Mark B

gone. this platform is too toxic for me.

[Atamjit Niber @Atamji]

@supertanskiii More importantly, please listen to her reply on safe routes for asylum seekers. She say’s, just turn up on UK shores and apply for asylum. Well if that is the recognised UK system, this is what the boat people are doing, then process their applications in a quick timely manner.

[Supertanskiii @supertanskiii]

Fair play to Tim Loughton, asking how a 16 yr old orphan from Africa would seek asylum in the UK and forcing Suella Braverman to admit the only way to apply is considered illegal.

The panic on her face when she realises she cannot lie is priceless.

[Mastodon (@[email protected]) @joinmastodon]

Mastodon has just passed over 2 million active monthly users, a new record! People are voting with their feet. The future of social media doesn't have to belong to a billionaire, it can be in the hands of its users.

[Robert Peston @Peston]

For those querying whether banks are enjoying a “windfall”, rather than a return to “normal” interest rates, arguably they are, because the reserves were massively inflated by quantitative easing purchases of bonds, which were undertaken initially to ease the banking crash damage

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[Daisy Cooper MP 🔶 @libdemdaisy]

This should be the third and final time Gavin Williamson is forced out of the Cabinet

[Mark B @markibennett]

@Joanna__Hardy @HeleneBismarck Do they have a ‘debate’ button? They could call it… ah, maybe not

[Mark B @markibennett]

@C1919W @marshyleeds 😎

[Colin Davis @ProfColinDavis]

Look, I sympathise with the CLIMATE's message, but not the counterproductive way it's going about it. Why can't the CLIMATE write to MPs, or set up its own political party, instead of disrupting the lives of normal people? No one's going to be won over by these shock tactics.

[Robert Peston @Peston]

BP made 3-month profit of $8.2bn, which was all cash, and is giving $2.5bn to shareholders via a share buyback. Giving away $2.5bn rather than investing it looks like an invitation by BP to a cash-strapped Sunak government to raise the 25% rate of the “windfall” oil and gas tax

[Tim Farron @timfarron]

Suella Braverman is successfully diverting folks from the economic and financial disaster engulfing families, hospitals, schools etc.. which is almost always the purpose of culture war. Her words about refugees were appalling, dangerous and inaccurate, but clever and deliberate.

[Mark B @markibennett]

@SwannyAl @AnushkaAsthana Her actual words were that she had ‘… always taken legal advice into account’.
That’s significantly different from saying she had followed it

[Robert Peston @Peston]

Manston. She has singularly failed to explain who is responsible for this disastrous mismatch, so damaging for the UK’s humanitarian reputation, if not her - especially since she has been heaping praise on her officials and colleagues

[Martin Lewis @MartinSLewis]

Age 45 – 70? Can you pay £800 to boost your state pension by £5,000…

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[Mark B @markibennett]

@jclear06 @_The72 If that’s how we play he can go on Strictly for all I care

[Lee Crossley @HighwaymanLRC]

Great tribute for BIG JACK unveiled today in his home town Ashington Northumberland . #alaw #mot #lufc 💙💛

[Mark B @markibennett]

#LUFC Twitter — any Brum based Leeds fans planning to watch down the pub? Recommends? Also need emotional support group. Asking for me. #ALAW 💙💛🤍

[Ed Davey @EdwardJDavey]

Rishi Sunak wants to keep the ban on new onshore wind, is failing to help families insulate their homes and is now refusing to attend the COP summit.

His actions fly in the face of the UK's proud record of leading the global fight against climate change.

[David Morrissey @davemorrissey64]

It's a disgrace that @RishiSunak isn't going to @COP27P He says he needs to concentrate on pressing domestic issues. There is no bigger pressing issue facing us domestically than Climate Change.