Rob Instrell

Flawed human. Zero resistance to a cheese and wine do.

[Rob Rinder @RobbieRinder]

My dad & grandad were London cabbies. Dad is no longer here but I know exactly where he would have been today, on Westminster Bridge waiting to take our veterans home. Two generations of my family belonged to this trade. I have never been prouder of either of them. There are some debts a nation can never repay but it can always remember whom it owes.

[Rob Instrell @robinstrell]

And they say marmite divides the room?

[Rob Instrell @robinstrell]

@dantomlinsonmp I hope he enjoyed a cut price gherkin with that.

[Rob Instrell @robinstrell]

@stellacreasy @BenedictSpence No Stella. He is using firm language to point out that you are ignorant and rude. Up to you if you set the bar so low for your own conduct and even then fail to meet it. You really should watch the footage back and take a hard look at yourself.

[Rob Instrell @robinstrell]

@Fox_Claire Thank you Claire for your hard efforts to inject so e careful analysis of what is very obviously complex and alarming. How you keep your cool I will never know but all credit to you.

[Rob Instrell @robinstrell]

@ZackPolanski No it isn’t. It’s the right solution.

[Rob Instrell @robinstrell]

@OldRoberts953 And Tories are so grateful for it!

[Rob Instrell @robinstrell]

@RichardBurgon You could not be more misguided. Jackdaw was the right decision now we MUST approve Rosebank.

[Kemi Badenoch @KemiBadenoch]

Labour still haven’t learnt that taxes have consequences. John Healey and Andy Burnham need to learn quickly.

Rachel Reeves thought her jobs tax would be paid by businesses. Instead, workers paid the price through job losses and smaller pay rises.

Now Labour want to tax the banks because it looks like an easy way to raise money, doesn’t it?

But banks lend money to people buying homes and businesses creating jobs. Millions of people’s pensions are invested in them too.

Higher taxes mean a smaller pension for you, less lending and less investment, meaning fewer jobs and ordinary people paying the price again.

Labour can’t act shocked when this happens - they have been warned.

[Rob Instrell @robinstrell]

@VoteClimateUK Climate?. The Green a party is to do with climate? Who knew? All we see are the new brown shirts on a path of racism.

[Rob Instrell @robinstrell]

@Councillorsuzie He knows he is making a fortune out of the tax charged on fuel. 50 to 60% of the cost at the pump goes to government. If he wants to make a real difference he can give some of that back. Problem is he wants to spend it on welfare.

[Rob Instrell @robinstrell]

@andyburnham So you make a big show of telling us where we can drive to save 1p on a litre of fuel. Do you really think we are that stupid ? The total cost of tax at the pump is 50 to 60% and right now you are taking in revenue from it. Why not give some of that back and make a real change.

[Claire Fox @Fox_Claire]

Have to say, a standing ovation for the far-right black labrador, was inspired. What a gift Labour Minister Jenny Riddell-Carpenter's prejudices have been to... well everyone who isn't a Labour hack

[Rob Rinder @RobbieRinder]

Zionism is both historic and spiritual; the ancient connection of the Jewish people to the land of Israel and their right to self-determination in their historic homeland.

I am British by birth, belonging and love; Jewish by inheritance, memory and faith. Britain is my country. Israel is not a competing loyalty, it is the homeland of the Jewish people to which I am bound by ancestry, memory and identity.

For millions of Jews, that is the heart of Zionism. Not supremacy, dispossession or the killing of Palestinians and not a colonial claim to a foreign land but the self-determination of a people with an ancient and continuous connection to it. In practice, it must mean two peoples entitled to self-determination both living in security and freedom with neither people’s future purchased with the lives, rights or humanity of the other.

That is why declaring “Zionism is racism” is not merely wrong, it tells most Jews that their understanding of their own history, identity and collective freedom is itself morally suspect. The Greens should ask themselves whom they are trying to please by adopting a slogan that turns Jewish self-determination into a moral stain. If your politics of inclusion requires millions of Jews to renounce a central part of their history and identity before they qualify for your solidarity, it isn’t inclusion. You are telling Jews: you may belong here but only if you disown Israel as the homeland of the Jewish people. That is not anti-racism. It is imposing a political test on Jews that no genuinely progressive movement would dream of imposing on any other minority.

[Rob Instrell @robinstrell]

@andrewc44104127 That’s like asking if I think the Pope takes communion

[Susan Hall AM @Councillorsuzie]

I wonder if they still allow the word ‘plonker’ …..

[Rob Instrell @robinstrell]

@SeneddWaste Have any of you in power there have any idea of just how moronic you all sound? What in the name of blazes is wrong with the word blanket? God save us from your idiotic ramblings.

[Rob Instrell @robinstrell]

@ClarksonsFarm1 Well if seeking a gender neutral term for me being a father won’t sort the defence and security crisis I don’t t know what will!

[Rob Instrell @robinstrell]

@Fatbaldbloke1 Did she say black Labradors? Surely all labradors matter?

[Rob Instrell @robinstrell]

@Fatbaldbloke1 Nope. You are safe my friend. That’s a wine list on the wall behind them. The champagne socialists are ok with that.