🧵UXBRIDGE protest this morning #takebackBritain
This is the 1st of many activities you will see over the coming weeks & months. If you want to know if there's a group in your area, please contact .@madgie1941
Thanks also to .@DMinghella for his ideas. Also .@LloydHardy /1
First event in Johnson's constituency. Frightening lack of engagement today, but then we did have competition from a wildlife stall & Bertie the owl who was truly MAGNIFICENT! #takebackbritain
Our results came from interesting conversations on hard hitting questions about Johnson's performance as constituency MP for Uxbridge & South Ruislip & PM. /3
Here are the questions:
Here are the results:
Yes, there was 1 guy who thought 1k covid deaths a week was acceptable, but then I did have to explain to him that Johndon was his MP. He didn't know that. I wonder what planet some people live on! 🙄 #takebackBritain
Another conversation with sitting tory Councillor - didn't vote tory in last election (ie DIDN'T vote for Johnson) & neither did her husband. She feels squeezed out by the extreme right of the party & is exhausted. She won't be standing again. Respect to her. All 'no' answers
1 woman answered 'no' to everything except the NHS question. She thinks the NHS is safe in BJ's hands. She works in the NHS. Go figure... 🙄
Good to engage with people & talk 1-2-1 with them. We need these conversations to be taking place everywhere. EVEN YOU! You don't need a whiteboard. Just chat to people on the bus, at work, in the family, down the pub. And join a local group if you can (see tweet 1).
And now it's over to YOU. We won't get #ToriesOut#JohnsonOut unless each of us takes responsibility to #ACTnow to #takebackBritain 1 conversation at a time. Bertie is a very wise owl. He knows it makes sense. I hope you do too.
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@TanjaBueltmann I lived in Germany for over 23 years mainly working alongside British forces. Signs of WW2 all around where I lived: Bergen-Belsen, Iron Curtain, Berlin Wall, bullet marks. In that time I saw Germany reunite & finally shake off the shackles of its WW2 identity. /1
@TanjaBueltmann In 2005 I came back to a UK still not able to move on. We won, but we never got over it. We never got over losing the empire either. We never fully embraced the benefits of our EU membership. In short, we never grew up, constantly reliving only victories mis-rememberes. /2
@TanjaBueltmann We never moved on. We, especially the English, had an identity crisis. To say one was proud to be English actually meant proud to be white English. Many don't want to be associated with that, no matter how much they actually love their country. /3
If England wins the final it's going to be like Hitler hosting the 1936 Olympics, isn't it. 😬
So many people missed the point of my tweet. Clue for the idiots: it's got nothing to do with Southgate & the team. It's to do with not learning the lessons if history. 🤦♀️
Someone clearly missed the point, but then he can't fill out a basic form, so he's unlikely to know any history.
.@CNN I hope you're reporting this. @ChrisCuomo@donlemon@AC360@ErinBurnett
Woman killed by police officer. Women's peaceful vigil broken up by violent police officers in London.