Ian Mayo

@GMB @DrHilaryJones When a government treats a Public Health crisis as an Economic crisis, it ends up throwing both Public Health [1] and the Economy [2] under the bus. [1] Worst number of Covid deaths in Europe [2] OECD Forecast UK to have worst economic impact from Covid.

@Mortimer4Kim @Edwina_Currie Meh. The fact that Royals are 'special' is what lead to Andrew's dodgy dealings being ignored. Let 'special' be earned, not gifted.

@ianmayo @Edwina_Currie That's Royalty. That's different.

The slight problem with close protection, of course, is that the police then keep a log of everywhere you go, and everyone you meet .. Bit restricting, isn’t it? Unless you’ve nothing to hide.. 👇👇🇬🇧🇬🇧🤬🤬🤬

@dave43law Meh: - Prince Andrew activities not logged by police minders - Police stationed INSIDE No.10 did nothing to prevent location critical to UK Covid response becoming MOST FINED IN BRITAIN We have extensive evidence of police minders putting subject security over accountability.

FARAGE SECURITY REALITY CHECK What reasons could Farage have for rejecting security except of course - his movements would be mapped - Parliament visits logged - visitors and associates logged - his 4 or 5hr lunches logged - foreign trips logged and not only logged but detailed as to where he has visited, who he has visited, who financed the trip - visits to Clacton logged (nil return)

@LucyGoBag Would be interesting to hear Jeremy Hunt's perspective on it. He was SoS for Health for almost all of the period of reduction.

Am I losing my mind? Where is the discussion of all the legal conflict around the PPE stockpile 2014-2019? That is everything to the context. Without this, the Covid Five report which I am deep diving is worryingly partial

@spectator I think the UK State need to seriously provide security to @CountBinface He is genuinely standing in the way of “persons” with billions of dollars of revenue on the line, who wish to protect Farridge. These aren’t usual sums of cash. Come on @metpoliceuk…

It looks like it will be Nige vs Count Binface, to the childish glee of every Radio 4 comedian and Remoaner on the internet. Well, I'm not laughing. I think the parties are behaving abominably. Their choreographed retreat smacks of moral cowardice. This is a collective abdication of the first duty of a party, which is to contest elections, to disseminate ideas, to try to win the hearts of voters. The parties think they're getting one over on Farage but in truth they are grossly insulting the good people of Clacton, whose views and votes they clearly couldn't give a toss about. They are cruelly depriving these working-class seasiders of choice. It is obscene. ✍️ Brendan O’Neill Article | spectator.com/article/nigel-… | @spikedonline

@edwinhayward were you proud of your progress? anything to show off?

Immensely frustrating. I was up until 3am burning through Fable credits before the 7 July deadline so as not to waste them. And now there's a deadline but no credits to use before it arrives.

@Colin00007 @ShehabKhan Siri, show me an example of someone showing no understanding of British humour.

@ShehabKhan I’m blocking you for having no understanding of British politics No wonder ITV sacked you - you are an idiot

Going to be crazy awkward if after this stunt, no other candidates get put up and Nigel Farage is standing on the stage with just Count Bin Face

1) It’s *literally* your job to regulate this platform. 2) If you can’t, what does that mean? Tell us. 3) The Dept of Culture is not ‘your’ department, it’s ours. You’re its temporary custodian 5) But Facebook is ok? Really?

@supertanskiii @MartinHoran1

Reform and Restore voters: dirt poor people radicalised by privately educated multimillionaires who pose as patriotic politicians while being bankrolled by foreign billionaires.

@LucyGoBag Come on Prof, if the only acceptable modes of protest are those that have no impact, then protest has been suppressed. Which is just what our dear acquaintance Mr 53679910 is hoping for.

I get the sentiment and the urgency but this is also wildly unhelpful

@TumbleweedChase @LizWebsterSBF Yeah, GDP plateauing off will give the illusion of growth in exports vs GDP

@ianmayo @LizWebsterSBF UK export as a % of GDP

🟢 John Major tears strips off Farage and his Brexit - which has been wholly negative. “Wholly negative” campaign of “undeliverable promises.” “ What control have they taken back?” Trade hit, no gains visible. “Empty slogan.” Powerful stuff ✅

@TumbleweedChase @LizWebsterSBF source, attribution? Labelled axes would be a start.

@LizWebsterSBF There has been no trade hit...

@Jpft123 @SimonDanczuk You meant to say "he's successfully won the public vote at 3 mayoral elections, getting over 60% of the vote each time".

@SimonDanczuk He's had 10 years of fawning local media and local Councils without scrutiny and no opposition. He's soon going to be in for a shock.

What is this about? The standard of parliamentary response from Labour’s next Prime Minister. This is the best they’ve got to run Britain, to say it doesn’t bode well is an understatement. God help us.

@CorbettAndy If Burnham is going to get a battering anyway, he should crack on with Levenson 2. Sure, it’’s 10 years too late, but it’s what’s needed to put the 4th estate in order.

I think this is a good article, but it doesn’t even mention the role of a relentlessly biased and hostile media in the defenestration of Starmer. theconversation.com/why-is-the-uk-…

@Aviation_Intel Wait. Is Russia a security threat to USA or not? Aah, Fightertown Alaska is to defence from Greenland. Obvs!

Air Force’s Fightertown Alaska Plan Takes Shape The Air Force intends to drastically expand its premier northern outpost as Alaska's importance for Arctic and Pacific operations continues to grow. twz.com/air/air-forces…

Please, please can someone explain how @GaryLineker got into this shot?

@DaveKent101 @Goosey30111568 Oh, if only they got a few more votes, and they could get the Labour government out. Tell you what, Mr [common name][county][number] - you're very perceptive. Please help me navigate this political vacuum.

@Goosey30111568 That small Restore vote could still be enough to deny Reform the seat and saddle us with Burnham as PM though...

I've been out all afternoon canvassing in Makerfield. From the data I recieved. I have obtained similar results to Times Poll released earlier this evening.

@voblat @earthygirl011 I know! Totes agree. Bring back the Tories & Reform to see the back of individuals funding corruption in politics, right? Who's with me! Let's go!

@earthygirl011 Labour will ALWAYS want to be in control, and raynor nd burnhm are funded by the exact same people as streeting and starmer, so will always want the exact same broader policy platform. They are innately corrupt, and so is everything they get involved with.

Zack Polanski "Andy Burnham & Angela Rayner are still in the Labour Party & have been silent while Labour has done some pretty egregious things here & around the world" Big caveat from Green leader, & rightly so. A statement of stopping UK arming Israel is an absolute must

@TerrySparrow4 In a week with lots of talk about defence spending I don't know how we justify expense here, when military accommodation & retention are so cash starved. Sure, it's display of "polish" - a soft message to King's foes. How about "polish" in credible miltary activities instead?

Despite being a lifelong Republican I do watch the Trooping of the Colour 🇬🇧. That’s because of the respect I have for our Armed Forces, STILL the best in the world despite the lack of money for defence. Our little island conquered half the world 🌎 once, and yeah I’m proud! 🇬🇧

Tonight, as I do every year at this time, I’ll be raising a glass to a scared young man, who 82 years ago was preparing to go ashore on the beaches of Normandy as part of an event code-named Operation Overlord. D-Day. I can’t imagine what was going through his mind. I’d be scared to death and I’m sure he was too. But in that first wave was a 21-year-old Private First Class from Henry County, VA by the name of Allen Homer Sink. Fortunately, he would survive that initial wave, participate in battle until it ended in August, then come home to marry and raise a family of four, including two daughters after the war ended. He would also become my father-in-law until his death in 2006. His nickname for some reason was “Hank” and when I asked him how he got it, he said some guy in the Army said he “looked like a Hank.” From the time I first met him, he was a salt-of-the-earth man who was never afraid of anything. He was a carpenter by trade, and he’d stand up on the tallest roofs, grab bumblebees with his bare hands when they tried to persuade him to move elsewhere, and never be bothered by anything. His hands were tough and leathery, but he was a softie. He spoiled his children, complained when my mother-in-law would gripe about something involving one of his alleged misdeeds, and always thought he was fooling everybody when he snuck around the back of the house and lit a cigarette, a habit everyone opposed but he could never part himself from. He could talk your ear off for hours at a time, and I always suggested he become a greeter at Wal-Mart when he retired because then he could talk all day to strangers and none of them would – like his wife and daughters often did – tell him to be quiet for a few moments. Yet for all his love of talking, there was one subject he just wouldn’t discuss. June 6, 1944. Omaha Beach. In 1998, when he was 76 years old, the subject came up again. The movie “Saving Private Ryan” came out and the beginning was gruesome. Reviews said it was incredibly realistic to what really happened that day. I asked Hank if he wanted to go see it. “No,” he shook his head. “I don’t ever want to see any of that again.” He did offer that he remembered the night before when troops were loaded into the boats for the amphibious assault. He said it was raining and that once everyone was in place, they gave everybody ice cream and told them to try to get some sleep. Then the next thing he knew, they were waking everybody up telling them to stay low and head for the beach. No, that doesn’t sound like somebody drugged the ice cream. Not at all. That’s all he would say about the subject, and he never said another word about it until the final months of his life. Alzheimer’s would gradually rob him of his mind, and as his condition deteriorated, memories of the past would briefly spill out. One evening he thought I was his commanding officer and he was back at Normandy. It is the only time I ever saw him where he appeared to be scared. Ever. It reminds me every day of something I had unknowingly taken for granted. The greatest generation did fight in and win World War II, then did incredible things over the next 50 to 60 years after the war. But many carried unspeakable memories from the War, ones they would never talk about and carry inside them to their graves. Those veterans lost a piece of themselves in battle they would never, ever, get back. I mean, how can you at the tender age of 21 storm a beach, see friends die only a few feet from you, wonder each night if you will wake up alive the next morning and then return home a year later and try to pick up on the same normal life you had before you left? I told him once that after seeing “Saving Private Ryan”, I understood why he was never afraid of anything; after you’ve made it through something like that, everything else pales in comparison. So tonight, I raise a glass to Hank and the 150,000-plus men, who like my father-in-law, were very young, very scared, and still charged that beach, paying a price that even for the survivors would last the rest of their days. Rest In Peace...