Brexit Turmoil
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Brexit Turmoil
@BrexitTurmoil
Rabid Remainer, Feminist, bookworm, knitter, lecturer, carer, may swear a bit - sorry but Brexit makes me so angry. NOT leaving #5107
Europe Sumali Nisan 2019
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I’m fearful for our next few years.
On issue after issue - migration, energy, welfare and the war - Polanski and Rayner are running Starmer.
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Worth reading
Gandalv@Microinteracti1
Robert Mueller died last night. He was 81 years old. He had a wife who loved him for sixty years. He had two daughters, one of whom he met for the first time in Hawaii, in 1969, on a few hours of military leave, before he got back on the plane and returned to Vietnam. He had grandchildren. He had a faith he practiced quietly, without performance. He had, in the way of men who have seen real things and survived them, a quality that is increasingly rare and increasingly mocked in the country he spent his life serving. He had integrity. And tonight the President of the United States said good! I have been sitting with that word for hours now. Good. One syllable. The thing you say when the coffee is hot or the traffic is moving. The thing a man who has never had to bury anyone, never had to sit in the specific silence of a room where someone is newly absent, reaches for when he wants the world to know he is satisfied. Good. The daughters are crying and the wife is alone in the house and good. I want to speak directly to the Americans reading this. Not the political Americans. Just the human ones. The ones who have lost a father. The ones who know what it is to be in that first hour, when you keep forgetting and then remembering again, when ordinary objects become unbearable, when the world outside the window seems obscene in its indifference. I want to ask you, simply, to hold that feeling for a moment, and then to understand that the man you elected looked at it and typed a single word. Good. This is not a country having a bad day. I need you to understand that. Countries have bad days. Elections go wrong. Leaders disappoint. Institutions bend. But there is a different thing, a rarer and more terrible thing, that happens when the moral center of a place simply gives way. Not dramatically. Not with a single catastrophic event. But quietly, in increments, until one evening a president celebrates the death of an old man whose family is still warm with grief, and enough people find it acceptable that it becomes the weather. Just the weather. That is what is happening. That is what has happened. The world knows. From Tokyo to Oslo, from London to Buenos Aires, people are not angry at America tonight. Anger would mean there was still something to fight for, some remaining faith to be betrayed. What I see, in the reactions from everywhere that is not here, is something older and sadder than anger. It is the look people get when they have waited a long time for someone they love to find their way back, and have finally understood that they are not coming. America is being grieved. Past tense, almost. The idea of it. The thing it represented to people who had nothing else to believe in, who came here with everything they owned in a single bag because they had heard, somehow, across an ocean, that this was the place where decency was written into the walls. That idea is not resting. It is not suspended. It is being buried, in real time, with 7,450 likes before dinner. And the church said nothing. Seventy million people have decided that this man, this specific man who has cheated everyone he has ever made a promise to, who has mocked the disabled and the dead and the grieving, who celebrated tonight while a family wept, is an instrument of God. The pastors who made that bargain did not just trade away their credibility. They traded away the thing that made them worth listening to in the first place. The cross they carry now is a costume. The faith they preach is a loyalty oath with scripture attached. When the history of American Christianity is written, this will be the chapter they skip at seminary. Now I want to talk about the men who stand next to him. Because this is the part that actually breaks my heart. JD Vance is not a bad man. I have to say that, because it is true, and because the truth matters even now, especially now. Marco Rubio is not a bad man. Lindsey Graham is not a bad man. They are idiots, but not bad, as in BAD! These are men with mothers who raised them and children who love them and friends who remember who they were before all of this. They are not monsters. Monsters are simple. Monsters do not cost you anything emotionally because there is nothing in them to mourn. These men are something more painful than monsters. They are men who knew better, and know better still, and will get up tomorrow and do it again. Every small compromise they made had a reason. Every moment they looked the other way had a justification that sounded, at the time, almost reasonable. And now they have arrived here, at a place where a president celebrates the death of an old man and they will find a way, on television, to say nothing that means anything, and they will go home to houses where children who carry their name are waiting, and they will say goodnight, and they will say nothing. Their oldest friends are watching. The ones who knew Rubio when he still believed in something. Who knew Graham when he said, out loud, on the record, that this exact man would destroy the Republican Party and deserve it. Who sat next to Vance and thought here is someone worth knowing. Those friends are not angry tonight. They moved through anger a long time ago. What they feel now is the quiet, irrecoverable sadness of watching someone disappear while still being present. Of watching a person they loved choose, again and again, to become less. That is what cowardice costs. Not the coward. The people who loved him. And in the comments tonight, the followers celebrate. People who ten years ago brought casseroles to grieving neighbours. Who stood in the rain at gravesides and meant the words they said. Who told their children that we do not speak ill of the dead because the dead were someone's beloved. Those people are tonight typing gleeful things about a man whose daughters are not yet done crying. And they feel clean doing it. Righteous. Because somewhere along the way the thing they were given in exchange for their decency was the feeling of belonging to something, and that feeling is very hard to give up even when you can no longer remember what you gave for it. When Trump is gone, they will still be here. Standing in the silence where the noise used to be. Without the permission the crowd gave them. Without the pastor who told them their cruelty was holy. They will be alone with what they said and what they cheered and what they chose to become, and there will be no one left to tell them it was righteous. That morning is coming. Robert Mueller flew across the Pacific on military leave to hold his newborn daughter for a few hours before returning to the war. He came home. He buried his dead with honour. He served presidents of both parties because he understood that the institution was larger than any one man. He told his grandchildren that a lie is the worst thing a person can do, that a reputation once lost cannot be recovered, and he lived that, every day, in the quiet and unglamorous way of people who actually believe what they say. He was the kind of American the world used to point to when it needed to believe the story was true. He died last night. His wife is alone in their house in Georgetown. His daughters are learning what the world is without him in it. And somewhere in the particular hush that falls over a family in the first hours of loss, the most powerful man and the biggest loser on earth sent a message to say he was glad. The world that loved what America was supposed to be is grieving tonight. Not for Robert Mueller only. For the country that produced him and then became this. For the distance between what was promised and what was delivered. For the suspicion, growing quieter and more certain with each passing month, that the America people believed in was always partly a story, and the story is over now, and there is nothing yet to replace it. That is all it needed to be. A man died. His family is broken open with grief. That is all it needed to be. Instead the President said good. And the country that once stood for something looked away 🇺🇸 Gandalv / @Microinteracti1
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Interesting that they appear to have decided William Cullen Bryant, the 19thC American poet is now for Reform
As is Pierre-Esprit Radisson, the 17thC French Canadian explorer…
MattyFreedom@FreedomMatty
I just did 4 hours non-stop leafleting to try and save my country with Reform UK. I’m knackered. I will be able to look my kids and their kids in the eye and tell them - I tried. I just hope others are doing their bit, in whatever way they can. Don’t leave it to others.
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I've seen literally thousands of people today alone.
Labour are done.
People aren't just excited by the Green Party - they're out on the streets campaigning to win.
Hope and a plan.
Join.greenparty.org.uk
Heather Mendick@helensclegel
Labour assembled 16 people to knock on doors. If you remove people employed by Labour, candidates & elected office holders from this photo, you're left with just 2 people. Even with @wesstreeting, they can't turn out the grassroots in Hackney. Labour is in its death throes.
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@reformparty_uk Irrespective of the drivel she’s spouting, why is she so shiny?
Is she made of plastic?
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@ConnorHollandUK Connor? Isn’t that an Irish name? From Conchobhar
And Holland could be English, but could equally be Dutch …
So shut it you nasty little racist
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This kind of stuff happens during war. We should be on guard.
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Wes Streeting having the chutzpah to tell the story about the NHS.
He doesn't tell the bit about how much he's accepted from private healthcare and the risk our NHS is at under this Labour Government.
And most of all, lots of questions about his meetings with Palantir.
#BBCQT
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@SuellaBraverman @KohoTeam Well you would know all about sacking wouldn’t you…
You were sacked by Liz Truss FFS!
And by Rishi Sunak
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Sacked for telling the truth.
I have read the report from the DfE and it is disgraceful.
A good teacher has been struck off for holding very normal, common-sense views.
Civil servants in Westminster would faint if they met someone from Darlington or Middlesbrough. They are completely detached from reality.
I hope Mr Everett appeals and is successful.
Daily Mail@DailyMail
PE teacher who told migrants to 'respect our laws or leave' banned from classroom despite being cleared of racism and it being recommended that he keep his job trib.al/3U0e5UF
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@DanielJHannan Gosh! Are you still around?
Surely you’ve slunk off back under your rock by now…
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No, Angela Rayner, it is not “un-British” to refuse automatic citizenship to people who are literally, you know, un-British.
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@faisalislam @Julesmadworld @MichaelRosenYes He speaks so eloquently about such a tragedy
I lost my friend at university - spoke to her on the Sunday, dead on the Tuesday
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Very sad & also important to hear from @MichaelRosenYes on last nights Newsnight… I did not know about the speed of meningitis
BBC Newsnight@BBCNewsnight
“I put him to bed with paracetamol and Nurofen and I went in in the morning and he was dead - it was that quick.” Author and poet Michael Rosen remembers the sudden death of his late son Eddie to Meningitis C in 1999. #Newsnight
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I will not be silenced.
Labour are only demonstrating that they cannot see right from wrong.
They will not stand up for our way of life.
But we will.
Nick Timothy MP@NJ_Timothy
Too many are too polite to say this. But mass ritual prayer in public places is an act of domination. The adhan - which declares there is no god but allah and Muhammad is his messenger - is, when called in a public place, a declaration of domination. Perform these rituals in mosques if you wish. But they are not welcome in our public places and shared institutions. And given their explicit repudiation of Christianity they certainly do not belong in our churches and cathedrals. I am not suggesting everybody at Trafalgar Square last night is an Islamist. But the domination of public places is straight from the Islamist playbook. Trafalgar Square belongs to all of us. It is a national memorial to our independence and our salvation. Last night was not like a televised football match or a St Patrick’s Day celebration. It was an act of domination and therefore division. It shouldn’t happen again.
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This 60th birthday just gets better and better. 🍾🥂Copies of my memoir #KeepingTheDreamAlive have arrived! Published by @iconbooks on 23 April advance orders here uk.bookshop.org/p/books/keepin…
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@RobertJenrick “Honest” Bob says what?
Err… if I’m reading this right from the Commons Library on Tory spending WHILE YOU WERE IN GOVERNMENT,
You were sending £1.7 billion to Africa
You nasty little hypocrite
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Yvette Cooper is sending £650 million to Africa.
Reform will cut this waste and cut your bills instead.
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@AdamJSchwarz @NickStevenson63 He’s really dumb isn’t he? I mean knuckle dragging, 2 legs in same trouser, dumb.
GIF
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Japanese PM Sanae Takaichi's reaction as Trump says "Who knows better about surprise than Japan? Why didn't you tell me about Pearl Habour?"
Undoubtedly the worst American diplomatic gaffe in post-war US-Japan history.
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Reporter: Why didn't you notify Japan that you were going to attack Iran?
Trump next to the Japanese PM:
"Who knows better about surprise than Japan? Why didn't you tell me about Pearl Habour? You believe in surprise I think much more so than us."
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@PaulBrandITV The poll sample was 1000 ish people -
You asked 0.0014% the UK
Or one in every 69,844
650ish said they support it
That’s 0.00095% of the UK population
Shame on you
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EXCL: 65% of people back the assisted dying bill, just 14% oppose it, as it’s held up in the Lords.
One dying man pleads with peers from his hospice bed to give him a choice.
ITV News is featuring stories from both sides of the debate as time runs out.
itv.com/news/2026-03-1…
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I'm sorry for saying that hypnosis could make women’s breasts bigger, Green leader Zack Polanski has said
Polanski said he could use his mind to enlarge breasts in a 2013 interview
'I've apologised several times...most people are interested in how I'm going to lower bills'
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