Elizabeth Perrella 💙 🌹

Not a fan of the Tories & Reform. Hate Brexit. Musk has ruined Twitter. Worked at Salisbury Hospital.

[Gerry Hassan @GerryHassan]

Normal service on #TrevorPhillips & #BBCLauraK. Days after Plaid Cymru won the #Caerphilly by-election there is no room for Plaid on either programme. But Trevor Phillips has room for the losing party: Farage's Reform & Zia Yusuf. Ever get the feeling you are being cheated?

[Abolish Westminster @AbolishWestmin]

Incredible! Lindsay Whittle won the election for Plaid Cymru in Caerphilly with a solid majority, yet the English/UK media swarmed around the Reform UK candidate instead. Only the excellent @TeleriGlynJones wanted to speak with the actual winner. Says everything you need to know!

[Bluebirds Past @BluebirdsPast]

Caerphilly - It's this all over again.

[PoliticsJOE @PoliticsJOE_UK]

"I don't think Reform have got any interest in what goes on around here. They're just a load of multimillionaires from England."

This Caerphilly man spells out why Nigel Farage didn't win the by-election.

[Elizabeth Perrella 💙 🌹 @lizperrella]

@BBCNewsnight Disappointing.

[Socialist Opera Singer @OperaSocialist]

@GBPolitcs 🚨NEW: Russian leader Vladimir Putin has endorsed Reform UK ahead of the Caerphilly By-Election on 23rd Oct

[CardiWoman @DonnaWarburton1]

What the chuff are they putting in the water in Caerffili? 🥴

[Matt Forde @mattforde]

I won’t be on @absoluteradio for a few weeks as I’m having an operation on Thursday that will blow your mind.

As a result of the life-saving spinal surgery I had two years ago, the nerves to my bladder and bowel were cut. This has left me with a stoma for solids and the need to self catheterise to pee.

It also left me with something called stress incontinence. Lots of women experience it after childbirth. Whenever I laugh, cough or sneeze, piss comes out. And I’m a ticklish asthmatic with hay fever. I’m sodden. It’s costing me a fortune in Tena pants.

So I’m having an artificial urinary sphincter implanted.

This thing is GENIUS.

It’s like a lassoo, which will wrap around my pee pipe and tighten it so that I don’t leak anymore.

However, I’ll still need to catheterise in order to empty my bladder.

So in order to loosen the lassoo, I press a button which deflates it and allows me to get a catheter down there.

But where is this button going to go?

In between my balls.

Here are some pictures of it.

On the left is the entire device.

The middle photo shows the reservoir on the left. That will sit behind my abdominal wall. On the right is the lassoo (known as the cuff). That will wrap around the pipe and inflate with fluid to tighten it.

The final photo shows the button. That will sit in between my balls. Inside the bag. When it’s time to pee, I press that.

(Once I can pin it down. It’s going to be like finding a penny in a bag of mozzarella).

The button then deflates the cuffs by moving the liquid to the reservoir.

Afterwards, the cuff will reinflate with water and tighten up again.

So I’ll be off for a bit while I heal. The nurse told me ‘for 8 weeks it’ll feel like someone has smashed you in the balls with a hammer’.

And she hadn’t seen Forest this season.

[Will Hutton @williamnhutton]

The BBC’s departure from a commitment to political balance, continually leaning to the right, is a growing concern. Last night’s Question Time. Tonight’s panel on Newsnight. Kuennsberg and Mason. Progressive voices treated as idiosyncratic oddities. We all pay the licence fee.

[John Ruddy @jruddy99]

You can tell that PMQs has gone well for Starmer - its not the lead story on the BBC News website

[Peter Jukes @peterjukes]

So it now appears the woman Farage and Gill were so close to has a direct link not only to Putin’s “Man in Ukraine” Medvedchuk, but his predecessor as President, Medvedev

These are top Russian agents.

[Parody Nigel Farage @Parody_PM]

Nigel Farage is desperate to convince everyone that he never met Nathan Gill, the traitor who took bribes from Russia, so please don't share these.

[Brandy Jensen @BrandyLJensen]

one of the best headline/image combos I’ve ever seen

[Larry the Cat @Number10cat]

It's that empty she can hear the flourescent lights

[Elizabeth Perrella 💙 🌹 @lizperrella]

@doctor_oxford @ArthurRankHouse @Channel4News There are no hospices in Pembrokeshire and Salisbury Hospice is funded by charitable donations alone. Unbelievable really.

[Lou D🌹 🇪🇸 🇬🇧 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🇺🇦 @louderry]

Reforms star speaker was a mother who urged others to burn people alive in a hotel.

Labours , a mother who has fought for justice for 97 people unlawfully killed at a football match, including her own son.

Guess which one @skynews decided wasn't worth listening to?

[Elizabeth Perrella 💙 🌹 @lizperrella]

@carolecadwalla Yeh but Keir and the donkey...

[Harry Eccles @Heccles94]

Let's get this news story about Reform UK and political corruption retweeted thousands of times 👇

[Nerine Halton @NerineHalton]

Have I got this straight ? Starmer’s being quizzed to death about a field for donkeys ? Farage , whose tax affairs and party donors are as transparent as a London fog , is getting a media pass on Russian interference ? You’re kidding me , right ? 😳

[Brendan May @bmay]

Terrific that we are discussing a donkey field bought twenty years ago for some elderly parents but not Reform’s alleged financial relationships with Russia.