Des Whitehouse

[Des Whitehouse @WhitehouseDes]

@Sacha_Lord I agree with nearly everything you say and campaign on, however the problem isn’t planning its profitability and affordability for our customers. Reduce VAT and watch this amazing industry grow!

[Teesside Live @TeessideLive]

LIVE: People of Middlesbrough unite in wake of shameful riot for big clean up: https://t.co/miNB8eFNqb

[Des Whitehouse @WhitehouseDes]

@stimmo64 @bmay Violence is never the answer. Thugs on the streets of our country have injured hundreds of police looted shops and burned cars. Demonising one element of society ends only one way. History tells us that.

[Brendan May @bmay]

So in just over a week the far right has gone from praising the police for stamping on a Muslim’s head to setting fire to Sunderland police station.

It’s almost as if they have no idea what they believe in.

[Mark Cockerton @CockertonMark]

When I see the ‘patriots’ being ‘patriotic’ in Sunderland by attacking the police and looting shops it does makes me wonder if patriotism is over-rated.

[BladeoftheSun @BladeoftheS]

54 injured Police Officers in yesterday's riot in Southport.

Just Stop Oil injured no-one and got 21 years in prison.

How many hundreds of years will be handed out to the thugs in Southport?

[HOPE not hate @hopenothate]

Despite the horrific events in Southport this week, the local community have come together with brave acts of resistance.

Including this very brave woman who faced down the rioters.

[Stan Collymore @StanCollymore]

A man, walking the street, attacked simply because of the colour of his skin.

England. July 31st 2024.

Not Birmingham, Alabama, 1964.

[ALASTAIR CAMPBELL @campbellclaret]

Thank heavens this guy is the MP not Galloway.

[sarah @sahouraxo]

Spain’s Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez:

“If we defend international law in Ukraine, then we must defend international law in Gaza.”

“We must end the policy of double standards.”

[Illia Ponomarenko 🇺🇦 @IAPonomarenko]

Today's missile attack at a children's hospital in Kyiv pretty much sums things up on all that verbal diarrhea around "negotiations," "peace missions," and Putin's "peace proposals."

This was one of the most barbaric and demonstratively deliberate gestures of Russia's war on Ukraine.

Russia & Vladimir Putin are not interested in any "peace," "the end of the conflict," or a "compromise."

They are interested in Ukraine's unconditional surrender enforced via unlimited civilian terror.

They are unable to defeat Ukraine on battlefields (provided that the West stays with Ukraine and keeps sending defense aid, which is very likely); they will seek to escalate their missile attacks from trying to strip Ukraine of electricity and heating to deliberate mass killings of civilians.

I am afraid that in the coming months we'll be seeing even more deliberate terror attacks like one from today.

Hospitals, shopping malls, large residential buildings, you name it.

I'll be more than happy to end up being wrong with this one.

I don't know what else needs to be a FINAL WAKE UP CALL to the Western decision-makers still having hope of going the easiest way with what Russia is doing.

No, there won't be a moment when Putin says that he's OK with your "territorial compromises on Ukraine" as a result of which he leaves Ukraine alone forever (and you can forget about this annoying headache and continue business as usual).

No, you can be vowing before Putin never to accept Ukraine as a NATO member on a daily basis live on TV, but this will not stop him - because it's just about nothing but keeping Ukraine vulnerable and defenseless to a Russian invasion and occupation.

No, Putin is not to be reasoned with or traded with because he is not the one looking for peace.

He gladly uses your chronic lack of leadership, procrastination, fears, over-compromise, and reluctance to assume responsibilities and make necessary historic decisions.

[Deborah Meaden 🇺🇦 @DeborahMeaden]

I asked @Keir_Starmer many months ago,if a general election was called tomorrow were they ready for Government. His answer was an emphatic YES...and I now see why. Depth of talented Ministers forming an impressive Cabinet....I am beginning to dare to feel hope.

[Andy Burnham @andyburnham]

Happy Friday everyone! 🌹🙌🏻

[Brendan Cox @MrBrendanCox]

Just went with Anna and the kids to vote.

Democracy is flawed, imperfect & awkward. It’s also one of the most beautiful & powerful things about our country. Power with the people.

No matter how we vote, we must always nurture our democracy & the culture that underpins it.

[James O'Brien @mrjamesob]

That Nigel Farage will do well tomorrow - despite his public admiration of the adjudicated rapist & convicted felon Donald Trump; the alleged people trafficer & proud misogynist Andrew Tate & the genocidal maniac Vladimir Putin - illustrates perfectly how f*cked the UK media is.

[richard bacon @richardpbacon]

MY GOD

[The Labour Party @UKLabour]

14 years.

[Feargal Sharkey @Feargal_Sharkey]

I don't need any words any more.