Tapiola 🇬🇧 🇪🇺 🇯🇵

Amateur clarinettist & classical music addict. Love music, art, travel, visiting new places, learning about new cultures.

[Yorkshire Victor Meldrew+his dog @TheMeldrew]

Getting all the big things done
Reform UK led Essex County Council have implemented starting meetings with the Lord's Prayer and ending with the National Anthem.

"Our Nigel,who aren't in Clacton,shallow be thy name. Thy gifted income, thy grift be done, and in the pub by eleven"

[Tapiola 🇬🇧 🇪🇺 🇯🇵 @tapiola17]

@ZiaYusufUK Your hypocrisy is off the scale.

[Harry Eccles @Heccles94]

Mate, this is embarrassing.

You are literally not the shadow Home Secretary.

You’re not even an elected politician.

[Tapiola 🇬🇧 🇪🇺 🇯🇵 @tapiola17]

@VictorMeldrew17 @Jogi1956opinion What an arrogant and idiotic response. Just because someone has a different opinion from you does not mean that they want to destroy this country.

[Tapiola 🇬🇧 🇪🇺 🇯🇵 @tapiola17]

@Jenny_1884 I rarely agree with you on anything, but here I do agree.

[Tapiola 🇬🇧 🇪🇺 🇯🇵 @tapiola17]

@roseandfriends @wigmore_hall Wonderful indeed!

(Although a little more space in the men’s loos would be appreciated! I miss Covid when we men could use the ladies facilities 😊)

[Larry the Cat @Number10cat]

Current summary of right wing UK politics:

Conservatives - We've suddenly remembered lots of things we accidentally forgot to do during our 14 YEARS in government that we would definitely do straight away this time, promise

Reform - The Conservatives who messed the country up for 14 years were worried you wouldn't vote for them again so have made another party and are hoping you won't notice it's full of the people who messed up the country for 14 years

UKIP - We still think it's 1998

Restore - Led by a bore in need of a golf club. Been chucked out of Reform for being racist? We're the party for you!

[Tapiola 🇬🇧 🇪🇺 🇯🇵 @tapiola17]

@GarethEllis @GoodwinMJ The Boris wave was a direct result of Brexit. No doubt you voted for it.

[Tapiola 🇬🇧 🇪🇺 🇯🇵 @tapiola17]

@LaticsJosie @DPJHodges @JuliaHB1 You may well be right. I guess we will find out on election night.

[Tapiola 🇬🇧 🇪🇺 🇯🇵 @tapiola17]

@FEddie777 @AllisonPearson As he announces his defection to Reform…

[Tapiola 🇬🇧 🇪🇺 🇯🇵 @tapiola17]

@Ayyub027 @ok6ixx I live in Japan. There is a grain of truth but they are wildly exaggerated. My train is often delayed by 5 minutes or more and I do not get a written apology.

[Tapiola 🇬🇧 🇪🇺 🇯🇵 @tapiola17]

@SuprSweetCheeks @Keir_Starmer You are not even British. It’s Labour, not Labor.

You know nothing about our country. Go away.

[Kemi Badenoch @KemiBadenoch]

You may not agree with me, but you will always know where you stand with me.

Today in Billericay, a heckler tried to shout me down as I spoke about the normalisation of hatred towards Jews. I did not back down, because it needs to be said. British Jews are being targeted and too many people are pretending this is the same experience of other minorities. This lady implied Muslims are being similarly targeted. This is simply not true.

Let's be honest about what is happening. Certain groups (in particular but not solely Islamic Extremists) are creating a climate of fear and intimidation that is normalising Jew hatred. I will never stand for that. Governments have spent too long hand-wringing, making excuses and hoping it would go away. It is time to call this what it is: a national emergency in our attitude, our urgency and our response.

I will always engage with people who disagree with me. That is politics. But there is a difference between argument and intimidation. Shouting does not make a bad case good. It's done to silence others. And it certainly does not change the truth.

The truth is that British Jews have been made to feel less safe in their own country. Our country. They are being singled out, threatened and harassed in ways that should shame everyone in public life. If we do not stand up now and stop this rise in antisemitism, then why bother saying "Never Again" at Holocaust Memorial Day? Because this is how it starts.

I am not prepared to play along with the pretence that this is normal, or manageable, or just another example of tension between groups. It really is not. It is targeted hatred and it is getting worse.

So my message is simple. Not here. Not in Britain. And not on our watch. We need to stop the hand-wringing and start doing the right thing. That means standing with British Jews openly, unapologetically and without fear.

[Bradley Wall 🏳️‍🌈 🇪🇺🇬🇧🌍 @BWallArthur]

I can pinpoint the month Britain started to circle the drain as a country

June 2016. The Russian funded Brexit con

We became more divided. More hateful & more erratic

It's crazy that foreign funded Farage is now seen by some to be the saviour of 🇬🇧 when he caused the decline.

[Tapiola 🇬🇧 🇪🇺 🇯🇵 @tapiola17]

@LucyTCWife Guilty as charged

[Gautier CAPUÇON @GautierCapucon]

Michael Tilson Thomas left us peacefully last night, and is now reunited with Josh
💙💙
It conforts me to know that they are together again, for eternity

I had the time to say goodbye to MTT last Saturday in San Francisco 🤍

Thinking of all his family, friends and all the family of the San Francisco Symphony

Michael Tilson Thomas nous a quittés paisiblement hier soir et a rejoint Josh.
💙💙
Ils sont maintenant de nouveau réunis pour l’éternité.

J’ai pu dire adieu à MTT samedi dernier à San Francisco 🤍

Mes pensées vont à sa famille, à ses amis et à toute la famille de l’Orchestre symphonique de San Francisco.

[Maxine Kwok @maxinekwokvln]

RIP @mtilsonthomas . From the first note until the last I'll never forget you. @londonsymphony

[Tapiola 🇬🇧 🇪🇺 🇯🇵 @tapiola17]

@TLDwrites @stats_feed You haven’t a clue what GDP is have you. The cost to service debt may well be sky high, but this doesn’t mean the GDP number is wrong.

[Tapiola 🇬🇧 🇪🇺 🇯🇵 @tapiola17]

@afneil Indeed. Trump is the most effective advocate for the EU , just as Putin is for NATO.

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

Woe to those who manipulate religion and the very name of God for their own military, economic, and political gain, dragging that which is sacred into darkness and filth. #ApostolicJourney #Cameroon https://t.co/bKteFZ3iWE