If you need a second device to read official documents on, that second device is NOT your private phone with a gmail account, nor WhatsApp. That second device is a government tablet device managed on the same parliamentary system. If you need to do official business in the car you need your official work phone and tablet or laptop to do it on. If you have only your private phone (the thing you need least) you aren't equipped for the job and can't do the job.

I wonder whether any Conservative politicians realise that the period of prosperity we experienced during the 20th century resulted not from exploitation and greed but from a workforce with access to excellent health care, free medicines, free school milk & orange juice for kids And on free education through to 18 and free university with full maintenance grants to enable every intelligent student to get to the most prestigious institutions and collaboration with other scientists across Europe with generous funding for research

Currently attending a lecture at #UEA by @NorwichChloe. Hoping the students will do a good job with their questions. Lots of compliments for UEA. Now getting onto work and employment. Keeps thinking that everyone should be helping to grow our economy. Still thinks our problem is people being on benefits not working. But people need jobs to pay enough without benefits.

A list of some completely lunatic (and unfair) things that the UK govt has done so far in the cost of living crisis, that have made things 1000x worse. Feel free to add more. 1. When an energy distribution company fails due to the rising cost of fossil fuels, they transfer the customers to another private profit company and transfer the cost of the failed company's debts to the energy bills of other citizens, pushing up energy tariffs accordingly.

It's clear now, if it wasn't before, why the PM kept prefacing his covid lockdown briefings with apologies and grief for how reluctant he thought we'd be about the no socialising rules. How he said the behavioural advisers thought the British didn't accept rules like that. He couldn't hear that we were all crying out for rules, complaining that he was acting weeks too late, that the gatherings needed to end long since, that the venues were already deserted and losing money, that no one wanted to party till the virus was under control.

Dear Mr Johnson, what was needed to protect the integrity of the UK was for you to make sure you had a good withdrawal agreement that served that purpose before you agreed to it. M. Barnier spent a lot of time explaining to the UK negotiators what the issues were with NI. Theresa May spent a lot of time trying to solve that, and to square the circle, so as to preserve a no border system. We said at the time, only you didn't listen, that your withdrawal agreement was rushed and unwise, and had an impossible internal border.

Truly embarrassing misbehaviour in the European Parliament today from the thugs in the Brexit plc seats. A disgrace to our once respected country. And now they are all totally absent for the award of the Sakharov Prize to human rights defender Ilham Tohti. How low can a human being sink?

Dear UK voters, I understand that 48% of you voted to say that you think that the job I have been doing on your behalf, since last May, is a complete waste of money... the job I have been doing to improve the lives of animals across Europe, to defend human rights in other countries, to promote good practice in farming, fisheries, and energy, to support research opportunities and to improve transport across Europe—including this country...

THREAD: @TheGreenParty have proposed 10 bills for the first 2 years of the new Parliament.

This 👇 is how we will deliver climate justice🌱, a people's vote 🇪🇺, and a transformation of our democracy 🙋‍♀️.

#GE2019
bright-green.org/2019/11/19/bre… Pledge 1: Climate Justice💚

@TheGreenParty will demand a Green New Deal that will decarbonise energy, housing, and transport, while providing millions of jobs. We would be carbon neutral by 2030, and we would start now. #GE2019