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@CommonsSpeaker @UKHouseofLords @UKParliament Going through the motions, like bowel movements.

Tomorrow, the King will open a new parliamentary session in the State Opening. I will lead MPs and party leaders in my ceremonial robes, into the @ukhouseoflords to stand and hear the #KingsSpeech. 🔴Watch the event live on @ukparliament YouTube channel. 📷 State Opening 2024

@boredtweeple @Peston Sooner or later Starmer will know he's toast, Streeting in for now, Burnham will arrive later to the party hoping to get a second term. Probably all will end in failure.

Streeting knows he is going to loose his own seat next time and that will be end of his political career. He wants to take one final shot at being PM and will resort to all lowball tactics. I as a doctor came across how much of a conman Streeting is when he bought the waiting lists down (only in numbers) by discharging all patients back to primary care and ordering CEO of trusts not to accept 25-30% when they were referred back. He has been a car crash of a health secretary with Palantir and other giant private companies being given favours and sold services of NHS on a scale never even seen in Tories rule. Starmer bears responsibility as he appointed him and must have turned a blind eye despite health leaders crying hoarse. I don’t give a 💩 about each of them but won’t put up with economy being destroyed and all of us paying for the wishes of these petulant school boys fighting each other. Streeting will not last 3 months as PM and we will be in another GE in the toughest situation the world has seen for decades

It’s now all about West Streeting, the health secretary, who has made clear he both wants to be the UK’s next prime minister, but also does not want to be the first mover in an attempted coup against the prime minister. His difficulty is that many of those MPs calling for the PM to go are his supporters. His team insist that they are doing so without his instructions, but few in parliament regard that as either credible or relevant. One of those who would support him told me: “too many of his people have been marched up a hill, that he will have to launch a bid if Keir doesn’t go.” The prime minister told the cabinet just now he will not set out a timetable for his departure. He said: “The Labour Party has a process for challenging a leader and that has not been triggered.” He might have added “I’m looking at you Wes.” For Streeting this is a bit of a nightmare. If he does challenge Starmer he may lose and wreck his political career. And if he doesn’t challenge Starmer in a formal contest, he may alienate his supporters, who have stuck their heads above the parapet at great potential cost to their political futures, and that may fatally damage his leadership prospects forever. It’s Streeting’s moment in history. How will he shape it?

@EileenOmosa @BSAT_Properties The trains run on separate track in opposite directions, they do not time share a single line except if a stretch is being repaired when they would probably run to a different schedule

Safety is the main reason for that strict timekeeping and apology. Consequently, timekeeping has become a national culture since lack of timekeeping implies disaster. In busy shared rail tracks, a train missing its time by seconds can have life saving implications: Trains are scheduled to bypass each other, use and leave shared tracks on time to allow the next train traveling the opposite direction to use a similar track. If one train is late or early by seconds, you do not want to imagine the result on a shared track where the train going the opposite direction just enters the shared track assuming it is free for them per their schedule. Being late or early messes schedules for all the other trains since they change tracks at many places. The station masters and those at the main controls must now notify all the other trains of the change in time to avoid any two trains meeting on one track. Those apologies are in order, since an apology after a disaster is hard to imagine.

I was on a train in Tokyo. We stopped between stations. Announcement in Japanese, then in English: "We apologize for the delay. We will resume shortly." The delay was maybe 3 minutes. Not a big deal. When the train started moving again, another announcement: "We sincerely apologize for the delay. We were stopped for 3 minutes and 20 seconds. This is unacceptable. Thank you for your patience." Three minutes and twenty seconds. They measured it exactly. And called it unacceptable. When I got off at my stop, there were station staff on the platform bowing and handing out delay certificates. I took one out of curiosity. It was an official document stating that the train had been delayed by 3 minutes and 20 seconds, signed and stamped. The staff member said in English "for your employer. So they know the delay was not your fault." I said I'm a tourist, I don't need it. He looked confused. "But the delay affected you. You deserve an apology." Three minutes. They were treating a three-minute delay like a major incident. Later I mentioned this to a Japanese friend. They said "oh yes, delay certificates are normal. Trains are supposed to be exactly on time. If they are late, they must apologize." I said three minutes isn't late, it's nothing. My friend said "in Japan, three minutes is late. On time means on time. Not approximately on time." They said the train company probably investigated why there was a 3-minute delay. "They will find the cause and fix it so it doesn't happen again." I kept the certificate. It's framed in my apartment now. A reminder that somewhere in the world, people care about three minutes. © 6IX.

@archer_rs Essentially though we shouldn't have a knight of the realm pretending to represent the public in the house of commons. Also why lawyers? Didn't we learn our lesson after Blair?

This is the choice. A highly regarded and admired former Director of Public Prosecutions and head of the Crown Prosecution Service, fully vetted by the Security Service or a lying, corrupt, chancer with no political experience who sold Britain out and is probably a Russian asset

@PhysInHistory For the bang to happen there must have been something there beforehand to make it happen.

The Big Bang theory says nothing about what banged, why it banged, or what happened before it banged. -- Alan Guth

@KennyCarmody Sounds incredible because it's probably is

The madness never stops. A family member who lives in Germany went to a doctor and called me, it was a simple visit to check blood values. During the routine medical history she also mentioned my vaccine injury and my symptoms. The doctor became immediately aggressive. Not curious. Not cautious. Aggressive. He stated that vaccine injuries do not exist and he does not want to hear about it anymore. And then, without ever having met me, without any assessment and being physically there, without any examination, he threatened that I should be sent to a psychiatric ward. That he can contact a psychiatrist. Neurologist and a psychotherapist asap. That if I did not comply, the matter would be escalated to the district court. That if necessary, the police would come to collect me together with the therapist. The police. To take a seriously ill man from his home to a psychiatric facility who doesn’t even live there and hasn’t spoken one word to the doctor…A doctor he has never met decided, in seconds, that his documented suffering does not exist. This is happening. Not in a story. Today. I share this not for outrage, though the outrage is legitimate. I share it because the people need to know that this is what the system looks like when it is confronted with the truth of what was done. Not curiosity. Not care. Immediate aggression and the threat of institutional force. Never heard anything like it before. This is the system protecting itself. And it is exactly what the injured have been describing for years while being told they were imagining things. To every vaccine injured person reading this, you are not imagining it. And to every doctor who has responded this way to a suffering patient , history is watching. Absolute madness. Never heard something like this after 5 years of suffering from a gene therapy without any recognition. And once again I write this very politely And no this is not made up or a joke..

@bagshaw2112 Johnson is the only one who won an election on the basis of his popularity, Starmer won because the public wanted rid of the Tories.

Pick who you think was the best Prime Minister from the last 5 ! I know it’s difficult but let’s see what we get !!!

@ColinBrazierTV We all know the next three years to the next general election are going to be hard, Labour will ruin the economy as they have done in 1979 And 2010. With the present incumbent the suffering will be off the scale, any replacement can't be any worse than Starmer.

Understandably, given how rotten a PM Starmer has proved to be, many of us on the Right are gleeful at the prospect of his disappearance. But it’s worth remembering whoever comes next is likely to be still more Left wing. This weekend Rayner wrote about her plans to raise the national minimum wage again. A seemingly ‘kind’ policy that would have the effect of decimating the hospitality sector and others besides.

He's not a good and decent man. Only someone corrupt or extremely stupid would preside over the sleaze that's taken place on his watch Neither is desirable in a Prime Minister To recap, under @Keir_Starmer... Two people with close links to pedophiles were promoted to high office His ex deputy is in hot water with HMRC One minister resigned because she turned out to be a literal criminal His anti corruption minister has been convicted overseas of corruption A homelessness minister had to resign over evicting tenants A heath minister resigned after hoping a constituent would die Another Labour MP resigned after punching a constituent in the face 6x A Labour MP was suspended after being arrested for sex offences The Business Secretary thought he was a solicitor when he wasn't His Chancellor seems extremely confused about her work history. She also failed to get a licence to rent her property Multiple ministers including the PM accepted gifts including clothes from donors despite earning more than double what most people earn The Attorney General has failed to act on conflicts of interest and supported baseless lawfare against British soldiers The Labour Welsh First Minister was forced to resign over so many allegations of corruption it's hard to know where to start typing them On top of all that there's the cronyism, firing officials without due process, and the Chinese spying case

@KayBurley The thought of three more bloody years with this social cretin at the helm fills me with dread. It is torture. If the Labour party want to be serious about governance, they have to get someone in tow who can sell it to the public. An autocue reading robot is not what's required.

I have never been a fan of Keir Starmer as Prime Minister. Top politicians need to realise it’s not just the message, but how you sell it that cuts through to the public psyche. His policies may well have been among the best for the country and some undoubtedly were but Sir Keir never seemed able to land them with the public. Voters rarely reward policies they don’t emotionally connect with. Yesterday’s reset speech didn’t help. What exactly was he trying to tell us. Now, in what could be the death throes of his tenancy in No 10 after less than two years at the top, I do find myself feeling for him. He pulled himself up by his bootstraps and reached not one but two of the highest offices in the land. So, as the wannabes circle the Cabinet table this morning, positioning for what may come next, spare a thought for a man who genuinely wanted to make a difference, but never quite mastered the art of making his case. Fair?

@mukjp2 @DailyLoud Does DEI help

@DailyLoud A broadway dancer is a serious gig. You can’t just sign up for that. That requires years and years of focus and networking and solid social skills, plus tremendous dance skills and training. How does someone like that randomly murder people?

32-year-old Broadway dancer Rhamell Burke pushed a 76-year-old retired teacher down New York City subway stairs, killing him.

@A1an_M It's just a matter of time then for the current incumbent, he will try to hang on by the tips of his fingers but the writings on the wall. But the only question is who can replace him?

Let's have a look at the Prime Ministers who left number 10 early over the last 10 years. 🐀David Cameron left because he didn't want to implement what the nation had just decided, despite promising he would. 🤥Teresa May left because she pretended she was going to implement what the nation decided in 2016, did her best not to, but got found out. 🔪Boris Johnson was kicked out because the Establishment feared he was going to implement what the nation decided in 2016, and had their man in No. 11 stab him in the back. 💷Liz Truss was kicked out because the Establishment didn't want her, and she was trying to implement economic policies the Establishment didn't want. ⏰️Rishi Sunak went to the country early because there was a danger Reform would win a later election and implement what the nation had decided in 2016 but the Establishment didn't want. ⚖️Keir Starmer is about to be kicked out because he was defeated by the party still trying to inplement what the nation decided in 2016. I'm sure there is a lesson in there somewhere, for the next Prime Minister, if they want last longer than the last six.

@daveatherton @TheGreenParty Was he arriving with his boyfriend in tow?

This is Mohammad Baghdadi "Baggy" Khan reporting to duty as a newly elected Councillor in the Halliwell ward, Bolton. He looks composed in his Lamborghini Huracán Spyder, worth £100,000-£200,000, it does 19-23 mpg. He is a member of @TheGreenParty.

@mikegardner_wb But he took his jacket and tie off to look as one with the common people whose respect he commands as a natural leader of donkeys and sheep.

BREAKING NEWS: Starmer’s amazing speech Sir Keir Starmer smashed it out of the park today with a barnstorming speech which astonished critics and colleagues alike. Speaking without notes and cheered on by his cabinet colleagues he gave a passionate defence of Labour’s record. Even the hard- nosed press corps assembled in Downing Street burst into spontaneous applause at the end. Meanwhile cheering crowds poured onto the streets of Red Wall constituencies waving union jacks pledging support for the PM. Just kidding of course. Th reality? Starmer’s speech was the same old reheated, vapid drivel we’ve heard a hundred times before, delivered with his usual lack of charisma and with contents about as inviting as a week old litter tray.

@Keir_Starmer Hopefully you will realise your time as PM is done and you've cleared your desk by Friday and rode off into the far left.

We will block far right agitators from traveling to Britain this weekend for a march designed to confront and provoke our diverse capital city. We will not allow people to come to the UK, threaten our communities and spread hate on our streets.

@A1an_M @stellacreasy Delusional is the correct answer

If the conclusion you've drawn from the local election results - in which a pro Brexit party swept the board - is: "our priority must be to get ourselves back to the heart of Europe", there are two possibilities: 1. You're, as my granny used to say, "no' quite the full shilling". 2. You're working for the EU, not the British electorate. Which is it?

The prime minister is right. We need to get back to the heart of Europe. That will never happen whilst the red lines remain on the single market, the customs union and freedom of movement. They need to go now and be seen to go now otherwise it’s a waste of time. labourmovementforeurope.uk/redlines?splas…

@Peston If Starmer truly believes his policies are right and just a matter of time he will stay. If it can be shown there's no positive outcome on this path and labour will lose the next general election, he will be gone. Labour MPs have more chance of retention if they roll the dice.

From a minister about the future of the prime minister: “I don’t see how he survives the week. I think the pressure cooker pops. The Catherine West thing will get more support than people think and if not her someone else will do it. I think ministers will start resigning.”

@aDissentient They will resist change with all their might. The CS and PS could already be ten times more efficient if they adopted modern management techniques and computerisation, but they won't, there's strength in numbers and the unions want more people, not fewer.

AI is going to enable ministers to claw back a huge amount of power from Whitehall mandarins.

🇷🇺Vladimir Putin brutally EXPOSES Israel 🇮🇱 🔥 "If Russia had done just 10% of what Israel has done in Gaza, NATO would already be at Moscow’s gates. The West has shown us that human rights stop where Israel’s interests begin."🔥🔥 The man has spoken the harshest reality.

@Edwina_Currie I note that Edwina has not bothered to reply to answer of the comments here. I wonder why?

I’ve just worked out the cost of charging my EV (VW ID4) at home. In the last tax year it was about £700. I did 8,000 miles in it. The alternative would have cost around £4,000 at recent pump prices. It’s paying for itself … 👏👏👏😊😊😊