Robert Schopen

Former journalist, son of ‘queue jumping’ immigrant. Socialist. Green 💚

[Robert Schopen @Schopen]

How did we sink to this, without a word of protest from the west.

[Gaza Poets Society @PoetsGaza]

Just like that

[dave lawrence 🐟🐟🐠 @dave43law]

And there we have it
The man who has not bothered to vote in Parliament since March 18th
The man who has essentially disappeared from view for 3 weeks - terrified of questions
Puts on a performative political act for the camera's at 12.26pm
By 3.26pm he is off in a swanky club - so the Parliament appearance as ever was pure show for the camera's as he knew his Party had a question

[Farrukh @implausibleblog]

The Guardian reports that Reform UK have got

Another £3m from foreign based crypto billionaire Christopher Harborne

And £4m from another crypto billionaire Ben Delo

[Zack Polanski @ZackPolanski]

Sounds like more of the same.

https://t.co/0qbagSvIYp

[Stats for Lefties 🍉🏳️‍⚧️ @LeftieStats]

🚨BREAKING | Labour MP Nadia Whittome has tabled a motion to REJECT the EHRC bathroom ban "guidance".

If MPs back her motion, the EHRC guidance will be rejected and will not be implemented. Motion is co-signed by Green MPs Hannah Spencer and Sian Berry.

[Good Law Project @GoodLawProject]

No, @louismosley. We're putting patient safety over your evil company's interests 👀

Take action 👇
https://t.co/IRLHFyQyIt

[Farrukh @implausibleblog]

Gary Stevenson, This was the country that introduced the proportional income, the, the progressive income tax"

"Didn't exist. We did it here in this country, and look at what we did. Look at what we achieved"

"Listen, my grandmother was born here in this city in the 1920s, in the richest city, in the richest country in the history of the world, and three of her siblings died of tuberculosis"

"That is what happens when you don't deal with your inequality"

"Surrounded by desperate poverty. And in the course of her lifetime, just one lifetime, we moved from that kind of country where ordinary hardworking people see their kids die of poverty"

"To the world that my dad grew up in, where he worked for the post office for thirty-five years, bought a house, had a pension, had a retirement, had three kids, financial security, good quality education, good quality healthcare, good quality housing"

"We did that in the course of one woman's lifetime with no historical precedent of it ever happening before"

"So don't tell me it's impossible"

[Mothin Ali @MothinAli]

My deepest condolences to the family of Henry Nowak, a young life taken and a tragic loss to society.

The far right want to politicise this murder and divide our communities further. Farage called for 'cold rage' and that's exactly what we got, riots on our streets and not for the first time.

Farage has built his career off the back of demonising Muslims and now his attention is turning to the Sikh community.

We can't allow racism to tear our country apart, we must stand in solidarity.

[The Green Party @TheGreenParty]

“Those who seek to use this tragedy to incite violence, create division in our communities and further their own political ambitions, are deeply irresponsible and deserve no place in our public life.” - Siân Berry MP for Brighton Pavilion

[Bradford Green Party @bradfordgreens]

"At the heart of everything we do, we put planet and communities as our foundation." 🌎👨‍👩‍👧‍👧

🗣 Green Party candidate in the Makerfield by-election, Sarah Wakefield.

With policies for people and planet, the Green Party are ready to fix our country. ✅️

#VoteGreen

[terry christian @terrychristian]

Don't worry - we'll all be fine - Dave down the ppub who has done all his own research on the internet says it's all a big hoax so the whole planet can just relax

[Prem Sikka @premnsikka]

Three quarters of UK workers not on track for moderate pension income.

Result of years of austerity, low wages, high cost of living.

Maximum state pension is less than 50% of minimum wage. Neoliberals want to end the triple-lock.

Poverty awaits millions
https://t.co/J4RWzcxq3a

[Abubaker Abed @AbubakerAbedW]

Israel yesterday kidnapped four women. Two are footballers in the Palestinian National Team.

Their names are: Natali Abu Dia and Rand Halwani.

Is it normal to kidnap footballers, @FIFAcom? Where are sports media organisations? This story should be the headline everywhere.

[Mohamad Safa @mhdksafa]

Israel is explicitly warning Christian residents in southern Lebanon not to welcome Muslim residents among them, threatening to bomb Christian neighborhoods.

Israel is now searching for Muslims hiding in the attics of Christians. It’s not 1944. Read that again.

The goal isn't military. It's destabilizing social stability in Lebanon.

[Adam Smith @adamndsmith]

You might think this is bad, but imagine if they were over 60, holding up a placard with four particular words on it. That’s terrorism.

[Don McGowan @donmcgowan]

Over the last 36 hours, we have witnessed the very soul of Nigel Farage — his essence.

It has been over a month since he went into hiding, since serious questions began to be raised over his undeclared £5M donation.

A month since he appeared in front of TV cameras or underwent any questioning at all.

At 8am yesterday morning, Farage released a video, from a field somewhere, calling for rage. Calling for an end to the mythical two-tier policing.

Make no mistake, those were very carefully chosen words — he understood what he was unleashing, and his wish was granted last night in Southampton.

On Tuesday, the Home Secretary made a statement to the House regarding the murder of Henry Nowack. There was, as always, an opportunity to question Shabana Mahmood — was Nigel Farage in attendance?

No, of course not.

Today, Farage was granted a question at PMQs — the showpiece spectacle of the political week in which the country's news and politics fanatics tune in to watch — was Nigel Farage in attendance?

Yes, of course he was.

He had somehow found his way into work after missing 77 separate votes in Parliament because … he would, at least for three minutes, be the centre of the country's political attention.

His question was about the murder of Henry Nowack and the violence that erupted [on his command] last night, but he would not condemn it or call for calm.

Instead, he 'suggested' that this rioting might escalate.

This afternoon, he has performatively written to the BBC because someone on Newsnight dared to accuse him of inciting the violence — playing his perpetual victim card. Again.

And there we see the soul of Nigel Farage — a craven, desperate for attention, evil, petty and pointless man.

END RANT.

[Sky News @SkyNews]

"Some people have said criticising Israel is antisemitic. I think that's absurd."

Ben & Jerry's co-founder Ben Cohen, who's Jewish, calls the UK government's decision to ban left-wing commentator Hasan Piker from entering the country "crazy at face value".

＠BarbaraGSerra | https://t.co/rB90NphURH

[The Green Party @TheGreenParty]

Impractical, intrusive and inhumane - @RachelMillward responds to the ECHR guidance on behalf of Green Party leadership.

[The Green Party @TheGreenParty]

Reform in local government: chaos, incompetence and confusion.

Greens in local government: collaboration, vision and standing up for local people.

[Saul Staniforth @SaulStaniforth]

UN Special Rapporteur @profbensaul in 2024: "Germany & the United States supply 99% of the weapons exported to Israel. They could stop this conflict overnight if they stopped the weapons that kill the Palestinians"