Bloody depressing @thismorning phone-in again. So many people at crisis point regarding energy bills - including those with v high usage due to disabilities (home ventilators, oxygen concentrators, elec wheel chairs etc).
I am nearly OUT OF TOOLS to help
Govt must intervene
I don’t think the people who have cheerleaded this man, who have repeated his talking points & helped his political objectives should have a way back from this.
He’s just called for a ‘self-purification’ of Russia. We know where we’ve heard that before.
Please don’t be too quick to bemoan the fact that just over half of Russian citizens apparently believe the fairytale nonsense coming out of its government’s PR machine, as we’ve been there too haven’t we.
#BrexitBritain
To grasp just how appalling the behaviour of @metpoliceuk (and her school) was in the treatment of this young person - strip searching her without an appropriate adult present, on spurious suspicion - you really need to read this statement.
Here’s what most people don’t know. Arron Banks didn’t just sue me for defamation. He sued the Electoral Commission. It’s a taxpayer-funded body, a libel trial costs circa £2m & it settled. Part of that settlement involved deleting info about the NCA referral from the internet
Oh my god. @RhonddaBryant has just called for Arron Banks to be sanctioned! Quotes Isabel Oakeshott calling him "an agent of influence for the Russian state".
The removal of squatters normally takes a few weeks, and then bailiffs are sent round. Clearly some owners are more important than other mortals in the U.K.
A woman burst onto Russia’s main live evening newscast today with a sign that says:
“Stop the war
Don’t believe propaganda
They’re lying to you”
And chanting: “Stop the war! No to war!”
Rob Rinder: When people come off the trains from Ukraine.. there are national desks with flags, France,Italy, Germany & even Japan.. we couldn't find a British desk.. & the nearest office is 2hours away or you go to Krakow & fill out a form.. the red tape needs to be cut
#GMB
"I am ashamed that I allowed lies to be told from TV screens, that I allowed Russian people to be zombified. We stayed quiet when all of this was just getting started in 2014." /5
The idea of Brexit was to cut red tape..but Britain has become the red tape capital of the Europe!
Britain is the only big country in Europe where Ukrainians need visas.
British people want to help refugees,but the government is terrified of migration!
Absolutely astonishing. During Russian Channel 1’s evening news broadcast, a woman ran onto the set with a sign: “No war…Don’t believe the propaganda. They’re lying to you here.”
So Angry. My constituent's frail Ukrainian grandmother stuck in Kyiv had a UK visa already approved day before war began. Somehow she escaped & got to UK Visa Application Centre in Warsaw for visa stamp only to be turned away because the "Ukraine Family Scheme is taking priority"