A little story for a wet Friday night. Near my house I found a wallet in the road. When opening it I found a bank card, some cash, a library and a youth club card. And also a front door key. The person who dropped it is 14 and could be locked out so I set out to find him….1/6
Delighted that Grant Shapps is our new Defence Secretary.
Shappsy (AKA Greeny AKA Foxy AKA Corinne) is a spunky warrior.
The Army love his clefts & dips
The Navy love his conkers
The RAF love his cheese
And here is a past clip of Grant showing his grit:
❤️
A man who made his fortune selling get rich quick schemes on the internet under a variety of false identities- and lied about it *after* becoming an MP - is now in charge of the nation's defence.
@mrjamesob Your comments re being caned just reduced me to tears- admitting how much it hurt and damaged hit marks long buried! Thank you - not that I was a boarder or caned - but the trauma of what happened remains.
Conservative MPs and pundits claim the 'overwhelming majority' of voters want to leave the ECHR.
However, our new poll finds 54% of voters actually want the UK to stay within the ECHR, with just 23% wanting to leave.
https://t.co/s1NY8WZUjF
"UK may try to send small boat arrivals to Ascension Island, minister confirms"
Ps. Ascension is a sister island to St Helena (though miles away!) where Napoleon was exiled to rot and die
https://t.co/GGdo8lRhDG
At least two people said to have declined resignation honours from Liz Truss
Well apparently some people can still be shamed, one person reportedly felt too ‘humiliated’ to accept anything, but of course she shouldn't have a list AT ALL.
#ToriesOut396
https://t.co/7zVTNa7UM2
Brexit again ruining summer holidays as UK hard Brexit rules leading to 3 hour waits to get thru Dover passport controls. Was it really a crime against Britain to travel freely thru Europe without Johnson-Frost red tape, passport checks, bureaucracy https://t.co/RCXxcvjSkC
Meanwhile, often forgotten that Farage’s Leave EU campaign was bankrolled by Arron Banks — the largest ever political donation of £8m
🔎 Here’s our coverage of Banks and his Russian connections
https://t.co/AxIeXyB5th
Time to ask again… lots of auto unfollowing of real people… please can you check and share this… I love my Community and don’t want it swamped by bots 💚
I would remind listeners to @lbc@IainDale we did not leave the EU until 23:00 GMT on 31 January 2020 so David Davies using export data from 2017 is disingenuous. But do agree with Davies on no 'golden goodbyes l'
In terms of political parties being behind public opinion on #RejoinEU - as new survey by Deltapoll 14-17 July found 56% of people would vote to rejoin the EU v 38% who would vote to stay out, @VoteTrueAndFair policy is to negotiate rejoining!
https://t.co/fX236vqAPn
Many of Florida's #CoralReefs have been hit with severe bleaching and significant mortality due to extremely warm ocean temperatures, and @NOAA's @CoralReefWatch has been tracking the threat.
In this Bleaching Alert animation, you can see how the threat has grown over the last two weeks.
More: https://t.co/MJKNOTcVWa
“I’m terrified by what’s being done to our planet. I’m also fighting to stop it. You, too, should be afraid while also taking the strongest action you can take.” @ClimateHuman acknowledging fear is warranted and action must be now!! https://t.co/NS2YMJpBbe
The UK public now regrets Brexit more than at any other point, with a majority wanting Rejoin.
This is according to two separate pollsters: YouGov and Deltapoll - who have both found 51% say they want to rejoin - and that’s *before* removing “don’t know”.
https://t.co/yq9RttSLaQ
Victims of Post Office scandal.
Rishi Sunak: wait for due process
Victims of infected blood scandal.
RS: wait for due process
Tory PMs and MPs misbehaviour
RS: wait for due process
Nigel Farage’s bank account
Rishi Sunak: lynch mob now!