Peter John Knight

Writer, info-junkie (main-lining the Zeitgeist just for fun!)
And I twitter when drunk, so, apologies if I offend.

[Novara Media @novaramedia]

A surgeon who had to fight to bring a stethoscope to Gaza blamed the mainstream media for sparse updates on the ongoing genocide.

“You don’t see very much on Gaza in the mainstream media these days,” Nizam Mamode told the BBC.

He cited the latest UN report, which documents overwhelming evidence for Israel’s systematic targeting of children in Palestine, with over 20,000 dead.

[dave lawrence 🐟🐟🐠 @dave43law]

This is how badly now you are gaslit by the media - GB News ran almost the exact same headline.

The true headline is
Utter desperation from Farage

- they won 7 seats (they were defending 4)
- two seats they won by 31 and 60 votes one with a 16.7% turmout
- 9 seats they were NEW
- in the other 12 vote share was static or fell in 10

- Friday morning 2 Warwickshire councillors defected to Restore and another resigned
So result is NET ZERO councillor's since Wednesday

[Owen Jones @owenjonesjourno]

This is sick.

1) The UK government should be calling out Israel’s crimes against Palestinian children.

Not leaving it to diplomats no one listens to!

2) If the British state accepts Israel is committing these heinous crimes, why isn’t it taking the appropriate action?

3) They still both sides it! There is no ongoing onslaught against Israeli children, but listening to this, you’d think that there was

[The Purple Pimpernel @Eyeswideopen69]

Farage is a modern incarnation of what’s been wrong with the UK for centuries.

The British establishment used to give contracts to pals from the Groucho club or public schoolmates, today donors and lobbyists dictate policy.

The five million quid is just an investment — a bribe.

[Farrukh @implausibleblog]

0.03% of the British public have voted for Andy Burnham

0.00% of the British public have voted for Muhammad Zia Yusuf, yet the unelected bureaucrat is on #BBCQT more often than most elected councillors and MPs

[Harry Eccles @Heccles94]

Selling of the Royal Mail worked out well didn’t it lads

[David__Osland @David__Osland]

If you don't meet deadlines in your job, you can expect a severe bollocking at your next appraisal. But failure to deliver one letter in four on time somehow merits tripling the reward package for the chief exec of Royal Mail.

[BladeoftheSun @BladeoftheS]

Landlords don't build houses, they steal the money that would be used to build them

Billionaires don't provide jobs, they steal the wages of people who work them

Capitalism isn't about making people rich, it is about keeping everyone poor, so the rich can be as rich as possible

[NHS Million @NHSMillion]

Across the NHS there are currently around:

* 8,000 doctor vacancies
* 25,000 nurse vacancies
* 100,000 total vacancies

And yet ignorant people in the comments still talk of people ‘stealing their jobs’

The truth is the NHS would collapse without staff from all over the world

[The Purple Pimpernel @Eyeswideopen69]

Never elected.

Bought his way into politics.

A parasite who is a permanent presence on a BBC he professes to despise.

Poor little rich boy.

[Sen. Bernie Sanders @SenSanders]

Compensation Last Year
CEO of Tesla & SpaceX: $158 billion
CEO of Warner Brothers: $165 million
CEO of Blackstone: $126 million

They pay the same amount into Social Security as someone making $184,500.

Let's end that absurdity, scrap the cap and raise Social Security benefits.

[Farrukh @implausibleblog]

Gent in salmon, "I despair every time I hear the panel talk about attacking welfare again"

"Leave the poor, disabled, the sick and the ill, alone"

[Lewis Goodall @lewis_goodall]

Yet another indictment of the politically (and literally) bankrupt water industry in this country. England had its 8th wettest winter on record. And yet the total lack of investment from the companies to build new reservoirs and capacity leaves us here. Urgent change needed.

[David__Osland @David__Osland]

In 2015, Royal Mail was privatised. In 2017, it missed delivery targets and has never met them since. Yet again we see 'the superior efficiency of the private sector' in action.

[BladeoftheSun @BladeoftheS]

Every panellist on Question Time tonight was peddling the lie that we have to cut Welfare to spend it on Defence

The Welfare budget is the same percentage as it has always been, the military budget the highest in 50 years

Tax billionaires or make do, like everything else has to

[Phil B 🇮🇨🇪🇺🇺🇦🇵🇹 @LUSCarborough]

@BladeoftheS

[BladeoftheSun @BladeoftheS]

If you are worried about

Benefit Fraud £0.5bn but not Government Corruption £219bn.

Immigration £2bn but not Tax Havens £150bn.

Junior Doctors pay rises £1.3bn but not Bankers tax cuts £7.3bn.

You‘re buying their lies.

[Marcus Chown @marcuschown]

4 key things Burnham needs to do immediately if he becomes PM:

1) Stop overseas donations to political parties, to include Farage’s £5m

2) Set up independent body to penalise media for lying on matters of facts/evidence

3) Remove Tory appointees from BBC

4) Nationalise water

[BladeoftheSun @BladeoftheS]

Andrew Neil lives in a mansion in France that he moved to using EU rules where he doesn't pay any tax in the UK.

And he spends his time moaning about the EU he chooses to live in and the poor state of the UK, which is due to tax dodgers like him.

[Ed Davey @EdwardJDavey]

Nigel Farage pocketed a £5 million Brexit reward.

When he promised we would be better off, he clearly only meant himself.

10 years on, it's time to end the chaos and fix our broken relationship with Europe, starting by joining the single market.