Citizen K

@YouGov If only Britons tended to look stuff up, instead of swallowing whatever duplicitous shite the Sun and the Mail excrete every day, they would be both smarter and far less miserable.

@reece_dinsdale "The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity."

Had the best day. Started on a journey of writing my memoirs, my life story, call it what you like. I’m not claiming to be anyone and maybe no one is remotely interested… but it feels good to put it in some kind of order and to have some/any of it make some sense to me.

@LBC It never ceases to astonish me that so many wilfully ignorant people line up to call LBC every day, each one hoping for an opportunity to broadcast their ill-informed 'thoughts' to everyone else in the country.

“I think it’s baloney.” Caller Vincent sees no correlation between Trump’s war in Iran and the rise of fuel prices, much to Simon Marks' disbelief.

@mehdirhasan Please disable autocorrect and repost. 👍

Hilarious. They all bow the knee to him and then he drops them if they dare disagree with him or do anything that displeases him. Such is the cult.

@atrupar "Some town."

Trump: "I know Europe better than anybody. Better than the people that run it."

@Nigel_Farage Glad to hear it! 👍 I'm a British person, and I am very interested in you f*cking off forever. So when will you be doing that, please?

I will always stand up for the British people and their interests. Humanitarian missions do not violate maritime or international law.

@Channel4News This madness could stop right now if that psychopath in the Kremlin just hit the Wegovy and treated himself to a hair transplant.

@2Aglio @ClarksonsFarm1 You don't think. At all.

@ClarksonsFarm1 I think anyone on assistance should have to itemize their purchases. Actually, the money should only be for whole foods (no takeaway, no packaged meals) and hygiene. They get one chance to deviate, then they’re out.

Jeremy Clarkson has proposed that benefits claimants should be forced to write a genuine thank-you email to a random worker every week—or risk having their payments stopped entirely. In his recent Sunday Times column, written in response to Andy Burnham’s speech on social care funding and the possibility of further tax rises, the Clarkson’s Farm star pointed out that hardworking taxpayers currently “feed, clothe and entertain those who won’t work at all” yet receive nothing in return. He noted that more than a million young people are neither working nor looking for work, with many “sitting at home gormlessly watching shortform nonsense,” and that unemployed youngsters citing ADHD or other mental-health issues can claim up to £194 a week in Personal Independence Payment. Under his plan, each week when benefits are paid the recipient would be given the email address of a randomly selected person who is getting up and going to work; unless a proper, genuine message of thanks is sent, the money would stop. He insisted he wanted “fulsomeness” and “effusiveness,” not a cursory “thanks mate,” and specifically to hear what the claimant had done with that week’s £194. As an example of the kind of message they should send, he offered: “It is SO kind of you to go to work every day so that I don’t have to. Thanks to you I was able to buy an even bigger television this week.” He even suggested the mere prospect of having to compose these weekly letters might persuade some PIP claimants that “they don’t have a head-based neurodivergence issue after all.” What do you think of this tongue-in-cheek idea to mitigate the growing welfare issue?​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​ have you any ideas yourself?

@atrupar "I will do such things - what they are, yet I know not; but they shall be the terrors of the earth!"

"There'd be nothing left" -- Trump says that the attack he had planned for Iran last night would've destroyed the country

Karma is a beautiful thing ‘Defector’ Reform MPs projected to LOSE seats to Tory candidates at next election thelondoneconomic.com/politics/which…

@H00d0r @LBC @TomSwarbrick1 Why would it?

@LBC @TomSwarbrick1 Did it shame you when you were Teresa May's communications manager?

"This statistic shames a generation." @TomSwarbrick1 is appalled by how many people in their 20s are being forced to live at home with their parents.

@cureisworse @anon_opin Pete Best was shite.

@anon_opin Ringo should be behind Pete Best

The importance of each Beatle in terms of how much you reduce their success and impact if they weren't there is: Paul, George Martin, John, George, then Ringo. And the only one I'm not sure about is Ringo. You could place him anywhere from 3rd to 5th.

RN tell Nigel Farage to fuck off.

@GuffyNicola @grok Don't make me defend Peter Hitchens. You won't like me when I defend Peter Hitchens.

@grok didn’t selling council housing increase supply?

@dewjl9 @ZoeJardiniere @ZiaYusufUK Safe routes, yes ("legal routes" is a bit of a misnomer). The problem as I understand it is that there currently *aren't* any. As for "safely escorting" migrants back to France, I honestly can't see how that would deter anyone willing to risk their life once from doing it again?

@PrimeShade @ZoeJardiniere @ZiaYusufUK I absolutely believe we should take our fair share and there’s where appropriate safe and legal routes come in but at the same time need to do something radical to deter people making the crossing, for their safety as well as having a secure border

If I’ve said it once, I’ve said it a hundred times - Reform can’t just draft in the navy to respond to refugees in the Channel - they have better things to do I’m afraid. @ZiaYusufUK - the UK’s other fake shadow Home Secretary - is just full of it.

Clash of the Shite 'uns.

@dewjl9 @ZoeJardiniere @ZiaYusufUK That argument is only remotely viable if you'd be happy about France returning migrants to English shores, were they trying to get there from here. Maybe you would, but I bet Yusuf and his rancid fans wouldn't. In any case, the French probably reckon they're doing their bit:

@ZoeJardiniere @PrimeShade @ZiaYusufUK I hate everything Reform are but don’t think it’s unreasonable to safely escort migrants back to French shores. Would be an immediate deterrent and what are the French going to do about it? It’s not like they’re going to fire at innocents. Trying to separate party from policy

@Paul68958640 I said the same thing at my gran's funeral. It didn't go down especially well. 🤷‍♂️

@SarahForRuncorn 60,000 French troops were killed "defending their sovereignty in June 1940", you ignorant sow.

Pity the French did not show the same resolve in defending their sovereignty in June 1940.

@YouGov If only Britons tended to look stuff up, instead of swallowing whatever duplicitous shite the Sun and the Mail excrete every day, they would be both smarter and far less miserable.

Britons tend to believe that more migrants are crossing the English Channel in small boats than in previous years, although official figures show the lowest year-to-date numbers since 2021 More than previous years: 36% (-11 from 23 April) Less than previous years: 28% (+15) About the same: 17% (-3)

@DougieR79 @supertanskiii theguardian.com/society/2003/j…

@supertanskiii This is not accurate. He did write the article in 2003 but it was for the Spectator not the Guardian. There is a wealth of factual news out there. Stop making things up.

Just wait for all the right wing fuckwits to defend this because Gbeebies told them to.