This is the point never to forget: of votes cast, 53% were for Remain-supporting parties, 47% for Leave-supporting parties. FPTP gives big majority of seats in Parliament to the 47%. Brexit will happen against the will of the people; democracy in the (ex)-UK.
This is unfair, and overlooks the vital contribution this visionary Home Secretary has made to not only reducing shoplifting, but virtually eliminating fights in pubs over the same period.
@mariacaulfield@MattHancock Ffs, this tweet is not proof that there is enough of the correct PPE with correct training throughout NHS & Care snd Community.
WATCH - cometh the hour cometh the Tory lie; in January Hancock told Parliament we had a world leading test for Convid-19, that the NHS was ready and that the whole of the UK was well prepared...today we're facing reality and they want you to believe another set of their claims!
You don’t learn a single thing from Michael Gove no matter how much time he is given on the airwaves .
The only question that he answered when pressed was that Raab would be acting PM and as he said his name his face crumpled like a failed soufflé ,
Happy International Women's Day!
We're celebrating the women who have changed the world. Here's all of the amazing women who have received the #NobelPrize and their remarkable achievements at the time of the award.
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Panic buying is a symptom of a dysfunctional society diseased with individualism
To those with litres of soap at home- do you realise that to slow the transmission of COVID-19 you need other people to be cleaning their hands too?!
A fortress of toilet paper will not protect you
Richard Tice Brexit MEP, just published his strategy on UK trade. Let’s just say. Not good.
Aus trade negotiator stated: “Without exception the stupidest trade policy I’ve ever read”
Here’s when I called him out on his ‘ideas’ for Ireland & the Border 🇮�
Breaking/ @BorisJohnson just tried to ban certain national newspapers from a Number 10 briefing.
This is truly sinister stuff.
Hats off to the BBC, ITV, Mail, Telegraph & Times for walking out too in protest, rather than let him get away with it. https://t.co/fs7IdryG9X
New graphic showing how every seat swung from 2017 to 2019. A seat's stalk shows swing, and its blob is the 2019 position. Full details and the browsable graphic: https://t.co/JdcKZxmzsc
Italy's constitutional court has rejected an attempt by the hard right to introduce First Past the Post as “excessively manipulative”.
Or, as we call it in the UK, "business as usual".
#ChangeTheVotingSystem
https://t.co/tvav3Zgt7M
New election graphic showing the migration of voters from 2017 to 2019 with remainers and leavers distinguished. Each figure represents 300,000 voters, or 1pc of all voters. Details at: https://t.co/iRR6sH3Cfi
“The problem with a revolt against imaginary oppression is that you end up with imaginary freedom. How do you actually show that the yoke of Brussels has been lifted?” | Fintan O’Toole https://t.co/zm93alndfE