Matthew D Green 🏳️‍🌈🇬🇧🇨🇮🇪🇺

Bristolian in Cornwall. Early Years Educator and Special Educational Needs specialist. Former Deputy Headteacher. Husband, father and adopter. VIEWS MY OWN.

[Matthew D Green 🏳️‍🌈🇬🇧🇨🇮🇪🇺 @ThisMattGreen]

WTAF

[Brian Cox @ProfBrianCox]

You were lucky. I had to get up in the morning at ten o'clock at night half an hour before I went to bed, drink a cup of sulphuric acid, work twenty-nine hours a day down mill, and pay mill owner for permission to come to work, and when we got home, our Dad and our mother would kill us and dance about on our graves singing Hallelujah. And you try and tell the young people of today that ... they won't believe you.

[Carol Vorderman @carolvorders]

The 161st time @SouthWestWater has been fined in 10 yrs, total fines of £4.5m

In 2021 they paid shareholders £1.5BN....that's 330 times more than the fines

@Feargal_Sharkey calling for more severe measures

Name the local MPs who voted for this pollution to continue

[Matthew D Green 🏳️‍🌈🇬🇧🇨🇮🇪🇺 @ThisMattGreen]

@slinkypony66 @withthing2 Same in Cornwall….

[Farrukh @implausibleblog]

Left: Rishi Sunak says there are 2,000 more GPs than there were in 2019.

Right: BBC Reality Check, "there are 823 fewer GPs now than there were in 2019."

[Graham Smith 🇺🇦 🏳️‍🌈 🇬🇱 🐧 @GrahamSmith_]

We have just been told that the police will be taking no further action. This has been a disgraceful episode and we will be speaking to lawyers about taking legal action. I also expect a full inquiry into why they repeatedly lied to us and who authorised the arrests.

[Caroline Lucas @CarolineLucas]

WTF? Why not? Fundamental rights now under attack from both parties 😱

[Republic @RepublicStaff]

It’s a shame that you arrested our team who intended to protest peacefully. Is this democracy?

[Shelly M @ShellyAsquith]

Outrageous scenes of cops arresting anti-monarchy protestors and stealing their placards

So we are not allowed to show public opposition to a bloke being crowned head of state for having been born into unimaginable wealth while ppl line up at food banks and schools fall apart

[Republic @RepublicStaff]

Abolish the monarchy, not the right to protest

As we speak the whole core team of Republic is still being detained. We are not given a reason. They will probably be released when the whole monarchy pr-show is over.

#NotMyKing #AbolishTheMonarchy

[Matthew D Green 🏳️‍🌈🇬🇧🇨🇮🇪🇺 @ThisMattGreen]

@LKTranslator @lemnsissay ❤️

[Republic @RepublicStaff]

This morning, @GrahamSmith_ and 5 members of our team were arrested. Hundreds of placards were seized. Is this democracy? #NotMyKing #Coronation

[Matthew D Green 🏳️‍🌈🇬🇧🇨🇮🇪🇺 @ThisMattGreen]

@jobrassington @TransCatholicRE I’m intrigued, as an ex-Catholic, to know how that works….

[Peter Tatchell @PeterTatchell]

Three white men will be UK head of state for most of the next 100 years!

No female or black Briton will be allowed to hold the highest office in UK for almost a century

Our head of state should be elected, not inherited & imposed

@SophieRunning @kehinde_andrews @SymonHill

[Paul Powlesland @paulpowlesland]

Safety in numbers: some groups of Republican protesters have been able to gather & express their opinion, but the official Republic demo, with a programme of speeches & talks doesn’t seem to be going ahead due to the Met Police arresting the organisers in order to quash dissent.

[Peter Tatchell @PeterTatchell]

Police arrested head of Republic & other protesters, confiscated Republic’s official placards, photographed us & erected huge barriers in front of protest so the king would not see us. It’s an outrageous abuse of police powers and an attack of freedom of expression

#NotMyKing

[Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy]

Images like this will fly around global media in no time.

Completely unnecessary and illiberal policing. The heavy-handed image management attempt has backfired absolutely.

Our Home Secretary is responsible for the misjudged idiocy.

[Sky News @SkyNews]

Police have arrested the leader of the anti-monarchist group Republic and several others as they made their way to the protest site ahead of King Charles's coronation 👇

Find out more 🔗 https://t.co/ktP74HOPKo

#coronation

[Matthew D Green 🏳️‍🌈🇬🇧🇨🇮🇪🇺 @ThisMattGreen]

They’re sticking the wrong man in the back of the van.

[Paul Powlesland @paulpowlesland]

Looks like we have our answer. Any burglars in London, today is your day! The Met Police are far too busy unlawfully confiscating placards with ‘Not My King’ written on them so Charles can be crowned like a despot, with no peaceful expressions of dissent allowed.

[Julie Street 🇺🇦 🇬🇧 🇪🇺 @Juliest101]

This will be the photo that goes around the world today.

A peaceful protester handcuffed and arrested in Britain.