Colin Sumner

Ret'd soc. sci. prof. Aberystwyth, Cambridge, Dar, Barcelona, Hamburg. Books: ideology, deviance, criminology, censure. b. Leigh, dad/grandad, socialist, MUFC.

[Sky Sports Cricket @SkyCricket]

West Indies cricket legend Sir Garfield Sobers has passed away at the age of 89.

[Colin Sumner @CrimeTalkEd]

@SkyCricket The all-time great all-rounder: best player ever. Top-class at all the game's skills. Lithe and exciting brilliance. I once bowled an over at him, at Heywood summer fair about 1963-4 when I was about 14, at 6 stumps. Of course he patted the balls back to me. Such a gentleman!

[Colin Sumner @CrimeTalkEd]

@DeniseB92880798 Seems fair, if a little liberal - just a walk to the Tower? Surely he be then locked up and throw away the key? Tories call for this with petty thieves. For this exceptional corruption or criminal negligence, there has to be an exemplary sentence, say in Rwanda for a decade.

[Colin Sumner @CrimeTalkEd]

Johnson should be barred from ever entering politics again, if only because of his extreme incompetence at public service.

[Kevin Maguire @Kevin_Maguire]

Scandals don't come much bigger than wasting £10bn of £15bn spent on unusable PPE during Covid.

The Tory VIP lane for donors, cronies and chums was a rip-off door.

Hunt them down and grab back the £10bn no matter whatever that costs.

https://t.co/iMXKTLH8N1

[i Expose Racists & Pedos @SeeRacists]

🚨 A white police officer was caught on video beating a young Black child who was already on the ground.

The officer is seen kneeling over the kid and repeatedly punching him while the child begs “Stop, bro.” The boy is clearly not fighting back, yet this piece of shit keeps hitting him like he’s enjoying every second of it.

This is what happens when racist cops are allowed to treat Black children like animals and get away with it. Disgusting.

Sources: Video evidence

[Thomas Standfield @TStandfield1789]

So let's get this right.
NHS medical staff had too wear shower caps and bin bags as personal protection during the pandemic, while the Tory Party gave our money to its fucking mates
@KemiBadenoch @BorisJohnson @michaelgove @Conservatives @ClaireCoutinho @Helen_Whately @MelJStride

[Clive Wismayer 🇪🇺🥪 @CliveWismayer]

Why when, according to Dame Hallett, there was a worldwide rush to buy PPE, ventilators etc did govt. ministers, including @michaelgove, fast track shysters like Barrowman ahead of known & trusted suppliers who could be relied upon to exploit existing contacts & supply-chains & source compliant material?

Surprised those overlooked haven’t launched a group action.

[Dr Rachel Clarke @doctor_oxford]

In the scramble to respond to a global pandemic, I watched in awe as the vast majority of ordinary Britons came together with quiet decency, courage and altruism.

Not quite everyone though - as today’s damning report from the UK Covid-19 inquiry chair, Heather Hallett, lays bare.

Boris Johnson’s infamous ‘VIP’ lane for PPE procurement wasted an eye-watering £10bn of public money by favouring suppliers with connections to government, despite their abject lack of experience.

Cronies like Michelle Mone squandered hundreds of millions of pounds of taxpayers’ money on useless, unfit-for-purpose PPE, all while lining their corrupt, bottomless coffers.

“The waste of public money was vast and could have been avoided, says Hallet. "Of approximately £14.9bn spent on PPE, nearly two thirds – almost £10bn – was wasted.”

Meanwhile, NHS doctors, nurses and care sector staff were forced to work with pitifully adequate PPE and lack of essential healthcare equipment such as ventilators. We couldn’t protect ourselves - or those in our care - from infection.

I will never forget those plastic pinnies so thin they tore apart in your hands, and the paper masks so flimsy the ear loops fell off as you unfolded them.

Hancock and Johnson will forever crow that they were heroes. But frontline staff in hospitals like mine will never forget the fear, the pressure, the staggering loss of life and our colleagues - who died of the deadly disease they caught while trying so valiantly to save others.

[JOHN NICOLSON 🇵🇸 🇺🇦 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇪🇺 @MrJohnNicolson]

£10 billion. Time for arrests.

[Colin Sumner @CrimeTalkEd]

Agreed, that's not justifiable. A vote loser too. Reeves said they would chase Tory corruptions - a vote winner - but nah, nothing happening there.

[Prem Sikka @premnsikka]

Labour should ditch triple-lock pensions promise, says OECD.

Full state pension is less than 50% of minimum wage

2m pensioners live in poverty

100,000 pensioners die in poverty each year.

OECD backs democide, silent on equitable distribution of wealth.
https://t.co/HMDOPfGbDb

[BladeoftheSun @BladeoftheS]

Failures?

They blocked contracts to known suppliers of PPE equipment.

So they could buy them from Tories like Michelle Mone, so they could cash in with corrupt deals.

[Colin Sumner @CrimeTalkEd]

Surely those politicians are guilty of corruption and misconduct in a public office? OK, let's get them a fair trial. Or have they run down the courts so much it will be posthumous?

[Alethea Bernard @Tush27J]

There are just no words.
An absolute bloody disgrace
£10 billion wasted on PPE that could not be used.

Shameful conduct by the Tories.
Boris Johnson
Matt Hancock
Michelle Mone
Michael Gove
Etc etc etc

Arrest them all.

[Colin Sumner @CrimeTalkEd]

Yes, she should be in prison, even if only an accessory. Rich crooks are still crooks, even if never prosecuted.

[Sharon 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @K4rmaRules]

If we had a decent government in @uklabour, they would have kicked her out of the House of Lords, confiscated the yacht + jet, and taken back the money. But no, we have a government instead that wants to take money from the most vulnerable and make life hard for the disabled.

[Colin Sumner @CrimeTalkEd]

That expression, exhaling wild hopes of avoiding a red card after a negligent late tackle severs several arteries at once.

[Thomas Standfield @TStandfield1789]

So Gove dismisses the latest report from the Covid inquiry.
Fucking twat.
He should be booted out of the House of Lords.
@michaelgove @Conservatives @KemiBadenoch

[Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy]

It is appalling to witness the Chief Rabbi instructing the Church of England that they, as English Christian clergy, should not engage with Palestinian Christian clergy petitioning them.

And then to publicly label the Church “shameful” for not obeying him?

What puts his judgment or authority above theirs?

Lastly, to pronounce damage in Jewish-Christian relations on account of this is to deliberately seek to *cause* damage between peoples, when he has no such authority. Christians, Jews, Muslims, Hindus and everyone else are all people who just instinctually get along with each other and don’t need the pronouncements of spiritual leaders seeking to kick off power games between them.

[Lord Monsieur Prepuce 🕯🇬🇧🇮🇪🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺 @MPrepuce]

Gove is a lying cunt. Always has been. He should be held harshly accountable for his mendacity.

The man is a cunt.

[Jon Harding @_i0n]

He knew GCHQ were involved
He knew the SAS were advising
He knew that RAF spy planes were being used
He knew the BBC were spreading misinformation
He knew the Palestinian population were being eradicated

Starmer is a Genocidaire, without qualification
- he participated in it

[Cold War Steve @coldwarsteve]

@Nigel_Farage