Never ceases to amaze me the state of this country. Still lauding an empire and other anachronistic rubbish. Monarchy slapping medals on each other. Knighting people?? Ffs get over it. #AbolishTheMonarchy

'I looked, and behold, a pale horse; and he who sat on it had the name Death and Hell was following with him'...

Ben Houchen rattled over why he handed over millions of pounds worth of public assets for pennies to two local businessmen. #BinBen

He says Steve Gibson was ‘happy with the Teesworks JV’. But fails to mention that was before Houchen gave 90% of it away to his pals. #BBCTeesMayor

Well, well, well.
Well done Private Eye.

Privatisation summed up. From the new Private Eye.

HMG won't even mention the B word under its culture of omertà. We'll never heal the divisions of Brexit unless its protagonists display honesty about its consequences rather than denial or obfuscation. David Cameron is a statesman of integrity so surprised he goes along with it!

Unelected bureaucrat David Cameron explains how we need the Rwanda plan because of Brexit 🤦‍♂️

Anushka Asthana, 'Hand on heart. If this had come up when you were PM, would you have gone with this Rwanda policy?'

David Cameron, 'We had a situation where you could return people

John R. Constable Michael M. 🇨🇭🇳🇴🇮🇸🇱🇮🇬🇧/🇨🇾 Tom Berglund David Smith In general big multinationals can afford the extra red tape & cost Brexit brought, and SMEs can't and stop trading / reduce trade with the EU. This is the exact opposite of the claim of Brexiteers, who said the EU was favouring big multinationals at the expense of SMEs.

To be clear: this was not a question about domestic politics - it was about our long-term defence commitment.

If, as polls suggest, the Tories lose next election then all their future plans go with them.

Anybody who cares about our security will want to know what comes next

“We can’t go back to old arguments,” said a Labour source. Not to recent 'old arguments'. Labour is going back to the 'old anti-Europe' arguments of the late 1940s and 50s. Welcome to isolationist Britain. ft.com/content/fbb7d4…

Happy St George's Day.

This flag 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 belong to England (well, and Genoa, Georgia, Barcelona and the Swabian League), not to racists. Take it back.

Make England European. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇪🇺

Robert Woolley 🇬🇧🇮🇪🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

A vote for the Rejoin EU Party in London on 2 May will send a huge wake-up call.
Do it.

Please make it so Chris McEwan … a defeat for Houchen will be a defeat for Johnson and the chaos, corruption and rotten standards he brought to our politics.

Is mummy proud of little boy today.

We have two Houses of Parliament which do not work for our nation to the will of its people. Why should the House of Lords give way if they do not agree with the government? “The time has come to accept the primacy of the elected house and withdraw from the fray,” they are there

There really is nothing that says “compassionate governance” like MPs tossing back champagne in the Prime Minister's opulent office, gleefully stretching their voting session into the wee hours to pass the “Safety of Rwanda Bill.”

Isn't it just such a staggeringly splendid

….and then Saint George rocked up from Turkey on a Small Boat….so we deported him to Rwanda…

#RwandaNotInMyName

Rishi Sunak today: 'We can't allow fraudsters to exploit the natural compassion and generosity of the British people'

In other news…

#bbcaq #Newsnight

Left: Rishi Sunak, 'Labour Peers in the House of Lords contrived to stop the safety of Rwanda bill'

Right: That well known famous Labour Peer, Kenneth Clarke (former Conservative MP, Home Secretary, Chancellor) explaining why he doesn't support the Rwanda bill

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