Richard Glassborow

Yes it's our echium again! Here are just some of the wild bees visiting our front garden In just a few minutes yesterday

@LeonieC How lucky are we to live close to #TootingCommon especially at this time of year

They are! Happy to meet & show you the 3 best colonies!

@LeonieC I had a look at the ones I had been “following” yesterday evening. Sadly, the area now mostly overrun by brambles. Will DM you to arrange meet.

@LeonieC Are those the Anemones in Bedford Woods @LeonieC? I have been sort of recording them since 2012, possibly earlier if I can find earlier camera rolls. A few years ago the colonies started to break up and then disappeared. Great if they have recovered!

It was a tough week, so some time amongst nature was essential today! Lucky to live so close to #TootingCommon near #WoodAnemones #Celandines #EnglishBluebells & #VeteranOaks

@RobertJenrick “About being honest” is precisely what your party got so wrong! That and incompetence.

Over the past few years I saw parts of the state that are completely broken. We must change that.

@NoContextBrits That is a test with a twist to tempt the twit in the tent whose temperament leads him to a thought about the tint in the sky and the head of a tit before eating some toast and sending this tweet

We took this photo as a passing member of the public said “Charlie’s Angels” at us! #Steps4Sadiq #Furzedown #SpringtimeCanvass

Ahh democracy lol! An update showing public influence of social media could be fun …

I have seen all 4 of these lines of best fit in published peer-reviewed papers and oddly the top left is probably the rarest type 📉

@SaulStaniforth Wouldn’t it be better if it was blanket? But this is nothing to do with road safety. He’s found another dog whistle and the noisy minority motorists will oblige by delivering selfish interest votes. Twas ever thus #compulsoryseatbelts #drinkdrivelaws

Sunak says imposing a blanket 20mph limit is not right. The interviewer points out its not blanket. Sunak ignores him & repeats it. The interviewer again says its not a blanket ban. Sunak says thats not quite right. The interviewer points out language is important. Not to Sunak!

@JolyonMaugham Don’t suppose disposal contract went to same #ToryChumsNet that supplied!

@LeonieC @TootingCommon Small world. A303 be Popham

If there were any shepherds on ⁦@TootingCommon⁩ they would be full of delight - lovely red sky tonight

@LeonieC @MertonLabour @LondonLabour @UKLabour I expect politicians I vote for to make well informed decisions. Following poorly informed crowds to make “popular” decisions is not good leadership. I am of an age where I remember similar uproar from noisy minority motorist against drink-drive laws & compulsory seatbelts

Positive action, rather than wasting money on pointless Court cases. @MertonLabour @LondonLabour @UKLabour on your side, unlike London Conservative Councils, which wasted £1million

@LeonieC Here here! This should be above party politics. “Motorists” (I am one) need to understand 1 They are a minority 2 The motorcar, triumph of engineering and status symbol it may be, now causes collective harm that outweighs individual convenience 3 Something has to be done 4 it is

Thank you for showing leadership on addressing clean air & the climate crisis - & good to hear about more help for the small percentage of Londoners that will need it, when the scheme comes in #Health #CleanAir #ULEZexpansion

hmm, not sure about "Now" word? Are this lot doing anything different or is it just their ISP shere incompetence which is getting their help-yourself phylosophy noticed?

@LeonieC I meant to HoL

@balhamgate He wasn’t sent, ‘twas his own “Jingle & Mingle” Christmas Party! At a time when mingling was illegal. One rule for them, another for us….

Shaun Bailey does not deserve a peerage, nor should he remain as an Assembly Member. This is an insult to all of us who obeyed the rules in London in December 2020, didn’t see loved ones, including some who died

@Peston were still prepared to vote for him and or work with him? That includes the current government

@Peston There is unfinished business here. This was not an aberration. Johnson was acting completely within character. It has been obvious for years. So the question left hanging in my mind is, what of all the people who couldn’t see him for what he really was, or worse, could and

It is also very important to note that every member of the privileges committee, including every Tory MP, concluded that Boris Johnson should be suspended for more than 10 days, the threshold of a possible by-election, even before he committed the contempt of leaking and attacking the committee's report. "We unanimously concluded that the minimum sanction we should recommend to the House should be suspension from the service of the House sufficient to engage the provisions of the Recall of MPs Act," the report says. They decided on this sanction because: "We have concluded...that in deliberately misleading the House Mr Johnson committed a serious contempt. The contempt was all the more serious because it was committed by the Prime Minister, the most senior member of the government. There is no precedent for a Prime Minister having been found to have deliberately misled the House. He misled the House on an issue of the greatest importance to the House and to the public, and did so repeatedly. He declined our invitation to reconsider his assertions that what he said to the House was truthful. His defence to the allegation that he misled was an ex post facto justification and no more than an artifice. He misled the Committee in the presentation of his evidence."

For the many not the few. ....

@Peston I think 1649

How do you feel about being asked to swear at the coronation, as follows: “I swear that I will pay true allegiance to Your Majesty, and to your heirs and successors according to law. So help me God”? This is, apparently, to democratise the ritual. What do you think?