Nick Tyler

@DreyfusJames Ours used to jump into water; any time, any place, any where. Oblivious and unconcerned re condition, tide or temperature, in he went. Do certain of their senses and/or nerve ends simply shut off on demand? Only possible explanation.

‘And in this week’s episode of “Spot The Berk”, see if you find the twerp with its nose jammed into a bed of nettles…’

@DreyfusJames Pants On Fire time again.

Boy oh boy oh boy… This just about sums it ALL up… Man asks clear question. Moderator immediately panics. Politician is permitted to get away with talking rot. Man receives no answer. Rinse & repeat…

@PaulEmbery Sorry, but that’s tosh. Starmer knowingly appointed a wrong ‘un, then tried to hide behind process. Westminster must clean itself, as and when necessary, else the people will clean up themselves, and be a lot more tough handed about it.

I agree. Mandelson's behaviour was scandalous, but the amount of time that those in the SW1 bubble are devoting to the tedious business of how he was appointed shows just how skewed their priorities are. Most voters don't give a damn about this bureaucratic 'process' stuff.

@Ed_Miliband You also reducing the fuel excise duty bonuses your government is receiving? If not, keep schtum on this one.

It would be completely wrong for a Government to stand by and allow companies to make excess profits from a war. That’s why we’re taxing these windfall profits to help with the cost of living. And why the Tories, Reform and the SNP are utterly wrong to oppose the windfall tax.

@Anna_Soubry You fool.

FWIW: sensible #Labour MPs may well be disappointed (given recent events) in #KeirStarmer but he’s fundamentally an honest & decent man. Opposition parties are playing politics ahead of elections. I hope Labour back benchers get behind Starmer & vote the motion down

@andrewlawrence Carol Voderman appears to have shut up also. Still, @DeborahMeaden is still cheerleading.

Not one mainstream UK comedian is talking politics anymore, because they relentlessly pushed this Labour government on us, and they see now the damage that they've caused.

@sufferingspurs When there wasn’t VAR, well ok, referee only gets one look at it. But with VAR?! It’s got to a point where I genuinely don’t understand the rules any more. I do hope there are rules; I’m beginning to wonder.

I hate conversations about corruption in the premier league. I don’t think they are valid. Especially on the pitch. I wholeheartedly believe in the integrity of our game. But when you see a two footed challenge on Bissouma today that doesn’t get a red. And then the most blatant handball you’ll ever see in the West Ham game. Explain it to me? There is no argument on the planet that can explain away that handball. The VAR have seen what we’ve seen, and decided it isn’t a penalty. What is their reason?

@DDDL_MSainsbury @fullback03

@fullback03 For the handball or the blatant holding? Two chances to blow-up VAR: “Just need to check the table to see if it will help Spurs in any way…” There will be another review and they’ll hold up their hands (with no consequences)

No Penalty for Everton. I’m so confused. What’s happened to this sport?

@graceyldn No

What’s the equivalent of “I have a boyfriend” to those charity muggers that hang around train stations or town centres?

@MikeRGlenn I always wondered who won the excavation & cart away contract. Nice little earner, I’d have thought.

I was watching the James Bond movie, "You Only Live Twice," and noticed all the people working in Blofeld's volcano lair. I was wondering if the place had a cafeteria for the employees. What about all the jump suits? Who had the contract to supply them? Is there an HR Department?

@MartinKnight_ George Cohen

On St. George’s Day - my five favourite George’s: 1. George Best 2. George Harrison 3. George Orwell 4. George Formby 5. George Cole. Yours?

@orlaminihane @SorchaEastwood Brilliant!

I had to share this. If you haven’t seen this lady in action - you soon will !!! What a legend!!! THIS is the passion and honesty we desperately need in British Politics!! @SorchaEastwood 🇬🇧 I solute you Sorcha !

@BarristersHorse She married a toolmaker, don’t you know.

Dear Mister Speeker, Our Keir carnt do PMQ's today - his verruca is bothering him again and everyone keeps pickin' on him for wearing glasses. Your sinceerly Keir's Mam

@Dominic2306 @tony_como @Morrisons Morrisons - Neither will I

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

@ThrillaRilla369 Yankee Echo Sierra

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@DeborahMeaden It’s painful to acknowledge when you’re proven wrong. But it’s important: when facts change, one’s opinion should change also. You’ll also respected a lot more.

Right… important to get to the bottom of this, important to keep all Politicians honest just need to check the line between witch hunting and scrutiny…. I really want my Govt focusing on the important stuff that makes the UK a better place to live, work and be proud of…

@SophyRidgeSky No, it means he followed process. It shows KS hasn’t the intelligence to alter course when process leads you up a blind alley.

Key line of Sir Olly Robbins letter to Ctte: "When the PM informed the house that the proper process had been followed in respect of National Security Vetting, he was correct" In other words: He followed process & didn't do anything wrong. PM knows that too.

@AuthorGFAllen Steinbeck Dickens Orwell Trollope Simenon and that’s just for starters

Have you ever finished a book and thought, “Okay, I’m reading everything this person writes”?

@KonstantinKisin The issue itself may be trivia (questionable); that our ruling classes are exposed as lying, naive incompetents isn’t trivial as all.

It's amazing that the entire British media and political establishment will spend weeks obsessing over how exactly a paedophile's best friend was appointed by our government, while completely ignoring the fact that the government is destroying our economy through Net Zero, bankrupting the country through welfarism and punitive taxation and disarming the country by failing to fund the military despite repeated warnings from senior military figures. This obsession with trivia is partly human nature, of course. But it's also a dereliction of duty and a reflection of just how unserious our entire political class has become.

@JChimirie66677 Tips hat to @HackneyAbbott for the most piercing question of all. Not answered, of course. Nor required to answer by @CommonsSpeaker, shamefully.

The One Question He Refused to Answer. Why Did You Want Mandelson? There is a document that cuts through everything Keir Starmer said in the Commons today. It was not produced by his opponents. It was not leaked by his enemies. It was written by his own Cabinet Secretary and placed in his box before he announced Peter Mandelson's appointment to the world. Lord Case told the Prime Minister explicitly: give us the name of the person you would like to appoint and we will develop a plan for them to acquire the necessary security clearances before confirming your choice. The advice could not have been clearer. Vet first. Confirm second. That is the process. That is how it works. Starmer did the opposite. He announced Mandelson publicly on December 20 2024. Vetting did not begin until after the announcement. The security services subsequently said no. The Foreign Office overrode them. And today the Prime Minister stood at the despatch box, was jeered by MPs, and told Parliament it was unforgivable that he was not told the vetting had failed. There is a second document. The official due diligence advice to the Prime Minister dated 11 December 2024, nine days before that announcement. It recorded in plain terms, assembled from open source material requiring nothing more than a search engine and a willingness to look, that Mandelson had served as a non-executive director of the Russian conglomerate Sistema, majority shareholder of a defence technology company producing radar and satellite communications for Russia's land-based missile early warning system. Its chairman was Yevgeny Primakov, a Putin ally and former Russian prime minister. Mandelson remained on the board until June 2017, long after Putin's annexation of Crimea. The document also noted his flowery account of his October 2018 meeting with Xi Jinping, still visible on his Global Counsel website. Starmer read that document. Nine days later he announced the appointment. Today MPs asked him repeatedly why. Kemi Badenoch asked it. Diane Abbott asked it with a precision that cut through everything else said in that chamber. It is one thing, Abbott said, to insist nobody told me. The question is why the Prime Minister did not ask. The question beneath that question is the one nobody could get him to answer. Given everything that was publicly known about Peter Mandelson, his resignations, his relationships with dubious figures, his Epstein connection, his Russia links, his China connections, why did this Prime Minister want him in one of the most sensitive positions in global politics badly enough to ignore all of it? He did not answer. Not once. Not to anyone. That refusal is more revealing than anything he said. Emily Thornberry, chair of the foreign affairs committee, came closest to naming what the unanswered question points toward. She alleged the appointment had been driven by certain members of the Prime Minister's team who ensured security considerations were second order. Starmer rejected the charge. He offered no alternative explanation. The cascade of failures that followed, the override, the Strap Three clearance, the misleading of Parliament, the sacking of Robbins, flows directly from that single act of wilful incuriosity. The question of why he was so determined to make this appointment, despite his Cabinet Secretary's advice, despite the Russia and China warnings in his own due diligence report, despite everything the country already knew, remains unanswered. Today was his chance. He chose not to answer. Tomorrow Robbins gives evidence. What he says may tell us more about why Mandelson was wanted in that post than anything the Prime Minister offered today. The question that was not answered on Monday will not go away. It is the only question that matters. And the country is still waiting. "It is one thing, Abbott said, to insist nobody told me. The question is why the Prime Minister did not ask."