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David Symons 3.5% #FBPE #FBPPR #NAFO retweeted
I have heard it from far better people than you and they were wrong too. What I enjoyed was seeing you running away from an argument about Brexit because you would rather talk about anything else. And I loved the smile being wiped from your face when the young woman tore apart your net zero BS. You’ve not nice suits and nice shoes but you’ve got
more chance captaining the Sri Lankan cricket team than you have of becoming Home Secretary.
David Symons 3.5% #FBPE #FBPPR #NAFO retweeted
Brexit was like walking out of your home for good on a warm, sunny day with no coat, no food and no supplies because you assumed the weather would never change.
Then the storms came: Covid, Ukraine, Iran/Hormuz, climate extremes
A decade later, Britain has discovered what happens when a country strips away its resilience.
🔥 The IFS says the 2020s are on course to be the worst decade for household income growth since records began in 1950.
Typical working-age household incomes are forecast to FALL by another £1,050 by 2028-29.
Britain cannot rebate its way out of this.
🧵 1/2 👇
David Symons 3.5% #FBPE #FBPPR #NAFO retweeted
#bbcqt
👏👏👏 @campbellclaret
"Brexit has taken 6 to 8 percent out of our economy. If we had not left the Chancellor today would have had £90 billion more to spend. The people who gave us Brexit.......do not fall for them because they are a bunch of conmen".
David Symons 3.5% #FBPE #FBPPR #NAFO retweeted
Nice to see some truth about Brexit on the BBC. @campbellclaret saying what do many in politics are afraid of saying, the British people are poorer as a direct result of Brexit. They were conned and are still being conned by Farage and Reform.
Here’s the @bbcquestiontime clip that triggered the @reformparty_uk “let’s talk about anything but Brexit can we?” approach to debate … even its architects know it has screwed our economy
David Symons 3.5% #FBPE #FBPPR #NAFO retweeted
Here’s the @bbcquestiontime clip that triggered the @reformparty_uk “let’s talk about anything but Brexit can we?” approach to debate … even its architects know it has screwed our economy
David Symons 3.5% #FBPE #FBPPR #NAFO retweeted
NEW:
It has since emerged that Nigel Farage did not attend prayers in the Commons this morning so did not properly reserve his seat
Read more from @hope_sapphire 👇
NEW @Telegraph understands Nigel Farage did not display a valid date stamp on his prayer card and it was removed as per Chamber protocol.
I also understand Mr Farage did not attend prayers and did not approach Commons staff regarding a seat reservation.
telegraph.co.uk/politics/202…
David Symons 3.5% #FBPE #FBPPR #NAFO retweeted
I think I speak for everyone here when I say I am deeply, profoundly both shocked and bewildered to have discovered Nigel 'the liar' Farage was in fact lying.
I just don't know what to believe anymore.
NEW:
It has since emerged that Nigel Farage did not attend prayers in the Commons this morning so did not properly reserve his seat
Read more from @hope_sapphire 👇
David Symons 3.5% #FBPE #FBPPR #NAFO retweeted
Badenoch has forgotten that Thatcher sold off the family silver, Cameron ruined public services with austerity, Johnson ruined the economy for a generation with his Brexit deal. Then he pissed £billions up the wall with dodgy Covid loans and PPE contracts.
Then we had Mad Lizzy!
David Symons 3.5% #FBPE #FBPPR #NAFO retweeted
When you are totally owned by Richard Holden then you have lost.
Farage broadcast his lies, on a live presser, on GB News, in the Telegraph
And then is called out by numerous MPs with reality and fact
David Symons 3.5% #FBPE #FBPPR #NAFO retweeted
Very enjoyable evening in Warwick with an audience clearly supporting the idea that Brexit was a disaster and net zero is the only way to go. Nice of @libdemdaisy to be there on her birthday! We all drank to her health afterwards apart from @ZiaYusufUK who legged it with his status symbol bodyguard. Fascinating to see how he did not make a single positive argument for Brexit. They never do. He has lovely shoes though, but a very weak handshake which is never a good sign in anyone.
Tonight, Question Time is in Warwick
Joining Fiona on the panel are Emma Reynolds, James Cartlidge, Daisy Cooper, Zia Yusuf, and Alastair Campbell
Watch at 9pm on @BBCiPlayer, @BBCSounds & the @BBCNews channel, 10.40pm on @BBCOne
#bbcqt
David Symons 3.5% #FBPE #FBPPR #NAFO retweeted
Fox: Why are you here this morning?
Trump rally attendee: Well, in the late 70s, I was a little too young to go to South America for the Jonestown Massacre. But this is as close as I'll ever get, so that's why I'm here. There's nothing like seeing a cult right up front.
David Symons 3.5% #FBPE #FBPPR #NAFO retweeted
In 1952, an English teacher named Cecil Dormand secretly paid for a dirt-poor 11-year-old to take a drama course.
He never told him and the boy didn’t find out until decades later.
By then, he was a knight, that little boy’s name was Patrick Stewart.
He was born into a poor family in Mirfield, a small mill town in Yorkshire and his father came home from World War II a violent man, and he was violent toward Patrick’s mother.
Young Patrick learned exactly when to step between his father’s fist and his mother.
An English teacher put a copy of Shakespeare in his hand and told him to get up and perform.
He never stopped and left school at 15.
By 19 he was completely bald... most agencies told him he'd never make it because of that.
In 1987, the LA Times called him an “unknown British Shakespearean actor” when he was cast as Captain Picard.
Then he became one of the most famous faces on Earth.
You’ve probably heard that part.
Here’s the part you haven’t:
He spent decades as a patron of Refuge, sheltering women and children from domestic violence.
But he never stopped trying to understand his father.
He dug up a 1940 newspaper clipping that said his dad had come home with severe shell shock.
He went to France and walked the ground where his father’s unit was pinned down under bombing for hours.
He learned his father had PTSD, and nobody ever helped him.
So Patrick became an ambassador for Combat Stress, a charity that helps veterans.
In 2013, a young woman at a Texas convention told him she was a survivor of domestic violence.
He asked, “My dear, are you okay?”
Then he hopped off the stage, held her, and told her: “You never have to go through that again, you’re safe now.”
At Dragon Con, a Make-A-Wish girl dressed as Spock came to meet him.
2,000 people were waiting for him to speak... he sat down and talked with her for 15 minutes, making all of them wait.
He told her that since they were friends now, whenever she saw him on screen she could wave and say, “Hello Patrick.”
After 9/11, he felt helpless, so he brought his one-man A Christmas Carol back to Broadway for a full week of charity shows.
He played every character himself and donated every cent.
In 2019 he did it again, and every dollar went to feeding hungry New Yorkers.
In 2017, he fostered a pit bull named Ginger, who had been rescued from a dogfighting ring.
She was his first dog in more than 50 years.
He couldn’t bring her home to England, so he found her a family.
Then he kept fostering more.
When he said he was done with Star Trek so many people told him the show had gotten them through the hardest times of their lives.
So he wanted to see if Picard could do it one more time.
Rest in Peace, Sir Patrick 🖖
David Symons 3.5% #FBPE #FBPPR #NAFO retweeted
So far this week @Nigel_Farage has failed to run a press conference and failed to follow protocol to attend the budget.
And he wants you to believe he can run the country? 😂
David Symons 3.5% #FBPE #FBPPR #NAFO retweeted
So which fearless political journalist is going to doorstep @michaelgove and question him about his ex-partner being charged with possessing images of child abuse?
@lewis_goodall? @Peston? @bbclaurak? @AndrewMarr9?
How strange that this story has disappeared.
David Symons 3.5% #FBPE #FBPPR #NAFO retweeted
I'm only just catching up with Nigel Farage's claim of a 'physical altercation.'
And the more you read about what allegedly happened, the more extraordinary this whole episode becomes.
Yesterday, Nigel Farage failed to attend Chancellor John Healey's Budget speech in the House of Commons.
His explanation? He claimed that his parliamentary prayer card, used by MPs to reserve a seat, had been removed and that he feared another physical confrontation, having previously been involved in an altercation with another MP.
Farage suggested that he had simply wanted to avoid conflict, presenting himself as someone who had decided to take the sensible, peaceful option.
Except there's rather more to this story.
The incident he was referring to apparently took place on 13 May, during the State Opening of Parliament.
Liberal Democrat MP Caroline Voaden has now come forward with a rather different account of what happened.
According to Voaden, Farage attempted to push ahead of other MPs as they made their way towards the House of Lords.
When she refused to let him jump ahead, she alleges that Farage grabbed her arm or shoulder and physically shoved her aside.
She says another male MP intervened because she was at risk of falling down the stairs.
Think about that for a moment.
An elected female parliamentarian alleges that she was physically pushed aside by the leader of Reform UK because he apparently wanted to get ahead of other MPs in a parliamentary procession.
Voaden says she subsequently complained to parliamentary authorities and was expecting an apology, which she says has never materialised.
Farage and Reform UK dispute her account, instead claiming that Liberal Democrat MPs were the ones behaving aggressively.
These are contested allegations, but the contrast between the two accounts is striking.
Farage describes himself as someone who wanted to avoid a repeat of a physical confrontation. Voaden alleges that he was the person responsible for initiating the physical contact in the first place.
And then there's the matter of the missing prayer card.
The House of Commons has explained that Farage's card was removed because it did not carry the required valid timestamp.
In other words, there was an ordinary parliamentary procedural explanation for its removal.
Yet somehow, an incorrectly stamped seat reservation became part of an explanation for why the leader of Reform UK was absent from one of the most important parliamentary occasions of the year.
The Budget is where the government sets out decisions affecting millions of households, businesses, public services and the wider economy.
Whatever your political allegiance, surely the public should reasonably expect party leaders to be there, scrutinising those decisions and holding ministers accountable.
Instead, we find ourselves discussing an alleged physical confrontation, a dispute over who was allowed to walk ahead of whom, and a missing reservation card.
Parliament is not a private members' club where status, entitlement or personal ego should determine who gets to go first. Every MP has been elected to represent their constituents, and every one of them deserves to be treated with dignity and respect.
And if Voaden's account is accurate, it raises serious questions about the standards of conduct we should expect from someone aspiring to lead the country.
Another day, another controversy surrounding Nigel Farage, and another example of behaviour which, if these allegations are substantiated, demeans not only our parliamentarians but the dignity of Parliament itself.
We deserve a political culture built around public service, accountability and respect, not one where the spectacle repeatedly becomes more important than the responsibilities of elected office.
David Symons 3.5% #FBPE #FBPPR #NAFO retweeted
Alastair Campbell points out that Brexit knocked 6-8% off GDP and the same con men who sold it on lies are now making more false promises. I must say it's a bit unfair to use facts and information to make your point.
#bbcqt
David Symons 3.5% #FBPE #FBPPR #NAFO retweeted
Patrick Stewart telling us how important it is to protect the ECHR.
David Symons 3.5% #FBPE #FBPPR #NAFO retweeted
Farage now making allegations he was the victim of a physical assault from another MP within the Palace of Westminster. I assume he has reported this to the Parliamentary Security Department or at the very least The Speaker?
Of course, it's possible he's lying.