Mike Gapes ⚒🇺🇦🇬🇧

Hammer, Blues, Jazz, Bridge. Rotarian. Internationalist. Worked 15 years Labour HQ then MP Ilford South 1992-2019. I block abusive and antisemitic tweets.

[Mike Gapes ⚒🇺🇦🇬🇧 @MikeGapes]

Why I'm rejoining the Labour Party | Mike Gapes https://t.co/D8DGH1buhD via @YouTube

[BrooklynDad_Defiant!☮️ @mmpadellan]

FUN FACT: Many of these same people refused to wear a mask because it would make them look stupid.

[John Healey @JohnHealey_MP]

A historic moment as we welcomed @ZelenskyyUa to Cabinet today.

Britain is united for Ukraine.

[The New Statesman @NewStatesman]

It is unacceptable to see the integrity of the New Statesman’s journalism questioned this week by the British Medical Association. We stand by Hannah Barnes and her story.

[Sonia Sodha @soniasodha]

The Good Law Project & journalists rightly getting heat for deeply irresponsible claims about suicide & young people after review by govt independent adviser. No org that cares about children would weaponise suicide as a campaigning tactic in this way.

https://t.co/9Hi4AzfRss

[Republicans against Trump @RpsAgainstTrump]

Former Speaker Paul Ryan on Trump:

“I do think character is a really important issue. If you put yourself above the Constitution, as he has done, I think that makes you unfit for office.”

[Darren Johnson @DarrenJohnson66]

Note that only two of the four Green MPs have signed this letter to Wes Streeting. Obviously, there's been a calculation that chemically castrating childen will be less of a vote-winner in rural East Anglia and Herefordshire than in Brighton and Bristol.

[Mike Gapes ⚒🇺🇦🇬🇧 @MikeGapes]

@unmeshdesai I am so sorry that due to Covid I could not be there.

[Christabel Cooper @ChristabelCoops]

Labour now holds more rural and semi-rural seats than it used to. It is no longer just a party of the cities, which means it can't indulge in the Conservatives game of playing one type of geography off against another. Here are Labour's seats by population density. 1/

[Sonia Sodha @soniasodha]

These are the concerns that proponents of assisted dying need to be able to address (and have resoundingly failed to do so yet). It was very striking in the last time it was debated in the Lords how many wrote them off as scaremongering.

https://t.co/VaESCuCB9p

[Yoni Appelbaum @YAppelbaum]

"The truth is that Trump’s record as president was the same as his record as a businessman: rich until the inheritance ran out," writes @DavidFrum:

https://t.co/2zbfpf0TZM

[Republicans against Trump @RpsAgainstTrump]

Conservative lawyer @gtconway3d on the formation of @PsychoPAC24:
“We want to level the playing field on the mental states of the two candidates. Both of them are old, both of them misstate words... Here's the real issue, [Trump] is a sociopath."

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

.@JolyonMaugham of @GoodLawProject has been making loud claims about a massive spike in suicides due to the new guidelines on puberty blockers. A governmental review has found these claims to be not merely false, but dangerous.
https://t.co/XPODaaVTsL…

[Oliver Kamm @OliverKamm]

In a notable Freudian slip, this troll account masquerading as a diplomatic mission doesn’t even grasp that the government of a western democracy is elected rather than “installed”.

[Republican Accountability @AccountableGOP]

MSNBC's @allinwithchris shows a complication of what America looked like exactly 4 years today—July 18th, 2020—when Donald Trump was president.

[Darren Johnson @DarrenJohnson66]

The NHS took a clinical decision to ban puberty blockers for gender identity following Cass Review. Noting a loophole private providers could exploit further ban was introduced by Health Sec. Greens must hate the NHS and love private health because they want to overturn that ban.

[Rushanara Ali MP 💙 @rushanaraali]

The UK Government is deeply concerned by the violent clashes during ongoing student protests in Bangladesh. See statement from FCDO. https://t.co/bx4WsMwJlh

[Republican Accountability @AccountableGOP]

JD Vance: “We need to be really ruthless when it comes to the exercise of power...I don’t think there’s a compromise that we’re going to come to with the people who currently actually control the country. Unless we overthrow them in some way, we’re going to keep losing.”

[Sonia Sodha @soniasodha]

Suspect this is because public debate focuses on the benefits of assisted dying, articulated through emotional appeals - which understandably attract public support - and less on the v thorny issue of safeguards that relate to poorly understood issues like coercive relationships.

[Headquarters @HQNewsNow]

Trump: I am going to get all the manufacturing jobs back

FACT CHECK: Manufacturing stagnated under Trump and is booming under President Biden.