Mark Laverick

Gay, Anglican Lay Reader, Passionate about social justice,equality, theatre & coffee shops. Husband to the lovely Neil. Rejoin the EU!

[Shahid Kamal Ahmad @shahidkamal]

I drove east into London on the A40 this afternoon. Light breeze, not too hot. London is always beautiful in the sunshine.

Drove past Uxbridge. No riots, no looters, no cars overturned and ablaze, no sirens.

Drove past Greenford. No riots, no looters, no cars overturned and ablaze, no sirens.

Drove past Acton. No riots, no looters, no cars overturned and ablaze, no sirens.

Parked in Westfield. There is sun, no sign of rain, but the full rainbow of humanity is here indoors.

(They say they want their country back, but they actually want their empire back, the one their grandparents' generation lost. The Empire came home. And here we all are! )

The shop assistants everywhere were from every corner of the earth. The customers the same. Girls and boys, men and women, from every place in the world, peacefully going about their lives on a London Sunday in a cathedral to capitalism in Shepherds Bush.

No shouting. No swearing. No mugging. No knifing. No looting. No burning. Just the world in one city under a giant glass roof in peace.

Sometimes, you don't know how good you actually have it. When London is good, it's really bloody good.

Most places in England are good, most of the time. Most people in England are good, no matter what the forces that seek to divide us want us to believe.

I remember being broke and homeless 20 years ago this year, carrying my possessions in four bags and thanking God for my legs when I was deep in my material nadir.

You already have your country. I already have my country. Both can be true.

I don't want to take your job, unless I'm better at it. I don't want to put shariah in place over your head and in any case, the law in this country is about as close to shariah as I need. Why would I endanger that just to piss you off for some marginal gain? Think about it.

We can get along. We are not enemies. Those grifters are fooling you, scamming you, and they're thick. They think 1+1=Foreigners. Their sums don't add up. They get tax breaks. Do you? Work it out.

We aren't going anywhere and we won't roll over frightened like our parents did. We belong here. We ARE the British Empire. This is the legacy.

It's not us you want your country back from. It's the foreign papers, the con artists who took COVID money, the scum who bought our water, the financial institutions who gambled away our future and made us pay for their next round of bonuses in an endless era of austerity. We didn't freeze old people to death. We didn't make food banks necessary. Cameron and Co did all that. We're just easy targets. A distraction.

This is still a beautiful country. This is still a peaceful country. How about we find away to make it better for all of us:?

Isn't London beautiful in the sunshine?

[Mark Laverick @marklaverick]

@OutOfSinq Tell me about Christianty. Tell me about the Jesus in the Bible!

[Claire 💙 @clairebubblepop]

You destroyed a library. It was MORE than a library, it was a food bank, a source of heat for people in the winter, a place for kids from low income families to use the internet, or do their homework. Why destroy something so vital? Yeah you’re so patriotic guys.

[Harry Eccles @Heccles94]

I seem to have upset the @Nigel_Farage fan club - so let me be clear.

This man sows hate, lies and division.

He is a grifter and a conman.

He does not represent the vast majority of Britons.

RT if you agree

P.s. multiculturalism is great.

[Andy Fitchet @AndyFitchet]

Part of my sermon for Sunday.
Where those who seek to use the Christian heritage of our nation to divide us against each other, I have two simple words: do one.

[Mark Laverick @marklaverick]

@brighton_little I've booked three tickets for tonight's show. The hubby and I will still be there, but unfortunately one person has had to drop out, so there we have one spare ticket available. Would you be able to resell it on?

[Headquarters @HQNewsNow]

Unearthed video: JD Vance says people who don’t have children are “sociopathic,” “psychotic,” and “deranged”

[William Crawley @williamcrawley]

Start your day with this …

[Mark Laverick @marklaverick]

@stuartgooch The absolute best mutt in Clapham, and beyond. He was so loved by so many xx

[Mark Laverick @marklaverick]

@IanTuckerBell I don't know what he's been listening to, but it ain't frog!

[Rita's ☠️ Redcar @ritas_redcar]

Are we petty and immature? Absolutely.
See you later J.
Be kind.

[Mark Laverick @marklaverick]

@trussliz Utterly graceless

[Mark Laverick @marklaverick]

@RichardJMurphy Have you heard many sermons delivered by new curates then?

[Mark Laverick @marklaverick]

@annaturley Congratulations Anna, huge cheers from here in Brighton x

[Mark Laverick @marklaverick]

You literally have no other argument.

[Rishi Sunak @RishiSunak]

Stop the Labour supermajority. Vote Conservative.

[Mark Laverick @marklaverick]

@FrGeorgeReeves Did you have your collar on?

[Mark Laverick @marklaverick]

@KEdge23 If you think voting for a Labour government is the same as Communism, then I'm pretty sure you don't really know what Communism is.

[Mark Laverick @marklaverick]

How many of my friends live in a politically divided relationship/household? Me and the hubby are both political nerds, but on opposite end of the spectrum!

[Mark Laverick @marklaverick]

Have done my duty to the country, then a quick trip to the Co-op to get supplies in for tonight......