June Clewley

[Robbie @Robbie_Reasons]

The Somerset Farmhouse of 1 North Street, Williton were approached by a "food influencer" that wanted to charge them £2,000 for a review.

They put out a video of Sally eating a sausage roll instead 😆.

Lets make Sally and the Somerset Farmhouse famous for free.

[Met Times @MetTimes]

#FarageRiots

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[June Clewley @croxleytapper]

@PodcastinToday @G_RhysJones @GrumpyOldRick Enjoyed the first show! Tried to send an email to the address shown on the podcast details and it bounced as not found. Please advise. Many thanks 😊

[Nature & Animals🌴 @naturelife_ok]

Just in case anyone was having a bad day! 🐥😊

[Marina Hyde @MarinaHyde]

My latest column on Epstein - conveniently becoming a scandal about something other than abuse and debasement of women and girls

https://t.co/3VTvl8ERHg

[Brendan May @bmay]

It’s odd, I remember the media going on and on about Keir Starmer’s beer with a curry for months on end (he was cleared), but the fact a senior Reform Party leader has just gone to the clink for a decade for taking bribes from a hostile power is, well, done and dusted. Risible.

[Woke Lefty 🫣 @SalfordMe2023]

Interesting narrative being spun about the Maccabi decision.

English teams have had fans banned from attending European games in the past. On those occasions, whilst recognising most English fans aren't thugs, our MPs supported the host country or competition organiser's decision.

In November, the team played Ajax. The night before the game, their fans were filmed pulling Palestinian flags from houses, making racist anti-Arab chants such as "death to Arabs", assaulting people, and vandalising local property.

On the day of the game Maccabi fans were ambushed leading to running street battles and rioting.

Later, a group of Maccabi fans were filmed assaulting people and damaging property in Damrak.

When foreign police perform a risk assessment and say the risk to property and individuals from visiting fans is too great, they're supported.

When our police perform a risk assessment and come to the same conclusion it's weak and we should 'send the army in'

If any team's fans can't be trusted to respect our property and residents then they should be watching it on TV.

https://t.co/qVEuP9IOwk

[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

[Sangita Myska @SangitaMyska]

If one considers oneself a humanitarian then one has to have empathy for everyone - regardless of race/religion. One can’t be selective. Condemning violence against Jews is not in conflict with support for Palestinian’s right to self-determination. Well said, @nazirafzal :

[UK Cop Humour @UKCopHumour]

𝗣𝗮𝗻𝗼𝗿𝗮𝗺𝗮, 𝗣𝗼𝗹𝗶𝗰𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗥𝗲𝗮𝗹𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗕𝗲𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗱 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗨𝗻𝗶𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗺

Panorama spent seven months undercover in the Met. We've cut all of that down to 59 seconds: the journalist admitting he saw countless police officers doing an excellent job in the toughest of circumstances.

Because that’s the reality. Policing is about extraordinary individuals doing incredible work in impossible situations. The police are the public and the public are the police. They’re not higher beings. They’re people from every walk of life who put in an application for a job. Yes, it’s a job with huge responsibility, but it’s still drawn from the same pool of society as every other workforce. And that means you’ll see the good, the bad, and the ugly reflected within it.

The best vetting in the world won’t tell you what someone might say when they’re in a pub with a journalist asking leading questions. Not that that excuses behaviour shown in the programme for one second. What was said was shameful and beneath the standards of any decent human being, let alone a police officer. But every time something like that is aired, it makes the job so much harder for everyone else who still has to walk out the door and put on the uniform the next day.

And of course, what you’ll never see is a journalist spending seven months undercover just to show you the good. You won’t see them filming officers comforting victims of domestic violence, or taking a neglected child to McDonald’s because they haven’t eaten in days, or holding the hand of someone dying in a road traffic collision, or knocking on a door at 3am to tell a wife and children that daddy isn’t coming home. You won’t see them filming a van full of officers, young and old, big and small, driving at midnight into the middle of a pub fight, knowing full well they could be hurt but going anyway so that others don’t.

That’s the reality of policing. And it’s worth remembering, whatever the headlines, that the vast majority are out there trying to do good in a world that doesn’t often want to see it.

𝗦𝘁𝗮𝘆 𝘀𝗮𝗳𝗲 𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗲 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗹𝗼𝗼𝗸 𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗲𝗮𝗰𝗵 𝗼𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗿.

[🎥 Credit: BBC]

[Marcus Chown @marcuschown]

The thing about Farage’s ”Immigrants are eating swans” claim is that it doesn’t matter that rational people realise it’s total nonsense. The claim is not aimed at rational people. It is aimed at racist bigots, who will accept it and repeat it.

Farage knows his audience.

[Harry Eccles @Heccles94]

Blaming asylum seekers for homelessness? What about the 720,000 empty homes in England, and the 1,627,450 second homes in England alone.

Blaming asylum seekers for expensive food shops? What about the £3,100,000,000 profit Tesco made last year?

Blaming asylum seekers for expensive energy bills? What about the £438,000,000,000 made by just 20 energy companies in profit?

Blaming immigrants for not getting an NHS appointment? What about the 260,000+ migrant workers keeping the NHS going? And what about the 25% real term cut in NHS funding, think that could do it?

Blaming people on welfare for a lack of money to fund the NHS? What about the £36,000,000,000 tax gap due to avoidance and evasion by the elite?

It's time to realise it's not immigrants, asylum seekers or people on welfare causing you any harm, it's capitalism and the mega rich hoarding all the wealth.

[John Cleese @JohnCleese]

I see critical speech may now be regarded as hate speech

Isn't it odd that 'Strongmen' hate being criticised so much

Ordinary strong men ( and women ) are not frightened of criticism

But that's because they have self confidence, and don't need to be praised all the time

[Sayeeda Warsi @SayeedaWarsi]

Pride Not Prejudice 🇬🇧
I’ve found it hard to find the words to rationalise or respond to the hateful language, violent behaviour, misogynistic attitudes and overt racist rhetoric on display at recent protests.
This is not the UK I love and know.
Every poll shows that the silent majority in our country want a united, inclusive and tolerant nation.
The majority can no longer afford to remain silent- our country, democracy and rule of law are under attack.
We need to choose hope over hate, kindness over cruelty and unity over division.
Patriotism is Pride Not Prejudice.

[Tanita Tikaram💙 @tanita_tikaram]

I'm not religious but when I was growing up in school assembly we had a lovely Padre whose message was Jesus was a love & peace man & we little ragamuffins had to treat each other with respect & kindness .I missed the bit where he was an ethno-nationalist gun rights advocate😳

[Clive Lewis MP @labourlewis]

Believe it or not, I had an old school friend on today’s marches in London. He sent me some photos from the crowd.

We went to middle school together and grew up on the same Eastern District council estate in Northampton.

I asked him why he was there. He gave me two answers:
1.“The government doesn’t listen to us.”
2.“I want to feel proud of my country again.”

He wore a Union Jack, not a St George’s Cross as he said that one had been hijacked by racists.

He wasn’t there for Hopkins, Musk, or any of the professional ‘grifters’ as he put it. He was there to feel part of something bigger, though he admitted there were a lot of, in his words, “assholes” there.

He’s an electrician. He’s smart. He’s not racist, but he’s not “PC” either. He’s not a fan of Keir Starmer but he also believes Farage would be a disaster.

Oh yes, he’s a bundle of contradictions! But aren’t we all?

I don’t know what ‘box’ we put him or the millions like him in. And I think pretending they’re all racists or fascists would be a massive mistake.

Some were. But not all.

This is about something bigger than immigration slogans or GDP numbers. For decades we’ve hollowed out our national life, underfunding and undermining the very institutions that once brought us together.

Karl Polanyi, writing in The Great Transformation, argued that when markets are “disembodied” from society, when land, labour, and life itself are treated as commodities
society pushes back. He called this the “double movement”: people seeking to protect themselves, to reclaim dignity and meaning when everything solid seems to melt into air.

That’s what I saw in my friend’s photos. Not just anger, but a demand for belonging.

We’ve replaced collective experience with atomisation. Without getting too nostalgic, programmes like the BBC’s Generation Game once pulled in millions every Saturday night, giving us something we could all talk about on Monday morning. Now we watch Netflix, Disney+, Prime, or Paramount, alone, in algorithmic silos.

Football used to be affordable and rooted in community; now it’s millionaires playing for the profitability of billionaires. The NHS, the post office, the railways - all chipped away, run down, sold off or centralised, leaving people feeling powerless and disconnected.

And don’t get me wrong: some kind of “Hovis Labour” nostalgia for the 1950s isn’t the answer. The country back then was often intolerant, grey, and deeply unequal. But what we’ve built since is a society that gives people little to hold in common, no collective story about who we are or what we’re for.

I reckon that’s partly why my mate marched. Not because he wants to turn back the clock. But because he wants to feel pride again. Pride in a country that is inclusive, fair, and offers a role for everyone. Pride in a nation that has a respected place in the world, tackles grotesque inequality, and gives people something real to believe in.

Polanyi warned that when democracies fail to provide a humane alternative, the backlash can turn authoritarian. This is how fascism grew in the 1930s, not because everyone became a true believer, but because millions felt abandoned and looked for strength, identity, and meaning wherever they could find it.

If Labour and progressives don’t offer that story of renewal, if we don’t rebuild our national institutions, restore collective pride, and re-embed markets within society, the far right will do it for us, in their own image.

And by then, it will be too late.

[Anon Opin. @anon_opin]

Little known fact, but all phones have a little speaker at the top that you can hold to your ear. It means you can have a private conversation without the whole world listening to it

[dave lawrence 🐟🐟🐠 @dave43law]

The truth the right don't accept

[Richard Burgon MP @RichardBurgon]

We’re at a dangerous moment in our country - where refugees are being blamed for all society's problems. While the super-rich, who really caused these problems, are busy taking more and more wealth from working class people.

For 40 years, the ideas launched by Thatcher - cuts, deregulation and privatisation - have meant attack after attack on working-class living standards. The last decade and a half of austerity made things even worse.

Instead of holding the billionaire class to account - those who have stolen the wealth created by ordinary people - Farage and his allies are scapegoating refugees and are being cheered on by our billionaire-owned media.

But hatred and division won’t build a single council house. It won’t put a penny more into the NHS. It won’t deliver higher wages. In fact, Farage and his mates voted against stronger workers’ rights in Parliament recently. They want the NHS replaced with a private system.

The only thing this politics of distraction, hatred and division achieves is to protect our rigged economic system - so that the super-rich can keep getting richer, while everyone else is left worse off.

Let's be clear: the cause of the problems in our society is the tiny elite hoarding the vast majority of our country’s wealth. Refugees fleeing war and persecution are not to blame for collapsing living standards, falling wages, or bringing our NHS to its knees.

So instead of this 'divide and rule', let's unite and build a country that really serves the 99% - not the super-rich.

Let's impose a wealth tax on the ultra-rich, let's build huge numbers of council houses, let's bring water and energy back into public ownership and let's kick the profiteers out of our NHS.

That's how we can build a better future for ordinary people.