The Iron Curtains

Observer of days. Header: Pan-European Picnic 19.08.1989 (

[Rachel Erdos @rachelerdos]

@MitchamCrktGrn @cllrneaverson @Merton_Council I hope @cllrneaverson’s passion for protecting building heights extends to Mitcham as well as Colliers Wood 🙏 Yes to housing on key sites, no to giant overdevelopments for the sake of stakeholder profits or to meet housing quotas #mitchamdeservesbetter

[Mitcham Cricket Grn @MitchamCrktGrn]

It's decision time at @MertonCouncil on the planning application to build 579 flats in tower blocks rising to nine storeys on Mitcham Gasworks. Here are some of the many reasons why councillors on the Planning Committee should refuse it
#MitchamDeservesBetter 🧵

[Cirian75 #YNWA 🇬🇧 62.5% 🇳🇱 25% 🇦🇺 12.5% @cirian75]

At the end of WW2

Lawyers from European countries, mostly British.

Visited Germany, they went to the Nazi death camps

They assessed the:

Politics
Military
Bureaucracy

To see how it had happened, from how the Nazi's took power, and how they got to their "Final Solution" without their population overthrowing them.

They designed a set of laws and rights specifically to stop it happening in Europe ever again.

These are called the #ECHR

If your Government is talking about leaving the ECHR and its not just some random loons, be afraid and get them out of power fast.

https://t.co/pkLsXzLOFZ

[BladeoftheSun @BladeoftheS]

Suella Braverman "I don't know what that was all about."

"It was a spoof, that's going to go viral now."

Make it viral.

[Trumpton @Trump_ton]

The Hill He's Willing to Die On

#RwandaBill

[Led By Donkeys @ByDonkeys]

Johnson’s failures were crystal clear six weeks into the first lockdown (when we made this film). Don’t let him rewrite history.

[No Context Brits @NoContextBrits]

Start the clock.

[Brexitshambles @brexit_sham]

Choose life, don’t vote for these bastards.

[Britain People @Britain_People]

BREXIT LIES

Just a few examples. 👇

[Brexitshambles @brexit_sham]

Adam Posen - President of the Peterson Institute for International Economics - “Most economic trends post-Brexit have come out pretty much as the mainstream economists expected, Brexit Britain has been mugged by economic reality.” https://t.co/QNIz0NrmMm

[REJOIN CAMPAIGN @sonofr]

When you’ve sucked the value out of everything, destroyed peoples’ future, given the country over to disaster capitalists, driven millions into poverty, taken the country out of the most successful trading bloc in history and everything you have anything to do with turns into a total disaster, you need a massive distraction, so you invent one.
You spin that perfectly legal asylum seekers are illegal. You fail to process them in a timely and proper fashion and allow a huge backlog to build up. You deliberately turn a perfectly manageable problem into a disaster. You create misery and horror on an epic scale. Thousands suffer unnecessarily, but you just don’t care as long as it distracts peoples’ attention away from the catastrophe you’ve created.
I give you…our Conservative government.

[Letters of Note @LettersOfNote]

RIP

[The Athletic @TheAthletic]

Women’s World Cup home kits rated: France? Wrong blue! Nigeria? My eyes! USA? Room-splitter!

[Caroline Lucas @CarolineLucas]

Leave the EU, your nearest neighbour, and lose 4% of GDP.
Join a trading bloc on the other side of the planet to gain 0.08% of GDP.
Definition of “success” from this failing self-harming post-truth Government #BBCLauraK

[Brexitshambles @brexit_sham]

For clarity, Farage knows exactly why Coutts and seven other UK banks are refusing to offer him banking facilities.
https://t.co/ZgtBtsD6Zr

[Diane Abbott @HackneyAbbott]

House of Lords has defeated Suella Braverman’s cruel and unfair Illegal Migration Bill. A victory for human rights

[Luke Harding @lukeharding1968]

More shocking revelations 10pm tonight from unmissable @C4Dispatches film on Boris Johnson and #Russia. Evgeny Lebedev- we learn - was the owner of hotels in occupied Crimea *after* Putin annexed the peninsula in 2014. Johnson then made him a peer. @campbellclaret @PippaCrerar

[The Exploding Heads @Exploding_Heads]

"I never said Brexit would be easy" says politician who definitely said Brexit would be easy

[A C Grayling #FBPE #Reform #Rejoin #FBPR @acgrayling]

"An ally said he did not think the former prime minister really believed in leaving the European Union."
Boris Johnson’s Friends Warned Him Not To Back ‘Intellectually Wrong’ Brexit - HuffPost UK https://t.co/OX0QwfMxmh