Emma Lercy

@BoylanRoger @vivjones10 That’s a pretty snappily dressed taxi driver.

Winston Churchill and Mario Cantasano, the New York taxi driver who knocked him over. Churchill blamed himself for the accident; he was looking the wrong way while crossing the street, and absolved the driver of all blame. January 1932.

@jethrosdaddy @burngold @NickBryantNY It's not. Not even true of post-war PMs before Thatcher (Home, Wilson).

@burngold @NickBryantNY That cannot be true.

Britain would benefit from a law stating that no one who had ever served as the president of the Oxford or Cambridge Union should be allowed within a 100 meters radius of Downing Street and, ideally, the Houses of Parliament. A ban of PPE graduates would help too.

@pokedstudiouk @John_Stepek @DanNeidle She was 41yo. The average age of a conservative voter in 2024 was apparently 62.

@EmmaLercy @John_Stepek @DanNeidle the point being its not an age thing or left right

What is it with these people?

@pokedstudiouk @John_Stepek @DanNeidle I think you're referring to a Reform voter

@EmmaLercy @John_Stepek @DanNeidle sorry, who was trying to burn alive immigrants again?

@Lise_Magnollay @pokedstudiouk @John_Stepek @DanNeidle 2/2 Of course those parties pretend to have radical agendas for change but they don’t. In more honest moments, they’d say they’re just more realistic & grounded in their assessment of what works & what doesn’t. “Realistic” & “grounded” aren’t very hotheaded. Hence less vitriol

@Lise_Magnollay @pokedstudiouk @John_Stepek @DanNeidle They’re inherently angrier with the situation hence their support for more radical policies. To be Conservative, Labour or LibDem at the moment you have to be generally less angry with everything as those parties are generally proposing less (or not at all) radical policies 1/2

@adrianflynn @breeallegretti Thanks. That’s pretty ridiculous but I’m not surprised.

@EmmaLercy @breeallegretti Labour and the Opposition agreed that they (holding a majority in the Lords) would not block the bill removing the hereditaries if a select number were allowed back as lifers. This list is they. I can’t see them in the Gazette yet so titles may not have been officially granted.

Confirmed: 26 hereditary peers will return to the Lords as lifers. Labour Party Stephen Benn, The Viscount Stansgate Christopher John Suenson-Taylor, The Lord Grantchester Crossbenchers Charles Wellesley, The Duke of Wellington OBE DL Nicholas le Poer Trench, The Earl of Clancarty Charles Colville, The Viscount Colville of Culross Richard Denison, The Lord Londesborough Simon Russell, The Lord Russell of Liverpool Daniel Mosley, The Lord Ravensdale Godfrey Bewicke-Copley, The Lord Cromwell Richard Gilbey, The Lord Vaux of Harrowden John Pakington, The Lord Hampton Conservative Party Sebastian Grigg, The Lord Altrincham Mark Cubitt, The Lord Ashcombe William Stonor, The Lord Camoys Jonathan Berry, The Viscount Camrose Patrick Courtown, The Earl of Courtown Rupert Ponsonby, The Lord de Mauley KCVO TD FCA Edward Effingham, The Earl of Effingham Giles Goschen, The Viscount Goschen Jasset Ormsby-Gore, The Lord Harlech The Rt Hon Frederick Penn, The Earl Howe GBE PC Timothy Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound, The Earl of Minto Colin Moynihan, The Lord Moynihan Aeneas Mackay, The Lord Reay Massey Lopes, The Lord Roborough The Rt Hon Thomas Galbraith, The Lord Strathclyde CH PC x.com/breeallegretti…

@ArchRose90 Complaining that Farages’s bodyguards are big men instead of complaining that Farage needs bodyguards. Heseltine is nasty piece of work.

Sky News wheeled out Lord Heseltine. He compared Nigel Farage to Oswald Mosley and claimed he is deeply antisemitic. Wrong. He was warmly welcomed in Golders Green, whereas Starmer was booed. Former Tory grandees like this represent why the uniparties are dying. Ghastly man.

@pokedstudiouk @John_Stepek @DanNeidle I disagree. It's partly down to generation-related behaviours on social media. Young people are more likely to be abusive (or more freely write abusive things that they're thinking) than older people who are not social media natives. Cons & LibDem voters are more reserved online

@John_Stepek @DanNeidle the point was if you are being tribal ( like in party politics ) the level of bile is the same from any side if you point out any mistakes or issues they are not happy with its not a left, right thing.

@John_Stepek @DanNeidle Anyone who assumes the average Conservative voter would be nastier on social media than the average Green voter just isn't thinking straight. Age and social media habits alone would push it the other way. And that's before scratching the surface on values. Greens are not nice

@DanNeidle Fascinating when you think about it, given that if you were to ask an average member of the public to place them on the "nice to nasty" spectrum, it'd likely be the opposite way around. Again, some interesting psychological study potential here. As for the LibDems... good luck

@helloKi30596224 The NHS is awful. It needs a massive overhaul. Reform are unlikely to do nearly enough to fix it. You have far more to worry about from parties who pretend it's fit for purpose.

This might seem like a game to you. My daughter has leukemia. She is absolutely dependent on the NHS. 'Journalists' paving the way for a Reform government, whilst this Labour government is committed to preserving it, stops me sleeping at night.

@Corran9John @LordRickettsP None. I’d argue it shows but if we accept he’s a great foreign policy PM (!!) after 22 months with no prior experience, then Rickett’s concerns doesn’t hold water

@LordRickettsP What Foreign Policy experience did Starmer have before becoming PM?

Changing PM would in my view be a disaster for the UK internationally, esp if J Powell went too. That duo have kept UK leading with France on Ukraine, handled the Iran crisis skilfully and managed acute tensions with the US. No likely successor has any foreign policy experience

@LordRickettsP You’ve always been very transparent in your preferences.

@sebserlo @tnewtondunn They're all very, very mediocre. It's just some are scary-mediocre and others are just insipid-mediocre.

@tnewtondunn Genuinely don’t understand the obsession with the average Burnham. It’s like the previous great white knight David Milliband - romanticised and over hyped. Plus doesn’t a Labour leader need to be a member of the Commons or is it the parliamentary party? Seems unlikely

There is a route for Andy Burnham to become PM without winning a Commons by-election first: he could be made a Lord. Constitutionally the PM just needs to be a member of one of the two houses of Parliament. This was Alec Douglas-Home’s route, who became PM in October 1963 as a Lord before winning a by-election to be an MP 20 days later. It’s an absolutely awful undemocratic look that could sink Burnham’s brand forever, plus of course Starmer may well not want to oblige his nemesis with a peerage. But these are strange and desperate times for Labour.

@Jasoncu51469699 @ruth_wishart It would be like Ireland. Utterly undefended and a significant risk to all of Europe. They'd expect Uk to defend it for them and quietly allow that to happen whilst shouting from the hilltops how dastardly the English are

@ruth_wishart And security ? Is Scotland to be an insecure nation ?

The alleged "black hole" in Scottish expenditure misses 2 important facts: We are not "permitted" a deficit and the "gap" includes costs which an independent country would choose not to pay - eg Trident.

@missilemendoza @SjBarrister @VirgilHilts01 @matthewsyed Don't be ridiculous. The maths doesn't add up. To suggest Reform voters are new voters and not switchers is silly. You should accept that many previous Labour and Conservative voters have switched to Reform. Perhaps then you'd understand all three parties better

@EmmaLercy @SjBarrister @VirgilHilts01 @matthewsyed Most didn't vote at all as they had no racist party they thought could win. Some were the Tory members derided by Camaron as "swivel-eyed loons."

Reform voters are racist apparently. As soon as I saw this insult to millions of British people (one of the least racist nations on earth) I suspected it was from an academic. It’s impossible to exaggerate how western universities became overrun with woke ideology

@angelllzz1 @GG1203127880724 @jimthegiant Exactly

@EmmaLercy @GG1203127880724 @jimthegiant My colors are 🇵🇸 lol

@GG1203127880724 @angelllzz1 @jimthegiant He's also concerned about free speech ... but only about Israel. I think he's shown his colours

@angelllzz1 @jimthegiant Embraced austerity? how exactly, by lifting the 2 child benefit cap, which both the Conservatives and Reform were against, by increasing the welfare bill to the point now that we spend more on benefits than we generate in income tax. If you think thats right wing you're a moron.

Whats mental is if he just went, fuck it - rejoin EU, nationalise rail, nationalise water & do a wealth tax He’d become a hero overnight

@ross_baglin @williamnhutton No, he's always been that

@williamnhutton Thought you were a valuable independent mind once. On here, you seem nowadays like a jaded partisan hack.

Starmer’s incapacities are obvious. However he has a mandate. As soon as he is replaced in however an ‘orderly fashion’ British media bias will become deadly. One rule on lack of mandates for the right: another for the left. The cabinet must plan skilfully; it could get worse.