Karen Field

I love hamsters, Peter Wyngarde and my son picking up spiders with his bare hands; hate cat urine in my bag. Also found at:

[Karen Field @lordbothwell]

@MrHenryFH No, they're interrupting because it's the only way they know to do a political interview. One-trick ponies, and that trick stopped being useful the second time Paxman did it #BBCBreakfast

[Karen Field @lordbothwell]

Sally Nugent demonstrating why the #bbcbreakfast obsession with questioning like they're the Spanish Inquisition is so pointless and boring. FFS, move on.

[Karen Field @lordbothwell]

I'll tell you what really throws the country into chaos - not knowing the fucking weather #BBCBreakfast

[Karen Field @lordbothwell]

Why did we leave the weather for this pointless speculation? Far more important to know what coat to take out than which particular muppet is in Number 10 #BBCBreakfast

[Karen Field @lordbothwell]

@BBCBreakfast Was that the April Fool's Day report? Raising minimum wage likely to worsen the country's problems? Fucking hell, what will it take for you to place the blame where it belongs? #TaxTheRich #BBCBreakfast

[Karen Field @lordbothwell]

Well Mandelson has a proven track record for dodginess since at least the 1990s (undeclared loan), I don't need a vetting report to tell me that, so Starmer is at best an utter fool #BBCBreakfast

[Karen Field @lordbothwell]

@GrahamDee1968 I am old enough to remember when a patient transfer from another area was done via a phone call or two. Now it involves endless paperwork to ensure the 'right' Trust gets paid. The internal market was merely a ruse to allow for easier privatisation #BBCBreakfast

[Karen Field @lordbothwell]

NHS Trusts and private contracts are the real problem. Private contracts means a loss of those NHS beds. Individual Trusts create more paper-pushers and managers. Community care is more expensive than hospital care so can never solve the problem #BBCBreakfast

[Karen Field @lordbothwell]

Sally Nugent asking if this is embarrassing - well yes, but only to Trump, who is a fucking embarrassment to the USA and the entire world. Trump calling someone else stupid is like a toddler in a tantrum calling someone else irrational #BBCBreakfast

[Karen Field @lordbothwell]

@CarinthiaHart I don't think it was Alice's fault - she was going to sleep in the car, and it was George who decided to drive her home, for his own (doubtless nefarious) reasons. Then he wouldn't let her out. Even sober, she might have decided to open the door. #TheArchers

[Karen Field @lordbothwell]

Economists just make stuff up as they go along to suit their own agenda of concentrating money with the 1%. Why not aim for an economy like the 1970s, when a family could live on one wage, own a house and have 4 kids. Like mine did #BBCBreakfast #fuckThatcher

[Karen Field @lordbothwell]

How does 'cutting public spending' decrease inflation? How does never-ending economic growth create higher wages when the only ones who profit are shareholders and CEOs? Why would those higher wages not fuel inflation, as we were told for years? #BBCBreakfast

[Karen Field @lordbothwell]

How come Charlie Stait has abandoned his crappy Paxman impression and is passively allowing Chris Philp to advocate for basically a ban on protest of any kind whenever the Police decide? #BBCBreakfast And then he wakes up and challenges him to push how great Reform is....

[Karen Field @lordbothwell]

We better repeal legislation against theft, cos the thieves seem to get around it #BBCBreakfast

[Karen Field @lordbothwell]

@BCollier2012 Or: it's almost like capitalism does work - to make rich people richer and more powerful, and put the rest of us serfs back in our places #BBCBreakfast

[Karen Field @lordbothwell]

So let me get this right - wages have to be kept low so we don't spend, so inflation falls. But interest rates must be cut so we have more money to spend to create growth. Someone make it make sense. Especially why endless growth is needed. #bbcbreakfast

[Karen Field @lordbothwell]

@JSn0wd0n @Joefrankenburge @Got_Galt @MAGAmegaMAGA @therabbithole Yeah, his face is just full of love as he sends that 'my heart to yours' gesture.... The bloke could stand there saying 'I am a Nazi' and you'd excuse it as 'manly bantz'.

[Karen Field @lordbothwell]

Ofwat is an absolute disgrace. Water companies are still paying dividends to shareholders and declaring profits. Why are they not using that money to invest? Another service that should never have been privatised. This bloke is a useless tool #bbcbreakfast

[Karen Field @lordbothwell]

All this 'performance management' will create more paperwork and more pen-pushers. Most NHS management is poor. The best reform is to re-nationalise the NHS and remove loads of non-clinical management, who exist only because of the division into Trusts #bbcbreakfast

[Karen Field @lordbothwell]

Jermaine Jenas red flags: "two sides to every story" "I take full responsibilty" "consenting adults". Shows exactly when he lawered up. Thought his poor One Show presenting was inexperience. But he never was interested in anyone he interviewed. They weren't him.