Newmarket MP Matt Hancock gave a £37bn Covid testing contract to Jockey Club director Dido Harding, who subcontracted it to Grand National sponsor Randox, employer of Tory MP Owen Paterson, whose late wife chaired Aintree racecourse. That's how the Tories handled the pandemic.

It is indisputable that Brexit has been an economic disaster, and notable that none of its political architects have paid any price.

So true. If only we focused on socio-economic root causes of crime and illness (basically on redressing inequality)

Covid inquiry live: ‘Inexcusable’ delays under Johnson led to 23,000 deaths Lockdowns may have been avoided if Boris Johnson’s government had acted faster, damning report finds

Having Johnson & Cummings in Downing Street when Covid struck was, just like Brexit, an entirely avoidable disaster caused largely by utterly appalling journalism. And now exactly the same clowns, arses & bigots with bylines are rolling out the red carpet for Farage.
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Can only agree 😔

I worked hard for Labour at the last election. So sad to see it chasing and validating the Reform agenda. Don't feel it is a party I can belong to anymore

SUPERB and angrily unvarnished response, by former BBC chairman, Lord Patten.

"I don't think that we should allow ourselves to be bullied into thinking that the BBC is only any good, if it reflects the prejudice of the last person who shouted at it." ~AA

The first step towards saving our precious BBC: remove Robbie Gibb from the board | Ed Davey The BBC belongs to all of us, and it is under attack as never before. The government must defend it from its enemies, within and without, says Liberal Democrat leader Ed Davey

The first step towards saving our precious BBC: remove Robbie Gibb from the board | Ed Davey

As a palliative care specialist, I’ve witnessed the human tragedy of our end-of-life care crisis | Rachel Clarke While the government debates assisted dying, palliative care is an afterthought. And many more people face death without the care and support they need, says Rachel Clarke

"We would never tolerate a government that chose to defund 70% of neonatal services, gambling that charities would fill the gap. Yet this is exactly the situation for end-of-life care."

Please read my piece on the travesty of NHS palliative care underfunding 🙏

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A big win for people more outraged by a silly edit at the BBC than by a man impeached by Congress for literally inciting an insurrection being back in the White House. Pathetic.

Sky News Headline “How Many Prisoners are Released By Mistake” speaking of public fury now

Daily Mirror report probs further than rest of MSM and dishes the dirt on the Tory era inc paragraph two re the massive increase whilst they were in power

👇🏼A Tale Of Two Press Eras👇🏼

Pre Labour with Tories in Govt for 14 years no public fury re prisoners released in error

OK so between 2012-2023, 682 prisoners were released in error, 146 escaped, 1634 absconded but hey who’s counting🤷🏼‍♂️

Post Tories #TheGreatNoticing by MSM began..now they’re obsessed❗️

An essential precondition for authoritarianism is the neutering of sources of real news.

Nigel Farage: Huge tax cuts not currently realistic - BBC News The Reform UK leader rows back on his party's previous promise to deliver £90bn of tax cuts.

Farage speaks and BBC reports it as a big news, despite Reform having just 5 MPs, whereas LibDems have 72 but @eddavey.libdems.org.uk gets blanked

Even when he U-Turns a policy made up on back of a fag pack that instead of being challenged by them as flawed, got reported as new

It’s nauseating❗️🥴😡

@bbcnewsnight.bsky.social

I've just watched your promo for your show on BBC News. It was crass. Do you want to undermine our democracy? Prisoners being released by mistake or escaping is NOTHING NEW. Prisons have been seriously underfunded for years.

Between March 2013-March 2023 672 prisoners were released in error and 115 were released in error in the last year of Tory misrule, funny how the media missed it eh.

Nige is no longer laughing at himself as he ‘performs’ yet another big speech | John Crace Reform leader is trying to make it as a mainstream politician – which involves contradicting himself and gaslighting voters

“His main theme was that the country was fucked. Largely because of Brexit. Weirdly, he has no memory of being the main architect behind the Brexit vote. He seems to think it happened in a world in which he played no part.”

Farage - the foghorn of failure.

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a close up of a man 's face with his eyes closed in a suit and tie . ALT: a close up of a man 's face with his eyes closed in a suit and tie .

● Andrew Windsor remains 8th in the line of succession.

●King Charles III will privately fund his new living arrangements despite Andrew being very rich indeed

● Actually we don't know how wealthy Andrew is because his mother's will is sealed for 90+ years

● Sleep well serfs.

● Know your place.

A woman is killed by a man every 3 days in the UK...

78% are murdered by a partner/ex

Yet not once have I heard Reform talk about this

Not once have I heard them back measures to protect women’s safety

In fact, they voted against them...

@libdems.org.uk smash Reform in yet another by-election 🍾🥳✊🏼✊🏼

Hmmm but why isn’t it on BBC & Sky News/MSM considering they report whenever Farage & Reform win anything.. even if it’s a raffle

It’s like they’re Reform’s PR team 🤔

Sky has at least 2 reports in Reeves talk about flog a dead horse🙄 🤷🏼‍♂️

Kemi Badenoch is absolutely right about this.

At the time she hacked Harriet Harman's emails it was an offence carrying a prison sentence of up to five years

Yes, because Badenoch’s was a criminal offence carrying a custodial sentence, whereas Reeves’ was not.

Letting agent apologises to Reeves for not applying for rental licence on her behalf

So the letting agent has apologised for their screwup, not applying for a rental license on Reeve’s behalf..

So how long will Chris Mason & Laura Kuenssberg pick this to pieces, given they buried Farage allegedly avoiding £44K stamp duty, and his girlfriend, being investigated for fraud so fast🤔

The Reeves house story is the main headline on BBC News. Nothing much said on Farage's house in Clacton when it broke and now it's pretty much buried. This is not unbiased reporting. It's on purpose. #RachelReeves #Farage #Reform

Asylum seekers, housed in hotels in Manchester, are reaching out in their own words to address the concerns of the local community.

Please take a minute to read their letter, & share it with the people in your life who need to hear the truth about the people they are protesting.

The nursing union has urged the government to stop using anti-migrant rhetoric, which it said was putting staff at risk.

That this needs to be said is shocking. Sadly, it is necessary.

Farage, Jenrick and all your miserable, cowardly backers and apologists… this is on you.
Do you have any “legitimate concerns” about the inevitable and terrible consequences of your hatefulness?

The BBC news report this morning portrays this as entirely the fault of the current government.

The right wing editorial policy is so obvious it's laughable.

This is appalling. These are the people who keep our NHS and social services going and who deserve our gratitude and respect

The Nathan Gill scandal should be huge news so why has the British media been mainly silent about it? (I think we know 🤔)
Here's Fiona Bruce shutting down any mention & acting like the audience aren't interested.
#bbqt

Nelson's Victory crew included a Brazilian and a Russian, 2 Indians, 2 Swiss, 2 Portuguese, 3 Danes and 3 Norwegian sailors. There were 3 Germans, 4 Italians, 6 Swedes, 7 Dutchmen, 9 West Indians and an African, as well as 21 Americans, 63 Irish, 64 Scots, 441 English.... oh, and 3 French men, too.