Roger Francis

Retired IT Business Analyst. Undertakings include voluntary work. Hobbies eg tennis, archery, foreign travel, badminton, table tennis, gym classes

[Queen Bee @KingBobIIV]

As the country now has the appetite to purge the public sex pests, which of the 650 Mps is going to have the courage to use their parliamentary privilege to discuss the rumours and accusations surrounding Nick Brown?

Whoever has the balls to publicly discuss, in parliment, the sordid, horrific and sickening details of Nick Brown, will have my vote at the next election.

Source: The Guardian https://t.co/AQTwWkaP1N

[David Atherton @daveatherton]

Hi Bridget @bphillipsonMP I'm glad you think NDAs are being used to silence people over misconduct allegations.

I await with baited breath confirmation that Nick Brown left politics because he sodomised a rent boy so badly they forever have to wear a colostomy bag.

I heard from multiple sources.

[National Secular Society @NatSecSoc]

Slaughtering animals without stunning them causes immense, unnecessary suffering. Tell your MP why you support a complete ban on #NonStunSlaughter 👇 https://t.co/FzeqYeuXaw #AnimalWelfare

[Kenzy @inHighburyN5]

The Arsenal v Hull game yesterday wasn’t televised live, so people only saw the 1-0 scoreline and concluded that Arsenal played boring football.

Arsenal created 17 chances. More than any other team on the day.

They forced 9 saves from their opposition goalkeeper. More than any other team on the day.

10 shots on target. More than any other team on the day.

1.60 xA was more than any other team on the day.

14 shots in the box was more than any other team on the day.

45 touches on the opposition box. More than any other team on the day.

You can argue that Arsenal need to be more clinical in front of goal, but they’re not boring.

[Roger Francis @rogfran]

@touchofpowder7 Whoops, it was 4-5 (0-3 at half-time)

[Roger Francis @rogfran]

@touchofpowder7 I was a great fan of Vic too 😌, since I first went to senior team games in 1958 (first game I watched was the 3-4 loss to Man Utd before Munich). We regularly used Vic's garage/petrol station, which he frequently served at; still got one of his several autographs

[Roger Francis @rogfran]

@Paula__Patriot Sign this too: https://t.co/L9JV9eLS92

[Sarah Pochin MP @SarahForRuncorn]

If this Government is so keen on reparations, will it seek them from Pakistan for the victims of grooming gangs?

[John Cleese @JohnCleese]

Hear, hear !

The deliberate torture of animals in accordance with
barbaric seventh century thinking needs to be stopped
1,500 years later

[Roger Francis @rogfran]

@touchofpowder7 @Arsenal I loved watching him live at Highbury for years

[Kemi Badenoch @KemiBadenoch]

Slavery was an evil in which people from every continent and region participated. We should be honest about the whole history, not select the parts that are politically convenient today, especially given Britain's leading role in ending the transatlantic slave trade.

If Caribbean countries are asking Britain for a formal apology for Britain’s role in the transatlantic slave trade, will they also be asking the same of the descendants of African kingdoms, rulers and merchants who captured, sold and profited from the trade?

On demands for reparations, whether through cash or debt relief, we have been down this track before. Twenty-five years ago, Jubilee 2000, Drop the Debt and Make Poverty History argued that cancelling the debts of poorer countries would give them a fresh start. More than $100 billion of debt was eventually written off, but many of those countries have since built up even bigger debts. Labour are already spending too much on Britain's welfare state, now is not the time for Andy Burnham to be providing global welfare.

There is no reason British taxpayers today should be held financially responsible for things that happened generations before any of us were born. And I have even less patience for political elites in commonwealth countries who don’t know how to make their own citizens prosperous now looking for another opportunity to blame Britain.

As Prime Minister, Andy Burnham should be Britain’s greatest defender. Instead, he is writing articles saying we need to confront our history (as if we haven't done enough of that) and considering another formal historical apology. Tony Blair already expressed Britain’s deep sorrow and regret for our role in the slave trade nearly twenty years ago. There is no need to do so again.

This is all another navel-gazing distraction. The Commonwealth should be looking forward, not endlessly backwards. That means economic partnerships to make us all richer and deeper military and security cooperation against common threats. If every Commonwealth summit becomes an exercise in presenting Britain with demands for cash then we need to start asking if it is worth the effort.

[Sharron Davies HoL MBE @sharrond62]

Of course he is 😔 yet they’re bringing in ID to go online. So ID when it suits them but not ID to pick a legitimate government

[Daniel Sugarman @Daniel_Sugarman]

Green MP Sian Berry has released a statement this morning in the wake of the Holborn & St Pancras result.

It says that because of the by-election, "many of us" were persuaded "not to campaign publicly" against the Zionism is Racism motion.

Absolutely Damning.

[N Ecc 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 @Neccccy]

🚨Bridget Phillipson humiliated by Nick Ferrari

They just haven’t got a clue

Release violent sex attackers and killers so they can put someone in their place who sent a tweet

Make it make sense

[Dov Forman @DovForman]

The police imposed a ban on face coverings at today's march.

I've been here for an hour and have seen dozens of protesters with their faces covered and the police are doing nothing about it.

What is the point of conditions you won't enforce?

Do your job, @metpoliceuk.

[Michelle Dewberry @MichelleDewbs]

🚨Twelve arrests made following protest in Gosport.

…Any arrests for illegally entering the country? Lol - of course not.

🤡🌍

https://t.co/1Z9FqwJk8Q

[Patrick Christys @PatrickChristys]

It just doesn’t seem real, does it? This is the level of resources the state is giving to around 120 illegal migrants who have just broken into Britain. Remember this the next time they complain about a lack of police resources or numbers. https://t.co/qDSDn28ahq

[Israel in the UK 🇮🇱🤝🇬🇧 @IsraelinUK]

Statement by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the state of Israel in regards to UK Green Party Annual Conference

Today, the Green Party in Britain ceased to act as a political party and became a body that gives legitimacy to terrorism. The Greens have adopted not only the green of Hamas, but also its ideology: the elimination of the State of Israel through armed struggle.

The shocking resolution adopted today legitimises armed struggle, calls for a Palestinian state “from the river to the sea” - meaning the destruction of the State of Israel - and labels as “racist” the aspiration of the Jewish people for self-determination.

This goes far beyond the boundaries of legitimate political debate. As long as this resolution remains in place, it will stand as a stain on the history of the United Kingdom.

Every political party in Britain, first and foremost the governing Labour Party, must unequivocally reject this twisted resolution.

[Heidi Bachram @HeidiBachram]

This looks like a member of staff on the London Underground giving out pro-Pal stickers to the public. These spaces should not have divisive politics in them. I don’t want to be handed one of these by one of your employees. What is going on @TfL?

[Mike Gardner @mikegardner_wb]

Great video from Andrew Neil as he likens Labour’s conference to the Titanic - complacently steaming towards a rendezvous with reality.

Thatcherism heralded the most successful post-war period we’ve ever had.

Burnham hates it but the reality is we’ve become a failed State because we’ve moved away from it to embrace the things he loves and wants more of.

@afneil