Nicola Thomas

Interesting.

@Keir_Starmer Trump says, buy your oil from him or go and get it yourself

I will always make decisions that are in the national interest. It’s why we aren’t getting dragged into the Middle East conflict, and why we are fighting to protect your living standards. And while opposition parties have responded by dividing communities, we respond with hope and pride. Pride in our communities, and the hope of a country that’s better for our children. That’s what we’re fighting for. Vote Labour on Thursday 7 May.

“All of those countries that can’t get jet fuel because of the Strait of Hormuz, like the United Kingdom, which refused to get involved in the decapitation of Iran, I have a suggestion for you…” - President Donald J. Trump

@SkyNews Need to think more carefully about this. Does that mean training and jobs disappear altogether and won't be filled at all or will only be withdrawn for UK priority? Conflicting reports coming put.

Sir Keir Starmer has threatened to withdraw an offer of thousands more NHS jobs should resident doctors go ahead with strike action next week trib.al/ysmdMD7

According to Ed Miliband and Bridget Phillipson, motorists are paying more than they need to at the pumps because of ‘price gouging’ by petrol retailers. No mention there about tax gouging. ✍️ Ross Clark Article | spectator.com/article/how-ed…

🚨The BIOT Supreme Court has recognised the Chagossian Right of Abode, overturning 50 years of policy and affirming a long‑denied right to return The true cost of the 'deal' has been revealed in the judgement is over £50bn This is a major step for self‑determination

The Chagos Judgment That Changes Everything: The Law, the Fiction, and the Return of a People There are moments in law when a judgment does more than resolve a dispute. It reshapes the legal order itself. Today’s ruling is one such moment... conservativepost.co.uk/the-chagos-jud…

Reminder. Morgan McSweeney did not have disappearing messages on his government phone. That's not why they've been lost.

RIGHT BEATS MIGHT! This is excellent news. The Govt’s apalling Treaty which rode rough shod over the rights of the Chagossians should now be thrown in the bin. conservativepost.co.uk/historic-victo… via @ConsPost They should tear it up and tell Mauritius it’s over, instead they will now make arrangements for Chagossians to return home. They can look after their own affairs and they want the UK to remain Sovereign. Also British taxpayers won’t have to pay £35bn to Mauritius either. A great result!

Keir Starmer appointed Peter Mandelson as US Ambassador to strengthen ties with Washington, but the move quickly proved controversial over his links with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

🚨 SECRETARY RUBIO: If NATO is just about us defending Europe if they’re attacked, but them denying us basing rights when we need them, then that’s not a very good arrangement. That’s a hard one to stay engaged in and say this is good for the United States.

Today's landmark ruling is a long-overdue recognition of the fundamental rights of the British Chagossian people, who were shamefully removed from their homeland and have been denied justice for decades. The court has now made clear that they have a right to return - something I have been arguing for throughout my twenty-five years in the House of Commons. The Government must now listen. The future of the Chagos Islands cannot be decided in backroom deals with foreign governments, nor traded away to appease the Prime Minister’s human rights lawyer friends. It must be determined by the people to whom those islands truly belong. I have always argued that the Chagossians should, at the very least, be resettled on the outer islands. That is both morally right and certainly practically achievable. The idea that British citizens can be permanently excluded from their own homeland is indefensible. Above all, this issue must be guided by the principle of self-determination. The Chagossian people must have the final say over their future - not Whitehall, not international courts, and certainly not Mauritius! This ruling should mark a turning point. It is time to right a historic wrong and ensure that the Chagossians are finally given the voice they deserve. 🇮🇴🇬🇧

@JohnRentoul Many have low trust in the PM. If born out by more polls it's v serious & will indicate the extent of the damage that Starmer has done. Portrayed himself as virtuous pledging to restore integrity people feel doubly let down by a failure to live up to his self touted credentials.

As a democrat I respect the wisdom of the electorate, but sometimes it is hard

🔴 Police officers who failed to investigate Asian grooming gangs will be held to account by the public inquiry into the scandal, its head has pledged. Baroness Longfield said the inquiry would not “shy away” from directly investigating the specific ethnic, religious and cultural backgrounds of the perpetrators behind grooming gangs. 🔗: telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/03/3…

This is brilliant news though I suppose Lord Hermer will insist on appealing the judgement. Well done to our lawyers,all those who helped fund the court case and most of all to the Chagossians people especially those who are on the islands now. They have never given up their wish to go home and we must continue to support them.

Last week I asked Keir Starmer to grant licenses for North Sea drilling. He hid behind Ed Miliband and legal process. If he doesn’t have the backbone to stand up to the Energy Secretary, @Conservatives have published a bill which would unlock licenses and get Britain drilling.

Tory friend jokes "you're a Tory now?!" re: post about VAT rates. Wanting small independent hosp businesses (mostly training/employing young people for hospitality) to thrive over corporate chains shouldn't exactly be seen as non-Labour! Apparently they're all about growth...?

@DPJHodges A statement will be released saying the fuel tracker app has been updated and producers have been spoken to very firmly.

What is the one guaranteed outcome of Keir Starmer publicly announcing he is holding an emergency COBRA meeting about fuel shortages...

When asked to pick up to 3 top issues facing the country, 'cost of living' comes top among the public, at 53% Yet asked what they think each party sees as the top issues, only 9-15% choose 'cost of living' for any party

"Is there anybody else you know in your life who has had 28.9% over the last three years?" @bbcnickrobinson presses Dr Jack Fletcher, from the BMA, on previous pay increases and the planned industrial action by resident doctors over a pay dispute with the government.

This week the NHS will undergo one of the most radical – and scandalous - changes in its history. From 1st April (the public are the fools in this), GPs will be contractually obliged to seek remote, electronic “advice and guidance” from hospital ‘clinicians’ (note, not necessarily doctors), making it even harder for patients to see a hospital specialist. Does this sound part of a plan to genuinely ‘fix’ the NHS, as Wes Streeting vowed he would do so effusively when taking up office - or more like a tactic to ration hospital care by overriding GPs in order to massage the waiting list figures? It is, of course, the latter, an extra layer of bureaucracy that at best will delay patients’ access to the specialist treatment they need, at worse sacrifice those patients on the altar of fake news about “falling” waiting lists. You don’t need me to point out the patient safety risks it potentially entails. We all know that time, in medicine, can be everything. The Royal College of GPs has been crystal clear: “The use of advice and guidance should not be mandated in any area… We have heard reports of risks of delays, with tests being required before any referral, lost messages and staff without appropriate senior clinical oversight handling requests.” The aim, says the Times, is to reduce the number of hospital outpatient appointments by 30 million annually. And the government, in a really quite breathtaking example of political spin, is presenting this as “good” for patients - as though all those people who’ve been waiting years months or even years for the first Rheumatology, Neurology or Orthopaedics appointment they so desperately need are just, you know, malingering. (I recently spoke to a patient with a new diagnosis of multiple sclerosis who’d been waiting over six months to see a neurologist for the first time – simply scandalous.) I believe this is a national health scandal from a government that apparently cares more about good spin than it does about good patient care. If you feel the same, please – please – write to your MP or the Secretary of State and tell them why. Please shout about this online, in the press, anywhere you can. Don’t let this slide. Thank you.