April 6th, 2023: @Twitter has been randomly shutting down API access for many apps and sadly we were affected today too. Hopefully we will be restored soon! We appreciate your patience until then.
The first tentpole principle of my campaign to be elected as #MP of #Gravesham is that I will NOT take £84k - I'll take the salary of a qualified nurse, on a general surgery ward, with five years experience. Which is what I think ALL MPs should be paid. msn.com/en-gb/health/o…
The second tentpole principle is that I will NOT take any additional jobs, other than MP. Representing all of my constituents will be my highest priority, and I don't see how part-time MPS with second, third, fourth, fifth jobs can reasonably claim to do that. 2/x
The third principle is that I will NOT benefit from the subsidised bars and restaurants which #MP use in the Palace of Westminster. If I use one, I will deposit the amount of subsidy from out of my own pocket into a fund, which will be used to support #Gravesham causes. 3/x
And since the amount of expenses claimed by #MembersOfParliament are obscene (and in many cases criminally fraudulent) I will claim ZERO expenses during my time as #MP for #Gravesham, except for those specifically approved by the voters of Gravesham. 4/x
For additrional staff, e.g. for constituency office or Westminster support, they will be paid no more than I, and the first two can be paid for by the portion of my MP's salary that I won't take. So by my claculation that's an MP and two support staff, all working full-time. 5/x
None of us will benefit from the subsidised gin-palaces of the Palace of Westminster. None of us will be padding our expenses. The only expenses we will claim are those approved by the voters of #Gravesham. And they won't include heating for my horses stabling, @nadhimzahawi 6/x
@nadhimzahawi It is my intention to stand as an independent #MP, because there is NO political party that agrees with both the paramount political principle on which I am standing, i.e. Electoral Reform as the highest priority, in order to prevent another #ToryScum criminal orgy... 7/x
... and the personal principles on which I am standing, outlined at the top of this tweet thread. Do I expect ANY current #MPs to agree to copy my personal principles? Nope! Because they've grown used to lining their pockets at taxpayers' expense, with VERY few exceptions. 8/x
So, are there any OTHER like-minded people out there, who sense the need for change, see that #FirstPastThePost is the system that ensures that ONLY #ConSelfServative and #Labour get to form a Government, usually without even taking a majority of the vote. As in 2019. 9/x
If that's YOU- then watch this space. Necause on Tuesday, after the Easter break, I will be launching the campaign group which I hope may serve as a rallying point, coordination and resource-sharing pool, to help NOT just me, but anyone else who agrees that we NEED a change 10/x
So, mark your calendars - Tuesday 10th April 2023, at noon, I will lauch the campaign group. And let's get these muhfuggen self-serving professional backbench seatwarmers OUT of the Palace of Westminster. We can't afford them, any more. They got us INTO this mess. 11/11
So, standing for election is one thing; having a plan to win that election against an 18 year incumbent is another; and knowing HOW to represent ALL of my constituents fairly, inexpensively, effectively while only taking the wage of a qualified Nurse and NO expenses? 1/2
And taking NO second, third fourth, fifth jobs while MP? While allowing a majority of my constituents the power to recall me at ANY time? And working tirelessly to end the archaic, unfit-for-purpose #FirstPastThePost electoral system that keeps #ConSelfServative and Labour 2/3
from fearing that they'll never again have an unassailable parliamentary majority on a minority share of the vote? Sounds impossible? Watch the @wsegpodcast next Monday, April 3rd, and decide for yourself. 3/4
Oh my giddy Aunt - @ByDonkeys have pulled off yet another blinder. This would bring ANY other "government", of any era, crashing down, as the conventions of Erskine May, and the notion of "all Members of Parliament being honourable" just DO NOT APPLY to these criminal scum. 1/2
@ByDonkeys The clock is weel and truly ticking for these #ConSelfServative#ToryScum who have plundered hundreds of billions of pounds from the public purse, for themselves, their overseas paymasters, and their mates. They will be booted out of office by December 2024 at the LATEST 2/3
@ByDonkeys But the Disunited Kingdom of Breakshiteland, Scotland and Northewrn Ireland just cannot afford another 20 months of their corrupt gangsterdom. They need to go now, and every last one of them put on trial for abuse of power in public office. I will pursue them relentlessly 3/4
Their whole charade is in tatters. The momentum has about reached a tipping point, and I'm calling it now - they won't survive to a General Election at the end of 2024. They'll be out of office THIS year. I will vote tactically to get @AdamHollowayMP ousted as my MP, but then 1/x
@AdamHollowayMP Tactically hereabouts means voting Labour. I will vote Labour to remove a #ConSelfServative MP. I'm an ex-Labour Party member who then joined @TheGreenParty as the only truly socialist *electable* party then available to me 2/x
And they're still electable, as they've proved in local Government, across the country, ever since, and in Brighton Pavilion since 2010, and very nearly in a handful of other parliamentary seats, including Bristol. But NOT here, sadly. So I will hold my nose to oust Holloway 3/x
So, in years past, I have praised @ProtonMail for the awesomeness of their services, and praising their policy of providing FREE encrypted email and allied services to those who need them, but can't pay for them, to the extent of having paid for my ProtonMail for years. NOW.. 1/x
@ProtonMail ... I am in a support loop where I am unable to get a resolution to a simple issue, for which multiple valid and secure solutions are available, leaving me unable to access my primary email account, which ALSO means I am locked out of numerous services. 2/x
@ProtonMail This has now moved beyond an inconvenience to a matter of urgency. Do I have to dig out the historic tweets in which I praised @ProtonMail@ProtonVPN and @ProtonSupport for their awesome humanitarian efforts, and compare them to this current farce? Is THAT what it takes? 3/x
How did I forget to post THIS clip yesterday? I punched the air almost as wildly as @raavalicious when this occurred - it made my unapologetic polly/pan/kinkster heart SING!
Full disclosure. I am a somewhat lazy #GuildWars2 player, in that I will usually skip open-world or story content unless I have a compelling reason to do so. I usually watch a streamer play that kind of content, because I'm a firm believer in OBEs. 1/x
So even though I welcome the return, last year, of a version of Living World Season One to the game (which was essential, IMHO, prior to the Steam release) personally I was content to llet @WoodenPotatoes and @PreachGaming play the actual content. Until I had a reason. 2/x
@WoodenPotatoes@PreachGaming I now HAVE a reason. I'm completing the Coalescence II collection, in order to unlock the Coalescence III collection, prior to clearing raid Wing 7 and getting the precusor to the Legendary ring, Coalescence. Which I won't be crafting for a while, but I like to make progress. 3/x