Seb Merrick

Music, gigs, London stuff, randomness, small is beautiful, change too, respect, love, work.

[Seb Merrick @kazuum]

@adamuzikyapim Wow. Still going strong after so many years!!! 25? Well done guys!

[Survation. @Survation]

NEW Survation poll of 10,024 people, 10 years after the Brexit referendum 🇬🇧

If a vote were held tomorrow:
55% would vote to Rejoin the EU vs 32% to stay out (13% undecided).

Among decided voters, that's 63% Rejoin vs 37% Leave.

🧵 1/5

https://t.co/N3tBBBPmjX

[Seb Merrick @kazuum]

@aziz0nomics Aircon for London flats... Also think we need to revisit external shutters

[Seb Merrick @kazuum]

@Keir_Starmer Thank you for your service.

[Heidi Bachram @HeidiBachram]

The remaining Flotilla members held for a month by Libyan militias have been released. They were held at black sites cut off from contact. This militia is notorious for torture, forced confessions, executions and hostage taking. Yet no 24 hour coverage or enquiries. We know why.

[Sam @SamCKx]

If Keir Starmer does resign, history will look back on his reign and scratch its head as to why the hell he was so hated.

On paper, he's probably delivered more to working British people in such a short time than any PM for decades.

After inheriting an absolute mess: NHS waiting lists fallen. Worker's rights improved. Rail operators nationalised. Improved relations with EU and improved UK's global reputation. Removed non-dom tax status. Halved childcare costs. Boosted state pensions. Lowest homicide rate in 50 years. Lifted 550k children out of poverty. Immigration vastly reduced.

We are in the age of billionaire funded misinformation, whose sole purpose is to topple democratically elected leaders, and insert leadership that favours the wealthy elites over the working people. Looks like the game plan is working...

[Hen Mazzig @HenMazzig]

Today is World Refugee Day.

My grandmother, Hela, lived through the Farhud and became a refugee from a land her ancestors had called home since it was known as Babylon. She finds it difficult to speak about that time, but she shared this story with me.

My grandmother was at her favorite café, like always.

Suddenly, she heard screaming. She turned her head and saw a man screaming, "Kill the Jews," in front of a woman with eight children. One was just a baby.

To my grandmother's horror, he began shooting. One by one, he shot the little children as their mother screamed. He saved her for last.

The café owner grabbed my grandmother and hid her in the backroom until my great-grandfather came to fetch her. They went to a neighbor's house, a kind Muslim family who were equally sickened by the frenzy of hate.

All night there was screaming and crying. Glass shattering. My grandmother could not sleep.

The next day, she watched as a disabled Jewish teen was brutally raped. She watched as the man finished and then broke a glass bottle so he could rape her with that, too.

My grandmother did not speak for the rest of that day. She could only weep inconsolably.

My grandmother adored Iraq — the streets she grew up in, the neighbors she was friends with. But she was not safe in Iraq after the Farhud, nor was any other Jew.

This is my history, and the history of most of the Jews living in Israel today. A majority of us are the descendants of Jews who were violently expelled from the Middle East and North Africa and made refugees in lands they had lived in for centuries, or even millennia.

[Seb Merrick @kazuum]

Couldn't make it but woulda gone.

[The Rejoin EU Party @RejoinP]

What a spectacular and beautiful day!
#RejoinEU

[Lord Sugar @Lord_Sugar]

Watched Brexit programme on BBC today. What would Farage, Johnson and Gove say now. We are in a total mess. Small biz can't do biz easy with EU .The biggest disaster I have experienced in my life time. Sunderland tipped the scales. Nissan only went to Sunderland so they could sell cars to the EU at low prices.

[National Rejoin March @MarchForRejoin]

This Saturday
#RejoinEU March
20/6/26, London

Let's get back together!
With...

[Kateryna Lisunova @KaterynaLis]

Very emotional moment from the interview with Zelenskyy. You should watch this.

JOURNALIST: Do you miss being an actor?

ZELENSKYY:?I miss being a good father.

JOURNALIST: When your children were little, what did you tell them the most? What was the thing that you told them the most when they were small?

ZELENSKYY: I love you.

JOURNALIST: And what do you tell them now that they're older?

ZELENSKYY: Oh, I miss you.

JOURNALIST: When was the last time you cried?

ZELENSKYY: I will try to do it after our interview. No, I mean this, between us. I'm a normal man and then there are a lot of different moments, between us, almost each day, a lot of losses on the battlefield and civilians, and there are absolutely crazy attacks on our people.

And I'm just, it's… I mean, It's very difficult really, when I give orders (medals). I said about it. It's always difficult for me when I give orders (medals) to the mothers and fathers, who lost their children. In such moments, really, I often cry.

JOURNALIST: Are you a hero?

ZELENSKYY: No.

JOURNALIST: So who is your hero?

ZELENSKYY:?My hero? My children, my army, our army, and Ukrainian people. So I'm a part… I'm also a Ukrainian, so I'm a part of our nation. But now our nation, I think, that our nation is absolutely heroic.

[Olena Rohoza @OlenaRohoza]

🧐🤔YOU WANTED A WALL, TRUMP? YOU’LL HAVE ONE.
Mexico’s president, Claudia Sheinbaum, responded to Trump’s threats:
“So you voted to build a wall.
Well then, dear Americans — even if geography isn’t your strong suit, and you see America as a country rather than a continent — you should know that on the other side of that wall stand 7 billion people.
And if the word ‘people’ doesn’t resonate with you, let’s call them ‘consumers.’
Those 7 billion consumers can switch from iPhone to Samsung or Huawei in less than two days.
They can trade Levi’s for Zara or Massimo Dutti, and within six months replace Ford and Chevrolet with Toyota, KIA, Mazda, Honda, Hyundai, Volvo, Subaru, Renault, or BMW — brands that are already more popular in many places.
They can cancel DirecTV.
And even if they choose not to, they can stop watching Hollywood films and turn instead to higher-quality productions from Latin America or Europe — with richer storytelling and better filmmaking.
Believe it or not, people can skip Disney and visit the Xcaret resort in Cancún instead — or explore destinations across Mexico, Canada, or South America.
Even in Mexico, you can find better burgers than McDonald’s — with higher nutritional value.
Have you ever seen pyramids in the United States?
Egypt, Mexico, Peru, Guatemala, and Sudan have ancient wonders — none of them in the U.S.
If they were, Trump would probably have bought and resold them by now.
We know Nike isn’t the only sneaker brand. There’s Adidas — and even Mexican brands like Panama.
We understand economics better than you think.
And we also know that when those 7 billion consumers stop buying American products, unemployment will rise, and your economy — trapped behind its own self-imposed wall — will begin to collapse to the point where you’ll be begging for help.
We didn’t want to do this.
But you wanted a wall?
Well.
You’ve got one.”
Her approval rating has reached a historic level — according to a recent poll, it stands at 85%.

[Sari Arho Havrén @SariArhoHavren]

Fiona Hill, the former aide to Trump during his first term, participated in the #Kultaranta Talks, organised by the President of Finland, and gave an interesting interview to the Helsingin Sanomat newspaper. Some excerpts:

▪️Greenland could suffer the same fate as Crimea.
▪️Hill says she sees the United States acting more like Russia, the White House more like the Kremlin, and Trump behaving more like Putin. ▪️Hill says that Trump's desire to take over Greenland is psychological. “He wants to own things. This is about him."
▪️”If we look at history, this is exactly how the Soviet Union acted towards its own Warsaw Pact allies: it occupied Hungary, it occupied Czechoslovakia, and it pressured Poland in a way that led to the declaration of martial law in Poland," Hill says.
▪️”Trump is now essentially treating his NATO allies the same way the Soviet leaders treated the Warsaw Pact members: as vassal states and states that have no decision-making power of their own."
▪️On the stage of the Kultaranta discussions, Hill was asked whether Europe can trust the United States.
Hill answered bluntly no. And she reminded that the next administration cannot necessarily be trusted either.

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[Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan @MayorofLondon]

Incredible - dramatic improvements in air quality in London are linked to a measurable impact on Londoners' health:

9.3% drop in heart-related emergency admissions

5.1% drop in hospital admissions of all illnesses and health conditions

Cleaning up our air protects our future.

[Seb Merrick @kazuum]

@ProjectAlbion @YoungBobRB The student you interview rather wins this discussion in both content and style.

[Sophie Pedder @PedderSophie]

D-Day commemoration, Omaha Beach, June 6 2024

Zelensky arrived, the crowd applauded. And then this happened:

🇺🇸 veteran: You’re a saviour of the people

Zelensky: No, no, you saved Europe

🇺🇸 veteran: My hero

Zelensky: No, you are our hero

🇺🇸🇫🇷🇺🇦

[Republicans against Trump @RpsAgainstTrump]

It’s D-Day. Trump’s first post on Truth Social is a bizarre AI video about how much people love Donald Trump. Not a word about the heroes who stormed the beaches of Normandy.

That tells you everything you need to know about Trump.

[Anton Gerashchenko @Gerashchenko_en]

President Zelenskyy has published an open letter to Putin. He suggested a personal meeting on a neutral territory to discuss ending the war, e.g. Switzerland, Turkey or Arabic Countries.

The President said that Ukraine is ready for a full ceasefire during negotiations, as well as an "all-for-all" prisoner's exchange.

Negotiations need to take place with the participation of Europe and the US as possible guarantors of peace agreements.

The letter states that Ukraine will continue fighting if the war goes on.

"You can stop your war," President Zelenskyy concluded.

[Marina Purkiss @MarinaPurkiss]

Just watch this…

And for the love of God, please see Farage for what he is.

His response to Sarah Everard Vs his response to Henry Nowak

Jaw dropping.

[Sarrah Bellus @sarrah_bellus]

The FELON Trump's name being removed from Buildings... A sight soon to be seen at the Kennedy Center here in Washington.