Armando Iannucci: "This was the very week that the poverty report came out.. it's almost like we're in a Dickens novel, rather than the 6th biggest economy in the world... 3.6m children are in poverty..."
#bbclaurak
This is incredible and should not be lost in all the other news. This person holds
one of the most senior jobs in government and he lied about saying this. He now apologises. 1. Saying it at all is a reflection on what this government think of the rest of this country. 2. Lying about saying it shows a total disregard for parliament and displays the cowardice of all bullies. 3. Then believing you can get away with it by suggesting you called a person not a place a shithole. WTF.
In the past this would end a career in shame - now he will just continue and will probably even run for leadership of the Tories at some point. If that doesn’t illustrate why the Conservatives are never going to fight for ordinary people are deprived areas nothing will.
Where has all this second rate Dads Army language come from, clearly a narrative...do their duty, be patriotic, look after our own first...I guess Brexshit was about going back to sepia tinted old days...fuck me this is all too depressing
@British_Airways Thanks for reply. Is that diff to the customer services (or lack of)? If so, per above, spectacularly unhelpful and rude. If not, I assume it's not going to answer my question/ fix the issue today?
@British_Airways curious on the 'forecasted adverse weather conditions around LHR' that cancelled my 1045 flight but not ones before or after...very specific, narrow timeframe of weather?Btw your customer service is spectacularly rude and unhelpful in resolution.
The British people are compassionate. We will always support those who are genuinely homeless. But we cannot allow our streets to be taken over by rows of tents occupied by people, many of them from abroad, living on the streets as a lifestyle choice. 1/4
Britain had a reputation as a safe haven for those fleeing persecution. Including Farage's great great grandfather.
Now their Government tries to fly them to Rwanda or put migrants on bacteria infested barges. Humans deserve better than this!
Every single word Andrew says is factual and he expresses the sense of despair so many of us on the frontline feel…
This govt do not deserve to be guardians of our NHS!
Pls RT the hell out of this!
And it goes on...over the last 10 years esp 'we've' moved the lines, let the far right come into the light and be acceptable & encouraged...horrific. While the reasonable, outward looking, values based Tory voices move into the shadows...win at literally all costs
On the road to fascism, today the Tory Party crossed the Rubicon. The gloves came off. Decency died. What we have seen today from Lee Anderson & Brendan Clarke-Smith is the Tory Party sending out the dogs to piss-mark the lamp posts of an unapologetically far right government.
How have we come to this (# 5872)...this is a fkn base, abhorrent, horrific view...Lee Anderson (Deputy Chair Tory party) & this Justice Secretary no mark both believe this view is acceptable, reasonable to express in public, and double down. Mind well and truly fkn blown
Does Tory Deputy Chairman Lee Anderson 'speak for the party' when he says migrants who don't like barges should 'f*** off back to France'?
'There is a lot of sense in what Lee says,' Justice Secretary @AlexChalkChelt tells @NickFerrariLBC.
@NespressoUK terrible customer service (I know, should prob know better by now but there always hope) - order 'doesn't exist' and therefore not delivered after 9d...but I have conf email and see in app. 4 attempts WhatsApp & 31 mins on phone to tell me that
...and I'm getting inc pissed off with the lack of Labour narrative on this - ULEZ was/is Tory policy (grant shapps' condition to Khan for TfL funding) but somehow allowed to be spun as a Khan/ Labour driven view...regardless, yes seems ludicrous that any row back being discussed
Terrifying. And absolutely not the time for any government anywhere in the world to row back on clean air and environmental policies. Least of all because a few hundred people voted for silly parties in a by election where a governing party campaigned in opposition to its policy