat twice under his leadership. Keir Starmer must think again about his strategy #HartlepoolByElection

[Chris Bodle @chrisrbodle]

The extreme obsequiousness show by the BBC towards the death of #HRHPrincePhilip has to be counterproductive. Most people appreciate the Queen’s private grief and the national significance but it is hard to imagine he would have wanted this.

[Bristol Times @Bristol_Times]

It's Tuesday, so Bristol Times is in the middle of today's Post with: @KYPBristol marks its 10th birthday by showing us some favourite images contributed by the public; the 1971 postal strike (and some 70s sexism); memories of Knowle and more. Don't miss it!

[Chris Bodle @chrisrbodle]

#Labour under #Starmer is back to its old MO: Accepting the Tory narrative as a given rather than presenting its own vision and nagging on minor points of detail.