Tim (totally unremarkable and officially stubborn)

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[Tim (totally unremarkable and officially stubborn) @forwardnotback]

TEA!
The only decision needed is whether I should have red or brown sauce

Even without sauce it us a perfect autumn tea

[Tim (totally unremarkable and officially stubborn) @forwardnotback]

@MSEPlanning 😳😳😳😳

[Tim (totally unremarkable and officially stubborn) @forwardnotback]

I’m a disgrace 😂😂😂

[Tim (totally unremarkable and officially stubborn) @forwardnotback]

That we as a country allowed it to come to this is shameful

[Hilary Freeman @HFreemanauthor]

Antisemitism in schools meant we had to change our daughter's school midway through year 5, then sell up and move areas to be able to send her to a Jewish secondary school - something we never envisaged as a secular family. It's a real issue and I'm glad it's being tackled.

[Tim (totally unremarkable and officially stubborn) @forwardnotback]

@PetaSteel Need to get you over here for a visit😃

[Tim (totally unremarkable and officially stubborn) @forwardnotback]

All the cakes are made on the premises

[Tim (totally unremarkable and officially stubborn) @forwardnotback]

I’m a disgrace 😂😂😂

[Hopi Sen @hopisen]

I get sentiment, but most homes in 60s UK didn't have cars, a quarter of homes didn't have one of full hot water, bath/shower or internal loo, less than 30% had central heating, less than half of homes had a phone as late as '72 - hardship was different, better is a judgement

[Tim (totally unremarkable and officially stubborn) @forwardnotback]

@sundersays The secretary of state has form for this

[Tim (totally unremarkable and officially stubborn) @forwardnotback]

And here we have a cabinet minister openly undermining the home secretary and by extension the PM
All for a broad church approach and listening to various voices but once again Miatta Fahnbulleh demonstrates appalling judgment and demonstrates why she shouldn’t be in the cabinet

[Sophy Ridge @SophyRidgeSky]

Normally wouldn't post an interview transcript of this length, but if you're interested in keeping tabs on Cabinet support for Shabana Mahmood's immigration reforms, this is worth a read from Energy Secretary Miatta Fahnbulleh

Sophy Ridge: Just to be crystal clear: Do you support plans for people to have lived in the UK for 15 years before they can get permanent residency?

Miatta Fahnbulleh: The first thing I'd say, because there's been a lot of speculation, Shabana has got a really tough job and I think a home secretary getting a grip on small boats crossings is something that all of us want to see.

SR: Can I just come in? I really just want a straight answer. Do you support plans for people to live in the UK for 15 years before they get permanent residency?

MF: Look, we have got to reform our immigration system and my view is that we need a system that is based on the principle of compassion, contribution. And so there is a package of reforms the Home Secretary has been consulting on, she's looking at the range of responses and she will come out with the measures that we take forward. But the key thing I would say is no one can look at our immigration system, and I say this as someone that came into this country as a refugee, and not believe that it's broken and not believe that we need to fundamentally reform it. But our principle has to be a system where we've got control, but ultimately a system that when people do come to this country, they are able to integrate, they are able to contribute, and that we both respect but also value that contribution.

SR: Okay. You haven't, in any part of that answer, said that you agree with these reforms. I'm just going to read you the definition of collective responsibility: "Decisions made by the cabinet are binding on all members of the government. This means if a minister disagrees with the government policy, he or she must still publicly support it". So I'm going to ask you a third time, do you support plans for people to have to live in the UK for 15 years before they can get permanent residency?

MF: I support reforms that say that people have to contribute and make a contribution to this country, in order to get citizenship. We are consulting on the package of reforms that we'll put forward and the Home Secretary, as you can imagine, having looked at all the responses, will set out what the final position is.

SR: Do you support the plans or not? It's my fourth time asking.

MF: So I absolutely support the plans to reform our immigration system. It is broken

SR: I'm asking you something super specific here. Do you support plans for people to live in the UK for 15 years before you get permanent residency?

MF: The Home Secretary is consulting on those plans, and she will set up the government's final position.

SR: You can't say whether you support that or not?

MF: The Home Secretary is consulting. Look, we absolutely need to reform our immigration system. I support the reforms. And by the way, it is not easy to reform our immigration system. So I 100% back Shabana Mahmood and everything she is trying to do, but there is a package of reforms. We are consulting in the way that government always does. And the Home Secretary, rightly having looked at all the responses to the consultation, will set out the final package that ultimately will do the job of reforming our immigration system based on the principle of control, which we absolutely must do. But critically, a system that ensures that people make a contribution and when they make a contribution, they are integrated into our communities so that we can have diverse communities, like my one in Peckham, in which people can live together and can ensure that they are making the contribution to get to the country and the society that we want.

SR: I know you've got to go, but I think from what you've said, it's pretty clear that you don't support waiting 15 years for permanent residency. So I'm just going to give you one chance to correct that if that's not your view

MF: Don't put words in my mouth. The key point is we are consulting...

SR: I'm not. I'm saying, this is your chance to correct that if that is not your view, because this is the impression you've given. So if you don't think that, tell us now.

MF: We are consulting on the package of proposals that were put forward. The Home Secretary is looking at the consultation and she will set out our final position. But what I absolutely back Shabana on is the need to reform our immigration system, because it is fundamentally broken. And I also fundamentally support the principles that we have got to control our borders, because everyone expects us to do that, and critically, that we have to have a system in which people contribute and when they contribute, they are able to become citizens and they are able to be integrated into our community. That is an immigration system that makes sense. That is an immigration system that will build public concern. And she's absolutely right to try and deliver that immigration system.

[Tim (totally unremarkable and officially stubborn) @forwardnotback]

Really getting into the hallowe’en spirit

[Tim (totally unremarkable and officially stubborn) @forwardnotback]

Not convinced an @UKLabour MP suggesting the Labour government is “deluded” is helpful

[Chris Hinchliff MP @CHinchliffMP]

I wrote to the Government with cross-party MPs last night opposing this decision.

Rosebank and Jackdaw won’t cut bills they'll just boost profits of fossil fuel giants.

If every country pursues its own deluded self interest the costs of climate breakdown will be unbearable.

[Tim (totally unremarkable and officially stubborn) @forwardnotback]

2024 manifesto said:
Labour would not issue new licences to explore new field
AND
It would not revoke existing licences and would manage existing fields for the entirety of their lifespan, with oil and gas production continuing “for decades to come.”
Jackdaw is NOT a new field

[Apsana Begum MP @ApsanaBegumMP]

The approval of Jackdaw will not lower our household energy bills, nor will it make us more resilient in the face of climate breakdown.

It will however, further damage trust in democracy, as ‘no new oil and gas' was promised just 2 years ago.

If the Government approve Rosebank too, this will only signal an end to the ambition for a green transition.

I cannot support this.

[Tim (totally unremarkable and officially stubborn) @forwardnotback]

I think Burnham enjoyed himself at #PMQs today

[Tim (totally unremarkable and officially stubborn) @forwardnotback]

Good to see Shabana Mahmood is sitting next to the Prime Minister at PMQs

[Tim (totally unremarkable and officially stubborn) @forwardnotback]

And here we have a cabinet minister openly undermining the home secretary and by extension the PM
All for a broad church approach and listening to various voices but once again Miatta Fahnbulleh demonstrates appalling judgment and demonstrates why she shouldn’t be in the cabinet

[Tim (totally unremarkable and officially stubborn) @forwardnotback]

@PaulMcAweney I care
Cabinet ministers are rightly bound by collective responsibility
And if you think that was “just gotcha interviewing” we will probably not agree on much

[Sharon Graham @UniteSharon]

In my conversations with the @10DowningStreet and the Chancellor, I have been very clear that whilst we of course support net zero, we cannot have a jobless transition, abandon our energy security or offshore our carbon responsibilities. That is why we have argued for this decision on Jackdaw.

This gives us a bit more time to create and fund a concrete plan for commensurate jobs for workers currently working in the North Sea. Now we urgently need to use that and invest in industries like wind turbine manufacture and refining green jet fuel. We simply cannot let go of one rope until we have hold of another.

[KatieCurtis @KatieCurtis]

There’s currently 180k people in the queue for Bayern Tapestry tickets 🤯

[Marcus A. Roberts @marcusaroberts]

The Home Secretary is a once in a generation reformer. Every minister in @andyburnham’s govt needs to back her 100%.

[Tim (totally unremarkable and officially stubborn) @forwardnotback]

Adding
Osprey
Pelican

And thats it I’m done

[Tim (totally unremarkable and officially stubborn) @forwardnotback]

Amusing myself by listing, without Google etc, the Shell associated oil fields named after birds
Struggling after these nine
Auk
Brent
Cormorant
Dunlin
Eider
Guillemot
Jackdaw
Kittiwake
Tern

[Tim (totally unremarkable and officially stubborn) @forwardnotback]

@vcg239 Hope she is ok