Dianne

[Inevitable West @Inevitablewest]

A comforting interview with Ann Widdecombe on the subject of death:

"Does death frighten you?"

Ann: "No, I'll go to heaven and be with my mother, my father and my brother."

That's exactly where she is. 🕊️

[Kit Peacock @KitPeacock]

So to put this into context, this school received about double in 'donations' than my kid's school received in school fees.

To be spent on exactly the same thing, education.

My kid gets taxed 20%, their kids get gift aid bonuses +25%.

That's half a million public money.

[John Cleese @JohnCleese]

I think they do not understand how virtue signalling works

[Chris Philp MP @CPhilpOfficial]

Every country - including Pakistan - must take back their own citizens who commit crime in the UK or are here illegally

We take back UK citizens in those circumstances, and they should do the same

Vile paedophile child rapists who came here from Pakistan should all be deported back

We should stop all overseas aid and issuance of new visas for Pakistani citizens to come here until they take Ahmed and those like him back

[Revd Canon Fr Phil Harris† 🇬🇧🇮🇱🇺🇸 @PhilHs10]

These are the MPs that we need out of Parliament. They have no interest in the British people or the wishes of the people they are elected to serve.

General election now‼️

[Martina Navratilova @Martina]

FFS Waitrose- seriously???

[John Boyne @JohnBoyne]

I rarely post on here anymore, but I have to say to @PeterTatchell:

It shouldn't take the news that an elderly woman was murdered rather than dying of natural causes to change a post from revelry & name-calling to 'R.I.P. Ann.'

The sheer hypocrisy of that cannot be lost on any person of good character.

This is why so many people - gay, straight and anywhere in between - find your rhetoric misogynist, divisive & hateful. People are allowed hold different opinions. We can disagree with them, we can even judge them, but every life is of value and we all leave loved ones behind.

A little bit of kindness, compassion and, quite honestly, basic human decency can go a long way.

[Jack @FFS_WhatNow]

No more travel.
No more aid.
No more visas.

It's that simple, but nobody will have the balls to do it.

[Richard @dickietunnel]

This allows them to work under the radar paying no tax or NI
Wish we could all do this

[Conservatives @Conservatives]

Ann Widdecombe was a formidable politician who was never afraid to speak her mind and fought hard for what she believed.

Our thoughts are with her family and loved ones at this heartbreaking time.

Rest in peace, Ann.

[Rupert Lowe MP @RupertLowe10]

I find it so very depressing that there are people in Britain who believe now is the right time to insult, degrade and abuse Ann Widdecombe.

Leave it.

[Nick Timothy MP @NJ_Timothy]

Andy Burnham told the papers he wants to stop Labour’s plan to release rapists and paedophiles from prison early.

He had the chance to vote to stop it last night.

He didn’t even show up.

[Sophie Corcoran @sophielouisecc]

They don’t need any free child care because they don’t work

Only families where (both or if single parent household that parent) work should they get

Free child care, free half term club and free breakfast club

Because it is those parents that actually need it

[Patrick Christys @PatrickChristys]

People may scoff at this, I don’t care. I attended a church today whilst on holiday in France and said a little prayer for the soul of Ann Widdecombe. She was a devout Christian. May she rest in peace.

[Rupert Lowe MP @RupertLowe10]

My response to Afzal Khan, a Labour MP, who has reported me to the parliamentary authorities for my criticism of various barbaric Islamic practices, our rape gang inquiry report and my appearance on Joe Rogan's podcast.

[Suffragent @Suffragent_]

This is Shukri Yusuf - a migrant from Somalia.

She fraudulently claimed £102,000 in benefits, which she spent on private school fees and a car.

She walked free from court with a suspended sentence. Meanwhile, white people are jailed for tweets.🇬🇧 #twotierjustice

[Maryam @hell_line0]

I saw one post this morning that said women over 50 shouldn’t wear their hair long and another post that said women over 50 shouldn’t wear their hair short because it ages them more nd I just want to say that women of all ages should wear their hair however the fuck they want...

[Anton Du Beke @TheAntonDuBeke]

Hi my loves, the saddest of news today of the passing of the lovely Ann Widdecombe.

On behalf of myself and the whole @bbcstrictly family, our thoughts go out to her nearest and dearest and her whole family. 

We will all remember her fondly and miss her. 
Anton x

[Stuey Beef 🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 @stuey_beef]

I’m starting to warm to Badenoch’s political style.

The blunt language, the refusal to pretend everything is fine, the willingness to channel public anger at Labour’s failures instead of managerial platitudes – that has value.

British politics has been full of carefully‑crafted nothingness; a leader who speaks in ordinary terms, admits past mistakes and sets out a harder, more honest argument is at least trying to treat voters like adults.

[Stuey Beef 🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 @stuey_beef]

Labour sold the VAT raid as a moral correction: tough medicine for “privileged” parents to help fund a fairer system for everyone.

That story collapses once you realise that the same government is comfortable using aid to support fee‑based schooling overseas, and has a long record of backing private education chains with UK development money despite warnings from human rights organisations.

If fee‑paying education is inherently unjust, why is it a legitimate target for British cash in Africa?

If it is a legitimate model, why is it treated as a vice at home?

The answer is brutally simple: at home, taxing private schools plays well with Labour’s core voters; abroad, funding private schools plays well with the development finance industry and global impact‑investment circles.

There is no unifying principle beyond political convenience.

That is why you end up with British parents paying more in VAT while watching their government celebrate “expanding access” to fee‑paying international schools thousands of miles away.