Jo Nops

@ShadowofEzra @Smithy_69a Just need to check my garage for an Irondome... sure I've got one somewhere

Sir Richard Knighton admits the United Kingdom is preparing a major plan to ready the whole country for a major global war. Everybody, from the military and police to hospitals and industry, has to be ready for the transition to war.

@BenedictSpence Point is that many "boomers" were born into relative poverty, went to shit state schools and lived in poor council housing but somehow millions of us battled the system hard to forge a successful career and accumulate a degree of wealth, overcoming obstacles along the way.

@JIronopolis What’s your point?

It is very peculiar, the instinctive hostility and refusal to engage with facts. Something happened to that generation, it’s not normal.

@PatrickChristys This is a disproportionate attack on the Iranians ... she needs to assuage the language she uses in these letters

If only we’d tried this earlier…

@CrimeLdn Fair to say the "problem" has gone beyond a critical mass and the time has come to accept we don't have the political will to address and overcome by force any domestic or international enemy

Last night in beckenham

@BBCPolitics But he follows events abroad, usually a day or two after they've finished

'We should not be at the mercy of events abroad,' PM Keir Starmer says bbc.in/4mqLU9W

@Peston Toadying politics ... corrected your typo

My Talking Politics podcast conversation with Keir Starmer ( open.spotify.com/episode/7eaY2O… ) ranged from his critical reaction to Trump’s inflammatory Truth Social posts all the way through to reshaping defence for this new age of drone wars and his zeal to forge new closer relationships with the EU and other European countries. For what it’s worth, I found him more animated and engaged than I have seen him for some time. If you think he has a future after what are expected to be disastrous local and national elections for Labour in May - and diminishing numbers of his MPs are plotting to defenestrate him - you should listen to it. Two of his remarks stood out, for me. First was his belief that Trump’s Iran war will define his time in office, as much as the 2007/8 global financial crisis did for Gordon Brown and Covid did for Boris Johnson. Starmer pledged that - unlike his predecessors - he would not waste this crisis and would use it to push through fundamental reforms, whose main aim would be to lift up the living standards of those left behind over the past 20 years. Listen to the podcast to decide whether his ambitious rhetoric is underpinned by credible plans. I fear he does not yet fully recognise the inevitable trade offs between growth and equity, in a winner-takes-all AI world. But he is certainly on a journey, as they say. Second, and more trivially, he revealed that he is part of assorted WhatsApp groups with world leaders, for a variety of shared projects. The greatest proponent of the WhatsApping culture in his peer group is Finland’s president, Alex Stubb. But he Starmer hates WhatsApping. It is not his thing, at all, he says. Which, quite possibly, may not be the most surprising of his confessions today.

@JohnHealey_MP I know it's drastic and disproportionate, but I think the time has come for Yvette Cooper to send Putin a strongly worded letter. It's the only solution.

I’m proud of our UK Armed Forces, who left these Russian vessels with no doubt. Their movements were not covert as Putin planned. Their attempted secret operations were exposed. And they have now retreated.

@Iromg Him, Starmer and Peston probably all go to the same Islington Bridge Club

The final proof that John has gone mad…

@Iromg Performative, sycophantic and boring ... covers Peston interviewing his role model

Possibly the most boring interview of all time. Soft ball questions, hopeless stances and downright toadyism, fucking useless…

@joerichlaw @SingleTicket371 @FT Even Starmer has recognised Jones is completely useless

BREAKING: ‘Scaled-back Digital ID scheme can combat populism’, claims Labour’s Chief Secretary to the Prime Minister Darren Jones (via Financial Times @FT) ft.com/content/e70fb1…

@miriam_cates Think you need to pick a different religion to follow with different values if you think discriminating against people drawing a pension after working for 40 odd years, contributing to "the system" is the right thing to do.

“It’s as if a form of wilful blindness has taken hold of some on the right, preventing them from seeing the state pension for what it has become – a universal basic income for those over a certain age.”

@sandieshoes One third working in the public sector I wonder ... 🤔

Almost two-thirds of voters want Sir Keir Starmer to resign immediately, and a similar number want a general election now, a poll has found. “The majority of voters in every region and age group want the Prime Minister to be replaced. Asked “should Keir Starmer stay or go?”, 64 per cent of people said he should go and 18 per cent said he should stay. Of those who voted Labour in 2024, 46 per cent said they wanted him to go now. The usual loyalty we see in British politics has become unbuckled as far as Labour is concerned, and that places the Prime Minister in a very perilous position indeed.” Telegraph. Even the Labour Party had their doubts about Starmer but I suspect they didn’t think he would be this bad. Tick tock.

@stephabouais @Shed1962 @sussexmarco @jhall_m25 @KimberleyJayne4 @AddictScrabble @alp1959 @ninanordship @BramhallHatter @Pete_Bassist @BarryBear11 @SolitaryWitch24 @Katecameron1 @magicmayssnr1 @homeinangus @JudithHaire @jerrybo04490764 @RealMitchell1 @errjustsaying @Aloisusuk With all the political crap going on, a crap government and rapid decline in our society, it's healthy to focus your mund on something that makes you feel good Steph 👍 😍

@JIronopolis @Shed1962 @sussexmarco @jhall_m25 @KimberleyJayne4 @AddictScrabble @alp1959 @ninanordship @BramhallHatter @Pete_Bassist @BarryBear11 @SolitaryWitch24 @Katecameron1 @magicmayssnr1 @homeinangus @JudithHaire @jerrybo04490764 @RealMitchell1 @errjustsaying @Aloisusuk So exciting Jo.

Happy Friday 😀👍 6 @sussexmarco @jhall_m25 @KimberleyJayne4 @AddictScrabble @alp1959 @ninanordship @BramhallHatter @Pete_Bassist @BarryBear11 @SolitaryWitch24 @KateCameron1 @magicmayssnr1 @homeinangus @JudithHaire @jerrybo04490764 @RealMitchell1 @errjustsaying @Aloisusuk

@GBNEWS Not when led by traitors ...

POLL: Should Britain bring back conscription? YOU DECIDE gbnews.com/youdecide/uk-c…

@LBC @NickFerrariLBC It's like having a junior librarian looking after international security and affairs. Country is fkd

‘Why was this allowed to happen?!’ @NickFerrariLBC asks Yvette Cooper why Russian ships weren’t seized from the English Channel yesterday.

@Aloisusuk @magicmayssnr1 @stephabouais @Shed1962 @sussexmarco @jhall_m25 @KimberleyJayne4 @AddictScrabble @alp1959 @ninanordship @BramhallHatter @Pete_Bassist @BarryBear11 @SolitaryWitch24 @Katecameron1 @homeinangus @JudithHaire @jerrybo04490764 @RealMitchell1 @errjustsaying I never knew this .. from Gemini AI A single blue tit chick can eat roughly 100 caterpillars per day. With an average clutch of 10 eggs, the parents must find up to 20,000 caterpillars in just three weeks to successfully raise their brood.

@magicmayssnr1 @JIronopolis @stephabouais @Shed1962 @sussexmarco @jhall_m25 @KimberleyJayne4 @AddictScrabble @alp1959 @ninanordship @BramhallHatter @Pete_Bassist @BarryBear11 @SolitaryWitch24 @Katecameron1 @homeinangus @JudithHaire @jerrybo04490764 @RealMitchell1 @errjustsaying I thought it was 2 as well Jac, but according to the RSPB, it's only one. Nesting Blue Tits produce famously large clutches and have been known to lay up to 16 eggs! However, they will only lay one clutch per year, synchronized with the emergence of caterpillars.

Happy Thursday 😀👍 4 @sussexmarco @jhall_m25 @KimberleyJayne4 @AddictScrabble @alp1959 @ninanordship @BramhallHatter @Pete_Bassist @BarryBear11 @SolitaryWitch24 @KateCameron1 @magicmayssnr1 @homeinangus @JudithHaire @jerrybo04490764 @RealMitchell1 @errjustsaying @Aloisusuk

@Aloisusuk @stephabouais @Shed1962 @sussexmarco @jhall_m25 @KimberleyJayne4 @AddictScrabble @alp1959 @ninanordship @BramhallHatter @Pete_Bassist @BarryBear11 @SolitaryWitch24 @Katecameron1 @magicmayssnr1 @homeinangus @JudithHaire @jerrybo04490764 @RealMitchell1 @errjustsaying Normally blue tits lay their eggs in April to early May I'll keep updating 🥰😍

@JIronopolis @stephabouais @Shed1962 @sussexmarco @jhall_m25 @KimberleyJayne4 @AddictScrabble @alp1959 @ninanordship @BramhallHatter @Pete_Bassist @BarryBear11 @SolitaryWitch24 @Katecameron1 @magicmayssnr1 @homeinangus @JudithHaire @jerrybo04490764 @RealMitchell1 @errjustsaying Keep us posted Jo, we'll all be watching with baited breath.

@Anniepop2027 @SkyNews @UKLabour Did he have a nice tan?

Excellent press conference by Defence Secretary John Healey .. on @SkyNews Measured Professional Calm Precise The opposite of what we would have from Tories, Reform or Greens Thank goodness for @UKLabour as our government at this critical time.