I see Ann Widdecombe has died. When she was Home Secretary I showed her round Drake Hall womens’s prison. There was a pregnant woman on a bed in the early stages of Labour and she asked the prison officers why she wasn’t handcuffed to the bed. That’s the kind of woman she was.

Woman’s Hour on Anne Widecombe fails to mention her advocating handcuffing woman prisoners to the bed during childbirth….but she had so much fun on Strictly.

Ann Widdecombe, 'strong christian values'? Whatever 'values' she held, christian charity, love, respect, were not among them. Amazing how these people are alleged to have allegiance to a dark skinned Palestinian man, while ignoring his teachings, and dehumanising other dark skinned people today.

Ann Widdecombe was the patron saint of the whinging boomer. Despite having NHS, free HE, affordable housing, well paid jobs, generous final salary pension schemes etc she was seemingly unable to count her blessings. Sadly, there are many like her.

UK is experiencing extreme heat, it was 26° in our house last night. EAnglia has a hose pipe ban starting tomorrow. These are not serious politicians if they deny climate science & their own lived experience to chase votes. We must increase renewables for energy security & to mitigate #climatechange

Our Chair tells @metro.co.uk readers the #Farage by-election stunt is hypocritical after the #ReformUK leader bleated about 'parliamentary sovereignty'. Tell #Clacton residents the truth before voting, says @leedsblue67.bsky.social: "Just as should have happened - but didn't - in #Brexit campaign."

The establishment (rules and regulations to keep our democracy as free from corruption as possible) V Nigel Farage (who is attempting to undermine that process for his own ends) Forget the froth, that’s it.

I see that they have another public-school educated, lying Reform UK Ltd tosser on BBC Breakfast moaning about "the establishment" and claiming that Farage is promoting "democracy" When will Binface be on?

Why is the BBC News allowing this utter bullshit to go unchallenged? It's as though they're campaigning for Reform UK Ltd 🤬

Labour's approach to Brexit is like a person dying of thirst, crawling through the desert past a glass of water to get to the mirage on the horizon.

Times report on BBC investigation into people-smuggling… Lots of talk of “losing” access to critical information. Rather than Johnson not bothering to secure it. And Farage wanting an even harder Brexit. The stubborn refusal to face the consequences of our own govt’s stupid choices has become absurd

#r4today reporting BBC’s investigation into people smuggler ‘King’. Justin Webb totally crestfallen when told by immigration specialist that Brexit binned the data sharing agreement we had with the EU. So, we can’t now properly check. We don’t have access to Eurodac - the fingerprint database. Ffs.

At last Brexit benefits are beginning to come through. £5 million for Farage and people smugglers able to live under false identity in the U.K.

The U.K. has been completely bought.

absolute height of comedy is when they cut to the goal and you see how many kid keepers they've got

If there are any benefits, the Brexiters would be shouting about it, they would be partying and we would never hear the end of this magnificent win over the EU. The papers and media would be full of the successes, wouldn't they? Surely this would be BIG news!

A thousand times this. The BBC would also benefit from not giving a shit what the Daily Mail has to say about anything.

Prime Ministers and Governments that run scared of Brexit and right wing media, hiding behind red lines and weasel words are doomed to fail no matter what party they are from. Brexit and the MSM are thorns that need to be got hold of. We cannot allow a bullying minority to rule any longer.

I know people won't like to hear this (and god knows I really hope I'm wrong) but the current temperatures we are experiencing are as nothing to what is to come. I would be delighted if people in a few years will be laughing at my predictions-But the science tells us otherwise. #r4today

Glad to see this getting more coverage. We urgently need to tighten up the uk laws to protect swifts.Their nesting sites need further protection from those seeking to block or remove them before swifts return to breed. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

UK food and drink exports fall as US tariffs and Brexit trade friction bites – business live

It was inevitable, wasn't it🙄 Of course the Telegraph would run with something like this👇 So let's remove some of the rose-tinted spectacles and also look at some of that data comparing 1976 with modern heat waves Because the 1976 nostalgia porn is wearing a bit thin at this stage 🧵1/23

Let me be explicit. The massive heat waves we're seeing around the world more extreme and frequent due to human-caused #climatechange. And these heat waves are going to continue to worsen because of our failure to reduce carbon pollution. Just one of the many costs of #climate change.

#r4today Nick Robinson, don’t ever accuse a politician of living in “the Westminster bubble” I’m waiting for your “did Andy Burnham watch the Scotland game last night?” question.

To isolate the effects of climate change regarding schools, transport, building design etc. and to treat these issues as separate misses the point. The emergency changes everything and to make a future for generations to come involves completely different approaches from those of the past. #r4today

Nick Robinson (and the rest of the #r4today presenters and editors) still don't seem to understand that we are in the foothills of the mountain system that is the climate emergency. Changing school hours is as nothing to what needs to be done-Get presenters who understand science.

Brexit is a disaster. No celebration of achievements by those who championed it. However, latest Farage line is that we haven’t had the correct Brexit. How long will it take for a journalist to challenge him to explain what is a correct Brexit and the implications or will they just parrot his line?

Ten years ago today the whole country and its future were sacrificed on the altar of Boris Johnson’s ego, David Cameron’s stupidity and Nigel Farage’s prejudice. A decade thrown away and a nation left angrier and poorer. Thanks, you absoute pricks.

Brexit. A mendacious and stupid idea that could never work. Ten years on, let’s stop pandering to the mendacious and stupid and hold them to account for what they did.

The people have continued to speak for 10 years now. Brexit was a huge mistake, it has robbed us of our rights and opportunities and damaged the country. We need a government that will rejoin the SM and a CU as a matter of urgency. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Next up Brexit Paddington Dan Hannan and his promise of the great glory that would follow 2/5 www.reaction.life/p/britain-lo...

It's the 10th anniversary of the dumbest moment in modern British history so let's celebrate some of the idiots who made it happen. First up ... Jacob Rees-Mogg and his promise of cheap food and wine... In fact food prices have increased some 12% as a direct result of Brexit (LSE) 1/5

Third this liar and all his many, many lies which he lied to us with in order to make this liar Prime Minister

Until we undo Brexit the number of short term PM’s will continue to grow. www.aa.com.tr/en/info/info...

The reason we keep changing PMs is simple: Brexit. Until a PM is honest about Brexit, they’ll be stuck living a lie. They won’t be able to do any of the economic things they claim. We’re many years from that honesty.

It‘s policy not personality that I am interested in. This country needs a forward looking government that will remove Labour’s red lines and rejoin the SM and a CU as the start of our journey back into the EU. Who is PM is of little interest to me.

We will continue to lose PMs and governments until we have a PM and government brave enough to undo Brexit.

The attacks in Edinburgh, in which an armed bare-chested white man terrorised Muslims, leaving five people injured, don't feature on a single newspaper front page this morning. Two tier journalism

No word or rage on the attacks in Edinburgh from the normally verbose Nigel Farage. 2 tier violence?

I will only be voting for a party that has a manifesto promise to join the SM and a CU and eventually the EU. So far @eddavey.libdems.org.uk and the @libdems.org.uk are favourites. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... Dear Brexiters and appeasers of Brexit, how much poorer does the country have to become before you agree that Britain’s best interests are best served by being within the EU?

As if there are not enough nails in Starmer's political coffin. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Suspect that, outside the fringes of the hard right, most people want to like the BBC, even to love it, and to defend it against threats of defunding. The problem is that its news and current affairs division is making that extremely hard just now

"The PM has always been clear that he'll act in the UK's national interest". That might be the genuine intention but its not always worked out that way & his red lines are a major barrier. www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

As ministers and the media ponder how to increase spending on defence, Ltd worth reminding ourselves that were it not for the damage Brexit has inflicted on us, we would t be having this conversation. Farage and Johnson have screwed us all.

Something ugly is brewing in Britain, which will lead us to a very dark place. Unless we treat our neighbours as human beings.

Where hate leads. Wedding rings of Holocaust victims, near the Buchenwald concentration camp, 1945

The Nazis did not say “Vote for us and we‘ll give you death camps.” They said “Vote for us and we’ll take back Germany, we’ll make your country pure, make you proud to be German.” The lesson of history is clear and unequivocal. Those who lie and manipulate hatred are leading you to only one place

For those claiming that the long EU entry queues are the EU’s revenge for Brexit, remember that, when it was still in the EU, Britain supported & voted for the introduction of this EU Entry/Exit System (EES). The then (Tory) govt wanted more checks on those entering the EU. It then put us outside.