Greg Webb 🔶

Lib Dem campaigner and Christian. Software engineer, photographer, volunteer youth worker, cyclist. Do at least occasionally see my family and sleep. He/him

[The Torch @thetorchsays]

BREAKING 🚨: Bombshell analysis shows the distortion in the BBC's political TV shows.

We tallied up this month's guests on the two flagship shows, finding huge overrepresentation for the right. The Lib Dems receive barely a THIRD of what their seat share should entitle them to.

[Election Maps UK @ElectionMapsUK]

Foreign Leader Favourability Ratings amongst British Voters:

🇺🇦 Volodymyr Zelenskyy
Favourable: 64%
Unfavourable: 16%
NET: +48%

🇺🇸 Donald Trump
Favourable: 22%
Unfavourable: 73%
NET: -51%

🇷🇺 Vladimir Putin
Favourable: 4%
Unfavourable: 89%
NET: -85%

Via @YouGov, 16-17 Feb.

[Greg Webb 🔶 @GPWebb]

Time to listen, Starmer

[BBC Breaking News @BBCBreaking]

UK must “rebuild relations” with EU, Bank of England boss to say, in some of his strongest comments yet on Brexit https://t.co/sgu2zXx7Ux

[Greg Webb 🔶 @GPWebb]

@wesleymallin @Blackmagic_News Probably both. The agent's face was a picture when I pointed out the pets clause would absolutely let me keep tarantulas.

[Greg Webb 🔶 @GPWebb]

Conservative voters 2:1 more likely to be anti than for Trump, yet still many senior Conservatives offer him their backing

[Election Maps UK @ElectionMapsUK]

Would you say that you are happy or unhappy about Trump's likely victory in the US presidential election?

😊 Happy: 20%
☹️ Unhappy: 57%

Breakdown By Party Support:

🌹 LAB: 😊 10% / ☹️ 75%
🌳 CON: 😊 26% / ☹️ 51%
➡️ RFM: 😊 52% / ☹️ 22%
🔶 LDM: 😊 11% / ☹️ 79%

Via @YouGov.

[Greg Webb 🔶 @GPWebb]

Have they been channeling the Uxbridge English Dictionary? Can just great that in Humph's voice.

[Greg Webb 🔶 @GPWebb]

@richarddflowers Oh no! Not the weekend you were hoping for. Hope they manage to fix you up soon, look after yourself.

[Greg Webb 🔶 @GPWebb]

Fun idea and an interesting route, but I can't help thinking the Downs, Chilterns and Cotswolds could give some interesting southern stages while massively increasing the population in reach of the route.

[Ewan Wilson @ewanswilson]

What if the #TourOfBritain was three weeks long?
What would a British Grand Tour even look like?
Let me take you on a journey around Britain in the pursuit of 21 stages of proper British racing…🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿
🧵

[Nick Tyrone @NicholasTyrone]

The numbers remain steady - around 60% of Britons would vote to rejoin the EU, 40% would vote to stay out. Brexit has lost.

[Greg Webb 🔶 @GPWebb]

Looks to me like Labour really need to back a preferential voting system like STV to demonstrate their actual level of support

[Britain Elects @BritainElects]

Labour won 34% of the popular vote in July. But when in a one-to-one with the Conservatives they're the preference of six-in-ten of us.
https://t.co/ui1JBtoGox

[Greg Webb 🔶 @GPWebb]

Because 'bad feedback' is all that you've offered, and you've told my ill wife that you've dealt with it as much as you can - when one of your drivers, who you can identify but we can't, threatened theft outside our home. Tell me why this is OK @UberEats @UberUK @UberUKI_Support

[Greg Webb 🔶 @GPWebb]

Hey @UberEats @UberUK @UberUKI_Support - is your drivers threatening to steal food from someone isolating due to Covid what you endorse? And is giving them bad feedback on their service really the best recourse available?

[Greg Webb 🔶 @GPWebb]

I'm not sure that saying rioting and targeted arson against buildings holding refugees is legitimate 'dissent' is what the University of Kent will like their professors endorsing

[Matt Goodwin @GoodwinMJ]

What you are seeing -in the attacks on people like me- is a concerted effort by the elite class that created this mess to "manage" the debate and shut down dissent. Don't fall for it. We need to radically change the way this country is governed
https://t.co/liUeIhMiRY

[Greg Webb 🔶 @GPWebb]

Just a few weeks after climate change activists were given 5 year sentences for _planning_ protests, and were told explaining their protests would be contempt of court, this is quite the statement from a Conservative Police & Crime Commissioner

[Dr Phil Hammond 💙 @drphilhammond]

The NHS may be broken, according to @UKLabour @wesstreeting, but here’s how to fix it.

Prevention, Prevention, Prevention, Prevention….

1. Prevent poverty. It’s the single biggest determinant of ill health, and health and social care demand, both now and in the future. Blair and Brown made good progress in reducing it. So it can be done.

2. Prevent illness, with a relentless focus on living well, self-care, mental health support and tackling the commercial determinants of illness. Dental disease is the commonest cause of childhood operations, and yet it’s almost 100% preventable.

3. Prevent existing risks and diseases getting worse, with evidence-based screening and a substantial shift in resources to primary, community and social care

4. Preventing waste and medical harm, by ensuring patients receive the right care, in the right place, from the right people at the right time. This is the toughest nut to crack, as it requires adequate numbers of well trained and well rested staff working in safe, clean environments with the right equipment. We currently spent three times as much litigating harms from maternity care than we do on maternity care. This is a permanent disaster and would be a very good place to start. Instead of repeating our mistakes, we need to learn from them.

For more detail see @PrivateEyeNews and come to the shows @edfringe @theSpaceUK Aug 2-17

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[Amanda E 🇨🇦 - What are you still doing here? @sammagotchi]

The Cass review is well on its way to achieving the same status as Andrew Wakefield's work on vaccines: roundly dissected, debunked and discredited by actual scientists and professionals in the field, but stubbornly refusing to die because too many people like what it says.

[Mark Elliott @markmobility]

Imagine the media treatment of Kamala if she had five children by three different men. Then add in having sex with a porn star.

[Greg Webb 🔶 @GPWebb]

So Starmer is giving his backing to a policy that increased child poverty then? He should listen to experts, and back Lib Dem calls to reverse this unjust measure.

[Election Maps UK @ElectionMapsUK]

The following 7 MPs Have been suspended from the Labour Party following their vote to scrap the two-child benefit cap:

- Aspana Begum
- Richard Burgon
- Ian Bryne
- Imran Hussain
- Rebecca Long Bailey
- John McDonnell
- Zarah Sultana

[Greg Webb 🔶 @GPWebb]

I wish I could say I was surprised at the Green Party yet again opposing important net zero changes because it's in their back yard...

[Sean Smyth @seandsmyth]

“We will push Labour to be bolder on the environment” latest