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@oldishbird1 @ZiaYusufUK Maybe you're right. It would be pretty stupid to go all in against the judiciary. I'm simply highlighting that Parliament is sovereign. Govt's have in the past pushed the boundaries to get what they wanted. The Illegal Migration Act 2023 being one recent ouster clause example.

@Lucresta @ZiaYusufUK No government would be stupid enough to try to legislate their way to absurd and discriminatory public policy making. It’s nonsense and you know it is.

Today we announce a new policy: In order to deport all illegal migrants in Britain, Reform will need to detain tens of thousands at a time. Migrants will not be able to leave these detention centres, and each will be held there a couple of weeks before being deported. So here’s our promise: A Reform government will not put any migrant detention facilities in any constituency with a Reform MP. Nor will we put them where Reform controls the council. And of the remaining areas, we will prioritise Green controlled parliamentary constituencies and Green controlled councils to locate the detention centres. Put simply, if you vote in a Reform council or Reform MP, we guarantee you won’t have a detention centre near you. If you vote Green, there’s a good chance you will. This is an important exercise in democratic consent, not just for our mass deportation policy, but for where the detention centres are placed. Given @ZackPolanski openly advocates for open borders, I look forward to their warm embrace of this policy. votegreengetillegals.com

@ryttoss @oldishbird1 @ZiaYusufUK What's funny? Wouldn't they need that to pass any bill in government? Or do you think the idea of them getting such is amusing?

@Lucresta @oldishbird1 @ZiaYusufUK Workable and clear majority! Oh dear I needed a laugh.

@oldishbird1 @ZiaYusufUK Except an Act of Parliament would amend this and if need be abolish it (unlikely) to render it useless. Reform, with a workable and clear majority, would be able to pass bills that supercede any supposed safety net measures, even if that meant go nose to nose with the judiciary.

@ZiaYusufUK Vote Reform, get illegal policies. This would be overturned via judicial review on day one. It’s not a reasonable way to make public policies. I’m sure you already know this. It would breach the Wednesbury reasonableness test. Look it up.

@oldishbird1 @drchrisnewton Why would you want to remove Parliamentary food subsidies? There's 100s of lower paid staff in Parliament that get those subsidies as a benefit in their jobs. Too many ignorant commentaries from people who've never been to the Palace of Westminster let alone worked there.

@drchrisnewton Why lump everyone together. I think they should ban alcohol in parliament and remove all the food subsidies.

What’s the betting that the same people who shared Hannah Spencer’s faux outrage over drinking in Westminster will now say how ‘relatable’ this story makes Rayner look? Don’t expect any consistency from the left.

@oldishbird1 @ZiaYusufUK The comparison I'm making merely states he's entitled to views like anyone else. Not stupid. Fact. You're cribbing on about his views being that of an unelected politician. I'm calling it biased because it's @ZiaYusufUK. Were it to be an unelected person you like, you'd say nowt.

@Lucresta @ZiaYusufUK He bought himself a Reform platform. I’m a retired public servant with a few thousand followers. He has influence he didn’t acquire democratically. I have none. Stupid comparison.

Now we have the full list of Labour MPs who voted to save Starmer from an ethics probe, we are organising an almighty saturation of their constituencies with literature and ads. Crucial their voters know they prevented due process on the most unpopular PM in history!

@matthewsyed 'a minor appointment'. I'm wondering if this is a brand of irony you bought from Temu thinking it was satire. To trivialize it in the way you'd like only serves to show how contemptuously the privileged Left treat those not in their echo chamber.

The bandwidth sucked up by the Mandelson non-story is embarrassing. A minor appointment taken in what was perceived to be the national interest. Astonishing that the Westminster bubble is still obsessed but then tittle tattle started to define British politics a long time ago

@CannaCollectz Frosty the blow, man.

Name this strain and get to be our seeds and buds permanents tester Good luck Only 5 winners Best names wins

@oldishbird1 @ZiaYusufUK He's as much right to politicizing and pontification as you have, and you do, constantly. Lords aren't elected but you don't crash their posts and boohoo about their unelected position. No hoots either at the left wing journalists whose job it is also to speculate and comment.

@ZiaYusufUK What about your constituents? Oh, that’s right you haven’t got any because not a single person has ever voted for you to pontificate about democratically elected Labour MPs exercising their democratic votes in parliament. You bought your position. Sit down.

@oldishbird1 @PennyMordaunt @CitizynKayne It's not surprising. Very predictable. But why whip if there's nothing doing? If he's squeaky clean then he should refer himself and put his detractors on the back foot. But no, the PM snookers his MPs by forcing them to vote his way or compromise their integrity and their career

@oldishbird1 @PennyMordaunt @CitizynKayne @oldishbird1 your defence of Starmer and his govt is nearly always underpinned by whataboutery. Your claim you're pointing out hypocrisy is rich given you're a rank hypocrite! If you can't see the PM is using pressure tactics to save his skin then it's because you don't want to.

Terrible judgment by the Prime Minister tonight. By whipping “House Business” he confirms at least one of two things, and most likely both: that a large number of his MPs are not buying his narrative and/or that he has misled the House. If he has acted in good faith Privileges would clear him. An unnecessary distraction? Not as much as what is now bound to follow. Utter contempt of Parliament including his own MPs.

For @henrywinter & the Leeds loving media who see them as ‘pwoppa old school’ & Chelsea as a plastic club here are a few facts they won’t like to hear:-

@oldishbird1 @MatthewStadlen "but the Tories did it!" That's the default and increasingly weak go-to when there's any suggestion of holding Labour or Starmer to account. The standards by which you castigated the Tories for are now the standards you advocate for Starmer. If it was wrong then, why not now?

@MatthewStadlen Why? That’s exactly what other leaders have done. Notably Johnson prepared to whip his MPs in April 2022 but U-turned when lots planned to rebel. It was also done to protect Owen Paterson.

It would obviously be absurd for Starmer to whip MPs into blocking a Parliamentary inquiry into whether he has misled Parliament.

@ArchRose90 Parliament has not yet been prorogued. But it will be next week and it will likely be on the Wednesday morning compliant with the Order made in line with prorogation rules. Starmer slipping out of a final PMQs before the elections may be an unfortunate by-product of this timing

Keir Starmer, 2019 on proroguing parliament: “The prime minister was not telling the truth about why he was doing it…get Boris Johnson back in parliament so we can hold him properly to account.” Starmer has now prorogued parliament to avoid PMQs. There’s always a clip.

@andyj60 @ChelseaFC @paulwinstanley9 Trading solely off an average return at Brighton was seemingly enough of a CV for the BlueCo clowns to be convinced. I despair at who they'll turn to next. Even if Winstanley and Stewart are jettisoned too, I don't trust Eghbali/Boehly to get ANY appointment right.

@ChelseaFC @paulwinstanley9 Why are you still her?. How much do you have to fail before BlueCo wake up and fire you, Stewart and Shields. All three of you have been stealing a living. 1.4b spent to go completely backwards. What a great job you've all done. Congratulations for ruining our club

Made in Cobham. Here to stay.

@NewsJeffJ1 Pompous opinion. Maresca advocated a Pep lite brand of football that was mostly boring and ineffective. We flattered to deceive and unsurprisingly fans were turned off of his leadership. To say those fans didn't know what they were talking about is arrogant nonsense.

Anybody who wanted Maresca gone didn’t know what they were talking about. They lacked a fundamental understanding of our team and Maresca as a coach and yall know yourselves. Always whining about this or that without (inversion of players, roles, tactical approach, etc) any relative understanding of why. This is what happens. Liam isn’t relatively bad like he looks rn, but when you ask a coach to have to pull 100% out of his team in all departments every game to get any decent result, this will happen.

Hey @Morrisons I will never buy ONE thing from you ever again unless this guy, trying to stop shoplifting, is reinstated. RETWEET IF YOU AGREE

@PeterNotDrury Wobble!? Is that what you call it? Capitulation is more accurate.

After the wobble vs Brighton… which Chelsea players would you sell in the summer?

@CFCDatro You have a short memory. Side to side dull football and rarely beat a top six team. Maresca was bang average and never would have lasted as long as he did under Abramovich. Probably wouldn't have even been considered for the job.

How did we fumble Maresca bruv, there was such a good vibe in the team. We had the perfect manager and fumbled him. Just look at this man

@oldishbird1 @EssexPR That's a stretch to say anything Starmer has said is proven. Just because someone decides to corroborate Starmer's shaky defense doesn't mean it is proof. Plausible? Yes. Proof? You wish. And this story is FAR from over. This is just getting going.

@EssexPR He won’t. It’s been proven that he was telling the truth about not having been told of the failed vetting. He’s long since accepted responsibility for a poor appointment and apologised for it. This story is now over.

Keir Starmer will have to resign before the weekend, or in my opinion, Labour MPs will remove him themselves.

@oldishbird1 It's news alright. The lies & sloping of responsibility is now at comic levels. The PM - if we believe him - the only one not to blame knew nothing kept in the dark badly advised a victim of mistrust He's furious. Not because of the excuses above. Because this won't go away.

Just a reminder that it’s now two months since Keir Starmer apologised for appointing Peter Mandelson and stating that the vetting process would need to be reviewed. We already knew seven months ago that the appointment was made before security clearance was given. Not news.