David Boydon

British Council Consultant in #ELT and #Languages; @BBC6music squatter; #LCFC lifer. All views my own… mostly.

[David Boydon @davidboydon]

Okay. I’m off now. Hell, chaos and venality await all who stay. You know why he’s called Musk? Because he really smells (proper acrid sweaty!).

[David Boydon @davidboydon]

My ancestors fought in wars so your like wouldn’t people our streets. The UK is built upon tolerance, empathy, mutual respect and lawfully challenging unacceptable behaviour. I will gladly grind my bones into the soil to protect these values. ‘All you fascists are bound to lose’

[David Boydon @davidboydon]

@jasonhickel Plus ca fucking change. Esa es la verdad

[Richard Burgon MP @RichardBurgon]

🚨BREAKING: Next Tuesday, I'll be handing in my petition for a Wealth Tax to 10 Downing Street. 📦

Already nearly 80,000 have backed the call.

Add your name today to show your support for a fairer alternative to cuts.

https://t.co/oIoPVajtVR

[David Boydon @davidboydon]

It's hard to hear, but even lower earners should be paying more tax https://t.co/FFzOcLlkWe

[David Boydon @davidboydon]

@JeremyClarkson A sniper on the roof of the casino.

[barbarism critic @barbarismcrit]

This is a bell that cannot be unrung. There will be no hosting of Olympics or World Cups. There will be a massive drop off in tourism. There will be a reverse brain drain because no one will want to risk studying or taking research jobs here. A modern leper colony.

[David Boydon @davidboydon]

Donald Trump is an unhinged, narcissistic simpleton. And yet I’m less worried about him than I am about the 77 million Americans who voted for him. At least some of them have got to be sane. I sense democracy waiting nervously by the door for a taxi, having made a show of itself.

[David Boydon @davidboydon]

Not bothered about tariffs. It’s just another reaffirming but delicious option on the main course of capitalism eating itself. British beetroot, beef and Vimto for me anyday anyway.

[David Boydon @davidboydon]

Absolutely loathe rightwing infiltration, hegemonic domination and corruption of free speech platforms, but not prepared to leave ‘X’.

[David Boydon @davidboydon]

@MTChandler1 Or I suppose we could get tough with him on talks abou tariffs, which would really sort him out.

[David Boydon @davidboydon]

Everyone on #bbcqt is sucking off Donald Trump. A proven racist, sexist, abusive, manipulative, bankrupt criminal. If he was Al Capone…

[David Boydon @davidboydon]

@MTChandler1 It’s all fastidious faff. Trump is a venal, sinister, racist criminal; and needs to be called out as such. It’s not about talking bloody tough. It’s about addressing the reasons a despicable despot like Trump can become president in the first place. #bbcqt fails on this AGAIN.

[David Boydon @davidboydon]

In the name of a civilised society @UKLabour just implement a wealth tax!! A 2% wealth tax on assets exceeding £10 million in the UK could potentially raise £24 billion annually. With this amount, you could build hospitals, schools & houses and rid the country of food banks.

[Matt Kennard @kennardmatt]

22nd anniversary of Iraq invasion today.

BP returned to Iraq in 2009 after 35-year absence and took control of its largest oilfield near Basra. UK soldiers were still occupying the area.

Over next decade, the company extracted Iraqi oil worth £15bn.

1 million Iraqis died.

[The Resonance @Partisan_12]

“It's not anti-Semitic to say what 1$ra€l is doing is wrong... I cry on Regular basis when i see certain images (of children in GAZA)...

—British broadcaster and football legend Gary Lineker

[Irlandarra @aldamu_jo]

Eric Cantona :

" If Gaza is over this time the world is inevitably over. The world developed its way of murdering , its greediness grew and its desecration of innocents has extended.

If Gaza doesn't make it this time this mean that victory is for the most violent , and the most barbaric "

[Richard Burgon MP @RichardBurgon]

At a recent Prime Minister's Questions, I called on the Prime Minister not to cut support for disabled people.

I said he should introduce a Wealth Tax on the very wealthiest in our society.

We should not be balancing the books on the backs of the poorest and most vulnerable.

[Jason Hickel @jasonhickel]

We should talk more about how the dominant approach of capitalist economists to controlling inflation is to periodically throw hundreds of thousands of people out of work and into misery. This is what passes for "economic stability" and it is madness.

[David Boydon @davidboydon]

I just signed a @theactionnet petition: Support British Council Teachers. Sign here: https://t.co/wU9Lug3xOO