Claire Bell

@afneil How is this allowed?

Speaker Lindsay Hoyle was on a jolly to the British Virgin Islands when he says he learned Peter Mandelson was apparently a flight risk (unlikely). No surprise he was in the Caribbean. Long been branded ‘long-haul Hoyle’ at our expense, spending more than £320,000 of taxpayers’ cash on foreign jaunts up until last summer since becoming Speaker in 2019. He spent more than £200,000 on first and business class plane tickets plus tens of thousands more spent on chauffeur-driven cars, stays at luxury five-star resorts and restaurants. During a previous Caribbean tour in March 2023, he shelled out nearly £5,500 chartering private planes to hop between the islands of St Maarten, Montserrat, Anguilla and Antigua. In 2024, he spent £22,000 for a five-day trip to meet his counterpart in the Cayman Islands, staying at the Westin Grand, where his room was billed at £679 per night. His snout. Our trough. They really do take us for fools.

@Romy_Skye @LewisHamilton @abudhabigp @artistictania Great poster & words. I hope @LewisHamilton sees this!

🚨 ABU DHABI GP BANNER We had fans give us a word they associated with Lewis in their own handwriting and translated that onto a banner! We aimed for 44, fit in 52. Thank you to all who participated!! I really really hope Lewis sees this on Thu/Sat, esp after the year he’s had!

@fiagirly He looks so miserable 😩

#QatarGP 🇶🇦 | Lewis Hamilton was asked if he regrets leaving Mercedes: “That is a hypothetical question and I will not really get into that.” “But I don’t regret the decision I made, joining this team. I know it takes time to build and grow within an organisation and I expected that.”

@karunchandhok And Ferrari’s race strategy is rubbish.

Reflecting on this a bit more… In reality, if the Ferrari was as good as the McLaren this year then I truly believe that Charles & Lewis would have been title contenders, fighting for race wins. The root of Ferrari’s problem is that the car hasn’t been fast enough this year.

@leeharris They release the bad news on weds afternoon so it’s old news & forgotten by the next weds lunchtime.

This is wonderful. Fiona Bruce gets beautifully SHUT DOWN on bbcqt for defending law breaker Rachel Reeves. Incredibly satisfying to watch.

@Jenny_1884 Should be lowered to one!

To child benefit cap should remain If you can’t afford more than 2 then why should taxpayers cover the cost? Who else agrees?

@RupertLowe10 To hold a general election

I have been selected to ask Starmer a question next week at PMQs... What do you think I should ask him?

Go Alan!!! #CelebrityTraitors

@Motorsport Nigel Mansell

Who's the driver that made you a Formula 1 fan?

@the_traitors_ Oh Alan, we love you!!!

Alan Carr says he's escaped the UK to avoid any Celebrity Traitors backlash: "I'm the most hated man in the UK! I've had to come to Orlando to get away from it all. Everyone hates me! I just need to get away; it's stressful murdering every day. My Christmas card list is getting smaller and smaller."

@the_traitors_ You will never know if someone is a faithful or a traitor until they go out. If you do really think someone is a traitor you’re better to keep them in & befriend them until the end then reveal them because if you get them out too early you start again trying to find a traitor….

HOW IS JONATHAN DOING THIS #CelebrityTraitors

@the_traitors_ Who doesn’t have a shield?

Who do you think Alan will murder? 👀 #CelebrityTraitors

@stopbeingthem Everyone booed Lando at Monza even before the team orders to swap with Oscar. People don’t like him because he’s a spoilt entitled sulky baby.

everyone at the race fucking cheered at Oscar’s radio btw

@PatrickChristys @GBNEWS Go Patrick. This is disgustingly & I want to know why they haven’t been arrested. 2 tier yet again.

Enough. I’ve lost what little patience I had with mobs like this. I’m live at 9pm @GBNEWS.

@PatrickChristys Disgusting. Why are these people not being arrested?

No shame

As the sun rose over Dunkirk, I called the French police. Ten hours of tracking had established that a group of migrants were hiding in a cemetery just yards from the beach, waiting to cross the Channel. Surely this was the moment for the authorities to sweep the beach or search the streets to find the migrants and their smugglers? You know, to “smash the gang” I had found. “I will pass it on,” came the first response. I pressed - this was urgent. “The police will probably not come,” the 112 handler said, dismissively. No further details sought. No interest shown. I’d come to northern France to see for myself what is really happening as Channel crossings surge and communities back home bear the intolerable consequences of broken borders. Just me and a cameraman - no French minders, no protection. What I saw in the camps, streets, and beaches was sickening. The reality is worse than I have ever seen. The whole racket is a disgrace, and the French are aiding and abetting it. Take the camp near Loon-Plage: half a mile from tidy villages sits a lawless, dangerous space. Someone was shot dead there last month; stabbings are common. It is strewn with litter, ramshackle tents, and menace. Almost all the migrants are young men. They sit on the ground, scrolling their smartphones, waiting. No police. No officials. Those willing to speak were clear: they are coming to the UK for jobs, housing, benefits, and free healthcare. None said they were fleeing persecution - they are already in France. None had a trade or profession to offer. They will be a huge strain on already struggling UK public services. Some were polite; others threatened violence. One man pressed his face close, telling me to leave. Another began hurling glass bottles - one smashing beside me, another flying past my head. Do you want men like this in your community? I don’t. For saying this, I’ve been called a “xenophobe” on the BBC. But I doubt those levelling that smear have been to this camp, seen those men, and imagined them outside their children’s school gates. This is a national security emergency. And the French? We’ve given them £800m and get dismal theatre in return. They could stop this tomorrow. Instead, they stick two fingers up at Britain - and literally bus illegal migrants towards the beaches. That afternoon, I saw 40–50 migrants with lifejackets, marshalled by smugglers, walking along the railway. They headed to a public bus stop by a supermarket and boarded. Imagine that outside your local shop - lifejackets in hand, plain as day. Authorities know exactly what’s happening, yet facilitate it. We followed the bus into Dunkirk. The migrants walked towards the beach, one even in a wheelchair with a lifejacket on her lap. By nightfall, they were camped beside the cemetery. We checked on them through the undergrowth. A few hundred yards away, Dunkirk beach was empty of police or patrols, despite all the “special equipment” UK taxpayers fund. At dawn, they were gone. Their rubbish littered the ground. Binmen arrived to clean the mess up - but not the migrants. I rushed to the beach, convinced a launch was imminent, and called the police again. Still, nobody came. Sitting there, I felt anger at the French farce and shame at our own weakness. State visits, “landmark deals,” and hundreds of millions wasted. The French stop fewer boats than last year. Two thousand migrants have crossed in the last week alone. It’s all in plain sight. We are told this is “too complex” to fix. It isn’t. Change the law. Leave failed treaties. Deport illegal migrants. We are an island nation for goodness sake - we can end this. And end it we must.

@GSGB01 And on the BBC Breakfast this morning they said this is just a pilot

🚨BREAKING: The government have agreed to give France another £100 million to stop the boats on top of the £800 million they've already given them. We are being taken for fools.

@LewisHamilton Gorgeous 🔥

See you at the Met —

@RupertLowe10 Surely there can’t be many hotel rooms left

183 illegal migrants crossing the Channel yesterday, 104 the day before, 215 the day before that. I don't know how else to put this. IT IS PURE INSANITY. STOP putting these men in hotel accommodation, and START deporting every single one. Do that, the boats stop overnight.

@TiceRichard @reformparty_uk They’ll probably disappear now

The two Manchester Airport gentlemen appeared before the magistrates court on Thursday and refused to enter a plea. Mmm 🤔 They have had 6 months to think about it? They were released until 13th Feb when they will appear again in Court We @reformparty_uk will keep very close eye on proceedings