Pete Morton

Retired and keen golfer

[Pete Morton @RomseyPeter]

@We_OwnIt @CarolineLucas Gov reluctant to run Water themselves. Don't want "Buck stops here" laid at their door. Easier politics to blame others.

[Pete Morton @RomseyPeter]

@premnsikka Gov reluctant to run Water themselves. Don't want "Buck stops here" laid at their door. Easier politics to blame others.

[Samira Mohyeddin سمیرا @SMohyeddin]

This is Israel’s longest-running English podcast, Two Nice Jewish Boys. Hosts Naor Meningher and Eytan Weinstein call for wiping out every single Palestinian in Gaza and the occupied West Bank.

Radio Rwanda in full effect here. This is deeply disturbing.

[Pete Morton @RomseyPeter]

@snb19692 Says here that if we can get someone to say they feel threatened by that sign, we can take it down.

[Pete Morton @RomseyPeter]

@LabourRichard @schneiderhome Except that you will likely fall wounded and end up dying on your knees.

[Pete Morton @RomseyPeter]

@Bob__Hudson I was in Mall 8 in 1968. Beer 1s10d and a tanner for the bar football. Dinner at the refectory, why did that stop happening?

[Cian McCarthy @arealmofwonder]

The Kate Middleton Photo Scandal has now got me seriously questioning this. 😒

[James Lucas @JamesLucasIT]

Photographs taken in the right place at the right time, intentionally or by chance - a thread 🧵

1. Wilma Hurskainen

[derek guy @dieworkwear]

The most common problem I see with suits today is men wearing jackets that are far too short. 🧵

[James Foster @JamesEFoster]

People silent on Israel’s genocide are on this app saying it’s “a dark day” because @GeorgeGalloway has been elected as an MP. So much darker, that, than the killing of innocent children, women and men!

[Stop the War Coalition @STWuk]

"It's the biggest cycle of protest there has been of mass protest in British history but there has been a tiny number of arrests...there is not a single example on any of our demonstrations of any violent incident towards a bystander of any kind, whether a politician or anyone else."

@ChrisNineham speaking at today's Police & #Palestine Protests press conference in the HoC.

[Ami Dar @AmiDar]

People keep asking: what other options did Israel have after October 7th? There are many possible answers, which were clear from the beginning:

1. First, stop and think. Even for just a few days. Don't react *exactly* as always, and exactly as Hamas expected and wanted. Don't give them what they want. It's Gaza. Hamas is not leaving. A response can wait a few days.

2. Take a moment to mourn, grieve, sit shiva together (after securing the border, of course).

3. Make the hostages the #1 priority and get them back *whatever* it takes. A victory for Hamas? Of course. But life is more important.

4. Use that pause to focus the world's attention—for more than one day—on what Hamas did. Shame and isolate them the way ISIS was shamed and isolated.

5. Make it clear that in whatever war or campaign comes next, protecting civilians will be a priority, and *act* that way. (Don't block all aid, use only precision weapons, don't bomb civilian infrastructure, warn the soldiers that any shenanigans will be punished, etc.)

6. Separate the Palestinian people from Hamas's leadership by reiterating a commitment to a real two-state solution (yes, I know (!) that Netanyahu and this government would never do that. I am simply stating what would have been the right thing to do).

7. Go after Hamas methodically, surgically, financially, with much of the world behind us.

8. Clamp down on the Jewish goons in the West Bank. Make it clear that you will not allow them to open another front. Arrest as many as necessary.

9. Explain to the Israeli public, again and again, exactly why you are doing all this. Why there is great strength in restraint. That the goal is to prevent this from ever happening again. But that this will take heart and brains, and not just muscle.

10. Speak softly. No need to make big empty threats when you have so much power.

This would have been a start. One can wish.

And to all those, especially non-Israelis, who will call me "naive," are you happy so far with the results of your "only way?" Come on.

[Pete Morton @RomseyPeter]

@TR01i01i A lot of us really liked Corbyn and how he promised hope for a fairer caring society in UK. Despite defending Corbyn during his campaign to be Labour leader, Starmer threw him under the bus and all the hope has gone.

[Bob Hudson @Bob__Hudson]

Chris Skidmore has been on quite a journey since falling in with this band of rogues hasn’t he?

[Pete Morton @RomseyPeter]

@Romseymark From Wiki: “As a backbencher, he (Skidmore) joined the Free Enterprise Group of Conservative MPs, founded by Liz Truss, and co-authored a number of papers and books, including After the Coalition (2011) and Britannia Unchained (2012)”.

[THE TWIT/TER TRANSLATOR @TerTranslator]

@Nurseborisbash .
I'm still fuming as he ruined my dinner last night.

Ordered a chicken korma and was just about to get stuck in when it just started to...look like him.

Had to bin it.

[Frankie Boyle Updates @frankieboyle]

Anyone saying they don’t see how a ceasefire would help a situation where hundreds of civilians are dying every day is, at best, being deeply disingenuous

[Owen Jones @owenjonesjourno]

It’s striking that many of the commentators cheering on Israel’s onslaught have gone quiet.

As the total depravity has become so blatant, and the raging war crimes so indefensible, they’ve simply quietly exited from the crime scene.

They should be held accountable

[Science girl @sciencegirl]

The Gardiner Brothers, born in the U.S. to Irish parents from Galway, dancing to Jose Feliciano's "Feliz Navidad,"
https://t.co/jXgwj8eCdp