John Cantelo

Retired teacher (History & Social Studies) & Kent birder (VP of the KOS) but obsessive about birding Cadiz Province.

[John Cantelo @john_cantelo]

@RobertJenrick Jenrick's flagrant dishonesty is second only to GBNews's in giving a platform to mislead the public and fail to take responsibility for a crisis his administration caused.

[John Cantelo @john_cantelo]

@creation247 Using how their children dress to attack someone is contemptable esp. when you're obviously comparing an informal vs formal situation.

[John Cantelo @john_cantelo]

@daveatherton Nonsense. "Allegedly" = a rumour someone may well have made up but you're spreading for tawdry political advantage. Farage has an EU pension & he obviously doesn't feel obliged to "look after their best interests first"

[John Cantelo @john_cantelo]

@BladeoftheS I've a generous nature so I hesitate to say with 100% certainty that Musk's meant to give a Nazi salute. A better guide is who he supports (financially, etc) & what he posts/reposts. As these include hard right figures he can't moan if people conclude he's a Nazi/Nazi sympathiser

[John Cantelo @john_cantelo]

@MichelleDewbs An autistic, somewhat socially awkward guy who has manipulated X's algorithms to push hard right memes/lies, backs a hard right parties/individuals in Germany, UK etc & hopes to oust elected leaders he dislikes - it's no surprise that his salute is open such an interpretation

[John Cantelo @john_cantelo]

@EsheruKwaku For decades PMs have had security like this, it's naive to think otherwise. Even if they had 100% support of the electorate security would be needed for very obvious reasons.

[John Cantelo @john_cantelo]

@Inevitablewest Drivel. Supporters of all UK parties have had arrangements like this with US counterparts for decades. It made no significant difference to the result. It also happened without a murmur. Liz Truss & Nigel Farrage fell over themselves to back Trump. Double standards writ large.

[John Cantelo @john_cantelo]

@elonmusk It's a malicious & unfounded lie to claim the "Labour minister for child welfare shields the predators". Re: corruption, an accusations doesn't = being corrupt. Musk was silent about Johnson's corruption & backs felon Trump. Hypocrite

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@elonmusk This is b/s. There are currently 5,600+ Labour councillors & many more activists/advisors. Cyril Smith left the Labour Party 50+ years ago & it's unclear how far back this list goes. 2-5% of adult males are paedophiles, 51 out of such a number would be below the expected number.

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@mehdirhasan I ask those claiming that Hitler was a Communist why if this was so his contemporary Daily Mail-owning Lord Rothermere, an outspoken anti-communist, enthusiastically backed the Nazis. I've never yet had an answer, let alone a coherent one. They knew who & what Hitler was...

[John Cantelo @john_cantelo]

@BRICSinfo Musk's suggestion is full on tin foil hat lunacy which any sane person would treat with derision. It's probably also a warning against dosing yourself with ketamine.

[John Cantelo @john_cantelo]

Various nails hit firmly on the head.

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Truth & Lies.

Mix Musk's interventions with Starmer's unpopularity, is it possible to separate the truth from the lies?

(Strong language and adult themes.)

[John Cantelo @john_cantelo]

@TheDisproof See https://t.co/KRXZVtYAUO. Interview with NT Director Hillary McGrady starts at 22.38 talking about biodiversity. At 26.23 the interviewer says the NT had found itself "in the crosshairs of the Culture Wars" & continues "It's very woke to talk about climate change ..." 26.29

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The CEO of the National Trust was interviewed today on PM (BBC Radio 4) about their plans inc. how they intended to address Global Warming. The interviewer suggested doing so would be regarded as evidence that the NT was "woke". No, it's recognising the science! @TheDisproof

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@RealDonKeith You're confusing what people have done with what the media choses to report. Muslim groups have issued strongly worded condemnations of grooming gangs but much of the media isn't interested in reporting the fact.

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@MattGubba @elonmusk There is no "legal route" for a foreign billionaire to remove a British PM.

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@elonmusk If Hitler was a communist, why was it that in the 1930s the fanatically anti-communist Lord Rothermere & his paper (Daily Mail) were fervent admirers of Hitler & the Nazis? I think they were far better placed to recognise what they were than Musk & other ill-informed revisionists

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@AndrewWappat I didn't move to Kent until 1978 although to be fair Woolston, Southampton (where I then lived) is about a dozen miles closer to South Shields than Canterbury!

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... and again

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'How's that on a scale of medieval misogyny?'

Private Eye editor Ian Hislop tells ＠AndrewMarr9 that Elon Musk is 'riddled with contradictions'.

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Spot on!

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“We should have got on to him early on”

Ian Hislop’s takedown of Elon Musk is a thing of beauty 👏