Laurie Knight

@DWokeMo @FUDdaily Way to miss the point entirely

@_lauriek @FUDdaily They didn’t have to prove it: she pleaded guilty.

One thing that concerns me about this (and I've seen this once or twice before) is the platform illiteracy of the courts. They have a tendency to big up the number of views. They say the tweet was viewed 310,000 times, but that's only tweet impressions. It doesn't mean it was actually viewed that many times. 940 retweets doesn't especially qualify it as viral either. The tweet received 8.8k likes, which is probably a nearer estimation of the number of people who actually read it. Also, given the time of day it was tweeted, if a Brandenburg Test existed in British law, it would hardly be considered likely to incite. In this respect, the law is deficient.

@A1an_M "The inclusion of e-gates in the deal has surprised some in the travel industry, as they had understood the gates were always going to be available to UK passport holders in the EU once EES begins in October." What a deal

It might be just me, it usually is, what with being a far right, racist, climate denying, anti-vaxxing, conspiracy theorist and all that, but I don't get the whole bigging up E-Gates thing by Labour. I go on holiday abroad twice a year, at the very most, and queues at foreign border control are a long way down my list of foreign travel bugbears. The queues for re-entry into the UK and for baggage reclaim and the costs of parking at UK airports are far higher up. And I'm a middle-aged professional in a decent job with a decent salary. If you're on an average salary or less, even one foreign trip a year is increasingly unaffordable, even a package trip to Spain or Greece. As for frequent business travel, well, for most people in the private sector that's a thing of the past. Thanks to working from home and online meetings and the difficult economic environment for business, most companies will only send you abroad if you're senior and there's no virtual meeting alternative. So who exactly are the people for whom E-Gates access is supposedly a big win? The only people who I know who might conceivably benefit are well-off and still fit pensioners who do a lot of post-retirement travelling. And perhaps backbench MPs and other public sector employees who don't have to worry too much about cost or efficiency because the taxpayer picks up the tab. It's the same energy that the Remain campaign had when they bigged up "No telephone roaming fees if we stay in the EU". Who cares? Only citizens of nowhere who spend their lives in airport lounges. And, as it turned out, plenty of companies still do "no EU roaming fee" deals even though we're out so the whole thing was completely bogus. And, it seems, the whole E-Gates thing being a "win" is bogus too, since we already had access in many places. So much for Labour being the party of the poor working class! They're just looking after themselves and their little public sector chums.

@Lord_Talbot64 @georgegalloway @Nigel_Farage @benhabib6 @RupertLowe10 Ain't that the fecking truth

@georgegalloway @Nigel_Farage @benhabib6 @RupertLowe10 It is a shame that all the parties opposing Labour cannot work together. To many ego's looking for personal power rather than working in the interests of the country.

Given that @Nigel_Farage cannot even share the stage with the likes of @benhabib6 and @RupertLowe10 I suppose it was optimistic of me to imagine he'd be interested in a broad national movement to defend #Brexit and stop the slide back into the #EU. In fact Nigel doesn't talk so much about Brexit these days...

@ShaneDollards @Danjsalt Those are not mutually exclusive options

@Danjsalt I still can't work out his angle. Is he..... A) A complete out of touch moron? B) Actively trying to destroy the UK? C) Being blackmailed by someone who has dirt on him? D) Evil? E) Something else?🤷‍♂️

I've run the conspiracy theory about Starmer over again and again That everything he does is to placate dark and shadowy figures The problem is this would require him to be competent at some level That's not backed up by a single data point No it's simply he and Labour are mine numbingly useless

@A1an_M "The inclusion of e-gates in the deal has surprised some in the travel industry, as they had understood the gates were always going to be available to UK passport holders in the EU once EES begins in October." What a deal

So we gave away our fishing industry and no doubt all sorts of other even more important stuff buried in the small print and the one teeny tiny umimportant thing we supposedly got in return... we didn't get. FFS 🙄 What a sh1t day. I'm off to bed. There's still 45 minutes left for more things to go wrong and I'd rather be asleep when they happen.

@terrychristian You really are a massive cunt aren't you. I do not ever want to hear your views on anything ever again. Muted.

Lucy Connelly needs to serve the full stretch - she's lucky they were so lenient. If you throbbers don't like British laws - fuck off and live somewhere else ....like Tommy ten names

@Danjsalt The Tories have been the least shit option for a while. No longer.

I'm not voting for Reform because: 1. They'll destroy the country It's already dying socially and economically 2. They don't know what they're doing Have you seen British governance for the last 3 decades Come on really!

@Danjsalt Boris lied about fucking cake and, well fucking. Starmer lies about everything important, he is and he will go down in history as the Gaslighter in chief.

Starmer is the most dishonest politician I've ever known He makes Johnson look like a paragon of probity A genuinely unpleasant human being who shames the country I can't find anyone from any party who likes him - he is reviled on a cross party basis which is pretty much unique in our history - especially after only 10 months

@Kitty01121 @georgegalloway @PennyBrenny @Nigel_Farage If 20 million people went and sat in central London until the government resigned then they would resign. Bring snacks and water, be entirely peaceful.

@georgegalloway @PennyBrenny @Nigel_Farage That is the issue. The only way to get out of this mess before it gets even worse is to have a general election but Labour won't do that!

Dear @Nigel_Farage you must lead a broad movement in the country against the betrayal of #Brexit. Many including us will follow.

@RenaudCamus Eloquently put as usual sir.

The Great Replacement, or genocide by substitution of Europeans in Europe, is the crime against humanity of the 21st century. It is on a much larger scale than the worst genocide of the 20th century. On the other hand, it is infinitely less atrocious in its execution, because the art of eradicating peoples has made enormous progress in a century thanks to advances in communication, brain conditioning, propaganda and advertising. It is playful, sexy, well-meaning, the epitome of politcal correctness. It has the support of the Good Souls and is entirely based on the ideology of the “cool." Most of its victims are not even aware of it. Moreover, it kills comparatively few; as its name suggests, it replaces. It has already destroyed three-quarters of all the peoples of Western Europe.

@LoftusSteve Fucked, without petroleum lube, again and again. Faster, harder daddy, spank us

This has what has happened to UK-ETS (Carbon costs) since it leaked in January that Labour might join the EU scheme. Carbon prices up from £31 /t to £52 /t. That's over £2b a year added to bills just on the speculation. And for what? What does the UK get?

@MoriartyProfJ25 It was already on a slow downward spiral but that really kicked into gear in 2020 and the cunts haven't looked back since, it's just getting silly now, talk about slippery slopes

@FUDdaily Starmer's unique position has Imho destroyed the system by removing the gap between the judiciary and the executive

I usually try to see it from the side of the authorities to see if there is a rationale at work, but unless I'm missing something, this just looks like pure vindictiveness to me.

@Sargon_of_Akkad I'm getting vibes of that Ben Stiller film

What on earth is going on here?

@StewartWood He never answers questions, he's literally chief gaslighter. And his majority is orders of magnitude larger than his mandate. So what's the point?

Nigel Farage isn't even in the House of Commons during the questions to the Prime Minister on his EU-UK deal, the issue that he is supposed to care about more than any other. Where is he?

I couldn't have put it better myself

@250kchip @SpeechUnion @Keir_Starmer I strongly believe you are correct, Starmer's unique position has I think broken our system by removing the seperation of the judiciary from the executive

@SpeechUnion Britain's judiciary is politically corrupted. I simply don't accept this is fair or just. These people are being scapegoated to preserve the credibility of @Keir_Starmer

🚨 Lucy Connolly’s appeal has been denied. The Court of Appeal has refused to reduce her 31-month prison sentence, which she got for a single tweet posted just hours after three young girls were murdered in Southport by Axel Rudakubana. With the FSU’s support, Lucy — a childminder and mother of a 12 year-old daughter — appealed the sentence. Her barrister, Adam King, argued that Lucy pleaded guilty to a level of culpability she should not have done because she wasn’t properly advised by her solicitor — an argument the Court of Appeal rejected — and that the judge in the case, HHJ Melbourne Inman KC, failed to give due weight to powerful mitigating factors, such as the death of Lucy’s 19-month-old son following a hospital error, which meant she felt the death of the schoolgirls in Southport particularly acutely, and the fact that, after having time to reflect, she deleted the post within hours and then apologised for it. That, too, was an argument rejected by the Court of Appeal. This is a deeply disappointing judgement. No one disputes the tweet was offensive, but the sentence of more than two-and-a-half years was plainly disproportionate. Lucy received a longer jail term than Philip Prescott, who joined a racially aggravated mob attack on a mosque and threw missiles at the police in a riot in Southport. Mohammed Islam Choudhrey, a man who pleaded guilty to paying for sex with a child prostitute in Telford, received a lighter sentence. And the same judge who jailed Lucy gave 20 months to Haris Ghaffar, who pleaded guilty to violent disorder during last summer’s riots. The FSU funded Lucy’s appeal and we were present in court throughout. Two-and-a-half years for a single tweet is grossly disproportionate and it should trouble anyone who believes the law must be applied evenly, without fear or favour. Lucy should be at home with her family — not locked up in jail while her husband, Ray, battles bone marrow failure and her 12-year-old daughter is struggling to cope without her mother. Lord Young of Acton, the General Secretary of the FSU, said: “This is terribly disappointing. How can it be right for Lucy to have been condemned to spend more than two-and-a-half years in jail for a single tweet when members of grooming gangs who plead guilty to the sexual exploitation of children get lower sentences? Lucy should be at home with her 12 year-old daughter and husband, not rotting in jail.” You can donate to Lucy’s crowdfunder, set up by @AllisonPearson, here. democracythree.org/helplucyconnol…

@terrychristian Oh Terry do fuck off, a landslide? That wasnt even a protest vote, most Tories just stayed at home. And 70%? Again please fuck right off, the last meaningful poll on Brexit was 52 : 48, you can take your left wing wank rag polls of a couple of thousand people and shove 'em.

@apshutt @ThompsonRollo @MartinDaubney That's just not how tariffs work bro

@ThompsonRollo @MartinDaubney The EU could quite easily ban foreign shipments going to the UK or put 100% tariffs on food going to the UK

THE DEVIL IS ALWAYS IN THE DETAIL Starmer's "reset" deal on fishing not only gives the EU 12 more years. It binds future governments to it Brussels could introduce tariffs on British exports if EU access to UK coastal waters is restricted before 2038 This is a three-term sellout of the British fishing industry The Tories nor Reform could undo it without inflicting a Trump-style trade war against the UK AND THIS ASTONISHINGLY PRO-EU DEAL WAS JUST SIGNED BY A BRITISH PRIME MINISTER