Dave Herbert

Husband, Father, Step-father,Grandfather, son, music lover, rugby lover.

[Gilly 🖤 @Gillian275Gm]

£49.18 is the standard weekly allowance for asylum seekers.

It's reduced to £9.95 if meals are included with accommodation.

You need a national insurance number to claim benefits or work. Asylum seekers do not have one.

No free phone (or Ipads). Occasionally, sims, or recycled phones are provided by charities.

Just in case anyone is interested in the facts.

[Dave Herbert @Poppaherbs]

How can we speak to a real person at Sky?? We cancelled our subscription in May but you still keep demanding payments! Every time we phone, you advise the service is restricted and we need to set up a payment!! Catch 22. Please let us have a useful customer service number!?

[Be Believing @Be_Believing]

This is How you never get older

[Farrukh @implausibleblog]

Yvette Cooper scolds Chris Philp like a petulant child for politicising grooming gangs

Look at how he's slumped in his seat, he knows he's shamed himself

And his arrogance, ego and pride expose him for the political charlatan that he is, dividing, instead of bringing together for progress

[Supertanskiii @supertanskiii]

This is Jess Philips.

Do you know who should really be ashamed? @RobertJenrick who was Home Office minister Oct 2022 to Dec 2023 and is capitalising on far right lies.

The Tories for allocating child sex abuse victims £40 each and Elon Musk for being a dangerous ignorant moron.

[Supertanskiii @supertanskiii]

In this clip, the frankly remarkable @jessphillips outlines how under the Conservatives, the Home Office tried to deport a woman who had twice been trafficked to the UK and been repeatedly raped.

That, and the current incarnation of the Conservative Party, dwells in the gutter.

[Beth Rigby @BethRigby]

Q: @elonmusk described @jessphillips as an ‘evil witch’ & a “rape genocide apologist” who should be put in jail. Does that sort of abuse of one of your team make you angry & what is your response?

Starmer then gives one of the most impassioned responses I’ve ever seen

[Dave Herbert @Poppaherbs]

@OVOEnergy No power this morning in PL19 0PZ. How long?

[Jon Sopel @jonsopel]

This is an absolute tour de force.
(Other views are available…..)

[Angela Rayner @AngelaRayner]

They'll tell you voting doesn't make a difference.

But it was a Labour Government that changed my life.

If you want change, vote for it on Thursday.

[Sarah Ludford 🇬🇧 🇮🇪🇪🇺 🇺🇦 @SarahLudford]

I was there and it’s one of my favourite moments of all time.

[ALASTAIR CAMPBELL @campbellclaret]

THREE HUNDRED AND EIGHTY State schools have closed since the Tories came in. THREE HUNDRED AND EIGHTY. How many times did any of them lead a newspaper or get on the TV news? Might that be because so many of our senior media people use private schools? The Mail front page today1/2

[Farrukh @implausibleblog]

Conservatives are promising 100 GP surgeries

In 2010, there were 8,458 GP surgeries
In 2024, there are 6,311 GP surgeries

So 2,147 GP surgeries have closed since the Conservatives took office in 2010, and they are trying to entice you with 100?

Have some self respect and vote for Labour, LibDem, Green, SNP, Plaid Cymru, whichever candidate will remove your Conservative MP

[Dave Herbert @Poppaherbs]

@ashtongatestad What time will the King's of Leon gig finish? Need to book a train home....!

[Science girl @sciencegirl]

The best magic trick ever

[Farrukh @implausibleblog]

Left: Rishi Sunak criticises Labour councils for for raising council taxes and cutting services

Right: Chair of the Local Government Association, Shaun Davies, explains how since the Conservative party took over in 2010 they have cut funding to local councils by over 27% @CllrShaunDavies

So the Conservative party cuts funding to councils. The cost of providing services has increased. And demand for services has also increased. Meaning, the reason why councils across the country are struggling, and cutting services, is because the Conservative party have cut funding to councils

Don't get angry at underfunded councils, get angry at the Conservative party who have underfunded them. And if you keep voting Conservative, expect even more cuts to public services

[Fascinating @fasc1nate]

Jesse Owens of USA winning gold for the long jump in the summer Olympics in Germany, 1936.⁣⁣ ⁣⁣ The man saluting behind Owens is Lutz Long, a German who shared training tips with Owens and was the first to openly congratulate him after his final jump in full view of Hitler.

After the Olympics, the two kept in touch via mail. Below is Long's last letter to Owens while he was stationed with the German Army in North Africa during World War 2. Long was later killed in action during the allied invasion of Sicily in 1943.⁣⁣ ⁣⁣

"I am here, Jesse, where it seems there is only the dry sand and the wet blood. I do not fear so much for myself, my friend Jesse, I fear for my woman who is home, and my young son Karl, who has never really known his father.⁣⁣

My heart tells me, if I be honest with you, that this is the last letter I shall ever write. If it is so, I ask you something. It is a something so very important to me.

It is you go to Germany when this war done, someday find my Karl, and tell him about his father. Tell him, Jesse, what times were like when we not separated by war. I am saying—tell him how things can be between men on this earth.⁣⁣ ⁣⁣

If you do this something for me, this thing that I need the most to know will be done, I do something for you, now. I tell you something I know you want to hear. And it is true.⁣⁣ ⁣⁣

That hour in Berlin when I first spoke to you, when you had your knee upon the ground, I knew that you were in prayer.⁣⁣ ⁣⁣ Then I not know how I know. Now I do. I know it is never by chance that we come together. I come to you that hour in 1936 for purpose more than der Berliner Olympiade.⁣⁣ ⁣⁣

And you, I believe, will read this letter, while it should not be possible to reach you ever, for purpose more even than our friendship.⁣⁣ ⁣⁣ I believe this shall come about because I think now that God will make it come about. This is what I have to tell you, Jesse.⁣⁣ ⁣⁣

I think I might believe in God.⁣⁣ And I pray to him that, even while it should not be possible for this to reach you ever, these words I write will still be read by you.⁣⁣ ⁣⁣

Your brother,⁣⁣ Luz"⁣⁣

[Peter Stefanovic @PeterStefanovi2]

If you’ve missed #bbcqt tonight go to BBCiplayer & just watch everything @ayeshahazarika has to say in response to every question. She is superb

[Farrukh @implausibleblog]

Gordon Brown, "It's a sign of the times that John Major and I find ourselves more on the same side, than on opposite sides"

"We're not trying to make Cameron-style comebacks"

"I'm too old for British politics and too young for American politcis"

"A few years ago, John, Tony and I were three former Prime Ministers, now there are seven. The Conservative party seems to have found the magic formula for the mass production of ex Prime Ministers.. With perhaps some more to come"

Brilliant introduction @GordonBrown 👏😁

[Feargal Sharkey @Feargal_Sharkey]

Oh look "Anglian Water set to receive £50m to stop sewage spills."

Would that be the same @AnglianWater that last year paid shareholders £169m in dividends and £868m in interest and loan repayments all of it funded out of bill payers pockets? Get real.

https://t.co/sr1s65D1bO