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Mike Smart retweeted
An Attorney General who is a genuine heavyweight silk with decades of experience in domestic and international public law? Somebody chosen on the basis of legal acumen and merit rather than their willingness to tell the Prime Minister whatever he wants to hear?
Well I never.
Richard Hermer KC has been appointed Attorney General @attorneygeneral.
He will attend Cabinet.
ALT Richard Hermer KC appointed Attorney General.
Mike Smart retweeted
Great news:
We're offering all Conservative cabinet members who lose their seats a free ticket to the Colin From Portsmouth tour as a consolation. Benefits start here!
We'll be in touch tomorrow🩷
Mike Smart retweeted
BREAKING
New PPE Scandal from @RussellScott1
Owen Paterson repeatedly lobbied ministers on behalf of Randox.
Firm awarded contracts worth up to £777m for Covid testing services
Randox made huge profits of £275m in 2021 + £190m in 2022
Paterson gets “civil penalty”
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Mike Smart retweeted
Covid Corruption Commissioner to be appointed by Labour
I’ve been speaking to @RachelReevesMP for about 18 months about VIP PPE Lane, corruption & YOUR comments and views.
She listened
Here she is ⏬️
VOTE TACTICALLY to stop the Tories
Mike Smart retweeted
C4 did its job. But our media has failed for so long to hold power to account.
“Farage is not ‘good copy’. For minorities like me, hearing his ‘ordinary folk’ call our PM a ‘f**cking P*ki’ is terrifying”.
My reluctantly written @BylineTimes editorial 👇
bylinetimes.com/2024/06/28/t…
Mike Smart retweeted
@RishiSunak says he is hurt & angry at @reformparty_uk activist using racist language.
How did he think I felt when his top donor Frank Hester said I “made him want to hate all Black women' and I should be shot?
Mike Smart retweeted
I understand the novelty of Channel 4 hiring Nadine Dorries but we need to stop MPs being rewarded for inadequacy. You were a failure, Nadine Dorries. You're deserving of no one's attention. You were a shitshow without an interval. You’re an irrelevance. Go away. Thank you.
Mike Smart retweeted
Eight years ago today, on 16 June 2016, Jo Cox was tragically murdered while on her way to a constituency surgery in Batley and Spen.
In the days that followed, the global wave of grief and solidarity demonstrated that her values were widely shared.
(1/7)
ALT Photo of Jo Cox MP.
Mike Smart retweeted
Today on Father’s Day, a Dad in Coventry is mourning the loss of his 12-year old son, Keaton Slater, killed by a hit and run driver.
But road violence is something society doesn’t seem to want to tackle, despite road crashes taking more lives than murder and terrorism combined.
I’ve seen two Plan For Drivers published so far ahead of the election, but no plans to stop 30,000 people being killed or seriously injured each year in road crashes in the UK.
Why not?
ALT With the heaviest of heartache l've never ever felt in my life my youngest son was killed in a hit run at 4:30 yesterday on the radford rd Age 12 He was my mini me he was the light and soul of our little family We can't believe that this has happened still expecting him to come barging in the room like the life of the fun he was I'm so broken right now Rip my youngest boy Can we all light up Facebook blue for this young Coventry City fan
ALT Coventry has been rocked by tragedy after a young boy was killed in a 'hit-and-run.' It happened on Radford Road yesterday afternoon (Friday, June 14).
Mike Smart retweeted
RIP Lynn Conway - scientist and trans advocate, whose website was one of the first I found in the late 90s and ultimately lead me to becoming a historian. She died on June 9th 2024 at the age of 86! 🧡
Mike Smart retweeted
I've seen lots of ppl commenting on Lynn Conway's impact on the field of computers. but as Morgan points out in this thread, if you were a trans person circa 2000, when the internet was still pretty new, she had one of the first comprehensive resource websites for trans people...
Mike Smart retweeted
When I was editing @WhichUK Computing, I commissioned a brilliant piece from @Psythor on the challenges of digitising archives. What we digitise now might not be readable in a few decades. Digital versions should be for public access, with the paper originals retained.
Are you a history or ancestry enthusiast? We’re proposing to digitise millions of wills dating back to the 1800s, making them easier for the public to access.
Take a fascinating look into our storage archive in Birmingham and have your say: gov.uk/government/news/easie…
Mike Smart retweeted
It’s been a horrible few days. My family in the Catholic Church in Gaza city are reporting white phosphorous and gunfire into their compound. The bin collector and the janitor have been shot and their bodies are laying outside and remain uncollected. 1/2
Mike Smart retweeted
I'm excited to be speaking at the amazing Battle of Britain Bunker on Saturday! I'll be talking about flying @RoyalAirForce Cold War air defence in F4 Phantoms, to Merlin MK3 helicopters in Bosnia, Iraq & Afghanistan. To join us see @BofBBunker link 🙂 battleofbritainbunker.co.uk/…
Join us at the Bunker to hear Caroline Paige talk about her incredible 35-year RAF career.
🕧11:30 - 12:30
🗓️Saturday 25 November
🎟 £5
👉 buff.ly/3KOws6q
☎️01895238154
Mike Smart retweeted
So if you were a Chancellor who wanted to get your economy going by giving it a quick boost, cutting income tax for everyone would work, and cutting inheritance tax would be the worst option available to you.
Mike Smart retweeted
The cost of that would have be about £8 billion - near enough the same as the cost of abolishing inheritance tax. But the vast majority of those getting that £250 would have spent it straight away, unlike the person getting the gain from inheritance tax, who would have saved it.
Mike Smart retweeted
Cop a load of this. 🤦♂️
To have entertained this mob for as long as we have, we have to be right up there, collectively, as one of the thickest nations on the planet.
God help us!
👇🏻 #FridayFeeling: A message to the @Conservatives on behalf of the British people.
#ThankYouTories 🙏🏻
Mike Smart retweeted
This is nuts...
62% of the legal decisions made by our politicians went directly against the wishes of UK voters, because a party with a minority of the votes, has a majority of the seats.
Yet people still think the UK is a democracy. 🙄
Mike Smart retweeted
And there we have it. Harrabin reiterates that he never understood what HS2 was for, and still doesn't. At this stage it's hard to see this as anything other than willful ignorance.
