Joseph Downey

Zürich | Ibiza

[Joseph Downey @josephdowney]

@bill_howarth @41below @Searchlight_mag You’re right it would be unwise to enter Schengen on UK and leave on a different passport, implying you’d never left (from the U.K. passport perspective).

[Joseph Downey @josephdowney]

@bill_howarth @41below @Searchlight_mag UK passport holders don’t need a visa to travel in Schengen. The stamp represents a record of entry/exit, to enable the day count but is not a visa. This will soon be replaced by electronic entry/exit then shortly after an electronic authority to travel (also not a visa).

[Florence Lox 🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @floboflo]

Anyone know how Liz Truss's first day at Microsoft is going?

[Joseph Downey @josephdowney]

@whufcalg They don’t.

[Nature is Amazing ☘️ @AMAZlNGNATURE]

If you're having a bad day, here's some otters on a water slide to make your day better..

[Matthew @regionalthicko]

Great appointment 👏

[Scott Wortley @Scott_Wortley]

"And what did your father do?"

[James Coney @jimconey]

Trains are delayed. Bloody Labour.

[Accidental Partridge @AccidentalP]

Bye @trussliz, thanks for the memories 👋

[Ian Birrell @ianbirrell]

Well said @Jeremy_Hunt

[Arthur Smith @ArfurSmith]

If Rees Mogg loses his seat I will be doing the conga up Balham High Road

[Carlos Alcaraz @carlosalcaraz]

Andy! 🥲 Such an inspiration and example for everyone! what a career and what a legacy! ❤️ @andy_murray

[Wimbledon @Wimbledon]

You made us dream.
You made us believe.
You made us cry.
And you made us proud.

[Andrew Neil @afneil]

My Election Day Monologue on @TimesRadio. In praise of British democracy.

It’s election day in the United Kingdom, a seminal event we too often take for granted. We also do it in a very British way. 

There will be no armed guards at the polling stations. No intimidating mobs. Just paper and pencil, trusted tellers and friendly canvassers. 

If the British people decide it’s time to change governments, that will happen quickly and without fuss. The military will not be mobilised. Barbed wire will not be arranged around public buildings. Defeated candidates will not be fleeing the country. Riot police will not be assembling on side streets. 

But a removal van — something we’ve all had to use at some stage in our lives — will turn up sometime Friday morning to help the incumbent move out. Another will bring the belongings of the new prime minister and family. 

A few words from the winner outside 10 Downing Street, a round of applause as he goes through the famous door — and the business of government continues as before. Even with a new broom there will be a sense of continuity. And calm. 

Nobody will contest the overall integrity of the result, whatever minor challenges there are at the margins. The loser will concede defeat and wish the winner well. The winner will try to be magnanimous. 

Nobody will be exiled. There will be no talk of being cheated, of a rigged election, or lawyers getting rich on endless court challenges. No mob will descend on the Palace of Westminster determined to overthrow the result. The pigeons will continue to peck away, undisturbed, on Parliament Square. 

However people voted the result will be accepted. Folks will just get on with their lives and wait to see what the next government has in store for them. 

Such a peaceful, uneventful, very British passage of power is to be treasured. It is perhaps THE distinguishing hallmark of democracy that power is passed in this way, without upheaval or protest, at the behest of the people. 

Democracy requires a winner to be gracious and a loser to accept that they’ve lost, without quibble. That is the British way. It is not now true of that great democracy across the Atlantic. 

It is also the case, if today heralds a change, that a centre right government will give way to a centre left one. Whatever the result the numbers in Parliament who might be deemed hard right or hard left will be de minimis. Pretty much irrelevant. 

There is something quite British about that too. It will not be the case when that great democracy across the Channel votes on Sunday, where the extremes on both sides of the political divide are likely to make up almost two thirds of the National Assembly. 

We broadcasters don’t do British party politics on election day. That can wait until you’ve voted and we know the result sometime after 10 o clock tonight. 

So we will spend the next hour looking at elections in France and America, two countries with their own strong democratic traditions. 

Also two countries, as we shall see, with democratic challenges we don’t face, whatever else may confront us. 

They are our allies — fellow democrats in a world threatened by autocrats — and we must wish them well in overcoming their problems, as we tackle ours. While taking some comfort and pride from the fact that there is something quite special about our own British democracy. 

So let us savour this important day.

[chatgpt roan @deepblueyonder]

Something different for #dogsatpollingstations

[Joseph Downey @josephdowney]

@Gilesyb May and Sunak.

Truss and Johnson aren’t even remotely serious humans.

[Otto English @Otto_English]

Poetry

[Mike Garry @mikegarry]

Struggling for a lift to vote?
My dad was disabled.
On polling day, he’d call the Conservative party office on Grt Western St & ask for a lift to the polling station where he’d religiously vote Labour.
Then he’d get them to drop him at the Parkside pub on in Moss Side.
I miss him

[Henning Wehn @henningwehn]

Relieved I haven’t got the vote as I wouldn’t know who to vote for tomorrow. They’re all brilliant.

[iti malias @itimaliasof]

bagunçou vai ter que arrumar