Ryan O'Toole

Surviving Idiocracy

[Owen Jones @owenjonesjourno]

"For every tear of an Israeli mother, a thousand Lebanese mothers must weep. All of Lebanon must burn!"

He sounds like a Nazi.

If this wasn't Israel, everybody would say he sounds like a Nazi.

[Aidan Simardone @AidanSimardone]

I saw children with their faces ripped off from Israeli attacks and you fuckers called it “self-defense”

[Marina Purkiss @MarinaPurkiss]

Nothing in return for that £5 million donation he says…

You sure @Nigel_Farage?

[Paul Powlesland @paulpowlesland]

I’m sorry, this is total bollocks. I have been looking after my river for a decade and you have done absolutely nothing to support me and the other hundreds of volunteers who give up their free time to do your job for you and to stop the river we love from dying.

This picture is the part of the Aldersbrook that we haven’t yet restored. Do you agree that allowing one of the ancient rivers of London to disappear beneath a layer of sewage, silt, rubbish & knotweed is a disgrace? If so, when can we expect EA teams down in the river to sort it out?

[Shiv Malik @shivmalik]

What the hell is the @EnvAgency and its CEO Phillip Duffy thinking? They are incapable of enforcing the rules on sewage and pollution but it’s clearly worse to let civil society intervene because it will show just how ineffective they are despite tens of millions in funding. The bias towards inaction is appalling. @EmmaforWycombe - this is your issue. It needs sorting now.

[Josh Babarinde OBE MP @JoshBabarinde]

As someone who grew up in a home where domestic abuse was regrettably part of home life for years, I do not know where to start in responding to this appalling video.

For the sake of women’s safety, we need politicians to stop spouting outrageous garbage like this.

[Mukhtar @I_amMukhtar]

Why isn’t she telling men to stop abusing their wives?

She really recorded this, watched it back, and still thought it was a good idea to post.

This is how you know they’re not really taking domestic violence seriously.

[Curtis Daly @CurtisDaly_]

This is fucking horrific. Pochin telling England to keep winning so blokes don't batter their wives, instead of telling abusers not to abuse.

Can't believed what I have just watched.

[Adam Hibbert @adhib]

The £2.25bn, 13,000 employee Environment Agency has no resource available to act when illegal landfill sites are reported to it, but does have time to threaten volunteers who act to clean up its mess...

https://t.co/pqwguMNFJF

[ALASTAIR CAMPBELL @campbellclaret]

If the press and telly ignore this one as much as they have tried to ignore so many of his other scandals we will know for sure we live in a two tier media country

[Ash Sarkar @AyoCaesar]

Pochin somehow manages to both diminish the seriousness of domestic violence, and make football not fun, all in the space of 13 seconds.

[Paul Powlesland @paulpowlesland]

Before & After…

If anyone doubts the power of community action over the @EnvAgency’s spineless inertia, you can walk to the outskirts of Ilford & walk along an ancient lost river to see for yourself.

With 10 days of intense effort by dedicated volunteers, the river River Roding Trust managed to clean up & restore 250 metres of the Aldersbrook (about 1/3 of the brook). This allows a direct comparison between the parts of the brook we restored & those we haven’t got round to yet.

These photos & videos are all from May 2026. The first is on a part of the Aldersbrook still to be restored & shows the old flood defences which are no longer needed & are killing the river but which the EA won’t remove unless we volunteers pay them £50,000 just for surveys. These defences have caused 2-3ft of stinking sludge & silt to build up over 70 years, such that the water in the brook is just a few centimetres deep. Combine with huge amounts of rubbish & and out of control knotweed infestation & the river ecosystem is essentially dead. A river that is older than England destroyed by official indifference.

A hundred metres away, and it’s a different story. The rubbish & the invasive species (I sprayed the knotweed myself last autumn) are gone. The silt that used to clog the river is now spread on the banks & rapidly providing fertile ground for native plants. Instead of sludge, there’s 2-3ft of water, so fish have returned to the brook for the first time in decades, along with dragon flies, herons & a nesting moorhen. We river guardians knew our intervention would make a difference, but have been shocked at quite how quickly nature has come back. The restored Aldersbrook is now a rare jewel: pretty much the last fully natural tidal brook in London.

The EA now has a choice. It can salvage some good from this situation & work with us to restore the remaining sections of the brook, or it can continue to do nothing. If the latter, river guardians *will* be back this winter to finish the job & the EA can see how well prosecuting volunteers for restoring a river without permission goes for them.

[Paul Powlesland @paulpowlesland]

Good news! After decades of ignoring rampant environmental crime on the Roding, @EnvAgency has finally decided to act.

Bad news! It’s not against Thames Water for illegally dumping billions of litres of sewage in the Roding, or the waste criminals who have dumped thousands of tonnes of rubbish on its banks, but against myself & a small volunteer charity for… restoring a river without a permit!

Within a week of the magnificent work of River Roding Trust volunteers completing the arduous work of restoring 250 metres of the Aldersbrook this winter, EA investigators had been down to the site and rattled off a letter threatening us with prosecution for doing the work without a permit. This is despite the fact that the Trust have repeatedly asked the EA to do this vital work on the Aldersbrook themselves & they have refused. It is also despite the fact that they have not investigated the huge illegal sewage outlet on the Cranbrook a few hundred metres away, which illegally discharges 750,000,000 litres of raw sewage straight into the River Roding every year.

[Paul Powlesland @paulpowlesland]

“What’re you in for mate?”

“Cleaning a river without a permit. What about you?”

@EnvAgency is really plumbing new depths of malevolent uselessness here.

[fen @usernamefen]

A non-Jewish politician crying "antisemitism" because he's come under critism for trying to get a Jewish politician arrested for opposing genocide...

[Mukhtar @I_amMukhtar]

Laila Cunningham said that she receives the most racist abuse from Restore voters.

"Every time I post something, they say, 'Deport her' or 'You're not British.' They have an issue with the children of immigrants like myself, or with immigrants who have become British citizens. They seem to think that I'm not British."

This is awkward because Matt Goodwin does not believe that the children of immigrants like herself are British. He has made that clear, and the receipts are attached to the video.

[Ash Sarkar @AyoCaesar]

My question for Mike Tapp is whether he thinks someone should be arrested, and charged with terrorism offences, for answering his question by saying "yes".

[Razor Marone @Streettough]

I just scrolled through maybe a few hundred comments (not all tbf) under Mikes heavily ratioed Palestine Action post and didn’t see a single one that could be antisemitic. Unless the definition has now broadened to calling him a dickhead.

[Mukhtar @I_amMukhtar]

Mike Tapp is a genocide-supporting scumbag.

[🖤ℨ𝔬𝔢 𝔖𝔦𝔫𝔫𝔰🖤 @ZoeSinns]

"the end of the Left" and it's just a bunch of cucks celebrating a pedophile's 80th birthday