I’m not a fan of Starmer, but whatever he does – literally whatever he does - he is ripped apart, ripped to shreds, by the telegraph, Mail, express, Sun, spectator, the very same people who installed Boris Johnson and the appalling Liz Truss.
The same people who installed the governments that caused Brexit and the financial chaos that has ensued, the same people who have driven this country into the ground.
I’m sick to death of them.
They are the biggest threat to this country and all of us across the board, no matter what our politics are. We need to get billionaires out of the Media
A billionaire worth £17,000,000,000 who moved to Monaco to dodge £4,000,000,000 in tax is now blaming immigrants for Britain’s problems.
If parasitic billionaires like Jim Ratcliffe paid what they owe — and politicians weren’t in their pockets — our NHS, schools and public services wouldn’t be on their knees.
It is textbook divide and rule. The real enemy of the working class travels by private jet, not migrant dinghy.
£232M 'procured'by Michelle Mone
£1.6 Bn stop the boats barge
£21 Bn handed to covid fraudsters
£37Bn wasted on Test and Trace
£8.7Bn duff PPE
£471M in total paid to destroy PPE not needed/in storage too long.
The Tories can naff off with the bloody lectures.
#BBCLauraK
Reform are normally part of the furniture on the Laura Kuenssberg show, but are conspicuous by their absence this weekend, and from the media rounds in general
Nothing's happened has it?
#bbclaurak#bbcbreakfast#NathanGill
.@ZackPolanski 's explanation of the difference between one million and one billion here is brilliant.
'1 million minutes ago was 2023
1 billion minutes ago was the Roman Empire'
There are 156 billionaires in Britain, and each one is a policy failure.
“ When a Clown moves into the Palace, he doesn’t become a King, The Palace becomes a Circus” is a Turkish proverb which is worth heeding in the coming days.
The vaccine he is referring to is the BioNTech-Pfizer vaccine - sponsored by EU funds, developed in the EU (a Turkish company, BioNTech, in Germany), trialled in the EU, then shipped from the EU to the UK.
The EMA started assessing that vaccine before the MHRA did (and held more data), but the MHRA decided to make a call on its safety before the EMA. They made that call on Dec 2nd 2020 (see link below). At that date, the UK was still in the Single Market for Medicines, so the emergency approval happened under EU law, as stated by the Head of the MHRA (June Raine) at the time.
Upon approval, the BioNTech-Pfizer vaccine was immediately available to the UK, because the EU had allowed for this availability worldwide. This was unlike the AstraZenica vaccine that shortly followed, where the EU had booked millions of doses, but the UK had done a later contract with AZ ensuring they could not ship out of the UK without UK govt permission - which they withheld for the EU.
Therefore, Brexit was not a factor in the UK speed of the vaccine approval - which all happened under EU law.
https://t.co/XiFOcmzTTu