Matthew Weldon

fashion icon, Star Wars know-it-all. Mainly talking nonsense here. The views are mine - but I’m happy to share. He/him 🏳️‍🌈

[Matthew Weldon @matt__weldon]

Controversial take but, even if this money wasn’t recouped elsewhere, I personally don’t think it’s outrageous for government to spend money enriching the cultural lives of its citizens and £40,000 is worth spending to make 40,000 people happier

[Matthew Weldon @matt__weldon]

Had an RE teacher once explain to me how the devil had his equivalent of archangels. Scared me as a kid but now I think it’s pretty cool, like stumbling across a field boss in Elden Ring. I’m not scared of Tree Sentinels and I’m not scared of Belial

[Matthew Weldon @matt__weldon]

It’s always very funny when the American right panic about the devil or satanism. It’s like being scared of the Sith Empire

[Cohen is a ghost @skullmandible]

it's so funny that people are genuinely scared of The Devil again. like, The Devil? from bible? are you nine

[Matthew Weldon @matt__weldon]

I see that once more you have all decided to throw a sporting event without my approval

[Matthew Weldon @matt__weldon]

@renfree_david I’m outraged and I’ll never be back

[Matthew Weldon @matt__weldon]

I need the most dynamic camera movement you have

No, that’s too dynamic

[Matthew Weldon @matt__weldon]

@ChrisEKennedy Yes, trailers fine - but the nerve it takes to so blatantly disregard every other person around you in the middle of a film marks you out as a genuinely bad person

[Matthew Weldon @matt__weldon]

I genuinely believe that if you use your phone during a movie, you are a bad person

[caiterpillar𓆑 @bugging0ut]

im sorry to all the moth people that can’t ignore a tiny light compared to a HUGE lit up screen, i feel for u all really, maybe just stay at home where u can control ur surroundings

[Matthew Weldon @matt__weldon]

Oh i am FURIOUS

[Matthew Weldon @matt__weldon]

I would genuinely vote for anyone who committed to get rid of this rubbish. Tradition is just a word you use when you’ve run out of decent reasons to do something

[BBC Politics @BBCPolitics]

Black Rod summons MPs from the House of Commons to listen to the King's Speech

Follow the State Opening of Parliament live https://t.co/MQThvVqmwH

[Matthew Weldon @matt__weldon]

I genuinely strongly believe news apps, especially the BBC, shouldn’t be allowed to do push alerts for any sports. If I gave a toss I’d be watching

[Matthew Weldon @matt__weldon]

Also, it is absolutely reasonable to expect that a trailer look good and if these shots aren’t ready there is absolutely no one forcing them to put them in the trailer

[Matthew Weldon @matt__weldon]

The people downplaying this criticism because “it’s only the trailer” would have a lot more of an argument if there was a single good looking MCU movie made in the last decade

[jeremy @jeremylovesyall]

the fully cgi shots look so cheap its mind bogglingly insane this from a $200M movie

[Matthew Weldon @matt__weldon]

Among the many surprising developments of adult life, thinking literally every day about the orbital sander I *didn’t* buy from Lidl last year is the most surprising

Why didn’t I buy that orbital sander

[Matthew Weldon @matt__weldon]

This is, obviously, morally repugnant but I’m seeing a lot of people say that she has tanked her leadership bid before it’s even began, and I suspect they are vastly overestimating the Tory party

[Paul Brand @PaulBrandITV]

Suella Braverman’s speech in Washington this evening contains a blistering attack on pro-LGBT Tories.

She says the pride (progress) flag has been flown on govt buildings as if marking “occupied territory”, accusing Tory colleagues of supporting a “horrible political campaign” which supports the “mutilation of children” and leaves her “physically repulsed”.

[Matthew Weldon @matt__weldon]

Does seem like an awful lot of Labour ministers have worked out that it’s a good idea not to make civil servants absolutely detest you

[Lewis Goodall @lewis_goodall]

Understand that Angela Rayner told DLUHC staff today that “she won’t be doing a Rees mogg with passive aggressive notes, those days are over.”

Also said dept will revert to its former title of “Ministry for Housing, Communities and Local Govt.”

[Matthew Weldon @matt__weldon]

I actually do think the restriction on those heading up departments having to be active politicians is a bad thing, so I don’t really mind conferring peerages on people who are actually immersed in the work their department will be doing

That said, Jacqui Smith is baffling 😬

[Politics UK @PolitlcsUK]

🚨 NEW: Keir Starmer has announced the following ministerial appointments:

[Matthew Weldon @matt__weldon]

One thing that’s so striking about elections is the way news anchors talk about the monarch’s role in the whole government thing like it’s a charming and perfectly normal quirk rather than an immoral aberration that had no place in the 19th century let alone now

[Matthew Weldon @matt__weldon]

“Nadine, you are funny” is my personal highlight of this campaign. You’re so right Emily, she is funny

[Farrukh @implausibleblog]

Emily Maitlis, "You are funny, let's be honest. You call David Cameron a posh boy but Boris Johnson has been to the exact same school and had the same upbringing, is absolutely fine"

Nadine Dorries, "No no no, I have to address that"

Emily Maitlis, "They're all very privileged people, but somehow you chose the one you love"

Nadine Dorries, "Noooo.. Boris Johnson had no money growing up.. He knows what hardship is like"

Krishnan Guru-Murthy, "He went to Eton, what are you talking about"

Nadine Dorries, "He went on a scholarship"

Rory Stewart, "No he didn't"

[Matthew Weldon @matt__weldon]

I’m afraid there are no more votes

[Sam Freedman @Samfr]

Greg Hands loses Chelsea and Fulham by a handful of votes.

Tories completely wiped from Inner London for the first time since the 1870s.