Lee Bates

Blues guitar and grumpiness.

[Danny Baker @prodnose]

Barclays just posted this.
This is where we are.
Working class people once built their ships. Once dug their coal. Once made their cars. Once made their steel. Once filled their factories.
Now this corporate horse shit is the norm. Just look at this whey faced fucker.

[The London Economic @LondonEconomic]

TLE has obtained footage from the Carlton Club dinner attended by Boris Johnson, Nigel Farage and Liz Truss among others, where comic Dominic Frisby sang "Maybe we should have let the Nazis win” and "We're all racist now".

The crazed laughter is particularly disturbing.

[Moog @a_toots]

Wonderful creativity from the kids at Christmas! 🎄

[Kate Elliott @kteltowers]

👉Interviewer: 'How do you get your guitar sound?'
👉Wilko: ‘I plug the guitar in here, turn on the amp and turn the knob to here.’
👉Interviewer: ‘What about pedals?’
👉Wilko: 'I'm a guitarist not a fucking cyclist”

[Emma 💛💙🇩🇰🇬🇧🇪🇺 @MonkEmma]

Nothing says legitimate organic Right Wing uprising in the UK like a meaningless petition that gets retweeted by a foreign billionaire with 200 million followers on the platform he controls.

But wait til you hear where the signatures are coming from!

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[Lee Bates @tynedelta]

@GigaBasedDad You'd know it was going to be a good knight out.

[Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla]

Please read this. It's literally been 8 years in the writing.

The first wave of tech disruption of democracy 2016-2024 is over. What starts now is something much, much worse: the age of information chaos.
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https://t.co/bsnKnag51p

[Smooth Dunk @SmoothDunk]

batman comic

[Josh RR Jokien @joshcarlosjosh]

“I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo.

"So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”

― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

[Mr Benn @thebowlerhatman]

To brighten up budget day, I am giving a set of these Fabulous Mr Benn badges away.
To be in the bowler hat, all you have to do is retweet this tweet.
I'll choose a winner this time next week.
Good Luck!!

[Darrell Craig Harris Pro Bassist/Podcaster @DarrellCBassist]

These young ladies know how to rock! \M/

[Chrissie @endeducbullying]

This Headteacher called my ocd ‘mind vomit’ 🤮, said he secretly follows me online, called me a ridiculous woman and threatened to get me out on capability (despite four consecutive good appraisals) Over 70 plus staff have left in the past year. Two failed Ofsted. He has cost tax payers a small fortune in NDAs of female staff. He has never offered me a formal apology. I was offered 30 grand to keep quiet by the Trust 🤐 I am happy for him to take me to court if any of my statements are not true. Call out #bullying for what it is. Protect women in #education

[Miss Chief 🤨 @Midge1415]

Two lads, London 1902 at the height of Empire, when wealth abounded. Understand, they've never looked after "their own" & they're never going to, they look after themselves. There were no good old days, it's bollix. Blame the right people, not those with even less than you. X

[Viz Comic @vizcomic]

subscriptions >>> https://t.co/Ufr2YPWsMu

[Lee Bates @tynedelta]

@RogersHistory It's just another step along the way as the growth of the academies has schools mirroring the private sector. Money that's spent on stuff like this is such a waste. It's got bugger all to do with education in my view.

[The Secret DJ. @SecretDJBook]

Boris Johnson is trending and while I hate him with every fibre of my being for reasons everyone else shares, I have a personal reason. Deeply personal.

I was stuck in Spain for COVID. Already had an evil dose of it very early on. High risk. I knew with absolute conviction what we were dealing with.

Thing is, I felt safe in Spain. There were roadblocks with machine guns. There were no crowds in parks or beaches. Within a matter of weeks the curve was flattened. We had adults in charge.

Populists by definition cannot make unpopular decisions, and a pandemic is literally a non-stop series of unpopular decisions that need to be made. Must be made.

Watching the absolute farce that unfolded in the UK was unreal. I was in a country taking real measures using science, while the leader of the UK was literally saying in public that it didn't exist. The it was 'just flu'. Then appearing without masks (intentionally) and saying he'd take a dose live on TV. I mean, not just the most obscene claptrap but also you could see the UK was palpably about 6 weeks behind the rest of the world.

And gradually, slowly, the COVID map of europe shed the red parts, the orange parts, soon Europe was shades of green.

Not the UK of course. Still red zones. Mostly orange.

One of the reasons Boris Johnson was so inept is Brexit. He prioritised it over COVID.

Things were looking OK, right wing Spaniards were demanding things open up. Normality was looming. And Boris Johnson went to India. Boris was in trade negotiations for Brexit with India's far right Gvt.

India had the Delta Variant. India had the most brutal circumstances for an outbreak imaginable. India was dying by the thousands daily.

As part of keeping India's far right sweet, Boris Johnson personally left the travel corridor with India open. No other nation on earth did. Tens of thousands of wealthy Indians with the Delta Variant flooded into the UK.

Suddenly the COVID map changed, London went red, then black. Glasgow went black. Boris was advised not just to shut the travel corridor with India. It was discovered that Delta was THREE HUNDRED TIMES the viral load of the Alpha Variant. It was a monster. And Boris Johnson may as well of brought it in his hand luggage in a jar.

And what did he do when told of this?

He opened all the stadiums for the football and then, unbelievably, opened all travel corridors and gave Brits infected with Delta the green light.

"Everybody go on holiday har har ho ho!" cried jolly Boris. Fully advised as to what this meant.

And within a week that COVID map of Europe showed a strange change. Much of it still green. No orange at all. But patches of red and even black in some spots.

Guess which spots?

Favourite holiday spots for the British.

And within 2 weeks of this - I got the Delta Variant, spent 3 weeks in hell trying to isolate while deranged with hypoxia, eventually emergency services having to break in, helicopter me to Majorca (Ibiza hospital overrun with sick Brits) 2 months in a coma. Nearly 2 years of complications.

I lost all my muscles to atrophy in my 50s. I lost everything. I could do nothing for the key 2 years after the worst of COVID. And I had to pay for it all. Tens of thousands.

I escaped with nothing but my life. And a day doesn't pass that I don't count myself very lucky...

Nor does a day pass when I do not curse the name of Boris Johnson.

Vile, lying filth.

At least a quarter of a million dead by his hands. Could be double that for all we know.

This is what I think when I see that name trending.

Boris Johnson? mass murderer.

[Northumbria Police @northumbriapol]

A message from Chief Superintendent Steve Wykes ahead of the weekend 👇

[Mork Jenkinsnot's ghost @mp_mork]

My homage to Andrew Tate

[Edwin Hayward @edwinhayward]

Latest Express poll needs more input. You know what to do.

(Link takes you directly to the poll. It bypasses the Express website, so you won't boost their ad impressions. Ignore the request to enter an email address - it's optional.)

https://t.co/cAYxgFv9Uw

[Mike Scott @MickPuck]

Goths Against Fascism